A game's tutorial throwing players into a place and completely ignoring them for a full 10 minutes?
Fire Knife blinked, a little incredulous.
He opened the game menu, incredulously checking the UI again, wanting to see if he had overlooked any quest prompts.
But there weren't any.
The quest list was completely empty.
"Could it be that I need to find clues myself to trigger subsequent quests?"
He surveyed the forest clearing, which was flat and grassy.
Besides being perfect for a picnic, he couldn't see anything unusual.
He shook his head, dismissing the absurd idea.
"So… I really did encounter a game BUG, didn't I?!"
Fire Knife immediately took a screenshot and sent it to the [Great Swordsman Global Friendship Association] group for help:
"Brothers, help me see, where the heck have I been sent to?"
"I was directly teleported here from the starting tavern, and there's no one around. Did I encounter a bug?"
The group members were very enthusiastic:
"Teleported? Doesn't the opening scene involve the tavern being torn apart and falling from the sky, barely surviving?"
"An easter egg? Or a bug?"
"Wait a minute, buddy, why does this place look a little familiar to me?"
"This place looks like… the [Eternal Hunting Grounds]? You flew directly from the game's start to the Eternal Hunting Grounds??? A transfer student, huh?!"
"Just stand there, don't move, I'll be right there!"
… …
Fire Knife looked at the replies from the group members, his head also full of question marks.
"Directly into the [Eternal Hunting Grounds]?"
"But isn't the [Eternal Hunting Grounds] a multi-player PVP mode?"
"Wait, is a group member really going to run over and kill me with one strike?"
I'm still empty-handed!
Before long, to Fire Knife's stunned surprise, someone actually emerged from the forest, charging towards him with a huge axe!
Fire Knife quickly said, "We're on the same side! Don't shoot… I mean, don't attack!"
The other side didn't stop at all.
Fire Knife then took off running, quickly leaving the grass and rushing into the forest.
While running, he shouted, "We're all group members of the [Great Swordsman Global Friendship Association]!"
"We're friends, even if you don't help, there's no need to kill me, right?!"
If he hadn't said that, it would have been fine, but as soon as he said it, the other guy exploded on the spot—
He extended his left arm, and a semi-transparent blue fluorescent flying insect flew rapidly into the sky from his arm guard, a rope made of light connecting the insect and the arm guard.
The next second, the guy was directly pulled into the sky by the rope!
Fire Knife looked up in shock, just in time to see the light on the giant axe in his hand flash.
"I hate Great Sword players the most!"
The guy raised the giant axe high with both hands, and gave Fire Knife a super jumping chop from the sky right on the head!
Fire Knife didn't react at all and took full damage!
Only a sliver of health remained.
Seeing him so angry, Fire Knife was very puzzled and couldn't help but ask:
He roared and slashed horizontally with his axe, turning him into a corpse.
Fire Knife didn't know why this guy had such a big grudge against Great Sword players until he died.
… …
"Hey! What are you looking at?"
"Are you here to investigate the cause of the rainforest disaster as well?"
A familiar voice awakened Fire Knife from his state of confusion.
He returned to the tavern where the game started, and the lively adventurer girl greeted him enthusiastically.
"Oh, yes, that's right," Fire Knife replied.
This time, he didn't mess around and answered the questions step by step to advance the plot.
At the same time, he was thinking that when the game ended, he would ask the Dream Builder customer service what exactly had happened just now.
How did they put him in multiplayer mode?
—He also asked the group members, and that was indeed the map of the Eternal Hunting Grounds mode.
The person who killed him was another player.
The group member who said he would come to find him said very righteously: "I'm already here! Wait! I'll avenge you now!"
The game has been in beta for a week, and the beta players have completed the tasks and unlocked the [Eternal Hunting Grounds] mode.
Qi Huahua's [Door Key] also came in handy—
You can queue for matchmaking in the login space without logging into [Monster Hunter].
But that was all…
When she entered this mode, she encountered a situation similar to Fire Knife's, and she was always killed before she could collect her equipment.
This led to her not being very interested in this mode, and she spent more energy on Spirit Core cultivation.
Many players were similar to Qi Huahua, each with their own interests.
Therefore, the [Eternal Hunting Grounds] mode was not lively, and generally only 2 to 3 rounds were opened, so the probability of running into group members was quite high.
Fire Knife was a little unhappy about being inexplicably killed.
Seeing the group members helping him vent his anger, of course he was very happy and sent a 50 yuan red envelope to express his gratitude.
"I saw him!"
"Wait for my good news!"
The guy rushed up full of confidence.
… …
40 seconds later, the guy reappeared:
"… …"
"Sorry, I didn't win."
"I tried my best, but he was too strong."
[Fire Knife]: "… …"
You son of a b*tch! Give me back the red envelope I sent!!
"Are Great Swords… really that strong?" Fire Knife couldn't help but question.
The group members immediately corrected his view:
"Of course they're strong! Super strong! Both handsome and strong!"
"Don't doubt it! He lost just because he's trash!"
"Yes! As long as you hit the target with every strike, the damage is explosive!!"
Fire Knife was persuaded again.
So, upon arriving at the investigation outpost and unlocking the weapon change function, he immediately switched to the katana and entered the training grounds.
In "Monster Hunter," Zhumeng offers two combat modes.
One is the traditional action mode available on all platforms—releasing specific attack actions and derivative techniques through fixed buttons.
The other is the [Free Mode] exclusively for the Phantasm game platform.
In [Free Mode], players can break away from the limitations of fixed actions and fight as they please.
Of course, the specific attack skills of the weapon still need to be triggered with fixed starting actions.
For the katana, this means the [Spinning Slash] for blade enhancement, the [Thrust] for the soaring dragon strike, the [Sheathing] for the Iai quickdraw, and the [Parry + Jump] for foresight.
"Hmm... seems pretty simple."
Huodao nodded, feeling like he already understood.
If he were playing on PC or console, he would have to memorize the moves corresponding to the buttons, as well as some derivative actions.
The newest novels are first published on 6_9_shu_ba!
But the Phantasm game platform is much simpler.
"Simply put, just slash mindlessly. When you have enough rage, spin a big whirlwind for a buff. The buff is divided into white, yellow, and red stages, increasing damage, and you can also step on the monster and jump into the sky after a thrust."
"Sheathing and charging allows you to use Iai, and parrying plus jumping is invincibility."
"I completely understand."
Huodao confidently embarked on his hunting journey.
The first hunting target: Jagras.
Huodao watched the Jagras charging at full speed and immediately sheathed his katana to start charging!
Charge! Charge! Charge!
He charged for several seconds until the Jagras was right in front of his face, and Huodao realized a problem—the charge gauge hadn't moved at all!
Only then did he remember to parry and jump, but the blade was only halfway sheathed when he was sent flying by the Jagras's chest bump.
As the character flew out, Huodao rubbed his chest.
After getting up and briefly recalling what happened, he understood: "I need to slash once first before I can start charging!"
He rushed up and slashed the Jagras once, then sheathed his blade, charging—
"Awoo!"
The Jagras bit down!
A pain in his chest interrupted the charge.
"It's okay, I'm a veteran player, my mentality is invincible!" Huodao started over.
This time, he avoided the front, slashed the Jagras on the side, then sheathed his blade, charging—
The Jagras side-rolled!
A pain in his shoulder interrupted the charge again.
"..." Huodao was speechless for a moment.
"Forget it, this is a bit difficult to grasp the opportunity, let's try something else."
Huodao began to try blade enhancement and stepping on the monster to jump into the sky.
...
Several more minutes passed.
Huodao's chest, shoulders, lower back, arms, and butt all ached faintly.
After failing eight times in a row, before his mentality completely exploded, he finally successfully thrust the Jagras with the blade enhancement buff and timely lifted his foot, stepping on the Jagras's hide!
So—
He finally saw all the surrounding scenery instantly plummet!
He was flying!
"Eat! This! Blade!" Huodao roared!
The katana bloomed with a scarlet light!
This angry strike after a difficult success, in Huodao's roar, heavily slashed the Jagras's side with a hair's breadth!
"Bang!"
Dust flew up.
The Jagras casually swiped a claw, directly staggering the young katana wielder.
"You motherfucker!!!!!"
Huodao completely broke down.
He threw all the blade enhancement and charging to the back of his mind, picked up the katana, and rushed up for a flurry of random slashes!
Without dodging or avoiding, slash after slash!
Until the Jagras wailed and fell.
Huodao looked at the fallen Jagras, without any joy, only a face full of question marks—
"This boss, is it really that simple?"
"Doesn't require any high-level skills?"
"No... this is still the first monster for beginners. When I encounter stronger bosses later... can those skills really be used????"
He finally understood the weight of the sentence in the group, "As long as every slash hits, the damage explodes!"
So, if you can't hit continuously, the damage will directly drop to the basement level?
He couldn't help but ask in the group: "When you guys play katana, can you use high-damage moves? I feel like the boss is a bit hyperactive, it's hard to hit?"
A group member replied:
"Don't worry about whether you hit or not, just tell me, isn't it cool?!"
Cool your big head!!
Huodao sent a sweating yellow bean emoji and silently closed the group chat.
He felt like he should switch to a different weapon.
But before that, he needed to rest for a while.
—This hunt has already exceeded the middle-aged man's amount of exercise.
He sat down and opened the game feedback channel to ask what was going on with the previous "teleportation."
But at this moment, he found that he had received an email from Zhumeng.
"Compensation for detecting a game bug?"
"Acting so fast?"
Huodao opened the letter with some surprise.
But the content of the letter was completely different from what he imagined—
"Dear player:
Hello!
Mr. Xu Meng, the founder of Zhumeng Game Company, invites you to participate in a top-secret closed-door game test.
Zhumeng will provide you with airfare, accommodation, and subsidies during the test period.
If you are interested in participating in this test, please call the phone number at the end of the email to register.
Note: Participating in this test will affect your overseas travel plans.
If you have plans to go abroad in the next two to three years, please do not participate in this test."
Huodao was stunned on the spot after reading this short email.
"Game test, why would it affect going abroad?"
