Chapter 4 Flanking

The four monsters rushed out, heading straight for Lord Grim. In the next second, they were all bunched together.

Well, not exactly bunched. It was just that they charged at the same target from four different directions and happened to meet at this spot.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had the technique, but their experience and awareness in Glory were still at a beginner level. They didn't react to this phenomenon. But Su Mucheng and Liu Hao quickly saw what was going on.

This was a monster pull, a perfect monster pull done with just positioning.

This pull calculated the monsters' positions, their movement speeds, their pursuit routes, and their choices of direction. Then, it controlled the character's movement and positioning, instantly causing the monsters to move to the desired locations.

Extreme attention to detail!

However, while this monster pull was indeed flawless, how much would it really improve the efficiency of killing these four monsters? If everyone swarmed in and forcibly divided the attacks on the four monsters, they could also instantly complete a forced monster pull, and the output could be even faster.

Su Mucheng and Liu Hao both had the same doubts in their minds.

But Lord Grim had already made his move.

Shadow Clone!

Lord Grim's fake body stayed in place, while the real body instantly flashed to the other side. But the monsters continued in their original direction. Players could use their experience to judge Shadow Clone, but monsters wouldn't. This skill had a 100% deceptive effect on monsters. The four monsters continued to pounce on the fake body.

Falling Flower Palm!

Lord Grim, having flashed to the side, immediately pushed out a palm. The four monsters collided with each other and flew out. One of them wasn't knocked back strongly enough and was about to fall to the ground, but Lord Grim had already thrust his spear at it. The monster was sent into the air, and then a Dragon Tooth was thrust into it, sending it flying further than any of the others.

The four monsters were all knocked into the stone wall on the side. Dungeons were mostly enclosed spaces, whether it was mountains, trees, cliffs, or walls. In any case, there were always obstacles to guide players in a fixed direction, preventing them from casually traversing and bypassing monsters.

The four small monsters crashed into the wall. Lord Grim leaped up. Steamed Bun Invasion roared and was about to step forward to help, but he heard Ye Xiu shout, "Just watch!"

Steamed Bun Invasion immediately stopped, turned around in place, and said to Hateful Sword, "Don't move! Watch carefully."

Liu Hao had learned his lesson this time and would never respond to Steamed Bun Invasion.

Lord Grim charged forward, suppressing the four monsters with ease. It turned out that there was a narrow crevice on the side of the stone wall. Lord Grim had already knocked one monster into it with a Falling Flower Palm, and then sent another flying in with a Dragon Tooth. Now, he rushed forward, and after a few moves, the monsters were all crammed inside. Saying it was one against four was actually just one against one.

"This... is a good technique for soloing dungeons. Does it help with the record?" Liu Hao wondered, very puzzled. He didn't say anything, but just watched silently.

One small monster fell. The second small monster stepped out of the crevice. A moment later, it was killed and fell. The third small monster stepped out, was killed, and fell. And then... then there were no more!

The other four besides Ye Xiu were all staring wide-eyed at the screen. They were shocked to see that the fourth zombie monster was stuck in the crevice. Although it was baring its fangs and claws, it couldn't get out.

What was holding it back were the broken bones of the previous three skeleton monsters. When the skeleton monsters in Burial Ground were killed, they would immediately shatter into a pile, forming a patch on the ground like a scar. At this moment, the three skeleton monsters were killed by Lord Grim overlapping each other at the entrance of the crevice. The three piles of broken bones were stacked together, not too high, but the clumsy zombie monster couldn't get out, and could only spin around in place.

Damn! So that's possible!!! Liu Hao was dumbfounded. In this way, one less monster was killed at the start, and time could definitely be saved.

However, to achieve this level, there were many more trivial operations. Would the time saved by killing one less monster be wasted on this? Liu Hao was wondering about this when he heard Ye Xiu say, "That's what we need to do, but as a record-breaking team, we need to cooperate to complete these operations in the shortest amount of time. I roughly estimate that if we cooperate smoothly, we can be at least 10 seconds faster than the average team here."

10 seconds didn't seem like much. But in the entire dungeon, there were six such 10-second savings, which was a 1-minute advantage.

1 minute. If you didn't know this technique, it was hard to imagine being able to make up for it anywhere else. Besides using better equipment to increase output, there was probably no other way.

Liu Hao felt a chill in his heart. He believed that similar techniques couldn't possibly be limited to just the entrance.

Sure enough, next, there were similar, different, but always very detailed and trivial operations that could bypass some monsters that couldn't be avoided in the original strategy.

With the original strategy, if you played without mistakes, you could avoid a total of 12 monsters.

With the new strategy, if you played without mistakes, you could avoid a total of 21 monsters.

Still calculating at 10 seconds per monster, that was a full minute and a half advantage.

Liu Hao was surprised and secretly pleased. The new strategy was certainly more advantageous, but now, it had been seen by him. For a professional player like him, he didn't need to memorize all the details. As long as he understood the idea, he could completely recreate it with his own skill level. But now, he didn't even need to bother with this, because after this first run, the next three dungeon runs would be for practicing coordination. Liu Hao was one of the five...

"Soft Mist, you take this Falling Flower, go this way, right..."

"Steamed Bun, move around, use a brick to stun that one first."

"Anti-Tank Missile push!!"

"Use a Cross Slash to connect, then a Charge Collision."

"Hateful Sword's technique is not bad!" Ye Xiu gave this newcomer a lot of praise.

"Where, where, God, take me along when you break the record!!" Liu Hao eagerly requested.

"Oh? Do you have a guild?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No."

"You may need to temporarily join a guild later. Do you have a problem with that?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Oh, so you're working for a guild? How much money can you get?" Liu Hao's seemingly normal question was actually malicious. He knew what Ye Xiu needed when helping a guild, but now he was with a team. So, would he share the reward with his teammates? If he did, it would be more difficult for him to make a Silver weapon; if he didn't, then Liu Hao's question would be a provocation.

As a result, Ye Xiu hadn't answered yet, but Steamed Bun Invasion had already said disdainfully, "Money? What money? That's being on TV, that's glory. Hateful Sword, you're really useless! I, representing the Aquarius constellation, despise you!"

"Ah..." Liu Hao's tone was a little apprehensive, but he was cursing in his heart: Steamed Bun, you idiot, you're working for free, you know? I was wondering why he would bring an idiot like you!!!

The other two didn't react to this. Liu Hao didn't count on Wind Following the Stream. This person was probably Su Mucheng, who was on the same side as Ye Qiu, and a little reward wouldn't be enough to provoke her. But what about the other woman? Why didn't she react either? Who was this person?

Liu Hao didn't wait for the woman's reaction, but heard Ye Xiu say, "Oh, there is a reward, some rare materials, but they're all what I need. What do you want?"

"I don't want anything... just asking casually," Liu Hao said. Of course, he didn't want anything, but he wanted to say this to plant the seeds of the most likely problem to cause conflict: unequal distribution of benefits. But now it seemed a little unsuccessful. The one suspected to be Su Mucheng didn't matter, and the other woman seemed to be completely unable to receive this signal. As for Steamed Bun, he was just an idiot. However, an idiot like that wouldn't be hard to provoke if you put your mind to it.

"The materials I asked the guild for are what I urgently need. As for the other things in the dungeon, everyone can share them. I don't want them. I don't think there should be a big problem, right?" Ye Xiu said.

Liu Hao thought that in the previous two dungeon runs, Lord Grim didn't seem to have taken anything. Whether it was the occasional green equipment dropped by the small monsters, or the blue equipment dropped by the Boss, he directly chose to give up. If he distributed like this every time he ran a dungeon, then it would indeed leave people speechless.

"Oh, oh, nothing. I was just curious and asking casually," Liu Hao said hastily. "Joining a guild is fine with me. Take me along. I also want to be on TV."

"Okay, I'll talk to the guild about it later... After all, we're helping the guild break the record. It would be a little awkward if there wasn't someone from their guild. Let's see what they think. If they don't mind, I'll take you along," Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, thank you, thank you," Liu Hao said, following the team. He could fully understand the final record-breaking strategy, and as a member of the team, he could subtly do something to lower the score. He was already pretending to hide his strength, so in some places, he could barely support himself while looking like he wasn't strong enough. When he really went to break the record, he could explode with all his strength. In this way, with the same strategy, he was more confident of getting a better score.

Even if he couldn't be a member of the team by then, with his team's coordination and technical strength as a professional player, he believed he could still beat this team.

Liu Hao had a clear view of the strength of the people on this side. Ye Qiu's Lord Grim was naturally beyond words. Wind Following the Stream didn't show off much, but after all, she was a teammate. Some operational habits, especially the extraordinary tacit understanding between her and Lord Grim, although there was no direct evidence, Liu Hao was certain that this person was Su Mucheng.

As for the other two, Liu Hao's skill had long detected that they were completely new players. He just didn't know how their operational level was quite excellent. But such people couldn't be compared with professional players after all.

Looking at Lord Grim on the screen, Liu Hao made a reluctant operation while showing a smug smile.

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