33. Igniting a nationwide sensation!
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Everything Su Yu had said was true.
Once a player reached Level 50, they would become a Tier Three class-holder in the game.
(In Evolution, Levels 0–9 represented Tier Zero class-holders; Levels 10–29, Tier One; Levels 30–49, Tier Two; and Levels 50–59, Tier Three.)
Tier Three class-holders could materialize their in-game strength into the real world.
Once the process was complete, they would no longer need to fear bullets!
Mages and priests could raise magical barriers strong enough to withstand even sustained fire from a light machine gun!
As for protection warriors and guardian knights, whose defenses were even stronger, once they reached Tier Three and activated their full defensive states, they could even endure a direct hit from a Soviet RPG-7 40-millimeter rocket launcher!
In Su Yu’s previous life, there had been videos to prove it!
A power this astonishing was worth far more than an apartment in a prestigious school district.
Besides, in six months, such apartments would be worthless.
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Even so, Su Yu’s words caused a tremendous stir among the players!
At first, no one had taken the server-wide announcement particularly seriously.
Although they envied Su Yu’s astonishing ability to solo dungeons, it ultimately had little to do with most of them.
Now, however, things were different!
The “Level 50 reward” Su Yu had mentioned was closely connected to every single player. They could hardly remain unmoved.
At the square outside Nolan Village, the players stared at one another in astonishment.
A moment later, a thunderous wave of discussion erupted across the square, several times louder than before!
“My God! An apartment in a school district in a third-tier city? That has to be worth at least several hundred thousand!”
“You get it just for reaching Level 50? Everyone gets one?”
“With rewards this extravagant, won’t the game company go bankrupt?”
“Tsk, how could that be possible? Why would the game company give you such a huge benefit?”
“Although I don’t quite believe it either, I think it could be true! If Nemesis weren’t sure, why would he dare say something like that?”
“Exactly! Saying something like this doesn’t benefit him at all. What reason would Nemesis have to lie to us?”
“That’s enough talk, everyone. I’m going to level up first.”
“I’m going to level up too. Given the quality of this game, I’d keep playing even without the reward. Sooner or later, I’ll reach Level 50.”
“Come on, come on! Let’s go level up.”
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The megaphone had worked extremely well. The players’ attention had shifted away from the gossip surrounding the two major guilds and toward the serious business of leveling up.
Some players claimed not to believe it, but their bodies told a different story. They called their friends and headed toward the leveling areas.
This also sparked a small leveling frenzy in villages throughout the game.
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As for the real world—
On the official forums, the gossip about the two major guilds had lost its appeal. The entire forum was now flooded with discussions of “Nemesis.”
Moreover, the story quickly broke out of the gaming community.
In just two hours, the topic “Level 50 in Evolution = An Apartment in a School District in a Third-Tier City?” had risen to the number-one spot on Weibo’s hot-search rankings!
Of course, in an environment like Weibo, very few people believed Su Yu. Most of the comments were insults:
“Another shut-in who’s played games until he’s gone stupid. You level up and get a reward worth nearly a million? Why doesn’t he just wish for the moon while he’s at it?”
“Exactly! I’m putting this out there now: If reaching Level 50 in this game really lets you exchange the reward for an apartment in a school district, I’ll eat my phone on the spot!”
“Evolution discriminates against women! During the class demonstration, the priest was a woman! Does the game developer think women are only fit to be priests? Only fit to accept protection from others? Sisters, join me in destroying this trash game!”
“What kind of ridiculous topic is this? It stole the number-one hot-search spot from my beauty Xiao! They must have paid for an army of fake commenters!”
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Apart from Weibo, a Zhihu question titled “How should we evaluate a player named Nemesis in Evolution claiming that reaching Level 50 grants a reward equivalent to an apartment in a school district in a third-tier city?” also quickly climbed to the top of the hot list.
Zhihu was much the same as Weibo, however. Ninety-nine percent of the users expressed disbelief:
“Thanks for the invitation. The moment I saw this claim, I knew it came from a child who had never been beaten down by society.”
“Let’s be honest. Ordinary workers have to labor for forty years before they can scrape together enough money for a house from the capitalists’ teeth. And a game just gives you one for leveling up? Would you believe it if you were me?”
“Reporting from the United States, mask freshly put on… You people haven’t realized this is just an advertisement from the game company? Your intelligence is truly worrying.”
“Just another trick by a game operator. Nothing to see here, move along!”
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Besides Weibo and Zhihu, other platforms, such as Baidu Tieba and Bilibili, also launched in-depth discussions of the matter.
The name “Nemesis” became an overnight sensation, familiar to countless internet users.
Su Yu, however, knew nothing about it.
Even if he had known, he probably would not have cared.
Fame was the most useless thing in this era. The most valuable thing in this era was called—
hope.
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Back in the game.
Snowflake Luo was deciphering a hidden quest of considerable difficulty.
Not long after Su Yu’s announcement, she received a private message.
It was from her brother, Snow Leopard:
Snow Leopard: “Luo Luo, Dad told me that you’re very familiar with that ‘Nemesis’ guy?”
Snowflake Luo’s eyes lit up, and she quickly replied: “Brother, we’re not actually that familiar. But I know quite a few things he’s done, such as… [Three hundred words omitted]…”
Snowflake Luo used a great many words to describe everything she knew about Nemesis.
However, she did not mention that Nemesis had summoned the Starforger Dragon King. If the two major guilds learned that Nemesis was the one who had summoned the boss, it might cause him considerable trouble.
Snow Leopard carefully read through the information his sister had sent.
Afterward, he replied, “Then could you ask him whether the reward he mentioned is real? Our department attaches great importance to this matter!”
Snowflake Luo: “How am I supposed to ask? You don’t expect me to seduce him, do you?”
Snow Leopard: “That wouldn’t necessarily be a bad idea. Just make sure you don’t sacrifice yourself.”
Snowflake Luo: “……”
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The scene returned to Su Yu.
For three minutes after the megaphone announcement ended, Su Yu remained rooted to the spot without moving an inch.
It was not because he was deep in thought. It was because—
he had lagged out!
Because of the server-wide announcement and the server-wide megaphone, at least tens of thousands of players had tried to add him as a friend at the same time.
As a result, the character controlled by Su Yu froze and jerked like a PowerPoint presentation.
Su Yu did not know whether to laugh or cry.
He had miscalculated. He had never expected so many people to send him friend requests.
It was not until three minutes later that Su Yu finally managed to disable the “Allow others to add you as a friend” option in the settings. Only then did his character gradually return to normal.
Once everything was back to normal, Su Yu wiped the sweat from his brow and let out a sigh of relief.
“Thank goodness I didn’t get disconnected or kicked out of the dungeon. I haven’t even looted the boss’s corpse yet!”
He looked toward the corpse of the Yang Village Chief lying before him.
Suddenly, Su Yu noticed something sharp—
the bag dropped by the corpse was glowing with golden light!
Su Yu was stunned.
“Could it be… a piece of golden equipment?!”
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