This Game Isn’t Normal

As Alex had expected, some information about the World of Spirits did appear online.

There was even a forum dedicated to the game World of Spirits.

Many players were amazed at the exquisite graphics of World of Spirits.

After creating a character, the character's appearance, height, and body type were strikingly

similar to the real-life player, which also sparked widespread discussion among players.

Some players find this interesting. They think that the fact that the character looks exactly

like themselves allows the player to feel like they are the one venturing out into the game

world and becoming stronger, and that it is full of empathy!

However, some players don't think so.

They think that this function of the game is indeed quite interesting, but can the game

company be a little more humane and give players more options?

What about players who like to play male characters as female and female characters as

male?

What about players who like to pinch their faces?

What about those who like to pursue beauty?

Life is already so difficult, so don't we players even have the right to make ourselves

beautiful and handsome in virtual games?

The two sides with different opinions just started a heated discussion on the game-exclusive

forum of the 'World of Spirits'. At first, it was okay, and both sides were relatively

restrained, but then the players sort of 'discussed' the real fire. The discussion turned into a

war of words, with neither side giving way, and the atmosphere was full of hostility.

Alex watched with interest.

He did not choose to get involved, but instead became a bystander.

Before he knew it, the night had deepened.

The verbal battle continued, but it was only a few unproductive swear words. Alex, who

was getting a little sleepy, could not help but yawn.

Forget it, go to sleep.

He turned off his phone, lay down on the bed, and covered himself with the quilt.

He realized that after his attention was diverted, he really didn't miss her that much.

Tonight, he might be able to get a good night's sleep, and he wouldn't be suffering from

insomnia like he had the past few days.

In this way, Alex fell asleep without realizing it.

He is an online author, which is a relatively free occupation. He had just finished writing his

last novel not long ago, and he had planned to take a break and use that time to go to her

city to find her. However, before he could go, he was already broken up.

The next day, just after 6 o'clock, he woke up. He couldn't sleep, and he still felt depressed,

uncomfortable, and empty.

If you really love someone, it's not that easy to forget them.

Sitting on the bed, lost in thought for a while, Alex picked up the mobile phone he had

thrown on the side of the bed, then held out his finger and tapped on the icon for "World of

Spirits".

The game started instantly and very smoothly.

The world in the game, just like the real world, had become daytime, with the sky just

beginning to lighten.

His character was sitting at the entrance to the village of Peace Village, and in front of him was a

pile of campfires that had not yet completely gone out.

Alex remembered that before, his character was standing, and there was no campfire in

front of him.

Alex manipulated his character to stand up, walked around the campfire, and continued

walking along the path at the edge of the village.

Alex rotated the screen and surveyed the surroundings.

The village was surrounded by a one-meter-high wooden fence, and there were still several

watchtowers inside the fence. These watchtowers were manned by strong villagers wearing

gray clothes.

Looking through the wooden fence, Alex could see that this was a very ordinary village.

It was not large, and the sides of the village's stone slab road were dotted with houses with

green tile mud walls.

Alex could even faintly hear the sounds of some chickens crowing and dogs barking.

Alex manipulated his character and arrived at the village gate.

Before he could make a move, the gate creaked open.

An old man wearing grey clothes, with a thin body and grey hair, appeared in front of Alex. He looked to be in his 60s or 70s.

The old man looked at Alex with some pity and said, "I am the village head of Peace Village. You can call me John. Young man, it is not easy to escape here. Come in."

Next to the old man stood a burly man who was a head taller than the old man. The burly man said, "Young man, last night you stood outside the village like a fool, as if you had lost

your soul. You couldn't be woken up no matter how hard we called out to you. If it wasn't for

the village head's mercy, and if he hadn't built a bonfire in front of you to keep you warm, you

would have frozen to death last night."

This must be the NPC in the village, and the identity the game has assigned to him is that of

a poor man who fled here and is now reduced to wearing only his underwear.

Alex wanted to communicate with them, but no matter how many times he tapped the

screen, he couldn't find a place to enter text or voice.

So Alex followed John and the strong man into the village.

After that, Alex spent about an hour familiarizing himself with the game.

He discovered that in order to communicate with these NPCs, there is no need to look for a

place to input text or speech at all. You just need to speak into the screen, and they can hear

you.

He discovered that unlike other games, where the NPCs only say the same few things over

and over again, these NPCs in the Peace Village can answer whatever you say.

Could this be a new generation of intelligent NPCs?

In addition to this, Alex also figured out the general situation of the Peace Village.

The Peace Village is a small village with more than 300 households and a population of

more than 1,000. The Peace Village is located in the middle of the village. The previous one

was located next to the village, a middle-aged strong man who was a head taller than the

village, called Mike, is the captain of the Peace Village patrol team.

Mike is a martial artist, a martial artist with nine stages of post-birth.

In addition to the captain Mike, the patrol team of the Peace Village has more than 20

people, all of whom are martial artists. Among them, the strongest is the captain Mike,

who has reached the post-martial level 9.

As the only armed force in the Peace Village, this patrol team is usually responsible for

maintaining the peace and security of the village, as well as expelling and hunting those

beasts and ferocious beasts that dare to approach the village. If they encounter attacks by

bandits and robbers, they also have to take responsibility for defending the village.

"It seems that in this game, if you want to 'transfer' from an ordinary person to a martial

artist, you have to work hard with this patrol team in the peaceful village."

"The post-nine-dan, post-martial-artist should be the innate martial artist, and this should be

a world of martial arts and immortal cultivation," Alex thought to himself.

He also discovered that he was not the only new player to arrive in this peaceful village.

In the past hour, he had already encountered several players in the village just like him.

There were no special markings on either the villagers or the players, but it was actually

quite easy to tell who was a player and who was an NPC villager.

At least it was easy to tell right now, just by looking.

Because these new players were just like Alex, they were all barefoot and barehanded,

wearing only simple grey pants.

The NPC villagers, although simple, could at least afford to wear clothes and pants, and they

had shoes too.

Alex felt a little disappointed that the players he met were all male, and there were no

female players.

If there were female players, they would have some 'equipment' other than underpants to

protect their vital parts like their chests, right?

In the next few days, apart from eating, sleeping, and walking with his father along the river

after dinner, Alex devoted all his time to the game called 'World of Spirits'.

Alex was so absorbed in the game that his father, Alex's father, and mother, Alex's mother, saw it

all. Although they were worried, they didn't say much about it.