Chapter 26: Forgot to Read the Strategy

  Ye Xiu was not killed by Chen Guo, and Chen Guo could not possibly enter the 5th level of Green Forest at level 1. In the end, Chen Guo could only open her tenth district small account to receive quests alone. After all, this is also a faster way than killing monsters with Gao Yingjie.

  Ye Xiu was busy but managed to spare a glance back, catching sight of the character on the screen: "Zhu Xian Xia? I think I've seen this ID somewhere before?"

  Chen Guo almost smashed his head into the monitor, gritting his teeth and turning around: "It's just my main account ID!"

  "Oh, I said so!" Ye Xiu's head had already turned back, and Chen Guo suddenly discovered that from the moment she sat down to now, except for when he was applying a face mask at the beginning and glanced back at her, she hadn't seen his face straight on. It was just a skull grave, did it need such focus?

  Thinking about it this way, I'm even less annoyed, because indeed requires such focus. The Skull Cavern instance has a strong randomness in the appearance of small monsters, often a careless pile of bones scattered somewhere will suddenly form a skull, or a skull will pop out of a loose patch of soil. This instance does not have a fixed route and attack target, every time is a new experience, it's very challenging for players' attention and reaction. Moreover, Ye Xiu's team only has four people, even more need to focus.

  Now that he thought about it, Ye Xiu's every move was reasonable and justified, and he had no right to be angry, so Chen Guo could only sulk as she continued doing her newbie tasks.

  At this point, it's only one day away from the opening of the 10th district. The newbie zone is still crowded with newbies, making Chen Guo's task progress very slow. Even Ye Xiu, a top-notch player, took two hours to complete these tasks in such an environment, let alone Chen Guo. Although the situation was slightly better than yesterday, the overall pattern of queuing and grabbing monsters remained unchanged.

  In the process, I suddenly heard a chilly sentence floating from beside me: "I knew it would be like this."

  Chen Guo was furious, thinking to himself that he was being ridiculed. But when he turned his head back, Ye Xiu's headphones were already on his head, and he continued to focus on the game. Was this guy talking to himself? Chen Guo muttered to himself, but ultimately didn't want to cause any trouble, so he continued to quietly play.

  Ye Xiu and his team finally passed the Skull Cave dungeon without any major issues. The process was a bit bumpy, as Tian Seven and the others were clearly not keeping up with this copy, and they would often get hit by the suddenly appearing skulls.

  When the final BOSS fell, Tian Qi and San were all drenched in sweat. If Ye Xiu weren't there, replacing Mo Zhong Sen with this team would have been impossible to pass. It's not that the difficulty of this dungeon has reached a point where it requires top-notch experts to lead, but because this dungeon deals massive damage to players, requiring a Cleric to focus on healing. Clearly, this is another instance where the newbie village teaches players a lesson, letting newcomers know the importance of profession coordination.

  The result was Ye Xiu's Jun Mo Xiao, who was both a healer and an outputter, and also tanked the monsters, and they just rolled past the Skull Cavern. After coming out, Ye Xiu looked back and saw that Chen Guo was still in the newbie area waiting in line, so he didn't bother to pay attention to him either and went back in. Tian Seven's three people had some anxiety in their hearts, as it seemed they were a bit of a drag on Ye Xiu, with his skills as a top player, he could easily find partners much stronger than them, if they didn't perform well and got abandoned by Ye Xiu, what would happen?

  So this time, Tian Qi and the three of them concentrated their attention to 120%, being careful and cautious, reacting quickly to those suddenly appearing skulls, and the progress of the duplicate accelerated a lot.

  The Skull Cave instance also has three hidden BOSS: Skull Warrior, Skull Mage and Skull Lord. However, in this instance, the emergence of hidden BOSS is not prompted at the entrance, because the three hidden BOSS are very cheap and can pop up from any shadow at any time, and the system will only prompt when it's time. Often, teams with bad luck have someone killed by the BOSS when they see the system prompt.

  With Ye Xiu presiding over the situation, such a careless mistake wouldn't happen. However, after the second deputy copy was more smoothly broken through than the first time, the hidden BOSS still didn't appear.

  He had already cleared the copy twice, and Ye Xiu turned his head to look at Chen Guo's side, who was intently competing with others for monsters outside the newbie village. Ye Xiu took a peek at her character level, which was already 4th level, and would soon reach 5th level.

  "Hurry up and brush again." Ye Xiu thought to himself as he quickly went in, Tian Seven didn't hesitate either.

  Kill, kill, kill. Walk, walk, walk. Suddenly, a crooked tombstone in front of them slightly shook, and Tian Qi San people were still unaware as they continued walking forward. Ye Xiu had already hastily shouted: "Fall back."

  The three of them immediately executed Ye Xiu's command without hesitation, jumping up in unison. The figure of Jun Mo Xiao had already flashed past them. The tombstone, after a slight tremble, suddenly burst out of the ground and flew straight towards the four of them.

  "Be careful!" Ye Xiu shouted. Tian Seven and the others, already on high alert, quickly dodged to the side, avoiding being hit by the tombstone. The hole in the ground that was exposed after the tombstone flew up revealed half of a skeleton's body. Judging from its intact and exquisite bones, it was clear that this was no ordinary skull monster with broken ribs. At this moment, the system solemnly announced: You have entered the resting place of the Skeleton Warrior.

  "Finally met." Ye Xiu let out a sigh of relief.

  "How did you get beaten up?" Tian Qi and others asked in a hurry.

  The half-exposed skeleton warrior shot out of the hole like a rocket, showcasing his powerful jumping ability. In mid-air, he stretched out his skeletal body, and the dust that had accumulated on him during his long sleep fell off in a rain-like manner. The giant sword in his hand looked tattered, but it was as big as a whole person.

  "It's terrible," Ye Xiu said.

  "What's wrong?" Tian Qi and San asked hurriedly.

  "Forgot to check the strategy," Ye Xiu said.

  Three people spat blood at the same time. Brother Gao Shou, you are really too amazing!

  "Shall I go and take a look for you?" Mu Yunshen shouted.

  "No way, if the attack hits you, you're dead." Ye Xiu said as the Skeleton Warrior's jumping slash landed, causing a massive shockwave that sent Shan Mu flying and tumbling to the ground.

  The skull warrior's two eye sockets scanned Black Cave, seemingly searching for a target to attack.

  "Someone introduce it to me, I'll go check the strategy!" Mu Yun said.

  "It's okay." Ye Xiu said as he took off his headphones and turned around to shout: "Boss, boss!"

  "What's going on!" Chen Guo tapped away at her keyboard with a "click click" sound, responding only with a grunt and without turning her head.

  "Help me check the strategy." Ye Xiu said.

  "What strategy? What are you talking about?" Chen Guo asked in surprise, turning around to look at him.

  "The strategy of Skull Warrior." Ye Xiu pointed at the screen while controlling Jun Moxiao.

  "Didn't you guys start looking up strategies when you encountered the BOSS? What were you doing earlier?"

  The third watch has arrived, and the party members are ready with their recommendation votes. The two-hour and fifteen-minute countdown begins now.