HPDBC Chapter 383 As expected, female players receive special treatment?
Chapter 383 As expected, female players receive special treatment?
The indicator light on the hibernation pod changed from red to green.
The air pressure valve hissed softly, and the hatch slowly opened.
Li Guoan instinctively gripped the thermos cup tighter, while Zhang Yunhai, Sun Feng, and several other experts stood up in unison, their eyes fixed on the interior of the cabin.
The timer stopped at eight minutes and forty-two seconds.
Less than ten minutes.
Lin Miao braced herself against the cabin wall with one hand and nimbly flipped and leaped out.
After she came to her feet, she quickly straightened her tactical uniform, stood at attention, and saluted.
"Report! Initial exploration mission complete. Safely logged off!"
Li Guoan's tense facial muscles relaxed instantly, and he exhaled a long breath.
He put down his thermos, walked quickly to Lin Miao, and looked her up and down.
"Good! It's good that you're back safe and sound." Li Guoan turned to Sun Feng, "How are your physical stats?"
"Heart rate is normal, brain waves are stable, and all indicators are within the threshold."
Looking at the real-time data on the tablet, Sun Feng exclaimed excitedly, "Perfectly adapted!"
Chen You sat up straight in his chair.
"That two-meter-tall chicken, did it scare you?"
Lin Miao turned around to face Chen You and the others, her expression serious.
"Reporting to Captain Chen, the birthplace is indeed as you said, near a thatched hut. I also encountered that giant mutated chicken."
"And then?" Zhang Yunhai asked, bringing the recorder closer.
"It charged at me at great speed, and its force was estimated to be around 200 kilograms," Lin Miao recalled the details of the battle.
"I didn't choose to confront it head-on. I used a side step to avoid its frontal peck, and then concentrated my spiritual energy in my right fist to strike its side of the neck."
Lin Miao paused, her tone remaining calm.
"One punch, and its neck broke. The system notified me that I had completed the beginner's quest."
There was a two-second silence in the conference room.
Zhang Yunhai swallowed hard and turned to look at Chen You.
Chen You's lips twitched slightly.
When he first entered the game, he was chased all over the mountains by that chicken.
Finally, they used the blood vial to slowly grind the chicken to death.
Now, if Lin Miao goes in, she'll be instantly killed with one punch?
"With the physical attributes of a first-level Qi Refining cultivator combined with a burst of spiritual power, defeating a level 1 beginner monster is indeed a case of 'dimensional reduction'."
Chen You coughed twice, forcing himself to save face, "And then what happens after we leave the village?"
"After the target was killed, a beam of light appeared behind the thatched hut as a guide," Lin Miao continued to report.
"I searched the starting village but found nothing special, so I followed the light and left the starting village."
"We didn't encounter any obstacles, nor did we trigger the scenario campaign you mentioned earlier."
Sun Feng's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote down a few keywords on the whiteboard.
"No scenario-based battles?" Sun Feng pushed up his glasses, speaking rapidly, "What does that mean? It means the initial selection mechanism of the Source Realm isn't fixed!"
Zhang Yunhai chimed in, "That's right. Based on our previous deductions, the Source Realm System possesses extremely high intelligence and judgment logic."
"It is very likely that different development paths are assigned based on the player's initial performance, or even gender."
"Comrade Lin Miao, where did you go after leaving the village?" Li Guoan asked, getting to the crucial point.
"The system notified me that I have entered a neutral zone, the outskirts of a city called 'Newborn City'," Lin Miao replied.
Chen You raised an eyebrow.
Chuxin City? Never heard of it.
"What happened after you entered the city?" Li Guoan pressed.
For the first time, Lin Miao's expression showed a slight unnaturalness.
She frowned slightly, as if she was organizing her thoughts.
"After entering the city, I planned to look for weapon shops or armor shops to see if I could get some basic equipment."
But on the main street, I was stopped by an NPC with furry ears.
"Fluffy ears?" Sun Feng quickly jotted down the note. "Did he attack you?"
"No." Lin Miao shook her head, her expression turning somewhat strange. "He handed me a flyer and asked me... if I had any dreams."
"Dream?" Zhang Yunhai was taken aback.
"Yes." Lin Miao stood ramrod straight, repeating the NPC's words in the most standard reporting posture, her pronunciation clear and articulate.
"He asked me if I wanted to stand on the biggest stage in the Origin Realm, if I wanted to debut as the center."
The meeting room fell silent once again.
Li Guoan's hand, holding the thermos, froze in mid-air.
Zhang Yunhai almost dropped his voice recorder.
Sun Feng drew a long black line on the whiteboard with a marker in his hand.
Chen You had just picked up a glass of water and taken a sip when he almost spat it out.
"Cough cough cough..." Chen You clutched his chest and coughed violently.
No one paid any attention to Chen You's loss of composure.
The expert team members have already started brainstorming.
"Debuting in the center position?" Zhang Yunhai frowned and paced back and forth in the conference room.
"'C' is short for Center, meaning center or core. This NPC is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface."
Sun Feng slapped his thigh, his expression excited: "I understand! This is another form of civility test!"
"Chen You is facing a battle for survival, a test of his martial prowess and survival instincts. Lin Miao, on the other hand, is facing a test of upward mobility in society!"
"That makes sense." Pan Yu joined the discussion. "As a higher-dimensional world, the Origin Realm must have a complex social structure."
"The so-called 'debuting in the center position' is likely an indication to players whether they are willing to enter the core ruling circle of this world through some kind of selection mechanism."
"This is a form of cultural infiltration and rule assimilation," Pan Yu said gravely. "What else did that NPC say?"
Seeing how serious these top minds in the country were, Lin Miao didn't dare to be negligent and tried her best to recall every detail.
He also said that the whole city is going crazy for "Star Source Voice".
"As long as I sign up, with my looks, even if I'm just a trainee for 'two and a half years,' I can still gain a lot of firepower."
Lin Miao added with some distress, "I don't know what firepower is. But I suspect it might be some kind of special energy measurement unit in the Source Realm."
"To avoid making a wrong judgment, I didn't agree rashly. I used the excuse that I needed to think about it and immediately went offline to report."
"Well done! Caution is the first principle." Li Guoan nodded approvingly.
He turned around, looking at the densely packed analysis charts on the whiteboard, his expression more serious than ever before.
"Star Source Voice...firepower..." Li Guoan pondered.
Sun Feng suddenly realized, "This is definitely a deeply hidden series of missions."
"The treatment of female characters in the Origin Realm is indeed completely different from that of male characters."
Li Guoan turned to look at Chen You, who was still coughing.
"Xiao Chen, what do you think?" Li Guoan asked earnestly.
Chen You grabbed a few tissues and wiped his mouth.
Looking at the "core ruling circle," "unit of energy measurement," and "cultural infiltration" circled by the experts on the whiteboard, he felt a sudden toothache.
What the hell is this gender difference?!
That's a talent show I made up on the spot yesterday just to boost my popularity!