Chapter 123 Godly Development

During those ten minutes of tardiness, Feng Bujue had taken care of everything he needed to do before rehearsing the script. He went to the store and bought five bottles of Survival Value Supplement (Medium) and six magazines of submachine gun ammunition, spending a total of over 40,000 game coins. Afterwards, he searched the Scare Box for the [One-Hit Kill Handgun] and the [Contra Medal] he'd seen in the previous Nightmare script, and sure enough...

The [Contra Medal] in the Scare Box had the same attributes as the one Feng Bujue used up with his Dark Dragon Wave, and it cost 20,000 Skill Points. At this stage, only the top players on the level leaderboard could theoretically afford it, while most players could only sigh at the price.

As for the [One-Hit Kill Handgun]'s attributes, the system had made significant modifications. Although the gun's special effect was still a one-hit kill, it lost its guaranteed hit effect and required aiming. It was also ineffective against the script's final boss and other players. The ammunition was still unlimited, but the number of shots was limited to only five shots per hour. Even so, the weapon was priced at 50,000 Skill Points.

Although both of these were legendary-quality items, they were still far inferior to another legendary weapon Feng Bujue had once found, the [Tessaiga]. The combined price of these two items wasn't even as high as that one, which showed that the pricing given by the Scare Box was quite reasonable.

Feng Bujue didn't want to keep his teammates waiting for too long, so he quickly bought his items and satisfied his curiosity before immediately heading to the conference room.

The conference room they were in was opened by Si Yu, who was also the team leader. However, after Feng Bujue joined the team, she handed over the team leader permissions.

The specific data of the four people will not be detailed here. Apart from Feng Bujue, the abilities and equipment of the others had not changed much.

Xiao Tan, Si Yu, and Bei Ling were all level 17. Their titles were the same as last time, and the weapons they used had not changed either. In terms of specializations, all three had improved slightly. Xiao Tan already met the learning conditions for the [Demon Bat Wraith], so Feng Bujue directly took the skill from the guild's public warehouse and had him learn it.

While exchanging information, Feng Bujue also mentioned that Long Aomin had joined another guild, and also mentioned [Hard Drive 2455-A-1] and his agreement with Kuang Zong Jian Ying. The members of Hell Front quickly understood... Kuang Zong Jian Ying had been tricked by Feng Bujue. Brother Jue was the real shopkeeper, not having to manage anything and just waiting for the other party to finish making the equipment and deliver it.

Although it was a little regrettable that Brother Long couldn't join, it wasn't a big deal. Anyway, Hell Front was originally a casual small guild, and Feng Bujue didn't plan to create a powerful six-person team. He would add more players who shared the same goals in the future. He didn't deliberately force the number of people in the guild.

After the four reported their information, they prepared to depart.

They returned to their respective login spaces. After Feng Bujue connected to the team communication and confirmed everything, they entered the queuing system.

[Mad Detective, Level 19]

[Woeful Wanderer, Level 17]

[Like Rain Lingering, Level 17]

[Sorrowful Spirit Laughing Bones, Level 17]

[Please select the game mode your team wishes to join.]

[You have selected Team Survival Mode (Normal). Please confirm.]

[Confirmed. A random value for the team size has been generated: Five players.]

[Your team has entered the queue, searching for other ready individuals or teams.]

[Match complete. Coordinating neural connections, script generation in progress...]

[Loading begins, please wait.]

"Welcome to Thriller Paradise." This time, the voice sounded like an old witch, with a sinister tone, similar to what Feng Bujue heard when playing the novice tutorial.

[Loading complete. You are currently playing Team Survival Mode (Normal).]

[This mode provides a script introduction and has a chance to spawn side hidden quests and a special worldview.]

[Script Completion Reward: 100,000 Game Coins.]

[The script introduction will now be played. The game will begin immediately after the playback is complete.]

The opening CG began to play...

Night, a bright moon hangs in the sky.

On a small road, the sound of hooves approached. Soon, a swift horse appeared.

The horse was a white horse, and the person on the horse's back was also dressed in white.

This white-clothed man was dressed as an ancient swordsman, but he did not have any weapons on his body. No one knew why he was rushing on his way under the starry sky.

[Ten years ago, in the Purple Cloud Ruins, the "Nameless Sword" Xie San and the "Sword God" Ye Cheng fought fiercely for two days and two nights, and the battle ended in a draw.] Subtitles appeared at the bottom of the screen, accompanied by the system voice.

"What's going on this time..." As soon as Feng Bujue heard this wuxia novel-like beginning, he felt that the plot was going to unfold in a strange way again.

[Ten years later, the two were hard to find opponents in the martial world, and a battle was inevitable.]

[This duel was for the sake of being the best under the heavens, and even more for proving their respective sword arts.]

[The location of the duel was set in a desolate place in the southwest, in an abandoned village.]

At this point, the white-clothed man in the screen suddenly reined in his horse, staring at the small road in front of him, his gaze sweeping across the shadowy woods on both sides: "I am the Jade-Faced Explorer Bai Dian. May I know which path the friend in front is from? Could you please come out and meet me?" His voice was not loud, but in this night, it could still be heard far away.

"Go back." An old man's voice replied. Although this sentence entered Bai Dian's ears, Bai Dian completely failed to grasp the speaker's position. The voice seemed to be spinning in all directions.

"Hmph... I suppose you're also here to witness the unprecedented duel in three days' time?" Bai Dian snorted coldly, "With just one sentence from you, you want me to... ah!" Before he could finish his words, he fell off his horse. Not long after landing, he became a corpse.

The camera moved, giving Bai Dian a close-up. His unblinking eyes revealed a look of horror. Before he died, he only had time to hold his unique weapon, a strangely shaped dart, in his hand. Unfortunately, it was of no use.

The camera moved again, showing the left side of the back of Bai Dian's neck. Only then did the players see clearly that a bamboo skewer had been stabbed into it.

[Cangling Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Legend has it that there is a dilapidated temple in the mountains north of the village, occupied by fierce spirits. Therefore, evil spirits come down from the mountains to cause trouble. Villagers in the town often die mysteriously. The government is also helpless. Over the years, local residents have moved away one after another, and this town has become a veritable ghost town.]

[On the fifteenth day of August this year, the two great swordsmen agreed to fight here.]

[News leaked, shaking the martial world, and masters from all sides flocked to the town. The inns in this desolate town reopened strangely within a few days, housing hundreds of well-known figures in the martial world...]

[What will be the result of this duel? What is the truth of the ghost town? Is there an unknown conspiracy hidden behind all this?]

The script introduction ended here. The four members of Hell Front and another player who had queued up appeared on the small road where Bai Dian had died, but they were at least one kilometer away from the scene of the incident.

[Main Quest Triggered]

[Enter Cangling Town.]

"These days, experts don't fight in the Forbidden City, but run to haunted villages to cause trouble... that's something..." Feng Bujue said, holding his forehead.

"Ah! You!" A familiar voice rang out.

Feng Bujue looked up and saw a face he didn't want to see. He instinctively said, "Are you kidding me..."

"That's supposed to be my line!" Atobe Keigo shouted.

"Where are your three teammates?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Uh..." Atobe replied, "They went to play 3v3."

"You really are a burden..." Feng Bujue said bluntly.

"What did you say!" Atobe Keigo said unhappily, but he really had no further arguments to refute.

"Friend?" Si Yu looked at Feng Bujue and asked succinctly.

Feng Bujue hesitated for a moment: "Um... sort of..." He turned to Xiao Tan and Bei Ling and said, "Let me introduce you, this is Atobe, the leader of the Ice Emperor Host Club. Xiao Tan, you remember, one of the two guys who got killed in the Blood Wolf Zombie script."

"Oh... right, I think that's his name." Xiao Tan had only seen the IDs [Atobe Keigo] and [NamesAreHardToChoose] in that script, but they had never met.

"Who are you calling a host! Look at your own antisocial madman look... combined with your gothic guild name, how dare you say that about me?" As Atobe Keigo spoke, he noticed that the two men and two women next to him all had the "Hell Front" badge. He asked, "Eh? You guys are a guild team?"

"Yeah, I'm also the guild leader now... Although I can't say I have much prestige, seeing such a miserable example as you suddenly makes me feel a sense of superiority..." Feng Bujue said.

Atobe felt that if this continued, he would enter a vicious cycle of constantly complaining. He and Feng Bujue were not on the same level when it came to verbal abuse. There was no way, so he had to endure it... He changed the topic and said, "That... by the way... what's your guild buff?"

"Oh... that..." Feng Bujue felt that there was no harm in telling the other party this information. Anyway, the guild buff would change according to the guild's ranking every week. "The first one is [Reduces all Stamina Value Consumption in scripts by 3%], and the second one is [Extends the time limit of forced disconnection after Fear Value reaches its peak by three seconds]."

Atobe Keigo thought for a moment: "Um... it's about what I expected. Our guild's buff is to add a little bit of Survival Value recovery speed and game coin rewards upon settlement." He paused and said, "It seems that guilds ranked after the top 100 on the list all have this kind of better-than-nothing bonus."

"You should have known this by looking at the forum." Feng Bujue said.

"Ah? Uh... is that so." Atobe was stunned for a moment.

"I say... how long has it been since you logged off, kid?" Feng Bujue checked in the team column and noticed that Atobe Keigo's current level was already 20, and his title was [High-Profile Raid]. "Don't tell me that you've been playing all the time except for sleeping and eating, within the limited game time allowed?"

"I'm a professional player!" Atobe said with a serious face.

"Okay..." Feng Bujue shrugged.

Because Atobe was the only outsider, the five of them didn't need to spend too much time introducing each other. After chatting for a few words, Feng Bujue cleared his throat and began to peddle his first strategy...