Platinum Potential, Sleepless Nights

Cold, shivering...

Ye Xu jolted awake from his daze, looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings and the person lying on the ground, hesitated for a moment, and silently drew his weapon...

Minutes later, Ye Xu was covered in blood, and his heavy breathing was the only sound in the room, drowning out the faint groans from the corner where he was not yet completely dead.

All around were severed limbs and broken arms, and blood flowed like a river.

A corpse lay sprawled at his feet, its neck severed, its head emerging from its scalp like a peeled watermelon, still speckled with white specks.

A figure walked through the bloody slaughterhouse, his footsteps making a slight, sticky sound as he stepped over the pool of blood. He walked up to Ye Xu Ignite a cigarette. The faint light illuminated a slightly weathered face—it was Han Jin.

"How about it?"

"It's alright." Ye Xu sat there blankly.

This is his fourth mission world, and he has just adapted to the cruelty of the Main God Space.

He was a complete nobody in his first world, performing terribly, but he was the only one out of the dozen or so newcomers to survive, which was partly due to luck.

The pace of the Main God Space was too fast; half a day after the first world ended, he was thrown into the second mission world.

His performance was still terrible; he was still helpless against monsters. However, his teammates were very strong. Half of them were eliminated, but one of his teammates turned on him, beat him up, and kicked him out of the team.

But the world in that mission was extremely strange. Later, Ye Xu found the veteran in a dark alley. The other party only had half a body left, and Ye Xu took the opportunity to kill him.

That's how Ye Xu discovered his cheat ability. After killing this teammate, he not only received no punishment, but his Attributes even increased by a point.

Killing makes you stronger? So, in the third mission world, Ye Xu began to explore and discover his cheat ability, and during this time he encountered the person in front of him.

His name is Han Jin. He is a veteran player who has experienced five or six worlds. He is also a very kind person. He not only saved Ye Xu's life several times, but also took care of him many times in that mission world, teaching him survival and combat experience, like a master to him.

Later in the third mission world, after slyly killing two teammates, Ye Xu confirmed his cheat ability.

After killing a teammate, you are exempt from penalties and gain Attribute increases.

Monsters won't do; it has to be teammates.

So he chose the fourth beginner world to guide the newbies, Han Jin went with him.

After killing over a dozen teammates, his Attributes increased significantly.

If that's the case, then it's very strong.

Han Jin knew about his cheat ability; it couldn't be hidden. After all, in the third mission world, Ye Xu's eagerness to kill his teammates was undeniable, and the instant increase in Attributes after killing them was also discovered by Han Jin.

After the third mission world ended, Han Jin confirmed Ye Xu's cheat ability and told him not to be nervous.

Among All Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds, who doesn't have some kind of cheat code?

Panel expanded:

[World Type: Low-Magic Western Fantasy Continent]

[Main Quest: Obtain the 'Holy Talisman' within seven days]

[Task Difficulty: Normal]

[Failure Penalty: All Attributes permanently decrease by 20%]

[WARNING! An unknown error has been detected!]

[Mission Objective: Compete with other teams to obtain the "Holy Talisman"]

[Mission difficulty changed to: Hell!]

[Mission Penalty: Death]

"Huh? What happened?"

Ye Xu looked up and saw Han Jin, who was also completely bewildered.

"Killing teammates increases the difficulty of the mission?"

"I don't know. Other players only lose money when they kill teammates, and if their money is negative or they kill too many, they're wiped out. You didn't get punished; maybe the Chief God punished you..."

Ye Xu's abdomen was ripped open, and he looked at the "Holy Talisman" floating in the magnificent golden hall not far away, his eyes filled with resentment.

This is a talisman made of a special material, with a mysterious aura flowing across its surface. Just looking at it is refreshing and pleasing to the eye, and it doesn't fit the style of the surrounding buildings or even the world around it.

In the Legendary of this world, the "Holy Talisman" possesses the power to reverse Life and Death, allowing its holder to instantly recover to their peak condition upon death.

Even just holding it in your hand, you can feel a continuous flow of power into your body.

It possesses a kind of beauty that is detached from the people and things of this world.

Han Jin, who was blind and had lost two of his limbs, lay Jingjing beside him. Suddenly, he spoke, his tone utterly calm.

"Ye Xu, kill me. I cannot survive."

Ye Xu was stunned for a moment, his gaze fixed on Han Jin.

Even though the other person was blind, Ye Xu still felt that the other person was watching him.

"No need for sentimentality, let's carry my share and walk to the end."

The death was described in a calm tone, accompanied by Ye Xu tears and a surge of Attribute.

Strangely, unlike the slight Attribute gains from killing teammates in the previous instances, this time the Attribute gains were greater than all the previous gains combined.

[At that time, Ye Xu didn't know that his cheat ability wasn't about killing teammates to become stronger, but rather...]

That's all for today's update.

That's all for this post.

This is Han Song's post. He wrote Ye Xu's Dream World experiences into a novel and published it. Anyway, with such high Attributes, it only takes him a few minutes to write a few words a day.

The number of replies to the post surged:

[Damn it, I'm begging you, please, make it something lowbrow and erotic, no more gore and violence!]

[Not enough! Who can read this much?! I finished reading it before I even finished taking a dump!]

[Can you write books? Why are all the female leads female and all the male leads male?]

[If you don't want to see the protagonist suffer, can you make the power-ups a bit stronger?]

[Holy crap, this is terrifying to think about... This cheat system, could it be that the closer the relationship or the deeper the bond with someone, the more terrifying the enhancement they receive? That's way too creepy...]

[Update urgently, I'm burning the midnight oil; I can't sleep at night.]

After a while, it was time for today's inspection, and Han Song went to check the output in the Xiao Shi house.

It consists of three thousand high-quality props, which is quite good, but the initial experiment failed.

The so-called preliminary experiment does not involve putting Ye Xu into the infinite flow to alter his subjective consciousness as before, but rather letting things take their natural course.

The original plan to "Ye Xu's Subjective Consciousness-Oriented Training" required too much information and had too many variables, so we decided to simplify it first.

Ye Xu placed in Pure White Space containing only one item that needed to be tested.

He continuously accelerated the flow of time and jumped through time, attempting to make that item the only reference point in his long "Ethereal time," in order to observe whether the item itself would have a directional influence on his Talent.

The experiment lasted for three days, Ye Xu's perception of time in the Dreamscape was unaware of how much time had passed.

The simplified solution failed; now we'll try the original solution.

The first experimental item originally prepared was a healing item, but Su Luo reached out and designated [Talisman of Favor (Perfect)] as the first experimental item.

Because Su Luo's own was completely destroyed in the terrifying impact of the Continued Battle, and this thing was really useful and highly applicable.

"This experiment is expected to last three days; the subsequent plot developments..."