The Underworld: An Epic of Youth and Glory

Name: The Underworld: An Epic of Youth and Glory
Author: Galloping 5

幽冥天下：青春与荣耀的史诗

by Galloping 5 (奔腾5)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 147k Words
Genre: Gaming
Subgenre: Virtual MMORPG
Updated: 20h ago
Source: Qidian

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On March 15, 2007, *Age of Illusions* entered open beta. In Dorm 502 at Jilin University in Changchun, four male architecture students huddled around a beat-up computer and started an obscure little guild on the Northeast China Netcom server: Netherworld Dominion. No big spenders, no top players. The four eighteen-year-olds started out fighting gray-furred wild boars. They wiped, reviewed what went wrong, and wiped again. Then, at the moment they became the first on the entire server to clear the purple-gear dungeon, the world announcement flashed across the screen, and the whole YY voice channel erupted. Before long, more and more people joined them. A sailor who had just disembarked in Qingdao could fell a foe with a single arrow. A top student in Harbin used Excel to calculate DPS. A head nurse in Shenyang kept the whole team alive by double-healing. A Tsinghua architecture student took on bosses with a stopwatch in hand. A courier in Shenyang was in charge of the deadpan jokes. A healer from Huludao made the team's archer fall for her... From all across the country, twenty-seven strangers went from battling together in a game to meeting in real life. Graduation, starting businesses, settling down, a brutal downturn in their industries, and everyone rushing in different directions. One opened a chain of internet cafes, one joined a state-owned company, one spent three years drafting plans at a design institute, and one found in the game the person they would wait for all their life. The game went through version after version, and the servers grew old, but YY channel 88990011 stayed lit forever. Twelve years later, it was still the same people every year, still the same words: The totem of youth never grows old. This isn't one person's online gaming story. It's a declaration of challenge written to one another by four boys and twenty-seven brothers and sisters, in the ink of their entire youth.

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Young age, totem of immortality!
Since the idea came up in 2016, it has been on and off along the way, squeezing time to polish it in between busy work. It is not until today that this story has truly come into fruition. This is a youthful look back on those born in the 80s and 90s. The story takes place on a university campus in 2007. Four young architecture students in dormitory 502 on the Nanling Campus of Jilin University happened to be in the public beta of an epoch-making 3D online game. There is no cheating Long Aotian, no brainless crushing routines, just the most exciting youth time of a group of ordinary young people. , , , MP3, QQ, . They got together because of the game and formed a guild called Nether World. There is no intrigue or backstabbing. A group of young people with different personalities work side by side in the virtual world to open up dungeons. They support each other in reality and overcome the difficulties of study and life together. There is the relaxed daily life of fighting and fighting in the dormitory, the passion of dungeon land reclamation and group destruction, and the implicit and youthful feelings of teenagers and girls. Online we are comrades who share life and death, and offline we are close friends who support each other. Games are just a carrier, and the core is friendship, persistence and two-way growth. Here are not only the passionate battles of pioneering online games, but also the college youth that a generation can never go back to. If you miss the days when you and your brothers stayed up all night, and miss the purely non-utilitarian friendship, welcome to read this book. I hope all book friends will read, collect, and vote for recommendations, relive the ageless youth together, and remember the slogan that belongs to the underworld: Youth is the totem of agelessness! (This book is a fictional novel. The world view and career settings of the game are all original. Part of the inspiration comes from the collective memory of the early MMO online game era and has nothing to do with any real online game IP.)
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Young age, totem of immortality!