Hype

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In front of Gilbert, is the specialized cabin that has just been delivered by the couriers.

He looked at his old virtual cabin on the corner.

His old virtual cabin could be said to be the best of the best before.

It could reach a 3x time conversion.

Its life support could last 7 days.

And it could support all of the virtual creations of the VR world.

Ever since Gilbert had started his Virtual surfing, it was always this old virtual cabin.

However, with the arrival of the new game VRMMORPG Utopia, a game that the cabin couldn't support finally arrived.

While waiting for the specialized cabin's arrival, Gilbert had surfed the internet for information regarding the new game.

It was said that only the specialized cabin could support the game, however, there are several restrictions regarding the cabin.

You couldn't play other virtual creations on it, making many people mad.

7:1 time conversion, such ratio is said to be revolutionary and many research institutes and academia had appealed to the government.

Why waste such technology on a game?

It could forward the development of the world's technology by several years, so what in the world are the people in the government smoking to allow such waste?

Particularly, the research institutes in the fields of medicine and military have been very vocal of their opinions.

For the past days, the state of the internet could be said to be very lively.

What's more shocking was that such a specialized cabin was a joint work of the three superpowers!

Still, Why?

Why? Why? Why?

'Why?! Use?! It?! On?! A?! Game?!' Quote an old medical scientist from the Phoenix Empire before he died on a heart attack.

On the other hand, the game enthusiasts could be said to be living the time of their lives.

Many of such people had been going after forums after forums clashing words against the internet scholars of other fields.

For the first time, the gaming industry had achieved a big win against the majority and the gaming people are beyond happy.

Various videos dissing people of different opinions have been running on the web and many gaming celebrities and renowned gaming guilds are voicing their happiness as they are planning to shift towards the new game.

Still, it wasn't all fun for the gaming industry, the arrival of a game who had a monopoly towards such technology could be said to be the arrival of a grim reaper towards its competition.

Well, the players are happy, so who cares, said the vocal minority of the players as the majority kept their silence.

The game wasn't even released yet, so in regards to the game itself, there are still many who remained passive.

The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

How tragic would it be if they join such charade only to be met by a shitty game filled with bugs?

Gilbert shifted his sight towards the specialized cabin.

With its black color and exquisite design, it looked like something you could find on a sci-fi movie.

It looked very cool.

Gilbert's eyes then shifted at the old cabin.

Comparing it to the new specialized cabin, it was pitiful, it just looked like a lonely fusion of a refrigerator and a coffin.

Unlike his old cabin who could only have 7 days of life support, what's more shocking is that the specialized cabin could support human life for 30 days.

If you multiplied that by 7 then you could live 210 days on the virtual world without going out.

If you spend most of your time in it, then it was like your lifespan had increased massively.

Because of such, the appeal of the game didn't just stop towards the gamers but had also reached many of the so-called normies according to an article Gilbert had read.

On another note, you would expect that such a revolutionary cabin would be expensive, but it was in fact the opposite.

The specialized cabin only costs 1000 Credits, and for background's sake, a single credit is enough to buy you either 3 cup ramens or a single Wc Burger.

So the specialized cabin only costs a thousand burgers, very cheap compared to his old cabin which has cost him ten thousand burgers.

Many even questioned if the cost was off two digits to the real amount, but had gotten reassured that there was nothing wrong with the price, shocking the head of the development team of a certain megacorporation to the point that he could only say 'no comment' during an interview.

Still, there was only a limited number of the available cabin on the first distribution.

Publicly, it was announced that there would be a million cabin reserved for each superpower, and compared to their total population of 9 Billion, it was nothing much.

There are chosen individuals and guilds who were guaranteed a number of slots at the start and the rest could only take their chances.

Rumors have been circulating online that with the three superpowers on it together, chances are, the game could be an arena of serious competition by the three superpowers.

With such rumor around, shocking personalities are expected to appear hyping up the people.

Competing for the pride of the empire has always been a glorious matter.

There is probably something big at stake, and if people could somewhat contribute, glorious rewards are always guaranteed.

With the days reaching near the opening date, the hype only continued to grow.

Regarding the guaranteed slots, The Great Noble Clans would also receive a number of them.

And of course, since Gilbert belonged to the main family of the Augustus Clan, he had learned that he was 100% guaranteed a slot from the archived messages he had read from a group chat he belonged to.

A private group chat named 'Dragon Empire Saints Union'

This group chat is somewhat special.

About 9 years ago, someone had visited Gilbert personally to invite him, Gilbert had then joined but have only lurked time to time, not participating on discussions unless he was called out when someone saw him online.

It's not that Gilbert didn't want to chat, it's just that he found himself unable to relate to the people always chatting on the group.

There were only 36 people in the group chat, but they shouldn't be underestimated.

Besides Gilbert, there are 8 other people belonging to the main family of the 10 Great Noble Clans of the Dragon Empire, while the remaining others are members of other noble clans.

There's a reason why Gilbert couldn't relate to the people in the group.

Most of the time, the group chat was like a mini porn site.

People would just post their videos together with some celebrities or some unknown beautiful girl they met somewhere together with the information on how they managed to accomplish such.

Like how much money they had used, or what benefits they had offered.

Well basically, it was a gathering of scumbags, and they considered Gilbert the same as them enough to invite him 9 years ago.

You could see how the game's influence could be worthy of note, it was big enough to even affect this cancerous group chat.

For the past days, they have been talking about their guaranteed slots.

Including the 8 people from the 10 Great Clan, half of the people had guaranteed slots.

Because of the divide, the people who didn't receive guaranteed slots were laughed at by the others.

With no choice, to avoid further humiliation, they could only rely on their connections to buy the specialized cabins.

Right now all of them from the group chat have a specialized cabin.

And they are planning to dive into the game separately, planning to compete against each other.

And as for what they plan to compete with, nobody knows.

Well, from the group chat, at least Gilbert learned that all members from the main family were guaranteed one.

Gilbert's mind went back to his cousin.

From what he remembered, she told him that she was the one who had pre-ordered it for him.

He had always doubted his cousin. On why she always put some time to bother with him.

His cousin might be under the orders of someone.

Still, he don't really care much even if she was.

He was more interested in the game.

Gilbert thought about the game's miraculous description.

With the three superpowers as a guarantee, it was safe to assume that the game wouldn't be too much of a scam.

And right now, Gilbert is excited.

Gilbert then checks the time on the wall clock.

7: 57 pm.

3 minutes more till the start of the server opening.

Gilbert is already wearing the specialized suit for the cabin.

He had checked the reserves of the life-support system and it is currently full, enough for 30 days.

Everything on the house is already secure, if there's an emergency, the A.I whitecat01 would alert him via the Specialized Cabin's system.

"Everything is ready..."

'Time to enter this game...'