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【Feng Bujue, Level 50】

【Wang Tanzhi, Level 46】

【Si Yu Ruo Li, Level 47】

【Bei Ling Xiao Gu, Level 46】

【Shi Shang Hua Jian, Level 40】

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

【You have selected Slaughter Game (Indiscriminate Free-for-All). Please confirm.】

【Confirmed. The random team size is: Six players.】

"Tch... so it still matched me with outsiders..." When the random player count appeared before him, Feng Bujue muttered helplessly, "Ah... well, whatever. It's an indiscriminate free-for-all anyway, so let's just go with it."

【Match complete. Coordinating neural link. Scenario being generated...】

【Loading commencing. Please wait.】

At this point, the players lost control of their bodies and began to be transported.

This time... to see the individual combat abilities of each member of Hell Front, Feng Bujue had set the content of the team practice battle to a free-for-all mode.

In this complex battle situation where everyone is fighting on their own and mutually restraining each other, it is easier to force out everyone's limit.

"Make your opponents tremble, let them experience true terror!"

Soon, a deep, sonorous male voice with a heavy accent spoke the opening lines. The voice sounded familiar to Brother Jue, and an ominous premonition arose.

【Loading complete. You are currently in a Slaughter Game.】

【This mode offers a scenario introduction and has a chance to trigger side hidden quests and special worldviews.】

【Scenario victory reward: Puzzle Card *1.】

【The scenario introduction will now play. The game will begin immediately after the playback is complete.】

As soon as the voice stopped, the CG began to play.

The image that appeared before the players was a dark sky filled with rolling thunderclouds...

【Demon City appears in Tianyuan, Mad Shadow unleashes warfare.】

【To save the world from calamity, Peerless will quell the flames of war.】

"Hey, hey... another poem... this is bad!" Feng Bujue really didn't want to see this stuff now, but he encountered it anyway.

Immediately afterward, the thunderclouds before him began to spin... A bottomless vortex appeared in the clouds, and a huge castle slowly descended from the sky amidst the flickering lightning and dark energy.

"Please... whether you're Castlevania or not... please don't be that..." Feng Bujue thought, "But looking at the appearance of this Japanese castle... I'm afraid it's that, isn't it!"

【Strong ones... come and challenge me.】

The voice that spoke the opening lines appeared again, followed by... a pair of demonic eyes floating in mid-air.

They were heterochromatic eyes, one red and one blue, like snake eyes with linear pupils.

"It really is you..." Feng Bujue had already sensed it, but now he was completely sure that the owner of the voice was Orochi (Japanese pronunciation: oroChi, meaning giant snake, the main antagonist in Koei's *Warriors Orochi* series. He is a serpent demon imprisoned in the celestial realm, who later escaped and came to the human world, gathering heroes from China's Three Kingdoms period and Japan's Warring States period into a pocket dimension of his creation, attempting to find a strongman who can match him).

Seconds later, a fast-paced piece of music with an electric guitar as the main instrument began, and the CG scene suddenly switched to a pile of military tents on a wasteland.

"Ah... next they'll show the warlords from *Warriors Orochi* being defeated and imprisoned one after another..." Feng Bujue thought. He had, of course, played the *Warriors Orochi* series, and the opening scenes of each installment were very similar.

The following development did indeed match his prediction. In the next minute, many warlords from the *Warriors* series appeared one after another in the CG, such as the Peach Garden Trio, the Cao Family Three Stooges, the Fierce Tiger Father and Sons, and of course, shameless characters like Lu Xiaoqiang and Zuo Daxian.

Accompanied by dynamic music, Orochi's demon army swept them away like autumn winds sweeping away fallen leaves...

Then, the warlords from the Warring States period also appeared, and then there was another minute of similar scenes...

Seeing this, Feng Bujue thought there was no "then," but...

The next second, the camera actually turned to a group of people with a different art style. At that moment, Feng Bujue simply couldn't believe his eyes.

"Who are these guys..." Brother Jue was shocked, because he saw a group of people with long, flowing hair, bizarre shapes, and outfits and weapons that were completely different from the previous characters. "They actually brought in people from the Pili world?"

His shock continued, and after those Pili characters experienced a minute of "CG kills," an even more outrageous thing happened...

"There's more?" Feng Bujue looked in surprise at another group of people with a different art style emerging.

This time, the people who were ravaged by Orochi's army... were a group of two-dimensional Japanese characters with a rather gorgeous art style. When Brother Jue saw a red-haired man with a crescent moon printed on his back, he already understood... the characters from *The King of Fighters* had also arrived.

After that... more and more characters appeared in the CG. They all came from different universes, and even some completely unrelated comedic characters appeared without any sense of incongruity...

Looking at these great gods appearing one by one, Feng Bujue didn't even have the desire to complain.

The ominous premonition had turned into a terrible reality...

The severity of this slaughter game was beyond even Brother Jue's estimation...

【Demon King, Descends.】

As this CG, which was nearly ten minutes long, drew to a close, the system narration came.

【Orochi, who has been resurrected from the depths of hell once again, has obtained unfathomable and terrifying power.】

【Even the valiant warriors of the human and celestial realms can hardly contend with him...】

【In order to find an opponent who can match him, the Demon King has expanded the pocket dimension under his control to various timelines, causing many worlds to collapse and living beings to suffer.】

【Warriors from various timelines, in order to protect their respective worlds, in order to escape this pocket dimension full of endless slaughter, fight with all their might!】

【However... the demon army is ultimately too powerful, and in terms of military strength, they have no chance.】

【Thus, the Demon King... gladly gave them a chance to directly challenge him.】

【A martial arts tournament is being held under the Demon City.】

At this point in the CG, it came to an abrupt end...

【Main Quest Triggered】

【Win the martial arts tournament.】

The instant the players regained their ability to move, they heard the main quest prompt.

Regardless of the quest, Feng Bujue's first reaction after being able to move was to observe the surrounding environment.

At this moment, he was standing in a rocky wasteland, with the same overcast sky filled with rolling thunderclouds overhead.

Although it was cloudy, the visibility around him was acceptable.

Brother Jue looked around, and there were no living things in sight. He just didn't know if anything was hiding behind those rocks...

"Hmm... there seems to be something wrong with this quest..." After confirming the surrounding situation, he found a place nearby, crouched down in the shadow of a rock, concealed his figure, and then summoned the game menu.

In Slaughter Games, players can see the nicknames, levels, and survival status of their teammates and opponents through the team tab.

At this time, the five people Feng Bujue saw were undoubtedly all in the "Surviving" state. The names and levels of his four teammates went without saying, but the sixth person who had been matched into the queue was also an acquaintance... Qi Sha.

"Tch... this guy is max level too..." This was Feng Bujue's first reaction after seeing the team tab.

Although it was a subordinate department of the "Nine Divisions," Blade's people were, after all, nominally a "game studio," and their people had to show some semblance of being professional gamers. Therefore, Qi Sha was now naturally a max-level player.

"Not easy to deal with..." Feng Bujue muttered, "If we're talking about one-on-one duels, this fighting maniac is one of the last opponents I want to meet..." He pondered, "The time I beat him in a duel... clearly had an element of luck. As for Little Tan... strictly speaking, he won by going berserk... He's already level fifty, I'm afraid he's already comprehended 'Soul Intent.' In this situation... going head-to-head with him, I might even get crushed..."

It wasn't that Brother Jue was boosting the morale of others and diminishing his own prestige, it was just that... Feng Bujue generally considered issues with caution and pessimism.

"And this quest... it's also a bit off..." Brother Jue immediately opened the quest tab again and muttered softly, "Generally speaking, the main quest given in this kind of 'indiscriminate free-for-all' Slaughter Game is always 'become the only surviving player in the scenario,' right? How did it become 'win the martial arts tournament' this time?"

"Ah—"

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, a scream came from afar.

This shout made Feng Bujue bristle, because he could tell right away that the voice was definitely Wang Tanzhi.

"Eh? This kid's initial teleport point is so close to me?" Brother Jue immediately jumped up and looked in the direction of the shout, "And... he's already triggered combat as soon as he entered the scenario?"

He guessed correctly, Little Tan's teleport point was indeed that close to him, and... he had unfortunately encountered a general under Orochi's command.

To put it simply... Wang Tanzhi had unfortunately run into a small-Boss-level monster as soon as he entered the scenario.

"Whoa... what's going on?" Two seconds later, a figure running... or rather, fleeing... appeared in Feng Bujue's sight, and behind that figure was a humanoid monster with a spear in its hand, short and fat, with gray skin, and... an army of demon soldiers estimated to be over a hundred strong.

"Are you kidding me!" Little Tan shouted as he ran, "What did I do? Why are you chasing me!"

"You said 'that fatty' just now, didn't you? I heard it!" The demon general chasing behind him seemed furious, also shouting as he ran, filled with murderous intent.
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