106: The beaten Wang Hu and the vegetable-stealing twins

The Xinhuo Train Captain's cockpit.

Ever since the Train Police Squad members all entered the game, Lu Yang had been observing their actions from above, where they couldn't see him.

The Beginner's Guide (newbie guide) was fine; it effectively helped new players get familiar with the game's mechanics.

In the early stages, Lu Yang deliberately restricted them to their own yards.

They focused on planting, cooking, and training.

Planting was to prepare their own provisions, cooking was to experience the fruits of their labor, and training was to prepare for future adventures.

Everything was interconnected.

Originally, Lu Yang thought that the positive mental energy feedback would be highest when crops were harvested.

Unexpectedly, the most positive energy feedback came when everyone first entered the game and when they tasted the rice.

Looking at the steaming bowl of rice that had spontaneously materialized from the positive mental energy feedback, Lu Yang gained a more intuitive understanding of the power of mental energy for the first time.

This was only a hundred people.

If all the passengers on the train, or even more passengers in the future, gave pure and extreme positive mental energy feedback, how powerful a force could that create?

It was simply immeasurable!

This also showed that his path of utilizing the Magic Net Core was correct.

He just needed to lower the pain sensation for everyone.

Currently, the Train Police Officers have mostly entered the guided phase of the combat training room.

And most of them chose cold weapon training.

Although the combat training dummies and the Train Police used wooden blades.

It still hurt a lot when they were hit.

In this situation, every time the Train Police Officers were hit by a combat training dummy, there would be very obvious negative energy feedback.

After all, the fear of death and pain is a human instinct.

However, after the pain perception feedback was lowered, this negative energy feedback became much less.

Instead, when they hit the combat training dummies, there would be noticeably positive energy feedback.

This gave Lu Yang considerable insight.

He immediately lowered the training difficulty for new players, dividing the original three training stages, from beginner to proficient, into ten stages: familiarizing with weapons, training movements, hitting wooden dummies, hitting moving wooden dummies, and finally, battling combat training dummies.

This made the progression between each stage more apparent.

He also set up a leaderboard for the shortest completion time in each stage.

Unexpectedly, although this extended the training time, it instead increased everyone's enthusiasm for training, and similarly, the positive mental energy feedback also increased.

Wang Hu's small yard.

Looking at the newly appeared option for a new training mode, Wang Hu unhesitatingly clicked 'No'.

What a joke, my third-stage training progress has already reached 30%.

I almost stabbed that damned dummy just now.

Even the system praised my rapid progress.

What would be the point of experiencing the simplified training process now?

Wang Hu rubbed the large bump on his forehead, which had swollen like a steamed bun after being struck by a sudden counterattack from the combat training dummy, and let out a long breath of stale air.

Anyway, there are no other tasks today. I refuse to believe it; I, a living person with intelligence, can't beat a foolish AI?!

"System, start a new round of training."

"3, 2, 1!"

As soon as the countdown ended, Wang Hu thrust his spear forward. Seeing the dummy dodge, he changed from a thrust to a sweep. The immense force caused the dummy, which was blocking with its vertical spear, to retreat repeatedly.

Then he strode forward, launching a fierce assault.

The continuous offensive forced the dummy into passive defense, struggling to cope.

He almost hit the dummy several times, but it narrowly dodged.

Just when he was about to achieve his goal...

Clap~

"You have been killed. This training session failed!!"

As a result, Wang Hu somehow found himself inexplicably hit by another counterattack from the dummy.

Another large bump appeared on the right side of his forehead, symmetrical to the previous one on the left.

From a distance, he looked like a small dragon-human with two bulging horns that hadn't emerged yet.

And the pain was really painful.

Because it was a mental avatar, although the pain sensation was reduced, the dizzy feeling from being hit in the head could not be eliminated.

After being hit in the head several times in a row, even Wang Hu, with his strong will,

couldn't help but want to rest.

He might as well go out and see how the rice seedlings were growing.

And after Wang Hu left, a burst of bell-like laughter immediately rang out in the training room.

"Hahaha, Luo Luo, you're still the best."

"When my sister and I operated the dummy, we were always just barely fending off attacks. Several times, we were almost hit by Captain Wang. You're amazing, Luo Luo; every time you take over, you can quickly counterattack and catch him off guard with a surprise move."

"And you hit so accurately. One big bump each time, two times perfectly symmetrical, directly knocking him out. If this continues, he'll probably start questioning his life! Hehe!"

Luo Luo: "I can't take over the dummy anymore. My Lord said we only have one hour of game time per day, and we can't focus on just one training target."

Yun Qiqi: "I know, we can't keep shearing the same sheep, right?"

"But it's okay. Anyway, My Lord also gave us game permissions. If we don't play this, we can go harvest vegetables."

"And My Lord also gave us permission to steal vegetables remotely. Although each person can only steal one kilogram at a time, haha, there are so many players!"

Luo Luo: "My Lord didn't seem to say that, did he? Didn't he say 'equivalent exchange' at the time?"

Yun Qiqi: "Yes, I'll take some of their rice first, and then make some rice cakes to give back to them. The rice cake recipe My Lord gave me even has a healing effect when made. In the shop, such a rice cake sells for 5 copper coins, and one kilogram of rice only costs 5 copper coins. Hehe, I definitely won't let them suffer a loss. Maybe they'll even wish I'd steal from their vegetable patches in the future~"

Actually, regarding giving Yun Qiqi and Yun Chuchu permission to steal vegetables, it was Xiao Xin who suggested it at the time.

Based on psychological analysis from the database and past gaming experience,

Xiao Xin concluded that—

giving the two of them permission to steal vegetables was something that could generate additional positive mental energy feedback.

When it comes to stealing vegetables, those whose vegetables are stolen will definitely feel uncomfortable at first.

But if they can be given a different kind of reward in return, it will instead make players look forward to having their vegetables stolen.

It's similar to another form of exchange.

Moreover, Lu Yang set the daily limit for Yun Qiqi and Yun Chuchu's vegetable stealing at 100 times.

This way, a maximum of only 200 people would have the opportunity for exchange.

When there are more players, only a small portion of them will have the chance to be 'stolen from'.

Once everyone discovers that being 'stolen from' results in a return greater than the lost vegetables, it will make others anticipate becoming the one to be 'stolen from' the next day.

Then, when they actually are 'stolen from', it will instead generate another kind of positive mental energy feedback, like the surprise of finding an Easter egg.

In reality, Xiao Xin could also control who was 'stolen from'.

Except for the early stages, which were random.

In later stages, Yun Qiqi and Yun Chuchu would be prioritized with players who had the highest 'stolen from' anticipation value.

This would maximize the positive mental energy feedback they generated!