Quadruple split.

Chapter 2293 A Drop in the Ocean

[That just now...]

When he was less than three meters away from the trapdoor on the top of the tower, the Holy Light King, who had already collected all seven [Ice Star Emblems] and completed the "speed pass" without any damage, suddenly stopped and shook his head slightly: "It should be an illusion, right?"

After saying that, he breathed a sigh of relief, then took a step forward, pretending to continue walking towards the top of the tower, and then -

"What the hell! Normally, people who say things like that would be killed in less than five minutes! That thing floating outside the window just now doesn't look like an original product from this instance!"

While the Holy Light King burst into a lot of complaints due to excessive depression, he frantically added various enhancement skills to himself. In just less than ten seconds, he turned himself into a skeleton surrounded by holy light, blinding the eyes, as if he had traveled through time from those low-quality animation CGs of "Skeleton Gold Servers" more than 20 years ago. Just looking at him made people feel safe.

but--

"Isn't this just telling people to fire at me?!"

Lao Wang, who was almost blinded by the special effects on his body, complained a lot, then waved his hand to erase the special effects on his body that were enough to make a mid-level professional have quasi-high-level combat power. After a brief pause, he made a move that left all the spectators dumbfounded, stunned, brain-shortened, and incomprehensible.

He began to - take off his clothes!

Or to be more precise, he was - stealing equipment!

In fact, when the Holy Light King took off the white headband, which was almost the same color as his head and it was difficult to even tell that it was an equipment, people did not realize the seriousness of the matter; when he untied the two white rune cloths that served as gloves and wrist guards, everyone still did not react much.

But when he began to clumsily use his ten finger bones to tore his robe, which looked like a rag but actually had a large number of scratches and magic patterns engraved on the inside, and tried to pull it off his body, people's faces began to change subtly.

And when the Holy Light King successfully transformed himself into a half-naked skeleton, exposing his clavicle, shoulder blades, ribs, sternum, humerus and lumbar vertebrae in front of countless people, everyone finally became unable to sit still and began to feel uneasy.

In the end, when the Holy Light King slowly and firmly untied his belt, kicked off his boots, and tried to get rid of his last and literal "fig leaf", people's anxiety finally turned into madness. Those who compiled the reports held their breath, preparing to leave a strong mark in the history of the game. Parents turned off the broadcast or covered their children's eyes, vowing to protect their offspring's pure childhood. The haters were the first to criticize the official standards of "Boundary of Innocence". Even the beautiful woman who regarded herself as a professional commentator covered her eyes with a scream, and only dared to peek at the big screen through her fingers.

until--

Xue Yin, a regular guest of [Crime Battle·Team Battle] and a household name idol, scratched her hair and said in confusion, "There's nothing good about a naked skeleton, right?" People suddenly realized and were shocked to find that... a naked skeleton really doesn't seem to be that good.

Then, when everyone looked at Old Wang, who had finally stripped himself completely and turned into a pure skeleton, they didn't feel anything. Except for a few exceptions like Juechen Tianping who were extremely averse to skeletons, the vast majority of people watching the live broadcast realized that this naked skeleton, apart from looking of good texture, did not have any special features that would make people's eyes light up or turn black. There was really nothing worth writing about.

Lao Wang, who had felt this way from the beginning, also did not feel ashamed. Although he was indeed a man who cared about his reputation, considering that he had no objection to taking X-rays during [Pai Lao]'s regular physical examinations, it was enough to show that he had not evolved to the level where he was embarrassed to let others admire his skeleton.

So, Lao Wang continued to carry out his plan according to his own ideas. For example, he silently performed some kind of magic that was similar to a magic but looked a little weird, which greatly catalyzed the two balls of soul fire that were originally only burning in his eye sockets, making them so fierce that they could fill his entire skull. Not only that, he even performed a secondary catalysis on this basis, which had a very harmful visual effect, allowing the azure flames to spread to his chest cavity, turning himself into a skeleton with surging soul fire flowing throughout his body.

Then, the Holy Light King took out a piece of golden solid the size of a soap and smeared it slowly and carefully on his body. After observing for about thirty seconds, he finally concluded with a smile that this action was - polishing.

Next, Lao Wang spent about three minutes carefully "polishing" himself, making his already very good body texture even smoother and shinier. He even carefully removed the white marks around his skull that were left by wearing a head (bone) hoop for a long time.

  After completing the above actions, Lao Wang took out a dagger that looked low-key but noble, and looked at it carefully for a long time before nodding with satisfaction. Then he straightened his chest and raised his head, took a deep breath, and then... he ran towards the trap door several meters away!

Almost at the same time, countless ghostly shadows rolled up from downstairs like a boiling pot. Although there were many undead creatures such as banshees and ghosts among them, the largest number were various skeletons, among which regular arms such as skeleton warriors, skeleton archers and skeleton mages accounted for a considerable proportion.

Since the Holy Light King was undoubtedly a spellcaster, his movement speed could not be compared with those agile warrior undead creatures. It was also for this reason that even though he was only a few meters away from the trapdoor, when he rushed forward, he was still caught up from behind by the large army of skeletons and "swamped" in the blink of an eye.

……

"ah!!!"

At the same time, Xue Yin, not knowing whether she was worried about the Holy Light King or frightened by the large number of undead creatures swarming to the center of the screen, let out a short scream and subconsciously held her virtuous wife's arm.

Smiling Face stroked his chin and spoke on behalf of countless viewers, wondering, "What's going on with contestant Shengguang Lao Wang? He was fine just now, how come he was overwhelmed by those monsters in the blink of an eye?!"

"..."

Because he knew very well that Xiaomian would inevitably see the clues, the handsome guy had no intention of responding to the conversation. He just crossed his arms calmly, hoping that the guy would realize how embarrassing the situation was and then explain himself.

After all, whether the four hidden commentators, Smiley, Handsome, Beautiful, and Good Wife, can see the specific situation is one thing, and whether other people can see it is another. It is no exaggeration to say that in the eyes of the handsome guy, the scene just now is probably difficult to detect the specific situation, not to mention ordinary audiences, even professional players...

"vitality."

Xinglong stared at the hundreds of skeletons in the camera that were constantly pouring from the trapdoor to the top of the tower. He immediately gave a clear answer to the question just asked by the smiling face, saying seriously: "Lao Wang should have restored his vitality for a moment just now! Although the amplitude is very small, it is enough to attract a large number of undead creatures to him in this environment!" A flash of admiration flashed in the handsome guy's eyes, and then he followed Xinglong's words and asked: "We all understand the relationship between vitality and those undead creatures. Can you tell me specifically how you saw it, contestant Xinglong?"

"I noticed that the moment Lao Wang raised his head, a dark shadow seemed to 'shrink' from the depths of the flames in his chest."

Xinglong had no intention of keeping the secret. He continued to pay attention to the undead creatures that were flooding onto the top terrace of the Ice Star Tower. He said, "Personally, I think that outline is very similar to a 'heart', and the reactions of the undead creatures behind it have proved my guess."

The handsome guy nodded slightly, and suddenly said: "I see, but in this case, wouldn't Saint Light Lao Wang be..."

"Old Wang is fine!"

This time it was Xue Yin who answered him. Although she didn't seem particularly smart, this planet-level idol with a very sharp intuition clapped her hands vigorously and said proudly, "Look, Lao Wang's health didn't drop much at all! I think it should be the 'vitality' that Brother Xinglong mentioned that only appeared for a short while, and when those monsters rushed over, Lao Wang had already died again."

The beauty smacked her lips and clapped her hands: "Then the purpose of his doing this can only be..."

"cover!"

Smiling, he narrowed his eyes, and spoke in a rather pleasant tone—

"This is a very, very, very wise decision!"

……

"Roar--!!!"

Almost at the moment when hundreds of skeletons madly rushed out to the terrace at the top of the tower, the giant dragon that had been waiting in the lead-gray sky for a long time swooped down in an instant, and suddenly braked in mid-air when it was about twenty meters away from the top of the tower, trying to avoid dozens of vicious attacks that rose into the sky like fireworks and were surging with coldness through a heavy right-angle turn.

The bad news was that the Thick Earth Dragon Christina Yuk's evasion, although not clumsy, was so heavy that it had nothing to do with agility and was completely useless. It failed to help her dodge even a single attack, and she was instantly filled with damage from the large number of ghosts and gargoyles that suddenly appeared in the air. She let out a roar (Woo! It hurts... Although it doesn't hurt much, it hurts just thinking about it!).

The good news is that these damages only caused about 3% loss of Christina's health. In other words, "although the defense was broken, it was limited to breaking the defense."

By the way, if you read the above paragraph at a relatively normal reading speed, Christina's health has most likely recovered to 97.5%. If you read slowly enough, she may have recovered her health with your help.

However, although her health has not been challenged too much for the time being, Christina's current situation is still somewhat severe. The reason is that although this [Ice Star Tower] has lost most of the lord-level undead such as 'Skeleton Dragons (dragon-shaped undead creatures made of non-dragon skeletons, which have nothing to do with real dragons)', 'Black Soul Knights', 'Withered Giants', etc., the 'Guardians' who suddenly appeared on the top of the tower at this moment should not be underestimated.

Although the surroundings seemed empty a few seconds ago, as soon as Christina, who was clearly emitting the breath of the living, approached a certain range, a large number of high-level undead appeared in the air one after another. Although the crazy attacks of these monsters could hardly pose much threat to Christina individually, with the support of numbers and the [Ice Star Tower], if these undead creatures were allowed to desperately inflict damage, even Christina would not be able to hold on for too long.

[Five minutes, if you can't figure it out, come back and don't blame yourself, I'll find another way.]

Almost at the same time, Lucia's voice was secretly poured into Christina's ears through the [Ritual Eye] that appeared behind Christina at some point.

In desperation, instead of blaming herself, Christina wanted to turn around and run back to reunite with everyone. While enduring the overwhelming attack that washed over her like a tide, she stared with her eyes wide open, desperately searching for the 'breakthrough' observed by Lucia, that is, the powerful backing of [Card Master], the Holy Light King who climbed to the top of the tower alone!

However, the reality went against his will. At this moment, the Holy Light King, who had mixed in with a large number of people and rushed to the top floor with him, had already completed his invisibility. After stripping himself naked, he mixed in with these high-level skeleton soldiers like a grain of sand on the beach, a drop of water in the stream, a star in the vast universe, a fool in the fan circle, and perfectly integrated into the environment!

Besides that, Lao Wang was pleasantly surprised to find that he didn't need Guo Shi Wushuang, who was most likely playing the role of the 'descendant of the big boss' mentioned in the mission description. He could use the seven [Ice Star Emblems] in his hand to secretly seize control of the tower. So if nothing unexpected happened, as long as he could continue to hide among the skeletons for a minute or two without being discovered, then as long as he completed the control of the psychic tower, there would be basically no suspense in this game!

  So the question is, what is the probability that Christina will find the Holy Light King within one or two minutes?

The answer is beyond doubt. If the current situation of hundreds of skeleton soldiers camping near the trapdoor continues, then even if Christina is given ten times the time, she will not be able to find the Holy Light King.

However, what if those phantoms and banshees that seemed to appear out of thin air in the sky swooped down and lifted the skeleton warriors, skeleton archers, and skeleton mages that came up with Lao Wang into the air, allowing them to better attack the invaders?

The answer is, unless Lao Wang can run to the pile of skeleton assassins that have not been taken to the sky as soon as possible, the probability of being discovered is definitely more than 90%.

And what if... the Skeleton Assassins went into hiding without hesitation the moment their companions took off, waiting for their 'prey' to cast their nets?

Then-

"You're done!"

Chapter 2284: End