The grand ceremony ended, and the storm rose again.

After more than a month of publicity and momentum to the competition and then to the final determination of the top 100 awards, it has attracted too much attention in both the virtual world and the real world.

Many people who didn't like games were also attracted by virtual games, and the number of players in the second world who was close to saturation has increased again, including many retired old people at home, who have money and time, and don't like leveling PK and are more keen on leisure and entertainment and some life skills, which enriches the composition of players in the second world and brings huge business opportunities to many professional players.

In the game, more and more small game groups are emerging, and they are breaking away from the control of large groups and large companies, avoiding the highly competitive system Big Sky City and the empty city controlled by the player group themselves as much as possible, and constantly expanding their territory on the ground.

Originally relatively rare player villages and towns have sprung up in various places on the game continent, a small village may be completely composed of a small player group, the planning structure and opening of shops are completely controlled by the players themselves, the master brain also acquiesces to this player's self-development model, and also provides a lot of tasks, some villages have grown and even expanded into a small city.

On the other hand, the competition between large groups and large companies has intensified, as many small empty cities have risen into the air, the competition for leveling map resources has become more and more fierce, and a round of mutual annexation wars will inevitably break out, and the battle between the empty cities and the empty cities has appeared, and the victors have tasted the sweetness. The speed of cooperation and confrontation between large blocs has accelerated dramatically.

In such an environment. Some player stars continue to appear, such as the lonely god of war who won the championship of the PK competitive competition, and the tiger who is known as the first sniper does not eat people, etc., some real enterprise companies have taken a fancy to the advertising benefits of these player stars, and have invested heavily in the game, packaging some player stars like packaging real stars, and the gossip on the player forum is even more surging and endless.

But of course, the most dazzling star is the spokesperson of the second world - Mingmei, who made a shining appearance at the top ten awards ceremony of the PK competition, awarding rewards to players and revealing her identity in the game - Meiyangyang. The beautiful sheep of the sheep wolf family.

And the most surprising thing is that many people in the entire sheep and wolf family are celebrities of the same company as Meiyangyang, and their identities have been revealed one by one. makes the sheep wolf family a well-deserved star family in the second world.

And so on, the world of the game is far more exciting than reality. Coupled with the fact that the Mastermind has opened up a lot of places in the empty city for players to learn knowledge, the Second World is praised by many as the spiritual home of mankind.

A month after the end of the PK competition. Silver Wolf Federation, edge of the Western Desert, border city.

A ferocious sandstorm has just visited this small city on the ground at the junction of the desert and the Gobi, covering the city's large and small buildings with a layer of yellow sand.

However, the players who lived inside were clearly used to this, and as soon as the storm passed, all the closed shops reopened, and many players walked out of the shop bars, some scolding at the bad weather. Others are shouting loudly to start soliciting business.

This kind of scenario. There is no land to be seen in any Sky City protected by an Energy Shield, and player-built Ground Towns are constantly tested by monsters and bad weather. But there is always a group of players who just like this kind of place.

At noon, when the sun was at its hottest, a cool-looking Hummer SUV roared along the path to the Gobi Desert in the east of the city, and several desert yellow-tailed rats foraging on the side of the road were so frightened that they immediately slipped into a cave not far away.

Several players who had just returned from a mission in the Gobi on their mounts looked at the off-road vehicle speeding past them in amazement and whispered a few words.

In this windy and sandy small town, it is rare to see such high-end vehicles.

Lei Jingtian turned off the stereo, picked up the drink in the ice bucket and poured a big sip, although the air conditioning was turned on in the car, but the scorching heat outside seemed to be unable to resist even the thick body.

To be honest, he didn't really like the desert environment either. But there is no way, Leng Ying has recently obtained an epic potion recipe, if she can successfully concoct it, she is likely to break through to the top master natural pharmacist with the newly baked formula, so Lei Jingtian has the responsibility to take on the task of material collector.

This time I came to the Western Desert to find the nuclear crystal of the desert salamander, this kind of monster thunder has never been heard of, or I searched for simple information in the player forum.

He first flew to the Silver Wolf Federation's Sand Sea Sky City, where he took a three-winged spaceship to the nearest land destination to the desert, and even then, he still needed to drive an hour to the Western Desert, where desert salamanders infested him.

Fortunately, in the purchased electronic map, there is a small city established by a player group that can provide supplies, otherwise this mission is really not good, because Leng Ying's recipe requires a bit of a special nuclear crystal, and it requires 300 pieces of fire crystal condensate purified from desert salamander nuclear crystals.

Therefore, after seeing that there were player cities that could provide supplies, Thunder decided to stay in this desert area for a while longer, and simply practiced the last few million experience from level 4 and level 47.

As the runner-up of the PK competition, Thunder was rewarded with 50% experience at the current level, 10,000 reputation points, 100,000 credits, an epic PK Badge of Honor, and finally a very special item - the Flame of Reincarnation.

PK Badge of Honor, +5% Attack of all systems, +5% Defense of all systems, HP +800, MP+400, Strength +20, Agility +20, System +20, Skill Honor Protection.

This badge is undoubtedly very powerful, especially the accompanying honor protection skill, which can eliminate 1 point of Pk value after use, which means that the red name can be eliminated with this skill after active killing, but it can only kill 1 person, and the cooldown time is as long as three days.

PK Badge of Honor is only available to three people, such as Thunder Shocking and Lonely God of War, and another special item, Reincarnation Flame, may also be the same, Thunder Shocking asked the veteran, the veteran's reward is a worse badge and experience, etc., and then he saw the revelations of some award-winning players on the forum, and there is also no such reincarnation Flame.

The Flame of Reincarnation is a one-time item that allows players to change their appearance and ID! It is a bound item that cannot be transferred and traded, and Lei Jingtian felt that this thing did not have much effect at first, but later realized that he really needed it.

Because after such a competition, Lei Jingtian has become a star among players like the lonely god of war, and someone can recognize him when he goes out, so he is close to talking, wants to recognize the eldest brother, asks for sniper secret skills, and even borrows money, even if he doesn't go out to meet people, there are more people talking to him, and Lei Jingtian has no choice but to turn off the intercom.

This kind of everything really annoys him, and he can't play games.

So Lei Jingtian finally used the Flame of Reincarnation, changed his appearance, and his ID changed from "tigers don't eat people" to "wandering gunslingers", and only a few friends knew about his new ID, so he finally stopped being harassed.

In the past month, he didn't have anything big to do, so he concentrated on doing task leveling, and his experience rose rapidly. Originally, such a long time should be enough to level up successfully, but the current major leveling maps are overcrowded, and the PK area has become a hell of death intertwined with blood and fire, and the players of the two federations are competing for neutral high-experience leveling maps and doing confrontation tasks in it, and their eyes are green light, and they don't want to run there alone, maybe one will be killed directly by a dozen controllers or snipers lurking in the dark.

After some hard work, seeing that he was about to break through to the level 47 mark, Leng Ying found a recipe on the trading platform, so he simply came to a pot of leveling and playing materials.

Thunderbolt stopped the off-road vehicle about ten meters away from the gate of the small city, he got out of the car and put away the Hummer SQ3500 and walked towards the city.

This kind of player city located in the leveling area is often attacked by monsters, so the defensive wall is indispensable, in this desert environment, the high city wall can also block the attack of the storm, so from the outside, the wall of the border city is strong and magnificent, made of thick granite barriers, plus mechanically controlled metal gates, obviously used a senior architect to spend a lot of money to build carefully. The buildings in the city are much inferior, but they have a lot of donkey dung and eggs.

Judging from the information provided on the electronic map, this player city called "Border City" is built and managed by a player company called Brotherhood, which belongs to the lowest level of ground city, and the maximum population size is 30,000 people (including NPCs), which is quite difficult, after all, it is very difficult to grow from a small village to a city, even the smallest, especially for these obscure small companies.