Chapter 338: Resentful Energy Can Be Collected Like This Too?
Chen Han was truly shocked to see this suddenly appearing game prompt. Had he really just sacrificed someone and collected the resentful energy from their moment of death?
Until a vexed conversation came from nearby.
“Damn it, you’re the support, why did you run first? If you didn’t run, I wouldn’t even have died!”
“Ah, a teammate pinged, I thought you saw it.”
“Ping my ass, what does he know? We clearly could have fought. If you hadn’t run, I could have counter-killed them.”
Chen Han looked at the two men squatting by a wall, playing a game.
They seemed to be playing Honor of Kings.
It was rare to see two guys traveling together like this.
Either they were both single, or their relationship was really good, or one side’s mentality was a bit off while the other side’s mentality was pure and unaware of danger.
If one side’s mentality was a bit off, then there was a serious problem: they would dream about squatting to poop, and no matter how they pinched, that poop just would not break off.
However, whether their relationship was good or not was not what Chen Han cared about. He cared about collecting resentful energy. The bit of resentful energy from death he had just collected had actually come from the resentment generated when their in-game character was killed.
He really had not expected that to work.
But thinking it over, when a person is killed, resentment is real, yet in that instant of death, fear is actually stronger. The resentment only lasts that moment, and once they are dead, there is nothing.
Playing a game is different. When many people get killed, their resentment is intense. They might smash their phones, stomp their feet, curse the opponent’s ancestors for eight generations, and curse their teammates’ ancestors as well.
Most importantly, this emotion is continuous. It can last for over ten minutes, or for the entire twenty-plus-minute match.
Some can even carry it into the next match, or post on Moments and be in a bad mood for half a day.
This is also a feature of modern people.
So there is a saying online: if all modern people went to cultivate, the earth would definitely become a demon star, with 70% of them being demonic cultivators.
At this moment, Chen Han suddenly wanted to apologize to the game system.
He had questioned whether the game system had forgotten that he had not successfully transmigrated and was still in the modern world. He had not realized that the game system had become an abstract ghostly thing, and he had naively assumed resentful energy had to be gathered by killing people.
When a person dies, it was never stated it had to be a true person. To be more abstract, are game characters not people?
The facts also proved that the resentful energy generated by these gamers was no small thing.
【Congratulations, the Special Demonic Puppet Modification Stone has obtained the resentful energy generated from a person’s death. Current resentful energy collection progress is 2/】
Sure enough, the man’s resentful voice rang out again: “Fuck, can this jungler even play? So trash. If you can’t play, don’t queue up. Damn!”
Chen Han pretended to take out his mobile phone to play, but in reality he was harvesting resentful energy.
After that man finished a single match, he had actually provided 8 points of resentful energy, which meant he had died 8 times.
The other man playing support had also provided two points of resentful energy, which meant he had died twice.
In total, they gave him 10 points of resentful energy.
It was just that this match had been so miserable that the man cursed as he left and did not continue playing.
So Chen Han could only return to his own courtyard, then download Honor of Kings. Once the download was complete, he quickly got familiar with it.
He used to be good at this game. Reaching the king rank was not too hard; it was just that he had not played in a long time.
And with his current reactions and hand speed, after warming up a bit, playing this game against ordinary people would be bullying.
He tried playing a ranked match. He easily killed someone, but after that kill, there was no system prompt for resentful energy collection.
He felt something was wrong.
Was the opponent’s mentality stable enough that dying once did not generate resentful energy?
Or was the resentment not strong enough?
Thinking of this, Chen Han directly opened the chat and started taunting: “You’re all trash on the enemy team!”
As soon as his voice message was sent, someone on the other side was displeased, and soon all five of them were flaming back at him, cursing his family.
Chen Han did not reply again. He just focused on playing and quickly killed another player.
【Congratulations… Current resentful energy collection progress is 11/】
Seeing this game prompt appear, he knew it was reliable.
Sure enough, the method to provoke Honor of Kings players’ resentment was as simple as calling them trash.
So he typed one word in chat: Trash.
This seemed to break the enemy’s mental defense, and they started cursing wildly in public chat.
Chen Han ignored the abuse and focused on killing. One after another, prompts for collected resentful energy appeared.
With more than 20 kills in one match, he gained 22 points of resentful energy.
His total resentful energy reached 33 points.
Without hesitation, he queued up again. Using the same method, he harvested another 24 points.
In the third match, he harvested another 21 points. These two matches netted 45 points of resentful energy.
The total resentful energy in his mind had also reached 78 points.
At this rate, reaching ten thousand resentful energy seemed quite fast, but something speechless happened at the end of the third match: the backend sent him a private message saying his speech was provocative and violated game rules, so he was muted.
Seeing this prompt, he really wanted to curse.
This was one annoying thing about such games. While players’ resentment runs high, they are also extremely thin-skinned. You call them trash once, they get upset and curse your ancestors for three generations, then report you afterward.
Although he had to admit some players had poor character, compared to bad manners, what most players hated more were griefers, especially those boosted by others, ruining people’s promotion matches.
These people really thought they were experts. When flamed, they were not convinced, so they just reported others for verbal abuse.
The key was that there were many such people, paying for boosting, going to high-rank matches to get stomped, and still being super thin-skinned.
Chen Han was suddenly troubled.
Without this kind of verbal provocation, the enemy’s resentment would be limited.
Just then, he noticed many people had @ him in the Douyin backend.
He opened it and immediately saw a ridiculous video: once again posted by that mecha model company.
《The Chen Clan has once again ordered 20 Southern Heavenly Gate Plan J-16 Mecha Models. We will ship to the Chen Clan as quickly as possible…》
“…” Chen Han was speechless. Could this company be any more blatant about trying to piggyback on his popularity?
And they were doing it so crudely, with no technical content.
However, this matter really did attract many people’s attention. A look at the comment section said it all:
“Holy crap, the Chen Clan ordered 20 more!”
“What is the Chen Clan trying to do?”
“Future mechas don’t match the Chen Clan’s ancient buildings at all.”
“…”
But this gave Chen Han an idea for collecting resentful energy.
For this, he did not need to personally play.
Those two tourists earlier had provided resentful energy when their in-game characters were killed.
The key was, that effect was quite good.
If he could gather 1000 people together and have them all generate resentful energy, then if each one died 10 times, that would basically do it.
If it were 2000 people, then 5 deaths each would be enough.
And for him, this was not difficult. He only needed to hold an Honor of Kings tournament at the Chen Clan.
Previously he had already asked Xiao Mi to hold a National Style Ceremony. This time, under the banner of an Honor of Kings cosplay event, there would definitely be many participants.
If he offered a prize pool of about a million, the number of people coming would be unimaginable.
He could guarantee that within two days, he would complete the resentful energy collection.
Thinking this through, he called Xiao Mi.
Once the call connected, Xiao Mi’s sweet voice came through: “Chen Han, I’m filming videos. What’s up?”
Chen Han got straight to the point: “I want to hold an Honor of Kings cosplay event. Tourists participating must cosplay Honor of Kings characters and they need to know how to play. Participants will then form teams to play in an Honor of Kings competition. The champion, runner-up, and third-place teams can share a total of one million in bonus money.”
“Huh? A one million bonus?” Xiao Mi was instantly surprised and asked curiously, “Chen Han, why are you suddenly holding this kind of event?”
“We haven’t held any events for a while. Think of it as stirring up some excitement. You already have experience organizing national style events, so I’ll leave this one to you. It’s best if you can put it together in the next few days.”
“Okay, I’ll handle promotion and coordination!” Xiao Mi did not ask further and agreed. After all, just like the previous national style event, this would be very beneficial for her.
In the internet celebrity circle, even though she already had over 8 million fans, with the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy tag and the Feng Shui Studies apprentice tag, she had become a special type of influencer, no longer an ordinary one, but she still needed popularity.
People like the Crooked Mouth Dragon King also had not removed the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy suffix. As long as the Chen Clan remained popular, that suffix would continue to bring them attention.
Now this Honor of Kings cosplay event could also bring her more popularity. With the right operation, it could help her break the 10-million-fan mark.
And she had already decided who she wanted to cosplay: Diao Chan.
After Chen Han hung up, he soon saw a new announcement video from Xiao Mi: 《The Chen Clan will hold an Honor of Kings cosplay national style event… Cosplayers can choose their game character to participate in the competition… The top 3 teams will share a total bonus of one million!》
Right now, the internet was still full of videos of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation showing power in the Demon Realm, and news about the Chen Clan purchasing Southern Heavenly Gate Plan mecha models.
Public attention on the Chen Clan was very high, so as soon as this announcement came out, it immediately drew a lot of interest.
No one had expected that instead of follow-ups on the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and the Demon Realm, or on the Chen Clan and the mecha models, they got an event like this.
Honor of Kings events were common, but this particular type was rare, and it came with a one-million prize.
Of course it was eye-catching.
Even the one million bonus made many people eager to try.
Shortly after Xiao Mi announced the event, many internet celebrity girls said they would participate.
For example, the Crooked Mouth Dragon King and the Lobster Demon were among the first to repost the video.
They, like Xiao Mi, carried the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy suffix, so of course they had to support the event and were already dividing up which characters they would cosplay.
Naturally, they also knew this event was guaranteed to be hot.
They were taking advantage of being close to the water to get the moon first.
Thus, in a short time, the Chen Clan’s event went up on the hot search list, ranking very high in popularity. Even Tencent could not easily create such heat.
There was no helping it. Douyin and Tencent were mortal enemies. Without a platform like Douyin, it was hard for Tencent to gain traction in short video. Without heat, they could not get so many popular and influential national style girls to fully support them.
Of course, that assumed Tencent was willing to pay enough. Otherwise, for the same money, those national style girls would not waste their reputation. A cold, low-traffic event would just drain them.
The most crucial problem was that Tencent would not pay more than a certain amount, and their staff had huge egos.
Now with the Chen Clan organizing this event, just the fact that those national style girls would cosplay Honor of Kings female characters and participate in the cosplay gaming competition was enough to attract massive attention.
So soon, something that surprised Xiao Mi happened: Tencent also rapidly reposted a promotional video via the Timi studio name, and expressed willingness to sponsor and cover the one-million bonus for Xiao Mi’s event.
Otherwise, Douyin might flip out and possibly limit their traffic.
But a studio under Tencent was different.
For non-equivalent companies, Douyin might turn a blind eye, just like how Honor of Kings and Delta Force can be streamed on Douyin without traffic limitations.
Xiao Mi immediately brought this to Chen Han: “Should we accept this sponsorship?”
Mainly because she did not know Chen Han’s true purpose for holding this event, she came to ask.
Chen Han laughed. “If they want to sponsor us, why not agree?”
His goal was to collect resentful energy. One million was attractive enough; adding another million would double the pull.
With more on the line, players’ resentment when killed would be even stronger.
“Okay, I’ll reply to Timi then.” Xiao Mi nodded. Just as she finished speaking, her ringtone sounded.
After answering, she looked at Chen Han in surprise. “That was Linhe County. They want to discuss holding the Honor of Kings cosplay event in the ancient city area scenic spot. The county is willing to cover this one million bonus. They’re really generous.”
“Take it too. Together with the Chen Clan’s one million, that makes a three-million bonus!” Chen Han smiled. This kind of thing gave the county some face.
He also knew the county was after the heat.
And putting out this one million was not actually generosity.
The exposure from the popularity and the tourists attracted would bring benefits far beyond that one million, even ten times or a hundred times that.
Xiao Mi nodded, left Chen Han’s courtyard, and went back to prepare the related video. Soon her account posted another new video: 《The Chen Clan’s Honor of Kings cosplay event grand prize is upgraded, total bonus reaches three million. The event will be held at Linhe County Ancient City Area Square… Registration will be open for the next three days…》
In an instant, the event’s popularity exploded again. Three million in bonuses was more than the prize pool for some Honor of Kings pro tournaments.
Those clubs and professional players were tempted.
As for regular users, even more so, especially those who were already Honor of Kings cosplayers. They immediately moved into action and began asking how to sign up.
In the county, Chen Kai, the culture and tourism bureau director, received word that Xiao Mi had agreed to the sponsorship, and immediately sent people to set up the scene at the ancient city area square.
He also sent people right away to coordinate with Xiao Mi on details, trying to follow her requirements as much as possible.
In this area, the culture and tourism bureau trusted Xiao Mi very much, since she had already successfully organized one national style event that brought a huge surge of popularity and tourists to Linhe County.
Chen Han, on the other hand, used the Affairs Hall entrance to re-enter the family cave mansion. When he arrived, his junior sister had finished cultivation and was curiously examining the mecha model parts around the artifact refining furnace.
Seeing him, she asked in surprise, “Senior brother, I opened one of your boxes and found that the parts inside are different from the ones outside. The texture is clearly better. Were these refined by this artifact refining furnace?”
Chen Han said with a smile, “Yes. Refining them in this furnace makes a difference. Both the materials and the texture are improved.”
“Then can I try?” Xiao Yu asked expectantly.
“Go ahead.” Chen Han smiled. It made no difference who did the refinement, since all you had to do was throw the parts into the furnace.
“Then I’ll start refining.” Xiao Yu said, already placing the mecha model parts into the artifact refining furnace one by one.
Seeing this, Chen Han took out his mobile phone and started recording video, especially capturing the scene of her placing the mecha parts into the furnace.
People online were very curious about why the Chen Clan was purchasing mecha models. The external explanation was that it was for filming an abstract video.
Look at this: his junior sister putting mecha parts into an artifact refining furnace. How abstract was that?
It would surely attract a lot of popularity and attention, and boost their reach.
But just as Chen Han was thinking this, game prompts suddenly sounded continuously in his mind, instantly filling his face with joy.
【Congratulations, the Chen Clan’s ornamental bamboo forest, ornamental plum forest, and ornamental pine forest areas have reached the requirement. The sect residence three talents plant requirement is complete!】
【Congratulations, the sect residence has successfully upgraded. Rewards obtained: Special Daoist Sect Rules: Minor Punishment as a Warning（Merit Industry Version） XSpecial Daoist Sect Attribute: A Dream of Yellow Millet divine art!】
【Congratulations, sect residence special effect modification in progress…】
The sudden upgrade caught him completely off guard.
The key thing was the Minor Punishment as a Warning Merit Industry Version, which meant a merit industry site could also produce the Minor Punishment as a Warning effect.
He immediately knew exactly where he wanted to use it.
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