Chapter 398 [(*^▽^*)]
Everyone showed great agreement with Xue Rui's suggestion. No one wanted to face the berserk elite monster, and even if they wanted to unite to kill it, this was not the time.
"No objections, we'll be going now!"
"I have no objection either. See you later, friends!"
Soon the other teams disappeared in twos and threes, leaving only Xue Rui and his five-person team, looking all alone.
Zhou Feng: "We're already on the sixth floor. I estimate we'll be down to the first floor in about two minutes!"
Xue Rui glanced up and could now clearly hear the elite monster's roar and its heavy footsteps, which could be heard even several floors away. "Let's go!"
The five of them left quickly. They couldn't go up directly via the stairs or the elevator. The elevator had been disabled by the elite monster, and the stairs... if they went up the stairs, he would definitely find them.
All players could only climb up the outer wall using various tools, and Xue Rui and his group of five were no exception. When they reached the outer wall, they did not see any other players.
Sichuan peppercorns quipped, "Wow, they run so fast! Their speed is unmatched, even faster than ours."
Fang Hong quickly prepared the props, "They're complaining! Let's go! The elite monster is already on the third floor!"
This elite monster has a unique way of going downstairs. It doesn't use the stairs or the elevator. If it wants to go downstairs, it just stomps its foot hard on a certain spot. This causes the area under its feet to collapse, and it naturally falls to the next floor.
Going upstairs is the same. He finds the hole that leads down, bends his knees and jumps upstairs. It's fast and convenient. And, perhaps coincidentally, the elite monsters always go downstairs from the same spot.
If you stand on the first floor and look up, you can see the ceiling of the 43rd floor directly!
After Xue Rui and his group arrived at the outer wall, the thick wall and the strong wind outside could block the elite monster from sensing the life force of the living people outside. Moreover, the elite monster was located in the middle of each floor. While it was going downstairs, Xue Rui and his group took advantage of it to go upstairs as quickly as possible!
They quickly arrived at the twelfth floor, opened the window and went inside. It was a very small office with only two desks. The door was still closed, so it seemed that the elite monsters hadn't sensed any living beings when they searched this floor, and therefore hadn't searched room by room!
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the office was intact. Apart from some items being messed up due to the vibration, everything else was fine.
Xue Rui also relaxed for a moment. "Let's stay here for now and go down to meet up after this elite monster leaves the first floor. Hopefully, the other players can get there by then."
Sichuan peppercorns: "It will definitely pass, otherwise, are we going to face two elite monsters tomorrow?"
Zhou Feng said, "Everyone should take this time to rest. There might be a big battle soon. I hope your speed-limiting item will be very useful."
Sichuan pepper sighed, "I don't know if it will be of great use, but limiting this elite monster's speed to one-tenth should make things much easier for us, right? The most crucial question is, how do we achieve ten seconds?"
Needless to say, everyone has seen how fast this elite monster is. Are we going to have Xue Rui shoot it for another ten seconds? Xue Rui was the one who placed that item yesterday, and although he got the lion's share of the points, it still feels...
Xue Rui didn't refuse, "This item can only be used once tonight, meaning it can only limit his speed for ten minutes. After successfully using it, you must kill him within ten minutes, otherwise..."
After ten minutes, they will completely lose the chance to kill this elite monster, and may even be killed by it, failing to clear the dungeon and leaving.
While they were still discussing something, a woman's heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from some floor downstairs. The sound seemed somewhat familiar!
Huajiao's lips twitched. "This seems to be one of the female players who spoke to us on the first floor before. I just forgot which one it was. It looks like she's been caught!"
Xue Rui said, "This elite monster... once caught by it, you're doomed unless you use an expensive item to escape."
Huajiao's expression was strange. "If you use an item to escape after being caught, that item will cost at least several thousand points. With those points, it's better to just die and fail to clear the level, losing several thousand points. After all, leaving the dungeon that way might reduce the points you lose."
If we choose to stay, it's uncertain whether we can kill the final boss, and we also don't know how to kill those elite monsters that are right in front of us.
The woman's screams stopped abruptly, and everyone assumed she was dead, but unexpectedly...
Suddenly, a woman covered in blood appeared above their small office. She fell onto the desk and then rolled to the floor, appearing to be unconscious.
As expected, the elite monsters below roared once more, and the entire building shook violently again. They could all hear the walls collapsing and the glass shattering.
Even when they looked out the window, they could see that there were many more snow-white papers and some lighter items in the black gale outside.
"How many floors collapsed this time with the roar of the elite monster?"
Fang Hong was silent for a moment before saying, "The building didn't collapse, and the load-bearing walls should still be intact. Is this elite monster afraid that if it causes the building to collapse, the big boss will be angry?"
Huajiao suddenly had a brilliant idea, "How about we just blow up the building?"
Zhou Feng instinctively wanted to object, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed like it might work?
"Is this... really possible? After we blow up the building, will the big boss appear early or just disappear? Will we be able to clear the game immediately?"
Xue Rui: "It can't be that simple, can it?"
Huajiao waved his hand, "I was just saying. If we really blow up the building, we'll have nowhere to hide. If the big boss, elite monsters, and other ghosts appear together, we'll definitely die."
They nodded in agreement. That made sense. So now... what should we do with the female player lying there?
Huajiao sighed as she looked at her, "If it were me, I would never spend so many points to buy items to escape. You're already seriously injured. Even if you can survive to the tenth day, what good will it do? If you don't kill the BOSS, surviving to the tenth day is still a failure."
Zhou Feng and the others looked at Xue Rui. "Captain, should we save him?"
Xue Rui thought for a moment, "Let's use the cheapest healing items. When she wakes up, we'll ask her for items of the same level. If she refuses, we'll kill her."
Huajiao chuckled, "As expected of the captain, I like this approach!"
No one had any objections. In a dungeon, no one is a saint. It's already quite an achievement to save her. If it were any other player, they would definitely ignore it.
I won't kill him, since there's no reward for killing him, unless there's a wanted notice like before.
They gently treated the woman's wounds, and she woke up shortly afterward. She was stunned for a moment when she saw them before relaxing.
"I...I'm not dead..."
Sichuan peppercorn: "Sister, why don't you just die? That escape item you use after being caught must be expensive, right? More expensive than the points you lose for failing the game, right?"
She paused for a moment, then said, "Indeed... it would be better to just die, but... but I'm not willing to accept this. I can't just die like this. I want to kill those two bastards!"
Moreover, I cannot die!
Huajiao paused for a moment before realizing that this woman was in a party with two other men. Could it be that she was captured by the elite monster because of the other two men?
Her gossip instincts kicked in immediately. "Hey, what exactly happened? Tell me! If you tell me, I won't have to pay you back for the healing items I used on you before."
The woman blinked. Right, the healing tools had to be returned. She wasn't teammates with them anyway. She had already broken off relations with those two scoundrels, so it wasn't her who was embarrassed. What was there to hide?
"The captain is my boyfriend, he's always been with me. He says he loves me very much, and I've always thought so too. The other guy is... My current family is a blended family. I live with my mother, and he's my stepfather's son. Although we live together, our relationship is rather cold."
“I took my boyfriend to visit my mom a few times, and that’s probably when we started dating. I really didn’t expect this… I kept it a secret pretty well.”
Huajiao chimed in, "Do you have enough points?"
The woman looked troubled. "I didn't know we'd be in a B-level difficulty dungeon this time, so my score was just a little low. If I die, I'm really dead. The items I used were ones I got before."
Sichuan pepper blinked. "You...you don't have enough points to deduct? How much are you short?"
This B-level difficulty dungeon, excluding everything else, offers a reward of 50,000 points for completion. Failure to complete it results in a deduction of 10,000 points, which is one-fifth of the reward.
The five of them had at least 50,000 points, so they weren't afraid of losing points. Therefore, the woman in front of them... had less than 10,000 points!
"I...I only have a little over nine thousand points, I'm still a bit short...If I can't get a thousand points before I die, I'll really be dead..."
Xue Rui was puzzled. "Logically speaking, people who can enter a dungeon of this difficulty shouldn't have too few points, and everyone is very cautious and won't spend too many points. How could you..."
She gave a wry smile. "I...I originally had over 400,000 points!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. This player actually had over 400,000 points! Really? Did she even know what 400,000 points meant?
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