Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 273

Based on the information she saw in the Book of Life and Death, the blogger quickly contacted her friends outside to find the family and follow up on the situation. Just as she finished posting this, her second trip to the Underworld ended. Of her two friends, one failed to track down the complete soul, and the other missed an opportunity because the Underworld players were killing people indiscriminately.

In the end, we had no choice but to upload the video so hastily, but the video was still perfect and gave many people a shock to their values.

The imagination of the ancients is truly astonishing!

The Underworld and the reincarnation video have boosted the popularity of Qingfengyi's event to new heights. Many players who were not originally so keen on the Underworld dungeon are now eager to try it out.

As a result, the players who had previously taken shortcuts went even crazier!

Wealthy players started hiring assassins to raid and plunder, while many players who were about to finish exploring the Underworld dungeon also wanted to earn some extra money, so they accepted these assassination missions. Why not make some money?

At first, everyone wasn't so arrogant, unsure if they were being monitored by the system. They quietly took players away, launching sneak attacks. Later, they became increasingly brazen, wielding forty-meter-long swords and wiping out countless players and their spirits with a single stroke.

At this point, the underworld indeed sent troops to intervene, and the assassins naturally moved even faster. This was because the employer's mission was to eliminate as many players as possible, with the pay calculated per kill.

After that, he went to the dungeon to serve his sentence.

There's a rather peculiar feature here: being captured outside the Underworld opens the Gates of Hell and takes you directly to the dungeon. Being captured inside the Underworld results in being chained and taken to the dungeon. Previously, many players couldn't find the dungeon, but now there's a shortcut to trigger it. The dungeon's full appearance is revealed for the first time: a massive gate towering before you, bearing the powerful characters for "Dungeon" in bold strokes. Many souls come and go, and the player's dungeon occupies only a very small area. There are many more dungeons, imprisoning numerous souls. According to the dungeon descriptions, these hold souls requiring simple labor. Placing the player's dungeon here is quite fitting, as the eighteen levels of hell wouldn't be suitable.

Lin Shuying was worried that players wouldn't be able to withstand the hellish visual impact, so the eighteen levels of hell, and even some areas, required monitoring the player's mental state before entry. Otherwise, they could only look at the instructions from the outside; the instructions were very detailed, explaining which hell was for judgment and so on.

The sheer scale of the system left players stunned, encompassing the evils born of human greed, anger, and delusion. As interstellar beings without divine beliefs, they relied on education, character development, and strict, comprehensive legal rules to regulate personal morality. They never considered using legends, myths, traditions, or culture for restraint. This entirely new system was captivating and shrouded in mystery.

The release of this episode's Underworld instance content left many StarCraft players speechless, exclaiming that it was art!

"My mecha grand marshal, why do I feel that such a bizarre thing is the pinnacle of art?"

"I'm a little scared. What's going on? It's the first time I've seen so much red and black."

The main colors of the underworld are black and red, mixed with some other colors, which makes it look somewhat dark and gloomy from a certain perspective.

"I feel like the color of life after it has been lost."

This color scheme is truly baffling to interstellar people, and even historians who have painstakingly sifted through a constant stream of historical materials have been unable to find any source for it. As a result, many people have sought explanations from Qingfengyi, and Zhang Zhongxia relayed the issue to several other responsible individuals, who, being native interstellar people themselves, also genuinely find it incomprehensible.

When asked, Lin Shuying was a little dumbfounded because she didn't really understand it either. However, the color scheme and tone were the colors that had been used in China for thousands of years, so she subconsciously followed suit.

She thought for a moment and said, "Every ethnic group has its unique color customs. In China, red is associated with joy, while yellow, purple, and black are considered noble, so these colors are frequently used. Color preferences also vary in different eras, but they are all inseparable from nature. When colors are assigned a hierarchy by the ruling class, they influence the people below, and the culture created by a nation also carries the shadow of color hierarchy."

Her words only confused everyone more: "But shouldn't green represent life, blue represent peace, red represent danger, and yellow represent the unknown...?"

Lin Shuying laughed and said, "That's not how it works. The color theory you're talking about is a globally unified applied color theory. Actually, the meaning of colors in cultural heritage doesn't have that many explanations. It's simply a matter of color preferences accumulating, representing a mood or the circumstances when that color appears. For example, red represents blood and fire. Blood only appears during hunting, and fire represents safety and protection. Nothing is happier than safety and food. Besides, the first feeling associated with red is passion! Black is mysterious, representing unknown caves, unpredictable nights, and the loss of sunlight. It inexplicably puts immense pressure on people's hearts and can enhance their authority. In ancient times, it was often used by shamans and the ruling class to increase their authority and make their subordinates submit. Gold is the color of gold, naturally incomparably noble. The color of the earth is also close to yellow, so naturally yellow becomes noble. Many color preferences are related to the environment in which ancient people lived. For example, people by the sea like blue or dislike blue. Places with many countries and frequent wars dislike red, as it represents blood and sacrifice..."

As Lin Shuying spoke, her thoughts became incredibly clear. For a moment, she wasn't sure if she truly knew or if it was just her imagination. By the end, she realized she had talked on and on. Zhang Zhongxia and the others were actually taking notes diligently, their faces full of admiration and amazement.

A group's preference for a color is actually closely related to the interpretation of that color by their ancestors when they first came into contact with it. It is not as complicated as later generations think; it is simply a matter of safety and danger, nothing more.

Some ancestors saw red as the blood of prey, and therefore considered it something to celebrate and be joyous. Other ancestors saw blood as human blood, which represented danger and death, and therefore saw it as dangerous.

But Lin Shuying embodies the spirit of the Chinese people, and is naturally drawn to the color red. The descendants of the dragon have never feared danger or sacrifice; they see blood as noble blood, worthy of ancestral remembrance. They see red as a passionate red, representing struggle and courage!

Aren't these festive enough?

Moreover, the underworld is filled with sin and punishment; it is a place stained with blood. Injustice and guilt are both depicted in red, a symbol of the slaughter of life!

It should be red or black.

In her previous life, Lin Shuying had heard that souls were purple, so the underworld was also filled with purple tones.

Mysterious and unexplorable.

Zhang Zhongxia and the others compiled what Lin Shuying had said, and Lin Shuying asked them to take it to a tech guru for review, who also had some knowledge of these topics. After the review, some parts were changed. For example, in the explanation of the color, red in Chinese culture is not entirely associated with warmth and celebration; it can also represent mystery, danger, and evil.

Red is used in many ghost stories and folk rituals, and it is also used extensively in funerals in some regions. Therefore, it is inappropriate to simply interpret it as a color that is vibrant, festive, or associated with a bountiful hunt.

Lin Shuying felt like she had learned something new. Looking at the new inspiration that had popped into her hand, she exclaimed, "Chinese culture is really too profound and extensive. It is impossible to organize it all, and it cannot be fully contained by the small Qingfengyi game."

When the local government released the color scheme on JianShu, the StarCraft community was even more shocked, completely attracted by this culture and unable to extricate themselves from it.

A group of players who passed the game's AI screening test and were allowed to enter the 18th level of hell emerged completely stunned, overwhelmed by the mental shock. This part of the game was encrypted, and only players with a certain level of mental strength who were not easily harmed could enter. Even so, their state of mind underwent a significant change afterward.

After recovering for half a day, one of the writers wrote a short essay of several thousand words. After seeing this essay and the picture of the eighteen levels of hell, many fans came to the official game account of Qingfengyi to inquire about the situation.

The short essay essentially states that the author was deeply impressed by the review process and justice of the underworld, and decided to embrace this system of justice and worship the deities within it. He also plans to create a completely new style of work—a Chinese underworld novel.