Chapter 202-4: Battle Formation System, Too Brutal (4) |
Half an hour later, Li Zheng and the others returned to the rest area under the hazy moonlight.
As soon as they pushed the door open, they saw Ghost Eye and the others sitting at the stone table in the hall.
They all looked over at them, though the worry on their faces had not yet dissipated.
“Aha, we are back, come receive us.” Dirt Poor lifted his head smugly.
“The modifications are finished?” Ghost Eye looked a little incredulous. Such speed was clearly beyond their expectations.
“Finished, very smoothly.”
Hearing this, the trainees of the Four-Eyed race and the Ghost Bull race all wore expressions like they had seen ghosts.
In fact, before Li Zheng and the others entered the modification room, they had discussed with trainees from other squads the success probability of the player race trainees’ modifications.
The conclusion was that the player race wanted to implant 14 organs, and the success rate might be only 10 percent or even lower.
Not a single one was missing. In other words, all the player race had completed the modification of 14 innate organs unscathed.
“Savages, and it actually worked.” A Four-Eyed race trainee exclaimed in surprise.
“Watch your mouth. Believe it or not, I will pull out my newly installed mysterious weapon and knock you out with one lash.”
“I really am curious. Pull it out and let me take a look.”
“Damn, you are truly perverted. I was only joking.”
Back in the room, everyone chatted about the process of the modifications.
Learning that the innate organs had all perfectly adapted, Ghost Eye and the others felt very cheerful, and they occasionally cracked jokes during the period.
When the small talk ended, everyone went to sleep.
Li Zheng summoned the attribute panel.
On the status bar, his health bar had already hit bottom, and there was a new note in the border on the right: Modified Body.
Which meant that right now he was almost dead.
A similar situation last time was when a player died from infection by the Immortal Virus. The health bar in the status bar turned black, and the status showed Immortal State.
But their situation was different from Immortal State.
The health bar was still red, just empty.
They could continue living mainly because the Rune Physcian had continuously injected life energy into their bodies during the implantation of innate organs.
So they had not died.
It was just that a large number of organs belonging to the players had been removed during the modification process, which was why the health bar showed empty. They lived in a brand new state.
But what was certain was that this state would also be reset upon their deaths, just like Immortal State.
The only question was why the innate organs had not been decomposed into sacrificial power.
This seemed different from what Guide had said.
“So where are our sacrificial power red packets?” Dirt Poor’s slightly puzzled voice sounded in the team chat channel.
“When in doubt, ask Guide.”
Li Zheng raised his head at this moment and looked at Guide water orb floating by the bed.
“Brother Guide, why were the innate organs implanted in our bodies not decomposed into sacrificial power?”
Facing the question, Guide sighed helplessly.
[You are veteran players after all, yet you still have not figured out the basic settings of the game. I once told you that the implantation of innate organs would not alter your core settings. The implantation of innate organs will not affect your life stability state. As long as you die, you will reset to your original player body.]
[As for why the organs did not turn into sacrificial power, the reason is simple. It is because the perfectly adapted innate organs in your bodies are still alive. Only by killing them and destroying their life stability state can you carry out decomposition extraction for sacrificial power.]
[So as long as you kill the implanted organs, the sacrificial power income will appear as a Challenger Notification.]
Guide’s answer made Li Zheng immediately understand where the problem lay.
Just as Guide said, it was like hunting monsters.
If the monster was not dead and its life stability structure was not broken, the player could not receive rewards.
So next they needed to take the next step, kill the innate organs.
[By the way, here is a tip. It is best to proceed step by step in the process of killing the organs, starting with the simple ones. Otherwise, if you die while the organs are still alive, the rewards will not be obtained, and you will return to the small black room together with the stripped organs stored with the Rune Physician.]
“Understood.”
Understanding the reason, Li Zheng and the others knew they should leave the third phase training camp early.
Although a Modified Body could still continue with the camp’s projects, the process would yield far fewer benefits.
Their bodies had astonishing absorption efficiency. Whether spirit food or medicinal baths, they could obtain considerable sacrificial power income.
But their current Modified Bodies could not perfectly absorb and digest like before.
Whether from the perspective of income or from the progression of training camp projects, they had to return to the village and reset their bodies.
As for how to explain it, they reached a plan in discussion.
Before this they had already explained in detail to Elder You the reason they could resurrect. Given their performance in the training camp, they could fully continue unfinished training projects.
They only needed to come along the next time Elder You dispatched warriors to pick people up.
“Brothers, the time has come for a triumphant return home. When the time comes, we can say our innate organs suddenly produced a strong rejection that led to death.” Li Zheng said with a smile.
“Back to the village, back to the village is great. Just in time to install cultivation combat techniques. This can significantly speed up our body tempering level improvement. As for growth-type pets, no need. This function does not fit the Anti-Tide warrior route we are taking.”
“I miss the Earthmind bully. They say that kid is very arrogant now. It is time to strike with a heavy fist.”
“Brothers, Guide said to start with simple organs. Which organ do we kill first?”
“Of course start with an organ that, when killed, will not kill you. The heart must be handled last.”
“Then start with my Overlord Spear.”
After listing the order of killing the organs, the Grind Kings players decided to delay for two days, set up the prelude, and then leave.
Over the next two days, the Grind Kings members felt various discomforts during training, but the Rune Physician found no abnormalities upon examination.
The final diagnosis was that some unknown rejection reaction seemed to have occurred among the innate organs.
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The third day.
Late at night.
After everyone had fallen asleep, the Grind Kings players got up and came to the living room.
When it came time to actually do it, Li Zheng and the others all lost their nerve.
Death was not scary, but laying hands on their own good brother was truly too cruel.
“Do not hesitate. Let us go home first. Here is the plan. I will count to three and we all do it together.” As the leader of the Grind Kings, Li Zheng proposed at this time.
After receiving the brothers’ replies, Li Zheng raised the blade in his hand and took a deep breath.
“Remember to endure the pain and do not disturb their sleep. Listen to my count. One, two, three… do it.”
In an instant, the uncontrollable, miserable screams jolted Ghost Eye and the others from sleep.
Realizing that an emergency had occurred, they decisively leaped from their beds and rushed toward the hall where the sound came from, ready for battle.
But the scene that followed left them dumbfounded.
Before this they already knew that the player race had developed a rejection reaction among their innate organs.
The Rune Physician’s suggestion was to temporarily stop participating in training and observe for three days. If the situation did not ease, consider removing part of the innate organs to find out where the problem lay.
So seeing this scene at this moment, they subconsciously assumed that the player race trainees had chosen to remove their innate organs themselves.
“Damn, you guys… are too brutal.”
A Ghost Bull race trainee stared, dumbstruck, at Li Zheng and the others who held blades in hand, with blood still dripping from down there. His lips trembled uncontrollably, and his worldview suffered an unprecedented shock.