I, the public enemy

Chapter 12 The Cheaters

Seeing his eagerness, Wang Qing nodded.

The UI interface is brought up. The rules of this knife room only allow the use of 1000 points to exchange for any method in the shop interface, or to add to attribute points.

"So many methods?"

Wang Qing was somewhat surprised; there were thousands upon thousands of methods to choose from in the shop.

"Of course, they're all outdated, garbage techniques, industrial waste, commonplace. That's why the Virtual Realm Operation Company bought their intellectual property rights. What do you think? The good techniques are all held by those people. There's no bargain to be had, but for competitive gaming, they're more than enough."

"I see."

Wang Qing knew that even though he had bought these techniques with points, they were only electronic versions. In the game, they were used by default via chip-based power cultivation, not the ancient methods, and this did not mean he had actually learned these techniques.

Just like in retro PC games, where you can automatically unleash a skill by pressing a button.

However, these methods are rubbish, and the details are completely open in the game, so there's no fear that players will learn them.

"Hurry up and put together the outfit, I want to torture you to no end."

Liu Ziwen was impatient.

Wang Qing had never experienced automatic energy cultivation before. After trying it for a few minutes, he discovered that the underlying structure of the combat system was incomplete and it was impossible to use the ancient method of energy cultivation. At most, he could only provide semi-automatic assistance and guidance.

He looked at the various cultivation techniques on the points exchange interface. Since the virtual world owns the intellectual property rights to these techniques, they have been made public and can be seen in electronic "paper versions." He quickly read through them all and learned them all. It took him more than ten minutes to combine them.

"Hurry up, bro..."

Liu Ziwen couldn't hold back any longer.

"alright."

Wang Qing nodded and immediately began sparring with Liu Ziwen.

The cultivation level limit for this sword room is set at the third level of Qi Refining.

The results are obvious.

Liu Ziwen was merely a minor expert in the virtual realm; beating ordinary people was just child's play for him.

The wind and thunder effects flashed by quickly. Liu Ziwen's character in the virtual world, a blond handsome man, was agile and fast. The high school girl with pigtails was completely suppressed by the blond man and was forced to retreat repeatedly in the face of the storm of attacks. She was forced to the edge of the map and attacked with a series of martial arts combinations, each punch landing hard.

"Brother! You were using pure ancient methods of internal energy cultivation before?"

Liu Ziwen immediately saw the problem: Wang Qing was completely unaccustomed to automatic spellcasting. All the combinations he made were just random, and he couldn't even control his own body. His operation was completely distorted.

Furthermore, all 1000 points were exchanged for spells that were only worth 10 or 20 points and were completely useless. A whole bunch of them were attacks that did no damage and hit me.

"Wait me a moment."

Wang Qing was actually conducting a test.

This is virtual reality; although it feels very realistic, it's far from being truly real.

Virtual world game developers are far from being able to reach the Dao of Heaven.

Wang Qing selected 1000 points for various methods, some of which could be combined and integrated, while others would conflict when paired together.

The developers have some understanding of cultivation, but not much. Leaving aside the physics engine and model rendering, just considering the combat system, the basic architecture of the virtual world is too backward, even chaotic, with many basic errors.

The fusion of different techniques can lead to entirely new and powerful techniques, but this can only be done once. If it continues to be fused, the system built by the developers will not be able to recognize it, resulting in errors, character stiffness, and lag.

Wang Qing mastered these free and publicly available trashy techniques from the virtual world with just one glance. He could even use them back in reality, but these techniques were too weak to be of any use.

It simply created conditions for him to perform semi-automatic movements in the game, maximizing his operational flexibility.

Now, he fully understands the game.

"bring it on."

Wang Qing reset 1000 points and changed to a more ideal combination. He only set his realm to the second level of Qi Refining, and put more attribute points into physical strength. The combination of techniques was all based on the current system mechanism, which could stack strength to the extreme.

"There's no sense of accomplishment in beating a newbie like you."

Liu Ziwen remained silent, and slowly walked towards Wang Qing.

The JK twin-tailed girl took a step forward, merging and layering magic and martial arts techniques. Her waist twisted sharply, causing the model to distort slightly. She leaped forward, her legs wreathed in spiritual energy and a tiger's roar, her spinning whip kick tearing through the air in an instant.

boom!

The blond man was kicked into a bloody mist by the girl with pigtails. The explosion occurred from his chest and abdomen, but due to the censorship mechanism, there were no severed limbs or internal organs.

However, Liu Ziwen's character has been refreshed in the knife room.

Even with his pain sensitivity adjusted to only 20%, Liu Ziwen could still feel intense pain in his chest and abdomen, but it subsided quickly.

"Wait... what just happened? Was there a bug?"

Liu Ziwen only saw a dark shadow rapidly grow larger in front of him before he was killed and respawned at the respawn point.

"Okay, I'm going to quit now. I'll play again next time."

Wang Qing thought he could make a name for himself in tomorrow's friendly match and find a senior manager from Mercury Heavy Industry to keep him in check.

The system mechanism of the virtual world is now fully understood.

As for combat understanding and deathmatch experience, those are not within the scope of discussion for Wang Qing.

"God, quit! I refuse to believe it! Let's try again!"

Liu Ziwen believed that what happened just now was a bug, although it was rare, it did happen in the virtual world.

Wang Qing was worried that Liu Ziwen's Dao Heart had been shattered, so he couldn't just block him at the respawn point and kill him instantly.

I was just pretending to spar with him.

The two poles reversed, and the battle that followed began.

The blond-haired hunk couldn't even touch the high school girl with pigtails. All her attacks were either precisely countered or perfectly dodged. Meanwhile, the blond-haired hunk was so badly controlled by the high school girl that he couldn't even fall from the air. The ace fighter had infinite control and infinite stun, and in the end, he always finished her off with a swift hand chop to the head.

For half an hour, this was the only scene.

Liu Ziwen went from being unconvinced at first, to calming down, to his eyes gradually losing their luster, and even sensing that Wang Qing was already holding back to the limit, and that he still couldn't beat him.

"My... hair?"

Liu Ziwen collapsed to his knees, his Dao heart shattered. His most prized possession, the [Void Realm], had been destroyed by a newbie who had only been in the game for less than an hour.

The illusory realm does not consider real-world cultivation at all.

It only focuses on game understanding, on-the-spot reaction, and combat experience.

He also saw through Wang Qing's trick: he didn't add any of the 1000 points to physical resilience and defense. He didn't even raise his cultivation to the maximum level of Qi Refining Level 3, only to Level 2. He put all the points into physical explosiveness and speed.

Directly challenging someone of a higher level.

This is not the mainstream strategy in the current virtual world because it offers no room for error and is completely like a glass cannon; a slight misstep in the game will result in instant death.

But she managed not to touch him even once.

In addition, the techniques he used were all extremely unconventional.

Although the intellectual property rights owned by the virtual world are mostly worthless techniques, there are still some powerful techniques among the less desirable ones. These T0 and T1 level techniques can help players gain an advantage. In the battle royale survival mode where the circle shrinks, these techniques are also golden items that can be obtained in large quantities.

Wang Qing exchanged for all sorts of obscure, low-level techniques, combinations he'd never even heard of before, a truly bizarre mix.

Lacking experience in dealing with these useless techniques, it felt like fighting against players on a test server with an earlier version.

Liu Ziwen became depressed after being beaten.

Wang Qing had nothing to say, but he brought up the UI interface, checked the time, and saw that it was only 11 o'clock, not yet noon.

"I cancelled it, it's almost lunchtime."

Beating up the kid left the Demon Lord with no sense of accomplishment. He was about to go out and talk to Liu Ziwen's dad about buying a helmet to play Mewtwo's online casino.