Chapter 17 Level 17

[Raging Trace Sword Shadow: Level 17]

[Fearless Dream, Level 16]

[Your team is joining a 2v2 Slaughter Game.]

[Your team has entered the queue, searching for other ready individuals or teams.]

[Confirmed, script generation in progress...]

[Loading, please wait.]

This was the system prompt from Feng Bujue's perspective, slightly different from when he was the captain.

This time, he heard the voice in Mandarin, a hoarse male voice saying, "Make your opponents tremble, let them experience true terror!"

[Loading complete, you are currently playing a Slaughter Game.]

[This mode provides a script introduction and has a chance of side quests and special worldviews.]

[Script victory reward: 30% of current level experience points]

[The script introduction will be played shortly, and the game will begin immediately after.]

A title CG appeared, showing a long-haired beauty in a white coat with a curvy figure walking down a dimly lit corridor.

[2000 AD, at Crystal Lake Laboratory, Jason, an immortal killer, is imprisoned. The government's scientific experiment team wants to use him as a test subject for research on necrotic tissue recovery.]

Along with the narration, the female researcher walked into a door. The camera didn't follow her in, the screen froze on the corridor.

[But Jason is not so easy to imprison, any careless or lax actions will lead to irreversible consequences.]

The CG omitted a large number of scenes from the original film, skipping Jason's loss of control and the female researcher freezing him with a few screams and a sudden descent into darkness.

[2455 AD, humanity has entered the interstellar colonization era, this place has become 'Old Earth', a place full of windstorms, poisonous miasma, and polluted oceans.]

[A human expedition returns to Earth for archaeological research, they discover the bodies of Rowan and Jason, and bring them back to the transport ship...]

The CG ended here, Feng Bujue could move, and he immediately heard the system prompt:

[Main quest triggered]

[Kill all members of the enemy team]

"So it's this crappy movie." Raging Trace Sword Shadow was standing next to Feng Bujue, they were currently in the corridor from the opening CG, and for some reason, the lights in the corridor were on, indicating that the place still had electricity.

"Something's wrong..." Feng Bujue said, "Why are we in the lab, instead of on a spaceship?"

Raging Trace Sword Shadow heard him and said, "So what?"

"The story of *Friday the 13th Part X* basically all takes place on a spaceship, and this place where we are... cough... cough..." Feng Bujue suddenly coughed twice, "is not suitable for human survival at all."

After breathing a few mouthfuls of the air here, Raging Trace Sword Shadow also felt a slight discomfort. He opened the game menu to check, there were no abnormal statuses, but his survival value had decreased by 1%, it seemed that the surrounding environment had some indiscriminate HP reduction effect.

"They discovered the bodies of Rowan and Jason, and brought them back to the transport ship..." Feng Bujue said jokingly, "Then after they all left, we're acting out a spin-off of the movie in this underground lab that's been abandoned for hundreds of years?"

"In other words... this script is just borrowing the setting of that movie, and has no intersection with Jason or the characters in the movie." Raging Trace Sword Shadow continued, "Heh... isn't this perfect, there are not too many complicated entanglements with the plot, we just need to decide the winner in this closed environment."

"There are three things I want you to know." Feng Bujue raised his right hand, extending his index finger, "First, according to the setting in the movie, not to mention outside the lab, even the environment we are in now will kill people, and the reason why you and I have not died may just be because we are 'players', or a deliberate arrangement by the system." He extended his second finger, "Second, when I watched this crappy movie, I noticed that, apart from the absurdity of the script itself and the lack of director's ability, the setting of this film still has some science fiction flavor, such as the repair device on the spaceship, the artificial human, etc... In short, this is a world with a very high level of technology, if we can find a way to contact the human civilization in this world, send out a distress signal, and then escape from this lab, then we can obtain unpredictable benefits, far more profitable than killing the opponent to clear the game.

The two people on the opposing team will die in this lab sooner or later, even if they can last a little longer with survival value supplements, it is only a matter of time. And we can take advantage of this precious time to acquire items, equipment, skills, and so on, or even use the technology of this world to strengthen our attributes."

Feng Bujue extended his third finger, "Third..." He coughed twice again, "Third, this is the most important thing, you better pay attention to it... I seriously suspect that there is more than just Jason in this lab." As he spoke, he drew out his steel knife, "It is normal to imprison more than a dozen monsters of the same level as Jason in a lab of this size, if I were the screenwriter, I would definitely start from this aspect to expand the plot..." He smiled wryly, "Although it has been 455 years, if the system wants to add some fun to this 2v2, letting some living monsters in to stir things up is an excellent choice."

Raging Trace Sword Shadow was shocked when he heard him, "I think you're the monster..." He asked with a look of piety, "Brother Feng, you thought of so much just from watching a CG?"

"I've only thought of that much for the time being, I'll tell you if there's anything I need to add later." Feng Bujue replied.

"Worthy of being a [Plot Explorer], admirable, admirable!" Raging Trace Sword Shadow's sentence was sincere.

"Right... let's check the opponent's situation first." Feng Bujue said.

They opened the game menu to observe, the other two people's nicknames showed that they were also on the same team, one was called [Doomsday Assault], level nineteen; the other was called [Final Assault], level also nineteen. Besides the nicknames and levels, the only information they could see was "Surviving".

"Assault, huh..." Raging Trace Sword Shadow frowned.

Feng Bujue keenly captured something from his teammate's expression: "You know them?"

"I can't say I know them, but I know similar IDs." Raging Trace Sword Shadow said, "They should all be from the 'Corpse Blade' studio... Corpse Blade's people basically all have 'Assault' and 'King' in their names."

"Oh? I remember that studio is currently ranked fifth on the combat power list." Feng Bujue said, "Higher than your Jianghu."

"Hmph... this is the most annoying thing..." Raging Trace Sword Shadow's tone seemed a bit helpless, "Actually, these guys aren't strong, but they have ways to get ranked up there."

"Oh? You mean..." With Feng Bujue's intelligence, he naturally understood the underlying meaning of the other party's words in an instant, so he went along with the flow and let him continue.

"It may not be appropriate for me to say this, you can choose to believe it or not." Raging Trace Sword Shadow said, "Most studios in the industry have a consensus, the people from Corpse Blade studio cheat."

"Cheat? You mean, all the players in the entire studio..."

"They have many tricks, everything you can think of, they will do." Raging Trace Sword Shadow said, "For example, independently developing some illegal external auxiliary devices, and in terms of software, some plug-ins with cheat-like properties... Outsiders don't know about these things, among ordinary players it can only be said to be rumors, but we professional players, after fighting with them a few times, will more or less notice something."

"Doesn't the game operator care?" Feng Bujue asked.

"It's difficult to manage, not worth it." Raging Trace Sword Shadow said, "The operators just want to make money from the game, and they won't care about many gray areas as long as they don't violate their interests and don't cause a huge uproar." He shook his head and sighed, "Managing these things also requires investing various resources, manpower, time, technology... In my opinion, unless you put the evidence in front of those operators, they won't bother to care." He seemed to suddenly remember something, and added, "Oh, and one more thing, I said, the Corpse Blade guys have a lot of tricks, not necessarily cheating at the game level. Sometimes they also hire some gunners to do some small actions, such as posting fake news on forums to slander players from other guilds, or posting malicious reviews on the official websites of some studios that directly compete with them, in short, they ruin other people's business.

The most memorable time was in a previous game, the operator held a public election for all players, to select the strongest 'gang', and as a result, Corpse Blade secretly spent money to collect votes, and actually defeated Order and the Gods. But no matter the result, the game company still makes money, do you think they would care?"

"I see... it seems your resentment is deep." Feng Bujue continued.

Raging Trace Sword Shadow waved his hand, just smiling wryly: "You don't understand, only those of us in this industry can understand that feeling. Many times, even if you think you are stronger, you will still lose in the end, losing like that is very frustrating, and also very disheartening, but that is reality." He paused, looked up at Feng Bujue, "Sorry, I said this, you might think it's sour grapes..."

"No, I believe you." Feng Bujue said, "I also believe that your Jianghu would not collude with them."

"That's for sure." Raging Trace Sword Shadow used his arrogant tone when saying this.

"And my philosophy is..." Feng Bujue said, "Either collude with them, or stand up." He paused, "So... let's get a little serious and take these two guys down, let them see what real strength is."