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Guo Pei had guessed that raising his kill line wouldn't be easy, but he hadn't anticipated how difficult it would be. He was devastated, briefly withdrawn, and questioning his life.
No, don't give him hope from the beginning!
But Guo Pei didn't stay depressed for too long. He unscrewed the bottle cap, drank a bottle of Jiang Xiaobai and felt better.
Although the 99% kill line seems out of reach, it is still a goal, a lighthouse, and it also indicates the way to the goal, but this road is slightly longer than other roads.
It's better than groping in the dark without a goal.
Under the influence of alcohol, his mentality gradually recovered. He clapped his hands and made a secret resolution. He decided to fight for his goal with unswerving determination!
Lao Tzu said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Xunzi said, "Without the accumulation of small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles." Both of these great men are right. The key is to act on it and not be intimidated by lofty goals from the outset.
Stabbing and killing the insects one by one with a knife was extremely inefficient. Guo Pei started thinking actively, hoping to find a more efficient way to replace the knife. It would be best if he could kill the insects in a large area without killing them, leaving them with only the last bit of blood.
He thought of using fire. He imagined artificially building a wall of fire in the direction of the insect swarm. When the insects passed through the wall of fire, their bodies would catch fire. However, the insects were very tenacious, and the fire would not burn them to death immediately. They would only lose blood slowly. Then he could use the skill [Execution] to easily stack the kill line behind the wall of fire.
However, considering that a large-scale insect swarm will directly crush the firewall, you still have to find a small-scale insect swarm within the range of the first-level insect acupoints.
After thinking of a plan, Guo Pei went to execute it. He bought fuel from the [Mall] to replenish the shelter boat. The composition of this fuel was unknown, but its flash point was not high, lower than that of ordinary diesel, and it could be ignited.
He found a suitable spot near this first-level insect abyss, next to a crack in the ground, a necessary path for the insects to emerge. Since the insects weren't spawning quickly, he quickly dug a curved trench with a shovel, then laid a circle of dry firewood, then poured in small, even layers of fuel. The final step was to throw a lit flame into the firewood pile.
With a whoosh, the flames blazed up and an arc-shaped wall of fire took shape.
The first juvenile insect drilled through the wall of fire, its body and legs caught fire, and it struggled over and over. The second and third insects soon after drilled through the wall of fire, their bodies also caught fire, and they continued to struggle.
If there were real-time health bars displayed above the heads of these three bugs, they must be losing health rapidly.
The fourth, the fifth, the sixth... until the tenth insect came out, covered in flames. Guo Pei's eyes lit up. The first insect dodged, and he immediately launched [Execution] to kill it.
The time after that is the harvest. With the help of fuel, the fire will last for a long time. During this time, he doesn't have to do anything else. He just needs to stare at the burning insects and complete the final harvest.
I have to say that the skill [Execution] is really useful. When using the skill, no energy is consumed as long as the kill is successful.
In addition, Guo Pei also discovered something even more magical. Since the bugs are killed by [Execution], killing bugs will not cause fatigue, and the game mechanism that will make you tired by killing bugs can be directly ignored!
He wasn't sure if this was a bug, but based on the above two factors, he could greatly increase his endurance. Because it didn't consume energy and didn't make him tired, it was just like doing nothing normally.
In order to ensure sufficient flight time, Guo Pei had to save his energy. He quickly returned to the boat, moved a chair, brought food and drinks, and sat on the chair. When he saw a bug on the killing line, he focused his sight from a distance and activated the skill [Execution].
He eats when he is hungry, drinks water when he is thirsty, and drinks when he is addicted. He only needs to spend the energy of an eye, and the only thing he needs to take care of is to add firewood and fuel to the fire wall from time to time.
The only drawback is that [Execution] isn't an AOE skill, but a single-target one. When two or more bugs' health drops below the kill threshold at the same time, he needs to finish them off one by one. While there's virtually no delay between killing one and another, the need to switch focus can be quite straining.
It doesn’t matter. No one is perfect, and no skill is perfect. Guo Pei allows it to have some flaws.
After lying leisurely in the chair for less than a day, Guo Pei's old illness came back, and emotions such as boredom, boredom, and depression surged into his heart.
He was really fed up, so fed up! How could there be such boring things in the world? It was so boring. He would have to work like this forever! It would be better to go back to the boat, drink some wine, watch some movies, take a nap when he felt tired, read some inscriptions, or write a little! His calligraphy was so good that it could be sold. Every Spring Festival, he would set up a stall on the street to write couplets. This was one of his ways to work during the summer vacation. Although his calligraphy was not selling well now, it could cultivate his sentiments!
He really wanted to play games. He had so many interesting single-player strategy games downloaded onto his computer: Total War: Rome, Medieval II, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Civilization V, Civilization VI, Cities: Skylines, and so on. Every one of these games was an epic production, and he'd also downloaded tons of fun mods for them. Oh, and he'd already survived the incredibly detailed and fun post-apocalyptic game Project Zombie Destruction for ten days!
Wow! Why is he spawning bugs here?
Life is short, and with such a devastating natural disaster, I don't know how long I'll live. No more grinding! Go enjoy yourself! Learn from Li Bai and enjoy life while you can!
He stood up from the chair, picked up the food and drinks on the ground and was about to run away, but suddenly an idea flashed through his mind.
Throwing down the things in his hand, Guo Pei slapped his head and slapped himself several times, forcing himself to regain his sanity.
It's that damn dopamine that's causing all the trouble. No, this can't be done. He can't let dopamine control his thinking and continue to degenerate. Starting now, he has to overcome his hedonistic mentality!
He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, equipped himself with the skill [Absolute Concentration], and then set his goal to kill 100,000 bugs, a small goal.
[Absolute Focus] is completely mandatory, similar to a dark room. Once a target is set, it must be completed to unlock the skill's effects. While [Absolute Focus] is active, players cannot change targets mid-game or uninstall the skill.
So he used this skill very cautiously before.
But now he had to make up his mind. He didn't want to be carried away by dopamine for the rest of his life. Cultivating his emotions was empty, so he put it aside for now. He didn't want to be a nobody. He wanted to be a strong man! A strong man like Cx330!
The stars in the sky move and the constellations change, and the earth undergoes tremendous changes. Fifteen days is just a blink of an eye.
During this time, Guo Pei's mind was completely focused on killing bugs, even while adding fuel to the fire. He killed bugs while eating, drinking, defecating, and peeing, even dreaming about it. He toiled away, his eyes searching everywhere, working from dawn to dusk, and from night to dawn, forgetting to eat or sleep.
Under the influence of the passive skill [Absolute Concentration], he was not disturbed by any mundane affairs in the outside world from beginning to end. Excluding necessary sleep, he worked for more than 18 hours a day.
In the evening of the fifteenth day, one hundred thousand kills were completed!
He successfully raised the kill line of [Execution] to 1.1%!
Guo Peiben took a cold shower on the refugee ship. When he looked in the mirror, he found that his eyeballs were covered with dense bloodshot and his dark circles were thick, as if he was wearing a pair of wide-rimmed black glasses.
However, although these fifteen days were exhausting, it felt great to focus wholeheartedly on one thing and achieve it perfectly.
A hundred times happier than those superficial dopamine pleasures!
Tsk, it’s just 100 million bugs, why would Mr. Guo take them seriously?
After a sound sleep lying in bed, Guo Pei woke up and finally had time to pay attention to the game's system panel.
Season 1 had long since ended, and he had received his season rewards: the Parallel rank title and any D-rank skill. He could no longer see the specific rankings for Season 1, as the interface had been updated to reflect the Season 2 announcement.
He carefully studied the rules and understood them. This season, he couldn't just farm bugs anymore; he had to complete quests, otherwise he would definitely be at the bottom.
After opening the [Interaction] module, Guo Pei wanted to see if there were any kind people who would send him some season guides or something like that, and he found that someone had @ed him on the world channel.
Looking back at the chat history, I saw that it was the player nicknamed "Sanchi Weiming" not long ago.
He was quite impressed by this player and was attracted by his nickname at first sight.
"Three feet of humble life" comes from "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" by Wang Bo in the Tang Dynasty. The original text is: Bo, three feet of humble life, a mere scholar.
Wow, this kid is quite cultured.
He likes intellectuals because he is one himself. This is called mutual appreciation.
And most importantly, he was from Hailou, the alliance of Big Boss Cx330! He was the first one to enter Hailou, which made him so envious that he wanted to curry favor with him and ask him to bring him into Hailou.
Now Guo Pei still remembers his original intention and responds enthusiastically.
[Bucai Youshan (Lv3)]: @(三尺微命) What's up, bro? I just saw this and posted a late reply. Sorry for the late reply.
The other party probably had something to do and didn't reply immediately. Guo Pei waited for a while and browsed through the vast message records.
You won’t know until you see it. It’s shocking. Why are there so many people in the chat who have reached level 4?
Clearly, before his retreat, there had been no Level 4 players besides the original Public Enemy. Truly, a single day in the mountains feels like a thousand years in the real world. His experience bar was still a full 20 million short of reaching Level 4!
There's no comparison. His efficiency in killing bugs is still too slow. He has to look at them one by one and kill them one by one. Others can throw a bomb and kill hundreds of bugs at once.
Guo Pei flipped through the earlier message records. He couldn't quite understand them, but it seemed like something big had happened. What did Cx330's speech on the world channel mean? What did he mean by not liking to endure it and collecting coordinates? He was completely confused.
But he had a vague feeling in his heart that this matter must be related to him.
Guo Pei continued to scroll through the records, trying to get to the bottom of the matter. He wanted to understand the whole story, but someone tagged him in a new message, interrupting his plan.
He went back to look.
[Three Feet of Life (Lv4)]: @(Mr. Bucai Youshan) Brother, you are still here!
Guo Pei scratched his head. Why did he feel that this statement was strange and not auspicious?
But he still replied very politely. After all, this brother was a favorite of the big boss Cx330, the emperor's personal eunuch, and the prime minister's doorman.
[Mr. Bucai Youshan (Lv3)]: I've always been here. Are you trying to tell me I haven't been active on the World Channel lately? I've been a bit busy. Bro, what do you want from me?
[Three Feet of Life (Lv4)]: I'm glad you're here. It's too late today, I'll contact you tomorrow
[Mr. Bucai Youshan (Lv3)]: Okay, good night.
After speaking, Guo Pei touched his face and fell into deep thought.
Why would this person contact him out of nowhere? And right at the start of Season 2, when there was a surge in team formations on the Alliance channel... Could it be that his dream was about to come true?!
With this in mind, he exited the world channel and searched for Hailou in the alliance list. Hailou still had 4/10 members, so there was a vacancy. During his retreat, Cx330 hadn't recruited any more members. With the start of a new season, four members per alliance was a bit tight, so recruiting him seemed logical.
Guo Pei's heart rate instantly rose, and he jumped up and down. He was so excited that he couldn't stop. He leaned over the bed and did push-ups frantically.
He admired Boss 330 very much. As for the reason, he couldn't explain it clearly. Maybe it aroused a certain admiration for the strong hidden in his genes.
No one knew the depth of his shock when he saw the death announcement on the world channel. How could someone be so handsome! He was so low-key, quietly and unobtrusively taking down the arrogant player enemy. After accomplishing such a significant feat for all players, he didn't seek credit, didn't flatter himself, and departed, concealing his identity and fame. What kind of behavior is this? This is the height of chivalry!
Now he actually has the opportunity to work with such a big shot, which he couldn't even imagine.
Thank you! He feels the boss's appreciation and will not let him down. He will, like Tianshui Jiang Boyue, sacrifice his life to fulfill the prime minister's long-cherished wish.
Unable to sleep, he closed his eyes, but his mind was full of this matter. Guo Pei simply gave up sleep, shrunk the interface of the world channel and placed it in the corner of his vision, and then began to repeat the following activities over and over again: practicing calligraphy, drinking, watching movies, playing games, reading classics, reciting ancient poems, and staying up all night.
It was already daybreak before seven o'clock, and no one had circled him on the world channel. He guessed that they might not have gotten up yet. It was still early, so why rush?
He continued to endure, endure and endure, from nine o'clock to twelve o'clock, then to two o'clock in the afternoon, and then to four o'clock in the afternoon.
Guo Pei was completely despairing. He had indeed overthought things. Actually, it made sense. Why would someone like you? Was it because you hadn't spoken in the world channel for over ten days, or was it because you were a level 3 rookie?
Hahahaha… Ridiculous. He raised his head, raised the full bottle of Jiang Xiaobai that he had just opened, drank it all in one gulp, and burped afterward.
How to break down the word "sorrow"? Drink ten thousand cups.
The next second, the small box of the world channel in the corner of the vision flashed.
[三尺微命 (Lv4)]: @(Bucai Youshan), brother, are you still considering joining Hailou? If you still have the idea, please apply again. The previous one has expired.
[Mr. Bucai Youshan (Lv3)]: I'm dead
[Three Feet of Life (Lv4)]:?
Guo Pei jumped up, ran out of the cabin, climbed up the railing of the deck, and plunged into the river.
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