In his frustration, Gong Mo had a sudden flash of inspiration, as if he had remembered something.
He quickly rummaged through the card album and pulled out a bunch of (★★★★) high-level experience bottles cards.
At a glance, there were at least ten of them.
"That's all, really all. I got a total of 100,000 experience points from killing the Bone Dragon. Each of these high-level experience bottles is worth 10,000 experience points, and there are 13 bottles in total. Consider the extra 30,000 experience points as a token of my sincerity."
Yu Xiangnan then accepted the card and the seemingly ordinary brown seed.
Gong Mo closed his left eye and then opened it again, giving a wink. "Little beauty, I'm leaving now. We'll meet again~"
After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers with a flourish.
In an instant, his body transformed into a pile of snow-white feathers, which scattered all over the ground.
Upon closer inspection, a bright red rose was found nestled among the pure white feathers.
Yu Xiangnan: "......"
The silence was deafening.
Good grief, he managed to pull it off.
I really want to punch someone.
After confirming that there was nothing left in the giant tower, Yu Xiangnan did not linger for long and left the hidden map.
Unexpectedly, in the short three days she was away, the town underwent tremendous changes.
As for why it's described as "earth-shaking changes"...
When she came out of the well, she could no longer tell whether it was day or night.
In the sky, leaden-gray clouds piled up, with blood-red lightning flashing and dancing among them. The old tree beside the well was twisted and withered, its bark peeling off, and black sap seeping from the cracks in its trunk, emitting a nauseating stench of decay.
In that instant, Bula was so frightened that he almost fainted.
[Bula]: Yes, is my memory playing tricks on me...? Why does the whole instance feel different?
【Bula】：(＞﹏＜。)
Yu Xiangnan looked around warily and said, "Bula, if you remember correctly, it has changed."
Did the system announce some new rules while she was hiding the map?
That shouldn't be the case. Even if she's in the hidden map, she should still be able to receive system notifications, since the hidden map's time is synchronized with the outside world.
[Feiduo]: I understand, this dungeon is probably a "story-driven survival dungeon"...
[Bula]: Huh?
"Story-driven survival dungeon?"
Yu Xiangnan and Bula both raised questions at the same time.
Upon seeing this, Fedor immediately straightened up and began to explain seriously.
[Feiduo]: This is a type of survival dungeon that has a chance to trigger when the average level of all players on the server reaches 40 or higher.
[Feiduo]: In the story-driven survival dungeons, there will be a coherent storyline. Players will not only face various survival challenges, but will also encounter different characters in different locations, with NPCs playing a crucial role. All the decisions players make can potentially affect the subsequent developments.
Yu Xiangnan gasped.
If that's the case, it actually makes sense.
"Feiduo, do you know how to clear this kind of dungeon? It can't be as simple as just surviving until the time limit or defeating the boss, right?"
[Feiduo]: You're right. For these types of survival dungeons, players must complete the "main quest." The "main quest" usually has multiple endings, and the final ending depends on the player's actions within the dungeon.
[Fedal]: Even a small change in positioning, an unintentional choice of item use, or saying an extra word to an NPC, or killing an NPC, can completely change the subsequent developments and trigger different plot branches, just like the butterfly effect.
Yu Xiangnan pondered for a moment, then asked, "If that's the case, what do the different endings represent?"
[Feiduo]: Sorry, I've only experienced one story-driven survival dungeon, so I'm not very clear on it.
[Feiduo]: However, in that survival dungeon, we achieved the "TE" ending, which is a true ending that is somewhere between good and bad. In the end, 99 people survived the dungeon.
"True End"?
Yu Xiangnan pondered as he hurried toward the temporary shelter.
If there is a TE (True Ending), does that mean there are also "NE" (Normal Ending), "BE" (Bad Ending), "HE" (Happy Ending), and "OE" (Open Ending)?
Does achieving different endings determine the number of players who survive the final battle? Or is it related to the final rewards?
In any case, we need to be more careful when dealing with NPCs in the dungeon from now on.
Along the way, Yu Xiangnan discovered that the houses in the town had not been spared either, with dark green moss and unknown black vines crawling all over the walls, slowly wriggling as if they were alive.
However, it does not seem to be aggressive.
Out of caution, she did not touch the moss and the unknown black vines, and quickly returned to her temporary shelter.
Pushing open the door, everything inside was exactly as it had been, without any signs of disturbance. The makeshift traps downstairs were also untouched, clearly indicating that no one had been there recently.
Yu Xiangnan sighed softly.
Since it's still safe here, let's stay for now and see how things go. At least for now, we have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
She was just about to have a chat with Fedor when she heard a commotion downstairs.
Yu Xiangnan immediately picked up the small broken shovel and went to the window.
Is that the same butcher from before?!
The difference is that his eyes have completely turned into two black holes, without a trace of white or pupil.
Upon closer inspection, one can see that beneath the butcher's rough skin, countless worms seem to be writhing and darting about wildly, with bizarre protrusions rising and falling across the skin's surface, stretching the already mottled skin to almost transparency.
It sends chills down your spine.
At this moment, the butcher and a group of similarly mutated NPCs are surrounding an NPC whose mutation is not very obvious.
A group of "people" stabbed her body with their hands!
Strangely, the attacked NPC's body gradually withered and shrank, with its skin clinging tightly to its bones, and soon it became a dried-up corpse.
But the butcher, still unsatisfied, raised his head, his black, hole-like eyes scanning the surroundings as if searching for his next prey.
Yu Xiangnan was stunned.
Goodness.
Youth has no price; companions melt in your mouth.
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