The attack came suddenly, Su Mo quickly retreated to avoid it. He surveyed the surrounding situation and after coming down from the heights, he saw an area of mountain vines. The purple vines that attacked them came from the surrounding mountain walls and woods. They should be the obstacles of the second level.
It became much easier to kill monsters. Just as Su Mo summoned the Wind Eagle, he heard the voice of the main brain suddenly.
Players die without restraint, challenge fails
The scene in front of him suddenly changed, and Su Mo returned to the top of the cliff. He looked at the formation master next to him in surprise: "Why are you gone?"
When he was observing just now, Xingzhi Wuji was clearly not far from him. Logically speaking, an attack of this magnitude should have been stopped long ago.
"My skills and Qinggong are all blocked, so I can't leave for now." Yu Zhen said helplessly, "30% of my experience has been deducted."
Su Mo laughed when he heard this: "So tricky? They chose to seal you when you were dodging a skill?"
"The Qinggong skill was sealed, and the displacement judgment was wrong." Yu Zhen said: "You should be careful too."
The two of them understood the routine briefly, and when they jumped into the forest again, they paid extra attention to their teammates. Su Mo's skills and Qinggong were not blocked. He saw that the formation master next to him was moving slowly, and he immediately judged that it was the formation master who was hit again. He reminded: "You move to avoid it, and I will help you clear the vines."
Yu Zhen said: "Okay."
Su Mo summoned three beasts at once, keeping two by his side and the other one to help his teammates resist attacks.
He was predicting his actions while rushing towards the forest. Just as he entered the forest and found the right path in the forest, an accident suddenly happened -
The player dies without restraint and the challenge fails
They failed again and were teleported back to the level entrance.
This time, the two looked at each other, seemingly not understanding the situation. Su Mo began to examine his own problems. He did help Xing Zhi Wu Jue block the attack, and he did not encounter any other obstacles when he rushed into the forest. How could he fail all of a sudden? "Did I run too fast? This is a Qixi event, testing tacit cooperation. Maybe it was because the distance was too far that I was judged to have failed? But why was it marked on you?"
Yu Zhen said, "If a player is judged to have failed in the Qixi dungeon, a player will be randomly selected to receive punishment. Both parties in the team must bear each other's responsibilities. Let's pay attention to the distance this time. I stepped back when I avoided the vines just now, which may have widened the distance. I will try to be as fast as possible, and you should slow down as well."
He smiled and said, "Fortunately, our second round is not about answering questions. I heard that the penalty for answering questions is even more severe. If you answer wrong, you will be penalized. It seems that there are 10 questions in total. If you answer wrong, you have to start over."
The challenges are random, their challenges may not be the same as others, and the difficulty of others may not be difficult or easy. The answering level is a question and darkness challenge, which will randomly let one teammate answer the questions in tacit agreement, and the other teammate will be punished in a dark environment. There are several couples in the forum who easily passed the answering level, while Apple and Huoshuyinhua suffered a Waterloo in the answering level.
"Then let's make tacit understanding and cooperation the first requirement." Su Mo said, "Consider this before taking action."
Yu Zhen said: "No problem."
The two challenged again, and this time they successfully entered the mountain forest trail, but still failed.
The point of failure appeared on Xingzhi Wujiu. He did not avoid the attack and was hit by three vines. Su Mo looked at the formation master's level dropped from level 72 to level 71, and couldn't help laughing and said, "Deduct you again?"
"Maybe I'm just unlucky." Yu Zhen said simply, "I just went blind."
In addition to sealing skills and lightness skills, there is also a third negative state: blindness.
The two looked at each other, and finally Su Mo couldn't help laughing: "I think the main brain is quite interesting."
Yu Zhen looked at him, "What do you mean?"
"The first level is me, the second level is you." Su Mo said: "It stubbornly sets up an extreme environment and thinks that trust in this environment is the so-called sense of trust, and thinks that this kind of emotion is the tacit cooperation between lovers or relatives and friends. In fact, this view is one-sided and boring. This kind of trust cannot be called trust, but just a forced choice."
Su Mo looked at Yu Zhen, "For example, in the first level, I chose to trust you because I had no other choice in that environment. It's not difficult to pass the level. You can imagine this as a scenario challenge and regard your teammates' voices as mission instructions. The so-called trust game can become a single-player game."
Yu Zhen heard the explanation and asked, "So I am just an intelligent AI guide?"
"Then you are much smarter than the main brain." Su Mo said to him: "But logically speaking, the environment it sets up is indeed quite extreme in some aspects. The illusion and direction confusion are okay, but the feeling of weightlessness is indeed difficult for me to adapt to. But this is just a game after all."
Yu Zhen looked at him unexpectedly: "Game?"
Su Mo raised his eyebrows slightly: "This is a holographic game. I am here to play the game, not to be played by it."
Starship jumps, physical fitness facilities, amusement facilities, etc., the feeling of weightlessness is something he cannot experience in reality, but it is okay after getting used to it. He is not afraid of heights, and he can maintain a high sense of anticipation for everything he has not experienced in reality. Thinking back to the feeling just now, it was quite subtle. If he has the chance, he can indeed give it a try.
The mission of [Purple Flower Valley Forest] is still ongoing.
"So how are we going to play next?" Yu Zhen looked at him. "It's hard to judge the attack when you're blind. It's okay to identify the position by sound, but my skill Qinggong is blocked. The rest is just basic attribute settings and personal reactions. It's okay to dodge three or four times, but I can't avoid making mistakes at all."
"Isn't this simple? I'll cooperate with you." Su Mo: "Think of it another way. You are the NPC I want to protect. My mission is to guide you, protect you, and lead you out of this forest."
Yu Zhen paused for a moment after hearing what he said: "In the first level, I was a guiding NPC, but in this level, I became a protected NPC."
"You can also treat me as an NPC." Su Mo summoned the fog monster and added: "I am not better than the main brain, I won't cheat you."
Yu Zhen: “That’s right.”
Su Mo let the fog monster lie on top of Yu Zhen's head, "Let's go then?"
Outside the venue, Hong Guoguo watched them get stuck three times in a row at the second level and couldn't help but feel a little worried, especially when she saw them staying at the level entrance for a long time after getting stuck. She thought the two bosses had encountered difficulties, "Isn't this five-star level too difficult? What kind of difficulty is this? They failed for no reason."
The merchant brother said, "It is difficult, but the rewards are also rich. I just checked the forum and saw several couples who have already passed the level. They even posted that answering the questions is giving away points. The other big guys are fighting to the death, but in their eyes it is easy."
Hong Guoguo: "… My brother and the others are not going to die, are they? They are unlucky and didn't make it to the question-answering level. How much better it would have been if they had answered questions instead?"
He had just finished saying this when he saw Apple and Huoshuyinhua coming out again from the Qiao Niang NPC not far away. Both of them were wearing a pair of shorts, and they were walking and cursing at each other, and then they went to the NPC together to exchange equipment.
The merchant brother said: "Answering this question... costs money, levels, and emotions."
Hong Guoguo was silent for a while: "Indeed, let's kill the monsters."
While the two were talking, the two big guys in the spectator's perspective moved again.
In the forest of Purple Flower Valley, the endless vines attacked swiftly. As soon as Yu Zhen fell into the forest, he quickly approached Su Mo and then stayed in his protection range without any unnecessary movements. Su Mo changed his previous strategy of fierce attack and slowed down his movements. The four summoned beasts stopped at the four corners around the two of them, forming a moving protection circle with the formation master as the center.
"My vision is dark." Yu Zhen reminded.
Su Mo raised his hand and called, "Okay, keep going. If you go astray, I'll remind you."
It was very difficult to walk in a straight line in the dark. Yu Zhen could hear the fierce fighting skills around him with his eyes closed, but no skills were used on him. At this point, he could be completely assured of the summoner's operation, and his teammates could do many things at the same time and fully protect him.
"You're going the wrong way. Turn left."
"It's crooked again, two steps to the right."
"There is an obstacle, go slowly."
Yu Zhen's foot kicked something and he reached out to touch an old tree root that was as high as his knee.
At this moment, a strong wind blew by, and Yu Zhen subconsciously dodged to the side, but a hand pressed on his shoulder, and he paused slightly.
The boy's relieved voice came to my ears: "That was a close call. There's something hidden in this thing."
Su Mo waved his lantern to clear away the vines lurking near the tree roots, "Let's keep going forward. There are obstacles ahead, so be careful."
Yu Zhen took out his weapon and used a pen instead of a cane as a guide. "I'll identify the obstacles, and you help me keep track of the direction."
In Qingfeng's live broadcast room, many people thought that the two big guys would fail in the second level. After all, from the start of the event to now, there have been many big guys who have failed, especially in the question-answering level, which is less thrilling, but causes crazy level drops and money losses, causing many watching players to shout that it is a money-burning game.
Damn, this is so weird, the summoner’s health didn’t drop much.
These vines should have high attack and low health, and they are easy to deal with as long as you don't get close to them.
It's not easy to deal with, don't you see there are so many monsters around? This difficulty is comparable to answering a question, okay? The summoner's operation is no worse than fireworks.
Qingfeng started to get nervous, and ordered some food and drinks at the desert inn. He ate while watching the fight, "Fuck, that vine was too dangerous, wasn't it?"
It was just two fingers away from Xingzhi Wuji's head. If it was a second later, the formation master would have been shot in the head on the spot.
These two people, one is fighting monsters, the other is walking, they have nothing to do with each other... Why do they feel like they are playing their own games
I just saw that Wu Liao's team also did a similar challenge in the second level, but it was a mess over there, either they walked too slowly or went the wrong way.
No wonder I always felt something was wrong. Do you think they cooperated? It seemed that there was no cooperation. You said they had no tacit understanding, but these two walked most of the way.
Is this the legendary tacit understanding between the big brothers
In the field, Su Mo and Yu Zhen successfully walked most of the way, and the attacks of the vines became more and more fierce.
The fog monster's whip was swinging everywhere, and it was still spitting out fog. Yu Zhen walked for a while and finally couldn't help but say, "The fog monster's position is a little off, it's a bit hair pulling."
The little thing always dances when using skills, and it is a mass, so when it attacks, it always exerts force downwards, and it feels like pulling your hair upwards.
"Oh." Su Mo turned his head and saw the blue sky above Yu Zhen's head. He was silent for a moment: "Wait a moment, I'll move."
Yu Zhen reminded: "You can stand on your shoulders."
Su Mo said: "No, I'm afraid it will whip you. Just bear with it, it's almost there."
Yu Zhen: “…”
The two of them kept walking forward in the same formation, and they walked for ten minutes without realizing it. Yu Zhen went from being uncertain at the beginning to calmly treating this level as a dark clearance game in the end. For him, this kind of dark environment was just average. When he followed his friends to various star systems in the past, the most dangerous thing was getting stuck in a dark star zone. At that time, he was driving a small starship with a completely black field of vision, and he could only drive blindly.
The two situations are completely different and incomparable. He is not afraid of the darkness, but he has an indescribable feeling when facing this situation.
Before he started, he really thought of this as a personal clearance, but halfway through, he had a different feeling. There were always prompts around him. The boy's voice was very casual, just simply guiding him in the direction, and more often it was the sound of skills. What he thought was a challenge was turned into a game by the summoner.
It's not like before where he cooperates with the summoner's command, nor is it that the summoner caters to his actions and cooperates with him.
Without burden, just start again after failure.
It's like friends playing games in a way that is mutually acceptable and comfortable. Yes, they are really just playing games.
At this moment, the sound in my ear seemed to stop suddenly.
Yu Zhen was slightly surprised. Someone beside him grabbed his wrist and suddenly pulled him to the left, and they fell down together.
The loud noise passed and Yu Zhen's vision became clear again. He found that the two were now falling down the slope, and the road on the slope was in a mess, with broken vines scattered all over the ground.
The summoner sat next to him with 40% health left. "Finally, a big wave came. Fortunately, I used the bear to block it."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the person beside him and met his eyes: "Can you see it now?"
Yu Zhen smiled and handed him the red and blue medicines. "It should be over. Thank you for your hard work."
"It's okay. It would be a pity if the mana was cut off." Su Mo was not polite. He took it and replenished the health bar and mana. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the lake in the distance down the slope.
The moon was shining brightly in the sky, and together with the purple flowers around it, the entire lake seemed to be covered with a layer of deep purple afterglow.
Su Mo said: "Qixi Festival is the ancient Chinese festival of begging for wisdom. The map of this Purple Flower Valley is quite good."
"There is a planet in the Akari Beta Galaxy, 80% of which is covered by water, and all the water is purple, so it is called Purple Water." Yu Zhen simply pointed to the location, "It has almost no lakes, and 20% of the continents are connected together. Looking from the coastline, it is much more beautiful than here. I think this map should have referenced the structure of Purple Water."
"Really? That should be very beautiful." Su Mo said: "I have never seen it, and I have never left the capital planet."
At this time, a reminder for the settlement of the second level popped up in the two people's vision.
The Purple Flower Valley Forest had been successfully cleared. The next goal was to reach the altar deep in the Purple Flower Valley. There was only one road leading to the lake ahead. Yu Zhen was about to leave when he saw the system time and took the initiative to say, "It will be 12 o'clock in the capital star in half an hour. Do you want to log off and take a rest?"
Su Mo came back to his senses and realized that he almost missed the time, "Oh yeah, see you this afternoon then."
After he said that, he logged off skillfully and temporarily went offline. Yu Zhen was the only one left in the entire Qixi copy.
Yu Zhen stared at the place where the summoner disappeared, deep in thought.
Purple Water Star is a famous tourist star, and it can be said to be a popular tourist destination in recent years. Most tour groups include this tourist route, but this is not the point, but the second half of the sentence, without leaving the capital star...
The summoner should be quite young, as it is now the holiday season for most students, but he is very rational and mature. It seems that he has been independent since childhood and has some social experience... but there are contradictions at times.
Yu Zhen rarely showed interest in an online friend whom he had known for less than two months.
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After Su Mo went offline, he couldn't wait to find pictures and video materials of Purple Water Star. Just looking at the pictures was very interesting.
The robot Lele came over curiously, "Sumo, it's time to eat, what are you doing?"
"Looking at the information, Doctor Wu said last year that I can try star travel without warping after my health stabilizes." Su Mo looked up the tourist routes of Purple Water Star. "This one is good. It's not far from the capital star, so there's no need for warping. There's a tour group for the elderly, so we can call Grandpa Zhang and the others."
In the past, he really couldn't consider interstellar travel, but in recent years, military equipment has expanded to civil aviation, and the safety factor of interstellar travel has become higher and higher. In addition, when his physique is stable, he can achieve average data of E level. Last year, Dr. Wu agreed that he could try short-distance travel. Even his school mentors have invited him many times to recuperate on other tourist planets with good environments.
He is different from when he was a kid, and even though his chances of recovery are slim, he is getting better.
"But you haven't been doing well lately." Lele added, "Doctor Wu said that your hormone levels fluctuate a lot, so he asked me to watch you during this period."
Su Mo was stunned. He had forgotten the hospital he had just been admitted to some time ago.
The robot Lele said again: "Let's have a small stove today. We can watch a tourist movie first and then go out to play!"
He happily ran to get the stove and opened the carefully selected Purple Mercury sightseeing film.
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