◎Precious Purple Outfit◎

Poxiao didn't know why he agreed so immediately. Maybe he felt that a real man should charge into battle without fear of danger?

But the problem is, he's not like Baiguo or Luo Pan! He's just a born coward. Now that he's been asked to grope his way through the blood mist to find clues, he really wants to die!

But what if I regret it?

He has promised it with all his heart, is he going to cry and hug Baili Xi's thighs now and beg for a replacement?

Who had sworn to Baili Xi that he would be a good person and strive for a higher ranking?

Who was that guy, pretending to be cool in front of the windmill, saying something like, "If I don't grow, how can I protect the people I cherish?" It was him.

Why!

Poxiao felt so embarrassed that he slapped himself twice, hoping that he would cheer up.

On the way, he ran into two extremely ugly baby monsters and was almost discovered by them. Fortunately, he turned on the sprint and disappearance functions, and the whole person whooshed out and disappeared in an instant. The baby monsters didn't have time to lock on to him, so they had to give up, allowing him to escape.

As he continued to advance towards the monastery, where nothing but blood was visible, Poxiao noticed that his health was steadily decreasing. The drop wasn't much each time, but it was occurring every three or four seconds. Since he'd entered, in the space of over ten minutes, he'd already lost 20% of his health.

At the same time, his endurance value was also reduced by the strange cry of the baby monster.

Both endurance potion and red potion are props. Players can only drink one bottle at a time. After drinking it, there will be a 1-minute freezing time. You can drink the potion again after the freezing ends.

He calculated that his stamina was decreasing faster than his health, so he chose to drink the stamina potion first. After one bottle, his stamina was restored to full.

The sounds of skills being released and monsters screaming continued to come from behind him. Poxiao knew that Bailixi and the others had already started the battle. In order not to drag them down, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and ran inside at full speed.

After rushing twice in a row, Poxiao felt that he had bumped into something hard. This time the collision was so severe that he stepped back with a grimace in pain. After taking a few breaths, he finally saw clearly what the hard object in front of him was - a clock.

The floor-standing Big Ben is in a very Western classical style, with a metal dial on top, a solid weight and a metal pendulum below, and a carved base underneath. The entire floor-standing clock is carved from solid wood, giving people a solemn and dignified feeling.

Through the reflective glass of the grandfather clock, Poxiao saw his own panicked expression, so he cleared his cough and forced himself to calm down.

So the question is, why is there a clock at the end of the first floor?

He raised his head and looked at the clock face which was half a head taller than him. The hour hand pointed to 12 o'clock and the minute hand was still moving. However, after observing it for a while, he found that no matter how the minute hand moved, the hour hand never moved.

Oh my god, either the clock is broken or the time of this copy has been frozen.

His intuition told him that the answer was most likely the latter.

So how do we make time move?

Poxiao scratched his head but couldn't think of a solution. At this moment, he suddenly heard "Dafengche" say in the team voice.

"Killed a monster!"

Click.

At dawn, he suddenly discovered that the hour hand had moved back one notch. The hour hand, which was originally pointing to 12 o'clock, suddenly moved back to 11 o'clock.

A strange feeling of terror immediately made his hair stand on end. Weren't they here to kill monsters in the dungeon? Why was there suddenly such a terrifying atmosphere?

Suddenly, Zi Teng's voice rang out: "The second one."

Click.

The hour hand moved back another notch, this time pointing to 10 o'clock.

“Shit!” Poxiao cursed inwardly. He was really scared.

Time is flowing backwards...

He swallowed and came to this horrifying conclusion.

Every time you kill a monster you go back an hour, so how many are out there now?

Just at this moment, Xia Li said casually in the headset, "The third one is done." Poxiao quickly chatted with her privately and asked the doubts in his heart.

【Summer pear blossom: 6】

6, that means 6 hours of retreat, which is... 6 o'clock.

So what is the significance of this clock?

Poxiao scratched his head, trying to figure out something. Suddenly, he discovered that there was a prayer table next to the grandfather clock.

Just now, because his attention was all on the clock, he had no mood to look to the side. As a result, he glanced to the side a few more times and discovered a corner of the prayer altar.

Poxiao walked over and found a broken puzzle piece on the prayer table. He reached out and touched it, and a prompt popped up on the system.

[Please complete the puzzle within 1 minute and rescue your partner]

One minute?! Is this an international joke?

The puzzle in front of him had more than 30 pieces. Even if he didn't consider the original pattern, it would take him more than a minute to put them together one by one.

But does he have a choice?

No, he didn't, and he never had!

Poxiao drank a bottle of red medicine and accepted the challenge with a mixture of tears and laughter.

After trying it out, he found that it was not that difficult. Although the system did not provide the style of the original puzzle, from the pattern that barely had a hint of logic in the messy puzzle, it could be seen that the content of the puzzle was a book.

So I tried it 5 times in a row.

All ended in failure.

Damn! I was only a few dollars away from completing the last two attempts, but the time was up again!

Poxiao was so angry that he wanted to smash the clock, but after seeing the hour hand move back two more spaces, he realized that Li Shen was almost done, so he wiped the sweat off his face and accepted the challenge again.

【Time is up, congratulations, you have completed the puzzle! 】

Poxiao looked at his record and excitedly shouted "yes" repeatedly! His sweaty efforts paid off; he had finally achieved the ultimate hand speed!

And at the moment the puzzle was completed, the clock hand next to it moved back one space, and the copy time was 6 o'clock.

Time went back another hour... Dawn felt as if he had grasped something, but also as if he had grasped nothing.

Just as he was jumping back and forth between understanding and not understanding, suddenly, the book in the puzzle broke away from the puzzle and turned into a real book, floating gently above his head.

The cover of the book was shining, emitting warm white light all around.

Dawn noticed that the blood mist around him was dissipating little by little.

It turns out that the book in the puzzle is the key to dispelling the blood mist!

After hearing the news, he immediately called Baili Xi.

On the other end, after Baili Xi hung up the voice chat, he calmly said to everyone, "Poxiao is fine. He found a way to dispel the blood mist."

Yue Se and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

After waiting for a few minutes, the blood mist completely disappeared, and the spacious first-floor monastery was finally visible.

At the same time, a lot of things fell throughout the first floor hall. Baili Xi and the others realized that they had passed the first level so smoothly.

Poxiao saw the large group and ran over to meet them, telling them about his experience while picking up things.

It may be related to the monsters they fought this time. Many of the items dropped by the monsters are endurance potions, and most of them are large bottles. Now they no longer have to worry about not having enough endurance during the battle!

The group of people were so busy picking up bottles that they were in a daze. In the end, they picked up a total of 37 bottles!

The guild will take 10% of it, which is 4 bottles, and let Baili Xi divide the rest as they like.

Xia Li still had some unused potions in her backpack, so she took only one, as a token of her appreciation. Seeing her do this, the others felt a little embarrassed, thinking that Brother Xi had always been kind to them, and that they didn't need endurance potions very often, so they each took only one, leaving the rest in Fengyun's warehouse.

In addition, 4 pieces of equipment also exploded.

Two scarlet staffs for mages, both of rare quality, boasted two attributes and a [Magic Enhancement] effect, increasing the user's magic power by 8%. Dafengche and Ziteng saw that these were superior to their regular blue items, so they immediately switched to new weapons.

1 piece of blood-red priest robe for priests, also of precious quality blue, with additional [Rebound] effect, a passive skill, with a certain chance of rebounding 40% of the damage received to the opponent.

As a priest who is not good at output, Qingzhengyu looked at Bailixi pitifully, with "I want" written all over his eyes.

Baili Xi rolled his eyes upon seeing this, and immediately picked up the steamed fish with a chuckle.

There is only one piece of equipment left.

They knew who this piece of equipment belonged to without them having to guess. The baby monster was a magic monster, and the equipment it dropped could only be used by magic professions. The mage and priest had already received some, so the only one left was the alchemist, right?

Everyone looked at Xia Li. Xia Li said "oh", walked over and picked it up.

[Crimson Gloves: Precious Purple Equipment, Magic +28, Intelligence +30, Spell Crit +28, Spell Crit +19]

Xia Li's hands trembled: "Fuck!"

They were used to seeing her face the storms with a calm demeanor, but they had never seen her go mad. Qingzhengyu, Poxiao, and the others kept asking her, "What attribute did you explode?!"

Xia Li took a deep breath and put on the Blood Hand Gloves. At the same time, the World Channel released a message that caught the attention of all players:

[World: Congratulations to Xia Rilihua for obtaining the first precious purple equipment in the entire server. Let us send her our best wishes!]

Steamed Fish looked at the message above his head and said, "Oh shit?"

Big Windmill in a Messy Moment: "What kind of damn luck is this?"

Zi Teng held her chest: "My heart hurts a little."

The three of them thought that it was a rare opportunity to get a rare blue outfit in the first level. If it wasn't for the private dungeon, it would be almost impossible to get such high-quality equipment at the same time in a public dungeon. But what about the one in her hand?

They are all precious blue, why is she the only one precious purple?!

At the same time, players in other worlds were also informed of the news.

[What the hell? Purple gear has been revealed? And it's precious purple?]

[How infuriating! Why does she always have all the good stuff to herself?!]

[The humble, poor, weakling drooled with envy~~~]

[I really want to touch the precious purple! (Howling to the sky)]

【I don't touch, just looking is enough】

[I work so hard every day to clear the dungeon, but I can't even pick up a precious blue item. How come she can just grab a purple item so easily? I don't believe she's got something fishy going on!]

[See? This is the real reason why they don't care whether Bruce lives or dies. They can easily get purple equipment without any need to improve durability. Unlike us, we work hard all day, but in the end, the equipment is just scrapped.]

[Oh, this is so heartbreaking. After listening to your analysis, I feel like this game is unplayable!]

…

Xia Li told Qing Zhengyu and the others the properties of the gloves one by one. They were already extremely envious, and after hearing what she said, they almost couldn't breathe.

"All the added attributes are magic! Absolutely amazing!" Dafengche licked his lips, his eyes full of envy. If these gloves were not only for the alchemist profession, he would buy them even at a high price.

"And it added two spell critical hits in a row? It seems that Alchemist is really suitable for the critical hit route." Steamed Fish sighed and couldn't help but sigh.

"I thought alchemists didn't have weapons, but it turns out they only have gloves." Zi Teng was also a little surprised. As she spoke, she flipped through her equipment column to confirm that there was no category for gloves.

Xia Li had always known that the alchemist's weapon was gloves, but because she had never seen gloves before, whether in dungeons, monster hunting, quests, or trading centers, she had a rough idea in her mind and understood that gloves were a rare weapon and could not be easily obtained.

Furthermore, her output is not low, so whether she has gloves or not does not have much impact on her, so Xia Li is not very eager for gloves at all, and she has always had a go-with-the-flow mentality.

Facts have proved that fate is really mysterious. The more you want something, the less likely you are to get it. The less you want something, the more likely it will be forced into your hands.

In her previous life, she followed her teammates to play this dungeon, hoping to pick up a top-quality priest staff, but in the end, she picked up nothing. In this life, she just let fate take its course, and as a result, a purple outfit was given to her right after she finished playing the dungeon?

Xia Li happily put on the blood-red gloves and saw that the values ​​in the attribute column had increased a lot. Then she looked at her personal combat power and found that as expected, because of this purple outfit, her combat power directly soared by 500 points!

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