Chapter 73: A-Rank Tactical Squad?

Where's the promised infiltration?

Your family's idea of infiltration is going to prison and serving time?

Feng Mu's forehead was covered in black lines; even without rescuing this tactical squad, he had already been thoroughly shocked.

Buzz buzz buzz—

The phone vibrated, and an encrypted email was sent to the phone, just like last time, the sender was a string of blanks, only noting that it would self-destruct after reading.

Feng Mu sighed, opened the email, and it was a classified A-rank 【Destiny】 file.

A classified A-rank meant that in 【Destiny】's internal assessment, the value assessment of this tactical squad was A-rank, meaning this squad had completed at least one A-rank difficulty mission before.

This assessment system was one he had set up in the game, so Feng Mu was naturally very familiar with it.

Value assessment from low to high was D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS; although it couldn't be directly linked to combat power, it was basically about the same.

A-rank difficulty usually corresponded to a Sixth Rank Martial Artist, meaning this squad had directly or indirectly defeated a Sixth Rank Martial Artist in a mission?

What was the concept of a Sixth Rank Martial Artist? In the game, they basically didn't fear ordinary hot weapon attacks at all; in reality, they could probably crush a normal Investigation Corps head-on?

However, the game was ultimately just borrowing from reality, so there were still discrepancies; besides, after logging into reality, who knew what patches the system had applied?

Feng Mu also found it hard to judge accurately.

After all, in the game, everyone had blood bars and levels above their heads, strengths and weaknesses clear at a glance.

A faction-building game, the combat system was relatively crude; PKing didn't involve so many operations, it was purely numerical crushing, and basically no one would counter-kill across ranks.

But in reality, the factors affecting victory and defeat, when calculated, were too complex.

But precisely because of this, an A-rank tactical squad, if operated properly, could exert value far higher than A-rank.

Of course, if operated improperly, it was probably not even as good as B-rank.

"This is where reality is more complex, more uncertain, and also more dangerous and interesting than games."

Feng Mu made up his mind; he must rescue all members of this A-rank squad, even if he had to plan a prison break.

"By the way, that black-faced guy I just killed should be around the strength of a Fourth Rank, so do I now have the ability to kill a Fourth Rank Martial Artist?"

Feng Mu's eyes flashed with sharp light; although he had used some schemes and tricks in the fight, who doesn't use schemes and tricks in a fight? Doesn't that also count as a kind of strength?

"In just one month, I went from a martial arts waste to a Fourth Rank Martial Artist?"

A look of joy appeared on Feng Mu's face, but after a long time he still shook his head rationally,

"Can't equate it so simply; defining a Martial Artist's rank is a very complex matter; I can only count as having Fourth Rank attack power now, other aspects are still far behind."

"And, whether it's martial arts upgrading or game upgrading, it's fast in the early stage and slower later on, experience increases exponentially; I must not get carried away by this small achievement, and need to guard against pride and impatience, after all my future enemies are..."

Limited by his shallow martial arts vision and scarce experience, Feng Mu's positioning and judgment of his own strength was actually very vague; fortunately, his mindset was very correct.

Withdrawing his scattered thoughts, Feng Mu read the email.

First appearing before his eyes were several photos, then a brief personal introduction.

Squad 087, A-rank.

Mission completions: A2, B5, C11, D14

Captain: Chen Ya

Age: 27

Rank: Yuanxing Wu Tai

Main cultivation art: Hou Yuan

Weapon proficient with: Gray Needle

Codename: Tailor

Member: Dong Xu

Age: 21

Rank: Yuanxing Si Zhuan

Main cultivation art: Kui She Yi Qi Jing

Weapon proficient with: Nine-section Whip

Codename: Kui She

Member: Liu Yi

Age: 40

Rank: Martial Dao Fourth Rank

Main cultivation art: Jin Gang Jin

Weapon proficient with: Fist/Sniper Rifle

Codename: Wood

The basic information of five people in total, Feng Mu scanned twice and roughly memorized it, while some doubts also arose in his heart.

"I understand Martial Dao Fourth Rank, but what do Yuanxing Si Zhuan and Yuanxing Wu Tai mean? I don't remember this system in the game; it should be a patch after logging into reality, but I've never heard these terms in school martial arts class either?"

"Yuanxing Si Zhuan shouldn't be Martial Dao Fourth Rank, otherwise they would just write Martial Dao Fourth Rank; so this is another upgrading system?"

"Is it a system unique to 【Destiny】, or does the Martial Dao system originally contain more than one system, but only the Martial Dao Nine Grades system is the only one widely known?"

Feng Mu was just a bottom-level Blank Citizen; his understanding of this world was already very limited, and now because of the game's interference, he felt this world was shrouded in mist everywhere.

"It's not surprising; after all, I haven't even seen the sky of this world yet; who knows, maybe there are two suns hanging up there?"

"I've only heard of Hidden Gates but never been inside; this world also has Mutations, E Corpses, and Curse of the Evil Sacrifice... well, giving birth to all sorts of weird systems, or one day producing demons and monsters, is not impossible."

Feng Mu sighed, no longer pondering the secrets hidden behind this world; those secrets could wait until he fully inherited 【Destiny】 to consider.

For now, he just did his duty as a bottom-level person, occasionally changing into a 【Mask】 alt account, going out to stir up some small incidents.

Things like suddenly discovering a huge world conspiracy, saving the world or destroying the world—whoever loves it can do it; get as far away as possible, don't bother me.

The last few lines of the email, in small print, even considerately explained the ins and outs of Party 087's imprisonment to Feng Mu; summed up, it was just a single sentence.

Party 087 had all deliberately committed crimes to get imprisoned, because Captain Tailor Chen Ya had a flash of inspiration and felt there was no place better than a prison to conceal their identities.

The only problem was that their sentences were a bit long; they had already been out of contact with the outside world for nearly a year.

Admittedly, Party 087 was fully capable of breaking straight out of San Hao Jian Yu, but doing so would expose strength far too tyrannical, inevitably drawing intervention and investigation from a higher level.

A few minutes later, the email self-destructed.

Feng Mu also reached a conclusion in his heart: "So it's a prison break, but one that strictly controls the power displayed during the break — like an exam where you clearly have the ability to fight for a perfect 100, but must precisely control your score to get exactly 60."

Feng Mu let out a long breath; it was hard to say whether acing the exam was harder or precisely scoring 60 was harder, but it was plain to see that Party 087's Captain was absolutely a world-class... genius?!

Who knew, when Chen Ya and Ma Bin ran into each other later, whose brain would come out on top.

Feng Mu discovered that 【Destiny】 truly lived up to being a gathering place for madmen; every randomly assigned subordinate was damn well one more not-to-be-underestimated character than the last.

Shaking his head, Feng Mu decided not to think about the prison break for now; that could be discussed with Ma Bin when the time came, and perhaps they could devise an even better scheme.

He focused his attention back on the Treasure Chest.

Special Skill Points were easy to understand: they were points that could upgrade any skill or trait except 【Entries】, and could even break the limits of ordinary skills.

In other words, Feng Mu could now allocate them to 【Molding Embryo】, instantly letting 【Molding Embryo】 shed its white Skin, or add them to 【Tongue Root Death Curse】, or even to 【Acting Agent's Bestowal】 and 【Marrying Death Twins】.

And if added to 【Crane Claw Technique】, it could directly break the cap of this ordinary skill.

"In short, except for 【Iron Eater】, 【Blood Frenzy】, 【Grand Feast】 which cannot be upgraded, everything else can use Special Skill Points to upgrade?"

Feng Mu pursed his lips and fell into contemplation.

So, which one should be upgraded?

End of Chapter