Chapter 165-3: Death Revived, Darkborn Trap (3) |
“Can’t afford to provoke.”
Lu Xing decisively chose to detour.
Unlike normal players, he had no desire to explore this kind of opportunity that might contain a fortuitous encounter.
By comparison, he preferred ready-made treasures. Excessive risk was out.
Just then, the Treasure-Seeking Squirrel on his shoulder dug its two forepaws against him and kept pushing its head toward the Wall of Blood Souls.
“Too dangerous, we’re not going.”
Tapping the Treasure-Seeking Squirrel on the nose, Lu Xing’s resolve to go around did not waver.
At this moment, guests in the livestream room who saw this scene could not help berating Lu Xing for being overly cautious.
It was finally a special event, yet he chose to withdraw. Truly foolish.
This proved there must be treasure inside the Wall of Blood Souls. Whether valuable or not, it had to be explored.
Even if there really was nothing of value, hadn’t the analysis said it? The sleeping Darkborn member held the password to wealth.
But to those veteran players in Lu Xing’s livestream room, they were very calm.
The streamer Explorer’s timidity was famous on the forum.
He had taken the initiative to give up several opportunities to get rich to other players. He was a very pure exploration-party player and would not change his mind for wealth.
Yet while Lu Xing had no intention, many players in the livestream room did.
They thought of the Palace of Ecstasy that had been discovered by Explorer through puzzle-solving.
Players who set out early reaped a great fortune in the Palace of Ecstasy, while those who went late could only gnaw on hard bones that were difficult to kill.
Faced with a chance that might contain wealth, players immediately grew restless.
Many players at once headed to the ‘opportunity location’ marked on the map, wanting to take a look inside the Wall of Blood Souls.
What seemed like an extremely dangerous trap was, in the eyes of players, a treasure land that might create wealth.
Three hours later, the first batch of players with flying vehicles arrived.
Landing in the woodland clearing, they began discussing how to explore inside.
They tried attacking with skills, which passed through the barrier without any hindrance.
After a brief thought, one player in the team took the initiative to approach the blood-soul barrier and reached out to touch it.
At once the invisible barrier seemed to come alive, instantly sucking the touching player in. Under the grimacing expressions of the others, this player was quickly devoured, with blood surging from his body.
After his life finally ended, blood and limbs turned to mist and dissipated, the soul returning to the Emperor’s Sign.
Seeing that the scene within the Wall of Blood Souls could not be explored by normal means, the first batch of players fell into contemplation.
Just then, a player posted a screenshot of an analysis in the team channel.
“Huh, did this number change? (analysis screenshot)”
[(Revival requirement: 22558/3902485)]
The team players opened the screenshot, looked at the revival requirement number, then compared it with the required number in the Explorer’s video clip.
They indeed found the problem. After the Wall of Blood Souls devoured a teammate, the revival requirement value had changed.
After a brief silence, a player in the team exclaimed in delight.
“I get it. This is a special scene in the game that requires meeting conditions to open. We have to enter by means of sacrifice.”
“Right, right, I thought of the Titan’s Gate scene in the Sin Land. You need to collect three keys, and then in a rainy scene with HP below 10 percent to enter. This Wall of Blood Souls is clearly also a special-conditions scene that must be met to open.”
“Smart. Hurry and post the news to the forum and call on everyone to come sacrifice together. After Xiao Feng sacrificed himself it only increased by less than 200 points of revival requirement. We’ll need to sacrifice about twenty thousand players to open it. We need the power of the masses.”
Before long, this group of players sent their discovery to the forum.
[Explorer’s latest discovery of the hidden scene ‘Wall of Blood Souls.’ Everyone come get rich. Come early for meat, come late for soup!]
Thread owner: Evil of This World
Content: Explorer has a new discovery. Brothers, hurry and come get rich. This special scene needs sacrifice to open. Come quickly to lend a hand.
(Explorer video attachment) (Explorer livestream screenshots)
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The title of this post alone was highly attractive. Veteran players, upon seeing the three characters Explorer, knew there was a chance to get rich, and soon a large number of players were called to head over.
At this time, Qi Sheng, located at the Primordial Altar, found this both funny and exasperating.
When the player Lu Xing discovered this special scene, he had already received Guide’s feedback and begun investigating.
After sending his consciousness into the area behind the Wall of Blood Souls, he found that a lifeform with an original hunt level of 297 was sleeping in this scene.
The specific situation was not difficult to analyze.
The Darkborn member shown in the analysis information had been grievously wounded and on the brink of death during its flight.
To keep itself alive, it descended in the woodland clearing to the east of the Colorful Mist Coast and set up a sacrificial trap there, then voluntarily entered dormancy to slow the damage the injuries were doing to its body.
This revival plan was actually very simple. Through the invisible trap, it would devour flesh-and-blood lives that trespassed, nourishing the Darkborn lifeform in its dormant state.
But the interesting thing about this trap was that such a dormant state could not awaken on its own.
So the Darkborn member set a vitality-devouring value sufficient for its own recovery, embedding it in the Wall of Blood Souls in the form of a rune.
This was the revival value shown in the analysis information.
With each life devoured, the corresponding vitality value would be detected, and the value in the trap’s program (rune) would change accordingly.
In Qi Sheng’s view, this setting was very clever.
It was like an alarm clock. When the prescribed value was reached, it would forcibly activate the Darkborn lifeform in its dormant state.
The problem, however, was that this trap encountered players.
It was even mistaken by players as a hidden easter-egg scene in the game that needed special conditions to activate.
The result was that the rune number calculating the devoured vitality value was jumping, but in reality no vitality energy was obtained at all.
After all, how could the devouring function of the Wall of Blood Souls trap compare to the supreme rules of the Four Gods. After players die, their blood and severed limbs are extracted by the Transdimensional Extraction of All Things and sent back to the Emperor’s Mound Village space.
Thus a situation similar to idle capital circulation appeared.
Players went to their deaths voluntarily. It looked as if vitality was being continuously absorbed and the rune value jumped along with it, but in reality not a trace of vitality was taken in.
The alarm clock the Darkborn warrior had set for himself was forcibly nudged forward by players toward the trigger state.
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As time passed, large numbers of players rushed to the ‘special scene’ Wall of Blood Souls.
Some players watched from nearby, eagerly waiting for others to contribute a share of effort to unlock the scene.
There were also players who voluntarily went to their deaths, sacrificing themselves to explore the new scene.
Especially the guild teams.
To build a good reputation within the player legion and attract more players to join their guilds, they organized themselves to die and farm revival points.
Through the players’ unremitting efforts, the revival requirement value shown in the analysis information rapidly climbed.
