As the first team to conquer all thirty-nine levels of the Scorpion Eye Trench, the five members of Polaris first discovered the Scorpion Eye Trench's hidden mode - a one-on-one duel with the Scorpion King.

Zhou Yanjun stroked the head of his mount's dog and expressed doubt: "Excuse me, can this be considered a one-on-one fight?"

Lin Mingfei said nonchalantly, "He's an NPC, so he's taking on a bunch of weak, helpless, and pitiful PVP players like us. Isn't that too much?"

Shi Ya laughed: "It seems that you really hate him!"

Lin Mingfei cracked her finger bones one after another. "When I think about how he just deducted the fruits of our three days' labor without even giving me a chance to confirm, I'm filled with hatred."

Bo Yu pointed at the ugly arthropod with a sharp tail and looked down at Xia Tong: "Are you afraid of it? I remember you were very scared of that emperor ghost in the Snow Palace."

Xia Tong jumped a little on the spot, feeling very excited: "I'm not afraid! I can't wait any longer! What are you still standing here for? Charge, charge, charge! Big scorpion, here I come!!" After saying that, the little wizard rushed out without stopping, waving his ice crystal staff and pointing it directly at the Scorpion King's head.

"Oh my god, Xia Xiaotong is screwed!!!"

"Take it easy!!!"

"Oh my god!!"

......

There was a lot of chaos.

When it comes to killing monsters and beating bosses, for Team P, it is really an easier task than eating and sleeping. Even though the Scorpion King looks a little difficult to defeat, they have the most basic qualities of a strong pioneering team, as well as Xia Tong, a violent wizard with unlimited output. Therefore, after more than 20 minutes, they defeated the Scorpion King.

800 points are credited.

From this perspective, it seems to be more efficient than simply playing the game.

This great discovery made everyone in Team P very motivated. Even Xia Xiaotong, who was stung by the scorpion's tail, did not cry out in pain. Instead, he limped along but followed them back through the entrance with high spirits, and repeatedly ravaged the poor NPC.

Later they discovered that the shorter the time to end the battle, the higher the amount of points given, so they began to consciously hone each other's output combos to shorten the damage decay period as much as possible.

After another all-nighter, Team P had redeemed all of the equipment for the Scorpion Eye Trench, and also gained several hundred extra team points.

Lin Mingfei glanced at the time and said to them, "Everyone, hurry up and take screenshots of your equipment, especially the attribute screen. Remember to download and print them. We'll log off and rest later and have a meeting."

"The harder you get beaten, the higher the score. I have to say, this NPC is such a fucking masochist." Zhou Yanjun raised his index finger, pointed at the Scorpion King's lying "corpse" and sighed.

"Haha, I never want to see the Scorpion King's old face again in my life." Shi Ya pursed her pale lips and said, "I really want to vomit."

"But luckily we've got all the equipment!" Xia Tong lowered her head and looked at herself, muttering softly, "It's just that the appearance of this equipment isn't very good-looking!"

I don’t know what the planners of Wang Ling’s exterior design department were thinking, but the equipment in the Scorpion Eye Trench has a rubber texture like a life jacket, and it’s tight-fitting, making you look like a catfish that has just come ashore when you wear it.

"Look at this wristband, it's made like a duck's webbed feet!" Xia Tong raised his hand in front of Lin Mingfei and complained more and more aggrievedly. Then he found that he was the only one in the entire team who was dressed like a catfish.

"Why do you all... look so normal!" He raised his finger in confusion and said, "Timer, how can you change your appearance!!!"

The handsome male elf had changed into a fairy-like jade robe, and paired it with a gem forehead ring of the same color. Set against his long light golden hair, he was so beautiful that it was almost blinding.

"You didn't know Wang Ling has a clothing rubbing function?" Shi Ya said, "It allows you to copy the appearance of the equipment you like and put it in your appearance list. That way, even if you don't have the equipment in your equipment slot, you can still wear it."

Xia Tong was confused: "I don't know..."

Shi Yawei sighed: "Ah... No wonder every time I see you wearing something, it looks like a mix and match. The top, bottom, and shoes are all in a different style. It's driving your OCD crazy."

Xia Tong: "So... I mean I don't have to be so ugly, right?"

Lin Mingfei: "You can understand it this way."

"Why didn't you tell me about this before? Humph! And you let me be so ugly!" Xia Tong pouted and said dissatisfiedly.

Lin Mingfei was stunned, "I——"

Shi Ya instantly became like a green arrow and seamlessly interrupted, "Well, I always thought he had told you a long time ago. To be honest, if you had met me first, I would definitely share my fashion insights with you right away!"

Lin Mingfei pointed at herself, feeling aggrieved. "Actually, I don't think you're ugly, eh—" Before he could finish his words, Xia Tong had already rushed off to find a cross-dressing tutorial, clearly not having heard a single word. He stared blankly for a moment, then turned and poked Shi Ya with his finger, gnashing his teeth and saying, "You hypocritical and pretentious Green Arrow alpha."

"You are honest, but what's the use of being honest? You can't eat it." Shi Ya laughed complacently: "Learn something."

Lin Mingfei: “…”

After logging off and having lunch, Team P gathered in the conference room.

Lin Mingfei turned on the holographic projector and pasted the equipment attributes that they had just saved in the game screenshots onto the PPT one by one.

"According to the frontline battle report just posted on the forum, Sabretooth's team has already defeated the first five bosses of the Galalan Ruins and is currently the top team in terms of development progress. Judging by their equipment drops, the total amount is about two-thirds of ours. Overall, Polaris is superior." Lin Mingfei said loudly, "As you can see, we've upgraded to 1500-grade equipment. Both the overall equipment score and detailed attribute values ​​have seen a qualitative leap, especially in health, basic physical and spell attack values, as well as critical hit rate and critical hit effect."

"But Xiaobo and I's defense bonus percentage has actually decreased." Zhou Yanjun couldn't help but interrupt.

"Xia Xiaotong and I's spell attack bonus percentage has also been reduced." Shi Ya said, "Friendly reminder, my healing capacity is related to the spell attack power bonus."

"But our running speed has increased a lot!" Xia Tong said: "My original speed was 80 points, and now it's 380 points!"

"There's a cap on the bonus to equipment movement speed, generally up to 200 points." Bo Yu said, "Your 180 points of movement speed are overflow values ​​and won't have any effect on your character."

Xia Tong was dumbfounded: "Ah? So..."

Zhou Yanjun was still frantic. "And this breathing capacity thing... it's really useless for PvP!!!"

Lin Mingfei coughed lightly and said calmly, "The speed overflow is easy to solve. Just remove the shoes from the equipment column, right?"

Everyone looked up at the same time, their expressions all confused: "......???"

"All shoes have a built-in 200-point movement speed bonus. If you remove it, the character's movement speed will be roughly the same, which I think is just right." Lin Mingfei said, "You can replace it with a piece of jewelry that purely increases attack power or armor that purely increases defense power."

"Take the shoes off the equipment slot..." Zhou Yanjun said with a twitching face. "Playing the arena barefoot???"

"Brother, is your appearance a white rubbing?" Lin Mingfei rolled her eyes: "It's as if you are really wearing the equipment in the equipment column."

"But I always thought...the equipment slots in the shoe column could only hold shoes!" Shi Ya was also shocked: "Can it actually hold other equipment?"

"It can only hold small, scattered items like jewelry. High-level fixed equipment like suits or weapons won't work." Lin Mingfei said firmly, "I've tried."

"Have you tried it???" Zhou Yanjun's jaw dropped to the ground: "Wow, when did you try it? So perverted!"

"It happened a long time ago. At that time, I had finished the dungeon, got tired of the arena, and won the championship. I felt that there was nothing fun to play in this game, so I started trying some very strange things." Lin Mingfei said expressionlessly.

Zhou Yanjun: "...What should I do? He deserves a beating for what he said!"

Bo Yu: "But you can't beat him. It's not the first day you've known this."

"That's a great suggestion!" Shi Ya had already taken out a pen and a small notebook to write and draw, and began to seriously calculate the attributes of her equipment: "If I take off my shoes and replace them with the magical ring in 'Sauce's Fantasy Wonderland' that only increases healing, my healing capacity can be doubled!"

Lin Mingfei nodded and said, "Anyway, that's the idea. You can go to the forum first, use the equipment encyclopedia plug-in to find the target equipment, and then re-equip it."

Zhou Yanjun suddenly had an idea and became excited. "Holy crap! If I calculate this way, we might have all the necessary equipment before the first round of Sabertooth Tiger's exploration is even over! What kind of insane efficiency is that!"

"I have to say, Zero is worthy of being Zero." Shi Ya shook her head and sighed, "When it comes to brainstorming, most people can't compare to him. He always comes up with some brilliant ideas at the critical moment."

Xia Tong's eyes lit up again: "Then this should be called a surprise victory! Zero, you are so amazing!!!"

Bo Yu's face also showed a slight joy: "The captain will always be the person we trust the most."

Lin Mingfei was instantly given a chill by this wave of serious flattery.

"Can you guys please talk properly? This sudden style of painting really gives me a chill."

"No way, I'm praising you, I'm really praising you, and you can't handle it?" Zhou Yanjun smacked his lips and shook his head. "Zero, are you being possessed by that masochistic Scorpion King?"

Lin Mingfei: “…”

The difficulty of the new 25-person secret realm developed by the official this time seems to be very considerable. The 25-person team in Sabertooth Tiger has been working day and night for nearly a week, but has not yet passed the level, and has been stuck at the position of the second-to-last boss for two days.

Even the Sabretooth Team, which is currently considered to have the strongest reserve combat power, is like this, not to mention the other teams. Except for last year's second-place team Shadow, which is still persevering in grinding against the third-place team, the other weaker teams have more or less begun to waver.

After a rest in the afternoon, polaris came online again at 7 o'clock in the evening.

As an omega player who has been controversial from the beginning to the end, Xia Tong has always had some onlookers squatting in the live broadcast room, even more than the number of online people in Lin Mingfei and Shi Ya's live broadcast rooms. However, when he went online at this moment, he found that the number of online people in the live broadcast room was: zero.

"Huh?" He sighed softly, wondering, "Where did everyone in the live studio go today?"

Shi Ya wasn't surprised at all. "Maybe he's too disappointed with our performance and no longer wants to see us all retire in the Scorpion Eye Trench?"

"No, it's because a target bigger and more attractive than us has appeared." Lin Mingfei said lightly.

"Huh? Really? There are teams that performed worse than us during the preparation period?" Those guys actually looked quite excited.

"Yes, the Rainbow Team and the Traceless Team gave up their efforts to explore the ruins of Galalan this afternoon." Lin Mingfei browsed the forum and Weibo super topic: "One by one, the family tree has been greeted."

Being scolded is probably the only thing that all professional players can empathize with, so the older members of Polaris immediately opened the forum and watched with great enthusiasm.

"Wow... that's a bit harsh, isn't it?" Zhou Yanjun sighed.

"Why is there someone giving Rainbow Team's Lucasp a posthumous photo? What a huge grudge." Shi Ya was also shocked.

Xia Tong watched the heated comments from fans online, her delicate brows gradually furrowing. "Why is this happening? How can it be so excessive?"

"Because they only want to see what they want to see." Lin Mingfei said lightly.

"For example?" Xia Tong asked.

"Things like the mysterious and thrilling dungeon boss encounters and the thrilling player-versus-player battles. These are all direct manifestations of the competitive spirit they yearn for." Lin Mingfei appeared calm and experienced. "What does it mean if they give up halfway through a raid? It means they've succumbed to the game's difficulty. Only ordinary players would give in to insurmountable obstacles. You're a pro player, right? You became a pro player because you possess extraordinary abilities that they don't possess, and you're worthy of livestreaming in the spotlight. How could you, like the average person, give up when faced with difficulty? Then what makes you a pro player? It goes against the competitive spirit that the League promotes: 'never give up, never admit defeat.' That's what the players think."

"But this is just a roundabout tactic?" Xia Tong felt quite sorry for them. "If we can't conquer it right away, we should do something else first... It's better than wasting time there!"

"But most people don't think that way." Lin Mingfei shrugged: "Humans are visual animals by nature, and they only believe what they want to believe."

"And...don't think that they were being scolded and beaten badly. We might have been worse off than them in the past few days." Shi Ya said.

Zhou Yanjun: "Ah... I was just about to say that it would be a wise decision for us to simply give up on developing the Jialuolan Ruins."

All five of them sighed with mixed emotions.

"Anyway, compared with Sabretooth, other teams are shameful. Look at the Shadow Team, they are persevering in opening up new areas, but because their progress cannot match that of Sabretooth, they are still criticized as noobs by people inside and outside." Zhou Yanjun said helplessly.

"How can everyone in the world be the same as Sabretooth? If everyone is exactly the same, Sabretooth won't win the championship, okay?" Xia Tong pouted dissatisfiedly: "And I don't think Sabretooth can win the championship this season..."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was an eerie silence for two seconds, and a group of alphas looked at him with mysterious and intriguing eyes.

Xia Tong was completely unaware of this, and the more she thought about it, the more unconvinced she became. Her eyes darkened, and she put her hands on her hips and said, "That's not right! They definitely won't win the championship this season! Because the championship will only be ours!"

Lin Mingfei finally couldn't help laughing, "Okay, you learn pretty fast."

"If you can talk, say more, little dwarf." Zhou Yanjun gave him a thumbs up.

"This is the kind of ambition we need. If you want to win the championship, you must first firmly believe that you are the reincarnation of the champion." Shi Ya said with a smile.

"Because humans always believe what they want to believe?" Xia Tong blinked. She really learned very quickly.

Bo Yu: "Fortunately, there is no one in the live broadcast room right now."

"Yes, if people hear this, our family tree will be sent to greet them tonight!" Zhou Yanjun laughed a few times, without any sign of fear.

The atmosphere in the team is very relaxed and happy.

"Alright." Lin Mingfei couldn't help laughing: "Let's go to the arena to try out the new equipment."

This should be Polaris' first official five-member training session. It looked even more formal than the previous training match with the Calabash Team.

"Xia Tong." Lin Mingfei lowered her eyes to look at the eager young wizard beside her and said softly, "Although you are a gifted wizard player, your advantages may make you a dark horse among us and the trump card of the Polaris team. However, all this is based on your understanding that 'this is a team game.'"

Xia Tong nodded, not quite understanding.

"Without precise coordination, even the strongest players are just brave and will be torn apart by a pack of wolves working together." Lin Mingfei said, "And coordination doesn't always mean your teammates are cooperating with you. You also need to learn to cooperate with your teammates."

"I understand. So what should I do now?" Xia Tong asked.

"We can't just go in and attack randomly like before. We need to have a basic strategy and then adapt to the situation." Lin Mingfei said, "Compared to our previous teammate Ping Shuai, Xia Tong's advantages lie in his powerful DPS and light physique. However, his disadvantages are also obvious. His basic health is very low, his positioning is not flexible, and he lacks practical experience. These shortcomings will be quickly exposed after the laning begins. If nothing unexpected happens, the opponent will definitely use Xia Tong as a breakthrough point for our team."

"They will focus their fire on me, is that what you mean?" Xia Tong asked softly, her expression gradually becoming solemn.

"That's right." Lin Mingfei did not comment.

"Then do I need to...change to equipment with higher defense?" Xia Tong hesitated.

Lin Mingfei shook her head. "Don't put the cart before the horse. A wizard isn't a tank. His strength lies in his powerful and violent damage output. If you change all your gear to tanky, not only will your defense be no match for a tank, but you won't even be able to deal damage. Then you'll become useless and we'll be four against five. Do you understand?"

Xia Tong's pupils shrank slightly, her lips were tightly pursed, and the blood color faded.

"It's okay. I'll focus most of my attention on Xia Tong." Shi Ya interrupted with a smile, holding Xia Tong's shoulders and smoothing things over: "Don't panic, you won't die that easily."

"It's not a question of whether it's easy to die." Lin Mingfei's voice was still deep: "Do you know what the most likely scenario is?"

Xia Tong: "What is it?"

"You'll be the one rolling on the ground!" Zhou Yanjun shouted. "Timer will have no choice but to chase you and heal you! If you lose focus, your health will plummet. You won't die, but our team will lose two people! It'll be three against five!"

Xia Tong's little face turned pale.

"Then...what should I do?" he said in a trembling voice.

"What can I do if I don't have any idea? Just practice." Lin Mingfei said.

Shi Ya couldn't bear to watch this any longer. She pulled Xia Tong closer to her and said lovingly, "Can you please stop scaring him? What good will it do you to scare a child like this? You'll be scared before the game even starts! Xia Tong, don't panic. It's not that tragic. Stay calm."

Xia Tong had been confused by the crisis education of Lin Mingfei and Zhou Yanjun and was in a bad mood. After hearing what Shi Ya said, she felt like she had found a safe haven and cried over: "Timer, you are still the best!"

Lin Mingfei crossed her arms and tilted her head meaningfully.

"Don't mistake him for a good guy, Xia Xiaotong." He gave a sinister laugh, his cunning old fox feeling resurfacing. "Actually, Timer should be the happiest person about your arrival. After all... before this, our team's arena situation was like this: no one wanted to see the two tanks, my crouching spot was well hidden and out of reach of ordinary people, and swapping heals was a popular strategy with a high success rate, so he was the one who was constantly pinned to the ground and rolled over most of the time."

Xia Tong: “…”

Shi Ya: “… Damn.”