Grand Voyage-Snowball Mode Begins!

Ten miles out to sea.

Gao Linzhi stood on the top floor of the Treasure Ship, a platform more than ten meters high.

The terrain here is open and spacious, with the sea and sky merging into one in the distance, making one feel refreshed and relaxed.

The others had to stay on the deck.

Even so, it's still much better than those cramped little boats.

Many players pooled their resources to buy the villagers' dilapidated Fishing Boat, and then squatted on them one by one.

Straighten up? Impossible.

The boats have no railings and their center of gravity is too high; one wrong step and you could fall off.

School of fish: Thank you for nature's bounty.

They looked at the large Treasure Ship with envy.

At this moment, the puppet sailors were skillfully raising the huge sails, and some of them took out wooden oars and began to row vigorously.

"Hmph, we're faster than them." One player defiantly paddled forward.

With its powerful physique, the small boat was comparable to a speedboat, and its human-powered operation surpassed that of a diesel engine.

But the next moment, he quickly rowed back.

"Damn it, there's something strange up ahead! Something weird!" he shouted, his face ashen.

And at this time...

Many players then saw a pale, giant hand faintly appearing on the distant sea.

The giant hand, beneath the seawater, stretched upwards as if trying to grasp something.

That palm's area is comparable to several football fields!

The players fell silent.

Compared to this behemoth, the imperial army appeared utterly ridiculous.

It's big enough, but the key is that it's immune to both physical and magical attacks!

Run!

Before long, the giant hand seemed to have spotted the players who had gone into the sea, and began to flip over and grab them.

Everyone felt a huge shadow looming over their heads, and an overwhelming sense of fear washed over them.

"This is not something a human can fight!"

"This is a real natural disaster!"

The players were terrified and ran for their lives, rowing back as fast as they could.

Before even traveling ten miles, they encountered such a strange occurrence. Who would be so reckless as to test whether the other party was all show and no substance?

The players scurried away quickly, returning to shore before the giant hand could strike. They ran for three or four miles before stopping.

Everyone turned to look, and saw the giant hand on the sea surface, still slowly descending.

"What happened next? What about the people on the Treasure Ship?"

"The Treasure Ship doesn't seem to have moved. I looked back a few times, but the Treasure Ship still hasn't moved."

"Wait, look at that giant hand!"

Something doesn't seem right.

Sure enough, the giant hand, which was about to land on the sea, suddenly changed its grasping motion as if it had seen a fly, and instead waved it away.

After it was waved away, the giant hand disappeared.

"Strange, where did the giant hand go?"

"Yes, it's strange. It seems like the giant hand bumped into something unpleasant."

They naturally didn't know that Gao Linzhi had directly used the Evil Warding Order.

And at this very moment.

The people on the Treasure Ship were even more shocked.

When they saw the giant hand reaching for the Treasure Ship, even the bravest players instinctively wanted to jump ship and run away.

This is a natural disaster, an enemy that no human can contend with!

No one will fight a collapsing mountain.

Aside from a few bored individuals who were still persisting, the other players who had been invited onto the boat jumped into the water and frantically swam back, trying to escape the reach of the giant hand.

However, at that moment...

A gray talisman appeared lightly above Gao Linzhi.

The giant hand immediately seemed to have encountered something it loathed, and avoided them at all costs before disappearing into the sea.

The wandering players immediately looked embarrassed.

They dared not complain openly, but secretly harbored their grievances:

Wow, if you have this kind of skill, why didn't you use it sooner?

They immediately realized that this was a test.

Damn it, this expert is using this kind of monster to test players? Which player can withstand this kind of test?

"Hmph, it turns out that people are indeed unreliable; my Puppet Best." The Puppet Best looked disdainfully at the fleeing players.

"Heh, we gave them a chance, but they were useless. Who can we blame?" Qingcheng*Bored a little relieved out of boredom.

When he wanted to run away, the single-player game behind him told him, "Don't run away. You have Revival Stone anyway. This should be a test."

Only the Dragon Fruit was there, munching on an apple, looking completely unperturbed, as if it had all expected this.

However, some observant people noticed that a puddle of water had appeared at her feet.

There are no Dragon Fruit on this island, so we have to use apples instead.

Just in case, she didn't eat the fruit sold offline.

"What kind of item is that? How could it possibly drive away such a terrifying, gigantic monster?" Bored asked in a low voice to the player behind him.

"I don't know. In some ways, this is even more terrifying than that talisman that can turn monsters into puzzle instances." The single-player mode didn't provide an answer.

He nodded, bored.

In his view, both are on the same level.

Gao Linzhi smiled at this moment.

He didn't explain, nor did he test anyone just now.

He was simply testing his current mental attributes, his resistance to such colossal and bizarre creatures.

Clearly, his 297 points in mental attribute allowed him to remain calm and composed when the giant hand approached, without trembling or showing any fear.

So the Treasure Ship continued its journey forward.

Soon, they passed the first ten miles.

Suddenly, an event notification appeared in the game.

"Grand Voyage Event: Ding! Congratulations to a player who has successfully sailed ten miles in this event."

The first person to reach the ten-mile mark will be awarded 10 points.

"During the event, the game will have an event chat channel open; it will be closed after the event ends."

Everyone was even more shocked.

"Wait, this game even has a chat channel?"

"Aren't they all offline users chatting online?"

"Tears welling up, I've finally waited for this!"

The game prompts you to continue:

"Event Channel: Each person must travel more than ten miles before they can speak."

"Only one message can be sent every five minutes."

"Information will be prioritized for messages from players on the same island."

"If there are too few messages, chat messages from other islands will be matched in order of distance."

Gao Linzhi nodded upon seeing this.

Although the Skyfall Game is incomplete, its basic configuration is still logical.

Unlike some survival games that are mindless and immediately bring in billions of people with no time limit for chatting, this one is different.

Do you know what "flooding" or "spamming" means?

Everyone chatting is the same as no one chatting.

At this point, a clever player discovered a loophole.

"Hey, I've got it! We can use this game rule to achieve full-map communication for the first time!"

"Everyone, please don't speak. Listen to me. As long as only two people speak at the same time, according to the matching rules, their messages will be displayed on this screen." Someone excitedly announced on the event's public chat.

"This is indeed a loophole, but the prerequisite is to unify your own island and be able to control what all the players say."

Not many islands can do this.

On most islands, those who managed to sail more than ten miles by luck were spouting nonsense.

Looking for a beautiful female boat companion? Materials included.

"Turtle Man, are you delivering protein materials?"

"This is really intense, it's a real game!"

But on Wolf Snake Island, things are naturally different.

The public chat was completely silent.

Gao Linzhi speak, no one dared to step forward and say anything.

At this moment, the players who jumped off the Treasure Ship were filled with regret.

"Damn it, if I'd known, I wouldn't have jumped."

"Yes, I knew that according to the pattern of this game, it starts with individual islands competing, then nearby islands competing together, and finally all the islands competing."

"This can be seen from the fact that the chat channels are open."

"Yes."

And at this time...

Chat messages from the neighboring island came in.

Who's around here?

"Is this Wolf Snake Island nearby? Can you see my chat?" a player with the ID "Dugu Yijia" asked.

"Could it be that you have a lot of chat messages and can't see them? That's impossible. This has only just begun. There should only be a handful of people qualified to sail 10 miles."

"You should be able to see my chat."

"This is Eagle Island, and our island lord is named Dugu Qiulü. Yes, we are now seeking minotaurs from nearby islands to 'green' him," the Dugu Yijia said.

Gao Linzhi was speechless.

The players truly demonstrated the diversity of human nature.

This is because most characters only have one life. If they could respawn infinitely like in regular online games, there would be so many more ways to play.

Gao Linzhi looked at Qingcheng*Bored, and gestured for him to speak.

Influential users generally don't speak in the public chat.

Of course, there are those who love to talk about it, but the consequence is often that they get entangled in trouble.

Various forms of shameless licking.

Qingcheng*Bored immediately switched into character and replied, "I am the General Manager of the Four Village Company on Wolf Snake Island."

"I've heard of your Eagle Island; it's been unified there too."

"Nice to meet you. That's right, our island lord has a peculiar talent called 'Cuckold Protagonist.' As long as one is cuckolded, it's easy for him to master the techniques and skills," said the Dugu Yijia.

"As everyone knows, once you get the basics down, it's displayed on the data panel. With more experience, your proficiency will skyrocket. Our island lord used this talent to level up to 36, then learned all 30 skills, defeating the other elders on the island and the imperial officials guarding the fortress..."

Qingcheng*Bored and suddenly became a little confused.

How could this person reveal the island lord's talents, characteristics, and strength?

It's almost like a commentary.

There must be a conspiracy involved.

"Oh, then this technique is truly excellent."

"Yes, we all think so too."

"However, the problem now is that there's a limit to the number of skill slots. I've heard there are items that can unlock more skill slots. I wonder if you sell them where you are?"

Qingcheng*Bored and said, "Now that you mention it, there really is one. A few days ago, when I was fighting a BOSS, a Blue Tier Skill Stone dropped. Unlike ordinary Skill Stone, it was blank."

"Its function is to add a skill slot after use, but it can only be used three times per person."

"That's great! We're willing to buy. What do you want?"

"Gold, Skill Book that ignore skill requirements, Skill Stone, but we need to compare them to avoid buying duplicates."

"We have plenty of gold. We have a large gold mine here that can produce hundreds of kilograms every day, and tens of tons of gold a year."

The two sides then discussed business on the public chat.

The players on the shore, looking at the content on the public chat, felt both envious and jealous.

They don't even have the right to speak on the public chat.

"Alas, this is no longer a field we can get involved in."

"Yeah, it feels like we're playing two games, and we're just the game content."

"The game has started a leaderboard competition, and we have to keep up step by step. If we fall behind even for one step, the gap will snowball and become bigger and bigger, unless the opponent is paralyzed and can no longer play."

"Yes, this is a real game. There's no such thing as not playing seriously. If you don't play seriously, you'll die."

"Damn it, how am I supposed to keep up?"

"I work 18 hours a day, and I only have less than 6 hours a day to eat, sleep, and wash up."

"But I still can't catch up with these guys. There's really no proper strategy for this game. I've looked at a lot of guides, but after trying them all, I've ended up with something that's neither fish nor fowl."

"Nonsense, that's because the skills in this game are different from others. You have to learn them yourself to get started, and then you can improve them through experience."

"Other people's strategies are because they can easily learn the skills of the corresponding class."

"You should first learn some skills, identify which skills you can master, and then choose a strategy that suits you based on those skills."

"Understood."

Some players then realized what was happening.

Many people are like this: they're terrible at games, so they just randomly try things out when they get in.

Upon seeing several guides, I felt like I had struck gold and immediately began to put them into practice.

After testing, Discovery was decommissioned.

In most online games, you can simply restart using gasoline, but how do you restart here?

At the same time.

The three undercover Zhan Cangqiong and two others, have quietly logged off.

They were so terrified when they saw the giant hand that they fled the game immediately.

Fortunately, the giant hand descended rather slowly, preventing it from pulling them into the game's combat state.

Offline, in a detached villa in Xu City.

"This guy is developing faster and faster!" Zhan Cangqiong said.

"The game has launched another Grand Voyage event. Based on the strategies researched above, this game is shifting towards a ranking and event-driven meta."

"The strong will get stronger and stronger, and the top player on the leaderboard will receive Revival Stone each time. It's clear that the game is concentrating resources to cultivate the strong."

"I just received orders that we can't let him develop like this anymore. If he continues to develop like this, even with the strength of the United Association, we won't be able to control him."

Guihuajiu said helplessly, "That's what you say, but how are you going to kill him?"

"We haven't found a way to steal the Resurrection Pearl yet. By the way, Aoxue, how exactly did you execute your honey trap?"

"It's been so many days, and there's still no news?"

Aoxue said helplessly, "Damn it, this bastard, he just stays in his room all day."

"I strongly suspect he has some kind of mental illness; he's afraid to face normal, beautiful women, and only dares to use certain indescribable things."

"I had someone send a beautiful woman to him when I found out she had turned into a puppet."

"How much does that guy distrust women? It's infuriating!"

The Guihuajiu fell silent.

"So this guy only likes beautiful women who have no self-awareness."

"That's troublesome."

"Damn it, this guy has truly grasped the essence of the art of survival, unlike some guys who are called 'survivalists' but are actually more daring than anyone else, kneeling down at the sight of a beautiful woman," Zhan Cangqiong said angrily.