In the two rewards from the European Heavy Industry Group, [Mrs. Hazelwood’s Birthday Cake] is quite versatile and can be used in many situations.

Use it before going to the battlefield, and you can perfectly evade a hail of bullets,

Eat it and then go buy a lottery ticket, winning hundreds of thousands,

Increases the success rate when formulating a magic potion,

Even in a reasoning and puzzle-solving script task, maybe after eating the lucky cake, you can achieve the miraculous effect of "randomly pressing a combination lock and it opens."

The other item, [Frivolous Mask Technique], is a consumable type scroll for one-time use,

Although there are many restrictions in its use, such as the inability to attack or be attacked, and the disguise is limited to appearance,

Yet, the more restrictions, the stronger the special effect.

During the disguise, it is immune to all detection skills,

Whether retinal scan, fingerprint detection, or spiritual energy probe, none can discover it.

It’s almost reaching the level of a "rule-level skill."

Having obtained the two rewards, Li Ang was satisfied and returned to Yin City,

During the following period, the television was airing follow-up aftermath news of the Sibi King’s mutation.

For example, how many missing persons were rescued in certain areas, certain millennia-old temples moved entirely to the outskirts far from cities, etc.

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"Another war, huh."

In the cabin of the Longqing Cruise Ship off the coast of Yin City, Li Ang mumbled to himself while browsing the information on the computer.

The significant mutation of the Sibi King came fast and left quickly,

It did not have a lasting impact on international affairs in the real world.

West Asia, South America, South Asia, Africa, and even Eastern Europe and Central Europe, once again erupted into various sizes of armed conflict.

Before the Killing Field game started, these regions had relatively limited conflict intensity,

Basically, local military warlords equipped with lightweight firepower like ak47s waged war against each other, seizing materials and territory.

However, after the Killing Field game began, the intensity of the conflicts escalated,

Some emerging multinational companies relying on the Killing Field game, such as the Prometheus Laboratory Company,

tirelessly dump new weaponry into backward war-torn regions at low cost, to observe effects and gather data.

The equipment of each regional warlord quickly upgraded from ak47s to individual rocket tubes, sniper grenade rifles, and even at times to transcendent firearms capable of blasting a person to bloody debris with a single shot.

The Killing Field game randomly distributes player qualifications,

Whoever controls more population has more potential players.

To acquire this special resource of player qualification,

civil wars among warlords in backward, war-torn regions quickly evolved into proxy wars between major multinational companies, with the level of bloodshed increasing day by day.

Of course, the most ruthless were still the local body of warlords — most of whom had already become Transcendents, or were killed by Transcendents and replaced,

To maintain their authoritative position, these warlord leaders organize their forces and strictly monitor and control the residents within their sphere of influence.

If a new player emerges, they either recruit them, eliminate them directly, or give them as player qualification directly to multinational companies like the European Heavy Industry Group.

It does mimic a dark cultivation world somewhat—anyone with an excellent Spiritual Root must hide themselves well before growing up.

The chaotic and brutal state of war-torn regions is, in reality, tacitly approved and promoted by large forces like the European Heavy Industry and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Supernatural Accident Place,

They need people to do their dirty work to acquire a continuous flow of player qualifications, game currency, and real-world anomalies.

Therefore, the Global Occult Coalition, in name the highest deterrent for maintaining international peace and security and protecting human civilization, is also powerless to stop it.

Notably, in recent times, the Killing Field game has updated some minor content—

Firstly, it increases the probability of ordinary people being promoted to players, and expands the Game Square area to accommodate more players.

There’s not much worth discussing here,

The increasing number of players is also good for the first echelon of Transcendents — more game currency circulates on the market.

Secondly,

It lowers the threshold for establishing guilds and increases the attribute gains from guilds.

There’s nothing much to analyze here either,

Lower and middle-level players can now establish their own guilds,

And those large-scale, numerous guilds can enjoy more attribute gains than before—although it’s still better than nothing.

However, the next patch content is rather interesting.

The game store has added a series of items called [Trial Ticket], which, after use, can advance the time of the next script task and slightly improve the script task’s clearance evaluation, slightly raising the quality of the final reward.

Similar to the detachment ticket rewarded in the Lost World, Trial Tickets are also directly used on script tasks.

Advancing the next script task’s time might initially sound like a self-destructive move,

But thinking about it, it is quite suitable for players who are impoverished in the early stages and urgently need to improve their strength, providing them an additional path.

Additionally, [Trial Ticket]cannot be used continuously, once used, it enters a cooldown period and must wait until the task after the next can be used,

To avoid players recklessly using Trial Tickets out of impatience, leading to internal competition.

Players of Li Ang’s level basically have their own transcendent power system, which they can cultivate outside of script tasks,

The longer they train, the stronger they become.

The effect of Trial Tickets is not significant for them.

But the next point in the patch is of interest to him—

From now on, unidentified equipment and items marked as [Unidentified] will appear in Killing Field games and the store.

These need to be appraised before their attributes and special effects can be seen.

Players can submit unidentified items to the game store, pay an appraisal fee for determination,

Or seek help from players with the [Appraisal] skill.

For individual players who have captured unidentified items from scripts and regular tasks,

This update content is no big deal, it’s just an additional cost for appraisal.

But for player collectives, the [Unidentified] attribute is quite interesting.

Prices of these unidentified items in the game store vary, item descriptions are entirely obscured, and the price range is extremely large,

Some expensive unidentified items may not have high special effects,

Some inexpensive unidentified items might open to perfect-quality possibilities.

It’s virtually the classic treasure appraisal, gambling stone, lucky bag purchases, can-opening, pay-for-draw card session.

As a result, recent player forums are filled with help requests,

For instance, asking other players whether they should spend 800 Game Coins to buy this unidentified snowflake-shaped meteor dart,

Should they spend 1200 Game Coins to buy this bronze cannon imprinted with tiger stripes.

If the bet is correct, the purchased item might be excellent, perfect-quality equipment or tools, worth far more than its price, a significant catch.

If the bet is wrong, and a broken, ordinary quality item appears, then the Game Coins are all wasted.

Just like gambling stones or opening cans,

It’s always in a quantum entanglement state of unknown until the answer is revealed,

Small stakes for a big win, tense and exciting.

Aside from help requests, there are also posts showing off acquisitions,

For example, spending 500 Game Coins in the game store and buying an unidentified talisman, which turned out to be a high-level Weight Reduce Talisman worth 1500 Game Coins, greatly enhancing movement speed in a short time.

Spent 2000 game coins on an unhatched monster egg, and finally hatched a juvenile Kun beast that can devour external objects, grow rapidly, and become a combat force.

Generally speaking, players won’t show off their equipment and items that they use.

The show-off post is just a resale platform.

As the owner of the Immaculate Furnace Shop, Li Ang has a lot of liquidity in hand, and he also bought some unidentified items from the game mall to try his luck.

Unfortunately, luck wasn’t on his side, and the items he got were useless, eventually all thrown into the Alchemy Workshop as raw materials for transcendent materials.

His current transcendent power system is already on track, and some Perfect Level items with strong side effects are no longer appealing to him, naturally he can be indifferent to external things,

but for the players below,

buying unidentified equipment is still extremely tense and exciting, full of opportunities.

Because of this, even though the Killing Field Game continues to expand its player base recently, there hasn’t been an increase in game currency circulation on the market—lots of players participate in unboxing activities and many game coins flow back into the Killing Field Game System through the game mall.

The craving for game currency has also led to further turmoil in war-torn regions,

organizations like the European Heavy Industry deliberately brew, manufacture, and promote mutations there to obtain game currency,

while military warlord leaders further loot and plunder transcendent resources.

This is a typical case of upstream impacting downstream,

and the ones who suffer in the end are still the ordinary citizens in war-torn areas.

"Yeah, quite a lot of people will probably die again, huh."

Chaichai, lying on the sofa playing with his phone, casually said, "By the way, I just saw a news report, some transnational corporations have intentionally released genetic elixirs into city rivers over in Southeast Asia,

causing the river creatures to undergo genetic mutations,

turning them into man-high, water monkey-shaped cannibal monsters.

Promote the system of Killing Field Game by centering on the cannibal monsters, forming regular missions,

then have the transnational corporations’ own people go solve them, reaping game currency.

Is this true?"

"Probably. It’s quite normal for them to do this kind of thing. I remember Gen-Sys Biotech Company often did this before they were acquired by European Heavy Industry, and of course, they kept doing it post-acquisition."

Li Ang casually replied, "But it depends on where the news came from.

If it was released by the Watcher’s Guild, it should be true.

If it was just a short, vague clip released by a regular platform, then it could be a rumor.

For example, water monkeys might be otters, sloths, computer special effects, or indeed monkeys in the water."

As time goes by, apart from those strong local official regions like East Asia and North America,

the other places in the world gradually tend towards the Hundred Demons Night Parade trend,

like car-sized spiders, three-headed buffalo,

genetically mutated distorted creatures, phantoms, and demons emerge endlessly,

prompting Australians to call themselves insiders.

"Oh."

Chaichai nodded, didn’t delve further, continued to lower his head playing with the phone.

The monstrous samples in the Alchemy Workshop are much scarier than any water monkeys.

Seeing Chaichai burying his face in the phone lazily, Li Ang helplessly rubbed his brow, "Have you finished today’s cultivation goal? Just playing with your phone.

The Sibi King mutation has already been resolved, various organizational forces have also gradually withdrawn from India,

the Bug Nest’s Gene Thief plan should continue to be scheduled, right?

Have you done expansion planning?

Have you read the suggestion report submitted by the Brain Worm?"

"Huh?"

Chaichai didn’t even shift his eyes from the phone, casually said, "I’ve already done my cultivation today.

The Global Occult Coalition people have to stay in Mumbai for quite a while, observe the aftermath mutation situation, right?

So it’s probably not very urgent yet.

Whenever we’re supposed to continue the Gene Thief plan,

Fenrir and other Brain Worms will have a proposal."

"Then you just be the idle overseer playing with your phone?"

Li Ang, an idle overseer himself, sighed helplessly and said in frustration, "Aren’t you browsing the mall again?

Previously you learned to draw,

saying it was to cultivate your mind, bought a bunch of genuine artworks from famous artists.

Buy fewer things, put your energy into cultivation, could you?

The pocket money you spend comes from Liu Wu Dai, and in the end, I have to pay back with my personal connections..."

"Humph!"

Chaichai pursed his lips, pulled out a blackboard from below the sofa, with a few lines written on it.

"Fight alongside you, 0 dollars.

Write the Bug Nest Bible for you, 0 dollars.

Build the Bug Nest Temple for you, 0 dollars.

Have meals with you every day, 0 dollars.

Bring you sunshine-like smiles every day, making your mood better, 0 dollars.

Bring future happiness to you, 0 dollars.

Ah Ang,

when you ridicule the age-weakened Chaichai, blaming her for being no longer as useful as before, able to serve as your plugin equipment,

please think about her silent contributions behind the scenes for you.

Great love is always like this,

invisible, asking for no return."

At the end of the paragraph, there’s a small manga avatar of Chaichai herself, looking somewhat sad and lost.

Good grief, you even prepared this in advance?

Claiming great love to be invisible, why don’t you ascend to heaven?

Li Ang felt both angry and amused, looking at Chaichai lying on the sofa, hugging the phone with eyes closed showing a sad expression,

he could only shake his head helplessly and sighed.

"Alright, alright, you win."

Upon hearing Li Ang’s words, Chaichai immediately opened one eye to look over, confirmed Li Ang wasn’t genuinely angry, then chuckled and jumped up, showing the phone screen to Li Ang, "I’m watching this show, it’s really interesting."

"What’s it?"

Li Ang grabbed the phone, realizing the screen was playing an online show produced by the Watcher’s Guild,

named "Slaughter Field Evaluation,"

The main content involves filming various guild organizations where equipment appraisers help clients to appraise equipment item daily work.

The appraisal unboxing activity certainly has been very popular recently, lots of players buy equipment and items from malls or other players,

and finally turn to appraisers for help and entrust them to appraise.

If the appraisal result is good, then it’s all rejoicing,

if the appraisal result turns out bad, then one can enjoy the player’s desolate expression, quite a show.