Chapter 294 Way to the Top (1)

The start CG ended so inexplicably without any prompt.

Feng Bujue immediately gained the ability to move, and the first thing he did was observe the situation next to him for sure.

At this time, three other players have appeared on both sides of Feng Bujue (one on the left-hand side, two on the right-hand side, and four people facing the same direction, standing in a row). All three are all young males who are about twenty years old.

The distance between the four players is almost the same, no one is next to each other. It seems that these four are all coming in in a single row.

More than ten meters in front of them was the building that appeared in the opening CG.

[The Main Quest has been triggered] The system prompt came in time.

Without a brief introduction, the task was refreshed immediately.

Feng Bujue opened the menu and sees the taskbar showing: [All surviving players had entered the “Reasoning Club”.]

“Hah! I didn’t expect I can meet star players in a casual queue.” The player standing on the left of the four suddenly said.

Feng Bujue turned his eyes…

The talking man, with ID [Autumn Wind, Level 28, title [Gaining Both Wisdom & Courage]. He’s about 1.7 meters tall with a thin build, short black hair and handsome appearance. He is wearing a dark-black costume, the badge on his chest shows that his society is called “Mountain and River”.

After Autumn Wind’s words were said, another player on the right-hand side of Feng Bujue immediately said: “Hehe… The name of star players is nothing but vanity. I’ve heard a lot of stories from the Mountain and River society that there’s a famous planner called Autumn Wind.”

Feng Bujue put his gaze on this man.

This person’s ID is [Swan], level 29, title [Wise Schemer]. He is slightly taller than Autumn Wind, and he is also thinner, wearing a pair of glasses (clothing) with silver-white hair. He is dressed in a white magic suit, like a medieval magician with no badge on his clothes, indicating that he is an individual player without a society.

The voice of Swan had just come to an end, and the one on the far right continued: “Don’t be too humble… everyone knows the name ‘Swan’ in the professional player’s world.”

Feng Bujue tilted his head and looked at the man.

The man who spoke this time was called [Calm Speaker], Level 28, and was titled [Constant Adviser]. He is half a head taller than Feng Bujue. With a bit stronger build, his hairstyle is a small flathead, and his appearance belongs to the type that cannot be found in the crowd. In terms of clothing, he wore a dark blue special military uniform, which is estimated to be the uniform of his society, and the emblem of his society is “Heaven and Earth”.

“Hehe… I have said ‘star players’, that means I don’t refer to Swan alone.” Autumn Wind answered at this time: “I have heard of Calm Speaker’s name a long time ago. “

“Hmm…” The three of them grinned and understood with the pleasure of boosting each other.

Feng Bujue listened to their conversation and looked around. He had a feeling that a web novel writer had strayed into the seminar of the Writer Association that has no way to start the conversation.

For the names of the two communities “Mountain and River” and “Heaven and Earth”. Feng Bujue has the impression that both are hovering around the top ten in the comprehensive society list. But he has never seen the names of the three players in front of him…

After all, Feng Bujue is not a professional player, although he also knows some big names now, the number is still limited. Just like those fake football fans, they can speak the name like Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Van Persie, but if you mention a name like “Alba”, they must thinking about Hollywood female star (Jessica Alba) but not a Spanish full-back (Jordi Alba).

Back to the story. All three teammates of Feng Bujue are professional players, and they are indeed well-known characters, but in Thriller Paradise, they did not reach the combating rank.

The most famous among them is Swan, known as “General of Wisdom”. This nickname did not come after he started to play Thriller Paradise. As early as a few years ago, Swan had already established his status. He is among the top players in many real-time strategies, turn-based strategy, and virtual strategy games.

And Swan is an independent professional player, which means he plays games without studio sponsorship or resource sharing but relying on his own ability. It is said that his family was relatively ordinary when he was a child, but when he was eighteen, he got rid of poverty by making money from playing games.

Including King in Shadow, almost every professional player who works personally knows Swan’s name, many of them even join the world of professional players because of him.

For Autumn Wind, he can be described as the brain of “Mountain and River”, also a good friend of the owner of the studio. He usually has other positions in the studio and does not directly participate in games, but as long as he participated, he would win championship-level achievements without exception.

Autumn Wind is best at war strategy games, especially modern war. He had written a famous post on the game forum – as a modern man, playing the war games of the Middle Ages, shall I still use the strategic ideas of the Middle Ages?

The controversy and scolding that the posted start has not yet stopped, in fact, Autumn Wind only wants to elaborate a very simple truth: the concept of war is advancing according to the times. Some people think that the generals during World War I were not as good at commanding as the generals in ancient China, that’s just total nonsense.

Calm Speaker is worth mentioning. He is a rare highly-educated person among professional players. (As the professionalization system becomes more and more mature, players have become similar to athletes. Because of the special nature of the industry, the age of entrants is generally small, usually 14 to 18. At the age of 12, so professional players have junior high school or high school education generally) He is an international student at a famous overseas university. He also won the Intercontinental MTG Championship during his study abroad in Europe.

In terms of age, Calm Speaker is 25 years old and he’s a few years older than the other two, but in terms of qualifications of professional players, he is a junior who has only been in the industry for two years. However, this junior quickly became a well-known smart player with several strategy game champions.

All in all, these… are all top smart players.

When the three of them greeted each other with regret. There was a brief silence, and then they both put their eyes on Feng Bujue…

“Ummm… I’m just a low man, a nobody, there’s no need to pay too much attention.” Feng Bujue said blankly, although he didn’t know who these three guys were, their conversation seems to show that they are tough guys……

So, after another period of silence…

After a few seconds, Calm Speaker said, “Uh… this… Feng Dude. You don’t have to be so modest. Since we are a team, everyone can play a role.”

Hong Hu pushed his glasses and interjected: “Feng Dude, can I ask, are you a fighting player, or do you tend to solve puzzles?” He paused: “Because your title seems unknown, so I want to confirm.”

“I’m a casual player.” Feng Bujue replied, “I’m both weak at fighting and poor at solving puzzles.”

This is obviously bullshit…

Of course, Feng Bujue had no conflict of interest with these people, and have no idea of bluffing. In fact, he was overjoyed when he knew the title of these people.

The teams we encountered in the past basically relied on Feng Bujue to make plans. This time, it is rare to encounter such three ingenious players (seen from the title) who looks proud of planning. Feng Bujue, the “anonymous”, can just relax by once.

“Ohh… that’s weird…” Hong Hu touched his chin single-handedly, speaking thoughtfully.

“Oh? Any questions?” Autumn Wind asked, wondering what the “weird” meant.

“This scenario doesn’t have any introduction, but just throws us a task.” Swan replied, “Kinda like… Everything should be found by yourself. At this time, the focus of his eyes changed slightly, should be watching the game menu.” And the ‘reasoning club’ that the mission refers to seems to imply something.”

“Get it…” Calm Speaker said, “Autumn Wind, Swan and I are more intelligent players than fighting players. If the scenario can be passed only by solving puzzles, then the four of us should be all puzzle-solving players… “

At this point, the three of them looked towards Feng Bujue again.

“Well, if I have to choose one side… I am more inclined to solve puzzles than fighting.” Feng Bujue said awkwardly. It’s ok if he didn’t say it, but he was worried that the wrong information would affect his teammates’ judgment of the entire scenario, so he said that. But he did not forget to add one more line: “But don’t expect too much from me… I am at ordinary people’s level at best. The real problem depends on your three masters.”

“Hehe… Feng Dude is too polite.” Autumn Wind said, “There is no harm in having one more person to solve problems during brainstorming.”

Having said that, in fact, none of them took Feng Bujue seriously. All three were thinking: if it’s a pure puzzle-solving scenario, I would be able to do it alone, you guys could just stand aside and watch.

It can’t be said that they are conceited… because the group of “smart people” has been like this since ancient times. As smart people, when people reach a critical moment, the deepest belief of them is only themselves.

Oh, by the way, it should be explained here that Feng Bujue can’t be counted in that group. He is just arrogant and narcissistic, without any save.

“Well… is it a scenario for the four puzzle-solving players…” Swan said, his mouth rose slightly: “Interesting…”

“From the beginning of the scenario, the system has minimized the amount of information we can obtain.” Calm Speaker continued: “What kind of problems will we get next…”

Autumn Wind also smiled in a similar, serious, Chunibyou tone with them: “Let me use my strategy to solve them all!”

In the end, Feng Bujue followed them weakly, “I support you mentally…”