Chapter 471: Let's Fight Seven Zergs First!

At this moment, they possessed no true concept of entities like planets; after all, the demonstration had been brief, and they could not form a clear picture from mere fragments of speech.

The opening animation could well be interpreted as a colossal Dharma vessel soaring high above the continent, launching an assault and destroying a smaller spiritual boat along the way, while the colonies were perhaps just a collective term used by humanity within the game for new lands—who could tell?

Though explaining it this way felt somewhat peculiar, it was the only interpretation that flowed smoothly within the framework of their current understanding.

"This game feels..." Mu Qing pondered for a moment, "like it might actually hold some interest?"

Moreover, a craze for "spiritual artifacts" had recently swept through the shop, a term used to describe this specific style of combat utilizing bizarre magical implements.

If nothing else, it was undeniably novel to the majority of cultivators who had never encountered such things before.

Since Resident Evil was currently out of reach, StarCraft, which seemed to share a similar theme, was well worth a try.

"However..." Tang Yu inquired with a touch of curiosity, "the immense Dharma vessel we saw earlier that looked incredibly formidable—whose was it?"

It was not that he was obsessively fixated on it, but rather that the colossal spiritual boat in the opening cinematic, which literally blotted out the sky and obscured the sun, had left a profoundly deep impression.

"That is a warship of the Protoss." After finishing the campaign mission, Owner Fang lingered once more on the race selection screen, his cursor resting upon the golden armor on the right side, an alien lifeform completely different in appearance from humans, "You may also refer to them as the Divine Race."

"The Divine Race?!" Tang Yu and the other youths practically leapt out of their seats in shock; when paired with that world-destroying might from before, its prestige seemed to skyrocket instantly.

Those of the older generation, like Zong Wu, exchanged glances in mutual astonishment: was it truly that magnificent?

"It is similar to..." Owner Fang explained, "the race of Angels in Diablo, which is somewhat different from the gods you understand."

"Is that so...?" Many among them experienced a sudden wave of realization; explaining it in this manner made everything perfectly clear.

"Even so, it still sounds incredibly formidable..." Mu Qing clicked her tongue in wonder, then pointed toward the large screen, "In that case, can we command them as well?"

Fang Qi pointed to "Chapter Three" located below: "If you clear Chapter One and Chapter Two, you naturally can."

Of course, the Carrier of that caliber shown in the opening cinematic was merely something to admire; if they truly wished to study things, it was far more reliable to seek out something more fundamental.

"To think it actually works this way?!"

"Boss! I want to play too!" Jiang Xiaoyue took the lead and rushed over to play.

"Ah? Xiaoyue, wait for me!" Several young women also hurriedly went to activate the game.

"I want to play too!" The Great White Deer also went to activate the game.

"This..." Tang Yu and the others looked at each other, "Come on! Let's try it too!"

...

"Boss, why does this firearm look so strange?" Su Tianji soon sent a message.

Over at the Jiuhua City shop, she had clearly already begun playing, and had even passed the first tutorial stage; the second level, "The Wasteland Patrol," was precisely the stage where the protagonist, Jim Raynor, made his initial appearance, allowing for single-soldier operations.

(In the system version of the campaign mode, weapons progressed step-by-step, hence the appearance was as a marine rather than a vulture.)

"Furthermore, why am I not holding this gun myself? Why is it this outer suit of armor that is holding it?" She could be seen controlling Raynor within an extremely thick and heavy set of armor.

And in his hands was a massive firearm.

In the original version of the game, a marine was barely the size of a fingernail, but when transitioned into a single-character perspective, it became glaringly obvious that this armor was a full size larger than even a tall, strapping man; even the full-plate armor of a Paladin in Diablo could not compare to it in the slightest.

"It truly is strange." Tang Yu had also donned his combat suit by this time, "Are humans actually so weak that they require this set of clothes to grant them strength?"

He then fired a shot at random, only to see a tongue of flame erupt from the muzzle; the air ahead seemed to undergo a subtle tremor, followed by a faint shudder of the ground as a massive, terrifying cluster of bullet holes was instantly torn into the earth!

When using Commander Mode, viewing it from the screen was not enough to truly experience the might of these weapons, but at this moment, it could be seen with absolute clarity.

This sort of penetrating power could be described as profoundly terrifying.

"The power of this firearm is immense!" Tang Yu drew in a sharp breath of cold air; this was simply not something the firearms in The Matrix or Resident Evil could be compared to.

It felt entirely like a gap between two different species.

Observing closely, there even seemed to be electrical currents flowing within the mechanism of this firearm.

"What kind of gun is this?!"

Soon, someone tagged Owner Fang in the "Owner Fang's Sightseeing Tour" Penguin chat group: "Boss, why are the guns in this game different from the ones before?"

Li Haoran had already led his marine forces into an encounter with several small hounds; as gunfire sprayed from their hands, almost every single shot, so long as it connected, could directly pierce through the carapace of the small hounds (Zergling). If it were not for the fact that these Zerg creatures moved with extreme agility and frequently avoided vital areas, they could almost achieve a kill in two shots, or even a single shot.

"Ah, that," Owner Fang said calmly, "you can just switch to Commander Mode yourself and look at the introduction."

"C-14 Gauss Armor-Piercing Rifle?" Su Tianji turned the gun in her hands over, looking left and right with curiosity, "What sort of thing is this again? Is it very powerful?"

"Why does it feel even more powerful than my new pistol infused with spiritual energy?" Li Haoran remarked in wonder, "It seems only a sniper rifle fully engraved with spiritual arrays and loaded with the new armor-piercing warheads could possibly compare..."

The problem was that this object possessed no spiritual arrays engraved upon it at all...

Gauss was a unit of electromagnetism; Fang Qi recalled that in the world before his reincarnation, such things were still in the experimental phase, their energy derived from electromagnetic coils.

When a powerful current flowed through the coils in an instant, the resulting magnetic force would propel ferromagnetic bullets outward; the power of these bullets was immense, capable of turning even a tank into scrap metal.

Typical Gauss weapons primarily utilized magnetic needles; some could achieve silence, and in terms of practical effect, they resembled concealed weapons more than thermal weapons, and certainly not traditional gunpowder weapons.

Yet the firearms used by the marines in StarCraft utilized a cheaper, more archaic hybrid of gunpowder cartridges and Gauss acceleration; their power remained exceedingly robust, with supersonic bullets capable of penetrating the armor of tanks and even space warships.

Of course, fighting tanks was one thing, but if they truly encountered a space warship... unless they were tired of living, it was best to avoid provoking them.

Ordinary humans required the support of a combat suit to utilize this type of firearm; this set of armor possessed combat support capabilities, as well as ammunition replenishment and aiming assistance functions. Without the combat suit, a Gauss rifle was essentially unusable.

This was roughly the extent of what these cultivators and artifact masters could touch or perhaps even study; after all—in this regard, they did not even match the level of the world before Fang Qi's reincarnation, so what ghost of a chance did they have to study it?

They might as well honestly just play the game.

"Boss." Whenever a new game was released, a vast crowd of people would immediately come to question the boss; for instance, Su Tianji, or the elderly Gu Tingyun currently standing before his eyes.

"What is this multiplayer battle? This old man took a look and found that one can actually choose the Protoss directly?" Gu Tingyun, having witnessed that type of super warship previously, was clearly very covetous of the Protoss as well, "And what is the meaning of this adding of computer players?"

Owner Fang said casually, "This is for when there is no one to play with you; you can have the computer accompany you. Of course, the computer is certainly not as adaptable as a player, and is relatively simple."

"Then this old man..." He looked left and right, "This old man shall choose the Protoss?"

He was impatient to try out the Protoss.

Then he looked again: "Fight... three bugs?"

He could be seen adding three Zerg computer players.

"No, with the capabilities of the Protoss, this old man should fight a few more!" Having seen how powerful the Protoss were earlier, he thought it shouldn't be a problem to fight a few more.

In the end, he discovered that the upper limit was merely seven.

"Why has a limit been set for this old man?!" With great reluctance, he clicked 1VS7 to begin.