Looking over all the newly acquired skills, it’s clear that this is a very standard female general—her strengths are all about speed and voice, and she really can’t compare to male generals in close combat offense and defense. Plus, all the skill effects are tied to my mental and physical strength, so I can’t afford to be weak!

This Gu insect demonic sound is also quite interesting. It means that the centipedes on the plaza with the third young lady probably weren’t all caught one by one, but summoned by the demonic sound.

But isn’t this 4-star skill, General Star Annihilation, way too much of a trap? General star fragments are treasures for players, non-tradable, and you can never have too many—how could there ever be extra fragments? It even requires downgrading star levels? What kind of battle would be worth such a gamble?

……

——System prompt: Congratulations! Samantha Grant’s general token has obtained 50 general star fragments and upgraded to 5 stars. Gained 5-star skills: Loyal Family to the End, Gu Insect Self-Destruct.

【Loyal Family to the End】: Launch a suicide attack with death warriors, unleashing damage far beyond normal. Can be used together with 【General Star Annihilation】 to stack damage. Warning! Once this skill is activated, the general token cannot be used for a long period of time.

【Gu Insect Self-Destruct】: Detonate cultivated Gu insects to injure enemies. The more Gu insects detonated, the greater the consumption of the general token, resulting in being unable to fight for a period of time.

——System prompt: Your general token has reached the full 5-star level. You must obtain a trial opportunity or refine an elixir to break through the star level and reach the extraordinary. You have additionally received 77 general star fragments.

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5 stars! It’s really maxed out? Needs a trial opportunity? And alchemy? This...

Loyal Family to the End?!

Big Charles shuddered all over! So her “perish together” wasn’t just talk—she really has this skill!

So that’s how it is. As a female general, it’s hard to go head-to-head in close combat with male generals, and with the tragic fate of Ulysses Grant’s family, she could only rely on such desperate skills. This skill is even more of a trap than General Star Annihilation—normally you wouldn’t dare use it at all, which basically means two fewer leveling skills!

Fortunately, the leveling disadvantage is offset by the Gu Master mode, so her specialty is clearly to hide her identity most of the time and go all out at critical moments.

Speaking of which, the one I look down on most in the Three Kingdoms is Howard Payne. Originally, Ulysses Grant beheading David Payne was just each serving their own lord, a true test on the battlefield. But he took advantage of the chaos to wipe out the Guan family for personal revenge.

Fine! When I get out, I’ll talk ideals with Little William the Lame, right? The ideal is to take out Howard Payne in a big way! So what if he’s a general star? I’ll blow up his general star and use it to upgrade Samantha Grant’s general token to 7 stars...

Just then, the array characters flashed and spun rapidly, and the dark “elevator” suddenly accelerated upward!

What’s this?

The next moment, the character array vanished, and the sounds of roosters crowing and dogs barking came to my ears, with a fresh breeze blowing in.

——System prompt: You have left the Ten Thousand Gu Cave and entered the Pure Yang Secret Realm’s Southern Herbal Manor.

Back again? Only now did Big Charles open his eyes, under a sky full of stars and moon!

Everything was arranged perfectly, but it’s a pity I still don’t know what that poisonous flood dragon looks like, and there were so many demon insects left unkilled.

Exhausted! Both body and mind are drained, so I’ll just sleep under the farmhouse eaves...

Chapter 10: After General Star Annihilation...

Eight miles outside Yongchang City, in the village of the The Phoenix Club chicken farm, patrols were strict, and the sharp stakes outside the walls were covered with dried weasel skins blessed by witchcraft as a warning.

Chicken Bro, after finishing the evening’s socializing, returned to the chicken farm for the night watch, listening to the chorus of chicken calls rising and falling like a nocturne, pondering his future development. Although Chicken Bro had a much better loft in the city, the chicken farm was his foundation and could not be neglected in the slightest. Especially with weasels—those wicked little things that can scare a whole flock to death by stealing just one chicken—he absolutely couldn’t let a single one in.

And it was thanks to Mark Ford’s connections that he got this village, so he had to live up to that favor.

Mark Ford’s abilities aren’t high, but that’s not a flaw—it’s an advantage, because he’s easy to handle. If even someone that easy to handle causes trouble, then it’s a big problem for me.

But Chicken Bro’s principle for dealing with people doesn’t seem to apply to transmigrated players. Players are all sorts of oddballs, and even those without ability aren’t easy to deal with. Like that Big Charles, whose ranking has risen to the top ten thousand.

Chicken Bro may have said in front of the gang that he wanted to invite Big Charles for a chat, but what is there to talk about?

Even when Big Charles was powerless, he didn’t buy it—now that this “dead fish” has exploded, he might just soar to the sky! What’s there to talk about?

If the talk fails, just kill him?

Honestly, as a modern person, Chicken Bro has always struggled with this issue. He’s killed thousands of chickens, and often personally slaughters chickens to show off his knife skills and intimidate those gang members who’ve never killed a chicken in their lives. But he’s never killed a person!

In fact, in the first half year since the start, among the hundreds of thousands of players nationwide, there have been cases of death from illness, reckless behavior, and even suicide, but very few reports of murder between players. Even in Abraham Lincoln’s Chenliu City, where the most chaotic player gangs are, there’s more cursing than actual fighting.

PK, which is common in online games, is met with extreme restraint and rationality in this real-life version, since no one playing Three Kingdoms is a fool. But that’s bound to be temporary—when resource competition reaches a critical point, what must happen will happen.

Chicken Bro has always wondered: when a player dies in this world, are they really dead? Or do they transmigrate back? If they do go back, then there’s no psychological pressure—it’s just like sending a chicken home!