Lin Mingfei took a look at the game categories on the 1234 mini-games, and recalled the levels he had encountered in the first four layers of the Scorpion Eye Trench. Combining the two, he classified these deadly mini-games into categories, and then assigned each game type as a task to each person.
"Everyone here is an expert at playing games," Lin Mingfei said, arms folded majestically as she delivered a stern lecture in the living room. "If you can conquer the holographic game King's Tomb, I'm sure conquering these seemingly naive mini-games won't be a problem! My requirements aren't high. The standard is to clear the game. Everyone must complete all the mini-games in their assigned category. Any objections?"
There was a dead silence below, except for Xia Tong, who clapped in agreement, "No! Opinion!"
Lin Mingfei narrowed her eyes: "If you have any opinions, you can raise them now."
Zhou Yanjun clutched his phone, a dark aura swirling between his brows. "It's not really an opinion, really...it's just this...can you give me a different category label? I'm really terrible at 'Find the Differences'! I'm practically staring at them, and I can't figure out the difference!"
Lin Mingfei said: "You can exchange privately."
Zhou Yanjun turned his head and looked at Shi Ya: "Timer, are you willing to--"
"I'd love to." Shi Ya, her face numb, began to play a dress-up game on her phone. "But I'm worried that with your aesthetic quotient, you'll never reach the zero target in these games."
Zhou Yanjun: “…”
Lin Mingfei: "It seems that there is no problem."
Zhou Yanjun shrank back resentfully: "That's it."
Lin Mingfei said, "We're not going to do anything tonight. Our goal is to conquer every category of mini-games on 1234. By tomorrow noon, we'll tackle Scorpion Eye Trench." He paused, then added, "We've already lost at the starting line. This is both a bad thing and a good thing. At least we have the capital to fight tooth and nail. No matter how bad things get, it can't get any worse. But we absolutely cannot let the other teams look down on us. Meeting adjourned."
After he finished speaking, no one moved and Lin Mingfei stood up and went back to the bedroom.
Xia Tong lowered her eyes thoughtfully, then nudged Zhou Yanjun with her elbow.
"Chubby," he said softly, "Actually, even though Zero assigns you heavy tasks, he's given himself even more games! Snake, Tetris, and Huarong Road...these aren't games you can master overnight."
Zhou Yanjun buried his head in his phone, frantically tapping away, then sighed in frustration, "I know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not really going to do it." He paused, then muttered, "Times like these require us all to give our all and stick together... Oh well, enough, enough, just playing games. This crappy page is so cheaply made, with all the fucking color changes and ads popping up. How could it be fun!"
Xia Tong burst out laughing and went back to doing her own Sudoku.
That night, everyone thought that the Polaris team was taking some time off to stay healthy, but in fact, they all stayed up all night.
Lin Mingfei canceled her morning exercise activity. At 7:40 the next morning, Xia Tong was playing connect-the-dots and puzzles until she was unconscious. She fell on the armrest of the sofa and took a nap for a while. Not long after, she heard Zhou Yanjun scream beside her.
"I've cleared all the levels!!!"
"Oh my god!" Xia Tong was jolted awake from a light sleep, his whole body frozen on the sofa, clutching his chest and gasping for breath. Zhou Yanjun, with dark circles under his eyes, yanked him up from the sofa, shaking his thin arms frantically: "Dwarf, I'm done! I'm free!!!"
"Then you...then you are really amazing." Xia Tong laughed dryly with a pale face, her eyes rolled back and she fell on the armrest of the sofa: "I can't take it anymore...I feel dizzy, Fatty, stop shaking me."
Zhou Yanjun was the first to reach shore, followed by Shi Ya and Bo Yu. Xia Tong followed their lead and poured herself a cup of sour, bitter black coffee, pinching her nose and downing it before finally making her way ashore.
"Honestly, I still can't understand the joy of PvX." Zhou Yanjun said lifelessly: "What's so fun about these games? I'm almost sick of playing them!"
"I'm warning you, don't diss the casual party again, or you'll show us your true colors again. I feel that PVX has a hard time too. I have nothing but admiration for them." Shi Ya yawned and said, "By the way, where's Zero? I'm waiting for him."
"Wow... He wouldn't order us to play stupid games here while he secretly went back to the bedroom to catch up on some sleep!" Zhou Yanjun said with a cunning look on his face.
"Then I'll go to the bedroom and call him!" Xia Tong didn't want anyone to call her, and ran up the stairs happily on her own initiative.
Zhou Yanjun was speechless: "Fuck, are you so happy to go to Zero's bedroom?"
A moment later, Xia Tong lay on the third-floor corridor, looking down and shouted, "Zero is not in the bedroom!"
"Huh?" Several people were shocked.
"Did you see him go out?" Shi Ya turned and asked Bo Yu and Zhou Yanjun.
"No." Bo Yu shook his head.
"Oh my god! I've been awake the whole time, but I haven't seen anyone moving around in the living room." Zhou Yanjun said anxiously, "Where could he go so early in the morning?"
Shi Ya pinched her chin and pondered for a moment. Then, an idea suddenly occurred to her. She said, "Let's go to the training room and take a look."
"Huh? Training room?" Zhou Yanjun asked, "It's only a few hours now and he's already in the training room? Has he finished all those crappy games?"
"If it's Zero... I don't think it's impossible." Shi Ya said, and raised her hand to push open the glass door of the training room.
As he expected, in the huge training room, five "cocoons" were evenly arranged there. One of them had a unique gun pattern and was continuously glowing. The ring-shaped aperture was running beautifully, indicating the operating status of the "cocoon".
"What an energetic devil..." Zhou Yanjun murmured, "I can't compare to him..."
"Even if we can't win, we can't lose too badly." Shi Ya smiled softly, "Come on, let's go online together."
After a while, the five members of Polaris came online together.
It seems that there are always people online in the forum 24 hours a day, and their movements are captured as soon as they come online.
Then more posts started popping up.
[Polaris, a team composed entirely of elderly people, actually has an early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine??! ! !]
Oh my god… Going to bed at 8 or 9, and logging in at 6 or 7, what kind of hellish schedule is this???
Shouldn't the elderly stop playing professionally? Shouldn't they just focus on their retirement?
[I'm suffocating. I'm so tired of being a fan of this team...]
I'm really worried about them! You're not the championship team you were back then. Try harder!
[Could it be that because there's an omega in there, everyone will stop attending court early in the morning?]
[Your thoughts are really dirty.]
"Oh, it's not impossible, is it? I've seen that omega before. How should I describe him? He doesn't look like a serious, honest type anyway."
[To be honest, I think Blink had plastic surgery.]
[Can eyes grow that big naturally without plastic surgery? I don't believe it.]
So what are they doing now?
[Am I seeing this right? They seem to be going to Scorpion Eye Trench again.]
…
After the four polaris members came online, they formed Lin Mingfei.
"No way, you're in such good spirits." Shi Ya said, "Have you finished all those mini-games?"
"Yeah." Lin Mingfei responded briefly: "I haven't been up here for too long, just now."
This "just" is probably just one, two or three hours, Shi Ya would never believe it.
"So what have you been studying for the past half day?" Shi Ya asked.
"Study whether there are any hidden modes or Easter eggs that have not been unlocked in the Scorpion Eye Trench." Lin Mingfei said lightly.
Only then did Shi Ya realize that the hunter was wet.
"So you went down there alone again?" He couldn't help but feel a little sad. "Did you find out?"
Lin Mingfei: “No.”
Shi Ya: “…”
"Forget it." Lin Mingfei was quite open-minded. "Have you completed your tasks?"
"It's done. I'm just waiting to accompany you down there." Shi Ya smiled.
"What do you mean by accompany me down?" Lin Mingfei smiled: "Let's go."
Several people entered the Scorpion Eye Trench again.
The official live broadcast room had not started operations yet at this point, but a lot of onlookers had already gathered in Lin Mingfei's live broadcast room, waiting to see their jokes again.
[Going again? I cleared four floors yesterday, and you're going again today?]
They might be addicted to PVX.
[No, it would be better to practice coordination in the arena!]
[Do you guys still remember that you're a professional team, playing PVP? Ahh ...
[Could it be that Omega who said he doesn't want to play in the Arena and only wants to farm in the Scorpion Eye Trench?]
[Yeah, before Blink came, I remember Polaris was just doing PvP normally!]
[What the hell is going on? Can this omega please leave? He's in the way!]
......
They were arguing fiercely online, criticizing this once glorious team, but they never expected that Polaris's trip to the Scorpion Eye Trench would go so smoothly as if it were a blessing.
Perhaps because they'd been playing all-night oddball games the night before, the five of them were now hyper-aware of the game categories they were responsible for. So much so that whenever a flashy NPC showed up, they could immediately tell if it was within their jurisdiction.
"This is mine, mine, mine."
"I just saw something similar last night..."
"Leave this to me!!!"
......
They had a smooth journey and encountered several waves of battles along the way. Of course, the battles in this place were much easier than the high-difficulty dungeon bosses they had encountered before. Moreover, this group of people were full of anger and rushed to open fire, and they quickly killed the other party. The scene of the NPC being beaten by the group was extremely tragic.
Compared with a day ago, their efficiency increased by more than double. They reached more than ten floors in the morning. When Lin Mingfei asked them to log off at lunch time, she saw He Youjin standing at the door of their training room.
"Do you all want to die suddenly before the game?" He Youjin said with a stern face, "If you don't log off, I'm going to consider turning off the power! Hurry up and pack up and go eat!"
Although the members of Team P were yawning constantly and had dark circles under their eyes, they were in good spirits.
"To be honest, as soon as I saw those two mermaids come out, before they even started dancing, I knew they were going to ask me to find the differences!" Zhou Yanjun kept chattering, "My goodness, I looked at hundreds of find-the-differences pictures last night, and it wasn't all in vain!"
"It feels really different. Yesterday I had no idea what to do, but today I can play with my eyes closed." Bo Yu nodded and said, "I think we can probably finish these thirty-nine floors in less than forty-eight hours."
Xia Tong clapped her hands and said, "So this Scorpion Eye Trench isn't that difficult, right?"
Shi Ya didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "People like PVX are here to play games and have fun, but we are acting like ascetics seeking Buddhist scriptures. Holographic professional players are playing games all night long. I guess we will be ridiculed on the forums again."
Lin Mingfei took the lead in speaking nonchalantly: "It's just playing online games, it's not a big deal, what's there to laugh at? Besides, no one knows that our club plays the 1234 game all night long."
He Youjin was walking in front. When he heard this, he tripped over his left foot and almost fell.
"Ouch!" he cried out, and managed to stand still by holding onto the armrest of the chair.
"What's wrong, Lao He?" Lin Mingfei asked.
"Um..." He Youjin touched the tip of his nose guiltily: "Yesterday I browsed the forum and found that many people were scolding you."
"Scold us? Why?" Shi Ya asked.
"Because all the teams were online in the game until late last night, and our team was offline the whole time, they thought... we were asleep," said He Youjin.
"How is this possible!" Shi Ya was speechless: "Then what?"
"Then I created a small account and went to the forum to help you clarify..." He Youjin stammered, "...Anyway, now everyone probably knows that you guys stayed up all night playing the 1234 mini-game last night."
Lin Mingfei: “…”
He Youjin hit the nail on the head. During lunch, related posts appeared on the forum.
[Shocking! The former godly father actually stayed up late to learn how to change clothes for his daughter!]
Shi Ya almost choked to death on the pork rib soup: "Cough cough cough cough!!"
[A 200-pound man keeps looking for trouble all night long! Is this a distortion of human nature or a moral decline?]
Zhou Yanjun: "...How did I become morally corrupt???"
[Glory's Sorrow - The Tiger and Wolf Division, which once won three consecutive championships, stayed up all night playing the 1234 mini-game just for fun. Sunny!]
Lin Mingfei slammed her bowl on the table and, after a long pause, managed to utter a few words amidst the silence: "This is fucking outrageous!"
"I don't know how it turned out this way." He Youjin seemed to have aged overnight, his hands drooping around his eyes as he spoke sadly, "I just used my phone to snap a few photos of Timer and Fire diligently playing games yesterday, wanting to prove you guys weren't slacking off... No, why is the public's attention so distorted now!!!"
"That's so pornographic, Qing, can't you just censor the photo when you see it?" Lin Mingfei was drunk.
"I'm afraid if I censor it they'll say my photos are fake!" He Youjin was distraught and indignant: "Friends these days are so hard to please!"
“…”
Xia Tong was full and put down her chopsticks. "I think they're just too bored. If we were fighting now, they'd only care about winning or losing and wouldn't bother with the details."
"Xia Tong's words make sense." Bo Yu nodded.
"You two leaky fish are quite rational." He Youjin snorted.
"But these things have to be done." Lin Mingfei said: "Before the dawn comes, we must move forward in the darkness."
"Ah, no more talking! Hurry up and eat. After that, go back to the Scorpion Eye Trench!" Zhou Yanjun was very uncomfortable with the sudden depressing and solemn atmosphere at the table. He said angrily, "The sooner you finish, the sooner you can be free!"
In fact, after eating, the blood in the brain flowed to the stomach. The sleep-deprived "Five Tigers" were too sleepy and went back to their rooms to catch up on their sleep. It was not until the evening that they gathered again and went online to continue their previous tasks.
The controversy outside was still raging, and they all turned off the barrage in the live broadcast area and stopped reading the mixed posts in the forum. Instead, they went deeper into the deep sea. They were united and cleared the level faster and faster, and finally finished the 39th floor at noon the next day.
The NPC Scorpion King who ran the equipment store walked out of the darkness.
Congratulations, brave adventurers! You've broken through the barriers of the thirty-ninth floor and arrived here. Currently, your accumulated team points total 4,399. You can exchange these points for powerful equipment as rewards.
Zhou Yanjun's eyes filled with tears: "Oh my God! We have finally reached this moment! I am about to cry! I never want to come here again in my life! I never want to touch PVX again!"
Lin Mingfei came to the equipment display stand and saw rows and rows of 1500-grade equipment displayed.
"Let's change Xia Tong first." He turned his head and said, "He still has a lot of mission equipment on him, and the gap between him and the main force is too big."
Shi Ya shrugged and said, "I have no objection."
Zhou Yanjun: "I have no objection either."
Bo Yu: "Yes."
So Lin Mingfei pointed at the wizard belt.
Scorpion King: [You have successfully spent 4200 points to redeem a 'Girdle of Duncan's Blessing'. Warrior, I wish you and your teammates will become stronger and stronger!]
Lin Mingfei's forehead jumped violently: "???? How many points? Tell me again???"
The Scorpion King is as quiet as a chicken.
The people behind him were also stunned.
"No way... the five of us worked our butts off for three days in the Scorpion Eye Trench and earned over four thousand points, only enough to redeem a belt?" Zhou Yanjun's eyes widened. "What the hell is this???"
Bo Yu lowered his head and began counting on his fingers. "There are seven bosses in this twenty-five-player secret realm. On average, each boss drops one piece of equipment, and the last boss even drops a hidden treasure. So, a single round of clearing can yield seven to eight pieces of equipment... Captain, we seem to be losing out!"
Lin Mingfei didn't say anything. With a calm face, he first traded the belt he had exchanged for to Xia Tong.
"Let's talk about it later."
Several people returned to the entrance of the Scorpion Eye Trench together and went ashore wetly.
"Oh my god..." Zhou Yanjun sat down on the beach, lying on his back like a sea turtle that couldn't turn over, his arms and legs spread out. "I got nothing from this. I'm so exhausted."
"It's not like we got nothing." Shi Ya sat down next to him and said jokingly, "At least Xia Tong's beaded belt is quite beautiful."
"What's the point of being pretty?" Zhou Yanjun rolled his eyes and said dejectedly, "Besides, he's the only one who's pretty."
Shi Ya curled her lips and glanced sideways at Xia Tong who was sitting next to him. The little wizard was hugging his knees and looking at the hunter standing not far away.
Lin Mingfei has been very silent since she came out. She has been standing on the beach, folding her arms and looking into the distance.
"It's been about a month and a half since the Scorpion Eye Trench opened, hasn't it?" Xia Tong whispered to herself. "Has anyone cleared all thirty-nine floors? Besides us?"
"Well... Actually, if you do this alone, it's quite time-consuming. When I checked the guide yesterday, I only saw records for the thirty-first and thirty-second floors." Shi Ya said.
"In other words... no one knows what the Scorpion Eye Trench will look like after clearing the thirty-ninth floor." Xia Tong said.
Shi Ya was slightly startled, feeling that there was some deep meaning in these words. At the same time, he raised his head and saw that the sharp-eyed and sharp-eared hunter standing in front of him also turned his head and looked at them with his bright eyes.
"Zero!" Xia Tong suddenly blurted out, and stood up hurriedly. She watched Lin Mingfei rush into the whirlpool in the sea in a few steps and dive into it.
A moment later, they found the "drowned" Lin Mingfei at the resurrection point.
"Are you okay, Zero?" Xia Tong felt a little distressed and rushed over to comfort him in a panic.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Lin Mingfei looked extremely excited and laughed loudly, "Thanks to you, Xia Xiaotong! Thanks to your words!"
"What...what did you say?" Xia Tong asked blankly.
Lin Mingfei didn't answer his question. Instead, she looked up excitedly at the other three teammates: "The Scorpion Eye Trench has a hidden mode! We've unlocked it!"
"Hidden mode?" The three people asked in surprise: "What hidden mode?"
"Attack the Scorpion King! Every victory will earn you points, and when you have enough points, you can exchange them for equipment!" Lin Mingfei said, "We don't have to waste time going down from the first floor to the thirty-ninth floor! And—" He cracked his knuckles, "I've wanted to beat that guy up for a long time!"
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