Chapter 188 February 15th, the sixth round of dungeons begins
February 9th.
Urushihara Ritsu was as elusive as ever. Anson Lu hadn't seen him since early morning, and he didn't know which city he had gone to. He sent him a message but he didn't get a reply.
So, Anson Lu simply went to find Yuliu who was in Chicago.
Compared to Crow, this mafia guy is much more efficient in replying to messages.
【Julius: What's the matter?】
[Anson Deer: I need some materials from you. If it's convenient, please give me a price.]
In the end, Anson Lu exchanged 10,000 evolution coins for 100 epic materials from Yuliu.
These materials were just enough for him to upgrade the "Ice Ocean Outpost" and "Dragon Sail Pirates - One-eyed Parrot" he had just acquired.
[Currently upgradeable chess types include: Crab Gun Master (Normal Level), Ice Ocean Outpost (Epic Level), Dragon Sail Pirates - One-Eyed Parrot (Epic Level)]
[(10 "Knight" chess pieces that you blacklisted have been excluded.)]
Because these 10 knight chess pieces are needed to build the "Ten Thousand Knights Statue", Anson Lu naturally had no intention of using them, and the upgrade would be in vain.
【Do you want to upgrade all with one click? 】
"Upgrade." Anson Lu said lightly.
[14 common materials, 100 epic materials, and 10,500 evolution coins have been consumed, and all three chess pieces have been upgraded to level 2 (full level). ]
[The following are the variations of each chess piece. ]
[Crab Gun Master's attribute improvement: Strength: 9→15, Agility: 9→15. ]
[Skill changes of Crab Gun Master: The effect increase of "Gun Drill" has been increased from 10% to 15%. ]
[Ice Ocean Outpost's attribute improvement: Strength: 32→40, Agility: 32→40. ]
[Skill changes of the Ice Ocean Outpost - Learn a new skill "Turret" (Use the arranged catapults to project a large number of huge rocks). ]
[Skill changes of "One-eyed Parrot" of the Dragon Sail Pirates - I am a Pirate (When the One-eyed Parrot stands on the shoulder of a "Pirate Chess Species", the health of this chess piece increases by 1.5 times, and when this chess piece is injured, it will reduce 50% of the damage from any external source.)]
[Your current balance: 59,500 Evolution Coins]
"It's over."
After upgrading his chess pieces, Anson Deer came to the mountain alone.
He was going to use the Darklight Dragon to clear away the debris along the way and create a slope for skiing. With the previous "chasing and playing" between him and Asuka as a prelude, this task became a lot easier.
On February 12, Anson Lu finally completed this boring project.
He and the other four members of the union skied on the mountain for half a day, from day to night, and finally they simply took a tent and stayed overnight on the mountain, watching the sunset in the evening, and watching the Norwegian aurora and stars together late at night, and then stayed up all night to watch the Norwegian sunrise together. The top of the mountain is not like the town of Rjukan surrounded by mountains, so it is still easy to see the sun.
Especially in such an environment, bathing in the sunlight is a real pleasure.
During this period, Ritsu Urushihara, Yuri and Asuka all demonstrated skiing skills that were beyond Anson's imagination.
On the contrary, he and Teacher Chu were walking on thin ice, sliding and falling ten times every ten seconds. When Chu Qimo's whole face was buried in the snow, he lost all the prestige of a master who held the sword and looked like a penguin.
In the end, he and Anson Deer felt sorry for each other, so they gave up struggling and huddled together for warmth. They simply picked up their skateboards and walked slowly on the snow track, watching others play and no longer making further attempts at self-abuse.
"Hahaha, no way, can you two do it?" Asuka Uesugi could even skate smoothly with one hand on her waist.
When she skated leisurely past Ansen Lu and Chu Qimo on her skateboard, their faces showed contempt and displeasure on one side and indifference and helplessness on the other.
"President, don't you have super intuition?" Chu Qimo suddenly asked as he watched Asuka go away.
Anson Lu put his hands behind his head and said nonchalantly: "If you rely on that thing just for entertainment, you will become a robot."
"I see. That makes sense."
"By the way, Mr. Chu, you don't look that stupid, how come you can't even ski?"
"President, you are the least qualified to criticize me." Chu Qimo said, "I am only good at doing one thing to the extreme day after day, year after year. As for things outside my sight, I have always been clumsy in doing them."
"Translation: You can only swing your sword like a robot 365 days a year, right?"
“…That’s also true.”
The two of them walked slowly toward the top of the snowfield, leaving a shoe print with each step. Their backs looked somewhat clumsy in their down jackets. Anson Lu occasionally bumped Chu Qimo's shoulder with his shoulder, and they talked and laughed along the way.
"By the way, has Miss Asuka said anything to you recently?"
"No...what's wrong?"
Chu Qimo glanced at Ansen Lu's expression and understood something: "President, she should be the kind of person who will spend her whole life pursuing something she likes."
"Yes, that guy is too stubborn."
"So, what are you going to do?"
"I told her not to wait for me."
"Then if Miss Yuri can never come back, you won't..."
Anson Lu exhaled a breath of white air and interrupted him softly: "Yes, then I won't regret it. I'm not that cheap."
"I see. You and Miss Asuka are both equally stubborn."
"Yeah, we're all just as stupid in some ways, we're all..."
Anson Deer raised his head and looked at the two sides of the empty snowfield. The dense forest surrounded the snowfield. This was normal. He used the Darklight Dragon to open a snow trail through the forest.
At this time, above the snowfield.
Urushihara Ritsu's black hair was messed up by the wind. He took off his goggles, stopped skiing, and looked at Yuri who suddenly stopped while skiing with his deep eyes.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Originally, he wanted to compete with Yuri in skiing speed, but for some reason, the Icelandic girl seemed to have no interest and was not as serious as usual.
Yuri got off his skis, his boots tapping lightly on the snow, "Nothing."
She tilted her fair face to look at the two figures in the distance. The girl's blue eyes were as clear and bright as the aurora, and her snow-white hair drifted slowly in the wind.
"Are you waiting for Lujun?" Urushihara Ritsu followed Yuri's line of sight and reminded him lightly, "At their speed, it will take a long time for them to get up."
“Without him…” she said, “even skiing isn’t that fun.”
"Okay, then let's wait for him." Urushihara Ritsu smiled, "As for Lu-kun, as long as you tell him and make him want to do it, skiing will be very easy for him."
"good."
Soon, Anson Deer came over, and the footprints behind him were covered by a new round of falling snow.
"What are you doing, your skis are broken?"
Yuri held her right hand with her left hand, like an ice sculpture, and stared at him motionlessly: "Waiting for you." After a pause, she stretched out her white fingers and gently pinched Anson Deer's sleeve.
"Let's skate together, okay?" she asked, lowering her head.
Chu Qimo coughed twice, picked up his skis, and walked past the two people silently.
Anson Deer was stunned for a long time, then smiled slightly: "Okay, okay, let's skate together, but I skate really well, so don't look down on me."
"President, super intuition is a good thing, remember to use it." Chu Qimo said in front.
Anson Lu curled his lips: "No need for you to remind me, Teacher Chu."
Time flies, the ten-day holiday passed quickly, and before I knew it, it was February 15th.
At one o'clock in the afternoon in the Norwegian time zone, the system prompt sounded in the ears of every player around the world on time, like a doomsday alarm, dragging them back to the front line from their brief leisure time.
The sixth round of dungeons has begun.
June, when the Snow Dragon descends, is one step closer.
Anson Lu held a meeting with several other members of the union and then went back to the house to sleep. He had just woken up and his consciousness had already entered the dark space for selecting copies.
Since the old chess players are still wanted criminals worldwide, the other members of the guild will not feel good if they choose a cooperative challenge copy.
Despite this, they will still choose cooperative copies.
Because the collapse of a city means the death of countless innocent citizens. As a sequence player, although they pursue freedom, they still have to bear these responsibilities.
During the fifth round of dungeons, Anson Lu had already used up this month's "guild invitation rights", so for the sixth round of dungeons everyone could only play on their own, with no invitation to form a team.
He yawned and stuffed his hands into the pockets of his hoodie, looking at the panel without interest.
[It is detected that you did not obtain the three consecutive MVP achievements in the last round of copies, so there are only two copies available for selection this time. 】
Anson Lu still remembered that he once said that since there was this setting, every time he entered the space in the future, he would have at least three copies to choose from.
Unfortunately, it was only the fifth round of dungeons when his MVPs were snatched away by Chu Qimo and Yu Rui, and he tragically lost the opportunity to choose the third dungeon.
"Let me see what copies are available," he said.
【Copy 1】
[Instance Name: Death Battle in the Sand]
[Instance type: Player confrontation instance (1v1v1v1 mode)]
[Instance location: Thar Desert]
[Limit number of people in the dungeon: 50]
[Instance Description: A mysterious force has blocked the central area of the Thar Desert. Players will fight a life-and-death battle in the center of the Thar Desert. The player who survives to the end will be the winner.]
[Instance Difficulty: Two Stars]
[Dungeon time limit: 7 days]
[Suitable for player levels: unlimited. ]
[The cost of copy failure: the bottom 10 players will be disqualified. ]
[Note: Player confrontation dungeons have two reward indicators: 1. Survival ranking 2. Number of kills (in the settlement phase, the corresponding rewards will be settled based on these two indicators)]
[In your friend list, there are currently 0 friends who have selected this copy. ]
The pattern on the panel is a vast desert with a scorching sun in the sky.
"A PVP copy..."
Anson Deer sighed and said, "Forget it, let's take a look at the next one first."
In the "International Player Code" issued by the Evolution Foundation, there is a rule: For the needs of a community with a shared future for mankind, sequence players should avoid participating in "player confrontation dungeons" as much as possible, and instead participate in more "challenge dungeons".
The reason is very simple. When a sequence player is put into a confrontational copy, it is just like a butcher chasing a group of lambs. Ordinary players have no power to fight back and can only be killed instantly.
Moreover, even if you happen to encounter the one in ten million probability: two sequence players appearing at the same time in a confrontation copy, they would just be two butchers chopping each other, and the group of lambs next to them would have nothing to do with it.
Therefore, for the sake of the interests of ordinary players, general sequence players will not enter confrontational copies by default.
However, if anyone really breaks such implicit rules, they will not be investigated too deeply. Instead, international public opinion will become worse, and they will be jointly targeted by other players in the dungeon.
But even if these players unite, they can hardly be the opponent of the sequence players, except for a very small number of elites among ordinary players, such as the "King of Thieves" - Wang Youjin who appeared on the "Sequence Interview" program.
Anson Deer moved his eyes to the right and looked at another copy panel.
【Copy 2】
[Instance Name: The Arrival of the Tower of the End]
[Instance type: Survival confrontation instance]
[Copy location: Chicago, USA]
[Limit number of players in the instance: 1,000]
[Instance Introduction: The supreme being called "Tower of the End" stands in the center of Chicago. It will pose various threats to players in the city - both mentally and physically.
The player who survives to the end in Chicago, or the player who survives for 7 days, will be forgiven by the Tower of the End. 】
[Instance Difficulty: 1.5 Stars]
[Dungeon time limit: 7 days]
[Suitable for players level: 20 and above]
[The cost of copy failure: the last 100 players will die, and the last 200 players will be deprived of the game qualification. ]
[In your friend list, there are currently 0 friends who have selected this copy]
The pattern presented on the panel is a prosperous modern city. The dark blue tower that is out of place in the painting style looks like a giant holding divine power, standing upright in the center of Chicago.
Anson Lu had already deleted all his friends, so the "number of friends who have chosen this copy" below the copy was basically meaningless to him.
Of course, this does not include those who line up at the Hell Lighthouse.
"Well, I can't choose this either." Anson Lu curled his lips.
The cost of failure in the dungeon involves the death of the player, not to mention that this is a confrontational dungeon. If Anson Deer, a sequence player, joins this dungeon under such circumstances, global public opinion will further deteriorate.
Moreover, there are no citizens watching the battle in the Thar Desert, but if you participate in the Chicago copy, you will be stared at by a lot of citizens.
So, based on the above, he quickly made his choice.
"That's easy." Anson Lu stretched out his hand towards the first dungeon panel and paused on it for three seconds. "Half a day, no, two hours at most will be enough to clear this dungeon."
During the three seconds that his palm remained on the panel, the color of the copy pattern became brighter and brighter, and finally turned into a ray of light that swallowed his figure.
[Player "Anson Deer" has confirmed to choose the first copy - "Death Battle in the Sand". 】
[Instance type: Player confrontation instance (1v1v1v1 mode).]
[We will be heading to Thar Desert in ten seconds. Have a good game. 】
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