Chapter Fourteen: Hard to Understand

  It's been a week since the open beta of "Parallel Worlds" started. All players are working hard to adapt to the changes brought by this new online game. As a teacher at school, Gu Fei often hears discussions about this game everywhere. Of course, Gu Fei can't join in on their conversations. At Gu Fei's request, A'Fei also hasn't told anyone at school that Teacher Gu is playing games.

  Actually, teachers are also human beings and young people, many of whom like these electronic games just like students. It's just that the restraint of being a role model makes them always appear to be unfamiliar with worldly pleasures in front of their students, and they habitually show disdain for things that students like. Gu Fei, although only a physical education teacher without much influence, also acts according to the code of conduct for teachers.

  But for students and colleagues, Gu Fei's change was still obvious: this guy finally stopped talking about his kung fu skills at every turn.

  Teacher Gu Fei has finally returned to normal! This surprisingly became a moderately-sized news within the school.

  Gu Fei didn't have the heart to deal with these things. Every day, he would spend his free time in "Parallel World". He liked this virtual world, a world where he could use his kung fu as he pleased.

  However, Gu Fei did not forget that this was a game after all, and games required information support.

  Every time he leveled up a few levels, Gu Fei would go to the official website to study the materials and choose the next training area for his upgrade.

  Gu Fei had three requirements for his strange selection: human form, close-range attack, and higher level than himself.

  Choosing humanoid and close combat, all for the sake of his kung fu. Gu Fei wasn't playing online games for the sake of playing online games, he was playing online games for the sake of his kung fu. The tedious leveling process that others found dull, Gu Fei regarded as his own martial arts training process, so he never felt it was dull, even if he had to repeat a single action thousands of times, he could still fully immerse himself in it.

  As for choosing monsters that are higher than their own level, this is a consideration from the perspective of online games. The experience points of monsters in "Parallel World" are fixed, and naturally, the higher the level, the more experience points they give, so killing monsters at a higher level than oneself is undoubtedly a shortcut to rapid leveling up. Gu Fei has this ability, and he wouldn't easily give it up. However, although he has skills that ordinary people don't have, his ability to kill monsters at a higher level also has its limits. Generally speaking, if the monster's level is more than 20 levels higher than his own, either he can't keep up with the monster's speed or he can't break through the monster's defense.

  This scene suddenly reminded Gu Fei of when his old man taught him martial arts as a child.

  "You're small and weak, so your attack doesn't bother me at all." The old man who was punched by Gu Fei was still smiling. Immediately after, he slapped Gu Fei to the ground with a swift palm, continuing to smile: "You saw my shoulder move, you knew I was going to slap you, but you couldn't avoid it, couldn't block it. Why? Because your hands can't keep up with your eyes, you need more practice."

  Gu Fei grew up in such challenges, and he missed the fun of that time. Now, he had a chance to experience this kind of fun again, how could he not be excited?

  Level up, improve yourself, and challenge stronger enemies. In online games, everything is that simple.

  On this day, Gu Fei finally reached level 30.

  Every player would habitually take a glance at the experience needed to level up and down after leveling up. Gu Fei was no exception, but this one glance made him extremely shocked.

  Isn't this wrong? Is this the experience of leveling up from 30 to 31? Am I currently level 30 or level 300? Gu Fei Ru thought.

  This time's upgrade experience, compared to last time, is no longer a 10% increase, but directly multiplied by 10.

  10 times!

  Never heard of an online game with such a huge gap in leveling experience.

  At this time, the large player base of "Parallel World", the number of 30-level players is rapidly increasing.

  Everyone is in a whirlpool of upgrading and being stunned.

  Everyone went crazy and treated it as a bug, frantically feeding back to the game company. At that moment, almost no one was still leveling up.

  The game company quickly issued an announcement.

  The data is normal, it's not a bug. The reason for this situation is that the game company adjusted the upgrade experience before level 30.

  The perpetrator of this adjustment is the large-scale violent incident on the first day of public testing. A large number of players took advantage of their physical advantages at birth to bully weak occupational players. The game company had no way to directly intervene, and what it could do was to adjust the game settings to avoid such phenomena as much as possible.

  The final decision after discussion is to significantly lower the experience required for players to level up by 30 levels.

  Allow players to quickly level up to 30.

  This level is the official recognition that each profession has reached a balance. Any professional player at this level has enough ability to protect themselves and deal with enemies. The phenomenon of relying on innate physique to bully weak players will not occur after level 30. Of course, if you are an extreme rookie, then there's nothing to be done, but this is no longer the responsibility of the game company.

  This is a statement convincing enough for players, as many of them witnessed those terrible events at the beginning of the game and would not have any objection to this. After finding out that nothing has changed, players immediately flew back to the game and continued to play desperately.

  And Gu Fei was completely unaware of all this.

  After confirming that he wasn't a 300-level, and not even looking at the experience points for the upgrade, Gu Fei just blinked his eyes a few times before returning to normal. He had wanted to find Hong Chen and ask him with a smile, but when he opened up his friend list, the other party was offline, so he gave up.

  Even if there's a mistake, the game company will naturally fix it, so let's focus on leveling up! Gu Fei thought to himself. Following his previously chosen optimal 30-level upgrade route, he entered the training area he needed.

  Gu Fei's 30-level training area is someone else's 40-level.

  Actually, a few more levels can also be beaten. It's just that those weird levels are already too high, with thick blood and skin, from the perspective of monster killing time and experience gain ratio, killing 40-level monsters is the most efficient.

  When he unexpectedly met Jian Gui in the training area, Jian Gui said this theory with a tone similar to that of a hero.

  Gu Fei naturally made the same calculation, with one difference: for Jian Ling, leveling up was just leveling up, but for Gu Fei, every time he leveled up, he felt that his kung fu had advanced another level. If viewed purely from a gaming perspective, Gu Fei would never have such enthusiasm.

  At this point, Jian Gui had already reached level 30.5. It was clear that he had reached level 30 earlier than anyone else, but he and Gu Fei were of the same type, and with just a flicker of his eyelid, everything would be over. He continued to cultivate his own level in an orderly manner.

  After exchanging a few pleasantries, Gu Fei said "I won't disturb your leveling", and then walked alone towards another area to grind monsters.

  Neither of them mentioned forming a party together to level up.

  In Jian Gui's view, his own set was just a solo practice method. Adding someone would increase the experience gained by both parties, but compared to time, efficiency would decrease.

  Gu Fei also saw through Jian Gui's monster-killing pattern and didn't need any help, let alone himself who was practicing his skills with the same mindset and didn't require anyone to assist him.

  An unspoken understanding, each going their separate ways.

  Before parting, Gu Fei couldn't help but glance enviously at the Frost Memory dagger in Xue Bing's hand. It turned out that Xi Xiao Tian's vision was indeed venomous. The price of this dagger, Frost Memory, might be underpriced even at 50,000 yuan.

  The most valuable part of this dagger is not its high damage, nor its lethal strike rate, nor its freezing damage rate, but rather its 25 additional points.

  When a player levels up, they only get 5 points, this dagger is equivalent to increasing the player's level by 5 levels. For an online game where killing monsters above one's level is the fastest way to level up, the value of this attribute does not need further explanation.

  Even if it's not a weapon, having this stone hanging from my waist, I can now venture into the 5th level of the training area. Gu Fei thought to himself. Regret is just regret, but as for returning this dagger to Jian Gui and even helping him find it when he lost it, Gu Fei didn't feel any regret at all. This was a matter of principle.

  The two of them were separated by a row of small trees in their training areas, unable to see each other. They could only faintly hear the wails of the monsters on both sides. The difference was that the Sword Ghost's side would have pauses, while Gu Fei's side had continuous wails.

  The sword ghost needs to rest to recover its life. In the parallel world, under the system's recognized attack and being attacked state, it is impossible to recover life through drugs or other means. Drugs can only help players quickly recover their life value in peaceful mode. In combat state, according to official revelations, only recovery skills or some special equipment can be used to recover life.

  It can be said that in "Parallel Worlds", solo practice is a thoroughly laborious task.

  Of course, Gu Fei was an exception. He didn't use any skills and only used normal attacks, yet his efficiency was even higher than that of Xing Xin, who had mastered all the skills available to a Thief below level 30.

  As for the huge gap in their experience, it was because Gu Fei still had a job and spent a lot of time practicing martial arts in real life every day, which couldn't be replaced by online gaming.

  Jian Gui, Gu Fei had no idea what he did, but as long as he was online, his name would always be lit up. He was probably a legendary professional player, and Gu Fei thought about Jian Gui while practicing his skills.

  On the other side of Linzi, Jian Gui was also thinking about Gu Fei.

  It's been many days since we last met, and this guy has already reached level 30.

  A 30 in a week, this is actually a very poor result in Jian Gui Yan's eyes.

  However, he is online for a long time every day and pays close attention to Gu Fei. So, he is very clear about Gu Fei's online time every day.

  Combining time, Jian Gui only had a shocking: terrible efficiency, surpassing his own efficiency.

  At the same time, he was also puzzled by Gu Fei's attire.

  He's a 30-level mage, what's with that getup of his? The novice mage robe hasn't been changed yet, and there's a bulge at the waist - could it be a dagger again? On top of his head is a straw hat, which seems to be equipment used by warriors. Those cloth boots on his feet seem to be ours, thieves'!

  Good heavens! What on earth is this?

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