After watching the second promotional CG, “the road to survival,” the Adventurers rushed to the forum, mockingly stating in the CG post for “Biochemical Crisis: Raccoon City Operations”:
“Wake up, brothers, do you still think you’re part of the Tactical Squad? With all due respect, you’re all just small fry in the road to survival.”
“Seriously, if you haven’t even made it onto the perfect clear leaderboard, you really don’t deserve to be a member of the Tactical Squad. At best, you’re just a survival small fry.”
“Not everyone is Li Ruoshu, and we only have one Li Ruoshu 【crying with laughter】.”
“Indeed, I think the situation in the road to survival is most suitable for us. Forget about fighting a Licker one-on-one; even ordinary zombies can chase us all over the place.”
“Let alone those existences even more formidable than Lickers.”
“I think I’m going to go in and get horribly abused. I’ll probably have to grind a lot of saves to upgrade my initial equipment before I can even contend with those monsters.”
As the two promotional CGs fermented, the popularity of Biochemical Crisis surged to the homepage of Tidal Town’s forum.
Even neighboring towns heard about it, but unfortunately, the castle level was insufficient, and the coverage of Great Xia Nevernight City couldn’t reach them.
“If the normal mode is really as fun as the promotional video, then we won’t have to grind Dungeons from external sites anymore.”
“That’s right, we just have to wait in line every day.”
“Everyone, let’s work hard and try to help Lord Chen conquer more territory so he can build more fun Dungeons, and more Biochemical Crisis Dungeons. That way, we won’t have to queue anymore.”
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The forum’s popularity soared, even overshadowing Punishment of the God of Destruction, which had been so prominent just a few days prior.
This left Zhao Hailiang a bit bewildered.
What’s going on?
Why are there fewer people queuing lately?
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“Tactical Squad, and new bosses.” Li Ruoshu also saw the promotional video.
She was already captivated by the battles within it, eagerly anticipating tomorrow’s arrival.
This was precisely the outcome Chen Yu desired.
He deliberately created two starkly different CGs: one for the high-end Tactical Squad, and another for ordinary people struggling to survive.
The Tactical Squad’s combat was meant to tell everyone that it’s okay to be weak now; once you upgrade your equipment and saves, you’ll become just as powerful, so go ahead and play.
This served as an attraction.
the road to survival, on the other hand, informed ordinary Adventurers that the current gameplay and content revolved around escaping, not confronting those monsters head-on.
The contrast between the two was enough to ignite the desire in all Adventurers to grind game saves.
So, the next day, before dawn, an unknown number of Adventurers had already crowded into the Biochemical Crisis channel interface.
Everyone was waiting for the opening of the Resident Evil Dungeon.
Even if they couldn’t be the first to play, they wanted to watch the first live stream videos.
“They’re here, they’re here.”
“Lord Chen, you’re finally up! Do you know how painful it was for us to wait?”
“Ahhh… Charge, charge! Don’t push, let me in first.”
The Resident Evil Dungeon currently has a capacity of 160 players, but at the very first moment of opening, it was already completely full.
The Adventurers who entered were immediately struck by the opening selection screen.
“Holy crap!”
“This entry scene is too shocking! An entire city… no, you could even say an entire world has been destroyed by the zombie horde.”
“Look, everyone, there are several modes after Normal mode, and there’s even Nightmare, which sounds even harder than Normal mode.”
“Streamer, go, go, go! Don’t hesitate, don’t hesitate.”
As the person on screen selected Normal mode, another option popped up:
“Single Player Start.”
“Team Play.”
“There are actually two modes! They’ve put so much thought into this. It caters to Adventurers who are socially anxious while also giving everyone the fun of team challenges.”
“Here it comes, here it comes! The first team challenge begins.”
No sooner had he spoken than the match success message appeared on the screen.
The Adventurers inside were incredibly excited, rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the Dungeon starting.
The Adventurers outside, unable to get in and watching the battle, also held their breath.
The scene shifted.
The Adventurers in the game appeared in a small room.
With him were four other teammates.
Player One scanned the room; it looked like a hospital ward.
They were wearing their own clothes, with a knife strapped to their waist, but no other weapons.
“Damn it, is Lord Chen planning to make us fight zombies bare-handed?”
“Only one knife, how are we supposed to fight?”
“Close-quarters combat is that thrilling?”
Soon, the game rules appeared before them.
“So that’s how it is. We have to find equipment ourselves throughout the map. This means the strategy team needs to provide maps. As the first batch of players, let’s go explore different places.”
“Our mission in the game is to escape Raccoon City before midnight.”
“Got it, simple.”
“Who doesn’t know how to play it safe? Watch me sneak my way out of Raccoon City.”
“Before midnight? I’ll play him with one life until midnight!”
With that, he opened the door.
A zombie immediately lunged at him from the doorway, biting him.
“Holy crap!”
The other four teammates immediately rushed over, grabbing their machetes and wildly hacking away.
Only then did they kill the zombie and rescue the bitten Adventurer from underneath.
“Oh my god, you scared me to death! Why did it have to be a jump scare right at the door?”
“Yeah, and we don’t even have a gun. How are we supposed to kill it?”
“Brothers, luckily you were quick and saved me from the zombie’s mouth. Wait a minute… I think something’s wrong with me.”
The Adventurers watching outside saw the bitten Adventurer’s vision begin to change, the screen turning crimson, with a mutation progress bar appearing in the upper right corner.
When the mutation reached 100%,
“Brother, you smell so good.”
The mutated Adventurer instinctively bit his teammate next to him.
“What the heck, are you crazy?!”
“I remember now, the zombie virus is contagious, oh no!”
“No, you’re an Adventurer! You can get infected too!”
The Adventurer who had mutated into a zombie couldn’t speak at all now. He felt that his state had indeed become very peculiar, and he inexplicably found his teammates around him to smell incredibly good.
He really wanted to eat them.
And the Adventurer he bit quickly mutated as well, biting his companion.
“Brothers, you all smell so good!”
“Let me have a bite.”
“Ahhhhhhh, go away, go away, both of you!”
What no one expected was that the first five Adventurers who entered, after just opening one door, died from mutual infection and biting.