Li Fan ignored the bullet comments in the livestream chat, took a deep breath, and kept pulling.
He had over twenty-nine thousand jade. Leaving five thousand for opening land, and having already done two five-pulls, he could still pull twenty-three more times.
Hopefully he could get Pioneer, Zhanbi, and enough material cards…
Right now, the most painful thing for free-to-play players was actually the skills dismantled from cards. They required a large number of materials to synthesize.
And that led to a fairly big problem: opening land was difficult.
After all, even the cleverest housewife could not cook without rice. No matter how good your mechanics were, there was nothing you could do in a situation like this. This was also why some boosters required the account to have enough tactic experience and tactics.
Of course, because of this, many land-opening techniques had also emerged. The most comfortable one was laid-back opening: complete all the missions, then don’t claim the mission rewards, and use warehouse overflow to reach level-seven City Hall. At level seven, you could successfully unlock the barracks.
Once the troop limit increased, even level-five lands that were originally impossible to take could be taken easily after getting barracks.
Of course, this also required a long time.
It took two days to complete.
But back then, being able to take level-five lands and sweep level-fives within two days was already very impressive.
Later, when NetEase realized this issue and understood that opening land was too difficult, they made a very comfortable change. First, tactics dismantled from cards could be used at level one, without needing to be fully synthesized.
One had to know, even if the three-star Little Fire was fully leveled, its damage still could not compare to a level-one Big Fire.
Then they would also give tactic experience, as well as awakening.
Under those circumstances, you could take level-five lands in four or five hours.
All one could say was that the suffering endured by the people in front truly let those who came later enjoy the benefits.
This might also have had something to do with the difficulty of opening land being too high, causing fewer new players to come in.
Wasn’t League of Legends much less mechanically difficult than Dota? It was quick to pick up, came from behind, and successfully took first place among MOBA games.
Li Fan didn’t get anything much on his third and fourth five-pulls, but seven four-star cards was still satisfying enough.
On the fifth pull, it lit up red again!
Since when had NetEase become so conscientious?
Two five-stars in just five thousand jade?
The moment the red-light effect ended, Li Fan couldn’t help standing up from his seat.
Holy shit!
Double yolk!
He had actually pulled two five-stars: Big Dog and Jia Xu. He had Wei Intellect directly.
Because among the four-star cards he had pulled earlier was Guo Jia.
In S1, this team could slaughter at will.
Now he was only missing a few cores. As for the Three Emperors, Lü Meng, and so on, even if he couldn’t pull them now, he could slowly wait for them later.
After all, in Shuai Tu Zhi Bin, if you had no money, you could only accumulate slowly.
And in the livestream chat…
A group of people started spamming question marks like crazy.
Because this was something they could genuinely see.
There was red light and even a special effect. That definitely meant something good had come out.
Even if they didn’t understand, they could guess by looking at the characters from Three Kingdoms.
[That lucky? Unreal couldn’t be NetEase’s own son, could he?]
[I’m so pissed. I spent over twenty thousand jade and only pulled four or five five-stars, but you only pulled a few times and got this many five-stars? Rigged!]
[Damn, you really can’t compare with someone who plays games using their lifespan. I’m convinced. You can get cards with any random pull?]
[I’m dying here, I’m really dying here. I don’t care what you guys are doing, I’m genuinely anxious. Please don’t pull anymore. What if you even pull Liu Bei next?]
But the viewers saying this gradually stopped being so nervous.
After that, the chance of five-stars exploding out wasn’t that high anymore. Basically, it was one every five or six pulls.
That made sense. The card-drawing probability at the start had been wrong, and after they discovered it, they hurriedly adjusted it.
No one should even think about gaining any advantage from NetEase.
Although he still hadn’t gotten any of the Three Emperors, Li Fan was already fairly satisfied.
Because he had Pioneer and Zhanbi.
Opening land would be relatively relaxed and simple.
These twenty-five pulls were soon finished.
Looking at the five thousand jade he still had left, Li Fan planned to do one more…
First, he padded it with gold coins, then opened Luoyang.
After that, he found the music player and played a song called “Good Luck Comes.”
Then he rubbed his hands together, picked up the mouse, and clicked the final five-pull!
The screen suddenly flashed! Red light appeared again!
The hearts of the viewers in the livestream chat abruptly trembled, and the bullet comments instantly fell into a brief stagnation.
[No way, right? Again?]
[Holy shit! Red light! It’s red light again!]
[Is this the fucking probability a pity pull should have? Five-star cards keep coming? Paid shill! Definitely a paid shill!]
[Who was it just now who said he’d pull Liu Bei? Did the jinx work?]
[Hurry hurry hurry hurry! What is it?! Open it already!]
Li Fan himself also held his breath, his heart pounding.
Just now, he had only fantasized a little. After all, wasn’t the thing everyone liked to do most “one more try”? Because he always felt the next pull would give something.
This red light…
Could it really… have come?
Li Fan quickly clicked the screen.
A character wearing a crown with hanging beads, dressed in imperial robes, with a benevolent and kindly face, appeared prominently in the center of the screen!
“Liu Bei! Liu Bei! Aaaaaah! It really came out!”
Li Fan could no longer control himself. He shot up from his chair, waving his fists excitedly and shouting, his voice even going slightly off-key from the excitement.
He simply couldn’t believe his eyes. On the very last pull, he had actually pulled Liu Bei, one of the Three Emperors!
As expected, that premonition had not been wrong.
The livestream chat completely exploded!
[??????????]
[What the fuck… Liu Bei right after a double yolk?]
[Unfollowing, unfollowing! I can’t watch this anymore! This game is unplayable!]
[Unreal! You’re using your yang lifespan to draw cards, aren’t you?!]
[Reported. The streamer is suspected of using a metaphysics cheat!]
[Confirmed NetEase’s own son! This luck is heaven-defying!]
[Maybe you guys don’t understand Liu Bei’s value, so let me put it this way: as long as a team has Liu Bei, it’s default T1. With Liu Bei, you can directly enter an alliance. I’m really not joking.]
[You can say other cards don’t count as cores, but Liu Bei is an absolute core.]
The gains from this final pull had truly far exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Li Fan also opened his card pool and glanced at the cards he had drawn with his twenty-some thousand jade.
Ten five-star cards. Just having Liu Bei and Ma Chao already made it very profitable.
Not to mention the other tactics.
Sure enough, games had to be played early.
“Mm, so-so, I guess. The pulls were just so-so.” Li Fan’s face was already packed full of smiles.
“Alright, alright, brothers. Why are you acting like you’ve never seen Liu Bei before?” As he spoke, he opened the card library, then clicked on Liu Bei and directly expanded it.
Liu Bei was viable for opening land in S1, but he moved too slowly, which greatly affected the experience.
When others marched out to attack a piece of land, it took two or three minutes. For Liu Bei, it took seven or eight minutes, a full doubling in slowness.
Naturally, he would not choose to let Liu Bei open land.
Of course, since he had already fallen behind by so much time, Li Fan didn’t have the leisure to show off. He began the land-opening process.
There was one most important point here: one had to learn how to farm reserve soldiers.
The main reason was that, at the current stage, conscription time was not real-time conscription. Even if you had already been conscripting for two hours, as long as you canceled in the final second, you still would not have a single soldier.
Under these circumstances, farming reserve soldiers appeared.
NetEase also tacitly accepted it and did not treat it as a bug to fix.
However, this only existed in S1. S2, S3, and the Conquest seasons did not have it.
Perhaps they had considered how difficult opening land was for free-to-play players…
EDG manager’s office.
Abu looked at the trending search that had suddenly popped up again and froze for a moment.
Unreal’s peerless good looks?
Strange. Shouldn’t “peerless good looks” be used to describe me? What was wrong with these netizens?
Sitting in his seat, he thought for quite a while, then, as if possessed, opened Li Fan’s livestream.
One look… It was some random, messy game he didn’t recognize, and anger immediately surged up in him.
This guy’s thinking really had gone wrong!