【The script is complete; rewards are being calculated.】

【Experience gained: 80000, Game Coins: 100000】

【Items/Equipment obtained: None】

【Accepted Missions Completed: 11】

【Special/Hidden Missions Completed: 0, Worldview Deciphered: None】

【Sudden Increase in Scare Value: 0 times, Highest Scare Value: 0%, Average Scare Value: 0%】

【Your Fear Rating is "Dauntless," and you will receive an additional reward to select later.】

【Skill Points gained: 2650】

【Skill Points bonus experience: 26500, Game Coins: 100000】

【Script Completion Reward: Randomly draw one usable Perfect grade equipment.】

【Settlement complete, please continue.】

Here, it should be explained that there is a limit to the Game Coins rewards for both "Script Completion" and "Skill Point Bonus," and the limit is 100,000 each. That is, after completing a script, excluding additional rewards, hidden missions, and other factors, players can obtain a maximum of 200,000 Game Coins.

This design, which limits player income at the source, is also a means for Meng Corporation to control the in-game exchange rate.

Because relying solely on the mall's monopoly on consumables, clothing, miscellaneous items, and so on is not enough to stabilize the market. Therefore, they also have to make adjustments to the "issuance" of currency.

This is a very complex issue, involving many factors such as the number of players, their skill level, and game time, all of which are closely related to the generation of Game Coins.

According to the statistical data of the past month, the script completion rate of players is around 60% (since the public beta, the total number of players who have logged into the game has exceeded ten million, and the number of concurrent online users during peak hours remains at around four million, while the base of top experts accounts for less than one ten-thousandth). In other words, most players who play ten scripts will not receive settlement rewards for four of them, and can only get some skill points and items. Even in the remaining six successfully completed scripts, how much reward they can get depends on how much they contribute to the completion.

Therefore, basically... only those fixed teams of guilds or extremely powerful individual experts can often get the full settlement of 200,000 Game Coins. And the vast majority of players, under the premise of that 60%, still have to see how well they perform in order to have a chance to get it.

Of course, these trivial matters have nothing to do with wealthy players who don't lack money. For them, it's naturally good to get more Game Coins in the script, but if it's really not enough... they just recharge.

But those players who are willing to recharge tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of RMB are only a minority after all. A responsible and high-quality game company has to consider the majority... The ideal situation is to neither let the players have so much money that it leads to inflation, nor let them be so poor that they can't make ends meet. Only in this way can the prices and exchange rates in the game be stable, and only with stability can more people feel confident to recharge.

Many online game agents, or developers, like to go to extremes on this crucial issue. Often, just after the initial stage of the game, they make the players so poor that they can't continue playing, forcing them to recharge. These are all short-sighted and self-defeating actions.

【Your title has been updated to – Dark Vanguard】

After the settlement list popped up, a system prompt rang in his ears, announcing that the title of "Unfathomable Maniac" had come to an end.

Feng Bu Jue's mood was mixed when he heard the prompt. It was a good thing to have a new title, but losing the [Watch Out] skill meant that he had no usable summoning skills. However, the character mission: [Use summoning skills and successfully summon summoned creatures fifty times, current progress 14/50] was less than a third completed.

But as the saying goes, out with the old, in with the new. Feng Bu Jue didn't dwell on it, anyway, the character mission would be completed eventually, so there was no need to rush.

He opened the game menu and first observed the new title ability:

【Name: Demonic Advent】

【Special Ability Type: Active】

【Consumption: All Survival, Stamina, and Spiritual Power values】

【Effect: Demonizes oneself, gaining godlike combat abilities (transformation skill, lasts for three minutes, can only be activated once after entering a script)】

【Note: The moment the skill is activated, the Survival Value will become 300% of the player's original limit, and Stamina and Spiritual Power are considered infinite.

During the demonization period, players cannot use any weapons or consumables other than spiritual weapons; the bonus effects of all equipment will disappear; the game menu will be blocked until the demonization ends.

When the Survival Value is exhausted or the time limit is reached, the demonization stops, and the player becomes a state with 1% Survival Value, 0 Stamina Value, and 0 Spiritual Power Value, and is immune to medical skills and consumables (buffs) for the next five minutes.】

"This is playing with my life..." Feng Bu Jue complained, "It's rare to win a script with my fists, and then this title ability comes along, pushing people to the brink of despair..."

Before he went to collect the extra reward and that perfect equipment, he first looked at the time. It was already late at night, and the time spent in this killing game was much longer than he had imagined.

"Eh?" While operating the touchscreen, Feng Bu Jue noticed that there were friend requests and a mail message.

He first looked at the people who had added him as friends. Shiva, Qisha, and Zhao Ying Wang were all there.

"Heh... if these three consecutive requests were screenshotted and posted on the forum..." Feng Bu Jue said with a smile, "Well... I guess people would say it's photoshopped."

Feng Bu Jue clicked accept one by one, but the next second, he went offline.

Doing so can effectively prevent the other party from immediately sending a communication request or something to harass him...

After getting up to go to the toilet and washing up, Feng Bu Jue lay back in the game pod and switched to sleep mode to log in.

He set the login time to be immediate, that is, the neural connection would start as soon as the brain entered a sleep state.

After returning to the login space again, Feng Bu Jue looked at the time again. It was one fifteen in the morning. After changing the login mode, Qisha and Shiva couldn't contact him. At this time, Zhao Ying Wang was also in this channel, but his status was already "in game."

"Xiao Tan, Long Ge, Jin Fugui..." Feng Bu Jue's gaze swept across the friend list. Almost everyone was already in a script. "Strange... Si Yu and Bei Ling aren't online today..." he muttered to himself as he opened his email inbox.

The only email was sent by Xiao Tan, and the content was: "Jue Ge, I saw that you haven't logged in and you're not answering your phone. You're probably stuck in a script in non-sleep mode, so I'm writing you an email to tell you.

Around eight or nine o'clock, Xiao Ling called me and told me that Yu Jie suddenly felt unwell. Xiao Ling is already at Yu Jie's house with her now. She also asked me to tell you not to worry, it's just a sudden severe cold, nothing serious.

That's all. I don't know when you'll be online, so I'll queue up for a script myself first."

"Hmm..." Feng Bu Jue repeated thoughtfully, "'Don't worry,' huh..."

At this moment, Si Yu's face appeared in Feng Bu Jue's mind, and he whispered, "Speaking of which... is she already on my list of people I care about... when did it start..."