Chapter 10: Funding is Burning
As the sky gradually darkened, on the main street of the Abandoned Zone.
The damaged streetlights on both sides of the road flickered on and off. Normally, the street would be barely visible, but now over a thousand people had gathered. Each person held either a flashlight or wore dazzling headlamps on their clothes, illuminating the street brightly.
On the street, the two sides occupied their respective areas. One side consisted of Human Race vagrants, each over two meters two or three in height. The other side was the Crystal Clan, each over three meters tall, with gems embedded in their foreheads and muscles like steel all over their bodies. The two sides were less than twenty meters apart on the main street, each holding swords, knives, or clubs, glaring fiercely at each other, already creating an atmosphere ready for a fight.
"Hou Fei! You've crossed the line! This is our Human Race living area!"
Among the Human Race vagrants, a one-eyed middle-aged man over two meters four tall stepped forward with a silver spear in hand. The cement ground directly cracked, causing everyone present to gasp in surprise.
Making the cement ground crack with one step, such power indicated either a Quasi-Martial Artists or a peak Martial Artist Apprentice very close to being a Quasi-Martial Artists.
"Heavily Armed Qin Mu! I never expected you to be living in this area." On the other side, a young man from the Crystal Clan, over three meters tall with three blue gems on his forehead, Hou Fei, walked out. He seemed completely unfazed by the scene and said casually.
"However, Qin Mu, you should know that the Half-Scaled Race has produced several talented Martial Artists recently. Some Half-Scaled Race gangs have expanded their influence and occupied several decent Abandoned Zones. Many vagrants from other races are now homeless."
"This Abandoned Zone of yours is not small. Even if you give us half, it's still enough for you to live."
"Get lost! You shameless things! You need a place to live, do we not need a place to live?" Heavily Armed Qin Mu, holding the silver spear, shouted sternly, "This area has been where our Human Race lived since the City of Light Chasing was first established. Before, none of your races looked down on this place, but now you have the nerve to come and snatch it!"
"If you want a place to live, there are plenty of other places in the Abandoned Zone. You can go there now, and no one will fight you for it!"
On the main street, as the two spoke, the atmosphere became even more tense, and the number of people on both sides grew, subtly exceeding two thousand.
"Heavily Armed Qin Mu?"
"Are those few talented Martial Artists from the Half-Scaled Race so influential?"
Lin Qi, who had just arrived, heard their words and didn't expect the one-eyed uncle from before to be quite famous. At the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of talented Martial Artists.
He had thought that the emergence of those talented Martial Artists in the City of Light Chasing would only affect the interests of the higher-ups, at most causing the races in the suburbs to pay a bit more rent. He didn't expect even the Abandoned Zone to be affected.
While Lin Qi was marveling at and feeling a headache about the influence of talented Martial Artists, Fang Zhen and the other two, standing behind Lin Qi wearing dark grey t-shirts and long shirts, were like curious babies, full of novelty at the scene before them.
"Damn! Damn! Damn! What a huge scene! So many NPCs! I can't believe I'm not experiencing frame drops, this technology is simply divine!" Twilight of the Gods saw such a grand scene, especially the detailed and Micro picture, and couldn't find the words to describe it.
With the increasing advancement of virtual technology, while the virtuality is getting higher, a major problem has also arisen.
Overly grand scenes, especially those with over a thousand people, would cause various frame drops. Major companies have spent a lot of human resources researching this, and the most they could do was lower the quality, but even then, frame drops would still occur.
But now, High Martial Descent's grand scene with over two thousand people, let alone frame drops, didn't even show the slightest decrease in virtuality. It was simply divine!
"Yellow sand everywhere, a thousand people on screen, and no frame drops?" Fang Zhen watched as thousands of people had their own different movements, and the yellow sand that suddenly blew up everywhere, every grain of sand was unusually clear, hitting everyone's bodies. His mouth couldn't close. "It's too real! This picture is simply art! No! Every frame is art!"
As a professional gamer, Fang Zhen had seen too many scenes of yellow sand everywhere in the Mech Continent game. He knew very well how much of a test this was for a virtual game.
Normally, as long as more than ten people were fighting, the grains of yellow sand would become blurred, making it extremely challenging for players' eyesight and judgment during combat.
In the current scene, a thousand people were in the same place, and there was yellow sand everywhere. Not only that, Fang Zhen could also clearly feel the sand grains scattering on his body, grain by grain. He didn't know how much funding it would cost to optimize the System to this level.
"No impact?"
Almost at the same time she saw this scene, Wu Chang took out her alloy shovel and kept digging at the cement road under her feet, getting more and more excited as she dug.
It really had no impact!
Her control over her body was not affected at all, or rather, she didn't feel any impact whatsoever!
This technology was simply black technology!
Meanwhile, the actions of Fang Zhen, Twilight of the Gods, and Wu Chang immediately drew incredibly shocked gazes from many vagrants who had arrived.
As humans from Blue Star, their stature in the High Martial World was even less than that of middle school students. Not to mention that two of them were acting erratically as if possessed, while the other woman kept digging at the ground, getting more and more energetic as she dug.
No matter how you looked at it, this scene was strange and completely out of sync with the current tense atmosphere.
"Where did these three kids come from? Where are their parents?"
"These three children are all wearing dark grey t-shirts and long shirts, could they be from some gang?"
"Nowadays, there really are all kinds of parents. To let three children join a gang, it's truly pitiful. All three are holding shovels and wearing the same clothes, they should be from the same gang. However, among our Human Race gangs, it seems there isn't one that uses shovels. Could it be a newly formed gang?"
The vagrants present looked at the three who seemed to be acting crazy and couldn't help but whisper among themselves. This scene made Lin Qi also unable to resist, taking a few steps forward to put some distance between them.
Although Lin Qi could understand Fang Zhen and the others' thoughts, their behavior was really too much to bear.
On the other side of the main street, Heavily Armed Qin Mu and Hou Fei knew each other. After looking at each other for a while, they both sighed helplessly.
"Qin Mu, let's not waste words. According to the old rules of the City of Light Chasing, are you planning a group fight or a one-on-one?" Hou Fei directly laid down the terms, and the members of the Crystal Clan also looked towards Heavily Armed Qin Mu.
"How do you plan to fight a group battle? For a one-on-one, who will fight whom? How will we fight?" Heavily Armed Qin Mu was not surprised by this.
In disputes over territory among vagrants in the City of Light Chasing, when both sides had similar numbers and strength, they would usually set up rules and have a fight to determine the ownership of the area.
Firstly, doing so could reduce casualties on both sides.
Secondly, it allowed both sides to accept the outcome.
"For a group fight, each side sends a hundred people. The winner is determined when all people on one side are defeated and surrender. As for a one-on-one, it will be just you and me. Weapons can be used, and we'll stop before serious injury!" Hou Fei suggested, "I recommend a one-on-one."
"Alright! Then let's do a one-on-one! I also want to see if the Waste Land Crystal Bear lives up to its reputation!" Heavily Armed Qin Mu also nodded in agreement.
Second update arrived!