A server-wide announcement is equivalent to announcing it to the entire server. Anyone who is online can see this string of golden announcements.
Ordinary announcements can be glanced over, but Apocalypse is an unlocking task that the entire server is concerned about. The task progress has been stuck at 90% for two weeks. This is the first time in two weeks that there has been a significant increase, which shows that this pop-up 'Fog Sea Cave' map is very important in the Apocalypse series of tasks!
World Quests are moving! Celebrate together!
In the novice area! A new map has been refreshed in the novice area.
Damn, is this true? I’ll go practice my trumpet right away.
The first discoverers were two players. I just asked around and it seems they were a summoner + healer.
Wait... this announcement suffix, brave players
Oh shit, brave players, isn’t that the hidden map of the challenge mechanism
While the world channel and forum were discussing it heatedly, the two players who opened the hidden map were still at the entrance of the cave.
The cave was very dark. You could see about three meters inside the entrance, but you couldn't see anything further.
"Mist Sea Cave." Su Mo was about to report the coordinates to Xing Zhi Wu Ju, but unexpectedly found that there were no coordinates displayed on the small map. "Can you see my location after forming a team?"
Freedom: "Showing unknown areas."
"Wait a moment." Su Mo said, "I have a friend to invite."
After he finished speaking, he touched the button and a prompt popped up on the interface.
A call has been sent to the friends list.
"System summons..." Hong Guoguo responded, "Oh my god, we have entered the hidden map."
As soon as the system summon was issued, the summon interface displayed suddenly turned gray. After about a few seconds, two figures suddenly appeared in front of Su Mo and Hong Guoguo, the formation master Xingzhi Wuji and... the physical swordsman Qingfeng Xulai of the Lishan Sword School.
"Momo?" Qingfeng Xulai was stunned as soon as he landed. "I saw the prompt box as soon as I logged in. What's going on?"
"Friends summon. When you discover a special map or special dungeon, if your team is short of people, you can send a summon to your friends list." Xingzhi Wujiu looked up at the dark cave and said simply, "The first discoverer has the authority to summon."
Hong Guoguo: "It's over, it's over. This is the hidden map of the Zong Tianqi mission. The difficulty is 5 stars, and there are only four of us."
Hearing about the Zong Tianqi mission, Qingfeng Xulai couldn't help but exclaimed, and then looked at the few teammates around him, "Wait... If it's the Zong Tianqi hidden map, we only have four people to fight it?! Check if there are other people in your friends list and ask them to come over."
Hong Guoguo: "I'm so sorry, my friends are all my smurfs, the only living person online is here."
After saying that, he looked at Momo.
"Wait a moment." Su Mo called up the customer service system and asked in front of everyone: "Customer service, what is the Zong Tianqi mission?"
The customer service replied kindly: "Dear, the Apocalypse is a series of tasks to unlock the level 70, distributed throughout the Tianhuan Continent. You can open the road to the Apocalypse by completing all the Apocalypse tasks. [Apocalypse task list (completed)] [Apocalypse all-server shared clues]..."
Unrestrained behavior: "?"
Hong Guoguo: “…”
A gentle breeze came: "…"
You ignored the three veterans and went to ask the customer service instead. Do you look down on us
"Brother, you can think of Apocalypse as a general mission with many side missions. Players on all servers can open the road to Apocalypse after completing all the side missions, and the highest level will be changed to level 80." Hong Guoguo explained simply: "Every mission in Apocalypse can be said to be a strange mission, and the rewards dropped are very rich. It is said that the masters on the leaderboard run all over the map when they go online. Most of the current world progress is pushed by them."
Su Mo asked: "Is this task difficult?"
Qingfeng Xulai finally figured out the whole story and said, "Of course it's difficult! There are no public clues for this mission. All the clues are pieced together by the big guys. It's all luck that you accidentally discovered the Zong Tianqi branch."
Four people stood at the entrance of the Fog Sea Cave, looking at the dark and bottomless road inside.
Friend summons can only be used once, which means that the four of them will have to clear this hidden map individually next. Either they must clear it and advance the world progress, or they must fail and wait for another opportunity to come in.
"What do you mean?" Qingfeng asked, "Are we still going inside?"
Xingzhiyouji waved his hand slightly, and something suddenly fell to the ground, "Let's go."
"What is this?" Su Mo was surprised.
Xingzhi Wuji explained, "Astrologer's scroll."
Su Mo: "Where did it come from?"
Hong Guoguo added: "The scroll of illumination costs 10 gold each for setting up a stall."
Sumo: “Oh.”
It’s too expensive.
He walked forward without restraint, using the illumination scroll to lead the way for others. Su Mo followed behind the formation master, his eyes lingered on him for a while, and his peripheral vision looked at the stone walls of the cave, which were gray and covered with all kinds of strange fine lines.
"Momo, I sent you a message yesterday but you didn't reply." Qingfeng Xulai followed Sumo and started to get close to him: "Last time you said you would come online to level up with me, but in the blink of an eye you've reached level 28 and I'm still at level 27. If my friends in the live broadcast room hadn't said they saw you on the forum, I wouldn't have known that you were being targeted by Zhutian's people."
Hong Guoguo: "What forum? Are we on the forum?"
"Yes." Qingfeng came slowly, "Someone uploaded the video of you killing monsters. There is even a hot post on the forum. Some people even took screenshots of you doing the quest."
Su Mo: “…”
Hong Guoguo suddenly realized: "I suddenly understand why I was stuck in traffic..."
Qingfeng Xulai: "Zhutian's group is too much. They are at most three teams, and they dare to show off in the Novice Village."
"Isn't it?" Hong Guoguo asked, "Did they get attacked on the main server? I heard that someone broke into the guild headquarters last week?"
Qingfeng and Hong Guoguo spoke with a common hatred for the enemy, and their excited voices eased the slightly gloomy atmosphere in the cave.
Su Mo raised his head slightly to look at the top of the corridor. He felt a strange feeling at the junction of the uneven stone wall and the two walls, especially the sharp stones that were scattered in an orderly manner, as if they were left for something. He suddenly realized that someone was looking at him from behind, and he turned around abruptly and met Xingzhi Wuji's eyes.
Xingzhi Wuji looked at him, his eyes looking particularly deep in the dimly lit cave.
Su Mo had an illusion that the person seemed a little familiar. Just as he was about to ask, the latter turned his head and looked elsewhere.
The path in the cave was crooked and it took them a long time to walk after they entered.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from deep in the cave, and Qingfeng shuddered, "Did you hear any sound?"
"Welcome, brave player." A carefree voice sounded in the quiet cave corridor, "The suffix is brave, and this is a challenge map."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire corridor suddenly shook violently, as if the earth was shaking.
A buzzing sound came from the corridor, and strange patterns on the stone wall lit up in circles, illuminating the dark corridor in an instant. A gloomy breath rushed towards them, and a gust of wind blew past, blowing everyone back several steps.
"What the hell!?"
Darkness swept in, the light flashed dazzlingly, and something rushed towards them with the wind.
Su Mo couldn't help but raise his hand to resist, and felt a knife-like pain in his arm. The representative character's health bar was dropping at a very fast speed, and his physical strength was rapidly draining away in the cold wind. His eyes changed slightly, and he summoned the Wind Eagle under the pressure.
The Wind Eagle's group attack skill was launched the moment it was summoned. The two strong winds collided and the attack stopped for a moment.
At this moment, the formation master seized the opportunity and fully deployed the defensive formation. Under the cover of the dark blue light, everyone got a chance to catch their breath.
"Bang-"
Above the clear defensive formation, faint patterns on the two walls were reflected. The stone walls had changed, as if the attack had disrupted the order here.
Countless wild monsters in the darkness crashed into the cover. Only Su Mo and others who were inside the cover could see clearly what kind of monsters they were. Those gloomy winds were not winds, but strange creatures with black smoke, densely packed together, almost covering the entire corridor.
You have entered the sea of fog.
Hong Guoguo couldn't help but swear: "What the hell is this?!"
Xingzhi Wuji said coldly: "In Brave Mode, kill all the monsters to clear the map."
"How do we kill four people?!" As soon as Qingfeng finished speaking, he saw several summoned beasts rushing out from beside him.
No restrictions on behavior: "Retreat!"
Su Mo's summoned beasts formed a triangle and stood in the front. The slowdown of the group of wind eagles bought them time. Several people retreated dozens of meters and were finally forced into a narrow stone cave. The monsters that were attacking frantically stopped and disappeared silently in an instant.
The eerie wind receded completely, and the entire corridor returned to silence.
You have entered a safe area.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Hong Guoguo knelt on the ground with weak legs.
The strange patterns slowly sank into the uneven stone wall and finally disappeared completely.
Su Mo's eyes moved around the monsters, and then looked at the uneven stone wall. "It seems that as long as we move forward, we will trigger the attacks of these monsters."
If he saw it correctly, the stone wall in the corridor seemed to have changed its pattern several times in the past ten seconds.
Xingzhi Wuji removed the defensive formation and glanced at Momo.
At that moment just now, it should have been the usual skill in the Brave Mode that wipes out the entire team at the beginning, and the summoner seemed to have predicted it in advance and left them time to retreat, otherwise, given the situation just now, their team would have been either dead or injured, and might have completely failed.
Su Mo noticed that Xingzhi Wuji's eyes were fixed on him, "What?"
Xingzhi Wuji paused for a moment, caught a glimpse of his weapon from the corner of his eye, and said tactfully: "You didn't change your weapon."
Su Mo suddenly realized that this person was looking at his weapon. He explained, "The sect's novice weapons are too expensive. I don't want to buy them."
Players are free to ask you to trade
Su Mo clicked it and found a summoner's lamp staff on the trading bar.
He noticed that this was a handmade weapon, and the name of the maker was on the equipment information, which read 'Maker: Freedom'.
"I'll take the deal." Xingzhi Wujiu explained, "My profession is a blacksmith. This lamp stick is a scrap from refining weapons the day before yesterday. It's better than your... fishing rod."
Su Mo glanced at the weapon stats on his equipment and said, "Thank you. I'll return it to you when we leave the cave."
After he got it, he played around with it and found that the proportions of the lamp staff were similar to the Judge's Pen of the formation master. Leaving aside the attack, this weapon was indeed more comfortable to hold than a fishing rod.
"What was that just now! So many lights appeared at once, I almost went blind." Qingfeng let out a long breath, got up and took a few steps forward when a strong wind carrying fog appeared again. Whirlpool-like fog monsters appeared in front of him, as cold as ice.
He took several steps back and stood forward, "These monsters look too weird..."
Several people took turns trying a few more times. It was fine at the beginning, but as they went further in, more and more monsters came.
Moreover, these monsters are extremely strange. They will refresh about ten seconds after being killed, making it impossible to kill them all.
Hong Guoguo explained: "The more monsters there are, the stronger they are. The longer we stay, the more damage we will suffer."
Qingfeng looked at the dark and deep corridor and said, "My skill range is too short. How about you heal me and I'll go up and try."
Hong Guoguo released the healing flower, "Go ahead, go ahead, it's no problem to heal you."
As a result, the two men fought for just seven or eight seconds, then ran back with little blood left, and fell to the ground in a mess.
This monster is totally unreasonable. It keeps popping up and can never be defeated.
"It's safe here for now, let's think of a solution first." Hong Guoguo: "The monster's health is too high, and its skill damage is too high. The four of us can't defeat it. We are not on the same level at all."
"How do we fight this?!" Qingfeng was a little scared: "Is a side quest in Zong Tianqi so difficult? Or do we need to form a 20-man team to fight this... I can't do it anymore, the physical swordsman is out of the battle."
Xingzhi Wuju didn't say anything, but still released the lighting scroll to test the monsters in the distance. Not only humans, but as long as anything crossed a certain safety line, those monsters would come out to attack. Using props to pass the level was obviously not allowed.
While he was thinking, he saw the summoner Momo on the other side releasing his summoned beast to escape the monster.
The summoned beasts, the lone wolf and the white tiger, were running around in the corridor very lively not far away, disturbing the wild monsters in front of them.
The summoner stood against the stone wall, swaying the lamp in his hand, but the expression on his face did not change much.
Like a spectator watching the dispute from afar, indifferent and lonely.
"You're not nervous." Xingzhiwujiu suddenly spoke.
Su Mo glanced at him sideways when he heard this, as if he was puzzled by his words.
After a while, he took the initiative to say, "There is a watershed at level 40 in the Tianhuan map. Although players can freely travel between the novice areas, there won't be many players staying in the novice area because of the various inexplicable rules in the novice area."
He looked at him without restraint.
"Tianhuan is a game controlled by the mastermind, but its basic framework and basic game rules come from humans. If this is a holographic game between humans and intelligence, then its basic rules will not deviate from the limited framework. The mastermind uses its intelligence to deduce the game, but it must follow the conclusions of intelligent logic and specific human rules." Su Mo's eyes were a little scattered, as if he was talking to himself but also as if he was expressing something. He suddenly reacted halfway through his words.
Unrestrained behavior: "Why don't you continue?"
"Sorry, I'm having a problem." Su Mo let out a sigh. After chatting with Zhang Qi, he was thinking about Tianhuan's intelligent mode. How come he just said it out loud
He sorted out his thoughts for a moment, and then said in a relaxed tone, "Based on the premise of rules, players fight against the intelligent environment. This is my understanding of the basic operating model of Tianhuan."
Xingzhi looked at him without restraint, "You continue."
Su Mo's eyebrows twitched slightly, a little surprised.
"It will be difficult, but it has to follow the rules." Su Mo, "This is a map for the novice area, a game played by the mastermind, so its basic solution should satisfy specific players in a specific area. In other words, in addition to brute force, this map should have a way to pass the level suitable for novices... Brave people, bravery is not reckless, right?"
"What did you find?"
Su Mo looked at the stone wall opposite and straightened his body slightly: "The lines on the wall are alive."
After he said that, he let the white tiger go for a run. A faint light flashed across the lines on the wall for a moment, and the lines moved like snakes. But when the white tiger came back from the corridor, the lines seemed to have their life sucked out and stopped instantly.
“Not only is it alive, but it looks different.”
"Momo! We're going to try to defeat the monster on the left, are you coming?" Qingfeng shouted, "I just checked, there's a lot of experience, it would be a waste if we don't defeat it."
There is actually experience in the Apocalypse mission
Su Mo, who had experienced the extremely stingy anecdote mission, was very surprised: "How much is one monster?"
Qingfeng: "4000 experience points."
4000 experience points, each monster in the level 25 wild monster area only has 3000 experience points.
Su Mo stood up straight after hearing this, "Come on, how about you hit the left and I hit the right?"
"Still hitting left and right?" Hong Guoguo couldn't help but ask, "Have you ever considered the feeling of being treated?"
Su Mo released the Spirit Heart Rabbit, "You can't move your milk?"
Hong Guoguo: "... I can move, big brother, help me level up."
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Yu Zhen stood still, watching the three men split into two sides to fight monsters. The patterns on the left and right sides changed as they fought monsters, appearing and disappearing, and it was difficult to see the pattern without careful observation.
It seems that the summoner is indeed very sharp.
In the private chat channel, the green light for 25,000 is on.
Yu Zhen turned off the mute button and said, "Speak."
Erwanwu: "Are you finally free to pay attention to me? Is the group wiped out? Are you still alive?"
Yu Zhen: "Are you done? I'm blocking you."
"No, no, no, let's get down to business!" Erwanwu, "So many people opened their alts to explore this time, even you opened one, but in the end you were intercepted by two newcomers. I saw the suffix is Brave, so how about I take people to wander around the main city and see if I can find a mechanism to help."
Yu Zhen replied: "It's hard to say. I asked them how they open the map, and they didn't understand the trigger mechanism."
Ershiwu: "That's difficult. If you don't pass it this time, your progress won't go up. And this is Brave Mode. If it's any other mode, you can outsmart it. Brave Mode is almost a fight of force. There are only four of you. I think it's doomed."
"Really?" Yu Zhen's gaze stopped on the left side of the cave wall, where a new pattern had appeared.
Erwanwu: "Why don't you believe it? So how are you guys doing now?"
Yu Zhen looked at the three people who were actively gaining experience on the right path, and the experience bar in his personal status that was constantly moving forward—
He replied calmly: "We are upgrading."
Twenty-five thousand: "Huh?"