Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 10.1: Outside The Game

On the first day of the long National Day holiday, 1:00 p.m.

The first batch of 300 (actually 299) closed beta slots available on the official website had all been claimed.

Yang Qiu, who had been busy writing quest text, took a moment to see the 290 helmets that had been ordered, then observed the only three players frolicking about the "game world"…

After some thought, he used the real-time transmissibility provided by the Mind Imprint Matrix to issue an announcement to the three "online" using the role of an online GM.

The three players, who were exploring Exile Town after picking up the dropped items, saw two rows of yellow text appearing simultaneously before their eyes.

[The closed beta will end in 10 minutes of game time. Players online are requested to return to the respawn point in the safe zone and log off promptly.]

[Player's data (equipment, tools, etc.) may be lost if the log-off isn't done at the safe zone.]

All three players cried out in unison.

"What the hell?!"

"We've only just started and the server is shutting down already…? No way!"

"We've been playing for almost six hours??" Hardcore gamer Qin Guan had just shouted out in frustration, but a quick glance at the game time left him startled. "Have we been online for that long? How's that possible? Why does it seem like it's only been a while?"

"Yeah, it feels like we've only played for three or four hours, and I haven't even gotten enough fun yet," said Give Me Medicine, also a hardcore player, discontentedly.

"Umm… we have indeed been playing for quite some time," casual player Blossoming Strokes spoke objectively. "After we died and logged back in, it took us over half an hour to avoid the rat to retrieve the clothes. Then, we went around the beginner town, completed four quests given by zombie NPCs, and we're now on the fifth."

"Ah, makes sense." Give Me Medicine nodded. "My Potential increased a little, it's 43 now."

"Yeah, mine has increased to 49 too." Blossoming Strokes was especially pleased with this particular advantage of h

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