◎If we don’t cooperate, we’ll all be doomed◎
The others were equally shocked as they looked at the ten announcements, or rather the first world announcement to be more precise.
Hadn't she already left Fengyun Tianxia? Wasn't she in a solo group? So why was she with Fengyun again? And even got the first kill again?
One question after another exploded, like flies and poison, lingering in everyone's mind. No matter how frantically they tried to suppress them with reason, in the end it was like a bursting dam, letting countless complex emotions wash out!
"Brother Long, this is impossible! The president clearly said that the alchemist had quit the guild a long time ago!" Everyone was still in disbelief, their eyes fixed on the four words "Summer Pear Blossoms" that were attracting attention in the channel, their voices trembling with shock.
"Well, she quit the club."
There was no rage, no cursing, and at this moment Long Yan, whose face was as dark as ink, was so calm that it frightened everyone.
He was so calm, so calm that it was totally unlike his usual self.
Everyone was silent, still recovering from the shock of Xia Rilihua's first kill, while at the same time keeping an eye on their vice-president's every move, fearing that he would get so angry that he would lose his mind in the next second.
However, they waited for a long time, until the dungeon time ticked away second by second in the upper right corner, but they still did not see the Dragon Flame erupt.
"Flying snow."
In the deathly silence, Long Yan suddenly spoke with a stern look in his eyes. His voice sounded like it had been soaked in the cold. Just two words made the others' scalps tingle uncontrollably.
When someone is extremely angry, the best way to relieve their anger is to let them vent, whether it's yelling, cursing, or smashing things. But when someone's face shows no emotion and their behavior is completely out of character, then the real storm has arrived.
When Mantian Feixue heard her name being called, she was startled for a moment, then she bravely walked out of the team, her voice as soft as a mosquito: "Brother Long..."
"I remember you arranged another person in Fengyun Tianxia, right?"
Long Yan didn't look at her, but Feixue clearly felt as if millions of eyes were staring at her.
"Yes," she replied.
"What's your name?"
"Sparkling water."
On the other side, Xia Li and others, who had spent more than three hours in the dungeon, finally walked out exhausted.
Fatigue was written all over everyone's face. Although they still held their weapons in their hands, a closer look revealed that they were only holding them mechanically, with both arms hanging limply at their sides, lifeless.
The same went for the two legs. After experiencing an unprecedented monster fight, everyone felt that the legs were no longer legs, but two body parts as stiff as sticks.
"Oh, I'm so tired!"
Steamed Fish was the first to collapse to the ground, lying sprawled near the copy.
"With your dungeon contribution, you're ranked last and you still dare to complain about being tired?" Zi Teng rolled her eyes at him and immediately sat down on the ground. "I can't take it anymore. My arms are almost broken."
She's a mage, and she's been working non-stop for three hours, lifting her staff non-stop! The key is that the staff feels incredibly realistic, and every time she raises it above her head, it feels like she's lifting a barbell.
Tired is just one word!
"My arm is broken too." The male mage Dafengche also cried out in pain. After coming out, he just let his arms swing freely at his sides. He didn't care. If his hands were broken, he would quit.
The others watched as the three of them completely lost themselves, and they also sat down or lay down on the spot.
Ten people entered a state of emptiness.
"Wait! Something's wrong!"
Although I was very tired at the moment, so tired that I just wanted to take a nap on the spot, the joy of getting the first kill finally overcame the fatigue. I supported myself and clicked on the world announcement while eating the steamed fish, and then I found a strange place.
"What's wrong?" Zi Teng beside him turned her head and asked him.
"Baiguo, do you still remember what the world announcement said when we got the first kill of Varikilo?" Steamed Fish ignored Zi Teng, his eyes passed over her delicate face and went straight to Baiguo who was lying dead in the distance.
"I remember." Bai Guo replied weakly.
"The announcement at that time seemed quite long, right? I remember it seemed like there was some title or something like that." Steamed Fish frowned and repeatedly looked at the words in the box.
Xia Li lay quietly next to Baiguo, not saying a word.
"When did you get such a good memory?"
Perhaps because he was used to the rough steamed fish, Baiguo's first reaction when he heard him say this was actually this.
"Get lost, let's be serious! Didn't you mention getting a title?"
"Why do you have to worry about this?"
It was a very harmonious and pleasant relaxing time, but after Qingzhengyu shouted at them, Luopan and Dafengmill turned their heads towards him.
"You guys who only got the first kill once, shut up." Steamed Fish rolled his eyes.
Luo Pan raised his sword: "What did you say?"
Big Windmill raised his staff: "Say it again?"
"Tsk, I won't bother with you guys," Qingzhengyu pouted, then coughed a few times in a mysterious manner before continuing, "Usually, first kill announcements use a fixed template, like congratulations to so-and-so for getting the first kill or earning such and such a title."
"But! Why didn't the system give us a title this time? This is obviously unreasonable, right? We got the first kill in the difficult version, right? First kill, understand?"
"So what do you mean...?"
Everyone still didn't understand what the steamed fish wanted to express, and they all looked confused.
Xia Li spoke softly, "He's trying to figure out if there's some other information hidden in the first kill announcement. After all, we're playing a joint dungeon this time."
Linkage, linkage, linkage, can only be launched if we unite.
She understood this principle, but at the moment, except for her, everyone else playing this dungeon was probably still in the dark.
"Yes, yes, that's what I mean!" Someone translated his true thoughts for him, and Qingzhengyu nodded repeatedly.
"So, Ali, what do you think?"
Ignoring Qing Yu who first raised the doubt, everyone turned back to ask Xia Li.
Steamed Fish: How dare you ignore me?!
Xia Li considered her words carefully and spoke slowly, "World News tells players that Yakao Village is under attack from the sea, and encourages us to enter the dungeon to slay the sea monsters. The idea is that if we defeat the sea monsters and complete the dungeon, the water will recede. But you see, the water level in Yakao Village hasn't receded at all."
Not only did it not go down, it even went up a little bit.
Zi Teng and the others were stunned. After looking at each other, they sat up from the ground and looked towards the Yakao Village in the lowlands diagonally in front of them.
"Really?" Steamed Fish exclaimed, "And it seems the water level has risen?!"
He remembered that when he entered the dungeon, half of the Yakao Village was already submerged in water. It took him a total of 2 hours, 27 minutes and 8 seconds to complete the dungeon. Even if the sea water did not recede, it should not continue to rise, right?
"So we can't be the only ones who win this copy, right?" Baili Xi looked at her thoughtfully.
Xia Li nodded happily: "Yes."
Everyone suffered a myocardial infarction.
"We just spent half a day fighting the third boss, died three times against him before we cleared the level and got the first kill, and now you're telling me we can't just win?! No! That's not true! Someone tell me this isn't true!"
The steamed fish who first raised the question was the first to go crazy.
Seeing him rolling around crying on the gravel, Zi Teng finally couldn't help but ask, "Ali, could this be a mistake?..."
There are more than ten entrances, and the roll point cannot be rolled to the first place every time. It is also required that all teams entering win. That is too difficult.
Everyone looked at her again with expectation.
However, Xia Li shook her head: "I think I'm not mistaken."
"Didn't you notice how pitifully little the loot was?" Xia Li added carefully, wanting to back up her claim without risking suspicion. "A team of ten, three levels. The second one is easier to handle, but the first and third require both strength and skill. And yet, in this difficult mode, the system only gives each person 10 gold coins and some ordinary blue gear. It's absurd, isn't it?"
Indeed, after she mentioned this, everyone suddenly realized what was going on.
"Then how long will this dungeon last?" Zi Teng gasped. "I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat it even if the entire Shia continent is flooded."
The others all frowned.
Baili Xi was also a little surprised, but when he thought that as the president he could not waver, he quickly adjusted himself and began to discuss solutions.
"What do you think is the probability of winning all thirteen entrances?" Baili Xi asked her.
"Very low." Xia Li confessed truthfully.
"But the authorities cannot set an impossible task."
"You're right." Xia Li nodded.
"So there must be a way for everyone to win."
"That's right." Xia Li continued to nod.
"Do you know something?" Baili Xi suddenly asked her.
Xia Li quickly shook her head: "No, I don't know anything."
"Okay..." Baili Xi forced a smile. It was true that this was the first time for everyone to play in this dungeon. Instead of being carried away by the joy of victory, they noticed different details. Whether it was her or the steamed fish, everyone had done well enough.
The setting sun sinks into the sea and the sky gradually becomes darker.
Gradually, teams came out from other dungeon entrances.
Without exception, everyone was either dejected or indignant, and some even had bad tempers and pointed at the system and cursed the officials for being inhuman.
In this bleak atmosphere of failure, a group of familiar people walked out of the entrance next to Xia Li.
"This last level is too difficult. I've died five times and the durability of my equipment is almost deducted." A girl muttered.
"We have to fight even if we die a few more times. Even though we lost the first kill, the spot for the second kill is still vacant. It would be great if we could get it." The tall girl next to her patted her shoulder and comforted her.
"That's easy to say. Apart from Fengyun's team, I haven't seen any other team pass the level."
Several people were talking as they walked. The female president who was in the lead did not participate in their conversation. Instead, she turned her head and saw Fengyun's people.
She walked over and nodded to Baili Xi and Xia Li at the same time as a greeting: "Congratulations, you got the first kill."
"Thank you, but this isn't the real first kill." Xia Li shrugged.
"What do you mean?" The president's concubine smiled with a slight raise of her eyebrows.
"The second kill spot is still vacant. Are you interested in grabbing one?" Xia Li did not directly answer Fei Zixiao's question, but asked the other party instead.
"Of course," Feizi smiled without hesitation, "Everyone knows that finishing in the top three of a dungeon will earn you generous rewards."
"Then let me join the team."
"What?" The concubine was stunned.
"Let me join you and I can help you pass the level." Xia Li said with a smile.
"Why help us?"
Although Feizishao and Fengyuntianxia have established diplomatic relations, they still have a competitive relationship in many aspects, and the two major guilds have not reached the point of being openly friendly with each other.
Fei Zixiao became skeptical of Xia Li's proposal.
"Strictly speaking, it's not to help you, but I want to do you a favor," Xia Li said truthfully.
Now she is the only one in the entire server who knows best how to play the thirteen copies. As the master of resources, she can do this favor to anyone she wants.
Considering that Fengyun Tianxia is currently weak, Xia Li decided to do this favor to the more reliable Fei Zixiao.
Although the second kill is not as prestigious as the first kill, it can still play a very beneficial role for the Feizishao Guild which is currently striving for rankings.
By grasping this point, it is entirely possible for the two guilds to reach cooperation again.
I just don’t know whether Feizixiao is willing to take on this cooperation.
Feizixiao stood there, not responding, just thinking quietly. After a moment, she slowly raised her eyes and smiled at Xia Li: "We will buy this favor."
Xia Li: "It's a pleasure to work with you."
"If you need our concubine to smile in the future, please feel free to ask. As long as it is within our ability, we will definitely help."
Xia Li nodded.
In fact, in addition to doing a favor, she also wanted to complete the mission.
If the dungeons in the thirteen entrances cannot be opened within two days, the sea water will completely flood over, and even the dungeon entrances will be submerged, and the Shia continent will completely lose this land.
Land is the fertile soil for human survival. Losing fertile soil means losing the power for development, which will lead to the decline of the power of the Shia continent. The demons who have been coveting it for a long time on the other side of the sea will take the opportunity to capture it.
This is how the Yakao Village was destroyed in the previous life. Not only did the players not cooperate with each other, they even suspected each other, until they finally fought each other, causing the entire server to miss the best opportunity to complete the dungeon.
When the two days were up, the sea water surged and all the thirteen copy entrances sank into the sea.
The village of Yakao in the northwest corner of the Xia continent was also erased from the map.
The disappearance of a regional map means that all tasks related to this map will disappear, perhaps it is an NPC triggered task, or it may be a side quest. In short, the players have completely lost Yakao Village.
This is a miracle, a holographic world that seems fake but is extremely realistic.
The official will not forcibly control the sea water or save Yakao Village in order to take care of the players' emotions.
If we don’t cooperate, we will all be doomed.
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