RPGCh47.1 - How old are you Part 1

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Edited by RinRin HNmDBq

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Shan Ziwei opened his eyes. His pupils suddenly contracted, then dilated before settling into a normal size. Shan Ziwei didn’t even take off the game device. He immediately turned over and started heaving next to the nutrient pod. 

“Agh…Cough, Cough, Cough. “

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Fortunately, the only thing he “ate” the entire time was nutrient fluid and there was nothing in his stomach for Shan Ziwei to work with. Thus, after simply throwing up some water, the black-haired youth laid half-dead in the corner of the bed.

This was not the first time that Shan Ziwei had been kicked out of a game, but it was the first time that the pain was so blatantly obvious. In those 21st century keyboard games, the worst thing that could happen was for his game to crash, meanwhile in these 31st century virtual reality games what “crashed” was his entire body. PiO8xR

This feeling, if you really wanted to describe it, was like being kicked off some clouds and hitting the ground from 6000 meters up at an acceleration of 9.78m/s2. You do the math. 

What’s more, it was the type where not even a complete corpse could be found. 

Shan Ziwei listlistly opened his eyes. He finally understood why the Terra Alliance  restricted the playage of RPG to under 12 hours. 

Even though he already knew that RPG was not simply a game, Shan Ziwei really didn’t expect that exercising his intangible ‘mental strength’ would put so much burden on his body. In the game, he hadn’t felt anything at all, but the moment his consciousness returned to his body, Shan Ziwei found that his entire body was in tatters. It was like a crumpled piece of paper about to be torn apart wrapped around an anxiously thumping heart akin to a wardrum. “THUMP, THUMP, THUMP”

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“…… Huuu… “

Shan Ziwei bore the pain from all over his body. It was strange, like his body would go into cardiac arrest at any moment, yet his brain was not tired at all. His entire body was like a train travelling at 1000km/h. Although the physical body was at the point of collapse, his thought process has reached an unprecedented speed. Shan Ziwei could even nearly “see” the thread of connection within his brain, linking memories like silky tethers.  He thought about RPG and the chessboard that just ended, his body breaking out in cold sweat.  

Just a minute ago, he had still been cursing the Banana Peel Mechanism.

Just a minute later, he was horrified to discover how ridiculous his thoughts had been. xGPvte

There won’t be a Banana Peel Mechanism, there won’t be any laws of causality broken, and there won’t be any paradoxes in time. None of it will happen. 

Because it was just a game.

Yes, he had only been playing a popular virtual reality game called RPG. His true body had not been involved in any space-time travel related events, much less violations in the laws of causality. Such things could only be constructed through immense calculations. By constructing false realities, the game makes players think that they are really truely interacting with their “past self” and “future self”, while inducing them to recreate the same behaviours calculated by the system in the background, thus creating the so-called “Mobius ring”.

Shan Ziwei felt dizzy. hAOSIG

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

Was that really all it was? To achieve such a seamless world, there was another key factor required…

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Deep underground, near the Moho Discontinuity, the two inspectors walked one behind the other in a transparent tunnel. John walked casually in the front, introducing the waterfall-like data processing units outside the tunnel, while Ivan was nervously taking notes, much like a good student paying careful attention to a lecture.

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Chrysanthemum Garden.

“…… This section…Research Institute. “

Ivan was stunned for a moment, before becoming excited. “Is this the data flow from the Research Institute?”  St4ANZ

Without a single blink, he gazed at the flowing data “waterfall” and managed to read out a small string of contents with extraordinary performance: “……time…… chaotic sequence…… derandomization…… fractal dimension 3.2164…… Sure enough, it’s all high IQ information that I can’t understand. I heard that the current president of the research institute is about my age! His book《The path to evolution: Psychic Power》is truely—— “

“Alright newbie, remember your identity.” John interrupts Ivan’s passionate words and emphasizes, “You’re part of the alliance, an inspector.”

Ivan piped down. Ever since he joined The Alliance, he felt that the attitude of the alliance staff around him towards anything regarding the Research Institute was very strange. It didn’t seem to be outright hostile, but it was obviously not very friendly, which made him, who had once yearned to be part of the Research Institute, slightly uncomfortable. 

John’s lazy steps sped up as he led Ivan through the area quickly. They then entered the circular magnetic elevator at the end of the tunnel. John typed a few keys on the panel. The circular magnetic elevator enclosed the two people and flew upwards rapidly. After passing through several layers of light, they came to a stop suspended in a boundless silver space. pe1F8A

John and Ivan walked out of the circular magnetic elevator and stood on a high platform floating in the air. The light streaming up from below tinted their faces blue. 

“As for today, you are to observe this segment——a buffer pool.  It’s very suitable for newbies.”

John stepped on the nearly transparent floor of the platform and motioned Ivan to look down. The blue light was just emitted by the data below. Although John called it a “pool”, the data below resembled a boundless “sea” under it. The blue data lay in the data pool, glowing lightly.

“The central computer will send the data to be processed here first. It’ll only read it once the buffer pool is full. Thus, you have ample time to observe it.” OuG6zL

John yawned, patted Ivan on the shoulder, then lazily walked back into the circular magnetic elevator.

“Good luck newbie, your homework today is to write down ten pages of content in the observation notebook.”

The circular magnetic ladder turned into a stream of light as it shot downwards. Ivan sat on the platform and slowly opened the notebook. He was still a little depressed, and he stared down into the buffer pool.

If the previous data processing flow was like a large waterfall, the buffer pool was like the calm lake above the waterfall. The data here was in a relatively stagnant state一一because the buffer pool was so large. Only when the buffer pool was filled would the data here be moved: the useful data would turn into a beam of white light and flow down to enter the data processing stream; while the useless data would disperse on the spot. Finally, the buffer pool would refill to start a new round of data processing. jq5tl6

And so Ivan gazed at the data below and watched as it ebbed and flowed, ebbed and flowed, ebbed and flowed, and flowed, and flowed, and……huh?

The young observer’s eyes nearly fell out of their sockets. His face was comically plastered against the transparent floor of the platform, staring at the no longer ebbing “data-sea”. His mind blanked.

What——what happened!?!

If you looked carefully, the data in the buffer pool was not stagnant, it was just that the arriving data way outnumbered the data being processed. As a result, the buffer pool that had just been emptied was almost immediately refilled. With the influx of more and more data, the buffer pool emptied the pool faster and faster. Finally the pool was reset and processed so quickly that it became a stream of light.  Csnux0

It was like the pool had gone crazy, Ivan thought in horror, but was it him who had gone crazy or the central computer——exactly what kind of project could lead to so much data?

Then, Ivan saw a scene that he would never forget: in the vast sky-like buffer pool, white spots of light twinkled like stars in the sky. It was obviously random and disordered, but it formed a strange and beautiful pattern. It was like the collision between two starlit galaxies, yet also like a butterfly spreading its wings.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

It’s so beautiful, yet also frightening. 

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“Hey——Hey! Ivan Hebrew!”

“Ah! Ah……ah?”

The sudden yelling shook Ivan’s eardrums as he fell off his chair. He looked up foggily and saw John standing in front of him with a teasing face.

“Did you sleep well, you brat.” Yx4mnh

Ivan got up from the ground.

“I……I fell asleep? “

He subconsciously looked down at the buffer pool. The quiet pool was just like the calm sea under the clear sky. The blue data ebbed and flowed normally. 

“Yeah, slept so deeply that you were snoring.” John tsked twice and flipped through the observation notebook in front of Ivan, “You’re so capable huh, I ask you to write down ten pages of content in the notebook, instead you doodle all over it and count it as done.” nHGPyg

Doodle?

Ivan looked at the notebook in confusion. A black spiral and mysterious butterfly wing-like pattern entered his sight, piercing straight into his heart.  

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[Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, February the 10th. There are 19 days left before the alliance presidential nominations. Welcome to the morning news program. The main content of today’s program is…… ] BvmfPg

Shan Ziwei gulped down the hot milk and licked the milk from his lips. Hearing today’s date, he glanced at the electronic calendar on the wall and confirmed that today was exactly a week after his last game.

According to the relevant regulations of RPG, Shan Ziwei was banned from login for a week due to overtime. This week’s time was not passed in vain. Pangzi had finally sent the relevant information for RPG. It took Shan Ziwei five days to read the package from the beginning to the end. After reading it all, there were only five words left in the mind of a certain hypersexual:

I fell in a pit. 

Official information for RPG available to the public was next to none, and any forums or discussion was blocked, but players will never stop due to this. They prolifically organize various offline parties and activities to share each other’s game experience, and gradually summarized some rules and settings of RPG. It was like a martial arts book. Ordinary players can basically get regular and popular goods, and those with a little higher access can get some more advanced skills, while the core and deeper secret manuals such as《Nine Yang Scripture》《Advanced Marrow Washing》, were all in the hands of major sects – the game studios – and would not be disclosed to the general public. 8H6aPB

The Dawn Night Studio was a new studio that had been established only a month ago. Although it was not as powerful as those famous and long-standing studios, it still had at least twice as much information as an ordinary player. After reading the game materials from Dawn Night Studio, Shan Ziwei suddenly felt like the past few games from the previous two weeks were all a total mess, and he couldn’t bear to review them.

What made Shan Ziwei truly want to yell ‘fuck me’ was the setting of “Suites” in RPG. Before, he only knew that there were four suits in the game: diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades, which corresponded to four player emotions and represented four attributes. Although the system told him in the beginning that “character attributes determine your attack attributes, thus when you use spade skills, there will be a corresponding bonus.”, he didn’t realize the importance of this sentence, which could totally completely determine the direction of growth for a player.

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According to the Dawn Night Studio’s compilation of information, in RPG, spade skills are mostly attack skills, hearts skills are generally for healing, clubs skills are usually in the crowd control department, and diamond skills are typically defense-related.

All in all, as a spade-type player, Shan Ziwei’s skills were best suited for a DPS rather than a Tank.  JKcNZg

This coincided with his original wish, yet it was rejected by Zhao Qing. Shan Ziwei was somewhat suspicious. As the person in charge of Dawn Night Studio, Zhao Qing should have known about his attribute-role discrepancy. Even if he’d signed him for Ye Ye’s sake, he still shouldn’t have put him in the Main Tank position of the team.

Shan Ziwei tried to contact Ye Ye again, but the other party was still unreachable. Shan Ziwei was not dumb. He knew that there was an issue somewhere, but before he managed to talk to Ye Ye, as a newcomer, he shouldn’t challenge Zhao Qing’s authority. It would be best if he was able to contact Ye Ye and figure out everything before the first match, but if it couldn’t be resolved…… 

Shan Ziwei squeezed the empty milk carton into a ball and threw it into the garbage bin.

——Then he could only make himself so strong that the other party couldn’t touch him in the first place. PWjyO0

After breakfast, Shan Ziwei lay in the nutrition cabin. With the support of the game information from Dawn Night Studio, Shan Ziwei had a new foundation to build upon in RPG and began to look forward to the next game.

[Connection to the quantum terminal established, accessing information. ]

The sweet sound of the system filtered through his eardrums.

[Welcome to RPG. ] PmjC8d

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Iz: so mysterious >w<

Rinrin: it really is….seems like there’ll be a lot more world building