"It's getting colder and colder." Jiang Ling entered the piano shop and hung up his coat. The real world has entered winter, and the winter in the north is naturally unceremonious, even if Jiang Ling wears a thick coat, he still feels very cold.

Fang Xinyuan had already boiled a pot of hot water, poured a cup for Jiang Ling, and asked at the same time, "Are you wearing autumn pants?"

Jiang Ling walked over and took a sip of the cup, and said with a smile: "Wear it, it's not seventeen or eighteen years old, where can you still use someone to persuade you, you can turn it out early and put it on." ”

"The coat is a little thinner, or go to the mall to buy a cotton suit in a while, and I'll reimburse you." Fang Xinyuan said.

"It's still Sister Fang's pain, but I'm too lazy to go shopping, let's take a look at online shopping for one later." Jiang Ling picked up the broom, and then asked, "What about Xiaoxin?" ”

"Xiaoxin is changing clothes upstairs, and I'll send him to his grandmother's house in a while." Fang Xinyuan waved her hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry to work, rest for a while, warm and warm." ”

Jiang Ling was not polite, put down the broom and sat down first, and asked, "This is preparing to go abroad, let the child stay with grandma for two days first?" ”

"Yes, after all, I may have to stay abroad for a long time this time." Fang Xinyuan said: "Let Xiaoxin stay at grandma's house for two days, and I will come back later today." ”

Jiang Ling said: "Then you still let me go shopping for clothes, and the store doesn't care?" ”

"Anyway, it's not winter vacation yet, and there are no guests."

"In that case, then you can go back and stay for a day, and you don't have to come back today." Jiang Ling said.

Fang Xinyuan smiled and said, "Okay, listen to you, anyway, you will be the boss in the future." ”

"Hey, but I have a tune here, I want you to show it for me first." Jiang Ling took out the score of the Dragon Dance Thundercloud, which he wrote down from memory at home after he quit the game yesterday, and with Jiang Ling's current level, there would be no mistakes.

Previously, Jiang Ling showed Fang Xinyuan the piano scores of "Jiang Zuofu" and "Rain Falling on the Green Mountains", and Fang Xinyuan praised it very much and learned to play. As soon as she heard that Jiang Ling had a new tune to bring, she suddenly became interested, took the score and read it, nodded and said, "Where did you find so many good tunes?" What friend gave it to you? ”

Jiang Ling felt that there was no need to hide it from Fang Xinyuan, and said: "The friends in the game are... The plot characters, this song is also brought out of the game. ”

Fang Xinyuan expressed her novelty, and then she thought for a while and said, "Then it should be a technician who wrote the existing tunes into the game, right?" I don't know much about this, but aren't all things in the game made by programmers? It stands to reason that such a good song should be circulated, but I have never seen it. ”

"Well, it shouldn't have been programmers, so what's the point... It feels like it's auto-generated. Jiang Ling thought about it and felt that firstly, he didn't understand much about AI programming, and it was not easy to explain, and secondly... Jiang Ling is now questioning how this game world was built.

"Is AI so powerful now? In the past, when AI intelligence first came out, everyone said that some simple mechanical jobs were at risk of being replaced, but now even artistic creation will be impacted. Alas, I don't know if it's good or bad. Fang Xinyuan also understood this, and felt unbelievable and amazed.

Jiang Ling scratched his head and said, "Anyway, it's quite difficult to bring some piano scores from there now." ”

Here Xiaoxin went downstairs, Fang Xinyuan returned the score to Jiang Ling, and said: "With your current level, there will definitely be no problem playing according to the score, you can practice by yourself today, and when I come back tomorrow, I will study and study with you." I've got to go first, by the way, I've left you breakfast upstairs. ”

"Okay Sister Fang, slow down on the road." Jiang Ling also said hello to Xiaoxin.

Jiang Ling and Xiaoxin have had a lot of contact during this time, Xiaoxin is also a sensible child, and he has a good relationship with Jiang Ling.

The mother and son left the piano shop, Jiang Ling sat and read the score, and then went upstairs to eat breakfast first, put up the dishes and chopsticks, and went downstairs to pick up the broom and simply clean the ground. Then Jiang Ling held the teacup in one hand and the back of his back with the other, walked around the store, carefully looking at the few pianos in the store.

At this time, the storefront was opened, and the sound of footsteps was heard.

Jiang Ling, who had his back to the door, didn't look back, and said with a teacup: "Welcome." ”

"Yo, the boss is all up? But how do you look like a retired old man? Shi Yi sneered.

Jiang Ling actually knew that it was her who came by listening to the footsteps, so he didn't look back, he continued: "In terms of lifespan, after all, I have reached the time of retirement. ”

Shi Yi said: "As long as you can win the game, you will have a good time. ”

"To be honest, I'm getting more and more terrified of the power hierarchy behind you, but I still question whether you really have the ability to deal with all the incurable diseases." Jiang Ling said this flatly.

"But you can only believe it, don't you?" Shi Yi glanced at him, sat down and poured himself a glass of water.

"That's right, otherwise what would I do practicing boxing and playing the piano against." Jiang Ling sat opposite Shi Yi and stepped into the main topic: "What's the matter, what instructions have been given this time?" Or is it the same old fashion, ask me what I need? ”

Shi Yi said: "I have already reported that you don't have any needs." ”

"Hey, how can you make your own decisions?" Jiang Ling protested dissatisfiedly: "It's better to have some real rewards to fill my scarce material life, and it can also inspire me to work harder." ”

Shi Yi smiled and said: "There is encouragement, but you have to wait for you to successfully pass this knockout round." ”

Jiang Ling said happily: "What reward?" ”

"Rewards that can fill your material life."

“... Can you be more detailed? ”

"All in all, it was a pleasant surprise."

Jiang Ling was dissatisfied: "No, can you say something about the yang world..."

Shi Yi glared: "You say it again?" ”

Jiang Ling shrank his neck and said, "You know my current ranking, right?" As far as this knockout match is concerned, it's not too much to say that nine out of ten are stable, right? Reveal it in advance. ”

Shi Yi said impatiently: "If you want money to give money, you want people to give people, okay?" ”

"I can understand if you want money to give money, this important person gives people..."Jiang Ling raised his eyebrows.

Shi Yi smiled meaningfully: "Transfer Xiao Ke to you..."

"Alright, here you go again." Jiang Ling muttered helplessly: "I thought I could quench my thirst, and I could take care of my old place, where my time was short... Ay! Burst! ”

Shi Yi picked up the cup and splashed water on Jiang Ling's face.

Jiang Ling also has some skills, and he has tried his best to dodge, but Shi Yi is more skilled and splashes too accurately...

"Have you quenched your thirst?"

"Big sister, your water is still hot!"

"Drink plenty of hot water."

Jiang Ling really didn't have the courage to compete with Shi Yi, so he took a towel and wiped his face, and secretly scolded the street in his heart.

Shi Yi said: "After a meeting to analyze the form of qualifying for the knockout tournament this time, we Chinese players are generally optimistic, and there are eight players like you who are 'nine out of ten'. There is a high probability of qualifying, there are 25 people. There are still 41 people who have the possibility of qualifying. However, you know the rules of elimination better than me this time, and you should know that the final result is difficult to predict. ”

"yes, the rules of this knockout round are really outrageous." Jiang Ling recalled the rules of the knockout round that were announced after watching the battlefield preview yesterday.

[After the end of the battle, the players with the lowest total points will be eliminated, and the total number of players will be reduced to 100]

[This battlefield mode retains some of the rules of the previous knockout round, the losing team will receive a 50% reduction in points, and the winning team will receive an additional 200 points.] 】

[Since the scope of the battlefield is chosen by the player, when the system assigns the team, there may still be an unequal number of players on both sides, and the system will adjust it according to the player's point ranking and the difficulty of the main mission.] 】

[In this Knockout Tournament, when a player kills a player who is ranked above them, the Kill Points earned will be doubled.] 】

[If this battlefield is an individual battle, players with lower points will get more information or reduce the difficulty of winning to varying degrees.] 】

[In order to prevent some players from giving up the game and deliberately helping or disturbing others, the main quest of this battlefield will be optimized, and monitoring will be strengthened. 】

Most of them are basically similar to the previous two knockouts, and the specific differences are reflected in three aspects, one is that the winner's points compensation has been increased from 100 to 200, which is nothing to say, and with the increase in the number of points obtained by players, the increase in this compensation points is also inevitable.

And the new kill rules are worth playing. Killing an opposing player now earns 50 points, and earning double points for killing a player with a higher score than your own. Jiang Ling's first thought was that the system was to take into account the situation that "some players are ranked lower but their own strength is stronger" and "some players have inflated rankings due to luck factors", to provide opportunities for high-power players at the bottom of the ranking, but after thinking about it, this regulation does not say that it should be "killed alone", in other words, it can be killed with the cooperation of the system characters, or even only make up for the last sword.

Therefore, if the player has the ability to mobilize the plot forces, he can also eat this extra point. After all, the target location of the battlefield is self-chosen, and it stands to reason that every player should have participated in some key plots and met some important people in the game until now.

For example, Jiang Ling has the identity of the guest secretary of the four great families of Qijin, Pu and Wei, the identity of the guest secretary of the Beiluo Gang, the order of the Xuanbu of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the friendship of the drunken flower building, and even the junior brother Li Angelica, etc., are all Jiang Ling's "power".

So in Jiang Ling's view, this rule is aimed at players who have no crushing strength, no plot control, weak power, and inflated rankings.

After thinking about it, Jiang Ling still recognized the reasonableness of this provision, all in all, it was to increase the means of obtaining points and give players who were ranked lower a chance to advance.

And the last new provision is clearly to prevent players who are ready to sacrifice themselves or give up on themselves to play any indiscriminate means to ensure the fairness of the game.

Under such rules, the impact of this knockout match will be much greater than that of the previous two matches combined, and even players who can actually make it to the top 300 have a theoretical chance of qualifying. With Jiang Ling's ranking, it is not too much to say that he is stable nine times out of ten, but it still cannot be completely ruled out that he will fall out of the top 100 and be eliminated.

"I might as well tell you something to be happy about." Shi Yi said seriously: "The upper authorities attach great importance to you and have already begun to plan your treatment plan." ”

Jiang Ling was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "It turns out that this is a surprise." ”