The second day of the Blood Calamity.
Eight in the morning.
[Base Nightmare Coins: 1600, Conversion Rate: 7885%, Total Production in 8 Hours: 127,760 Nightmare Coins]
[Total Nightmare Coins: 373,728]
Last night, a player offered an item that grants Free Attribute points. Xu Lang used Nightmare Coins to upgrade a wave, then handed the item over to Senior Sister Red Butterfly.
Senior Sister Red Butterfly's strength increased, and her Charm would rise too. In the short term, this seemed like a loss, but in the long run, it was a gain.
Xu Lang was flush with Nightmare Coins now, so he could afford a little extravagance.
Besides, Senior Sister Red Butterfly and Tong Qi's Free Attributes were also about to hit their caps. A proper boost was very necessary.
Worth mentioning, apart from Wang Yazhi, everyone else had the qualifications for the Mad King Trial with a single attribute.
Everyone teased that Wang Yazhi's Overachiever heart had been acknowledged by Mad King Building, but there was no bitterness. If everyone were all-rounder C-position carries, they'd consume too many resources.
The resources the women consumed weren't ordinary resources—they were the top-tier of top-tier resources, equally precious.
Yesterday, bored with nothing else to do, they had gathered in the Training Room for a rare sparring session, testing how far each other's strength had progressed.
Unexpectedly, the usually low-key Xu Xiaomeng stood out.
The skills she had acquired from the Game Console were incredibly broken!!!
Especially her Crowd-Control Skills!
For example, the "Heavy Kick" from Double Dragon—if it landed, no matter who you were, you'd be hard-CC'd for one second. It was utterly unreasonable.
As the others competed, they felt like they were measuring combat power against a gag character.
Fight her? You could win.
Get schemed against? You could really get outplayed and die.
If Xu Xiaomeng hit you, she could genuinely chain-lock you to death with combos!
Xu Lang was the exception, since his immunity to control came from Scarlet Shepherd, and it was also very hard for Xu Xiaomeng to get close to him. Once she became an enemy unit, various abnormal debuffs would land on her.
And if she did get close, things would be even worse.
Anyway, Xu Lang didn't dare draw his blade during practice now, afraid he might kill someone.
During last night's sleep, Xu Lang had already used all his Fusion chances to smelt Nightmare Essence, and he had several big dreams, figuring out today's gameplay.
So, at this moment, he lay leisurely on his bed, calculating how to use the Nightmare Essence.
"High-quality facilities can smelt more Nightmare Essence."
"But such facilities are ultimately limited."
"Although the Blood Calamity is terrifying, I don't need to be too cautious. Otherwise, if a truly huge scene appears in the Simulation Dream later, I won't have enough Nightmare Essence to spend."
Xu Lang thought for a while, then prepared to enter Dreamland again to see if the Nightmare Apostles were working properly.
Just then, the Taleblade Demon Box stirred with an abnormal fluctuation.
Xu Lang quickly took out the Taleblade Demon Box itself and was shocked to discover that the third layer of Purgatory had been born!
Yesterday, he had caught a large number of Rain Men, and hadn't let a single one carrying the Demon Box Curse escape.
And the third layer of the Infinite Purgatory was born precisely from the quantitative change of these Rain Men causing a qualitative change!
"Are the Rain Men and the Taleblade Demon Box such a perfect match?!"
"I only caught three thousand Rain Men yesterday!"
"And the Taleblade Demon Box has already stepped up to a new level. Excellent!"
Xu Lang was extremely surprised.
In yesterday's simulation, he had fought the super monster to a standstill, not properly managing the Taleblade Demon Box's development, so the third layer of Purgatory hadn't been born.
Today, he had only simulated some dangerous nodes.
Ultimately, there had been a gap.
There were surprises in the simulation—it wasn't a completely future simulation. Instead, Xu Lang's real body entered the scene, and the simulation continued based on the choices his real body made.
This had pros and cons. The advantage was freedom; the disadvantage was that Xu Lang was easily prone to doing whatever he wanted, like playing Minecraft.
Pushing aside his distractions, Xu Lang looked at the Faceless Man's information introduction, and only four words echoed in his mind.
—Extreme Danger!
When Rain Men were Tale-fied, they were called Faceless Men, and all Faceless Men were floor lords, with no hierarchy.
The world was originally formless, so how could there be hierarchy?
[Effect 9 (Infinite Purgatory·Formless): Third layer of the Infinite Purgatory, floor lord "Faceless Men," layer rule: All existence loses its original identity and definition, gradually forgetting everything, and is replaced by "Faceless Men"]
[Nightmare Eye·Faceless Men: A Tale creature from the third layer of the Infinite Purgatory, "Formless." It possesses no lethality; it is the embodiment of nothingness, an infection rule. When someone forgets a certain memory, the Faceless Men will take that memory for themselves and replace it. Formless and shapeless, heaven and earth are originally colorless. Falsehoods dye, stripping away the essence, until eventually both surface and core are lost.]
You cannot forget, or the Faceless Men will usurp you!
You cannot dwell on them, or the Faceless Men's Tale infection will grow deeper and deeper, until both surface and core are lost!
This was an unsolvable Tale. Just releasing one would cause a massive disaster!
That was just releasing them. If someone actually entered the Formless Purgatory, their sense of self would likely be devoured in an instant.
If Xu Lang were a player of Taleblade Building itself, he could use the Faceless Men to replace all the Taleblade Building players!
But Mad King Building didn't need that.
Because he already controlled the building both nominally and practically.
He didn't care what the Mad King Building players thought in their hearts, so there was no need to go to such lengths.
"If Song Fei saw the Faceless Men, he'd definitely have new ideas again... Faceless Men can replace players, and they can also replace the biological groups in the Blood Mist World."
"Together, they are a blazing fire; scattered, they are stars dotting the sky."
"Faceless Men seem quite useful as spies."
"But I've already got too many irons in the fire; there's no need to mess with more things."
"Just wait for a good opportunity to come knocking. If it doesn't, that's fine too."
Xu Lang declared that his manhood was too big for playing schemes and intrigues.
