Chapter 616: Assassin Master Su Tianji Starts Streaming

For the players in the new shop, their initial impression was that it was just a rather basic mystic realm for practicing combat techniques, much like many others within the city.

Yet right at the start...

What on earth was this?!

Of course, to people like Sera and Commander Elven, this sort of thing was something to be looked at and nothing more; after all, what workshop would construct such a thing completely true to reality?

And so they happily began playing Assassin's Creed.

But to researchers like Li Haoran and Lan Mo, as well as several elders of the Tang Family—cultivators who specialized in crafting spiritual artifacts...

"Hiss... Oh my, can this thing be studied...?"

"Ah! Why are you tying this old man up? Let me have one more look!"

How nice would it have been if everyone just played the game, yet they insisted on doing scientific research, which seemed utterly out of tune.

Thus, in the laboratory within the game, several Tang Family elders who were still deep in their research were forcibly strapped onto experimental tables right on the spot by several staff members, flailing their arms and legs, before being fitted with the apparatus to start playing Assassin's Creed.

The "Animus"—the very machine the Assassin's Creed players were using in the game at this moment—possessed a sleek silver-white body, and as it operated, a glass interface panel would slide out from the side to cover the user's head.

This was a virtual reality mapping device, distinct from virtual reality in the traditional sense, and equally different from the cultivation illusion realms possessed by the continent where Sera and the others currently resided; the Animus could read the user's genetic memories and project them into a three-dimensional world.

A nearly flawless three-dimensional world.

Furthermore, the events that transpired and the skills learned within this virtual reality could be reflected back into reality; thus, it could not only be used to retrieve information regarding the Assassin Brotherhood and the Pieces of Eden from the memories of these assassin descendants, but it could also serve as a tool for virtual training.

Which meant to say...

"We are playing virtual reality inside a virtual reality?!"

Su Tianji froze for a moment, and then she too entered the world within the Animus.

In passing, she opened her Penguin Stream, treating everyone to a firsthand: New Game Review.

Even among the many players in the old shop, quite a few were still adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward the game at this time.

"Elder Su is streaming!"

"Hmm? A new game review?"

"Let me see, let me see!"

After all, in the previous battle, she had blown apart the Judgment Sanctuary Army's super-tier magic, the Space Storm, with a single cannon shot, and since she was actually quite good at playing games to begin with, she clearly commanded a lot of attention.

The moment Mo Xian, Liu Ningyun, and the others arrived at the shop today, they were just about to order a bucket of instant noodles to have some breakfast when they noticed someone streaming the new game and doing a review, so they hurriedly used their new-model communication jades to open Penguin Stream and watch.

The tags attached above even read words like "Technical Style" and "Grandmaster," and the name had been changed to Assassin Master Elder Su, looking exceedingly high-end and elegant at a glance.

Even if she had been somewhat of a slacker recently, watching animations, that was all for the sake of tirelessly researching a certain super spell called the "Super Su Tianji Cannon."

"So it's Elder Su!"

"Is the boss not streaming today?"

"Let's check this out first!"

Even Daoist Xi Chi sat down on the sofa: "This master recalls that Fellow Daoist Su is quite formidable at playing games, having even won runner-up in the Counter-Strike team tournament; I shall take a look as well."

And on the other side, as the two who made the final appearance in the war against the Judgment Sanctuary, two figures clad in black robes remained exceedingly low-key.

Still, the two of them stayed in a corner: "Let us watch for a while first, to see if this new game is of any use to us."

...

At this time, including the elf girl Sera and the assassin Irina in the new shop, everyone had already commenced their new gaming journeys.

As Su Tianji familiarized herself with the controls of the new game, she glanced at her stream room, discovering that the headcount was actually several times larger than usual.

Assassin Master Elder Su: "Why are there so many people today?"

"Well, today I'll do a... new game review for everyone then." Clearly, she did not care all that much.

What appeared before her eyes was a silver-white space; this was the uncompleted state of the virtual reality space, also used for calibration to better synchronize with the protagonist's ancestor.

For the players, of course, it was the basic controls tutorial.

In the game, players had to abide by the ancestor's code of conduct and do nothing that conflicted with it, otherwise they would lose synchronization, thereby ejecting from the genetic memory virtual world of the Animus.

The same applied to severe injury or death.

Different from the original game, where the first step of this segment was to switch to a first-person perspective to observe a few faceless people around, it was different now; it required the player to focus their attention to observe these people's movements and subtle expressions.

This was something Su Tianji was naturally very well-versed in, and she completed it very quickly.

"This is far too simple!" Su Tianji's confidence was clearly boosted significantly, "Judging from the look of it so far, this game is still very friendly."

The Penguin stream room quickly displayed a flurry of bullet screen comments.

Song Qingfeng: "Not bad, not bad."

Nalan Mingxue sent 3 Goose Eggs.

"Thank you to Boss Fang for gifting the '666'."

Assassin Master Elder Su: "—! Is the boss watching the stream too?"

Since Boss Fang had already played it after all, he sounded perfectly natural: "Of course I am watching."

"..." To think this boss would neglect his proper duties to come watch someone else's stream; after a moment of speechlessness, Su Tianji completed the task, and soon the scene before her eyes shifted, revealing dense, bustling crowds walking to and fro.

Opposite the crowd stood a flickering, indistinct circle of genetic sequence, serving as the mission's destination.

Just like a crowd moving back and forth on a street, this step was the synchronization technique.

Originally in the game, one only needed to walk through them without causing a collision significant enough to make the jars balanced on their heads fall off.

But in reality, according to actual circumstances, even a rookie assassin could accomplish this with ease.

Yet the original game players were clearly ordinary people and not assassins, so this step naturally had to be simplified.

But now, facing these cultivators and martial artists, simplification was naturally unnecessary; how then should a true assassin pass through this crowd?

The researcher's voice echoed from outside the virtual space: Please utilize the knowledge of your ancestor to walk through the crowd and reach the genetic sequence ahead without being detected by anyone.

"What?!" Not only was Su Tianji stunned, but even the audience watching the stream was stunned.

Even the assassin players in the new shop were stunned as well.

No, before them lay a vast expanse of white, flat and smooth, without even a single place to hide; you want us to walk right through the front without being noticed?!

Su Tianji was driven to a bout of frenzy, this... are you playing with me?

Yet right at this moment, she suddenly discovered that a certain method seemed to indeed pop up in her mind—if every single position she took and every single step she made were in the visual blind spots of everyone present, walking across would naturally go unnoticed!