Qin Feng put all five of his free attribute points into agility.
Then he checked his combat stats:
-- [HP: 130] [Physical attack: 13 (+10)] [Physical defense: 13] [All-element resistance: 15] --
Of his physical attack, 13 points came from his strength attribute, while the 10 points in parentheses came from the Novice Dagger, bringing the total to 23.
Every player received a low-grade starter weapon suited to their class when they first arrived in the Land Abandoned by the Gods.
[Scrap-Iron Dagger (low-grade): Gray quality. Attack +10]
Qin Feng held the Scrap-Iron Dagger and gave it a few practice swings.
In his previous life, he had been a Warrior, but that didn't mean he had never used a dagger... Of course, using a weapon that didn't match his class meant he could only get 70% of its effects.
"The feel isn't bad."
The corners of Qin Feng's mouth lifted slightly.
He looked at his physical attack stat.
An attack of 23 was what most beginners started with.
That showed just how absurdly powerful Shadowmeld's 90-point attack bonus upon breaking stealth was!
Dagger in hand, Qin Feng immediately prepared to leave town and hunt monsters to grow stronger.
Whether he wanted levels or Evolution Points, he needed to kill Demons-the more, the better!
At this point, nobody knew that the Demons in the Godforsaken Game weren't like monsters in ordinary online games, waiting in place for players to kill them.
That was the most terrifying part!
In the eyes of the Demons, every player who left the town's safe zone was a walking supply of lifespan!
Demons would actively seek out players. They would even gather in packs to attack and kill players, taking their lifespan!
Lifespan comes in two types: tradable and non-tradable.
The lifespan people start with is non-tradable lifespan... I have 75 years right now.
Non-tradable lifespan had only one purpose: keeping people alive.
Tradable lifespan, on the other hand, had many uses.
Not only could it keep people alive, it could also be traded for resources or spent to bring equipment, skills, and other things from the Godforsaken Game into reality!
That would give players supernatural strength in the real world, too!
Tradable lifespan can only be obtained from Demons in the Godforsaken Game.
At the same time... the Demons in this game will target our lifespan, too. By stealing lifespan from players, they can evolve and grow stronger.
As someone who had been reborn, Qin Feng understood all of this perfectly.
Leaving town meant danger.
With a little bad luck, a player could even be hunted by packs of Demons!
Were players the hunters?
Dead wrong.
In the Godforsaken Game...
Weak players were nothing more than prey!
That was why so many people would struggle just to survive.
Forget killing Demons and gaining lifespan... They had been killed by Demons countless times themselves, losing all their lifespan!
If they couldn't kill Demons and had lost all their lifespan...
They could only wait helplessly for their lifespan to reach zero, then drop dead!
In that sense, the Demons in the Godforsaken Game were another kind of player. The strong devoured the weak, and only the fittest survived.
Even Qin Feng's rise in his previous life had been extremely difficult.
And he had brought Qin Xiaoyou along, making things even harder with her dragging him down...
This time, I'll go solo. I should be able to grow much faster, Qin Feng thought.
Holding the Scrap-Iron Dagger, he headed out of town.
Along the way, he saw players gathering in twos and threes.
A chubby young man stood by the road, staring around in bewilderment. "Huh? Where the hell is this? What's all this about the Land Abandoned by the Gods, classes, and code names...? I just got home and lay down after staying up all night. Am I hallucinating?"
A young man wearing glasses beside him looked just as confused. "No idea. I was playing PUBG all night, too. I only just fell asleep. How did I end up here?"
The chubby young man grinned at that. "Dude, when you say you were getting chicken dinners, what kind of chicks are we talking about? Hook a brother up..."
Qin Feng ignored them completely.
It was perfectly normal for the first batch of players entering the Godforsaken Game to have questions like these.
Just then, several streaks of white light suddenly appeared in front of Qin Feng.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Five figures materialized in front of him...
Almost forgot. This is the respawn point.
Qin Feng was about to walk around them.
But among those who appeared before him was a girl wearing a black short-sleeved shirt.
Her expression was sour, seemingly because she had just died.
Three men and another girl materialized beside her. They looked like a party that had just died out in the wild and respawned together.
Clearly...
All five of them had lost half their remaining lifespan!
"Those monsters are way too strong! One bite took half my HP. How are we supposed to fight them?"
"It was just a lousy level 1 Crawler! All of us ganged up on it, and we only took off a third of its HP?"
"We actually got wiped out..."
"Sister Pear, what do we do now?"
Their gazes settled on the girl in the black short-sleeved shirt at the head of the group.
Her hair was tied in a ponytail, and she held a battered longbow. She appeared to be an archer.
But...
Qin Feng could tell at a glance that she had a hidden class!
An ordinary archer's starter weapon was a shortbow, not a longbow.
That was precisely why she had become the party leader, the one giving orders.
"If we can't beat it, we'll recruit another person."
The ponytailed girl called Sister Pear looked toward Qin Feng. "That guy looks like he has a hidden class. Why don't we invite him to join us? There's strength in numbers... The party limit is six anyway, and we're one short."
Her assessment was spot-on.
There was an assassin in her party, whose starter weapon was different from the Scrap-Iron Dagger in Qin Feng's hand.
A soft-spoken, long-haired girl eagerly approached Qin Feng. "Want to join our party? The monsters out there are really strong. You can't beat them alone. Our party's already been wiped out once, so we've got experience!"
Qin Feng almost laughed at that.
Experience?
Experience getting yourselves killed, more like...
Qin Feng shook his head, ignored the girl, and walked straight toward the edge of town.
His attitude made it obvious that he had rejected their invitation.
Sister Pear and the three men behind her all darkened at his response.
None of them had expected this man, who looked like an assassin, to brush them off so blatantly...
More importantly, Qin Feng looked as though he intended to leave town alone!
"What a joke. We told him it was dangerous out there, and he's still going out alone?"
"We couldn't beat those monsters with five people. He thinks he can kill them by himself?"
"Come on, he's got a hidden class, and an assassin-type one at that. Even if he can't win, he might be able to run."
They laughed and joked among themselves.
They didn't take it too seriously.
Only Sister Pear had instinctively checked Qin Feng's information when he came close, learning his code name.
"His code name is 'Shadow'? What a poser."
Sister Pear watched Qin Feng's retreating figure and sneered. "Come on. Let's follow him and see how he dies. Maybe we can figure out the monsters' behavior patterns..."
She waved a hand and led the others after him.
It wasn't that she was interested in watching someone die. This unfamiliar place was simply too strange, and she wanted to learn more by observing other people!
Qin Feng reached the edge of town.
The boundary was barely marked, with nothing but a few broken, rotting wooden fences.
Beyond them, he would no longer be in the safe zone.
As he left, Qin Feng noticed Sister Pear leading her group after him at a distance.
Shadowmeld!
Without a moment's hesitation, Qin Feng activated the skill.
In an instant, his figure seemed to blend into his surroundings, vanishing into thin air before their eyes!
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