Chapter 173: Big Fight

Based on his own clearance experience, Wu Chang found that accelerating the main plot will not increase the difficulty of the dungeon, but will make the dungeon easier.

It's very simple logic. The default time limit specified in the dungeon is actually closely related to the plan of the dungeon BOSS.

Although accelerating the main line will leave players with less time to prepare, players will have no time to prepare, and the dungeon BOSS will also have no time to prepare.

However, the time for players to enter the plane is very short, so the difference between being prepared or not is not very big, but the dungeon BOSS is different. If the event occurs days or even hours in advance, it may make the BOSS's years of preparation fall short.

This quick-attack strategy has been effective many times in the past in the process of conquering dungeons.

Such a simple truth can actually be understood if you think about it.

As for why other players don't do this, it's probably because they don't work as hard as he does.

After all, Wu Chang can reach where he is today entirely due to his talent and hard work.

When he saw that Cui Chengze had a plan, and it was related to his job transfer mission, he was very anxious, but he still asked with dignity:

"What's the way to leave the wreck zone early?"

Cui Chengze did not play as much as Wu Changze, and said excitedly:

"Everything in the world is in line with the original power of the world. The shipwreck zone can trap ships in it. It is not like people guessed about the Chimuda Quadrangle, thinking that it is a sandwich between parallel worlds, or some other space. , but because the entire shipwreck area is a huge natural mystical ritual!”

"It's just that it has its own internal cycle and no energy escapes, so it is difficult for ordinary mystics to sense it and interact with the energy in it."

Having said this, Cui Chengze firmly grasped the secret trial emblem and continued:

"But you are different. You have direct contact with the origin of mysticism and are not among ordinary mystical scholars. Your method of absorbing mysticism energy is enough to affect or even destroy the balance of the mysticism cycle in the shipwreck zone."

"I just need to follow the mystical ritual on this coat of arms and arrange a larger and more effective mystical ritual. When we activate the formation, we can temporarily drain away all the mystical origins around the Star Leap. Create a gap in the wreck zone."

"Once the gap is formed, the Star Leap will automatically leave along the gap!"

Wu Chang nodded calmly after hearing this. From a logical and principle perspective, Cui Chengze's method worked.

Taking a step back, even if you fail, it will not have any impact. You can give it a try.

"How long does it take to arrange an occult ceremony?"

Cui Chengze looked at the secret trial emblem and estimated: "It will take me at least three days to understand the rituals in the emblem, the transformation ceremony will take one day, and if the arrangement of the ceremony goes well, it will only take one day."

Wu Chang frowned and asked, "What if it doesn't go well?"

Cui Chengze said solemnly: "If things don't go well, we will be prepared for a head-on conflict with the New Universe Sect. Arranging a large-scale ceremony requires entering many important areas in the ship. Now that the Star Leap is under their control, I It’s hard to hide his actions from them.”

Wu Chang thought for a moment and said: "I will figure out a way to gain control of the Star Leap. You don't have to worry so much. You only need to analyze the mystical rituals on the coat of arms with all your strength."

Cui Chengze nodded and said: "I will try my best."

Cui Chengze, who left Wu Chang's study with the secret trial emblem, suddenly scratched his head halfway through.

No, his original intention of coming here this time was to teach Wu Chang basic occult knowledge. Why didn't he teach the part he was responsible for at all? Instead, he brought this homework and needed to go back to study.

Forget it, the goal was achieved anyway. He preferred learning to teaching.

The first night the Star Leap entered the wreckage zone was destined to be uneventful.

A whole day of ghost fighting, followed by the encounter with the ghost ship Song of the Sea, which had been missing for two years, made everyone on the ship extremely nervous.

Many people have nightmares in which they hear indistinct calls, as if they saw something terrifying in their dreams.

But when they woke up, they had no memory of what happened in the dream. They just felt extremely low in energy and sore all over, as if they had run a marathon around the deck at night.

This depression and malaise not only appeared in ordinary passengers, but also in the outstanding believers of the New Universe Sect, each of them had two dark circles under his eyes when he got up.

Every morning prayer they gathered around on the fourth deck became feeble.

Wu Chang saw this moment, and he knew what happened to everyone. Last night, the call from the depths of the sea became louder, and he needed to concentrate more to block that call.

Even he, who had an inspiration value of over 100 and a willpower of 87, was affected. There was no reason why ordinary passengers on the ship would not be affected.

However, he still needs to wait and see whether this influence is part of the New Universe Sect's plan.

As a dungeon native, especially a cold-hearted chaebol boss, he cannot act too proactively until the situation is clear.

So he sent all the people except Cui Chengze out to keep tabs on and investigate, while he himself came to the bar on the fifth floor of the Xingyue, drinking wine leisurely like a copy of the hidden NPC. Waiting for willing ones to take the bait.

It is now the second day after entering the shipwreck zone. People have not realized that entering the shipwreck zone is just going from a small ghost wall to a bigger ghost wall.

People thought they were out of danger, but they didn't know they would be trapped in this sea for a long time, which made the Star Leap not control food and alcohol.

Wu Chang took advantage of this time to collect a lot of alcohol and food and put them in his personal space.

If Cui Chengze's plan failed, they would have to stay in the shipwreck zone for 30 days, and he didn't want to be reduced to eating those weird fish.

He sat in the bar all day until it was close to dusk and the sky was dark, and then a person suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Mr. Li, I have observed you for a day, and you don't seem to care about the current problems."

Wu Chang looked up at the other person. It was a thin man. He was wearing a black tights wrapped like a bandage, which made his already thin body like a human clothes drying rack. When he walked, his clothes swayed.

But his thin body made him extremely light, so light that his feet didn't touch the ground. Wu Chang observed that the direction and shape of the long hair on the carpet that the other person stepped on did not change.

Quick in action, light in body, and concealed in breath, he is definitely a good material for stealing.

Talent.

"Who are you?"

"You can call me Shadow."

Wu Chang shook his head and said indifferently: "I haven't heard of you. Do you want to talk to me about something?"

Shadow smiled and said: "I came here to tell you something. You or the entire Star Leap is about to face a disaster!"

Wu Chang raised his eyebrows. The threatening opening remarks were a bit interesting.

He pointed to the seat opposite, "Tell me in detail."

Shadow said: "The sea area where the Star Leap is now staying is called the Shipwreck Belt. Once a ship enters, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven to get out. If we don't unite to save ourselves, what awaits us is being trapped here to death."

"To unite everyone, we need a leader. I think that Mr. Li is the most suitable leader, and I am willing to be your first and most loyal follower."

Wu Chang shook his wine glass. Good guy, this is to urge him to set up a stick. Jianxing and the negotiation master are not so anxious.

"What are you good at?"

The shadow suddenly disappeared, and then a black shadow flashed and appeared behind Wu Chang.

"Hide, infiltrate, monitor, track, assassinate, all of which are what you need most."

Wu Chang secretly sighed, aren't these the jobs he is best at? Lao Liu has done it all for you, what should I do?

However, Shadow is indeed strong, especially in terms of agility, which is far better than anyone he has now.

If faced with Shadow's assassination, except for him who relies on inspiration and Jianxing who relies on his job transfer talent Jianxin, it is difficult for others to react.

"You said you are good at tracking, right?"

The shadow nodded.

Wu Chang described the appearance of the secret master and the werewolf he saw in the cargo hold last night, "Find one of them, and you will pass the assessment, how about it?"

A line of prompts popped up in front of Shadow:

"Li Zaishe has issued a camp trial task to you. Among the two targets, at least one of them must investigate the true identity of one on the ship. If you complete the trial task, you can join Li Zaishe's forces."

The shadow's face was happy. He bet right. This legendary hidden NPC really has its own power!

If there are two words that are the most valuable in the Abyss game, it must be hidden!

Anything related to hidden, whether it is a task, props, job transfer, or character, represents rarity and power.

Hidden forces are no exception. Fortunately, he acted quickly and let him get it!

"No problem, I will find them out as soon as possible."

Shadow said, and then disappeared.

Shadow is not the only clever guy who has set his sights on Wu Chang. The circle he walked around the port at the beginning played a role at this moment.

In the next two hours, five more people sat opposite him and proposed to join his forces.

Two people were too weak to be better than Wu Chang and the negotiation master who were in their early twenties. They relied on dog luck and the number of dungeons to reach level 30 in one round.

He brushed off these two people and issued corresponding tasks to the remaining three people.

When the last person was about to leave, Wu Chang, as a hidden NPC, reminded him in a very humane way.

"When I hire people to do things, I value quality over quantity. Four people came to me tonight, and I will only accept the first three who complete the task."

After saying that, he left the bar, returned to the bedroom, and never appeared again.

Undecided, the players who were watching could not help but slap their thighs with regret.

As expected, hesitation will lead to defeat, and the opportunity to join the hidden force is gone.

Back in the room, Wu Chang reviewed what happened in the bar today.

The players who came to him, plus the players who were sensed by his inspiration, added up to more than twelve people.

Judging from the emotions conveyed in their eyes, at least ten of them wanted to join the force he established.

According to this calculation, there are more players entering the Silent Route dungeon than he imagined, at least more than thirty people.

If the upper limit of each force is 5 people, like him, it means that there are at least 5-6 forces on the ship.

It's still a big fight dungeon.

On the second night after entering the shipwreck zone, after a whole day of prayer, the mental state of the passengers on the ship did not improve, but became worse.

That night, the passengers' calls in their dreams became clearer.

Passengers with artistic talents or inspiration and intuition beyond ordinary people sat up from their beds at the call, walked out of the cabin, and walked towards the deck in a half-asleep state.

A student from Anjin High School climbed over the fence in his sleep and jumped into the sea to pursue the call in his dream.

They didn't wake up from their dream until the cold water hit them. They twisted their bodies wildly, trying to stabilize themselves in the waves and surface to call for help.

But in the cold sea water, their limbs quickly cramped and their bodies became heavy. With bubbles gurgling from their mouths, they sank toward the call from the bottom of the sea.

Just when the high school student was about to lose consciousness completely, he felt a burst of light penetrate from the sea surface into the water, and then the light rotated around him, and a rope was wrapped around his waist.

"rise!"

Following the shouts of the man on the deck, the high school student, who weighed more than 140 kilograms, was pulled directly out of the water and flew back to the deck.

Jianxing retracted the flying sword with the rope wrapped around the hilt, threw the high school student to the ship's doctor, turned back to the negotiator and asked:

"This is the seventh time tonight. How did the boss know that something would happen tonight and arrange for us to stay here in advance?"

The negotiator curled his lips and said: "Maybe this is the value of the hidden role. Although I have never seen the boss take action, I am sure that he will not be worse than the cryptic master. At least the cryptic master will not be immune to my use." Title initiated determination.”

Jianxing looked around and whispered, "Tell me, is the boss the final BOSS? That's what the novels say."

The negotiator said nonchalantly: "As long as we are not in the same group as the followers of the evil god, the BOSS has nothing to do with us. I have cleared so many dungeons and I have never been a villain."

Jianxing wanted to say something else, but suddenly he saw an athletic student who could run while sleepwalking. He came out of the cabin and rushed directly to the fence.

"We'll talk about it later, the eighth one!"

This night was not easy for Sword Star and Negotiator.

When the two reported at dawn, they had rescued forty or fifty passengers who were in a sleepwalking state and intended to jump into the sea.

And this was the second night after the Star Leap entered the shipwreck zone.

Seven of them were rescued after falling into the sea. According to Jianxing, passengers who were guided to jump into the sea by unknown calls would have a very thin sense of existence when sleepwalking. As long as their attention is slightly distracted, these people will be ignored.

Many times they hear someone climbing the fence or the sound of an object entering the water, only to find out that someone is about to jump into the sea again.

The ship's doctor has already accommodated the passengers who fell into the water. The ship's doctor temporarily requisitioned part of the cargo hold and transformed the cargo hold into a temporary medical room to accommodate these patients.

Wu Chang went to the cargo hold to take a look at the people who fell into the water, and found that none of them were believers of the New Universe Sect, and there were no traces of rituals on their bodies.

No wonder Park Changmin and others did not take action. They were not worried that too many people would jump into the sea and they would not be able to collect the sacrifices after thirty days.

They would probably like to jump into the sea more often to show that they believe the New Universe Sect is immune to this horrific sleepwalking, and to attract followers.

When Wu Chang left the cargo hold, he met Li Yubin in the corridor who was heading to the cargo hold.

The number of players following Li Yubin increased from two to three.

Wu Chang never overestimates the moral level of Abyss game players. Li Yubin's ability to gather so many followers is definitely not due to his charisma or his desire to expose the darkness of society, which resonates with the players.

Obviously, Li Yubin has also established her own power.

Wu Chang took a look at the three people behind her and smiled subconsciously.

The quality of these three people is not very good, and the strongest one is only at the level of Sword Star. The rookies join forces to keep warm.

Li Yubin's power ranking should be below him.

The two passed by each other, and Li Yubin stopped Wu Chang and said, "Li Zaishi."

Wu Chang said: "What's the matter?"

Li Yubin said: "I heard that you arranged for people to rescue these passengers."

Wu Chang said expressionlessly: "And then."

Li Yubin narrowed his eyes, looked at Wu Chang doubtfully, and said, "How did you know something would happen last night?"

Wu Chang shrugged and said, "Intuition."

Li Yubin was silent for a moment and said, "I'll have something to do with you later. You stay in the room and wait for me."

Wu Chang: "Do I need to take a shower first?"

"If you think so, you can focus on cleaning your neck." Li Yubin shook his head and led people into the temporary infirmary.

Wu Chang left the cargo hold and went to visit the New Universe Sect first.

Although he had two eyeballs from the other party's boss and ruined the other party's good deeds last night, as long as he pretended not to know, Park Changmin could only endure it and let him experience the prayers of the believers with a smile.

Wu Chang openly explored the enemy's situation, and after confirming the maturity of the occult seeds, he patted his butt with satisfaction and left.

This is the advantage of becoming an NPC. If he is a player with unknown origins, can he peek at secrets openly like this?

I am afraid that I had just entered the fourth floor of the Star Leap, and before I got close to the half floor where the New Universe Sect was, I was stopped by the believers and recorded it in the notebook.

After having breakfast first on the fifth floor of the Xingyue, he was about to return to his room and wait for Li Yubin's visit when he saw two people standing at his door.

The two people in front of him were both players who had looked for him yesterday, and one of them was Shadow.

In just one night, the task he assigned to the two of them was completed?

Very efficient.