Chapter 239: Chapter 150: [Hongmen Banquet Showdown] Liu Bang: That’s Freaking Xiang Yu! (7k Double-Length)
[Are these two masters and apprentices too straightforward? Enter the game, just die and switch identities, but instead, they’re here moving bricks...]
[Feels like a new streamer, this guy hasn’t even read the live comments yet.]
[Just working hard and sweating? Are all those who study history this honest?]
[I came to watch the master, but ended up watching the master move bricks for two hours.]
[I’m dying of laughter, these two are definitely going to become popular.]
The live stream comments were buzzing.
Meanwhile, in the game, the master and apprentice found a corner to eat their dry rations, frowning as they forced it down.
Hard to swallow.
Chen Feng had only these words in his mind, but he had no choice but to eat, forcing them down as he said:
"Teacher, have you researched anything?"
"How are the details of this game?"
Qi Hui nodded, affirming:
"This game is very good."
"The details are very comprehensive."
"There are some records of serving labor in our Blue Star’s fragmented history, though incomplete, but I didn’t expect this [Chinese History Series] game to restore them."
"But this intensity... it’s a bit much."
"I don’t know whether it was designed this way, or if the history of Huaxia was just like this."
"However, the history of Huaxia was produced by the game company, so it must have been designed this way by the game creators."
Chen Feng had no objection to this:
"Exactly."
"Just this afternoon, there have already been dozens who died from exhaustion or were beaten to death."
"At this rate, not even three months."
"These people will all be exhausted to death."
Qi Hui spoke up:
"That won’t happen."
"After all, those of us serving labor should have a term."
"It won’t be as exhausting as that side."
"But it’s not easy either... By the way, how long will the nutritional liquid in the Virtual Body Sensing Pod last?"
Chen Feng replied:
"Seven days."
"Oh, I’m still broadcasting. Let me find the button."
"..."
"Ow—"
"Teacher, we’re popular now!"
"Over 30,000 people in the live stream room!"
Qi Hui’s eyes lit up:
"Any gifts being sent?"
Chen Feng glanced at the comments, looking odd:
"There are, but..."
"They’re watching us do laborious tasks."
Qi Hui instantly became excited:
"Then quickly sleep to skip the storyline."
"Continue tomorrow."
"In reality, one can endure for seven days; surely you can last a month in the game."
"This semester’s history department funds depend on us two."
"Work hard, I’ll give you extra credits."
Chen Feng’s scalp tingled.
Really?
Moving bricks? Building roads? Working for a month?
However.
Qi Hui already started closing his eyes to sleep to skip the storyline, and seeing this, Chen Feng could only follow suit.
Moments later, the storyline skipped.
Chen Feng’s mouth slightly twitched, what kind of sleeping is this, just closing and opening eyes, and starting laborious tasks again.
Listening to the supervisor’s shouts from afar, Qi Hui and Chen Feng got up.
Qi Hui still appeared at ease, seemingly enjoying it:
"Young man, enduring hardship brings benefits."
"Look at me, over 50, still working."
Chen Feng couldn’t help but hold his forehead.
This damn game, how could there be such a twisted labor service system!
Looking at the road with no clear end... Chen Feng sighed, fine, let’s work!
Following the team towards the pile of crushed stones.
...
Fifth day.
In the game, the evening.
Chen Feng looked at the gifts in the live stream room, gritting his teeth to endure.
However, Qi Hui over there couldn’t see them; three days of continuous labor, indeed hard to bear.
Earlier bold words had long been forgotten.
"Chen Feng, have you found the settings there?"
"How can I reduce this pain perception?"
Chen Feng chuckled upon seeing this:
"Teacher, didn’t you say enduring hardship has benefits?"
Qi Hui couldn’t help but give a kick:
"But I didn’t mean to endure it forever!"
"Where is it?"
Chen Feng chuckled while explaining:
"Go to settings, and then..."
Gifts in the live stream room continued to fly.
...
Thirteenth day.
In reality, four days had passed, and the game had been online for four days.
Evening.
Qi Hui was helped back by Chen Feng.
The originally intact linen clothing now showed several blood stains on the back, Qi Hui didn’t know whether from pain or anger, not only trembling physically but also in his voice:
"Rebellion, it must be rebellion!"
"I’m furious!"
"This system is outrageous!"
"I only found out today, here’s the labor service system, boys start at the age of fifteen, till relieved at sixty; with titles relieved at fifty-six."
"Do you know what it means?"
Chen Feng cluelessly shook his head, then nodded:
"I can understand a bit."
Qi Hui, the 50-something old professor, gritted his teeth and said:
"It means, for the common folk with no titles, males start serving at fifteen and are relieved at sixty, while those with titles are relieved at fifty-six."
"Meaning normal folk start from fifteen till they reach sixty."
"Outrageous!!!"
"With this labor intensity, they won’t survive till sixty."
Chen Feng chuckled:
"Aren’t you almost sixty?"
"Endure for a few years and you might retire."
Qi Hui’s mouth twitched:
"I’ll endure for nothing!"
"After two more months of this, my physique will be finished."
This is his real-life data, far superior to the physical condition of these Huaxia folk.
But even with just these few weeks, he couldn’t hold on.
Where could he hold on for a few more years?
Speaking of it.
Qi Hui fell into silence, Chen Feng puzzled:
"Teacher?"
Qi Hui sighed and said:
"I suddenly figured out what ’countless dead’ means in the bamboo slips we’ve been excavating earlier."
"Before, there was no direct concept, but now in this environment, it becomes clear."