I Became a God in a Horror Game

The group walked towards the Wandering Circus meeting room.

Wang Shun followed behind Bai Liu, and from time to time he looked back worriedly at the small warehouse where Mu Ke was, whose door had not yet been opened: “Mu Ke, are you really okay? It’s hard to regain consciousness after being forced to merge memories.”

“It’s okay for now.” Bai Liu replied lightly, “He will handle it himself.”

“If you can’t handle it, I’ll take over. First, let me report what happened recently.”

Wang Shun reluctantly felt relieved. He held a pile of folders, stepped forward and opened the door of the conference room for Bai Liu.

Bai Liu bowed his head slightly to express his gratitude politely.

Wang Shun placed the documents on the long table in the conference room and pulled out the main seat for Bai Liu to sit down.

Liu Jiayi, Tang Erda and Mu Sicheng sat on both sides of the long table. Wang Shun walked to the end of the long table and opened his system panel, calling up a huge floating panel. Wang Shun reported recent major events to Bai Liu as if he was playing a PPT. [1]

“First, let me emphasize the league’s operating rules.”

“The pre-season is the league we are about to participate in. The main participating teams are some new teams with no foundation and some old teams that are not very strong. The main confrontation mechanism is random confrontation. You play against the same team as the enemy in the next game. If you win, you advance. If you lose, you are eliminated directly.”

“The top two teams that advance to the finals of the preseason, that is, the champion and runner-up, can directly enter the post-season challenge. Except for these two teams, all other preseason teams are eliminated.”

Wang Shun clicked on the system panel:

“The mid-season tournament is a round-robin points system.”

“The participating teams of the mid-season tournament are the top 30 teams in last year’s league rankings and the last two teams remaining from last year’s pre-season, a total of 32 teams.”

“There are 496 games in total in the mid-season tournament. Each team will play a round with 31 other teams except itself. Each round includes singles, doubles and team matches.”

“Each win in a singles match earns 1 point, each win in a doubles match earns 3 points, and each win in a team match earns 8 points.”

“After 496 games, the top eight teams with the highest accumulated points among the 32 teams will enter the playoffs. The two teams with the lowest accumulated points will be disqualified from participating in next year’s mid-season tournament, and their qualifications will be given to the two teams that won the final preseason games this year.”

Wang Shun gave an example:

“For example, last year’s first place in the preseason was the Killer Sequence, so this year they don’t have to start from the preseason, but can directly enter the mid-season game. The last two teams eliminated from the mid-season game last year will have to start from the preseason.”

Wang Shun’s brows turned serious:

“The following is the key work I will report today, which is also the serious situation you will face as you enter the pre-season.”

“The overall combat quality and combat level of the pre-season teams are not high, but there are two teams that you must be vigilant against. They are the two teams that were eliminated from the mid-season tournament last year.”

“One of these two teams is called Russell Cemetery, and the other is called Furious Lambs.”

Wang Shun clicked it, and the PPT turned to another page, on which a gloomy collective cemetery logo appeared.

“The Mass Cemetery is the logo of Russell Cemetery. They ranked 12th the year before last, and ranked 8th in the mid-season last year, making it to the playoffs. Then they were drawn by Spades in the Challenger League and became the first team to face the Challenger League.” ṚÃNŎᛒΕṥ

Wang Shun looked at everyone and slowly exhaled:

“I believe we can all guess the result of this challenge. The Killer Sequence won, but the Killer Sequence paid a heavy price for this victory. This is also the main reason why I think they poached the Reverse God as their tactician this year.”

“In this match against Russell Cemetery, one of the Killer Sequence members died, and Spades was seriously injured and on the verge of death. It was a very tragic victory.”

Mu Sicheng felt dizzy after hearing this: “That’s not right. Russell Cemetery made it to the top eight last year and participated in the playoffs. So they won’t be eliminated from the mid-season tournament, right?”

“Why did you drop the preseason to play against us this year?”

Wang Shun looked at the collective cemetery logo on the panel with complicated eyes: “…This is a long story.”

“The normal league process is like this. The mid-season game selects eight teams with high points to enter the playoffs. The preseason game selects the champion and runner-up. The champion and runner-up of the preseason game randomly select two teams from these eight teams that enter the playoffs to compete against each other.”

“If the champion and runner-up of the preseason win, they can replace the two drawn teams and enter the playoffs. If the champion and runner-up lose, these eight teams will proceed to the playoffs normally.”

“So the challenge tournament is generally called ‘Ten into Eight’. Some players use a more general term, such as ‘Sixteen into Eight’.”

“The two teams that lost in the challenge match will have to face off in the final to compete for the ninth and tenth places in the league.”

“After losing to the Killer Sequence, Russell Cemetery entered the qualifying match for the top 90. However, in this qualifying match, the Russell Cemetery tactician lost his balance and made mistakes, resulting in the team being wiped out.”

The whole audience was silent.

Mu Sicheng couldn’t help but glance towards Bai Liu.

…The tactician’s influence on the entire team is really huge.

“After being wiped out, Russell Cemetery got the tenth place ranking. Logically, they could have participated in the mid-season tournament normally this year, but they gave up this ranking and the qualification to directly participate in the mid-season tournament this year, and chose to start all over again from the pre-season.”

Wang Shun raised his hand and clicked the panel again, and the situation introduction of the Russell Cemetery team appeared on the PPT.

“Russell Cemetery, the nickname that circulated among players is ‘Double Cannon Team’. The reason for this nickname is that this team will directly abandon the single and double matches as soon as they enter the game, firing two blanks and only playing the team match.”

“Because they gave up the singles and doubles competitions and lacked outstanding individual performance, this team did not produce any star players.” Wang Shun clicked on the panel and continued, “In other words, in Russell Cemetery, players are not important at all.”

“This is the number of players who have died in the league over the years.”

Mu Sicheng looked at the numbers and gasped, “Last year, Russell played in the mid-season tournament and more than 80 players died?!”

“That’s right.” Wang Shun narrated calmly, “In 31 games, Russell lost 82 players, an average of 264 players died per game, and this was even after they gave up singles and doubles games.”

“Why did so many people die?!” Mu Sicheng was really shocked.

Bai Liu looked at the introduction of Russell Cemetery and said, “The core strategy of Russell Cemetery is to use skills reasonably according to the characteristics of other guilds, right?”

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu and said, “Yes, Russell Cemetery prepares more than 500 reserve team members every year.”

Bai Liu seemed to understand something: “Most of these players are new, right?”

Wang Shun nodded. “That’s right. Most of these reserve players have never participated in the league. Even in the team match against the Killer Sequence, the players in Russell Cemetery were basically pure rookies.”

Mu Sicheng turned around and looked at Bai Liu, his head full of question marks: “What does this mean? How did you know?”

“A large number of new players died, high-frequency rotation, giving up single and double competitions, not training star players, and concentrating on team competitions.” Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng, “This is obviously a tactic based on sacrificing players.”

Mu Sicheng was getting more confused: “What tactics?”

“Let me explain it this way.” Bai Liu picked up a piece of paper and placed it between himself and Mu Sicheng, and wrote a keyword on it: [Skill].

“Among each batch of new players, the first player to clear the game will gain a skill, or more precisely, a skill identity.”

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Sicheng: “For example, mine is [Poor Wanderer], yours is [Capuchin Monkey Thief], and Captain Tang’s is [Withered Rose Hunter].”

“Our personal skills derive from this identity, sometimes it’s one skill, sometimes it’s multiple skills.”

“This identity is mainly generated based on the player’s core desires. Different players have different desires, so the generated skill identities are also different, and the derived skills are therefore very different.”

“But also for this reason, very high-quality skills with great growth potential and suitable for use in the game are not the majority. Most of the skills generated by players are either not suitable for use in the game, or have no growth potential, or have very limited use or strange use methods.”

“There are very few players who possess all three qualities, which also means that once a good skill player appears, he will be strongly sought after by the big guilds.”

Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng and said with a half-smile: “For example, the King’s Guild’s pursuit of you.”

“Don’t mention this.” Mu Sicheng waved his hand speechlessly to interrupt Bai Liu’s ridicule, “But what does this have to do with the league’s death and injury rate as high as Russell Cemetery?”

“It does matter.” Bai Liu smiled. “As a guild that is not very big, not ranked high, has no star players, and is not very powerful, Russell Cemetery has no competitive advantage when competing for new players with high-quality skills. The players it can recruit are all players with lower skills.”

“How can we win the league with these inferior players?” Bai Liu asked slowly.

Mu Sicheng was stunned.

“Since Russell Cemetery could not win in terms of [quality], they put a lot of effort into [quantity].” Bai Liu lowered his eyes and wrote the word [targeted] on the paper.

Mu Sicheng rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, stretched out his hand and raised five fingers in astonishment: “But no matter how many reserve players they prepare, they can’t use the human wave tactics. There are only five players who can play!”

“Five newcomers, with second-level skills, and they’re playing against a top-tier guild… Now I can understand why the guild has a high mortality rate in the league. It would be strange if no one died.” Mu Sicheng asked in confusion, “But this operation, no matter how you think about it, there’s no way it can win, right?”

Wang Shun answered Mu Sicheng’s question: “On the contrary, although the team competition in Russell Cemetery has a high mortality rate, the winning rate is also very high.”

After saying that, Wang Shun lowered his head and clicked the panel, and a new page appeared on the PPT:

“From the data I got, I can see that in last year’s mid-season tournament, excluding the single and double matches that Russell Cemetery voluntarily gave up, their win rate in the 31 team matches they actually played was as high as 9355, and they only lost two games.”

Wang Shun continued to click: “In the two games that Russell Cemetery lost, one was against the King’s Guild, and the tactician was Hearts. The other was against the Deer Hunter, and the tactician was the Reverse God from the Killer Sequence.”

Mu Sicheng looked at the result and exclaimed in astonishment: “This winning rate is too outrageous!”

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[1] PPT – A term Chinese people use that means “Powerpoint Presentation”

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