Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

After settling in, the four surviving members of the Taiping Dao gang also noticed the strangeness of the "archer statue".

After observing from a distance for a while, they were all very puzzled:

"What's going on? Why is this person just standing there motionless?"

"It's like being frozen in place by a spell."

"Could this be a staged act to lure us in?"

……

A murmur rippled through the group, but the four gang members were still at a loss for words.

"By the way, his arrows were so powerful and incredibly fast just now. Is this person a cultivator?" one of the gang members asked.

"No, he's not a cultivator." The leader of the Taiping Dao gang affirmed, "I didn't sense the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy, and he didn't use any talismans."

At this point, he turned to look at Shen Hua, his expression a mixture of respect and awe, and said, "Young brother, you're truly amazing! Even the leader of the family guards, who used talismans, was no match for you!"

"yes!"

"Young hero, what superb martial arts skills!"

Several people nearby chimed in agreement.

Shen Hua smiled and said modestly, "It's nothing, it's just that I had a slight advantage from being on higher ground."

At this point, he changed the subject: "Now that things have come to this, what are your plans?"

"Well..." The leader of the Way of Peace glanced back at the "archer statue" and sighed, "Since he's not moving, we can't very well go up and provoke him. Besides, we have companions who need medical attention..."

He clasped his hands in a fist salute to Shen Hua and said, "How about this, young hero? Let's retreat here and leave this place of trouble as soon as possible."

At the same time, Shen Hua received a system notification: [Do you agree to retreat? If you choose to retreat, this scenario mission ends, and your overall score is [Excellent].]

"disagree."

Shen Hua looked at the leader of the Taiping Dao and smiled, "What, don't you want to avenge your comrades?"

Shen Hua wouldn't choose to end the mission, because the overall score was only "Excellent". He had to achieve "Perfect" for the first scenario mission, otherwise he would have wasted his second playthrough.

"But...but..." The leader of the Taiping Dao looked at the archers in the distance, then at his tragically dead comrades, his expression a mixture of anger and helplessness.

Anger made him want to step forward and take revenge, but reason told him that he and his companions were no match for them.

The other three members of the Taiping Dao gang shared the same mentality; they wouldn't risk their lives out of anger.

Shen Hua smiled faintly: "How about this? I have a plan that can help you all kill this villain without any casualties. Would you like to give it a try?"

Upon hearing this, the Taiping Dao members' eyes lit up: "Really? You really have a way?"

"Of course." Shen Hua had an expression of complete confidence.

……

Five minutes later, the Wang family archer was still standing in the same spot like a statue.

Shen Hua and the Taiping Dao group split up and approached the archers from five directions.

When the archer was within 100 meters, the archer made a move.

He raised his short bow, nocked an arrow, and aimed the arrow at one of the Taiping Dao gang members.

However, his movements were very stiff and mechanical, giving him a pseudo-human feel.

Shen Hua and his four companions did not stop and continued to approach.

When the archer was only 70 meters away, the archer began to fire.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

Four arrows were fired in quick succession, flying in four different directions and heading straight for four members of the Taiping Dao gang.

The archers did not fire at Shen Hua.

The reason is simple: Shen Hua was still flashing with the white light of the [Swiftness Talisman], and given the distance, shooting at Shen Hua would have a very low hit rate, making it a pure waste of arrows.

The four gang members were prepared for the incoming arrows.

The moment they saw the archer release the bow, they immediately lunged forward and fell to the ground.

Whoosh whoosh!

Arrows flew over their heads.

This is the method Shen Hua taught them: when they see an archer release the bowstring, they should lie down. It's simple and easy.

However, lying down is a very dangerous action.

Lying on the ground makes it difficult to move and makes you an easy target.

But Shen Hua wouldn't give the archer a chance to fire another arrow.

Just after firing four arrows, the archer noticed a bright white light rushing toward his side with lightning speed.

This is, of course, the white light from the [Divine Speed] talisman.

The archer instinctively raised his hand and fired an arrow.

He still had more than a dozen arrows in his quiver. As long as he killed Shen Hua, the rest would be no problem.

However, the arrow missed its target.

Whoosh!

The arrow grazed behind the white light, missing its target by a full four or five meters.

The archer was taken aback upon seeing this.

He wasn't surprised that the target could dodge his arrow, but that he had miscalculated the speed.

As is well known, lead must be calculated when shooting at a moving target.

He calculated the lead time based on Shen Hua's peak running speed and fired an arrow directly at the position Shen Hua was expected to reach.

However, unexpectedly, Bai Guang was much faster than Shen Hua's peak running speed! He ran four or five meters in just over a second, causing the arrow to miss completely.

How could it run so fast?

The archer immediately focused intently, tensing his entire body, and nocked an arrow again, aiming at the white light.

But by then the white orb of light was already very close to him.

Upon closer inspection, the archer realized he had been tricked!

Because the white light didn't cover Shen Hua, but rather Shen Hua's chestnut pony!

……

It turned out that when the archers attacked the Taiping Dao gang members, Shen Hua had quietly removed the [Swiftness Talisman] from his body and slapped it onto the chestnut horse's rump.

Startled, the chestnut horse immediately ran to the left front, which was the side of the archer.

The chestnut horse is definitely much faster than Shen Hua, and even faster with the [Swiftness Talisman]. The archer's calculation of lead time based on Shen Hua's speed would naturally be wrong.

Upon seeing the white light rushing towards them, the archer instinctively assumed it was Shen Hua.

But only the chestnut horse was shrouded in white light. Where was Shen Hua? Where was Shen Hua?

Oops!

The archer knew things were going badly.

The enemy who posed the greatest threat to him suddenly slipped out of his sight, and this momentary lapse sealed his fate and led to his complete defeat.

Sure enough, in the blind spot on the other side of the chestnut horse's field of vision, Shen Hua's arrows flew in with a whoosh.

The arrow drew a graceful arc in the air and struck the archer's right arm with precision.

The next second, the archer's alloy-cast arm shattered, exposing the intricate internal circuitry and gears. Violent electrical sparks erupted, accompanied by a constant crackling sound.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Hua's next arrow struck him in the head.

A small hole was immediately pierced through the metal casing on his head, and the internal wiring was instantly severed, hissing and emitting black smoke amidst crackling sparks.

The archer shuddered violently twice, then froze completely, unable to move.

If other players saw this, their expressions would definitely be priceless.

This archer appears to be human, but in reality, he's a robot! A robot in human skin!

It was precisely because it was a robot that it stood still like a statue; and it was precisely because it was a robot that its mechanical arm was strong enough to shoot arrows that were both accurate and deadly, without any psionic fluctuations.

Seeing that the problem with the intelligent machine had been solved, Shen Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If other players were present, they would probably be tempted to complain: "Wait a minute? Isn't this a Three Kingdoms cultivation game? What's with the robots? Doesn't it feel jarring?"

But Shen Hua has experienced a lot, so nothing about it is strange to him.

To perfectly complete the scenario missions in the previous life, the final boss is always an AI, without exception.

Of course, Shen Hua also felt out of place at the beginning of his previous life.

After all, this is a Three Kingdoms cultivation game, and any player would find it strange to see mechanical elements added to it.

But he only later learned that this was actually a deliberate act by the [Blazing Sun Empire].

The [Blazing Sun Empire] brought the game "Ascension" to Earth, partly to guide them towards the path of [Psionic Civilization], and partly to cultivate warriors capable of fighting against [Intelligent Civilization].

The war between the front lines and the omnics has reached a fever pitch. How can the strong warriors trained in the rear not have fought against the omnics?

Therefore, they added androids to the scenario missions, and the boss guarding the level is always an android, so that players can familiarize themselves with the combat style of androids in advance.

As for the issue of players feeling disconnected from the game, [Blazing Sun Empire] doesn't care whether players feel disconnected or not; they might even say, "If you feel disconnected, you don't have to play!"

Fortunately, only scenario quests and some dungeons in the game feature AI; there are no AI in the open game world, so players can accept this.