Transform into Ruan Mei and start from the battlefield of national destiny

As the clock struck midnight, the lively and exciting atmosphere gradually faded, and a heavy and serious atmosphere began to spread.

The expressions on everyone's faces became extremely serious, and the air was so solemn that it seemed as if water could drip out.

Just because a new day means new rules, and means that the second stage of the national destiny battlefield has officially begun.

An illusory screen suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and the scene on the screen showed an extremely gloomy town.

"This seems to be Hamlet Town?" Alyssa, who had toured the town with Ruan Mei, recognized the buildings in the picture at a glance. They were the iconic buildings in Hamlet Town.

Taverns, churches, hospitals, cemeteries, guilds, blacksmith shops...

"This looks like a game?" A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the Sakura Empire player. She was an introvert and spent most of her free time on games. She had rich gaming experience and recognized at a glance that the UI in front of her was a game.

Her fingers quickly clicked on the interactive interfaces one by one, and she quickly browsed through the general framework of the entire game and came to a conclusion.

Looking at the side, the players from other countries happened to not play games much and were still discussing without any ideas.

The Sakura Empire player pursed his lips and said weakly, "I think I have some idea."

"Rikka, you figured it out so quickly? Tell me more."

The Sakura Empire player, whose full name was Usami Rikka, recalled the introduction the game administrator had given her earlier in the square and reorganized what she wanted to say: "First, the carriage."

“We can recruit heroes from the carriage. Each hero has his or her own level and skills, and then take them into the dungeon. It is worth noting that each hero has his or her own positive and negative traits.”

"Heroes can enhance their abilities through the blacksmith shop, guild, and tent. The blacksmith shop upgrades weapons, the guild upgrades skills, and the tent next to it can upgrade camping skills."

"And have you noticed? There are four circles below the hero's skills. Some are gray, and some are bright. I guess these circles actually indicate the hero's position when using the skills."

"The four circles represent that we can only bring four heroes with us each time. From right to left, they represent the heroes' positions. For example, for this skill, the first and second circles are both lit, which means that this hero can only use this skill in the first and second positions."

Usami Rikka took a deep breath. "This mechanism is definitely designed to limit players from clearing the level. If we make a reasonable guess, the enemy is likely to possess skills that can disrupt the positioning of our heroes."

"Next are the tavern and the church. It says they can release stress. We don't know what stress is yet, but being able to create two buildings that control stress shows that stress is one of the core mechanisms of this game."

"There's also a hospital. This hospital doesn't restore health, but it has options for curing illnesses, fixing positive traits, and removing negative traits."

"In the shop at the bottom, you can buy accessories that increase your hero's abilities."

"There's also the least noticeable cemetery. There's a 0/15 mark on it. I think this means that we can only lose a maximum of 15 heroes in battle."

As Usami Rika spoke, she demonstrated it to everyone.

Everyone present listened attentively, including the audience in the live broadcast room and relevant personnel from various countries.

Except Donghuang.

Ruan Mei has never come out since she entered the room. Even now, after the new rules have changed, she still has not shown up, so hundreds of millions of people in the live broadcast room can only stare at the door in a daze.

"It seems that our contestant Ruan Mei is indeed very unique. How about we cut the screen to the live broadcast rooms of other countries?" The host Ning Ning winked at the director.

Are you kidding? It's impossible for them to open the door and watch the end of the National Destiny Battlefield, right? They've already been watching for a whole day!

God knows why Ruan Mei doesn’t show up. Could it be that she is so confident?

It seems that he really has the qualifications, after all, he is certified by Alyssa as a powerful man who can create life.

They had no idea that Ruan Mei was just staying in the room doing experiments.

National Destiny Battlefield? What is that? I'm not familiar with it, not interested. Is it important to me for my experiment?

However, even Ruan Mei would divert some of her energy at this time to pay attention to the new rules of the national destiny battlefield. It just so happened that the experiment she was doing now did not require too much energy.

Ruan Mei did not open her game operation screen - this was also the reason why people in the Donghuang live broadcast room kept knocking on the door - she directly connected the scene of the tavern in front of her, and then listened to the opinions of players from various countries on the new rules.

After listening to Usami Rikka's explanation, a contestant from Sardinia confidently stated that he would be the first to gather some information.

Not only was the Sardin player full of confidence, but the audience on Blue Star were also full of confidence - playing games, it seems like everyone knows it. Compared to real-life games, virtual games are obviously much simpler!

Following the instructions of Rikka Usami, he pulled four characters out of the post carriage and clicked on the departure button. Only one level was lit on the departure interface.

Level name - Old Road.

"Obviously this is a tutorial."

The game screen went black and entered the CG, which was the game CG played in the square before. But after the CG ended, a team of heroes appeared on the far left of the screen.

"Look at this copy, it's a grid-moving game." Usami Rika took note of this.

In the game, player Sardin also controlled his character and began to explore forward. After walking for a distance, the screen shook.

Apparently, he encountered a monster.

The game screen enters the battle screen. It is a turn-based combat game. There are four heroes facing three enemies, all of whom are bandits, a fat man holding a meteor hammer, and two soldiers holding muskets.

"A tutorial for newbies, isn't this just a random killing?" The Sardin player was full of confidence.

Especially after the four characters took turns attacking and reduced the enemy's back row soldier holding a musket to low health.

However, the attack from the fat bandits soon dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the Sardinian players.

Close range shooting!

The fat bandit standing in the front pulled out a pistol and shot at a hero.

A loud bang came not only from the screen, but also from the heart of Sardin player.

Crit!

I saw that the health of a hero who was originally full of blood suddenly dropped drastically, like a candle in the wind. The two musketeers behind him attacked in groups, further reducing the health of the team members.

"What the hell! Oh no, let's focus our fire on him and kill him." The Sardinian player muttered to himself with a very focused expression.

"Use your control skills to control the two musketeers at the back, and then attack the fat guy in front." said Rika Usami.

The Sardinian player did as he was told, and after two rounds, the fat man's health was almost gone.

Just one more blow and he'll be dead.

Player Sardin breathed a sigh of relief and controlled one of his own heroes, using his attack skill on the fat bandit.

Pistol shooting!

dodge!

The Sardinian player's heart skipped a beat.

Chapter 32: This is no joke

The confident shot landed directly into the air, and something even more disturbing was yet to come. The fat bandit who had survived by chance targeted the hero with almost no health.

"No, no, no, no! Don't hit him, don't hit him, don't hit him!" The Sardinian player was anxious.

The barrage also became anxious.

"Is this a tutorial for beginners? A tutorial that kills people? Is this seriously difficult?"

"What a rubbish game."

"IGN0 points!"

boom--

With a gunshot, the hero's health was instantly depleted.

Just when everyone thought that the hero was going to die, his figure flashed a few times, and he was still standing there. He was not dead, but a symbol appeared below him.

"Not dead! Great! Not dead!" Player Sardin was overjoyed at first, but then became puzzled. "That's not right. How come he's not dead even though his health bar is empty?"

Usami Rikka saw the clue: "It's lethal resistance. When the hero's health bar is emptied, they will enter a near-death state. Their attributes will be greatly reduced. They will only die if they take more damage while in this near-death state."

"Okay, I'll recover my health now." Player Sardin nodded, killed the fat bandit first, and then recovered the health of his own hero.

Seeing his team's hero successfully escape the near-death state, Sardin breathed a sigh of relief, but then noticed something amiss: "Why is the debuff still there? The heavy damage debuff will last until the end of this mission..."

"What a malicious mechanism. The enemy's attack damage is already very high. If your luck is a little worse, you will basically have to bring the heavy damage debuff every time you go into the dungeon." Anna on the side interrupted.

After the death of the fat bandit, the remaining two musketeers were easily captured. However, when they left the battle interface, the team members' health dropped from full at the beginning to only about three-quarters per person, and the main output thief was even put into a debuffed state.

A bad start.

Player Sardin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, while controlling his team to continue exploring forward.

"Why does it feel like the brightness is getting lower and lower?"

"How can there be a trap with no warning at all?!"

"There's a treasure chest up ahead, great. No! How can a treasure chest have traps?"

"Tu(艹皿艹), I encountered a monster again, what kind of monster is it this time?"

"Oh no, it's a newbie boss!"

The light suddenly dimmed, and the background changed from the original dense forest to a constantly rotating starry sky. A huge monster appeared in front of the team.

The monster looked like a terrestrial octopus mutated from a human. Its legs merged into a tail, and its hands transformed into curled tentacles, together supporting this huge body.

Pond walker.

This is the name of this monster.

Usami Rika's brows were deeply furrowed. If she encountered this situation when playing games in the past, she would think it was definitely a plot kill. However, for this game, she didn't dare to make such a conclusion.

Is it true that such a malicious game would only include a boss to be killed by the plot in the novice tutorial?

Her heart skipped a beat, and she felt that Sardin's future seemed to be getting dim. As for whether there was any countermeasure, since the enemy's skills could only be seen after they were launched, she was completely in the dark at first sight.

Unlike Usami Rikka, who could only vaguely feel it based on past experience, Ruan Mei, who had been watching from the sidelines, discovered more clues. She had put down the experiment in her hand and watched contestant Sardin's breakthrough on the screen.

Ruan Mei was certain that the heroic team before her would definitely not be a match for the monster named Pi Xingzhe. It would be a crushing defeat on a life level.

It is impossible for a newborn wolf cub to defeat a tiger lurking in the mountains.

The gap is too big.

Needless to say, the life information flowing in the body of this monster named Pi Xingzhe shows that it is closer to the origin of this world.

However, unlike everyone else who focused their attention on the monster, what made Ruan Mei put down the experiment was not the monster, but the white bar below the hero's health bar.

A small section on the left side of this white strip has begun to be replaced by black.

In Usami Rikka's previous introduction, everyone knows that this bar should be the pressure mechanism of this game. As time goes by and the monsters act, the pressure value will gradually begin to rise, that is, the day will gradually be covered by darkness.

However, under the inertia of thinking, especially during the enemy's fierce attack, the heroes' precarious health bars have already attracted everyone's attention, and not many people have carefully considered the issue of the pressure bar.

After all, if the health bar is empty, you're dead, but if the pressure bar is empty, you can't just die, right? At most, it will just add some negative effects.

Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The health bar is important, but the pressure bar is the most important thing in the game.

Ruan Mei could sense that as the pressure bar rose, the amount of pollution information in these heroes' bodies also began to increase.

So she began to wonder what would happen when the stress bar was full and the pollution information reached its peak.

This is a good opportunity to explore the truth of the world. For Ruan Mei, who wants to create a life of equals, every bit of information is extremely valuable.

However, in her spare time, Ruan Mei did notice that this game was very unfriendly to players.

Ruan Mei also needs these people to collect experimental materials for her.

After thinking for a moment, Ruan Mei looked at the power of order that she had captured. The temporary prison was about to dissipate, and this power would return to the Destiny Walker.

Previously, Ruan Mei didn’t care because she had already studied it, but now Ruan Mei has a new idea.

A very crazy but feasible idea - to cultivate a god that does not exist in this world, the star god of order, Taiyi.

Just like what her original self did in the game Bengtie: she cultivated the Star God in the simulated universe and peeped into the secrets of the Star God.

What Ruan Mei has to do now is to use the remaining power of order in this game to cultivate the fallen order star god Taiyi.

Not only can it improve the player's clearance rate and obtain more experimental materials, but it can also give players a glimpse into the mysteries of order, which will help them fight against the order walker named TT.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Of course, there is no rush now. Ruan Mei still wants to see what happens after the pressure bar is full. This will not take much time, because the situation on the screen is already very unfavorable to Sardin.

The monster named Pi Walker can not only summon constantly evolving monsters, but also disrupt the positioning of the heroic team, and its own health is also high.

The team was on the brink of destruction, their health bar was almost emptied, and the pressure bar below was almost completely stained black.

Chapter 33 Dark Dungeon