sinovels Chapter 277 Strange, that's not how you fight!
Chapter 277 Strange, that's not how you fight!
Chen You was suspended in mid-air, dumbfounded.
He doesn't understand.
Even if there are tens of thousands of pigs, it would still take a while to chop them up by the undead, right?
Countless possibilities flashed through Chen You's mind.
Could it be that a hidden super boss swarmed into the batch of monsters he released?
Or did the players respond to the city lord's call, only to find there weren't enough monsters to go around, so they went on strike?
"That shouldn't be the case..."
He frowned, completely baffled.
The play was meticulously directed by the director himself, with control over the source, process, and final direction, forming a perfect closed loop.
How could such a big mistake have occurred in the final execution stage?
Chen You took a deep breath, suppressing the sense of absurdity in his heart.
Things have come to this point, and thinking about it won't help.
The original plan was to quietly "make a fortune" and then slip away, but it seems that won't work now.
With a swift movement, he transformed into an almost invisible streak of light and sped towards the west gate of Thousand Light City.
……
West Gate of Qianguang City.
If you had to describe the scene outside the city gates at this moment in one word, it wouldn't be "horrific," but rather "chaotic."
It was the kind of extreme chaos that erupted before the market opened, with elderly people scrambling to grab half-price eggs.
On the city wall, the NPC guards arranged by the city lord Meng De held bows and crossbows, staring blankly at the scene below.
Beneath the city walls, shouts of battle, curses, and the deafening sounds of skill explosions mingled together.
However, nine out of ten of these voices are not directed at the dead.
"Damn it! Wang Mazi, you bastard! I saw that skeleton with the red headscarf first!"
"Bullshit! I chased it for eight blocks! I carved the character 'God' on its body!"
"Brothers of the [Old Tree Alliance]! Follow me! Surround that undead with the broken spear! Its gait is unusual; it must be a general!"
"Go to hell! That area is our [Kibo Factory]'s designated spawn zone! Anyone who dares to come near us should ask this enchanted greatsword in my hand first!"
Fireballs, ice arrows, sword energy, and blade light... flew wildly across the battlefield.
Their targets are often not the slowly wandering skeleton soldiers, but the "friendly forces" nearby who are trying to steal the monsters.
A skeletal warrior finally charged to the front of the players' ranks, raising its bone sword high, ready to enjoy a slaughterous feast.
Suddenly, a thick chain of lightning swept across its head, striking precisely a berserker to its left who was preparing to charge.
The berserker convulsed and collapsed to the ground with a scream.
Skeleton Warrior: "?"
Before it could react, a fireball from a mage player on the right was already hurtling towards it.
However, he was stopped halfway by another player using a "wind wall".
"Li Gou Dan! You fucking ruined my plans again!"
"You little bastard! I haven't settled the score with you for stealing my boss last time! Come and fight me if you dare!"
The soul fire in the skeletal warrior's eye sockets flickered; it seemed somewhat bewildered.
It cautiously took two steps forward, but no one paid any attention to it.
All players are attacking each other or using control skills to restrict each other's movement.
Occasionally, a few skills might miss and hit an undead, but that's just friendly fire.
This scene was less like defending a city and more like tens of thousands of players playing a large-scale team battle royale game in a horde of undead, with the undead being nothing more than innocent map obstacles.
When Chen You's figure appeared high in the sky, this was the scene he saw.
He stopped, floating below the clouds, quietly looking down at the battlefield below, a scene that could only be described as magical realism.
He finally understood why Simon was in "crisis".
It's not that the monster is too strong.
The lie he told was incredibly powerful.
"The undead general carrying the blueprints for a divine artifact..."
This lie ignited the most primal desires within all the players.
Faced with the ultimate temptation of "artifact blueprints," which can change the fate of a player or even a guild, all talk of city defense missions and collective honor is utter nonsense.
Everyone felt that they were the chosen one.
Every slightly different-looking undead could be the "general" who lays golden eggs.
Thus, the cooperation ceased to exist.
Trust crumbled.
Defense line?
What is that? Is it edible?
Can you get the blueprints for legendary weapons?
Chen You even saw a squad of players arguing incessantly over a lame skeleton.
"Look! It's lame! This is definitely a plot device! A severely wounded general!"
"That makes sense! How could a normal monster be lame? It must be a special design!"
"Don't move! Don't move! Let me talk to it! Maybe it'll trigger a hidden quest!"
A paladin player walked forward with a holy expression, cleared his throat, and addressed the lame skeleton.
"General, you must also be a loyal subject of the Meng family. Now that treacherous officials are in power, I am willing to lend you a hand to uphold justice!"
"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
The lame skeleton: "..."
It raised its bone claw in a daze and slammed it onto the paladin's helmet.
-857.
A damage number appeared.
"He responded to me! He hit me! This is a test!" The paladin was so excited that his face turned red.
Chen You's eye twitched slightly, and he silently looked away.
He felt his intelligence was being insulted.
Just then, the chaos on the edge of the battlefield suddenly intensified.
"Holy crap! What is that?!"
"What a huge creature! A Frankenstein's monster! It's a level 40 elite!"
"Run! This thing will explode!"
At the edge of the battlefield, a [Stitched Abomination] that had been "missed" by Chen You's sword light and starry river strode heavily into the area where the players were most concentrated.
This behemoth, which is over five meters tall, has countless severed limbs sewn onto its body and exudes a nauseating stench.
It was previously deliberately ignored by players.
Because it looks too ugly and too bloated, it doesn't have the handsome appearance of a "general" at all, and it doesn't look like it could unleash a powerful weapon.
But now, when it charged into the crowd, slapped seven or eight players away, and then opened its blood-red maw to spew out a wide area of venom, the players realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Ah! My face!"
"I'm poisoned! My health is dropping so fast!"
"Priest! Heal me! Holy crap, the priest is faster than me!"
The players who were fighting fiercely over a single skeleton have now scattered like birds.
However, they had been standing too close together in order to steal monsters.
The Stitched Abomination stomped down, causing the ground to shake and dozens of players around it to slow down simultaneously.
High in the sky, Chen You sighed softly.
He was the one who caused this monster siege.
He bought the Tongtian Jade Incense.
He was the one who lied about the artifact blueprints.
From a cause-and-effect perspective, he has to take responsibility.
"That's enough."
Chen You's voice was very soft, yet it seemed to possess a strange penetrating power, overwhelming all the noise below.
He silently opened the system panel.
"Strange, that's not how you fight..."
He opened the list of titles.
【Ghost's Bane】, choose to wear it.
hum-
An indescribable, terrifying pressure swept across the entire Ximen battlefield from his center!
The sky seemed to darken at that moment.