Chapter 53 (1/2)

[System tip: Player Bai Liu has been attacked by Player Liu Huai’s Dark Night Sleeve Sword and his mental value has been eroded. It has decreased by 35. The current mental value is 4. Warning! Warning! The rage state has been entered!!]

[Player Name: Bai Liu (Rage attribute bonus panel)]

[Physical strength: 56 → 655]

[Agility: 249 → 1133]

[Attack power: 37 → 1555]

[Resistance: 36 → 1776]

[Comprehensive defense and attack power has increased. The total of the panel attribute points has exceeded 4000 and the player is rated as an A+ level player. The player Bai Liu’s level has increased from F to A+ level.]

“That’s it.” Bai Liu finally stopped Liu Huai’s non-stop attacking hand.

Puppet Zhang saw Bai Liu’s attributes panel and quickly judged it. “Your panel isn’t enough to go against Brother Thief. Brother Thief is at least an A+ monster. Only players like Mu Sicheng who are A++ level in the rage state can handle him.”

“I know.” Bai Liu’s attitude was very calm. “Isn’t there still you? What are you so anxious about?”

[System tip: Player Bai Liu has controlled Player Puppet Zhang to use the personal skill ‘Puppet Enhancement’ on himself.]

[System warning: Player Bai Liu’s mental value isn’t enough to decrease it by 50! Do you want to forcibly use Puppet Enhancement? It will cause Player Bai Liu’s mental value to collapse!]

[System warning: Does Player Bai Liu want to forcefully use the personal skill ‘Puppet Enhancement’?]

Bai Liu didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”

“You are crazy Bai Liu!” Puppet Zhang collapsed as he was forced to move his fingers to manipulate Bai Liu. The transparent silk thread invaded the back of Bai Liu’s head and plunged into his occipital bone like a syringe. The rest of the puppet silk vibrated and drilled into the seams of Bai Liu’s bones. This was an extremely bloody and painful process but the player would soon become numb to this pain due to mental value dropping.

Puppet Zhang shouted loudly in order to stop the crazy Bai Liu as he pulled the puppet silk thread with his hands. “Bai Liu! Your mental value is only 4 points! You can’t forcibly use this Puppet Enhancement skill! Although using a skill to lower your mental value won’t cause it to fall to zero, you will collapse! You will go crazy!”

Mental value collapse referred to the state where non-monster alienation in the game reduced the mental value and the mental value wasn’t cleared.

Players could use personal skills or items to reduce the mental value but it was impossible to forcibly clear it. In the game setting, only monsters could clear a person’s mental value to zero but a player couldn’t do so.

For example, Puppet Zhang couldn’t control a player in the rage state and the decrease in mental value by Liu Huai’s Dark Night Sleeve Sword would be reduced suddenly. It could be seen that these skills and items couldn’t clear a player’s mental value.

However, there would be a very strange state.

Players could forcefully use these personal skills and items. Under the constant attack, the mental value would eventually show a state of infinitely approaching zero. This state was called the ‘infinitely small mental value’ and was also known as ‘mental value collapse’.

It was said that when a player’s mental value was at this stage, their mind would be trapped in the gap between ‘monster’ and ‘normal human.’ The brain was already that of a monster but it had a human shell.

Why was it described as a ‘mental collapse’?

It was because all players who experienced it went crazy, whether it was killing all the players in the game or laughing and committing suicide once out of the game. As long as they touched the mental value collapse state, they all went crazy.

Moreover, most of the players with a collapsed mental value greatly improved their attributes panel due to their rage state. They tended to kill all players in the game so players with a mental value collapse were a nightmare to all players in the instance.

“Bai Liu!” Puppet Zhang tried his best to control his hands, not allowing himself to enhance Bai Liu. “Don’t fucking go crazy! A mental value collapse and having a mental value of 0.1 aren’t the same thing!! This state is much more dangerous! In theory, your mental value has been cleared to zero but not yet. You will fall into the chaotic space of subconscious desire. You will go crazy Bai Liu!”