There is an idiom that goes, "Misfortunes will eventually turn into blessings." It means that when a person is so unlucky that even God can't stand it, his good luck will soon come.
If I knew who invented this idiom, I would definitely pick him out and beat him up - why have I been so unlucky recently, and I haven't seen any hope of turning my luck around? Especially when I thought about what happened a few days ago, I was furious - a mock exam performance competition? If I lose, wouldn't I be accused of cheating? Han Yebin must have done it on purpose, this is completely a borrowed knife to kill people, killing without bloodshed!
I logged into the game "Fantasy Jianghu" with a sigh. When I saw the figure standing outside the resurrection point like the god of death, I suddenly had the urge to flip the table and smash the computer - why is he still here? Five days! Five whole days! 120 hours! The cabbage and radishes planted in the vegetable garden are about to rot, but I can't go back to harvest them! The NPC tasks in the game have been updated several times, but I can't do them! When will this day of being stuck in the resurrection point and unable to get out end? Everyone plays games for fun. It's not a blood feud, just a little grudge. That guy actually blocked it for so long. What on earth is he trying to do?
"You're here?" Seeing me standing stiffly at the resurrection point, Du Yexing slowly walked a few steps closer, shaking the dagger in his hand, "You haven't given up yet? Do you think I will let you go?"
My eyelids twitched twice, but I endured it again and again, and finally typed out a line of words calmly.
"Why won't you let me go?"
"I told you the reason." Du Ye Xing replied slowly, "It's just tit for tat."
I frowned. "I checked the forums. Everyone said you were a professional killer in the game. You get paid to kill people. Those people you killed were paid to get rid of. I'm just a rookie. I've never had any enemies in this game. It's impossible for someone to pay you to kill me, right?"
"Who said you've never had an enemy?" Du Yexing sneered, "I am your enemy."
"Just because I accidentally stabbed you to death once, you keep blocking me and even stop doing business with me?" I looked at him suspiciously. "This is not the style of a professional killer."
Perhaps I had hit the nail on the head, and Du Ye Xing fell silent. After a long while, he slowly spoke.
"You owe me more than a little."
The man in black suddenly raised his head and stared at me with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to see through my heart.
"You know best what you have done."
Here it is again.
I had heard him say this before, and at the time I had a vague feeling that there was something else behind his words. Unfortunately, no matter how I asked him later, he ignored me and we were completely unable to communicate - of course, if he saw that I was about to leave the resurrection point, he would immediately show the cold blade in his hand.
In fact, I also thought about finding helpers to rescue me, but in Hanyan Country, except for my brother Feng Xiaoshuihan who is the strongest, no one else can really beat Du Yexing's strength. Unfortunately, my brother went on a business trip to other places for inspection and exchange these days, and he couldn't go online at all; and Du Yexing also warned me - "If you dare to call for help, I will kill one by one." I have no doubt about the authenticity of Du Yexing's threat, so I can only swallow my anger and bear it here alone.
The last glimmer of hope was cut off by this guy's "non-violent non-cooperation" attitude. While feeling desperate, I also felt a surge of anger in my heart. I simply sat cross-legged at the resurrection point - I'm not going to leave here, let's see what you can do to me!
It was the peak time of the game, and the lights of players coming online at the resurrection point were flashing constantly. I ignored the people coming and going around me, and stared at the lonely night walker who was close at hand like an old monk in meditation. I don't know how long it took, but he finally moved - the man in black took two steps forward, and suddenly typed a line of words through the faint light shield of the resurrection point.
"I can give you a chance."
I looked at him puzzled.
"I'm tired of wasting time like this, how about we make a bet?" He said leisurely, "I'll give you a chance to escape. If I catch you within half an hour, you'll just have to accept your fate and let me take your turn. But if I don't catch you, I won't bother you anymore."
"Really?" I was pleasantly surprised, but also a little confused - would Du Ye Xing be so kind? Letting the tiger go back to the mountains, did he really think I couldn't escape his clutches?
"I always keep my word." Du Yexing said calmly, "If you are afraid, you can refuse."
I hesitated for a moment and made a decision.
"I accept."
This is an opportunity, and also a gamble of life and death. I had thought there was no way out, but unexpectedly there was still a glimmer of hope. Of course I must seize it.
Du Yexing nodded, moved a few steps to the side, and signaled me to start running. I was about to step out of the resurrection point, but suddenly retracted my foot.
"Uh..." I hesitated for a moment, but still said to Du Ye Xing, "Before I officially start my escape, can you do me a favor?"
The man in black raised his eyebrows: "What help?"
I scratched my head and smiled awkwardly: "Can you take me to the post station first... I don't know the way."
I have probably never encountered such an aggressive "gang rape target". After walking alone at night with a dark face, he "escorted" me to the post station. The roar of infinite resentment was understandable, and the teeth were gnashed.
"Get out of here now!"
I was refreshed beside the uncle at the post station, smiling at the man walking alone at night like a spring jasmine.
"In fact, I would rather hear you say, 'Don't let me see you again in this life.'"
Walking alone at night narrowed his eyes and stared at me coldly as if he were looking at his prey.
"Of course I want to say it." He said word by word, "but only after I give you a thumbs-up."
I turned around immediately, quickly clicked on the post station transmission, and slipped away.
——So, my escape officially began.
Although I felt that in this huge online gaming world, finding someone accurately within half an hour was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but considering that Du Yexing was after all a well-known online gaming master, I still kept it in mind and chose "Random Teleport" at the post station - even I didn't know where I would be teleported to, so how could Du Yexing know?
The scene in front of me changed. The prosperous city disappeared, replaced by a desolate desert. Looking around, except for a few sparse vegetation, there was yellow sand all around, and there was not even a place to hide.
Where is this map from? I've never seen it before.
I hesitated for a moment, clicked on the character, and ran towards the vast desert. Time passed by, and I walked for a long time, and finally saw a Gobi desert in the bare desert. When I got closer, I found that it was actually a stone forest array - jagged rocks of various shapes formed a huge maze. Although it was a good place to hide, for an idiot like me who doesn't know the direction, I would definitely not be able to get out if I went in.
I sighed helplessly and was about to turn around and find another hiding place, but suddenly I caught a glimpse of a small black dot in the vast desert - it was clearly a person moving towards me quickly, and as he got closer and closer, I gradually saw his name...
“No way?” I almost jumped up in fright, like a cat whose tail was stepped on. “How did he catch up with me?”
Why? Why can a place that is randomly teleported be found by a lone night walker?
There was no time to hesitate. I rushed into the stone maze with only one thought in my mind: run! Run! I had to survive for half an hour no matter what!
The maze was bigger and deeper than I imagined, with many forks. I ran all the way, not knowing how far I had gone, when the road in front of me suddenly disappeared, and at the end was a pond that was as bright as a glowing gem. It lay quietly in the stone forest, like a baby sleeping in the arms of a strange rock.
Huh? How can there be water in the desert?
Although I was surprised, thinking of the terrible pursuers behind me, I did not dare to hesitate and jumped into the pond - my character has learned the skill of holding breath underwater, so as long as I hide in this pond, it should not be difficult to survive the remaining ten minutes.
I swam in the pool, diving all the way down, but after a long time I still couldn't touch the bottom. I was secretly surprised when I suddenly saw a small black vortex appear in the middle of the water, and it seemed that something was flashing and shining in the vortex.
Hmm? What is that?
I swam over immediately and circled the black vortex but couldn't figure out what it was. I couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
Suddenly there was a bright light!
The dazzling light that burst out from the vortex instantly covered the entire screen, blurring everything. When the light finally dissipated and the screen resumed display, I saw my game character lying on his back in a dark stone chamber.
I was embarrassed.
——What's going on? Traveling through time? Teleporting? Or being teleported again?
I quickly commanded the character to get up, and walked around this small secret room, but I didn't find any exit. The only light source was a shining night pearl on the wall.
No way, am I trapped?
Subconsciously, I used the mouse to click on the night pearl, and suddenly a prompt box popped up on the screen. Before I could see it clearly, a rainbow light suddenly flashed in the middle of the roof of the secret room, and a figure suddenly appeared in the light, and then fell straight down. When it was close to the ground, it turned over neatly and landed steadily on the ground with both feet.
I really hope I am dreaming, and I can only think that I am dreaming.
——Otherwise, who can explain why Du Yexing would appear here?
The man in black sneered, seeming to enjoy my dumbfounded look as if I had seen a ghost.
"you lose."
"Impossible!" I was so shocked that I stuttered, "How did you get here?"
Although he did have a chance of guessing correctly about the random teleportation at the post station, this maze was full of twists and turns and had countless forks in the road. He was able to find it accurately in a short period of time. This couldn't be explained by good luck, right?
"Don't forget, I'm a killer." Du Yexing raised his left hand, holding a yellow talisman between his slender fingers. "In order to lock onto my prey, tracking talismans are essential items for me."
Tracking Talisman? That special reward item that the system will only give to the winners who rank in the top ten in the PK competition?
I gasped, "When did you print that on me?"
Du Yexing said openly: "From the moment you walked out of the resurrection point."
"At that time..."
I understood it instantly - the bet and the chance were all empty talk. With the tracking symbol constantly providing coordinates, I couldn't escape the pursuit no matter how capable I was. From the beginning, I had the upper hand when I was walking alone at night!
"This is cheating! It's not fair!" I shouted angrily. But the other party was obviously too lazy to talk nonsense with me. He flashed in front of me and put the dagger with a cold light against my neck.
"No matter what, you lose."
Then he chopped down with the knife, and I fell to the ground without any suspense.
"Walking alone at night, you are so despicable!" I cursed angrily, and waited for the light of death to light up on my body with despair. But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement.
"Huh?"
Du Yexing raised his eyebrows in surprise, raised his hand and stabbed me again, but I was still lying on the ground like a corpse, staring at him, with no sign of being teleported back to the resurrection point.
Walking alone at night finally realized that something was wrong, so he looked around and slowly walked around this not-so-big secret room.
"No Exit?"
"Yeah!" Although I was "dead", I could still type. "Hmph, let's see how you get out!"
Like me, Du Yexing quickly focused his eyes on the only light source in the room - the night-shining pearl. He stood in front of the night-shining pearl for a while, probably investigating it. After a while, he suddenly turned around, walked in front of me, and looked down at me.
"What are you going to do?" I looked at him nervously - I'm already a corpse now, he wouldn't want to whip my body to vent his anger, right?
Unexpectedly, he raised his hand... and fed me a resurrection pill.
Seeing the health bar fill up instantly and the character automatically resurrected, I was stunned. Before I could come to my senses, a message prompt box suddenly popped up in front of me - it turned out to be a team-building request sent by Du Yexing!
"What's wrong with you?" I looked at him in surprise. "Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Because I had read about Lone Night Walker on the forum before, I knew very well that the biggest characteristic of this cold-blooded killer was that he never teamed up with others easily. Teaming up with me to escape from prison was probably the most depressing thing in his life. Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never take the initiative to request to team up with someone.
"Why are you standing there? Join the team!" Du Yexing's patience had obviously run out, and he said fiercely, "If we want to get out of here, we must form a team!" He paced a few steps, and seeing that I was still standing there, he explained impatiently, "I've read relevant information on the official website before. In this situation, we should have triggered a hidden mission."
"All ways of contacting the outside world are blocked here. We can't talk on the public channels, can't send private messages, and even if we die, we can't return to the resurrection point. If we don't complete this mission, we will never leave here."
I blinked, and suddenly an idea flashed in my mind: "That means unless I team up with you, you can't get out at all, right?"
"Neither of us can get out!" Du Yexing emphasized unhappily.
"Not at all!" I shook my head pretending to be serious, but a sly smile appeared on my face. "Just because I can't contact the outside world in the game doesn't mean I can't in reality. I can just wait for my brother to come back, tell him the route and coordinates, and have him pick me up. Feng Xiaoshuihan is as strong as you. When the time comes, it's two against one, haha, who will be the dead one? "
"Are you threatening me?" Du Yexing's face darkened instantly, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife.
I responded to the toughness with gentleness. I smiled gently: "I'm just telling the truth."
Actually, I'm gambling.
Du Ye Xing has always been a loner in the game, and he probably doesn't have any friends to play games with in real life, so he has no other choice but to team up with me to do the mission. Sure enough, Du Ye Xing stared at me coldly for a long time, and finally spoke reluctantly.
"Tell me, the conditions for forming a team."
I think the smile on my face at this moment is so bright that even the sun would feel ashamed when seeing it: "You must swear not to hunt me down again. After we form a team, our grudges will be wiped out!"
Although it was a bit uncomfortable to be stared at by Du Ye Xing with a sinister gaze for more than ten minutes, he finally agreed. His original words were as follows:
"Chasing a person with a weird brain and sexual convulsions will undermine my dignity as a killer. Based on the principle of sympathizing with the idiot, I agree not to hunt you down anymore."
...Well, anyway, the ending is still satisfactory. After reaching a "reconciliation" agreement, I readily agreed to join the team, and under the leadership of Du Yexing, I stood in front of the night-light pearl embedded in the wall of the secret room - I later learned that this was the task collection point. Only when the conditions for a two-person team are met, this hidden task can be officially opened.
So when I clicked the Night Pearl again, the prompt that popped up was not "You need to form a team to start the task", but... a ghost NPC emitting a faint white light. I just saw it say that it was a lonely soul trapped in the Night Pearl for a thousand years, and I saw the dialog box in front of me flipping rapidly, and the conversation ended in an instant, and the ghost withdrew back into the Night Pearl with resentment.
I was embarrassed: "Hey! Why are you flipping through the dialog boxes so quickly?" Because Du Yexing was the team leader, all conversations with NPCs were controlled by him.
Du Ye Xing looked at me like an idiot and said, "Do you think other people are like you, with crippled hands and eyes?"
I continued to protest: "But I haven't read the content clearly yet!" There must be a task description in the dialogue!
Du Yexing looked impatient and said in a bad mood, "Why are you being so unreasonable?"
“Can a pig learn to climb a tree even if it reads a book carefully?”
"What?"
"So idiots, just stay put and stop wasting your already pitiful few brain cells."
In this way, when I, as one of the parties involved, had no idea what I was going to do, this confusing mission began. Du Yexing obviously got a hint from the previous conversation. He walked to the wall opposite the Night Pearl and fumbled for a while. The ground shook slightly, and the wall slowly sank, revealing a long and deep secret passage behind it. Du Yexing entered the secret passage without saying a word. I was stunned for a moment and immediately followed him.
After all, Du Yexing was a vengeful person. Although he promised not to chase me anymore, his attitude towards me was still cold, and he walked fast in front of me alone. I didn't mind at all, and I became more and more happy as I walked - this road obviously only had one exit, so I didn't have to worry about getting lost!
The secret passage soon came to an end, and the view in front of me suddenly opened up. A spacious scene jumped into my eyes. At this moment, not only I, but even Du Yexing was stunned for a moment.
——In the huge cave, a large lake was in front of us, blocking our way. This lake was very similar to the pond we saw in the stone forest before, except that it was more than twice as large, and there were many floating stone slabs on the lake, which were obviously for us to step on.
Without waiting for me to say anything, Du Yexing had already leaped onto the stone slab, and then, like an agile black cat, he tapped the stone slab with his toes and flew all the way. The distances between the stone slabs were large and small - if you took one more step in a small gap, you might fall into the lake, while in a large gap, you would need to make two or even three consecutive jumps, which was a high-difficulty operation. However, Du Yexing did not stop at all along the way, and his operation level was simply the pinnacle in my opinion.
"You are worthy of being a great god..." I couldn't help but sigh, but before I finished my words, I suddenly heard a loud "plop" sound.
——Walking alone at night, he fell into the lake.
I was embarrassed.
This, this is a mistake?
Well, if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet. Even if you are a one in a million master, it is normal to make an operational mistake occasionally. Yes, it is normal.
Then I saw Du Ye Xing climb back up to the stone slab in frustration, jump forward, plunge headfirst into the lake, climb back up the stone slab, and plunge headfirst into the lake again...
After rubbing my stiff face, I thought seriously: Maybe the master of Walking Alone at Night wants to do a real-life imitation show of making dumplings.
After failing N times in a row, the man finally seemed to realize that something was wrong. He turned around and looked at me standing stupidly on the shore, then suddenly turned around and ran towards me on the stone slabs.
——This time, he didn't fall into the lake again.
"Do you enjoy watching me make a fool of myself?"
He walked ashore alone at night and glared at me with a stern look on his face even though I was smiling.
"I think your swimming style is great, and your fearless spirit of jumping again and again after falling is also worth learning from." I commented seriously.
Du Ye Xing's glare at me suddenly became ten times more fierce, and I quickly changed the subject: "Uh...what happened just now?"
Du Yexing made a "tsk" sound, turned around and glanced angrily at the floating stone slabs.
“This is a team task.”
Isn't this nonsense? Otherwise, why would we need to form a team of two? Did he want to rush over alone and leave me aside from the beginning?
"So I have to bring you along as a burden to get through smoothly. Once the distance between us is too far, I won't be able to move forward normally... Damn system settings!"
Well, he really wants to ditch me.
"Why are you still standing there?" I am a broad-minded person, so I waved my hand and said, "Then let's go together."
Du Yexing watched me running towards the lake with a relaxed look on my face, and suddenly said something that made me stop as if I was acupunctured.
"With your level of operation, can you jump over it?"
…
I slowly turned my head and gave him an awkward smile. Du Yexing held his forehead with his hands in resignation, gritting his teeth with a bit of helpless anger.
"Got it...I'll teach you!"
Anyone who has played online games knows how important a good master is to a novice player.
So I went to great lengths to sign a "indenture" and beg my brother to be my master in the game. However, due to some twists and turns, my brother never had the chance to really teach me. Instead, it was Du Yexing, my mortal enemy in this game, who first allowed me to experience the feeling of "learning from a master".
"Are you an idiot? I told you to press the CTRL and SHIFT keys at the same time!"
"It's too early! I've never seen anyone as stupid as you!"
"Why are you running so fast? Are you in a hurry to feed the fish?"
After enduring the double torture of physical (constantly falling into the water) and mental (constantly being cursed), I couldn't bear it anymore and exploded.
"This is a team mission! Can't you show some team spirit?"
Du Ye Xing said coldly: "Thank you for finally realizing how much you've destroyed my patience and spirit."
Actually, I was also very anxious. I just saw Du Yexing walking briskly on the stone slabs, and I thought it was very simple. But when I walked on it myself, I found that it was really difficult - the stone slabs would move with the water flow, and not only the spacing was different, but also the size was different. If you made a mistake, you would fall into the lake. What's more, when you fall into the lake, your HP (blood volume) will begin to drop rapidly. If you can't climb onto the stone slabs in time, you will directly become a "floating corpse"... So Du Yexing had to work part-time as a nurse, angrily despising my useless operation, and adding blood to me with regret.
"I really don't understand why you come here to play games!" He roared in frustration several times.
"Maybe it's just to torture you." I muttered softly.
Although the process was tortuous, under the "devil's training" of walking alone at night, I finally completed almost the entire journey smoothly. The only exception was the last stone slab, which I could not jump over no matter what - it required three consecutive jumps, and with my hand speed and reaction, it was a blessing to be able to complete two jumps.
"I can't get over it..."
After trying N times (N ≥ 20) and failing, I finally gave up.
“This is simply an impossible task for me.”
I squatted on the ground in frustration. I thought that Du Ye Xing would be furious again, but he looked at me for a while and said only one sentence.
“One more time,” he said. “You can get through it.”
I looked at him in surprise, but he ignored me.
"No one is a master from the beginning, everyone starts as a rookie." He walked back and forth on the shore with his head lowered, and finally chose a place to stand.
"One more time," he said again.
Inexplicably, I felt a little more stable in my heart. There seemed to be some light in front of me which had been pitch black. I slowly stood up, recalled the steps I was taught before walking alone at night, took a few steps back, then rushed towards the target and jumped high.
"ah!"
Although there were no mistakes in the operation, my hand speed was still slow, so I watched the little man on the screen jump twice, then his body tilted and he was about to fall down again.
——But at that moment, a lone night traveler rushed across the sky.
At the critical moment, the assassin in black suddenly reached out and supported the knight in red. The knight in red jumped up again on tiptoe, flew a distance in the air, and a circle of dazzling sword light burst out. When the special effects ended, I found myself standing firmly on the stone slab opposite.
Actually... succeeded?
I was ecstatic, but I was more shocked by the cooperation between the two people just now - that was a joint skill, a special skill for a two-person team. The necessary condition for activation is that the anger value of both parties exceeds 100, but under normal circumstances, the triggering probability is only 5%. Later, according to repeated tests by technical experts, if the angles of the two sides are properly coordinated, the triggering probability can be increased to 70%.
"What are you daydreaming about?" Du Ye Xing jumped back onto the shore and urged impatiently, "Why don't you hurry up?"
I hurriedly followed him. There was another narrow passage ahead, probably leading to the next cave. Du Yexing was still walking fast in front of me, but I kept thinking about what he had said before.
——You can come over.
——No one is a master from the beginning, everyone starts as a novice.
Are you trying to comfort me?
My heart was slightly moved: Could it be that... he is not as cold-blooded as he appears?
But after that, Du Ye Xing was never so "gentle" again. He still scolded me mercilessly when he should, with a fierce look on his face, as if I owed him five million in my previous life. However, fortunately, he kept "whipping" me, and my operation finally improved. After that, I never encountered a hurdle that I couldn't overcome.
As the mission progressed, I also discovered a pattern - this was a complete level-breaking mission. There was a mission to be completed in each cave I passed through, including cracking mechanisms, fighting monsters, and answering intelligence questions. However, with the support of the great god and the support of the lonely night walker, the journey was relatively smooth, until -
"Two roads?" I was a little dumbfounded when I saw the two passages in front of me. There was only one road leading to the next cave before, but why did it suddenly become two this time?
Du Yexing wandered at the entrance of the two roads for a while and suddenly spoke.
"We can't take the same path. We must each take one." He paused, "This is the system prompt that just appeared."
I looked at the two roads in confusion and murmured, "One for each person?"
Doesn't that mean that there will be no one to take care of me or rescue me, and if I die, I will have to wait for death alone on the road?
I couldn't help but shudder.
The message box that had been silent for a long time suddenly flashed twice. I was shocked. When I opened it, I found that it was a private message from Du Yexing, although the content was just a simple "hmm".
"Can you read it?" he asked on the current channel.
I nodded.
Du Yexing seemed relieved: "Well, it seems that the situation is not too bad."
As he spoke, he had already walked straight to the road on the left and said calmly: "There's no point in wasting time here, let's go for a walk first, and contact me privately if you have any questions."
"Okay." I sighed and walked to the right.
The team action suddenly turned into a solo fight, and I was particularly uncomfortable at first. But the good news is that I didn't encounter any monsters that would kill people after walking for a long time. But what frustrated me was that this was obviously a maze, with countless forks along the way.
"You can go wherever you want, but always take screenshots and send them to me."
This was the instruction that Du Ye Xing sent me when I first entered this maze. However, even though I kept sending him screenshots, he no longer responded, and it was as if he had disappeared without a trace.
"Are you still there? Can you receive my private message?" I couldn't help but ask.
After a long time, a single word came back: "Yes."
My uneasy mood suddenly calmed down, as if a person struggling and drifting in the vast ocean suddenly saw an isolated island in the distance - I never expected that along the way, I would start to rely on walking alone at night like a companion.
After walking for a while, a private message from Du Ye Xing suddenly came.
"I found the pattern. Follow my instructions and move forward."
I was embarrassed: "Rhythm? Did you solve this maze?"
"I guess so." Du Yexing said casually, "Our route has a certain symmetry. If I'm not mistaken, as long as we can meet up, this mission will be a success."
Of course I had no objection and immediately said that I would follow his instructions. Under the instructions of the night walker, I walked smoothly all the way. The narrow corridor gradually became wider until I finally arrived at an open flat ground - this should be the end.
"I'm here," I said. "Where are you?"
There was no response for a long time.
"Walking alone at night? Are you there?"
Still no response.
I suddenly became nervous: "Hey, answer me! Are you going to step on some trap and die?"
The reply box is still silent.
I became more and more uneasy, but what I feared came true. The empty ground suddenly shook, and a dark purple formation appeared in the air. With an angry howl, a huge body slowly emerged from the formation, and then fell heavily to the ground, shaking me so much that I almost lost my balance.
"Who is it? How dare you break into this forbidden area and disturb my sleep!"
It was a huge yellow sand dragon. Compared with its huge body, I was as small as an ant. The sand dragon's golden demon eyes scanned a few circles and then locked their eyes on me.
"Foolish human, pay the price for your rudeness!" It roared, then spit out a column of sand from its mouth and rushed straight towards me.
Are you kidding me? I didn't do anything!
I ran away, but was still hit by the sand column of the sand dragon. My health bar was instantly reduced to a thin layer of blood, which made me break out in a cold sweat - the attack power was too brutal. Now my whereabouts are unknown. If I die here, there will be no help from heaven or earth!
Although I was running as fast as I could, the difference in strength between the rookie and the boss was obvious. The sand dragon turned around and immediately blocked my way. It swooped down on me and I had no way to hide.
It’s over! I thought desperately, I’m doomed this time!
——The black shadow suddenly appeared in front of me at this moment.
I only felt a flash of knife light in front of my eyes, and saw the sand dragon wailing and retreating. Du Yexing pushed me into the blind spot of the sand dragon's attack, and he jumped up and faced the angry sand dragon head-on.
It wasn’t until today that I realized that in addition to being labeled as “domineering” and “powerful”, gaming masters can also be labeled as “astonishing”.
With smooth operations, erratic and strange movements, colorful skills, and seamless combos, the fully-powered Du Yexing was like a domineering and arrogant god of war. His every move forced the Sand Dragon to have nowhere to hide. His huge body did not give him any advantage at all, and instead made him an even more conspicuous target.
He is so strong! I heard the exclamation in my heart.
——So strong that people can only look up to him.
The ending was no surprise. When the sand dragon turned into drifting yellow sand amid its unwilling howl, I was still in shock and amazement and couldn't recover for a long time.
"Why, I was away for only a moment and you were so frightened?"
He walked over to me alone at night, looking at me with a dazed look on my face, as if smiling.
"No!" I came to my senses and retorted guiltily, "It just suddenly appeared and scared me."
Du Yexing nodded: "Yes, just as I expected, after taking away the seven-colored mysterious stone, the boss will appear as expected."
My eyes widened: "Did you wake it up?"
Du Yexing shrugged, as a sign of agreement.
"Why didn't you tell me in advance?" I thought something had happened to him and I kept sending him private messages!
"If I tell you, you can avoid its attack?"
"Well……"
"So, instead of wasting time talking about useless things, you might as well come here early and clean it up."
It's really... impossible to refute.
Du Yexing took out the colorful mysterious stone - it was a talisman stone glowing with seven colors. He walked to the place where the sand dragon disappeared, and a dark purple formation appeared there. Du Yexing threw the colorful mysterious stone into the formation, and a pillar of light rose from the formation - it was the light pillar of the teleportation formation.
"You can go out now." said Du Yexing.
The exit connected to the teleportation array is the entrance to the desert stone forest. I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that this stone forest seems bigger and wider. At the same time, a system prompt appears in the unlocked world channel.
[System] The hidden map "Desert Demon Continent" is now officially open, and heroes from all walks of life are welcome to explore and hunt for treasures!
"We have activated the new map." Du Yexing also obviously saw the system prompt and smiled slightly, "The hidden mission is completed."
Mission rewards came one after another. Although I didn't get much money, the generous experience rewards made me feel like I had upgraded. When the light faded, I pulled up the status bar and found that I had actually upgraded three levels in a row, making up for the three levels that Du Yexing had taken away from me.
“Hahaha!” I was immediately overjoyed and said to Du Ye Xing with a smile , “It’s a pleasure to work with you!”
The next second, I was kicked out of the team by Du Ye Xing without any hesitation. He turned around and walked a few steps, then suddenly turned his head and glared at me.
"You are not allowed to tell anyone about this team collaboration."
"Why?"
"Just don't tell me!" He ordered almost capriciously, "If you dare to tell me, I will never let you go!"
"But you said you wouldn't hunt me down again." I smiled and said, "Do you want me to send you the screenshots of that time?"
Du Ye Xing glared at me fiercely, then turned around angrily, and with a flash of light, he actually went offline. I shrugged, but with a happy smile on my face, I also went offline.