BXBX NOVEL Chapter 452 - Berserk and Calmness, After the
Chapter 452: Berserk and Calmness, After the Fog Clears
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
As mentioned before, the most valuable thing in an underground game is to have a sense of reason. For example, wolf fang, crocodile python, and butcher who had lost their sense of reason had thus been abandoned by the underground audience.
If they were still alive and still in a berserk state after the end of the game, they would very likely be rated as “low-level animals” by the program team and the audience, then thrown into the underground arena! The audience of the underground arena was even crazier than those watching the dark-type death games!
It was said that any rational person would turn mad within 60 seconds in the arena. What was proportional to the level of craziness was the dark coins that they could obtain.
As long as one had enough dark coins, anything, no matter how unbelievable it was, could be achieved!
The benefits were big enough, and as a result, the underground dark net never lacked visitors. The contestants, the audience, the guests… They were all in the palm of the underground’s hands. In fact, as long as one was underground, even the audience members who were affected the least would gradually lose their rationality.
That being said, most of the audience would slowly recover after returning to reality. As for the contestants who spent years in the underground game grounds, the underground inner city, and the underground dark net, their rationality would collapse much faster than the audience!
This was especially so since they were surrounded by tons of nasty comments that were filled with blood and lust. Those who were not calm enough could become crazy and lose their rationality within a few minutes.
Moreover, to satisfy the needs of the underground audience and guests, the minds of the contestants who had become crazy would be filled with a destructive desire, better known as killing instinct. And this, of course, was a result of the darkness that lurked everywhere in the underground.
The rationality that had been lost due to the infection of the darkness could be quickly restored by the tranquilizers produced in the underground inner city. Tranquilizers were also divided into S to F grades. S-grade tranquilizers only appeared in the highest-level underground auctions.
A to C grades tranquilizers were only sold in the underground inner city, while D to F grades tranquilizers circulated throughout the underground dark net. According to the highest grade of the guests, audience, and participants, the number of tranquilizers that each person could purchase was limited per month.
In short, the spectators and guests did not need to worry about losing their rationality. Their minimum monthly quota could meet their basic needs. On the other hand, among the contestants, 99% of the slaves would not survive two rounds of newbie competitions, so there was no need for them to buy tranquilizers.
As for the contestants, whether they were official contestants, ordinary contestants, or star contestants, they were mostly in a state where their rationality was constantly on the verge of collapse. This was also one of the main reasons why wolf fang, crocodile python, and the butcher went crazy one after another.
The tranquilizers that could restore one’s rationality were so expensive, and thus many participants could not afford them, leaving them no choice but to just endure their rationality being nibbled away… According to incomplete statistics, most of the ordinary players would collapse after participating in twenty games, and the strongest star player would not last more than a hundred games!
The process of the contestant’s rationality collapsing repeatedly until they lost the ability to recover was known as “scrap” in the underground dark net. Of course, if these contestants had the support of the tranquilizers, there was a certain chance that they could survive until they became official players.
For example, many on the dark net were optimistic about Hewitt. When a participant was promoted to a player, they could have some freedom of obtaining tranquilizers to a certain extent. In other words, their rationality would not collapse for a long time.
The reason for this was very simple. The low-level tranquilizers in the underground inner city were far cheaper than the ones in the underground dark net, and the effect was better.
Due to this, tickets to the inner city had thus been hyped up to a sky-high price in the underground dark net. Even a low-level ticket could be sold for 10,000 dark coins, which was 100 million universe dollars!
What was even more terrifying was that this was only the lowest-level ticket. And in the underground inner city, where everything was available, the price of everything was also very high.
Only a true God with sufficient strength could be promoted to an official player of the underground dark net. Slaves and contestants were actually just toys for the audience and guests!
In the real world where the Blue Planet was located, there was a saying that had been circulating in the entire universe for a long time. The saying was no less famous than the saying “there are no experts among aborigines”.
The saying was such: “There are two places with the most experts in God’s world, one is the illusory world, the other is the underground dark net”. More accurately speaking, it should be the illusory world battle zone and the underground inner city.
One virtual currency in the virtual world was close to 10,000 universe dollars in the real world, and one dark coin in the underground dark net could be worth 10,000 universe dollars even at its lowest value!
Simply put, a dark coin could definitely be exchanged for a virtual currency, but a virtual currency might not necessarily be exchanged for a dark coin! From this, one could also see the tip of the iceberg of the underground dark net.
“Cough, cough…”
In the game field that Chu Feng was in, the strong wind and smoke only lasted for two breaths. When the storm quickly subsided, the figure of the octagonal tower tool spirit once again disappeared in front of everyone.
As for the coughs, they were made by the six true God-level “wolves” that were still alive. Chu Feng keenly sensed that the dark red color in the eyes of the coughing six wolves was much lighter than before.
This was especially obvious in wolf fang, crocodile python, and butcher whose eyes had been so red that they turned black. Now, their eyes were almost pink, almost the same shade as the man in the suit. On the other hand, the eyes of the suited man had returned to their original color from being a light pink.
More importantly, when the coughing stopped within a few breaths, the three wolves, who had been fighting each other to the point that all of them were injured, suddenly turned around and looked up, their eyes filled with cruelty.
It was not just the three of them, but many gazes were focused on Chu Feng, and he instantly became everyone’s target. However, before the man and his two beasts could show their might, another strange sound suddenly sounded.
“Bang!!” With that, a lump of flesh that was continuously bleeding instantly exploded into countless pieces. What followed was a blood mist that spread from blood red to light pink.
[The man-faced spider’s soul has been annihilated, it has been eliminated.]
An electronic notification sounded, announcing the death of a true god-level “wolf”.
This was Chu Feng’s first time in the underground world. The real-time bullet comments that he saw were only a small part of the countless comments on the dark net. He was still in the game, so it was impossible to ask in detail.
Chu Feng thought of the fact that “dark coins can be exchanged for virtual currency” and subconsciously connected the “underground dark net and the illusory world” in his mind to make a comparison.
According to what he knew so far, the underground dark net was more like a gathering place for a group of lunatics. Whether it was the contestants or the underground audience watching them play the “games”, they were either straight-out lunatics, or they were on the road to madness!
Even though the bullet comments, voice messages, and screens surrounding them were mostly not considered to be overly emotional now, Chu Feng still couldn’t forget the appearance of the underground audience when they went crazy. Right, they seemed to call themselves “fanatics”? Compared to the underground audience, the spectators of the illusory world were no different from angels!
If one were to compare, the illusory world was more or less a paradise for cultivators and fighters, while the underground world was more or less a gathering place for many madmen…
Perhaps, the few normal people in the darkness were the true outliers. A hint of unknown emotion flashed across Chu Feng’s eyes. His thoughts took several turns before finally returning to the announcement of the “death of a wolf”.
He didn’t know whether the “elimination” as mentioned by the electronic notification was the same as the “death in battle doesn’t affect the real world” rule in the illusory world, or would one truly die after being eliminated. Some immortals had been tortured and killed in the game just now too. Were they really dead, or did they just exit the underground dark net?