Chapter 7

As soon as he entered the world of the giant dragon, Sun Ran first felt a complete darkness around him, with the voice of the AI brain continuously coming over.

"Verifying the identity of the entrant...... Identity confirmed, identity is legitimate."

"Sun Ran, probationary order maintainer, currently in an employed state, granted first-level order maintenance authority in the world."

"Please repeat the three major principles of order maintenance, probationary order maintainer Sun Ran."

This was a mandatory process for probationary order maintainers, and Sun Ran began to recite them in his mind.

"Respect the rights of ordinary players; respect the laws of power in the virtual world; respect the indigenous cultural interpretations of the world." The disrupters used all kinds of cheats, and their power was usually very strong. To counter them, order maintainers could only use similar means, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a reluctant compromise. The difference was that the disrupters had no taboos and no constraints. Order maintainers, however, had to abide by the three major principles, and every time they carried out a mission, they had to minimize their impact on the virtual world as much as possible.

In fact, the three major principles not only protected the virtual world but also protected the order maintainers themselves.

A guy with a Gatling gun appearing in an ancient world would first cause everyone to be terrified, then be hated by the entire world, making it difficult for him to move forward. Even a disrupter would, to some extent, follow these game rules.

Thus, the AI brain spoke: "Please remember the three major principles, probationary order maintainer Sun Ran. You are now allowed to enter the world of the giant dragon."

As the voice ended, all the abnormal interference disappeared. Sun Ran felt his body relax, the stiffness and numbness vanished, and a flood of sensory information rushed in.

He felt a burning pain all over his body, like waves, one after another.

He also smelled a strong scent of blood in his nose and heard the panting of a beast in his ears.

Sun Ran quietly opened one eye and saw that his clothes had been torn into strips, with bloodstains all over, especially on his legs and arms, where several deep wounds reached the bone. However, fortunately, none of them were fatal.

In front of him, a beast that looked exactly like a tiger was crouching on the ground, panting softly, its golden eyes narrowed, staring at him intently.

Damn, it's actually this situation! Sun Ran cursed inwardly.

His current situation was a common method for order maintainers to quickly enter the virtual world: body snatching.

In simple terms, the game company found a player whose game time was about to run out, arranged various accidents to kick the player out of the game, and then the order maintainer took over the player's body.

This body was young and relatively strong, with several rabbits and mountain chickens hanging from the waist, a bow tightly held in one hand, a few scattered arrows around, and a hunting knife in the other hand. It seemed to have been a hunter in life.

To arrange for this hunter to have an accident was a simple matter. As long as a fierce beast like a tiger suddenly appeared in the dense forest while he was out hunting, it would do the trick.

This process was reasonable and logical. Ordinary players in the game, whose memories were shielded, would only lament the fate of the unfortunate hunter and would never suspect that there was a game company behind it all.

Now the problem was that the tiger neither left nor ate him, just crouched about five to six meters away, looking at him with a leisurely air, making Sun Ran dare not make any rash moves.

After a moment's thought, Sun Ran understood that this was probably the intention of the big boss of the giant dragon world, Shu, to test his abilities.

He was just a probationary order maintainer, without any rank. If he didn't show some skills, the big boss would likely have the big cat in front of him directly eliminate him, kick him out, and declare his mission a failure.

For a probationary order maintainer to become a maintainer of order, they relied on various practical combat skills, with cold weapon skills being the preferred choice.

Therefore, the big boss had thoughtfully provided Sun Ran with weapons: a hunting bow, several arrows, and a hunting knife. Whether he could use these tools to fight the fierce beast depended on his skills.

However, Sun Ran did not intend to use these crude weapons. Due to his heart condition, he did not know any martial arts and only practiced some health-preserving exercises in his daily life.

He also did not like using cold weapons, as they involved swinging guns and clubs, and he would end up covered in blood, which was a job for rough people.

He had once been a Daoist master; how could he be so careless with his image?

After a moment of contemplation, Sun Ran had an idea. Since this was a Western-themed world, he would become a mage.

He had read the materials and knew that the existence of mages was legal in this world, and there was even a Mage Academy.

The spells were already available.

In the real world, many accomplished players liked to establish schools and publish some game cheats they had developed.

These cheats allowed people to quickly gain great power in the game world, so they were very popular.

Over time, various schools formed in the virtual world, such as the Vampire Family, the Werewolf Brotherhood, the Mage Guild, the God Sect, the Science Sect, and countless others.

Although there were many virtual worlds, the core technology was the same, so any cheat, as long as it was based on the core rules of the world, could be used in all worlds. Because they involved core data, the game company could not completely prevent their existence and could only weaken them by modifying parameters during the creation of the world.

Because of this, the purchase of cheats on the virtual network became a gray area, not legal, but people tacitly accepted their existence, as long as they were not used to become disrupters, they would not be pursued.

Sun Ran was a master of all schools, well-versed in the skills of various schools. He knew the flashy spells of the Mage Guild well and could easily kill the beast with a few spells.

As for the consequences of rashly using spells, Sun Ran did not even consider them. He believed that the central AI brain would clean up after him.

Sun Ran still lay on the ground, quietly preparing the spell.

He now had legitimate first-level order maintenance authority, with limited resources, and could only meet the requirements of a first-level spell.

So he prepared a first-level spell: Frost Rune.

As he used the spell, Sun Ran sighed.

In the virtual world, top-tier people played with authority, second-tier people played with skills, and third-tier people played with cheats.

He was now an order maintainer, and top-tier authority was out of the question. Third-tier cheats were not casually usable; they had to be purchased with credit points from the virtual network, which were extremely expensive, and he definitely could not afford them.

From now on, he could only play with skills.

Life, it seems, is getting worse and worse.

While Sun Ran was preparing to fight the beast, in other parts of the giant dragon world, many probationary order maintainers also entered the world through body snatching, undergoing their tests.

The 'omnipotent' big boss Shu was observing the performance of these order maintainers in his 'god palace.'

Because the game time flowed much faster than in reality, to command in real-time, the god palace was also built in the game world, located thousands of meters underground.

With the initial technology level of the giant dragon world, unless ordinary players were brain-dead, they would never spend a large amount of manpower and resources to dig a hole thousands of meters deep. So the god palace did not have to worry about being discovered.

The god palace was equipped with ultra-modern facilities. In the control hall, people came and went, and floating display screens were everywhere, closely monitoring the probationary order maintainers.

In the center of the hall stood a middle-aged man, dressed in a well-tailored suit, with a full beard, exuding a strong masculine charm.

His name was Chen Hansheng, the game management director of the Dragon Age, and the highest authority figure among those present.

To ordinary players, he was the incarnation of the Supreme God Shu (Shu Virtual Company was very flashy, defining Shu as the Supreme God in the giant dragon world).

The 'Supreme God' stood in the center of the hall, attentively listening to the reports of the monitoring personnel.

"The order maintainers have started entering the game, a total of 359."

"The test begins!"

...

"Number one eliminated."

"Number two eliminated."

"Number three eliminated."

...

In just five minutes, a large number of new order maintainers were eliminated.

Their deaths were varied: some fell off horses and died, some were trampled to death by horses, some were shot to death on the battlefield for not finding a hiding place in time, and some overestimated their abilities and challenged the giant dragon, only to be crushed by powerful wild monsters before finding the dragon.

Chen Hansheng was used to this result. Being an order maintainer was not easy. He calmly said, "Continue."