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Chapter 846: Chapter 805 Viewing Pictures in the Levant’s Style_1

“First chapter? So there will be a second chapter, a third chapter?”

“My God, Cloud Dream can count to 2 now!”

“No wonder Cloud Dream is so eager to launch, no wonder Lincoln treats ‘Chang’an’ as a New Year’s Event! It’s lively in there!”

“Can all of them be as rich as horse riding gameplay? That would be wonderful!”

“January 17th? Small Spring Festival? Why not tomorrow ?!”

——This world does not have the Qing Dynasty, so naturally there is no tradition in the north of combining the Small Spring Festival and sacrifice on the same day, the Small Spring Festival in Daxia is still the same day.

…

After watching the trailer, players cheered almost instantly.

The thriving Chang’an City in the trailer, one by one lively event, is truly suitable for the atmosphere of the New Year.

For many players, the New Year in reality may not be as lively as in the game.

After cheering, they immediately replayed the trailer and slowed the speed to 0.5 times when the lens left the characters.

When it finally started to switch between each game event, it slowed down to 0.25 times the playing speed.

Just to see every screen as clearly as possible.

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And every time they look at it, they would be excited and leave more comments and comments.

They even started chanting the slogan “New Year’s Eve in Chang’an.”

But Super Tomato didn’t do this.

He pulled the progress bar to the frame where the emperor appeared, looked at the emperor in a Chinese costume standing on the high stage waving red silk, and the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became——

Why should the emperor wave the red silk?

Why did Cloud Dream include this scene in the trailer?

Is it hinting at something?

Super Tomato tried to search for the calendar of the Tang Dynasty during the Tianbao years, hoping to find relevant records.

According to the intelligence obtained by players, the current time in the game is the 11th year of the Tianbao, Super Tomato first went to find out what happened this year.

What surprised him was that he found it very easily——

“Old Tang Book: Li Linfu’s Biography”: Linfu was already sick at that time. In October of that year, he went to Huaqing Palace with sickness, and his condition worsened after a few days. The wizard said that his condition will improve as soon as he sees the emperor. The emperor wanted to see him, but was discouraged by the courtiers. So the emperor ordered Li Linfu to be carried out to the courtyard, and he himself ascended the sanctification pavilion and waved a red handkerchief to comfort him, and Li Linfu, who was seriously ill, could not get up and could only let his family bow in thanks.

In simple terms, Prime Minister Li Linfu was sick. He went to Huaqing Palace in October with Emperor Xuan of Tang, and the condition worsened.

The magician said that his condition would improve as soon as he saw the emperor, so Emperor Xuan wanted to see him, but was stopped by his courtiers.

So Emperor Xuan ordered Li Linfu to be carried to the courtyard, and he himself went up to the Sacred Pavilion, waved the red hen, and comforted him. But Li Linfu’s illness was already very serious. He couldn’t even get up and had to let his family worship instead.

After reading this, Super Tomato was stunned again: Li Linfu is critically ill?

He hurriedly flipped down the timeline and immediately saw a line of text:

“November, Ding Mao, Linfu died.”

Look down again——

“Yang Guozhong was appointed Prime Minister.”

At the moment when he saw this line, Super Tomato suddenly felt a current surging through his body, and immediately got goosebumps——

Because Yang Guozhong’s appointment as Prime Minister was a symbolic event, indicating that the countdown to the An-Shi Rebellion had begun.

The An-Shi Rebellion, on the other hand, was a turning point for the prosperous Tang Dynasty to quickly decline!

If the timeline in the trailer is consistent with the one in the game, then in another month in game time, Li Linfu will die.

In another year and two months, Anlushan will enter Chang’an.

In another three years, the An-Shi Rebellion.

“So…” Super Tomato guessed boldly again, “‘Chang’an’ Chapter Two: Anlushan Enters Chang’an. Chapter Three: An-Shi Rebellion?”

He feels passionate and immediately begins to edit a post, wanting to share this guess with others.

Before this, players always had different views on the plot after the official launch of ‘Chang’an’.

The main reason is also that the time point of the 11th year of Tianbao is really difficult to judge —— this is also why Lincoln took Qin Songyun’s suggestion and moved the game time forward by two years, from the 13th year of Tianbao, to the eleventh year of Tianbao.

Because letting players enter the game in the 13th year of Tianbao, everyone is not a fool, they would immediately think of the upcoming An-Shi Rebellion, and logically infer that the game content is also this.

But the problem is, the content of ‘Chang’an’ is really not this —— at least the first two chapters have nothing to do with the war.

The An-Shi Rebellion is at least the story of the third chapter.

If players keep thinking about the “An-Shi Rebellion” in their heads, then when playing the first two chapters, they will have a strong sense of “not matching expectations”.

This is not good news for the game itself.

so the time for players to enter the game finally became the eleventh year of Tianbao.

Players will still think of the An-Shi Rebellion, but after all, it is three years away, think about it and forget it, and it won’t generate too strong psychological expectations.

So after the closed beta test began, players’ opinions also divided into two camps——

One side argues: The game chose this period because it was precisely the height of the prosperous Open Era, which is more convenient for players to experience the Tang Dynasty atmosphere.

The other faction insisted, “It’s the An-Shi Rebellion, it’s the An-Shi Rebellion, I don’t care, it’s the An-Shi Rebellion anyway!”

Now, Super Tomato thinks he has discovered some essential intelligence.

However, Cloud Dream’s peculiar strategy of releasing the game in chapters supports the views of both sides…

Three minutes later, Super Tomato made a post——

“Brothers, I might have guessed the titles of the following chapters of “Chang’an”!

Chapter One: Prosperity

Chapter Two: Introduction of Anloshan into Chang’an

Chapter Three: The An-Shi Rebellion”

The post was accompanied by three images, respectively: a scene of Emperor Xuan of Tang waving the red kerchief, the corresponding screenshot from the “Old Tang Book · Li Linfu”, and a timeline screenshot of the An-Shi Rebellion.

The two factions of players were quickly seen flooding the comments section with their views:

“I knew it! It is the An-Shi Rebellion!”

“Think about it! Even if it is true, the An-Shi Rebellion doesn’t happen until versions later, what’s there to be excited about.”

Neutral players also started to weigh in:

“Well done, Leventhoucke! Please analyze who the girl hanging in the air, tangled up in ropes is? I learned some rope skills during my exchange study in Izumo, and I’m confident that I can save her.”

“Delete it! Delete it! I don’t want to know the subsequent plot so soon!”

“@Cloud Dream, @Lincoln, is this real?”

…

Of course, Lincoln is not showing up.

He had put aside his phone, embraces a resigned-to-die mindset as he enters the centrifuge, and begins the challenge acknowledged by astronauts as the most tormenting of all trainings—hypergravity endurance and adaptability training.

Under the high-speed rotation of the centrifuge, the person inside will bear several times of his own weight.

Professional astronauts can withstand 8 Gs of gravity, which is like having eight times their weight pressing down on them.

Lincoln didn’t need to go that brutal for his first training, the set aim was only 3 Gs.

In the words of Danny, it’s just to “get a feel of it.”

But with his previous spinning-chair puking experience, Lincoln brought a sick bag the moment he entered the centrifuge.

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With both Lincoln and Cloud Dream missing, the players were somewhat disappointed.

But they quickly got excited again:

“Since “Chang’an” launches on Friday, and the closed beta tests end on Thursday, doesn’t that mean we can let loose on the last day?”

“Regardless of whatever crimes you commit, everything will be wiped clean after the testing phase, and will not be brought into the official release.”

With that in mind, many people started to have deviant thoughts.

At the same time, numerous players consumed in their secondary occupations and players who have made a lot of money also sprang into action—they needed to finish all pending tasks and spend every last cent before the close of the testing phase.

Otherwise, it would be a waste.

Meanwhile, in Yi’s fan group, they also began planning the final big move: take out a Golden Guard patrol captain.

On the second day of testing, players noticed something: Cloud Dream had added a [Revenge Mechanism] to the game—this name was created by the players themselves, there’s no official title.

The mechanism works as such: Each time an NPC kills a player, they get a little bit stronger. There seems to be no limit to this strengthening – there has been no recorded upper limit so far.

This enhancement only disappears when the NPC is killed by a player. When it respawns, it returns to its initial strength.

During closed beta testing, all the players were ordinary people, and basically had no chance to fight back against the soldiers, which led to the development of a large number of overly powerful law-enforcement NPCs.

Even though the players sporadically acquired weapons, equipped themselves, and made concerted efforts to engage in group ventures.

Enforcing NPCs, however, were still able to easily suppress the players, even taking on ten at once!

And this was not unarmed players, but armed, fearless rebels!

That’s one important reason why the security of Chang’an gradually improved.

The Golden Guard patrol captain who first killed Yi, in his last fight, had already ridiculously reached the level where he could cut down boulder-sized wooden beams with a single strike.

Yi highly suspects that if this continues, this guy might be able to cleave the city wall with a single blow!

Therefore, they must kill him once!

Meanwhile, Yelang had the exact opposite idea:

If he chooses the currently most formidable NPC, and then rallies the players to pool together and feed him several hundred thousand lives, how strong would he become?

Could he single-handedly destroy the whole Chang’an City?

Or something even more outrageous, like—

splitting open the heavens with a single sword strike?