Chapter 349: Initial Exploration of the Underground City

Outside the dungeon entrance, as a large number of players were kicked out due to near-death situations, those who were ready to enter suddenly became timid. The difficulty of this dungeon was beyond the expectations of many people.

However, some people persisted after all.

At least hundreds of thousands of people entered the first batch. Even if nine out of ten were kicked out, there were still tens of thousands of people left. These people were obviously the real elites!

So most players chose to wait and see, waiting for the first batch of elite players to come out and listen to their opinions before making a decision.

And the crowd did not wait too long. After more than ten minutes, the first batch of expedition teams were finally kicked out due to timeout, and the forum became active again in an instant.

Players above level 10 kept coming forward to speak out, and what they brought back basically became positive news.

First and foremost: as long as you can survive in the dungeon, the benefits will never be low!

Not to mention the experience income, just talking about the material income, as soon as the first dungeon was over, someone immediately posted a photo of the equipment that had just been synthesized in the blacksmith shop on the forum: a black iron-level sky breastplate.

Sky Breastplate: A breastplate with a blue and white appearance. The synthesis formula is: one green magic crystal, three blue magic crystals, and 15 slug skins. The attribute is to increase physical defense by 5 points.

For black iron equipment, this attribute can only be considered barely qualified, but it is a set of parts after all. As more parts are collected, the value will continue to increase.

A complete set of black iron suits is not inferior to a set of ordinary equipment with the same number of properties.

More importantly, this player only used one copy to get such a piece of equipment!

At this efficiency, it only takes a few days to collect a complete set of suits. For most players who have been in the public beta for so long but can't even get six binding positions, this is really a huge temptation!

Some of these elite players who have played the copy have regrouped and invested in the copy again, while others have begun to try to write some strategies. However, due to incomplete information, most of the strategy contents are relatively scattered and have obvious errors and omissions.

Until half an hour later, the first more formal strategy post was finally born.

《Dawn City Strategy Team: First Floor of Dungeon, Preliminary Exploration Report.》

The poster of this post is the famous strategy master 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', and the content is of course much more reliable than those of ordinary players.

The people who have been impatient for a long time hurriedly clicked to check.

"Note that the effective area of ​​this strategy is limited to the western part of the first floor, and even limited to the route I explored. See the picture."

Followed by a picture, the picture is a winding hand-drawn route map, only marking the monsters and items encountered on the route.

From the direction of the route, it can be clearly seen that the dungeon is indeed a maze. Many directions are dead ends, and you can only go back and find a way out, so you can get out of this nine-turn effect.

"In general, there are three things to pay attention to when entering a dungeon."

"First, the monsters on the first floor are mainly composed of slimes, diseased slugs, mushroom men of various shapes, spore fungi, etc. Among them, except for mushroom men, the other three are poisonous, so you must prepare poison resistance equipment and detoxification methods before entering."

"In this regard, you can use the 'poison glands' obtained in the dungeon to exchange for antidotes and poison resistance powder in the pharmacy. The antidote can instantly remove the existing toxins in the body, and the poison resistance powder can greatly increase the resistance to poison damage within an hour, and at the same time make players below level 10 immune to poison gas."

"Second, different methods are needed to deal with different monsters. For example, slimes must be killed with long-range attacks. Otherwise, the toxin traps that the slimes explode around when they die are enough to take away more than 5,000 points of life for melee personnel in a few seconds. As for mushroom men, it is just the opposite. They must be killed with physical attacks, because this kind of creature often appears in groups, has no vision and hearing, and only senses magic. Sensitive, once it uses magic attack, it will instantly attract a large number of mushroom people to besiege it. "

"Finally, there is spore fungus. This thing itself has no attack power. Its characteristic is that it will explode when it encounters a person, and after death, it will produce a tracking toxin missile. Unless the speed can outrun the missile, it is almost certain to bear 500 points of poison damage. "

"There is no good way to deal with this kind of thing. If you encounter it, you can basically just resist it. However, the advantage is that after this thing dies, it will stably drop a poison gland, which can be picked up without consuming physical strength. This is also the main source of poison glands in the dungeon. "

"Third, the team must be reasonably matched, with melee and ranged, warriors and mages to deal with various situations. In addition, you must bring treatment! Even if there is no special treatment personnel, there must be multiple treatment magics in the team to sustain. Otherwise, unless your team has an average strength of more than level 15, it is inevitable to be kicked out of the dying state. It is just a matter of how long you can persist..."

The content of the post is not much, but it is all dry goods.

Many people suddenly realized after reading this, no wonder they died so quickly before, this dungeon is so particular, not only do you need to prepare detoxification items, but also the team must have a complete profession.

Among the players, the largest number of melee players focus on strength and agility, followed by ranged players using bows, crossbows, guns and cannons, and then mages. Among mages, there are very few who can cast healing spells, and the overall proportion is less than one-tenth.

At this time, when this post came out, healing players became popular.

“Looking for a professional healing team, qualified players will be given a purple outfit…”

“Seeking a healing player who will follow the team for a long time, the treatment is negotiable…”

“The Sirius Guild is recruiting healing professions at a high price, no limit on the number, the more the better…”

…

The forum team page instantly had a large number of posts recruiting healing personnel.

The value of healing personnel has soared, and many posts are vying for a healing position, and even bidding, like an auction site.

As a well-known anchor, many people know that Lin Hai has a nun skin, which can heal amazingly. At the same time, he can use various common auxiliary magics, and his own level is high. It can be said that he is one of the most qualified auxiliary personnel in the dungeon.

Within a few minutes after this post was sent, Lin Hai received thousands of team invitations in the backstage, including invitations from various well-known forces and masters, and colleagues from the Chamber of Commerce also sent private messages to team up with him.

However, Lin Hai chose to decline all these invitations, even those from his colleagues in the Merchant Alliance, and his reason was very good: "The city lord invited me!"

Six short words left everyone speechless: If it were other characters, some masters might try to compete, but Captain Ghost, who dares to say that their team can be stronger than this big guy? Moreover, if they can curry favor with the city lord, it will be easy to get a long-term stable position in the future. This condition is something they can't provide anyway, so everyone has to give up.

At this time, Mu You had already gathered his own people and came to the entrance of the dungeon.

In addition to Lin Hai, he also specially invited another member of the Merchant Alliance: Xia Chongyubing.

When he entered the dungeon, swiping monsters was only one aspect, and the most important thing was to advance the progress of the dungeon as soon as possible, so he needed to find the exit to the second floor as soon as possible.

And the first thing Mu You thought of in this matter was Xia Chongyubing's "honesty coin".

This coin can make her walk on the "most correct path" every step. For a maze like the dungeon, the most correct place is either a place with high-value treasures or an exit. Mu You prefers the latter.

Xia Chongyubing was surprised to receive the invitation from the city lord, but was relieved after listening to Mu You's explanation. In addition, the other party promised to give her a long-term high-level position as a reward. Xia Chongyubing agreed to the job without hesitation.

[You form a team with the Red Scythe Girl, Qingya Shuxiang, Lin Haihai, and Xia Chongyubing, and enter the first floor of the dungeon together. ]

[You have lit the soul lamp on the first floor of the dungeon. When entering the dungeon, you can choose to appear on any floor with the soul lamp lit. ]

'Qingya Shuxiang' in the team is the name of the substitute card that Xiaoya just activated.

As soon as he entered the dungeon, Mu You first tried to release the dark teleport.

The result popped up a prompt: [The dungeon is a special environment, and all space magic cannot be released. 】

Sure enough, you can't set up a teleportation array...

Mu You was not too surprised, but all space magic is blocked here, which means that even spells such as teleportation and displacement cannot be used.

[Your team appears in front of a crystal mine. There is a cluster of green crystal ore on your left. Do you want to mine it? ]

"Yes."

As soon as he came in, he encountered a cluster of gems. Mu You tried to mine it first.

[You came to the crystal mine, the team's action power -1, mining is in progress, and it is expected to end in five minutes...]

[You obtained Green Magic Crystal*2. ]

[Green Magic Crystal: One of the most common low-level gems on the first floor of the dungeon, with abundant magic power and good hardness, can be used to make a variety of black iron-level sky suit parts. ]

[You saw that the crystal cluster you dug automatically retracted into the rock and disappeared. It will not reappear until it grows to a sufficient size. ]

It seems that the ores in this copy are specially set up with a resource protection mechanism. After mining, the gems on the surface will automatically retract to prevent greedy people from mining the roots and causing a dry pond to fish.

After all, it takes five minutes to complete a collection, which is inefficient. A dungeon only takes an hour in total.

So the text asked whether to continue collecting the crystal ore next to it, and Mu You decisively chose no.

It’s enough to collect once to understand the mechanism. They are here to try to speed through, and they can’t waste too much time on mining.

[Xia Chong Yu Bing: Next, take the middle road. ]

The few people continued to move forward, and when they encountered the next fork in the road, Xia Chong Yu Bing gave a prompt in time.

As the captain, Mu You was responsible for controlling the direction of the team’s movement. At this time, he chose the middle road and recorded the route on the paper at hand.

[You choose to continue straight. ]

[You saw three dark green jelly-like creatures blocking the way ahead. After discovering you, they immediately squirmed towards you. ]

[Acid Slime (level 11), attack power 15-17, defense power 35, health value: 4000 points, ability: acid spray, trigger poison trap when dying. 】

【You cast the Fire Spear spell on the slimes, and a series of fire spears were fired from your hands, setting all the slimes on fire. 】

【Under the high burning damage, the health of the three slimes dropped rapidly until they died. 】

【You killed 3 slimes, lifespan +3, experience +10, and obtained 3 ‘Slime Gel’ and 3 ‘Venom Gland’. 】

【The slime explosion produced a circle of spreading toxin ripples, but it did not affect you and your teammates. 】

……

The team advanced smoothly all the way, and basically killed the monsters in seconds.

After all, the few people came here after reading the guide, and they had expected all kinds of situations. Even if they encountered monsters not mentioned in the guide, Mu You also had the omniscience crystal, and if it didn't work, there was also the pocket watch's backtracking, which had a very high error tolerance rate.

However, even so, there were still some troubles that could not be avoided.

"Go to the left."

At the next intersection, Xia Chong Yubing gave a prompt as usual.

The group had no objection and continued to move forward.

However, after walking a distance, Mu You quickly found something wrong and hurriedly backtracked according to the watch.

"Stop, retreat!"

Mu You typed this sentence at the fastest speed, but it was still a step late.

[You see a large number of floating spore fungi wriggling in the air at the intersection ahead. ]

[The excessive number of spores here makes you realize that you may have entered the nest of spore fungi. ]

[A large number of spores floated towards you, and you and your team members hurriedly retreated. 】

【Hundreds of spores exploded in the air one after another, turning into dark green toxin missiles, flying towards you at a high speed. 】

【You luckily escaped the pursuit of the missiles, but the red sickle girl who fell behind was submerged in the green poisonous fog explosion...】

【The red sickle girl entered a near-death state and automatically teleported back to the surface. 】

Spore fungus, this thing is a bit like the suicide fish in the dungeon. It will rush up and self-destruct when it touches people, and it still causes toxin damage, which is difficult to avoid.

The other people in this wave barely withdrew, but Lin Xue was still in a weak state and was too slow, so she was left behind. As a result, she blocked the knife for them and was directly submerged by a large amount of poison gas and died back in the city.

"Ah, sorry..."

Xia Chongyubing was immediately terrified. She led the team this way, but she didn't expect to lead the team into the monster's nest at the beginning, which directly reduced the team's members.

【Red sickle girl: It's okay, it's okay, you just continue. 】

Lin Xue comforted Xia Chong Yubing in the game, and then sent a private message to Mu You.

"You guys continue, I won't follow you. My life is too low now. I can hardly react to emergencies. Following you will only hinder you."

Mu You naturally understood what Lin Xue meant. Her attributes were all in the single digits, which caused her life to remain at an extremely low level. It was indeed not suitable for the next dungeon, so he didn't force her at this time. He let her have a good rest and continued to move forward with the team.

[You picked up the 'poison gland'*113 around. ]

[You continued to move forward with the team, and soon found that on the mountain wall in front, there were two plant pipes similar to giant morning glories, protected by a layer of light film. ]

[This is the 'fungal vent', the mother nest of spore fungi, which automatically produces a spore fungus every minute on average. After being sprayed out, the spores will pass through the light film and float to every corner of the first floor of the dungeon like dandelions. ]

[Because the fungal vent is protected in a special barrier, ordinary people cannot pass through. But as the city lord, you have the right to cancel and build any barrier in the dungeon at any time. Do you want to open the barrier and permanently eliminate the fungal vent? 】

"No."

Mu You directly clicked the cross.

Although spores are annoying, the poison glands they drop are one of the necessary supplies for the dungeon. He doesn't need them, but other players will definitely need them, so of course they can't be destroyed casually.

But then again, since he can build a barrier at any time, he can find a suitable place in the dungeon to place the queen ant eggs he obtained before.

In this way, when the queen ant matures, it can provide players with an additional option to spawn monsters, and he can also regularly harvest a wave of queen ant flesh and blood as a source of meat for the shadow wolf.