It felt so unreal, yet so incredibly real.
Su Lin remained silent, making hand seals to evaporate the sweat on his back and calm his mind.
At that moment, a new notification appeared before his eyes.
[Congratulations to survivor "Su Lin" for earning a "Strength Badge".]
You have acquired a new badge type, and its effect can be triggered at any time.
[Strength Badge (Privilege)]: In this promotion match, you can choose to restore one of your own strength types or there is a 50% chance to restore two strength types. The privilege of a badge can only be used once. After use, the badge loses its privilege, but it can still be retained as proof of successful promotion.
Different badges come with different awards.
It not only serves as proof of promotion, but also gives survivors a better chance of completing promotion matches.
Once you can win a badge reasonably and smoothly, obtaining the second and third badges will be much easier.
Of course, if you're unlucky enough to challenge the strength badge first, or if you challenge the strength badge without having recovered any of your strength attributes like Su Lin, you'll likely suffer a terrible fate.
Su Lin didn't rush to use the badge's privileges, but instead silently wondered, "Will everyone step into the arena with the Strength Badge?"
"Or is it that only a small number of people can do it?"
What Su Lin can confirm at present is that each badge has a different competition area, environment and rules, but the core is roughly the same.
However, the Colosseum was too special. The most valuable thing Sulin gained there was not the badge itself, but the information he learned from the Colosseum.
Judging from the operating rules of the mechanism, it actually has more ways to test the survivors and set up different strength badge competition areas.
If it truly doesn't want to tell the survivors any clues or information, the survivors will hardly know anything of value and will remain kept in the dark.
"So it... is just playing a trick? Everything in the arena is fake, a mechanism to intimidate survivors and put psychological pressure on them?"
Su Lin had this guess in his mind, but quickly dismissed it.
Given the nature of the system, it's unlikely to do something so pointless. It has countless ways to put pressure on survivors, even subjecting them to painful torture.
Therefore, the actions of the mechanism must have a reason; it has no need to perform meaningless actions against helpless survivors.
"Brother, let's choose the talent. Let's get the talent back first; it has a pretty high priority."
Xiao Linlin offered her advice from the side, carefully analyzing the information about the badge privileges.
Su Lin didn't do it. Instead, she turned to look at Xiao Linlin and asked softly, "Aren't you curious about what happened just now?"
"Just curious."
Xiao Linlin raised her head and smiled, "But my curiosity is useless; the truth is already right in front of us."
"For me, my curiosity and resistance to anything are of little use. I'm even worse off than my brother; I'm not even a survivor."
Xiao Linlin spread her hands, her words filled with helplessness but also with truth: "If I hadn't met my brother, a follower like me... might have been of some use in the early stages, but I would have been abandoned very quickly. Only my brother would treat me like a treasure."
Su Lin gently stroked her hair, and Xiao Linlin squinted her eyes to feel it: "Of course, if you want me to explain it more clearly, brother, that's fine too, although it may be a future that we can't control."
"Judging from the area where we just played, it should be an extremely low-probability event, not every survivor will encounter it. Leaving aside why the mechanics would provide such a low-probability event for my brother, it's enough to illustrate a few points:"
"1. The mechanism has greater control over us, and the escape game has a deeper meaning; it's just unclear whether it treats us as [goods] or something else."
"2. From the outside perspective, our human status is not high; we are treated as beasts, and our entire environment is similar to the wilderness in the eyes of humans."
"Of course, this environment does not refer to the waiting area, but to the entire Earth; they clearly know where my brother came from and have the qualifications to communicate with the mechanism at a higher level, regarding us as rare beings."
"3. The system didn't 'sell' the older brother into the Colosseum, it seems that the Colosseum is really just used as a competition area; of course, this doesn't completely mean that the system is good for us, it may also be waiting for a higher price."
"And the most thought-provoking question about this is: Is the mechanism intentionally putting us in the arena to learn more, or is it just an unintentional act?"
"If it's not for selling goods, why let us know more? If you intend to let us know these things, why not sell us out, or give us more detailed answers and the whole picture?"
Xiao Linlin looked at Su Lin, and what she said were the questions Su Lin was pondering.
Su Lin shook his head silently. No one truly understands what the mechanism is thinking or what it is doing.
"So, let's put that issue aside for now and continue to corroborate this from another angle."
Xiao Linlin stood with her hands behind her back, pondering, "With brother's current strength, he is invincible in the waiting area, but he is relatively weak in external environments such as the arena, and is considered a beast."
"Moreover, according to the information revealed by that male voice, they even understand the Heavenly Rank Foundation Establishment, and only feel that it is precious, but they are not afraid of it."
"Based on this, it is enough to show that my brother's strength is not top-notch in the entire arena; at most, he is a valuable and precious species."
"And places like the Colosseum are obviously not high-end; in the overall external environment, they should be considered low-class, or even unrefined?"
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