Su Lin slowly let out a long breath and stepped into the corridor of the dormitory. Xiao Linlin and her entourage followed closely behind, just as always.
However, the second promotion match was extraordinary, with an anomaly that even Su Lin could not have predicted.
After Su Lin crossed the passage and regained his vision, he immediately checked the promotion match world and couldn't help but frown.
There was a thin, transparent safety shield around me, and I could vaguely make out that I was still in the dormitory.
"interesting..."
Su Lin squinted and looked back.
The black passage was gone, as if such a thing had ever appeared in his dormitory, as if it were all a hallucination, and he had only taken a few steps in his dormitory.
And his entourage was gone too.
Su Lin remained silent, walked to each room in the dormitory, reached out to touch them, and a notification message popped up in front of her.
[Currently in game protection mode; basic functions of the waiting area are unavailable.]
As this message appeared, lines of information about promotion matches also appeared in front of Su Lin.
Welcome to the Promotion Match: Badge Contest!
[World Background: The waiting area is a haven for all survivors, and only survivors can set foot there. Every survivor here possesses an instinct and desire to transcend their own limits, but still needs to prove their potential and reclaim the five survival badges on an absolutely fair basis.]
[Additional Match Restrictions: All individual attributes of all survivors, including talents, skills, inventory, weapons, armor, and personal stats, are temporarily taken! All followers are locked in the follower storage area! Use the power of your badges to regain them!]
[Badge Terms]: The five badges are Luck Badge, Courage Badge, Wisdom Badge, Strength Badge, and Patience Badge; each badge can restore a corresponding strength item of the promoted person. Collecting all the badges will result in a successful promotion. If there are multiple people who have collected all the badges, the promotion ranking will be determined by the speed at which the badges are submitted.
[Basic Rules of the Game]:
1. The promotion process for all survivors will be fixed within their respective waiting areas. All old rules and logistics modules within the waiting areas will be temporarily disabled.
2. The facilities in the waiting area have undergone basic changes to provide new stages for survivors to compete. Please go to different stages to match with competitors and obtain different badges.
3. Once you have collected all the badges, please return to your dormitory as soon as possible. Please make sure to bring back all five badges at the same time, otherwise you will not be able to enter the dormitory.
4. The match lasts for 30 days. Survivors who fail to submit the five badges after the timeout period will be considered to have failed to advance and will randomly lose 50% of the mechanics that have not yet been restored.
5. Please remember that the test of the badge is everywhere.
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Su Lin looked up and down at all the rules of the game, a hint of understanding in his eyes: "This game isn't in the unfamiliar world, but in the waiting area?"
Su Lin sensed a faint sense of deterrence emanating from this mechanism.
It indirectly proves to the survivors that in a world governed by these mechanisms, even the waiting area is not necessarily absolutely safe.
The safety of the waiting area stems from the mechanism; if the mechanism so desires, any waiting area can instantly become a battlefield of slaughter, more dangerous than any game world.
As for the various mechanisms, strengths, and items that everyone lost, to be honest, not only Su Lin didn't care much, but most of the other survivors were also mentally prepared.
What no one expected was that this time, not only were their own strengths stripped away, but their followers were also not allowed to be used.
Undoubtedly, the new promotion match mechanism will break the defenses of some survivors, and many survivors have made targeted adjustments to their development strategies after experiencing the last promotion match rules.
Most of them choose to bet their next promotion match on their minions, desperately recruiting all kinds of minions and trying every means to obtain new minions, so that even C-level minion cards remain expensive in high-level regions.
Of course, some people inevitably chose to follow the same path as Su Lin, squeezing themselves to regain their irreplaceable power through a semi-abandonment mechanism.
But this path is too difficult, and few people take it.
After all, everyone is rapidly growing stronger under the reward system provided by the mechanism, while you need to abandon the mechanism and become stronger independently. This growth gap is too huge, and one wrong move could lead you to an abyss of no return.
"Collect five badges to advance... seems pretty easy."
Su Lin murmured to himself, his gaze falling on the fifth rule.
There's nothing specific, just a piece of advice, but if you look at it in conjunction with the first rule, it's easy to deduce a conclusion: the waiting area in the promotion match state has become a real battlefield.
The rules of the game never emphasized that survivors are not allowed to kill each other.
Judging from the conventional style of the mechanism: if it is not prohibited, it is permissible.
The waiting area allows for combat, and with a massive number of survivors simultaneously advancing in the same waiting area, there are undoubtedly many variables.
Allowing fighting means that badges can be stolen.
Being the first to get the badge might not be a good thing; it could make you the target of everyone's criticism.
After all, everyone is in the most fair position on the surface. Most of the survivors who have lost everything are just like ordinary people. They may be a little stronger, but it is extremely limited. The difference between them is not that big.
Having deduced this, Su Lin had already deeply felt the intensity of the second promotion match.
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