Not long after Bai Liu left the game, he was walking and chatting with Mu Sicheng.

"What is this panel attribute point?" Bai Liu pointed at the one in his "Last Train to Explosion" reward and asked, "Is it what I understand as something that can be added to any attribute at will to improve my panel attributes?"

"Yes and no." Mu Sicheng explained to Bai Liu simply, "The player level in this game is assessed based on four attributes: physical strength, agility, which is speed, attack, and resistance. The attribute points you earn can only be added to these four attribute bars."

Bai Liu thought for a moment, "I didn't have this attribute point for rewards in my last game."

Mu Sicheng rolled his eyes. "This is an extra reward from the system. You've already received an extra reward of [Personal Skills] in your last rookie single-player game instance. You're still thinking of getting an extra reward of [Attribute Points]. That's wishful thinking. This thing is hard to get. You only get 100 points after clearing the second-level game. The system is very stingy. And this thing can't be added indefinitely. When your potential reaches its limit, no matter how much you add to the panel attributes, it won't go up anymore."

"However," Mu Sicheng paused subtly, "many people die before they reach their potential limit, because a level 2 game only has 100 attribute points. It's easy for players who are not raised by a big guild or have weak skills. But there is also a way to quickly gain panel attribute points, but few people know how to use it."

Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng: "What method?"

"Participate in the league." Mu Sicheng whispered, "That's how Spade became an S-level player. The league rewards winning players with very high attribute points."

Before Mu Sicheng could finish his words, several colorful virtual fireworks suddenly exploded in the game hall. The fireworks fell and formed various words, attracting the attention of the players coming and going.

[Big news! Big news! The annual horror game e-sports league is here! Don’t miss it if you pass by! This is the annual event for all gamers! ]

The players saw this and looked away as if nothing had happened:

"Oh, I wonder which guild is so rich that it would start buying system fireworks for advertising so early."

"The cheering season has begun. Starting this week, all the major guilds will start advertising frantically to promote their own players. The King Guild spent 10 million points on advertising last time, and almost didn't make back the money..."

Virtual fireworks fell on the player, and the player's system panel automatically popped up a game activity interface that looked like a grand opening bonus:

[System Event——Horror Game E-sports League is about to start! ]

[Players can choose their participation status - league player or spectator]

[As a league player, you have to fight fiercely with other players in the arena, regardless of life or death. As a spectator, you can watch exciting games and passionately cheer for your favorite teams and players, and recharge your energy by giving likes.]

[This is a competition that involves life and desire. Have you chosen your position? Do you choose to be a crazy participant who does whatever it takes to realize your desire, or a calm bystander who is like a god?]

…

[Player registration requirements for the league: 5 players who have completed more than 52 dungeons form a team to participate in the competition]

[Competition system: Every two teams will play one team match, one doubles match, and one singles match. The team with the highest total score in the last three matches will advance to the next level]

(Note: If a player dies during the game, the team can absorb new players to fill the gap)

…

There are also a lot of event details below, such as players' system stores being disabled during the competition.

Fireworks also fell on Bai Liu, and an advertisement for the event popped up on his system interface. He simply swiped the system interface to take a look, and it felt a bit like a real e-sports competition.

But Bai Liu is actually not very interested in this type of e-sports game. After all, Bai Liu is a horror game developer, not a fighting game developer.

However, Bai Liu was a little surprised that there was an e-sports league in a horror game, but Mu Sicheng seemed to have known about this for a long time. He clicked his tongue, closed the system notification interface, and complained, "It's so annoying. The guild and the system are advertising everywhere again. The league support season is really coming."

"Cheering season?" Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng, "What does this mean? Is this the league you mentioned that offers high panel attribute point rewards?"

Mu Sicheng pursed his lips impatiently: "You'll see if you scroll down, it's all promotional advertising, viral marketing."

Bai Liu scrolled all the way down the system page to the end and found that just as Mu Sicheng said, there were promotional pages of various players and guilds below. There were team posters and single player posters on the page, and there were charging and like buttons next to the posters. The higher the comprehensive data of charging and likes, the higher the ranking of the promotional page.

The single player picture ranked first in the data is a photo of a man with his eyes covered by bangs.

This man has pale lips and a thin jaw. He has a long black whip on his cold, thin wrist, and the tail of the whip is held in his hand. His profile is slightly raised, and the ends of his eyes are slender, as if he is squinting, giving people a very stern and cold temperament. The picture of this player is still blurry, but even from the perspective of Bai Liu, who has no normal perception of human beauty, this guy looks very superior, a kind of superiority that can be measured by artistic standards.

The perfect skeleton modeling reminded Bai Liu of Tawil, but this man looked much more stern than Tawil. If Tawil had the seductive appearance of the moonlight with a fiery glow, this Spade was like a knife without a scabbard, with a sharp appearance that would hurt your eyes if you looked at him for too long. Even in this blurry photo, there was a murderous aura and a condescending indifference.

Bai Liu clicked on this person's profile:

[Player: Spades]

[Current support statistics: 1.3 million, ranking first among all participating players, unlocking the death-free gold medal]

(Note: Due to the player's high popularity, he is protected by the system and has obtained a gold medal of immunity from death. In the competitive game, when the player is in a state of near death, the system will force him to exit the game and place him in a protective shield)

【Total points ranking: No. 1】

[Guild: Killer Order]

Bai Liu slid down and saw that the individual poster of the second-place player was very different from Spade's. Spade's personal poster was probably a casual street shot by a passerby, while the second-place player's personal poster was a refined photo of the top team in the entertainment industry, and even the facial hairs could be seen clearly.

The second person was an old acquaintance that Bai Liu had heard of a long time ago - the poster showed a beautiful cheongsam girl with snow-white skin and black curly hair. She had semi-long curly hair, almond eyes and red lips, and a red peach icon under her right eye. She wore a bright red cheongsam with a single slit and black satin high heels. One foot was crossed, revealing black stockings, and she was shuffling a deck of poker cards in her hands. Her expression was half-smiling and very lazy, and she looked very seductive. At first glance, one could smell the alluring fragrance and the desire that filled one's face.

[Player: Heart Queen]

[Current support statistics: 970,000, ranking second among all participating players, unlocking the death-free gold medal]

【Total points ranking: 2nd】

[Guild: King's Crown]

…

As Bai Liu watched, Mu Sicheng explained to her, "There is an e-sports league in this game every August. Players can form teams to participate. Of course, ordinary players will just be wasting their time. The league is held by big guilds, who have a strong foundation. In order to attract votes from players participating in the league, these guilds will set off fireworks in the game and do all kinds of promotional activities. We call it the cheering season."

"The guild will also plunder the game's items and store them to prepare for the participating players and improve their attributes."

"This kind of large-scale search and publicity is very annoying. It makes it difficult for players like me who don't care much about the league to even receive the props I want." Mu Sicheng couldn't help but complain, "And this year I heard that the puppeteer was originally a reserve member of the King's Guild team, so the King's Guild put a lot of effort into training him. He was also frantically searching for new puppets, but he didn't expect them to die in your hands. They should probably replace the reserve members."

"This year, the King's Guild is very ambitious and has introduced a new player named Little Witch. Her personal skill can restore health in the game. She is a very rare player and has been snatched up by major guilds. This player is also number one on the Rising Star List and was finally snatched up by the King's Guild."

"I heard that the King's Guild was going to use the puppeteer's control skills and this little witch's healing skills to form a very unique tactic. They were still practicing it, but Zhang Kui was killed by you. They have to change their tactics."

Speaking of this, Mu Sicheng snorted with a hint of schadenfreude.

Bai Liu looked at the various teams and players on the promotional panel, thought for a while, and asked, "I've been confused before. In a life-and-death game like this, why is the audience's reward so crazy? The first point of likes and recharges add up to 1.3 million, and there is also a competitive entertainment project like e-sports competitions."

"The audience is just ordinary players. It's a bit unusual to see such entertainment in a game involving life and death."

Mu Sicheng swiped twice on his system panel and handed it to Bai Liu: "Because the audience's charging for these participating players is not just charging, but betting. The players can only get 10%, the system takes 5%, and the rest is betting."

[System reminder: 85% of the recharge points of the spectators who bet on a certain player before the game will enter the gambling system. If the player wins the game, the spectators can win the recharge points of the loser]

[Small gambling brings joy, big gambling hurts the body, please charge yourself and gamble moderately]

"What's 1.3 million?" Mu Sicheng said, "Didn't you see last year's league? In the finals, both sides reached 100 million points. Now the support season has just begun, and this number is still rising."

"Normally, the amount of power that the audience gives to ordinary players like us is just a drizzle, and it is used to train new players."

"One hundred million charging points..." Bai Liu's focus quickly shifted. He calculated that even if the winning player only took 10%, that would still be 10 million points...

Ten million points, ten million points, ten million points, ten million points… Bai Liu's gaze gradually became deep.

Mu Sicheng was still explaining the situation in his ignorance: "The champion's reward is 100 million points per person, for single and double competitions. The first place in the team competition also has attribute point rewards, but I don't know about this. It is said that it is different every year. But the points reward the winning players get plus the income from the charging commission in the middle is almost an astronomical figure. If you eat once a year, the whole family will not be hungry, so the league guild will do its best to prepare for support."

Bai Liu's fingers on the system panel remained suspended in the air for five seconds. His eyes froze for a long time when he heard the words "100 million per person". Then Bai Liu took a deep breath calmly and quickly turned to the registration interface that he had glanced over before.

Fuck the story game experience!! He wants to compete!! Let him compete!!

Instantly, the 100 million points were the only thing left in Bai Liu's mind. It's no exaggeration to say that now his eyes and brain were stimulated by the 100 million points and turned into the shape of coins. He quickly flipped to the registration interface:

【Deadline for registration: 2 (months): 01 (days): 7 (hours): 34 (minutes)】

[Player still needs to meet the following requirements to participate: 50 game instances, 4 teammates]

It's too far away.

Bai Liu calmed down a bit, thinking rationally - he only had 61 days left, and he still had to go through 50 game dungeons. On average, he had to go through one game dungeon every day in real time. Even if the time flowed slower in the game dungeon, he might not be able to hold on if he played one game a day. To be honest, the game consumed a lot of his energy, otherwise Bai Liu would not sleep so soundly every time he went out...

But his eyes glanced at the 100 million points as a reward for the game.

Mu Sicheng was still chattering: "But this year's competition has nothing to do with us newcomers. You have to clear 52 dungeons to participate. I usually do it once a week, and now I have only passed 26 times. There are still two months left. There is no way I can make up the number of times..."

As he was speaking, Mu Sicheng met Bai Liu's eyes. He couldn't help but shudder and took two steps back: "Bai Liu, what are you going to do to me?!"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Friend, do you stay up late to play games? The kind that involves playing fifty dungeons in two months?"

Mu Sicheng: “????”

——————

Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu logged out of the game together, and the logout click was at Bai Liu's house.

Because Mu Sicheng said he wanted to contact Bai Liu offline, but the game does not allow players to discuss specific real-world information, such as specific addresses and phone numbers. It is the same as not allowing players to discuss in-game information outside the game. Phone numbers, WeChat, and QQ numbers will all be blocked by the system once they are exported. Therefore, the fastest way for two people to communicate is to log out directly from the same player's exit.

Each player's logout is a string of twelve digits, a bit like a password. After confirming the logout, the player enters the password and you will be sent to the logout corresponding to the password.

The player's initial password for the logout address is the place where they first logged in, and it is also the default logout place for the player. If Bai Liu did not enter a password in the first game, he would log out from the login address by default.

For example, if Bai Liu logs into the game from his home, the game will generate a twelve-digit password for him. The corresponding logout exit of this password is Bai Liu's home. Whoever enters the password can log out from [Bai Liu's home].

Mu Sicheng was still a college student. He logged in from his dormitory. If Bai Liu logged out from his dormitory, he would be arrested on the spot by the dormitory manager, so the two chose Bai Liu's small rental apartment to log out.

But just after he logged out of Bai Liu's room, Mu Sicheng said something earnestly: "Bai Liu, listen to my advice, don't participate in the competition, and you don't have enough people to participate. How can we participate with only two of us..."

Mu Sicheng stopped him before he could finish his words. He looked at the delicate-looking boy with tear marks on his face sleeping on Bai Liu's bed with a very strange look.

Mu Ke didn't know what happened in the game. His face was covered with tears and there were some red marks on his wrists and ankles, which looked like he had been whipped. He hugged Bai Liu's shirt and buried his head in it. He curled up into a small ball beside the bed like an insecure little animal. He huddled up beside the bed like a cat and fell into a deep sleep.

Bai Liu was not surprised. He did not give Mu Ke on the bed too much attention. He walked past the bed without looking at him. He even replied to Mu Sicheng casually, "It's three. The one on the bed will also participate."

"????" Mu Sicheng's face was full of questions. "Fuck, Bai Liu, are you serious? Who is this person?"

It’s no wonder that Mu Sicheng couldn’t recognize Mu Ke. He really didn’t expect that Mu Ke, the new guy who was in the same group as Bai Liu, would appear on Bai Liu’s bed in this form…

Bai Liu turned to look at Mu Sicheng and said, "Mu Ke, I will take the new player I brought out of the game last time with me to play the game."

Mu Ke and Bai Liu are both newcomers, and have played the game twice each. Bai Liu and Mu Ke owe the same number of games, so he can just finish all the games at the same time by taking Mu Ke with him.

Mu Ke also logged out from Bai Liu's house last time. He knew the logout password of Bai Liu's house. And this time, Mu Ke chose to log out from Bai Liu's house again after completing the game, which was also within Bai Liu's expectations.

Before entering the game, Bai Liu let Mu Ke play the game by himself. He would not interfere too much and suggested that Mu Ke choose single-player game. If Mu Ke could survive this time, he would start to train Mu Ke seriously.

Bai Liu doesn't like to communicate with people with weak minds, who are too good at making excuses for themselves, so Bai Liu decided to try Mu Ke first. If Mu Ke can successfully complete a game on his own, he will try to train Mu Ke to avoid a situation like Zhang Kui - the King's Guild spent a lot of resources to train Zhang Kui, but Zhang Kui relied too much on the puppet and the intelligence he absorbed, and eventually fell into Bai Liu's hands, resulting in a lot of sunk costs.

Bai Liu doesn't like to do things with sunk costs, but he likes to do things with high cost feedback.

It seemed that Mu Ke should have passed the level by his own efforts, but the intense feeling of uneasiness as if he was on the line between life and death after passing the level made him subconsciously choose to log out from Bai Liu's house. This was a way of seeking comfort and also a way of proving himself - Mu Ke wanted to show Bai Liu as soon as possible after passing the level that he did it.

It's a bit like a child who finally gets 100 points on the test and cries while showing the test paper to his parents.

Parent Bai Liu took a white shirt and suit pants and went to the bathroom to change his clothes. A few minutes later, he came out of the bathroom in a decent manner.

Mu Sicheng now shrank into a corner as if he had seen a ghost, staying away from Mu Ke on the bed. Pointing at Mu Ke on the bed, Mu Sicheng asked Bai Liu, who had just changed her clothes, with an expression and tone that was hard to describe: "...Did you take the new player you rescued last time to bed?!"

"He wanted to come here on his own, and he also has the logout number at my house. There's nothing I can do." Bai Liusi didn't realize that Mu Sicheng had already had the wrong idea. "I was originally planning to let him go, but now time is urgent. I want to participate in the competition, and I don't have many cards in my hand. He is also quite obedient, so I think I can take him to play dungeons to train him."

After Bai Liu found out that he could get 100 million points by participating in the league, he was determined to take part in the competition like a madman. No matter how Mu Sicheng tried to persuade him, he wouldn't listen, so Mu Sicheng had to ask Bai Liu, this competition requires five people who have participated in the game more than 52 times to form a team, where can Bai Liu find these people to team up with him?

Even if Mu Sicheng himself was forced to be included, as he still needed to play more than 20 games, Bai Liu was still short of three people.

But from the look on Bai Liu's face just now, it was obvious that he was planning to use Mu Ke, who had only passed the game twice like himself, to participate in the competition!

This is simply a joke! Playing fifty games for two months without sleep to reach the registration line, even if Bai Liu, who has a crazy mental value, can bear it, how can Mu Ke, an ordinary player, bear it?

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but point at Mu Ke who was still lying on the bed: "Bai Liu, you, a psychopath, might be able to force it fifty times, but Mu Ke is a newcomer? He should have just finished the game and is still injured. Do you know under what circumstances players will come out of the game copy with injuries? You and I came out without any injuries."

Bai Liu tied his tie for himself, his eyes swept over the wounds on Mu Ke's wrists and ankles, and finally fell on Mu Sicheng's face, and asked: "Under what circumstances would a player come out with injuries?

Mu Sicheng found a chair and sat down. He had spent a lot of energy on the game and looked lazy, but apart from looking a little listless, Mu Sicheng had no injuries on his body.

Mu Sicheng leaned his head back on the chair and looked up at Bai Liu who was tying his tie. "The injuries in the game can only be brought out if the player believes that he is injured and cannot be healed. Then the game will obey the player's wishes and let you bring the injuries out. Generally speaking, only in extreme fear, such as when the spirit value drops below 10, people will usually lose their cognition of the game and feel that they are not in the game, but in reality. Then he will feel that he is really injured and the injury will be brought out."

As he said that, Mu Sicheng glanced at the boy on the bed, Mu Ke, who looked very fragile in both his body movements and appearance, and looked at Bai Liu with a very disapproving look.

"If a player comes out of the game with injuries, it can only mean that the player's mental quality is not good and the panel potential is not high. And if I remember correctly, this Mu Ke is a player without personal skills, right?" Mu Sicheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you sure you want to take him to the competition? What's the difference between this and sending him to the game?"

"But I can say that, to a certain extent, I was able to successfully complete the last dungeon, "The Last Train to Explosion", with his help." Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Sicheng, speaking slowly.

In the end, Bai Liu relied on Mu Ke's [Mermaid Amulet] to have the trump card to confront the god-level NPC, and it was also with the help of the [Mermaid Amulet] in Mu Ke's hand that he tricked Mu Sicheng into joining.

According to Mu Sicheng, Mu Ke would come out injured, which means he must have reached a point of extreme fear and panic in his own game copy.

But he still did not use the item [Mermaid Amulet] in his own single-player copy. He left this most precious survival item to Bai Liu.

It was just because Bai Liu mentioned to him before entering the game that I might use your item [Mermaid Amulet]. Even though Mu Ke's mental value dropped to the terrifying level of confusing reality and the game, he did not use this item and even managed to run out of the game with injuries all over his body.

This is the same approach that Maki Shisei did in "The Last Train".

"You and he have the same value in my heart, Mu Sicheng." Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng, his eyes were calm, "Because you both kept your deal with me in desperate situations, I respect that very much, so I can't go against my agreement with you. I said that if he can get out on his own this time, I will train him well and let him live."

"Just like I won't give up on you, I won't give up on him easily." Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke, who was covered in wounds on the bed, and lowered his eyes, "Because you have all proved to me your value to me."