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They had obviously been as careful as possible, not eating anything or drinking a drop of water here, and were also careful not to go out at night to trigger taboos. The key point was that they also kept watch in batches at night to make sure that nothing strange came in.
Why did the talent bar in the game suddenly disappear?
This is definitely not something a ghost can do!
Suddenly, Yan Yu suddenly remembered the nightmare he had after passing the third level of the Nine Refining Tower, and his heart was pounding for a moment.
She then asked Song Fa and the others about their attribute panels one by one. As a result, their faces looked equally grim, and the answer was obvious.
Yao Dongxin scratched his head, feeling completely bewildered. "Ahhh, why is this happening? What's going on? What taboo have we violated?"
Song Fa lowered his eyes and said, "It seems that we have to investigate Taoyuan Village again during the day. If we still don't find anything, we can go out to explore it at night."
Before, Yan Yu was considering everyone's personal safety, but the strange events now forced them to go out at night to meet the "Monster King" mentioned by the village chief.
Yan Yu nodded to show that he agreed with Song Fa's point of view.
"Let's explore the village in groups of two. Don't get left alone. Regardless of whether we find anything, we'll meet back here at noon."
"yes."
Yan Yu: "Okay, let's eat something before we go." As he said that, he took out a lot of food and drinks from his storage ring without hesitation and placed them one by one on the large square table that Liu Zhi had pulled over.
Fortunately, she had a lot of food and drinks in her space. Otherwise, if she encountered this situation, she might have been stuck here forever if she touched the food in the village. After all, many supernatural novels have this setting.
In fact, Song Fa had prepared enough food before entering the Nine Refining Tower dungeon, but out of habit, he basically brought some dry and hard dry food and dried meat that were easy to store. They were not as popular as Yan Yudai's Manchu and Han banquet, cakes and biscuits.
"Eat, don't be polite to me, you are all my friends." Yan Yu smiled: "Just think of it as helping me use up my inventory."
Yan Yu is very skillful in speaking and has high emotional intelligence. If players can see each other's favorability, then Yao Dongxin and the others' favorability is probably almost full.
If you brush it again, it will explode.
After eating and drinking, the ten people divided into five groups and went to explore Taoyuan Village separately.
Yan Yu is in the same team with Song Fa this time. Both of them are at the ceiling of their combat power, so they have to go to the most dangerous village chief's house to investigate again.
For some reason, things went surprisingly smoothly. All the villagers in the village had disappeared, and the investigation progressed very quickly. In less than a morning, they had searched the entire village and then returned to their accommodation to report.
Even the village chief's house was wide open, as if welcoming all players.
Yao Dongxin: "Our team searched 30 households separately. They were very clean and found no clues."
Hou Shan: "It's the same with our group. They all look like ordinary families, with a strong sense of daily life."
Next was Liu Zhi: "Li Bing and I searched 28 households at the east end of the village and found nothing unusual." The report was concise and to the point.
The group behind also found nothing, so everyone's attention turned to Yan Yu and Song Fa with anticipation in their eyes.
Song Fa shook his head, the meaning was self-evident.
The others immediately lowered their heads in disappointment. Yao Dongxin even kicked the table next to them. "What the hell is going on in this damn dungeon?!"
As a scout, he is most proud of his observation and analytical skills. No matter where he is, he can always find clues, piece together key information, and then make a comeback.
I didn't expect to suffer such a disastrous defeat here.
In order to get useful clues, he was extremely careful and even searched the chicken coops, rat holes, and ant nests in the villagers' homes. He was almost about to violently demolish the houses, but unfortunately, the harvest was still zero.
Yao Dongxin asked, "Could it be that the clues aren't with these villagers at all? Or maybe things only happen here at night?"
Hearing his words, Yan Yu nodded: "What you said makes sense, but the specific situation needs Song Fa and I to go out tonight to confirm it."
"I want to go too." Yao Dongxin immediately raised his hand to sign up.
"It's too dangerous. You guys stay in the room for now and wait for my signal."
"But……"
Yan Yu said firmly: "No buts."
Song Fa knew that Yan Yu had equipment that could conceal his figure and breath, and he had the Xutian robe to bless him, so the two of them would work best together.
[Ethereal Robe]
Quality: S-grade
Basic Attributes: Attack +500 Defense +750
Additional attributes: Constitution +300 Agility +400 Spirit +330
Special Effect 1: Breaking the Void - Breaking the void, allowing space travel once, with a cooling time of 24 hours
Special Effect 2: Capture - Travel through space, capture the target to the wearer, and imprison for 10 minutes, with a cooling time of 24 hours
To ensure the ninth floor was foolproof, Yan Yu had specially used his break time to help Song Fa strengthen all of his equipment before entering. Of course, he charged 100 gold coins for each piece.
After strengthening, the latest attributes of the S-level Xutian Robe are as follows:
[Xutian Robe (after strengthening)]
Quality: S-grade
Basic Attributes: Attack +600 Defense +800
Additional attributes: Constitution +360 Agility +450 Spirit +360
Special Effect 1: Breaking the Void - Breaking the void, allowing space travel once, with a cooling time of 20 hours
Special Effect 2: Capture - Travel through space, capture the target to the wearer, and imprison for 12 minutes, with a cooling time of 20 hours
After strengthening, both the basic attributes and additional attributes have been significantly improved. Among the two special effects, except for the number of space shuttles, other values have also been improved.
And his Sky Thunder Sword, after strengthening, the data is as follows:
[Sky Thunder Sword (enhanced)]
Quality: SS grade
Basic Attributes: Attack +1250 Defense +860
Additional attributes: Strength +340 Constitution +420 Agility +430 Spirit +270
Special Effect 1: Along with the attack, there is a 100% chance of a lightning strike effect, -450 HP per second, lasting 30 seconds
Special Effect 2: Heavenly Punishment - Creates a 20*20 square lightning area, and the enemies in the area lose 270 HP per second, lasting 35 seconds, with a cooldown of 2 hours (Note: It ignores defense for evil races and doubles their attack power)
With the blessing of Yan Yu's SSS-level talent, all attributes and special effects have been greatly improved. The attack power of single attack and group attack skills is stronger. A single attack can knock off 13,500 points of enemy blood, not counting strength and equipment bonuses. The group attack of Tianfa can knock off 9,450 points of blood for each enemy in the range at one time. It is so powerful.
There are also S-level Cloud-Stepping Boots. After being strengthened, their attributes are also greatly enhanced, and the critical strike rate is instantly increased from the original 80% to 95%.
Fortunately, Yan Yu had kept this trick up his sleeve. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to use his talent now, which would be really frustrating.
The entire day was extremely quiet, which was quite unusual for everyone so used to killing monsters. In desperation, the teams swapped search locations and searched Taoyuan Village again.
The result was the same as in the morning, no valuable information emerged.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, all the villagers who had disappeared for the day suddenly appeared at the entrance of the ancestral hall. They stared at Yan Yu and the others expressionlessly and opened their mouths to invite them again: "Remember to attend the bonfire dinner tonight on time."
Yan Yu: “???”
Wasn't the bonfire dinner just a one-time welcome party, but a daily fixture? Could it be some kind of sinister sacrificial ritual? Perhaps sacrificing their bodies or talents to some monster king?
However, they checked the ancestral hall carefully many times and found only some ordinary wooden tablets, a few plates of wilted fruits and cakes with green mold spots, and no evil seeds were enshrined.
This is really weird.
Yan Yu took a step forward and stood in front of the village chief: "Can you not participate?"
The village chief sneered and said, "You can try it." It was full of threat.
However, Yan Yu remained unmoved. Instead, she deliberately tried to test him: "We also need our own private lives and don't want to attend that boring bonfire party. How about this? You give me a specific date, and how many more times do we need to attend?"
Village chief: "Of course we will participate every day until the Monster King is satisfied..." Suddenly, he realized that he had let the cat out of the bag and refused to say any more. He hurriedly took the villagers away to prepare for the so-called bonfire party.
After the others left, Yan Yu turned around and looked at Yao Dongxin and Song Fa.
"Do you think what he just said is credible?" Was he really letting the cat out of the bag, or was he deliberately creating confusion? Yan Yu thought the latter was more likely.
Song Fa: "It's unbelievable."
Yao Dongxin: "I don't think it's very credible either. There's a big change in their performance today compared to yesterday. And how can the more important the clues be obtained with just a few words from others?" There are too many doubts here, and one can't help but think about it.
After hearing what the two said, Yan Yu thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to go out now and see if I can disrupt the bonfire party preparations in advance. Don't worry, I have equipment that can perfectly conceal me."
After saying that, Yan Yu activated the special effect of the S-level Biling Skirt, disappeared from everyone's sight, and followed the village chief and others who left.
Then, the villagers saw an extremely strange scene. The branches, wood, food, etc. they had prepared disappeared out of thin air! ?
There was also nothing left of the flint, tinder, etc., all gone.
What’s the point of having a bonfire party without fire and food?
The village chief was a bit stuck for a moment, like a robot stuck in a chaotic program. He stood there for several minutes, and finally said, "Since they have already participated in the most important event, let's forget about it today."
Then, Yan Yu watched them slowly turn into black mist and disappear on the spot, and the black mist was directly absorbed by the sky.
Then, the sky darkened rapidly. No, it was not the sky that darkened, but black fog gradually covered the sky and invaded the ground like falling snow. In the blink of an eye, it dyed the entire space black.
Yan Yu returned to the ancestral hall cautiously, and did not forget to check the surrounding houses on the way. After discovering that they had not turned into black mist like the villagers, and confirming that there was no change inside compared to the search during the day, he quickly returned to the temporary accommodation in the backyard of the ancestral hall.
As soon as she entered the door, everyone gathered around her and asked her what was going on outside.
Yan Yu: "I destroyed the materials they had prepared for the bonfire party. They suddenly turned into black mist. The so-called night in the village was just an illusion because of the black mist."
After a brief explanation, Yan Yu said to Song Fa who was standing in front of her, "Song Fa, I remember your Sky Thunder Sword has a Sky Punishment skill that's effective against evil races. Those Dark Devouring Species formed from the black mist are evil races. I wonder if it will be effective against the black mist?"
Perhaps the disappearance of their talents is related to the black fog.
Moreover, Yan Yu always had a sense of urgency. If no intervention was made, perhaps their four-dimensional attributes/skills/equipment would gradually disappear tomorrow.
By then, you will be at the mercy of others.
Song Fa immediately understood what Yan Yu meant: "Okay, I'll try it now."
He walked out of the door and faced the black fog that was gushing out and had blocked his vision. His eyes flashed and he directly used his mental power to activate the Sky Thunder Sword's special effects of sky punishment. For a moment, lightning and thunder flashed under his feet, and silver-blue light filled the air, instantly clearing away the black fog in the range.
The moment the black fog elsewhere touched the lightning, it disappeared into thin air as if it had been wiped away by an eraser.
Yan Yu's eyes lit up: "It really works."
Unfortunately, this suppression of the black fog only lasted for 35 seconds. Soon, after the heavenly punishment entered a cooling period, the still extremely thick black fog once again filled the area around their residence, making them feel like an isolated island in a turbulent sea, surrounded by dangers, but with no good solution.
Yan Yu: "Yao Dongxin, help Song Fa shorten the cooling period of the Heavenly Punishment."
"good."
Of course, the SS-level Wanling Ruler had been strengthened by Yan Yu before, and he also charged 100 gold coins for the labor fee.
[Wanling Ruler (enhanced)]
Quality: SS grade
Basic Attributes: Attack +760 Defense +1150
Additional attributes: Strength +400 Constitution +420 Agility +330 Spirit +280
Special Effect 1: Spirit Slash - Turn spirit energy into your own use, single attack - 2100 health points, cooldown time 35 seconds
Special Effect 2: Wanling Circle - Range auxiliary skill, can release a 12*12 square Wanling Circle, all friendly units within the range of the special effect equipment cooldown time reduced by 9/10 (cannot be used for Wanling Ruler itself), cooldown time 2 hours and 30 minutes
The effect of the Wanling Circle is extremely amazing, so amazing that Yan Yu feels that the highest level of the Wanling Ruler should be SS level. If there really is an SSS level, under the effect of the Wanling Circle, it would be like a bug.
The original Circle of All Souls can reduce the cooldown time of equipment skills by 4/5, and after strengthening it is 9/10. Its own cooldown time is also reduced from 3 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes. It is really practical.
With the help of the Wanling Circle, the cooldown period of the Tianlei Sword's Tianfa was immediately reduced from 2 hours to 12 minutes, and Yan Yu, who was also in the circle, also reduced the perfect concealment of the Biling Skirt from 4 hours to 24 minutes.
After 12 minutes, the cooling period of the Heavenly Punishment ended. Song Fa activated the Heavenly Punishment special effect again and cleared away the large area of black fog around them, but apart from that, they still got nothing.
The black fog did not condense into a monster like the previous eight layers, it was just black fog.
Yan Yu speculated, "Is it because the number of times isn't enough? The black fog hasn't been eliminated enough, so there hasn't been much change in Taoyuan Village?"
Song Fa: "Maybe. Then I will launch as many Heavenly Punishments as possible tonight to see if I can lure out the person behind this."
In the following time, Song Fa launched four more divine punishments, but from the outside, it seemed that nothing happened.
In order to prevent them from being tricked again without knowing it, Yan Yu took out a lot of equipment and food, as well as cards, guns and ammunition, from the space in advance and placed them on the open space in the house.
"I'm worried that our equipment bar will disappear tomorrow morning, so I'm preparing in advance."
Yao Dongxin and the others couldn't believe their eyes. Yan Yu had too many good things in his hands!
Other people's equipment is counted by piece, but hers is counted by box. In addition, there are boxes of food, drinks, hot weapons and high-tech weapons. One person can arm an entire army.
Okay, I’m tired of expressing my envy. She is definitely the daughter of the survival game.
If Yao Dongxin and the others knew she had five more SS-level gear hidden beneath those, they'd probably go crazy with excitement. Yan Yu had no plans to reveal them yet. Money can be tempting, especially in this life-or-death crisis. She had already revealed a lot of her cards, testing the waters a little at a time.
Only after the secret realm copy is over and they have fully withstood her test will she reveal her final trump card.
Yao Dongxin couldn't help but stretch out his evil hand, wanting to touch those boxes and get some of the luck of being the daughter of the survival game, but he was slapped away by the messenger of justice Song Fa.
He hugged his hand that was slapped so hard that it hurt, and said aggrievedly: "Song Fa, if you continue like this, you will lose me as a friend forever!"
Song Fa was cold and ruthless: "Take out some of the things in your storage ring, in case of emergency." As he said that, he also took out some of the unused high-end equipment, supplies, etc. in the space and put them on the ground.
Yan Yu's consideration was very reasonable, and he suspected that the monster king on the ninth floor could improve his strength by absorbing their personal panels, which was very tricky.
The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light. The enemy is getting stronger and stronger, but they are restricted everywhere and can only run around as if they were blindfolded. In a few days, they will completely lose the ability to resist and become the enemy's meal.
Everyone had guessed what Song Fa had thought of. For a moment, the atmosphere in the room was very depressing. However, they were like travelers lost in the forest. What was the use of being anxious? They could not find a way out of the predicament.
Everyone's minds were full of thoughts and they were becoming increasingly anxious. They could only endure the situation without any desire to sleep at all.
Before the cooldown period of another heavenly punishment ended, Yan Yu suddenly stood up and pulled in front of Song Fa: "Come on, follow me to the village entrance."
Song Fa nodded and followed silently.
The two of them had extremely high agility attributes and reached their destination in less than a minute, which was where they had entered the village.
Yan Yu: "Do you still remember the feeling when we first entered the village, as if we had broken through some barrier?"
"Um."
"Try using Heavenly Punishment to see if you can remove this transparent membrane." They had already tried that during the day, but it was completely impenetrable. All their attacks with weapons also missed, like hitting air. So, this time, they wanted to try the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
The Heavenly Thunder Sword has the property of countering evil, so it might be useful.
Song Fa nodded, held the sword blade upright in front of his eyes, and then turned the tip of the blade horizontally. The next second, a huge thunderstorm fell around the barrier, and the surrounding black fog was immediately struck away by the lightning. The barrier also faintly flashed with a dark blue light like electricity.
After 35 seconds, the heavenly punishment ended. Yan Yu immediately stepped forward and tried to cross the barrier, but was disappointed again: "It still doesn't work."
She touched the transparent membrane again, and her eyes and eyebrows relaxed a little: "These membranes seem to have softened a little. Would you like to try it too?"
After hearing Yan Yu's latest discovery, Song Fa also put his hand on it and poked it a few times: "Indeed, it proves that the heavenly punishment is still effective, but the effect is not as great as we imagined."
Shortly after the heavenly punishment ended, the black fog around it gathered again, and then the barrier became hard again under the influence of the black fog.
During the attack, Yan Yu and Song Fa kept trying to attack the slightly softened barrier, but any attack seemed to penetrate the air and fall to the ground opposite, without causing any damage to the barrier.
"The cooldown time of the Heavenly Punishment is a full two hours. Even with the blessing of the SS-level Myriad Spirits Ruler, the cooldown time is still 12 minutes. However, this black mist can repair this transparent membrane within one minute." Yan Yu frowned again, "It seems that this path will not work."
"Let's go. Let's go back and ask Yao Dongxin to help you shorten the cooldown period of the Heavenly Punishment."
The two returned to the backyard of the ancestral hall and informed everyone of their experimental results. "Also, there is no Monster King outside, only layers of black fog."
Yao Dongxin's nerves were tense, and he frowned as he speculated, "Could it be because the time hasn't come yet? That's why the Monster King didn't show up?"
If that's the case, does it have to wait until their equipment bar, skill bar, and even four-dimensional attribute bar all disappear before it appears?
Once they wait until then, it will be too late! They will surely die!
Yao Dongxin expressed his concerns, which made the atmosphere in the room even more solemn. Everyone was frightened by this guess and broke out in cold sweats.
Hou Shan: "What should we do? Can we just wait here to die?"
Liu Zhi had a hot temper: "What monster king? I think it's just a coward king. It doesn't dare to confront us head-on, so it only dares to use some insidious means behind our backs! Bah!" She raised her voice very high, especially the last "bah", which was so loud that it could shake the world and make ghosts cry, but the guy being scolded couldn't hear it.
Yao Dongxin dug his ears which were almost deafened by the noise and took two steps back silently. If Liu Zhi's combat power was 1 at ordinary times, then her combat power in an angry state could reach 2, especially her sweeping ability which was amazing.
The team had already reached a tacit understanding that when Liu Zhi was angry, you should never get close to her.
Song Fa lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then said to Yan Yu, "My Xutian Robe can travel through time and space and travel to the outskirts of the Jiulian Tower."
In order to avoid causing panic among her teammates, Yan Yu only mentioned her nightmare to Song Fa in private. She seemed to sense that some powerful creature had been outside the tower.
What he meant was that he would go outside to check. If he found anything abnormal, he could fight the opponent head-on and test its foundation.
Yan Yu: "Wait a minute. The situation outside the tower is still unclear, so there's no need to take risks. Also, once you leave the tower, it will definitely be considered a failure. You might be kicked out of the dungeon before you can even figure out what's going on."
Dying in the dungeon does not mean real death, but Yan Yu had an inexplicable premonition that if he died in Taoyuan Village, he would really die.
This space is too strange, and you can never be too careful.
They waited so long that they watched their skill bars disappear out of thin air, and even the air became faintly scorching.
However, hard work pays off. After more than an hour, a deep, bloody crack suddenly appeared in the sky, and a huge bloody eyeball squeezed out of the crack.
Everyone was stunned. The moment they saw it, they felt an urge to surrender, and their bodies became heavier and heavier.
Yan Yu was the first to react. He used the blade to slash his arm hard. The pain hit him, and his mind suddenly became clearer: "Everyone, don't look at that eyeball!"
The Blood Eyeball can launch mental attacks, and its level is very high. You must never make eye contact with it!
After hearing Yan Yu's warning, Song Fa and the others immediately closed their eyes and used the pain to awaken their consciousness.
The bloody eyeball quickly stopped outside the barrier and did not enter. Facing the people who raised their weapons to confront it, it chuckled disdainfully: "Why bother resisting? In the end, you will all become my food anyway. Might as well just accept your death."
No one knew where the sound came from, but every word was like a mental shock, making Yan Yu and the others' mouths boil with blood.
"Since you killed my pets to upgrade, you should use your lives to compensate for my losses." As it spoke, it continued to cast hypnotic sound waves.
They cannot escape, it can use its eyes and voice to give them mental hints at the same time, making them eventually become its meal.
Not to mention tiny ants like them, even some high-dimensional races that have cultivated to the Soul Condensation Stage are defenseless against its hypnosis.
If it had not been seriously injured before and urgently needed energy to repair, why would it run to the low-level area of the game to hunt these low-level players to satisfy its hunger?
Hearing Blood Eyeball's words, everyone was shocked. Could it be that all those Dark Devourers were raised by it? But if the Dark Devourers were its own, why did they become a secret realm copy?
Despite having many doubts, Yan Yu still gritted her teeth, calmed herself down, and gave Song Fa a wink.
Song Fa suppressed the blood that was rising to his throat, and quickly activated the second special effect of the S-level Xutian robe - capture.
The next moment, Blood Eyeball, who thought he was sitting on the Diaoyutai, said: "!??"
Blood Eyeball, who had been carefully hiding outside the barrier to avoid being attacked by Yan Yu and the others, was suddenly dragged in front of everyone by Song Faqiang and imprisoned.
“!!!”
Yan Yu's eyes were cold and icy: "Everyone, come on, teach this coward who has been hiding here and there a lesson!"
Before, he only dared to weaken their strength secretly, and only showed up after it was weakened to a certain extent. Yan Yu dared to guarantee that if there had not been a large-scale action of the Heavenly Punishment to clear the black fog, that coward would probably wait until all their equipment bars, attribute bars, etc. disappeared before showing up.
Moreover, after it appeared, it only dared to hide outside the safe barrier and did not dare to get close to them at all. It can be seen that this thing is a fragile creature with very strong mental power.
To deal with it, you have to kill it in close combat!
At Yan Yu's command, everyone suppressed their mental and sonic shocks, and all their attacks fell on it at once.
“Ahhhh!”
As the attack came, the blood eyeball let out a painful roar, and the roar also carried a considerable mental shock wave.
This time, Yan Yu and the others were exposed to the mental shock wave at close range. They could no longer hold back the blood in their throats and it all spurted out. Even their ears, eyes and noses began to bleed.
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