They had to attract the Group Owner's attention, so they needed to become famous Super Players in the game and build up an extremely high reputation.
Thus, there was nothing wrong with Master Gou wanting to be a Lone Wolf. He was confident he could make a name for himself on the battlefield.
However, they ultimately did not understand the game well enough. They had never expected that players could shoot their own teammates in the back. The beginner training camp had never taught them that.
"Could this be what the term 'Betrayed' from the forum posts means?"
Although Mo Qiong and the others had read quite a bit of material about the game, including many insights written by expert players, they still could not understand a lot of it because there was too much slang.
That included the saying, "Beginners shouldn't be Lone Wolves. Watch out for getting Betrayed."
They had not understood what it meant before, but now, looking at Master Gou's corpse on the ground, Mo Qiong understood.
The game's scoring system was extremely complicated. There were Glorious Kills and Negative Score Kills, as well as Glorious Deaths and Negative Score Deaths.
Killing enemies naturally gave points, while killing teammates clearly deducted points.
Failing to complete a minor task assigned by one's superiors only deducted a tiny amount of points, because a general in the field did not always have to obey orders from above.
But dying outside the scope of a minor task resulted in a huge point deduction, making it a typical Negative Score Death.
In other words, players could ignore orders and show off their Game understanding, but they could not die. Once they died, it was no longer showing off their understanding—it was an unorganized and undisciplined sacrifice for nothing.
Conversely, if the