Chapter 1 The Beginning

The wild Boss of First Line Canyon, Yan Zhi Langren Ao Pan (Rockin' Loner Ao Pan), was undoubtedly the strongest existence on this map. At this moment, he was dressed in a long black shirt, carrying a greatsword-length katana on his shoulder, wandering leisurely through the canyon.

"Boss!" Baozi Invasion's voice was interspersed with the sound of saliva. For a veteran gamer, the word "Boss" was of course very alluring.

"Retreat, retreat," Ye Xiu suddenly called out.

The two didn't understand, but they obediently retreated.

"Someone's following behind," Ye Xiu's Lord Grim also retreated and hid behind the mountain wall.

"Who is it?" Tang Rou asked.

"The Boss has been spotted, and I estimate that someone will be here soon to kill it." While answering Tang Rou, Ye Xiu was looking at the map on his desktop. Baozi Invasion beside Lord Grim, however, somersaulted forward once, followed immediately by a somersault backward.

"Baozi, what are you doing?" Ye Xiu asked while looking at the map.

"Reconnaissance," Baozi Invasion said.

"Then what did you see?" Ye Xiu asked.

"That sword is really long," Baozi Invasion said.

"Very good… You guys also need to pay attention later, this Boss's weapon has the attack range of a greatsword, and the attack speed of a katana," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? We're going to kill it?" Tang Rou said.

"Of course."

"But someone's already coming," Tang Rou said.

"Stealing the Boss! I like it." Baozi Invasion said wretchedly, along with the sound of saliva.

"Isn't that bad?" Tang Rou was a little embarrassed.

"It's Tyrannical Ambition's people," Ye Xiu said.

"Still not going?" Tang Rou immediately changed her tune.

"We can't go yet," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?"

"How long did we spend killing the Yan Nu Wu (Flame Witch)?" Ye Xiu said.

"Three and a half hours…" Tang Rou certainly hadn't forgotten, but this was what happened these past few days. (Reminder: Don't substitute real-world time into the novel, although a month might have passed for us, it's only been a few days in the novel.)

"So, even if we go to kill it now, it's completely impossible to kill it before Tyrannical Ambition's people arrive," Ye Xiu said.

"So?"

"Baozi said it, we need to steal it," Ye Xiu said.

"Hahahaha…"

"Quiet down, Baozi," Ye Xiu quickly reminded.

Baozi Invasion quieted down, but Tang Rou also had her Soft Mist come over and peek out her head, "But we only have three people."

"The other side won't have too many people either," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?"

"Because Tyrannical Ambition's people are almost all with the people from the other guilds right now. They definitely don't want to alarm the other guilds about such a good thing as a wild Boss, so they can't mobilize many people, and the scale of the operation needs to be small, so there won't be many people coming to kill this Boss," Ye Xiu said.

"What if there are many?"

"Then we'll have to send a message in the world channel and make 'many' become 'more', 'extremely many'," Ye Xiu said.

"Hahaha, boss, you're too evil," Baozi Invasion said.

"It's tactics," Ye Xiu corrected him.

The three of them hid sneakily behind the mountain wall, occasionally raising half a head to peek out. The Tyrannical Ambition player was still carefully and attentively following behind Yan Zhi Langren Ao Pan. Clearly, he didn't want to be too far away, but was also afraid of entering Yan Zhi Langren Ao Pan's aggro range.

And this Yan Zhi Langren Ao Pan lived up to the name of a loner. As long as he spawned, he wouldn't wander around in a small area like other Bosses, but would roam extensively throughout the entire First Line Canyon.

"This guy doesn't know how long he's been watching the Boss, to actually not have encountered anyone yet, what luck," Ye Xiu said.

"He encountered them," Baozi Invasion said.

"If he encountered them, someone would have come to steal it already," Ye Xiu said.

"Boss, we're also people…" Baozi Invasion said.

Ye Xiu was speechless. How could he explain this? He might as well shut up!

"Are we just going to hide here the whole time?" Tang Rou asked.

"We can stay here. I looked at the map, if the other side comes from the entrance, it's impossible for them to appear in our location. They should run into the Boss head-on. But if the Boss walks too far, there won't be any terrain for us to use, and that would be a bit difficult! These guys, can they hurry up!" Ye Xiu said. The ones who were going to kill the Boss hadn't arrived, but the ones preparing for the Boss were getting anxious.

Tang Rou and Baozi Invasion became very silent at this moment. Although these two were already quite skilled technically, they were indeed still terrible in these areas.

Baozi Invasion just crouched on the ground, using his wretched specialty, occasionally rolling out to take a look.

"It's really getting further and further away," Baozi Invasion said.

"Is it possible for the Boss to suddenly turn around?" Tang Rou asked.

"This… I haven't deeply researched this," Ye Xiu said. In fact, he was currently reading the guide for Yan Zhi Langren Ao Pan. After quickly flipping through it, he found that the guide didn't mention this point, clearly no one thought this was a topic worth researching.

"What about if we go back? Could there be a better place at that intersection over there?" Tang Rou asked.

"That side is blocked," Ye Xiu told Tang Rou regretfully.

"What kind of terrain do we actually need?" Tang Rou asked.

"We need it to be close enough, so close that we can hit the Boss as soon as we show our faces," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Tang Rou asked.

"This is the rule in the game. If we attack later, it's definitely impossible to steal the Boss's ownership, so when we attack, we must both hit the Boss and kill them all. Only then will the Boss's ownership default to our team, which also has aggro with the Boss. Otherwise, even if their team has one person alive and not out of combat, even if we kill the Boss, the Boss's ownership won't be ours. Understand?" Ye Xiu explained.

"Uh… You mean we need to be able to quickly approach the battle, and it's more important to successfully eliminate them all than to hit the Boss?" Tang Rou said.

"That's right. So you see now, the Boss is walking further and further that way, and there's no place to hide in between at all. If a battle starts over there, no matter how perfect the timing is, they'll immediately notice us as soon as we show our faces. And we still have a long distance to cover. They have too many ways to deal with it in that amount of time, I won't explain them to you one by one. In short, it's difficult for us to steal the Boss in this state," Ye Xiu said.

"What do we do then?" Tang Rou was also anxious, and Soft Mist leaned forward to peek out, "It's really getting further and further away."

"Why don't we just go now? Steal it and lead it to a place with no one to kill it?" Tang Rou suggested.

"There won't be such a place," Ye Xiu said. "At worst, they'll do what I said before and let the whole world know about the Boss. Do you think there will still be a place with no one in this leveling area by then?"

"Eh…" Ye Xiu suddenly muttered to himself again, "This method seems not bad, we can try it if we really have to."

"What method?"

"Let's see when Tyrannical Ambition's people will come first," Ye Xiu said. "They're so slow."

"They're here, they're here!" Baozi Invasion suddenly shouted.

"Pull your head back, Baozi," Ye Xiu immediately called out. He knew that the other party would definitely be coming head-on. Although this distance was quite far, half a head might not be conspicuous, but what if they were seen if there were many people and many eyes!

Baozi Invasion retracted his head extremely quickly, and immediately dodged back.

"How many people came?"

"Five," Baozi Invasion said.

"Only five?" Ye Xiu was surprised. A wild Boss, and only five people came to kill it? This courage exceeded his expectations. He originally thought there would be at least ten people.

"It's five, I didn't see it wrong," Baozi Invasion said.

"Alright, I know," Ye Xiu nodded.

"What's your plan?" Tang Rou asked. At this time, the Boss was obviously no longer in the so-called "position to approach the battle the fastest."

"Pay attention to the world channel." As soon as Ye Xiu said this, a message immediately appeared in the world channel.

Lord Grim: Hidden Boss found at First Line Canyon 2441, 3212, come quick!!!

"Damn it!!"

Although a world message sent by a mere player was often instantly drowned out, the name Lord Grim was too eye-catching after all. At this moment, many people were cursing this name in their hearts. The instant it appeared in the world, it immediately attracted countless eyes, and the message sent by Lord Grim caused countless people to shout out.

However, the "Damn it" spoken from Ye Du Han Tan's mouth and the "Damn it" spoken from the mouths of the heads and experts of other guilds had very different meanings.

"Hidden Boss!" At the entrance of First Line Canyon, there was already an uproar, and some people couldn't wait to enter the canyon to go to this place.

"What's going on?" Ye Du Han Tan immediately sent a message to the guy watching the Boss.

"The Boss isn't there…" the guy watching the Boss replied quickly.

Ye Du Han Tan was stunned.

"Wait!" Chen Yehui on this side also suddenly shouted, but at this time there was a clamor of voices, and this shout of his was basically ignored by everyone except for those around him.

But the attention of these people was enough, because this was where the guys who could make decisions for the seven major guilds were.

"He happened to encounter a hidden Boss by such a coincidence, or is it a feint to lure the tiger away from the mountain?" Chen Yehui said in a deep voice.

Tyrannical Ambition and Excellent Dynasty were absolute mortal enemies, and Ye Du Han Tan extremely disliked Chen Yehui. This didn't need any special reason. I'm from Tyranny, you're from Excellent Era, and that was enough.

But at this moment, Ye Du Han Tan found that Comrade Chen Yehui was extremely lovable. His idea was too on point.

The current Ye Du Han Tan's first concern was the wild Boss, and his second concern was Lord Grim. He didn't want this false information to cause everyone to look for the Boss and ruin their chance to secretly kill the Boss.

However, Chen Yehui's idea might be able to convince the people in front of him, but what about the others? Those who couldn't find a team at the dungeon entrance, those who had already finished the dungeon at level 30-something, those who were full of wild hopes for the wild Boss were everywhere! This move by Lord Grim would still attract quite a few people in the end, right?

This guy, he's deliberately releasing fake information to try to escape in the chaos! Ye Du Han Tan was extremely disgusted with Lord Grim at this time. You had this move, why didn't you use it sooner, but now that we've really found the Boss, you use it, you wretch.