Game Invasion: I'm the Only Ordinary Player
Chapter 36

Incomplete Game, Constitution Ascends!

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"Impossible. Your reputation is already ruined in my eyes, and I won't sign any contract with you."

Upon hearing this, Xu Qi immediately frowned and said, "Your Excellency, do you truly intend to become an enemy of our Xu Corporation?"

"Don't you forget our Xu Clan..."

"Shut up!" Gao Linzhi directly interrupted him, sneering, "A bunch of idiots!"

"I just don't understand, did you even investigate my background before threatening me?"

"I used to think the brainless villains in novels were just fabrications by authors who hadn't seen anything in reality, but now I know they're actually countless."

In truth, he understood that the stupidity displayed by those in high positions was merely because they couldn't be bothered to deal with ordinary people.

Just like the Xu Corporation now.

Xu Qi was stunned.

He had indeed sent people to investigate Gao Linzhi, but they found nothing.

After all, the game still offered a way out for rogue players – upon entering, their appearances would automatically adjust, differing from their real-life looks.

Otherwise, it would be too easy to discover their true identities.

Big data analysis was no joke.

His visit this time was more of a probing attempt.

Now it seemed this Gao Linzhi truly had a background.

The man possessed an easily discernible confidence that ordinary rogue players couldn't match.

Even if a few rogue players were defiant, they were often all bark and no bite, appearing tough but remaining cautious deep down, fearing their true identities would be discovered.

So, Xu Qi took a deep breath, said no more, and turned to leave.

Gao Linzhi looked at the man's retreating back, wanting to kick him to death.

But he managed to suppress the urge.

He'd accumulate more experience first.

Inside East Wolf Village, in the compound where Xu Corporation players resided.

Xu Tianlang leaned back in a grand chair, twirling a knife in his hand.

Xu Qi recounted Gao Linzhi's words one by one.

"Very well, it seems he does have something to rely on. Now, hurry up and send people to thoroughly investigate this man's background," Xu Tianlang said coldly.

"As long as he's not from one of the top hundred corporations, kill him immediately!"

"If he can't be used by me, he must die!"

At this moment, Xu Qi couldn't help but advise, "Young Master, I believe Gao Linzhi is not someone we can easily offend. Why don't we have the Third Elder host a banquet, offer him some gold, and reconcile with him?"

"Master said that our priority now is development, and it's not advisable to make too many enemies."

"Oh, are you telling me how to do my job?" Xu Tianlang glanced at him sideways, the knife in his hand stopping and pointing at him.

"I wouldn't dare, I only mean well for you, Young Master," Xu Qi said, terrified, and knelt down.

"Hmph, getting game qualifications so late, what kind of major corporation background could he have? Ridiculous. People with backgrounds would have had game qualifications long ago," Xu Tianlang, unusually, explained.

"Understood. I'll arrange for someone to do it immediately," Xu Qi quickly replied.

"You may go."

Within the following week.

Everything was calm and uneventful.

Gao Linzhi spent his days hunting monsters, his nights reading books. He would kill any monsters that hadn't been sold and, after reading, log off to rest in the mountain stream.

During these seven days, he accumulated a total of 50,000 experience points, with 1,000 points remaining in reserve.

His skills had now reached the following levels:

[Basic Fists and Feet Level 10, Basic Defense Level 100, Basic Medical Skills, Basic Lightness Skill Level 100, Basic Perception Level 100, Basic Parrying Level 100, Basic Stealth, Basic Movement Technique Level 100, Basic Spear Technique, Basic Dodge Level 100, Disguise Art, Heavenly Sight, Earthly Hearing, Person-Judging Art (Fragmented)]

Level 100 was the cap for basic skills; they needed to be upgraded to intermediate before further leveling was possible.

His Constitution had soared to 5 + 61, reaching a total of 66 points!

For anyone else, they would need to cultivate an external martial art and break through to level 10 or higher to unlock a Constitution cap of over 100 points.

What limited Gao Linzhi's monster-hunting efficiency was not his strength, but the quantity of monsters.

This was different from a game.

This was a real-world game system, and monsters did not respawn in real-time.

In a game, the stronger one's strength, the higher the monster-hunting efficiency and the more experience points gained; this was a basic principle.

But that was not the case here.

No matter how fast he killed, the total number of monsters was limited.

After Gao Linzhi had been farming for seven days, they had switched locations a few times at several monster spawn points, and finally, there weren't many monsters left to farm, causing their efficiency to plummet.

It's worth noting that Xu Corporation players were also farming on a schedule during this time.

"Brother Blood, according to our usual practice, we'll be taking a month-long break. During this month, we'll be doing other things," Zheng Dong said apologetically.

Gao Linzhi had naturally anticipated this and had already made plans.

"There should still be monsters to farm in the monster nests of other villages, right? I remember the Fourth Elder mentioning that West Wolf Village has many nests suitable for new players," Gao Linzhi asked.

"That's true. West Wolf Village is controlled by Corporate Players. They've opened up more territory and even snatched several of our monster nests," Zheng Dong said with some resentment.

"Understood," Gao Linzhi nodded.

He mused to himself.

There were now two directions.

Either expand into new territory or attack West Wolf Village.

Both carried immense danger.

For ordinary players, they would have to think twice and probe carefully before acting.

But for him, it wasn't that troublesome.

His Constitution was currently 66 points. What did that mean?

An ordinary person only had 5 points, meaning he had 13 times the Constitution of a normal person!

With one punch now, he could break a boulder.

Any injuries he sustained healed incredibly fast, almost instantly.

Furthermore, he was a real player and could revive after death.

However, he was very clear-headed right now.

There were still many opponents.

Not modern high-power weapons like missiles, thermobaric bombs, or nukes, but other players with various unknown talents.

If even one player had a sealing-type talent, it would be troublesome.

Therefore, before he had a way to counter such a talent, he decided to choose outward expansion.

Because if monsters were sealed, the village would provide support.

After making his decision, he said to Zheng Dong, "Isn't Xu Corporation planning to expand outward?"

"They're probably planning to acquire the qualifications of all Rogue Players in the village before expanding. That way, they can avoid letting Rogue Players gain an advantage in pricing just because they've captured too many monsters from too many nests," Zheng Dong thought.

Gao Linzhi nodded.

The richer they became, the less they were willing to relax, and the less they relaxed, the richer they became.

Xu Corporation would simply eliminate all Rogue Players and seize their game qualifications.

In any market, a commercial company's instinct is to monopolize.

Eliminate competitors and dominate the market alone.

And this Skyfall game was incomplete, lacking even a quest system.

In other words, it didn't have a complete official game administration and wouldn't actively maintain game balance.

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