Chapter 1 The Beginning

Since the end of the Summit Tournament, the level of members of Hell's Frontline (except for An Yueqin) has improved significantly. Ruo Yu, Xiao Tan, and Xiao Ling have all reached level 40. Compared with Feng Bujue's level 43, the difference is not too great. So, during the day, Feng Bujue had already made an appointment with his friends... to meet in the sleep mode channel at one o'clock in the morning on the thirteenth, and then team up to grind a script.

However, at this moment, Feng Bujue is not the only one online.

When Feng Bujue logged in, he noticed that Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling were also online, but their status was "in game"; while Ruo Yu and Miss An were offline.

Therefore...he still has to queue up for a script alone.

Some people may wonder... Feng Bujue has quite a few friends, and most of them are very strong professional players, so why doesn't Feng Bujue mix with them?

In fact, the reason is very simple, precisely because they are professionals... so their online time is generally fully arranged, and they are almost always busy. Besides, they have their own personnel base and script-grinding plans, and Feng Bujue is not planning to join them, so there is no need to add to the chaos. Of course... if someone takes the initiative to find him, that's another matter.

"Hmm... it's been a long time since I queued for a Killing Game..." Feng Bujue deliberated for a while in front of the display screen, and muttered, "It's seven twenty now, if I play a 1v1 game... it will take fifteen minutes at the shortest, and at most one or two hours (both referring to real time), and it will definitely not exceed my sleeping time..."

While thinking, he gradually operated, and selected the mode.

Before Jue-Ge officially enters the queue, let's take a look at his latest status:

Title: 【Hate Magnet】, Title Ability: 【Hate Furnace】

Experience Value: 2289414043000000, Skill Value: 8614, Game Coins: 843300.

Specializations: General A, Machinery C, Investigation d, Combat A, Shooting C, Medical d, Spiritual C, Summoning C.

Inventory (13/15): ***-500(3/20), Compound Anti-Gravity Catapult, Moxxi's Bad Touch, Vajra Bell, Survival Value Supplement (Medium)*5, Endless Grenade Clip, WJq-308 Military Shovel (Indestructible), I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-An-Edible-Mushroom*1, Deception Pocket Watch, Mo Yao Spiritual Pivot, Must-Break-Defense Blade, Chuck Norris's Razor, Oxygen Pipe.

Equipment: Death Poker (Psionic Weapon), Echo Armor, Artemis's Embrace, Implanted Alchemy Amplification Device, Ta Xu, Phantom Lady's Caress.

Storage Room (8/15): Jazz Dance, Puzzle Card - Sheep*2, Puzzle Card - Ox, Puzzle Card - Scorpion, Puzzle Card - Crab, Puzzle Card - Fish, Puzzle Card - Lion, "Poker Knight" Hero ID Card.

Skill Bar (12/12): 【Not-So-Hasty Repair】【Spirit Sense Gathering Technique - Modified】【Ice Alchemist's Persistence】【Nanto Flying Dragon Fist】【Summoning Art – Musashi Koganei】【Moon Step】【Rankyaku】【Flying Sand in the Wind】【Kikouhou】【Summoning Art – Ma Sun】【Baseball Fist】【Bear Child's Lower Whip Leg】

Unequipped Skill: 【Evil King's Inferno Scorching Murder】

Although it has been nearly a hundred chapters since we last checked, the changes in Jue-Ge's attributes are not very large. This is mainly because his level is now high, and his abilities in all aspects have become stable. Let's talk about the two specializations of shooting and medical... Unless Jue-Ge obtains suitable related skills in the future, there is no way to practice them. Relying solely on conventional shooting and drinking blood bottles, it is difficult to cause a qualitative change in specialization.

However, this does not mean that he has little room for improvement in the future...

In the game Thriller Paradise, every ten levels marks a new beginning. It would be a big mistake to think that reaching the maximum level is the end of the journey.

Currently, no one knows that after reaching the maximum level...a "broader world" awaits the players.

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【Feng Bujue, Level 43】

【Please select the game mode you want to join.】

【You have selected Killing Game 1v1, please confirm.】

【Confirmed, script is being generated...】

【Loading begins, please wait.】

As the voice sounded, Jue-Ge lost control of his body, and a white light suddenly appeared before his eyes, which then turned into a pitch-black darkness.

This time the loading time was slightly longer, and just as Feng Bujue began to feel suspicious, an additional system prompt sounded:

【Special reminder: In the new version, the 1v1 mode of the Killing Game has canceled the Scare Value assessment mechanism.】

【The other multiplayer modes of the Killing Game still retain this setting.】

【The above prompt will only be displayed once, more information can be found on the official website, we wish you a pleasant game.】

Feng Bujue was not surprised by the appearance of these lines, because he already knew about it. These contents were not displayed on the v1.10 patch introduction page, and could only be read by entering the details page and viewing the detailed rules. And Jue-Ge... is the kind of person who would click in and read them one by one.

"Let your opponents tremble, let them experience true terror." A soft and charming female voice delivered the opening remarks of this script.

【Loading is complete, you are currently playing a Killing Game.】

【This mode provides a script introduction, and there is a chance to trigger side hidden quests and special worldviews.】

【Script victory reward: 3000 game coins.】

"Hmm... this kind of reward..." Feng Bujue looked at the window in front of him, and thought, "I thought at least it would give me a puzzle card or something, but it's just this..."

However, Jue-Ge was somewhat prepared for this situation. He had long expected that weakening the victory reward of the 1v1 mode was inevitable.

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This story has to start from the beginning of May, as early as that time, many players were complaining on the forum, saying that the current 1v1 games were becoming more and more difficult to play.

And the reason behind this is that... at the end of April, someone wrote a technical post on the forum called "1v1 is the Best Way to Level Up."

Since then, many "brainless 1v1 players" have emerged in the game. Most of them are not high-level players, but they just copied the strategy written by others, practiced the two specializations of machinery and shooting a little higher, and then put together a set of equipment and skills specifically for duels, and bought many special consumables. After arming themselves to the teeth in this way, they just kept queuing up for that mode...

The variables in a one-on-one battle are naturally fewer. When the technical gap between players is not large, using this strategy can indeed greatly increase the chances of winning.

Thus, during this period... the 1v1 Killing Game queue in Thriller Paradise became a paradise for brainless builds. This made the game experience of those purely casual players very bad, because as long as they queued for 1v1, there was a high chance that they would encounter such an opponent. Players who developed normally were often beaten to tears by the bombardment of special ammunition and targeted skills. To win against those brainless builds, they had to rack their brains, not allow for the slightest mistake, and sometimes rely on a little luck. But those guys could beat them... easily, in one wave, and even if they lost... they could just brainlessly queue up for the next game.

Many people were beaten into depression and simply stopped queuing for 1v1, and the remaining ordinary players had to choose between continuing to be abused and joining forces with them... Over time, more and more people engaged in brainless 1v1 tactics...

A good virtual reality large-scale online game, which should have had a good 1v1 PK experience, was actually turned into a feeling of climbing the ladder in a pay-to-win game...

Since May was the month of the Summit Tournament, all the denunciations of this phenomenon were drowned out by the tide of other topics. But... this does not mean that Dream Corporation did not hear those voices. Isn't that so... As soon as the new version was released, the rewards for the 1v1 mode were slashed in one fell swoop; even the Scare Value assessment was directly removed, and the victory rewards became very low. You want to continue with the brainless build? Fine, anyway, even if you win in this way, the little reward you get is not enough to buy supplies for the next game. And the person who loses might even get more skill value than you.

As soon as these new rules came out, the 1v1 environment improved a lot in just two days. Most of the people who are still playing this mode are here to hone their skills and obtain skill value; situations such as two people intentionally losing to each other have also been completely eliminated; both sides in the battle can get a relatively reasonable reward.

There was undoubtedly a chorus of praise for this change on the forum, of course... there were also those who cursed. Most of those who cursed were the group of people who quickly leveled up to their thirties by relying on the brainless method. Because after losing the means of leveling up with 1v1, they soon discovered... that their game skills were all kinds of trash, and except for machinery and shooting reaching C, the level of other specializations was the same as not having them at all. When entering team scripts, they often became a burden and were despised in various ways...

But... there was no way to solve that. In Woody's original words, "'The brainless build phenomenon' is very easy to solve. Starting from 'motivation' and 'cost', some simple adjustments can be made to stifle it. But people who are 'shortsighted' and 'do not know how to reflect' are difficult to solve. This is no longer the era when I can arbitrarily slice people up and flush them into the toilet."

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【The script introduction will be played soon, and the game will start immediately after the playback is complete.】

After reading the prompt, the subtitles of the plot introduction gradually appeared.

Only to hear... a strong and powerful male voice sounded, reciting along with the subtitles.

【Night, cold night, icy night.】

【People, two people, silent two people.】

【Flowers under the moon, beautiful scenery and fine weather...】

【However, this place, is a scene of bleakness.】

At this point, Feng Bujue's eyes suddenly lit up. He immediately discovered... that he was standing on top of a rather large ancient building, to be precise, standing on the "ridge" of the roof.

【His eyes, seem to be able to see through everything in the world.】

【Her knife, seems to be able to split open everything in the world.】

【Under the moon, only these two people remain.】

【Between heaven and earth, it seems that only these two people remain.】