Chapter 97
To the west, without the shelter of the towering trees, the small skeletons on the ground clanged and clattered back onto the larger skeletons, swelled to nearly 100 meters in height. The sudden appearance of the skeletons, their movement through the jungle, was a rather terrifying sight.
Zhuye Zuijiu, who was conscientiously pulling monsters in the woods, didn't notice that the skeleton monster had grown bigger. Instead, he continued to throw taunts at the skeleton.
After confirming that he had firmly held the monster's aggro, he showed surprise and raised his voice, "Use all ranged units, increase your damage!"
Hearing the sound from a distance, everyone waved their weapons in unison. Elemental staffs, star official staffs, warlock sticks... a variety of weapons were waved in the woods.
However, after more than ten seconds of collective output, several ranged players gradually felt a little tired.
The skeleton monster is large in size, so its strides are naturally long. When its white bones stride on the ground, players need to jog for a long time to catch up with it.
This situation of chasing and fighting at the same time is not very friendly to ranged enemies who like fixed-point attacks. In order to ensure that their skills do not miss, they have to chase for a distance every time they release their skills. This kind of stopping and starting not only greatly reduces their output efficiency, but also makes them very tired.
Gradually, five or six long-range players could not keep up with the pace and fell behind the team.
Zhuye Zuijiu was so angry at them that he couldn't help but turn around and scold them for slacking off.
The five or six remote users felt very aggrieved.
"Drunk, it's not that we don't output, it's that we really can't keep up!"
"Yes, President, this skeleton monster takes too big a stride. We can only chase it while fighting it."
Zhuye Zuijiu's brows furrowed even more. "Can't you take medicine if you can't keep up? Are all the purple medicine in your backpack just for show?"
Several remote players had complicated expressions on their faces, thinking that they had bought the purple medicine with their own money, and it was not cheap. They drank it all the way while chasing, and they were not reimbursed after drinking it. Did they really think they were rich?
[Zuijiuxiaohongchen] That's it. Unless you're doing dungeons, fighting world bosses, or participating in guild wars like before, you can ask the guild to reimburse you for potion money, but you have to pay for killing wild monsters yourself.
After the skeleton monster appeared, they did not notice that the system prompted that this monster was the world boss, which meant that it was just a high-level wild monster. In this case, it meant that they had to bear all the losses in killing the monster themselves.
People tend to seek profit and avoid harm. When they think about taking money out of their own pockets, they naturally won't be so dedicated when fighting monsters.
In addition, they were not the most valued group in the guild. The reason they were pulled out to dig for treasure chests today was because several core members were not online and the team was short of people, so they were notified to come over at the last minute.
The thought that they were someone else's backup made me unhappy. Expecting them to pay for it themselves? Dream on.
Several remote players looked at each other and finally decided to have a showdown.
"President, we are out of purple medicine..."
"I've been a little short on money lately and haven't had time to buy medicine."
It was already a bit difficult to pull the skeleton monster, and after hearing their answers, Zhuye Zuijiu felt even more annoyed.
"As you wish!" he blurted out.
Fight them if you want, they are just a bunch of guys who can only eat and wait for death. Let Xiao Hongchen check their DKP carefully next time. If it is lower than his expectations, kick them all out!
Just as he was humming in his heart, suddenly, the skeleton monster leaned down and slapped him!
The skeleton monster's palm was long and wide, and it slashed across the sky, easily breaking the big tree on the ground.
Zhuye was so frightened that he drank some speed-up medicine and ran forward.
His profession is Paladin, a half-tank and half-DPS profession. His basic agility is far inferior to that of hunters and assassins, but it is also above the passing line. Therefore, with the help of potions, he barely avoided the slap!
But he escaped, others were not so lucky.
The slap came suddenly, and seven or eight melee fighters nearby were unable to dodge it and died on the spot. The wind brought by the slap even scratched the four or five auxiliary fighters around it into a bloody mess.
The battle situation suddenly became tense. Zhuye Zuijiu clenched his fists tightly and was about to give orders, asking the survivors to hold the monster and try to eliminate it in the jungle map.
However, just as he opened his mouth and before he could utter a word, the surrounding woods disappeared and a map of a vast plain came into view!
Oops, this looks like a plains map!
Zhuye Zuijiu's hand holding the weapon trembled. He hurriedly opened the map. After seeing the terrain and names displayed on the map, he almost fainted from lack of oxygen.
There was actually a city right next to the plain! White Tower City! Currently ranked sixth on the continent in terms of economic size and player activity, if it were to be attacked by the Skeleton Monsters, his reputation would definitely go into negative territory!
Damn it! He was so happy that he actually forgot about the direction to pull the monster!
What should I do? What should I do now?!
Zhuye Zuijiu looked at Xiao Hongchen in panic. The latter also pursed his lips and looked solemn.
"Protoss" has a strange setting. If a city is attacked by a monster, the system will very intelligently identify who triggered the monster and who led it there.
It is somewhat similar to the accountability system. Whoever is the instigator or accomplice will be punished by the system.
The punishment is very severe. After all, an entire city was destroyed. In reality, it would mean being thrown into jail or working on a sewing machine in minutes.
Of course, if the monster has nothing to do with the player and is triggered automatically, such as the dragon boss that awakened on its own, the system will not hold anyone accountable.
Knowing this, Xia Mo tried hard to pull the skeleton monster to a place where few people were. Who knew that Zhuye Zuijiu was so smart that, in order to take credit for the work, he led the monster directly towards the city!
Xia Mo was so angry that his chest hurt. While chasing, he opened the world channel and started typing on the virtual keyboard!
[Ink: White Tower Plains [98, 124, 29], giant skeleton monster over level 68, White Tower City is in danger, come quickly!]
She never speaks on the world channel. Today was the first time, and everyone was stunned when they saw this familiar yet unfamiliar ID.
Is it the ink color they know?
Just as I was staring blankly to confirm the authenticity of the message, another message popped up.
[Xiao Hongchen: Baita Plains [98, 124, 29], saving the city is urgent! Requesting support!]
Holy crap! It's true! A giant monster has appeared in Baita Plains!
[Family, walking experience points! Hurry up!]
[Fuck? I just logged in and found out that Baita City is in danger? This is the city I'm bound to, help!]
[Stop talking so much! Brothers and sisters, hurry up and call for help! Saving the city is urgent!]
For a time, there were constant cries from all over the world, and all the guilds and organizations, big and small, also sounded the message to save the city!
After sending the message, Xia Mo no longer paid attention to the situation in the world. In order to stop the skeleton monster before it entered the city, she added two layers of acceleration without hesitation.
——Ice Blood increases agility by 10%, and stacking a large bottle of purple medicine increases speed by 20%.
Her speed suddenly increased to 1.32 times its original speed!
Zhuye Zuijiu only felt a shadow flash past him, and before he could see clearly, a series of star officials' skills rumbled behind him.
With such speed and output, Zhuye Zuijiu didn't even think about it, and Xia Mo's face immediately popped up in his mind.
Damn! Why is it her again?!
Zhuye was drunk and speechless, not understanding what bad luck had befallen her that she had to confront her again and again!
The first time in the Black Bear Forest, she tricked me into a trap set by the NPC and tortured me for a long time before I was rescued by Xiao Hongchen.
After he returned, he became more and more angry. The second time, he specially hired a group of people to wait for her and kill her, but none of them succeeded in the sneak attack!
The third time was a post on the forum. Due to the resentment from the previous two times, he could not tolerate this tone no matter what, so he asked someone to write a long article, wanting her and Qingyao to be ruined!
Anyway, he has done this many times before and has always tasted the sweetness.
However, he never expected that when faced with the short essay on the forum, Qingyao's approach was not to retreat and beg for mercy, but to directly issue a challenge!
When talking about that battle, Zhuye Zui closed his eyes and didn't want to think about it at all.
The more I think about it, the worse it gets!
Anyway, the three times he ran into her, nothing good ever happened! And today, he brought people to such a remote place to dig for treasure chests, and he ran into her again!
It's so fucking weird!
Zhuye Zuijiu was in great pain, but he had to keep up appearances for a while, so he gritted his teeth and gave orders anyway.
He called out to several melee fighters to stabilize the monster, but before they could even use their skills, they were crushed to pieces by the raised skeleton feet in the next second.
The ranged attackers were attacking from a distance, but unfortunately, they were running while dealing damage, so the damage visible to the naked eye was limited.
As for the support and healer? Well, they are safe together, but the problem is that they are safe but useless. They can't hold back the skeleton monsters, so it's all in vain!
Xia Mo just watched them play as fiercely as tigers, but their actual output was nothing. He was speechless.
I didn't expect the ninth-ranked guild to be this capable? Perhaps they bought their ranking!
Xia Mo clicked his tongue and suddenly felt that they could also get to where Qingyao was.
This is getting off topic. After the fierce attack just now, the skeleton monster's shin bone was injured by her, and its forward movement paused briefly for two seconds.
Two seconds is also a long time. Xia Mo discovered this weakness and immediately shouted to the drunk laughing man next to him.
"Focus on the Skeleton Monster's right calf bone! Hold it back!"
Zhuye Zuijiu was already annoyed when he saw her hanging around in front of him, and now that he saw that she, an outsider, was trying to snatch the command, the anger in his heart suddenly flared up!
"Mo Se, don't go too far!" He pointed at his face and scolded, "They are all the people I met while drunk and laughing at the world. Don't be so self-righteous and point fingers!"
Pointing fingers?
Xia Mo rolled his eyes and wanted to smash his brain open with a skill to see what was inside.
"If you have the ability to stop the skeleton monsters from entering White Tower City, I don't mind giving you the command."
"But if not, I hope you'll shut up," she said coldly.
The focus now is not on who is in command, but on delaying the skeleton monsters from attacking the city as soon as possible. Xia Mo's words directly pointed out that Zhuye Zuijiu only cared about the power in front of him.
Zhuye Zuijiu was choked by her and couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Seeing that their president didn't say anything, the members all assumed that he didn't have the ability to hold them off, so they all consciously obeyed Xia Mo's command.
Focus fire!
All skills were thrown towards the same place, and the skeleton monster's right calf bone was blown out again. The skeleton monster staggered a few times and stopped again.
"It can indeed hold it back!"
The people who were drunk and laughing at the world found that this trick was more effective than throwing skills around like headless flies, and their eyes suddenly lit up.
At the same time, a player in Baita City told the city lord the news that the skeleton monster was about to attack the city.
After receiving the order, the city lord quickly dispatched soldiers!
The soldiers and generals rushed out of the city gate in unison, crossed the plains in front of their homes, and came to help in the battle!
These NPCs are of high level. Xia Mo took a special look while walking among them and found that the lowest one was at level 30, which was higher than them, the players.
And there are many different professions, some holding spears, some resisting cannons, some wielding sticks... they keep attacking the skeleton monsters.
Soon, players who got the news came in groups from all directions. Some of them rode horses, and some rode flying mounts. For a while, both the land and the sky were crowded with people.
Everyone knows how difficult it is to encounter such a high-level monster in the game, and the experience points after defeating it are also very high. Therefore, once you get close to the skeleton monster, you will start fighting without saying a word, for fear that your output is too little and you will not be able to get any contribution.
Of course, not all the players who came here are fighters. There are also life-lovers, scenery-lovers, and... pure spectators.
This group of people has no fighting power and can only stand by and create momentum.
Mingyue Fusu is one of these people who are creating momentum.
He hadn't logged into the game when he fought the dragon boss, and he'd regretted it for a long time, lamenting not being able to take photos of the scene. He'd just heard that a large monster had appeared in Baita City, and the person who'd brought the news was none other than the boss Mo Se. Suddenly, his heart, which had been filled with regret, began to stir!
He's handsome from this angle! He's beautiful from that angle!
Oh, the other side seems to be good too, the light and shadow cast on the side of the girl makes her look like she is glowing!
Click, click, Mingyue Fusu became more and more excited as he took more and more photos, and he kept taking pictures of Xia Mo on the battlefield.
Although he didn't participate in the battle, he looked busier than the players on the battlefield.
Seeing Mingyue Fusu running around with a camera, Latiao Xiaohuahua couldn't help but joke, "He must have taken at least 100 photos in this one shot, right?"
He laughed until his face was paralyzed and nodded: "Yes, but it's a waste to keep so many photos."
Ripe Tomato: "How about we make a blind photo box for the boss? The kind that we can sell for money!"
Everyone: ??? Are you crazy?
The ripe tomato didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all and even put his hands on his hips.
"I'll treat the beautiful photos taken by the boss as hidden items. I'll need to buy 10 blind boxes to get a chance to draw a hidden item. Each blind box is priced at 50 gold. How about it? Isn't my idea great?"
Fuck you!
Everyone wanted to beat him.
"If Mo Se finds out, you're done for!"
"And even if the boss is kind and agrees with you, who would buy it if you set the price so high?"
Do you really think you're being taken advantage of? You can't just rip off the leeks like that.
Everyone held up their weapons and shouted at Tomato to stop giving any rash advice!
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a weak female voice sounded beside him.
"Um...when will the ink-colored blind box you mentioned be released?"
Qingyao went straight up to everyone:? ! !
Oh my god, there really is a market?
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