Hu Die Lan
Chapter 114 Record Control
"You played well," Steamed Bun Invasion said. "It seems my words have touched your soul, so I won't say any more."
"Leaving!" Liu Hao directly had Dilihen Jian withdraw from the arena. Continuing here, he felt that the new keyboard he'd gotten today was going to be smashed.
"God, you've broken the record again! Congratulations." Liu Hao still directly sent a message to Lord Grim to get information.
"Just messing around," Ye Xiu replied, the same as he'd said to the guild leaders.
"Breaking the record while just messing around, so amazing." Liu Hao complimented insincerely, cursing nonstop under his breath.
"It was also a fluke, took several tries to pass," Ye Xiu said.
"Oh, are there any open slots?" Liu Hao asked.
"Sorry…" Ye Xiu said.
"Then I'll log off first." Liu Hao gnashed his teeth and left.
"Goodbye."
Ye Xiu and the others, after breaking the record, were guaranteed a purple equipment reward, and in the end, they got a level 25 purple leather armor. Among the five, only Soft Mist's Battle Mage had leather armor proficiency, so Tian Qi and the others naturally chose to give up. Lord Grim's unspecialized class didn't have any proficiency, but after expressing his disdain for leather armor defense, in the end, Soft Mist wore the leather armor.
The unspecialized class was quite miserable in terms of armor because they lacked proficiency, which was a disadvantage.
After distributing the equipment, the five continued to grind in Frost Forest to earn experience. On the way, they saw someone on the world channel claiming that the Moon Guild was responsible for the Burial Grounds dungeon record.
"Moon Guild? Sounds a little familiar!" Ye Xiu muttered to the five.
"Don't know," Su Mucheng said.
"Don't understand," Tang Rou said.
"Our guild…" Tian Qi and Yu Zhong Mian's faces were flushed, and they immediately roared on the guild channel. The people in the guild hadn't even said hello to them, and when they saw their names on the dungeon team, they inexplicably did this kind of promotion. The Moon Guild was just an ordinary player guild, unlike Blue Brook Guild, which was supported by a club. Their strength was far behind the big guilds, and they wouldn't even think about records based on their own strength.
"Oh, you guys' names are on it anyway, just shout a little as a joke." The players in the Moon Guild said to the two with a smile.
"That's right. Speaking of which, you seem to be very familiar with this Lord Grim? When can you get him to really help our guild break a record, so we can also be in the spotlight?" Everyone on the guild channel was clamoring.
Jealousy! This was naked jealousy! Tian Qi and Yu Zhong Mian thought indignantly. These guys were just jealous that they had mixed with Lord Grim several times on TV and been on multiple leaderboards, and now they were exploding with jealousy after getting on one more time, so they were deliberately teasing them. This behavior was really petty. The two of them didn't know how to explain it to Lord Grim, and the people in the guild wouldn't listen, and these guys were still constantly spamming the world channel, claiming the new record was theirs.
Ye Xiu also quickly received private messages from the guild leaders. Lan He and Ye Du Han Tan had never heard of the insignificant Moon Guild, and just asked what was going on.
Ye Xiu had no choice but to say it was a friend's joke.
The two guild leaders breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Du Han Tan took advantage of the topic and asked Ye Xiu if he would take orders from the two guilds and break his own records.
"That's not good!" Ye Xiu replied. "I can't guarantee that others won't be able to break the records I set, but I definitely won't break them myself."
"Then this current record doesn't count?" Ye Du Han Tan said.
"Of course, this doesn't count…" Ye Xiu replied.
"How much can this record be improved?" Ye Du Han Tan asked.
"Well… if the team composition is better, about three minutes!" Ye Xiu said.
Three minutes! Ye Du Han Tan gasped. If the current record was improved by three minutes, then it would break the tenth server's highest record again. This was clearly a height that ordinary player experts could no longer reach. If it was such a result, then as long as others didn't hire experts of the same level to play for them, it would basically be safe!
"What if you're level 27?" Ye Du Han Tan asked.
"The improvement from level 27 to 25 isn't that big, but there's still some, probably can get within 20 minutes!" Ye Xiu replied.
"Uh, how many guilds have contacted you so far?" Ye Du Han Tan asked a relatively sensitive question.
"Not too many…" Ye Xiu looked at the chat window in front of him. Besides Ye Du Han Tan, there was only Lan He from Blue Brook Guild. The other big guilds hadn't contacted him at all, apparently because the competition for the current dungeon records was so high-end and chaotic, that the major guilds had entered a wait-and-see state.
This situation was not what Ye Xiu wanted to see. He also knew where the problem was: he had lost control of the highest dungeon record.
From a short-term perspective, he had received two benefits from the Frost Forest record competition. However, the final record still fell into the hands of the Excellent Dynasty, and Ye Xiu seemed indifferent to it on the surface, but he knew in his heart that this was a heavy blow.
It was because of the existence of such a phenomenon that so many guilds were in a wait-and-see state. Because from this point of view, Lord Grim was not a guarantee of dungeon records. Even if the records he set were much higher than the average level, there were still people who could break his records in the tenth server. If this phenomenon continued to be maintained, then of course no one would come to him to break records again.
Currently, the people from Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition would still look for him, all because these two had cooperated with him and had personally witnessed his level, so they still had confidence in him. But the Frost Forest record had probably already left some shadows in the hearts of these two, and the next Burial Grounds competition would be another touchstone. If he still broke the record this time but couldn't occupy the highest record, although he could still get paid, probably even these two wouldn't look for him for the next dungeon.
If he could improve the Frost Forest dungeon again, it would be a powerful counterattack, but the current record made Ye Xiu feel a bit powerless. As he had said before, this was just a low-level dungeon. Whether it was him or Liu Hao's team, their levels were far above this dungeon. Therefore, in front of this dungeon, neither side had any tactical advantage. So, when Liu Hao also went all out, the record set by his more suitable class combination made Ye Xiu feel a little helpless.
And he didn't have many candidates and accounts in his hands to form the best team, but the Excellent Dynasty could always provide the required combination. As a professional player, in addition to the class he was best at, he must also have some understanding of all other classes. Changing a class, although he couldn't exert the same powerful power as his main class, but again, it was just a low-end dungeon, and professional players didn't need 100% of their strength at all…
While Ye Xiu was thinking about these things, he started the Frost Forest dungeon journey with the other four. During the process, he was not only fighting monsters, but also carefully observing this dungeon, wanting to see if there was any breakthrough solution. As a result, after four runs, he still didn't have any ideas. Su Mucheng logged off after the dungeon, and Tang Rou and the others were preparing to continue leveling up, but Ye Xiu didn't follow along, but left the game first.
"Why aren't you playing?" Tang Rou got up and stretched, strolling to the front desk to greet Ye Xiu.
"Oh, I'm researching the next dungeon," Ye Xiu said.
"The next dungeon?"
"Burial Grounds!" Ye Xiu was searching online for a lot of information about this dungeon.
"What about Frost Forest?" Tang Rou was quite concerned that the Frost Forest record had been broken by someone else again.
"That… unless we have equipment upgrades, it may be difficult to break through," Ye Xiu said. The four dungeon runs just now were completely clueless, but Ye Xiu still had hope for the Burial Grounds.
Tang Rou was silent. Although she was very unconvinced, she knew that she really didn't have much say. Her judgment in this area was several streets behind Ye Xiu!
"Is there any problem with playing Burial Grounds like this now?" Tang Rou worked hard to learn.
"The problem is there isn't… but, our goal is to set a record that others can't break!" Ye Xiu said.
"Yeah, yeah, this is good!" Tang Rou liked this kind of goal.
Tang Rou went back to continue playing the game, and Ye Xiu continued to search for information.
"There must be new tactics…" Ye Xiu thought to himself. After reading a lot of information, his heart was shaken. It wasn't that he found something in the information, but that he found that the information was quite old. Obviously, it was because this was an extremely low-end dungeon, so except for the players who had researched it in the initial stages of exploration, the later players all followed the initial strategy ideas, and there were occasional changes in some details, but the general direction remained unchanged. After all, such a low-end dungeon, in a level stage that flashed by, didn't have much research value.
Looking at the information, checking the data, and combining it with the memories of the past few days in the dungeon, gradually, a plan emerged in Ye Xiu's mind.
"Very good, we can try it tomorrow." Ye Xiu reorganized his thoughts in his mind, and even wrote down a few key points on hand, and finally nodded. Then he re-entered the game, and Tang Rou immediately sent a message: "How is it?"
"Got some ideas, let's try the dungeon tomorrow."
"Okay."
The two each performed their tasks and leveled up. Nothing was said overnight.
The next day, Excellent Era Club, Liu Hao received a call from Chen Yehui early in the morning.
"Team Liu, Ye Qiu broke the Burial Grounds record." Chen Yehui said.
"I know, I was there last night!" Liu Hao replied.
"Oh… I had something to do last night, I just found out, but I don't think the results are anything amazing?" Chen Yehui said.
"Well, his strength is definitely more than this, so we don't need to rush to attack," Liu Hao said.
"By the way, according to news from Tyrannical Ambition and Blue Brook Guild, Ye Qiu is charging a fee to help them break dungeon records." Chen Yehui said.
"Charging a fee? Hahaha, so he's selling his skills! Is God Ye living frugally now? How much is a dungeon run? I can't buy him to be a coolie!" Liu Hao was very happy.
"Uh, he's not charging money, he's specifically asking for some rare materials," Chen Yehui said.
"Wants rare materials!" Liu Hao suddenly thought of something.