【System Limit 30%】 is a state that most players have never experienced.

This level of limit has broken through the restrictions players face within the scenarios. If anyone remembers the situation when Feng Bujue and Li Ruoyu entered the Otherworld together, they should know… 30% is precisely the limit level players experience in the Otherworld.

In this state, the game menu summoned by players will no longer appear before their "eyes," but directly in their "consciousness."

The "interface" they observe is also completely new…

The status bar in the new menu has completely disappeared; the player's survival, stamina, spiritual energy, and the abnormal states they are suffering will not be displayed as data. All these things now need to be felt and measured by the player's own physical senses.

In addition, players' pain perception will also be enhanced. Considering that the "forced disconnection" mechanism has malfunctioned, this… is quite terrifying.

Of course, this state has its advantages and disadvantages.

Although the assistance provided by the system is reduced, the restrictions are also lessened accordingly. The player's perception will become more detailed and… real.

Raising the system limit undoubtedly allows some more advanced players to unleash stronger combat power than in the normal state, but… they must also bear the corresponding risks.

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Two minutes after the invasion began, in Shiva's conference room.

"How is it? Can you guys do it?" Brahma asked anxiously, looking at the four teammates around the conference table.

"You can see for yourself…" Vishnu shrugged in response. "If we could, the successful ones would have turned into white light and logged off already."

"Damn it…" Brahma couldn't help but slam the table, cursing.

"Eh?" Asura was stunned for a second after hearing this, and asked doubtfully, "Why wasn't the word 'damn' blocked?"

"Hey, hey… What time is it? Why do you care whether the system blocks swear words?" Brahma retorted.

"No, this might be important." Among them, Yama, the female player, seemed the most calm. She said in a deep voice, "You all heard the system voice just now… I think the fact that swear words are not blocked, and the changes in the game menu… are all related to that '30% limit.'"

"Hmm…" At this time, the fifth person sitting at the head of the conference table—Shiva—finally spoke, "I didn't expect… 'he' was telling the truth."

"'He'?" Vishnu heard this and keenly noticed something. "Who? What did he say?"

Shiva replied thoughtfully, "Three days ago, that is, the morning I forfeited, Feng Bujue infiltrated my house and told me… that on the day of the final, an army of Derivates would invade the game space."

"Wow~wow~" Brahma was shocked. He widened his eyes and said, "Boss… the amount of information in your words is a bit staggering…"

"In the past, I wouldn't have believed a single word of that kind of talk." Shiva didn't respond to the other party's remark, but continued, "But… due to 'some things that have happened recently,' I now… don't know what to believe anymore." He sighed, forcing a smile, "Heh… if I really had to choose, I'd rather believe Feng Bujue…"

"Big Bro, what exactly did you experience?" Asura was a chuuni teenager, and one of the characteristics of chuuni teenagers is—accurate intuition. "Could it be that you saw a ghost?"

Before he finished speaking, Shiva turned his head and glanced at his seventeen-year-old cousin, "Not a ghost… an angel."

"Huh? An angel? What's all this about?" Brahma bluntly expressed his opinion.

Shiva was about to reply to him, but unexpectedly…

Bang—

Suddenly, a violent impact came from the wall on one side of the conference room.

Bang bang bang—

Immediately afterward, three more urgent and violent sounds rang out… The wall bulged in response to the impacts.

"Holy crap?" This time, even Vishnu cursed, "There's actually something outside this wall?"

"Logically… there shouldn't be anything. Because the outside of the wall is the data layer, and the 'space' there is a completely different concept from the 'space' we're in." Shiva's performance was surprisingly calm. While standing up, he explained, "According to Feng Bujue… Link and Aerd have jointly created a mass-produced creature called 'Redundant Soldiers.' These creatures can move at high speed in the data layer in data form and instantly materialize when they approach the physical space, invading it."

Bang! Crack—

Just as he was narrating, the metal wall of the conference room was broken and torn apart.

The next second, a Redundant Soldier with purplish-black skin poked its narrow head in, emitting a terrifying low growl.

"However, these guys shouldn't be too strong." As Shiva spoke, he unhurriedly stepped forward, raised his hand, and used a [Sharp Fang Divine Thrust], stabbing straight at the Redundant Soldier's forehead.

Immediately afterward, the sound of "puka" was heard, as if the shell of a crustacean had been broken… The Redundant Soldier's forehead was pierced by Shiva's fingertip, and it burst open in response. The fatally wounded Redundant Soldier didn't even let out a whimper before suddenly losing strength and turning into a stream of data light… dissipating into the air.

"If you hit the vital point, a skill of this level is enough to instantly kill one." Shiva added with a commentary-like tone, and conveniently retracted his right hand.

However, before he finished speaking, several more arms and heads suddenly poked out from the cracks in the wall.

Seeing this, Shiva took two steps back and continued, "In short… this is the main type of soldier you will be facing next." Saying that, he glanced at the exit of the conference room, "While the exit hasn't been destroyed yet, let's hurry out and transfer to the mall through the landing space to meet up."

"Aang—"

"Aaah—"

Shiva was only halfway through his words when the Redundant Soldiers seemed to understand him, emitting a low roar and accelerating their movements to squeeze out of the cracks.

"Remember, don't stay in narrow spaces." Shiva's reaction was still quite calm. He reminded his teammates what to pay attention to while his fist wind rose again, using simple physical techniques to force back the advance of those Redundant Soldiers, "Whether it's the landing space, personal warehouse, or Scare Box… as long as the Redundant Soldiers sense a data reaction in a certain phase layer, they will invade it. Even if you can withstand their siege in a small place, once the surrounding walls are torn down, you will still be drawn into the data layer… and only heaven knows where you'll be transported next."

"Understood." At this time, Yama had already walked to the door of the conference room. Before going out, she turned her head and said, "Then, same as usual… see you in Area 101."

Here's a side note… because Jue-ge set the common mall dimension of Hells Front in Area 101, many high-level players who knew Feng Bujue also set their common mall dimension there in order to occasionally run into Jue-ge. Over time, the teammates and friends of those players also changed their common settings… Thus, Area 101 unknowingly became a gathering place for all kinds of star players.

"Boss, we'll wait for you." After the door in front opened and closed, Brahma also left a word and walked in.

"Regarding the topic of 'angels'…" Vishnu also turned his head and said when he retreated to the door, "…I look forward to the sequel." After saying that, he also entered the door.

In the blink of an eye, only two people were left in the conference room.

"Big Bro, you should leave too, leave this to me." At this time, Asura entered chuuni mode and spoke lines similar to a death flag.

"By the way…" Shiva glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, "...with your ability, you can move freely in the data layer, right..."

"That's right." Asura replied with great momentum, "You retreat first, I'll just enter through the crack here later..." As he said that, a fanatical look appeared in his eyes, "That pretentious Link… I'll take him down!"

…………

At the same moment, in Area 4 of the mall.

"Eh? What's going on?" A middle-aged man stood blankly in a corner of the mall, scratching his head, looking completely clueless.

This person's surname is Li, and his given name is Feng. He is the owner of Ruoyun Zhai in the east of City S. Even Feng Bujue has to call him "Uncle Li."

Viewers who have forgotten the previous text may feel that I am introducing the head of some dark organization, but… viewers with good memory should still remember that Ruoyun Zhai deals in art auctions, appraisals, and exhibitions, and… it is run by Ruoyu's family.

Seeing this, I think everyone understands. That's right… Li Feng is Li Ruoyu's father.

Speaking of Ruoyu's father, he is definitely a standard winner in life in reality.

First of all, let's talk about his family background… In Li Feng's grandfather's generation, there was a very famous figure, that is, Li Hua, the household-name superstar of the early century. Even half a century later, in 2055, many people still regard him as a male god.

Although Li Feng is not a direct descendant of Li Hua, and there is a saying that wealth does not last three generations… a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Li Feng's family was still quite well-off from childhood.

Looking at his growth experience… Li Feng's first half of his life has always received a good education. Although his personality is a bit shy, he doesn't have social obstacles like his daughter. It can be said that before the age of twenty, his life basically didn't encounter any twists and turns.

Until… he met Shui Ruoyun, Ruoyu's mother.

These two met while studying in Vienna. Their story of one receiving and one attacking progressed for three or four years, and it would not be a problem to write a romance novel about it alone, so I won't go into details.

In short, shortly after the two returned to China, they entered the palace of marriage and created Ruoyun Zhai.

At that time, Li Feng did not know that Shui Ruoyun's parents… as Gu Chen said, were two of the ten strongest spiritual ability users on this planet; and Shui Ruoyun's aunt was Gu Chen's wife. Gu Chen and his wife… were obviously not easy people to deal with.

In short, Li Feng joined a luxurious lunch without knowing it… oh no… joined a family with a very deep background.

In fact, to this day, Li Feng does not know the existence of the supernatural world (because he is too easy to fool, his wife and daughter are hiding it from him to protect him), and he himself is just an ordinary person.

But… this ordinary person has really good luck, perhaps… he is the positive example of good people being rewarded and fools having foolish blessings.

In this unprecedented crisis where the game space is invaded… Li Feng, who is only level ten (although he created a game character early on, Li Feng rarely has time to go online, just occasionally playing in non-sleep mode), and completely does not understand the situation, has lived longer than many high-level players…

Because he couldn't squeeze past those young people, Li Feng was far away from the crowd near the big screen when the first wave of impact arrived, so he escaped the first round of the Redundant Soldier Legion's charge.

Also, because the position he was standing in was against the system store, the stream of people running and fleeing did not rush towards him when the invasion broke out.

A few minutes later, as more and more Redundant Soldiers poured in, their rate of increase had far exceeded the killing speed of the guardian robots. At this point, a team of Redundant Soldiers finally killed their way to Li Feng.

But at the same moment, the NPCs in the store behind Uncle Li… took action.

On weekdays, those NPCs standing in the system stores have always been jokingly called "wooden stakes" by players. These guys basically don't talk or do anything; when players come to buy things, they only need to stand in front of the counter and summon a virtual menu to complete the transaction themselves. Those NPCs are standing here just to create a "store feeling."

Originally… how could the stores in online games adopt a "talk-to-buy" mechanism? If they really adopted that kind of selling method… have you seen people queuing up at the bank to do business? Have you seen people queuing up at the supermarket checkout? Not to mention a game with hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, even a game with tens of thousands of people online at the same time… you turn the potion store into a "talk-to-buy" mechanism and see what happens? You want to buy something without queuing for several nights?

However, today, those "wooden stakes" revealed their true identities to the players with their actions—enhanced guardian robots.

Just as Li Feng was about to be killed by a Redundant Soldier, the boss in the equipment store behind him somersaulted over the counter, kicked out, and kicked the Redundant Soldier in half at the waist. Then, the equipment store boss staged a scene of mowing grass in front of Li Feng, facing the onslaught of seventy or eighty Redundant Soldiers head-on with his own strength, killing soldiers like slaughtering pigs and dogs…

Unfortunately, this situation probably only lasted for two minutes…

The store bosses and guardian robots in this area only added up to about sixty. Although the guardian robots have the ability to teleport and possess the physical skills equivalent to a level 60 player (the player level limit is 50, but guardian robots can be set to 60. In addition, the original limit of players in the game space is 2%, so they cannot initiate combat at all. Therefore, under normal circumstances, guardian robots are more than enough to manage players), they also have limits. When the number of Redundant Soldiers reaches ten to one, or even twenty to one, the guardian robots can't hold on… Once there is damage, it is only a matter of time before they are eliminated.

As for the store bosses, they are more than capable of fighting a hundred by themselves, and their upper limit is higher than that of ordinary guardian robots. When the "quality" reaches a certain level, "quantity" can no longer pose a threat to them.

However… the Redundant Soldier Legion created by Link and Aerd does not only consist of the lowest-level "Redundant Soldiers." They also created some more advanced things—[rAid] (redundant_Arrays_of_independent_disks).

According to the detailed explanation, these creatures are "redundant arrays of independent disks"; of course, there is also a simple name—[Raiders].

The appearance of the Raiders is very close to that of humans, but their whole bodies are also covered with the same black-purple "skin" as the Redundant Soldiers. Judging from their size, they don't seem to be as menacing as those tall Redundant Soldiers, but the difference in combat power between the two… is simply worlds apart.

Although the intelligence of the Raiders is not very high, their strength has already reached the level of a third-level Derivate, and they are all equipped with "tactical control modules." The most crucial point is… the Raiders are "mass-produced." As long as there is enough time and resources, more can be created.

In the twelfth minute after the invasion began… the first Raider debuted. Then, the second, the third…

It turned out that the massive number of "Redundant Soldiers" was just the vanguard responsible for charging… and the Raiders were the main force for completing the clearing.

Pang—

With a loud bang, the NPC in front of Li Feng exploded into data fragments under the joint attack of three Raiders.

Uncle Li, covered in cold sweat, retreated step by step until his back was against the counter of the system store. He had to stop: "Uh… although I don't understand what's going on, but with so many monsters surrounding me… I'm probably going to die, right…"

This time, it is impossible for any guards to come to his rescue. The guards and store bosses in Area 4 are all trapped in the siege and are unable to help themselves. The surviving players are basically gathering in groups of three or five, forming defensive formations to resist the attack.

"But… dying is just 'dying back' to the landing space… right?" When saying the last word to himself, Uncle Li himself was a little unsure.

At the same time, a Raider had already walked in front of him and raised his fist…

Boom—

One punch, hit!

This is a solid punch, a punch burning with fiery combat aura.

But this punch was not thrown by the Raider, but…

"Uncle, are you okay?"

In that instant, a back with incredibly clear muscle lines instantly appeared in front of Li Feng, and the Raider who had raised his fist a second ago was nowhere to be seen…

Uncle Li rubbed his eyes and looked at the other party's ID—[Seven Kills].

"Uh… I'm okay." Uncle Li replied, "Thank you, young man."

"Hehe… you're welcome." Seven Kills tilted his head, raised two fingers, and waved them gently next to his eyebrows, greeting Uncle Li; when he made this move, Uncle Li could clearly see that white smoke was still coming from the gauntlet on Seven Kills' right hand…

"Uncle, don't be afraid." The next second, another voice sounded, accompanied by a strong man holding a huge shield, whose body was comparable to Schwarzenegger, "We will protect you."

Obviously, this time… it was Long Aomin who came.

"Don't be careless, Uncle Li is only level ten." Political Commissar Lang quickly appeared on the top of the store, "If he is touched by the opponent… I may not even have a chance to heal."

"Eh?" Uncle Li was very strange, why did they know that his surname was Li? His in-game nickname was clearly [Cloudy Maple], "How do you know…"

As a result, before he could finish a complete sentence, the leader of Saber, Po Jun, appeared and interrupted, "Political Commissar is right… everyone, cheer me up! If something happens to Uncle Li, everyone will have to go to the Chief's place for tea…"

"Aww!"

"Fight!"

"This place… must be defended!"

At this moment, the members of Saber were full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit, even more than they had shown during the competition.