Shepherding Humanity

This posted analysis was logical and well-thought out. Everyone felt satisfied after reading it.

People loved cross-examinations that revealed the hidden truth, and technical posts like this were popular on the internet. Everyone gave Learning Medicine a thumbs up and praised him as the second coming of Sherlock Holmes.

Learning Medicine: “I’ll add one more thing. I trust everyone knows that the game’s sandbox was still under construction during the 10 minutes trial run. It was only a preliminary test, and a lot of things were left in an incomplete state.

Personally, I think that the time flow hasn’t been properly adjusted yet!

When the game's released, its time ratio won’t be as extreme as the Magic World’s, which is a hundred years to a day, and will definitely get reduced.

Not only will the time flow get shortened, I suspect that each person will get a fixed amount of time online. In order to keep people from losing themselves in the game, their gaming time will be limited to 3 hours, after which they’ll be forcefully logged out, opening up room for the next players.

They’ll spend 3 hours each day in the game—the equivalent to a few minutes in reality— to meditate, relax their minds, socialize, and enjoy themselves. With its accelerated time flow, this game will improve our health and revolutionize the way we work and rest.

This game will truly become a second life for us, and we’ll be able to live an extra 3 hours each day, extending our day to 27 hours!”

In a way, this game would be able to extend people’s lifespans!

This analysis had opened their eyes, and they couldn’t help but ponder how significant of an event this was.

Most working adults had a very tight schedule.

They went to work at 7:00 AM and got home at 6:00 PM. Once they were done with their evening meal, it would already be 7-8 PM, and they’d be too exhausted to do much. At 11 PM, they’d have to go to bed so that they’ll be able to get up on time the next day.

They were basically robots who could only work, and had no time to pursue their hobbies.

High school students had it even worse.

They got out of bed at 6:30 AM, and it would already be past 10 PM by the time they got home after cram school.

That kind of lifestyle was simply too tedious. If people could login for a few minutes each day, and gain an extra 3 hours to socialize and relax, they’d indeed be much happier.

This was a revolutionary game!

A true second life!

Everyone was breathing heavily, their gaze heated, their hearts beating wildly. They knew what this meant.

“I finally understand now. This game has always been looking out for us. It made us enjoy learning Biology, Medicine, Linguistics, Chemistry, Physis, etc… and now, it’s directly relieving us of the stress we’ve accumulated in reality.”

“True, no wonder it has such a good reputation.”

“As expected of the game that even my mother wants me to play. So amazing! (?)”

“I believe that this game won’t be limited to being a ‘Laid-back Learning Software’, and will become popular with both students and office workers in the future. It’ll have a super friendly community, where people will be able to relax and leisurely enjoy themselves after logging in.”

Everyone had something to say, and they couldn’t help but sigh at how revolutionary this game was. It would completely change the way people lived their boring lives.

Many of them felt guilty about the negative reviews they had angrily written back when they did not know anything, and hurriedly assembled to give the game a better score.

In no time at all, thanks to their efforts, the game’s low score rose all the way to 8.7—the proper score a highly anticipated game.

“What’s going on?!”

This rapid change in score shocked the big-shots of many major gaming websites.

“I understand now. This ‘Spore Evolution’ game simply cannot fail.”

“A great deal of money had been invested in its research and development, and it employs all kinds of miraculous technology. Furthermore, it doesn’t charge the people a single penny, while granting so many benefits. Could it be that this game was developed by the state to improve its citizens’ physical and mental health?” R̃аꞐỌΒĚș

As people everywhere enthusiastically discussed the game, some of them took this opportunity to analyze its gameplay.

“That’s not all. The big-shot’s speculation isn’t perfect. By expanding on his ideas, I can come up with many more ways for us to enjoy ourselves! For an example, much can be done with the Character Creation.”

“What do you mean?”

“We can make fanclubs! Which let fans choose their favorite characters! For an example, the character ‘Uchiha Itachi’ has many fans who will want to login as him. They’ll form a fanclub with hundreds to thousands of people, and take turns mediating in order to level him up.

Furthermore, when it comes to the PvP Arena, Uchiha Itachi’s fanclub will certainly do their best to study Fire Magic and Spiritual Magic so that the character will be able to master spells similar to Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Tsukuyomi…

When the time comes for us to fight, it’ll be glorious!

The MOBA game will be even more amazing! We get to pick the Champion – Uchiha Itachi, and he’ll have three abilities, along with an ultimate move!”

Everyone oohed and aahed. The more they dug, the more interested they got. This game’s potential fun factor was simply insane, and they couldn’t wait to play it! To think that fans could build their favorite character together, and level him up while improving his techniques.

Their discussion only got more heated as they went along.

“There are people who made their characters look like Thanos, and The Hulk. I’m sure those characters must also have a lot of fans!”

“Ha ha ha! If we’re making the ‘League of Mages’ MOBA game, then it’ll be a free-for-all with 500 Champions. I want to make the Champion Dr. Strange, and work together with his hundreds and thousands of fans to reproduce his spells in the game!”

“Every night… I dream the same dream. And then… the nightmare begins! (*music from the latest trailer.mp3*)”

“To the poster above, why did you have to include music in your post. I can’t help but hum along now. (?)”

“Damn you League of Legend fans! I’ll make the Shadow Demon from DOTA and reproduce its techniques. Eat my Soul Catcher! (?)”

“What am I supposed to do about our dear sweet Sakura? I’m so anxious! Who created her, damn it! How am I supposed to come up with 4 abilities for this Champion? Will they even look good on stage? (?)”

***

Everyone was getting more and more excited.

After all, Spore Evolution’s barrier for entry was too high, and very few people could get in, but this sandbox was shaping up to be a casual MMO game that’s open to the public.

It’ll have 500 Magic Champions.

It’ll be more casual and accessible to the masses.

Over 1000 players will take turns controlling each of the 500 Champions. Each player will have 3 hours to meditate, train, and entertain themselves with various games, and there’ll be 500.000 players in total!

“If it’s like this, there’ll be 500.000 registered accounts! With 500 people online at a time! It’ll be a pretty niche game, but still, I can't praise it enough!”

People grew ever more excited as they discussed the game’s potential.

“There are infinite possibilities. Since we’re building the stages ourselves, we don’t have to limit ourselves to just an Arena and a Summoner’s Rift.”

Their discussion showed no signs of ending.

When Xu Zhi drowsily got up after his hour-long nap and was planning to study a little, then carve some rubik’s cubes and observe the large sandbox’s progress, he found that everything had changed.

He skimmed the forums and was speechless when he saw the absurd number of new posts. “They must be cursing me in these posts, and complaining that the 10 minutes trial period was super stupid and boring.”

But, when Xu Zhi actually clicked on them, they were full of praises and desperate apologies to the Developers. People couldn’t wait to start their training in the Open Beta! They’d meditate for 100 hours! For 1000 hours! They couldn’t wait!

???

Xu Zhi stared slack-jawed at the screen, his face full of question marks.

Did I transmigrate to a parallel world?

Where everyone is a masochistic idiot?

After 10 minutes of browsing the forum, Xu Zhi sighed: “Actually, I didn’t put any thought into it when I gave you an open space to meditate.”

“Fine.” After he got over his surprise, Xu Zhi took their idea and ran with it. “I didn't think that you’d notice my deeply hidden intentions, and discover my meticulous plan to create a ‘Universal Meditation Room’… I’ve been burdened with wisdom that’s far beyond my age all this time. I am so tired!”

Xu Zhi felt exhausted.

He sipped on his tea and carefully read the post again. “Nevertheless, this is a great idea. He had perfected the settings for the sandbox I made on a whim. Netizens are so versatile.”

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