The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

Real time: 18:00.

In the game, it's exactly six in the morning, just as dawn is breaking.

After a busy night, Jiang Chen, having finally finished sculpting the clay figurines ahead of schedule, returned to the second-floor villa and promptly lifted the login restrictions on the players.

The next second, the clay figure on the open ground was taken over by the player and stood up with a whoosh.

These are clearly veteran players, and they are already very familiar with going online.

The players who had just obtained the test qualifications had just opened their eyes and were looking at everything in front of them in a daze.

The number of players has increased visibly.

Scattered throughout the open space, a bustling scene unfolded.

Given the size of this open space, it could almost be described as overcrowded.

"What is this? Am I still dreaming?"

"Wow... there really is such a game?"

"Damn it, Rem! I have a problem with that, my dick isn't that small!"

"Damn it, pull up your pants, there are women here."

"There are women too? Heh...hehehe..."

As the newbies gradually regained their senses, they started chattering away.

Veteran players remained calm; they were used to it.

This happens every time a new wave of players logs in; everyone goes through this, and no one tries to stop it.

"Die!"

Dog Brother spotted Campus Spring Color in the crowd, and then pounced on him like a hungry tiger, cursing as he grabbed his neck and looked like he was going to strangle his old friend on the spot.

"Calm down, calm down, you can't kill me like this."

She didn't care about the spring scenery on campus and didn't do anything to resist. She just gently patted Dog Brother's arm that was wrapped around her neck.

In fact, his attention wasn't even on Dog Brother at the moment: "Aren't you going to check the leaderboard first? That's the most important indicator for dominating the server."

Upon hearing this, Dog Brother clicked his tongue and reluctantly got off the backpack of Campus Spring Scenery.

He knew, of course, that he didn't even have a rank yet, so there was no way he could possibly harm the campus romance, but he was still a little annoyed if he were to pretend that nothing had happened.

Now that a way out has been offered, he has taken it.

Of course, his tone was still somewhat unfriendly: "What's so interesting about the leaderboard? I'm not even level one yet."

Despite saying that, Dog Bro still obediently clicked on the leaderboard located in the personal interface.

Currently, only one leaderboard is available; you can't view the others.

[Ranking List]

[First Place: Springtime Scenery on Campus – Class of 51]

[Second place: What's the principle behind this? - Level 49]

[Third Place: Want to be Old Kuai for Three Days - Level 43]

……

[10th Place: Eight Alleys - Level 32]

[Eleventh Place: Unify the World by Force - Level 29]

[12th Place: Gian - Level 15]

[Thirteenth: But even her departure was like a cloud—Level 7]

……

The player levels on the leaderboard clearly show that the current player base is extremely polarized.

The leaderboard only includes the top 100 players by level. However, apart from the top 12 players, the levels of the remaining players are all in single digits. In fact, starting from the 80s, the players on the leaderboard are already showing a level of 0.

This situation is mainly due to the impact of the attack by the tribal chief.

At that time, the barbarian chieftain almost wiped out all the players, with only eleven players surviving. Fat Tiger survived because he wasn't even in the Creekstone tribe.

Incidentally, Tenka Fubu missed the "BOSS Battle" rewards due to being seriously injured and unconscious; otherwise, he would have been number one on the leaderboard.

"Damn it! Why is a piece of trash like you number one?"

Dog Bro's eyes were once again replaced by lemons.

Campus Spring Scenery cleared her throat lightly and said casually, "Please be mindful of your status. What's your opinion on the number one player?"

Dog Bro angrily turned around, found a secluded spot, and immediately began high-intensity training.

His actions were not an isolated case.

New players are still in the stage where everything is new and exciting, while veteran players have already entered a frenzy of leveling up.

It must be admitted.

From the perspective of stimulating players to improve, the leaderboard is undoubtedly the greatest invention in the history of online games.

Not only can it drive whales to spend crazy amounts of money to maintain their top ranking, but ordinary players can also get a strong positive feedback from seeing their ranking move up a few places.

This game does not offer a recharge option.

After all, Jiang Chen created this ranking list not to stimulate spending, so normally players would have to grind a lot to improve their ranking.

In some ways, it is more likely to arouse players' desire to level up than those "Pay To Win" online games.

Just like now,

In just half an hour, the list of the bottom twenty on the leaderboard underwent a major reshuffle.

All the players on the leaderboard have reached level 2 or above.

Many players who have already completed the basic upgrades are not even eligible to be on the list.

However, this list is far from being finalized, especially the last two spots, which are changing almost every moment.

Unfortunately, this ranking system only provides a rough overview of the level and does not offer a detailed experience bar.

Even if both are level 2, a 5% experience bar and a 95% experience bar represent different levels of strength.

The campus in springtime keeps greeting the newbie player, and it's him who's taking the initiative to greet him.

"That's right, I am the spring color of the campus."

"Yes, how did you know I'm currently the highest-level player?"

"Oh, you're so lucky, it's all luck."

Dog Brother's face darkened as he saw himself being pushed off the leaderboard again. He grabbed the beaming Campus Spring Colors and said, "Stop pretending. Come on, take us to that ant nest."

Upon hearing this, Campus Spring's face stiffened: "No way? You're going to poke at that ant nest again?"

Admittedly, those black ants possess blood energy, and killing them can indeed allow them to absorb that blood energy.

The problem is, given the sheer number of black ants, he really doesn't know how to achieve anything while ensuring his safety.

"Don't worry, we've already looked into it."

The old guys, Roupeng and Quanqu Hengzhezou, gathered together, probably to come up with a solution during the machine downtime maintenance.

After listening to the solutions offered by his old buddies, Campus Spring Colors stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Burning it? That's a good idea when there's no special ant-killing agent. But then the question is, who will set fire to the ant nest?"

After he finished speaking, the room fell silent.

The dozen or so old buddies all stared at him in silence.

When the campus spring scenery came to its senses, it subconsciously swallowed and stiffly pointed to itself.

Under Dog Brother's guidance, the old brothers all nodded in agreement.

"Can I refuse?"

What do you think?