Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 82 First Day Ranking
Without hesitation, Lin Ye added the newly acquired 1 free attribute point directly to his Spirit.

He invested the 1 skill point into [Charged Strike].

[Spear Stance] provides a comprehensive boost to spear techniques and martial arts skills.

[Charged Strike] is currently his strongest single-target burst damage method.

Lin Ye is currently using an alternating skill point allocation method for these two skills: leveling up Spear Stance at the previous level and charging up Power Strike at the next level.

Balanced development is essential to cope with all unforeseen circumstances.

The hunt was incredibly efficient, conducted overnight.

With the T-3 exoskeleton armor, his endurance reached more than two hours, eliminating the need to stop and use out-of-combat health regeneration to recover.

The monster density here far exceeds that of a real-world abandoned city.

Even without those two terrifying fusion monster gatekeepers at the entrance to the ruined city, the leveling speed here is still far slower.

Of course, there were also regrets.

The daily quests 【Abyssal Maw】 and 【Grinding Teeth and Sucking Blood】 are destined to be impossible to complete in this virtual world.

It's definitely not possible to consume 20,000 calories.

There was also no opportunity to engage in PVP battles with other players.

As for the "Patrol Territory" feature, the system is surprisingly user-friendly.

No matter where you are, as long as the distance you travel in a day reaches the total length of the third ring road around Dongjiang City, you will have completed the task.

Lin Ye had already accomplished this incidentally during the high-speed hunt in the latter half of the night.

As dawn broke, Lin Ye keenly noticed a problem.

In the area where he was located, the number of mutated beasts was decreasing at a visible rate.

Lin Ye's gaze fell on the rooftop of a tall building in the distance.

In the early hours of the morning, he sensed the presence of other human martial artists several times from different locations.

Without exception, those people were all strong individuals who were able to survive in such a cruel environment.

They adapted to the local laws and began hunting efficiently.

Just an hour ago, Lin Ye had even encountered several formidable characters whose level exceeded LV.15.

He had even seen a figure in the distance with an orange-red LV.17 badge on its head.

The man moved like a ghost between buildings, hunting a LV.15 mutated bird with clean and swift movements.

The other party seemed to have noticed him as well.

Two gazes collided silently in the night sky hundreds of meters above each other, both sensing intense hostility and warning from the other.

Ultimately, the two tacitly avoided each other's hunting areas.

No conflict broke out.

But this brief encounter set off alarm bells in Lin Ye's mind.

As time goes by, the weak are eliminated, and those who remain in these ruins will only grow stronger.

Not just mutated beasts, but also those "hunters" like him.

We have to move to a different location.

Lin Ye made a decision in his heart.

There are two drawbacks to staying here.

First, he needs to be more cautious.

Since he could use schemes to kill people from Ningbo University of Science and Technology Affiliated High School, others could also set traps to scheme against him.

Staying in the same area for too long will only allow enemies with ulterior motives to figure out his behavior patterns and preferences.

Secondly, the monster density here is indeed much lower than before, and hunting efficiency has begun to decline, so there is no need to stay any longer.

Having made up his mind, Lin Ye's figure transformed into a wisp of green smoke, and in a few leaps, he returned to the temporary shelter he and Zhang Yuqing had been staying in.

Zhang Yuqing was still asleep, her even breathing clearly audible in the silent ruins.

Lin Ye didn't disturb her, but simply leaned against the wall quietly and began to plan the next step.

However, at this moment.

A notice suddenly rang in the minds of all the participants at the same time!

[Day 1, 24 hours, is over!]

Current number of survivors: 179!

Lin Ye's gaze sharpened.

179 people!
He remembered clearly that a total of 293 participants entered this virtual ruin yesterday. Only one day had passed.

114 people were completely eliminated!
This elimination rate also exceeded Lin Ye's expectations.

There are only 51 spots left to compete for before the final 128-place cutoff.

It doesn't seem like much.

But Lin Ye knew that the competition every day from now on would only be more bloody and brutal than the first day!

The cold, impersonal system notification continued to echo in everyone's ears without pause.

[Here's the leaderboard of kill points for the first day!]

Lin Ye's spirits lifted.

Before his eyes, a virtual light screen composed of light blue data streams slowly unfolded, and a huge list began to appear line by line from top to bottom!

……

at the same time.

Dongjiang City, Central Gymnasium.

Although a full twenty-four hours have passed in the virtual battlefield.

But in the real world, only two hours have passed.

This astonishing difference in the rate of time flow is achieved through cutting-edge neural connectivity technology, which modulates the perception of the passage of time in the cerebral cortex of all participants.

The energy required for this, and the cost of the life support system to maintain the vital signs of nearly three hundred martial artists, is an astronomical figure.

But for the wealthy and powerful sponsor, Mingguang Group, this amount of money is just a drop in the ocean.

Wang Zhengguo and Chen Meng were walking side by side in a metal passageway leading to the central referee's room.

Just now, they received a summons from the referee team.

Chen Meng looked puzzled.

"Why were we called over so soon after the competition started?"

"Could it be that Lin Ye and his team committed a foul during the match?"

Wang Zhengguo shook his head.

"They should know their limits."

"You'll know once you go there."

Although he said that, he was actually a little worried.

The two pushed open the heavy alloy door of the referee's room.

The sight inside the room startled both of them.

The atmosphere in the spacious room was tense and confrontational.

Two teachers dressed in the uniforms of Ninghai University of Science and Technology Affiliated High School stood in front of the referee's table with grim faces.

Behind them, seven or eight students who had just been forcibly awakened from their life support pods stared at them with indignant and righteous anger, their eyes seeming to spit fire.

A middle-aged man in a referee's uniform stepped forward with a serious expression when he saw Wang Zhengguo and Chen Meng enter.

"Are you two teachers leading the team from Dongjiang No.1 Middle School?"

"Your school's contestants, Lin Ye and Zhang Yuqing, right?"

Wang Zhengguo and Chen Meng exchanged a glance and nodded.

“We received a report from the High School Affiliated to Ningbo University of Science and Technology.”

"The two of them maliciously eliminated other competitors."

Wang Zhengguo's expression instantly turned serious, and his brows furrowed.

However, Chen Meng, who was standing to the side, had an interesting expression on his face after listening to the referee's explanation.

He ignored the referee and instead turned his gaze to the Ningxia University of Science and Technology teacher opposite him, whose face looked very unpleasant, and began to speak with great interest.

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the room.

"what do you mean……"

"Two people from our school wiped out your entire group from Ningbo University of Science and Technology Affiliated High School?"

As soon as Chen Meng said this, it was as if all the air in the referee's room had been sucked out.

The faces of the two Ningbo University of Science and Technology teachers turned a deep, purplish-red at a visible speed.

Shame on you!
The geniuses from Ningbo University of Science and Technology Affiliated High School, led by Zhou Qiming, were all blushing and wished they could disappear into the ground.

(End of this chapter)