In 2050, after forty-one years, Sword Heroes' Fate 3 finally launched a full-dive mode.
All at once, the elderly, whether nearing retirement or already retired, abandoned their usual activities like 25-player Normal raids, faction battles, and fishing, and poured all their time, energy, and money into the brand-new full-dive game.
Of course, Yuan Shanghuo, who had only recently started working, was not among them.
As a staff member, she knew that this game was only dressed up as a game. In reality, all the NPCs in it were real people living in another world.
The so-called full-dive experience was merely an initial, tentative contact between their world and another.
Whether the players and NPCs could get along was crucial to whether the two sides would have further contact in the future.
For that reason, the official team divided the work by region and appointed numerous staff members, including her, to mediate conflicts between the two sides.
Yuan Shanghuo could guarantee that she knew every official rule by heart, inside and out.
But why had no one told her that these players would be so much trouble?
Some crawled around on the ground pretending to be cockroaches, scaring passing NPCs into grabbing chopping boards and attacking them. Others fell from the sky at random times and places every day, dying right outside an NPC's home or nearby, and were mistaken for people hired by business rivals to ruin the place's feng shui. Then there was a whole group of players who wore gourds on their heads, starting rumors among the NPCs that gourds could become spirits.
Every day, Yuan Shanghuo ran herself ragged trying to clear up misunderstandings between the two sides.
She just wanted to know: where did this middle-aged and elderly crowd of players get the energy to come up with so many bizarre stunts?
Oh, and Yuan Shanghuo has an older brother named Yuan Zhangzhang.
Theme: With enough effort, nothing is impossible