The news of Lin Qi's imminent retirement, after a while of excitement in the gaming circle, was quickly replaced by another blockbuster news.

The arenas and battlefields of the nations are fully open.

At this time, four days have passed since Lu Zhe's gang got the first kill of the seventh layer in November.

Qian Xuehuan kept his promise, and the next day he helped wash the horse and hide the sword and Du Xiaoxiao to beat the seventh layer. Boss Du envied Su Ying for being able to add Qin Qingman's friends, but he didn't have the courage to take the initiative to talk, and he couldn't make friends in the end.

In the past four days, Siemens in Germany, AMC in the United States, and the Chinese Faith Club have cleared the seventh layer of the Weeping Cave.

However, these six teams, including the Big Bad Wolf team, without exception, all fell in the initial stage of the eighth layer.

The eighth floor of the secret realm, the flame cell.

Before reaching the cell where the boss is located, there is a path filled with red-burning slag, and the player will take fire damage and forbidden magic when walking on it.

Fire damage is extremely high, and there's still a long way to go.

It takes 2 minutes for ordinary players to walk the whole way, because the whole road is extremely soft because of the slag particles, and the places where professional players can borrow their strength are very limited, and the fastest time is about 1 minute and 30 seconds, and this time has already been burned to death by the flames.

The few teams that have tried so far have all fallen on this road, and they can't even see the face of a mob.

……

Weekend.

Ying Xiao Studio.

Su Ying instructed the workers to move a white vending machine to the corner of the training room, facing several game cabins.

After settling the account and sending people away, the three of them stood in front of the vending machine and looked at it carefully for a while.

"Is there anything missing?" Su Ying hugged her arms thoughtfully.

"No price marked?" Lu Zhe asked tentatively.

"yes, I'll go get a pen and stickers." Su Ying was stunned.

"Is this really necessary?" Lu Zhe couldn't cry or laugh.

"Yes, there are some, our studio will have to recruit people in the future, not only the three of us, it will be necessary at that time." Su Ying happily went to get her things and began to make price tags.

Du Xiaoxiao is not interested in this kind of thing, but seeing that Su Ying is doing it, she can only help together, she really can't handle her words, so she does some work of cutting paper and stickers.

Su Ying also specially checked the prices of various snacks and drinks on the Internet, wrote them on the stickers one by one, and then asked Du Xiaoxiao to paste them in the corresponding places.

Several people worked hard all morning before all the preparations were finally completed.

Plug it in.

The vending machines are lit up, exactly like in the mall.

"This batch of snacks was sent by the machine manufacturer, and there is nothing I like in it, you two hurry up and finish them, I can put potato chips in it." Su Ying said with a smile.

She had already ordered some of her favorite snacks and drinks online, and they hadn't been delivered yet.

Lu Zhe was helpless: "Then, boss, can this batch of snacks be free?" ”

Su Ying thought for a while: "It's okay, but I'll have to buy it myself in the future." ”

"Okay." Lu Zhe was very cooperative.

Then I saw Su Ying come down from upstairs with a shoebox, there was a crisp sound inside, and when I opened it, it turned out to be a large box of coins.

"This is what I specially went to the bank to exchange, come, first 10 per person, buy it and try it." Su Ying seems to be obsessed with this thing, and she wants to do everything.

Lu Zhe smiled: "Don't do this, you can scan the code with your mobile phone, who still uses coins now." ”

Su Ying said: "This is more retro and has a sense of ceremony. ”

In the end, Lu Zhe and Du Xiaoxiao couldn't resist Su Ying, and each took 10 coins and stupidly bought a few snacks on the vending machine.

Lu Zhe casually opened a pack and poured it into his mouth, and said indistinctly: "Did you finally upgrade last night?" ”

"Well, they're all 25." Du Xiaoxiao was not very interested in snacks, so she threw aside the things she bought, and continued to return to the game pod to prepare to start the battle.

In the past few days, the five of them have been practicing frantically, and Lu Zhe also took time to practice during the day when he was in the company, and even surpassed several of them, and the second to reach level 25 after Hyacinth.

It wasn't until last night that Su Ying and the 3 reached level 25.

At this time, Ryuichi Hanshin, who is the first in the ranking list, has reached level 30, and most of the professional players in the first echelon are around level 278.

"After 25, the rank is no longer the most urgent, and everything else has to keep up." Lu Zhedao.

"What else to do?"

"Do you know that the battlefield is open?"

"I know, but, aren't we going to fight on the battlefield if we don't level up?"

Du Xiaoxiao was a little puzzled, with her temperament, she wished she could soak in the battlefield arena all day and not come out, but she also knew that leveling was the first place at present, and she hadn't played PVP for a long time in the past few days.

"The level must be raised, but the battlefield must also be fought."

"Why?"

"For the sake of honor."

"Rank upgraded? Do you want to buy a mount first? ”

"Not bad." Lu Zhe nodded.

"Isn't it early?"

Du Xiaoxiao's doubts are not unreasonable.

In the game, players can only use ground mounts at level 30 and flying mounts at level 60, but this is only a level limit.

In fact, all kinds of mounts in the game are very rare, even the most ordinary ground mounts, the rarity is close to legendary equipment, and it depends on doing tasks to obtain, the probability is too small, and it is not reliable.

However, the map of the nations is so large that it would be too time-consuming for the player to explore on two legs without a mount, which is not the intent of the game.

As a result, the system will eventually allow most players to get at least one ground mount.

And the easiest way to get it is on the battlefield.

Each player, upon reaching the rank of second lieutenant, can purchase a horse from the Quartermaster for 10 gold as a ground mount.

Although 10 gold coins are a lot, compared to the mount, it is already the price of cabbage, especially in the later stage, after the depreciation of gold coins, it is basically equivalent to giving it away for nothing.

The rank of second lieutenant, whether it is difficult to say or not, is ranked after private, corporal, sergeant, and sergeant, and is the fifth rank in the game, but at this stage, it takes a period of effort to obtain.

But after delaying such a long training time and transferring to a military rank, no one can say whether it is worth it or not.

The game official has not given reasonable advice at present, but there is a lot of discussion on some mainstream forums.

Giving up leveling and upgrading to a military rank seems to be a sacrifice for the end, but on the other hand, with a mount, the efficiency of leveling and doing tasks will obviously be much improved.

After weighing the two phases, the more authoritative statement is that when it comes to level 29 or so, it is the most cost-effective way to go to the battlefield to upgrade the rank.

But because there are so few people who have reached this level at present, there is no way to make a statistic, and everyone is just guessing.

Du Xiaoxiao had obviously read similar posts, and expressed puzzlement at Lu Zhe's approach of preparing to go to the battlefield at level 25.

"After level 25, there is not much difference between early and late." Lu Zhe explained: "And the purpose of our urgent need for mounts is not entirely to make it easier to level up in the future, but also to consider the secret realm. ”

"The eighth floor of the Flame Cell?"

"Yes."