Published: February 12, 2025
The third small cycle came to an end amidst a backdrop of surging undercurrents.
At the same time, the decisions made by the All Races of the Universe, after causing quite a stir, had returned to a state of calm. Except for a few powerful races with absolute authority, the rest were pondering their countermeasures or directly beginning to make arrangements.
They were also paying more attention to this new rookie battlefield. When the third small cycle ended, they gazed at the numbers on each leaderboard and gained a deeper understanding of this unique edition.
This rookie battlefield had the largest number of participants, exceeding thirty thousand, making the competition incredibly fierce.
With a large number of participants, casualties were naturally significant, which every race had mentally prepared for. However, with less than half the time gone, the number of participants had already dropped to less than twenty-five thousand, especially this time, where nearly three thousand had been eliminated in the final ten percent.
Many of the members sent from various races had already perished, meaning their points would be reset to zero. In the end, even sending three warriors would have no effect.
They had to start considering their retreat.
Those with higher scores began to delve into the various leaderboards they had previously overlooked, no longer solely focusing on the total score and individual score rankings.
As a result, several prominent figures in this rookie battlefield started to come into the spotlight.
In the past, even the top rookie wouldn't attract much attention from the All Races of the Universe; after all, they were just rookies, and no matter how strong they were, they were still amongst rookies, deemed insignificant by many seasoned warriors. But this time was different; there was too much at stake and too many interests involved.
The outstanding figures among the rookies were being scrutinized one by one, and they began to analyze the reasons behind their high rankings.
Among them were those on the points leaderboard, efficiency leaderboard, and so forth.
Ye Zhongming was, of course, no exception and drew much attention. When his development curve was compared, people were astonished to discover that this guy had become addicted to killing, having already killed so many people in less than ten days! Most of his points came from this.
Not researching was fine, but once they did, they realized that this rookie battlefield's rules encouraged mutual attacks!
In previous rookie battlefields, while there were some stimulating policies, none were as direct and brutal as this one. Mostly, it allowed mutual slaughter for points or loot only on the last day, which was already considered extremely crazy.
But this time, killing someone would earn one a third of the points; as the battlefield time increased, who would still go hunting parasites? Everyone would be busy killing!
Of course, this involved some choices too. For instance, during the rampant killings, some could choose to hide and quietly hunt parasites, ensuring their survival. In the end, their points wouldn't be insufficient even in cases where few survivors remained.
Furthermore, killing posed a great risk; there would be groups of capable individuals gathering to hunt and use other point-boosting rules to deal with the slaughter frenzy. With many people, others wouldn't easily provoke them.
After analysis, there were actually only two pathways in this rookie battlefield: collective hunting or killing to gain points. There was no third way to go. The idea of individually hunting in such a boutique manner seemed feasible but was utterly fallacious. Such people either gained high points by killing parasites and then got overwhelmed and killed or turned to hunt other rookies for more points.
Regardless of either method, they would ultimately evolve into two opposing factions: the hunting group and the red name group.
On this front, Husky had taken a rough look, but Ji Rui Guang truly understood. He could identify that Ye Zhongming proposed the Major Nation Area Plan based on this trend, essentially labeling actions with a form of benefit.