Chapter 170 The i_wAnnA_Be_A_BeLt

When it came to the overall strength of their studio, Order was definitely much stronger than Corpse Blade. However, when it came to scheming and underhanded tactics, Corpse Blade was far more experienced.

After Devouring Ghost Brave accomplished the feat of being the first in the entire server to reach max level, Corpse Blade only spent half a day to come up with a countermeasure. The “water army (internet commentators hired by online public relations firms to post, reply, and create momentum for others)” under their command, after receiving their marching orders, immediately launched various insinuation, unfounded, and malicious attacks against Order and Ghost Brave himself…

For a time, all sorts of baseless and even inexplicable rumors spread across all the forums related to Thriller Paradise… leading to all sorts of replies.

Doubts, guesses, provocations, unwarranted slandering… As the saying goes, “Every forest has its share of strange birds.” The internet is a great window, allowing us to see the many facets of humanity, and also allowing us to clearly see the intelligence, quality, character, and personality of many people…

Of course… the internet water army thing can only deceive a small portion of people for a certain period of time. Anyone with discerning eyes can tell who is behind these water armies… Anyone with a certain amount of intelligence and awareness has the ability to distinguish right from wrong.

In less than two days, the internet water army dispatched by Corpse Blade had already been bombarded into oblivion, because they really couldn’t reply in their own posts… No matter how they tried to argue, they were only humiliating themselves.

This off-game battle can be described as a quick victory. Corpse Blade’s last-ditch effort as a loser didn’t even manage to injure Order, but instead, they ended up with a face full of dirt.

“Ah… it seems like a lot has happened in the past half month…” Feng Bujue complained after reading the post, “If Corpse Blade’s water army is adorable in a despicable way, then Order’s water army is probably just stupidly cute…”

Then, he flipped through hundreds of pages of forum records, skimming through all the posts (titles) from the previous ten days or so. He also browsed some of the popular and interesting posts.

Posts with sharp opinions, such as “On the Correct Use of Puzzle Cards,” “How to Level Up to 40 Within a Month,” “Wake Up, You Tyrant Shooting Dogs,” and “Dear Students! Please Don’t Underestimate Growth-Type Equipment and Skills!”… all became hot topics of widespread attention and discussion.

It was obvious… that as time went on, players’ understanding of Thriller Paradise was becoming more and more mature. Nowadays, whether it was character attributes, equipment, skills, specializations, Soul Weapons, or even Soul Intent… people were already discussing them, and many of the views were quite correct and insightful.

“There are quite a few smart people after all…” Feng Bujue, after browsing the forums for more than two hours, suddenly felt that he was a bit behind, “Some strange arguments I haven’t even considered… hmm… I really need to come to the forums more often in the future.”

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Two hours later (in the real world, only 12 minutes had passed), the members of Hell Front were still not online.

So, Brother Jue came to the Scare Box again and began to browse the “growth-type” equipment and skills.

Previously, Ruoyu’s [Consecration] and [Mingyu Gong] had already given Feng Bujue some inspiration. And today, after reading a post in the forum, he immediately made up his mind to buy a powerful growth-type item.

The poster’s ID was [Blood Rose]. Using herself as an example, she explained in detail the late-game advantages brought by growth-type equipment, which was reasonable, well-founded, and convincing.

Speaking of which… she seemed to be a professional player from “Red Sakura,” a colleague of Xu Huaishang. Before entering Thriller Paradise, she was only a second-tier blue-collar player. But recently, with the increase in her level, her strength had already entered the ranks of the first-tier, and what she relied on… was precisely the help of those growth-type items.

“Ah… there are so many things here now that I can’t even finish looking at them…” Feng Bujue came to the Scare Box and opened the familiar interface, but what awaited him… was a huge amount of data spanning tens of thousands of pages.

These… were just skills alone. Equipment and props combined might have tens of thousands of pages, and this data was updated in real time, constantly changing.

“There’s no other way… let’s filter it.” Brother Jue hesitated for a few seconds, then decided to use the system’s built-in filtering function.

He filtered out all the things he couldn’t use and the things that were too cheap, only looking at the items that cost “more than 10,000 skill points.”

After half an hour, he locked onto an item—

[Name: i_wAnnA_Be_A_BeLt]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Defense: Weak]

[Attribute: None]

[Effect: Every time you are attacked, this equipment will increase a tiny bit of defense.]

[Equipment Requirements: Waist size 32 or less (binds on pickup)]

[Note: Each death means a new beginning, each beginning means a new death. When your blood is spilled in every corner of where you have been, pain will become as natural as breathing.]

An incomprehensible name, an incomprehensible equipment requirement, an incomprehensible note… this was an incomprehensible piece of equipment with an unbelievable price—12,000 skill points.

Feng Bujue currently had only 12,134 skill points. If he bought this, he would only have a little bit of change left.

However, Brother Jue resolutely bought the item… he wasn’t “rich and willful,” but he felt it was… worth it.

Most people, after seeing the description and price of this item, would often ignore it and forget about it. But Brother Jue was different. He would think… why is this thing selling so expensive?

The system is fair, and the price given by the system is more reliable than any player’s subjective assessment. Therefore, the item could not be mispriced… it must have hidden secrets.

After reading the description repeatedly, Feng Bujue understood… the effect “Every time you are attacked, this equipment will increase a tiny bit of defense” was the problem.

This effect had no “duration,” no “cooldown time,” and no “upper limit.” A closer look revealed… that this was a terrifying thing.

“Di di—”

Just a few seconds after Brother Jue bought the item, two short beeps sounded in his ears. He looked at the game menu and found that Little Tan had sent a message and a team invitation.

“Ah… just right.” Brother Jue muttered as he turned and headed toward the login space.

On the way back to the elevator, he had already replaced the [Echo Armor] with the [i_wAnnA_Be_A_BeLt] (both items were belts). The former had accompanied Brother Jue for a long time and could be considered to have died a natural death… just waiting to enter the shredder.

“Yo, Little Tan, long time no see, how have you been?” Feng Bujue said as he came to the touch screen and connected the communication.

“Uh… it hasn’t been that long, has it? Only two weeks, right…” Little Tan replied, “As for recent changes… I guess the biggest one is that Little Ling and I moved in together…”

“What?” Feng Bujue’s voice suddenly rose.

“We’ve been dating for quite a while, she suggested living together, so I agreed.” Little Tan continued.

“Beast.” Feng Bujue replied.

“Hey, hey… she was the one who suggested it, okay?” Little Tan lowered his voice and replied, “Besides… you and Sister Yu know about our little affair, right?”

“I don’t know anything, you don’t need to explain to me, I’m a pure person, I don’t want to hear about your dirty daily life.” Feng Bujue replied shamelessly.

That’s how friendship between men is, all our blessings and joys are contained in trash talk…

“Okay…” With the tacit understanding between Little Tan and Brother Jue, he naturally knew that the other party was joking, “Then let’s talk about something else… Huajian has something to do and won’t be online today. Little Ling said she wasn’t feeling well and wanted to go to bed early, so I came into the game capsule alone.”

“So where do you usually lie down?” Feng Bujue continued.

“Don’t worry about the details…” Little Tan replied awkwardly, “Anyway, it’s just you and me tonight, no need to wait for them anymore.”