157 S
◎The rules of the copy◎
After dinner, Qi Qiuxue laid out the information she had sorted out in front of everyone.
She asked all the members some questions, and based on the feedback she received, she roughly deduced some patterns about the copies.
"I've always been curious about how many dungeons I need to clear to be considered a complete game," Qi Qiuxue recalled. "I specifically asked the system this question the first time I entered a dungeon, but I didn't get a definitive answer."
"Ah Qing." She looked at Li Yiqing beside her, "Do you know?"
"No." Li Yiqing shook his head regretfully, "Except for the Lord God, no one else can know the truth about the game."
"She's been hiding things from us, perhaps to avoid situations like mine. A deity shouldn't favor humans, and shouldn't do anything that disobeys her. That's an iron rule."
"It seems we can only explore on our own." Liu Ge sighed softly after hearing this.
Wu Shanyue leaned over to look at the information. Qi Qiuxue had written down a lot of numbers and letters on it. "Axue, what on earth is this..."
"It's the number of dungeons the members have completed and their ratings," Qi Qiuxue said. "I tried to combine this data to see if I could find any patterns. I actually discovered something."
"Nine of the members this time have cleared more than ten dungeons," Qi Qiuxue said. "The rest are all newcomers, with varying numbers of cleared dungeons."
"Except for one exceptionally talented player, all other players have received a B rating at one point or another. This B includes both B and B+. Some who are less fortunate may even receive several Bs in a row."
"But using ten as the dividing line, a player who has cleared fewer than ten instances can receive no more than four B ratings. And a player who has cleared more than ten instances, even if they have more than four B ratings, will never receive a B rating in all ten instances at the same time."
"I think this seems to be an implicit rule," Qi Qiuxue said. "According to the rules we've summarized so far, if the player receives more than four B ratings in every ten instances, they will be deemed to have failed the game and will be directly killed by the system."
"What..." Everyone present changed their expression when they heard this.
"Of course, this is just my preliminary inference. After all, the information we have for reference is very limited. To get a more accurate answer, we need to collect more information from more people."
Qi Qiuxue: "As for the gifted player I just mentioned, the number of dungeons she has cleared far exceeds our imagination."
Liu Ge frowned subconsciously after hearing this: "How much?"
"Twenty-four." Qi Qiuxue said.
"How could such a person join our newly established guild?!" Wu Shanyue's tone was full of shock.
"At first I had the same doubts and was suspicious of her motives, so I communicated and tested her for a long time," said Qi Qiuxue.
"She joined us because she discovered not long ago that her younger sister had also been pulled into the dungeon," Qi Qiuxue said. "Her younger sister is extremely insecure and hates any contact with men. She's overly dependent on her older sister and her friends, and being alone makes her feel genuinely panicky and terrified."
"She said her sister needed a place that could provide her with help and warmth, and our guild happened to be the most suitable choice." Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and flipped open the top sheet of paper, allowing everyone to see the documents stacked underneath. "These are the detailed information she brought with her, about herself and her sister, including their home address, identity information, experiences over the years, and the major and minor changes in their lives."
"From her words and actions and the information she provided, it seems that this person has no problems, but the details still need further verification."
"Assuming what she said is true, combined with the information provided by the other eight players," Qi Qiuxue flipped back through the data and pointed somewhere, "then there seems to be a pattern to the appearance of S-level dungeons."
"In every ten instances, at least one S-level instance will appear, but its appearance is completely random and has no correlation with the player's performance in the previous instance."
"Even if you perform poorly in an S-rank dungeon, as long as you complete the mission, survive, and clear the dungeon, your worst rating will be an A, and your best will be an S."
"Except for S-level copies, the highest rating that ordinary copies can receive is A+, and the worst is B."
After he finished speaking, Wu Shanyue raised his hand and asked, "Axue, I have a question."
Qi Qiuxue responded and looked at her: "Well, go ahead."
"Take me as an example. In the dungeon where I killed players, the difficulty level was S-level, but the previous dungeon was also S-level."
"Why are there two adjacent S-level copies?" She looked puzzled. "Axue, do you have any clues?"
"It's indeed possible for something like this to happen." Qi Qiuxue nodded in response. "Among those nine members, several encountered similar situations to you. The only difference is that the two S-level dungeons they experienced were separated by a shorter period of time, not consecutively."
"So I guess perhaps the appearance of S-level difficulty dungeons has another counting method, related to ten, but not completely limited by it."
"Every time a player receives an S-rank, the difficulty level resets and a new counting mode begins. The fastest time after the reset is the first dungeon, and the slowest time after the tenth dungeon, will cause them to encounter S-rank difficulty again."
"If you get an S, you'll be re-shuffled. If you get an A, you'll continue with the next round. You'll be forced to complete ten dungeons. Then, a new counting system will begin, and you'll wait for the next S-level difficulty to appear. Similarly, in the next round of ten dungeons, the rules are exactly the same as the previous round."
"Of course, all of this is just my superficial speculation based on the information I currently have, and there's no guarantee it's accurate."
"I think the key to clearing the game lies in the number of S-ratings we obtain. Only when we have collected a certain number can we unlock the final dungeon."
It's just too complicated.
Except for Li Yiqing, the other three seemed to understand but not quite. Qi Qiuxue didn't say anything else and ended the meeting early to give them time to think.
Most of the members who came for the interview today came from different cities and places. In order to facilitate future guild activities and to provide convenience to the members, Su Wen arranged dormitories for them so that everyone could live in the guild.
"I'll go see if they're settled." Soon, Su Wen left first.
"It's getting late, I should go back." Liu Ge lived the farthest away, and he didn't sit for long before saying goodbye to the others.
Wu Shanyue simply left with her, and soon, only Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing were left in the room.
"Should we go home?" Li Yiqing asked Qi Qiuxue for her opinion.
Qi Qiuxue nodded and said yes, then naturally left hand in hand with her.
It was almost evening now, and the afterglow of the setting sun was shining on the ground. Everything within sight was shrouded in a dreamy golden light.
On the way home, Qi Qiuxue saw a beautifully decorated coffee shop.
"Would you like to come in and sit together?" She suggested somewhat suddenly.
Li Yiqing nodded gently: "Of course."
"Why do you suddenly want to drink coffee?" she asked.
"It's not that I really want to drink." Qi Qiuxue thought for a moment, "I just think it looks nice inside and I want to go in and relax."
"This may be the last bit of downtime we'll have," she said.
"I have a feeling we're all going to be busy soon."
【Author’s words】
Ahhh, the setting is really difficult to write orz, I will enter a new copy in the next chapter!
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