Chapter 30: Sky-High Price Skill Card
"What Han Chong said makes sense. If we are all still there for the next copy, you and Mr. Bai can form a team on your own. After all, your abilities are very strong, and you will be dragged down if you are with any of us." With just one sentence, Lou Su decided on the team that would enter the copy next time, and at the same time relieved Zhou Quan of his worries.
Bai Jinli and Han Chong are indeed stronger than the other three, but after having the experience of a dungeon, he feels that no matter how strong the team is, if there is internal discord, they will not be able to survive in the dungeon.
Instead of letting Han Chong and Baek Jin-ryul join the team to annoy people, it is better to choose three other teammates who are a little weaker but will not cause trouble.
Han Chong sneered: "To put it bluntly, you want to exclude me and Jinli? Okay, you are a team, and we are outsiders!"
After he finished speaking, he stood up and kicked over the coffee table beside him, then went downstairs alone with a flashlight.
"Han Chong!" Bai Jinli shouted, but the other party didn't even turn his head.
Seeing that Bai Jinli did not immediately stand up and chase him, Zhou Quan asked, "Mr. Bai, aren't you going to persuade him?"
Bai Jinli shook his head. "Forget it. Let him calm down for a while. Brother Lou, let's review the instance. Let Xihen also tell us about his experience. We'll see if we can find any patterns."
Lou Su had the same idea, so the two of them tacitly went over every clue they encountered in the copy and how they passed it.
Zhou Quan and Su Yan would occasionally add some details of what they had seen.
In fact, the Konjac Village dungeon is not simple, especially as the first dungeon. When most people have not awakened their superpowers yet, there are only five people in the team. This is not a chance for the infinite world to save humans. This is to eliminate most people who have not awakened their superpowers.
Unlike Chu Xihen who cleared the level quickly, Lou Su and his team started looking for clues as soon as they entered the dungeon. They did not choose to take the small path into the village, but went around along the river from where Scarface had held Ling Ji and faced the poisonous konjac in the pit directly.
But the poisonous konjac was dormant at that time, so they couldn't kill it.
Afterwards, they entered the village along the path that the villagers did not allow them to take. Because of their unique way of entering the village, the villagers immediately became alert and did not let them stay in the homestay.
Lou Su found clues from the villagers' conversation and realized that he could not sleep outside at night, so he found an abandoned house in the village to live in.
Then at night they saw that the whole village was covered with purple venom from the poisonous konjac, and it swallowed a living villager in front of them. The villager's scream before death made several people hide in the house all night, not daring to close their eyes.
The next day, the villager's family found them and pretended to reveal the story of the poisonous konjac. They said that the Konjac Village had suffered a famine a hundred years ago, and when the whole village was almost starving to death, the poisonous konjac grew out of the pit and spit out a lot of food to save the entire village.
After the villagers recovered, they began to feed the poisonous konjac with chickens and ducks to express their gratitude. They worshipped it as the mountain god of the village and changed the name of the village into Konjac Village.
The villagers have been offering sacrifices to the poisonous konjac for generations, initially by feeding it to poultry, and later by directly sacrificing it to living people.
The first person to die was a villager from another village who was passing by the pit. After that man died, at the same time of the second year, when the villagers brought chickens and ducks to offer sacrifices, one of the villagers was swept away by the poisonous konjac.
From then on, the villagers knew that the poisonous konjac was no longer satisfied with the chickens and ducks they offered as tribute, and it began to eat people!
The villagers are almost all close relatives, so they certainly don't want the poisonous konjac to eat their own family members, so they set their sights on the tourists from other villages.
The villager who told everyone the background of Konjac Village was not a good person either. He said so much just to trick them into killing poisonous konjacs at the edge of the pit. Even if they failed, someone would be buried with his son.
Lou Su and his friends went to the edge of the pit with great caution. Although they failed to kill the poisonous konjac, they learned a key piece of information from the family of the deceased.
The poisonous konjac would become very weak around noon every day, which was a good time to kill it. However, they couldn't kill it when they went there. Lou Su thought there might be some clues they hadn't discovered.
The villagers' attempt to deceive the enemy failed, and another villager was swept away by the venom that night.
They all found it strange. Since they knew that the poisonous konjac would eat people at night, why did people always leave the house?
After another morning, after escaping the persecution of the villagers several times, I finally found out the reason why the villagers left the house. If the villagers did not offer a living person on time, the poisonous konjac would look for food on its own in the next year. Its smell could confuse people's minds and make them leave the house on their own initiative.
When the poisonous konjac is weak, it will kill people continuously, but when it is strong, it will not kill anyone for several months.
At the last minute of tracing back, they found out that that day was the annual day of dedication. The reason why the poisonous konjac kept killing people was because it would be at its weakest point of the year on that day. They killed the poisonous konjac at the last minute before the mission was over and successfully passed the level.
Chu Xihen listened to what they said and knew that Lou Su and his team had collected all the information about the copy, so the final reward was so good.
"Xihen, how did the big boss you met pass the level?" Bai Jinli asked Chu Xihen.
He thought that the big guy was most likely a survivor of the game, as he was able to help Chu Xihen pass the Poisonous Konjac dungeon unscathed.
Chu Xihen said, "I've said this before. We were invited to a guesthouse by the villagers. We ate and slept every day. We killed the poisonous konjac at noon on the last day and we cleared the level."
Several people: "..."
They thought that Chu Xihen had made up this story specifically to piss off Han Chong, but they didn't expect it to be true!
Now even they are angry.
"By the way, I met people from other cities in the dungeon, and their situations were similar to ours." Chu Xihen felt that this was something worth paying attention to. Even if a fixed team was formed in the future and they wanted to contact the outside world, they could enter the dungeon separately to obtain intelligence.
This news really surprised others. Even if we don’t have mobile phones and TVs in the future, we can still know the situation in other places, which is good.
"Take a look at the trading mall, it seems someone has started selling skill cards!" Zhou Quan suddenly said.
After they leave the dungeon, the virtual mall is still there. Not only can they put the cards they get in the portable mall, but they can also use the points to exchange items in the basic mall at any time, and even trade in the trading mall.
"What kind of crappy skill is this? It's sold for 200 points? We only get 100 points after completing a dungeon perfectly. Who can afford it?" Zhou Quan complained.
However, since points can be traded with each other, if someone really wants to buy, they can ask people around them to pool their points.
Just 200 points for a skill card, that's really a sky-high price!