Chapter 20 Close combat!
Next time is just a euphemism.
The skeleton soldiers can be summoned again after they die, but if the demon statue is attacked, he will be gone, and there probably won't be a next time.
Apparently realizing the seriousness of the problem, Youyou responded immediately.
"receive!"
At the same time, on the other side, the first level of the maze.
In the hall covered with spider webs, two skeleton soldiers were using their graceful movements to pull the lone crypt spider to its limit.
To put it simply, it was to lure the monsters forward at night, lure the crypt spiders to the side of the pillars, and then take advantage of the fact that this creature could only move straight forward, and have Yi Ye Zhi Qiu holding a spear sneak attack from the side.
According to their tests, burrow spiders less than two meters in length can generally be killed with three shots.
Compared to the hard head, the butt of the burrow spider - especially the sides of the butt - is a soft part that is relatively easy to break through.
The only tricky thing is that these burrow spiders can use their mouthparts to spray dense spider webs, and being stuck in them is basically a death sentence.
Fortunately, these spiders have obvious pre-swinging movements when they "spit".
Once he notices that the target's cheeks are bulging, Yiye Zhiqiu, who is hiding behind a pillar, will knock on the ground with the spear in his hand to remind Hu Wan, who is pulling the monster, to dodge.
The two worked together for an entire afternoon and killed nearly twenty crypt spiders without missing a single one.
Yiye Zhiqiu did some calculations and, ignoring the income from the ghost money provided by the spider eggs, the two of them could equally share 100 contribution points from the twenty spiders.
When you go back, just kill 20 more ratmen, and then spend some money to buy 1,000 kilograms of coal from professional players at a price slightly higher than the official purchase price, and you can get the full 100 contribution points provided by the daily task.
In this way, while most players can only get 50 contribution points a day, their daily income can reach 200 points! They can reach the Black Iron level in five days! This upgrade speed is enough to leave other players far behind when the server is just launched.
Looking at Yi Ye Zhi Qiu who was calculating, Hu Wan thought for a moment and then spoke.
"I plan to give you all the contribution points from these twenty spiders. I'll swipe a few more later... By tomorrow night at the latest, you should be able to reach Black Iron and raise the level cap to lv10."
Hearing his teammate's words, Yiye Zhiqiu was stunned for a moment and blurted out subconsciously.
"Why?"
Hu Wan shrugged nonchalantly and said as a matter of course.
"Rather than slowing down the process by splitting the work between the two of us, don't you think it would be more efficient to let one person reach the Black Iron level first and then help the other person level up?"
really.
Yiye Zhiqiu understood what he meant, and this is also the basic operation of many guilds that pursue strength when they develop new games.
That is, we should first focus all our advantages on developing a few seeded players, and then use these seeded players to snowball and expand our advantages, thereby feeding back to other players...
However, this kind of thing usually only happens between acquaintances, and the two had never met each other until today.
Yiye Zhiqiu didn't believe that the other party couldn't see the future potential of this game and the value of early advantages.
"Aren't you afraid that I'll cheat?"
Hu Wan smiled faintly and said indifferently.
"I have always been a good judge of people. I believe you are not the kind of person who would take advantage of small gains... Besides, this is not much to take away."
Hearing this, Yiye Zhiqiu could almost conclude that this guy should be a member of a gaming guild.
"…Then I won't be polite."
He owes this favor!
He raised the dagger to his left hand, then Hu Wan smiled and stretched out his skeleton right hand to shake hands with him.
"It's a pleasure to work with you... By the way, I seem to have upgraded just now."
"I think so too."
"Hiss... strange."
"What's wrong?"
"My attribute points were automatically allocated to Agility," Hu Wan stared at the attribute panel and fell into deep thought, "Although this is exactly what I want...but doesn't this game have free attribute points?"
"It seems that I have added strength here." Yiye Zhiqiu opened the attribute panel to confirm.
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ID: One Leaf Knows Autumn
Race: Undead (Skeleton)
Soul level: Normal (level cap LV3)
Level: LV.1 (+1)
Experience value: (33/1W)
HP: (200/200)
MP: (0/0)
Constitution: 2 Strength: 4 (+1)
Agility: 1 Intelligence: 0 Spirit: 0]
He actually wanted to be a wizard, but it seemed that even the most basic skeleton soldier could not be a wizard.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the hidden mechanism of "Catastrophe Online"."
Hu Wan looked over at him.
"Hidden mechanism?"
"That's right," Yiye Zhiqiu nodded and expressed his opinion, "Generally, the logic of games is that points are added after leveling up, but the logic of this game should be 'leveling up after attributes grow'."
"I don't know the intention of the development team to design it this way. Maybe it's for authenticity? But the name of experience slot is indeed misleading. In fact, it is more appropriate to call it proficiency. That is, what attributes you train through your game behavior in the game will eventually grow into what attributes."
"I see..." Hu Wan's eyes brightened, and he looked at Yi Ye Zhi Qiu with interest. "Seriously, buddy, you're really not an insider of the game company?"
"How is that possible? Do I look alike..."
Yiye Zhiqiu looked at Hu Wan with a helpless look, paused for a moment and then looked away.
"But... I wanted to develop a game like this before."
"You just happened to think of the same thing, didn't you?"
Hu Wan grinned and was about to say something when a pop-up window suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.
[Alert: Monsters are attacking the city! ]
[Description: A large wave of ratmen is approaching the direction of the Demon King's Territory! Players nearby please pick up your weapons immediately and gather in the core area of the Demon King's Territory! Successfully defending the attack will earn you huge amounts of ghost money and contribution value rewards. Failure will result in the forced closure of this closed beta event! ]
When he saw the sentence "forced closure" at the end, Hu Wan felt his heart in his throat... although he didn't have a heart in the game.
"Monsters are attacking the city?!"
"I just went offline to check the forum. I was going to record my thoughts, but I found that some players reported that tens of thousands of rats were moving towards the direction of Demon King Ridge." Looking at the serious skull face, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu stopped talking, "It seems that there are pop-up windows online as well."
Hu Wan asked hurriedly.
"Who is that player?"
"It seems to be called Minotaur Warrior."
"…What's the name of that bird?" Hu Wan muttered, staring at Yiye Zhiqiu and continued, "Where is he now? Can you determine his location?"
Yi Ye Zhi Qiu shook his head.
"I don't think it's possible. The mine is crooked and there are no signs. Looking at his confusing description, I even doubt whether he can find the way back..."
Hu Wan pondered for a long while.
"What do you mean, go back and help?"
"Then I must go back to help."
Yiye Zhiqiu looked back at the hall covered with cobwebs. That was the battlefield where he and a new friend had fought for an entire afternoon.
"If you lose your home, everything will be meaningless."
…
“Boom—”
The earth is shaking! The rats are roaring! Gnawing, eating up -
The human thing escapes helplessly!
It is one of the four scenes of the end of the world hanging in the confessional of the cathedral in the holy city.
Thousands of ratmen soldiers from the depths of Hell overwhelmed the walls of Doomsday Fortress!
Facing the ratmen gathering together to launch a death charge, the followers of Saint Sith called it a "rat tide"! It was a foolish act that overrode the survival instinct of living things. The swarming rats stepped on the enemy's back feet, destroying the enemy while destroying themselves!
Bathed in the light of corruption bestowed by the Three Rat Gods, they would scatter in panic when they were defeated in battle, but this time they would never run away! There was no possibility of retreating at all! They just paused for a moment.
They will be trampled into meat paste by their own people rushing up from behind!
“Charge!”
"Smash those skeletons!"
"Bite those human things' necks!"
"For Gerlo!!!"
The rats with red eyes had gone mad, filling the entire mine tunnel like a rolling torrent.
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Hearing the scream, Luo Yan's expression changed slightly.
Gerlo! The Gluttonous Rat!
When he heard this name, he, who came from the deepest part of hell, understood everything.
Deep in this mine, a group of slave rats that were chased out of the maze completed the ritual to please Gerlo under the most extreme circumstances, and raised an extremely fat "God's Chosen Rat"! Luo Yan still remembered that he had learned in the class of the Demon King Academy that the conditions for the ritual were extreme hunger and extremely rich food, and a slave rat with a soul and personality twisted to the extreme!
The chances of the ritual being successful were extremely small, after all, Gerlo's personality was as weird as his children's.
Generally speaking, this kind of twisted monster is usually made by the Demon King to create trouble for adventurers who go deep into the maze! However, because the success rate of the ritual is not high, few Demon Kings will use it.
As for the Demon King personally attacking the rampaging God's Chosen Rat...
He had never heard of it! "Why do I always run into this kind of shitty thing..." Luo Yan cursed, raised the magic wand in his hand and began to prepare to cast a spell. The energy of the dead and the energy of the earth element gathered at his feet at the same time.
Facing the surging tide of rats, [Knowledge Explosion] standing in the front row widened his eyes in surprise. It was a pity that there was not much expression on the skeleton's face, otherwise that expression would have been as if he had seen a ghost.
"Fuck! So much experience——"
Before he could finish his words, the torrent of flesh and blood had already drowned him.
The pale skeleton was smashed into pieces, and the first player who died in the battle of "Natural Scourge OL" was finally born! A [Knowledge Explosion] was sacrificed, and the players standing behind immediately realized that this group of ratmen was unusual and became alert.
"Don't be afraid, brothers! The other side is just a bunch of experience packs! Gather your formation! Hold up your spears!"
Someone in the sea of skeletons shouted, and a few skeletons started to move first. Then other players followed suit, forming a thorny bone wall in the not-so-spacious mine.
No fancy tactics.
At this moment there is only the collision of blood and bones!
The skeletons in the front row were squeezed to pieces, but the skeletons at the back held them up, and the surging tide of rats was stopped in its tracks.
"grumble--!"
The ratman who was rushing in the front was stabbed into a gourd-like string by the spear, and dark blood plasma spurted out from the broken spear head.
Not only that—
And there are the bone spurs and stone pillars rising from the ground!
Just when he was about to stop the rats' charge, he was smashed away by the latter with a pickaxe and blunt instruments! Luo Yan held the magic wand in his hand and carefully considered the spells he could use to kill as many rats as possible while avoiding burying himself and the players alive in the mine.
The constantly squeezed corpses formed a slope. The murderous rats followed one after another and began to climb up by stepping on the corpses of their own kind, trying to climb over the towering bone wall!
However, just as their claws climbed up to the top of the city wall, a huge sword carrying a strong wind swept towards them, cutting the ratman in front of them in half, and turning into a bloody rain that swiped backwards.
That "someone" was Bond.
Awakened by the magic of the dead, he came back to life as a zombie with powers far beyond what he had when he was alive!
"Damn! Where did this NPC come from?!" Looking at the zombie standing above his head, Gou Shi widened his non-existent eyes.
This guy is quite handsome! He stole all his limelight! "It seems to be the meat sauce from before."
"What the hell?!"
“Ahhhhh!!!”
Xiao Wan, who was squeezed in nearby and was hungry, held the pickaxe in both hands, buried his skull, and pushed forward with strange cries.
You could tell she was terribly scared.
But she heard that the server would be shut down if she lost, and a whole day's work of digging coal would be in vain, so she still tried her best.
Just as the skeleton wall was about to fail, a player named [Septic Tank in One Mouth] suddenly stood out.
He had a dozen sticks of explosives tied to his body, probably used for mining. He lit the fuses with a torch and climbed onto the Skeleton Sea with a scream.
"Brothers! Go ahead! See you on the forum!"
Seeing the firecracker emitting sparks, the player who was stepped on underneath was almost scared and turned around and ran away. Fortunately, he remembered that he was in the game and kept his composure.
No fancy run-up.
The NPC named Bond next to him suddenly became smart, grabbed his arm and threw him out.
He drank it in one gulp, drew an arc in the air, and fell heavily into the group of rats. He waited for a long time but no sound came.
"This is such a bummer!" Gou Shi couldn't help but curse.
It was a dud! The tragic atmosphere was wasted! He was actually moved for just two seconds!
The battle situation once again reached a stalemate.
The ratmen couldn't advance even a bit, and the sea of skeletons formed by the players couldn't do much to them.
Bond, standing on the sea of skeletons, brandished his greatsword and killed the rushing ratmen one by one. However, facing the continuous attack, even the tireless zombies began to show signs of fatigue.
The reason is that there are simply too many monsters, and there is no sign of stopping!
As for the players, although the dead skeletons can come back to life quickly, they are still at a disadvantage in terms of numbers.
Especially since summoning skeletons doesn't come without a cost.
Temporary summons that consume mana cannot be used as containers for souls, while monsters summoned by the Demon Lord's core consume faith points.
Looking at the faith that was dropping rapidly, Luo Yan felt a pang of pain in his heart.
At this moment, a skeleton soldier suddenly ran to his side and knelt on one knee on the ground.
"Master Demon! The mine tunnel 100 meters ahead of you is just above the lower maze!"
This person is exactly the one who can tell the coming of autumn from a single leaf.
After hearing his report, Luo Yan immediately came to his senses and understood what this guy meant.
As long as we can find a way to collapse the mine tunnel and completely connect it to the first level of the underground maze, we can use the natural enemies of these ratmen to deal with them! This is indeed not difficult for a fine steel magician, especially since the mine tunnel itself is already attached to the edge of the maze!
The only problem is that if it's connected to the maze, new troubles might arise...
Seeing the defense line almost crumbling, Luo Yan knew he had no time to hesitate.
I can only take a gamble, that the group of crypt spiders will die together with these ratmen! Luo Yan waved the magic wand in his hand, chanted the spell, and used the little magic power he had left to release the last fine steel magic.
"The earth is falling!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground shook like an earthquake.
Before anyone could react, a landslide suddenly occurred in the not-so-spacious mine!
"grumble--!"
The rat tide, which was constantly squeezed, finally found an outlet and poured into the main hall on the first floor of the maze along with the rolling rubble.
The surging scene was like a flood! Falling from a height of more than ten meters, the first rat man to land was thrown to the ground and vomited blood, and the rat man who followed closely behind was also dizzy and lost his direction.
When they finally woke up from their stupor, they were met with scarlet eyes.
Creepy fear crawled all over the rats. They knew exactly what those guys were and what those eyes meant.
Staring at the little mice that fell into the Spider Cave, the hungry cave spider rubbed its hands in the dark.
It's time to eat!
(End of this chapter)