Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 337

The golden dragon's enormous eyes stared at the two players. Only then did the busy players notice that the dragon had only extended its head and neck. The captain, standing some distance away, was so shocked by the dragon's appearance that his mouth gaped open in disbelief. When people are shocked to the extreme, their mouths really do gape wide...

The golden dragon was enormous. We don't know how high the mountain was, as it was shrouded in mist both above and below. But the dragon was truly massive; from the team leader's perspective, the players over there were almost as thick as the dragon's whiskers. The cranes were also enormous, larger than a person.

That player holding three cranes was really going all out, with one head in each arm and the other's head pressing down on the smaller one's. It almost gave the illusion that you could touch it and feel it was him.

At this moment, another crane, even larger than the three cranes present, appeared from the sky. It spoke in human language: "What, Golden Dragon, are you trying to interfere in the affairs of the juniors? Birds eating fish is a natural law of heaven and earth, and it is also your tribulation for leaping over the gate, Golden Dragon Carp. Do you want to break it?"

Jinlong laughed and said, "Of course not, it's just that your crane clan interfered with the affairs of the younger generation first."

The two large cranes captured by the player struggled and cried out. The super crane in the sky said, "They are not interfering, they are just disciplining the carp that broke the rules. How can a fish eat a bird!"

Jinlong snorted coldly, flew up and started fighting with the crane, "Today I'll show you whether fish can eat birds!"

As soon as it finished speaking, the goldfish in the pond above suddenly leaped down and bit the three cranes in the pond.

The player who was hugging the bird was terrified! Good heavens!

What's happening here?

He quickly tried to put the three cranes into his backpack, and to his surprise, he succeeded!

"Ahhh, I got it! I got it!"

The player opposite, who was holding the fish tank, watched the goldfish fly away, quickly took a step forward, and caught it back into the tank. Seeing her teammate get the crane, she hurriedly asked, "How do I do that?! I owe you a favor, tell me quickly!"

"Put it directly into your backpack."

The player with the fish tank did as instructed, but when the fish tank was put into the backpack, the goldfish didn't go in!

At this point, the system popped up a message: Failed to capture the golden carp.

"Aaaaaah! Why did the capture fail? Why did you succeed? I refuse to accept this!"

The player who tamed the crane was excited but also a little confused; he didn't know anything about it!

The battle in the sky was incredibly intense; waves of magical shockwaves blew away the surrounding clouds, revealing an endless expanse of immortal realms to the players still flying in the air. Only the team leader remained in the sky, staring in disbelief at the scene before her—it was all too dreamlike and unimaginable.

Beyond this mountain, there are unnamed high mountains shrouded in clouds. Below these mountains lie boundless plains and hills, covered by dense forests where birds soar, and even flying fish and drifting sheep seem to be seen.

Before they could even get a clear look at the shockwave, they were all wiped out and sent back to their player homes. They couldn't stop it, there was no way they could. They were even far from the cranes and golden dragons engaged in battle; those two were high in the sky, looking like a small flying vehicle from below.

A simple calculation from their perspective reveals just how enormous these two beings are; a human's pupil isn't even as large as theirs. Such beings are everywhere here, and there are even more hidden in the forest.

The team leader shared the video on the world channel because the rewards from the recent exploration had been distributed, and now it was time to show them off.

The announcement of unlocking the Fairy Island was broadcast three times across the world chat, seen by countless players. After the map was unlocked, there was an entrance/exit at the service center, leading directly to the instance. Everyone rushed to see just how big or beautiful the island was to warrant three server-wide announcements. Keep in mind that even the Twin Towers unlock didn't receive three announcements; that was also the first hidden permanent instance unlocked so far.

Of course, the Underworld was unlocked by players gradually completing hidden quests, but because the scenes unlocked through hidden storylines were relatively small, and the previous event made the Underworld a permanent dungeon, players didn't really notice it. However, the world announcement announcing the unlocking of the Twin Pagodas still greatly surprised players, elevating their interest in completing hidden quests, exploring the world, and hearing the stories of NPCs to a new level.

The two players fighting on the fairy island were a little confused when they suddenly saw a large number of players appearing around them. What was going on?

Although they are not real life forms or beings capable of thought, this was taken into account when the system was made intelligent, so it was designed to react.

It can only be said that technological advancements have infinitely expanded and perfected the creative space. Preparing such game easter eggs during the Blue Star Lin Shuying era would likely have required a month or even two of work from staff, designers, and even screenwriters. This is because behind the simple visual presentation and intelligent plot responses lies an immense workload. For example, the animation team needs to prepare corresponding animations and insert dialogue, as well as add corresponding storylines. The programming team also needs to prepare, adjust the player's perspective, and ensure there are no loopholes with previous programs or later content, etc.

In the interstellar era, all these things have been replaced by AI, resulting in a terrifying reduction in workload. This has also made many fantasies possible, which is the biggest reason why Qingfengyi has been able to achieve what it has today.

While the two behemoths were bewildered, the players were even more bewildered, plummeting downwards as soon as they arrived. The space was filled with players' screams of "Ahhhhh..." Those with quick reflexes managed to summon red embroidered balls, small boats, roc birds, and all sorts of other mounts. For a moment, the sky was filled with players' mounts and items, making the two behemoths appear rather small in comparison.

Players who fall in are either lucky enough to land in the pool and survive, or unlucky enough to fall on rocks and die. Those who are neither unlucky nor unlucky are simply crippled; they don't need to compete with those who come in after them for a spot, but they have to use healing items.

The number of players in Qingfengyi today is terrifying. Even if a server can accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 players, it still takes hundreds of thousands of servers to process the queue. The longest queue time has reached more than ten minutes, which shows how terrifying it is.

As more and more players died, complaints began to appear in the world chat:

"Ugh, I knew this would happen. This is the third time, the third time I've died the moment I entered the dungeon."

"Hahaha, let's record this moment. This is the first time I've died. I wasn't crushed to death, I wasn't beaten to death, I wasn't thrown to death, but I drowned, sob sob sob."

"I can't swim either, I drowned. I've been queuing for ten minutes and I'm still waiting to enter the instance. How long will it take for things to finally settle down?"

"At this point, I'm really thinking of splitting the servers. There are just too many players, and the stabilization period is so long after each new dungeon is released."

"Yes, it takes at least an hour to stabilize each time, and I get impatient waiting."

"Waaaaah, my mecha grand marshal! I choked to death by a goldfish spitting on me! How could this happen? Ahhh!"

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"Can someone tell me how a goldfish can choke to death by spitting?"

"I'm curious, can goldfish spit?"

"Goldfish don't live in water, so why do they need to spit?"

"Um......"