【The script is complete; rewards are being calculated.】

【Experience gained: 80000, Game Coins: 100000】

【Items and equipment obtained: None】

【Completed accepted quests: 11】

【Special, hidden quests completed: 0, Worldview decryption: None】

【Sudden increase in scare value: 0 times, Highest scare value: 0%, Average scare value: 0%】

【Your Fear Rating is "Gutsy as Hell", and you will receive an additional reward. Please select it shortly.】

【Technique Value gained: 2650】

【Technique Value bonus experience: 26500, Game Coins: 100000】

【Script Completion Reward: Randomly draw one usable Perfect grade equipment.】

【Calculation complete, please continue.】

Here, it should be explained that there is an upper limit to the Game Coins awarded for "Script Completion" and "Technique Value bonus," and the upper limit is 100,000 for both. That is, after a player completes a script, excluding extra rewards, hidden missions, and other factors, they can obtain a maximum of 200,000 Game Coins.

This design, which limits players' income at the source, can be regarded as one of Dream Corporation's methods of controlling the in-game exchange rate.

Because relying solely on the mall's monopoly on consumables, clothing, sundries, and other items is not enough to stabilize the market. So, they have to do some work on the "issuance" of currency.

This is a very complicated issue, involving many factors such as the number of players, their skill level, and game time, all of which are closely related to the generation of Game Coins.

According to the statistical data from the past month, the script completion rate of players is around 60% (since the open beta, the total number of players who have logged into the game has exceeded 10 million, and the number of concurrent online players during peak hours remains around 4 million, while the base of top players accounts for less than one ten-thousandth). In other words, most players who play ten scripts will not receive a settlement reward for four of them, and can only get some Technique Value and items. Even in the remaining six successfully completed scripts, how much reward they can get depends on how much they contributed to the completion.

Therefore, basically... only those fixed teams in guilds or extremely powerful individual experts can often get the full 200,000 Game Coin settlement. And the vast majority of players, given the 60% premise, still have to see how well they perform to have a chance to get it.

Of course, these broken things have nothing to do with rich, tycoon players; for them, it is naturally good to get more Game Coins in the script, but if it is really not enough... they just recharge.

But those players who are willing to recharge tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of RMB are only a minority after all. A responsible and high-quality game company needs to consider the majority... neither allowing players to have so much money that it leads to inflation, nor letting them be so poor that they cannot make ends meet, is the most ideal situation. Only in this way will the prices and exchange rates in the game be stable, and only with stability can more people feel at ease to recharge.

Many online game agents, or developers, like to go to extremes on this critical issue. Often, just after the initial stage of the game, they make the players so poor that they cannot continue playing, forcing them to recharge. These are all short-sighted and self-destructive actions.

【Your title has been updated to - Dark Vanguard】

After the settlement list popped up, the system prompt rang in his ears, announcing that the title "Unfathomable Maniac" had come to an end.

Feng Bujue's mood was bittersweet after hearing the prompt. It was a good thing to have a new title, but losing the [Look Out!] skill meant he had no usable summoning skills. But the character mission: [Use summoning skills and successfully summon summoned creatures fifty times, current progress 14/50] was less than one-third complete.

But as the saying goes, out with the old, in with the new. Feng Bujue did not dwell on this. Anyway, the character mission would eventually be completed in the future, so there was no need to rush.

He opened the game menu and first observed the new title ability:

【Name: Demonic Advent】

【Special Ability Type: Active】

【Consumption: All Survival, Stamina, and Spirit Points】

【Effect: Demonizes the user, granting them godlike combat abilities. (Transformation skill, lasts three minutes, can only be activated once after entering a script)】

【Note: The instant the skill is activated, Survival Value will become 300% of the player's original maximum, and Stamina and Spirit will be considered infinite.

During the demonization, the player cannot use any weapons or consumables other than spiritual energy weapons; the bonus effects of all equipment will disappear; the game menu will be shielded until the demonization ends.

When the Survival Value is exhausted or the time limit is reached, the demonization stops, and the player becomes Survival Value 1%, Stamina Value 0, and Spirit Value 0. And they are immune to medical skills and consumables (buffs) for the next five minutes.】

"This is playing with my life..." Feng Bujue complained, "I finally cleared a script with my fists, and then you give me this title ability, forcing people onto a dead end, how is that okay..."

Before he went to collect the extra reward and the perfect equipment, he first looked at the time. It was already early in the morning, and the time spent on this slaughter game was much longer than he had imagined.

"Eh?" While operating the touch screen, Feng Bujue noticed a friend request and a mail message.

He first looked at the people who had added him as friends. Shiva, Qisha, and Zhaoying Wang were all there.

"Heh... if I take a screenshot of these three requests in a row and post them on the forum..." Feng Bujue said with a smile, "Well... I guess people would say it's photoshopped."

Feng Bujue clicked accept on each of them in turn, but the next second, he went offline.

Doing so can effectively prevent the other party from immediately sending a communication request or something to harass him...

After getting up to go to the bathroom and wash up, Feng Bujue lay back in the game pod and switched to sleep mode login.

He set the login time to be instantaneous, that is, as soon as the brain enters a state of sleep, the neural connection starts.

After returning to the login space again, Feng Bujue looked at the time again. It was 1:15 AM. After changing the login mode, Qisha and Shiva could not contact him. At this time, Zhaoying Wang was also in this channel, but his status was "In Game."

"Xiao Tan, Long Ge, Jin Fugui..." Feng Bujue's eyes swept across the friend list. Almost everyone was already in a script. "Strange... Si Yu and Bei Ling aren't online today..." he muttered to himself as he opened his email.

The only email was sent by Xiao Tan, and the content was: "Brother Jue, I saw that you haven't logged in and you're not answering your phone, so you're probably stuck in a script in non-sleep mode, so I'm writing you an email to tell you.

Around eight or nine o'clock, Xiao Ling called to tell me that Sister Yu suddenly felt unwell. Xiao Ling is already at Sister Yu's house with her now, and she also asked me to tell you not to worry, it's just a sudden severe cold, nothing serious.

That's all, I don't know when you'll be on, so I'll queue up for a script myself first."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue repeated thoughtfully, "'Don't worry,' huh..."

At this moment, Si Yu's face appeared in Feng Bujue's mind, and he whispered, "Speaking of which... is she already on my list of people I care about... when did it start..."