Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 312

Interstellar research hasn't reached that depth yet; we know it's possible, but we don't know how to find the conditions. Spacetime alignment is similar. An individual's will and influence aren't the fundamental catalyst for an event, but they are. More often, it's the spacetime barriers that interstellar systems leverage thousands of years of accumulated resources, energy, and methods to overcome, like a binary star system. Initially, they rotate perfectly, without interfering with each other. But after hundreds of millions of years, a slight shift in their gravitational pull—a shift so small it's negligible in the grand scheme of things—can, once this accumulation reaches its peak, cause a massive upheaval, even by a fraction of a billionth or an infinitesimal fraction!

From that moment on, the twin stars collided at a speed of seconds, an irreversible event.

In the interstellar spacetime orbit, Lin Shuying, the tech tycoon, and others are just one in an infinite number. They don't need to be incredibly powerful or powerful; their mere existence is enough.

The purpose of their existence is to be sacrificed...

After receiving the answer, Lin Shuying had no more questions. The researcher was busy and quickly hung up the call.

Lin Shuying composed herself and continued embroidering.

The game was buzzing with excitement, a stark contrast to the situation of Lin Shuying and her fellow Chinese transmigrators. Players were overjoyed, not only obtaining numerous rare and exclusive items but also triggering events planned for the next phase. Many players quickly connected the unusual occurrences to the game's progression, discovering that upcoming updates would hold a major surprise.

It turns out that a player encountered a goddess named Magu, who was holding an ancient cane with a large gourd hanging from it and a lingzhi mushroom in her other hand. Magu was kind and gentle, and gave the player a lingzhi mushroom, saying with a smile, "This old woman feels that you have a kind face and a benevolent heart. The good deserve blessings, and the wicked suffer punishment. I will give you this lingzhi mushroom."

The player was completely bewildered; before they could even react, Magu had already ridden away on a cloud, her figure gradually disappearing on the horizon. A colorful sunset appeared on the horizon, extremely beautiful and full of auspiciousness.

This player has been consistently doing good deeds quests; many NPC quests appear in Lantern Festival Street and the main city. These quests have black or white tags, and since she's a white-named player, she thinks the white-tag quests are the best. Is she now triggering the hidden rewards for the white-tag quests?

I was puzzled, but the system explained it to me.

"Congratulations on triggering the hidden event of meritorious deeds - the reward of the virtuous: the immortal bestows blessings. You have obtained one Magu spiritual plant."

A player exclaimed, "My mech general! Is this more than just one reward?"

After the initial shock, I clicked on the description of the Ganoderma lucidum and discovered it was an elixir that could revive someone on the spot, restore half of their status, and remove all negative status effects!

This negative status includes a three-hour wait after resurrection following death...

Although I'm not a combat player and rarely die, I can tell from the description how amazing this item is!

Fortunately, she had been recording video the whole time because she was doing the task, so she quickly uploaded the video and a screenshot of the Lingzhi interface.

Sure enough, combat players went crazy buying up this item.

"Give it to me, give it to me! You name the price, I'll take it as far as I want, I'll take it as boldly as a spaceship."

"I'm willing to pay a hefty price to buy it. I'll buy it no matter the price."

"Waaaah, even though I can't afford it, I still want to give this item a thumbs up. I want to call it the best item in the game."

It revives you on the spot, restoring half your current state and even removing all negative effects. But those aren't the most important things; the most important thing is that it avoids death and imprisonment!

For combat players, being confined to their home and main city for only three hours is incredibly difficult; who knows how unbearable that must be?

Who knows!

Go check out the player profiles; most of the nicer ones belong to combat players, because after they die, they spend three boring hours building and decorating. Check out the world chat; most of the people spamming it are combat players, who, after getting tired of building for three hours after death, can only chat.

what?

Go farm?

Are you kidding me?

A true江湖人 (jianghu person) travels the world, never bound by personal relationships.

Farming requires harvesting crops, otherwise they'll disappear, wasting seeds and money. Players shouldn't lose even a single copper coin due to negligence, let alone lose them because they didn't harvest in time.

If we go back to Lin Shuying's era, this behavior is like driving on a highway and suddenly realizing that the crops in your garden are about to expire and disappear, so you have to find a rest area to stop and harvest them.

Of course, you can jump into the game immediately if you're in a company meeting, but don't drive recklessly on the highway; check back at a rest area. If you disappear, people will only worry about you for a couple of days at most...

The bidding was overwhelming, but unfortunately, this player wasn't planning to sell. Lingzhi mushrooms don't expire; this was the first of its kind, and even if it becomes commonplace later, it will still be the first.

It's so valuable to collect, hehe.

The Magu incident itself wouldn't have made it difficult for players to predict major events to follow. However, the fact that many players doing Underworld quests received rewards like Yin Virtue, Yellow Springs, and Yin-born Spider Lilies has inevitably sparked speculation. Yin Virtue can increase the harvest of crops by one to ten copper coins or the probability of opening rare materials from treasure chests by 0.1 to 1, which is quite significant. Keep in mind that farming players now reap at least several gold ingots per harvest; even an extra copper coin adds up to an extra gold ingot, which is equivalent to five or six Star Coins...

It can't be calculated in detail, it can't be calculated in detail.

The increased drop rate of top-tier materials is also a factor. Combat players have everything except materials for repairing weapons. Moreover, recently, the treasure chests in the game have yielded many fantastical and magical materials, all with a bright red background. While their purpose is unknown, more is always better. Among them are various elixirs and herbs that increase spiritual power, which are also top-tier materials.

Spiritual energy is a valuable resource once the Underworld quests are unlocked.

The Yellow Springs can subdue ghosts and monsters, so the more ghost-catching quests you do, the better.

The spider lily, growing in the shadows, is also quite good. It can be given to the souls being guided, allowing them to retain a trace of their memories, which can be used to make wishes. For example, they can be asked to remember to give them a gold ingot or a top-grade material in their next life. It can also be used as a cultivation tool, simply as a gift without granting any wishes. The family the guided soul will be reborn into will be wealthier, and wealth brings money, hehe.

If he dies again and you still try to extradite him, and give him more spider lilies, he'll be even richer in his next life. That way, he can accumulate wealth to become a millionaire. Then he dies, and you give him more spider lilies, wishing he'd give you 100,000 gold ingots...

Hehe, all I can say is that players' ingenious tricks are hard to defend against.

Of course, when Lin Shuying designed this gameplay, she set a limit of 10,000 gold ingots. Furthermore, the resources obtained through wishes are not guaranteed; if they exceed the capabilities of the deceased's family in their next life, unexpected things will happen, and these are not good things.