Chapter 2: Actually, I’m a Male Escort
Huai Xu refers to summer, and is also another name for the fourth month of the lunar calendar.
Chu Huaixu’s birthday is on the first day of the fourth lunar month, hence his name.
The game he is currently playing is called “The Borrowed Sword”.
It is now 2045. As a young man of the 20s generation, in this era of rapid technological advancement, he only needs to place the wired patch on his temple, close his eyes, and he can be immersed in an incredibly realistic game world.
In this day and age, transmigration web novels are no longer popular because transmigration is no longer a strange occurrence.
For many people, such games are basically equivalent to transmigration.
It’s just that in reality, there are laws to restrain people, and different games will have different rules to restrict player behavior.
And in some games with higher freedom, you can even marry and have children with NPCs or other players, guaranteeing that every step of the process will not be omitted.
Therefore, as the gaming era has developed to this point, the [Companion Gaming Industry] has undergone significant changes.
In the early days of Companion Gaming Industry, players would simply play together and connect through voice chat.
No matter how much they flirted, at most it amounted to suggestive banter or the occasional gasping sound.
Anything beyond that required meeting in person.
But by 2045, games had become so realistic that they offered true immersion. When projected into another world with high freedom, escorts functioned much like male and female models working directly on the front lines.
Or, it’s a bit like the local tour guides that suddenly became popular years ago?
However, with local guides, you travel or go on business trips to other places, and the other party accompanies you locally. Nowadays, the place of accompaniment has become the game world.
And Chu Huaixu is an excellent escort, oh no, a game escort with outstanding professional skills!
Single-handedly, he navigates among various female bosses, ensuring they all give five-star reviews. Sometimes, he even shamelessly relies on them for support, which definitely requires skill.
Fortunately, people like him are on the right path, using their abilities for work, being hardworking models.
If they used these skills in their lives, they would be absolute scoundrels.
At this moment, he is actually idle and wants to try his luck by [rolling a new account] in the game “The Borrowed Sword”.
The game “The Borrowed Sword” draws inspiration from a certain large gambling company’s blind box sales, and game accounts also have a certain blind box nature.
Each account needs to be purchased with money.
After [rolling a new account], what kind of start you get, which novice village you appear in, and what the initial novice tasks are, is all unknown.
Although the game’s balance for starting accounts is well done, and there won’t be overly game-breaking starts, everyone has their preferences, right?
Moreover, the game has been out for five years, and veteran players have figured out some tricks, and some starting accounts are more popular than others.
What’s more, for some wealthy game guilds, instead of rolling blind boxes, it’s better to directly buy accounts that have already been [rolled], in order to plan their strategies.
Therefore, some new accounts can be resold for a profit, and [rolling new accounts] has gradually become popular.
Chu Huaixu has a habit of [rolling new accounts] three times at the beginning of each month.
He usually has good luck in this regard and has made some money from it.
The most important thing is that he has stable customer resources from the female management of a guild. They are the best buyers of accounts, and the women who treasure him often pay prices higher than the market price.
And the account today should sell for a good price.
Because as soon as he logged in, he was being chased by a Stubble Man and carrying a large amount of silver notes, making him a clear [main quest oriented] character.
“The early main quests are very clear, and many guilds love to recruit such accounts,” Chu Huaixu knows this well.
But who would have thought that as soon as he logged in today, he seemed to have encountered a problem.
——He couldn’t log out!
“That’s impossible.” Chu Huaixu was utterly baffled.
He knew how stable this game was, having played “The Borrowed Sword” for so long.
“The Borrowed Sword” is excellent in all aspects, offering a superb game experience, and is currently a top-rated game in terms of reputation.
How high is its reputation?
Even the ‘developer’s mother’ is still alive in the hearts of many players.
Unlike some games, where even if a developer had ten mothers, it wouldn’t be enough for anyone to wish them dead.
This is the first time Chu Huaixu has encountered such a serious problem, being unable to exit the game.
In addition, many of his game functions seem to be unusable.
This includes some basic functions.
For example, he can’t play music while playing.
“The [Brightness Adjustment] is still there.”
Just now, he swiped up with two fingers, and the entire world became brighter in his eyes, which was the brightness adjustment.
“But how can even [Pain Adjustment] be gone?” Chu Huaixu was speechless.
He tried pinching himself hard and winced in pain.
“No! This is absolutely 100% pain!” He was completely stunned.
In “The Borrowed Sword”, the highest adjustable pain index is only 8%.
Players generally set it very low, with only some enthusiasts having special tastes who satisfy their abnormal desires in the game by setting the pain index higher.
Many people set the pain index to be infinitely close to zero.
Coupled with the extremely high freedom of “The Borrowed Sword”, as mentioned before, you can even get married and have children, truly bringing good fortune. Thus, the legendary [painless childbirth] can truly be achieved in the game.
“But this pain is too bizarre,” Chu Huaixu frowned deeply.
The game’s set upper limit is only 8%, and there’s no reason for this.
He looked at the corpse of the Stubble Man on the ground and couldn’t help but gasp.
“Meaning, if I had been careless just now and he had really hit me with a sword, wouldn’t the pain have skyrocketed?”
“If such a bug occurs, how many players will be dissuaded?” Chu Huaixu could already foresee this.
Next, he checked all his game functions and found very few that were still usable.
He couldn’t even contact the AI customer service.
Keep in mind that this AI customer service has been trained by him for a long time and has already become quite compliant.
Even more bizarrely, Chu Huaixu can check the [time], and he knows clearly that the game time in “The Borrowed Sword” has reached Xuan Calendar 1997.
But when he checks the [time] now, it displays Xuan Calendar 1990!
“This is f***ing ridiculous!”
“Is this game broken?”
The heavy rain continued to fall. Chu Huaixu, holding the oil-paper umbrella, stood on the small path in the dense forest. The more he pondered, the more something felt wrong, the more something felt wrong.
He, at least, was a game male escort who had read a lot of novels, anime, and movies.
“Could I have transmigrated into ‘The Borrowed Sword’?”
He opened his [Character Panel] to check his game character’s basic information.
Immediately after, he discovered something amiss in the template column.
His [Template] was marked not as [Player], but as [NPC]!
At this moment, Chu Huaixu’s world collapsed.
“Damn it, I’ve worked so hard to butter up rich women, worked so diligently as a male escort, and was rated as [Second Place on the Must-Eat Escort List for The Borrowed Sword] by sisters in the ‘The Borrowed Sword’ escort circle. I haven’t even spent all the money I saved!”
“I had a booking with Sister Yun tonight.”
“This mature woman, whose husband is always away, with a marital status of [Married but Widowed], and a husky voice, sent me a voice message late last night to book me for a game tomorrow night. It’s obvious she’ll want to extend the time!”
Chu Huaixu couldn’t help but lower his head. “Shit!”
The sound of the night rain was incessant. Beneath the oil-paper umbrella, Chu Huaixu’s frustration grew.
He walked to the corpse of the Stubble Man and slowly squatted down.
——He raised his hand and slapped him!
[Companion gaming industry] or more naturally “Game companion industry”.
It refers to the business where people get paid to accompany others in playing video games (sometimes also including chatting, streaming, or social interaction).
