Chapter 1 Pets with Talents

In the online game "New World," pets have what's called "talent skills."

Generally, they have two talent skills. Pets with perfect quality and above, such as those of legendary, epic, and mythical quality, have three.

Talent skills are also divided into levels.

The highest level is SSS. Zhu Niao's three talent skills are all at this level.

It can be said that this Zhu Niao is an absolutely top-tier pet.

At this time, there was another prompt in the team chat.

[Please choose the ownership of this pet.]

That's how CP teams (couple teams) acquire pets in the game; they always ask to decide ownership. Before Lin Chen could speak, Liu Mengyao directly made her choice… she gave up all rights to Zhu Niao.

"Zhu Niao is a fire-magic pet, a perfect match for your class. You take it. In the future, you'll be responsible for output, and I'll take my Sword Dragon baby to tank monsters and heal you!"

Liu Mengyao said with a smile.

Lin Chen didn't decline.

The next moment, Zhu Niao was assigned to Lin Chen.

Then, a world announcement also appeared.

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the God of Luck when opening a pet egg, obtaining the only mythical-quality pet in the entire server: Zhu Niao!]

Mythical quality.

The only one in the entire server!

As soon as the announcement came out, the world channel, which had been silent, instantly exploded.

[Songran Xiang: 666, the servers are about to shut down, and you get Zhu Niao?]

[Professional Troll: What's the use? It's useless. At most, you can enjoy it for ten days before the servers shut down. New World is inhumane, damn!]

[Chasing Dreams with the Wind: Troll Bro hasn't quit yet? Didn't see you flaming on the world channel today; thought you'd quit the game.]

[Professional Troll: Didn't quit. Played until the end, and I don't even have the energy to flame anymore. Whatever!]

[Jiang Haihe: Yesterday was lively, all flaming. Today, everyone's quiet. Everyone knows that scolding the planners is useless... But, there's still someone dumping money into this game to get divine beasts. I really didn't expect that!]

[Xuemo: Guild Leader Jiang is still playing? Thought your Jianghu disbanded and quit the game!]

[Jiang Haihe: Isn't Guild Leader Xue still here?]

[Xuemo: Haha, I'm waiting for the new expansion pack. Want to play to the end and see what's going on...]

It seems that although the game is about to announce its server shutdown, because this game is too realistic and epoch-making, and has been running long enough, there are still many people like Liu Mengyao who want to play to the end, even if the servers are shutting down.

Xuemo and Jiang Haihe are two relatively well-known guild leaders in the game.

They rarely appear on the world channel.

Now that many people have deleted their accounts and quit the game, and the game has become relatively deserted, who would have thought that Lin Chen's news of getting Zhu Niao would blast them out.

There are still many discussions about this in the world.

But more people are complaining that New World's planners are inhumane.

Of course, many people also raised questions…

The game is about to die, so what's the use of getting a divine beast at this time?

Enjoy it for a while, and it's over!

In the end, it's a waste of money.

Lin Chen didn't bother to look at the world channel.

Because he still had things to do.

The current him was already being targeted by some people.

Player PK is not allowed in the main city. It's not that PK is completely impossible, but there will be NPCs monitoring in the main city. If PK behavior is discovered, the NPCs will step in to stop it, and even attack the party that initiated the PK.

The NPCs in the main city are all level 180, while the current level cap in "New World" is only level 100.

Of course.

Today, "New World's" official website had another announcement.

The beginning was a series of apologies, and then it stated that the new expansion pack was ready and would be launched at 2:00 PM. At that time, the level cap for players would also be raised to level 120.

Finally, there was an apology from the entire planning team.

Expressing that they were also helpless, and expressed their apologies for the game that had been running for twenty years and was about to shut down.

However, regarding the reason for the shutdown, there was only one sentence: technical reasons!

What kind of technical reasons could cause a game that had been running for twenty years to shut down?

Many people obviously didn't understand.

Although Lin Chen was reborn, he wasn't very clear either.

However, Lin Chen knew that the game shutdown was definitely not intentional by the game company and the planners.

After all, this game was about to invade reality!

What Lin Chen had to do now was to continue to increase his strength.

Zhang Chunlin sent Lin Chen another batch of things, including a set of level 100 priest equipment, as well as many enhancement stones. In Zhang Chunlin's words, he was directly clearing out all the enhancement stones for Lin Chen.

In addition, there were many rune and reagent recipes, as well as materials for making potions, and so on!

These things were very important.

Lin Chen's chosen secondary profession was runemaster, allowing him to create some runes.

Liu Mengyao's secondary profession was potion maker.

These materials were relatively cheap.

The really expensive things weren't in these.

Zhang Chunlin separately asked Lin Chen, "If you want to strengthen your equipment, do you want Five-Colored Spirit Stones? I can get you a batch, about a hundred. If you're lucky, there's a chance that enhancement will add enhancement affixes. It's just, they're a bit expensive. The market price is still 1,000 each. Also, there are some top-quality treasure maps for sale... Oh yeah, there are also people selling Divine Beast Pills."

"Divine Beast Pills? What's the price!"

Lin Chen immediately became interested.

Divine Beast Pills!

After eating them, they can permanently increase a pet's stats.

Moreover, they can also allow pets to gain experience and enlightenment!

In addition to their natural talent skills, pets also have enlightenment skills. Zhu Niao can't rely solely on one Fentian Zhidi (Heaven Burning Earth Scorching) to deal damage; it can't, especially since the cooldown time is too long.

Generally speaking, when a pet reaches level 20, it can gain an enlightenment skill.

However, the skill level of enlightenment skills also varies.

From E, D, C, B, A skills to SSS-level skills, there are a total of eight levels, corresponding to the pet's quality level.

However, ordinary pets also have a chance to get D-level skills.

But mythical-level pets also have a chance to get SS-level skills.

If you use Divine Beast Pills, then you can ensure that you will definitely gain an SSS-level skill.

So Lin Chen wanted to buy them.

It would be best to directly use five Divine Beast Pills to max out Zhu Niao's level, saving him the trouble of leveling it up.

But Divine Beast Pills are generally not easy to come by.

"A total of four. The other party wants 20,000 yuan." Zhang Chunlin replied.

Five thousand yuan each…

Lin Chen immediately agreed!

This price would have been unimaginable before the server shutdown.

At least they would have cost tens of thousands each.

Lin Chen quickly took them.

He also took all the Five-Colored Spirit Stones.

In this way, the account paid Zhang Chunlin nearly 400,000 yuan again.

Next, Lin Chen traded the priest equipment to Liu Mengyao, and then said to her, "You follow me to teleport in a bit. We'll go to another main city. After we get the equipment ready, we'll go and clear the treasure maps first!"

"What treasure maps?"

"Top-quality treasure maps. They're only 800 yuan each now. I had a friend help us collect 200. Enough for us to farm for a day! After we're done, we'll see if we can get a few Divine Beast Pills or Bloodline Pills. After we raise our combat power, we'll go to the Heavenly Palace to take a look."

"Okay!"

Liu Mengyao immediately agreed.

Going to the Heavenly Palace with Lin Chen has always been her dream in the game.

The Heavenly Palace is difficult to enter.

First of all, you must at least be able to pass the Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate) instance!

This is the most difficult instance in the entire "New World" before the new expansion pack came out.

In the past, only those tycoons who spent hundreds of millions in the game could clear it.

But now, Lin Chen only spent a little over a million and already has a set of divine equipment.

The two teleported away together.

Lin Chen did this in order to shake off those gold farmers.

But he didn't expect the other party to follow again.

Lin Chen frowned slightly.

At this time, Lin Chen received another private message.

Zhang Chunlin: "I got that +12 staff for you. I bid up to 250,000."

"Mail it to me. Money's transferred!"

Lin Chen was overjoyed.

The set of five Hurricane Magic God pieces was complete.

"Don't rush. There's another set of things that I think you'll definitely need... Hehe, CP in the game, do you want rings? Mustard Seed Sumeru, I don't need to explain, right?"

Zhang Chunlin sent a screenshot of a pair of rings with item descriptions.

[Storage Ring, can hold 1,000 item slots.]

"How much?" Lin Chen didn't waste any time.

This kind of thing has great uses in the game, but not just the game.

If the game descends into reality in the future, he would definitely regret it if he didn't sell Storage Rings!

"8,000 for both." Zhang Chunlin laughed, "Give me 10,000, consider it my hard work."

"Okay!"

Lin Chen was shocked.

Before the server shutdown, this thing was more expensive than diamond rings in real life. The highest seems to have been auctioned off for 300,000 gold coins, equivalent to 300,000 RMB each.

But now, someone is selling them for 4,000 each?

Then Lin Chen would naturally take them!

Just as Lin Chen was constantly stocking up, in a company base built in the mountains, some programmers were constantly working overtime and typing on their keyboards. At the same time, the company's executives held another meeting.

This time, all the shareholders were present!

This company is the owner of Blue Star's largest online game, New World!

At the meeting, several people wearing reading glasses sat upright. One of them asked, "Has it been confirmed that the energy of the Star Stone can only last until April 28th?"

"Yes, sir!"

A man wearing wire-rimmed glasses said, "Our programmers have tried everything, and even invited scientists from all over the world, but there is no solution... The Star Stone, this magical stone intercepted from outer space that year, has reached the end of its life."

"It was precisely because of this stone that the 'New World' online game was born. Alas! It's a pity."

Many people spoke up and sighed.

The old man at the head said, "Billions of players around the world are now denouncing us! For these last few days, you continue to do a good job in maintenance and persevere to the last day! This can also be considered the only thing we can do for the players. In addition, speed up the development of the content inside the Star Stone and present more gameplay to the players. At the same time, it will also accumulate a foundation for us to develop completely independent games in the future!"

"Please rest assured, Chairman, we will do our best!"