Chapter Twenty-Four Duplicate Record

  Chen Guo, who had secretly wiped away tears not long ago when Ye Qiu retired, was now as calm as usual. After giving Ye Xiu a detailed explanation of what he needed to know, he casually found a computer and started playing Honor of Kings.

  Ye Xiu stood not far away and took a few glances, seeing that Chen Guo had entered the arena for a PK match with someone, but it was clear that his heart wasn't in it. He made several major mistakes during the match, including some low-level ones. After losing three matches in a row, Chen Guo slammed his keyboard and quit the game. Turning around, he saw Ye Xiu standing there, picking his teeth as if nothing was wrong, glared at him for a moment, then ran back upstairs.

  Ye Xiu glanced at the time, and it wasn't long before his 11 o'clock work shift. The little sister behind the bar seemed to have a good grasp of time as well, as the progress bar of the Korean drama was just right. As this episode finished playing, the time jumped to exactly 11 o'clock, and the little sister stood up and smiled at Ye Xiu: "Ye Ge, I'm off work now?"

  "Go, go!" Ye Xiu had been waiting for half a day. The employees of the internet cafe who got off work at 11 o'clock were not just this little sister alone. After all, the time period from daytime to evening would not be as deserted as an all-nighter, and one person could not take care of it. Although the employees of the internet cafe were not familiar with Ye Xiu yet, they knew him and greeted him politely before leaving one by one.

  The internet cafe became unusually quiet, the keyboard and mouse sounds echoing clearly, in stark contrast to the bustling scene of the new server last night. Thinking that all this was caused by his own retirement event, Ye Xiu let out a soft sigh and sat down at the bar.

  Inserted account card, logged into the game. As soon as he went online, he received a series of messages, Ye Xiu opened one to take a look, it was Tian Que and several others lined up to greet him.

  "Big brother is here!"

  Tian Qi, dusk clouds are deep, shallow life is separated, three people have the same greetings, no sleep in the moon.

  "What's going on?" Ye Xiu asked the three of them back.

  "Hmm, Moonlight hasn't arrived yet." Si Qi replied.

  "Causing trouble again?" Ye Xiu thought of that little kid.

  "No, he's in a bad mood. Didn't Ye Qiu announce his retirement today? He really likes Ye Qiu, so he's feeling a bit down and won't be coming out to play tonight." said Tian Qi.

  Ye Xiu couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, never expecting that this kid was actually his own fan. He wondered what would happen if he let him know that he was Ye Qiu himself, who had been so shamelessly idolized by this kid.

  "If there's one less person, it won't be easy to kill the hidden BOSS in the Spider Cave," Ye Xiu said.

  "How about forming another one?" Tian Qi asked for Gao Shu Xiong's opinion.

  "How about we go to the Skull Burial Ground?" Ye Xiu said.

  "Alright, alright!!" Tian Qi hastily replied.

  The Skull Tomb is a 15-20 level instance, and Tian Qi and the others had actually wanted to go for a long time, hoping to get a few more first kills under Ye Xiu's leadership. However, Ye Xiu's thoughts and needs were different from theirs, and he didn't care about the glory of being the first to clear an instance. Moreover, in order to be the first to clear an instance, one had to always maintain a level at the forefront. This was something that Ye Xiu couldn't do, not because his skills weren't good enough, but because he didn't have enough time.

  When he went offline in the morning, Jun Moxiao's 18th level ranking was prominently displayed in the top five of the tenth district, but what about now? Ye Xiu opened the rankings again to take a look, and Jun Moxiao's name had vanished without a trace. The ones ranked at the top of the level leaderboard were all uniformly 22nd level.

  Why? Because the other guild is organized to rush and kill, with three or two people using one account at the same time, characters online 24 hours a day, playing a war of attrition, making up for their lack of skill with diligence. Ye Xiu's skills are strong, but he can't beat them in this regard.

  Because of these reasons, the deputy copy of the ordinary zone generally contains gold. Apart from hanging up a good name, it reflects that the team's upgrade speed is greater than their technology and strength.

  In comparison, what better reflects a team's technical skills and strength is their dungeon completion record.

  This record is time-limited, initially a unified time record set by the system. When a team breaks it, their name and new record time will be displayed. The reward for breaking this record can be received repeatedly, and the rewards are generous, unlike the first kill record which only gives experience, gold, and miscellaneous items. It is guaranteed to give the team at least one piece of equipment with a purple or higher rating, along with other random rewards.

  This honor mode novice zone does not exist, and the 20-level copy only starts after leaving the novice zone. Ye Xiu took a look at it with his hands, and the first kill of the 20-level copy Ice Frost Forest had already been completed, and the original system record had also been refreshed. The refresh times were marked behind, currently refreshed three times, hanging on the list is the team of Huixing Pavilion, the record is 26 minutes 12 seconds 48, the time is 18:23 in the afternoon.

  Ye Xiu scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed. He had a vague impression of what this copy was like, but he knew that this record would definitely be broken again. Currently, the highest level player was only level 22, and the final score was usually achieved by a team of level 25 players. As long as one player in the team exceeded level 25, the copy's score would become invalid.

  "Master, we've arrived at the Skull Graveyard." Tian Qi sent a message. These few guys' levels were still the same as when they logged off, looks like they slept for a day just like Ye Xiu.

  "Alright, I'll be right there." Ye Xiu hastily led Ju Ran to the Graveyard of the Skulls. According to what they had said earlier, they could have entered this instance at level 15 that morning, but Ye Xiu's Thousand Chance Umbrella currently required a large amount of "Power Jewel Threads". Yesterday, he and Tian Seven had expressed their needs, meaning they didn't plan on switching instances after reaching level 15. However, those four guys ended up staying behind as well, following Ye Xiu to desperately grind in the Spider Cave.

  They continued to grind, but the "Power Silk" was still not enough. This item is hidden in the BOSS Spider Lord and must be dropped, while the ordinary BOSS Spider King and two small ones have a certain probability of dropping. Ye Xiu and his team worked hard until 11 o'clock, and the hidden BOSS appeared three times, among which the Lord appeared once, getting 5 "Power Silk", and the other two times were Spider Warriors, with a 100% chance of not dropping this item. The small BOSSes also dropped some, for a total of 7, adding up to the 4 obtained from the first kill, they had only grinded 16 in total, still 24 short of Ye Xiu's requirement of 40.

  At this rate, he'd have to keep grinding for another two days. Ye Xiu calculated in his mind that Tian Seven and the others had already leveled up quickly to almost level 18 by following him in the Spider Cave. Once they passed level 20, it would be a difference of five levels when they continued to grind in the Spider Cave. In Glory, being five levels higher was an important threshold - whether it was equipment, skills, or experience gained from killing monsters. If you exceeded the instance's level by more than five levels, the experience gained would sharply decrease, and at that time, "leveling up" would become meaningless. Ye Xiu definitely wouldn't be willing to bring Tian Seven and the others to the Spider Cave to be his free labor anymore.

  It's not a good idea to rely on personal connections to get through this, looks like I need to think of other ways. Ye Xiu thought to himself as Jun Mo Xiao arrived at the Skull and Bones Graveyard, found Tian Qi in his friends list and applied to team up with him. After quickly joining the team, Tian Qi sent a message: "Do we still need to add one more person?"

  "It's fine even if we don't have it." Ye Xiu replied. To be honest, the Skull Graveyard also had some necessary materials that they hadn't obtained yet. This Thousand Chance Umbrella hadn't been used for long and was already becoming a burden. It wasn't easy to pioneer with a low-level account, Ye Xiu sighed as he stepped into the Skull base.

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