With each update to the Tomb of the Kings version, the official planners' awareness of the game also improved with each passing day. They were well versed in the convenience of fast-paced games. Therefore, the game design became more and more user-friendly as time went on. For example, the dungeon maps released later were equipped with dedicated fast-transport routes, which reduced the time and energy wasted on traversing the map. Xia Tong didn't know the way very well, but he didn't panic. He followed Lin Mingfei enthusiastically and soon arrived at the entrance of the river valley. There were already many players gathered there. Judging by the color of the IDs above their heads, they were all teammates.
Xia Tong didn't notice this group of people immediately, and was still clinging to Lin Mingfei's butt like a little tail, jumping around and recalling the wonderful experience just now. The anger in his chest was finally relieved. The feeling of having someone backing him up and being able to do whatever he wanted was really wonderful. The more Xia Tong thought about it, the more proud he became. The more he looked at Lin Mingfei, the more he felt that he liked this Alpha. So he pounced on her unexpectedly, jumped up, hooked his arms around Lin Mingfei's neck, bent his knees and retracted his short legs, and wrapped himself around Lin Mingfei like a koala.
"Zero, I love you so much!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that Lin Mingfei froze on the spot. At the same time, several strange gazes came from the front.
An elf player named "Bai Jie No. 12" stuttered and blurted out his true feelings: "Team, Team Leader's Wife."
Lin Mingfei choked. From his perspective, the looks in these people's eyes were very familiar to him. To sum it up, they could be summed up in two words - "beasts."
Lin Mingfei: "...No, listen to my explanation."
"Z-God, you don't need to explain!" A hunter player wearing a red scarf waved his hand, his face full of understanding. "We're all adults, I understand! Even gods have to come down to earth! We'll stay away from your private life! Hey! Brothers! Z-God is helping us avoid the mine pit today, just pretend you saw and heard nothing! This is the leader's apprentice, not his wife! Everyone, be righteous! Don't tell anyone!"
"No problem, no problem!" There was a flurry of responses from the group.
Lin Mingfei: “…???”
Damn, the imagination of the players of Contemporary Royal Tomb is too strong. He didn't even say a word, and even the ending was arranged clearly for him.
Xia Tong didn't quite understand what was being said, and didn't know what obscene words he was saying. He still clung to Lin Mingfei's shoulders, tilted his head, and met his teammates in such a weird bear hug.
"Hello everyone!" He greeted the group members happily.
Lin Mingfei's ears turned slightly red. She patted his arm and said softly, "Come down first. It's time to enter the base."
Xia Tong: "Ah!"
He obediently let go and landed on the ground, patted his butt and stood up straight, looking at the people and things around him curiously.
Not only him, but the players were also looking at him curiously.
After looking at each other for a while, Lin Mingfei had already assembled the team neatly.
"Come on, everyone, enter the game." He said in a deep voice, without any joking on his face, and he had already entered the state.
He has a natural leadership temperament. He usually doesn't show it, but once he opens his mouth, people cannot resist him and will choose to believe and obey him unconditionally.
The crowd moved towards the narrow and deep river valley one after another.
As the current mainstream dungeon, Siren Valley has not yet reached the level of universal crushing, so there are many different types of strategies and playing methods popular, each with its own advantages. This also tests the personal level of the commander. If you meet a good commander, the team can pass it quickly. If the commander is poor, it is possible to struggle for several hours.
Lin Mingfei didn't say much. She directed them briefly and calmly to avoid the monsters hidden in the vegetation on both sides. The group took a shortcut and crossed a stone bridge and arrived in front of the first BOSS.
Everyone was shocked.
"Awesome! I never knew you could circumvent these monsters! They're so damn hard to deal with!"
"It usually takes nearly half an hour to clear the Octopus! We've only just entered the dungeon!"
"Z-God is so awesome! To be honest, I was a little worried before entering the dungeon! After all, Z-God seems to be playing PVP all the time..."
"Are you kidding me? Polaris was the first echelon of the raid team back then, and Zero was the team leader. They must have been awesome!"
Lin Mingfei ignored their whispers, quickly marked a few points on the map, and began to assign tasks.
"Li Baibai goes to point one, Luzhou Haocha goes to point four, the elves and wizards all gather at point two to give up vision for point three."
His voice was low, restrained, and magnetic, seemingly a little lazy, yet sharp and incisive. No one had any objection at all, and everyone obeyed his every word.
Xia Tong obediently listened to Lin Mingfei's words and ran to the stone at point No. 2 early and stood there. Then two elves came. In addition to the elf named "Bai Jie No. 12", there was also a male elf named "Red Dolami".
Xia Tong stepped back a bit to make room for the two elves. He was mentally familiarizing himself with his skill cycle and waving his staff twice to warm up when he suddenly heard someone taunt him, "Are you really planning on taking on the boss?"
Xia Tong was stunned and raised his head. He saw the red Dolami standing in front of him glanced sideways and glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.
"I fought...why not?" Xia Tong said blankly.
"I suggest you put down your weapons," said Chise Doremi calmly, "lest you randomly use skills and draw the boss's aggro, leading to everyone being wiped out."
Xia Tong: “???” He looked even more bewildered, asking sincerely, “I don’t understand why using a skill would wipe everyone out…”
"You don't even know this. You're truly the boss brought in by Z-god to mess around in the dungeon." A hint of contempt flashed in the red Doremi's eyes, and he sighed, "Forget it. After all, you're Z-god's... relative or friend." He pointed to the points marked by Lin Mingfei, where quite a few people were already standing in groups. "Do you see these points? It's a straight line. The boss is in the middle. Later, it'll be like the fulcrum of a balance beam, trying to stay in place as much as possible. Z-god uses this extreme distance-locking strategy. It avoids having to use tanks to draw aggro, allowing for an extra axe warrior to deal damage. At the same time, everyone doesn't have to move around and just stand still to attack, maximizing efficiency."
"Anyone who can come up with this kind of play must be incredibly good at math." Bai Jie No. 12 chimed in, "I can't even look at all these players' kills and then arrange their positions!"
"Then...what does it have to do with whether I deal damage or not?" Xia Tong still didn't understand.
"Are you stupid?" Red Doremi, perhaps thinking he was too stupid, said with a hint of impatience, "Look at where you're standing. You're not even in the damage distribution line. If you start, won't the boss's aggro lever be broken?"
Xia Tong seemed to understand, but felt uncomfortable. "Zero didn't say that he couldn't let me output..." He muttered softly, with some resentment in his voice.
At this time, Lin Mingfei had already deployed all the team members. He stood at the end of the team and carried a sniper rifle.
"I'll yell three, two, one. Everyone, go all out!" He shouted, "Three, two, one!"
"Bang!"
Like a starting gun, he shot the octopus in the head from a distance.
The BOSS turned red instantly, and it was roaring as it was about to pounce towards Lin Mingfei to attack. Dazzling skill spells came from both the left and the right. In the blink of an eye, the group output on both sides tied it tightly in place like two tug-of-war ropes. The BOSS looked around as if it didn't know who to attack for a moment, and it shook up and down anxiously in place.
This style of play made the team's health very stable, and the elves acting as nurses felt almost no pressure. Red Doremi crossed his arms and said complacently: "See? I guessed it would be like this -"
Xia Tong, feeling totally unwanted, lay in depressed silence. Suddenly, he heard a notification sound coming from the private chat interface.
Polaris_Zero: [Why are you standing still?]
Xia Tong was shocked. He first looked at the DPS statistics and saw that Lin Mingfei's ID was ranked first. How could she still have time to send him a private message?
Faced with Lin Mingfei's questioning, Xia Tong felt very aggrieved.
Xia Xiaotong: [They said I shouldn't fight, because it would wipe everyone out.]
Polaris_Zero: [It's okay, don't listen to them, just go for it and show me your highest DPS.]
These words were like a shot of chicken blood into the little wizard's veins, completely releasing his restless thoughts!
There were a few "crackling" sounds like lightning, and the five-colored curse light rushed out like an angry dragon.
"Hey, are you crazy? Stop it!" Scarlet Dorami started and shouted, but Xia Tong ignored him, completely focused. The young wizard pushed his staff slightly with one hand, and it trembled and swung as he cast the spell. The icy blue crystal glowed brightly, enveloping him in a shimmering light that was impossible to look at directly.
When the octopus was hit by the wizard's spell, it began to squirm its limbs furiously and rushed towards Xia Tong impatiently. Xia Tong paused slightly and was a little shaken, but suddenly remembered what Lin Mingfei had just said.
[Go all out and show me your highest DPS.]
These words powerfully ignited the fire of hope in his heart.
He unleashed one skill after another, his brain working faster and faster, and the frequency of his skills increasing.
In a moment, the octopus stopped where it was. It was so close, but it didn't move forward. Its blood line dropped rapidly.
Scarlet Doraimi was so frightened that he broke out in a sweat and retreated from the marked point, fearing that he would be affected by the boss. However, Bai Jie No. 12 remained calm. He glanced at the DPS statistics and saw that Xia Xiaotong's instantaneous DPS was ranked first.
"I think your understanding of the extreme card point is still a bit problematic. The position of the BOSS has nothing to do with the position of the output station. It only has to do with hatred and output volume." Bai Jie No. 12 said with surprise.
"What do you mean?" Red Dolami was still in fear.
"You can simply understand it as... this kid's individual output exceeds that of these two groups of people." Bai Jie No. 12 said quietly, "So it forms an equilateral triangle!"
With Xia Xiaotong joining the battle, the DPS of the entire group soared exponentially. After a few minutes, the first BOSS was defeated.
The whole group cheered.
Xia Tong rubbed his slightly sore wrist and breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, he received another message in his private chat channel.
Polaris_Zero: [Okay, okay, your DPS is higher than mine [thumbs up]]
Xia Tong raised her head and looked at the hunter who was counting the dropped equipment in the distance. The two of them looked at each other as if they had telepathy and smiled.
Xia Xiaotong: [You helped me assemble the equipment! And you gave me great instructions!]
At this moment, someone patted his shoulder.
Xia Tong turned around in confusion and saw the red Doremi.
The expression on the elf's face was still very stupid. His mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't make a sound.
Xia Tong looked rather uncomfortable and tried to guess his lip movements: "Aba Aba? Ababa?"
Red Doremi: "......"
He jerked his head, his expression filled with shock and a hint of fear. "What is your relationship with God Z?"
Xia Tong was confused and answered honestly, "We're good friends! He taught me how to play games!"
The red Do Re Mi is silent.
If he suspected that Xia Tong was a naive little fan of Zero who had picked up offline and brought in Benben to get some equipment when he first saw Xia Tong's equipment and appearance, and was therefore full of disdain for Xia Tong, then he now believed everything Xia Tong said without a doubt.
Who would want to buy a perverted output machine?
——As expected of Zero’s apprentice.
As a fan of Zero's skills, Chise Doremi swallowed his saliva, feeling a pang of sourness. He glanced at Xia Tong again, thinking, this little guy, aside from having a prettier face than most, doesn't have any other outstanding qualities? Why did Zero choose him to be his apprentice out of so many people?
He suddenly leaned closer to Xia Tong and cleared his throat several times.
“Cough cough cough…”
Xia Tong was just about to run over to find Lin Mingfei to see what equipment had appeared, but when she heard the red Doremi coughing so heartbreakingly, her attention was drawn to it.
"What's the matter with you?" he asked.
"Um..." Red Doremi stammered, "Is Zero still accepting disciples?"
Xia Tong: "Huh?"
Red Doremi rubbed his hands together and forced a flattering smile. "Little brother, I'll give you five thousand gold coins. Please help me put in a good word for Zero and ask if he's willing to take in another disciple."
Xia Tong: "Ah..."
Seeing that Xia Tong seemed easy to talk to, Chise Duolaimi became even more respectful: "If I am lucky enough to become a fellow disciple with you, then I will give you another five thousand gold!"
Xia Tong's big eyes finally narrowed into a line.
After he heard what Chise Doremi said, alarm bells rang in his mind, and then a line of big-character poster popped up.
——He! Wants! To! Fight! With! Me! For! Zero!
So the little wizard slowly turned his face away.
"I don't need it!" He pouted, "The money in my bag is ten times more than yours!"
After showing off her wealth, Xia Tong stopped competing with the red Do Re Mi Do and ran towards Lin Ming Fei as if she had small motors under her feet.
The first BOSS dropped all the melee equipment. Lin Mingfei quickly auctioned off all the equipment, and when Xia Tong arrived, he had already collected all the money.
"Why is there nothing here?" Xia Tong pouted.
"Because your equipment didn't drop." Lin Mingfei smiled.
Xia Tong was quite dissatisfied: "I'm dealing such high damage, but my equipment isn't even dropped! I don't like this boss anymore!"
Lin Mingfei smiled and reached out to touch his head. "Alright, let's wait for the next boss. Let's go."
The next BOSS is the infamous Siren Queen, the legendary vicious woman who uses wizard players as knives. Xia Tong suddenly became a high-risk element in the group. After witnessing Xia Tong's terrifying DPS in the previous BOSS, several players showed hesitant expressions to Lin Mingfei.
Lin Mingfei didn't show much emotion, and said to Xia Tong calmly, "Stand at the point I marked."
Xia Xiaotong, who knew nothing, was still full of trust in him: "Okay!" Then she jogged to the marked point and stood with her chest out.
Until Lin Mingfei pointed a gun at him.
Xia Tong: “?”
"Bang"
Polaris_Zero used tranquilizer bullets on Xia Xiaotong.
Xia Tong: “!!!” He was dumbfounded and fell to the ground, unable to move. He could only watch Lin Mingfei arrange other members’ sites and start fighting without him.
The Siren Queen put on a grand display, condensing the waves in the valley into silver dragons, which scattered all over the sky with a terrifying momentum. Lin Mingfei remained calm in the face of danger, and there was not even a fluctuation in her voice when she gave the command. Since there was no "living" wizard who could be named, they successfully passed the first stage. Xia Tong was very sad, but he gradually found that the paralysis DEBUFF on his body disappeared, and he could move independently again. He hurriedly got up from the ground and joined the output army. The subsequent mechanism had nothing to do with the wizard, and everyone obeyed Lin Mingfei's instructions. The whole group followed the instructions step by step as if they were doing radio gymnastics during class, and they passed through without any hesitation.
This BOSS made Xia Tong feel very wronged. His hands and feet are still numb. He limped over to check the equipment dropped by the BOSS, but found that none of them had anything to do with him.
After Lin Mingfei auctioned off the equipment that had nothing to do with him, she sniffed and laughed softly, "How tragic! All my happiness belongs to others."
Xia Tong: “Hmm—” He wanted to cry but couldn’t, “I don’t like this BOSS anymore!”
This humiliation continued until the entire Siren Valley dungeon was completed. The three BOSSes were inhumane and none of them dropped equipment for Xia Tong.
Xia Tong felt sincerely that he had fought for nothing, so even though he received a handsome salary, he still couldn't be happy and left the dungeon crying.
“It’s too difficult!”
"What's so difficult about it?" Lin Mingfei rubbed his furry little head. "At least you've practiced your output skills. Overall, your performance in this dungeon was pretty good."
"But I want the Watch Cloak." Xia Tong said pitifully.
"Well, isn't it just a watch cloak?" Lin Mingfei said in a relaxed tone: "I'll sew one for you."
Xia Tong was stunned: "Huh?"
Lin Mingfei smiled and said, "Unfortunately, the life skill I learned is sewing, and I just dropped a lot of rare materials when I was farming in the Siren Valley—"
Xia Tong seemed to have thought of something, and quickly opened the equipment guide again. In the details page of the Overwatch Cloak, there was a line of small words at the bottom of the source line: It can be crafted through sewing expertise, and the required materials include Siren scales, Amazonite, octopus's central roots, and river valley stone crevices.
Xia Tong's eyes gradually lit up: "Wow!"
Lin Mingfei took out the materials from her backpack one by one and counted them. She raised her eyebrows and smiled, "How is it? Am I awesome?"
Xia Tong said excitedly: "Zero! You are amazing! You reminded me of a famous ancient poem right now!"
"Hmm?" Lin Mingfei began to work on it, smiling nonchalantly, "What ancient poem? Recite it for me?"
Xia Tong said sincerely and loudly, "It's Meng Jiao's 'Song of the Wandering Son'!"
Lin Mingfei: “…”
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Xia Tong was in a poetic mood, still shaking her head: "A loving mother's hand holds the thread, and the wandering son... "
He was halfway through reading when Lin Mingfei's big hand once again ruthlessly covered his mouth.
Alpha gnashed his teeth, his face filled with frustration: "If you dare to say that again, I'll block you."
The author has something to say: Lin Mingfei: You are not allowed to sing to me, and you are not allowed to recite poems to me!
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