Chapter 99 Advent Ceremony

"Oh! Look, I got a foil card, and it's Soldier 76!"

"You loser, my dad has five foil cards."

Overwatch first became popular in junior high and high school. The topic of discussion among students in their spare time is always Overwatch. They share the joy of getting a foil card, talk about the classic games they have encountered, and brag about how strong they are at playing a certain hero.

Even college students are swept by the trend of Overwatch.

"Overwatch is really conscientious. I got a foil card and got such a beautiful cup." A boy showed off his free ceramic cup to his roommates. The big gorilla face on it was eye-catching.

"It's Winston's pattern. I like it!"

People from other dormitories came and shouted: "The Reinhardt pillow that just arrived, who wants to exchange it for McCree's peripherals?"

Obviously, they have regarded the imprint symbols engraved on the peripherals as the symbols of heroes.

This is the necessary condition for the formation of heroic cultural symbols.

The unique promotional method caused the sales of Overwatch to soar. The daily sales of Overwatch peripheral malls alone reached a terrifying 5,400.

In just one month, Overwatch was out of stock!

This was the case in peripheral malls and major convenience stores. Roning hurried to contact major card manufacturers to speed up production.

But the things he was worried about still happened. The genuine products were out of stock, and pirated products were rampant. Many pirates made a lot of money.

The people were hungry and were willing to buy them even if they knew they were pirated. If they didn't buy them, they wouldn't be able to play.

The difference between genuine and pirated products is quite big. First of all, the texture of the cards can be felt at a touch. The genuine cards feel as delicate as a baby's skin, while the pirated cards feel as rough as the dry palms of an old man.

The second is the flash cards. Pirated cards also have flash cards, but there is no password behind them, so they cannot be exchanged for gifts in the Overwatch peripheral mall.

Roning couldn't do anything about it. He could stop one or two pirated copies, but he couldn't do anything about a bunch of pirated copies. He could only hope that the batch of genuine Overwatch could be put on sale quickly so that he could make more money.

Overwatch also boosted the sales of peripherals, which sold very quickly. In order to prevent them from being sold out, Roning asked the department responsible for the peripheral mall to prepare the stock as soon as possible.

At the same time, the new movie was being filmed, and the framework of the training base was already in place, except for the interior decoration and the addition of electronic equipment.

Roning was a little excited when he thought of the new movie. The first female hero was the most popular D.Va in Overwatch, little sister Song Hana.

A well-deserved e-sports girl, to put it bluntly, was a homegirl who was good at playing games. As long as she had a computer, happy water and potato chips, she could easily stay at home all day.

Thinking that she could transform into a girl in the future, she felt a little shy...

Roning's expression at the moment was very subtle, with a sense of novelty about the unknown field, as well as a hint of panic and shame.

But soon, he lowered his head and became listless.

More than a month has passed since the premiere of McCree, and McCree's transformation has not yet been activated.

He tried many methods, such as using a revolver to practice shooting, wearing the same clothes as McCree to practice shooting, rolling on the ground to imitate tactical rolling, smoking cigars, growing a beard, standing outside like an idiot every day waiting for noon to come, shouting "Noon has arrived!" at the right time, and then firing two shots into the air...

However, none of these methods worked, and Ronin could not think of any other way.

In distress, he rewatched McCree and carefully observed the details in it, almost sticking his head into the TV.

"Stand still!"

"Who can stop me?"

"Line up and take the bullets!"

"It's as easy as shooting fish in a bucket!"

"You've met the most powerful one among us!"

"The coffin is ready for you!"

"Your name is engraved on one of my bullets!"

"You look familiar, have I killed you?"

...

Rewatching the movie, only these familiar lines made him remember deeply, as well as McCree's cool action of lowering the brim of his hat and quickly drawing and putting away his gun.

"Oh!"

Roning clapped his hands and suddenly understood!

McCree is a pretender, and he will die if he doesn't pretend. As long as he can pretend as beautifully as McCree, he can activate McCree's transformation.

Of course, this is his wishful thinking. As for whether it will succeed or not, it's up to fate.

After the epiphany, Roning still felt that it was difficult. He was not an expert in pretending. If he didn't pretend well, he wouldn't be as pretending as McCree. If he pretended too much, he would be beaten to death.

So this scale is not easy to control.

"The cultural symbol of 'Soldier 76' has been formed, and the advent ceremony of 'Soldier 76' can be started!"

Just when he was worried, the voice that suddenly sounded in his mind made Luo Ning excited.

After a long while, he realized that the advent ceremony he had been thinking about day and night was finally here!

"Start..."

Luo Ning suddenly realized that he shouldn't do this kind of thing in the living room, this kind of thing should be done in a hidden place.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, hiding in the bedroom, and then said with a flushed face: "Start the advent ceremony."

No response.

Frowning, changing the word order, "The advent ceremony starts."

Still no response.

Thinking for a while, he continued: "Start the advent ceremony of 'Soldier 76'!"

The moment the voice fell, a bright golden light suddenly rose in front of him, and a circle appeared on the ground, spreading outwards with golden light.

In the circle is a formation diagram, depicting profound patterns. Looking closely, emmm... Why does it look a bit like the magic circle that rises when summoning monsters in "Yu-Gi-Oh", especially the seven-pointed star magic circle.

At the center of the formation, the cultural symbol of Soldier 76 gradually emerged, that is, the pattern imprint he drew, which is the appearance of the "Soldier 76" advent ceremony. It really looked like a seven-pointed star magic circle before.

"Where is the coin slot?"

You have to throw money to make Soldier 76 receive his summons. Roning looked left and right, up and down, and saw nothing else except this magic circle.

"Throw it in directly?"

Roning decided to give it a try, took out a hundred-dollar bill and threw it in, like entering a golden flame, it burned away in an instant.

"This thing really burns money!"

Blinking, he sighed, saying that burning money before means exchanging money for items of equal value, and now he is really burning money, and there is no return.

But... it's cool?

First, he burned all the money in his pocket, and then took out several thick stacks of money from the safe. This was the cash he had prepared for the Advent Ceremony. After keeping it for so long, it finally came in handy.

He originally prepared $100,000, but was afraid it was not enough, so he added another $100,000 to save himself from having to go to the bank.

He threw ten hundred-dollar bills into the magic circle at a time. He did this dozens of times, but the magic circle didn't react at all. The bills were only engulfed by the golden flames.

Seeing so much money turn into nothingness, Roning no longer felt the pleasure of burning money, and felt a tightness in his chest.

Oh no! It felt like a myocardial infarction!