“Therefore, under such circumstances, we have to be prepared for the Eagle Men’s sudden attacks!

“After all, they’ve fallen behind us. Theoretically, they have to take some risk, or they’ll have a much lower chance to win!”

Elder Meng stroked his beard that had turned completely black as he spoke. In his traditional outfit, he had a rather solemn look.

In the conference hall on the Twin Dragon Mount, a meeting for the Chosen Ones was being held.

Apart from Ji Ye, all the old rookies were there, as well as some new players who had stood out in the past month.

“Elder Meng, do you mean that we should all stay online for the time being to ambush the Eagle Men?” Mister Bug asked Elder Meng.

“I’m afraid that won’t be possible…”

Guo Wei, the graduate student and Elder Jiao’s assistant, shook his head.

Players weren’t native people, and it would be impossible to have all of them follow the direction of the decision-makers.

They weren’t allowed to go offline before, but now that they could, they probably couldn’t wait to go back to Earth so that they could show off to their families, friends, and classmates about their experiences in the Land of Inheritance, the ability they gained here, and how they were revered by the natives as the “Chosen Ones”, as well as the other complacent ideas they had.

So much so that some of the troublesome ones that had been disciplined might try to file a complaint against these people at the Confederation Office after they got offline, accusing them of ignoring the solidarity of the Human race!

That was just human nature that couldn’t be controlled by force.

Strictly speaking, the old rookies, who made up most of the attendants here, were the most eager to get offline.

After all, people like Shang Yan and An Xuan had been here for a whole month. Because the days were longer in the Land of Inheritance, it had been over a month on Earth.

They had been gone for so long, and it was only natural that they would want to go offline to see their families, as well as taking care of some work and family affairs.

“Of course we can’t have everyone stay online…

“What I mean is that the people here should go offline in batches to maintain the operation and defense of the settlement… Moreover, we should finish our business on Earth as soon as we can. I believe that we can all tell the potential of the Land of Inheritance and the Twin Dragon Mount…”

Elder Meng spoke as he looked around the room.

There was a two-day buffering period before the arrival of the second batch. But 48 hours wouldn’t be enough to take care of everything.

And they had no idea which settlement these people would go to, so they couldn’t make much preparation. But the Twin Dragon Mount was definitely one of the more developed Earth settlements, which meant that everyone here could count themselves as the lucky ones.

At least to most of them, the Twin Dragon Mount was more important than their careers on Earth!

“No problem. I’ll stay behind today!”

Su Nongying, who was sitting next to Ji Ye, spoke first.

She was in charge of the settlement’s administration and logistics, which gave her a lot more tasks than other people. When the players had gone offline, she would have even more things to take care of.

“I don’t need to go offline.”

Wu Qiao completely agreed with Elder Meng.

Only someone like her, who had held a high position in another settlement, could realize how rare it was for the Twin Dragon Mount to achieve what it had achieved.

Plus, she really didn’t need to go offline, because as a beta tester, she wasn’t subject to the one-month limit to go offline.

“I’ll wait for the next round too. Please tell my family when you guys go offline. Tell them not to worry about me…”

Finally, the Twin Dragon Mount finished arranging the offline time as well as the task assigned for after they had gone offline.

Those going offline not only had to sort out their own affairs, but they had to do something for the settlement as well. For instance, they had to memorize the blueprints of guns, obtain techniques that the settlement currently needed, etc…

“Offline time!”

“Finally! I can’t wait!”

“Haha! I’m going to show off in the forum! The strength and task progress of the Twin Dragon Mount will definitely make us one of the top settlements of the Southwest Province; scratch that, the entire country. No, the entire world!”

“I’m gonna post on my social media account that I’ve met three Perfect heroes, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, and Gongsun Sheng…”

After they allocated the tasks in the conference hall, they heard loud cheering sounds outside.

The one-month time period was up, and all the second-batch new players received the notification that they could go offline.

“As one of the human pioneers, you’ve instructed the second batch of selectees in the past month. The overall evaluation of your performance is: Excellent. Honor earned: 50. Rare Honor: 5!”

Somewhat unexpectedly, Ji Ye received a piece of reward information in his head.

“I didn’t know there would be a reward.

“Excellent? Well, I guess that’s pretty accurate!”

Ji Ye didn’t think he was qualified to receive “Superior” or “Perfect” evaluations in the aspects of training the rookies.

After all, he had only put in some effort for the first couple of days. After that, he had left the new players to the old rookies so that he could spend more energy on improving himself and destroying the alien races. The Excellent was a very reasonable evaluation.

Plus, it couldn’t be counted as a loss because this reward that might be considered as a hidden task was actually only equivalent to that of him leading a team to destroy an alien race’s settlement core.

For him, the latter was much easier compared to spending a lot of energy on new players.

Apart from that, Ji Ye had obtained another piece of information.

He learned that, from now on, one could only get online and offline in the settlement. More specifically, it had to be in the area near the providence core.

Moreover, the process of getting online and offline would require the power of providence of the settlement.

Therefore, each member couldn’t get online and offline too often.

Because of that, the stratagem of the empty city practiced in some online games via going online and offline was definitely out of the question!

“Talent skills!”

Apart from the two notifications, Ji Ye also learned something important—some new players had gained talent skills.

Of those in the reference hall, four had learned talent skills. They were Li Qing, Elder Jiao, Su Nongying, and Mister Bug.

As the most outstanding combat player, Li Qing learned an Excellent Rare talent—Insight into the Combat Ability—through which he could sense and detect the opponent’s capability and level, as well as information related to their combat ability, such as their physical, mental, and spiritual strength.

Needless to say, it was very similar to his initial equipment.

But there were some differences.

For one, it couldn’t detect the opponent’s location when he didn’t sense them. For another, the information of those with higher levels might not be accurate. Moreover, there was also the limitation of the cooldown period.

However, the way to obtain information wasn’t limited to the visual sense. He could also use all his other senses, giving the skill a lot of potentials theoretically.

Elder Jiao’s talent skill also had something to do with his initial equipment. It was none other than 3D Printing.

He would be able to mold any materials that he owned himself. During the process, he could also, to some extent, change or even enhance the properties of the materials. Needless to say, it was an improvement of the original equipment because this talent skill had reached the Superior level!

“Are the talent skills transformed from the initial equipment?”

“I’ve also used up my initial equipment, but I didn’t get any talent. I think there are more requirements.”

After some pleasantly surprised or disappointed discussions, Ji Ye figured out why those two could obtain the talent skills.

First of all, Li Qing’s performance had outshone the others.

As a scout, he gave full play to his professional advantages in these 30 days. Not only had he killed many enemies in combat with great accuracy using his “Black Serpent Revolver”, but he had also taken the risk to enter the territories of the Metal Men, Sludge Monsters, and Forest Monsters all by himself while wearing the Mantis Invisibility Cloak. With that, he had obtained the first-hand information of the alien races for the settlement.

Moreover, as a professional scout, Li Qing didn’t solely depend on the Combat Ability Detection Glasses to gather information. After all, there were so many alien races and monsters. Had he done so, he would have used up the red monocle’s energy a long time ago!

In fact, while he was inspecting his enemies through the glass, he would also use his other eye to analyze and generalize the information that he had obtained.

He could combine the opponent’s strength with their external performance to the extent that he could see the range of the opponent’s strength in just a glance even without using the Combat Ability Glass!

That was obviously the real reason that he could obtain the talent skill!

Similar to Li Qing, Elder Jiao didn’t simply use the 3D printer. Rather, he had spent the usage time on key objects that were essential to the development of the settlement.

Moreover, he had studied the principal and operation process of the 3D printer.

And compared with Li Qing, as an academician, his professional knowledge was undoubtedly better. He had even designed a similar but weaker version of the “3D printer”. It was originally meant to replace the 3D printer after its usage time was up, but it was shelved because the “power generation” problem had not been solved!

And now, it had turned into a talent skill with the additional ability that could change the property of a material. Needless to say, it had become an enhanced version of the original initial equipment.

Ji Ye had, to some extent, guessed that based on his own experience where his Healing talent could work on other people as well.

It probably had something to do with the fact that, lately, Elder Jiao had done research on the Silver Liquid, the Perfect Rare material that could change the property of metals, and had made some achievements!

“My talent has remained the same without any major change!”

With the cases of Li Qing and Elder Jiao, Ji Ye wasn’t surprised when he saw that Su Nongying had also obtained a talent skill.

If Elder Jiao and Li Qing were the most outstanding second-batch players in their own professions, Su Nongying would be the most hard-working one in her newly-appointed position.

She started off as an unsatisfying management staff, but her improvement was observable by the naked eye. Right now, she could remember the names of all the members of the settlement, including both the natives and the newly-arrived players.

Such an ability couldn’t be attributed to talent alone. She had spent a lot of EXP and even Honor to memorize them. To better take care of the settlement affairs, she had even moved her office to the Temple of Providence.

The level of her talent was Excellent. Just like she said, it had completely inherited the ability of the Identity Registration Book, which could look up the basic information of the population of the settlement.

After it turned into a talent skill, the equipment resembling a household register booklet would finally stop disappearing when the usage time was up!

However, not everyone had obtained a talent skill related to their initial equipment. As a revived player who had died once, Mister Bug, whose real name was Sun Congxin, didn’t have any initial equipment.

But maybe because he had been learning God Invitation from Ninth Uncle and drawn on his tattooed arms everyday, he unexpectedly obtained an incredible talent that was Rare Refined!

When he drew a figure from the Earth civilization on the tattoo on his arms, he would be able to obtain a random ability of that person.

To some extent, this talent was unparalleled. It could even be counted as an inheritance-level talent!

However, since it was only Refined, there had to be a reason that it wasn’t an inheritance talent.

For one, the ability obtained had to be equivalent to his own, so he could only obtain Ordinary ability now. For another, because the ability was random, it could also lead to embarrassing situations.

As soon as he received the talent skill, Mister Bug excitedly drew an old Daoist priest riding a black ox.

“Moo!”

After that, he began to moo like a cow…