Chapter 9: Grabbed from the Official Website

One hour later.

The kindergarten group's players ended their resurrection cooldown, and the chat group, which had been having heated discussions, also went quiet.

Amidst the group owner's various "You guys are truly damn it" collapse roars, 30 players logged into the game again and resurrected in the central square of Di Zhong Village.

This time they still chose to go to the Dark Cave to explore.

According to the Guide's explanation, the way to occupy a domain node is very simple.

You only need to shatter the node crystal eroded by the black tide energy, and Di Zhao's power will cover the domain node again, making it merge into Di Zhong Village. By then, Di Zhong Village will also have new functions.

After a 1-hour journey, when the kindergarten group arrived at the crystal wall of the Dark Cave again.

They unexpectedly found that there were players fighting fiercely with Iron-Shelled Insects.

Among them, two players chose the Bone Fire form they had never seen before, burning with ink-colored flames, and could condense a fireball and throw it at the Iron-Shelled Insects with a wave of their hands.

Black Ball: This Bone Fire form is so cool. I love controlling fire. I’ll choose it for my next Star Vein.

Drunk Milk: Brothers, they seem to be unable to hold on. Should we help?

Hammer: Nonsense, we are here for revenge, of course we help!

After a brief exchange, the 30 players of the kindergarten group switched to monster form and joined the battle.

The scene was instantly incomparably chaotic. Bumps were inevitable in the narrow space, so many funny scenes appeared.

"Buddy, where are you biting? You’re biting me, I’m a player!"

"Gargoyle brother next door, why are you smashing my head? Look clearly at the target!"

"Who threw the fireball randomly? It hit me. Hurry up and help me extinguish it, I’m continuously losing health!"

"Brother, sorry, I can only light fires and can't extinguish them. I’ll say sorry to you first, go in peace."

In the chaos, many players were hit by their own people.

Several players turned into black fog and entered death cooldown on the spot.

The realism of the game made the players in the battle couldn't help but complain again.

Other games generally have faction settings or safe PK settings, where you can choose whether to cause damage to other players.

But this game doesn't have such settings, and even teammates can cause damage.

Especially the Bone Fire's ink flame attack, which is hard to extinguish after hitting the target, continuously burning until the target dies.

This led to several unlucky players not being killed by Iron-Shelled Insects, but instead dying at the hands of their own people.

During this period, several Iron-Shelled Insects were killed, and life energy turned into evolution points and poured into the bodies of the players who made the final blow, allowing their levels to increase and their body strength to be enhanced.

In Qi Sheng's settings, every time a player kills a monster.

The Challenger System will extract 30% of the monster's dissipated life energy and convert it into Sacrifice Power to enter the Sacrifice Power pool, and the remaining 70% will be converted into life energy adapted to the player, used to improve their body strength, which is the experience points players understand.

Qi Sheng, who was watching the battle, naturally discovered the friendly fire problem mentioned by the players.

But there was no solution to this problem at this stage.

After all, the Monster World is just a real world wearing a game skin. There is no faction, or damage immunity between players.

Instead, the players themselves made up the reason, thinking this was set to make the game more realistic, and while complaining, they couldn't help but praise the strength of the game R&D team.

The fierce battle in the cave lasted for more than ten minutes, and finally ended with the team being wiped out.

Although he was very eager for this domain node, Qi Sheng also knew that it was unrealistic for players to take it down with their current strength.

After the Guide detected and perceived, it was found that there were 5 layers of space underground in the cave.

The players were on the first layer of the cave. The further down they went, the more Iron-Shelled Insects there were, and the domain node crystal was on the fifth layer of the cave.

If they wanted to clear this dungeon, the players' strength still needed to grow.

This also gave him the idea of recruiting players again.

After recruiting the second batch of players, he had 100,000 Sacrifice Power left in his hands.

The four contained Origin Monsters could produce 960 points of Sacrifice Power revenue for him every day, plus the Sacrifice Power produced by players hunting in the Monster World and sacrificing collected resources, the revenue and expenditure before the expansion of Di Zhong Village had reached a balance.

He planned to recruit 50 more players, and keep the remaining 50,000 Sacrifice Power for emergencies.

After the one-hour resurrection cooldown ended.

After the two batches of players logged into the game, they looked at each other in the central square of Di Zhong Village.

Through communication, the kindergarten group players learned that the map exploration rate was shared by all players.

After they explored to the Blood-Red Plain, the group of players on the opposite side also saw the new signs on the map, and then entered the Dark Cave according to the map coordinates.

It was very similar to their situation in the cave. When they saw spiritual minerals, they were also very excited, and then chose to buy mining picks to mine.

But soon a large number of Iron-Shelled Insects were alarmed by the sound of mining picks hitting the rock wall, and a battle broke out with them.

Then it was their arrival, joining the melee, and being wiped out together.

At this time, Hammer of the kindergarten group couldn't help but look at Li Zheng and ask curiously:

"Buddy, how can we get the Bone Fire form used in your team?"

Facing the inquiry, Li Zheng immediately explained the process of obtaining permission to open the second Star Vein slot for free after killing Bone Fire, and the process of two members in the team spending 1000 Sacrifice Power to buy Bone Fire souls and embedding them.

After listening to his account, the players in the kindergarten group who chose the Owl-Headed Demon raised their hands and cheered:

"Hahahaha, I knew I didn't choose wrong. The Owl-Headed Demon's perception plus Bone Fire's long-range elemental damage, this combination is invincible for early-stage map opening."

"Good guy, I was forced to choose the Owl-Headed Demon for team configuration, and now you tell me it’s the version answer. Happiness came too suddenly."

Listening to the discussion of the players in the other team, Li Zheng shook his head with a smile:

"This game has a very high degree of freedom. In the future, there will be a large number of new Origin Monster souls for us to choose from. The appearance of Bone Fire is just the beginning. Every monster form has extremely high development potential, so there is no need to worry about the initial form you chose being weak. Besides, you can change your initial form by spending 1000 Sacrifice Power."

Drunk Milk: By the way, do you know why there are few players in the newbie village? It feels very deserted.

Black Ball: Yes, I am also very confused about this problem. I have only met you guys so far and haven't met any other players.

Cute Baby: If you say that other players have already left the newbie village, it doesn't make sense. After all, there are only four selectable Origin Monster forms at this stage, three of which are initial options, and the other one is the Bone Fire you killed. Could it be that no other players have killed Origin Monsters?

Facing the inquiry, Li Zheng was also stunned. After a brief silence, he gave a reasonable explanation in his brain:

"Perhaps to solve the problem of server congestion, 'Dark Lands' opened multiple sub-servers. We entered a newly opened area, and not many players were diverted here, so the number of players in the newbie village is not large."

"That makes sense." Hammer nodded in agreement immediately.

"By the way, which platform did you buy the game qualification on?"

Li Zheng's sudden inquiry made the kindergarten group stunned.

They didn't dare to tell the truth about this question, because their answer might affect the safety of "Welfare Worker."

If they answered badly, Welfare Worker would likely be put in jail.

"Haha, we were lucky. We grabbed 30 game qualifications on the official website of Dark Lands... How about you? Where did you buy yours?"

Hammer's counter-question made the ten players in the Hardcore group feel embarrassed, and Li Zheng, as the leader, didn't expect this question to be asked back to him.

The reason he asked the other party was to know if they had the strength to form a guild, so that they, the grinding players, could rely on them.

Facing the inquiry, Li Zheng felt embarrassed and smiled:

"Coincidentally, we didn't go through other channels either. We all grabbed the game qualification on the official website for 128,888."

During the conversation, both sides gave a reasonable explanation.

And they didn't continue this topic, very tacitly shifted the chat content to the Dark Cave, and decided to form a team to explore.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 13 =====