Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1320. Echoes from the Abyss (10)

A sinister voice came from behind the mask. With a wave of the scepter, countless musical notes transformed into sharp blades, shooting towards the crowd.

Guo Yuelang's small light shield immediately deployed, blocking the incoming musical note blades.

"Everyone scatter! Don't get hit by the blade!"

Xin also didn't notice that the humanoid demon mist B's scepter was engraved with a reversed sequence of musical notes, consistent with the "silence" on the parchment scroll.

“Attack the reverse note on the scepter!” Xin also said.

Ouyang Yu immediately teleported behind the demonic mist, and thrust his silver dagger toward the scepter.

The scepter emitted a "hum," and the musical note blade instantly turned, shooting towards Ouyang Yu.

Guo Yuelang teleported to Ouyang Yu's side, his light shield blocking the blade.

Zhao Chen used telekinesis to try to stop the Boss from swinging.

Lin Xi suddenly thought of the resonant sound of a pipe organ, so she immediately ran to the pipe organ and played the correct sequence of notes.

The resonant sound from the pipe organ collided with the sound waves of the demonic mist, creating a powerful shockwave that caused the black mist to dissipate.

Lin Xi's fingers pressed rapidly on the piano keys.

—This is so exciting!
—They really don't let people rest for a moment!

—The player hasn't even had a sip of water yet!
—This dungeon, which no player has ever cleared, is indeed full of traps and obstacles.

The demonic mist was forced to retreat by the resonant sound, and an angry roar came from beneath the skull mask.

With a wave of its scepter, countless reversed musical notes coalesced into a giant sound wave sphere, which crashed towards the organ.

"Watch out!" Guo Yuelang shouted, teleporting to Lin Xi's side and deploying his light shield at full power.

With a loud "boom", the sonic sphere collided with the light shield.

Lin Xi was so shocked that he spat out a mouthful of blood, and half of the keys on the organ were broken.

Huang Jingjing quickly teleported to Lin Xi's side and began to heal Lin Xi's injuries.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the demonic mist closed in, and the scepter thrust towards Lin Xi.

The throwing knife in Lin Xi's hand flew towards the demonic mist and pierced it deeply into the demonic mist's chest.

At the same time, the last sound rang out.

The demonic mist convulsed violently, and the black mist instantly dissipated, revealing the musical note crystal that shimmered with red light inside.

"Destroy the crystal!" Bai Yueming said, and was about to step forward.

"Wait!" Guo Yuelang quickly stopped Bai Yueming. "The parchment scroll says that destroying it will trigger an explosion!"

Bai Yueming immediately stopped, but the demonic mist had already lost control, the crystal began to expand, and the red light grew brighter and brighter.

The crystal exploded with a "bang," and a huge shockwave swept through the entire space. The pipe organ shattered into pieces, and the musical notes on the walls fell off one after another.

Everyone was thrown into the air by the shockwave and fell to the ground unconscious.

—Holy shit!
Holy crap!!!
—Are you all dizzy?

—Did she faint? Or is she dead?

—He's not dead, the live stream is still going strong.

—Our live stream is still going strong because 123 has multiple lives.

Are other people's live streams still running?

—They're all there.

—That's good. It seems he didn't die, but just fainted.

—Thankfully, we had Xin Xin's little shield, otherwise we probably would have been wiped out.

—It's impossible to wipe them all out, because 1, 2, and 3 are several people with multiple lives!

Lin Xi was the first to open her eyes.

She struggled to her feet and found that the space was completely unrecognizable, with collapsed walls and cracked floors.

Everyone was lying on the ground, unconscious.

Despite the pain, Lin Xi walked to Xin Ye's side and found that she was only unconscious and not in mortal danger. She checked on the others one by one, and thankfully they all only had minor injuries.

Just then, she discovered a glowing musical note symbol emerging from a crack in the ground, beneath which lay a passage leading deeper into the ground.

“There’s another area…” Lin Xi murmured to himself.

The dungeon designed by Tong Nian is really complicated, with each musical note mechanism more dangerous than the last.

No wonder no one can beat the game.

Not all players have that many skills and items.

They had already used several props, thankfully not by one person.

She squatted down and gently shook Xinye.

"Sister Ye, wake up, we have to keep going."

Xin slowly opened his eyes and saw the glowing symbols on the ground; his expression instantly turned serious.

"This...isn't over yet?"

"not yet."

As everyone gradually woke up, their expressions became somewhat solemn.

Huang Jingjing quickly treated everyone's injuries.

"Should we continue?" Lin Xi asked.

"Yes, we've come this far!" Bai Yueming was the first to answer. "If we can't get through this, it'll be a laughing stock for us."

Ouyang Yu didn't speak, he just looked at Xin Ye.

Xin also looked at Lin Bei.

"Let's continue!" Lin Bei smiled helplessly.

Lin Xi's gaze fell on the glowing musical note in the crack in the ground.

The symbol was unlike any musical scale marking I had ever seen before; its strokes were twisted like struggling threads, and its halo carried an eerie "sluggishness," as if even the light itself was slowing down its flow around the note.

“This is a ‘Disordered Note’.” Guo Yuelang was fully awake. He squatted by the crack, his fingertip hovering above the symbol. “The back of the parchment mentions that the entrance to the final range is opened by ‘disorder,’ but everything inside does not follow the normal rhythm. A disordered rhythm is a deadly threat.”

Feng Xi gripped the short knife and kicked the nearby pebbles with the tip of her boot. The pebbles rolled and cracked, but no sound was heard for a long time.

"It sounds like a place designed to trap people."

As soon as he finished speaking, the disordered note suddenly lit up with a blinding light, and the crack slowly widened, revealing a vertical staircase leading downwards.

The walls on both sides of the staircase are inlaid with countless tiny, luminous fragments, which upon closer inspection are actually countless shattered musical note crystals, refracting mottled light and shadow, making the staircase appear to light up and dim.

—A vertical staircase?
—Disordered notes?
—That sounds insane, killing someone just because the rhythm is off?
— Feng Xi is right, this instance is a complete rip-off!

—Can't you teleport down there?!
—What do you think? It's not like we haven't teleported before.

—Teleportation? You're lucky you haven't violated any taboos.

Guo Yuelang stepped onto the stairs first, and his light shield subconsciously unfolded a thin layer of light.

"Everyone, stay close to me, keep half a step apart, and pay attention to your footwork."

The moment his foot touched the ground, the steps suddenly trembled slightly, and the musical note crystals on the wall made a crisp "ding" sound.

Immediately afterwards, the adjacent crystals emitted sounds in turn, forming a chaotic melody.

"Watch out!" Guo Yuelang stopped, and a thin crack instantly appeared on the edge of the stone slab he had just stepped on. "The stairs will vibrate in sync with the crystal's rhythm; if you step on the wrong beat, they will collapse."

Zhao Chen leaned against the wall, his fingertips touching the musical note crystals.

“These crystals vibrate at different frequencies, like… a metronome that has been deliberately disrupted.”

He closed his eyes and focused his mind on feeling the vibrations of the crystal.

"The third crystal on the left vibrates the fastest, the seventh crystal on the right vibrates the slowest, and the one in the middle vibrates completely irregularly."

Wang Yiyi walked to the top of the stairs, his brows furrowed.

"How can you find rhythm if there's no pattern? You can't just step on the ground randomly, can you?"