Chapter 154-1: Version Update, Pet Shop (1) |
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): The game is about to undergo a version update. After this update, a new functional building will be added to Emperor’s Mound Village: Pet Shop.]
Update Content 1: Pet Shop (Functional Building):
Location: Emperor’s Mound Village space, Eastern District, coordinates: 1328.2832 (open the map function to see the functional building icon)
Function Introduction: Players can go to the Pet Shop and spend sacrificial power to purchase an initial pet for cultivation. Each initial pet possesses special skills. By spending sacrificial power, players can raise pet levels and enhance the effects of the pet’s special abilities.
Update Content 2: Pet Space.
Function Introduction: Players can spend 1500 sacrificial power to create a portable pet space for placing growth-type pets.
Update Content 3: Free Pet Purification Function
Function Introduction: Lifeforms from the Monster World captured by players via a Control Inherited soul can be purified by spending sacrificial power through the pet function panel. Pets that complete purification can be brought back to the starter village space.
Tip: Freely captured pets cannot be cultivated to level up, and cannot be revived after death.
In this update, Qi Sheng specifically emphasized that freely captured pets cannot be revived.
After all, free pets are not interfaced with the Challenger System and are not part of the Challenger System. They cannot be reshaped beneath Emperor’s Mound Village like players.
To achieve this, the life structure of free pets would need to be initialized and interfaced with the Challenger System.
To restore a free pet’s combat power level at a 1:1 ratio would require sacrificial power far beyond what players can bear at the current stage.
This is especially true for those free pets whose combat power level is far higher than that of players.
Secondly, some special free pets simply cannot be created by reshaping.
For example, Written Word warriors, whose underlying framework requires the three Rule powers of Holder, Pen, and Book to drive the architecture.
Without the corresponding Rules, special pets like Written Word warriors cannot be initialized and reshaped at all.
There is another reason. In his eyes, free pets are not very meaningful.
Although they can assist the growth and construction of the player legion, they cannot become the core system. He will not let players spend large amounts of sacrificial power on cultivating free pets.
As the Challenger Notification sounded across all channels, the Emperor’s Mound Village space trembled, and a new building rose from the ground.
Players in the Emperor’s Mound Village space who opened the map could see that a miniature ancient tree icon had been added in the Eastern District, and by touching it with their consciousness they could obtain detailed information about the new building.
The launch of the new functional building immediately attracted large numbers of players to go there.
Some curious players outside even voluntarily entered the little black room to shut themselves in, wanting to take a shortcut home via soul-return to Emperor’s Sign to experience the new function as soon as possible.
But more players outside chose to wait for detailed introductions from the forum’s strategy experts, as well as experience reviews of the new function.
This was also the experience of veteran players.
When sacrificial power needs to be spent, it is best to wait for detailed strategy guides on the forum before taking action.
Just like when the Armed Vehicles function went online last time.
A large number of players spent time and effort assembling armaments and vehicles on their own, yet the results were not as good as directly downloading popular templates from the forum and copying them.
With the lessons learned from last time, the vast majority of players this time waited for review results, then chose the pets they wanted based on the review introductions.
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Earth, Yelan City.
“Little Yun, dinner is ready.”
After his mother shouted, a burst of hurried footsteps approached from afar.
Sitting down at the table, Pei Yun looked up at his mother busy in the kitchen.
The sunset glow streamed in through the window and fell upon his mother’s busy figure. She wore an apron that had faded somewhat from washing but was still clean and neat. She worked skillfully at the chopping board, the knife and board striking with a rhythmic sound.
Drip drip drip, whoosh.
The flame on the stove leapt up, licking the bottom of the wok. Oil splattered, making a faint sizzling sound.
Before long, the final delicious dish came out of the wok and was carried to the table by his mother.
Braised pork ribs, steamed perch, tomato and egg soup… the table was already full of sumptuous dishes.
His mother reached up to wipe the sweat from her forehead. After her gaze swept across the dishes, she looked at Pei Yun with a satisfied smile.
“Try and see if your mom’s cooking has regressed.”
“Mm.”
Since his mother’s genetic damage ailment had miraculously recovered, her condition had improved day by day.
During this period she went to the hospital for multiple examinations, and there was no further deterioration of the body.
After finishing the examination this morning and confirming a full recovery, his mother was eager to cook him a meal.
To this, Pei Yun naturally agreed readily.
He had not eaten his mother’s cooking for a long time. He immediately picked up his chopsticks, lifted a piece of braised pork, and stuffed it into his mouth.
The moment the braised pork touched his tongue, Pei Yun could not help frowning, yet he still put the pork into his mouth.
Chewing carefully, a strange taste spread through his mouth.
The texture of the meat was as rough as chewing sandpaper. Every bite was like a difficult tug of war. The food stubbornly resisted between his teeth, unwilling to be easily crushed. The dry meat soaked up all the moisture in his mouth, and his throat instinctively resisted swallowing, as if an invisible force were blocking the food’s path to his stomach.
“Not tasty?” Noticing that Pei Yun’s expression was off, his mother picked up her own chopsticks, lifted a piece of braised pork, and put it into her mouth.
After chewing, his mother looked very puzzled.
“No problem. This braised pork is quite tasty.”
Hearing this, Pei Yun sighed helplessly.
“It is not that there is a problem with you, Mom. It is that I have a problem.”
He naturally knew where the problem lay.
Lately he had eaten all kinds of delicious Spiritual Food in the Monster World. His taste buds were like a spoiled child, becoming incomparably picky.
The gustatory experience brought by food imbued with spirituality came in two forms. One was an extreme experience of the taste buds, and the other was a powerful feedback on the spiritual level.
After the Spiritual Food in the mouth was swallowed, it was as if all the cells in the body were scrambling for the delicious substances. Every bite was an all-around enjoyment from taste buds to the heart, even producing an indescribable sense of happiness.
Compared to that, real world food had no distinguishing features and even made him feel hard to swallow.
Staring at the simple home-cooked dishes on the table, Pei Yun had no interest at all.
The once favorite ‘taste of Mom’s dishes’ had lost its color in his eyes.
Somewhat unwilling, Pei Yun switched targets, picked up a stalk of seasonal vegetables, and put it into his mouth, but the result was still bland and tasteless, like chewing dry hay.
“Mom, I cannot eat anymore.” Forcing down several bites, Pei Yun put down his chopsticks.
Seeing the disappointment on his mother’s face, he hurried to explain the reason.
“Mom, there is definitely nothing wrong with your cooking, but my sense of taste has a problem. You know I have been playing a virtual game lately. The food feedback in it is extremely delicious, which has caused issues with my taste experience…”
After listening to Pei Yun’s account, his mother could not help sighing.
“Do you plan to live on nutrient solution from now on?”
“That is not impossible either. From the perspective of meeting human needs, nutrient solution is healthier for the body. Satisfying the desire to eat in the game is also fine. Perhaps doing so I can live longer.”
“You and your glib tongue, always able to find a pile of reasons.”
“This has a scientific basis. I will find some information for you.”
As he spoke, Pei Yun took out his phone from his trouser pocket, preparing to search for some materials for his mother as evidence.
As soon as he woke the screen, he saw a string of message notifications.
Many were messages from friends in the game.
Among them was a specially customized, high-cost special effects text message automatically pinned to the top.
God King: Brother Darkness, the pet function is online. I saw you were not online, so I specifically logged off to remind you. Hurry and post a strategy thread. I want to design a team battle mode that integrates the pet function in advance. I have already prepared a tip for you in advance. Get busy at once and get to work.
Realizing that a new function had gone online in the game, Pei Yun’s interest was immediately piqued. He looked at his mother who was eating.
“Mom, I am going to play the game.”
His mother shot him a look while holding her rice bowl and said angrily.
“Go on then. After all, you will be making a living off this game in the future.”
“Mom, remember to try to grab a game qualification regularly. I have already transferred the money to your account. When you grab a Dark Land qualification, you can come play too. Do you not like scenery? Go be a scenery-seeking player in the game. The scenery in the game is very beautiful.”
With that, without waiting for his mother’s reply, Pei Yun hurriedly stood up and walked to his room.