Chapter 1 Ms. Wordsworth's Birthday Cake

Of the two rewards from European Heavy Industries, [Ms. Wordsworth's Birthday Cake] is relatively versatile and can be used in many situations.

Use it before going to the battlefield to perfectly dodge a hail of bullets,

Eat it and buy a lottery ticket, win hundreds of thousands or millions,

Increase the probability of success when preparing magic potions,

Even in a reasoning and puzzle script mission, maybe eating a lucky cake can achieve the magical effect of "randomly pressing the combination lock and successfully opening it."

The other item, [Frivolous Mask], is a one-time use consumable scroll.

Although there are many restrictions on its use, such as not being able to attack or be attacked, and the disguise is limited to appearance,

The more restrictions, the stronger the special effects.

During the disguise, all detection skills are exempt.

Whether it is retinal scan, fingerprint detection, or psionic detection, it cannot be detected.

It can be said to be approaching the level of a "rule-level skill."

Li Ang, satisfied with the two rewards, returned to Yin City.

In the following period, the news on TV reported the follow-up handling of the changes in King Shibi.

For example, how many missing people were rescued from a certain area, and a certain thousand-year-old temple was moved to the suburbs away from the city.

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"There's a war again."

In the cabin of the Longqing cruise ship outside Yin City, Li Ang browsed the information on the computer and muttered to himself.

The major changes of King Shibi came quickly and went quickly.

It did not have a lasting impact on international affairs in the real world.

West Asia, South America, South Asia, Africa, and even Eastern and Central Europe, once again broke out in large and small armed conflicts.

Before the start of the Killing Game, the intensity of armed conflicts in these areas was relatively limited.

Basically, local warlords armed with AK47s and other light firepower were fighting each other to seize resources and territory.

After the start of the Killing Game, the intensity of the conflict has become increasingly high.

Some emerging multinational companies relying on the Killing Game, such as Prometheus Laboratory Company,

Tirelessly dump new weapons at low prices to backward and war-torn areas to observe the effects and collect data.

The equipment of warlords in various regions has been rapidly upgraded from AK47s to individual rocket launchers, sniper grenade launchers, and even transcendent firearms that can blast people into minced meat with one shot.

The Killing Game will pseudo-randomly distribute player qualifications.

Whoever controls more people has more potential players.

In order to obtain player qualification as a special resource,

The civil wars of warlords in backward and war-torn areas have quickly evolved into proxy wars between major multinational companies, and the degree of bloodshed is increasing day by day.

Of course, the most cruel are the local warlords themselves—most of them have become transcendents, or have been killed and replaced by transcendents.

In order to maintain their authority, these warlords organize their own forces and closely monitor and control the residents within their sphere of influence.

If a new player appears, they either win them over, kill them directly, or directly give the player qualification to multinational corporations such as European Heavy Industries.

It is quite reminiscent of the dark world of immortal cultivation—any genius with excellent spiritual roots must hide themselves before they grow up.

The chaotic and cruel situation in war-torn areas

Is actually tacitly approved and promoted by large forces such as European Heavy Industries and the Special Accidents Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

They need someone to do their dirty work to obtain a continuous stream of player qualifications, game currency, and real-world changes.

Therefore, as the highest-level organization nominally maintaining international peace and security and protecting human civilization, the Global Supernatural Alliance is also unable to stop it.

Especially recently, the Killing Game has updated some small content—

The first is to increase the probability of ordinary people being promoted to players, and to expand the area of the game square to accommodate more players.

There is nothing to say about this.

The number of players is increasing, which is also a good thing for the first tier of transcendents—there is more game currency in circulation on the market.

Secondly,

Lower the threshold for establishing guilds and increase the attribute bonuses brought by guilds.

There is nothing worth analyzing here either.

Low- and mid-level players can now establish their own guilds,

And those large-scale, populous guilds can enjoy more attribute bonuses than before—although it's still better than nothing.

The following patch content is more interesting.

A series of items called [Trial Tickets] have been added to the game store. After use, the time of the next script mission can be advanced, and the pass evaluation of the script mission can be slightly improved, and the quality of the final reward can be slightly improved.

Like the escape ticket rewarded by the Lost World, the trial ticket is also directly used in script missions.

Advancing the time of the next script mission may sound a bit like courting death,

But if you think about it carefully, it is very suitable for players who are poor and eager to improve their strength in the early stage, and it can be regarded as an extra path.

In addition, the [Trial Ticket] cannot be used continuously. After using it once, it will enter a cooling-off period and can only be used in the next script mission.

To avoid players being too eager for quick success and using trial tickets one after another, leading to involution.

Players at Li Ang's level basically have their own transcendent power system and can cultivate outside of script missions.

The longer the cultivation time, the stronger they become.

The effect of the trial ticket is not significant.

But the next patch, he was more interested in—

From now on, equipment and props marked as [Unidentified] will appear in the Killing Game and in the store.

It needs to be identified to see its attributes and special effects.

Players can hand over unidentified items to the game store and pay an identification fee to identify them,

Or seek help from players with [Identification] skills.

For individual players who have seized unidentified props from script missions and regular missions,

This update is nothing special, it's just an extra money-consuming identification procedure.

For the player collective, the [Unidentified] attribute is more interesting.

The prices of these unidentified items in the game store vary, the item descriptions are all dark, and the upper and lower limits of the marked prices vary greatly.

Some expensive unidentified items may not have high special effects,

Some cheap unidentified items also have the possibility of being opened as perfect quality.

It's simply a classic appraisal, gambling on stones, buying lucky bags, opening cans, and krypton gold card drawing.

As a result, the player forums have been full of help posts recently,

For example, asking other players whether to spend 800 game coins to buy this unidentified snowflake-shaped meteor dart,

Whether to spend 1200 game coins to buy this bronze cannon printed with tiger stripes.

If you bet right, you may buy equipment props of excellent or perfect quality, which is worth the money and a great deal.

If you bet wrong and open a broken or ordinary quality item, then all these game coins will be wasted.

Just like gambling on stones and opening cans,

Before the answer is revealed, it is always in an unknown state of quantum superposition,

Bet small for big, tense and exciting.

In addition to help posts, there are also show-off posts,

For example, spending 500 game coins to buy an unidentified talisman from the game store, and the result is a high-level light body talisman worth 1500 game coins, which can greatly increase the movement speed in a short period of time.

Spending 2000 game coins to buy an unhatched monster egg, which eventually hatched into a juvenile kun beast, which can devour foreign objects and grow rapidly to become a combat power.

Generally speaking, players will not show off the equipment and props they use for themselves.

Show-off posts are just a resale platform.

Li Ang, as the owner of the Immaculate Furnace shop, has a lot of working capital, and also went to the game store to buy a few unidentified items to try his luck.

Unfortunately, he was not very lucky, and the items he opened were useless, and were finally thrown into the alchemy workshop as raw materials for transcendent materials.

His current transcendent power system has embarked on the right track, and some perfect-level items with strong side effects are no longer attractive to him, so he can naturally transcend external things.

But for the players below,

Buying unidentified equipment is still extremely tense, exciting and full of opportunities.

Because of this, even if the Killing Game has been constantly expanding the scale of players recently, the game currency in circulation on the market has not been seen to increase—a large number of players participate in the opening box activities, and many game coins flow back to the Killing Game system through the game store.

The desire for game currency has led to further turmoil in war-torn areas.

Organizations such as European Heavy Industries deliberately brew, manufacture, and promote mutations there to obtain game currency,

And the warlords further scavenge and plunder transcendent resources.

This can also be regarded as a typical case of upstream affecting downstream.

In the end, the ordinary people in war-torn areas suffer.

"Yeah, I guess a lot of people are going to die again."

Chai Chai lay on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, and casually interjected, "By the way, I just saw a news story that some multinational corporations are deliberately putting gene potions into the city rivers in Southeast Asia,

Causing the creatures in the river to undergo genetic mutations,

Turning into man-eating monsters the size of humans and shaped like water monkeys.

The system that promotes the Killing Game uses the man-eating monsters as the center to form regular missions,

Then let the people under the multinational corporation solve it themselves and harvest game currency.

Is this true?"

"Maybe, this kind of thing is quite normal. I remember that Gen-sys Biotechnology Company often did this before it was acquired by European Heavy Industries. Of course, they still do it after the acquisition."

Li Ang casually said, "But it depends on where the news comes from.

If it is released by the Watcher Guild, it should be true.

If it is a headless short video released on an ordinary platform, it may be a rumor.

For example, the water monkey may be an otter, sloth, computer special effects, or really a monkey in the water."

As time goes by, except for East Asia and North America, where local official forces are strong and powerful,

Other parts of the world are gradually developing towards a hundred ghosts walking at night.

Spiders the size of cars, three-headed buffaloes,

Genetically mutated畸变bioweapons, Yaogui, and demons emerge one after another.

Let the Australian people call out to the experts.

"Oh."

Chai Chai nodded, without delving into it, and continued to play with her mobile phone.

The strange biological samples in the alchemy workshop are much more terrifying than any water monkey.

Seeing Chai Chai's lazy look of being addicted to her mobile phone, Li Ang rubbed his eyebrows helplessly, "Have you completed today's cultivation goal? Just play with your mobile phone.

The changes in King Shibi have now been resolved, and the manpower of other organizational forces has also successively withdrawn from India.

Shouldn't the gene stealer plan of the Zerg Hive continue to be put on the agenda?

Have you made the expansion plan?

Have you read the suggestions submitted by the brainworms?"

"Ah?"

Chai Chai didn't even move her eyes away from the phone, and said carelessly: "I have already cultivated today.

The people from the Global Supernatural Alliance have to stay in Mumbai for a long time to observe the follow-up situation of the mutation, right?

It shouldn't be very urgent now.

When to continue to promote the gene stealer plan,

Fenrir and other brainworms will have plans."

"Then you just act as a hands-off shopkeeper and play with your mobile phone yourself?"

Li Ang, who was a hands-off shopkeeper himself, sighed helplessly and said with disappointment: "You are not shopping in the mall again, are you?

I learned to draw before,

Said it was to cultivate my sentiments, and bought a lot of genuine works by famous artists.

Buy less things and put your energy into cultivation,

The pocket money you spend is given to you by Liu Wudai, and I will have to use my favors to pay it back in the end..."

"Uh!"

Chai Chai pouted and took out a blackboard from under the sofa, with a few lines written on it.

"Accompany you to fight, 0 yuan.

Write the Zerg Hive Codex for you, 0 yuan.

Build the Zerg Hive Temple for you, 0 yuan.

Eat with you every day, 0 yuan.

Bring you bright smiles every day and make you feel better, 0 yuan.

The happiness I will bring you in the future, 0 yuan.

Ah Ang,

When you laugh at the old and frail Chai Chai, and accuse her of no longer being as useful as before and being able to be your plug-in equipment,

Please think about her silent dedication behind your back.

Great love is always like this,

Invisible and unrequited."

At the end of the paragraph, there is also a small comic avatar of Chai Chai herself, looking a little sad and lost.

Good guy, you even prepared this in advance?

You are so selfless, why don't you go to heaven?

Li Ang was both angry and amused. Looking at Chai Chai lying on the sofa, holding her mobile phone, closing her eyes and showing a sad expression,

I had to shake my head helplessly and sighed.

"Forget it, forget it, I'm convinced."

Hearing Li Ang's words, Chai Chai immediately opened one eye and looked over. After confirming that Li Ang was not really angry, she smiled and jumped up, showing the mobile phone screen to Li Ang, "I'm watching this show, it's so interesting."

"What?"

Li Ang took the mobile phone and found that what was playing on the screen was an online program produced by the Watcher Guild,

Called "Killing Game Appraisal,"

The main content is to film the daily work of equipment appraisers in various guild organizations helping customers to appraise equipment props.

The appraisal and opening box activities have indeed been very popular recently. Many players have acquired equipment props from the mall or other players.

Finally, they seek help from appraisers and entrust them to appraise them.

After a period of summary, players have discovered a rule—the upper and lower limits of the quality of unidentified items obtained from high-difficulty script missions are relatively high and relatively more reliable.

However, this attribute will not be exposed in the item description.

Therefore, there are cases of fraud and deception in private transactions.

If the appraiser's appraisal result is good, everyone is happy.

If the appraisal result is bad, then you can appreciate the player's heartbroken expression.

In some black markets in the real world, there are even clients who curse on the spot and look for people to fight,

Quite a program effect, comparable to the American ace reality show "Mauryshow"—this program provides couples with paternity tests and lie detector services, and announces the results on the spot, full of tearing, nonsense, cuckolding, and scolding segments, which is very happy.