1 Head Explosion (2/2)

Roland was not involved in the game industry, but he had played a lot of games, including Pac-Man at the beginning and the exquisite VR games right now. Even though the games today could make NPCs look vivid, they still lacked the critical essence, which was the soul!

Yet, the old man gave the feeling that he was a living person with a soul, instead of an NPC built with cold data inside a human skin, when he was doing nothing but standing.

Is this a guiding NPC? The official website did not mention anything about a guiding NPC… Confused, Roland asked, ”Hello, mister. What is this place?”

The old man was stunned for a while. Then, he waved his hand and spoke in a language that Roland had never heard.

Even though he could not understand, Roland had inferred from the old man's countenance that he was expressing his inability to understand Roland.

Shoot! Roland cursed the producer of this game for their pursuit of perfection. Had they set up different languages for the NPCs in this world? If the introduction on the official website was to be believed, there were dozens of countries and races in this game world. If every country and every race had their own language, how much work would have to be done?

If it was true, Bli**ard and Ub*soft would be nothing but kindergarteners in front of Penguin Corporation.

Though dissatisfied, Roland had a solution. He remembered that he had pre-learned Language Proficiency, a level-two spell, when he created the character in the game.

In many of the sandbox games he played, although everybody used the same language, the players of different countries or sides would hear and see random words if they did not know each other's language thanks to the setting of the games.

Roland felt lucky that he had abundant game experience. He summoned the system in his mind. He was clumsy at first. After all, an immersive game was different from a VR game. But soon, he got the hang of it and found Skills on Magic Book. Then, he locked on Language Proficiency.

A strange chart popped up in front of his eyes, with a lot of blue nodes on it.

A blue node that seemed to be the starting point glittered and shot a streak of redness to another node in the blink of an eye.

Is this a spellcasting chart?

While Roland considered the possibility, the red link between the two nodes suddenly began to tremble. Then, it trembled harder and harder, and Roland felt a stronger and stronger headache.

What's going on?

Roland had played games for twenty years, but it was the first time he played an immersive one. He had no experience and did not know how to deal with the situation.

Several seconds later, the red link finally broke apart in the violent quakes. Before that, the pain in Roland's head was already insufferable, as if needles had been stuck inside.

The moment the red link broke apart, Roland's consciousness was ejected out of his body in the game. Then, he discovered, to his surprise, that his game character's head exploded.

The headless corpse fell heavily on the ground, blood splashing everywhere.

Roland's consciousness stood next to the corpse as a transparent soul. He was so surprised that he froze and did not know how to react.

The old man's hair, face, and clothes were covered with blood. He opened his mouth that had few teeth left, stunned.