Chapter 3 Professional Player

The Book of Systems

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This was the second item in Jiang Qiao's backpack, and an input box appeared beside Jiang Qiao's hand. After thinking for a while, Jiang Qiao casually typed in the name "Holy Zero."

The text on the surface of the book changed, and the item name became — The Book of Systems.

Jiang Qiao opened this book of systems, and the first page displayed the current energy 5000/25000, map area 240 square kilometers, player limit 2/1000.

The first page contained only these two lines of text. As Jiang Qiao turned to the second page, several small light balls the size of fingernails floated in front of Jiang Qiao.

"Did you actually embed the star map into this book?" Hai Lan lightly covered her mouth, her eyes full of disbelief.

"Star map..." Jiang Qiao recalled his memory in the creator state. "Is this the map for our future world expansion? Let me see... The plane where Blue Star is located is this one."

Jiang Qiao's fingertips clicked on a deep blue light ball, which was the largest among all the light balls. As the light ball magnified, a bright blue planet slowly rotated in front of Jiang Qiao.

This was Jiang Qiao's current real world. Next to this world was a small pale white light ball, orbiting it slowly like a satellite.

This pale white light ball was the game plane created by Hai Lan and Jiang Qiao. Besides that, there was also a dark black light ball gradually approaching Blue Star.

"That's the plane intending to invade Blue Star!" Hai Lan pointed at the dark black light ball and shouted loudly, "Although it's just a fragment of a world, the creatures inside possess transcendent powers!"

Jiang Qiao reached out and touched the pitch-black light ball with his finger.

Data instantly appeared on the light ball.

Exotic Beast Plane Fragment

Plane Category: Magic.

Civilization Level: Medieval.

Plane Size: Twenty square kilometers.

Creature Level: 1~35.

World Rules: Time cycle complete, life cycle complete, physical laws complete, magical laws basic...

A plane's data panel was very complex, and Jiang Qiao only looked at a few key data points. Then he opened the data for Blue Star's plane.

Human Plane.

Plane Category: Technology.

Civilization Level: Information Age.

Plane Size: Infinite.

Creature Level: 1~5.

World Rules: Time cycle complete, life cycle complete...

"What will happen if this black light ball completely overlaps with Blue Star?" After looking through Blue Star's data, Jiang Qiao found that the black light ball was even closer to Blue Star.

"Creatures from this invading plane will appear within Blue Star! They will kill the residents of the original world! What's worse, if the space-time rift persists for too long, it will attract other invading planes, like this one!"

Hai Lan pointed to a blackish-red plane further from Blue Star. Jiang Qiao didn't need to look at the detailed data of that blackish-red plane, just the creature level of 120~150 already made Jiang Qiao think of the words "the end of the world."

"So the responsibility of nurturing heroes to save the world falls on the two of us? How much longer until this black invading plane overlaps with Blue Star?"

"It's estimated to be in ten days!" Hai Lan said.

"In ten days, with a server player limit of a thousand people, could we also 'swallow' that black plane if we have enough manpower?"

Jiang Qiao's question made Hai Lan nod repeatedly, as this was the method to expand this world. To release a new expansion pack, other planes had to be invaded.

"I understand, it's about time to return to the real world to find some candidates to save the world."

Jiang Qiao still had many questions about the game world he created, but he would figure those out later; for now, he needed to find the right players.

..............

Jiang Qiao returned to the real world, which hadn't changed much, except he was now accompanied by a materialized goddess and had an app called "Holy Zero" on his phone.

This app was developed by Jiang Qiao in the creator mode, with very rich features inside. But the most important function was a one-click login to the game world.

"This is really unscientific."

Jiang Qiao swiped through the app on his phone, many of the features still needed to be unlocked later.

"Have you thought about the candidates for the first batch of players?" Hai Lan didn't want to listen to Jiang Qiao's complaints; she was very anxious.

"I haven't decided on the first batch, but I do have the first candidate in mind. To be precise, it's the third player in the game."

Jiang Qiao opened his computer and logged into a website named Raccoon Live. This was currently the most popular live streaming portal on Blue Star, with the highest viewership room titled 'Strife' Global Finals Semifinals: Jiang City Reign vs. Seoul White Sword.'

'Strife' was the most popular VR online game on Blue Star, and its esports league naturally had a massive global following.

Jiang Qiao was now watching a live stream of the match between the Chinese team Reign and the Korean team White Sword.

"No matter which world it is, we have to fight Koreans in esports? No, our Dota in the West doesn't have this issue," Jiang Qiao looked at the current score. The match had been going on for three rounds, with White Sword leading Reign with a score of 2:1.

White Sword needed to win just one more round to knock Reign out and proceed to the finals.

"Welcome back to the Strife global finals; I'm your commentator, Wang Douyou."

"And I'm your commentator, Shi Qi."

"White Sword has reached match point first, putting the pressure on our Reign team. Reign must figure out how to block White Sword's offense, and they need a seasoned veteran to steady the team's morale."

"Wang Douyou, what are you hinting at again?"

"I'm hinting that the man has finally taken the stage. According to the producers, Reign has decided to replace their lead attacker 'Nan Feng' with 'Xixiao' for the fourth round!"

When the commentator Wang Douyou mentioned 'Xixiao,' Jiang Qiao could hear the roaring cheers of the audience through his headphones.

Strife had been running for eight years, the professional league held for seven years. The ID Xixiao had never missed a single league match in seven years and had led his team to win the world championship in the S3 and S4 seasons.

Three years ago, the ID Xixiao was equivalent to a god for Chinese Strife players and a nightmare that couldn't be dispelled for foreign professional players.

As a result, the players gave this professional player a universally acknowledged nickname: 'Master Xiao.'

But by the S7 season three years later, Xixiao, who was already over 25, was no longer at his peak, often being a substitute for the team.

Now that Reign had been losing consecutively, the coach had no choice but to bring out the veteran Xixiao to steady the team's morale once again.

But the result was cruel... Even with the replacement, Reign could not withstand the enemy's offense, and their journey in the global finals ended disgracefully with a 3:1 defeat.