novelhk Chapter 181 Human vs. Human
Chapter 181 Human vs. Human
Theoretically, he shouldn't have caused the dungeon difficulty to increase. Jiang Lin vaguely felt that the "outstanding player" mentioned in the system notification wasn't him.
But as for the others... Jiang Lin glanced around and didn't think anyone fit the criteria. It was too strange.
Wang Zhe scratched his head: "Could it be that we set fires and poisoned too many NPCs?"
"No way...aren't they just a bunch of copied and pasted NPCs?" Chen Jiangqiao actually felt that it was possible after hearing what Wang Zhe said.
“Another evacuation point will close in 12 hours, so we only have 12 hours left. Something doesn’t seem right.” Chi Xuan also looked at Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin: "If Su Yuning couldn't hold out for 12 hours, we would have evacuated within 12 hours anyway. The fact that it reset the time limit indicates that a new crisis has emerged."
Everyone looked unwell, but Ji Xingyi reassured them, "Since the system has given us 12 hours, there must be a way out within those 12 hours. Don't panic."
“That’s true, it can’t get any worse anyway.” Chi Xuan’s eyes were filled with sadness. Fang Heng was dead, Zhou Jue was dead, and her new best friend Guo Xinwen was also dead. At worst, she would go and join them.
You will not be alone on the road to the underworld.
Jingkang walked out of the underground palace: "I'm going out to check the situation."
Wang Zhe and Chen Jiangqiao immediately followed.
Jiang Lin stared at the blood pool and used his mental power to ask Yingniang at the bottom of the pool.
Yingniang stretched out a tentacle and shook her head. She didn't want to offend Jiang Lin, who terrified her. The power of the blood pool was frantically pouring into Su Yuning's soul, and she had no time to pay attention to the situation outside.
The increased difficulty from the system wasn't a boss; without changing the plot, it could only be... Jiang Lin turned to look outside the underground palace.
It can only be Jin Lushan!
But he's just a mortal; how strong can he possibly be?
What exactly was that force just now?
Jiang Lin was just about to use his mental power to explore a wide area when he received another system warning.
Before long, Jingkang and the other two returned to the underground palace with drastically changed expressions.
"Jin Lushan has brought his men!" Wang Zhe cursed loudly.
“There are too many people, at least several hundred!” Chen Jiangqiao added.
“Not just a few hundred,” Jingkang said to Ji Xingyi with a serious expression, “maybe over a thousand. They’ve surrounded this place.”
Chi Xuan's face was pale.
Jiang Lin noticed the raindrops on the group and reached out to pluck a drop from Wang Zhe's clothes with her fingertip: "It's raining outside?"
“Yes! It seems the rain has extinguished all the fires outside!” Wang Zhe nodded.
Jiang Lin touched the raindrop on his fingertip with his mental tentacles, and his pupils instantly shrank. There was an incredible power hidden in this raindrop!
"What's wrong?" Ji Xingyi asked.
Jiang Lin asked Ji Xingyi to roll up his sleeves, revealing large areas of scars caused by peeling skin. Jiang Lin touched the wounds on Ji Xingyi's arm with raindrops from his fingertips.
A bizarre scene unfolded: under the influence of the raindrops, the previously gruesome wound began to grow new flesh at a visible speed.
"Holy crap!" Even if Wang Zhe was stupid, he knew where that huge group of people outside came from!
"The system sent a rain shower, instantly restoring all those NPCs?" Chen Jiangqiao gasped in shock. All the fire he'd set these past few days had been for nothing, and the poison he'd applied had been wasted.
Jingkang's face was also very ugly: "I think I just saw the patrol team we killed last night."
"The dead are coming back to life?" Even the ladylike Chi Xuan couldn't help but curse at the system: "Has it lost its mind?! Is it sick in the head?!"
"Seven people versus a thousand? Damn it! It's going to kill us!" Chen Jiangqiao kicked a pillar angrily.
Ji Xingyi had been keeping an eye on Jiang Lin out of the corner of his eye. Seeing the young man's gloomy face, he spoke up to calm everyone down: "Since there is a double reward for clearing the level, it is definitely not a dead end. There must be a way to solve the problem."
Upon hearing this, the crowd's expressions finally calmed down. They began to seriously analyze the possibilities of various methods.
Chi Xuan: "How can you take down more than a thousand people outside in six hours?"
Chen Jiangqiao did the math: "At least three people can be killed per minute! Is there a single-use, large-scale weapon of mass destruction?"
Wang Zhe: "Missile? Machine gun?"
Chi Xuan shook her head: "Zhou Jue and I searched the whole town and didn't find a single gun. Although the story is set in the Republican era, Jin Lushan's group was still using traditional bows and arrows. I think firearms must have been banned by the system."
"Gunpowder would work too! Can we make it ourselves?" Wang Zhe suggested.
"Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal... we need to find all of these. They've already surrounded this place. We don't have time, and even if we could make them, it wouldn't be enough. There are too many people!" Chi Xuan said, her face filled with despair.
Chen Jiangqiao: "If all else fails, try to break out through a group with fewer people?"
Wang Zhe: "Where are there few people? Four sides, one thousand divided by 4, that's still 250! Fold it into four, there are people everywhere! Did your math teacher teach you PE?"
Chen Jiangqiao: "..."
Seeing that Jiang Lin remained silent and did not participate in the discussion, Ji Xing felt that Jiang Lin had already thought of a solution, but seemed unwilling to talk about it.
Ji Xingyi suddenly felt a strange unease and turned her gaze to the blood pool. Her bright eyes widened, and in an instant, she understood the path to survival the dungeon offered to the players, and also understood Jiang Lin's silence.
Jiang Lin is unable to use super-limited power due to system limitations, but the BOSS's power is within the rules of the dungeon game and is not subject to any restrictions, so it can be used infinitely.
Ji Xingyi said to everyone, "If we inherit the BOSS's power, we can clear the level."
Jiang Lin suddenly grabbed Ji Xingyi's arm and warned her with his eyes.
Upon hearing Ji Xingyi's explanation, Chen Jiangqiao and the other three immediately focused their attention on Su Yuning.
Chen Jiangqiao's face lit up with surprise: "That makes sense! As long as Su Yuning succeeds, with the BOSS's abilities, we can kill as many NPCs as we want outside!"
"It probably won't work." Ji Xingyi shook his head and smiled bitterly.
If Su Yuning succeeds, it's like giving double points to the players for free. Death Soul Island won't do a losing business, so there's no need for the system to increase the game difficulty.
“I’ll try again. I have experience now, maybe I can succeed!” Jingkang was about to step forward, but Ji Xingyi stopped him.
Ji Xingyi: "You and Chi Xuan both failed, so I'll go instead."
"Ji Xingyi!" Jiang Lin's eyes instantly reddened as she forcefully grabbed the man's arm.
Ji Xing smiled and said, "Linlin, you said Su Yuning is 30%, I think I should be higher than her, at least 50%?"
Jiang Lin: "Shut up!"
Ji Xingyi, rarely disobeying Jiang Lin's orders, sighed softly: "I don't know why, but I have a feeling that it's coming for me."
Jiang Lin said coldly, "Don't flatter yourself!"
Ji Xingyi gently pried open Jiang Lin's fingers, walked to the edge of the blood pool, and said, "Who do you want?"
Yingniang, who was in the blood pool, stretched out a tentacle and pointed it at Ji Xingyi. Jiang Lin glared at her and the tentacle immediately twisted into an "S".
She didn't choose Ji Xingyi, but she didn't choose anyone else either.