Yes—Xu Dan had been so absorbed in playing the virtual game himself that he had completely forgotten about releasing and operating it for Earth players!
Led by three god-tier players, Skye quickly secured a "chicken dinner."
When the victory text rose on the game screen, the four of them received their rewards and were teleported back to the rebuilt Wasteland City.
Xu Dan's reward was a laser ion blade. Fire Dance received a Hundred-Shot Shuriken. Liva obtained a cooling heavy sniper rifle. As for Skye, her reward was a green boss-grade army backpack!
Apparently, the system had judged Skye to be a logistics-type player…
"Red Queen, the PVP test looks good," Xu Dan said.
"Master, I have already conducted millions of tests. There are no bugs. Please rest assured," the Red Queen replied.
"Then let's test the PVE gameplay next."
With that, Xu Dan took the lead and walked toward a nearby weapons shop.
In cities rebuilt from the wasteland, selling firearms was a common sight.
In the later stages, once players were introduced, they could even open their own shops—selling explosives or crafting and processing weapons themselves.
For now, these weapon shops were all stocked with standard NPC-produced equipment.
Walking into the shop, they saw familiar firearms like the M4, AK-47, M16, Desert Eagle, and other common guns, with standard body armor hanging on the walls.
To ordinary people, these were useful tools. To military enthusiasts, they were fascinating.
But in Xu Dan's eyes, they were worthless.
He continued deeper into the shop, passing through a corridor. Inside, the dim lighting resembled a nightclub. In cylindrical glass display cases, sci-fi weapons came into view.
In PVP mode, live firearms had the greatest impact and inflicted the most damage on players. But in PVE, laser weapons were the optimal choice against monsters—they dealt far more damage than physical bullets.
Everything glittering before them was PVE-exclusive weaponry.
"Wow!! This gun is so cool!" Skye shouted, her massive backpack swaying behind her.
It seemed she really should have been thrown into S.H.I.E.L.D. training long ago. Otherwise, she was only good with a keyboard—on the battlefield, she was absolute cannon fodder.
"If you like it, buy it. All four of our accounts have special permissions. The gold coins can't be spent anyway," Xu Dan complained, then walked toward a battle suit.
It was a black suit similar to those in Gantz, with blue energy batteries embedded across the dark surface.
"Agility +100, Strength +50, Defense +30… Looks like assassin gear. I'll take it."
In-game outfit changes could be manual or automatic.
Xu Dan chose automatic. The moment he purchased the suit, his equipment switched instantly—the clothes on his body replaced by the black suit glowing with blue light.
It looked rather pretentious next to Liva's black leather outfit.
Seeing this, Skye and Fire Dance immediately rushed off to gear up as well.
In the end, Fire Dance chose a short skirt paired with suspenders and stockings, while Skye chose a suit identical to Xu Dan's.
"Let's go—time to run a dungeon!"
Originally, PUBG didn't have dungeon instances. But once it became a virtual game, adding dungeons was inevitable.
After all, many players loved grinding instances endlessly.
Dungeon design didn't require an overly complex plot—the Red Queen could simply scan a few Chinese online-novel templates and stitch something together instantly.
Now, the dungeon they were heading to was a level-50 instance: Crystal Scorpion.
They chose it simply because the entrance was close—just around the corner outside the weapons shop. Entry was handled through a black-market NPC.
As for quest rewards?
Xu Dan didn't even bother looking.
He was playing for fun—and to check for potential loopholes—not to dominate rankings or farm money.
[Quest successfully created!]
With the system prompt, the four players' vision flashed. The scenery shifted, and they found themselves in a Gobi-like wasteland.
Not far away was a massive cave. A huge crystal scorpion glowing purple charged straight at them.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA—!"
Without a word, Skye raised the laser machine gun she had just bought and opened fire on the crystal scorpion.
Sure enough, money always paid off.
That laser machine gun, worth 150,000 gold coins, under Skye's frantic operation, instantly riddled the crystal scorpion's body with holes!
"Hahaha! I killed it! I killed an enemy!"
This was Skye's first kill in this cross-era virtual online game.
She would never dare fight in PVP—there she could only be beaten senseless. But in PVE, facing such a massive, stupid scorpion, she was ecstatic.
Liva shook her head helplessly. This woman was older than her, yet not even half as composed.
Without shouting, Liva calmly raised the massive black sniper rifle she had just obtained, aimed at the cave, and gently pulled the trigger.
Bang!!
The large-caliber bullet tore through the air, drawing a streak of fire. Two crystal scorpions that hadn't even exited the cave were pierced clean through by a single shot, collapsing into fragments!
She had used live ammunition.
It was said that live rounds weren't effective in PVE—but under absolute stat suppression, anything hit was killed in one shot.
Fire Dance was unwilling to be left behind. In the PVP chicken-dinner matches, many of her tactics had been restricted by the system, forcing her to fight head-on like Xu Dan.
But here, she could fully unleash her abilities.
With a flick of her wrist, a shuriken flew out, striking the fourth crystal scorpion that had just rushed from the cave with a crisp clang!
Heh—its armor wasn't even scratched!
The crystal scorpion proudly raised its massive pincers.
The three ahead were all trash. These humans were clearly so weak…
But in the next instant, the spot where the shuriken had struck began to dissolve into dark green sludge.
Corrosive venom!
In ninja combat, there was no distinction between honor and treachery—victory belonged to whoever killed the enemy.
Every drop of venom coating the shuriken was enough to corrode the crystal scorpion into a pile of filth!
Its death was far worse than the first three.
Thus, under this terrifying barrage of firepower, the level-50 crystal scorpions had no chance of getting close to the four players.
The moment they emerged from the cave, they were gunned down instantly.
Unfortunately for them, as low-intelligence monsters by design, even under fire, all they knew was to charge forward…
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