Having thoroughly understood the characteristics of the Mist Shadow Assassin, these experienced players no longer needed to strategize; they already knew how to fight. It boiled down to a tank drawing aggro while the others unleashed DPS. The only difference was that the character they used to draw aggro theoretically shouldn't have been a tank, but because of his outstanding skills, he was better than one.
The experts wailed as they ganged up on the Mist Shadow Assassin. What couldn't Gu Fei do, if he could even act as a tank?
In the past, Gu Fei's invincible PK performances were largely due to his two overpowered pieces of equipment. The Young Master's elite group knew about these two items. They sometimes thought that if they had such exaggerated equipment, they might not do worse than Gu Fei, and might even do better at times.
However, the special task of drawing aggro, typically reserved for tank classes, was something they definitely couldn't handle. No matter how skilled Sword Demon was, he couldn't draw aggro with a Thief!
But Gu Fei had done it with a Mage.
Just as everyone was feeling dejected, Han Family's Young Master spoke again, in his usual condescending boss tone, pointing at Gu Fei and saying, "Not bad, you can finally cooperate with us a little. You're not completely useless in this team."
Everyone looked at Han Family's Young Master in astonishment, thinking that he could even say such shameless words. It seemed he was a guy with no limits as well.
Gu Fei ignored him. He was focused on resisting the Mist Shadow Assassin's attacks. How could he have time to pay attention to these things? Now, even though a bunch of people were supposedly helping him, the situation was no different from before. He was still the only one facing the Boss. Moreover, to create opportunities for these guys to attack, Gu Fei was less decisive than when he was fighting alone. Sometimes, he even slowed down the pace and dawdled with the Boss. This made it riskier and more difficult, and he was barely managing to focus. How could he have the mind to listen to the nonsense around him?
In front of the monitoring screen, Ye Xiaowu gripped the mouse tightly with his right hand, while his left hand was clenched into a fist. Every time the Mist Shadow Assassin attacked, his left hand would clench tighter, and he would mutter incessantly, "Come on, come on! Take him down, take him down!"
Ye Xiaowu kept cheering for the Mist Shadow Assassin, but every result disappointed him. Gu Fei had seen through all the attack patterns and methods they had designed for the assassin, defusing each move with increasing skill.
Ye Xiaowu was also increasingly confused by the actions of the other players around him. These people were just blindly looking for opportunities to attack the Boss, without any apparent coordination. This wasn't the usual pattern for players fighting a Boss.
Logically, Gu Fei was undoubtedly the most powerful damage dealer in the game right now. They should be trying to find ways to have someone else attract the aggro and let Gu Fei take a break. But their chaotic attacks didn't seem to be doing anything so precise.
Could it be...
Ye Xiaowu watched for a few more rounds and finally realized it.
Who said they weren't coordinating? The Mage was drawing aggro, and the others were dealing damage. That was their cooperation. And seeing their unrestrained attacks, which would normally disrupt the aggro and be a major taboo when fighting a Boss, they must have a reason for doing so now. That was because they had seen through the Mist Shadow Assassin's special aggro system and knew that no matter what they did, the Boss's attention wouldn't be on them, so they were so reckless.
Seeing through it was fine, it wasn't a big deal. What was excessive was the Mage. A mere level 41 character was actually tanking the attacks of a level 60 Mist Shadow Assassin. Where were the game rules? Ye Xiaowu was very depressed. The monitoring team could check all kinds of data in the game at any time. Ye Xiaowu locked the screen and checked the Mist Shadow Assassin's HP, which had already been depleted by two-thirds.
The Mist Shadow Assassin was a Boss with relatively low HP. Designing such a hard-to-catch speed-type class into a tank would be condemned by the heavens, and Ye Xiaowu and his colleagues didn't dare to go that far. But seeing that such a carefully planned Boss was about to be defeated, Ye Xiaowu was very unwilling. If it was just a group of ordinary players, Ye Xiaowu would admire them greatly. But now Gu Fei was involved.
In his eyes, Gu Fei was a complete bug. Bugs should be eliminated. That was the iron rule of a programmer. Leaving bugs in place would inevitably create even bigger bugs. For example, he completed the top-level quest chain at level 30. That was a big bug. And now this guy was going to create another big bug. If a level 60 Boss dropped equipment, it had to be around level 60. If it was a superb item, it would almost be another Dark Night Flowing Light Sword or Moonlit Night Robe.
Ye Xiaowu was very conflicted at this time. Gu Fei was a bug, but he was also an ordinary player who had never used any loopholes in the game for profit. He wanted to eliminate the bug, but he would never deprive an ordinary player of the right to play the game.
Ye Xiaowu couldn't help but glance at the Mist Shadow Assassin's life again. After a few more rounds, the Mist Shadow Assassin's life was further reduced. Apart from the Mage, none of the guys next to him were weak, and they were becoming more and more skilled at dealing with the Mist Shadow Assassin. As long as the Mage didn't make a mistake, killing the Boss was just a matter of time for them.
It absolutely can't be like this!!
Ye Xiaowu suddenly made up his mind. Since he couldn't eliminate the bug, he could at least prevent the bug from expanding further, right? Thinking of this, Ye Xiaowu, who had been in an excited state, calmed down instead.
The Mist Shadow Assassin's life was only one-third left. What could he still do with this one-third?
Ye Xiaowu paid attention to everything available to him, the monitoring room's computer, the monitoring room's data, the monitoring room's...permissions!!!
The monitoring team was called monitoring, but in fact, the real monitoring work was partly done automatically by the computer, analyzing whether the data flow in the game was normal. If there was any abnormality, it would automatically alert. In addition, it was to receive information feedback from players in the game to see if there were any inappropriate aspects, and this part of the work was generally handled directly by online GMs.
The staff actually sitting in the monitoring team's office could be said to be an emergency team for handling sudden events. It was a work group that dealt with problems discovered in real time as quickly as possible.
For example, the Moonlit Night City incident was actually the monitoring team, after receiving the news, immediately controlling the city gate guards to launch an attack on the Boss, and also modifying the data of those two city gate guards at that time. Otherwise, even if they were also Boss-level, there was no way they could defeat another Boss in two or three hits. The most prominent data of a Boss was always its life, and to kill a Boss in two or three hits? What terrifying attack power was that? This kind of terrifying attack power would be an absolute instant kill against any player. This was an existence far beyond the average Boss.
It was just that the monitoring team had just started working at that time and had no experience, so the handling of this matter was not perfect. That was that the Boss actually dropped equipment. The perfect way to handle it would have been to lower the drop rate of this Boss, so that nothing would drop, so that it would be as if nothing had happened.
After that, the monitoring team would report the problem to the operation and planning department to which Ye Xiaowu belonged, and they would make complete corrections and then patch it during maintenance and updates. For example, there were no more situations where Bosses wandered into the main city. This was the result of Ye Xiaowu and his colleagues' corrections.
The monitoring team was actually equivalent to having a single-player game's cheat device. All the data in the game was stored on the server, and the server was naturally controlled by the game company. For them, online games were naturally single-player games, so they naturally had this tool for real-time modification. Of course, this tool was only for the monitoring team to use at its discretion when there were abnormal situations, and no other department had this right.
Ye Xiaowu knew that every computer in the monitoring team was equipped with this modifier, and he was no stranger to this modifier. It was designed and made by him from beginning to end. At this time... Ye Xiaowu glanced at his colleague in the monitoring team. The people watching the Boss fight were still watching with great interest, and the others who weren't watching were busy with their own affairs. No one noticed him.
Turning his head back, Ye Xiaowu found that his hand had unknowingly moved the mouse to the modifier program. After gritting his teeth, he double-clicked it hard.
The modifier belonged to the whitelist of the monitoring system, and no modification would trigger an alarm. However, modifications made with the modifier had no save function. The modifications were effective immediately, and would revert as soon as the modifier was closed.
Of course, Ye Xiaowu didn't dare to keep the modifier open all the time. If any colleague glanced at it, he would be finished. Privately using the modifier without any circumstances was a very serious violation of the rules, and he could be directly fired, let alone the fact that he wasn't even a member of the monitoring team.
However, Ye Xiaowu had already figured out what to do. At this time, after running the modifier, a window appeared asking for login permission. Ye Xiaowu didn't have permission, but that didn't stump him. Don't forget that he made this modifier from beginning to end. After opening another notepad, Ye Xiaowu pretended to be calm and lightly tapped on the keyboard. Before long, he had written a piece of code, saved it, and ran it. The permission window was bypassed. After entering the modifier, Ye Xiaowu quickly performed an operation: he modified the Boss's berserk conditions.
Every Boss had a berserk state, and the trigger conditions were different. Some went berserk when their HP reached a certain level, some went berserk after taking a certain amount of damage, and some went berserk whenever they wanted to. The more difficult it was to trigger the berserk condition, the more powerful the berserk state. The Mist Shadow Assassin's berserk condition was on the higher side. Ye Xiaowu looked at the way Gu Fei and his group were fighting the monster and knew that it was impossible to trigger the berserk. So Ye Xiaowu helped them out. He temporarily set the Mist Shadow Assassin's berserk condition to "being attacked."
After confirming, the condition took effect immediately, but he couldn't close the modifier. This was the tensest moment. Ye Xiaowu didn't look at the screen, but only stared at the others around him. Suddenly, he heard the onlookers exclaim, "Ah! The Boss is berserk!!!"
Ye Xiaowu turned his head and quickly closed the modifier. This was the pride of his design. When the modifier was closed, everything would revert, but the Boss's berserk state was a result of the condition and would not be eliminated because the condition changed at this time. At this time, the Mist Shadow Assassin was already in berserk...
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After a long period of silence, Comrade Ye Xiaowu, who had often been agitated, finally made a fiery move... Comrades, vote enthusiastically~ We can't let Teacher Gu be defeated!