Chapter 12: Half-Step Hell
At seven o'clock in the evening, which is also seven o'clock in the morning in the game, Wu Qi went online on time.
As soon as he entered the game, the drunkard sent him a message, "South Gate of Swift Town, assemble at half past seven." โ
The Spider's Lair, a Level 3 dungeon, is the first dungeon in the game in the wild, but at this time, it has almost stopped all the pioneers.
After replenishing some magic spring water and bread, Wu Qi hurriedly took the teleportation array to the small town of Sbaider.
The town of Spirade is located on a hill with forest edges that make the town perennially deep gloomy. Most of the town's inhabitants are in a hurry, and the gates close early, revealing a very different look from other towns.
At this time, most of the people in the town are members of the elite group of major studios, and they need this first-pass of the third-level dungeon to make a name for themselves and give the studio a good start in this game dispute.
"Brother Jin and Song, here." Wu got up and arrived at the south gate of the small town of Sbaider, near the location of the towering watchtower, where the drunkards and a group of ten people stood waiting. The drunkard raised his hand and shouted at Wu Qi.
Ten people? Wu Qi frowned slightly, if he remembered correctly, the spider's nest was a ten-person copy. He didn't think much of it, and walked over to the drunkard.
"You're the mage of the Jin Song Dynasty?" As soon as they approached the drunkards, a mage in the team stood up, and his tone did not hide his arrogance. "The equipment hasn't been gathered yet, so are you embarrassed to participate in the wasteland?"
"What is this? Dismounted? Jin Song's heart was full of confusion, he glanced at the mage, the mage was very young, probably similar to him, the robe, the magic boots, the wrists and other similar runes were tattooed, obviously a complete set of equipment. Wu Qi ignored the young mage, and he looked at the drunkard.
"Half-step hell, there's nothing to do here, you can go back!" The drunkard frowned and said in a dissatisfied tone.
"Why, his equipment is not much better than mine, why did our studio open up a copy of the wasteland and let outsiders occupy my place?" The young mage did not back down in the face of the drunkard.
"The requirements for mages in the spider lair are relatively high, your skills are not enough, wait for a period of tempering, and then let you participate in the cultivation of the elite group." The drunkard pressed the irritability in his heart and explained.
"So, this new mage is more skilled than me?" The half-step hell seemed to have caught the loophole in the drunkard's mouth all at once, and he immediately jumped out, carrying the fiery staff, pointing at Jin Song and said, "Hey! Do you dare to compete with me? โ
Wu Qi watched the half-step hell performance quietly, he was puzzled in his heart, this is the drunkard's test for himself?
"Since your group is full, then I won't participate." Wu Qi shook his head and turned around to leave.
If someone in the field provokes him like this, he will fight that man for three hundred rounds anyway. But in this situation, no matter how chic and beautiful he wins the battle, he is just a grandstanding clown to him. He doesn't need to go through a battle to win the approval of others and gain the trust of others, it is better to give up than this.
"Enough, half-step hell!" The drunkard finally spoke at this time, and he said angrily, "Hurry up and leave, don't do whatever you want with your sister!" โ
"Brother-in-law!" The young mage shouted unwillingly.
The drunkard's eyes were staring straight at him, and he was clearly angry, and stopped talking.
Seeing that the qualification to seize the copy of the wasteland was hopeless, the half-step hell finally restrained the arrogance on his face, his face was gloomy, he squinted at Wu Qi for a while, did not say cruel words, did not lose his temper, and suddenly turned around and left.
"I'm here again." Wu Qi touched his nose and said in his heart. It seems that his ability to cause trouble has not diminished back then.,Eight out of ten games were spent in being chased and killed.,It's only been a long time since I entered the game.,And I provoked the brother-in-law of the head of a studio.ใ Tut-tut!
"I'm sorry." The drunkard said, "This kid is my girlfriend's own brother, and I have spoiled him, and I apologize to you on his behalf." โ
Wu Qi shook his head and signaled that he didn't take it to heart.
"Then let's go!" The drunkard turned around, raised his hand, and the ten-man team set off.
Wu Qi joined the team of drunkards, and several people in the team greeted each other, and he responded one by one, fell at the back of the team, and slowly followed.
At this time, the only thief-inclined mercenary in the team came over, and the thief smiled: "Hello, my name is Chrysanthemum Plug in the head!" โ
The corners of Wu Qi's mouth twitched, and it was really a fresh and refined name. He nodded, "Hello, my name is Jin Song." โ
"You don't have to worry about what happened just now, he's like that, relying on his sister to be the girlfriend of the drunkard boss." The chrysanthemum was full of casual words, and there was disdain hidden in her words.
"It's fine." Wu Qi continued to shake his head and said.
The Spider Cave is south of the town of Sbaider, out of the town and through a dark hill. The weather here is cloudy all year round, making it difficult to see the sun.
After a while, Wu Qi looked up and saw a ruined village lying quietly on the high ground in front of him. The sparse hedges were scattered, half-dumped and half-collapsed, and there stood the houses, which had been untouched for an unknown number of years, and from a distance, the village was shrouded in a gray mist. A swarm of spiders made their home inside, and their huge figures were faintly visible through the sparse houses.
In front of the village, an old man stood there dumbfounded, always frowning, as if he were a gloom that could not be dissolved.
This is the NPC in charge of the dungeon, and the game is always racking its brains to build a complicated and trivial plot in order to rationalize the player's behavior, and trying to set all kinds of strange traps in the plot to increase the entertainment of the game. In fact, this is not necessary, for players, it is enough to be able to brush up and kill monsters in a refreshing way, and most players don't care about the strangeness of the game plot at all.
Of course, this also gives rise to a group of players who love to study the game plot and find another way to play from the game plot, and these people are collectively known as the research party. Although Wu Qi is not a professional researcher - he is more interested in direct killings than studying game history and plots, he also knows that many times these plots are really conducive to understanding the game, so basically all capable studios will invest in setting up a team dedicated to analyzing the game's plot, dungeons, and battlefields to assist them.
"Hello, Mr. Belen, I'm an adventurer from the town of Clare, is there anything I need to do for you?" The drunkard walked ahead, and he said toward Belen. Belรฉm is the name of the old man.
"At some point, the forest was filled with darkness, and the spiders that had been in the depths of the forest also escaped from it, and these people of the spider mother, evil creepers, took over the village inhabited by the Iliads. Brave adventurers, will you be able to take up the weapons in your hands and drive out these evil creepers once and for all? โ
"Do you want to enter the quest - Spider's Lair"
"Yes."
"Select the difficulty of the dungeon."
"Ordinary." Low-level dungeons are generally divided into three kinds of difficulty: normal, hard, and expert, and at this stage, almost all the studio's teams are stuck in the normal dungeon difficulty, and the drunkards will naturally not swell to the higher difficulty of skipping the challenge.