Chapter 1 Parallel World

In the blink of an eye, *Parallel World's* open beta had been running for a week. All the players were working hard to adapt to the changes brought about by the new online game. As a teacher at the school, Gu Fei heard discussions about this game everywhere he went. Of course, Gu Fei couldn't just join in the discussions with them. At Gu Fei's request, A'fa hadn't told anyone at the school that Teacher Gu Fei was playing the game.

In fact, teachers were also people, also young people, and many of them liked these video games just as much as their students. However, the constraints of being a teacher made them always put on an act of being aloof from worldly affairs in front of their students, and they habitually expressed disdain for the things that students liked. Although Gu Fei was just an insignificant physical education teacher, he still acted according to the teacher's code of conduct.

However, for the students and colleagues, Gu Fei's changes were obvious: this guy finally didn't have to talk about his kung fu all the time.

Teacher Gu Fei had finally returned to normal! This had actually become a minor piece of news in the school.

Gu Fei didn't care about all this. In his free time every day, he tried to spend as much time as possible in *Parallel World*. He liked this virtual world, a world where he could use his kung fu as he pleased.

However, Gu Fei hadn't forgotten that this was, after all, a game, and games needed information to support them.

Every few levels, Gu Fei would go to the official website to study the information and choose the next leveling area.

Gu Fei had three requirements for choosing monsters: humanoid, close-range attack, and higher level than himself.

Choosing humanoid and close-range attacks was all for the sake of using his kung fu. Gu Fei wasn't playing online games for the sake of online games; he was playing online games for the sake of his kung fu. The leveling process, which was considered boring and tedious by others, was just a martial arts practice process for Gu Fei, so he never felt it was boring, even if he repeated an action thousands of times, he could still devote himself wholeheartedly.

As for choosing monsters that were higher level than himself, this was considered from the perspective of online games. The monster experience in *Parallel World* was fixed, and of course the higher the level, the more experience, so fighting monsters higher level than oneself was undoubtedly a direct route to rapid leveling. Gu Fei had this ability, so of course he wouldn't give it up easily. However, although he had kung fu skills that ordinary people didn't have, Gu Fei's cross-level monster fighting still had its limits. Basically, if the monster was more than 20 levels higher than him, he couldn't keep up with the monster's speed or break through its defense.

This situation suddenly reminded Gu Fei of when his old man taught him martial arts when he was a child.

"You are small and weak, so I don't care about your attacks at all." The old man, who was punched by Gu Fei, was still smiling. Immediately afterwards, he quickly slapped Gu Fei to the ground with a palm, and continued to smile: "You see my shoulder move, you know I'm going to slap you, but you can't avoid it, you can't block it. Why? Because your hands can't keep up with your eyes, you have to practice, you have to practice more."

Gu Fei grew up in such challenges, and he missed the fun of that time. Now, he had a chance to experience this kind of fun, how could he not be excited?

Leveling up, improving himself, and challenging stronger enemies. In online games, everything was so simple.

On this day, Gu Fei finally reached level 30.

After leveling up, every player would habitually take a look at the experience required to level up to the next level. Gu Fei was no exception, but this one look shocked him.

Wasn't this a mistake? Was this the experience for level 30 to level 31? Was he level 30 or level 300 now? Gu Fei thought.

The experience for this level up was no longer a 10% increase compared to the previous one, but a direct multiple of 10.

Ten times!

He had never heard of any online game where the leveling experience had such a span.

At this time, in the huge player base of *Parallel World*, the number of people at level 30 was increasing rapidly.

Everyone was caught in a vortex of leveling up and being dumbfounded.

Everyone was going crazy, treating it as a bug and desperately giving feedback to the game company. At that moment, almost no one was still leveling up.

The game company quickly issued an announcement.

The data was normal, not a bug. The reason why this happened was because the game company adjusted the leveling experience before level 30.

The culprit that led to this adjustment was the large number of violent incidents on the first day of the open beta. A large number of players took advantage of their innate physical advantages in the early stages to bully the weaker players. The game company had no way to directly intervene, so all they could do was adjust the game settings to try to avoid this phenomenon.

And the final decision after discussion was to greatly reduce the experience required for players to level up before level 30.

Let players quickly reach level 30.

This level was the level officially recognized as the level where all professions had reached a balance. Players of any profession had enough ability to protect themselves and deal with enemies at this level. Relying on natural physique to bully weak physique players, this phenomenon would no longer occur after level 30. Of course, if you were an extreme noob, there was nothing you could do, but after all, this was no longer the game company's responsibility.

This was a statement that was convincing enough for players, because many people had seen the bad incidents at the beginning of the game, so of course they wouldn't object. After the players found out that there was no change, they immediately flew back to the game and continued to work hard.

But Gu Fei was not aware of all this.

After confirming that he was not level 300, and that he had not misread the leveling experience in front of him, Gu Fei just twitched his eyelids, and then returned to normal. He wanted to ask Hongchen Yixiao, but when he opened his friend list, the other party was not online, so he gave up immediately.

Even if there is a mistake, the game company will naturally change it, so we should hurry up and practice! Gu Fei thought. According to the good level 30 upgrade route he had already chosen, he embarked on the training area he needed.

Gu Fei's level 30 training area was the same as others' level 40 training area.

In fact, he could fight monsters that were a few levels higher. It was just that the levels of those monsters were too high, and they had a lot of health and thick skin. From the ratio of monster fighting time to experience gained, fighting level 40 monsters was the most efficient.

When he accidentally encountered Jian Gui in the training area, Jian Gui said this theory in a tone of great minds think alike.

Of course, Gu Fei also calculated it this way, the only difference being: Jian Gui leveled up for the sake of leveling up, but every time Gu Fei leveled up, he understood that his kung fu had improved another level. If it was purely from the perspective of online games, Gu Fei would never be so motivated.

At this time, Jian Gui was already at 30.5 levels of experience. Obviously, he had reached level 30 earlier than everyone else, but he and Gu Fei belonged to the same category, and they just twitched their eyelids and were done. He still leveled up in an orderly manner.

After exchanging a few greetings, Gu Fei said, "I won't disturb your leveling," and walked alone towards another monster spawning area.

Neither of them suggested teaming up to level up together.

In Jian Gui's opinion, his method was completely for solo leveling. Adding one person would increase the experience gained by both of them, but the efficiency would decrease compared to the time spent.

And Gu Fei also saw through that Jian Gui's monster fighting mode did not need help, and what's more, he himself was fighting monsters with the mindset of practicing kung fu, so he didn't need anyone to assist him.

They tacitly understood each other and went their separate ways.

Before separating, Gu Fei glanced enviously at the Frost Memories in Jian Gui's hand. Facts proved that Xi Xiaotian's vision was indeed sharp. The price of 50,000 yuan for this dagger was probably too low.

The most valuable part of this dagger was not its high damage, nor its critical hit rate, nor its chance of freezing damage, but its 25 additional points.

Players only get 5 points for leveling up. This dagger is equivalent to increasing the player's level by 5 levels. For an online game where cross-level monster fighting is the fastest leveling mode, the value of this attribute does not need to be explained too much.

Even if it wasn't a weapon, if I had such a stone hanging on my waist, I could try to break into a training area that was 5 levels higher, Gu Fei thought to himself. He was envious, but he didn't regret giving the dagger back to Jian Gui in the first place, and even helping him find it after he lost it. This was a matter of principle.

The two training areas were separated by a row of small woods, and they couldn't see each other. They could only vaguely hear the screams of monsters on both sides. The difference was that Jian Gui's side would pause, while Gu Fei's side was a series of screams.

Jian Gui needed to rest to recover his health. In *Parallel World*, under the system's recognized attack and being attacked state, it was impossible to recover health through things like medicines. Medicines could only help players quickly recover health in peaceful mode. In battle mode, according to official sources, only recovery skills or some special equipment could be used to recover health.

It could be said that in *Parallel World*, solo leveling was a very hard task.

Of course, Gu Fei was an exception. He didn't use skills, and even only used normal attacks, but his efficiency was still stronger than Jian Gui, who used all the skills that thieves could use within level 30.

As for why the difference in experience between the two was so large, it was only because Gu Fei also had work, and he also had to spend a lot of time practicing kung fu in reality every day, which online games could not replace.

As for Jian Gui, Gu Fei didn't know what he did, but as long as he was online, his name was always lit up. He was probably the legendary professional player. Gu Fei was practicing his kung fu on one side while thinking about Jian Gui on the other side.

On the other side of the forest, Jian Gui was also thinking about Gu Fei.

He hadn't seen him for many days, and this guy was also level 30.

Level 30 in a week was actually a very bad result in Jian Gui's eyes.

However, he was online for a long time every day and paid close attention to Gu Fei. Therefore, he knew very well Gu Fei's online time every day.

Combining the time, Jian Gui was only shocked: terrible efficiency, surpassing his own efficiency.

At the same time, he was puzzled by Gu Fei's outfit.

He was a level 30 mage, what was he wearing? He hadn't changed his novice mage robe, and his waist was bulging, wouldn't he be wearing a dagger again? He was wearing a straw hat on his head, which seemed to be equipment that warriors would use? The cloth boots on his feet seemed to be what thieves used!

God! What is this?

Chapter 2