Chapter 149-3: New Black Tide Unit Players (3) |
Seeing this, the Earthmind Evil Spirit opened his eyes.
He saw Black Tide energy converging before him, continuously injecting energy and constructing details.
In this process, the consumption of Black Tide energy was extremely frightening.
The first player template required generating content that had not been recorded, requiring Black Tide energy to constantly refine the details. But once the framework of the first template was fully generated, subsequent creations would not be so troublesome.
As time passed, the template player’s form gradually improved and finally took shape before the Earthmind Evil Spirit.
The template player’s height was 1.76 meters, about 20 years old, with a refined face and well-defined features.
“Evil Eye, assist me in injecting consciousness.”
With the activation of the Evil Eye’s power, the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s consciousness was transmitted into the template player’s body, completing a connection on the spiritual level.
When the Earthmind Evil Spirit opened his eyes, the viewpoint switched to the template player.
“Begin control test. Smile.” The Evil Eye’s voice sounded in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit immediately grinned in a silly smile.
“Wrong. The smile cannot be vacant. Smile with the eyes as well…”
Under the Evil Eye’s constant corrections, the template player’s expression changes improved at a rapid pace.
This is precisely the most terrifying aspect of intelligent Evil Spirits.
Although they do not possess the Evil Eye’s powerful data-processing capability, every Evil Spirit warrior is a super genius at learning.
A few hours later, the test succeeded.
This also gave the Earthmind Evil Spirit the idea of putting the template player into practical use.
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Colorful Mist Coast, three kilometers north of the Evil Moon domain.
A large number of players gathered here.
Recently, the Evil Moon domain deep in the dense forest had become the main hunting ground for players, and this open area outside the domain had become a place where players gathered spontaneously.
Newly arrived players sought teams here, and teams that withdrew from the Evil Moon scene recovered their state here.
Many bonfires were lit in the camp, and players of the Spirit Chef sub-profession were selling freshly made Spiritual Food here. It was bustling.
In an unnoticed corner, a figure walked into the player camp.
Observing the surroundings, he found that no players noticed anything different about him, and a standard smile immediately surfaced on his face.
Strolling around and observing, the template player under the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s control recorded everything he saw.
Especially the nearby players’ conversations, which would help him collect intelligence related to the player race.
Tilting his head to listen, the nearby players’ chatter left him very puzzled.
“Recently, hunting gains have increased a lot, but the damage output strength of Evil Entities has also risen significantly. If you are not careful you will be thrown into the little black room. The team must find a tank as soon as possible.”
“Yeah, there are still too few Gargoyle builds. After all, standing in front really hurts.”
“I shouted on the forum for half a day yesterday, saying I would cover all daily hunting potion costs, but couldn’t recruit a single Gargoyle build player. Some idiot contacted me and wanted an extra 10% team earnings subsidy. I refused on the spot. So shameless. If I weren’t afraid of pain I would switch to the Gargoyle build myself.”
“When the summoner build rises later, we will learn from the Earthmind bully and fight using summoned units. I will apply buffed bonuses. I think that is the mainstream of the future.”
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Hearing his own name, Earthmind was momentarily stunned.
He was surprised to find that players actually knew his name, which showed that the players active in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range area had already transmitted his information to the player race’s rear.
But what he could not understand was how the players knew his name.
Although he had had many contacts with the player race, and even communicated with them face to face,
he had never told the player race his name.
Thinking of this, the Earthmind Evil Spirit frowned. It showed that the player race was far more complicated than he had imagined.
Just then, a call came from the distance.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit looked up to see a man in heavy armor shouting to the crowd.
“The team is short of 3 physical DPS. High shooting accuracy required, or embedded with a Mark Inherited Soul. Single Inherited Soul level above 35.”
This was yet another jargon he could not understand at all. He could only roughly tell that the other party seemed to be recruiting fighters.
At this moment, a large group of players returned to the camp from the Evil Moon domain. After sitting down on the spot, they gulped potions taken out from who knew where.
The man leading the team said nothing. A group of players by the bonfire ahead suddenly stood up and approached the team that had just arrived at the camp. After taking their positions, they nodded to each other, as if communicating with their eyes, and then that team merged into them.
Earthmind: ???
At first he thought this was communication on the level of consciousness, but after careful sensing he did not detect any spiritual fluctuation.
This made him even more puzzled about the player race.
The player race seemed to have two ways of communicating.
One was a special connection similar to consciousness communication, and the other was spoken communication. Players switched between the two methods.
But he could not know how to carry out consciousness communication.
To figure this out, he decided to try to obtain the frequency, range, and limits of the player race’s consciousness communication. Only then could he better blend into the player group, and even follow players to their homeland.
After much hesitation, he turned his head to look at the player beside him who was eating grilled fish.
But after opening his mouth, he still did not dare to ask directly.
Doing so seemed too risky to him. Although the template had been completed and continuing to generate player templates would not be difficult, being exposed without obtaining any important intelligence would be unwise, and would also make the player race vigilant.
Just as he was hesitating about how to speak, a player walked past him. Their eyes met, and the Earthmind Evil Spirit nodded casually. The passing player also nodded and walked past him.
But after only a few steps, the passing player seemed to sense something wrong and turned his head to look at the Earthmind Evil Spirit.
His gaze focused on the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s face, then slowly moved up to the top of his head.
Huh?
Upon closer observation, the passing player noticed something amiss.
Every player had a name floating above their head. Although the name could be hidden, the Emperor’s Sign flame mark in front of the name could not be blocked.
In players’ understanding, this setting was for better distinguishing friend from foe.
After all, there was no friendly fire immunity mechanism in the game. If players hid all display information, it would be easy to accidentally injure teammates.
With doubts in mind, the passing player activated the analysis ability.
[Black Tide – Player]:
Hunt level: 29
Target introduction: A player template created by the Earthmind Evil Spirit, a key link in it’s infiltration plan.
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Seeing the analysis information, the passing player was dumbfounded on the spot.
He immediately took a screenshot of the analysis information and posted it in the regional voice channel.
“Holy crap, the Earthmind bully is at new tactics again. Brothers, hurry and check out this screenshot (analysis_screenshot.jpg).”
Hearing the calls in the voice channel, players looked at the analysis screenshot, then swept their gazes around, and finally locked onto the Earthmind Evil Spirit sitting in the corner.
This gave the Earthmind Evil Spirit quite a fright. He immediately turned his gaze toward his back.
He found nothing behind him.
Earthmind: ???
He had done nothing at all, not even spoken a word.
By all rights there was no way he could have been exposed. How did he suddenly become the focus?
Sensing something was wrong, the Earthmind Evil Spirit forced a standard smile.
“Brothers, why are you all looking at me?”
The players said nothing.
Some raised their hands and condensed Inkflame Fireballs, some raised their hands and formed weapons, others drew their bows and aimed… the actions of the surrounding players made the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s scalp tingle.
The problem was, he had no idea how he had been exposed.
To prove himself, he also raised his hand and condensed an Inkflame Fireball, trying to use the replicated visual effect to show he was one of them.
This scene also stunned the nearby players.
“Holy crap, Inkflame Fireball! The Earthmind bully is really studying for the finals, how did it even do that?”
“I’m shocked. The Earthmind bully is seriously incredible. It’s evolved infiltration tactics now! If it keeps evolving, it might just flip the heavens.”
“Good thing we have the analysis ability. Without it, it really could have blended in. The Earthmind bully’s up to no good again, gathering intel on us players to stir trouble, kill it quickly!”
At this point, the Earthmind Evil Spirit clearly hadn’t realized the problem.
The analysis data had already said it all; simply forming an Inkflame Fireball couldn’t explain anything.
“Wait…”
Sensing something off, the Earthmind Evil Spirit tried to argue, but his vision was suddenly surrounded by a barrage of skills.
Boom!
The consciousness link severed.
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