After watching the sightseeing film, Su Mo planned to travel to Purple Water Star. After eating, he took an hour's lunch break before going online.
While he was offline, his teammates had already briefly explored the nearby terrain and found the location of the altar. Going around the beautiful Purple Water Lake below, the lakeside trail led all the way to the deepest part. The altar building was deep at the end of the trail, which was also their final destination in this dungeon—the depths of the Purple Flower Valley.
"What kind of level will the third level be?" Su Mo reorganized his bag after logging in, and found that the props he brought, such as the illumination scroll, were completely useless. "Answer the questions?"
"Answering questions is mainly done in the second level. I looked through the forum at noon and saw that several teams had passed the level, but their third level was not about answering questions." Yu Zhen continued, "It is unlikely that we will encounter answering questions."
So far, the quiz levels of the Qixi Five-Star Level Dungeon are all on the second level, and there is no quiz level on the third level. It is good news for them that they don’t have to answer questions. The quiz is mainly to test the two people’s understanding of each other. At most, they have played the dungeon and done the task. In terms of understanding, it is definitely not as good as other couple teams, so it is best not to encounter this kind of test.
After the two of them were ready, they walked down the path next to them. As soon as they entered the range, the prompt sound of the third level opening appeared in their ears. The scene did not change, but the system in their vision had undergone new changes. The original team status plug-in system and other systems were all hidden. They could still use skills, but they could not call up the relevant interface to view the details.
Various game systems disappeared, but teammates were still around.
"Shut down our interface system?" Su Mo was a little surprised. "Does this have anything to do with the third level? Or is it just for us to enjoy the scenery?"
"Obviously impossible." Yu Zhen looked around and heard only the sound of the wind, no other strange sounds. "The third level of the forum is a monster level, similar to the second level we experienced this morning."
Su Mo knew that the main brain would not easily turn the third level into a simple scenery level. Turning off the interface system meant that he could not see the status details clearly, and temporarily could not communicate with others. There was no limit to the skill light work, but he could not see the skill adjustment time. The only thing he could see was his personal health value.
The purpose is very clear. The game planner believes that the interface setting system in the next levels will affect the balance of the game or it wants to cover up something.
What about health points? This means that health points are important information, and the failure standard is likely to be zero health points.
When the two were halfway along the path, Su Mo saw various monsters distributed on both sides of the path. The monsters on the opposite side looked too quiet, completely different from the vines they had encountered in the second level.
Yu Zhen: “Be careful.”
Sumo's attention fell on them.
The monsters were stone monsters, made of stacked blue-grey stones, without arms or legs. From a distance, they looked like stone lanterns standing beside the path. Su Mo took two steps closer and was about to observe the two closest stone monsters, but suddenly he entered the attack range of the stone monsters. He saw red lights lit up in the stacked stones, and strings of red light and fire spread among the stone monsters, lighting up all the monsters at once.
"Oh no." Su Mo took a few steps back and raised his hand to summon a bear.
Yu Zhen's two damage-increasing formations were instantly superimposed, and all the concentrated attack power fell on the nearest monster. At this moment, something unexpected happened -
"Wait!" The life bar in front of Su Mo dropped rapidly and was almost instantly reduced to zero in the irreversible full-strength attack.
Player dies, challenge fails
You have died and lost 500 gold coins.
The red reminder and the main brain warning sound appeared in their ears. The incident happened suddenly. The two people did not react until they returned to the starting point. Yu Zhen: "Counterattack monster?"
Counterattack monsters, that is, all attacks on monsters will be reflected back to the player.
The combo just at the beginning, with the support of the two damage-increasing formations of the formation master, almost condensed most of the two people's powerful skills. Almost at the moment when they noticed their blood volume, the backlash damage had already completely killed them.
"Not only that, its backlash should have doubled the damage." Su Mo looked at the monsters in the distance, "No wonder the interface was cancelled. We can only lock on to the monsters but cannot judge their status. It seems that we can't kill monsters easily. These monsters also have mysteries."
The two walked back to the position of the gargoyle. This time they did not act rashly. Instead, Su Mo used his summoned beast to fight the monster. The monster's attack power was not low. In just a few seconds, it knocked down half of Su Mo's summoned beast bear, which had the most HP. Not only that, Su Mo actually saw the damage-increasing formation of the formation master under the monster's feet.
"Damage-increasing array..."
"Bear?"
The two of them made doubtful sounds at the same time. The next second, the summoned beast bear died, and the startled stone monster rushed towards them. Su Mo immediately stepped back a few steps, "Retreat first! There is something wrong with these monsters."
However, they cannot retreat completely. These monsters do not escape the combat range and will continue to attack until their challenge fails.
The monster chased them relentlessly, so the two had to split up and run on two sides tacitly, one on the left and one on the right, circling the trail. Su Mo took the opportunity to look back and clearly saw the damage-increasing formation unique to the formation master under the monster's feet. From the outside, it seemed that they only used extremely ordinary attacks, but in fact they also possessed the skills of a formation master.
These monsters... Could it be...
"If there is a problem, give up first." Yu Zhen said.
The player dies without restraint and the challenge fails
Su Mo came to his senses and the next second he heard the prompt sound of challenge failure, and the two returned to the starting point again.
"It's a skill monster. Follow the skills of the group of formation masters I'm with."
Yu Zhen dropped a piece of equipment. He said, "My situation is a little worse than yours. My monsters have summoner skills. I summoned a group of summoned monsters to follow me."
This group of stone monsters are not ordinary monsters. Not only do they have the skill of backfire damage, they even completely copy the skills of summoners and formation masters. The skills of formation masters can stack damage and increase defense, while summoners are a bunch of summoned beasts with control. These two professions have complex skill functions. So many monsters with skills mean that they may have to face more than ten summoners and formation masters controlled by the system at the same time.
You can't fight back, or you'll be hit back.
They couldn't hold out for too long without fighting, and they only had defensive formations but no treatment.
Su Mo frowned slightly, thinking of all the strange things that had happened since he entered the level. First, most of their interface systems were turned off, and then stone monsters with the same profession as theirs appeared. Was this a coincidence? Of course not. Since it was a game setting, every arrangement had its purpose.
Su Mo said: "The monster won't be all-powerful, it might be a mechanical monster."
He added: "If I'm not mistaken, there should be 9 of each type, a total of 18 gargoyles."
"But this is a Qixi copy. If we use the usual thinking to find the mechanical monsters, it will probably not work. Cooperation? Tacit understanding? Trust?" Su Mo hesitated a little. "If we solve it according to the theme, then these mechanical monsters will definitely test related themes or conditions. Is it cooperation? Do we need to cooperate to kill a certain monster within a certain period of time?"
"The monsters are triggered by linkage, one in eighteen, or one in nine." Yu Zhen suddenly thought of this, "We've missed a little bit, how do we find the monsters? Should we try or continue fighting?"
Su Mo said: "There is another point. You can see the summoner's stone monsters, but I can only see the formation master's monsters. This shows that the two sides are not in common."
Yu Zhen paused: "Then there can only be two mechanical monsters. You have to find one and I will find the other."
It is a more rational approach to fight monsters with deduction intentions. In this case, rash attempts will only give away money and experience. The content of the Qixi dungeon has been changing for different teams, but the only constant is the theme of the event. It's nothing more than tacit trust... Sumo Weidun: "We missed one point. We didn't go through the question-answering stage. What is the question-answering test?"
"Understanding each other..." Yu Zhen suddenly understood, "You mean, the mechanical monsters may have similarities with us?"
"It won't set up two monsters with the same profession as ours for no reason, and it also sets them up to be seen separately. Obviously, it doesn't want us to take advantage of loopholes. For example, I go to find the summoner, and you go to find the formation master. After all, the person we know best is only ourselves." Su Mo's eyes stopped on the monster in the distance again. "Currently, it has opened the voice channel. All monsters look almost exactly the same except for their skills. The main brain is very sure that even if we communicate, it will not affect the results."
Yu Zhen continued his words: "The key point of the mechanical monster lies in you and me. You have to look to find it, and it won't be a clue floating on the surface."
The two of them briefly sorted out their thoughts and decided to try the gargoyle again.
After the monsters were killed again, Su Mo's attention was all focused on the monsters. The monsters looked almost the same, and the formation master's formation could be cast on other monsters. In Su Mo's eyes, all the monsters on the field had formations. When they could not mark the monsters or see the monsters' health bars clearly, it was difficult for them to determine the types of the monsters mixed together.
"Let's separate first." Su Mo decisively distanced himself from Yu Zhen. The monsters were divided into two groups at this time, and the number of monsters that both sides needed to observe changed.
After a round of observation, two mechanisms can be basically determined.
1. There are 18 monsters, 9 summoner monsters and 9 formation master monsters. Once two people separate, the two types of monsters will separate and follow different people.
2. Attacking monsters will cause double blood loss, attacking summoner monsters will cause blood loss, and attacking array master monsters will cause blood loss. Monsters have high attack and low blood, and move fast, and attacking players will cause huge damage.
Su Mo originally wanted to try to kill each monster to see if he could tell the difference between the mechanical monsters, but when he tried the fourth monster, Xingzhi Wujiu on the other side was almost at low health, which means that this mechanical monster was very likely no different from an ordinary monster. The most important thing was to calculate based on their health points, which were only enough for them to kill one monster each under the pressure of backlash.
There is no way to test it, you can only look for the mechanical monsters in the monster pile.
Su Mo landed on the water and used Qinggong to pull a distance. The monsters ignored the water environment and followed him directly. He focused his attention on them and suddenly found a detail. The monsters were indeed stacking formations for themselves, but the formations under the feet of each monster were different.
The formation master has a mechanism for stacking formations. There are up to 4 layers of formations on the body. Once more than 4 layers are exceeded, they will be replaced and disappear according to the order. The first formation will be at the bottom, and the last formation will be at the top. The light effect pattern of each formation is different. If you look closely, the formation under the feet of each gargoyle is also different.
"Is it an operating habit?" Su Mo suddenly paused when he thought of this.
Yu Zhen said: "It shouldn't be that simple. I use different formations to start against different bosses or opponents. I just checked that these monsters have different summoning orders, and the same order will appear."
At this moment, Su Mo suddenly noticed the monster farthest from him. There were two layers of enhancement formations and two layers of defense formations stacked on that monster. There were no other formations besides that. He suddenly thought of something and rushed forward. At this moment, the system popped up a failure reminder.
Watch the game from the sidelines.
"Shit, why did I fail again?" Qingfeng was almost confused. From his perspective, these monsters looked exactly the same. Except for the fact that he could switch to the free perspective when watching the battle and see the summons summoned by the gargoyles, there were basically no other differences. "How do I beat this mechanical monster?"
Apart from knowing that I might have to fight a mechanical monster, I was completely confused.
This is the Qixi Festival challenge, isn’t it a high-difficulty dungeon mechanism
How can you play without a nurse? You lose blood whether you fight or not. If your hands shake, your teammates will be dead.
Suddenly I felt that the answers were good, at least they were questions I could understand, but I couldn’t understand this one at all.
Is this 5 star difficulty? I feel like it's almost 6 star.
"I don't understand this monster at all. All the monsters look the same when mixed together." Qingfeng asked in confusion: "Isn't this beyond the scope? What kind of tacit understanding is being tested? It's already a test of one's brainpower."
I think it depends on luck.
Not being able to mark monsters is really annoying, they can easily get confused when running around unless you keep an eye on one.
I remember that the boss has a very good memory, so he should be able to keep track of several of them
Warm reminder, there are 9 on the field.
"Why is my big brother not moving?" Qingfeng racked his brains but couldn't figure out what was going on. They couldn't understand the battle from the outside, so how could the people fighting monsters inside understand? At this moment, he suddenly saw a flash of light as if some props were taken out, "What is that?"
Inside the Purple Flower Valley.
Su Mo thought quickly.
The reason for the failure this time was that they had problems estimating each other's health. When the interface was completely closed, they could not see their teammates' health bars. The reduction in health was related to their own attacks and boss attacks, and acted on the monsters on both sides respectively. Even if they reported their own health changes in time, there were errors, which made it difficult to make intuitive judgments, resulting in miscalculations, causing their teammates' health to be reduced to zero before the gargoyles.
"This time we lost too much blood when we tried to probe, plus the red potion has a long cooldown." Yu Zhen just found a monster with similar operation habits, but before he could probe, he was prompted to end it, saying, "I just found one."
"Several of them, I think." Su Mo looked at Yu Zhen. "I just observed that at least five monsters on my side are using your commonly used formation tactics, such as those for dealing with groups of monsters, those for dealing with bosses, and even those we used to fight assassins in the wild. I think these monsters are the result of the main brain applying our skills to them based on our previous battle records, so there are actually more than one, five? Six? Or nine monsters could all be our battle templates."
Yu Zhen was a little surprised to hear this, "You remember everything?"
"My memory is very good." Su Mo was thinking about something and replied casually: "I have cooperated with you a lot, and your formation cycle has almost become my operating habit... Wait, I have a guess, how about we try it?"
He smiled and said, "Because we don't know which template it uses, we may have to try a few more times if we fail this time, so we should be prepared to lose levels and money, right?"
"It's okay." Yu Zhen couldn't help but relax. "At most, all the equipment will be confiscated. We can go out and exchange them for equipment."
Su Mo didn't want to imagine: "Then we are too miserable, right?"
"It's okay if the equipment drops." Yu Zhen looked at Su Mo, "You can try it as you like, I'll redeem it when the time comes."
"You can't spend money like this." Su Mo stretched his muscles and bones. "It's not difficult. When the time comes, you just focus on the stone monster that summons the wind eagle and the lone wolf." He paused and said, "Oh, by the way, stretch out your hand."
Yu Zhen stretched out his hand.
Suddenly, a red line stretched out from the summoner's hand, and finally circled around his wrist and disappeared. Yu Zhen was slightly puzzled, "What is this?"
"The item I got last time is called [A Thousand Miles of Destiny Ties Us]." Su Mo decisively activated his second skill, and the shared health state appeared on him. His health suddenly jumped up by 1,000 blood. It was the blood of the formation master that was evenly distributed and raised his own blood. "It has a blood sharing mechanism skill. After sharing blood, the blood loss will be evenly shared."
"We are too slow to judge each other's health. We can't directly judge whether the blood loss is caused by attack or backlash damage, which will lead to deviations in our estimation of skills." Su Mo said with satisfaction: "This is originally a prop that takes up space in the bag, and now it comes in handy. This way, I will know when you lose blood at the first time, and I can also distinguish what kind of blood loss it is. You also know my blood volume."
He thought of another benefit: "Oh, yes, the red medicine won't be wasted, one knock will make up for two."
The author has something to say: Brother Zhen: Is that so
(Calculated carefully and very satisfied): Yes, it can be used as a disposable prop and it doesn’t take up space in the bag.
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