Seeing this string of prompts, Chi Cheng was completely stunned.
He had originally just wanted to step outside for a look.
But the game directly presented him with a faction map!
In the distance, the fog of war had lifted from the skyscrapers of the CBD, revealing a prominent corporate logo on the rooftop.
[Xinghai Group]
Chi Cheng scrutinized each interface on the new map, his eyes widening with each glance.
"Damn..."
"Brothers, did you see that?"
"I finally fought my way out of the Beginner Village in the complex!"
"Time for a change! Here I come!"
The chat exploded instantly.
[Damn! This is what true chaos looks like, with heroes vying for supremacy!]
[It's getting intense! Chi, charge! Go acquire that Xinghai Group and enfeoff their chairman as your Blade Guard!]
[The world map is open!]
[Xinghai Group looks like the late-game big boss!]
[Property Management Warlord Faction, haha, it's too real!]
[What the hell are Local Demonic Beasts? I think they might be stray dogs in the city!]
Seeing the screen full of excited comments, Chi Cheng felt his blood boiling.
This was an exhilarating thrill!
In this ten-dollar crappy game, he was no longer the clumsy streamer who got solo-killed by the boss sixteen times; he was the Heaven-appointed founder of the Great E Dynasty, carrying the hopes of the entire complex!
In the first few hours of the game, he had been stuck in a 15-square-meter rental and Xinghe Residential Complex.
He even complained about the small map at first.
But now that the world map was open, he realized all those complex tasks were just groundwork!
Finally, the moment had come!
Luckily, he hadn't given up!
"Brothers, my blood is boiling!"
Chi Cheng gripped the mouse tightly, controlling his character as he stood proudly at the archway of the urban village.
Outside the gate lay the dazzling CBD,
"People of the Great E Empire!"
Chi Cheng spoke into the microphone with unprecedented solemnity, his tone carrying a hint of tragic heroism:
"Proclaim my decree!"
"Order Old Zhou from the Imperial Kitchen to keep the fires burning day and night, and prepare plenty of fried rice provisions!"
"Order General of Agile Cavalry Qin Fei to polish his Yadea, ready to charge into battle for me at any moment!"
"Order the Minister of Revenue to tally the Treasury's massive military funds of 28,700 yuan!"
"Today, I will venture out of this Beginner Village alone!"
"I will show them what it means to ride out with a bow gleaming in the sunset, sword shining in the frost, galloping through the autumn wind out of Xianyang!"
"All troops, advance!!!"
With each impassioned shout from Chi Cheng, he used all his strength to press the left mouse button.
In the game, the protagonist Jiang Xiaoyu lifted his foot, exuding an unparalleled imperial aura, and stepped out of the urban village archway!
War drums thundered, dragon roars echoed!
Then.
Just as the protagonist's toe was about to touch the ground.
The screen suddenly froze.
There was no lag, no frame drop.
The entire game screen, as if someone had pressed pause, completely solidified.
Chi Cheng was taken aback.
"Huh?"
"Why isn't it moving?"
He moved the mouse.
No response.
Pressed the keyboard a couple of times.
The character didn't move either.
The livestream chat also began to express confusion.
[Woc? Did it freeze?]
[No way, a bug at a crucial moment?]
[Chi, don't scare me!]
[Just about to set out and it crashes? Really reckless!]
[So familiar! Too familiar! Is this a traditional feature of small domestic games?]
Chi Cheng frowned, pressing a few more times.
A few seconds later, the screen suddenly froze.
Then, without warning, the entire screen went completely black.
The fervor on Chi Cheng's face instantly froze, and he instinctively leaned forward:
"Damn? Black screen? Did the game crash? Or did my graphics card burn out?"
"Impossible, I have the specs to play AAA games!"
"Could it be a loading screen?"
On the pitch-black screen, there was no sign of the grand CBD map he anticipated, nor the epic scene of armies clashing he imagined.
Soon, lines of white Song typeface appeared.
[Your Majesty, hold on!]
[The area ahead is not yet developed, the world is not yet at peace.]
[Congratulations, you have successfully experienced all the content of the demo version of 'I Picked Up the Imperial Jade Seal!']
[The current version content has ended.]
[Subsequent areas are under intense development.]
[Thank you for your support, please look forward to it!]
"Huh?"
Chi Cheng slowly sat upright.
"No..."
"Huh???"
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"?????????"
"????????"
Silence.
Chi Cheng's livestream room was completely dumbfounded.
[??????]
[It's over? Is this how the game is designed!]
[No, I haven't even been to the big city!]
[The World Map Faction Interaction System just unlocked and you end it?]
[You tricked me into taking off my pants, just to show me this?]
[What do you mean the area is not unlocked! You can't unlock it at all!]
Chi Cheng was completely dumbfounded.
He looked at the screen.
Then at the camera.
Then back at the screen.
His expression shifted from shock to confusion to disbelief, finally turning into a complex frenzy.
"Demo version?! You call this a demo version?!"
"Are you crazy! Who ends a demo version at a place like this ahhhhh!"
"What about conquering the world? What about competing for the Central Plains?!"
"I worked hard for hours, enfeoffed so many people, outsmarted and outmaneuvered the people in the complex, finally got the National Destiny Value to a hundred! Finally gathered a full court of civil and military officials!"
"And you just give me an urban village complex?!"
"So I've been busy all this time, turns out I'm just a village chief!!!"
The chat became abstract at this point,
[Hahahahahahaha! I'm dying of laughter! Epic cyber scam!]
['About How I Became a Village Chief for Two Hours for Ten Bucks']
[Zhaoxi Games: Your Majesty, the empire has fallen, your ten-yuan experience card has expired, please recharge.]
[Damn it! Eggplant with potatoes, never enough to eat!!]
Chi Cheng was so angry he was panting heavily, desperately clicking the mouse, trying to close the glaring dialogue box, trying to find even the slightest hidden entrance to continue the game in the black screen.
But there was no discovery,
He started frantically clicking on the continue button.
No response.
Clicked "Return to Game."
The character remained outside the urban village archway.
As soon as he took a step towards the Old Commercial Street, the imperial edict would pop up again.
[Please look forward to subsequent content.]
Chi Cheng's eyes were about to pop out.
"Look forward to it?"
"I'm really looking forward to it now!"
"Let me play!"
"Brothers, I'm so frustrated... do you know that feeling?"
"It's like when I was a kid, rode a bike for an hour to the internet cafe for an overnight session, had the whole night planned, and just as the game opened, they tell me the server is down for maintenance!"
"This is more painful than death!"