In this new team, Yang Jia and her team occupied four places, namely Li Bai, Bai Ting, Yang Jia and Feng Qingxuan.

Li Bai, needless to say, was the core of the team. Yang Jia, in urgent need of improvement, had temporarily entrusted the factory's operations to Qin Yan. Bai Ting was someone Li Bai could trust, and her unique skills made her a suitable addition to the team. As for Feng Qingxuan, she had expressed her desire to join, and her explosives skills were indeed formidable. After careful consideration, Yang Jia agreed.

Excluding Zheng Yizhao, who occupies one spot but is difficult to free up, there are five positions left.

Zheng Yizhao had sent over a full twenty men. He figured that choosing just four would be enough to fill out the team. After all, those sent were all top-tier fighters.

But in the end, Yang Jia personally selected only three players. In a typical game, a team must have a balanced configuration: a tank with high health and monster resistance, a healer, some control, and two main damage dealers, one ranged and one melee. That's pretty much it. As the team size increases, generally speaking, you just need to add or subtract players based on this configuration.

However, the game they were currently playing was rather odd. There weren't any classes yet, and it wasn't certain whether there would be in the future. So, choosing teammates now was essentially a matter of following the requirements of a "chopper" team: picking the strongest damage. And just to be safe, Yang Jia decided to leave at least one or two spots open for flexibility. This was the outcome.

Coincidentally, the three chosen were all the last remaining champions of the tournament, talents Zheng Yizhao had painstakingly recruited. It wasn't surprising, though; if they weren't strong enough, how could they possibly have made it to the end?

However, this created a new problem. The new team members were competent, but their loyalty was questionable. After all, they were likely spies sent by other factions. Bai Ting and Qin Yan had both privately warned Yang Jia of this, and Yang Jia himself wasn't entirely unprepared.

But Yang Jia had a vague feeling that many things in this game were impossible to replicate. For example, Li Bai's acquisition of the City Lord's Seal—even if someone else were to repeat it, they wouldn't necessarily be able to do it again. Furthermore, the settings of other cities were definitely different from Phoenix City. Even if they knew the intel here, it would only give them a little more information in future battles, allowing them to target their opponents. However, this point seemed to have little impact at this point.

This was different from the keyboard online games Yang Jia had played. During a war, traitors were of little use, as it was difficult to convey information in real time. Especially since these three individuals were already being closely watched. So even if someone was deployed, these three would likely be just a cover; the real ones would be hidden among the crowd.

But the strength of these three people is there, so it would be a waste not to use them. Keeping them by your side would allow you to control the information they receive, killing two birds with one stone.

So in the end Yang Jia still chose these three people.

One of them, Xia Hanhai, was particularly enthusiastic towards Li Bai. This puzzled everyone else in the team. After all, Li Bai looked so cold, her whole body exuding a "stay away from me" aura. It was rare for someone like Yang Jia to get along with her peacefully and not be frightened by her coldness. Even Bai Ting had never seen such a warm person before.

Yet, his enthusiasm wasn't necessarily offensive, as he didn't neglect the others in the team. It was just obvious to everyone that his attention was focused more on Li Bai. Yang Jia had a subtle feeling that he'd gained a new rival in love, but he wasn't entirely sure. Xia Hanhai kept mentioning "a fight" when talking to Li Bai, clearly inspired by Li Bai's fighting prowess and eager to give it a try.

Bai Ting asked him curiously, "Then why didn't you go up to the ring and challenge him that day?"

Xia Hanhai said with a bitter face, "You don't understand this. Challenging her in the arena only allows one match. If you join the Nirvana Guild, you can ask for advice anytime."

Bai Ting then quietly retreated. She privately told Yang Jia that once Xia Hanhai had experienced Li Bai's strength, he would no longer have such an attitude. There were so many people who wanted to challenge Li Bai, but most of them either followed her obediently or avoided her when they saw her.

The other one was called Bai Yu. He was the one who had knocked Bai Ting off the stage, so Bai Ting always had a cold face when she saw him. However, Bai Yu didn't mind her attitude and looked at her with a warm gaze, clearly knowing her. Furthermore, they shared the same surname, so perhaps they were even from the same family. However, on the surface, they didn't look alike.

The last one was a girl named Zhao Wenhan. Despite being a girl, she was actually the tallest of the eight members, and quite strong, giving off a sense of security. But not so strong as to raise doubts about her gender. She seemed cheerful and generous, speaking little but always to the point.

After introducing each other, Yang Jia, as the team leader, took out the team contract.

It was a rolled-up scroll, a bit like an ancient painting or calligraphy, but when it was unfolded, it was blank. Yang Jia had his teammates place their hands on the scroll one by one, inputting their information. After they took it back, he took a deep breath and placed his hands on it as well.

A message popped up on the scroll: "Detected to be a team contract holder. Do you want to enter your personal information and become a team leader?" Below it were buttons like "Yes" and "No."

Yang Jia tapped lightly on the word "yes".

The next moment, the information of all the team members appeared out of thin air on the scroll, filling the entire scroll, leaving only two empty spaces at the end.

Just like the game character information Yang Jia had seen, each person had an avatar displayed on it, with detailed basic data next to it, probably to make it easier for the captain to understand the situation of the team members.

She didn't rush to look at others, but first fixed her eyes on herself, who was standing at the front with a green "Captain" badge.

Name: Yang Jia

Occupation: None

Equipment: None

Title: None

Level: 12 (1456/409600)

Strength: 16

Constitution: 18

Agility: 17

Health: 1800/1800

Physical strength: 100/100

This is Yang Jia’s basic data.

Just as she imagined, this was indeed a world that could be digitized. As a veteran gamer, Yang Jia could instantly deduce a lot from this simple data, but now her mind was buzzing, and she couldn't concentrate on analyzing it at all.

Now she had only one thought in her mind: I could finally see my own data!

Since this is a digital world, it is natural to be able to see one's own data. Especially since Yang Jia is essentially an NPC, the data generated by the system must have corresponding judgments. However, before this, Yang Jia himself could not see these.

She didn't know if the player could do it, and she didn't dare to test or ask easily, so as not to arouse other people's suspicion.

And now, she could see it. Does this mean that she is indeed fundamentally different from other NPCs? What about players? What is the difference between her and them?

Of course, there is one most fundamental difference, which Yang Jia is very clear about: these players can "go offline" and "die", but she cannot.

But other than that, are there any other differences?

If not, does it mean that she can indeed use this to disguise herself and live as a player as she imagined?

Of course, Yang Jia had always done this before. No one else seemed to notice anything was wrong, but she herself was always nervous at the time, feeling insecure and vulnerable, like she could be discovered at any moment, and she had no power to resist. She couldn't even defend herself.

After a while, Yang Jia finally calmed down. Because she had been staring at the scroll, the others probably thought she was looking at everyone else's data, and no one questioned her. So, after coming to her senses, Yang Jia quickly glanced at the others' data and got a general idea.

Clearly, everyone here had fought outside the city, including Zheng Yizhao himself, so everyone's base stats were above 10, even Feng Qingxuan, who seemed to have little combat power. Indeed, if she wanted to level up, it would actually be the simplest way. All she had to do was lure the monsters together and drop a blasting device on them. The only problem was the sheer amount of damage it would cause to the environment, and the noise would easily attract the attention of other monsters and players.

The highest-level player wasn't Yang Jia, but Li Bai. She was already level 15. She and Bai Ting were always there when they left the city, yet they were so many levels behind, clearly demonstrating the disparity in combat power. However, Yang Jia quickly calculated that leveling up experience doubled, meaning that the difficulty of leveling up increased with each level, and the gap shouldn't widen any further.

"Next, let's go out of the city to do the dungeon. We'll consider other things after everyone reaches level 15." Yang Jia thought about it and made a decision.

"A replica?" Xia Hanhai said excitedly, "Phoenix City really has a lot of good stuff!"

"Yes, the dungeon is called the Boneyard. There are two kinds of monsters in it, beasts and zombies, and the boss's combat power is not particularly strong. The three of us, Li Bai, Bai Ting and I, can clear it, and eight people should have no problem either." Yang Jia said.

Then no one else objected, and everyone packed up and left the city.

It wasn't until then that Yang Jia finally found her chance and pulled out her ID card. Sure enough, at some point, the front of the card had been filled with information. It looked a bit like her in-game ID card, with a photo in the top left corner and basic data elsewhere.

The author has something to say: There was a power outage in the afternoon_(:зゝ∠)_