Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 161

"Traitor, this evil immortal is mine!"

Nothing can stop combat players from their obsession with getting the first kill on a boss!

Grand Marshal: "You can't do it alone, let's work together!"

Sister Xunmei: "Get lost! I'm telling you, her first kill has to be mine!"

He swallowed a spirit herb and said, "Meimei, let's charge!"

"Yes, Master, I'll heal you!"

"Master, I'll clear the way ahead for you."

Sister Xunmei released black tigers, flying birds, flower fairies, and other creatures capable of fighting to block the way, relying on her strong body and willpower to accelerate once again.

At this moment, the mental danger detection system behind the game platform issued an alarm: Warning, warning, someone is forcibly breaking through the mental capacity limit, danger!

The people monitoring the data were stunned. How could someone's brain break free from neuromechanical control?

This control system is directly linked to the central brain of the entire interplanetary network, and scientists on the central brain quickly responded to the anomaly.

They ordered the people in charge of the Aimore Planet gaming platform to leave this area alone; they took over.

A senior figure stared in shock at the slowly rising numbers and exclaimed, "It's been so many years since we reached a peace agreement with the Zerg and there has been no war. There hasn't been a case of mental advancement."

Interstellar beings call the phenomenon of pushing the human brain to its limits "mental advancement," which is both dangerous and beneficial. Those with low resilience will break down, while those with high resilience will gain greater mental fortitude.

Before the advent of mental health treatment, many warriors died on the battlefield due to mental breakdowns. Now that humanity has complete treatment methods, we are not afraid.

However, safety thresholds are still set within the holographic world and holographic pods to protect civilians. They don't need to go to the battlefield or train their mental resilience; instead, mental breakdowns consume medical resources.

However, after the armistice, scientists discovered that people cannot frequently undergo mental advancements. They set a threshold at the upper limit of soldiers' mental resilience, which no one has broken to this day. The same applies to the military; soldiers cannot break the mental threshold limit left by the Grand Marshal.

Each Grand Marshal had the highest mental threshold among their batch, because the ability to pilot a mecha was closely related to this.

Therefore, the scientists took the breaking of the mental threshold of the game platform very seriously and quickly dispatched a team to investigate. At the same time, they lifted the upper limit of the mental threshold in the game "Qingfengyi" and divided it into three levels: one for ordinary people, one for soldiers, and one for grand marshals.

Once all of them were brought in, everyone quickly discovered that Qingfengyi's players had very high mental thresholds.

Soon, scientists conducting neuroscience research presented their theoretical reports, suspecting that the game allowed players to fully utilize their brains and experience a wealth of positive mental feelings.

Regardless of the outcome, Qingfengyi's performance is truly astonishing.

Inside the dungeon, Sister Xunmei initially felt uneasy, as if something was holding her back. However, after a minute, that feeling suddenly dissipated, her five senses were liberated, and the pain was intense. But the first kill of the boss encouraged her, allowing her to ignore all negative sensations, and her speed increased again.

Over there, the giant python, having exhausted its power from a powerful attack, landed. Holding a bone sword, it glanced at the entire arena before swiftly charging towards Xunmei, the sister closest to it.

The mud kicked up by his feet flew up, leaves fluttered, and a ditch appeared where the longsword had cut through.

Sister Xunmei shouted, "Meimei, prepare a 10% health regeneration buff. Keep me alive so I don't die. The other fairies, take cover. We'll find an opportunity to disrupt their formation later."

"Yes."

Her judgment of the battlefield was extremely strong, and she was no match for the evil immortal's thirty-second attack. She could only reduce the amount of healing the milk-white immortal and fight with a sliver of health.

The downside is that the pain is extremely intense, like it's tearing you apart. Your limbs become stiff, and you can't lift a sword.

However, as long as you have enough willpower, everything else is secondary!

She raised her heavy sword and charged forward, saying, "Meimei, you decide what to do. As long as I don't die..."

"Yes."

The Grand Marshal shouted, "If you stop, you'll exceed your mental threshold and break down! Get out of the way and wait a few seconds for us."

Sister Xunmei laughed loudly: "What a joke! Me, break down? Only the weak break down, but I am the one who makes others break down!"

"what!"

She clashed with the evil immortal, her heavy sword slicing through the evil immortal's bone sword, breaking the heavy sword in two and the bone sword shattering. The sword wind swept past Sister Xunmei, who bent down, spun around, and kicked the evil immortal in the stomach.

The evil immortal staggered for a moment, then quickly regained his footing and launched another swift attack.

Sister Xunmei immediately took out another heavy sword and continued the fight.

This guest advisor is different; he can destroy weapons in the martial arts world of China, so she prepared over a hundred identical heavy swords. Everything had been fine before, but this evil immortal was the first to break her sword.

The evil immortal laughed and said, "You are really strong. If you can withstand a hundred of my moves, I will serve you as my master."

Sister Xunmei, thoroughly enjoying the battle, laughed and said, "I already have a guardian spirit, you're worthless, might as well kill you and take your equipment."

The equipment is suitable for her fragile White Fairy character.

Provoked by these words, Liu Xian's eyes turned fierce, and she attacked again.

The two were surprisingly evenly matched.

Lin Shuying was dumbfounded. She had set a Foundation Establishment stage, but Sister Xunmei was actually able to withstand it.

"Holy crap, is she trying to defy the heavens?"

The employees exclaimed, "My mecha commander-in-chief, she's so powerful!"

The game designers who participated in the design process had a better understanding of just how powerful the test subject's stats were.

Players and viewers alike found it unbelievable that someone who could instantly defeat thousands of players could be defeated by a single player in a one-on-one fight.

Sister Xunmei mastered the martial arts she had learned from the martial arts world of China, employing various dodges, backbends, and attacks, specifically targeting weaknesses. She also frequently created opportunities for the retainers nearby to throw bombs, hidden weapons, and poison.

Liu Xian saw the poison and laughed, "Don't you know I'm immune to poison?"

Sister Xunmei wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said, "It wasn't meant to be used against you."

Liu Xian paused for a moment, then looked around. Sure enough, many players who were approaching were watching from a distance, unable to get close. The Grand Marshal, having brought a healer, had already approached Sister Xunmei.

However, he received a communication from the Interstellar Academy of Sciences, which wanted him not to help and to let Sister Xunmei do as she pleased, as they wanted to test Sister Xunmei's mental advancement.

The Grand Marshal stopped in his tracks, blocking the Slaughter Ancestor and his men.

The Slaughter Ancestor exclaimed excitedly, "Boss, let's go!"

The Grand Marshal said, "Wait, the Academy of Sciences is testing the data."

"What can this test?"

"Shhh."

The Slaughter Ancestor was very disappointed that he couldn't try out the most powerful monster in Qingfengyi. What a pity.

Outside, the Bird Alliance leader asked Deng Yijun, "Boss, what are they doing? Why is our male god blocking other players from getting close because of his love for his wife?"

Deng Yijun exclaimed in admiration, "Xunmei is too powerful..."

It's likely that the Academy of Sciences is testing something, but I can't say for sure.

"Ah? As expected of a master, he even has the demeanor of a gentleman."

Deng Yijun: "You're right."

He watched Xunmei's moves and his legs started to ache. This woman was really something; she actually went and learned all sorts of martial arts techniques from the Chinese martial arts world, and she did them all quite well...

So far, only true combat players learn martial arts, and only one style at that. Most combat players focus on weapons, especially later on when artillery is introduced, they all use artillery; ancient martial arts are too difficult.

Sister Xunmei fought all night, until she was completely exhausted and numb, but her mind became clearer and clearer, and her heavy sword swung out with great force.

In the holographic world, since it's not a real physical body, as long as the spirit doesn't deplete, one can fight indefinitely until the physical body dies in reality. However, she's using the best holographic pod in the entire galaxy, so this situation won't occur within three days.

That feeling was somewhat enjoyable.

Bai Xian is expending a lot of energy, and Xunmei will die after just one hit. She simply can't withstand it. Bai Xian needs to be pushed to the absolute limit to keep her alive.

It's like she instantly recovers health when her health bar is depleted, constantly recovering. She can only recover 5% health each time, otherwise there's a cooldown period, and Bai Xian would be numb from constantly using her skills.

In the middle of the battle, Sister Xunmei needed to time her movements and stay away for a few seconds to give her the pills. Sister Xunmei had accumulated more than 900 pills and 30,000 to 40,000 spirit herbs from fighting the evil immortal, but she used them all up in one battle.

Lin Shuying was full of admiration because the player's incredible skill prevented the subsequent storyline of Liu Xian from being triggered, and she could only wait for Sister Xunmei to wear her down.

Wei Linwei asked, "Boss, shall we proceed with the second test?"

Lin Shuying: "I won't participate. Players can experience the other storylines after the official release of the max-level gameplay."

She prepared two solutions for this test subject. One was that it would be killed by the players, which was the least likely. The test subject's stats were 900 times that of the players, so even if the players overwhelmed it with sheer numbers, they couldn't kill it.

If Liu Xian devours 50,000 players, it will trigger divine punishment, and Erlang Shen will descend to the mortal realm to capture and take him away. He'll also give the players who fought him a spiritual herb, thus resolving the matter satisfactorily.

The first set of characters who were killed included a lot of items, clearly for testing purposes, and it's definitely testing items that will be released on the official server soon. Therefore, NPCs of that level drop all the items they're expected to. The Foundation Establishment stage is considered a mid-stage powerhouse, and the loot they drop is quite good.

Defeating one opponent allows you to dominate in the early game.

Xia Chunqi laughed and said, "Sister, you probably never expected that a player could kill a monster that doesn't even belong to this era. Hahaha, what a waste."

Lin Shuying laughed and said, "It doesn't count. It's useless without cultivation."

At most, you'll get a submachine gun without bullets. Don't panic.

Without magical power, cultivation artifacts are useless.

With a base mana value of 100, it's not even enough to start.

Furthermore, defeating late-game bosses that weren't yet available was commonplace in the gaming world of her past life. Some games, to save time and resources, would place monsters that would only be added and released later in the game on the map, complete with health bars and marked as unkillable. However, countless players would still defeat them, and it was not uncommon for entire servers to crash afterward.