As soon as the server-wide announcement came out, it immediately dropped a bomb in the Tianhuan World Channel. Tianhuan originally had a world boss system, but after the Tianqi mission opened a series of challenging anecdotes, the world boss gameplay became somewhat bleak, and more recently, after the faction war was opened, the world boss gameplay was announced to be temporarily closed due to the faction war adjustment.
Originally, players didn't take it seriously. The game was updated very quickly, and it was normal to update the gameplay. As time went on, the world boss issue had long been replaced by other new things. But suddenly, a golden server-wide announcement appeared in front of online players.
Anyone who has fought a world boss knows that this type of boss will appear in a certain area of the map and refresh at a specified time. There is no limit on the number of people or guilds. After the boss's health is reduced to zero, rewards will be settled based on the player's performance. Generally speaking, there is a basic reward for participating in the battle. The higher the data, the better the reward.
Of course this is the settlement reward, there is also a kind of reward called boss drop.
The world boss will drop special treasure chests. The materials and props in these treasure chests are very rare. The treasure chest rewards dropped by the world boss in the original Xianhuan gameplay are equivalent to 3~4 star anecdotes rewards. 10 treasure chests will be dropped at a time, and the bet is on the kill in the final stage.
But this is the world boss gameplay after the change. This boss called [Lord of the Deep Sea] has never appeared in the previous world boss gameplay.
Shit, did it drop
Checked!! The boss database has just updated the information of [Lord of the Deep Sea]. Wow, this boss has a 100% chance of dropping 4-star rewards, a 50% chance of dropping 5-star rewards, and a 10% chance of dropping 6-star rewards!!!
The treasure chest materials dropped by the new world boss [Lord of the Deep Sea] are basically 4-star oddity challenge treasure chests. If you are lucky, you are more likely to get 5-star and 6-star rewards.
Wow, is it so rich?!
Why are you still here? Go grab the boss!
Many elite teams from various gangs have gone there!
Normally, all players have a chance to take the treasures from the collective crusade. However, in the past, the treasure chests dropped by the monsters killed in the final stage would be fought over by the big gangs. Some gang alliances would even divide the area to fight for the boss. Once a world boss appeared, it would be a bloody fight between gangs.
The Fruit Gang's gang channel was immediately in an uproar. The East China Sea was the closest to their Fruit Gang's stronghold. Having a stronghold meant that they could run directly from the gang's base to the stronghold on the East China Sea. They were the fastest-moving gang.
Chance!!
I'll teleport right away, click on someone to join the group!
Are you going to move materials today? The deputy assistant is over there.
Hold on, Watermelon, we'll be here soon to take down the hatred.
Watermelon directly bombarded the Fruit Gang's management group, and then said: "Banana, transport the gang resources back, and the others will follow me to check the situation below. We have tanks, so we will try to grab the hatred of the world boss as soon as possible!"
The soldiers of the Fruit Gang's transport team, who were highly regarded by the public, were dumbfounded when they heard this: "But the deputy gang leader also has Ta Yunzhong below him! I definitely can't grab hatred from him."
Watermelon: “… Can you be more ambitious!!”
The soldier was panicked: "I can't do it!"
"Deputy, come over here!"
"Why do I feel something is wrong? Shouldn't the world boss stay there? Why did this giant octopus come ashore?!"
"Charge, charge, this boss is awesome, he charged directly to the small fishing village."
Upon hearing this, Xigua immediately looked towards the Lord of the Deep Sea. He switched his target to lock on the boss and found that the boss's target was not other players, but the stone tablet of their stronghold.
He had a bad feeling—
This boss? ? Could it be that he wants to steal their base resources?
A small fishing village in the East China Sea, the place closest to the world boss, the Lord of the Deep Sea.
The moment the announcement popped up, Ta Yunzhong immediately joined Yu Zhen's team. Together with Shao Goose and Xianyu, the four of them rushed towards the world boss at the first opportunity.
"You guessed it right. This anecdote is indeed related to the gameplay. I just didn't expect the mastermind to release the world boss so soon." Yu Zhen frowned slightly. "I checked the database and only found out the drops. All the skills are unknown."
Stepping into the clouds: "There is a chance of dropping a 6-star reward. The difficulty of this boss should not be less than 6 stars, and it may be more difficult."
For the original world boss, the official would issue an announcement to list the boss’s skill names, but for this boss, not to mention the skill names, even the level and difficulty are unknown.
"Have you notified the gang?" Yu Zhen asked.
Ta Yunzhong immediately said, "I've notified you, but I don't think it will be that fast. It takes time to teleport here... The nearby gang base should be the Fruit Gang. I'll call Kugua right now."
"No..." Yu Zhen noticed that there was suddenly a target under the boss's health bar, "It's targeting the East China Sea Stronghold Stele. Grab the aggro immediately."
Ta Yunzhong immediately reacted, "This person is not friendly."
He immediately opened the status, "Doctor, keep an eye on my health, let's grab the aggro."
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Night duration 01:01:22
"Wait, that was the world boss just now?"
"If you are more confident, you will be the world boss."
"Fuck, brother, that totem you touched has become a world boss."
"I want to touch it too. I haven't been on the server-wide announcement yet."
After realizing that they might be the ones trapped in the scene, the other seven people in the night finally discovered various strange things, such as the emails they sent fell into the sea, and the world, guild and other channels had not refreshed messages for a long time... Originally, their attention was all on avoiding the fish monster, but now they suddenly reacted and realized that they were the ones who had lost contact with the whole world.
"Before, external communications were still available, but now it seems that everything is blocked. I can't use external communications." Hong Guoguo realized the problem, "It seems that we have been disconnected since the beginning of the night."
"Not as if, you can be absolutely sure."
Su Mo cleaned the glowing stone platform totem and continued, "This dark night is not simple, and the mission in the East Sea Fishing Village is not that simple either. We must find a way to remove the status of the three of them as soon as possible, otherwise, let alone defeating the boss, we won't even be able to get out of this cave."
The totem on the gray stone platform was painted with a giant sea monster, which should be the [Lord of the Deep Sea] mentioned in the announcement. Judging from the current situation, the team mission they were doing was most likely not an ordinary 5-star story, but a pre-task. Honey Roast Goose had done the first round of tasks, and they were doing the second round of tasks. Their task was definitely a pre-task for the world boss Lord of the Deep Sea.
"But we don't know what condition they are in. How can we solve this problem?" Wu Liao couldn't help but said, "To detoxify, we have to know what the poison is."
Su Mo glanced around and asked, "Did Guozi bring the illumination scroll?"
"I brought them." Hong Guoguo took out a few and said, "Brother, where should I throw them?"
Su Mo said: "It's shameful. Let's go down and leave the fruit up there for protection."
Hong Guoguo: “… ?”
After tying the rope above, Su Mo jumped down to the bone sea below first. The bone sea was deeper than he had imagined. He used the rope to move around in the bone sea. After touching the mountain wall, he said, "There are words engraved on the mountain wall below. Let's come down and take a look."
Zhi Ge also jumped down in the same way, "What text?"
Su Mo asked: "Can you understand ancient Chinese characters?"
Zhi Ge said: "If you understand a little, I'll help you find the words."
There were indeed inscriptions on the cliff, but these inscriptions were completely separate, with different handwritings and different positions. It seemed that these inscriptions were written by the corpses before they died. In the end, they spent time looking for all the inscriptions on the cliff. There were not many inscriptions, but they could barely confirm three pieces of information.
1. These people came from afar in search of opportunities in the small fishing village, but were eventually surrounded by an immortal fish monster and trapped in a cave where they died.
2. The opportunity in the small fishing village is fake, and what the NPC says may not be entirely true.
3. There are special monsters on the island that secrete a liquid that paralyzes people. The paralysis eventually penetrates deep into the person and is incurable.
"Most of the people here are probably trapped in this state, and eventually died here." Su Mo paused after reading it, "Now they are just unable to move. Once an attack occurs, it is very likely that even the fruit will not be able to be saved in the later stage."
Qingfeng: "Am I going to die young?"
Hong Guoguo: "Can we still pull it up after it dies?"
Su Mo: “… not necessarily.”
Apple said: "Isn't it said that there is no cure?"
Su Mo said: "You are now in a paralyzed state. Logically, you should be completely unable to move. If you can't move, then who carved the words on the wall? I didn't see any other corpses along the way. Who piled these corpses here?"
When these words came out, the others were also stunned.
Their attention was all on the information they obtained, but they didn't think about who left the information.
"There are two possibilities. One possibility is that this information was left by the owner of the skeleton. The other possibility is that it was written by someone else in order to make the person who saw the information give up and think that this symptom is incurable."
Su Mo paused for a moment and continued, "I think both possibilities are possible, that is, some of the information we received is true, and some is false, but there is one point that is contradictory. Regardless of the true or false ratio, the fact that there are so many different handwritings indicates that some of these people should have been able to move in the later period, so they had the strength to carve words."
"We were abandoned here after being poisoned, and we were able to move again later. Regardless of the intention, it was just to make us sure of one thing." Su Mo said simply, "That is, there is a way to detoxify nearby. We can move, which means we are not at the point of waiting to die."
Apple was slightly puzzled and asked, "Why don't you consider the intention?"
"Not all information is useful. We are on a mission, not a reasoning game. The truth will be revealed in the final storyline. Our current mission is to survive in the darkness."
Su Mo continued: "In the final analysis, it all comes down to our needs. What we want to know now is how to detoxify, so we need to summarize the information we want in the environment."
Hong Guoguo understood: "That means don't consider anything else. These people can carve words because they can move. If they can move, it means there is a way to make them move nearby."
Su Mo said: "Almost."
Wu Liao didn't understand after listening for a long time, so he asked, "What should we do now? You mean there is a way to detoxify nearby? Where can we find it?"
"This way." Zhi Ge suddenly found something strange near the stone wall and shouted, "There is a cave entrance here, but it's blocked."
Su Mo heard Zhi Ge's voice and leaned against the wall to get closer to her. When he got there, he saw the blocked cave entrance that Zhi Ge mentioned. The cave was dark and the entrance was very small. It was blocked by a huge rock and covered by other corpses. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to find it for a while. He tried to push it back with his hands, but failed, so he had to say, "Smash the rock open."
The two assassins worked together and soon broke the edge of the stone. A fishy smell came out from it. Su Mo frowned slightly, "Keep going, don't stop."
Zhi Ge and Wu Liao continued to fight. Hong Guoguo, who was standing at the top, looked down with great interest. Because they were using a nearby channel, their position was farther away, so they could not hear clearly what the people below were saying.
Qingfeng couldn't see it, so he could only ask, "What are they doing?"
Hong Guoguo said, "Probably digging a hole. We may have to dig a tunnel to get out."
The hole soon opened to half a meter in size. Su Mo took a scroll and threw it in. There was no other movement. He went in through the hole and fell into the water after a few steps. He lowered his head slightly and took the scroll to observe. He found that the hole was actually a small pool of sea water, which should be connected to the sea outside.
When he saw this, he paused for a moment, then shone the illumination scroll towards the surrounding stone walls, and immediately realized, "I think I know."
Wu Liao, who was guarding the cave entrance, asked: "Ah?"
He doesn't quite understand, so what does he know? !
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In the East China Sea, the originally quiet fishing village is now crowded with people. Players who have come here to attack the world boss have gathered together with the elite teams of the guilds and surrounded the village. However, under such circumstances, the Lord of the Deep Sea who has come ashore has not stopped his pace forward.
The Lord of the Deep Sea locked onto the current main tank, Stepping into the Clouds, and waving its tentacles to flatten the surrounding buildings. The rumbling sound continued, and it pressed inward while hitting, forcing the surrounding players to retreat. This boss has only used two moves so far. One move, Sweeping, can easily knock players away, and one move, Spitting Ink, can instantly paralyze the surrounding players for 30 minutes. Players who are hit will instantly lose their combat effectiveness.
"This monster is too outrageous. This is the safe area of the small fishing village. How can he come over here?"
"Fuck, can this monster enter the safe zone?"
"Don't even mention the fight. His health hasn't dropped to 99% yet. How come it's only 1% after fighting for so long?"
“So many people died!”
"A lot of gangs are here, we're following them and fighting them."
"Why haven't they started fighting yet?"
There were quite a few guilds preparing to grab the world boss, including Tianjie, Yunyin Renjian, Temple of the Gods, Ren Xiaoyao, Fruit Platter... All the big guilds on the list were here, but they were just watching the situation from a distance, each of them hostile to the opponents around them.
The first array mage stood at a high place at midnight, his eyes fell on the distance, at the same height, stood a white-clothed man in a Taoist robe - 'Gua Buguiyi'. Many people came, but the incident happened suddenly, and the elite teams of the big gangs were not all present. At present, the gang with the most people, besides Tianjie, is [Ren Xiaoyao] led by Gua Buguiyi.
Sleep said: "The elite team of Yunyin Renjian hasn't come yet. If we want to snatch it now, we can still snatch it from Tayunzhong, but it's hard to guarantee that Gua Buguiyi won't intervene."
Midnight Bell hesitated, "Something is wrong. The East China Sea stronghold is in the hands of the Fruit Gang. Why did their elite team only have these people? Isn't Bitter Melon online? He's not here?"
"They did arrive... They were the first to arrive." Sleep looked strange, pointing to a mountain very close to them, and continued: "But after they arrived, they suddenly ran away."
Midnight bell: "?"
Sleep said: "They didn't fight monsters, but moved resources within the East China Sea stronghold."
In the East China Sea stronghold, Kugua turned off the voice chat with Xingzhi Wujiu and instructed the two elite teams, "Hurry up, move all the resources away quickly."
Kugua originally led the elite team to the scene as soon as possible to prepare to rob the boss, but he met his good friends Ta Yunzhong and Xing Zhi Wujiu, and was suddenly told that the world boss might target their resource base. He glanced at the boss and changed his route without stopping.
The target of hatred is now Ta Yunzhong, but the direction that boss is heading is their resource base. They don't believe that they are not interested in the base. They may not be able to rob the world boss, but if the resources of the East China Sea base are taken away by the boss, then they will suffer a great loss.
Strawberry, who had hurried over with the elite group to act as a porter, said, "Boss, you're not going to leave anything behind? After we clear out everything, we may not have enough resources to fight a guild war."
Bitter Melon shook his head and said, "Don't keep any of them. If I keep them, they will all be fed to the octopus."
"Is its target really resources? If we don't have resources here, will it change its route?"
"Whose base is the next one?"
"The closest one is the one near Sunset City, in the heavens."
Bitter Melon also helped to move resources and asked, "Where's Watermelon? Wasn't he here just now?"
"Boss, the deputy leader has gone down there and said he wants to buy us some time to fight that octopus."
The author has something to say: Watermelon: Stealing is shameful!
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