Chapter 48
[Ding Dong!] Congratulations to the player for triggering the series of tasks! 】
[——You were just preparing to attack the portal as usual, but before you stepped into the portal, you vaguely felt the enemy's spying on you who wanted to kill you...]
[Mission objective: Kill the red-named player who is spying on you]
[Current progress: 0%]
[Task Reward: Subsequent Task Clue*1/Gold Coin*1000]
Su Xingyuan, who had already taken the knife out of his backpack, noticed the thing called "Task Progress" with regret.
It seems that killing her directly may not work.
He released Ding Fengbo back as if nothing had happened, and he still looked like a normal resident of the world with very good qualities and very stable emotions.
He even stopped while planning to enter the portal alone, and decided to join a random team to give the killer a chance to get close to him.
After making the decision, the quarrel between the two hunters reached his ears more clearly.
"Jiang Yu, I advise you to be sensible and hand over the strategy rights for this portal!"
"Yes, although we brothers don't hit women, if you continue like this, then we will have no choice but to take action."
"If you ask me, didn't you get the portal from your father? Your father's things are Young Master Jiang's things. Young Master Jiang has the hope of becoming a B-level hunter. If he can give you some of them, won't your life be better?"
"If you give us the position of captain of the organization to attack the portal now, the young master might be able to take you in to see the world."
Several men surrounded a young man dressed in trendy clothes, and opposite them was a girl with long black hair and simple clothes.
After hearing what the men said, Su Xingyuan couldn't help but fall silent for a moment.
...Don't they feel embarrassed to say such things? It fits his stereotype of some humans.
Opposite them, Jiang Yu, who was being accused in unison, raised his head impatiently. However, his face did not show an expression of grievance at all, but rather a very harsh sarcasm.
"My father's things are yours? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? How dare a stupid illegitimate child who stole someone else's identity come and act like a troublemaker on my head? Even a reincarnated dog has learned to bark at people when he sees them. I won't let you in today even if I'm in a dead end. What can you do?"
Without waiting for those people to react, she turned around and cried to the supervisor of the Hunter Association: "Brother of the Hunter Association over there, someone is trying to steal the portal. I'm really, really scared. Will you do anything about it?"
Upon hearing this, the Hunter Association Supervisor cast a warning look at the men.
They had no control over how the hunters outside the door quarreled, but if a fight broke out, it was their responsibility to stop it.
Moreover, they have the support of the Hunter Association and do not care about the so-called Jiang family behind these people, not to mention that the Jiang family just suffered a setback today.
After Jiang Yu finished making the complaint and intimidating the men in disguise, he instantly changed his expression where the supervisor couldn't see him, and let out a grim smile and a "heh".
Jiang Lie's expression turned pale and purple: "Jiang Yu, don't be ungrateful!"
Jiang Yu sneered and rolled his eyes: "Do you want this favor?"
If she hadn't seen them getting more and more excited the more they cursed, she wouldn't have bothered to argue with these people.
She raised her megaphone and said, "The D-level portal strategy team is recruiting. Anyone is welcome except bastards and dogs!"
Jiang Lie said angrily: "Let's see who you can recruit! There are only three hours left before the deadline for the strategy. Once the time is up, your authority will be taken away--"
"Excuse me, are you hiring?"
Su Xingyuan had almost finished eating the melon, and after hearing this he felt that he should hurry up, so he asked in a friendly manner.
Jiang Yu turned his head, looked at him calmly, and said, "Yes, but once you enter, life and death are up to fate, and I will not be responsible."
Su Xingyuan nodded to show his agreement.
A wild team like this doesn't really pursue teamwork, and there is no affection between the players. The victory is the one who can gather the minimum number of people to enter the door.
Jiang Lie felt a subtle pain on his face when he was slapped before he could finish his words. He looked at Su Xingyuan and said in a sarcastic tone:
"You're interested in such a vulgar woman? I'm kindly reminding you that only two of you can enter..."
"I'll join in too." The blonde woman who had been watching suddenly spoke up.
She looked at Jiang Yu with a smile, as if she was here to stand up for her: "I'm a mage, C-level, you can call me Ina."
When a C-level hunter attacks a D-level portal, it is usually a dimensionality reduction attack.
Jiang Yu nodded, smiled at her, and looked around. Seeing that other people were avoiding her gaze, he stopped waiting and said decisively:
"Okay, it'll just be the three of us going in this time. Let's go."
Jiang Lie took a step forward, unwilling to see her actually form a team. He wanted to say something, but was covered his mouth by a man behind him.
Jiang Lie: “???!”
He turned around angrily and was about to curse when he saw the man winking at him frantically with a look of horror on his face, as if telling him not to say anything more.
He was stunned, not understanding what this meant at all, until he saw the phone the man handed over.
What appeared on the phone screen was the title "The fourth S-rank hunter to walk out of the Hunter Association's testing room" and a not very clear profile picture of a black-haired boy.
There is nothing wrong with a new S-rank hunter appearing, but the problem is...
The more I look at this photo of an S-level hunter, the more he looks like the unknown hunter who suddenly appeared and decided to join Jiang Yu's strategy team.
Jiang Lie: “…”
Jiang Lie: “!!!”
It is human nature to bully the weak and fear the strong. Realizing that he might have offended the wrong person, Jiang Lie's face turned pale instantly. Just as he was about to step forward and say a few nice words to make amends, he saw that the other party had already entered the portal.
And just then, he received another call from his father.
"...Where have you been? I'm telling you, that idiot Han Cheng has offended an S-rank hunter. I've already told him to get lost, and you should also immediately cut off all contact with him! Also, get home and come with me to apologize to that S-rank hunter!"
"What bad luck! If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have invested in the Black Silver Guild..."
Jiang Lie's expression froze on his face, and he repeated subconsciously: "...Which S-rank hunter?"
"Who else could it be? Besides eating, drinking and having fun, can you let me watch the news for a few more times?"
Jiang Lie's heart began to beat wildly.
He usually doesn't care about family affairs, and these days he has been trying to make Jiang Yu unhappy. He never thought that a new S-level hunter would appear in just one day and happen to be offended by their family!
He didn't dare to say that his behavior made the already pessimistic situation worse, so he could only hang up the phone in a hurry, gritted his teeth and waited in front of the portal, praying that the hunter had a good temper.
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On the other side, after Jiang Yu entered the door, he immediately observed the surrounding environment.
The portal behind them was located in the center of a deep passage, and on the walls on both sides of the passage, torches for lighting were hung at regular intervals.
"It's a dungeon in a underground palace environment." Jiang Yu had an idea in his mind: "Generally speaking, in this kind of low-level dungeon in a underground palace environment, as long as you are careful, there won't be too many casualties."
Taking advantage of the quiet time and no danger, she turned around and said, "My name is Jiang Yu, an archer. My magic power reserves allow me to conjure up 20 arrows at a time, and then I need to recover my magic power."
Su Xingyuan: "Professional assassin, weapon is a short knife, can attack with burst."
Seeing this, Ina also described her abilities: "I can condense a small magic cannon, and I can also use low-level healing magic."
Jiang Yu nodded, tied her ponytail a little tighter, took her bow, and walked forward first.
Su Xingyuan followed behind, looking at the torches around him, and thought of the novice trial when he entered the game.
If the novice trial is aimed at the underground palace environment, then in addition to the mechanisms, there should also be guard knights who can drop gold coins.
Su Xingyuan's mood immediately improved, and he couldn't wait to say hello to those old friends.
At this moment, Ina approached him and took the initiative to talk to him: "It seems that you haven't introduced your name yet."
Su Xingyuan blinked and said, "It doesn't matter. Just call me assassin when we are cooperating."
He smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I don't mind at all."
Ina: “…”
Before she could say anything else, Jiang Yu turned around and reminded her, "There's a door ahead. We're about to enter the underground palace. Be alert."
After saying that, she pushed open the door.
The moment she pushed it open, she seemed to sense something and immediately lowered her head!
Almost at the same time, a sharp arrow shot out from the room inside the door, rushed past Jiang Yu's head, and rushed directly towards Su Xingyuan and Yina behind him!
Su Xingyuan's eyes fell on the arrow.
In his eyes, its speed was no different from that of a turtle crawling, and he could even see its movement trajectory.
The arrow would just brush past his neck, so there was no need to dodge.
However, just as his gaze was about to move away, the trajectory of the arrow quietly and slightly changed.
Just this small change was enough to turn a completely uninjured result into a medium-sized cut on the side of his neck.
Su Xingyuan blinked.
Then he decisively pulled Ina over and said, "Be careful."
Originally, Ina was fine, but when he pulled the arrow, it went straight into Ina's eyes.
Ina: “…”
She didn't dare to change the trajectory of the arrow for fear of being discovered by Su Xingyuan, so she could only pretend to sprain her ankle and bend down, letting the arrow fly past her scalp.
Jiang Yu turned around and saw this scene. He asked in confusion, "There are often people who open the door to kill in the underground palace. Don't you know that?"
Anyone who entered a dungeon for the first time knew this, and if they entered low-level dungeons frequently, they should know it even better.
After playing so many low-level dungeons alone, except for the novice trial, this was the only time he encountered an underground palace environment. Su Xingyuan said honestly: "I don't know, but I guessed it."
Jiang Yu: “…”
She looked at the face that looked like a well-behaved student and Ina who was pretending to sprain her ankle, and suddenly realized that she was the only reliable person.
She didn't say anything. After all, the strong never complain about the environment or inexplicable teammates.
She entered the room cautiously.
There was nothing in the room, even the arrow just now seemed like an illusion.
Su Xingyuan noticed at a glance that there was a special stone brick on the wall with a faint magical power.
——In the mechanism room, isn’t the most curious thing to know what kind of mechanism will appear?
He walked up to the brick and pressed it down.
The next moment, the ground in the room suddenly broke off in the middle.
Jiang Yu, who had just seen Su Xingyuan's action and was about to remind him not to press randomly, said: "???!"
Su Xingyuan: “Wow.”
Without giving people any time to react, the three-person team was forced to split into two groups and fell into the underground passages on both sides at the same time.
And the moment they fell, the stone slab above their heads flipped over, blocking the upward passage tightly.
Su Xingyuan landed lightly on the ground, stood firm and looked around.
Jiang Yu fell in with him, while Ina fell to the other side.
He was not worried about Ina's head. After all, since she was sent by the organization behind her to kill him, she definitely could not be trapped in a D-level dungeon.
Jiang Yu also reacted quickly. He was not injured. He just raised his head, took a deep breath, and asked with a question mark on his face: "Why did you suddenly press the brick?"
Su Xingyuan thought about it and replied tentatively:
"The main point is to create excitement?"
Jiang Yu: “…”
She was wrong. This was not unreliable at all. It could even be classified as outrageous!
Where did this curious elementary school student come from? !
She took back her previous words. Not only did she complain about the environment and her inexplicable teammates, she almost cursed! !
Jiang Yu resisted the urge to curse, pressed his temple, and said while observing the surrounding environment: "Forget it, I won't bother with elementary school students... But I want to remind you to stay away from Ina."
Su Xingyuan blinked, silently expressing his doubts.
Jiang Yu recalled: "She made me feel very uncomfortable. Of course, you can also regard this feeling as an intuition that comes from being among low-quality people since childhood."
She glanced at Su Xingyuan and said, "And you don't even know her, which makes this even more interesting."
Su Xingyuan asked: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Yu: "She arrived much earlier than you, but she didn't talk to anyone, and her attention wasn't on the people we were arguing with. Instead, she would glance in the direction of the stadium entrance every once in a while."
"After you came, she immediately stopped looking away and started watching our quarrel."
It was obvious who her target was.
Jiang Yu stopped there and said no more. He took his bow and started walking deeper into the passage.
Su Xingyuan looked at her panel.
[Name: Jiang Yu]
[Rank: B]
[Identity: Wild Hunter]
[Status: Normal]
The level was not the D level as those hunters mentioned when they were outside, but the B level which could be considered a high level.
With this level of meticulousness and observation skills, it is not difficult for her to achieve something.
Su Xingyuan withdrew his gaze from the panel and looked forward. With his eyesight, he could easily see the knights who looked like sculptures hiding in the darkness.
[Name: Ordinary Guardian Knight]
And Su Xingyuan remembered that every time a knight was defeated, one hundred gold coins would drop.
Isn't this much more efficient than gaining gold coins by attacking the portal?
So, Jiang Yu, who was preparing to deal with the monster, suddenly found that the extremely unreliable teammate who was walking behind him and seemed to have no awareness that he was in a dangerous dungeon had disappeared.
She was startled for a moment, and just when she almost thought that some mechanism had been triggered again, a flash of silver knife light suddenly flashed across her sight.
“clang!”
At the same time, several sounds of metal hitting stone rang out instantly, seemingly without any interruption, almost making people think that the sounds were made at the same time.
By the time she reacted, another door had been opened, and at the end of the passage where the monster was supposed to be hidden, there was only the black-haired boy left.
Jiang Yu realized that something was wrong. Although the monsters in the D-level dungeon were easy to deal with, there were a lot of them and it was impossible to kill them all in an instant.
What's more, the black-haired boy was using a short sword, a weapon that could only attack one individual at a time.
She looked at Su Xingyuan: "What level are you?"
As his gold coins kept increasing by 100, Su Xingyuan said cheerfully, "S."
Jiang Yu: “…”
S-level hunter coming to a D-level portal, seriously? ?
Jiang Yu: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Su Xingyuan spread his hands: "You didn't ask."
Jiang Yu took a deep breath. It was simply dizzying that the teammate he originally thought was outrageous turned out to be an S-level boss.
However, thinking that she had also hidden her level, she thought that the other party just wanted to come to the low-level door to fry fish, so she stopped asking and walked towards the next room.
Then she discovered that the other party really had no intention of hiding his strength.
The black-haired boy could finish almost every room within half a minute, and Jiang Yu couldn't even find a chance to make a move.
She had a reasonable suspicion that the black-haired boy was trying to steal her head, and she had irrefutable evidence, because the other party was so cruel that he didn't even leave the knight's body behind, and no one knew where he had put it.
Soon, they arrived outside the boss room.
Before opening the door, the black-haired boy said, "If Yina is still alive, she should come to this room, right?"
Jiang Yu glanced at him and keenly noticed that there was something wrong with the atmosphere.
As expected, the boss in the D-level portal posed no threat to the S-level hunter, but he did not choose to kill it instantly as before. Instead, he simply cut off the boss's limbs, making it unable to move.
——He doesn’t want to leave the dungeon directly? Why?
Although he was confused, Jiang Yu knew Su Xingyuan's obsession with heads, so he naturally would not choose to steal the final blow under such circumstances.
Only a fool would do such a stupid thing as making an enemy of an S-rank hunter.
She just stepped back silently and tightened her grip on her bow.
——Because her intuition told her that it would be better for her not to get involved in what happened next.
Soon, footsteps were heard in another passage leading to the boss' room.
The footsteps sounded some distance away from here, making people subconsciously think that its owner would not appear for some time. However, in just a breath, a dark green poisonous fog suddenly exploded behind the black-haired boy!
At the same time, a figure instantly appeared behind him. At the same time, the magic power in his hand solidified into a long knife, and he chopped at the back of the black-haired boy's neck without hesitation!
The word "assassin" suddenly popped up in Jiang Yu's mind.
The figure's series of actions were extremely skillful, and he did not reveal any murderous intent when he attacked, making it impossible for people to detect.
This person must be a specially trained killer... Ina's assassination ability is much stronger than her poor disguise ability!
Such people will not leave you as a witness, they will kill them all without hesitation!
After realizing this, Jiang Yu drew his bow and aimed at Ina. In an instant, the magic power in his body surged and was all injected into the arrow!
Golden lines appeared on the originally ordinary arrow.
This is her biggest trump card. Once the golden arrow is aimed at the enemy, it will hit the opponent's vital points in an instant!
There is no way to dodge, you can only take it head-on!
Even if she was an A-rank hunter, it would be enough to make her suffer if she took this arrow head-on. Moreover, generally speaking, mages and assassins would not have any special defensive abilities. If you are lucky, you can even kill them directly.
After a successful attack, Ina, who was about to retreat, did not expect that since they just formed a random team, none of the three people revealed their true strength!
What kind of luck is this!
The arrow seemed to have eyes and was heading straight for her forehead, and she had no way to avoid it. She was about to crush the pendant hanging around her neck when a bony hand suddenly appeared in front of her.
——When the tip of the arrow was only an inch away from her forehead, that hand held the arrow tightly, preventing it from moving any further.
Jiang Yu: “???”
She looked in disbelief at the black-haired boy whose neck was still bleeding.
Is he crazy? ! At this time, you are still thinking about grabbing kills!
Coincidentally, the black-haired boy also looked over, his green eyes slightly curved, but there was no other emotion in them.
Blood kept flowing down from the wounded back of his neck, but he blocked the arrow for the murderer and smiled as if he didn't feel any pain.
Jiang Yu realized it belatedly and felt a little horrified.
In a flash, the arrow in the black-haired boy's hand was replaced by a dagger with green color. He still had a smile on his face, but he stabbed the dagger straight into Ina's collarbone without hesitation!
Blood splattered everywhere and the blonde woman's expression twisted instantly.
At this moment, she was deeply aware of the gap in strength between them.
The blonde woman no longer thought about keeping distance, but simply raised her hand and poked out one of her own eyes without hesitation!
The next moment, densely packed sharp teeth grew out of her eyes, like the mouth of some creature, and dark purple lines appeared on her pendant.
【warn! The target person has fallen into a semi-demonized state! 】
[All attributes of the target character are increased by 100%! 】
[Task progress: 90%]
Almost at the moment the pop-up window appeared, the woman's originally beautiful golden hair completely turned into a bunch of wriggling flesh worms.
Jiang Yu took a breath and said, "What on earth is this?"
Isn't this a monster that only appears in dungeons?
How could a good hunter suddenly turn into such a monster?
The more he thought about it, the more horrified he became. Jiang Yu immediately stopped thinking. The most important thing now was how to get out of here alive!
After all, she couldn't judge at all now, who was better between the S-level hunter and this weird thing.
At the moment of successful demonization, dense swarms of hair worms pounced on the black-haired boy without hesitation. At the same time, in the hands of the monster that still retained part of its human form, the decorative magic book began to flip rapidly.
Su Xingyuan's expression did not change at all. He just pulled out the knife that was stuck in the monster's body with his backhand.
Since the mission progress bar has reached 90%, it means that he can use lethal force.
So, in the game, how do you interrupt the enemy's spellcasting?
——You just need a set of uninterrupted combos.
The next moment, a bright silver blade light with a hint of green appeared like a falling thunder, striking directly on the monster's gradually expanding body!
【HP-15】
With just one cut, the monster seemed to have not suffered any damage, its skin was just cracked, which was completely different from its defensive strength before it was demonized.
However, the next blade light followed closely behind, like a continuous wave, landing on the same position without any deviation -
batter!
Once the enemy is caught in a series of combos, it will be extremely difficult to escape from such attacks.
However, just as Su Xingyuan was about to use the third sword, the dark green mist suddenly exploded again, covering the entire monster.
——The target is gone.
At this moment, Jiang Yu suddenly felt goose bumps on his back.
This was her intuition, the intuition that had helped her through countless crises, warning her that something was coming towards her.
Jiang Yu immediately retreated quickly, trying to leave the spot, but it was of no use. The moment she realized something was wrong, dark green mist appeared behind her, just like when it attacked the black-haired hunter!
Jiang Yu's pupils suddenly shrank. In her peripheral vision, she saw the humanoid monster's head full of long and thin insects, which pounced on her unprotected neck like a hungry wolf.
However, at this moment, in addition to the dense swarm of hair bugs, there seemed to be something else in her sight.
It was a small blue flame.
The small flame was like a dancing elf, suddenly appearing beside her without any warning.
And at the moment when the hairworms were about to eat her flesh and blood, it suddenly spread out and formed an untouchable fire net.
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