Gao Linzhi's Opportunity, the System's Purpose

This was bound to happen.

This laissez-faire approach gradually weakened the guild's overall combat strength and hindered the development of members who focused on actual combat.

In the recent chaotic battle in the Lionheart Tiger region, the Righteous Spirit, due to its inferior strength, not only lost its usual hunting grounds but was also ridiculed as an "alliance of the weak."

Some of the guild's most capable members, who are being held back by its shortcomings, are considering leaving.

"World of Flowers" is one of them.

He took a step forward and looked at his former president and old friend. "I'm sorry, Haoran."

"My family is still in other regions—I look forward to the day when we merge and reunite, and I must maintain my fighting strength so that we don't fall behind."

"My father has reached level 60, one level higher than me, all because his guild is stronger and offers better benefits."

"He repeatedly urged me to transfer, but today... I'm just going with the flow."

Although the father of "World of Flowers" was only rated as D-level in talent, his talent was extremely practical, so he was given special attention by his guild.

World of Flowers Jie himself is quite talented, but due to the low level of the team's hunting grounds and the lack of teamwork, he has always been unable to break into high-level wilderness areas, and despite his best efforts, he is still one level behind his father.

Therefore, his intention to leave had already taken root. Although the City of Ambition had secretly contacted him after learning of the surprise attack plan in advance, it did not make him determined to leave.

How the news leaked was no longer important; he knew that his path of Righteous Spirit had likely come to an end.

The initial overwhelming advantage of fifty men against a dozen or so was abruptly reversed by a last-minute defection, turning into a stalemate with roughly equal numbers on both sides.

However, the players from the City of Ambition had the upper hand in terms of both level and combat ability, not to mention that reinforcements were constantly arriving from afar.

The battle didn't last long; about ten minutes later, the figures of the Righteous Spirit members had completely disappeared.

Moreover, they left behind a large amount of valuable equipment.

They worked hard, staying up all night to watch all of this.

After picking up the items dropped by the enemy, Ambition turned to the newly recruited members of his group, his tone softening slightly. "Now that you've joined our ranks, you're brothers."

"This world has always been about survival of the fittest!"

"A group that is indecisive and burdened with difficulties is destined not to go far."

If they couldn't even catch the guild's informants, this kind of thing will only happen again and again.

Once their guild disbands, maybe we can even join the same guild as Haoran! Let's go level up in a high-level map!

It's not uncommon for two guilds to clash in the wild like this, even among the "armies."

It is also difficult to restrain such behavior.

Once the kill mode is activated, players will accumulate kill points and will be unable to enter the main city.

However, this kill count will gradually decrease if you stay in the wild long enough.

For players who don't have much blood on their hands, this is a viable method.

If you injure too many people and your kill count gets too high, simply hanging out in the wild won't be effective anymore.

At this point, you'll need to rely on the "Purifying Heart Pill" that you can redeem with the tower-climbing points in the shop.

A single pill can directly reduce a person's kill value by 500 points, which is equivalent to more than ten lives.

Since the opening of the Training Tower Points Shop, players' enthusiasm for conquering the levels has been reignited.

The shop is not only filled with all kinds of daily necessities and items, but also has a lot of things that encourage killing and eliminating opponents.

One of them is the Purifying Heart Pill, which can wash away kill points.

The brutality of the Skyfall Game system is evident.

It should be said that if technology were devoid of humanity, it would become more terrifying than Satan.

Because Satan still has emotions and efficiency issues.

Technology without humanity is nothing more than an assembly line.

In addition, there are Summoning Talisman that can summon teammates to your side, and various types of fish that can be eaten in hot springs to gain extra experience.

This saved players the Gold Coin needed to buy fish... All these conveniences made everyone's daily adventures much easier.

Currently, due to the prevalence of the killing mode, many players who were originally hesitant and dared not leave the city have turned around and entered the Training Tower.

Especially for those skilled players who have broken through level sixty, the challenges in the tower are becoming increasingly difficult.

"Damn it! I lost again! I never knew I was this strong—even my unique skill was copied? This is outrageous!"

"I've lost three games in a row. If I can't beat it, I'll go back to the 59th floor."

"I need some advice. How can Priest beat themselves? I can't deal enough damage, and the opponent can heal too. It's time-consuming and mentally draining. If it weren't for accumulating more points, who would want to endure this torture?"

Don't be discouraged, brother!

"The rewards for the 59th and 60th floors are on completely different levels. It is indeed more difficult, and Priest are at a disadvantage, but the mirror image doesn't have the player's original talents; it just copies the attributes."

"Everyone might want to think about this!"

"How foolish! We're eliminating each other right now, why would we teach each other tricks?"

Are you stupid?

"Easier said than done, my talent is..."

"True masters never complain about their circumstances."

"Look at Chongxing, the god of the game! He consistently ranks first in the weekly tower climbing rankings, and his time is incredibly short. He even has a unique strategy for fighting himself! No wonder he's my idol."

"Don't compare ordinary Priest like us to great deities; we're not even on the same level!"

"Exactly, he's cheating!"

"Aside from the Priest class being a bit more challenging, most damage-dealing classes can overcome this hurdle if they put in the effort."

After all, the game-generated mirror image cannot replicate the player's mind and skills, and most people successfully completed the Training Tower and obtained the items they wanted.

In Gao Linzhi's view, the system's AI capabilities were such that it could completely crush the player, just like AlphaGo, leaving them with no chance of victory.

The weak AI was only set up to cultivate players and plunder their Source Energy; it only has a fixed intelligent template, it doesn't use deep learning, and it can't adapt flexibly.

This gave the player a chance to win.

Otherwise, given the AI's superior learning ability, the player's slow reaction speed simply cannot keep up with the AI's learning and improvement capabilities.

"Notify all members of the 'Legion Guild' who have cleared the Training Tower: You must exchange for Teammate Summoning Talisman! Those with sufficient points can exchange for more and submit them to the Guild Management Office to be converted into Gold Coin or contribution points."

"We must ensure that everyone carries at least one Summoning Talisman!"

To prevent their own members from being hunted down, the Legion Guild mandated that members exchange for Teammate Summoning Talisman.

Other major guilds, like "Legion," also require their members to prioritize exchanging for Summoning Talisman.

Although each rune can only summon one teammate and has a considerable cooldown, it can not only save your life in critical moments but may even turn the tide of battle.

In the District 33, Zheng Guohua originally planned to first run a trade route, and then go to the wilderness to find a guild team to grind monsters together.

Recently, due to the activation of the killing mode, the guild organized several group transport missions without incident, and has since stopped mandating group trading.

As usual, he should have been running a business and hunting with his two sons—the three of them living together made it easier to coordinate their schedules.

But today a buyer contacted me at my stall to discuss something, so I was delayed.

He had no choice but to let his sons set off first, planning to finish his trade run himself and then head to the wilderness to meet them.

He naturally didn't know that this was a setup.

Sure enough, just as he arrived at the first trading point with the truck, the attack suddenly struck!

He instantly entered combat mode, immobilizing the other person in place. Then, before he could even react, more than a dozen attacks landed on him simultaneously.

In just five seconds, his health bar was empty, leaving only the lone truck behind.

Noisy!!!

Zheng Guohua never expected his luck to be so bad. He had been on guard for so many days without any problems, but today he just happened to run into trouble.

What bad luck! I'm not going to do any trading today when I get back to town. It'll be safer to transport goods in a team from now on.

But to his utter surprise, after the countdown to rescue ended, he wasn't teleported back to the city to be resurrected; instead, he stood up again on the spot!

Before he could react, he was surrounded Lethal Strike by several people the moment he got up, and was once again caught in a one-minute wait for rescue.

Something's not right...

He suddenly realized that the other side had planned this all along, and that he would suffer heavy losses if he did not immediately call for reinforcements.

The two Zheng brothers are currently clearing out monsters in the wild with their guild team.

Lately, everyone has been forming groups based on guilds, and guilds that are on good terms even have their activity areas close to each other.

Zheng Yingjie originally planned to ask his father how much longer they needed to wait, but unexpectedly received an urgent plea for help from his father.

"Talented one! Come with me quickly, Father!"

"My father is surrounded and being killed repeatedly—they seem to be able to forcibly change the players' respawn locations; he's fallen for the second time!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Yingjie immediately withdrew from the fight, his anger blazing. "Who dares to be so insolent?"

"Bulling lone individuals with your team—are you trying to disrespect our Heaven-Defying Guild?"

"Let's go together! If we're late, Father's hard work these past few days will have been for nothing! I'm going to kill them!"

On the other side, Zheng Guohua was trying his best to stall for time.

Each time he revived, he would use a skill to break free from control in an attempt to escape, and command his Summoned Beast to defend against the incoming attacks.

Outnumbered and outgunned, he collapsed again after holding on for a short while.

Lying in the dust, he had no other choice but to try to negotiate with the other party:

"I have no prior grudge against any of you, nor do I recall ever offending anyone."

"My lords have already taken my life several times. Let's be merciful and stop here."

"If you're asking for money, I'm willing to offer even more Gold Coin."

Compared to valuable experience, Gold Coin are less important.

He has died three times in a row, and even if the most talented and outstanding people arrive, it will probably be too late.

Why not try to persuade them?

He couldn't see the titles of these people because of some unknown means, and the system notification only showed the damage caused by "Slayer," without revealing the players' names.

Aside from their professions, their guilds, ranks, and titles remain a complete mystery.

This was clearly a meticulously planned attack; misfortune never comes singly.

One of the Slayer sneered, "Heh heh, after killing you five times, you'll have lost most of your belongings. The Gold Coin will still be ours, won't they?"

"If you're a villain, you can't talk too much!"

"You Junfu!"

"A swift and decisive victory, and a rapid withdrawal!"

The other Slayer, clearly unwilling to reveal more, sternly stopped his companion from talking.

That's it, they're going to wipe them out completely.

Zheng Guohua felt his vision go black and his blood rush to his head.

If you die five times, not only will your level drop by two levels, but you will also lose nearly half of your equipment.

This was all real money; he felt a sharp, agonizing pain in his heart...

"Damn it, faster! Time is of the essence!"

While urging the group to hurry, Zheng Yingcai inquired about the origins of the group from other guilds.

The ability to conceal information and target lone players indicates an organized and premeditated operation, small in number yet remarkably efficient.

Which faction is it exactly...?

"Damn it, why can't Father return to the city to be resurrected? Why is that?!"

Upon learning that his father had died for the third time, Zheng Yingjie was filled with hatred. The other party had acted so ruthlessly, leaving no room for compromise.

How can anyone play the game peacefully under these circumstances?

There was clearly no deep-seated hatred between them, so why did things come to this?

He was naturally unaware that, judging from the current situation, the Game System was never meant to allow anyone to simply lie back and relax.

You can only keep moving forward, forward, until the day you collapse.

Even with the current behind-the-scenes manipulators and Gao Linzhi's intervention, they can only barely maintain the situation.

Gao Linzhi and the Skyfall Game System are not on the same side.

Gao Linzhi wanted to seize the system for his own use.

The Skyfall Game System clearly has its own will and is not like those silly host systems that only serve the host.

It is broken and has lost its owner, and it is trying to repair itself.

This gave Gao Linzhi, the transmigrator, a powerful cheat code.

This gave Gao Linzhi an opportunity to comprehend the system's mysteries.

One of the players in the team suddenly spoke up, "It should be the 'Temporary Resurrection Array' that was recently redeemed in the Training Tower Marketplace."

"I had glimpsed the relevant instructions, but I didn't look into it in detail because the required points were too high."

Zheng Yingcai immediately opened the forum and searched for the Training Tower Marketplace, and sure enough, he found the introduction to the Temporary Resurrection Array.

"Temporary Resurrection Array: Can be deployed in any area of the wilderness. Once set, nearby players who die will be prioritized to respawn at the nearest resurrection array."

"The formation lasted for thirty minutes."

Below are various discussions among players regarding its uses and cost-effectiveness.

"Wow, with this, players who die in the wild can save a lot of travel time. It should be very useful."

"Which wilderness team doesn't have a healer these days?"

"Why rely on a resurrection array? Besides, resurrection will result in a 50% loss of experience, unless we encounter an extremely rare party wipe—but the probability is too low. I don't think we need to buy one."

"I also think it's best not to replace it unless absolutely necessary; the price is too high."

"The same amount of points is less worthwhile than exchanging them for Summoning Talisman, which can then be resold. The cost-effectiveness is too low."

"You naive fools have not grasped the true meaning of this resurrection array! Resurrection is merely the appearance; its true terror lies in plunder and murder!"

"I'd like to hear the details. Please elaborate upstairs!"

"Hmph, setting up Temporary Resurrection Array in the wild and then ambushing and killing the target, the target can only be forced to revive repeatedly in the array after death... I will not say more, you can all understand on your own."

Browsing through the various discussions among players on the forum, Zheng Yingcai gradually pieced together the whole story—his father had been targeted by an organized group.

The method that can not only hide character names but also erase information in battle logs must have been obtained from the points shop of the Training Tower.

"Dad probably can't escape these five 'ordeals' today."

"Let's get there as soon as possible and see if we can catch them."

Even so, Zheng Yingcai knew in his heart that the other party had planned meticulously and would definitely seek a quick victory, so the hope of capturing them on the spot was very slim.

As expected, when they arrived at the location, only Zheng Guohua was left; the attackers had vanished without a trace.

"Dad, are you alright? Have they all left?"

As Zheng Yingjie inquired with concern, his sharp gaze swept across his surroundings.

If he were to discover the enemy's whereabouts now, he would make them pay the price.

"Yes, they just left not long ago; their timing was perfect."

Zheng Guohua sighed, a rare look of dejection and helplessness on his face. "This time... it's truly embarrassing."

Seeing his usually composed father looking so dejected, Zheng Yingjie felt a surge of anger, wishing he could tear those guys to pieces.

"Brother, this matter absolutely cannot be left like this!"

"Do you think our 'Against the Heaven-Defying Guild' is made of paper? Dad is at least a registered exclusive merchant of our guild. I can't swallow this insult!" Zheng Yingjie said angrily.

"Of course not," Zheng Yingcai said coldly. "Dad isn't the only victim."

"Since they've gone to such lengths to conceal their identities, it's because they don't want to be exposed."

"But in the God's Domain, no secrets last forever. We'll see."

He turned to the guild members who had come with him and said, "Brothers, go back to the wilderness and continue leveling up. Yingjie and I will help Dad finish the rest of the trade route, and then we'll meet up with you."