Mr. Dior - Chap 104 Holographic Online Games
Ch104 – Holographic Online Games (1)
On a weekend morning, Jiao Qi was awakened by the clattering and banging noises from downstairs. With his eyes closed, he touched the area next to him. Although there was still warmth within the quilt, Big Dick Zhang’s figure was nowhere to be seen.
“What time is it?” He asked Annie lazily, rubbing his sore waist.
“It’s already ten o’clock.”
Even though it was a monotonous, mechanical voice, Jiao Qi could still detect a hint of disdain in it. A former workaholic who used to get up punctually, he was becoming more and more lazier, even sleeping in on weekends. This made Annie, who compared its owner’s wake-up time with other smart brains’ in its circle of friends every day, felt like it lost face.
Jiao Qi propped himself up and yawned. Originally, his biological clock was very accurate, but he’d just relax on the weekends. Last night, Zhang Chenfei kept tossing him until the early morning, which left him really tired.
Zhang Chenfei was busy in the basement game room. When he saw his little wife, Jiao Qi, coming down in his pyjamas, he quickly went to meet him, “The workers are installing things, and it’s very dusty down here. You should go back upstairs for now.”
“What things?” Jiao Qi looked over curiously.
“It’s a game cabin.” Zhang Chenfei said, pulling him upstairs to have breakfast. “It should be ready by the time we finish eating.”
“Is it for playing that holographic online game?”
Jiao Qi thought the lottery game on their anniversary day was just Big Dick Zhang’s foolish nonsense, but he didn’t expect it to be a real game. Moreover, it was another major project introduced by Shifei, following《Glory of the Galaxy》.
This game, like《Glory of the Galaxy》, was a cross-platform game that can be played on smart assistants, computers, and VR. However, the difference was that it can be used with the newly developed holographic game cabin. The main component was a large-scale online cultivation game called “Shenmu“. As for the novel copyrights purchased by Zhang Chenfei, they were part of the entertainment subunit, and were only open to advanced users who use the game cabin. These novels were light-hearted, two-player romance mini-games.
The game cabin was installed and now required some adjustments. This thing was a personalised design, and it needed to be adjusted according to the user’s height, weight, and smart brain model number. After a morning of adjustments, by the time Jiao Qi woke up from his nap, it was ready to be played.
The design of the game cabin resembles a quarter of an egg, just big enough for one person to sit inside. After fastening the seatbelt, donning the gravity gloves, and VR glasses, the curved glass cover slowly closed, transforming into a complete “egg”.
The moment the cover fell, Jiao Qi felt a little nervous. He took off his glasses and looked across.
Zhang Chenfei seemed to sense his unease and waved at him without removing his own glasses, “It’s okay, this is absolutely safe. If you feel uncomfortable, you can pop out immediately by pressing the red button on your right.”
Jiao Qi put his glasses back on, and the game cabin reclined at a 45-degree angle, making him feel like he was in a massage chair. He logged into the game, and the background displayed a magnificent and picturesque landscape of a fairyland. The gentle sound of traditional Chinese music filled his ears.
【Dear Diamond VIP user Yan Yan, welcome to the “Shenmu” holographic online game. You can choose between “Main Story Game” and “Mini Love Game”.】
After the system prompt, two bamboo scrolls appeared floating in the air. As he reached out to take them, he was surprised to find that the sensation in his hand was just like real bamboo scrolls, complete with weight and a slightly cool temperature.
【System prompt: “Big Dick Zhang” requests to add you as a friend.】
“Agree.” After Jiao Qi said that, Zhang Chenfei appeared in his friend list.
‘What do you want to play?” Zhang Chenfei suddenly appeared in front of him, wearing the same home clothes he had on at the moment.
Jiao Qi was startled. What kind of black technology was this? He reached out and touched him, and it felt almost like touching an actual person.
Zhang Chenfei held his hand and grinned: “Awesome, right? This is new technology.” Seeing the astonished expression on his wife’s face, the President felt quite proud and opened one of the bamboo scrolls to show him.
There were two bamboo scrolls, one for “Mini-games” and the other for “Online Game”. The mini-games offered a variety of options, such as “The Big Shot’s Substitute Lover” and “The Imperial Marshal’s Cute Wife”, exclusively for high-level members. The online game was “Shenmu”.
In fact, these love games were unrelated to the online game but required a powerful holographic game server to run. That’s why they had this small module within “Shenmu”.
Jiao Qi was already familiar with those scripts and had no plans to review them, so he directly chose the online game.
The scene before him slowly began to change. The welcome subtitles on the interface were washed away by a waterfall, and the surrounding environment transformed into a forest with the sounds of birds and the scent of fragrant flowers.
The sky was clear, jade green grass as far as the eye could see, the sound of running water in his ears, and a soft breeze by his side. Everything felt so terrifyingly real!
He stepped on the soft soil beneath his feet and suddenly realised that he was now walking on all fours. What lay on the grass wasn’t a human hand or foot, but four furry white cat paws.
He quickly ran towards the edge of the stream, his body feeling unusually light and graceful. With a gentle push, he leaped onto a rock several times his height. He lowered his head to look at the reflection in the water, and it was that of a white kitten. Opening the control panel in the lower right corner, it displayed the current character attributes in the game.
Username: Yan Yan
Character: Qing Tong, The Daoist Spiritual Master
Sect: Wo Yun Sect
Attribute: Mythical Beast
Level: 0
Jiao Qi: “…” Weren’t mythical beasts typically combat pets in immortal cultivation games? Why was he playing in a pet account?
There was a rustling sound coming from the woods, and Big Dick Zhang, dressed in a black robe with wide sleeves, emerged from the forest. He saw the little white cat on the rock and his eyes lit up. He took 2 or 3 steps and jumped onto the rock.
“Yan Yan?” Zhang Chenfei picked up the cat and asked uncertainly.
“Why am I a cat?” Jiao Qi stretched out his front paw and patted his Lao Gong’s face.
The face was still Zhang Chenfei’s face, but the hair had become long and were partially tied up with a simple wooden hairpin.
The soft, fleshy pad pressed onto his face, and Zhang Chenfei became happy instantly. He hopped down from the rock, sat on the ground with his little wife in his arms. He buried his face in the fur, rubbing it back and forth. “This game is adapted from a novel where the protagonist is a demon lord alchemist and his cat. In reality, we are the game’s boss, and our gameplay is different from other players’.”
This was an immortal cultivation world divided into two paths: the righteous path and the demonic path. When players create their characters, they must choose to join the righteous path or the demonic path. The righteous path consists of three major sects, while the demonic path has ten demon sects. Joining different sects leads to different cultivation directions and techniques.
As custom-made Diamond VIP accounts for the President, they didn’t need to join any sects; instead, they had their own storyline.
Jiao Qi was tickled by him, so he kicked his legs hard to swat away the guy who kept rubbing against him, then jumped on his lap and swung his tail: “Then, have I always been a cat?”
“Of course not. You can transform into a human once you reach level 5.” Zhang Chenfei said, glancing at the game instructions and couldn’t resist reaching out to pet the cat. The little sweet wife turned into a kitten as big as his palm, which really makes it hard for a man to resist.
“What should we do now?” Jiao Qi sat on his Lao Gong’s lap and browsed through the novice tasks.
【Task 1: Dig fire ginseng and go down the mountain to sell it for money. 】
“Let’s go. It’s the first day of public beta, and everyone is at level 0. There is no danger.” Zhang Chenfei stood up, holding the little cat close in his embrace.
Jiao Qi suddenly found himself in a piece of soft fabric, struggled to turn over, and popped his head out of his clothes: “What are you doing?”
“We’re linked, I’ll do the digging, and you can watch.” Zhang Chenfei said as he took out the shovel provided by the system. Following the instructions, he found a patch of ginseng and dug up ten Fire Ginseng roots, placing them in a basket on his back to take down the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain was a small town, commonly known as Novice Village. Everyone was wearing simple novice clothes and crowded in front of the ginseng shop.
“Meow?” Jiao Qi curiously looked out, and the character automatically let out a cat’s meow. “Pei Pei, it’s not me who meowed.”
“Haha, I understand.” Zhang Chenfei was amused by his adorable, furry little wife. He leaned down to give the furry head a kiss and then walked to the front of the store. Using his VIP privileges, he got to the front of the line.
“Why is there a queue-jumping function?” The other players looked in surprise at the person who had jumped to the front of the line, wearing gorgeous clothes that were incompatible with everyone else.
“That doesn’t look like a player; it must be an in-game character.” said a player with a familiar name Art, who was waiting in the middle of the queue.
“Demon King?” As the new player spoke, people around him found his voice familiar and turned their heads to look, instantly recognizing him.
“Ahhaha, it’s me.” The game still used the Demon King to endorse it, and Shifei had provided him with a game cabin for his livestreams. The Demon King didn’t use the in-game mask but, like Zhang Chenfei, used his actual face.
“Wa, are you live streaming?” Players can communicate directly.
“Ah, can you give me an autograph?”
“This is in the game; I can’t sign here.” Demon King said with a smile, walking up to the person in the black robe with wide sleeves. He curiously tilted his head and poked at them, “What kind of character is this?”
Zhang Chenfei turned to face him and said, “Demon Lord, Zhang Chenfei.”
“Wow!” Art, who was dressed in plain clothes, was so startled that he jumped back three feet. “President Zhang!”
The fans who were watching the live broadcast immediately became excited.
【Hahahaha, no way, Daddy Chenfei set himself as an NPC? That’s too funny!】
【Meeting the Sugar Daddy in a game, this is too terrifying, hahaha!】
【Ying ying ying, Daddy Chenfei looks so handsome in ancient costume, he really looks like a Demon Lord!】
The surrounding players all rushed over to watch the NPC that resembled the President of Shifei Technologies and tried various buttons to initiate a conversation.
“I’m not an NPC; I’m here to play the game.” Zhang Chenfei opened his hand, and in his palm lay a Fire Ginseng, clearly doing the novice mission.
“! ! !” Everyone was shocked, this was the real Zhang Chenfei.
The Demon King tried to add him as a friend, and the other party actually agreed.
【System Prompt: Art is now friends with Zhang **.】
Because the term “Big Dick” violated the rules, the system blocked it with asterisks.
【Ahhh, he’s actually live!】
【This is Daddy Chenfei, the original dad!】
【Hahahaha, why, as same-level novices, are Daddy Chenfei’s clothes so gorgeous while I, God A, look so poor?】
Demon King looked at Zhang Chenfei’s luxurious cloud-patterned immortal robe and then at his own shabby, attribute-less clothes and straw sandals. He dared not say a word, considering this was the former Imperial Marshal who had once used an engineer’s test account to defeat his level one character.
“Are you playing alone? Is the President not here?” The Demon King looked around but didn’t see the second VIP player.
“Here.” Zhang Chenfei pointed to the furry head poking out from his chest.
“Meow?”
