As a mber of the Kings Guild, Wang Shun’s skill was related to collecting information. Therefore, he was mainly responsible for two tasks. One was to collect instance clearance data for various gas and the other was to find players with great potential for the guild. Wang Shun had wanted to report Bai Liu’s data and snatch him. Then he saw the announcent from the Kings Guild that they were recruiting puppet players and Wang Shun hesitated.
If he reported Bai Liu now, Bai Liu’s superior intelligence data and ntal value data would probably be noted and it would be easy for him to be selected as a puppet player. For ordinary players, being selected as a puppet player was a pretty good position. However, it would be a pity for a newcor like Bai Liu with an S-grade potential to be a puppet.
Another point was that when Wang Shun did a statistical analysis of the data, he found that the panel attributes of a player who beca a puppet didn’t rise any higher or the rise was very slow.
On the contrary, String Puppet Master’s intelligence rose from 71 to 93 points and the other panel attributes also soared.
This data was only clear to Wang Shun who did internal data collection and analysis in the Kings Guild. It was speculated a long ti ago that the skill of String Puppet Master wasn’t just ‘player manipulation’ but also ‘potential absorption’. Currently, players only knew that String Puppet Master’s skill was player manipulation.
Many players judged as having high potential by Wang Shun ended up in the arms of String Puppet Master and beca puppets. They gradually beca diocre and were abandoned by String Puppet Master or died in the ga. They changed from a piece of jade that could emit luster after a single polishing into crushed up mud.
Wang Shun felt sorry but at the sa ti, he had to accept this helpless reality.
The ga was a place ruled by the law of the jungle. After the bottom players were squeezed and their remaining value used up, they would be thrown away by the guild or the strong players. Here, the least valuable thing wasn’t the unsaleable discount products that could be bought with one point but human lives.
Therefore, joining a guild wasn’t necessarily the best choice for an eye-catching player like Bai Liu. It was too easy to be restrained by the rules of the guild and then used by higher level players. Mu Sicheng also saw through this so he didn’t join the Kings Guild.
Coincidentally, it was String Puppet Master who saw Mu Sicheng and wanted him to join the Kings Guild. Mu Sicheng said that he wouldn’t be a puppet under anyone’s control and refused the invitation of the String Puppet Master.
Later, Mu Sicheng suffered a lot from the hands of String Puppet Master but he beca more powerful. His ranking gradually climbed to the top 300 of the overall rankings and String Puppet Master had to let him go.
However, Bai Liu was currently ranked in the top 3,000. He was a newcor with great potential and String Puppet Master wouldn’t easily let him go. Although Wang Shun didn’t submit Bai Liu’s personal data to the Kings Guild out of selfishness, Bai Liu’s eye-catching performance and panel data still attracted the attention of String Puppet Master.
String Puppet Master had been stuck with an intelligence value of 93 for a long ti. He needed high intelligence players as ‘nourishnt’ to develop his intelligence. Was there a better breeding ground than Bai Liu, a newcor who only played one single player ga?
Wang Shun sowhat wanted to remind Bai Liu to pay attention to this String Puppet Master and the people of String Puppet Master who were also looking for Bai Liu. However, Bai Liu had colorful ssy hair and black lipstick. Even if Bai Liu stood in front of Lu Yizhan who knew him for over 10 years then he might not be recognized as Bai Liu.
Unexpectedly, soone recognized Bai Liu despite his strange appearance. Mu Sicheng crossed his arms and stared at Bai Liu who was standing at the entrance of the ga area. “…Bai Liu, what did the real world do to you? In just a few days, you have turned into this appearance that doesn’t discriminate between a human or an animal?”
“You can recognize ?” Bai Liu was a bit surprised. He used this face to wander through the ga hall several tis and no one recognized him. However, Mu Sicheng recognized him with certainty.
Mu Sicheng smiled proudly, revealing his tiger teeth. “Bai Liu, I can recognize you no matter the disguise! I said that I want to take back everything you stole from so you can’t escape! I can find you!”
“Since you don’t recognize people by appearance…” Bai Liu’s eyes swept over the weird hip-hop monkey hat on this person’s head. “You recognized by sll, right? Your personal skill is related to this monkey? Strengthening the five senses?”
Mu Sicheng’s smile grew wider. “You guessed wrong. My personal skill isn’t to strengthen my five senses but I did recognize you by sll. You have a very strong sll of copper, or money.”
“Then it should sll good.” Bai Liu was noncommittal as he looked at Mu Sicheng calmly. “What can I do for you?”
“One player is looking for another player—” Mu Sicheng looked at the large ga entrance behind Bai Liu. There was a dark and unclear smile on his face and a red light flickered in his eyes. “It is naturally to play a ga. I won’t allow you to shrink back and hide in single player gas. It is too boring and the death rate is too low.”
Bai Liu nodded in agreent. “I’ve discovered that the rewards for multiplayer gas are 10 tis the rewards for single player gas. I have given up on that poor division.”
“……” Mu Sicheng had wanted to scare Bai Liu but now his words were blocked. He looked at Bai Liu who was serious about carefully screening the multiplayer gas and asked dejectedly, “No Bai Liu, it is easy to die in multiplayer gas. Aren’t you afraid?”
Next to the entrance behind Bai Liu was a huge projection screen that showed the cover and nas of various gas randomly.
Bai Liu touched his chin while selecting the ga to enter. He glanced over the gas and didn’t give Mu Sicheng a superfluous look as he replied lightly, “Objectively, I have a fear of death but this fear is nothing compared to the fear that poverty brings .”
Mu Sicheng couldn’t understand Bai Liu’s mind at all but the choked-up feeling Bai Liu caused in him was extrely real. “No, you aren’t panicked when entering the ga? Aren’t you a bit too calm?”
Bai Liu observed the gas on the screen while talking with Mu Sicheng. “I am calm and not afraid because I enter the ga with the ntality of coming to work.”
“Coming to work?” Mu Sicheng was completely speechless. “You are coming to work in a horror ga?”
“Yes, I work once a week and can take five days off. I can earn at least 200,000 yuan if I do a good job. There is no boss to deduct my bonus and salary and no need to deal with other human beings by trying to understand them, lie to them or reluctantly communicate with them. I just need to do what I’m good at—play horror gas.”
Bai Liu finally turned around to look into Mu Sicheng’s eyes and shrugged. “The death rate is slightly higher but I often stay up late when working in the real world. There is no guarantee that I won’t suddenly die so this death rate can also be considered negligible. In summary, this is an ideal job with a high inco. I can never find this type of job in the real world so it is hard for to be afraid of the ga.”
Mu Sicheng, “……”
Mu Sicheng felt like he was fucking persuaded by Bai Liu.
“Can I ask sothing?” Bai Liu asked while pointing to the various gas on the huge wall. “Are there only 100 horror gas in here? Judging from the number of TVs and players in the ga, 100 types are too few. I would like to ask if there are any other gas.”
The forum generally discussed a player or a specific ga. There were no relevant discussions about the basic chanisms of the ga. Bai Liu had searched for a while and didn’t find any ga-related posts. Now Mu Sicheng ca to the door and Bai Liu treated him as an object of inquiry.
“There are many kinds of horror gas in this ga and we don’t know how many types there are.” Mu Sicheng spread open his hands. “It is just that this wall only projects 100 gas at a ti. Once all 100 gas are full, the screen will refresh and new gas will appear. Sotis, gas that appeared last ti will be repeated.”
Bai Liu touched his chin. “In other words, this ga has a total ‘question bank’. It isn’t clear how many gas are in this question bank for us players.”
“Every ti, the system will randomly or not randomly select 100 ga questions from the question bank and put them on the screen. Then us players who are candidates will choose a ga question and answer them. Sotis, if lucky, there will be repetitive questions and sotis it might be all new questions. Is this correct?”
“That’s right.”’
“If this is the case, it is no wonder that there will be guilds in the ga.”
Bai Liu was thoughtful. “The big guilds should summarize so of the repetitive questions that appear. In other words, information on how to quickly and safely clear the instance is internally shared. Through this, they can recruit powerful newcors.”
“anwhile, players with strength or potential will play new gas to accumulate ‘answers’ and will receive more resources from the guild. However, there is the live broadcast and the answers to the ga are open at a certain level. This ans this system can’t last a long ti. Current guilds shouldn’t rely on ga answers to develop. They should be at the stage of relying on the growth of advanced players in the guild.”
“If I want to develop a guild then I would let senior players bring low level players but the lower level players would need to pay a certain amount of points to the seniors. To the senior players, this is equivalent to remuneration. They will pay a certain amount of points to the guild which is equivalent to paying taxes.”
“At the sa ti, the items that the low level players get are fully distributed to the guild and most of them will flow into the pockets of high level players to ensure they stay in the guild.” Bai Liu sighed. “However, this will inevitably lead to the exploitation of low level players by high level players and curb the developnt of low level players. Many low level players won’t have items or personal skills, so they can only survive by relying on the high level players in the guild.”
“Still, there is a steady stream of newcors joining the guild so the exploited low level players can exploit the newcors. It is only when a guild is ford layer by layer that it can stabilize its existence. It is no wonder why so many low level players are malicious to strong newcors.”
Bai Liu had seen all those criticizing him in the forum but didn’t care much. Now he could understand it a bit.
Mu Sicheng, “……”
Bai Liu’s words were all correct. It was almost the sa as the current situation of the guilds that Mu Sicheng had learned.
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