164: Chapter 164 Closed Beta Recruitment

Over the past few days, Zhou Yang finished polishing the game.

He prepared to launch the game's beta test within the next two days.

Consequently, he posted the beta test recruitment link on the official website.

This beta test would be a data-wiping test with a limited number of participants, primarily intended to test the online system.

After all, this was his first time creating such a large-scale online game.

He wanted to see how the players' experience would be.

As soon as the beta test recruitment link was released, within just an hour, over a million people had signed up.

Seeing so many people signing up, Zhou Yang was very surprised.

How long had the recruitment link even been posted?

Were the Netizens camping out on the game's official website all day long?

It had only just been released, and already so many people had signed up for the beta.

Furthermore, the rate at which the number of applicants was increasing kept accelerating.

It seemed the players were still too enthusiastic.

After posting the beta test recruitment link, Zhou Yang also sent out beta test invitations to quite a few major streamers.

Most of these streamers who received invitations were the ones who had livestreamed his previous game.

During this time, while busy with her film business, Yang Ruoxue had also taken the opportunity to open a livestreaming entertainment company.

It was used to train streamers for the company's games.

These streamers were all well-known gaming streamers on the internet with a significant number of fans.

In Wang Ye's livestream room, news of the new game's beta test recruitment soon arrived.

After Wang Ye finished what he was doing, he saw the discussion among the audience in his livestream room.

"What, the beta test recruitment has started?"

Upon learning this news, Wang Ye's eyes widened immediately.

Finally, the beta test is happening!

Since the beta test has started, it means the game's release is not far off.

Seeing this, Wang Ye was about to open the game's official website and sign up for the beta test.

Before he could even enter the official website, he received a text message.

Opening the message to check it, he found it was actually a beta test recruitment invitation.

"Respected Mr. Wang Ye, ..., the game officially begins its beta test recruitment today, and we now invite you to join the beta test. Game Key: ..., please do not disclose."

At this moment, the audience in the livestream room only saw that Wang Ye had received a text message, but they didn't know what it was.

Because while Wang Ye was checking the message, the livestream automatically blocked the screen.

If Wang Ye didn't actively remove the block, they wouldn't be able to see anything.

After a moment, the livestream screen returned to normal.

The audience kept asking Wang Ye what kind of message he had received.

Seeing this, Wang Ye cleared his throat twice and then told them what it was.

"Ahem, brothers, I just received an official beta test recruitment invitation. So, I don't need to sign up to participate in the beta test."

Upon hearing this, the audience in the livestream room all went wild.

"Holy crap, Brother Wang, the official team invited you to participate in the beta test personally?"

"I'm so envious I'm numb, is this the benefit of being a streamer? Being invited by the official team."

"If I start streaming now, is it too late to become a streamer?"

"What are you dreaming about? Surely only those with a large fan base can receive invitations."

"I'm truly envious, but since Brother Wang received an invitation, it's like we received one; Brother Wang will play it for us."

Seeing the audience so excited, Wang Ye also offered a timely word of comfort.

"It's okay, brothers, maybe you guys can also get beta test qualifications; the number of slots released for this beta test shouldn't be too small."

However, his comfort sounded more like bragging to the audience.

"Brother Wang, are you bragging?"

"Damn it, Brother Wang, I signed up, but I feel like there's not much hope."

"Yeah, I checked, there are already over three million applicants, and it hasn't even been two hours yet."

"Unless there are hundreds of thousands of slots for this beta test, I feel the probability is too low."

"Hundreds of thousands is too exaggerated; having a few tens of thousands would be good enough."

The audience in the livestream room didn't hold much hope of obtaining beta test qualifications.

Of course, this was just talk; in their hearts, they were all praying that they could get a beta test qualification.

What if they were the lucky one?

That wasn't entirely impossible.

Meanwhile, in different livestream rooms.

These streamers had received the game's beta test invitations, and the audience was envious without exception.

This beta test recruitment link was only open for twenty-four hours.

But in just those twenty-four hours, the number of applicants for the beta test reached as high as fifty million.

This number of applicants completely shocked Zhou Yang.

Although the population of Huaxia in this world was large, this number of beta test applicants was indeed excessive.

Originally, Zhou Yang had thought that if the number of applicants for this beta test reached ten million, it would already be a lot.

As a result, it was now fifty million, far exceeding his expectations.

Originally, he had prepared fifty thousand slots.

Now it seemed the number of beta test slots had to be increased.

After thinking about it, he decided to increase it to three hundred thousand slots at once.

It could be considered living up to the support of so many players.

After all, this was just a beta test.

Originally, he had prepared fifty thousand slots to test for three days.

If there were no issues with the beta test, he planned to release the game directly in a few days.

Now that there were so many people, he had no choice but to increase the slots.

The day after the beta test recruitment link closed, Zhou Yang had already distributed all the beta test slots.

The beta test would begin in two days.

The focus was on a quick resolution, without any dragging.

During these two days, over three months had passed in the big world.

At this moment, a great battle was about to welcome them.

The Little Devils' military spearhead was pointed directly at the Hankou Three Towns.

However, in the rear of the mountain city at this moment, the equipment produced by the industrial zone was not enough to arm so many troops.

There were enough firearms, but the quantity of ammunition and heavy weapons was insufficient.

Zhou Yang was also monitoring all of this.

Because with the addition of players.

The history in this game world had changed somewhat.

Japan was preparing to attack the Hankou Three Towns earlier.

It was unknown how the players would perform in this game world.

If the ancestors of that time had the help of modern weapons, perhaps everything would have been different.

It is just a pity, there are no "ifs."

This game world is just that, not history.

Real history is very cruel.

At this moment, General Huang Wei in the game had received the news early.

The Little Devils intended to attack the Hankou Three Towns in a month.

He looked at the map on the wall in front of him; the Hankou Three Towns were only a thousand miles away from the mountain city.

If Hankou were captured, the Little Devils could continue up the river, reaching the mountain city directly.

Therefore, the Hankou Three Towns must be defended.

Although the currently produced weapons and equipment could not fully arm the troops to the teeth.

It was enough to support them in fighting a great war.

Having stayed in this game for a few months, he was clear about the current situation in Huaxia.

Although the Huaxia army was numerous, in direct battles, they lost every single one.

Every battle relied on piling up human lives.

It was a war of attrition, using the vast depth of Huaxia's territory to wear down the Little Devils.

Dragging the Little Devils into the quagmire of war.

The longer the time was dragged out, the greater the chances of winning.