The Only Player in Infinite Terror

Ling Qi waved his hand dismissively and said, "No need, the main god doesn't transfer side quests and reward points."

"I don't need your side quests and reward points."

"We're all teammates, and I hope we can stand shoulder to shoulder until death, exploring the boundless beauty of the infinite world together."

"For me, a good gaming experience is the most important thing; nothing else matters."

"If you really feel bad about it, just follow my advice on how to exchange them after you return to the Main God Space."

"As for Chu Xuan, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will join as a newcomer in the next round. He is the number one sage in the Main God Space, and his real-world identity is the country's strategic scientist."

Zheng Zha and the other two believed Ling Qi's prophecy without a second thought.

"I see. He seems to be a great teammate. With him, we'll definitely be able to survive better in this place full of death," Zheng Zha said with relief.

Ling Qi said with a wicked grin, "That's right, in the original story, he was your good teammate."

[Yeah, your teammate is always sabotaging you to death~]

Soon, Zheng Zha and the other two also received the T-virus stock solution.

Under the drastic transformation caused by the T-virus, the four of them turned completely red, like boiled shrimp, with beads of sweat on their foreheads.

Ling Qi, experiencing this novel feeling of weakness, exclaimed, "This T-virus has strength, it's powerful!"

"Cough cough..." Zhan Lan coughed a few times, her voice very weak: "I feel like I'm about to die."

Zheng Zha was slightly better than Zhan Lan, but not by much: "Yes, it feels like there's a fire burning inside me right now."

"That's exactly the effect of being on the verge of death," Ling Qi explained, forcing himself to endure the discomfort. "I carefully calculated the injection time to ensure that we'll be in a near-death state when we return to the Main God Space."

"Is there some benefit to this?" Zheng Zha asked curiously.

Ling Qi nodded, enduring the discomfort caused by the T-virus modification: "Of course, there are two benefits."

"First, this will maximize the body-enhancing effects of the T-virus stock solution, allowing us to obtain as many basic attributes as possible."

"As for the second point, this brings me to my summary of the ELO mechanism and the kill threshold theory of the God Space."

"Huh?" Zhan Lan exclaimed in surprise, "What are the ELO mechanism and kill threshold theory of the Main God Space?"

Ling Qi got excited and immediately explained: "The so-called ELO mechanism is a scoring method designed for chess by Hungarian-American physicist Árpád Eyło."

"Of course, that's not important. What's important is that this scoring method was later widely used in various competitive online games."

"Online games? I know, like Legend of Mir or World of Warcraft, right?" Zheng Zha had played those two games when he was bored.

Ling Qi shook his head and said, "There is still a significant difference. The timeline I come from is the future for you."

"But it's okay, I can show you around when we get back to the Main God Space. You can exchange items in the Main God's entertainment area."

"In summary, the so-called ELO mechanism of the God Space can be summed up in one sentence: playing well will be punished, and playing poorly will be rewarded."

Ling Qi spoke eloquently: "Brother Jie should know that the more people who enter a horror movie, the more difficult it becomes."

"So, what criteria did the main god use to set the difficulty level of horror movies?"

"The answer is that the Supreme God has a hidden evaluation for each reincarnation team and even each reincarnator."

"I call this set of hidden ratings the hidden score."

"The higher the hidden score, the greater the difficulty, and the stronger and more difficult the enemies you encounter will be to deal with."

"For example, if we change the plot or defeat a powerful enemy like the Tyrant, we will gain side quests and reward points."

"When you acquire side quests and reward points, the main god will increase your hidden score accordingly."

"When we exchanged side quest points and reward points with the main god, the main god thought our strength had increased and added corresponding hidden points again."

"Completing a horror movie without taking damage means, in the eyes of the main god, that the current difficulty is not enough to unleash our potential, so we continue to increase the hidden score."

"Besides these, there are other situations that can increase hidden points, but I'll talk about those in more detail later when we encounter them. I won't go into detail now."

"In short, once our strength growth fails to keep up with the increase in difficulty caused by the growth of hidden points, we will fall into the main god's kill line and face a situation where we have a slim chance of survival."

"In this situation, we either need to break through our limits and survive by unleashing our full potential between life and death, or we need to die as trash according to the standards of the main god."

Zhan Lan's pretty face was full of worry: "So, this hidden score can only increase and never decrease? And Ling Qi, you just mentioned every reincarnation team, which means that besides us, there will be other reincarnation teams?"

Ling Qi glanced approvingly at the busty beauty. To be fair, she was quite clever in the early stages of the original story.

"That's right, there are other reincarnation teams, which involves another mechanism of the Main God Space, namely team battles."

"Remember the gene lock I mentioned before? Once a reincarnation team has a total of 3 powerful individuals who have unlocked their gene locks, that reincarnation team will have to face a team battle."

"Because the rewards for killing other Reincarnation Squad members are very generous, it is generally difficult for Reincarnation Squads that are engaged in team battles to coexist peacefully."

"Different reincarnation teams cannot determine whether other teams are benevolent or malevolent, nor can they determine whether other teams will be tempted by the God's huge reward and commit murder."

"This suspicion can recur infinitely, forming an unbreakable chain that makes any genuine communication impossible."

"Even if the main missions of different reincarnation teams do not conflict and they barely achieve cooperation and tacit understanding, such cooperation and tacit understanding is extremely fragile and can be torn apart at any time."

"Therefore, the Main God Space is an absolute breeding ground for Gu worms, and we are the Gu worms."

"Only by constantly becoming stronger, stronger than the other reincarnation teams, can we continue to survive."

"As for whether the hidden MMR can be reduced? Of course it can."

"The simplest way to lower hidden points is to have someone die."

"Our team's hidden score will decrease whenever someone dies."

Zheng Zha suddenly felt a chill run down his spine: "What if some veteran members of the Reincarnation Squad, in order to survive, would kill newcomers even if it meant losing points?"

"Yes, brothers, yes." Ling Qi smiled and said, "This is a different kind of reincarnation team from our normal ones—the breeding team."

"The so-called breeding team is a small group of experienced people, usually no more than three, who treat everyone else as their slaves."

"Although the main god does not allow reincarnators to transfer side quests and reward points among themselves, it does allow them to redeem them for others."