Let the scourge go to the right path, and you make games to reward them?.

Chapter 970 The Squid's Conspiracy (22)

At this moment, the sect leader felt like he was dreaming.

My impression of my eldest apprentice is that he is a gentle and refined person.

He is respectful to his superiors, friendly to his inferiors, and kind to his peers. He is the highly respected senior disciple of the Xingqing sect.

However, ever since his youngest disciple came up the mountain, the other party has become silent and jealous for some reason. He even tried to kill his junior brother several times. In the end, his cultivation was destroyed and he was sent to the Cliff of Repentance.

But the once elegant disciple had vanished, replaced by a man covered in blood, still sprinkling oil, resembling a demon from the underworld.

Staring blankly at the other person, the sect leader staggered and leaned against the threshold, asking in confusion, "You... what's wrong? Why?"

Lin Yuan didn't even look up, carefully examining the area covered by the kerosene: "What? Why?"

Why did you kill your fellow disciples?

"If you're unhappy, just kill. The most important thing about playing games is to have fun. It's quite enjoyable to occasionally take this kind of killing route, especially in a bad game."

"Are you upset... because they humiliated you? They don't hate you, they're doing it for your own good, why are you..."

Lin Yuan glanced coldly at Ling Yi beside him: "Look at the lines you wrote."

The sect leader then noticed the red-robed elder standing to the side, his expression becoming even more bewildered: "How did you get here...? Why?"

Lingyi smiled apologetically at Lin Yuan, then clasped her hands together in apology.

Lin Yuan sighed, checked every place to make sure it was covered in oil, and then walked up to the sect leader who looked decades older in an instant.

He crouched down and said to the other person, "Although you are just a tool that was created, I still want to say that when you bully others, don't be surprised if you get slapped."

"I didn't bully you, I just..."

"Just what? Just letting them insult me, cripple my cultivation, and imprison me on the Cliff of Repentance? You clearly know everything, but you did nothing. And then you have the audacity to expect me to be grateful under the guise of educating me? Why don't you go and do it yourself?"

"I……"

"You just think I'm easy to bully, so you only bully me. Or are you afraid my reputation will surpass yours, so you're suppressing me? Or are you afraid my abilities will surpass yours, and you'll lose your position as the sect leader of the Temperament Sect? Wake up, what's the point of staying in this lousy place?"

The sect leader's eyes grew increasingly confused, as if he were trapped in a vortex he couldn't understand and couldn't escape.

Lin Yuan easily slit the other's throat, set the sect's main hall ablaze, and then stretched his arms and said to Zero One, "I've realized that following the storyline in this dungeon is pointless; we have to go on a killing spree."

"While I agree with what you said, seeing my script modified like this still leaves me with mixed feelings. Oh, the scores are out."

"Well, although my methods were a bit crude, I still managed to make everyone regret it. I should at least be a top-tier A-level, right? ...Why am I only a D-level? Zero One, what's your rank?"

"Yi Shang..."

"Is something wrong? Wait, I remember the game doesn't actually have a rating system, so who's doing this rating?"

Zero One looked at Lin Yuan in surprise: "There's no rating system? What were the ratings the players received before?"

"I don't know, I thought it was a spell compiled by the players themselves."

All the main characters are dead, and the dungeon ends.

Back at the original spot, Zhang Ting was still crawling on the ground when she realized she was back and breathed a sigh of relief.

Touching his neck with lingering fear, he said helplessly, "I thought I was going to die just now, but I didn't expect it to be over. This dungeon usually takes a long time to finish, Lin Yuan, how did you manage to do that?"

"Couldn't I have done it myself?" Zero One asked, annoyed.

Zhang Ting squinted at Ling Yi and said, "It's not that I'm targeting you, but I know your strength. If you want to mess with our chief, you'll have to work harder."

"...We are all chosen ones, what gives you the right to say that!" "Because I am from the Myriad Laws Sect."

"So what if the Myriad Laws Sect is so great! Just because someone from the Myriad Laws Sect can insult others at will!"

"correct."

Telling Lingyi and Zhang Ting to stop arguing, Lin Yuan looked at Shangguan Zhi and asked, "Shangguan Zhi, what was your final rating?"

"Yi Shang, what's wrong?"

"Let's take stock of the situation. Where is Zhang Ting?"

"Under A".

Knowing that the other three were at least B-level, while he was only a D-level, Lin Yuan began to ponder the problem.

He did a lot in the instance, killing everyone in the Temperament Sect and making them all regret their actions. Unexpectedly, in the end, he was just a Ding.

On the other hand, everyone else was just a bunch of lazy, opportunistic players, only to find out the score was B to B.

This rating system has a problem.

Moreover, the fact that this rating appeared on its own made Lin Yuan even more puzzled.

Then, he found a dungeon reward pack in his backpack, which confused him even more.

This shouldn't exist either.

Because he was only at the D level, the gift pack he opened only contained a few stones, which he could barely use to make a dagger.

In contrast, the others already had finished magical artifacts in the Category B gift packs, and the Category A packs even had decent magical robes, the kind that could be used by Nebula.

Something is wrong!
Something's definitely not right!

Returning to the Nebula, Lin Yuan immediately began reverse-engineering the data there. He then discovered that during this period, players had accumulated 130 million dungeon runs, meaning each player had played a little bit of the dungeon once on average.

This data continues to accumulate, and a large amount of resources are being rewarded to players, making them even more enthusiastic.

After all, there are dungeons to experience, and you can even get rewards if you play well. It couldn't be more awesome.

But Lin Yuan was absolutely certain that he had not implemented such a mechanism. The only explanation was that something had implanted an unknown spell into the game and brought about this function.

"There are rewards, there are dungeons, there's a rating system... Is the other side targeting me?"

The moment this thought crossed Lin Yuan's mind, everything became clear.

It seems that after Venerable Lotus returned, the Immortal Realm did not remain idle.

The other party must have discovered my connection with the Qian Yuan Realm, and then used me as bait to lure me there.

However, since his conflict with the Immortal Realm came later, and the invasion of the Qian Yuan Realm by the squid came first, the timeline here is a bit off.

However, since they themselves are familiar with the method of reversing cause and effect, it is not impossible for people in the immortal realm to have the ability to foresee the future.

Using rewards to corrupt players may just be a test, since players are easily guided by incentives and thus manipulated by rewards.

Although it's not quite clear what the squid here wants the player to do, since the other side has declared war on them, they can't refuse.

Let's see who can better guide the players.

(End of this chapter)