Chapter Nine: The Ice Blood Ball Tactic
"As everyone knows, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first players to enter the closed beta of 'Gods and Demons Battlefield.' After only two days of gameplay, I still only have two words to describe 'Gods and Demons Battlefield':
I'm absolutely blown away!
After two days of exploration with other players, I've summarized some aspects of the 'Gods and Demons Battlefield' game mode as follows:
From the game's background setting, players automatically become followers of the God of Darkness and Earth upon entering the game. The fundamental task of the game is to help the God of Darkness and Earth, also known as 'Old Black' by the players.
In the game's setting, the divine realm where Old Black resides seems to have many gods who are constantly at war with each other, with battles breaking out frequently.
1. Divine War Missions.
The player's primary task is to help Old Black win the divine wars.
Currently, based on the experience of the first divine war and Old Black's hints, divine wars will occur irregularly, requiring players to constantly improve themselves.
Currently, there is no clear leveling system in the game. Players can only upgrade their equipment by farming monsters." Enhancing combat power.
The leveling up of the game characters themselves will likely be seen later.
2. Territory Expansion Mission.
This territory expansion mission is essentially a daily monster hunting mission.
Currently, according to the game's setting, the divine realm needs believers to explore and expand in order to continuously grow and strengthen the power of the gods, and to introduce new storylines and scenes.
Now, everyone has explored to a small forest in the northwest corner of the divine realm and encountered a group of ferocious black-scaled giant lizards!
Each black-scaled lizard is even bigger than a crocodile, and they are fast, with sharp claws and teeth, capable of devouring a child in one bite.
Although today, player ID XX invented a suicidal tactic of "the old lady hiding under the covers," managing to kill six black-scaled giant lizards, more than a dozen more black-scaled giant lizards appeared afterward, resulting in a disastrous failure in the monster hunting operation.
Fortunately, they still managed to obtain armor made from the claws, bones, and scales of the lizards, as well as lizard meat.
Here, I'd like to thank player ID Shanjia for their dedicated contribution. The lizard meat roasted in the game is so delicious! I'll definitely visit your barbecue restaurant in real life sometime to try your cooking! 3. Life Construction Task.
Today, I don't know if the barbecue scene at the mountain house triggered a plot point for Old Hei, but he suddenly issued a life construction task.
This life task mainly requires everyone to build some buildings in the divine realm, such as residences, blacksmith shops, etc.
If any players have construction skills, please feel free to share your expertise.
I feel that the importance of this life construction task is no less than the other two tasks.
In summary, "Gods and Demons Battlefield" has currently unlocked three major tasks: Divine War, Expansion and Conquest, and Life Construction. Each of them has strong openness and exploration potential. Kudos to the development team again!
What I'm going to say next is more specific and is a discussion directed at the beta testers of "Gods and Demons Battlefield," mainly about strategies for hunting the Black-Scaled Giant Lizards in the jungle in the northwest corner of the divine realm.
It seems that there are at least seventeen Black-Scaled Giant Lizards, and there may be even more in their nest deep in the jungle.
We've already seen the consequences of a direct assault; it's basically suicide. Two Black-Scaled Giant Lizards can... "It's easy to tear a player character apart.
Even if dozens of people rushed forward simultaneously, facing the bites of a dozen black-scaled giant lizards, they would quickly be torn to shreds. The scene was quite gruesome.
Therefore, conquering the black-scaled giant lizards requires updated tactics.
Currently, I've come up with the following tactics, and I welcome everyone to discuss them:
1. Using newly equipped weapons, players wearing half-body armor act as tanks at the front to attract the black-scaled giant lizards, while other players with weapons attack from behind.
2. Dig deep pit traps at the edge of the forest, luring individual black-scaled giant lizards out of the forest and into the traps, then stabbing them to death from above.
3. Using the "ice blood ball tactic" used by Eskimos to hunt polar bears, directly placing blades, bone splinters, and other things inside chunks of meat to lure the black-scaled giant lizards to swallow them. Once the blades pierce their bellies, victory will be achieved without a fight.
These are just a few superficial insights to get the ball rolling; everyone is welcome to discuss them."
The discussion about the game "Gods and Demons Battlefield" has been heating up these past two days. This post by "DuoDuo" was just posted on the forum and immediately attracted a lively discussion. "Is it that fun? I really want to play it, but unfortunately, I hesitated last time and didn't click on it. I regret it so much..."
"Oh my god, Replay Chop D, you're so cruel! Why did you describe this game in such detail? Now I want to play it even more! Do you have any invitation codes or anything?"
"From the game mode, it's just an ordinary online game, I don't think it's that open-world. Is it really worth all this hype? And you're saying you're not getting paid for this?"
"Upstairs, haven't you heard of Replay Chop D's reputation? Even if the whole forum is getting paid to promote it, he wouldn't. He's definitely a conscientious reviewer with guaranteed quality."
"Eskimo is a racially discriminatory term for Inuit people, please change it to Inuit, thank you. Also, their ice-blood ball tactic for hunting polar bears involves putting knives in seal blood and freezing it, letting the polar bear lick the knives until it bleeds to death. It's too cruel. You're actually going to use this tactic in a game?"
"The person above is a troll, confirmed."
"Replay Chop D brother, I deserve it! Your ideas are absolutely brilliant! Don't pay attention to that troll above. I think we should just follow your third tactic. Later, you guys can chop me into pieces in the game and stuff razor blades into my body parts."
"I'm Boss XX, I think the suggestion from the 'Deserves It' brother is great. Okay, count me in too. Chop me up and feed me to the black-scaled giant lizard. This is the ultimate 'old lady hiding under the covers' move."
"From the conversations of these players above, I feel like this game 'Gods and Demons Battlefield' is a bit creepy? Police officer, it's these people!"
"..."
Replay Chop D's post immediately attracted a large number of comments from netizens on the forum, including many players who had just quit the game. When they heard that the God and Demon Battlefield game had given each player 500 yuan in cash today, those netizens who hadn't clicked on the game advertisement and secured a beta test spot couldn't help but shed tears of regret.
As for the real game company behind "God and Demon Battlefield," there were many different opinions and speculations about its origins.
However, most of the guesses pointed towards industry giants or internet giants.
After all, only those super-giant companies could create such an exquisite game and spend money so freely during the beta testing phase.
It was already late at night, and most players had gone offline. Many went to the MGA forum to discuss jungle tactics with players like "Zaiwan Duoduo."
Some suggested using ropes to tie up the Black-Scaled Giant Lizard, or using fire to burn it to death, and so on.
Others even suggested bringing a chainsaw or a nail gun into the game to directly saw the Black-Scaled Giant Lizard into pieces.
After finalizing the jungle tactics, everyone reluctantly dispersed, agreeing to continue playing the game tomorrow.
The post continued to attract more participants and quickly became a hot topic on the entire forum.
However, Zaiwan Duoduo was too lazy to discuss it further and simply turned off his computer and went to bed.
Lying in bed, Zaiwan Duoduo, or Chen Yu, felt a pleasant soreness throughout his body.
His muscles even felt a little swollen.
It was as if he had truly engaged in a day of fierce battle.
This game was really interesting. He wondered if this subconscious, simulated exercise would have a positive effect on improving his physical condition?
While thinking this, he drifted off to sleep. Unbeknownst to him, a new and mysterious energy called "spiritual energy" had appeared within his body, subtly changing him. The next morning, Chen Yu was woken up by a strong feeling of hunger.
He didn't know why he was so hungry, but he went downstairs to a local snack shop and ate three servings of steamed dumplings and two servings of noodles before he felt full.
Then, feeling refreshed, he returned to his room, lay down in the virtual reality gaming pod, and eagerly logged into his "Zaiwan Duod" account and entered "Gods and Demons Battlefield."
As soon as he appeared in the open space next to the divine statue totem pole in the divine realm, Zaiwan Duod was startled.
There were dozens of people in the square, almost more than half of the players.
"I Only Like Asuna": "Teacher Zaiwan Duod! You're here! I read your post from last night, it was really awesome! Haha, that ice blood ball tactic is so insidious and vicious, I like it!"
"Most Loved Qianqian": "Brother D, I think we can also try the rope tactic we discussed yesterday, let's just try everything."
"Cute and Adorable": "Haha, I have armor and a bone spear now, maybe I can directly take on the Black Scaled Giant Lizard!"
Zaiwan Duod looked bewildered: "Aren't you guys going to work? Why are you all here so early today?"
"What work? The salary isn't even as much as the game prize money."
"It's Saturday today, big brother."
"The 10,000 yuan prize money from last time is enough for me for half a year, we're living pretty well in Sanhe."
A group of people were chattering noisily when they saw Huoer Gai walk into the crowd, lie down on the ground, and excitedly say:
"Quick, chop me into pieces, stick blades into me, and feed me to the lizards! I can't wait!"