Hu Die Lan

Chapter 383 Two Types of Deterrence

Chapter 102 Lake Qianbo

The entrance to the Qianbo Lake dungeon was a rocky cave. A cannon blast echoed through the cave, terrifying the ten players. All ten of them clearly dodged the attack, but they felt as if they were about to die.

Where was Su Mucheng's Wind Following the Stream? No one cared. The ten players only cared about where no one was. They didn't think too much; seeing Su Mucheng's character, they immediately assumed Ye Qiu was nearby. Anything else... anything else didn't matter. Those two were enough to wipe out their entire team.

None of the ten were hit by the cannonball, but it was as if they had been pushed away by the blast wave, scattering in all directions. Apart from the direction directly facing Wind Following the Stream, there was the sound of people running and diving into the water in every other direction.

"No matter what, they can't possibly kill all ten of us like this!"

Everyone thought this. The thought wasn't wrong, but it was a little pathetic, because it meant sacrificing a small portion to allow the majority to survive.

Su Mucheng was indeed helpless. No matter how skilled she was, she couldn't possibly catch ten people alone in this situation. She simply chose one at random and flew off after them with her cannon.

The poor player was the lucky winner of the grand prize. Su Mucheng's Wind Following the Stream flew out with her cannon, and before landing, she had already fired a shot at him. The player was only focused on running, not bothering to defend himself at all, and the shot hit him right on the head.

One hit wasn't enough to kill him, but his heart was as good as dead. He knew that resisting was useless. The player floated on the surface of the water like a corpse.

As a result, this ridiculous move caused Su Mucheng to make a small mistake. In her opinion, the best option in this situation, whether to dodge, continue running, or find an opportunity to counterattack, was to dive into the water and temporarily leave the opponent's sight. So, she was also prepared to plunge straight into the water.

Who would have thought that this brother would give up so decisively and stop on the surface of the water? Wind Following the Stream dove into the water and went a little past him.

However, Su Mucheng, who had noticed, adjusted very quickly. Such a small flaw was a loophole in the eyes of a professional player, but this player didn't even realize that anything had happened.

In the water, Wind Following the Stream flipped over and turned around, ignoring the person's pathetic reaction. She fired a series of attacks while observing the direction the others were fleeing, preparing to seize the opportunity to kill another one if possible.

Without resistance, it didn't take long for this person to become a real floating corpse. He didn't revive for a long time, probably because he wasn't even at his computer.

Su Mucheng didn't pay much attention and had already chosen her next target during the attack. She fired a cannon in the water, and the recoil pushed her character directly out of the water. Amidst the splashing water, Wind Following the Stream rapidly chased after the fleeing player.

The technique of flying with cannons could also be used on water, which was much faster than swimming. From afar, Wind Following the Stream could be seen constantly rising and falling on the water surface, leaving behind circles of ripples as she rapidly approached the player.

This player had already noticed Su Mucheng chasing him and was frantically pressing the forward key on his keyboard, regretting that it wasn't a car accelerator, as no matter how hard he pressed, he couldn't accelerate.

Su Mucheng had chosen her target well. She didn't choose a class like a Gunslinger or Magician that could use skills to increase their movement speed. She knew that even if someone ten times more skilled than her came, they would eventually be caught by her on the water, as long as they continued to chase and run. This was one of the frustrating things that sometimes existed in game competition. These data-based structures couldn't be changed by anything.

In the blink of an eye, Wind Following the Stream caught up to the player. This person wasn't as pathetic as the previous one and had tried to dive into the water early to avoid her sight. However, in front of a professional player, his skills were just a display of incompetence and had no effect at all. Su Mucheng accurately caught up to him at the time she expected and fired her cannons. The person tried to resist, but ultimately only succeeded in making Su Mucheng spend ten more seconds.

Of the two teams of ten, Su Mucheng ultimately managed to eliminate two people. There were no more characters in sight, but Su Mucheng resolutely chose a direction and chased after them.

Three. Killing three was the limit that could be achieved with ten people escaping like this. And the third one required some luck. Su Mucheng had memorized that there was a character escaping in this direction, but she couldn't know if the person would change direction in the middle. After all, the direction had been out of her sight for a while.

"How's it going on your side?" Ye Xiu sent a message to her in the team.

"If only professional matches were played like this," Su Mucheng said with emotion.

"What?"

"They all ran away as soon as we came up..." Su Mucheng said.

"Haha, how many did you kill?"

"Two so far, not sure if I can catch the other one," Su Mucheng said.

"It depends on luck." Ye Xiu had already anticipated the situation.

"Yeah, how are you guys doing?" Su Mucheng asked.

"I haven't found one yet," Ye Xiu sent a sighing emoticon.

"I haven't seen one either," Ma Houpao followed up.

"None," Tang Rou said.

"None," Qian Cheng said as well.

The basic structure of every map was the same. Because there were many Glory players and characters couldn't pass through or overlap each other, places like the dungeon entrance, where teams were often organized, were very crowded. If there was only one entrance, it wouldn't be enough for people to enter and exit. So, every leveling area had many dungeon entrances. In the Qianbo Lake leveling area, each dungeon entrance was a small island, and there were dozens of small islands on the entire lake.

Su Mucheng running into two teams this time was quite amazing luck. In comparison, not running into any was the most likely scenario.

"The time... seems about right..." Qian Cheng looked at the time and the list of times that Ye Xiu predicted it would take the six guilds to clear the dungeon three times, and said in the message.

"That's the theoretical number. In reality, it can be slightly relaxed. We can wait a few more minutes," Ye Xiu replied.

"Roger."

"I've remembered the directions of a few people. Do you want to try to stop them?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Then I'll go!" Ye Xiu replied. Only he was confident in the water. The others would be hard to predict.

"Hey! I found one!" Tang Rou suddenly threw out a sentence and sent an excited emoticon.

The other three only knew this much, but Ye Xiu immediately turned his head and grasped firsthand, accurate information from Tang Rou's screen.

It was the dungeon team from the guild Treading the Void. Influenced by the team's style, there were many players in Treading the Void who practiced Ghost Swordsman. This was undoubtedly due to the influence of Li Xuan, the captain of the Void team.

Although the professional composition in the guild emphasized rationality, it could also reveal this kind of fan-like nature to some extent. After all, these staunch supporters were the foundation of the club's guild.

Therefore, there were many Ghost Swordsmen in Treading the Void, many Sword Masters in Blue Brook Guild, many Battle Mages in Excellent Dynasty, and many Grapplers in Tyrannical Ambition. These were not accidental phenomena.

At this time, there were two Ghost Swordsmen in this dungeon team from Treading the Void, and they naturally learned the classic Double Ghost combination of the Void team. Of course, players imitated players, but if they could really reach the level of the Double Ghost partnership of Li Xuan and Wu Yuce, they would have already stopped farming dungeons.

Tang Rou was only seeking a battle, so she didn't hide and directly stood outside the dungeon gate. As soon as the five people came out, the two sides made eye contact.

The five were naturally shocked, but Tang Rou was not as shocking as Su Mucheng after all. The ten people who saw Su Mucheng ran away directly, but the five people who saw Tang Rou could still take a few more glances to see what the situation was.

As a result, they discovered that apart from this Soft Mist, they didn't see any other characters.

"What kind of conspiracy is this!" The five couldn't help but think.

"There's something strange!" Someone said in the team message.

"Yeah, yeah!" Someone agreed.

"Let me say something..." Someone interjected and sent another message: "The other side has Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng. Do they need to play tricks to deal with us?"

The listeners were all stunned. The two who thought there was something strange earlier immediately blushed. That's right, what was their identity? To suspect that the strongest duo in Glory would need to play tricks to deal with them was really too arrogant.

"Could it be that it's just her alone?" One person was still a little suspicious.

"At least Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng are definitely not here, otherwise they would have already started fighting," someone said.

"So, there's still something strange!"

Before the five could come to a conclusion, Soft Mist shook her battle lance, and actually charged forward to attack.

"Absolutely don't go into the water. Just hold her on land and see what's strange." Knowing that Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng weren't there, the five finally had the mood to fight and immediately separated, each guarding one side, while preparing to welcome Soft Mist, and paying attention to their surroundings.

The small island in the lake was really small. If you stood on the rock at the entrance of the cave, you could basically see everything. There was really no place to hide, at most behind the entrance of the cave.

So the five were very careful to guard against this, and from time to time they had to raise their heads to look at the sky to see if there was anyone behind the cave, climbing to the top and jumping down to attack them.

In the end, they didn't guess or think of anything. Only the battle lance in front of them was really thrust into their eyes.

Soft Mist rushed forward and pointed directly at the healer among the five. Tang Rou wasn't the noob who didn't know anything anymore. After playing for this period of time and learning this and that from Ye Xiu, she had this basic judgment.

In a one-vs-many situation, if you didn't quickly kill the opponent's healer and let them have recovery, then even if you couldn't kill her, you could slowly drag her to death.

Sniping the healer was the only way to steer the battle in a favorable direction. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in for more chapters, support the author, and support authentic reading!)