Chapter 69 - I Want All of It (1/2)

“It’s up to me?”

Roland was startled for a moment. Now he thought the possibility that the other party was a fraud was low. However, he still found this strange. “I remember when I filled out the information, I didn’t leave my phone number, just my ID. How do you know my phone number?”

“Erm… About that, although it’s a little after the fact, I’ll still divulge some information to you.” The voice inside the phone had a peculiar sense of mysteriousness. “Actually, this game was already cooperating with the country. All the players already pa.s.sed a round of investigation on their personal records. After ensuring that each player had no stains on their record, they then were allowed to purchase an immersive cabin. If even their personal records were investigated, your commonly used phone number would naturally be in our database.”

So that’s how!

However, Roland thought this was quite normal after giving it some thought. For such an advanced and time-surpa.s.sing technology, if the country wasn’t safeguarding from behind the stage, Penguin Corporation, even with its size, wouldn’t be able to defend against the mauling of wolves—not to mention there were corporate spies and things of that sort, as well as the pressures from certain large countries. Private corporations had extremely little power in a broad environment that involved industrial upgrading—leaning on a large backer was the correct way of handling this situation.

It was no wonder there were very few paid comments that tarnished this game. Even if there were, they would be suppressed quickly.

“Since it’s up to me…” Roland’s voice quivered. He then said resolutely, “Isn’t there a meme on the internet that says, only children make choices, adults want it all!”

“Hahahahaha!”

A candid laughter came through the phone first, then Ma Huajun said, “Sure enough, you’re a greedy adult. Unfortunately, I, Ma Huajun, love to say no to arrogant people the most—choose one over the other—you can only choose one. Besides, we have to take cla.s.s balance into consideration. Mages are already quite impressive. If Meditation possessed both active and pa.s.sive effects, that would be too ridiculous.”

Roland didn’t expect the head planner to go along with his joke. After some thought, Roland said, “What’s the full effect of the pa.s.sive skill?”

“Don’t worry, it’s only slightly worse than the active skill, but it’s superior in that it has continuous effects.”

“Then, pa.s.sive effect it is,” Roland said after a moment’s thought.

He didn’t choose this arbitrarily, but it was rather that he already sensed the fact that mages had slow mental power regeneration. It wasn’t the equipment or the number of spells that troubled mages, it was mental power.

The amount of mental power and its endurance decided a mage’s ability to last in a fight.

Moreover, this game was different from normal games. Equipment could be damaged and stolen. Even if you had a lot of magic power regeneration equipment, once you lose in a battle, if you didn’t have a friend to guard your corpse or retrieve your equipment, then you’d soon end up with nothing.

However, the pa.s.sive mental power regeneration would forever be your own.

“Sure, the pa.s.sive effect it is.” Ma Huajun’s voice came through from the phone. “Then I’ll hang up now. In a while, you’ll be able to see the bug fix announcement on the official website.”

“Wait!” Roland suddenly shouted.

“Is something else the matter?”

“I just wanted to ask, those NPCs, are they really just artificial intelligence?”

“What do you think?” A profound voice came from the phone. “If you think they’re NPCs, then they’re NPCs, if you think they’re real humans, then they’re real humans. This game is actually quite idealistic.”

After Ma Huajun finished speaking, he ended the call, giving Roland no chance to ask another question.

When Roland tried to call back, however, he discovered that the previous caller ID was displayed as eleven zeros, even though the caller ID had been perfectly normal just now. Could he have remembered wrong?

This number couldn’t be called.

Idealistic? What’s that supposed to mean?!

Roland couldn’t understand it, for it sounded mysterious and unusual. He shook his head helplessly, and hastily finished eating breakfast.

He had wanted to go to the boxing club again, but when he recalled that Jin Wenwen seemed to be rather interested in the immersive cabin inside his house, he gave up on the idea.

Although he paid a year’s worth of tuition, it was merely a few thousand yuan. However, in his bank account, there was already nearly 300,000 yuan in savings—wasting a little was harmless.

Why not go to another training club to learn a weapon of some sort? Roland remembered amongst the basic weapons mages were proficient with, swords were one of them.

How about fencing?