Chapter 38

Sure enough, he was still as frivolous as ever.

After hearing Tang Cheng’s words, Tang Ya secretly spat. Before coming, she had prepared a lot of things to say, but after truly seeing this lunatic, she didn’t know what to say. After hesitating for a while, she finally said, "I came to ask if you’ve joined a team?"

"A weak team gathered by ordinary people, how could it possibly be worthy of me?"

As expected, this person’s response was still so arrogant and conceited. However, what surprised her was that he actually asked about her.

"Do you have a team?"

"Sort of... I guess."

"Oh, congratulations then."

Just as she was about to speak, she found the door on the opposite side had already slammed shut. Tang Ya opened her mouth, suddenly at a loss.

Angry? It shouldn’t be, right? How could someone like him get angry over someone else’s affairs?

Thinking this, Tang Ya shook her head and eventually walked back.

Actually, she had lied just now; she hadn’t joined a team.

Her performance in the beginner dungeon earned her a 3.5-star rating from the cycle space. Her assistant spirit told her that this rating was already quite good, ranking her among the top. Therefore, many teams had extended offers to her. According to the assistant spirit, one of the teams was even the eighth-ranked team in the lower tier of Dongting.

Tang Ya didn’t know how strong the eighth-ranked team in the lower tier of Dongting was. She asked the assistant spirit, but it didn’t tell her. However, since it could rank in the top ten, its strength must not be weak. As a newcomer, being recruited by such a strong team, she was honestly a bit tempted. Moreover, after learning that she had enhanced her mental abilities, the team promised to provide her with comprehensive protection in the formal dungeon, and survival points would prioritize her.

Although she had also heard from the assistant spirit that a mental ability enhancer was extremely valuable to a team, even surpassing healers and strategists, and was a talent that every team desperately wanted, she still didn’t expect to be so valued.

However, after much hesitation, she ultimately refused.

She didn’t know why she refused. Clearly, by joining that team, her survival would be guaranteed, and she could grow at an extremely fast rate... Perhaps, some of her neurons had short-circuited.

After that, Su Xiaoqing and Lu Xiaotian also contacted her. Their ratings were two stars, not great but not bad, just barely acceptable. They approached her partly because of the camaraderie formed in the beginner dungeon and partly about team matters. From the hints they gave, Tang Ya knew that teams had already approached them, though not very strong, they were of medium level, but not the same team.

The two didn’t immediately agree but came to find her first and asked her to probe Tang Cheng’s thoughts, probably hoping that the four of them who had gone through the beginner dungeon together could also fight in the formal dungeon together. But honestly, she didn’t have much hope for this idea.

And indeed, Tang Cheng had no intention of forming a team.

Sighing silently, Tang Ya knew that after passing on this message, the two would likely accept invitations from other teams, possibly even pulling her along. But what did she think about it?

Let’s see.

...

Tang Ya’s dilemma was unknown to Tang Cheng, and even if he knew, he probably wouldn’t care. After closing the door, he couldn’t wait to practice the Seven Night Assassination Technique.

However, before he could speak, Little Apple said, "Dad, a team called 'Sir#Lonely' has invited you to join them."

"Huh?" Tang Cheng was instantly stunned. "Sir#Lonely, what a ridiculous name. The members must all be elementary school kids. Elementary school kids want to recruit me? At least they should be in sixth grade... Definitely reject it!"

"But this team ranks tenth in the lower tier of Dongting. Besides, 'We Are Strong,' 'Tomorrow Will Be Better,' 'Let’s Do It Together,' 'Awesome,' 'Don’t Worry, I’m Right Here'... and a total of fourteen teams have sent invitations, four of which rank in the top ten. I suggest you consider it..."

"Reject, reject!" Tang Cheng waved his hand without hesitation. "What a bunch of nonsense names, just hearing them makes me nauseous. I have no intention of playing house with these ordinary people. Block all similar messages, it’s so annoying!"

At this point, Tang Cheng suddenly felt a stir in his heart. "Why are so many teams inviting me? I’ve only been in the cycle space for a few hours. When did I become so famous?"

"Because of the cycle space’s evaluation system," Little Apple explained while blocking those messages. "Actually, the evaluation of newbies in the cycle space can be queried by every assistant spirit, though it requires a lot of survival points. However, for teams eager for talent, this cost is completely worth it. As long as they find a high-quality newbie and recruit them into their team, after a period of cultivation, they can quickly become a mainstay of the team."

"I see, so as a six-star super newbie, I’m so popular, which makes sense."

"It’s five stars!"

"Whatever, I’m not interested in these trivial matters. Quickly create a spacious basement for me, I need to practice and improve my skill proficiency."

After Little Apple created a basement, Tang Cheng immediately rolled over. As for the outside affairs, he believed that since Little Apple had blocked them, those people would give up.

However, this was just what Tang Cheng thought. He didn’t know what a five-star rating meant.

Looking at the entire cycle space, the number of challengers is very large. Just the people Tang Cheng saw in the hall, apart from a few newbies, over 80% were team leaders in the lower tier of Dongting. If each team has ten people, then hundreds of teams mean thousands of people, not counting the lone wolves and team leaders who didn’t go to the square.

If you also consider the dead challengers, there are at least tens of thousands of challengers in just Dongting, let alone the South Courtyard, West Wing, and North Hall. Among so many challengers, only a few dozen have a five-star rating, and in Dongting, there are fewer than ten. This shows how precious a five-star newbie is.

Although the challengers in Dongting can’t remember how long it’s been since a five-star newbie appeared, currently, there are only two active five-star challengers in Dongting: the Queen and the Princess.

These two, though women, have monstrous strength, ranking among the top in the entire cycle world, each controlling the lower tier of Dongting. Especially the Queen... she is recognized as the strongest in Dongting.

Therefore, when the fact that Tang Cheng is a five-star newbie was exposed, the shock was unimaginable. Not only did the lower-tier teams with self-proclaimed strength want to recruit him, but even the upper tier of Dongting has already started to pay attention to him.

Of course, the upper tier and the lower tier of Dongting are almost completely isolated. The teams in the upper tier, even if they wanted to recruit Tang Cheng, couldn’t. As for the lower-tier teams, Tang Cheng was determined to ignore them, and they had no way to do anything about it.

In summary, the current shock in Dongting has nothing to do with Tang Cheng. No matter how much chaos there is outside, he can practice his skill proficiency in the basement without any disturbance.

...

Originally, such training would be best done in a training room. There, not only are the facilities complete, but you can also set up enemies to practice with. Since it’s a projection, even if you die during training, you won’t suffer any damage, but the insights you gain won’t disappear.

Learning about such a training room, Tang Cheng was also very interested, but the problem was that the training room was too expensive, costing 200 survival points per day, which he couldn’t afford with his current survival points.

However, even a self-built basement is fine for general training. At least for now, Tang Cheng didn’t need very complex practice; he just needed to master the Seven Night Assassination Technique.

Then, time passed bit by bit, and soon ten days had passed.

In the cycle world, every ten days, challengers must enter a dungeon, or they will be eliminated... in short, the cycle world doesn’t support idlers.

Tang Cheng had already fully mastered the essentials of the Seven Night Assassination Technique by the seventh day. In the remaining days, he continued to refine it, and on the last day, he stopped training, ate well, drank well, and had a good sleep. When the time was almost up, he tidied up his gear and waited for the world dungeon to open.

It’s worth mentioning that in single-player mode and team mode, the choice of dungeons differs. In single-player mode, you can only be randomly matched with a world dungeon of corresponding difficulty. In team mode, you can choose from several world dungeons, with corresponding difficulties, relatively safe difficulties, and more dangerous difficulties. This is one of the reasons why more people join teams.

Of course, Tang Cheng is in single-player mode, so there’s no need to talk much about team mode. However, regardless of the mode, the greater the difficulty, the greater the reward, which is a constant.

"Generally speaking, no matter how much potential a newbie has, their first battle will only be one-star difficulty. This is to help challengers adapt to the cycle world faster and is the last favor the cycle world gives to challengers. Therefore, the death rate of the first formal dungeon is far below the average. With Dad’s current strength, it should be even easier than the beginner dungeon..."

While waiting, Little Apple diligently explained some rules to Tang Cheng, who nodded while listening. Although he was always reckless, he felt he should listen to his daughter’s words seriously.

Finally, when the time reached the last moment, Tang Cheng felt his consciousness start to blur, and the cold, emotionless voice appeared again.

"Target confirmed, current challenger number 9527, entering two-star difficulty world dungeon 'Attack on Titan,' starting teleportation, countdown..."

"What! Two-star?" Tang Cheng could hear the voice, and as an assistant spirit, Little Apple could also hear it. Her face instantly changed. "How is this possible? What’s going on?"

Even the five-star newbies who appeared before had one-star difficulty for their first formal dungeon. Why did Tang Cheng encounter a two-star dungeon? This was too unreasonable!

Although sometimes Little Apple wished to strangle Tang Cheng, in terms of data loyalty, she always hoped that Tang Cheng would live on. Moreover, if Tang Cheng died, she would also disappear. As a being with its own personality, she couldn’t possibly want this to happen.

This contradictory phenomenon finally made Little Apple a bit panicked. By the time she came to her senses, Tang Cheng had already disappeared from her sight...

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