Hu Die Lan
Chapter 266 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The situations of these two people were so completely opposite.
Ye Xiu, with careful calculations, didn't want to disturb even a single resident of the City of Sin. Tang Rou, on the other hand! It was a lively scene. Her Soft Mist was running wildly, and in the few glimpses Chen Guo caught while looking back, she saw at least a dozen residents chasing after her! This Tang Rou was causing quite a commotion.
Moreover, it looked like she was making it even bigger. If she continued to run wildly without paying attention, she would trigger the aggro range of another resident in the rain and fog and immediately add a new pursuer.
Tang Rou wasn't so bold as to recklessly provoke so much trouble; she didn't want to either. It was just that the residents of the City of Sin had a large aggro range and were eager to fight. If you were just leveling, these characteristics wouldn't be too troublesome, and sometimes they could even be convenient. But in this situation, wanting to avoid alarming even a single monster like Ye Xiu did relied mainly on experience and awareness; good technique was secondary.
As a result, Tang Rou was completely unable to reach Ye Xiu's level. Not long after entering the City of Sin, she had already provoked so many residents.
At the beginning, Tang Rou was still killing the targets, but after killing one and seeing how little experience she got, she didn't want to waste her time like this. However, in the face of the war-loving residents of the City of Sin, it wasn't so easy to choose not to fight.
Chen Guo watched for a while and felt that Tang Rou was in great danger. She was just regretting that she couldn't come over to help, so she quickly turned back to tug at Ye Xiu.
"Hey, hey, don't pull, don't pull!" Ye Xiu was continuously hitting the Christmas thieves with his operations. He couldn't withstand this dragging. With one slip, the Christmas thief took the opportunity to slash him, and then escaped Lord Grim's continuous attacks. This Christmas thief was a real thief; his profession was Thief. Now that he had been discovered, he didn't want to escape. It was just that he had been caught by Lord Grim's continuous attacks as soon as he started fighting, and he didn't have a chance to fight back. Now that he had a chance, he rolled back and immediately began to wander around.
"Oh no!" Chen Guo saw it and immediately knew it was bad. This was a common tactic used by Thief players, wandering around and setting traps to limit the opponent's movements. The Christmas thieves designed for this Glory event were different from the past; they had been instilled with some programming that professional players had been using for a long time. This monster looked so lifelike, as if there was a player controlling it.
This Thief player's trap flow wasn't guaranteed to win, but it was very annoying. Accidentally stepping on a trap and getting blown up, poisoned, or stuck would ruin your mood. Many players were defeated by Thieves not because they were technically inferior, but because they lost their psychological balance. In this kind of play style, they would lose their composure, become impatient, make more mistakes, and eventually be defeated.
Chen Guo, with her personality of being easily ignited by Ye Xiu's casual remarks, was obviously very afraid of this kind of play style. She had lost countless games to Thieves like this. Seeing this situation, she couldn't help but substitute herself into it, and she was anxiously flustered, feeling sorry for messing up Ye Xiu's monster hunting.
But... this was really a bit of unnecessary worry. How could Ye Xiu be affected by such a small disturbance?
After a brief loss of initiative, the Christmas thief who had retreated had already dropped a trap. Moving horizontally one step, he was preparing to set up the second one when three Anti-Tank Shells flew in succession, spreading out at angles to cover a horizontal surface. The Christmas thief had nowhere to hide and was hit head-on. He couldn't put down the trap. Lord Grim had already chased up with an arrow step, and the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella in his hand was in the form of a spear again. A Sky Strike threw him into the air once more.
The battle situation instantly returned to the previous scene. The Christmas thief had no power to fight back under Ye Xiu's continuous attacks. The situation that Chen Guo had stirred up by pulling was resolved in a few strokes. Ye Xiu operated while taking the time to ask, "What's the matter?"
"Ah?" Chen Guo was worried about the situation and had forgotten about Tang Rou's situation. At this time, she glanced back again, and Tang Rou's situation was only more difficult. She quickly said, "It's Little Tang's side. She's being chased by a lot of monsters!"
Ye Xiu listened and took the time to glance at Tang Rou's side: "I told her how to get out of the monsters' sight and get rid of aggro as soon as possible!"
For Tang Rou, Ye Xiu didn't expect her to be able to avoid alarming even a single resident like himself, so he had reminded her early on how to quickly get rid of the monsters she had attracted.
Get out of sight!
This method of eliminating aggro was universal. However, on flat terrain, when you could get out of sight, the distance was far enough to eliminate aggro. So getting out of sight was mostly used in city streets or in places like First Line Canyon.
In short, it was to turn more when running away, and to go around walls. Getting out of sight wouldn't completely eliminate the aggro of the monsters at once, but it would greatly weaken it. After turning like this a few times, the aggro value would quickly be cleared to zero, and at this time there was no target in sight, so no new aggro would be generated, and the monsters would naturally no longer chase.
In the City of Sin, a map where the monsters were extremely aggressive, you had to use this method to disengage. Otherwise, if you ran a marathon, the monsters would have enough patience to chase you for a long time. This was a manifestation of their love of fighting.
"She did it that way, but..."
But what? But the old aggro residents were finally gotten rid of, but the new residents that were encountered generated new aggro. Tang Rou was in such a cycle. She didn't have time to fight the Christmas thieves at all, and at this time she had pulled such a long string of residents, even if she wanted to turn around and fight, she would almost certainly lose.
"What are her coordinates?" Ye Xiu asked Chen Guo. He was separated by a machine, and he couldn't see the small numbers of the coordinates clearly.
Chen Guo quickly leaned over to look. Tang Rou was so nervous and focused that she didn't know that the two people beside her were worried about her. She didn't turn her head at all. Chen Guo saw the coordinates clearly and was about to turn back to tell Ye Xiu when she suddenly saw a figure appear in the corner of Tang Rou's screen.
Tang Rou was also very quick, and immediately turned her perspective to aim at the figure.
The figure came from the roof of a building on the street. As soon as Tang Rou saw the attire, she immediately recognized it: Gunner! Her most familiar profession. And it was a female Gunner, her familiarity increased by 100%.
Gender didn't affect the character's attributes or equipment attributes, but the appearance was very different. This female Gunner had chosen a head of long hair that draped over her shoulders, which was flying around in the drizzle. The heavy cannon in her hand had already been raised, the muzzle of the cannon was gathering light, and in an instant, an explosion occurred. A laser beam had already been fired. The female Gunner did a light backflip on the roof, perfectly unloading the recoil of this charged laser cannon.
Chen Guo couldn't hear the sound effects of Tang Rou's game. She heard more of the sounds of her own game. However, Tang Rou was following the game perspective very well. At this time, she turned and followed the laser cannon with her perspective. The laser cannon was bombing the center of the dozen or so residents near her. For them, who only had aggro because they had entered the field of vision, the aggro value of this attack was much greater. That is to say, the female Gunner had instantly generated aggro. The residents gnashed their teeth and rushed towards the female Gunner on the roof, leaving only three or four who had not been hit by the laser cannon, still stubbornly chasing Tang Rou's Soft Mist.
"Oh!"
Chen Guo heard Tang Rou suddenly respond like this, and she must have been talking to someone in the game, and at this time it was naturally the female Gunner.
Then a few more cannonballs were thrown down, and the three or four residents were also led away by the female Gunner. More than a dozen residents all gave up on Soft Mist and rushed over to climb the wall, trying to chase after the female Gunner on the roof.
But the female Gunner's figure quickly disappeared, apparently jumping down to the other side of the street. In this way, it was a very strong escape from the field of vision. The residents were also very agile in climbing the walls. This was a skill that even players didn't have. A group of guys either climbed or jumped, and quickly flipped to the next street. But after a while, the Gunner jumped to the roof again, and then jumped down on this side of the street.
After a few simple back and forths, the aggro was erased cleanly. More than a dozen residents all stayed on that street, and were no longer interested in the target that had thrown them out of their sight several times.
This method of getting out of sight to eliminate aggro was really simple, clear, and efficient, but unfortunately Tang Rou couldn't use it.
The jumping ability of the Mage class was the lowest by nature, and they couldn't jump on such a roof. But it wasn't just the Mage class. Even the other five classes couldn't jump on this roof with their original jumping ability without relying on equipment to increase their jumping ability.
Those who could get up there had to rely on special means.
For example, Gunners' flying guns and flying cannons, Magic Scholars riding broomsticks to fly, and Assassins' aerial leaps, etc.
A Battle Mage could also get up there with some skills in the future, but at the moment, a level 31 Battle Mage had no way to do it.
The female Gunner jumped back to this street and walked towards Tang Rou's Soft Mist.
"Thank you." Chen Guo heard Tang Rou say thank you, and also saw the name of the Gunner: Feng Shu Yān Mù.
"Do you know her?" Seeing that Tang Rou was no longer in danger, Chen Guo pulled her aside and asked.
"Yeah, she's Ye Xiu's friend. We often run dungeons together," Tang Rou said.
"She looks pretty good!" Chen Guo said.
"Yeah!" Tang Rou said.
"Am I more powerful?" Chen Guo asked with a smile.
"Well... um... um..." Tang Rou said vaguely.
"What?"
"You asked if you were more powerful. She said um, which means she's more powerful than you!" Ye Xiu coldly translated for Chen Guo.