Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 209

The largest kite is a square whiteboard, almost the limit of what can be.

The Phoenix Kite is the main contender; it needs to win both the competition and the prize. If it wins, the Blank Kite won't need to participate.

While sewing fabric to make a kite, the leader of the Bird Alliance whispered to Xi Meng, "Boss, we have to take down all the kite rankings this time. I saw that other groups made other kites."

Xi Meng: "He can't possibly let go of such an easy event. If we win, we'll have all sorts of props, hahaha."

The leader of the Bird Alliance smiled, also somewhat expectant. There could only be one number one spot, and she certainly couldn't achieve it by grinding alone. There were 50 billion players, and countless skilled players among them—even with her lucky koi fish, she couldn't compare. So, the leader's actions were practically a gift to the alliance members.

Thinking of this, she said happily, "Luckily we chose 'Golden Jade Abundance,' otherwise it would be hard to say."

Xi Meng rubbed her head and said, "Have you ever thought that if the Pavilion Master were alone, it would be difficult for him to get all the reward items? So, it's inevitable to form a group to get the items from the Qingfengyi Ranking. But the resources obtained by the team can't go into their own pockets, otherwise the other team members wouldn't be satisfied. Sharing the rewards is the only solution."

After a moment's thought, the leader of the Bird Alliance gave up and said, "We're casual players, we can just relax and play casually. Let's leave the brain-intensive stuff to our brains, hahaha."

In this mission, Deng Yijun assigned the two of them the task of participating in every leaderboard duel, even if it was just to cheer them on from the sidelines. The goal was to benefit from her good luck and not let any resources go to waste; this was Deng Yijun's guiding principle when playing Qingfengyi.

He'd do all the side quests he could solo, and figure out a way to do them himself, hehe. It's most satisfying to pocket the rewards; if he couldn't take them all, he'd find a way to snatch them from other people's bags!

Soon, the giant kite was completed, and the group took to the field at the last possible moment. The competition was for the largest kite, and the grassland was filled with players frantically pulling their kites, creating a deafening cacophony of shouts and commands.

There are already giant kites, ten meters long and five meters wide. Quite a few; everyone's competing to see who can take off first and make the list. We really can't make any bigger, and we don't have the time either.

The largest one on the list is five meters wide and seven meters long. Its shape is that of a giant camellia, with a five-petaled outline and painted details in the center. Essentially, it's a five-petaled, flat kite. It has a slightly arched structure to create airflow differences, allowing the kite to fly.

The Slaughter Ancestor asked the Grand Marshal, "Boss, should we release them now?"

The Grand Marshal narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying, "Wait, if we reveal our method and other players use it, we might lose our advantage."

There are still three hours left until the end. Deng Yijun gave us one hour to go on stage, so we still have to wait.

The Grand Marshal admired Deng Yijun for his incredibly accurate timing. However, it was uncertain whether that method would actually allow the plane to take flight; it was a bit risky.

Soon, there was one hour left before the giant kite ranking competition ended. The Grand Marshal led his team into the arena and brought out the phoenix kites they had made.

The phoenix kite is 23 meters long, with an 8-meter-long tail. This design is somewhat ingenious; once it takes flight, the tail acts as a data dragger and shortcut, allowing it to reach the minimum required for ranking even when launched high. It's also a full 10 meters wide—very large!

When it was released, it gave the illusion of being overwhelming; it was so huge that it stunned all the players watching.

"My mech marshal, this must be the biggest kite ever!"

"It's too big. You can't release it now. Look at the others, they've been flying for an hour and still haven't taken off."

“That’s right. Some teams have twenty or thirty people, and you only have five. That’s absolutely not enough.”

"That guy on the leaderboard, I watched him fly, it took him three whole hours to reach the standard. Your tail has no skeleton, it must be harder than his, right?"

.........

Just when everyone was saying the kite wouldn't fly, the Grand Marshal and his men summoned five tea fairies. The tea fairies automatically positioned themselves at the head, wings, and tail tip, grabbed the kite, and launched it into the sky. Soon the kite was more than ten meters off the ground. At this moment, the Grand Marshal and the others pulled the string and ran forward, the pull quickly propelling the kite into the air.

After the tea fairy released the kite, it soared perfectly into the sky, its long tail swaying in the wind, its colors vibrant and dazzling.

While keeping a close eye on the leaderboard in the middle of the grassland, he said to his teammates after the phoenix kite made it onto the leaderboard, "You guys hurry up and fly the others!"

It's feasible for the Tea Fairy to fly a kite!

In this way, they can dominate the top ten in just one hour, or even a few minutes.

"okay."

The Grand Marshal held onto the rope with an exceptionally firm stance, despite the kite's immense strength that nearly carried him away several times. He remained steady, holding on tightly to the kite.

Over there, a square white kite soared into the sky, successfully pushing the phoenix kite off second place, and other kites also took flight. In just fifteen minutes, the top five were all kites belonging to the player "Golden Jade Hall". Each person had one kite, even the leader of the Bird Alliance was holding one, his face flushed from exertion, and sweat dripping from his nose.

"Qingfengyi's character design is too realistic; he even sweats."

Xi Meng said with a laugh, "Other games also have this setting. It wasn't designed by Qingfengyi; it's because the holographic capsule has all five senses built-in."

The Grand Marshal sent the message "It's all settled" to Deng Yijun. But as soon as the message was sent, other giant kites took off one after another, quickly pushing out the third, fourth and fifth ones.

With ten seconds left, a kite even larger than a square whiteboard kite, made of white birds, is about to take off. The birds grab the kite and fly upwards, determined to defeat Jin Yumantang and seize first place.

The Grand Marshal quickly sent a message to Deng Yijun: "Hurry! Someone is about to defeat us!"

Deng Yijun calmly replied, "Don't worry, reinforcements will be here soon."

One of his friend messages read: "Help me kill a few players..."

The text following the ellipsis reads: "We will guide you through obtaining items for the next three event phases. You are allowed to join the 'Golden Jade Hall' event; here are the item distribution rules, which I think you will find very interesting."

The player quickly replied, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away, brothers."

This is a player organization dedicated to the game "Huaxia Jianghu". They formed a player group called "Zhenwu Sect", named after the system revealed by some NPCs in "Huaxia Jianghu". Zhenwu Sect doesn't grind for various costumes, plants, or other resources; instead, they accept all sorts of enemy quests.

They are not afraid of bad luck or being captured by ghost soldiers; as long as the price is right, they dare to do anything.

The conditions Deng Yijun offered this time were simply outrageous; she gave way too much!

The True Martial Sect Master immediately agreed; Deng Yijun's condition essentially bound the item library to the True Martial Sect. For players who don't directly grind for resources, what could be better than finding a partner to help them grind resources?

Little did they know that Deng Yijun's goal was to find a sharp thug.

On the grassland, a giant kite that had just taken flight was suddenly shot through with an arrow, causing the birds to fly away and the kite to fall. The kite flyers stared wide-eyed in disbelief—someone had actually used a dirty trick!

"Report it now!"

One player shouted, and the other players quickly released their grip on the ropes and rushed to report the incident.

After this delay, the giant kite event ended, the leaderboard was released, and the first and second place winners were both Jin Yu Man Tang.

The players who had flown the giant kite were furious. They grabbed their weapons and charged forward, shouting, "I'll fight you to the death!"

"Charge, brothers! If they try to play tricks, we'll beat them until they can't play anymore!"

A large group of people rushed forward, and members of the Zhenwu Sect also drew their weapons. A fight broke out, and the scene became somewhat chaotic. The Zhenwu Sect, having accepted Deng Yijun's order, remained true to their word and revealed not a single word.

Over there, after the leaderboard ended, many little goldfish flew out. The players were quite excited; it had been so long since they'd seen goldfish!

Especially for combat players, most of the fish they caught during the previous "Golden Jade Hall" event have died, so they didn't expect it to be making a comeback?

"Ahhh, my goldfish, here I come!"

Players shouted and rushed forward with nets, not caring whose reward it was; whatever they caught was theirs.

Unfortunately, after those goldfish rushed out and spun around, they turned into palm-sized treasure chests.

The treasure chest had a gold ingot handle, and was decorated with red lacquer and gold relief flowers, as well as various colored gemstones forming a beautiful sunflower. The players were a little excited; they had thought only the first place winner would receive a reward, but unexpectedly, ten little goldfish appeared.

That means the top ten will all receive a reward!

The world chat channel erupted in discussion about the rewards.

"Wasn't it said that only the first place winner would receive a reward?"

"Ahhh, I regret it a bit. I just checked and because there were so many people participating in the competition, it triggered a hidden bonus that upgraded the number of winners."

"There's such a benefit?"

"I just asked the shopkeeper, and he said that the more people participate, the more funds there will be, and the chamber of commerce that organizes the event will give more rewards in order to attract more people to participate next year."

"Qingfengyi's story background design is becoming more and more detailed!"

"Ugh, story-driven players are feeling a bit down. We didn't even get to collect this kind of story content."

"So who hasn't participated yet? Isn't Qingfengyi supposed to have 5 billion players? The data just showed that only 300 million players participated in the competition."

Those players who didn't participate in the competition silently hid their expressions, who knew the designers had included this feature?

Everyone will definitely participate next time!

"Whoever received the reward, please share it so we can feast our eyes!"

As soon as those words were spoken, the players who received the rewards started showing off. After all, one of the ways to play Qingfengyi is to show off, hehe.

The first and second items were obtained from the "Golden Jade Hall," which are shared resources among all members of the guild. Everyone went to the warehouse to take various photos and uploaded them to the world channel.

"Oh dear, it's just a small bag, nothing special. (Picture)"

The image shows a shoulder bag with many small white tassels on a white background. In the center is a beautiful butterfly kite, a typical swallowtail butterfly, with a blue theme and refracting stunning iridescent colors. It is surrounded by small floral patterns, and the rest of the image is blank.