ATPnovel Chapter 143 Mysterious Merchant: How can you be so selfish!
Chapter 143 Mysterious Merchant: How can you be so selfish!
On the floor of the mysterious room X, several large red items, including graphics cards, Bitcoins, and strings of copper coins, were displayed. In the center of the room, within an unknown magic circle, lay a laboratory blue card worth over 200,000.
Foreign players might not yet understand the value of the laboratory room key in the center of the room, and are only shocked by the several large red items in the room.
Meanwhile, some Chinese viewers who bypassed the Great Firewall have even started trying out the Lab map, and naturally have some understanding of the value of the Lab room key.
In "Escape from Chickenkov," the only ways to find the lab key cards besides buying them from black market dealers are on the floor of a mysterious room and inside some clothes, file boxes, or other containers.
Therefore, while the foreign players were still in awe and disbelief at the sight of the bright red items scattered all over the floor in the live stream, the Chinese viewers in the live stream had already begun to criticize Chen Dong's incredible luck.
"It's one thing for Mr. Chen to obtain the mysterious key by killing the shady merchant, but how come he broke even on his first try opening the mysterious room?!"
"No, you're wrong. Mr. Chen doesn't even have any costs. He's even better at zero-yuan purchases than those shady guys in the live stream."
"I went there! I painstakingly saved up over 200,000 game currency, bought a Mysterious Key O from a black market dealer, and after opening the Mysterious Room nine times, I didn't even get a Lab room card, let alone a few big red cards on the floor! Give me my money back!!"
Noticing that the Chinese viewers in the live stream were focusing more on the inconspicuous little card in the center of the room rather than the bright red items all over the floor, some foreign viewers couldn't help but ask about it in the chat.
"Friends in China, why are you focusing on that little card instead of paying attention to the graphics cards and Bitcoin on the ground?"
To make the comment understandable, the foreigner thoughtfully used Google Translate.
In response to the unfamiliar foreign players, some Chinese viewers kindly explained: "The international version of Escape from Chickenkov was launched relatively late, so your exploration of the map is still limited to the first few maps. Once you reach the Labs, you'll know how valuable a room card is; it's worth at least 200,000 in-game currency."
"By the way, a kind person here developed a black market mod that allows you to trade with players across the entire server. You can check how much a Lab Blue Card costs."
Following the string of text, someone also attached a picture showing the price of a blue card on the black market: over 200,000 game currency.
However, after a brief moment of shock at the value of the room card, the foreign viewers in the live stream quickly turned their attention to the black market mods developed by the players themselves.
"This black market mod looks very convenient. Can it be downloaded and used in the international version?"
"I'm not sure. This is a player-made mod from the Steam Workshop, which can be downloaded and used for free. I just don't know if anyone has ported it to the EC platform."
Many foreign players were very disappointed with this answer.
However, the next sentence from the Chinese audience filled their hearts with even more envy.
"By the way, there are people developing multiplayer mods on the platform, and I believe videos of multiplayer gameplay of Escape from Chickenkov will soon appear on YouTube."
Upon seeing this comment, some foreign gamers could even imagine that the Chinese viewer who sent it must be grinning like Venom behind their computer screen.
"Oh shit! I really hope a mod like this comes out on the EC platform soon. Doing these find-the-item quests is driving me crazy!"
In the live stream chat, Chinese and foreign players actually started talking about player-made mods for Escape from Chicken on their respective platforms, and the atmosphere was strangely quite good.
"This... we should probably just ignore it."
"The atmosphere of the chat is fairly harmonious, so why bother with it?"
Although the audience's attention was not on the Grand Prix, the atmosphere was at least relatively harmonious. Xingka was in charge of managing the operation of the live broadcast room. After exchanging glances, they decided not to interfere too much.
The international grand prix continued smoothly, and Chen Dong no longer occupied half of the live broadcast screen. After bringing out the supplies worth more than 300,000 yuan and starting preparations for the next round, the other half of the live broadcast screen switched back to other players.
They were all unaware that Chen Dong had just exploited a bug in the game, or rather, a mechanism specifically designed by the Star Card, to earn a large amount of high-value resources.
The four amateur players were all there for the high prize money, so they were very serious. The streamers and professional players invited by Starcard, on the other hand, seemed relaxed and carefree, as if they were just there to play a game and didn't seem to care much about winning the prize money.
In a residential community in Huadu, South China.
Slice Guy sat at his computer desk. Instead of seeing the live streams of various broadcasters, the computer screen displayed the interface of a video editing software.
After Chen Dong demonstrated how to kill black market merchants without risk, he began editing this segment.
With his skillful operation, Pianjianjun quickly edited the video and uploaded it to his accounts on multiple video platforms such as Bilibili and Yinfu.
The video's title is: "[In one minute, the Starcard Boss teaches you how to easily kill the shady dealer in Farm Town and obtain the mysterious key!]"
As the video upload progress bar slowly moved to the end, SliceJun maintained a smile, as if he could already see the video going viral.
He was confident that he was definitely the first blogger in China to edit this clip.
As time ticked by, three minutes later, the video, which lasted a little over a minute, was successfully uploaded, becoming the latest video on his Bilibili account, which boasts millions of followers.
The video had just been released when it garnered over 10,000 views, and with each time the video editor refreshed the backend, the number of views increased by tens of thousands.
The number of comments in the video's comment section is also increasing at a visible rate.
"Is it still possible to kill black market merchants like this?"
"I'm going. If killing black market merchants can get you the Mysterious Key X, then what am I, who spent over 200,000 game currency to buy it, just a clown?"
"I have a feeling that tonight will be a disastrous day for Captain Fly of Farm Town."
"Captain Fly: You players, stay away!"
"Upstairs, you've forgotten about the mysterious merchant."
"That's right," the mysterious merchant said, "how could you be so selfish!"
"I won't say any more, I'll log in and try it out first, wait for my good news!"
In just ten minutes, the video had been viewed over a million times, and the growth rate not only did not slow down, but accelerated even further.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for Captain Fly and the mysterious merchant of Farm Town.