Legend of the Planet Builder-Chapter 82 - Explosion

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Explosion!

Chapter 82 -82: Explosion!

“Holy shit, are games this fucking awesome now? These graphics are mind-blowing!” Miao Jun couldn’t help shouting out loud, but soon he realized: “No, a lot of games are still crap, it’s just that this one is made with He Xingzhou’s physics engine!”

He continued to watch, and soon, the game’s protagonist Wukong appeared with his super-realistic monkey fur, so silky in texture. Those expressions, so lively they don’t even seem like computer graphics!

Beautiful natural scenery, mountains shrouded in eerie miasma, oddly-shaped caves… Scene after scene kept changing, with light rendering and soft music humming, Miao Jun had completely immersed himself in this mythical virtual world!

It was only when the level’s BOSS appeared that he realized he had underestimated the game’s charm!

“Furry big brother, come play with us!” The Spider Demons’ playful and seductive voices echoed from the mountain brook, their fair skin and beautiful long legs alluring. Miao Jun was entranced, and suddenly, the transformation process of a Spider Demon being attacked and shifting from human to demon form flashed by.

Human skin peeled off inch by inch, replaced by the spiky fur of a spider; watery peach blossom eyes turned into red demonic pupils emitting a strange glow; beautiful long legs morphed into spider legs; cherry lips sprouted venomous fangs…

This transformation process was so incredibly real, as if it was happening right before his eyes!

These images made Miao Jun’s hair stand on end!

Then other BOSSes made their appearance, with golden helmets dazzling in the sun, golden armors reflecting light. Their helmet tassels flowed like mountain pheasant tails, their robes over armor soft as pale goose yellow. Clad in armor with dragon motifs shining brightly, with the Heart Protection Mirror encircling their eyes in brilliance. Deer skin boots, dyed with Sophora flowers; brocade aprons, decorated with willow cotton fluff. Wielding three-pronged steel forks, they exuded an divine aura!

A cadre of divine soldiers and generals, but transformed into the Yellow Wind Monster, controlling endless storms and sweeping across the mountains and earth!

With a shift in the scene, mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared, pervaded with the aura of death, ghosts emerging all around, chilling winds gusting.

Amidst a host of demons, three great demons of Lion Camel Ridge sat high atop a mound of corpses, their bodies taller than mountains and features terrifyingly fierce. Moreover, there were frightened voices of the earth spirits warning: “That’s the Land of Ten Thousand Demons, a purgatory on earth! Even gods and Buddhas dare not step foot there, do not go, do not go!”

“My scalp is tingling!” Miao Jun couldn’t help trembling anymore.

The CG was almost coming to an end, and what appeared behind seemed to be the Four Heavenly Kings descending to the mortal world, their angry rebukes causing the earth to shake and mountains to quiver; a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, deities of all kinds… They formed mountains to block the path of those who are trying to advance.

“The sea of misery is boundless; turning back is shore! Monkey, you shouldn’t keep on going!” The sound of chanting rose, as if a compassionate voice was earnestly persuading!

“No, all beings suffer, the journey west is a great lie! Even if I’m ground to dust, I must find the truth!”

“Monkey, what exactly do you want to do? Are you going to be the enemy of the heavens, of Ling Mountain?” A heavenly deity shouted in anger.

Wukong roared back: “I want the sky to no longer cover my eyes, the earth to no longer bury my heart, all beings to understand my intentions, and all those Buddhas to vanish into smoke and clouds!”

In the final scene, a lone figure with a staff split open the Qiankun, battling against all the gods and Buddhas!

Five golden characters flashed: “Ru Yi Jin Gu Bang!”

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“Holy shit!” Miao Jun had stood up at this scene, “That’s so badass! Is this really a game that’s coming out?”

“Ah, it ended? Why did it end?”

He felt as if all the blood in his body was boiling, and his heart, which had been tormented lifeless by life, was reigniting!

Miao Jun opened the video comments and found out that everyone felt the same way he did.

“It’s so fiery!”

“I was taking a dump, saw this CG, and it cut right off!”

“This is the most kick-ass CG I’ve ever seen, are the game graphics really this strong?”

“He Xingzhou is freaking awesome, I’m going to download the game now!”

“I can’t be bothered to watch a minute of the Spring Festival Gala, but I’d watch this CG a hundred times straight!”

“What else is there to say? The download has already started!”

“Anyone up for an all-nighter? Let’s do it together!”

“If you’re not playing this, are you even human?” Miao Jun clicked on the link and proceeded to download.

The game “God and Demon Wukong” was released alongside its CG because, after getting familiar with the “Qiankun” physics engine, Huimeng Company’s production efficiency improved by dozens of times!

A game that was originally planned to take another year to develop was finished in just a few months!

And with He Xingzhou helping with the publicity, why wait any longer to release when the buzz is at its peak?

The game “God and Demon Wukong” can be downloaded from both the Steam Platform and Huimeng Game’s official website, and it’s a premium paid game.

To attract more gamers, a staged payment approach was adopted: an initial game pack for 58 yuan, followed by 98 yuan for each expansion pack. With four expansions currently available, the total price comes to 450 yuan. Future expansions are still in development.

The designers at Huimeng Game studio, including Jiang Yuanshan, were all anxiously watching the backend.

Today is the Chinese New Year; nonetheless, the entire company stayed put, not for anything else but to find out the game’s sales figures as soon as possible.

Jiang Yuanshan was pacing non-stop in the office, the sales figures were not only crucial for the company’s fate but also for the realization of his dreams!

It’s been ten minutes since He Xingzhou released the video, and players were already downloading and purchasing the game across various platforms.

In their backend, the programmers set up a simple sales statistic window that refreshed every ten minutes, gathering data from all platforms.

During the first ten minutes, Jiang Yuanshan, Zhang Zhijian, and all the employees in the company stared eagerly at the statistic window, motionless; you could hear a pin drop in the silence!

Suddenly, the numbers flickered, the zeroes leaped to 2,454,515.

Seeing this number, everyone was dumbfounded!

Indeed, they believed the data would be reasonable because they had confidence in the game and in the “Qiankun” engine.

But nobody expected such an exaggerated number!

To put it into perspective, selling ten thousand copies of a new stand-alone game on the first day would be considered a success; a hundred thousand copies would make it the talk of the town! On the internet, that’s a world-famous hit game.

And now, this number simply blew their minds!

“Unit, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million!” Jiang Yuanshan was reciting the numbers as if encountering Arabic numerals for the first time, “Am I seeing this right? Two hundred and forty-five thousand copies in ten minutes?”

“Fuck!” Zhang Zhijian couldn’t help but swear, “This is defying the heavens!”

“Really sold over two million copies?” Even the game designers themselves couldn’t believe it.

“More than that!” an employee in charge of marketing shouted, “We’re now number one in online gaming popularity! Our ten-minute sales have already broken five hundred million!”

When that number was uttered, the whole company erupted!

Five hundred million in ten minutes, this is absolutely a miracle in the history of world gaming!

And this is just the beginning, the number would continue to rise! In one day, could it possibly exceed ten billion? Keep in mind, even for Tencent Games, during the traffic surge period of the Chinese New Year, the highest daily sales were just several billion.

A small unknown company like theirs crushing leading industry giants right from the start?

This felt like a dream, intoxicating and insane!