Chapter 434: 433, Attacking the Spiritual Spring Eye, Live broadcast? _1
Mr. Li was at the forefront of the crowd, as one of the first players to rush in front of the Bipedal Flying Dragon.
Watching the Bipedal Flying Dragon raise its massive wings to attack them, Mr. Li quickly activated the skill attached to his accessory – [Afterimage].
The effect of the [Afterimage] skill was to leave a shadow in place as he rapidly advances 5 meters forward, making it an excellent skill in PVP.
The Bipedal Flying Dragon’s wings came down hard.
Boom!
The ground shuddered violently as if an earthquake had struck. The previously flat terrain sunk into a large depression and the players that arrived with Mr. Li were killed instantly, turning into white light.
Mr. Li was lucky.
After activating the [Afterimage] skill, he narrowly dodged the lethal attack and managed to get to the flower field unharmed.
“Roar!”
The Bipedal Flying Dragon bellowed in frustration. Its sharp claws quickly rose and swiped towards Mr. Li.
Mr. Li did not dodge or evade, instead, he squatted by the flower field and picked the largest and most beautiful [Ackbury Flower] and put it in his bag.
“Ding, you have acquired [Ackbury Flower] x1. Please deliver this task item to the player [Nemesis] as soon as possible. The task item will expire in 6 hours. Expiration countdown 05:59:59.”
Mr. Li turned back, looking at the players behind him and shouted: “Guys, I’ve got a glass flower (a nickname given by players to this kind of flower, ‘glass’ is a homophone), let’s…”
Before Mr. Li could finish his sentence, the furious claws of the Bipedal Flying Dragon landed on him. His body disintegrated into white light like a piece of paper, disappearing on the spot.
Upon hearing Mr. Li’s voice, the other players were greatly inspired and started to run towards the flower field with increased speed.
Even though the Bipedal Flying Dragon was trying hard to kill the players, there were just too many of them, and they had various quirky methods.
It guarded against players from one direction, only for players to break through from another. The Bipedal Flying Dragon’s protection over the glass flowers was like the Maginot Line, full of holes and vulnerabilities under the players’ attacks.
Finally, thanks to the combined efforts of all the players, with their concerted sacrifice, they managed to pick all the flowers under the Bipedal Flying Dragon, collecting all six glass flowers.
The Bipedal Dragon stood helplessly by the now barren flower field with a heartbroken expression. The flowers it had waited for years to bloom were stolen by these despicable thieves!
My flowers, give me back my flowers!
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The same scene kept recurring throughout the forest.
500,000 players above level 30 formed 5000 teams that entered the forest to conduct systematic searches.
Some teams were lucky, encountering several glass flowers in the forest! They had no encounters with warcraft-like two-headed flying dragon. They were even able to gather a lot of game and herbs.
However, the vast majority of teams were wiped out by high-ranking warcraft, plants, and insects shortly after entering the forest, and had to wait to respawn half an hour after logging out.
Soon after, Su Yu and Morning Star arrived at the scene.
With the two of them, the collection process of the glass flowers greatly accelerated.
Like diligent bees, they flew straight to whichever flowers the indigenous guide pointed out; they would also proactively take care of the high-ranking warcraft should the players encounter any.
In the end, after a busy six hours, the last [Ackbury Flower] was collected by Zhen Hong’s team led by the Red-Eyed Black Dragon. Finally, all 1000 glass flowers were accounted for!
Upon receiving the good news from Zhen Hong’s team,
“Yay!” Cheers erupted from the villages surrounding the forest, every player’s face was brimming with joy, as if happier than the New Year.
Snow Leopard also turned to Mr. Li and said enthusiastically: “The task is progressing well. If we keep at this pace, we should be able to gather all the materials by tomorrow.”
“Yes!” Mr. Li nodded in agreement: “Such a large forest, it’s a good thing we have lots of people. Otherwise, this task would be like finding a needle in a haystack… So, where’s our next stop?”
“You’ll have to ask Su Yu for that,” Snow Leopard shouted towards Su Yu in the sky. “Nemesis, where is our next stop?”
“Hmm… Let’s head to the volcano first. To the southwest of Orleans City, there’s a chain of volcanoes. Tina used to train there to advance her skills. Last time I was there, I saw plenty of [Top Blaze Crystals]. We should be more efficient there.” Standing in the sky, Su Yu answered Snow Leopard.
“Alright, as you say.”
Snow Leopard bent his head and posted the task in all major chat rooms.
The players formed lines to leave the village, returning to Orleans City via teleportation arrays in the major cities.
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The script was the same in the volcano chain to the west of Orleans City as when they gathered the glass flowers.
The players braved the monstrous inhabitants and scorching temperatures of the volcano mouth, using their lives as currency to search for [Top Blaze Crystals] inside the volcano. Many people experienced the horrifying feeling of being burned alive.
Of course, the pain in the game was much less than in reality, and the pain also disappeared quickly. It wasn’t as horrifying as being burned alive in reality.
Until all 1000 [Top Blaze Crystals] had been mined, almost every one of the 500,000 players had died once, many even more than once.
By sacrificing themselves one after the other, they finally completed this seemingly impossible task.
After acquiring all 1000 [Top Blaze Crystals], Su Yu looked at the pile of crystals inside his necklace that had piled up like a small hill, then he flew into the air, expressing his gratitude:
“Many thanks to everyone for collaborating with me to complete this task. If it wasn’t for everyone’s joint effort, I wouldn’t have been able to complete the task on my own even after a month!”
“No need to be so courteous, Nemesis!” A player shouted back from below: “Changing the speed of time is a matter for all the players. It is only right that we shoulder this task. It’s what we should do.”
“Yeah, and I only played an insignificant role.”
“Boss Ke, leave the laborious tasks of gathering materials and running errands to us. You should focus on dealing with the Skurus.”
The players shouted from below.
Su Yu also slightly bowed to the crowds below: “No matter what, I am deeply grateful for everyone taking time out of their day to take part in this task…”
“I heard a player say that I should focus on dealing with the Skurus? Okay then, I will go and take over a Spiritual Spring Eye right now. I will set up a live stream room and broadcast the whole process. Feel free to watch if you are interested.”
At Su Yu’s response, the previously noisy crowd below became eerily silent.
A lot of people stared blankly at Su Yu, displaying an expression of “Did I hear that correctly?”
Taking over a Spiritual Spring Eye was a good thing, but wasn’t this considered classified information? Was he actually going to broadcast this?
The crowd was stunned, their faces all displaying disbelief.