Without looking at individual rankings, considering overall player strength, among the top ten players in the entire base, the Yongming Guild should be able to have four.
While the Yinhua Guild currently had two at most.
In terms of the quantity of top-tier players, Yinhua couldn’t compete with Yongming.
But the Yinhua Guild had a large number of mid to high-level players in its upper echelons. Coupled with the fact that there weren’t many top-tier players who could compete for dominance, they were fully loyal to their guild leader and were united as one.
Under the guidance of an intelligent top player, this group would possess formidable power.
Ning Su’s face lit up with a smile. “Although the Yinhua Guild doesn’t have things like the Gu insects or human pupae, they are also researching poisons to combat the Yongming Guild. They have many doctors, and they are very powerful.”
This male player in a white coat was the same doctor that Shi Tianzhu had assigned to Ning Su for a body check last time, where he discovered the Gu in Ning Su’s body.
Zhu Shuangshuang smiled, “Su Su, why do you look so proud?”
Ning Su nodded, indeed.
The Yinhua Guild was very powerful.
Shi Tianzhu, his mother, was very powerful.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you, I joined the Yinhua Guild.”
“...”
“No wonder you’re like this,” Zhu Shuangshuang chuckled. “It’s a bit surprising, but not unexpected. You and President Shi have a very close feeling.”
Su Wangsheng: “Yes, congratulations.”
Ji Mingrui: “Congratulations, Yinhua is a very good guild.”
Ning Su looked at Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao placed a four-petaled blood flower from the basket into Ning Su’s hand.
Ning Su muttered, “The flowers given to me long ago are already mine. Giving them to me once means they belong to me. Giving them again would be like borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha.” (T/N: Ning Su was just saying that since the flower was given to him before, there’s no use giving it to him again, or something like that.)
Ling Xiao said, “I suddenly recalled a memory. Someone picked the flowers that had grown from my heart and offered them to my statue. Is that also considered borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha?”
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Su pointed ahead, “Look at the instance.”
The topic and gaze were abruptly shifted to the instance.
In the instance, Ning Changfeng also realized what was going on. He looked at Shi Tianzhu, and his serious gaze revealed his thoughts.
In the game base, many players were watching together, discussing Shi Tianzhu’s strategy as they gathered in the game hall, the central street of the base, and the long bridge of the base.
On the barrage, there was a wave of [666]* and [awesome] flashing across Shi Tianzhu. (T/N: In Chinese internet slang, they’re essentially saying “Wow, impressive!” or “Great job!”)
Shi Tianzhu’s current position and respect in the base were probably accumulated time and time again like this.
At this moment, she was staring at the iron net. There were no signs of a struggle under the iron net, and the insects had disappeared.
She said to the player with the leather gloves, “Put it away.”
There were no people left under the iron net, only a pit.
The player with the leather gloves said regretfully, “They escaped.”
Shi Tianzhu didn’t feel too regretful. “If it were so easy to kill them, they wouldn’t be among the top ten players. It’s good enough to poison them.”
“Then should we chase and kill them while they’re weakened by the poison?”
Shi Tianzhu turned to look at Ning Changfeng.
[Ning Changfeng is poisoned too, right?]
[Let’s seize the opportunity to kill Ning Changfeng. The beautiful woman might become the first this year!]
[Kill him! Kill him!]
Ning Su: “...”
Shi Tianzhu: “You can leave.”
[Is it because Ning Changfeng saved her just now?]
[Is it because Ning Changfeng just arrived and hasn’t been poisoned yet?]
Shi Tianzhu let him go, seemingly not intending to fight him, which was a good thing.
Ning Changfeng was a bit unhappy. “Tell me to leave? Why don’t you leave?”
Shi Tianzhu frowned and glanced at him, then turned and left with her people.
“...”
Three hours into the instance, someone calculated that 26 players had died in the dense fog, leaving only 34 players.
Due to the nature of the competitive instance, killing one more player allowed all remaining players to move up one rank. As a result, players were far more enthusiastic about eliminating opponents than focusing on the instance itself.
This dense gray fog provided players with the best conditions for killing.
From walking through dense fog to relatively thin mist, when they saw the houses, Shi Tianzhu had already gathered seven players on her side.
They found a vagrant hiding in a trash can on the street.
A very kind and gentle female player on the team asked the vagrant, “Brother, we just arrived here. Why is the fog so thick?”
[???]
[Shi Tianzhu’s team actually plans to go through the dungeon storyline properly?]
[For this type of competitive dungeon instance, where players won’t really die in the dungeon, they could just kill other players and force them to withdraw. Why bother with all this fuss?]
The vagrant didn’t speak. Shi Tianzhu handed him a piece of bread, and the vagrant snatched it away, wolfing it down while saying, “This is Mist City. Fog is normal.”
“It’s been like this since five years ago. Now the fog is relatively light at noon, but it gets thicker after two o’clock.”
“You guys better hide. There are monsters in the fog, specifically targeting people!”
Several players exchanged glances.
Shi Tianzhu said, “Find a place to rest and prepare for the fierce battle after two o’clock.”
Zhu Shuangshuang said, “Following the storyline is useful. Constant high-intensity combat is unbearable for anyone. Knowing when to fight and when to rest is very important.”
Ji Mingrui nodded. “Initially, everyone thought players were scarier than monsters, but monsters can’t stay at the same level from start to finish. They might become scarier later. According to the current situation, monsters will appear again after two o’clock, and it will indeed be a fierce battle.”
“So, out of twenty-four hours in a day, perhaps only these few hours around noon are available for rest, which is really important.”
There were fewer people chatting nonsense in the barrage.
Shi Tianzhu and her team found a house. The doctor set up a circle of poison around it, and Shi Tianzhu summoned an octopus monster, completely enclosing the house.
While others were racing against time to kill each other, several people closed their eyes and rested.
Su Wangsheng: “Impressive, doing nothing and waking up with several places higher in the rankings.”
Ning Su: “...”
It’s a bit envious to have a good sleep in the final competition.
Shi Tianzhu’s side slept, and several people adjusted their perspectives to look at other players.
The Human Pupa Master and the Gu Witch were together.
The Human Pupa Master’s expression looked very ugly. “Gu Witch, I’ve lost too much blood and been poisoned again. If we can’t find a doctor, I might not last much longer.”
The Gu Witch’s body was swarming with countless gu insects, burrowing into his body to help absorb the toxins.
Even the Human Pupa Master felt a tingling sensation on her scalp when she saw it.
“What do you want to do?” the Gu Witch asked her.
After glancing at the system barrage for a moment, the Human Pupa Master said, “Another player just died. Now we’re all in the top 22.”
Regardless of her own ranking, she still didn’t want it to look too bad. “I’ll go kill a few more, at least to get into the top 15.”
“Preferably from the Yinhua Guild,” she gritted her teeth.
The Gu Witch replied, “The Yinhua Guild should be gathered together now. With your current condition, you can’t kill them.”
With one hand holding the human pupa canister, the Human Pupa Master disappeared into the gray mist. “Don’t worry about me!”
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