Chapter 14 After Three Days

After three days of effort, Feng Bujue finally finished designing the June story. The outline, details, and foreshadowing were all set. What remained was the simple process of writing and some improvisation, which could be completed gradually over the next twenty-odd days.

During these days, Xiao Tan contacted him several times, talking about the situation of their teammates. Si Yu's illness had recovered two days ago, and she went online yesterday. However, he heard that she didn't plan to participate in this competition, saying she had no interest. Bei Ling, on the other hand, came up with a seemingly "reliable" probability theory... After some calculations, she concluded that she could only reach the top 100 at most. Considering that the prizes for the top 100 could be obtained with RMB, and she didn't expect to become famous through this competition, she was too lazy to participate.

Xiao Tan himself was quite enthusiastic about the competition, but his strength was probably the worst in the Thriller Paradise. Although Bei Ling didn't discourage him from participating, she wasn't very optimistic about him in her heart.

Let's talk about Xiao Tan's current status:

Wang Tanzhi, ID: Wang Tanzhi; Level: 30; Title: [Swift Wind Nightmare]

Specializations: General D, Mechanical E, Recon C, Fighting C, Shooting E, Medical E, Spiritual E, Summoning nA

Skills: [Demon Bat Wraith], [Ke Ji Wu Gen Mo Lang You], [Feng Zhu Chen Xiang Hua Yi Jin], [Reverse Blade Whirlwind Slash], [Flying Nightmare Trace] (Title Ability)

Although the names of these skills sound cool and domineering, their actual effects are not very strong.

First of all...

[Name: Ke Ji Wu Gen Mo Lang You]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]

[Skill Category: Recon]

[Effect: When in a crowd, gain stealth characteristics (no cooldown time)]

[Consumption: 3 Stamina per second]

[Learning Condition: Recon Specialization D]

[Note: What if there is no crowd...]

This is equivalent to the trick of sneaking around in the crowd in *Assassin's Creed*. The note of the skill also reveals a sense of吐槽 (tucao, meaning '吐槽' or 'roasting').

Let's look at...

[Name: Feng Zhu Chen Xiang Hua Yi Jin]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]

[Skill Category: Fighting]

[Effect: Leave a residual image in place that lasts for three seconds (cooldown time of one second)]

[Consumption: 50 Stamina]

[Learning Condition: Fighting Specialization D, or Level 27]

[Note: Things are different, everything is over.]

That's right, after Lu You, Li Qingzhao was also hit by a stray bullet.

This skill, which is basically a weakened version of the residual image fist, actually uses a poetic name, and the note even matches the name...

As for the next two skills, one of them was bought.

After the Cang Ling Sword Debate, Xiao Tan sold the [Automatic Vending Machine Beater] he picked up in the script and bought the [Reverse Blade Whirlwind Slash] at the auction house for about the same price, as his main attack skill.

Skills like this that are listed in the auction house are naturally not very strong.

[Name: Reverse Blade Whirlwind Slash]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]

[Skill Category: Fighting]

[Effect: Perform a high-speed whirlwind slash (cooldown time of one minute, requires a bladed weapon and must be standing on a plane to cast)]

[Consumption: 300 Stamina]

[Learning Condition: Fighting Specialization D]

[Note: It is said to be a sword technique created by Guan Ping. He holds the blade in reverse and spins on the ground, sweeping across the enemies in the area with the勢 (shi, meaning 'momentum') of sweeping away thousands of troops.]

The last move is Xiao Tan's current title ability. With the change of title, [Bee Sting] has become history, and the new one has been replaced with...

[Name: Flying Nightmare Trace]

[Special Ability Type: Passive]

[Effect: When the moving speed reaches more than ten kilometers per hour, you can walk on the wall (the angle between the stepping surface and the ground is greater than or equal to ninety degrees) and leave black fire footprints.]

[Note: Illidan often tells me that Maiev Shadowsong is the best tracker he has ever seen... To be honest, does this blind man really not know what he leaves behind when he walks?]

The above are the new skills that Xiao Tan has added during this period.

In addition, I believe you have already forgotten the learning conditions for his [Heaven and Earth Reversal Divine Art]. You don't need to flip through the skill database. Here is a direct explanation: [Learning Conditions: Fighting Specialization B, Spiritual Specialization C, Level 30 or above, this skill card cannot be traded after being picked up]

Obviously, he still doesn't meet the learning conditions.

Therefore, Xiao Tan, who seems to have five skills, can only rely on ordinary attacks or modern weapons to kill people, except for the [Reverse Blade Whirlwind Slash]. If he doesn't improve much in equipment or skills these days, then don't even mention rankings, it is very likely that he will be eliminated within three or four matches.

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Let's go back to Jue-Ge's side.

On the afternoon of April 23rd, after Feng Bujue checked and saved all the documents, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and could relax for a while.

However, he didn't rush to log in to the game, but first went to the game forum to browse around, wanting to explore the situation these days.

"Ah... sure enough, it's all discussions about the competition." Feng Bujue muttered while flipping through the posts.

The already popular forum was even more like adding fuel to the fire these days. Post titles like "Complete Guide to the Peak Tournament" and "How to Level Up to Level 30 in Ten Days" were everywhere.

The funniest thing was that Feng Bujue also saw a post with the poster's ID called "Seven Luminaries". The title of the post was "Predictions on the Top 100 Situation of the Tournament and My Views on the Strength of Various Studios", but when you clicked in, the poster himself hadn't joined any guild, wasn't a member of any studio, and hadn't even reached level 30. This was simply using the identity of a part-time student to tell everyone stories about the underworld... It's better to figure it out yourself than to believe him.

In fact, Feng Bujue had already roughly studied the promotion method of the competition three days ago. It can't be said that this set of rules is very reasonable, but appropriate randomness is obviously necessary. If there are no accidental factors in a competition, then there is no need to compete. Just give the award to the players on the combat power list. In short, as long as the accidental factors of the competition can provide appropriate opportunities for the weak, and will not make the strong feel too badly坑 (keng, meaning 'pitted'), then everyone can accept it.

At this stage, the preliminary rules given by Dream Inc. are as follows—

Starting from zero o'clock on May 1st, players can queue up to enter the new project "Peak Tournament Preliminary".

Each player needs to participate in a total of fifty preliminary selections. Of course, these fifty matches do not need to be completed by the players in a row. As long as they are completed in the first half of May, it will be about three matches per day on average. Moreover, the preliminary competition uses a competition-specific 1v1 map, and the winner can be determined in a short time.

After all fifty matches are completed, players will no longer be able to enter the preliminary queue. Until the end of the preliminary stage, the system will arrange promotion based on the winning rate of the player's completed fifty battles.

There are also two special rules. First, players who fail to win four consecutive matches in any stage of the preliminary competition will be directly eliminated. Second, players who are undefeated for fifteen consecutive matches in any stage of the preliminary competition can directly advance.

This rule is mainly to filter out those players who are too strong or too weak, so as to avoid players at the average level frequently encountering point-giving kids or crushing狂魔 (kuang mo, meaning 'maniacs'). This can also be regarded as a means to reduce the randomness of promotion. Because the queuing system of the competition is completely random, it is different from the matching method of the killing game that tries to balance as much as possible. It cannot be ruled out that some people are lucky enough to meet fifty pig opponents in a row.

However, Feng Bujue doesn't know yet that he doesn't need to study the preliminary system at all, because he doesn't need to play any preliminary matches... or even the semi-finals.

On April 30th, Dream Inc. will announce another message at the same time as announcing the semi-final rules. This move will cause an uproar and cause dissatisfaction among a large number of players. Of course, Dream Inc. will not care...

That message is that ten places in the final stage of this competition, the top 100 competition stage, have already been taken.

These ten people are the so-called "specially invited players" who do not need to participate in any selection. And Feng Bujue is one of them.