Zhang Luochen stared at the screen in front of him with concentration, concentrating on controlling his game characters, rushing back and forth among groups of monsters. The explosion of spells and the screams of monsters kept coming out of the speakers, extremely fierce.

The door of his bedroom was suddenly opened, and his roommate Chen Feng walked in from outside, holding a cup of coffee in his hand and looked helpless, "I said, it's twelve o'clock, you're still playing games."

Chen Feng said as he sat down on the backrest chair behind him, looked at the screen and said in surprise, "And I'm still playing such an old game."

Zhang Luochen did not look back. He was being besieged by a group of demons and monsters. In the end, the boss of Tongtian Tower, Tongtian's master's great annihilation technique was fired one after another. Even if he was wearing a legendary [Taishang Tianzun suit] and wearing six or seven levels of protective spells, he would have to suffer hundreds or thousands of damage at all, and he did not dare to be distracted.

"Sorry, did I wake you up? Do I need to change my headphones?" He asked without looking back while operating the keyboard.

"Uh, no, no, I can't sleep anyway. I'm just a little strange. What era is it, and you are still playing this game? You've tried the boss of Tongtian Sect Master 800 times, right?"

Zhang Luochen knew why Chen Feng was so strange. He played an old game called "Legend of the Three Realms". Perhaps it is not appropriate to describe it as an old game. It is more suitable to use old antique games. This game is a fairy tale online game that appeared on the market fifteen years ago. It was a sensation when it appeared at that time. With its super high gameplay, outstanding pictures, and game background design full of fairy tale atmosphere, it was once popular.

Unfortunately, the Three Realms Studio, which made this game, didn't know what was wrong, and actually thought that the game they made was an unprecedented perfect game. Therefore, at the same time as the public beta, it announced that the game would never launch any subsequent versions or expansion packs, and even game patches would not be available. In other words, the game would never have any content updates, let alone any activities.

All game content is in this client that is less than 1g in size.

It is not difficult to imagine that almost no one believed the statement of the Three Realms Studio at that time, because it was really incredible. Such a money-making and popular game did not intend to launch any subsequent version to make it bigger and stronger. It is contrary to common sense no matter how you look at it, most people regard this announcement as an advertising behavior of game operators attracting popularity.

However, although this promotion is a bit confusing, since this game is indeed very classic, there are still many people playing it. In that era when home computers were not yet popular, they even occupied half of the Internet cafe.

Zhang Luochen and Chen Feng were the pits that they entered at that time, and they were among the earliest group of old players who entered the pits.

However, no matter how fun the game is, it cannot withstand the use of time. After all, players are always fond of the old and old. The same boss's first fight is shocking, and when the 100th fight is the only one left to read the script.

The first time I saw the exciting plot, it was touching. When I saw it for the 100th time, I just wanted to skip it quickly.

After the game "Legend of the Three Realms" was operated for three years, the number of gamers began to gradually decrease. After five years of operation, the number of gamers was less than half of its heyday. Most of the remaining players were still waiting and looking forward to the new expansion packs in their hearts with luck.

Maybe someone's studio has been trying hard for ten years, but I don't know if there will be a big move one day. It's okay to create a large expansion pack or sequel, or not, or a high-definition reset version.

However, what surprised many players was that this game was really as advertised by the Three Realms Studio. There was no subsequent version released. The content of the game remained unchanged for thousands of years. Even Three Realms Studio did not know when it was disbanded, and all the studio members were missing.

In the end, more and more players were tired of the game content that they had already known and withdrew from the game. With the gradual rise of 3D online games, the number of game players in "Legend of the Three Realms" has declined year by year. By the tenth year of game operation, there was only one server left in the entire game.

And today, in the fifteenth year of the Legend of the Three Realms, even the only remaining server has only a handful of players.

But Zhang Luochen still did not give up and was still playing this game that no one had gone to play, which seemed a bit strange.

Facing Chen Feng's questions, he sighed, "In fact, I have been a little tired of it."

"Then why are you still playing?" Chen Feng asked in confusion.

Zhang Luochen asked without answering, "Do you still remember the door in the clouds on the top of Tongtian Tower?"

"Of course I remember." Chen Feng said. Tongtian Tower is a map with the highest difficulty of the Three Realms Legend. This tower has 33 floors high. The monsters are stronger as the top ten floors. The top ten will randomly refresh the strongest boss of the Three Realms Legend - Tongtian Sect Master, dropping various epic and legendary equipment, and even have an extremely low chance of dropping magical tools.

Therefore, the Tower of Tongtian is also the map with the largest number of players in the late game. Chen Feng also teamed up with Zhang Luochen to take risks here.

At the top of the Tower of Heaven and the most difficult place to reach the entire game, there is a long bridge leading to the clouds, and at the end of the long bridge stands a gate. The gate is tightly closed, and two lines of poetry are written on the door posts on both sides of the gate - [The three realms of reincarnation will eventually end, and another day outside the universe]

There is a stone tablet near the door, with a sentence written on it [The greatest secret in this game is here - Three Realms Studio].

The players who first discovered this door thought that this door should be the entrance to a higher level map. However, when the player clicks on that door, a prompt will appear [The player must reach level 99 to open this door].

However, in the game "Legend of the Three Realms", the player's recognized level limit is level 60, because the player's ultimate skill is level 60, and the talent tree is up to level 60, and the maximum equipment requirement in the game is level 60.

In other words, if you upgrade after level 60, you will not have any other benefits except for a small amount of attribute improvement, and this game does not have the concept of level suppression, so if you upgrade after level 60, it will not be very meaningful.

Moreover, although you can still upgrade after level 60, the experience required for upgrade is increased at a geometric speed. Each level of upgrade is increasing, and the experience required for later periods is even hundreds of millions.

Therefore, level 99 is considered to be a completely unattainable level. Some people have even calculated the upgrade experience and upgrade speed of this game, and listed a formula. If a player plays for five hours a day at a normal upgrade speed, it will take at least fifty years to reach level 99.

Therefore, many people regard this mysterious door as a joke made by a game designer and do not pay too much attention to what is behind the door.

Of course, many people are still curious about what is behind the door? What will be the greatest secret of this game? Will there be a higher-level map behind the door, or will there be any powerful hidden boss?

Some rich people even went to the game company and were willing to spend a million to become the first person to enter that door.

However, the game company was completely unmoved. In fact, they couldn't make money if they wanted to make the money, because the game production team did not leave any game codes, and after making the game, they disbanded and signed a confidentiality agreement. The game operator was not allowed to change the game's operations for any reason, otherwise they would have to compensate a large amount of money. Even if the game operator wanted to open the back door, they would have no choice.

Some people also want to enter the cave by jamming bugs or retrieve game files, but no one has ever succeeded. From the game level alone, this game seems to be like the production team said, a perfect game. It has been operating for fifteen years, and no one has ever discovered a bug or a vulnerability.

This also aggravates people's curiosity, and there are even many supernatural stories about the legends of the Three Realms and urban legends.

However, as time goes by, these legends are gradually forgotten by people.

At this time, Zhang Luochen raised it up, but Chen Feng quickly reacted, "So you plan to get up to level 99? Open that door? See what is behind the door?"

"That's right, and I'm about to succeed." Zhang Luochen said, clicking on his character bar, which clearly showed:

【Player: ‘Cloud falls into the dust’.

Occupation: A magician.

Level: 98—Experience value is 99%, and 17892163 experience is required before upgrading.]

Chen Feng's face was full of shock - how painful it is to be like this best friend? It took fifteen years to make a secret in a game?

However, although Zhang Luochen did this a bit speechless, Chen Feng still felt sincerely shocked and admired.

"Damn! You kid is too arrogant! How did you get your level up? I remember when I was afk, Long Aotian, the highest-level in the game, was only level 68, right? You are too exaggerating. Didn't you say it would take fifty years to get to level 99?"

Zhang Luochen nodded, "It was indeed the case at the speed at that time, but there were some changes later. There were still some shortcuts to the upgrade path of this game."

At this time, the leader of Tongtian was finally killed by Zhang Luochen's thunder curse, and the ground was burst out with equipment and potions, including many epic equipment of purple quality. Zhang Luochen explained while picking up the spoils.

"First of all, due to the decrease in the number of players, the monster resources have become extremely rich. The map is full of monsters, and there is no need to compete with people for monsters. Look at the 29th floor of the Tower of Heaven, there are no one else besides me.

Second, since everyone has withdrawn from the game, many people will give away the game equipment, or sell it, and then turn around, and the top batch of equipment in the game falls into my hands."

Zhang Luochen said, clicking his equipment bar, a piece of legendary equipment of level 60, all inlaid with the best gems and the best talisman seals. All the weapons hit Jia Jiu, almost blinding Chen Feng's eyes.

Then I opened my backpack. In addition to various elixir and talisman supplies, there were many replacement equipment. There were four or five legendary weapons alone, and even three magical weapons.

"These equipment not only allows me to kill monsters faster, but also the six special effects in my bag specially designed for leveling are 120% bonus for experience. If you change it when you brush small monsters, you will get twice the result with half the effort."

"My epic magic weapon [Psychological Jade] also has 30% of the experience added."

"The [Spiritual Treasure Secret Medicine] produced by alchemy can also provide 50% experience layering. Anyway, no one has grabbed the medicinal materials on the map now, so the Secret Medicine of Spiritual Treasure can be covered throughout the process."

"And don't forget that every week's sword talk, those who have won the title of Supreme Three Realms will have 100% experience value bonus buff."

"So look, fifty years will become fifteen years."

Chen Feng was amazed when he heard this, "Then you are very angry too. You have been playing a game for fifteen years. I remember when we first came into contact with this game, I was still in junior high school. To be honest, I doubt if there is something wrong with your brain. How many people are there in this game, three hundred or five hundred?"

"There are less than thirty people. The last time I went to compete for the title of the Supreme Three Realms, there were seven people participating in the battle. Now we are basically taking turns to be the Supreme Three Realms, but because I have been rushing to level 99 recently, this title has been on me."

"As for why I'm still playing this game, I think it's probably an obsession. I have to know what's behind that door, that's all. The current game has no exploration at all, and it also loses all the mystery. It's automatic wayfinding, gifts from malls, and various convenient services. It's completely unsatisfactory. In contrast, the never-opened door on the Tower of Heaven will make me have some interest in exploring. And if I can become the first and only person in the world to discover this secret, don't you think this will feel fulfilled? Maybe you can apply for a Guinness World Record."

Chen Feng nodded, "Okay, what you said makes sense."

While talking, he took a sip of coffee, but had no intention of leaving.

"Aren't you going back to sleep?"
Chapter completed!