Chapter 74: Another Player Got Something Good Again |
“Splash...”
Vivian suddenly stood up from the bathtub.
Crystal-clear water droplets slid down her body.
At this moment, Vivian’s little face was completely red as she stood blankly in the bathtub, her tiny head buzzing.
What just happened?
What did Lord Evil God do?
How could there be such an Evil God?!
Just to watch her bathe, he deliberately left for a while and then suddenly came back.
Was this really something a god should do?
At this point, Vivian no longer had any mood to continue bathing.
She was terrified the Evil God might do it again.
However, Vivian was obviously overthinking things.
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【Due to violating player conduct regulations, your game login privileges have been suspended.】
【Note: Multiple recent violations of player conduct regulations have been detected. Duration extended.】
【Login suspension time: 5 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds....】
【Please maintain civilized gameplay and work together to uphold a healthy gaming environment.】
Seeing the prompt, Jiang Chen felt somewhat depressed.
He still had not seen anything just now.
The moment he logged into the game, all he saw in the water was a mass of Holy Light.
Still unwilling to give up, Jiang Chen naturally controlled Vivian to suddenly stand up.
As the saying went, as long as his hand speed was fast enough, Holy Light would not catch up to him.
The result proved Jiang Chen had thought too much.
Not only did the Holy Light catch up to him, but the violation notice followed immediately after as well.
His body stood up one second, and the pop-up appeared the next.
“I wonder if this game will release a no-Holy-Light version in the future.”
“Even if there isn’t an official version, I wouldn’t mind if some expert developed a no-Holy-Light patch...”
Looking at the suspension timer—
“Forget it, forget it, time to sleep!”
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Nothing happened throughout the night. Early the next morning, Jiang Chen woke up bright and early.
After preparing breakfast and waking his still-sleepy younger sister, the siblings had only just started eating when Jiang Chen’s phone began vibrating nonstop.
Picking up the phone, he glanced at the caller ID.
It was his good brother Zhang Hu.
“Why’s he calling so early?”
Jiang Chen muttered as he answered the call.
“Old Jiang, awake yet?”
The moment the call connected, Zhang Hu’s familiar voice came through the phone.
“Not awake yet.”
“Get lost, damn it. If you weren’t awake, how would you even be talking?” Zhang Hu continued, “By the way, Old Jiang, didn’t you tell me yesterday to go mess around on the forums? I went immediately.”
“But those forums are seriously hilarious. The whole thing feels like some spy war.”
Hearing this, Jiang Chen became somewhat curious.
“A spy war? What does that have to do with a spy war?”
“You have no idea. Several people privately messaged me yesterday wanting to cooperate with me, and they kept exposing each other’s dirt.”
“For example, the Nightmare Race player wanted to work with me to deal with the Dark Elf player. But then the Dark Elf player contacted me and said the Nightmare Race player wanted to screw me over.”
“In short, everything’s a complete mess. Right now it’s basically me cooperating with you, you cooperating with someone else, and then those other people coming back to cooperate with me.”
“I still haven’t figured out who’s fake cooperating, who’s genuinely cooperating, and who’s secretly plotting behind the scenes.”
“Anyway, it’s ridiculously complicated. The whole thing twists around so much it’s giving me a headache.”
“You seriously have no idea how fun this is.”
After hearing Zhang Hu’s explanation, Jiang Chen could not help giving him mental praise.
“Old Zhang, you handled this beautifully. This is exactly the effect I wanted. You’ve seriously helped out a lot this time.”
“As long as I helped, that’s good enough.” The other side of the phone paused before continuing, “But Old Jiang, I’ve gotta say, that Dragon Race player is seriously insane.”
“Damn it, he chatted with me on the forums all night yesterday and still hasn’t slept. And that Dark Elf player also stayed awake the entire night.”
Hearing this, Jiang Chen slightly raised an eyebrow.
“You chatted with them all night?”
“Of course. Let me tell you, they’re hilarious. They kept asking me how my combat power increased so quickly. How the hell would I know? So I just started making up random nonsense.”
As he spoke, Zhang Hu seemed to suddenly remember something.
“Oh right, Old Jiang, several players privately messaged me. Looks like they want to target the Dragon Race player and are trying to gather information about him. But that guy’s incredibly tight-lipped.”
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Just like that, the two chatted for a while longer before hanging up.
“Go ahead and keep chatting with my good brother. One conversation and you’ll all end up speechless.”
“But these guys are seriously hardcore. They actually grinded another whole night. Aren’t they afraid of sudden death?”
Actually, Jiang Chen understood the feelings of the Dragon Race player, Dark Elf player, and Succubus player quite well.
Originally, they thought obtaining high-base-stat characters guaranteed them stable leaderboard positions.
Now that someone had overtaken them, they naturally felt unwilling to accept it.
“Let me see what’s going on now.”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen opened the Leaderboard.
【Eternal Era Combat Power Leaderboard:】
【Rank 1: Human, Combat Power 7340】
【Rank 2: Dragon Race, 6350】
【Rank 3: Giant, 6100】
【Rank 4: Dark Elf, 5400】
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“Holy crap, what a bunch of grinding monsters....”
Seeing the current combat power rankings, even Jiang Chen felt his scalp go numb.
“They’re chasing ridiculously hard. And honestly, what’s going on with this Giant player?”
Jiang Chen remembered very clearly that yesterday, when he checked the rankings, this guy had been in sixth place.
At the time, his combat power had been around 3100, while Jiang Chen himself had already surpassed 6000.
“Damn it, he suddenly caught up this much and is almost reaching the Dragon Race player.”
With such a huge increase, Jiang Chen could tell with his toes that the guy had most likely obtained high-combat-power equipment.
“So did he get inflated-stat equipment, or actual combat equipment that increased combat power by over 3000?”
This question deserved serious consideration.
If it were inflated-stat equipment, Legendary-quality equipment could easily achieve that.
As long as it came with enough Long-Entry Skills, it would not be difficult.
“But if actual combat equipment increased combat power by over 3000, then holy hell, that’s basically taking off.”
Jiang Chen had roughly calculated the conversion rate between actual combat attributes and combat power.
One point of actual combat attributes roughly translated into six combat power.
The upper limit for Legendary equipment attributes was around 400, meaning a full actual-combat-stat Legendary equipment piece could increase combat power by around 2400.
Therefore, Jiang Chen believed there were many possibilities regarding the Giant player’s equipment.
It might directly provide over 3000 actual combat power, which would most likely make it Divine Artifact-grade equipment—just with extremely poor base stats.
But the issue was that no matter how bad it was, a Divine Artifact was still a Divine Artifact. The difference between it and Legendary equipment was heaven and earth.
However, based on Jiang Chen’s judgment, this possibility was not very high.
“Even the worst Divine Artifact shouldn’t only provide 3000 combat power. Of course, unless there’s some setting like a damaged Divine Artifact, where restoring it later causes another huge surge in combat power.”
Regarding this point, Jiang Chen only needed to observe whether the Giant player’s combat power suddenly skyrocketed again later to determine the truth.
“If it’s not a Divine Artifact, then it’s definitely a top-tier Legendary equipment piece.”
“And that 3000+ combat power might simply come from the Legendary equipment itself.”
“Or maybe he personally grinded out several hundred to a thousand combat power while the equipment added another one or two thousand.”
“The most likely possibility is a combination of personal grinding plus equipment bonuses.”
However, regardless of how he analyzed it, one thing was certain.
The other side possessed at least one top-tier premium Legendary-quality equipment piece.
“Damn it, his luck is seriously good.”
Looking at his own bracelet, Jiang Chen suddenly felt it was no longer impressive.
“If only I could steal that guy’s equipment...”
Of course, Jiang Chen was only fantasizing.
Not to mention he did not know the Giant player’s exact location—even if he did, what could he do?
Jiang Chen had no illusions about himself, this tiny weakling, running all the way to the Giant Race territory to kill one of their clan members—especially when that clan member was also a player.
Pulling back his thoughts—
“Sure enough, I’m not the only lucky one.”
“Enough thinking. Time to log in, time to log in....”
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