To everyone's surprise, my father-in-law did not play by the rules this time.
Upon hearing the situation, the sect leader flew into a rage, drew his sword, and charged out: "Who the hell dared to trick my precious pearl! Come out here, I'll cut off his three legs and throw him into the Ten Thousand Gu Pit!"
Player: =口=! No, this isn't what we agreed on! Father-in-law... no, no, Sect Leader, please let me explain!
It happened in the blink of an eye.
Then I heard a "click".
Chapter 112 Real Cooking
With a "click," the screen suddenly went black.
It turns out that the system triggered the player's psychological protection system.
Then the whole world suddenly turned black and white, and everything seemed unreal.
Then the sect leader, a high-level character around level 90, came over with his sword. Nowadays, players have absolutely no ability to resist—and sure enough, he cut them in two with a single, clean stroke.
[System: You are dead.]
Player: "Aa ...
He died cleanly and decisively, without the system causing him any suffering.
However, any male player who witnesses a large sword being slashed down towards their crotch... would likely develop tons of psychological trauma.
On the other hand, the death penalty system in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is also very humane.
Normally, if a player's health drops to zero, they are only "severely injured" and unable to move freely, but will not die immediately.
If someone with similar martial arts skills happens to pass by and infuses his internal energy to heal him, or if he possesses a resurrection-grade elixir, or even if he has some superior self-healing martial arts, then he can be rejuvenated and will not have to suffer the punishment of death.
But if someone intentionally "finishes off" him, or if he falls into the water and drowns when he is unable to move, or if he chooses to "sever his own meridians" instead of waiting... then he's finished, completely dead.
After death, the player will return to a special scene called the Samsara Palace.
This section primarily serves as a system service center, where players can pay a fee to reshape their bodies and be resurrected. Other windows offer services such as changing names, re-creating character appearances, and even changing genders.
After being resurrected by the system, all of the player's previous martial arts and life skills levels will decrease by one level, and the corresponding attributes will also be deducted.
However, this downgrade will not affect the bottlenecks that have already been overcome.
In other words, levels 20, 40, and so on will not drop back to level 19, which is a major benefit of breaking through the bottleneck.
Furthermore, if a player's "corpse" is left to rot in the wilderness during this period, there may be people who have learned the rare life skill of "treasure hunting" who will steal the items and silver from his bag.
In this way, the punishment of dying once is still acceptable, but no one would want to die casually.
...
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, even "Xia Ke Xing" has officially entered open beta.
The autumn release season for new games that year was jokingly referred to by players as the "Season of Heroes".
This game is so popular that it has stolen the spotlight from all other games.
The social media, forums, and various live streaming websites are now filled with content related to "Xia Ke Xing," drowning out other voices like a flood. It can be described as a phenomenon that has swept across the entire province.
Overnight, it seemed like everyone was talking about "The Wandering Swordsman" wherever there was internet access.
The cafeteria of the game design college was playing a promotional video for the game "Xia Ke Xing". While students ate their meals, they kept the game's live stream playing on their phones, listening and eating at the same time.
Many people sitting in monitoring positions secretly turned on another screen and watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" with great interest.
The phrase "侠客行" (xiake xing) appears at dinner parties, in private conversations, and even in classroom lectures.
During this period, the most lively group of people should be the interstellar gourmets and chefs.
In this day and age, there are very few people who are still interested in cooking, since artificial intelligence robots can automate the entire cooking process.
However, there have always been people who are interested in "eating".
A legend has now spread among this group of gourmets.
[I'm not kidding! I, Lao Yu, have traveled all over six provinces. What kind of delicious food haven't I tried? Damn it, I actually saw thousands of kinds of food in a game that I'd never even seen or heard of before!]
To be honest, there are hundreds of kinds of vegetables in the starting village of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes? I saw it in another group the day before yesterday! I've already changed three accounts, logging in every day and eating nine meals a day! That giant pancake in the newbie village really lives up to its name..."
Soon, one of the streamers' videos suddenly went viral online.
Many streamers have become famous because of games on Earth, but this mukbang streamer is the first!
It turns out that after eating more than a hundred meals in the game "Xia Ke Xing", the streamer suddenly had a brilliant idea: to record the videos of the chefs cooking and hand them over to his home's top-notch artificial intelligence to try to recreate them.
To my utter surprise, it succeeded on just a few tries.
The cooking skills in the game "Xia Ke Xing" are incredibly realistic! They can be replicated in real life!
The food-loving livestreamer was overjoyed and not only started eating online every day but also ate offline. She happily shared this joy with her viewers.
He cleverly combined two videos, first showing the chef cooking in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," and then showing himself eating the food in real life, seamlessly blending the virtual and the real.
Upload five videos a day —
That's right, ever since "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was released, he's been eating five meals a day!