The moment Xigua disappeared, his voice also disappeared in the original team voice chat. Everyone looked at the huge waves in the distance, and Huang Tao quickly ran back from the water, leaving the battle. After leaving the battle, the special mechanisms of the two original Summer Realms also disappeared.
But the watermelon disappeared from everyone's sight, without even a bubble appearing.
"Where's the watermelon? The water is so juicy it can make you eat!"
"Gua'er Gua'er, are you there?"
Su Mo asked in the voice: "Xigua? Xigua, if you can hear me, please reply."
After a while, no one heard Xigua's reply, but instead saw him typing in the team chat box.
The team is a big watermelon: ??? Can't you hear me
The team is a big watermelon: I don’t know where I am. I have a status here, which shows that I am in deep prison. There are more than 2 minutes left
"In the water?" Yu Zhen suddenly looked at Su Mo.
Su Mo immediately understood that it was most likely the underwater building they had seen before, "Let's go take a look, the rest of you stay here."
Before the others could react, they saw the formation master and the summoner use their lightness skills to fly directly to the surface of the lake, and finally fall into the water somewhere. The two of them sank straight to the bottom of the water, as if they were looking for someone.
Huo Shu Yin Hua saw this kind of mechanism for the first time and asked curiously, "What does it mean? Deep Prisoner? Is it a boss skill mechanism?"
Hong Guoguo: "If we can't see anyone, it's useless even if we try to disperse them."
"It's probably a sealing skill." Apple has downloaded many dungeons and has some experience with this: "There are also sealing skills in ordinary dungeons, such as making certain players pause or unable to move, but the sealing skills in this dungeon seem a bit special."
While they were talking, Xingzhi Suju suddenly appeared on the shore.
Qingfeng: "Is this teleportation?"
"I saw the watermelon." Su Mo briefly explained the situation: "There is a cage under the pavilion in the lake. The watermelon is locked inside. It should be unlocked. But now we are out of combat. As soon as we get close to the cage, we will be teleported back here."
The team is like a big watermelon: What should I do
"According to my guess, the Deep Prisoner is a skill of the boss, the Mermaid, similar to a name seal, locking the selected player in a cage. We can't get close, so we can only wait and see what happens after the time is up." Su Mo thought for a moment and asked Xigua, "How long do you have?"
The team made a big watermelon: 5 seconds.
Not long after Xigua started typing in the team, everyone saw the news that "What a Big Watermelon" had died in the team.
Huang Tao went into the water to look for someone: "Where did you die?"
Not long after they started talking, they saw someone floating on the lake not far away. It was probably Xigua's corpse.
Xigua was able to speak, his voice weak: "Save me."
"Here I come." Huang Tao flew to his side with light Kung Fu and rescued him with the resurrection skill.
Hong Guoguo: "It's so tragic, I can't bear to watch it."
"Wait... Doesn't this skill kill anyone who touches it?" Qingfeng was shocked: "I can't talk yet, I can only type in the team."
Huo Shu Yin Hua asked curiously, "Locked in a small dark room? Locked in for 3 minutes and then gone?"
Apple: "Interesting. Last time, people were flying everywhere, but this time, they were able to float after dying. Is the mastermind good at planning these things?"
"Deep Prisoner shouldn't cause death. Watermelon Death should be a limitation of the water element." Su Mo saw someone approaching from a distance and continued to guess: "Deep Prisoner lasts for 3 minutes. The water element can dive deep for 3 minutes, which means this skill is not completely unsolvable. When the player is in Deep Prisoner, we can save them in some way."
"The lock is located at the bottom of the lake." Yu Zhen added: "We couldn't get close to it just now, but it's not difficult to rescue. If we are in a battle, it will take about 4 seconds to dive to that position."
Bitter Melon thought for a moment and said, "In fact, it means that when someone is named and locked up, we have two options: one is to save him, and the other is not to save him."
After listening to this, the others just thought that this boss’s mechanism was extremely annoying.
Roll call can save people, but it is not a treatment but a lock-opening.
There is also a debuff that causes loss of health due to being burned under the scorching sun.
The most important thing is the annoying undressing mechanism, which refers to body parts equipment. They have a total of 16 pieces of equipment, of which eight are body parts. It takes 48 minutes to disable all of them. Taking off clothes is not the key problem, the problem is the attribute loss, which is lost every 6 minutes, which means that players need to quickly attack to solve the problem.
"Everyone, don't be nervous, come here and drink tea to cool off." Kugua took out the teahouse props again, "Xiao Yinhua, didn't you get a thousand-year-old ice last time?"
The others looked at the fireworks with curiosity.
Huo Shu Yin Hua reacted after hearing this, "Oh, right, I'll look for it... Here, here."
A huge piece of ice was released by the fireworks, and the cold air that hit them made everyone instantly energetic.
Hong Guoguo: "WTF, there is such a thing?!"
Apple looked at Hong Guoguo: "Do you want it? I have a rocking chair here."
Qingfeng: "I want it, I want it, let me sit on it."
Su Mo looked surprised.
Yu Zhen explained: "Funny props. Before the Apocalypse, there were often strange props like this in the game. But they are useless and can only be used for fun."
"It's very useful right now." Su Mo corrected. He walked to the side of Huo Shu Yin Hua and said, "Yin Hua, see if you can put this thing in the teahouse. It can be used as an air conditioner."
Huo Shu Yin Hua: "Okay, I'll give it a try."
Watermelon: "Can you knock some ice cubes down? Make two cups of iced tea. I'm almost drying up over there."
Yu Zhen was watching from the side, watching this group of people transform the teahouse into a summer resort. Some people even went swimming in the water, and completely forgot about testing the boss mechanism.
It was almost 11 o'clock, and he was about to remind Su Mo, but when he saw the natural smile on Su Mo's face, he couldn't help but stop.
Su Mo asked: "Can you still make this prop now?"
"Limited-time fun props." Huo Shu Yin Hua said, "But you are an astrologer, right? Why don't you try making one of these?"
Su Mo pondered for a moment: "Ice-type props, the magic sword has an ice sword technique, right? I will study it when we get out."
Apple covered Huo Shu Yin Hua's mouth and said, "Don't study it. This thing is not practical. No one buys it."
Two minutes before 11 o'clock, Su Mo took the initiative to log off and told them to meet at three o'clock in the afternoon.
After logging off, I saw Lele happily bringing soup over, "Let's have some tonic soup at noon today, too."
"Brother Zhen brought it?" Su Mo paused.
Lele put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "No, I made it myself. But Mr. Yu Zhen sent me a document with food supplement recipes from several star systems. I calculated that the ingredients in several recipes can replace nutritional supplements."
"Sumo! Be careful of the heat!"
Su Mo couldn't wait to drink a few sips and praised: "Le Le is great, delicious!"
Several heart emojis instantly popped up on Lele's display screen. "Really?"
Su Mo: “Really.”
Lele's electronic voice was full of emotion, and he walked back and forth beside Sumo: "Happy, I'll do it for you again tonight."
Su Mo glanced at the three dishes and one soup on the table, "But it seems like there are too many things."
Lele said: "I have calculated the nutrition, Sumo, you can finish all of this."
"I'm sure I can finish it." Su Mo's eyes moved, "I need to digest the food after I'm full."
Lele said: "Oh no, Sumo you want to deceive me again!"
"My predecessor said that the master will occasionally deceive the robot by diverting its attention and using the robot's thinking logic to deceive." The smart robot Lele retorted: "You can't play games to digest food! You should take a nap at noon."
The plan to trick the robot into playing the game failed. Su Mo walked around the living room to digest his food and checked Lele's smart system. He found that there were a lot of messy learning software in its smart library, such as "How to Avoid Men's Routines", "15 Ways to Beware of Scammers", "High Emotional Intelligence Robot", "How to Avoid Logical Instruction Scams"...
After reading it, Su Mo made a decision to delete all these messy apps next time Lele goes into hibernation to charge.
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By the time Su Mo woke up from his nap and came online, it was already past two in the afternoon.
As soon as he came online, he saw a leisure teahouse by the lake that could be called a holiday spot. Kugua was drinking tea with Yu Zhen, Hong Guoguo was playing cards with a few others, and Huoshuyinhua was swimming in the lake...
"Online?" Yu Zhen looked at Su Mo who was walking over, "Would you like some tea?"
"Okay." Su Mo sat down next to him. "What are you talking about?"
"Let's talk about boss mechanics."
Su Mo then realized that during the offline period, his teammates had tested the boss's skills several times. The players of the Fruit Gang were not ordinary players either. Bitter Melon, Apple, and Fire Tree and Silver Flower were all pioneer explorers of Zong Tianqi and were very familiar with testing skills. After a few hours, Yu Zhen cooperated with them and roughly figured out the mechanism of the boss's 3 skills.
The boss, the Mermaid in the Lake, has three skills in addition to the two special mechanisms of the Summer Realm.
1. Deep Prisoner: A skill that rolls out a name, seals the player for three minutes, and can be unlocked by deep diving. The unlocking time takes about 8 seconds. The interval between roll calls is irregular, and the player may be called out twice occasionally.
2. Phantom: The mermaid will summon small phantoms to enter the water to attack the player. The diving time is relatively long. Once attacked by the phantom in the water, 50% of the blood will be lost. If it happens twice, the player will die. You can move to avoid it.
3. Wave Slap: The tail slams the water surface, causing a knockback effect on players in the water, with average damage.
The most important and special thing is that the mermaid is active. It can stay on the water surface and also sink into the water. Its defense becomes weaker when it is on the water, and its attack power becomes stronger underwater.
"Roll call, group attack, and enhancement?" Su Mo understood the skills, "Is there a time calculation?"
"The boss's health bar is not high, but the damage is increased and the displacement is increased." Yu Zhen simply said: "Deep Prisoner has no time, the illusion is about once every 15 seconds, and the wave slapper will only exist on the water surface, and the posture switching is about 50 seconds. It is difficult to deal with after entering the water, and the power of skills will also increase. After entering the water, you can go to the pavilion. But we only tested it to 90%, and the early skills are probably like this."
Bitter Melon said: "Oh yes, the burning effect will not be harmed in water."
The commander is online and the challenge continues.
After understanding the skills, Su Mo made a simple calculation, and after roughly sorting out the mechanism rules, he planned to conduct tests and adjustments. Other teammates were also familiar with the skills in previous tests, but in order to ensure the indestructibility of the team, they were tested in batches. They only had an understanding of them, but had not played them in depth.
"Put this on." Yu Zhen said suddenly.
Su Mo paused, and saw a transaction order pop up in front of him. After accepting it, he found that it was a fashion item. "Fashion?"
"Fashion will not be judged, avoid exposure." Yu Zhen said simply: "Everyone is wearing it."
"Thank you, brother." Su Mo: "Is this expensive?"
Yu Zhen said: "No money, I have been occupying the bag for a long time with the reward from the last strange story."
The teammates who were listening to the conversation between the two in the voice channel couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The Qiwen costume was indeed free, but how could such a precious thing be given away just like that? ?
Apple looked at them.
Watermelon: "Just wear pants."
Qingfeng: "Big brother has been calling Brother Xing "brother" recently, I'm a little uncomfortable with it."
Hong Guoguo looked at the fashion with a little envy: "Brother Xing wants to give it to me, so I can call him brother."
The sun is still scorching hot on the top and everyone is ready.
Bitter Melon had set out early to wait at the pavilion in the middle of the lake. When he saw everyone coming, he stood in their positions and asked, "Open?"
"Melee fighters go to the pavilion, ranged fighters stay in the water." Su Mo ordered habitually: "Reduce its health on the surface of the water, go into the water to protect yourself, if you call on one person not to save, two people will save. Go."
This round is mainly for testing and for everyone to work together.
For this purpose, they also figured out the escape route. No matter what, they must keep the healers. It doesn't matter if they die. They can't use the resurrection charm, and if all the healers die, it's the same as wiping out the team.
The space in the pavilion was already crowded. Kugua occupied a large position by himself, and the other three were squeezed in a small space, making it uncomfortable even to use their skills. Qingfeng, who had a longer range, simply stood on the steps.
Seeing this, Su Mo said, "Pull the boss closer to the water to facilitate close combat."
At this time, the mermaid's tail suddenly moved and swept the bitter melon that was moving.
Bitter Melon: “…It seems to be open?”
Xigua understands this well: "Be more confident, not just pretend, but actually open it."
The mermaid opened her dark blue eyes, and fixed her cold gaze on Bitter Melon. She swung her tail, and hit everyone in the face at the beginning. Qingfeng, who was standing on the steps, was hit head-on and flew out, falling into the water with a splash.
This beat was as powerful as mountains and rivers, shocking everyone.
"Fuck, didn't it hit the water before?"
"You scared me, are you going to shoot right at the beginning?"
"Shouldn't it be called out first at the beginning? How did it change its mind so quickly?"
Qingfeng emerged from the water: "Sister Jiaoren is a bit grumpy when she wakes up."
"Return to your positions." Su Mo calculated the time in his mind: "The next one will be either Phantom or roll call. Roll call doesn't matter, all Phantoms, go to the pavilion."
'Is it you? You disturbed my sleep.'
The mermaid suddenly looked into the distance.
Su Mo's heart tightened. Was this the direction it was looking at
"The breeze is gone."
"The roll call is Qingfeng."
After hitting the waves, he received a roll call. Qingfeng was sent into the water cage again when he was halfway through swimming. Su Mo was sure that the boss' roll call would not remind him, but his eyes would look at the person who called the roll call, which was a bit similar to the desert inn he had fought before.
"No help." Su Mo said: "Apple, Fire Tree and Silver Flower, pay attention to diving to reduce damage."
He looked at the changes in the boss's health. The current output was still stable. Just 10 seconds into the game, the boss's health dropped by 1%.
At this time, the boss's phantom skill appeared.
This was the first time Su Mo saw this skill. He saw the mermaid raise her hand and release countless phantoms. The sudden wind blew the people in the pavilion into the water, and then countless phantoms fell into the water.
"Go up to the pavilion." Su Mo said decisively, "Move."
However, the speed of the phantom was faster than he had imagined. The close combatants were able to climb up the pavilion, but the long-range combatants were blown away by the wind and could not get up for a while.
Seeing that there was no hope of reaching the pavilion, several people in the water immediately began to move. The one who reacted quickly used lightness skills to leave the water, but the speed of the phantom was too fast, and Huang Tao was accidentally scratched twice and died instantly.
Hong Guoguo quickly pulled the man up and said, "This wind is so annoying. Can you let the bear block the wind?"
Sumo let the bear out and said, "Let's give it a try."
It turns out that the bear's wind-blocking function still works against this boss, but the wind generated by the boss's vibration will also affect the water, directly blowing the people in the water away.
Watermelon: "Can bears get on the pavilion?"
Zhi Ge: "I can make room for it."
Su Mo: "... I can't get on it. It's too big and there's no place to stand."
This ended everyone's high hopes, and the idea of taking a shortcut by using the bear was gone.
The plan of using the bear to block the wind came, and the second roll call came, and this time the main tank bitter melon was pulled in.
Su Mo decisively used the bear he summoned to take the aggro, "Stop the war and save people."
The assassin Zhi Ge dived deep into the water to save people. No one expected that the skill of Deep Prisoner would pull the main resistance. During the previous test, Kugua had never been pulled, and they all thought that the skill of Deep Prisoner would not lock the main resistance.
Even though they were familiar with the skills in advance, the boss's skills and the changes in the water surface still affected everyone's movement to a great extent. Even though Su Mo reminded them in time, the speed of movement and the waves still affected everyone's performance, making the originally simple operation difficult.
"The phantom lasts for 5 seconds, everyone pay attention, and when it's over, use light skills to jump." Su Mo remained calm and continued to count down, "When the phantom comes, move to avoid it."
Yu Zhen added: "Use the protection skill during the Qinggong CD to protect yourself."
However, at this time, the wave arrived ahead of time and directly knocked everyone away, widening the distance between them again. The phantom rushed over and swept everyone away.
Su Mo avoided the damage with his light skills, and everyone was left with low health after landing. The mermaid's attack was very high, and the bear's health was erratic.
He saw Zhi Ge climbing up, "Where's the bitter melon?"
Zhi Ge said: "In the back."
Bitter Melon emerged from the water with difficulty. The waves pushed him away. Another phantom appeared, making his way to the pavilion extremely difficult. "Wait a little longer, we're almost there."
Su Mo immediately gave up the idea of letting the main tank take the aggro. "The other bear is ready to take it at any time. The healer should keep an eye on the bear's health."
After being knocked away three times, Kugua successfully came ashore and took over Su Mo's hatred. At this time, the time was about to reach 50 seconds. Su Mo reminded: "Heal and raise blood. Pay attention to it. It is about to go into the water. Prepare to go to the pavilion."
There is limited space in the pavilion, reserved for treatment and ranged combat.
Melee underwater attack, the positions of the two are reversed, the mermaid in the water becomes crazy, and the players who remain in the water lose blood very quickly.
51, 52…
Sumo is still counting down, and the phantom will appear next...
At this moment, his eyes went dark, all his vision became dark, and the pressure in the water hit him directly.
He was named.
The author has something to say: This chapter is a bit long and it’s late~
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