Chapter 304:

Words : 1792 Updated : Oct 13th, 2025

It was impossible to expect little players to keep secrets, so after Murphy slightly leaked some “inside information” to Brother Loyalty, before afternoon arrived, news about “large numbers of newcomers joining in three days” had already spread all over the forum. For those eagerly waiting players, this was like sweet rain descending from heaven, making the entire forum as joyous as a new year celebration. Previously, Administrator Alpha had admitted in a post that all current forum members were “reserve test personnel,” and repeatedly assured that once the production of gaming helmets increased, everyone on the forum would be able to enter the game and contribute their part to Transia’s rise. Now that the long wait had finally yielded an opportunity, people were naturally delighted. However, in Administrator Alpha’s forum group, some people quickly noticed “subtle changes” in the situation. Leading Pigeon: 【??? Wasn’t the total number of people on the forum just over 500 a few days ago? How did it suddenly expand to over 700 today? And the numbers are still increasing? Also, why do all you newcomers have such strange names? Is this another mysterious special group?】 Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Huh? Strange? I don’t find it strange at all. We received invitations through the otherworld beacon sent by Knight Typal to come to Transia and participate in this grand event, spreading the light of order and justice, isn’t that perfectly normal? And why call it a ‘group’? We’re clearly a proper team!】 Torrent Knight Amir: 【That’s right, that’s right, the super proper kind! My great Torrent Knights Order is fully prepared, just waiting for Lord Murphy to open the dimensional portal to enter the otherworld! We must rebuild the name of knights and not let the Torrent’s glory fall.】 Ah Yuen: 【Tone it down, guys. While it’s fine to use local etiquette when meeting RP parties in game, this is the forum, which belongs to the real world realm, brothers. Can we talk normally? So you’re saying these forum newcomers are all RP players?】 Archmage Marin: 【Yes, you can basically think of it that way. After Typal posted his game screenshots and recordings in several tavern groups we frequently visit, you should have seen how explosive it was. Anyway, several professional RP taverns have already exploded, everyone is extremely interested in this kind of surreal ‘call to duty’. The ‘Black Scythe Council’, ‘Farstrider Camp’ and ‘MI:7’ are all eager to try, while the ‘Deep Mountain Mining Company’ and ‘Craftsmen Council’ are also actively contacting us. Even the ‘Blood Sail Pirates’ and ‘Blackwater Pirates’ have been alerted. However, currently the Torrent Knights Order doesn’t plan to issue larger scale summons to our compatriots, after all other otherworlds still need them. In any case, conservatively estimated at least 500 people have filled out applications in the past two days. And as this trend spreads, those self-proclaimed rational folks who are still waiting and watching will eventually join in too.】 Onboard Joy Stick: 【??? How many people do you actually have? I thought RP players were rare in any game, but looks like there are quite a lot?】 Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Haha, few in one game, but add up multiple games and isn’t it a lot? Those groups of ours also have Novice thresholds, only veteran role-playing players can possibly answer those questions correctly. We have not only remnants of the Silver Hand, but also Battlefield Old Six, Crusader Sleep Sister Warchief and Wasteland Scavengers. Oh right, I think I also copied the link to an EVE group earlier, those guys seemed interested too, they’re much more professional than us. As for numbers Just our few groups add up to about 2,000-3,000 people I guess?】 Meow King: 【We’re doomed! If they all come in there won’t be any way forward for us regular players, these guys will do everything possible to maintain that fantasy flavor, this is really troublesome.】 Lumina Yanghen: 【What’s wrong? Looking down on us RP players? We’re not inflexible either, and most of us are order aligned. We empathize better with NPCs than regular players and are willing to spend time doing those quest chains regular players don’t want to run. Brother Alpha choosing us was the right choice. Besides, the brothers who joined these past few days aren’t just RP parties, didn’t Brother Stick also recruit many former professionals to join in this grand event?】 Onboard Joy Stick: 【I just do small stuff, nowhere near as dramatic as you guys, suddenly having hundreds of people running over but what you said makes sense, regular players might not have the patience to do administrative management. This really needs you roleplay folks to handle, otherwise it’s useless even if we conquer territory but have no one to manage it.】 Dump Truck Iaido: 【Brother Stick, got time tomorrow? Bring your brothers and come with us to Smuggler’s Woods to collect some debts.】 Onboard Joy Stick: 【Huh? What do you mean? What debts are we collecting in that ghostly place?】 Dump Truck didn’t explain, but posted a screenshot of the “Thief Hog’s Message” quest triggered earlier in game, which brought out many lurkers. Honest Dog Egg: 【??? The NPC we cultivated stole our earnings? Damn, how can we tolerate this? Brother Stick hurry and dispatch the army to eliminate them!】 ʀαꞐổbÈs Sword Saint Ashina: 【Eliminate what? Hog is an NPC force we worked hard to cultivate, it and the Blood Claw Clan are currently the only gnoll tribe we can communicate with, and didn’t they explain very clearly? They’re just helping us safeguard it, just go ask for it back tomorrow. I guarantee you, Hog isn’t a bad guy. Well, maybe it is a bad guy, but it’s a bad guy on our side, its name was even personally given by Lord Murphy. If you go eliminate the Blood Claw Clan, be careful Lord Murphy doesn’t exile you to the frontier. There’s clearly a quest chain in there.】 Onboard Joy Stick: 【Little Ashina makes sense, you guys handle this yourselves, the winged cavalry assessment starts tomorrow, I need to work hard with my brothers to pass the assessment and transfer to cavalry.】 Fatal Orchid Huahua: 【Brother Stick have you gone stupid? You’re a vampire, you can fly! What cavalry are you trying to be?】 Onboard Joy Stick: 【Hehehe, it’s a man’s romance, ladies wouldn’t understand, yes I can fly, but I don’t need to fly all the time right? Those armored warhorses are so cool. Besides, I can fly, but do I have to let a modern commander lead infantry that’s not even up to Napoleonic standards? We can’t even figure out what courier service they use to deliver things right now, really just like aliens, we’ve watched surveillance footage until our eyes nearly went blind these past few days without finding any clues.” “Yes we need to investigate, but in the current situation where you know nothing, you can only enter their prepared scenario to practice first, close-up investigation is also a very important part.” Brother Loyalty blew another smoke ring, then complained: “These good things never fall to us, every day it’s all these trivial matters, but in my opinion, we’ve definitely landed a big job this time. This project doesn’t look that big yet, but it’s definitely worth following long term. What I mean is, don’t rush to find details, let our team ‘settle down’ over there first. From my current experience, this thing seems to really just be a super realistic game apart from those inexplicable transportation links and completely incomprehensible technology points, basically no major issues. Don’t worry, the higher ups have given enough time. Consider this a vacation this time, didn’t they say to find joy in work?” “That’s easy to say, but we still need to write reports.” The tall and thin Master Ziwei complained: “We can’t exactly write about your current experience dealing with WWI level arms in the game in the report right? That’s just asking to get wages docked.” “So I plan to take the initiative!” Brother Loyalty grinned, and in the rising smoke, he said: “I’ve already had Wanderer go copy the materials we need from brother departments, we brothers are all retired from the military, hope you haven’t forgotten that knowledge. Mm, the first mission is to figure out how to set up a semi-automatic weapons production line first, help this Transia quickly establish a basic military industrial system. I’ve got some ideas now. At present, regardless of what background ‘they’ have or what they want to do, if they can see some value in us from this and grant us higher freedom of action permissions in this reality game, then digging deeper becomes possible. Also I applied to the superiors yesterday for several new team members to assist us, they’ll arrive tomorrow. You two remember to behave properly, the newcomers this time are young comrades, temporarily transferred to our side, so we need to stay united, can’t lead them astray.” “One more thing, team leader.” Master Ziwei reminded quietly: “Among the current testers there’s already one lady with ID codename ‘Lumina Yanghen’ confirmed overseas should we arrange for her return to the country?” “No need for now.” Brother Loyalty glanced at a set of data on the computer screen, saying: “The current level of information control is sufficient to ensure that in other ‘colleagues’ eyes, she’s just an ordinary international student who likes staying at home. But acting rashly would instead add unnecessary danger to her personal safety... she is in their territory after all.” “Bang” The office door was pushed open at this time, a staff member covered in sweat reported: “Team leader, 10 minutes ago, a gameplay highlight clip of 《Reality Realm》 was uploaded to a site, currently trending rapidly. This is codename ‘Alpha’ first breakthrough from small circle social groups to actively penetrate into the public information sphere. Should we intervene?” “Get to work, damn it! Have to work overtime again, my wife stewed soup waiting for me to drink at home!” Brother Loyalty flicked away his cigarette butt, rubbed his ears, and said: “Isn’t this what we’ve been working on this past month? Suppress the trending as quickly as possible! Regardless of what attitude ‘Alpha’ holds towards our world, or what it wants to do here, we’re not yet prepared to let the public know the truth. Sigh, this might well be the world’s first confirmed case of ‘third kind contact’, I feel both fortunate and helpless. Just when I was about to safely retire, ran into this.”

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