Chapter 291 Times
I’m very busy today, so I’ll give up and make up for it later.
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The most popular video blogger on the forum recently is undoubtedly Amon, who is related to Leihuojian. He has been doing various short biographies of Leihuojian high-level NPCs on the forum.
The protagonist of the first issue of "Leihuojian Heroes" is the poster girl Xiao Heizi, and that video was released during the internal test period of Xinghai.
It fully demonstrated Xiao Heizi's transformation ability and melee strength, as well as the use of some strange props. Later, she continued to show her incompatibility with some high-tech, focusing on the contrast of aloof and cute queen.
It’s like Xiaolongnu just came out of the ancient tomb - no, it’s much more powerful than that, just like a time-travel drama, where the ancient boss just traveled to the modern world, and shooting some short dramas is very effective.
At that time, the channel to officially join Leihuojian was to go to Xidu. At that time, Leihuojian’s sub-bases had not yet blossomed everywhere, and high-level NPCs were not so common for players. It was a special privilege for Crazy Blade and Fury Sword to join and meet a high-level robot.
The internal test completely amazed everyone on the forum. They speculated on what great fortune Amon had encountered, how many hidden tasks he had received, and how many benefits he had received. It was completely unexpected that after the public test, the power of Thunder Fire Sword developed more prosperously, and Amon/Gu Meng launched new characters one after another.
It makes people wonder if Amon is the illegitimate son of the Dark Lord. It feels that the cadres inside Thunder Fire Sword may not be able to get so much information.
Amon's subsequent videos include biographies of other kings of Thunder Fire Sword, or switch to the perspective of the village chief of the novice village to watch the players farming.
In addition, there are evaluations of martial arts skills of various schools, using data and actual tests to verify the convenience and cost-effectiveness of Thunder Fire Sword skills, as well as some game strategies, which martial arts schools can quickly form combat power, what kind of people are suitable for each school's characteristics, and whether players with poor skills should practice hard skills specifically.
Although there is only one person on the account, and there is no guild, and he ignores the recruitment of other guilds, everyone later thought that Amon should have a team, otherwise normal people are neither tentacle monsters nor can they clone themselves, and editing so many videos is exhausting.
Some time ago, as players gradually passed the novice period and joined the forces, they were eager to try and play a role in the main line of the Aquamarine Planet, the closing link of the Thunderfire Sword and the Sprout War, which was opened early. The popularity of war-related videos has increased. Recently, most of the more popular videos on this account are war-related.
The two episodes in which the Vengeance General died on the road of revenge, was ambushed and died with the enemies in the siege, and the Vengeance General was resurrected for revenge and returned from hell were very popular.
There are short biographies of various other high-level NPCs of the Thunderfire Sword and the newcomer King Kong General. Recently, the episode in which Xiao Heizi sneaked into the Sprout to save people was also very popular.
Xiao Heizi turned from a snake into a human, and when he complained about the beast of Moe, the whole screen was filled with comments about beasts. There was a loophole, that is, the ghost general Han Xiao, Amon did not give him a separate biography.
Han Xiao is the type who actively contacts players. Later, everyone speculated that it might be because Han Xiao saves all living beings, so it is difficult to increase his favorability and it is difficult to dig exclusive materials, so he was not made.
As a well-known video blogger, Roubao Dagou has already set his sights on "Star Ocean" as the next video series. At present, the game has just been launched, and there is little official information. There is nothing outstanding among the video bloggers except Amon. He keenly discovered the opportunity in "Star Ocean" and happened to make a series of commentary and introduction videos. He himself also likes "Star Ocean" very much.
A popular game will inevitably give birth to many video bloggers. Generally speaking, those who release it early can gather popularity with the popularity of the game as long as the quality is good, and the effect is the best.
However, he was still hanging around in the Novice Village, and Roubao Dagou hadn't found a good entry point. The first video was crucial, and he didn't want to be perfunctory. It would be best if he could do some interesting content that ordinary players couldn't get to know.
Han Xiao's appearance made Roubao Dagou feel that the opportunity had come.
Ghost General was very popular in the forum. He was a popular NPC and a general missing in "Legend of Thunderfire Sword Heroes". He had contacted Amon in advance, and the other party was very easy to talk to. He said that if he did a good job, he could even share the title of "Legend of Thunderfire Sword Heroes" and jointly contribute.
Roubao Dagou was still hesitant, but in short, if he made a video about Ghost General in the first issue, it would definitely arouse the interest of players, and he could take advantage of this popularity and make the video a hit!
Roubao Dagou in the crowd immediately turned on the recording function, aimed at Black Phantom, and started recording the material. The commentary and comments were all added later.
In short, try to dig out exclusive explosive materials as much as possible. If it doesn't work, find other directions to make up for it, or do a funny route.
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While Roubao Dagou was filming the male lead, Han Jishi, the world situation was undercurrent.
Xinglong, Haixia, Hongfeng, Odifena, Tilius, Ruilan, the six countries found that the Thunder Fire Sword had achieved victory in the stage war at an astonishing speed. The sweep operation against the Germination Sub-base has ended, and the subsequent impact has gradually emerged.
Facing the rise of the Thunder Fire Sword and the general trend, the six countries took the initiative to open a joint meeting. This high-level meeting is similar to the Five Shadow Conference in the Naruto world, which is much rarer than the daily five permanent members on Earth.
After all, the six countries were enemies in the old times, and competition between them was the norm. It was difficult for all of them to sit at the same table, and the five permanent members often fought against each other. There were not many times when the five permanent members really targeted a camp. I have to say that Colonel Ka is really brave and personally experienced the five permanent members' copy of Hell Shura Road.
The Six Nations Conference of Aquamarine has only been held three times so far. The first time was when the war in the old era ended and the pattern of the six nations was determined, to negotiate with each other on territorial scope.
The second time was in the second month after the war. The pollution of the war affected the ecology. They discussed the treatment methods with each other, which was related to the major events of the entire planet.
The third time was in the fifth year after the war, to discuss the placement of wanderers.
The last six order countries on Aquamarine are not close to each other. If it is not a global event, they will never advance or retreat together.
Today, the fourth Six Nations Conference was held secretly. The topic was the next plan for Thunder Fire Sword, whether to fight or not to fight.
The meeting was held via remote video, and the heads of the six countries joined in the communication.
In a conference room sealed by a metal door in the Xinglong Longjiao Building, the Xinglong leader sat at one end of the conference table, and at the other end was a large screen with images of the heads of the other five countries on it.
The corner of the conference room was full of people, all of whom were bigwigs from the military and political circles. The meeting had lasted for two hours.
"...So everyone has decided?"
The leader of Oudi Fen's tone was emotionless, and his inclination could not be discerned.
The leader of Tileus stood strong and said solemnly: "I, Ruilan, and Haixia all agree to send troops, while Xinglong and Hongfeng abstain."
Leader Oudi Fen was silent for three seconds and said, "I abstain."
Everyone had an expression that they had already guessed.
Three votes in favor and three abstentions. This result is also normal. Mei Ya used various methods to spread the "rumor" that the Dark Lord is an alien robot, and also spread a lot of stone hammer evidence, including the fact that the spacecraft fell and it was not just Mei Ya who had There is news that the leaders of the top forces already know that the top leaders of Thunder Fire Sword are actually aliens.
But this alien is not that strong. If it was really a slightly stronger alien, the spaceship would not have crashed for no reason, nor would it have been stuck in the bud for so many years, relying on the "traitor" Zero to get out of trouble.
The sprouts on the battlefield will not still have a certain resistance. The Thunder Fire Sword does not surpass the C-level single target. In terms of battlefield firepower, most people still feel that the Six Nations have stronger firepower on the frontal battlefield.
In short, it gives people the impression that the Dark Lord is ambitious, but has no backing, and his technology is very crooked. He should take advantage of his unstable footing to still have an opportunity to attack.
A few countries such as Tileus and Ruilan are tougher. The other countries are either reluctant to go to war directly like Xinglong and want to communicate again, or Oudifen seems to be a bastard who just follows the crowd, but in fact he often plots behind his back. Something else.
The heads of state discussed for more than an hour, determined the general direction, and finally decided that the details of the expedition would be negotiated by the military ministries of each country.
The big screen went black, and the three-hour meeting officially ended.
The faces of the big guys listening in the conference room were slightly condensed. In the meeting just now, it was decided that the Six Nations would conduct a large-scale military operation no less than the scale of the wars of the old era to sweep away the Thunder Fire Sword.
As the main force of Aquamarine, the six countries will advance and retreat together. The three-nation coalition that advocated war will attack at the same time. If the victory can get the biggest share of the pie, the rest will have to provide logistics and intelligence support, and explore the Thunder Fire Sword base. A month later, the Thunder Fire Sword organization was completely destroyed.
War is coming again!
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Players in Green Valley Town took photos and screenshots to show off the arrival of the Black Ghost on the forum, triggering yet another round of discussion.
"It used to be Bighorn Mountain, but now it's Green Valley. Will General Ghost go to the next novice location?"
"Is this high-level character arranged by the game developer? The timing of his appearance seems strange. If he is a mechanical instructor, wouldn't his whereabouts be too erratic? Is he the protagonist of the planet as written on the official website?"
"It's not like that. I think the protagonist of the planet should be related to the main plot. We won't be exposed to it so early. Black Phantom is just a general. Unless he rebels, the protagonist must be the Dark Lord... He will provide a job transfer in the mechanical department... This Does it mean that except for Black Ghost, it is difficult to find opportunities to change jobs in the mechanical department, so the developers asked Black Ghost to compensate us?”
"Damn it, you mean I want to switch to the mechanical department, but there is no shop like this after passing this village?"
Speculations about Han Xiao have not stopped. After the war, he traveled everywhere and became popular among the players in Green Valley Town.
Han Xiao read a lot of posts with interest and summarized several players' views on him.
The first one is that he works part-time as a mysterious businessman-like figure, similar to the Shadowless General of Thunder Fire Sword, also known as General Snape of the Golden Spear. He appears in the early stage to provide benefits to novices. This theory has the largest number of supporters.
The second is that he is a tutor in the mechanical department.
The third type thinks that he is an important plot character, because as the general of the Three Continents of Thunder Fire Sword in the final stage, the leader of the annihilation battle is obviously more important than Snape who is only in the rear (because Han Xiao also provides mechanical logistics and strategic support, so in fact It is the top talent of Han Xin + Xiao He).
So he should be able to trigger important tasks. After all, Snape's special appearance/eye color or some special lines will trigger small subplots, or arouse Snape's anger to make him invest.
Because of this statement, Han Xiao has to deal with a bunch of players who want to trigger hidden plots every day.
The lines of this group of people were all weird, and Han Xiao naturally rejected them all. There were actually players who took advantage of their good looks (high charisma) and found other ways to defeat Technician Han with their looks, especially the female players. A high-level player once posted a message suggesting that women will have a favorable impression when facing the black ghost. As a result, Han Xiao is now surrounded by nephrite Wenxiang and Yinggeyanyu.
Han Xiao was indifferent to this. It was a joke. Only great men like the Dark Lord, the president of the Thunderfire Sword Guild, had real charm.
These cricket female players thought that they didn't have to pay for his equipment and skills just because they were good-looking? Naive!
Some players were very arrogant and actually tried to attack him. Han Xiao adhered to the attitude of a doctor who would violently correct all problems. As long as such players were resurrected, Han Xiao would kill them. The number of deaths would be refreshed after six days in the game. This was a resurrection mechanism or an anti-addiction mechanism. Players who dared to take action were directly forced to log off the line.
Such lawless players in the game were obviously used to playing stand-alone games that could save and read files. Others who played online games were cautious and stable, fearing that their accounts would be ruined. How could they dare to be so rampant? No one sympathized with players who were courting death. Elder Scrolls has been out for so many generations. There will always be chicken-killing maniacs who are not afraid of death to challenge the whole world. They are used to it.
One after another, players lined up to give money. Many players were attracted by Han Xiao's mechanical strength.
Han Xiao dealt with it casually and browsed the forum. Suddenly, a new post was pinned and caught his attention. The title was "Star Ocean Times".
"Star Ocean Times" is a semi-official column with a variety of content. The content is all about the official news of "Star Ocean", various anecdotes, professional players' trends, analysis of game progress, etc. Han Xiao used to be a loyal viewer of "Star Ocean Times" and would urge for updates as soon as he finished watching it.
Now with the intrusion of Thunder Fire Sword, I wonder if the content will change.
In the video, two hosts, a man and a woman, sit in front of the camera like a news broadcast, with the constantly changing scenes of "Star Ocean" and the scenery of various novice planets behind them.
Male host: "Hello, players and friends, this is Star Ocean Times, dedicated to sharing first-hand game information and escorting your gaming career."
Female host: "The public beta has been going on for a while, and the enthusiasm of players has not diminished at all. So first let's review the major events that have happened during this period..."
The content of Star Ocean Times is detailed. In the next ten minutes, it quickly reviewed the trends of novice players on various planets and introduced the civilization background of each planet.
Among them, there are ancient backgrounds, where everyone wears armor and fights with cold weapons such as knives, spears, and war hammers. There is also magic. Obviously, this planet is dominated by martial arts and magic.
If you add a subtitle to the main storyline, it will probably be "Total War", "World Hegemony", "I will use your skull as a bowl", etc. Gu Meng really wants to play it.
There is also Paleton, where magic civilization is highly developed. The city is like a floating island. Ninety-nine towering magic towers are distributed on the edge of the city, resonating with the main tower in the city center. With a high magic background, it is difficult for novice players to survive in this world, and it is easy to consume the death limit.
Of course, there is a more difficult start, that is Frost Winter Star, one of the territories of the Void Demon Extinction Legion, and the only planet where interstellar battleships can be seen. The power level is very high, and the status of players here is not even as good as cannon fodder.
The more abundant the resources of the novice planet, the higher the difficulty of the start. Aquamarine Star is quite satisfactory.
However, players from Planet Aquamarine also have something to say. We have directly opened the main storyline, and charming high-level NPCs are emerging in an endless stream. Players from other planets are still stuck in the bottom level, but here, Legend of the Heroes of Thunderfire Sword has been serialized for many issues.