It's All That Damn System's Fault

After Lu Ze worked tirelessly to act as a junior saint for four days.

The player atmosphere in Operation Immortal Abyss was thriving.

In the past, the world channel shouts were mostly like this:

Secret Dam, level two gear missing one, need an info role

Need a glass cannon for Top Secret Bakshi

Add me if you're fighting the last team at the Ascension Base

Normal Dam fully geared, join the team directly

Avoid player xxx, he stole my big red!

Now the world channel shouts had turned into:

Blocking the bridge, missing one, bring your family portrait

Looking for someone to bomb the extraction point at Bakshi! Can teach you the spots if you don't know

The environment in Top Secret is really something else now! Played Ascension Base, one team blocking the bridge, one team bombing the extraction point, one team camping the gate, one team running with knives to chop feet, and another playing tricks... Walked around for fifteen minutes, and there was absolutely no sound!

It's all thanks to Old Demon Lu setting a good example!

Don't even mention it, now you have to keep your eyes peeled when looking for someone to run knives... Yesterday I hired someone to run 50 million for me, and it was done in one night. I was wondering why it was so fast? When I logged in, I found 106 friend requests! Looking at the combat record, it was all Red Wolf possession!!!

What a sin!!

...

Four days.

To complete the task, Lu Ze tried all the camper tricks he had seen in his previous life.

Enthusiastic netizens learned all his routines.

Indeed, as he expected, every time he used a new routine, the progress bar increased relatively quickly.

Later on, it became less and less.

These days he squeezed the players to death, and after four full days, the progress bar had just reached 80 percent.

At this moment, he wished he could immediately update the game version and bring all the new characters to the table.

Things like an old man globally catching a rat to sniff, or Jifeng using his ultimate to steal bags, could be used to farm a wave of experience points.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao's tournament mode was independent, so his updates wouldn't affect it.

"Could it be..."

Lu Ze rubbed his chin in distress.

"Do I really have to do that kind of thing?"

Currently, what he was doing were sneaky camper tricks.

Among scumbags, it was still considered a complimentary term.

If he used those truly scumbag tricks, he could probably greatly increase the task's progress value in a short time.

If he used Bai Mu, it would be fine.

But under the system task's requirements, he had to use his main account.

Playing underworld routines as a designer could be said to be excavating and utilizing the mechanics.

Although it was a bit inhumane, it was still a normal way to play the game.

But being a true scumbag as a designer...

The impact that would bring would really be somewhat bad.

"No, no! Let me think of another way!"

Lu Ze shook his head, trying hard to drive this terrible idea out of his mind.

Just then, Li Moran sent him a team invitation.

Lu Ze originally didn't want to accept, but suddenly had a bold idea and hurriedly joined the team.

"Still didn't run into you today... What a pity."

Li Moran looked at Lu Ze full of fighting spirit.

She watched Lu Ze's matches for three days, memorized spots for three days, and only started playing matches again on the fourth day.

Strangely enough, as if she had evolved, she cleared the map and extracted successively on the fourth day, and her ranking rushed back to the top ten.

At this time, her assets were approaching the 100 million mark.

And Lu Ze, under his unremitting efforts, had assets reaching as much as 60 million.

Although there was a small gap in assets between the two, there was already a probability of matching together.

After all, Lu Ze was still too convincing in terms of KD.

His main trait was never having died.

Li Moran tried to run into Lu Ze for a whole day but failed to meet him even once, which inevitably made her a bit angry.

In the end, to narrow the asset gap with Lu Ze, she even intentionally threw a few games, otherwise her ranking could have gone even further.

"Tomorrow... can you take it a bit more seriously?"

Li Moran said.

"I can, but I have a condition."

"Speak."

"Tomorrow, can you queue solo and pretend to be a little rat acknowledging a big boss, continuously giving secret signals until you find a team of big bosses willing to adopt you, and then follow them all the time... Until the final extraction, when the boss team is in a melee with another team and unfortunately someone falls, at this time you brave the hail of bullets to carry the fallen boss on your shoulder, walk into the extraction point, and send him home..."

"..."

Li Moran took a deep breath.

What appeared in her mind was the scene that day in Bakshi where the saint-like Mu Yawen was bombed to death by Lu Ze.

"And then, get bombed to death by your fireball?"

"It doesn't necessarily have to be a fireball, I could use a gun or an incendiary grenade..."

"..."

Li Moran subconsciously made a motion to draw her sword.

Lu Ze hastily dodged. "Ahem, if you're not willing, forget it, I won't force you..."

"Hmph."

Li Moran snorted coldly.

She could never figure out why Lu Ze, who was so strong, always had to end battles in such an unchivalrous way.

"I have memorized the 19 spots you used in the Ascension Base... If we meet tomorrow, I hope you bring a handy weapon."

Li Moran looked at Lu Ze, her eyes full of expectation.

"I am a bit stronger than those guys."

"Definitely, definitely."

...

"Now I'll really have to chop your feet..."

Sending Li Moran off, Lu Ze muttered softly.

It seemed that finding someone to stage a saintly drama, and then replicating the miracle of bombing Mu Yawen that day, was quite impossible.

At this stage, the people matched, besides Zhong Yi, were all aggressive attackers.

No one would go and be a saint.

Seeing that his task progress bar was still 20 percent short, Lu Ze couldn't help but feel a headache.

According to the progress of the previous few days, without new routines or special events, it was impossible to complete 20 percent progress in one day!

Had his efforts over the past four days been in vain?

Lu Ze sighed.

"It seems..."

"I can only go and be a scumbag..."

...

...

The fifteenth day of the first stage of the tournament.

Which was also the last day.

Lu Ze struggled internally for a whole day, and finally decided to lower his status—

To be a scumbag!

There was still some difference between the scumbag playstyle and the junior saint playstyle.

The junior saint playstyle was being a camper, sneaking up on people.

The victims were one's opponents.

The scumbag playstyle was purely being a scumbag.

The victims were one's teammates.

Although doing this would completely corrupt the game's atmosphere and cause irreversible impact on the players...

But!

For the system's task rewards, Lu Ze decided to really stop being human this time!

Things like playing the shield dog to hook teammates into the water to loot their boxes,

Things like saying he hadn't gotten this red item before and wanting to see what it looked like,

Things like waiting for a downed teammate to bleed out so he could loot the whole field,

Things like killing one person and immediately running to drop the bag and extract,

Things like pretending to dye a gun skin for a teammate, and secretly taking the valuable parts and spirit bullets...

...

He had already organized various inhumane methods in his mind in advance.

Some playstyles were just too scumbag, and he really couldn't bring himself to do them, so he was still a little conflicted at present.

"Whatever, anyway, let me turn on teammate matchmaking first..."

Lu Ze shook his head.

With very little time left, he had to hurry.

He decided to go in and see what kind of attitude his teammates had before deciding whether to be a scumbag.

What if he ran into people from the Illusion Alliance, or someone harboring deep hostility towards him?

Wouldn't it be perfectly justified for him to act like a complete bastard then?

Anyway...

I cannot be blamed for this. It is all because this damn system forced my hand!!

Just as he was thinking this, the teammate matchmaking was successfully completed.

The moment he entered the character selection screen, Lu Ze had already switched his character to Red Wolf, making it convenient for him to grab or drop the bag at any time.

Two familiar voices came through.

"Hello, hello? Can you hear me?"

"Holy shit? Old Zhong!?"

"Lao Zhou!!??"

Lu Ze: "..."

His breath hitched for a second, and Lu Ze's character instantly changed from Red Wolf to Luna.