One hundred and ninety-nine is a very subtle number.
It was very close to the top, but it was just a little short of 200. 200 and 100 were definitely two different things. But it was at the bottom, but it was stuck at this critical point, allowing him to cross the gap between 200 and 100 and enter the ranks of the top players.
The 49 leaders of the Pangu Army plus one general leader already occupied 50 positions on the ranking list. Even if there was a difference in the number of people between the Noah Army and the Freedom Army, it was not much, so there were actually very few positions left for ordinary players.
For example, Solomon and Caso, their army had more realistic expectations for them. As long as they could make it into the top 1,000, it would be great. Of course, being in the top 500 would be a pleasant surprise. Based on their intelligence on Ning Buwen, Ning Buwen's strength should be around 300 or 400. With a little luck, he should be able to make it into the top 300, such as ranking 299th.
However, Ning Buwen's ranking was a full hundred places lower than what they had estimated!
The people from the three legions must know what one hundred positions mean.
"This doesn't make sense." The people of Noah's Army were very puzzled. "We have checked. Ning Buwen's rating in the previous instance was A. This was registered by him on the Pangu Army's internal network. There is no possibility of fraud. Since his rating is A, how could he be in the top 200?"
If this ranking list was not published by Pandora, they would have thought that the other party had taken a backdoor. Otherwise, how could they explain Ning Buwen's strange ranking
The Noah Legion has always been very careful about the people on the Pangu Legion's side. Although the number of top players is slightly less than that of the other side, the difference is not too big. They just need to make up for it later.
But the fact that the newcomer was also suppressed by the opponent made people unhappy.
"Solomon and the others are still in the dungeon and haven't come out yet."
"Until the punishment instance is over, he will not be listed on Pandora's ranking list."
"Solomon should know the reason. Pandora never makes mistakes. Maybe this Ning Buwen has some other secrets."
Mental hospital.
"Oh oh oh, Buwen, you are so awesome, you are ranked one hundred and ninety-nine? Damn, your ranking is higher than mine, come on and treat me!" Xiao Qi opened the ranking list and quickly found Ning Buwen's name.
He pays attention to this kind of ranking every week, and everyone pays attention to it too. Who has dropped in the rankings, who has completely disappeared from the rankings, and who has suddenly moved up in the rankings are all worth digging into, and they can often reveal the big picture from the small details.
Alas, this is also a habit formed in the past.
Forces like them, which do not belong to any legion but whose members are all on the ranking list, are often used to surviving in the cracks. No legion can accept all of them. Even if the Pangu Legion wants to accept them, it has to consider the opinions of the other two legions. Originally, the Pangu Legion is stronger than the two legions. The other two legions can only compete with the Pangu Legion if they unite. If they accept them, it will probably appear to have "bad intentions".
Therefore, someone in their team must collect intelligence, so as not to be accidentally involved in the struggle between the three legions.
Fortunately, I met Cheng Yuxue later.
Although they were indeed severely oppressed at the beginning, Cheng Yuxue's existence was indeed special, enough to protect them from the three legions. Therefore, even though they were abused over and over by Cheng Yuxue, they never thought of leaving, and it was definitely not because of masochism.
"One hundred and ninety-nine?" The security captain raised his eyebrows in surprise. "I'm at one hundred and three. It looks like you'll surpass me soon."
"I didn't expect my ranking to be so high." Ning Buwen thought about the gap between himself and the security captain, and felt that he needed to get seven or eight high-level copies to have a chance to catch up. "I originally estimated that my ranking should be between 300 and 400. It should be that Pandora's evaluation of Devil's Breath is particularly high, so my ranking has been raised."
Of course, the more likely possibility is that it is because of the "Ring of Time" on his hand.
With it, every time I get an evaluation reward, I can get 10% more than others. After accumulating it a few times, my capital will be much more than others. Therefore, my ranking can cross the 200th barrier and become 199th.
"Devil's Breath is indeed powerful." Xiao Qi recalled the power of that card and was still a little scared. "But even though this item card is powerful, you shouldn't rely on it too much. The summoned demon can't hurt you directly, but its existence itself is a kind of harm. If you don't have the strength to subdue it, you may be attacked at any time. And if you use it too much, someone with ulterior motives can use this card to lock your mark, and they may even use this to trick you or rob you of the card in your hand."
There are also item cards with similar theft effects. What if someone has set his eyes on Devil's Breath and deliberately waits for Ning Buwen to use this card and then snatches it away
The security team was originally mercenaries, and they had done this kind of robbery before. If they could do it, then naturally others could do it too.
In their eyes, Ning Buwen is already one of “them” and he certainly won’t fall for this kind of trick.
"I understand." Ning Buwen thanked with a smile, "But for now, I'm afraid others are more afraid of me."
The top 200 players who landed in the air either had special physiques or had very powerful item cards. Before finding out his background, ordinary players would not be able to take action against him.
Those who have survived in Pandora for a long time are definitely not fools, even if their skills in passing the level are mediocre.
A fool won't live that long.
"Haha, you're going to treat me anyway."
"Haha, okay, please." Ning agreed readily without asking.
He took a group of people from the security team to the tea restaurant that accepted payment with prop cards and had a big meal.
It’s worth having money!
By the time Ning Buwen received Si Nan's notification about meeting him, Ning Buwen had already been wandering around at home for half a month.
In the past half month, he has harassed almost all of his previous friends and seems to have nothing to do.
When Cheng Yuxue was around, Ning Buwen had to go to Wen Duoduo's house to sleep. But now that Cheng Yuxue was gone, Ning Buwen suddenly felt that his time was redundant and he didn't know what to do.
He looked lazy and didn't seem to have much energy.
Cheng Yuxue hasn't appeared for almost two months.
No one would say or ask, even the security team felt a little uncomfortable.
When the king is not around, it always feels like something is missing.
With Cheng Yuxue here, even if he does nothing, this mental hospital seems to be popular. Without him, it feels like nothing is interesting.
"It's really strange. When we used to play Landlord and Mahjong, we had to be on guard for the king to come over for a 'survey'. It was a heart-pounding game. Now that the king has been gone for so long, I have plenty of time to play, but I'm not interested in playing anymore." Xiao Qi expressed everyone's thoughts, "Has the king ever been away for so long before?"
"No." Xiao Wu said with certainty, "In the past, the king would go on a dungeon for no more than forty days. Even if he couldn't come back for a while, he would ask someone to come and water the flowers or pass on a message."
Isn’t this how Ning Buwen came about in the past
But now there is no news from Cheng Yuxue.
The security team members who had always had blind confidence in Cheng Yuxue were becoming a little uneasy.
"No need to ask. Go ask your leader when the king will come back."
"Yes, Your Majesty, didn't you go to save someone? It's been so long, the person you wanted to save must have turned into bones."
"I don't think it's that simple. If you don't ask, go get some information."
"If the king doesn't come back, we will be in trouble."
"Oh, don't ask. After the pets in the back of the hospital noticed that the king's breath was gradually weakening, they started to make a fuss. You know what this means, right?"
Xiao Eleven, who was in charge of feeding the monsters, asked a question from the bottom of his heart.
Suddenly, Ning Buwen's expression became much more serious.
Cheng Yuxue's pet park is full of A-level and S-level monsters. If they find out that the people who suppress them are gone and want to run out, they will not be enough for the monsters to eat!
And Xiaoxin, I don’t know if his wife Xiaobai still recognizes him as her husband
Ning Buwen suddenly felt his shoulders heavy.
"Don't worry, I will definitely ask."
Just like that, Ning Bu Wen, carrying everyone's expectations, set out towards the Second Legion in a vigorous and high-spirited manner.
Si Nan finally got out of the endless meetings, and was dragged to train for a few days to prevent the survivors from targeting him again. Finally having the opportunity to do his own thing, Si Nan immediately called Ning Bu Wen over.
"What's wrong? Why are you so angry?" Si Nan saw Ning Buwen, who looked like he was facing a great enemy, and asked curiously.
I haven't even told you about the ancestors and the survivors yet, so why is Ning Buwen showing such an expression now
"Captain, didn't Cheng Yuxue go to rescue people for you as an external aid? So much time has passed and he hasn't come back. The monsters in the mountain behind our hospital are ready to make a move." Ning Buwen asked the question smoothly with a mixture of sincerity and lies.
"As for him, don't worry. He's fine. He just thinks it's interesting and is still staying in that world. I'll tell you about his story first and then I'll tell you about other things." Si Nan breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "I'm afraid that if I tell you about his story in advance, you won't be in the mood to listen to other things."
Ning Bu Wen realized that there seemed to be some hidden story, so he had to sit down quietly.
What's going on lately
The creditor pulled him aside to tell some secrets, and judging from the leader's look, he seemed to want to pull him aside to tell them too
Does passing the rookie period and becoming a high-level player mean that I have to bear more secrets and responsibilities? If I had known this, I should have stayed in the rookie period for a while longer.
Ning Bu Wen could already feel the impending pressure.
"Captain, please tell me quickly. I've heard a lot of things recently." Ning Bu Wen rubbed his forehead and put on a dead fish attitude.
"No need to be like this." Si Nan looked at Ning Buwen's reckless look, and a smile appeared on his face. "I've told you before that Pandora has many secrets, but knowing them before you have the ability will only bring you troubles. But now you have enough ability to bear it, so I have to tell you something."
"Oh?" Ning Buwen became slightly interested, "What's the secret?"
Is it the kind that is very valuable
"You should know that Pandora's games have been around for many generations." Sinan said affirmatively.
"Yeah." Ning Buwen nodded, "That's obvious."
"Among so many eras, in fact, at least one-third of the eras have already collected the fragments of seven derivative copies. It's just that the people of some eras were trapped in internal strife and failed; some put the heavy responsibility on a few people and failed to cultivate enough players; and some failed due to the sabotage of others. These are the people I want to talk to you about." Sinan took out some people's information from the space.
"For safety reasons, we haven't saved their information in electronic files. Just take a good look at it here and remember their appearance and abilities. If you find them in a copy in the future, try to kill them and don't be confused by them." Si Nan pushed the information in front of Ning Bu Wen.
Ning Bu Wen flipped through it briefly and found that these people seemed to have very powerful abilities.
For example, this player of the Envoy class, his contracted beast is actually an S-level Hellhound? This strength is almost comparable to that of some lower-level legion leaders.
There is also this person in charge of treatment, whose special ability is equivalent to a super-grade A treatment card, and there is no limit on the treatment card. With such a person, there is almost no need to worry about deaths in the team.
And this special player, his ability is actually nightmare, can sneak into the player's dream and kill people? This ability is too abnormal, it is simply impossible to defend against!
"These people's names don't seem to be on the list." Ning Bu Wen was very sure that these people's strength was definitely among the top 100, and might even be at the top of the rankings.
"They are not players of our era, so they will not show up naturally." Si Nan sighed, "To be precise, they are unwilling to become players of our era. For example, Cheng Yuxue can give up some things and start from scratch, slowly passing the rookie period and then becoming the eighth in the world. This is within the scope allowed by Pandora."
Ultimately, it’s a question of recognition.
As long as you abandon the prop cards and abilities from the previous era and become an ordinary person, you can start as a low-level player.
Of course, generally speaking, a player's personal physique will not change, so even if they start over, relying on their knowledge of their own abilities and experience, these players who start over can make progress far beyond others.
It can even be said that Pandora is encouraging these players of the last era to integrate into the new era.
"Pandora reincarnates once every 100 years. Once the time is up, if she fails, she has to start all over again. If I remember correctly, our generation should be the 18th generation, and there are still 96 years until the end of the reincarnation."
In other words, there are already seventeen generations of people, and perhaps countless people have died in reincarnation.
"So where do the players come from?" Ning Buwen was very puzzled, "We don't have so many people on Earth."
"How can there not be?" Si Nan smiled and shook his head. "From ancient times to the present, how many people have died at a young age and never had the chance to grow up? When technology was not developing rapidly, a family gave birth to seven or eight children, but only one or two could survive. Even when the mother was pregnant, many of them died in the womb. The beginning of human beings was just a cell, a fertilized egg. In the beginning, there were countless cells that didn't even have the chance to become a fertilized egg. If these people who couldn't grow up were born in another way and made human again, let alone eighteen generations, even if there were another one hundred and eighty generations, Pandora would never lack people. From this perspective, the people of us should be considered to be born and alive because of Pandora. We were all losers in the past."
It failed to transform from a cell into a fertilized egg, failed to be born successfully, and failed to grow up successfully.
Therefore, Pandora never pity their lives. Even if many of them die, there will be more cells queuing up and then turning into humans.
"Then, what generation is Cheng Yuxue from?" Ning Bu Wen was silent for a while.
"He said he was the third generation." Si Nan also answered, "He is the oldest generation we can find. His memory is a little confused because it is too long and keeps restarting. In his era, because players have special abilities, they don't get along well with ordinary people. Players also fight each other for each other's prop cards. It was a very dark era. For a period of time, he once imitated a vampire and slept for hundreds of years."
The first generation of players failed to find any rules for Pandora and suffered heavy casualties.
A most common D-level copy can often lead to the annihilation of an entire army.
Those players are not like their generation, who have been brainwashed by various propaganda materials. Even if they are accidentally pulled into the game, they can rely on those familiar words and experiences to gain a chance of survival.
Not to mention completing the game, the first generation of players didn’t even realize that Pandora was actually a game that gave people a certain amount of hope, rather than the evil demon that caused the end of the world that they were trying to avoid.
With such resistance, yet unable to do anything about Pandora's game, it is normal for the reincarnation to be wiped out after a hundred years.
The second generation was a little better, but not much better. However, the second generation found derivative fragments, and there were one or two lucky players who hid in the world of one of the ultimate copies at the beginning of the reincarnation and survived.
By the third generation, due to the efforts of one or two players, they began to form legions and began to try to manage players in a militarized manner.
According to Cheng Yuxue, only four players of the third generation survived, including him. The other three might have died, or stayed in some other world as NPCs, with no connection at all.
As the third generation of players, Cheng Yuxue and the other four inherited the ideas of the second generation of players, and worked hard to help the fourth and fifth generation players. Naturally, they also protected more players to survive. Although not many, it was still a hope after all.
But after repeated failures and betrayals, things began to develop in an uncontrollable direction.
Because of his immortal physique, Cheng Yuxue naturally encountered the greatest hostility.
Even if other players can extend their lifespans due to game reasons, they are still not immune to death.
When Cheng Yuxue woke up from his deep sleep, it was already the tenth generation.
"Some of the players who survived, like Cheng Yuxue, hoped to help the next generation of players pass the game and make Pandora disappear from the world. They were honored as sages. Some other players, after figuring out the mystery of the number of players, believed that Pandora was our savior. Every generation of players should die, and then give more opportunities to those who were not born, so that the game can continue, which is also a different kind of life. So this group of people called themselves the survivors. They are very powerful, but their personalities have become extreme over a long period of time. Sometimes they would rather sacrifice themselves to stop us from passing the game."
"Do they still think that once we pass the level and Pandora disappears, those of us who shouldn't be born will die?" Ning Bu Wen asked.
“…Yes.” Si Nan was not surprised that Ning Wen had thought of this, “But they thought about it more carefully. They are the remnants of the previous era. If people of our era pass through the customs, we should not die, but they might die. They dare not take the risk. In order to survive, they are naturally more unwilling for us to pass through the customs.”
But now, there are fewer and fewer predecessors willing to sacrifice themselves, and more and more of them remain.
People of their generation are the vested interests, so they naturally hope that there are as few survivors as possible, but the thoughts of the survivors are not impossible to understand.
Even if they start over, how long can they live? How confident can they be that they can recover to their previous strength or even become stronger? Many dungeons cannot be passed by experience alone, and many of them also need luck. If they are unlucky, they may die.
After all, there is only one Cheng Yuxue in the world.
But I believe it without asking, even if Cheng Yuxue does not have the ability of immortality, with Cheng Yuxue's personality, he will probably do it again and again.
Although Cheng Yuxue has a twisted personality, he is actually a person who is very afraid of being alone.
He hired a whole group of mercenaries to serve as his security, and also raised a large yard of magical plants and beasts.
It's already obvious.
Cheng Yuxue hates being alone.
"We have different positions from the survivors. We are absolutely opposed to them. As a member of our Pangu Corps and a member of the 18th generation, you must not be soft-hearted when you meet them."
"I understand." Ning Buwen answered affirmatively, "If it's just a misunderstanding, there may be a possibility of reconciliation. But when it comes to matters of life and faith, these positions cannot be neutralized."
So there is absolutely no way he would be soft-hearted.
No matter how many reasons these survivors have, no matter how nice their arguments are, different positions are still different positions. The members of the Legion are both players and soldiers, so naturally they take orders as their first priority.
Just after hearing Si Nan's explanation, Ning Buwen couldn't help but think of his creditor.
If the other party is a player, does it also mean that the other party may also be a relic of a certain era
Perhaps, it was longer than the third generation of Cheng Yuxue
The author has something to say: I actually thought of several settings for Pandora at the beginning, but finally chose a joke that I thought was more interesting, "Each of us was born successfully ahead of tens of billions of sperm." This is the source of my inspiration~~~
I hope it makes sense. I like the feeling of laying the groundwork and then filling it with flesh and blood.
Because I'm still writing the decryption, the update is a bit late.
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