ATPnovel Chapter 15: The Dark Room Squad?
Chapter 15: The Dark Room Squad?
The moment Li Bing finished speaking, the live stream chat exploded with comments.
"??? 10KD? Do you want to hear what you're saying?"
"You just registered a new account, K/D 0.0, and you want to get it to 10? Do you think you're playing against bots?"
"Young Bro is at it again! He just finished his lavish stream and is back to lavish again, huh?"
Li Bing ignored the comments and logged into his newly registered account.
A level 1 newbie icon popped up on the screen, with the ID blatantly proclaiming "Youthful Explosion," and even the avatar was the most basic, ridiculously shabby.
The viewers in the live chat were completely dumbfounded.
"Holy crap? You just registered a new account? Level 1?"
"I thought you were pretending you didn't know the way, but it turns out you're a complete beginner?"
Li Bing adjusted the sensitivity, her tone as calm as if she were talking about what to eat today.
"I borrowed a friend's account to test the game before, but now I'm using my own account, which is more convenient."
As soon as he finished speaking, a tutorial pop-up appeared on the screen. An NPC dressed in combat gear stood in the middle of the screen, teaching him step by step how to move and how to fire.
The audience was laughing hysterically.
"This is hilarious! A complete newbie! And they still have to do newbie quests!"
"I bet five cents he'll spend half an hour on the beginner quests!"
"Let's disperse, let's disperse. It'll be tomorrow before he can even attack the dam."
The next second, everyone was stunned.
Li Bing's fingers moved so fast they were barely visible, and his marksmanship in clearing out the AI was ridiculously fast.
In less than three minutes, the beginner's task was completed, and a prompt appeared on the screen that the ordinary dam was unlocked.
The live stream room originally had only a few dozen people, but now there are only about 40 left.
I was stuck in the middle, just staring at his screen, completely forgetting to send a comment.
Li Bing chose the standard dam, casually equipped a basic two-piece set, grabbed a bare AKM, clicked matchmaking, and was instantly matched.
He was born at the side entrance of the dam administration building. He had just caught the sound of footsteps half a meter away in his earphones when the muzzle of his gun was already raised. He fired three bullets from his hip, accurately hitting the passing AI in the head and killing him instantly.
Without stopping, they rushed into the administration building.
Around the corner, I encountered two AI players looting supplies.
He slid in and fired a pre-emptive shot, then unleashed a barrage of AKM fire the instant he stood up, securing two kills.
In less than 12 minutes of the game, he killed 9 people and successfully withdrew with a full bag of supplies.
When the settlement screen popped up, dozens of viewers fell silent.
Fifty viewers were glued to the live stream, watching him hit the ordinary dam again and again.
He gets more than 7 kills every game, with a record of 12 kills in one game, and he almost never dies.
My level increased rapidly; in just one morning, I jumped to level 13 and unlocked the Secret Dam.
"Stop attacking the regular dams! Attack the classified ones! The regular dams are full of newbies, what's the point of attacking them?"
As the comments section erupted, Li Bing, having just withdrawn from the game, paused for a moment before selecting the Secret Dam.
The equipment consisted of four sets of armor plus a half-modified AKM, without even a scope, only a vertical grip.
The audience has become numb; no one is criticizing him for using a trash gun anymore.
After all, we've seen him go on a killing spree all day with a bare AK, so it's nothing new to us.
The difficulty of the classified dam is much higher than that of the ordinary dam.
All the players I was matched with were veterans who had played for hundreds of hours.
In his first game, he rushed into the administration building and encountered a full squad camping there.
The audience was on the edge of their seats, about to send a warning in the chat, when they saw him peek out, take down the gunner with three bullets, then slide into the building, take down two more with hip-fire, and when the last one tried to run, he caught up and shot him in the leg with a burst of bullets, knocking him down.
The entire team was wiped out in less than 10 seconds.
The screen was flooded with "NB" (awesome).
The next dozen or so games were even more outrageous.
Every time he landed, he would rush to crowded places—administration buildings, visitor centers, substations—wherever there was gunfire, he would go. He killed seven or eight people every round, with a record of 11 kills in one round. Apart from being ambushed and eliminated twice by rats camping at the evacuation point, he almost never even fell down.
The level soared to 22, and the K/D ratio of the Secret Dam was exactly 7.0, perfectly balanced.
The 50 long-time fans in the live stream had been watching for almost five hours, and now, looking at his KD, the chat was full of numb exclamation marks.
"I'm not surprised anymore when I see how many people he kills."
"Stop talking, upstairs. In the last game, he spent ten minutes looking for an evacuation point, circled the dam three times, and finally only managed to evacuate with directions from the chat. I laughed until my stomach hurt."
"Hahaha, I remember! He happened to run into someone who was alone while he was wandering around, and he just killed them instantly. I was stunned. How can someone pick up kills while lost?"
"Brother Qingchun is playing against top-secret dams like he's playing against bots, it's so boring. When are we going to tackle top-secret aerospace?"
The moment this comment was posted, it instantly garnered the approval of everyone.
"Yeah! Stop calling classified information! Call it top-secret spaceflight! That's where real men belong!"
"The classified dam isn't enough for you anymore! Go to the top-secret aerospace project and crush those streamers and pro players!"
"If you don't have an account, I'll lend you mine! I have all the maps and all the operators unlocked on my account. I just want to see how many kills you can get in the Secret difficulty! Stop playing against bots, it's too boring!"
Li Bing had just exited the settlement interface when he saw the comments and raised an eyebrow. He then slid his finger across the map interface to the icon of "Top Secret Space Base".
It's exactly level 22, which meets the requirements for top-secret aerospace classification.
"I've reached the required level, so I'll start now." He said calmly, "I know this game inside and out."
[Top Secret Space Base, Combat Readiness Value 60]
He thought to himself that the gun handling and map logic of this game were not much different from Apex Legends, only with more details, so it was completely controllable.
Just as the chat was about to cheer, they were blown up when they saw the equipment he was using.
He still had level 4 armor and a level 4 helmet, and he was still holding that half-modified AKM. Apart from a vertical grip and a flash suppressor, he had nothing else installed, not even a red dot sight.
"??? You're using this to keep it top secret?"
"I just saw you had 5000 million Haf coins in your inventory, right? You earned that all morning, didn't you? Shouldn't you have at least five sets of gear? Shouldn't you deserve a fully upgraded M14 or a Giant Wave? Using a half-modified AKM for top-secret missions?"
"You're okay with a partially modified AK for classified shots, but for top-secret shots, you're practically armed with five level 6 gear sets. They'll take you down in three shots!"
Li Bing leisurely stuffed level 5 rounds into the ammunition rack, raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, and spoke with a hint of nonchalant arrogance.
"Gun, a little recoil makes it more fun to play with. If it's too stable, it's not interesting."
The screen was instantly filled with ellipses.
"Great! They're going all out again! Doesn't the streamer realize how extravagant he is?!"
"Damn it, even though I know he's strong, I still really want to beat him up, what should I do?"
"If you get wiped out in a flash, let's see if you're still so cocky!"
Li Bing ignored it and clicked the match button.
one second.
Five seconds.
ten seconds.
Twenty seconds.
The matching screen is still spinning, and there's no sign of me getting into the matchmaking process.
The viewers in the live stream panicked instantly.
"Holy crap? It's been over twenty seconds since we got matched and we still haven't gotten in? Oh no! Young Bro must have gotten too many kills and is in the blacklist!"
"His K/D ratio was too high, and he got too many kills, so the system assigned him to the highest difficulty 'black room' game! It's full of cheaters and pro players!"
"I heard that eight out of ten people in the 'black room' (a game where cheaters are banned) are using cheats, and the remaining two are top-tier streamers and professional players. Qingchun is doomed this time!"
"He's already terrible with directions; he'd get lost even if he went in there. And now he's going to get beaten up? He'll probably get diarrhea from all the beatings!"
"Who was it that said they were going to get KD to 10? This first game is going to be a disaster!"