Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 13 - Drunken Group

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Imperial Tomb Village.

Underground Space.

Qi Sheng sat cross-legged on the Primordial Altar, constantly sifting through guidance feedback in his mind and searching for suitable recruitment targets in the reality network information.

He already had a clear direction for which targets to choose in the third round of recruitment.

The players who entered Monster World in the first and second batches all shared a common characteristic: they never spent money in the game, or they spent very little, often even making money from it.

Especially the players from the Liver Emperor Group, who had to rely on the game for their livelihood while playing.

Therefore, this time he planned to recruit a batch of players capable of spending money, to make the in-game ecosystem more complete, and at the same time enhance the circulation of items and sacrificial power.

Only by solving the real-world problems of the brick-moving players could they better continue playing the game, creating more sacrificial power profits for him.

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11 PM.

Fog Light City.

The city, located by the sea, is an important port city of the Human Federation. At its founding, thick fog often rolled in from the sea, requiring lighthouses for navigation, earning it the name Fog Light City.

In the hazy night, some people found it difficult to sleep.

In a luxurious villa in the northern district of Fog Light City, a slender woman in pajamas held a tablet, her eyes fixed intently on the countdown numbers on the Dark Land official website.

"Please, let me succeed this time."

With her hands clasped together, Li Siyu prayed with a devout expression.

As time passed, her expression grew more tense, and sweat even trickled from her palms.

Just then, the countdown number on the official website hit zero.

Li Siyu's finger, poised like a machine gun, clicked frantically, but a prompt box appeared on the web page:

[This session's qualification purchase has ended. Unfortunately, you were unable to obtain the purchase qualification for "Dark Land".]

"Damn!"

Her emotions erupted as Li Siyu harshly tossed the tablet onto the bed.

This was her third attempt to purchase a qualification for the game Dark Land, but every time she failed without even reaching the payment page.

She had long anticipated this game.

Before the game was released, she sold her Conquest account at a low price, intending to focus all her energy on Dark Land.

Yet, she was unexpectedly stuck at the purchasing stage.

With 2 billion people in the Human Federation, even with a price as high as 128,888, the qualification was in extreme demand.

More importantly, the game's distribution and sales platform was directly linked to the official website, supervised by the Moon Eclipse Clan, making it impossible to acquire through connections.

Additionally, a purchase required ID binding and could not be resold.

Having money didn't guarantee a chance to buy the game; luck was the key.

After venting her emotions, Li Siyu picked up the tablet again, opened the contact list in the bottom right corner, found the group chat, and started to complain.

[Drunken Group (Online: 21 people)]

Vosni Butterfly: (#｀皿´）Again, I didn't get purchase qualification. What's your situation?

Staying Up and Midnight Snack: What else could it be? My eyes are blurry from staring. I started clicking frantically a minute early, only to be told this round of purchase failed. My fist is about to explode.

Shrimp and Pork Heart: (งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง⁼³₌₃ The issuance of qualifications is stingy. The virtual server of the Moon Eclipse Clan can accommodate more players. The hunger marketing is truly disgusting.

Is it a Beaver: Sleep, sleep, didn't get it again. The next round is days away. By then, we'll be a week behind the initial batch of players. Sis's dream of establishing a top guild is crumbling.

Word Duck: Limited qualification is fine, but requiring ID binding with no other buying channels is just blocking the way, making it so hard to play a game.

Lying Flat Salty Fish: Garbage game, I've waited years, I can't accept this result. I'll try up to 10 more times. If I don't get it, I'm going back to Conquest.

Suddenly, as the group members were angrily criticizing the Moon Eclipse Clan's hunger marketing, a stranger joined the group.

[Benefit Officer has joined the group.]

This prompt left the group members momentarily stunned.

The Drunken Group hadn't had a new member in two years because the group had blocked strangers from joining.

Seeing a newcomer suddenly join, with no prefix indicating who invited them, left the group members very puzzled.

Before the group members could speak, the newly joined Benefit Officer proactively sent a message:

Benefit Officer: I heard you all want to play Dark Land. I have free cracked download qualifications here. The link is in the group, take it if you need it (link address: ...)

Without waiting for inquiries, the Benefit Officer quickly exited the group.

This maneuver left the group members completely bewildered.

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Their first thought was that this Benefit Officer scammer was a bit too hasty, sending a phishing link immediately upon joining, blatantly insulting their intelligence.

No one would fall for it.

However, group owner Li Siyu had a different idea.

After the Benefit Officer left the chat group, she opened the detailed information page and found that this person had no IP address displayed.

In this era of online identity verification, netizens' IP addresses were always public, with no possibility of hiding.

More importantly, the chat group she established had blocked search functionality, making it impossible for outsiders to join.

Being able to easily bypass the chat limit maintained by the Moon Eclipse Clan proved the Benefit Officer's technical prowess was very high.

"Could it really be a cracked version of Dark Land?"

The absurd thought just surfaced in her mind when Li Siyu couldn't help but shake her head.

In her view, it was impossible for the Moon Eclipse Clan's technology to be cracked.

Previous virtual games had no cracked versions online, let alone the technically upgraded Dark Land.

But the Benefit Officer had successfully piqued her curiosity.

With nothing better to do and driven by curiosity, Li Siyu decided to delve deeper.

After enabling network protection, she clicked on the link address.

The popped-up web page was very rudimentary, almost entirely blank, with only a clickable download zip file in the center.

The simplistic webpage, coupled with almost treating others as idiots with the trickery, intensified Li Siyu's curiosity.

She wanted to find out why the Benefit Officer did this—was it just a prank?

She clicked the download icon on the page.

A download prompt with a percentage progress bar appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.

Time ticked to 12 o'clock.

Ding!

The zip file finished downloading, and Li Siyu swiped the tablet, wirelessly transferring the unzipped files to the corner of the room with the Obsidian limited edition gaming pod.

Three minutes later, the gaming pod lit up with a green adaptation completion light.

At this time, Li Siyu got up from the bed.

After changing into a gaming suit, she entered the gaming pod and pressed the "start" button. The translucent cover slowly lowered.

"I want to see what's actually inside."

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