Left 4 Dead Chosen as a Required Course for Genin

Not long after, the grand event finally concluded. Although Minato's Team had created quite a spectacle, providing immense emotional value to the audience, all good things must come to an end, and the demonstration of Left 4 Dead was over.

After all, it was just a demo, with only two small levels of content that finished quickly.

The other three teams completed it smoothly. While they encountered many mutated monsters, the demo levels didn't feature any outrageously powerful mutations, so they managed to get through without much trouble.

Afterward, everyone enthusiastically declared the game fun and exciting, completely exploding with the emotional value they could offer.

Fighting, awesome!

Team fighting, even more awesome!

The live audience also gave these lucky players who successfully cleared the demo warm applause, making them feel ecstatic, as if they had become celebrities.

Of course, the most popular was still Minato's Team, who were the last to clear it.

Minato's Team's difficulty was significantly higher, and with two bickering troublemakers on the team, the entertainment value was much greater.

Because of the two troublemakers' infighting, they even encountered danger during combat. When they entered the second level, the two started bickering again and directly ran into the strongest zombie horde, which included many mutated monsters.

The two troublemakers, whose health was already low from their squabbling, instantly fell under the attack of a mutated monster that sprayed corrosive acid.

This monster would spray a puddle of corrosive acid at the crowd, and that acid would form a 'pool of green liquid' on the ground. Players needed to immediately leave the green liquid's range, or they would continuously lose health.

Usually, when encountering this monster, players would lose some health, because the monster's attack speed was quite fast, but as long as they ran fast, they wouldn't lose much health.

Unfortunately, Kakashi and Obito, the two troublemakers, had beaten each other's health down to less than one-sixth. Both also entered a low-health 'weakened' state, causing their movement speed to automatically drop by 30%.

As a result, the two unlucky kids couldn't dodge and their health bars were directly emptied, leaving them lying on the ground.

Normally, even if a player was downed in this game, they wouldn't die immediately. Instead, they would enter an immobile, minute-long dying state, and could only get up if other healthy players came to rescue them. Conversely, if they couldn't be rescued within a minute, they would die on the spot, and receiving a fatal attack would also result in immediate death.

However, at that moment, they encountered a terrifying zombie horde. Nohara Rin anxiously went to rescue them, but her rescue attempts were constantly interrupted by attacks from other Zombies and monsters.

Furthermore, the Zombies continuously attacked the two dying individuals. Obito and Kakashi lay helplessly on the ground, only able to watch as a horde of Zombies surrounded them and brutally beat them.

Ultimately, the two unlucky kids were beaten to death amidst Kakashi's unwilling growl and Obito's terrified shouts.

The number of teammates instantly dropped to only two, and Nohara Rin was also in peril under the assault of the zombie tide.

At the critical moment, Minato Namikaze, Konoha's finest, seemed to trigger a passive ability, directly activating his show-off mode.

Wielding a Katana in one hand and a Kunai in the other, Minato Namikaze moved at high speed, slaying various monsters and transforming into a battlefield meat grinder.

Moreover, when facing attacks from mutated monsters with control abilities, Minato Namikaze, whose strength was severely weakened, could still perform the best evasions with the smallest movements, often attacking while evading, like a martial artist on a bloody battlefield.

Sometimes, when small evasions weren't effective, he would perform large evasions, including many movements that were very difficult for his current body.

For example, he would directly charge towards a nearby tree in parkour mode, then use the momentum to run up the tree with both feet before performing a backward leap to dodge an attack. At the same time, the cold gleam of his Katana would flash, cutting off the mutated monster's head.

His main goal was to show off until the very end.

Thus, the most difficult part was miraculously overcome by Minato Namikaze's solo performance.

Finally, there was the iconic scene of Minato Namikaze rescuing Nohara Rin, who had been beaten to a dying state and was lying amidst a pile of monster corpses.

At this moment, the 'Yellow Flash's' value continued to rise, demonstrating to people that even with his strength significantly affected, this top genius of Konoha's younger generation was still invincible among his peers.

As for Kakashi and Obito, the two unlucky kids could only float behind Minato Namikaze and Nohara Rin like lingering spirits, unable to do anything but watch them continue on their way, which was incredibly awkward.

It wasn't until Minato Namikaze reached a key point with Nohara Rin that Kakashi and Obito revived—in the game, if a teammate dies, as long as the team isn't completely wiped out, then as the team continues to advance into areas with a 'spatial' feel, such as safe houses, ordinary houses, tree hollows, caves, or tents, the dead teammates can revive there, albeit confined inside those areas.

And as long as there's a living teammate who reaches those areas, the dead teammates can be released and rejoin the battle.

Although they were troublemakers on the surface, Kakashi and Obito's experience directly demonstrated to people what to do when someone died in the game.

Ultimately, Minato's Team was the last to clear the stage, but they received the most enthusiastic applause, especially Minato Namikaze, whose popularity dwarfed everyone else's combined by several times.

Nohara Rin, as his student, was very happy, while Kakashi and Obito were very awkward. The two good friends then started blaming each other, claiming it was the other's fault, fully demonstrating the truth that good friends must bicker for life.

After that, the grand event ended completely, and over five thousand spectators returned home, or left Konoha, carrying countless excited emotions and endless topics of conversation, spreading the news.

From this day forward, 'Genjutsu Game' would spread throughout the Ninja World, becoming a household name and a new phenomenon.

As the Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi understood that Konoha would soon see many new spies, who would try every means to investigate the truth of 'Genjutsu Game'. Once confirmed, they would use every means to seize this technology.

Unfortunately, this technology, unlike other Secret Techniques, was directly controlled by the Uchiha Clan.

In this era, who could snatch something from the Uchiha Clan?

Spies eventually seeking out the Uchiha would most likely be sending themselves to their deaths, and while they could exert some level of restraint and harassment on the Uchiha Clan, for Konoha's higher-ups, this was classic 'checks and balances'.

Therefore, Hiruzen Sarutobi was not worried about 'Genjutsu Game' being stolen by outsiders. The core technology was there, something others couldn't seize.

While one might say, 'if you can't have it, destroy it,' the same logic applied: Konoha was strong and well-equipped now, and it was the Uchiha Clan. What could other Ninja Clans use to 'destroy it if they couldn't have it'?

In the end, this Secret Technique was now a core product of Konoha, and after learning that the Uchiha Clan had teamed up with a large number of other Ninja Clans to establish a guild specifically for selling and expanding Genjutsu Games, the longest-serving Hokage immediately weighed the pros and cons, analyzing how Konoha could gain the most benefit.

Then, Left 4 Dead was specifically chosen. If this game could be further improved and upgraded to provide players with a more realistic experience, it would become a training artifact for graduating ninja squads.

To this end, Hiruzen Sarutobi specifically dispatched Anbu to the Uchiha, presenting one by one the issues regarding Left 4 Dead.

Facing the Third Hokage, the Uchiha of today were still very respectful, so that information was quickly transferred to Uchiha Qi through the Uchiha Clan.

Looking at each question, Uchiha Qi thought for a moment, then took out a pen and answered them one by one. The core point of all the content actually pointed to one thing—

Left 4 Dead would launch a special survival mode, where players would experience an incredibly realistic apocalypse survival, maximizing its 'training' function.

Upon receiving the reply, Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded with great satisfaction, and then, with a flourish of his brush, provided policy support to the newly established 'Konoha Gaming Guild'—he understood very well that with even the families represented by Konoha F4 already joining, his obstruction or restriction would only needlessly offend people. It was better to simply do them a favor.