"You're back?"
At 4: 30 in the morning, Feng Bujue heard this as soon as he entered the house.
"Huh? Didn't you go back to your room to sleep after the game? "Brother Jue replied as he changed his shoes.
Ruo Yu was holding a bowl of instant noodles, wrapped in a robe, and sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching a horror movie.
"You woke me up with a start before you left," Ruo Yu said as she took a sip of noodles, "Then I couldn't sleep."
"Haha …" Feng Bujue changed his shoes and walked into the living room with a smile, "Since you were so worried about me, why didn't you follow me out?"
"If you wanted me to follow you, you wouldn't have sneaked out in the middle of the night," Ruo Yu replied, "Why would I ask for trouble?"
Her words … sounded like she was throwing a tantrum with Brother Jue, and this … caused Feng Bujue's despicable power to rise to a height that was unimaginable to human beings.
Note: The power of baseness is a unique, invisible value used to measure the "baseness" of a living being. That's right, I came up with this setting when I was typing this line of text.
The next second, Brother Jue used a tone that sounded like he was trying to attract a customer and added, "Who are you mad at?"
Ruo Yu heard this and narrowed her eyes. She turned around and said, "If you use that tone again …" She said seriously, "I'll hit you."
Feng Bujue really did shut up when she said this.
He wasn't afraid of being hit, but he felt that her response was too cute. Ruo Yu's lines seemed to be used by children under the age of eight.
"Okay, I was wrong." After a few seconds of silence, Feng Bujue, as a man, apologized, "I'll call you next time."
"No need." Ruo Yu immediately replied.
"No need for what?" Brother Jue was puzzled.
"You don't have to apologize because you didn't do anything wrong." Ruo Yu replied, "If there's a next time, you don't have to call me because I'm too lazy to go." She turned her head and continued eating her instant noodles, "I know you have a reason for everything you do, and you know what you're doing … It's just that I'm a little annoyed that you're hiding things from me."
"Yeah …" Feng Bujue heard this and thought for a moment, "There are a lot of things … I'll tell you in the future, but now … it's not the right time."
"It's fine," Ruo Yu replied calmly. "I can wait."
Before she finished, Feng Bujue walked around the sofa and sat down beside her.
His gaze was firm, but he didn't look directly at her face. "Don't worry … I won't make you wait too long."
…
November 12th, noon, Feng Bujue's office.
Brother Jue had been there since eight in the morning. Based on the time ratio of non-sleeping mode, it had been eight hours …
In those eight hours, Brother Jue had been using 8x speed to watch the recording of their next opponent. (Brother Jue's brain speed in the game was much faster than normal people's. After getting used to it, he had been using 8x speed to watch the recording of their next opponent.)
Obviously, their opponent this time was not to be underestimated …
And the name of this team was — [Blade].
Even though we all know that they are actually an investigation team planted in the game world by 'Jiu Ke', their public image was still that of a gaming studio.
Therefore, they had to do whatever the studio wanted to do. Competitions like the Tournament for the Best … Regardless of whether it was from the perspective of a studio or from their own job, they couldn't miss it.
Of course, since doing business was just a cover, there were many aspects of the Blades club that people didn't understand …
First of all, their official website was very simple, to the point of being crude …
Many players didn't understand why their official website was worse than those third-rate studios, even though they were a top-tier studio on the strength rankings.
Looking at the official website of Blades, there was very little information that could be found. Their office address was listed as one of the floors of an e-commerce center in City S. They only had an email address for contact, not even a phone number. The basic information of the studio's players was only their in-game ID, age, gender, and other information … Even their photos were not of the players themselves, but of their in-game avatars.
There weren't many good hyperlinks on the entire official website, and there was only that much information. Rather than saying that it was a company's website, it was more like a beginner's experiment for learning web development.
Secondly, the Blade Cutting Edge Workshop did not recruit full-time players … Never.
No one knew what the studio's recruitment mechanism was like, but the website always stated that "our company's email does not accept any resumes."
However, there were quite a number of professional players in Blades. When they were asked how they got into the company by outsiders in the game, all of them said the same thing — "Friend introduced me." When others asked them to help introduce themselves, they would firmly say — "Our company is full of people."
However … even though Blades didn't recruit people who worked in the real world, they still welcomed in-game club members. Their attitude towards these "outside club members" was similar to that of other studios.
As for the daily business that other studios did, they also did it. Things like bringing players (note that it was "bringing" and not "bringing") to practice, selling virtual items, selling peripheral goods, and so on. It was just that … when Blades did these business, they always gave people the feeling that they didn't put much effort into it.
It wasn't that they didn't do a good job … Whether it was selling services or goods, Blades' products could be said to be reasonably priced and worth the money, but … when it came to soliciting business, they had a vague attitude of "if you want to come or not, I'll be more relaxed if you don't come."
Perhaps … this was a characteristic of civil servants.
In other words, there were many suspicious points about Blades' operation. Thankfully … these suspicious points didn't attract too much attention from other studios.
This was because they couldn't see any sense of competition from Blades. A studio that didn't even hire an online ghostwriter would never compete for business with other studios. With such a strange studio, naturally, other people had no reason to provoke them.
That was about the operation of this secret agency that used the name of a gaming studio, or in other words, the situation in real life.
Now, it was time to talk about the situation in the game.
For this Tournament for the Best S2, Blades only sent one team to participate. The four main members of this team were Long Aomin, Seven Kills, Army Destroyer, and Greedy Wolf.
Of the four, other than Army Destroyer, the other three had queued together with the members of Underworld Frontline. Brother Long was the first 'friend' that Brother Jue and Xiao Tan added in Thriller Paradise. If not for his job, he probably would have joined Underworld Frontline.
Even though it had been a long time since Brother Long made an appearance in this novel, in some of the scenarios that I didn't write, he would often queue together with the members of Underworld Frontline.
Therefore, Feng Bujue was very familiar with Long Aomin's ability.
If Brother Jue had to give him a title, it would be — Thriller Paradise's Number One Warrior.
Perhaps his strength-based and defense-oriented fighting style was not flashy, and his ranking on the player's power ranking was not that high. But … don't forget, Brother Long was the man who defeated Smoke and Perfume in S1.
In the whole of Thriller Paradise, there were only a handful of people who could defeat Meng Jingchan in a duel, and Brother Long was one of them. Even though this was partly due to the fact that their fighting styles countered each other, without enough power to back it up, it was just a theory.
This went to show that Long Aomin's ability was definitely at the level of an 'ace'.
The remaining 'Kill Army Destroyer' was even more famous than Long Aomin. Other than their eye-catching IDs, the three of them had outstanding abilities as well.
Seven Kills, a fighting maniac. He was one of the first few to train his fighting mastery to level A and S in Thriller Paradise. During the Battle for the Cape, he almost defeated Feng Bujue, who had the advantage of Soul's Eye. He was an expert in many fighting skills in real life, and he had applied those skills to the game. With the support of his in-game character's powerful physique, he had reached a level that could make one's hair stand on end.
Based on Brother Jue's observation, the man was now a god in fighting. He had both active and passive skills, mainly focusing on KOF's moves. During battle, he used all kinds of flashy combo skills to beat his opponent until they were on the verge of death.
Army Destroyer, a triple A expert in shooting, fighting, and sorcery. He was the leader of Blade's Edge. There was a rumor that he had encountered and defeated Jianghu's World's Enigma in a Killing Game matchup, but it was unclear whether that was true or not.
Brother Jue's evaluation of him was … an extremely tough opponent with no obvious weakness, a strong mentality, and above average intelligence. No matter what, one would have to pay a certain price to defeat him.
Greedy Wolf, a battlefield strategist who focused on Medic. He was a political commissar of Blade's Edge. He had a clear view of the big picture, and he was good at using the situation to his advantage. Different from most players who focused on Medic, when Greedy Wolf focused on this support mastery, he did not focus on improving his second mastery. Normally, players who focused on Medic would focus on shooting, sorcery, or workmanship, and some would focus on fighting. In any case, they had to have a level B secondary mastery, or else their individual combat ability would be greatly limited. Perhaps it was because of that … he became the first player to reach level S in Medic when he was not even level 40.
Feng Bujue was quite cautious of this man. When they met at Ghost Power Company, the two did not have much interaction, but at the time, Brother Jue had observed the man's character through the data perspective, and he was not weak. After seeing his strategy in the competition, Chen Ge felt that the man was quite difficult to deal with.
In conclusion … Blade was very strong.
They should be the most difficult obstacle for Underworld Frontline since the start of S2.
If they could defeat them, they would enter the top eight and enter the semifinals. But if they could not defeat them, then they would fail.
…
"Phew … After watching for so long, I am getting tired." When it was close to 12: 30 pm, Feng Bujue stretched lazily and stood up from the table. "Hmm … I should go destroy some equipment and prepare to go offline for dinner."
He mumbled as he walked toward the door of the conference room.
Several seconds later, he walked out of the conference room and entered the log-in lobby's elevator. When the elevator door closed, he pressed the button for the storage room. After two seconds, the elevator door reopened, and the storage room appeared before Brother Jue's eyes.
After passing through the door, he went straight to the [Type 0 Magic Disintegrator]. Halfway there, he reached his hand into his inventory to take something out.
The item he was going to destroy was the reward he received from a solo mission on normal difficulty. Even though the main reason he cleared the mission was to contact the Phantom Church to set a trap for Regulation, he still managed to clear the mission quickly after that.
Unfortunately, the random reward he received after clearing the mission was nothing special. It was just a mediocre piece of excellent equipment. According to the current market, if this equipment was placed in the auction house, it would not be sold if the price was too high. If the price was too low, it would be better to just sell it in the shop. Even if the price was too low, no one would buy it. It would not be worth it even if the price was too low.
For a player like Feng Bujue who could 'digest' the useless equipment on his own, he did not need to worry too much about this kind of problem.
Creak creak creak —
After throwing the item into the disintegrator and pulling the lever, the noisy equipment started to operate.
Brother Jue who was standing at the end of the conveyor belt could not help but say, "Eh? Speaking of which … this Magical Disintegrator Zero … is similar to SCP-914. " He rubbed his chin and pursed his lips. "Hmm … but this is something that is randomly 'generated' by accumulating items and luck, while SCP-914 is a more reliable 'processed' item."
While he was thinking, the disintegrator's operation was completed.
At that moment, even Feng Bujue himself could not believe it … the machine actually produced equipment.
"Woah ~" Brother Jue looked at the conveyor belt that was gradually coming to a stop, and the equipment that was quietly lying on the conveyor belt … No, it should be the 'thing', and immediately showed a complicated expression.
His current mood … we can use a famous black talk show star's joke to describe it — "If you're black, the feeling America gives you is … your rich uncle. He pays for your college education, but at the same time, he harasses you."
"Hmm … since the last equipment, I didn't put in much stuff. I thought it would take a long time for equipment to come out …" Feng Bujue looked at the machine and said to himself, "Could it be … the drop rate of this disintegrator is related to the quality of the item? Because I threw in a powerful equipment like Artemis's Embrace in this cycle, the drop rate increased? "
As he spoke, he picked up the item and continued, "But this thing … what the hell is it?"
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