Chapter 499: Researching Top-Tier Five-Star Teams!

Bar esports area.

Chen Ran, Jiang Zhe, and Qiu Yinong, the three of them enjoyed the air conditioning and drank iced cola.

【Shang Yun's skill is similar to petrification, and it should be a Superego Tier Skill.】

【The Ancient Dress Woman's skill should be able to delete and graft memories, and is highly likely also a Superego Tier Skill.】

【According to the Chen Ran who was feigning sleep, the Combo Skill of Shang Yun's team is to first use Virtual Overlay, then observe and predict the victim's behavior within the Virtual Overlay. As long as the opponent shows signs of using a skill, they are immediately pulled into Distance-Free to prevent them from using skills.】

【That's not all. Shang Yun can also use Virtual Overlay within Distance-Free. It's his Distance-Free reflecting reality overlay. Simply put, he can construct a... in Distance-Free.】

【New scene!】

【The players pulled into Distance-Free by him will be overlaid by this new scene.】

【Moreover, he can also construct...】

【This is relatively abstract. Ego Mental State can only construct scenes, or objects and such in Distance-Free. Therefore, the people he constructs in Distance-Free are dummies that cannot move.】

【But, he can continuously construct dummies overlaying dummies, just like a comic book. Falling into the victim's line of sight, the 【dummies】 they see can move freely just like real people.】

【Therefore, visually, it's very easy to mislead the victim, giving them the illusion that they haven't been pulled into Distance-Free, thereby continuously consuming and overdrawing their spirit in Distance-Free.】

【This has a huge difference compared to Id Distance-Free. Id Distance-Free is direct crushing, with no technique to speak of.】

【But Ego Distance-Free won't choose direct crushing, the reason is very simple.】

【It's like holding a fish. If you want to pinch it to death, you have to consume strength. If it wants to break free from your hand, it also consumes strength. You can't give up the entire fish pond because of this one fish. Therefore, if you want to kill more fish, the best way is to watch it struggle to death from thirst or exhaustion in your hands.】

【Not only does the fish die, but you haven't consumed much physical strength.】

【You can still go catch more fish.】

【Similarly, crushing with Distance-Free and breaking free from Distance-Free both consume extremely large amounts of spirit.】

【Even with Ego Mental State, if he uses savage Distance-Free crushing, then he can at most kill two or three Id Mental State players, and he also has to overdraw his spirit.】

【But, the player skills encountered by Ego Mental State are all things like Virtual Overlay, virtual humans, or clones.】

【Among Superego Skills, there are also spatial skills like Lin Xuan's.】

【In other words, if an Ego Mental State player uses Distance-Free to crush, it's fine if they crush the opponent's True Form, but what if they crush the opponent's clone, or someone in another space? That would instead be Trying to Steal a Chicken Only to Lose One's Rice.】

【So, Ego Mental States basically won't directly use Distance-Free crushing. Instead, they construct scenes with Distance-Free to overlay the opponent, watching the opponent consume spirit in the scene they constructed, or consume even more spirit by breaking free.】

After listening to Qiu Yinong relay the narration of the Chen Ran who was feigning sleep, the three fell silent.

A simple summary was:

Due to different Star Ratings, the player skills encountered are also different, so the use of Distance-Free must also change. The players encountered by Second Realm of Lingtai are all people with cloning skills, or skills like Lin Xuan's and Jiang Zhe's. If they used Distance-Free to bombard again, what if they bombarded: a clone, a person in another space, or a reincarnation body, a Benevolent Man of Nine Lives kind of thing? Not only would they be doing useless work, but they would also overdraw their own spirit.

Therefore, Second Realm of Lingtai chose to take a tricky approach in Distance-Free, pulling you into the Distance-Free scene he constructed beforehand. In Distance-Free, you are overlaid by the scene he constructed:

If you break free, it will consume a large amount of spirit.

If you don't break free, it will slowly consume your spirit.

But for him, in the Distance-Free he overlaid, there is basically not much consumption. Preserving his spirit, no matter how many clones you have, he can calmly deal with it.

No wonder Shang Yun and the Ancient Dress Woman both hated Lin Xuan's skill so much.

After all, at their Star Rating, they mostly encountered players with cloning skills.

When encountering such players, one only needed to find the True Form and use Distance-Free Overlay.

But with Lin Xuan's skill, the True Form hid in another space, which was truly disgusting.

"Then the problem arises, can closing one's eyes avoid being overlaid by Distance-Free?" Jiang Zhe suddenly asked a question, but immediately shook his head.

Because top-tier Five-Star teams wouldn't give you the chance to close your eyes.

For example, Shang Yun's skill directly petrified you just as you were about to close your eyes.

For example, the Ancient Dress Woman's skill edited your memories, making you forget all your previous deductions, so naturally you wouldn't think of closing your eyes.

And the reason Chen Ran could close his eyes earlier was entirely because it happened so suddenly. Before Shang Yun's team was fully prepared, the two walked into the 【fake】 bar, and only then did he get the chance to close his eyes.

The three's expressions were solemn.

Obviously, top-tier Five-Star teams were teams with a complete system.

They had Virtual Overlay.

They had Second Realm of Lingtai.

They had Id players.

They had Whisperer's Escape Room overlays.

The captain was often a Superego Skill owner, to prevent opponents from evading the Distance-Free Overlay.

The combination of these skills was exaggerated.

Escape sequence:

First: Distance-Free reflecting reality.

Second: Virtual Overlay.

Then: Whisperer's Escape Room.

Last: Is the real Secret Room.

In other words, if you encountered a top-tier Five-Star team in a Secret Room, you would need to escape from the above four layers to survive.

But.

There were two points of doubt regarding Shang Yun's team.

One: What was the role of the Id Player?

Two: What was the last skill?

The first question: Since there was already a Second Realm of Lingtai player in the team who could be immune to Virtual Overlay, why still include a teammate with an Id Tier Skill?

The second question: The skill configuration of a top-tier Five-Star team: a Superego Skill, a Virtual Overlay skill, a Whisperer's Escape Room skill, an Id Tier skill. These were four skills.

What was the remaining skill?

Chen Ran pondered: "Do you guys think there's a possibility that these two points of doubt are specifically targeted at Second Realm of Lingtai players?"

Although it was somewhat hard to speak of.

But judging from the current situation, top-tier Five-Star teams were all teams with complete systems. How could they not have a plan to deal with players who were also in the Second Realm of Lingtai?

Simply put.

Three-Star small fry like Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, Lin Xuan, and Jiang Zhe weren't even qualified to see their complete forms yet.

The two nodded.

Chen Ran took a drag of his cigarette and asked doubtfully:

"It's very strange, the virtual overlays, virtual humans, and clones we encountered... their skill effects seem to be the same."

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be identical skills in Hell.

But along this journey, they had encountered many Virtual Overlay skills with the same effects.

"I know about this. The development directions of these types of skills are different after upgrading."

"Cloning skills basically all have Star Rating limits. For example, if you are Three-Star, you can't create a Four-Star player clone."

"But after upgrading, the new effects that appear for these cloning skills might be lowering this limit. For example, a Three-Star might be able to create a Four-Star player clone, or it might make the clone act according to the skill owner's will."

"In short, different development directions lead to their different skill effects."

"The most scarce is the effect where clones can reflect reality in Distance-Free."

Hearing this, Chen Ran looked at Jiang Zhe: "You mean to say, ordinary clones cannot reflect reality in Distance-Free?"

Jiang Zhe said weirdly: "Of course. Did you forget, Second Realm of Lingtai players can be immune to Ego Tier skills under certain circumstances?"

"This is that 'certain circumstances,' and it's also the weakness of cloning-type skills."

"Therefore, clones can use Distance-Free, but basically cannot reflect reality."

Chen Ran was startled. Right, the Second Realm of Lingtai could be immune to most Ego Tier skills.

No wonder Chen Ran felt earlier that if Shang Yun wanted to avoid consuming spirit while still crushing opponents with Distance-Free, couldn't he just recruit a member with a cloning skill? It would be free labor.

'So that's how it is!'

'However, Jiang Zhe said the most scarce is the effect that can reflect reality.'

'In other words, a skill where clones can reflect reality belongs to Superego Skills, like Lin Xuan's. But the Third Realm of Lingtai can be immune to Superego. In other words, the players from other spaces that Lin Xuan creates can never reflect players in Distance-Free.'