Chapter 180: Top 100 on the Points Leaderboard
With Xing Ye there, the third trial in the carriage became much simpler.
Ji Ning didn't witness the scene of him taking action, but from the moment Xing Ye left the compartment to the clearance notification popping up, only a few short minutes had passed.
Filled with astonishment and admiration for Xing Ye, Ji Ning was teleported back to the Wooden Cabin.
The carriage instance was four-star difficulty, which added another 450 points to Ji Ning's total.
Ji Ning opened the light-screen panel to check her personal data and discovered new information had appeared.
Name: Ji Ning
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Measurements: 82, 53, 89
Number: 6
Points: 2430
Popularity: 3776
Achievements: Points Leaderboard Rank 99, Popularity Leaderboard Rank 34
Instances Completed: 9
Next Instance Countdown: 11:58:40
Instances Remaining Until New World Entry Ticket: 21
Exchange Identity: Insufficient Points, Not Activated
What caught Ji Ning's eye the most was that she had finally climbed into the top 100 of the Points Leaderboard!
Xing Ye had once told her that only when she entered the top 100 of the Points Leaderboard would she truly be considered a contender in this Survival Game.
He hadn't elaborated further.
Now, Ji Ning finally understood what Xing Ye meant, and also grasped why he had only mentioned it so briefly, keeping his mouth tightly shut about the rest.
Because Ji Ning's light-screen panel no longer looked like the simple, monotonous interface she had seen before.
【Congratulations to Player No. 6, Ji Ning, for reaching the top 100 of the Points Leaderboard. System permissions are automatically upgrading…】
【Permission upgrade complete. You now have access to view recorded videos of your past instances and the Popular Video Leaderboard. We wish you a pleasant game.】
Seeing these two newly added interfaces, Ji Ning's mood was indescribably complex. Frowning, she unconsciously took deep, heavy breaths as she clicked on the videos to view the specific content.
She opened the content titled "Lewd Cruise," and the interface began playing the footage of her first time entering Werewolf.
The interface had six zones in total: one fixed-camera shot covering the entire round table with all twelve people in a wide scene, four distant-angle shots filmed around her from different directions, and even… a first-person perspective shot…
Ji Ning's heart clenched tightly, and she even found it a little hard to breathe.
Ever since she had fallen into this bizarre game world, although she could sense that there were huge problems here—like sinister purposes and filthy profits—and knew that someone was monitoring everything, she had never imagined that she would be like a fighting cock for people's amusement, stripped of all privacy rights, filmed without any blind spots.
There was even a first-person perspective… so had a camera been implanted in her eyes?
No wonder when she had browsed the Points Leaderboard in the past, she occasionally saw rankings at the bottom change even during Wooden Cabin time.
It must have been players who had just entered the top 100, unable to bear the truth, who had committed suicide.
Ji Ning's mind wandered chaotically for a while, thinking about her 3776 Popularity value.
Before, she had thought this leaderboard was like a data chart in a game, determined by her own stats, similar to a charm attribute.
Only now did she understand: it wasn't 3776 points, but 3776 votes…
She hadn't considered the idea that "someone was watching the game process." Because her thinking had been confined. In the game world, apart from NPCs and the occasional real camera, she hadn't discovered anything that could monitor her.
Now, seeing this "recorded video of past instances," Ji Ning realized that the instances of the Erotic Survival Game were truly like games on a computer.
The characters in a game don't have cameras around them either, yet she, as the player, could see everything about the character from 360 degrees without any blind spots.
The only difference was that now she could control herself, rather than being controlled by someone else.
Ji Ning closed her eyes and breathed silently to calm herself, struggling to digest her shock and anger, trying to reclaim the fighting spirit she once had to survive.
She would not commit suicide, because she didn't want her will to simply vanish from this world, even if it was a morally degenerate game world.
Moreover, she had made so many friends here, had attachments and bonds, and had a longing to keep living.
Ji Ning had loved playing games when she was alive, and she also liked this Survival Game after death. She loved the sense of accomplishment from conquering challenges, solving difficulties, and successfully clearing instances.
Although this thought wasn't noble or righteous, Ji Ning had to admit that she was gradually finding a sense of belonging here.
The shame and anger of being monitored, filmed, and watched were not enough to extinguish her desire to live.
Even though she would eventually die, Ji Ning only wanted to die on a road blooming with flowers.
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