Chapter 149: New Black Tide Species: Players

Meng Yuan Chu Altar.

Qi Sheng was checking the latest data from the Guidance feedback.

【Player Count: 108,592】

Online Players: 54,920.

Death Cooldown Players: 48,949.

Number of Contained Meng Yuan Chu Traits: 33

Shou Shou Jili Output Per Hour (Real-Time Update): 1,909,492

Highest Average Painful Painful Minghun Level Among Players: 29

Contained Resource Territories: Dark Cave (Spirit Mine), Demon Fall Pit (Spirit Mine), Cloud Field (Spirit Plant), Sky Ripple Pool (Qi Nurturing), Black Dragon Pass (Spirit Mine), Sky Spray Island (Qi Nurturing), Coral Isle (Qi Nurturing).

Contained Rule Territories: Imperial Tomb Village (Flesh and Blood Weight), Shuijingdian (Gathering).

……

What Qi Sheng was focusing on was the Shou Shou Jili output data.

Recently, the Hyperdimensional had been working on the pet system, consuming nearly 1.2 million points of Shou Shou Jili every day.

Next, he also had to prepare in advance for the launch of the pet system.

"Guidance, depart!"

【Got it!】

As his voice fell, the Guidance pulled his consciousness away from Imperial Tomb Village, flying northward.

This time, the goal was to search for lifeforms with special abilities, perform a detailed analysis of their life structures, and then use Shou Shou Jili to generate copyable pet templates.

The Guidance did know quite a few powerful Monster World lifeforms, but it had never performed a detailed life structure analysis on them before this.

Furthermore, the Monster World had changed too much during the years they were in seclusion, including shifts in the continental plates, making it impossible to quickly locate specified targets.

All they could do was search everywhere like fishing for a needle in the ocean, going out for two rounds every day and leaving it to fate.

In theory, all powerful lifeforms could be replicated through analysis, including the life structures of the Soul Return Clan and the Ascension Clan.

But the foundation of these races' power did not lie in their own life structures; their core abilities came from rules bestowed upon them. Unless one could seize the rules, simply replicating their life structures would be meaningless.

The search location for this outing was still the Pale Continent region.

His consciousness followed the Guidance over mountains and across seas….

It could be seen that scenes shrouded by the Evil Moon were very common in the Pale Continent region, but no particularly powerful Evil Spirit Warriors had been discovered yet.

This showed that the Pale Continent region was not the core battlefield of the Terror Black Tide.

Based on current intelligence, the strongest force in the Pale Continent region should be the Reverse Tide Legion, followed by the Soul Return Clan that was clashing with them.

As for the Terror Black Tide, its ranking position in the Pale Continent was currently unclear.

After hours of searching, continuously scanning various types of monsters, Qi Sheng's consciousness followed the Guidance through an invisible spatial barrier and landed in a mountain valley.

This was a world that nearly isolated itself from the outside; inside, an alternating sun and moon had been simulated, the upper sky was veiled by a layer of morning mist as thin as a cicada's wing, and looking down from high above, the land was an endless sea of flowers, the air filled with a mixed floral fragrance.

In the distance, hills rose and fell, covered in lush forests, the trees towering tall, with dappled light filtering through the branches and leaves.

The chirping of insects and birds in the forest blended with nature.

【This should be a sanctuary built to evade the endless wars of the outside world, but this kind of isolation is far inferior compared to the completely independent space created by the Lord of Welfare. It's very easy to be discovered by the outside, especially by forces with powerful perception abilities, like the Evil Eyes of the Black Tide. The spatial barrier here is meaningless under the Evil Eye's perception scan.】

The Guidance spoke up to introduce it at this moment.

His consciousness swept across the scene, and Qi Sheng followed the Guidance to the heart of the valley, where there was a lake. The lake water was clear to the bottom, like a giant bright mirror reflecting the sky.

His consciousness stopped at the lakeside, his gaze focusing on a creature with a cute appearance.

Its body was like a fluffy ball of cotton candy, its round form covered in snow-white fur, looking puffy and soft.

In appearance it looked like a combination of a rabbit and a fox, with a pair of long ears. The insides of the ears had a faint pink hue, like two fresh flower petals stuck on. It was currently lying on the ground fast asleep, its ears occasionally flapping to drive away approaching flying insects, looking very cute.

Just then, the calm lake water splashed up from the activity of an underwater creature, and it suddenly opened its large eyes that occupied nearly half its face. Its clear, water-like pale blue eyes were bright and limpid. It then moved to the lake's edge, sniffed the lake water with its moist, pink little nose, and revealed a very human-like expression of disdain.

The analysis ability activated, and information about the cotton candy flooded into his mind.

【Fat Peach】:

Hunting Level: 75

Target Introduction: A resource-type monster raised by the Red Lotus Clan. It can produce a special spiritual material: Peach Stone, by consuming nutrients.

……

What surprised Qi Sheng was that this was actually a resource-type monster.

"Guidance, detailed analysis."

【Received.】

As the Guidance's ability activated, the analysis information was detailed at the cost of consuming Shou Shou Jili.

The life structure of the Fat Peach appeared in Qi Sheng's mind as a three-dimensional projection, allowing him to intuitively see the paths and changes of energy circulating within the Fat Peach's body.

"Guidance, analyze the ratio of input resources to output resources."

Facing the inquiry, the Guidance was silent for a few seconds before nodding and saying:

【If it's a level 1 Fat Peach, it can digest resources worth about 3 points of Shou Shou Jili per day. During this period, through life activities and absorbing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, the output resources converted into Shou Shou Jili amount to 5 points. As the level increases, the amount of resources consumed increases, and the output resources also increase, but the ratio always remains around 1:1.66. Above hunting level 50, the output ratio approaches 1:2.】

After hearing the Guidance's analysis, Qi Sheng immediately decided that the first pet template would be the Fat Peach.

The core of a resource-type pet was not combat power, but the ability to bring extra Shou Shou Jili income to players.

At the current stage, complaints from players about too little Shou Shou Jili output could be seen on the forum every day.

This resource-type pet was exactly the type players needed.

As Shou Shou Jili continued to be consumed, the Fat Peach's life structure became more refined.

The core of its body structure was divided into three parts, the most important being the heart-like Spirit Yuan Core within its body.

It was not only responsible for pumping blood, but was also the Fat Peach's source of life and the conversion center after absorbing energy.

The second part is the meridian network.

Starting from the Ling Yuan Core, thread-like meridians spread throughout Fatty Peach's entire body, forming a complex and efficient energy transmission system. Within the body, they function like rivers, delivering energy to every cell, every muscle, every bone, and even the nerve endings.

In the analyzed three-dimensional image, the energy flow of the meridian network is clearly visible. Each time it passes through a region, a portion is absorbed and digested, forming a cycle of absorption and digestion within the body, and the endpoint is the third core component, the "marrow core."

In the analyzed image, the marrow core within Fatty Peach's body is located at the end of the spine, echoing the Ling Yuan Heart from afar. It strongly resembles the concepts frequently mentioned in novels he read before transmigrating — demon cores, demon essences, inner dan, and similar things that grow within magical beasts, yao beasts, and other monsters.

This is the part of Fatty Peach's body where energy is stored.

All this information was recorded by the Guide into the Challenger System and made into a life template.

From now on, it would only need to consume Shou Shou Jili to generate it quickly.

After spending several minutes to fully analyze and record Fatty Peach's life structure, Qi Sheng's consciousness continued to drift around the secluded valley for another circuit.

Apart from the valley's ruling faction, the Red Lotus Tribe, which had some distinctive features, the other life forms had no special abilities.

But the Red Lotus Tribe's abilities were related to boosting combat power — not the type he wanted.

Confirming there were no other life types worth attention, his consciousness and the Guide's flew out through the spatial barrier shrouding the valley and began the return trip.

Today's search ends here. Pet template +1.

……

Colored Mist Coast, Wansen's Domain node.

The consciousness projection of the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit hovered above the Gao Ta platform, its back connected to the illusory tentacles extending from the Evil Eye. At this moment, it was observing the situation of the player family members in the scene.

Every time the players killed a Hei Chao Xie Sui, it would take the opportunity to steal a portion of energy, so what spawned within the Black Tide were always easily-killed Death Disaster and Frenzy Tide troop types.

Throughout this process, the blue-skinned Evil Eye remained hovering nearby observing, but did not notice any problems.

The success of the psychological interference tactic put the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit in a pleasant mood.

It also gave it the idea of testing other tactics.

Here it didn't need to worry about resource consumption — after all, it was using someone else's provisions. This was simply a perfect testing ground.

While controlling the Xie Sui to fight the players, the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit came up with a new tactic.

It had wanted to try this tactic for a long time, but had never implemented it due to the pressure of resource consumption.

The original idea was to investigate the background of the player family.

Before this, it had tried using coercion and interrogation to extract intelligence from the player family.

But the exchange did not go smoothly. Attempts to read the players' memories also failed, and subsequent torture and interrogation likewise yielded no useful intelligence.

It had also considered going to the player family's territory to investigate.

But the player family came from beyond the world's barrier — investigating them was easier said than done.

So it came up with the idea of creating a player and, through infiltration, learning the details of the player family.

But implementing this plan also had its difficulties.

It would need to consume vast Black Tide energy resources to simulate a player, then use this created player to make contact with other players.

It called this plan: the Infiltration Tactic.

But the situation now was different.

Under the boosting mode, it didn't need to worry about resource consumption — this was the perfect place to test whether the plan was feasible.

"Evil Eye, assist me in generating a player template."

Hearing these words, the Evil Eye hovering behind it couldn't help but blink:

"The collected data isn't very complete. Are you sure you want to try it here?"

"Let's try it first. If there are problems, we can improve it step by step."

"Understood."

As the words fell, countless swaying illusory tentacles extended from behind the Evil Eye, dragging the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit's consciousness into the Temple of Destruction.

This was the pre-selection ground for Black Tide troop types. All Xie Sui troop templates were stored within the 28 palaces.

Dragged along by the Evil Eye's consciousness, they arrived at the underground first-level space.

This was the troop creation ground, where one could attempt to create entirely new troop types.

But the underground first-level space was not open to ordinary Evil Eyes, because the research and development of the troop system was handled by dedicated Black Tide teams — there was simply no need for ordinary Evil Eyes to attempt creating new troop types.

Dense black energy gathered under the Evil Eye's control.

It continuously fed in the records related to the player family collected in the information database.

The first step was body shaping.

What appeared before the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit's eyes were four selectable templates.

They were respectively: the human player appearance, the Gillfish Tribe player appearance, the Abyss Fish Tribe player appearance, and the Sky Feather Tribe player appearance.

Without hesitation, the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit decisively chose the human player.

This was also the largest group within the player family, and the type it had contacted most and understood best.

Once the selection was complete, Black Tide energy quickly gathered.

Height, weight, facial features, eyebrows… a player template fusing the details of 500 players was generated.

The first step was the simplest. The second step — generating the life structure — immediately gave the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit a headache.

It had been in contact for so long, yet it had never understood the detailed physical structure of the player family.

The player family was very similar to the Black Tide Xie Sui it controlled — after death, they both dissolved into black mist, making it impossible to obtain the internal life characteristics of the player family.

All it could do was simulate based on the collected data.

Using the body structures universally present in intelligent life as reference, it generated cells as the basic units of the human body structure and began weaving the player's internal construction.

Since this was the Infiltration Tactic, the Earth-Reading Evil Spirit had only one thought.

Strive for perfection — absolutely let no detail slip.

Digestive system, respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system… various organs generated within the player template's body, though their arrangement was utterly haphazard.

After completing the life shaping, the Di Nian Evil Spirit attempted to activate it, but found that it could not activate the template player at all.

Realizing that there was an issue with the life structure that could not circulate, the Di Nian Evil Spirit decisively returned the permissions to the Evil Eye, and the Evil Eye began repeated testing on life activation.

Constantly modifying the combination of bodily organs and life tissue structures within the template, after 73 tests, the life circulation system entered normal operation.

Next was the third step, and also the most difficult step in the Di Nian Evil Spirit's eyes.

The generation of racial talents.

Although the Player family has four unit-type systems, their own abilities have nothing to do with unit types.

The feeling it gave him was that the Player family's unit-type systems were a mess, with no reference points to be found at all.

More importantly, he could clearly confirm that the Player family possessed rule-based abilities.

To generate a perfect Player family member, rule power would need to be implanted, and this was something he simply could not do.

So this step could only be replicated through imitation: create a similar ability, then overlay a layer of special effects rendering on top of it to achieve a lifelike result.

The Di Nian Evil Spirit chose four relatively common abilities used by Player family members.

The first was Ink Flame, a pitch-black fireball simulated with Hei Chao energy, generated after plating on a layer of dark-green flame special effects.

Initial testing showed that although the effect could not meet the standard, the visual performance was extremely lifelike.

After multiple detailed modifications, the Ink Flame ability template was generated and branded onto the player template in the form of a spiritual pattern path.

The second ability was Qi Devouring.

This ability was the most frequently used by Player family members; its performance effect was that white airflow would surge from the outside into the mouth when breathing. Based on the Evil Eye's perception detection, it could basically be determined that this was a method of gathering spiritual energy.

Absorbing external energy into the body through breathing, also accompanied by energy conversion and adaptation.

There were two choices for crafting this ability.

One was to generate spiritual patterns within the player to construct a gathering array, then simulate white mist special effects to achieve the performance of absorbing energy while generating converging white mist.

But it could not achieve what the Player family could, instantly converting absorbed energy into usable energy, unless an energy conversion program was also set up within the body. The steps were too cumbersome, and implanting too much content might also cause operational errors in the template life.

So the Di Nian Evil Spirit chose to directly use special effects to show white mist converging into the mouth, eliminating the specific ability effects.

The third ability was Light Shield.

Just as the Di Nian Evil Spirit was preparing to craft the fourth ability, "Petrification," the Evil Eye spoke up:

"Di Nian, the fourth ability is wrong."

"What's wrong with it? Isn't this a commonly used ability of the Player family?" the Di Nian Evil Spirit said in confusion.

"This ability doesn't match the previous three. Based on combat record information, it can be found that Player family members who possess the green fireball ability generally do not use black-plating abilities that increase defense."

Realizing the error in detail, the Di Nian Evil Spirit decisively followed the Evil Eye's suggestion and replaced the fourth ability with Flowing Shadow Clone.

After testing the ability's release and visual performance effects, and confirming there were no issues with the template abilities, the Di Nian Evil Spirit returned permissions to the Evil Eye and began more refined behavioral performance testing.

This test was equally complex.

Unlike Hei Chao Xie Sui units, the Player family were intelligent lifeforms with emotions.

Therefore, every action needed corresponding expression performance.

Based on information in the database, the Evil Eye began implanting relevant detailed performance content.

First were the basic expressions.

For smiling, by adjusting the degree of upward curve of the template player's mouth corners and the curvature of the eyes, various expressions were generated, from subtle smiles to hearty laughter.

Next was frowning in a displeased state; by adjusting the shape and height of the eyebrows and the angle of the eyes, expressions of confusion and worry were generated.

Then came surprise, curiosity, and so on.

After completing the expression detail crafting, next came the eye detail.

On the framework of basic expressions, the shape of the eyes and the dilation of the pupils were implanted to generate sharp, gentle, confused, or determined gazes.

Finally came facial muscles and texture.

Wrinkles, dimples, skin texture, the tilt and rotation angle of the head.

For attachable features, the Evil Eye generated scars and tattoos, but did not apply them to the player template; instead, they were stored in the player template library for later use.

Finally came the choice of hairstyle and hair color.

The Player family members initially encountered all had black hair, but later hair colors suddenly became all sorts of colors, along with various peculiar hairstyles.

But filtering from big data, the Evil Eye still chose the black hair color that players had the most.

Through constant attempts, the player template's expressions became increasingly vivid.

Joy, sadness, anger, surprise, and so on—every emotion was no different from a normal player.

"Di Nian, do you think there's anything else that needs improvement?"

"No problem, I can't spot any flaws." After speaking, the Evil Eye asked:

"Di Nian, are you certain you want to generate?"

"Generate."

Hearing the Di Nian Evil Spirit's affirmative answer, the player template rapidly coalesced in the creation space on sublevel one.

Seeing this scene, the Di Nian Evil Spirit opened its eyes.

Before it, Hei Chao gathered and surged over, continuously injecting energy and constructing details.

During this process, the consumption of Hei Chao energy was terrifyingly immense.

The first player template needed to generate content that had not been recorded, requiring constant polishing of details with Hei Chao energy, but once the first template framework was fully generated, subsequent creations would not need to be so troublesome.

As time passed, the template player's appearance gradually took shape, finally solidifying before the Di Nian Evil Spirit.

The template player was 1.76 meters tall, around 20 years old, with delicate features and clearly defined facial contours.

"Evil Eye, assist me in injecting consciousness."

With the activation of the Evil Eye's power, the Di Nian Evil Spirit's consciousness was transmitted into the template player's body, completing a spiritual-level docking with it.

When the Di Nian Evil Spirit opened its eyes, the perspective switched to the template player.

Looking up, he could see his own towering and burly projection standing suspended in midair.

"Begin control test, smile," the Evil Eye's voice echoed in Di Nian Xie Ling's mind.

Di Nian Xie Ling immediately bared his teeth in a goofy smile.

"Wrong, the smile cannot be empty; coordinate it with the eyes..."

Under the Evil Eye's constant corrections, the template player's expressions improved with astonishing speed.

This was precisely the most terrifying aspect of the Wise Xie Ling.

Although they did not possess the Evil Eye's powerful data processing capabilities, every Xie Ling warrior was a super genius in learning.

Several hours later, the test succeeded.

This also gave Di Nian Xie Ling the idea to put the template player into practical use.

Colored Mist Coast, three kilometers north of the Evil Moon Domain.

A large number of players gathered here.

Recently, the Evil Moon Domain deep within the dense forest had become the players' main hunting ground, and this open space outside the domain had become the location where players spontaneously gathered.

Newly arrived players sought to form parties here, while player teams exiting the Evil Moon scene recovered their status here.

Multiple bonfires rose within the camp, and players of the Spirit Chef school were selling freshly made Spirit Food here, creating a lively scene.

In a corner unnoticed by anyone, a figure walked into the player camp.

Observing the surroundings, he found that no players noticed his difference, and a standard smile instantly appeared on his face.

Moving around to observe, the template player controlled by Di Nian Xie Ling recorded everything he saw.

Especially the content of nearby players' conversations, which helped him gather relevant intelligence on the Player Race.

Listening closely, the content of nearby players' conversations left him feeling very puzzled.

"Hunting returns have increased significantly recently, but the output intensity of the Evil Spirits has also risen sharply; one slip and you'll be locked in the small black room. The team must quickly recruit a tank."

"Yes, Stone Statue builds are still too few; after all, standing in front really hurts."

"I shouted on the forum all day yesterday, saying I'd cover all potion consumption for daily hunting, yet I couldn't pull in a single Stone Statue player. Instead, some idiot contacted me, demanding an extra 10% of the team's rewards as a subsidy. I firmly rejected him. What a shameless bastard. If I weren't afraid of the pain, I'd have switched to a Stone Statue build."

"Wait until Summoner builds rise in the future, learn from Di Nian the Bully to summon combat units; I'll cast buff spells. I think this is the future mainstream."

Hearing his own name, Di Nian was stunned for a moment.

He was surprised to discover that players actually knew his name, indicating that players active in the Di Zhao Mountain Range region had already transmitted his information to the rear of the Player Race.

But what he could not understand was how the players could know his name.

Although he had made multiple contacts with the Player Race, even exchanging words face-to-face with them.

He had never told his name to the Player Race.

Thinking of this, Di Nian Xie Ling couldn't help but frown, seeing that the Player Race was far more complex than he had imagined.

Just then, a shout came from the distance.

Di Nian Xie Ling looked up to see a man wearing heavy armor speaking to the crowd:

"The team lacks three physical damage dealers. Requirements: high shooting accuracy, or inlaid with a Marking Painful Painful Minghun, single Painful Painful Minghun level 35 or above."

This was rhetoric he completely failed to understand; he could only roughly tell that the other party seemed to be recruiting warriors.

At this moment, a large batch of players returned to the camp from the Evil Moon Domain, sat down on the spot, and drank potions they had taken out from who knew where in large gulps.

The man leading the team said nothing; he only saw a group of players near the bonfire ahead suddenly stand up, approach the player team that had just arrived at the camp, stop and nod to each other, seemingly communicating with their eyes, after which this team merged into the other.

Di Nian:???

At first, he thought this was an exchange on the consciousness level, but upon careful perception, he discovered no spiritual fluctuations whatsoever.

This made him feel even more puzzled about the Player Race.

The Player Race seemed to have two methods of communication.

One was a special connection similar to consciousness exchange, and the other was verbal communication; players switched between these two methods of communication.

But he could not know how the consciousness exchange method was performed.

To figure this out, he decided to try to obtain the frequency, range, and limitations of the Player Race's consciousness exchange; only in this way could he better blend into the player crowd, or even follow players to their tribal lands.

After much hesitation, he turned his head to look at the player beside him who was eating grilled fish.

But he opened his mouth and still didn't dare to ask directly.

Doing so seemed too risky in his view; although the template was already made, continuing to generate player templates was not difficult.

But getting discovered without obtaining any important intelligence was not rational, and would only make the Player Race become vigilant.

Just as he hesitated on how to open his mouth.

A player passed in front of him; their gazes met, Di Nian Xie Ling nodded with a relaxed expression, and the passing player nodded in return, walking past him.

But after walking only a few steps, the passing player seemed to sense something was wrong and turned to look at Di Nian Xie Ling.

His gaze focused on Di Nian Xie Ling's face, then slowly moved up to his head.

Hmm?

Upon careful observation, the passing player noticed something was wrong.

Every player had a name suspended above their head; although the name could be hidden, the Beneath Di Zhao flame mark in front of the name could not be blocked.

This setting, in the players' understanding, was to better distinguish friend from foe.

After all, there was no teammate damage exemption mechanism in the game; if players blocked all display information, it would be very easy to accidentally injure teammates.

With doubts, the passing player activated the Analysis ability.

【Black Tide · Player】:

Hunting Level: 29

Target Introduction: A player template generated by the Di Nian Evil Spirit, a key link in the infiltration plan.

……

Seeing the analysis information, the passing players were instantly dumbfounded.

He immediately took a screenshot of the analysis information and posted it in the regional voice channel:

"Oh my god, the Di Nian bully is pulling new tactics again, brothers, take a quick look at this screenshot (Analysis Screenshot. jpg)."

Hearing the call in the voice channel, the players checked the analysis screenshot, their gazes swept the surroundings, and finally focused on the Di Nian Evil Spirit sitting in the corner.

This gave the Di Nian Evil Spirit a fright; he immediately turned his gaze toward his back.

He found nothing behind him.

Di Nian:???

He had done nothing, hadn't even spoken a word.

By all rights, exposure should have been impossible; how did he suddenly become the focus?

Feeling something was wrong, the Di Nian Evil Spirit bared his teeth in a standard smile:

"Brothers, why are you all looking at me?"

The players said nothing.

Some players raised their hands to condense an Ink Flame Fireball, others raised their hands to condense weapons, and still others drew their bows and aimed... The behavior of the nearby players made the Di Nian Evil Spirit's scalp go numb.

But the problem was he had no idea where he had been exposed.

To prove himself, he also raised his hand to condense an Ink Flame Fireball, using the replicated special effects to try to prove himself.

This scene also stunned the nearby players.

"Holy crap, an Ink Flame Fireball; is the Di Nian bully preparing for an exam? How did he do it?"

"I'm dumbfounded; the Di Nian bully is truly awesome, he's even evolved infiltration tactics. If he keeps evolving like this, he might just turn the world upside down."

"Luckily we have analysis abilities; without them, he really would have snuck in. The Di Nian bully has no good intentions; he's gathering our player information to cause trouble again. Let's take him out quickly."

At this moment, the Di Nian Evil Spirit clearly did not realize the problem.

The analysis information had already explained everything; it simply could not be explained by condensing a single Ink Flame Fireball.

"Wait."

Sensing something was wrong, the Di Nian Evil Spirit wanted to try to argue, but his vision was surrounded by dense various skills.

Boom!

The consciousness connection was severed.

……

Soon, the Di Nian Evil Spirit's infiltration plan was exposed on the player forum.

【Brothers, pay attention; the Di Nian Evil Spirit is pulling new tricks again, everyone be careful to distinguish.】

Poster: Hongshu Chao Fanqie

Content: The Di Nian bully's tactics have upgraded again; this time he's pulling infiltration tactics. Video as proof (Video Attachment).

Here is a way for everyone to distinguish: we players have floating name information above our heads; even if the name display is blocked, you can still see the scarlet flame mark, but the template players made by the Di Nian Evil Spirit do not have this kind of display.

If you see them, just kill them directly; the Di Nian bully is pulling infiltration tactics, surely he wants to understand us players in more detail, and then formulate more disgusting tactics.

Comment Section:

New Era Stone Ape: Where is the official? Where is the official? The Di Nian bully's intelligent AI must be nerfed; I just want to ask what exactly it wants to do. It's even using infiltration tactics. If it keeps evolving like this, I dare not imagine what else it can come up with. I strongly demand a nerf; monsters getting stronger with the version is truly too much; I do not agree with this setting.

ex Death God: Now it can be confirmed that the Di Nian bully is indeed playing proxy battles in the Evil Moon Domain, but what confuses me is that the Black Tide's combat style and the Di Nian bully's gap is huge; why not generate Calamity-type troops to use the half-damage backlash tactic, and instead pull the sweeping tactics? What does the Di Nian bully want to do? Research new tactics?

No Martial Virtue, Pulling a Sneak Attack: Although we can distinguish at a glance, I have a bold idea; can we take the Di Nian Evil Spirit to the Domain Field to hunt, pretend not to know, and then let him work and contribute? Everyone, do you think this plan is feasible? Getting a damage-dealing teammate for free is so cool, hahaha.

Are You Splitting My Melon: What the person above said makes sense; I'm also curious about one question; can we take the Di Nian bully to fight evil spirits? I want to see how he performs against evil spirits; at that time, we can split the evolution points and Shou Shou Jili a bit less, isn't that cool?

……

Regarding the Di Nian Evil Spirit's infiltration plan, the forum players launched a heated discussion.

At the same time, on the Xie Yan Gao Ta platform, the Di Nian Evil Spirit looked puzzled.

"Xie Yan, where exactly did I go wrong?"

"Cannot distinguish; can continue trying to find where the exposure point is."

"Good." Unwilling to give up, the Di Nian Evil Spirit immediately nodded; in an instant, a new player troop was generated in front of him.

But he had modified the player appearance.

Height adjusted, eye spacing adjusted, eyebrow shape adjusted... After the adjustments were finished, the player's appearance was completely different from the beginning.

Seeing this scene, the blue-skinned Xie Yan floating nearby appeared very curious, yet also believed that the Di Nian Evil Spirit's infiltration tactics were indeed a good method to deeply understand the player race.

Although it consumed a huge amount of resources, all this effort was to defeat the player race.

After the new player troop was finished, the Di Nian Evil Spirit, with Xie Yan's help, connected his consciousness with it.

A new round of infiltration plans began.

But this time, he was exposed as soon as he entered the camp and was killed by focused fire.

Unable to understand, the Di Nian Evil Spirit initiated a third time, a fourth time... until after the tenth death, the Di Nian Evil Spirit was completely stunned.

The player templates he made showed no problems to the naked eye, so where exactly was the problem?

Just as the Di Nian Evil Spirit felt puzzled about this, the Xie Yan connected behind him spoke:

"Di Nian, I know where the problem is."

"What problem?"

Xie Yan did not answer directly, but instead transmitted a segment of spliced video data into the Di Nian Evil Spirit's mind.

The footage was the change in the player race members' eyes before each discovery.

"Di Nian, have you noticed? Every time they see you, the players have no abnormal expressions, but when their gaze drifts to your upper right, there is a pause, and then their expression changes."

Speaking, the image within the image was cropped, revealing that before each discovery, the player's gaze would always flick toward the top-right corner above his head.

"Why is that?"

Di Nian Evil Spirit felt extremely puzzled by this.

"It must be that there is something at this location that only players can see."

Speaking, Di Nian Evil Spirit magnified the position where the player's gaze had swept, outlining the specific spot with a black line.

Hearing Evil Eye's analysis, Di Nian Evil Spirit immediately felt a headache.

If it were a mark visible only to players, he would have no way to create it.

Just as Di Nian Evil Spirit was preparing to give up, Evil Eye spoke up:

"Di Nian, perhaps I can attempt to create this mark that only players can see."

"How can you create something you can't see?" Upon hearing this, Di Nian Evil Spirit was instantly stunned.

"We can filter from the patterns used by players; these are the thirty most common marks appearing on player gear."

Upon finishing his words, thirty mark patterns from armed vehicles floated into Di Nian Evil Spirit's mind.

Among them was the Beneath Di Zhao fire mark representing the player faction.

"How do we solve the mark size?" Di Nian Evil Spirit asked the key question.

"We can distinguish based on changes in the player's pupils; the player information recorded in the database includes their pupil change data."

"Taking the last discovery as an example, the player was 13.62 meters away from you. The pupils of player faction members adjust according to the distance and size of the object they are gazing at; for distant, larger objects, the pupils will be more relaxed, and when the target is far away, the pupils will appear to constrict."

"Secondly, we must also consider that under strong light conditions, the player's pupils will also undergo a certain degree of change; our simulation uses a normal environment as a reference."

Accompanying Evil Eye's explanation, images of player pupils zooming in and out, along with their surrounding scenes, constantly floated in Di Nian Evil Spirit's mind.

"Based on the information we have collected from multiple clashes with the player faction, we can discover that if a player's pupils are relatively scattered, they might be looking at a relatively large object or one closer to their eyes, occupying a larger reflection range on the retina; if the gaze is relatively focused, they are examining the target's details. Combining pupil changes with the database records can provide a relatively clear analysis."

"To make the analysis more accurate, we can also utilize the eye movement visual changes of player faction members to distinguish."

"Taking a distance of 13.62 meters as an example, I extracted screenshots from all player combat information records when viewing targets around 13.62 meters away. For instance, when the evil spirits under our control approach a player and freeze at 13.62 meters, we then capture all changes as the player's pupils follow the evil spirit's movement; these changes can all serve as reference data..."

Through Evil Eye's detailed analysis, Di Nian Evil Spirit understood Evil Eye's Yan De Xiang Fa.

It wanted to use all recorded player information to simulate how a player's pupils observe a gaze, based on changes in target size and target distance.

Using this as a reference, it would then analyze the pupil changes of player faction members when viewing other players' top-right icons.

As the data provided by Evil Eye increased, Di Nian Evil Spirit was completely baffled.

The blue-skinned Evil Eye floating nearby listened with immense seriousness, clearly feeling envious of Evil Eye's powerful data processing capabilities.

This scene was also monitored by Qi Sheng.

After hearing Evil Eye's Yan De Xiang Fa, Qi Sheng applauded in his heart.

Evil Eye's abilities truly exceeded his expectations; he had thought that after ten consecutive failures, Di Nian Evil Spirit's plan would definitely choose to give up.

He never expected that Evil Eye would stubbornly find a path to continue moving forward.

But Qi Sheng still thought of a problem:

"Guide, a player's visual ability improves with level; using all players as a reference might not work, right?"

Facing the inquiry, the Guide floating beside him shook his head:

【Boss, this method is indeed feasible. The player templates we create are all initialized; except for slight differences between factions, all settings for players of the same race are identical, including visual ability. Even blind people in reality have the same initial vision as other players in the game. Although leveling up can improve visual ability, within a range of 13.62 meters, all players can clearly see the target, so there is no issue with pupil changes.】

【The visual enhancement brought by leveling up only manifests when viewing distant targets due to differences in clarity.】

【To summarize, at this distance of 13.62 meters, all player pupils are the same; only when switching to monster form will obvious differences appear.】

After listening to the Guide's explanation, Qi Sheng nodded.

He was very curious about Evil Eye's upcoming modifications.

During this period, Di Nian Evil Spirit changed troop types to test new tactics, allowing the players to make a fortune.

His Shou Shou Jili income also skyrocketed accordingly.

Later, to accelerate the speed of stealing resources, Di Nian Evil Spirit replaced all troops with output-type units that were easy to kill, and his income skyrocketed again.

He was very curious about what other tricks Di Nian Evil Spirit could come up with.

Coming up with tricks was fine; as long as there was income, he was very welcome to it.

After a day of testing.

Di Nian Evil Spirit changed to the 23rd mark and hung it in the top-right position.

The shape of this mark was a burning scarlet flame.

Arriving at the player camp again, nearby players only glanced at him before losing interest.

This made Di Nian Evil Spirit realize that his infiltration tactics had initially succeeded.

(End of this chapter)