T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 68, Section 67: Winning in the game, winning outside the game too.
The real fun begins after the game ends.

Jiang Heyi was still having breakfast with Zhong Zemo when the prison guard and his quilt were already surfing the internet at high speed, chatting non-stop.

They're like internet porters, constantly taking screenshots of everything they see and hear and bringing them back to the group chat.

This was also to take care of Orange Tea. In the words of the prison guard, he had never seen anyone with such limited access to information.

To this day, Orange Tea's only source of information about the StarCraft games is the official community.

Zhong Zemo ate one small steamed bun after another. Today, he was unusually lazy, so he just bought some food from a breakfast stall that Jiang Heyi had highly recommended.

You know what, those who run neighborhood businesses for decades all have a special skill. A small steamed bun and a cup of soy milk, and the two of them are enjoying their meal immensely.

"Speaking of which, when I talked to the students, I found that most of them had very poor hands-on skills when it came to using the internet."

"For example?"

"Someone downloaded some strange resources, didn't know how to unzip them, and came to me for help."

Jiang Heyi was surprised: "They actually chose to come to you."

"Guess why they like me so much?" Zhong Zemo smiled smugly.

This is the charm of a young teacher who shares common topics and understands students' interests. No wonder the school was on Du Jingwen's side when she caused trouble.

Zhong Zemo continued, "Actually, it's not difficult at all. It's just a classic process of changing the file extension to decompress the file, but that's what stumped them."

"Some files couldn't be opened after decompression, and we didn't know how to run them in a different region... To be honest, these weren't big problems back then. We learned by ourselves and eventually got the hang of it. You could say we became good doctors through long-term experience?"

In fact, when Jiang Heyi was in college, he had several roommates who were impossible to teach.

On the other hand, the two socially awkward but lively people in the group, who are not much older than me, are truly a case of one being desperately seeking wealth while the other is overflowing with it.

On the first day of the guild war, some matches saw the emergence of ruthless players like the Virtual Boundary who had mastered the gameplay first and started creating their own dump truck mode.

There are quite a few guilds that have generated a lot of buzz.

[Barrel Water God Luo], who had previously had some contact with the boundary between the virtual and real worlds, advanced with 25000 points.

【Barrel Water God Luo】selected a very abnormal lineup of 6 elemental mages and 1 shadow mage.

This extremely abstract configuration attracted attention far beyond the boundaries of reality. The onlookers went from being puzzled at the beginning to applauding with relief in the end, and it only took them less than half a day.

The mutual protection among six elemental mages is indeed effective; the enhanced elemental shield can effectively limit the aggressive advance of melee attackers.

If you find a guide as early as possible and complete your long-range spellcasting skills, the 6-element mage becomes like a mobile war fortress, chasing and crushing people.

The other guilds in the same match were completely helpless in the later stages. If it weren't for the fact that Bucket Water God Luo and the Reality Boundary both decided to retain more points, they would have had a chance to crush more people in the final round.

There is only more abstract, not the most abstract.

Approaching the players is the [Chosen of Khorne] guild, advancing with 47579 points.

Jiang Heyi even suspected that this guild was just a bunch of original-flavor fries, all cosplay enthusiasts, and seven of them were Berserkers.

tactics?

Skill?
What it is?
Their logic is that they charge into battle as soon as they see someone, determining who is superior and who is dead.

If they lose, the players will only give them a rating of being an idiot.

But they won.

The Chosen of Khorne crushed everyone they encountered in their own way. All the other guilds saw the seven berserkers immediately and knew how to deal with melee berserkers, but they just couldn't stop them.

This group of human meat grinders, who might actually be qualified to compete for the Chosen Ones, eliminated a total of 18 guilds, bringing their respective rounds to a close as quickly as possible.

Another guild that had dealt with the boundary between reality and illusion, [You and Me Under the Funny Tree], happened to be in the same competition as Khorne's Chosen and ultimately achieved a good result of 29033.

They were also a key reason why the Chosen of Khorne continued their rampage in the final rounds.

After Khorne's charge was thwarted once, both sides cautiously dispersed.

Despite having a grudge against the boundary between reality and illusion, [Dream Master] performed quite well, taking first place in the first round with 21208 points and advancing smoothly.

However, judging from community feedback, their performance in the competition was not particularly dominant. Compared to other guilds that dominated the competition, they were simply not worth watching.

"This is probably how it will be in the early stages of the qualifying challenge. If there aren't two or more powerful guilds checking each other in a single match, the big guilds that show their strength on the first day will basically set the tone for the entire match as an overwhelming victory."

This response received support from many players.

The qualifying stage is highly unpredictable, with most guilds just trying to get rewards.

Only after all the excess has been removed can the highly anticipated clash between the titans take place.

The qualifying rounds are a stepping stone for guilds that are qualified to compete in the main tournament to slowly accumulate experience.

"Why is the discussion about us so heated?" asked someone in the group chat.

Jiang Heyi clicked into the World Championship section of the official community and entered the keyword "[Virtual Reality Boundary]".

"Is this the boundary between reality and illusion that's been touted for so long? I don't think it's that powerful."

"Can you even boast about 33217 points? It's not even the first place in the first round of the competition."

"According to your logic, we should be praising Gaia's Will, who ranked first in our region with 60748 points."

【Gaia's Will】, an unknown guild before the guild war, became a new god-tier guild in the eyes of players due to its extremely high settlement score.

Unlike the Khorne Chosen Hunting Guild's strategy of accumulating points, they also achieved high scores through a two-pronged approach, thus drawing comparisons to the boundary between reality and illusion. "Are they really exaggerating their scores? Could the 120341 points of the [Star Hunter] on the Japanese server be compared to the Chinese server?"

"I strongly suggest watching [Hunter Star]'s matches. Does the boundary between reality and illusion really deserve to rely on the teamwork and skills of others?"

"This is ridiculous. There are guilds in South Korea with over 10 points in the settlement system. Why are you insisting on blurring the lines between reality and illusion?"

"To be honest, isn't it just that the boundary between the virtual and real worlds was too lucky? None of the 29 guilds assigned to us were any of the better ones."

"Five of them had already reached level 10 before they even entered the arena, and they were all using classes they were familiar with. And this is the result they got. What are you so smug about?"

"I think the Chinese server is going to get crushed in the World Championship again. They've been hyping up their T0 guilds for so long, saying they're going to beat all the guilds in the world, but their actual performance is like this. LOL."

"Strange, why did you say 'again'?"

"you guess."

"So what if it's strong in PvE? Will it be recognized at the World Championship?"

"The guild wars in Europe just started today. We might hear news of our crushing defeats in the final score this afternoon."

"You reminded me. I watched the recordings of the major guilds challenging the underground temple. Many of them had some pretty outrageous plays. The boundary between reality and illusion is incomparable."

"Sigh, the gap between guilds is huge."

Jiang Heyi flipped through the pages for a while and roughly understood why so many people suddenly stepped forward to kick them while they were down.

It turns out it was caused by a guild ranking chart made by players on foreign websites.

Since they rated [Virtual Reality Boundary] as a T0 guild in PVE mode, many unidentified creatures have appeared under Virtual Reality Boundary's account.

They're either questioning their achievements or hoping they'll release detailed strategy videos to prove themselves.

In short—you prove it yourself.

Jiang Heyi was completely bewildered. Sending a screenshot of the completion settlement and reward collection wasn't enough proof. What would it be?

Does it only count if you've mastered all the core walkthrough techniques?
This is a speedrun competition, and it involves the honor of being the first to kill the game.

Holding onto core technologies and releasing them to benefit subsequent players after gaining a significant advantage isn't such a heinous crime, is it?
At the time, Jiang Heyi thought these people were just bored and liked to criticize from a moral high ground. However, after the guild war started, the true nature of these people gradually became clear.

So some people hate it so much that the boundary between virtual and real is rated T0.

It's just a subjective ranking list based on player opinions, without any endorsement from authoritative gaming media, yet they're already jumping up and down in a panic.

Moreover, this list wasn't even made by Chinese people.

Jiang Heyi summarized her findings and shared them with the others in the group.

As a seasoned internet surfer, the prison guard had long sensed that the public opinion atmosphere regarding the boundary between reality and fiction was not quite right. Seeing that Jiang Heyi brought it up, he simply started a fight directly.

"That's how it is with the Western dogs. The boundary between the virtual and real worlds only requires them to focus on killing monsters, leveling up, and advancing to the world championships. But the Western dogs have to consider many more things."

"Sigh, it's more painful than killing his whole family to have our own father being suppressed by us. We are so filial."

The original flavor fries commented: "If you could post this, it would be hilarious."

Jiang Heyi quickly stopped her: "Please don't send it!"

He knew very well what kind of person the prison guard was doing; he was absolutely capable of sacrificing himself to blow up the latrine and making everyone uncomfortable.

He's not afraid of team building activities.

He's a typical rich kid, his family owns factories and companies, a lazy bum who doesn't care about being harassed at all. Warnings about his unsatisfactory life are just a joke to him.

The jailer immediately replied, "Don't worry, I won't send it."

Jiang Heyi said, "Originally, I didn't care much about the settlement points; enough was fine. But now it seems..."

Plain fries immediately understood: "It feels pretty good to make some people unhappy?"

The qualifying rounds are highly unpredictable, and the path to dominating the boundary between reality and illusion may continue for some time. Why not use this time to accumulate experience and do something that will make everyone happy?

In fact, the settlement score only affects the number of times you can participate in the lottery.

The prize pool for those who advance is 5000 points for one draw.

The player ranked first will receive two additional draws from the prize pool.

The order of 2-4 will be increased by 1.

5-6 will receive 4 chances to win the consolation prize pool.

Many Chinese players on the forums are furious about being criticized for their score distribution, but their counterattacks seem weak and ineffective due to the facts presented by the other party.

In that case, the boundary between the real and the virtual provides them with ammunition for a counterattack.

They want to win in the game, and they want to win outside the game too.

If you don’t steam the steamed buns, you’ll lose your breath.

The decision was unanimously approved by everyone.

The blankets even shouted, "Potato Chairman, we love you so much!"

　Wait a minute

　　
　
(End of this chapter)