197: Chapter 198 New Promotional Video Released

The Tyranid crisis was temporarily resolved, and the new slots for Shelter were ready.

Following Lin Li's usual practice, it was time to release a new, mind-blowing trailer to lure more "leeks" from Earth to work as cheap labor in the warhammer 40,000 world.

Currently, the official account for "warhammer 40,000" on Earth's internet already had over two million followers.

As for fans, the more the merrier.

Lin Li didn't care if they were "black fans" or "white fans"—as long as there was traffic, they were good fans!

As for the content of this new trailer, Lin Li had already drafted it in his mind.

"Aren't these ready-made materials?"

Lin Li sat in front of the computer in the control room. "I'll just edit a blockbuster using the Tyranid defense battle the players just finished; it'll absolutely set the internet on fire!"

No sooner said than done. Lin Li immediately had Iron Man 73 collect and organize all the video footage recorded by the players on the front lines.

There was simply too much material, totaling several terabytes.

It took Lin Li four whole hours to filter out the messy perspectives and useless empty shots.

Just as Lin Li was carefully reviewing the footage, he suddenly discovered an outrageous scene in the ground combat perspective on the agricultural planet!

On a broken defensive ridge, after a few Beastman players from the Bear Ridge Legion hacked a Tyranid Warrior to death, the player named Paratrooper One actually wrote a few big characters: [Paratrooper One was here!]

Lin Li looked at the screen, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

"Are these guys really sick?" Lin Li complained crazily in his heart. "If you say he's uncultured, these characters actually have some charm, elegant yet forceful; but if you say he's cultured, the stone he wrote on is the landscape stone in front of the Governor's command post!"

Lin Li continued to drag the progress bar. He discovered that it wasn't just Paratrooper One; later, many players passed by that stone and wanted to carve a few words for memory.

But because everyone else's handwriting was too ugly, practically like a dog's scrawl, the Defense Force Commander and Duke Louis King finally couldn't take it anymore and brought troops to wash it off with water.

In the end, only the line written by Paratrooper One remained on that stone.

"Good grief." Lin Li rubbed his chin. "This shitty stone might actually become a viral check-in spot for The Fourth Calamity in the game."

Lin Li shook his head, forcibly shaking these messy thoughts out of his mind. Now, the most important thing was to quickly review and edit the video.

Lin Li calculated the rhythm of the video in his heart: "This trailer must highlight the grand, shocking sense of massive ships and cannons in space warfare at the beginning! The middle section must feature the heavy debut of the Bear Ridge Legion's bizarre Flesh Mecha, paired with heavy metal rock music; it'll definitely be eye-catching!"

"For the climax, the first-person perspective of Flame Fist's decapitation of the Tyrant must be included! And the scene of Flash and the others brawling with over a dozen Overlords must also be edited in; for the ending, add a big cliffhanger, like the shadow of the Tyranid's massive main fleet, or hint to the players on Earth that Old Man Huang is about to kick the bucket!"

With a rough script skeleton, Lin Li immediately opened the editing software on his computer and started outputting.

He worked from the afternoon until the middle of the night. With dark circles under his eyes, Lin Li finally rendered and exported the finished video.

At this moment, it was daytime on Earth, and most of the first-batch players in the game had logged off to rest or go work. The timing was just right!

Lin Li immediately distributed this high-definition trailer, titled "Starry Wolves," via the backend port to the official website homepage, game forums, Tieba, and YouTube, among other major video platforms.

However, as a qualified "leek farmer," Lin Li knew very well that the release of the video didn't mean the promotion was over. It was just like influencer operations on Earth. Once a short video went viral, you had to immediately start a livestream to monetize!

But Lin Li couldn't conduct cross-universe livestreams, so he had to immediately follow up with a major new announcement on the official website!

Using the most tangible new quotas and content, he would convert the traffic heat brought by this video into actual laborers willing to get on the game and work for him!

...

Earth, in a first-tier city. In a luxurious bedroom of over 100 square meters, various expensive display cabinets were filled.

The cabinets were not only filled with countless authentic Warhammer miniatures, out-of-print Bandai Gundams, and various 1:1 anime figures; on the glass wardrobe covering the entire wall next to it, large amounts of custom Warhammer Space Marine and Battle Sisters cosplay costumes were hanging.

Clearly, the owner of this bedroom was a hardcore Warhammer and anime fan with a wealthy family.

At this moment, this young rich second-generation, whose screen name was [I Am Arbitrary Through the Ages], was sitting in front of his custom computer worth hundreds of thousands, trading and buying Core Points with other players through a third-party secret trading platform.

As a super rich second-generation, the only trouble this kid had now was being so poor that he only had money left!

Ever since he saw the completely era-transcending visuals of warhammer 40,000 on the internet a month ago, he had immediately followed the official website and filled out the registration questionnaire.

It seemed that because he had no other notable physical talents other than being rich when filling out the "specialty" column of the questionnaire, he hadn't been drawn for the closed beta quota for several batches in a row!

He even used special channels in reality, spending huge sums of money to offer rewards on the black market, hoping to buy a game helmet that was already bound. But due to the system's underlying gene-binding mechanism, he never succeeded.

Without game qualifications, he could only gaze longingly while lurking on the forums every day, flipping through the battle posts sent by closed beta players; watching the CG screenshots sent back by the scenery-loving Nikon Da Niao on time every day; and mingling in various Warhammer OL discussion groups, trying to piece together a complete, real Warhammer world in his mind.

The only sense of game participation he could find at present was using large amounts of money to buy up the excess points in the hands of other players at high prices.

Just as he was preparing to transfer money for the trade, "Ding-dong!" A special notification from the official website suddenly popped up in the bottom right corner of the computer!

Seeing it was a message from the official, Arbitrary Through the Ages' eyes lit up. He immediately canceled the transaction, ignoring the platform's breach-of-contract penalties, and clicked directly on the newly released video link!

The video started with the deep, boundless, and silent space. Then, the perspective zoomed in rapidly.

On the screen, accompanied by deep, oppressive background sound effects, a large swarm of purple-black Tyranid vanguard fleets appeared, covering the sky like space locusts!

Immediately after, impassioned symphonic heavy metal music blasted!

The Spark Alliance's fleet, pieced together from various modified ships, entered the fray brazenly!

Various Macro Cannon ammunition and high-energy plasma fire intertwined crazily in space!

The screen gave a tragic close-up: that player ship, which looked like a Star Destroyer, had been smashed in half by the Tyranids' acid cannon!

Then, that broken ship didn't retreat; instead, it went full throttle, slamming hard into the flesh wall of the Tyranid frigate like a violent, giant sword!

The perspective switched seamlessly to first-person!

The owner of the first-person perspective in the video was burning with pale-white psychic flames.

He held a two-handed greatsword, and in a hall filled with severed limbs and arms, like a mad dog, he hacked a Tyranid Tyrant taller than a single-story building to the ground!

Seeing this scene of extreme violent aesthetics, Arbitrary Through the Ages jumped up from his gaming chair, waving his fist and roaring:

"Holy crap! A real man should be like this! This is the game that men should play!"

In the second half of the video, the music rhythm gradually slowed down. It began to showcase various exotic landscapes on that beautiful agricultural planet.

However, the beautiful scene was quickly broken! A large number of Termagants and Tyranid Warriors crawled out from underground, and the Defense Force's front line collapsed instantly.

Just at this desperate moment, accompanied by the roar of drop pods hitting the ground, a batch of Flesh Mecha with larger sizes and strange shapes descended from the sky, counter-attacking into the swarm!

The video ended abruptly here. Finally, only a line of blood-red subtitles remained: The main force of the swarm is about to descend. Humans, are you ready to face destruction?

After watching the video, Arbitrary Through the Ages felt his blood boiling, still wanting more.

Just as this rich second-generation was in the midst of an extreme intracranial orgasm, the official website page refreshed automatically, popping up a long, latest update announcement.

[warhammer 40,000: Spark V0.5 Major Update Announcement]

1. Added more Golden Age equipment blueprints and NPC interaction modeling.

2. Added the estimated warp route of the Tyranid main fleet; the main swarm is rushing over at full speed!

3. Added massive amounts of star sector exploration modeling outside the Yuanwang Star System!

[Core Highlight] Shelter B7 level is officially open! Added [500,000] Calamity slots! Ultimate industrial equipment [World Forger] is officially online!

Fixed several physical bugs that were giving the planners a headache.

[Planner's Words]

[Planner - Immortal Lin]: Hello everyone! The pioneer interception battle for the large expansion pack [Swarm Shadow] has ended. I believe everyone had a blast fighting the bugs, right?

Of course, it doesn't matter if you didn't have enough fun. Because soon, the sky-covering main Tyranid force is coming! Note, the preparation time left for us is very tight!

Therefore, in order to allow players to have enough power to fight the main Tyranid force, this update specifically launched the B7 level [World Forger]!

This machine can perfectly scan, copy, and manufacture any non-living entity that can be put into it! Including Matter Constructors, high-tier weapons and equipment, precious potions, and so on!

Everyone can fully unleash their imagination to create more interesting things to arm themselves.

At the same time, as usual, post-war point raffles and loot auctions will proceed on time; the painting contest is also in intense competition.

Finally, and most importantly! This time, a full 500,000 brand-new registration slots have been added! I hope everyone will recommend friends with special talents to join the pit!

Loyalty!

Seeing the news that 500,000 slots had been added, Arbitrary Through the Ages' eyes turned red!

He hurriedly switched back to the official website's registration page, his right hand clicking the left mouse button crazily like he was having a Parkinson's attack, constantly refreshing the selection page!

"Let me hit! Let me hit! Let me get in!"

After refreshing for a full few hundred times, the page suddenly lagged. Then, a pop-up window with a golden gear border jumped out, written with a few big characters that made him tear up: