Chapter 5
Qin Feng allocated all 5 of his free attribute points to Agility.
He then glanced at his combat attributes:
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[HP: 130]
[Physical Attack Power: 13 (+10)]
[Physical Defense: 13]
[All Elemental Resistance: 15]
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His physical attack power of 13 was derived from his Strength attribute, while the additional 10 points in parentheses came from his starter weapon, the novice short dagger.
Every player, upon descending into the Abandoned Land of the Gods, received a low-quality weapon that matched their class.
[Scrap Iron Short Dagger (Poor): Gray quality. Attack Power +10]
Qin Feng gripped the scrap iron dagger, toying with it for a moment.
Although he was a warrior in his previous life, he had some experience using short daggers… Of course, using a weapon that didn't match his class only allowed him to utilize 70% of its potential.
"The feel is decent," Qin Feng muttered with a slight smirk.
He looked at his "Physical Attack Power" stat.
With an attack power of 23, this was a typical starting value for most new players.
From this, it was clear just how overpowered the 90 points of bonus damage from the Shadow Veil skill was!
Holding the short dagger, Qin Feng immediately prepared to leave the town and start hunting monsters for experience and evolution points.
Whether it was leveling up or accumulating evolution points, he needed to kill as many monsters as possible!
At this point, no one knew that the monsters in this game didn't just stay in one place, waiting for players to kill them like in traditional online games.
This was the most terrifying part!
To the monsters, every player leaving the safety of the town was walking lifespan!
The monsters would actively seek out players, sometimes even forming groups to attack them, aiming to steal their lifespan.
"Lifespan is divided into two types: tradable and non-tradable."
"Every player starts with their inherent lifespan, which is non-tradable... I currently have 75 years."
Non-tradable lifespan had only one purpose: keeping you alive.
Tradable lifespan, on the other hand, had multiple uses.
It could not only keep you alive but also be traded for resources. More importantly, it could be consumed to extract equipment, skills, and other items from the Forsaken Game into the real world!
This allowed players to possess extraordinary power even in reality!
"Tradable lifespan can only be obtained from monsters in the Forsaken Game."
"At the same time... the monsters are also eyeing our lifespans. As long as they steal a player's lifespan, they'll evolve and grow stronger."
As a reborn player, Qin Feng understood all of this very clearly.
Leaving the town meant entering danger.
One misstep, and you could be hunted down by a swarm of monsters!
Are players the hunters?
Absolutely not.
In the Forsaken Game...
Weak players were merely prey!
That's why so many people found it difficult even to survive.
Let alone killing monsters to gain lifespan… many players were killed by monsters repeatedly until their lifespan was completely drained!
With no means to kill monsters and their lifespan depleted, all they could do was helplessly wait for it to hit zero, leading to their inevitable death.
In the Forsaken Game, monsters were essentially another kind of player. It was survival of the fittest, where the strong devoured the weak.
Even in his previous life, Qin Feng had a tough road to rising to power.
Not to mention that he had been burdened by Qin Xiaoyou, who had dragged him down like dead weight…
"This time, solo grinding should speed up my progress significantly," Qin Feng thought to himself.
Holding his scrap iron short dagger, he headed toward the outskirts of the town.
Along the way, he saw small groups of players gathering together.
By the roadside, a chubby boy was looking around, confused: "Huh? Where is this place? What's all this about an Abandoned Land of the Gods, a class, a codename… I just got home after an all-nighter and lay down, and now I'm hallucinating?"
Beside him, a young man wearing glasses was equally perplexed: "I don't know either. I spent all night playing PUBG, and right when I fell asleep, I ended up here."
The chubby boy grinned at this and said, "Hey, man, what kind of chicken were you eating in PUBG? Care to share?"
Qin Feng paid them no mind.
It was normal for the first batch of players entering the Forsaken Game to have these questions.
However, a few white lights suddenly flashed in front of Qin Feng.
*Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!*
Five figures materialized in front of him…
"I almost forgot, this is the respawn point."
Qin Feng was about to walk around them when he saw a young girl in a black t-shirt among the respawning players.
Her face was somewhat pale, likely due to just having died.
Next to her, four others—a group of three men and one woman—were also respawning, clearly having died in the wilderness together.
It was obvious…
These five had just lost half of their remaining lifespan!
"That monster was way too strong! One bite took away half of my health. How are we supposed to fight that?"
"And it was just a level 1 Crawler, the weakest kind of monster! Even when we all ganged up on it, we only took down a third of its health?"
"We actually got wiped out…"
"Pear Sister, what do we do now?"
Everyone turned to the girl in the black t-shirt, who had been called "Pear Sister." She had her hair tied back in a ponytail and held a worn-out longbow, which marked her as an archer.
However…
Qin Feng immediately noticed that she was playing a hidden class.
Normally, starting archers were equipped with shortbows, not longbows.
Because of this, she was likely the leader of the group and the one giving orders.
"If we can't beat it, we'll just need to recruit someone else," said the ponytailed girl known as Pear Sister. She glanced toward Qin Feng's direction. "That guy over there looks like he has a hidden class. Why not invite him? The more, the merrier… Anyway, the team limit is six people, and we're one short."
Her deduction was accurate.
Her team's assassin's starting weapon was clearly different from the scrap iron short dagger in Qin Feng's hand.
So, a soft-spoken girl with long hair approached Qin Feng: "Brother, want to join our team? The monsters outside are really strong; it's impossible to fight them alone. We've already died once, so we've got experience now!"
Hearing this, Qin Feng couldn't help but chuckle.
Experience?
More like the experience of dying…
Shaking his head, Qin Feng ignored the girl and continued heading toward the town's exit.
His response clearly indicated he wasn't interested in joining their team.
This caused Pear Sister and the three men behind her to scowl.
They hadn't expected this assassin-like man to be so dismissive.
The worst part was that Qin Feng seemed intent on leaving the town alone!
"Is he serious? We've already told him it's dangerous out there, and he still wants to go out by himself?"
"We couldn't even handle the monster with five people, and he thinks he can take it on solo?"
"Come on, he's playing a hidden class, probably an assassin type. Maybe he's planning to run if things go south."
The group laughed and joked.
They didn't seem too concerned.
Only Pear Sister had taken the chance to check Qin Feng's information when he had passed by and discovered his alias.
"Alias: Shadow? Quite the show-off."
Pear Sister sneered as she watched Qin Feng's retreating figure. "I'd like to see how you're going to die… Let's follow him."
With a wave of her hand, she led her group after him.
It wasn't that she was particularly interested in seeing how others died, but the strange new environment made her eager to observe others and gather more information.
…
Qin Feng arrived at the edge of the town.
The boundary was barely noticeable, marked only by some decayed wooden fences.
Crossing them meant leaving the safe zone.
As he left, Qin Feng noticed that Pear Sister and her group were following him from a distance.
*Shadow Veil!*
Without hesitation, Qin Feng activated his skill.
In an instant, he blended seamlessly into the environment, vanishing from the group's sight.