Chapter 358: Decision 358

Chen Xu returned home, and it was already midnight. As he lay down and closed his eyes, he entered his personal space and clicked on an option to become a game developer.

These days in the game “Second Life,” he, Mu Shang, and Yang Jinxia had worked tirelessly to level up and caught up with others, successfully obtaining extraordinary powers.

During these days, with his natural talent and the help of Yang Jinxia, he had already started to earn money. His credit points had just reached the threshold of ten thousand, and he now had a total of over eleven thousand.

To activate the game developer option, he only needed ten thousand credit points.

When he discovered that such a feature existed in the dream game, he seriously considered creating a game primarily to earn credit points.

However, after weighing the options, he abandoned the idea. Having people on Earth serve as NPCs and interact with alien civilizations was too risky, and no one knew what problems it could lead to.

He believed he could handle it with just a few people, but what use would a few NPCs be in a game? He might as well spend the money to rent AI. If the number was small, it wasn’t something he couldn’t afford.

The number of NPCs had to be large enough to attract players; otherwise, what was the difference from playing a single-player game?

Chen Xu had carefully studied the games in the dream, and he could find all types of games he could think of here, as well as many he had never even considered.

He had to abandon the idea of transplanting games from Earth to the dream world. Any game that had appeared on Earth could be found in a similar form in the dream, so what was the point of transplanting them?

Therefore, he had pretty much given up on using this feature to make money.

But in his view, this feature was not just for earning money. After learning about it, an idea had been lingering in his mind.

The idea was based on another game he was playing, “Fighting.” As the name suggested, this was a fighting game, and just by its name, one could sense how awesome the game was. In fact, it was one of the few games operated officially.

He learned from some materials on the forum that when the dream games were first launched, there were a total of fifty games, all operated officially.

Up to now, among the fifty games, only five were still operated under the official banner, and the other forty-five had been sold off over the years.

After all, their main business was to run the platform, and it was not appropriate to divert their energy to game operations. The five games that remained were simply too profitable for the officials to let go.

Take “Fighting,” for example. For many years, it had dominated the leaderboard in its category. It is no exaggeration to say that the game had become a brand.

According to the information on the forums, “Fighting” had extended its influence to the real world and became a brand, with various levels of competitions held every year, much like the commercial sports leagues such as the English Premier League and NBA. Its influence was astonishing. Only a fool would sell such a game.

The gameplay of “Fighting” was simple. After entering the game, your actual situation would be assessed to create an identical character, and then you would engage in 1V1 fights with other players. If you won, you would gain experience, and once you had enough experience, you would level up. After reaching a certain level, you could participate in various fighting competitions, even winning prize money. The higher the level of competition, the more prize money you could win.

The game’s content may seem simple, but there is a reason why it has enjoyed lasting popularity. First of all, it had a comprehensive training system, which allowed continuous improvement of physical fitness and skills.

Since it was in a game, this improvement had no limits. In other words, given enough time, you could become a true superhero.

In the real world, as a carbon-based life, physical fitness can only be improved up to a certain limit, even with the help of drugs, and could never become like the superhumans in the games. Of course, the limit is much higher than Earth’s, depending on the level of biopharmaceuticals.

Chen Xu had spent a lot of time playing “Fighting” these days. He chose this game because of the previous reward, unrestricted fighting skills. With his fighting skills and the precise sixth sense that came with his talent for sensing danger, he was like a fish in water.

Now, his win rate in solo fights in the newbie area was over ninety percent, and he had gained quite a reputation.

Most importantly, he had discovered that the results of training in the dream were reflected in reality. These days, when he exercised in the morning, he could feel incremental progress.

Just a few months ago, his physical fitness had reached a limit, and no amount of training could improve it. Now, his running was progressing much as usual – clearly an effect brought by the game. Although he could not achieve the level of improvement found in the game, it was still awesome.

Correspondingly, the skills he learned in the game were naturally mastered in reality.

Such characteristics held immense value to him.

Previously, when he only had tourist-level access, he mainly played single-player games, apart from shooting skills, he rarely deliberately practiced a particular skill due to limited game time.

Now it was different. He could enter the game every night for eight hours at a time, giving him plenty of practice time for anything he wished to train.

Although the dream had countless types of games, some sports unique to Earth, such as football and basketball, could not possibly exist.

If they truly existed, he would have to wonder if someone else on Earth also possessed such a dream device.

If he activated the game development option and created a basketball training game, he could practice basketball skills in the dream. But, of course, since he had no intention of becoming a professional basketball player, naturally, he wouldn’t spend ten thousand credit points to do such a thing.

Overall, this function was not very useful to him, like a chicken rib – tasteless, yet a pity to waste.

But that didn’t mean it was worthless. Becoming a game developer could bring Earth’s people into the game, and they did not have to be just an NPC.

For example, if he created a technology research and development game, brought a human in, and allowed him to complete a series of tasks from low to high to master various advanced technologies, it would essentially give someone a learning system.

In this way, he could gain a powerful assistant without expending much effort.

But this was just an idea, and he took no action on it. The reason was simple: who would want to share their Golden Finger with others?

It wasn’t until today’s car accident involving Secretary Wen that he realized the need for a doctor who could save lives at critical moments.

Even if not for himself, he had to consider the people around him. People always get sick, and his parents were not getting any younger. In case of an emergency, it was necessary to have a highly-skilled doctor who could provide timely treatment.