Chapter 525: Online
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
At the foot of East Imperial City.
At the entrance of a building that had already been vacated, a man in a black uniform and holding a royal document walked in.
He looked like he had the bloodline of Kunlun State.
His skin was a little dark, and his face had the characteristics of the people of Kunlun State.
“I am the director of the Customer Service Department of the Legend of Nightmares, appointed by the eldest princess!” He walked to the sentry post at the entrance and handed over the document in his hand. “From now on, I will take over this place!”
“Entering this area without my authorization is considered treason!”
The officer on duty took the document and carefully checked it. Then, he called his superior again.
Next, he handed the document back and saluted the man. “Officer Ao, do you need me to take you to check and understand the current status of the building’s property storage?”
The man shook his head. “No need!”
“You can just hand over the building to me directly!”
“Yes!” The officer saluted him again.
Then, he pressed a button and said into the loudspeaker, “Everyone, listen up. This garrison mission is over. Return to the base!”
“Everyone, gather in three minutes!”
Soon after, two teams of armed soldiers walked out of the building.
They quickly gathered in formation and finished counting.
Then, they neatly boarded two heavy trucks and drove out of the building.
The officer put the keys, access cards, and other related items into a bag and handed it to the man with the royal document. “Sir, these are all the relevant keys, access cards, and control keys of the surveillance system of this building…”
“Noted!” The man held it in his hand and nodded nonchalantly. He urged, “You should leave quickly!”
The officer did not think much of it. He nodded and walked out of the sentry post.
Then, he ran forward and caught up with the two troop-carrying trucks. He jumped in with a big stride and closed the back door.
He watched as the troop-carrying trucks left.
The dark-skinned man snapped his fingers lightly.
PA!
The snapping sound was very soft, but it was also very grand.
Even the soldiers who had already left could hear it from the truck.
But they were well-trained disciplined soldiers.
Therefore, they strictly followed the requirements of the system.
Everyone lowered their heads and looked at their feet, completely quelling their curiosity.
Only the officer followed the order and took out a mirror, reflecting the scenery in the direction of the building.
In the mirror, a fleet of vehicles with gray paint appeared.
No one knew where this fleet of vehicles had come from.
They just appeared out of nowhere.
It was as if they had come out of thin air.
The fleet of vehicles slowly drove to the front of the building, and then soldiers in gray uniforms jumped out of the heavy trucks.
Seeing this, the officer gulped.
He wisely put away the mirror.
He couldn’t look anymore!
Because this was the royal family’s secret.
Even the military couldn’t ask too much.
No one wanted to bear the crime of treason!
…
Ling Ping’an was watching a short video clip.
A message prompt appeared on the screen.
“Dear player, the Customer Service Department of the Legend of Nightmares has officially started operating today!”
Looking at the text message, Ling Ping’an laughed. “Not bad!”
Turning on the television, almost all the channels were broadcasting an advertisement.
“Do you want to experience real danger?” In a magnetic voice-over, a burly monk wearing a kasaya appeared on the television screen, walking barefoot in the primeval forest at midnight.
The starlight was dim, and there was total silence.
On the screen, only the thudding sonuds of the monk’s feet stepping on the rotten substances in the forest could be heard.
“Do you want to witness real horror?” The voice-over asked softly.
Suddenly, the entire forest became gloomy.
Mournful whimpers came from all directions.
Under the rotten substances, ghastly white bones squirmed around restlessly.
“Do you want to master true strength?” The voice from the voice-over became louder.
The background music also increased in intensity.
The burly monk lightly stomped his foot.
The monk staff in his hand shone brightly.
“You dare to show off such amateurish tricks in front of an expert?”
He smiled lightly and the monk staff in his hand heavily hit the ground.
Boom!
The entire forest seemed to have been struck by a heavy aerial bomb.
Countless rotten matter, branches, and leaves were blown up into the sky.
At this moment, the camera started to look down.
From the sky, from the heavens, it looked down.
And showed that countless birds had been startled by the pitch-black forest.
The huge shockwave could be seen clearly even from the sky.
Then, the entire forest started to crack.
White bands of light seemed to emerge from the ground.
In the camera, a figure jumped up high like a small dot and was suddenly zoomed in on.
At this moment, the camera turned to his face.
That rough-looking face.
“Almighty Dragon of Heaven!” An angry shout could be heard.
Then, a dragon’s roar could be heard from the ground.
A five-clawed golden dragon rose up from the ground.
At this point, the scene darkened.
A few seconds later, the camera lit up again.
The burly monk had already landed on the ground.
At this moment, the forest seemed to have been ravaged by a bomber.
All the trees had collapsed.
Between the leaves and branches, one could see broken bones and oddly shaped demon limbs.
The monk put his palms together and muttered, “Venerable Ksitigarbha of Hell, Supreme Wisdom of all Buddhas!”
His figure slowly became illusory.
The forest, starlight, and earth also became blurry.
The voice-over appeared once again.
This time, he began to celebrate.
“Legend of Nightmares, virtual reality!”
“Here, there are only crazy adventures and horrifying, bizarre encounters that you can’t even imagine!”
“Here, you will experience real life and witness true wisdom and strength!”
“Here, you will have the chance to exchange all kinds of mythical grade bloodlines!”
A list appeared.
The Immortal bloodline of Great Xia, the demon bloodline of Fusang, and even the legendary bloodlines of the Land of Qin were all on it.
People like Lu Wu, Ying Zhao.,.
People like the Angel of Power, Fallen Angel, Monarch, Titan, Medusa..
All of them appeared in the list.
“What are you waiting for?”
“Pick up the phone and call 400101. The Customer Service Department of the Legend of Nightmares is participating in the game’s cabin lottery!”
“The first 10,000 customers who make the call will receive a special discount!”
“We will definitely choose one lucky customer among the 10,000 people so that they don’t have to partake in the lottery and can get the virtual game cabin directly!”
Ling Ping’an looked at it and blinked. “Did they have to make it that exaggerated?”
“It’s just a game, and there’s still the lottery?”
“He even came up with the method of TV shopping in the past?”
“Is this hunger marketing?!”
“If we play like this, will anyone make a phone call?!”
Putting himself in Ling Ping’an’s shoes, if he had never played the Legend of Nightmares Before, he would only treat this advertisement as a gimmick.
Only a fool would fall for this trick!
After all, even though many game companies now acted like they were ‘Dear player, I am your father’…
However, in the end, no one dared to really say this sentence.
On the surface, everyone still had to say: Dear player, you are my father!
And this Legend of Nightmares immediately acted like it was ‘I am your father’.
Other than curious people and masochists, there shouldn’t be many people who would foolishly make a phone call.
Perhaps, everyone was cursing!
There was more!
Ling Ping’an looked at the advertisement on the television that was replayed once again.
That tall and sturdy monk.
Wasn’t this my role?
Your company used me as a publicity tool, so aren’t you violating my privacy?
Most importantly, you didn’t pay me!
However, on second thought, he threw this unhappiness out of his mind.
Look!
Even the game company wants to use me as a gimmick.
I’m indeed a one-in-a-million gaming genius!
He smiled happily.
As a player, he was very happy now!
Because his gaming ability had finally been recognized!
Of course, he wasn’t surprised. After all, no matter what game he played, he was now a top-notch expert!
Even if he were to hit a rut, a bunch of professional firms would offer olive branches to help him out.
…
Chu Weiwei looked at the scene that suddenly appeared on the television.
“Senior!” She swallowed her saliva. She would never forget the time when she had accidentally entered the realm of nightmares. In her confusion, she had protected senior under her wings.
And now she knew that her senior was the captain’s nephew!
Looking at the senior monk’s demeanor on TV.
Chu Weiwei thought of her contact with Young Master Ling.
Those were two completely different feelings!
“Senior’s an expert…” She thought, “He’s indeed different from the rest!”
“Weiwei!” The captain’s voice sounded in her ears, “This Legend of Nightmares… Is it supposed to be advertised like this?”
“This is already the seventh time this advertisement has been replayed!”
“Even if it’s the royal family’s business, they can’t just take money and not use it as money!”
Chu Weiwei turned around and saw the captain, who had just washed her hair and wrapped it in a towel, sit on the sofa without any lady-like demeanor.
“Captain…” She asked carefully, “You’ve never entered this Legend of… Nightmares?”
Li Anan shook her head, “I don’t play games!”
“You know about this?” She was curious.
Chu Weiwei nodded and carefully chose her words, “I’ve played it a few times…”
“Oh!” Li Anan didn’t care too much.
She didn’t play games, and she wasn’t interested in games.
However, she suddenly thought of something and asked Chu Weiwei, “Then does Little Ping’an play this Legend of Nightmares?”
Chu Weiwei smiled stiffly. “I think so!”
Li Anan listened but did not take it to heart.
After all, her nephew didn’t only just started to like playing games.
…
“Contact the country immediately!” Alucard said to the Britannian ambassador, “I want to mobilize all of our Chinese Yuan and gold reserves immediately!”
“Now!”
The ambassador was taken aback.
Chinese Yuan reserves and gold reserves were ballast stones for the state treasury of Britannia
And the most important factor in financial stability.
“Why…” The ambassador asked carefully, “Would you do such a thing?”
“Of course, in order to purchase the Legend of Nightmares’ virtual gaming cabins that may appear on the market!” Alucard said eagerly, “This is a matter of the fate of Britannia!”
When the realm of nightmares went public from behind the scenes…
The entire world immediately responded.
Now, the ‘Legend of Nightmare’s Customer Service Department’ had actually appeared in the east. It had even publicly advertised on television that it was preparing to use the ‘lottery’ method to obtain the gaming pod.
In fact, it was the realm of nightmare’s quota!
This was an extremely precious strategic resource for any country or power.
No matter the cost, they had to get their hands on it.
Because…
Up until now, everyone only knew that the realm of nightmare would recognize the status of some real entities in the realm of nightmare.
Entity organizations would be allowed to have all sorts of powers that they had in the past.
At the same time, from the rules revealed by the realm of nightmares…
In the future, the outcome of transcendent being conflicts in the world would depend on the outcome in the realm of nightmares.
Putting everything else aside, just the ability of the realm of nightmare in the past was enough to change the structure of the world.
The bloodlines of gods and demons, powerful secret manuals and magic art, all sorts of miraculous pills and elixirs that were not available in reality.
All of these would allow the strength of a transcendent being to rapidly expand.
This was something that had long been proven.
If a person entered the realm of nightmare, as long as they did not die and got reincarnated through four to five nightmare worlds, they would at least become a major.
And the time taken from beginning to end might not even take half a year!
If they were lucky, they could go from a mortal to a general in a year.
Of course, such examples were very rare.
Most people who entered the realm of nightmares would not even be able to survive the first world.
There were even exploitation squads like the ‘Pig Raising Team’ and the ‘Fortune Reporting Team’.
They would think of ways to suck the marrow out of the newbies in order to squeeze out the last bit of value from them.
Hence, when the advertisement appeared on TV, Alucard ran over impatiently and asked the ambassador to contact the country and use his foreign exchange reserves and gold reserves at all costs.
Even if he knew that Great Xia would not let him do such a thing, they would not let him use his money and gold to buy the game cabin easily.
But what if?
What if Great Xia did not have any restrictions and Britannia did not make such preparations?
Would he not have to watch this great opportunity slip away from his hands?
The ambassador looked at Alucard’s ferocious and impatient expression and nodded, “Okay, Sir, I will contact the country immediately!”
…
Zheng Manjing looked at the burly monk on the television.
All the officials of Ceylon were clenching their fists and cheering.
“This master is at least a living Bodhisattva, right?” Someone said happily.
There were very few masters of Buddhism.
After all, eminent monks were rare, and great virtue was even rarer.
Even if they were as powerful as the eastern lands, there were only a few arhat (general)-level eminent monks in the past two hundred years.
As for the existence of Bodhisattva (immortal)-level, it had never been heard of!
Now, a living Bodhisattva on earth, a living Buddha, had appeared on television.
The excitement of the people of Ceylon could not be greater.
“This is Master Fa Hai!” Zheng Manjing looked at the monk and said softly, “This is the blessing of the great Skyless Buddha!”
She stood up and looked at the others as if she had made up her mind. She said, “Immediately report back to the country. In the Great Hall of Ceylon’s Pagoda, build a new great hall for the Skyless Buddha and worship its golden body!”
“The golden body of Master Li Fa Hai will be below that of Buddha’s!”
Now that India was in turmoil, Ceylon had to grab hold of all the the help it could get.
“Apart from that…”
“Mobilize the people of the country and call the Customer Service Department of the Legend of Nightmares…”
“Do your best to win the lottery’s game cabin for the Legend of Nightmares!”
This was a must.
Ceylon’s advantage was that it had signed a contract with the Federal Empire to connect the telecom network of the Great Xia Empire and the Ceylon Kingdom.
The telephone network of Ceylon was a part of Great Xia’s network.
Whether Great Xia called Ceylon or Ceylon called Great Xia, it was not considered an international call.
Hence…
Ceylon people could directly call to register.
Apart from that…
Over 70% of Ceylon’s population could speak fluent Great Xia Mandarin.
There was no language barrier!
However…
Zheng Manjing knew that she had to act quickly!
That was because Fusang, Xin Luo, Jiaozhi, and Lan Fang had signed similar telecommunication network agreements with Great Xia.
Furthermore, in terms of culture and geographical distance, they were closer to great Xia than Ceylon.
Hence, if they were too slow…
The game cabins would probably be snatched up!
She had a premonition that the number of gaming cabins released by the realm of Nightmare would definitely be limited to a certain number.
Following her orders, the entire Ceylon was mobilized.
And prior to this, Xin Luo and Fusang had already started to mobilize their citizens a step ahead.
The various transcendent being families and financial groups of the Federal Empire also started to move quickly.
Countless numbers of calls flooded to the number 400101.
Unexpectedly, no matter how many calls flooded to that number at the same time…
The line on the other side was never busy.
It was as if there were millions of people on the other side of the line.
