How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

Shi Guang Jingmi put forward his own opinion, "Do you think it might be a swamp problem?"

But before anyone else could say anything, a voice sounded behind them.

"You guessed right, it is indeed a swamp problem."

After hanging up the phone, Yuexiajiu explained to the bewildered people in the team, "The president told me that a guild had tested it and found that there was a 30% bonus to fire damage in that swamp, and any fire damage had a high chance of triggering an explosion."

Everyone was stunned, and a few people in the front row suddenly thought of something.

"Could it be possible that the self-explosion of those monsters before they died could also be triggered?"

"I was wondering why the damage was so high, turns out there's a bonus."

"It was disgusting. I almost ran away, but I was pulled back in."

Shi Guang Jingmi heard this, glanced at his fellow fire mage who looked distressed, and said in a daze, "In that case, Jiu Ge and the others will temporarily withdraw from the team, and you can bring a few mages with high damage from the guild."

Unexpectedly, Yuexiajiu waved his hand and said, "No need. I said when we founded this group that everyone is an indispensable part of the group. I will not abandon you no matter what."

Not only Shi Guang Jingmi and those fire mages, but other members of the group around were also moved when they heard it. However, no matter how moved they were, they still needed to consider the reality.

"But if that's the case, how are we going to get through that swamp?"

Yuexiajiu smiled and said, "It's very simple. We just don't take the road through the swamp."

Yes, the Undercity ruins are so big, he doesn't believe that it is all swampy terrain. Even if it might take a longer detour or encounter some accidents, it is at least much better than that disgusting swamp.

Chapter 53: Let’s Invite the Victim Case (Part 3)

After regrouping, Yuexiajiu quickly led his team back to the Undercity ruins through the teleportation array specially set up by Nalton.

There still seemed to be a lot of people coming here, and in the distance there were many teams rushing here. Among them, there were quite a few people like Yuexiajiu and his friends, who were killed by the monsters inside and turned back again, and their enthusiasm showed no sign of being diminished.

After all, due to the effect of the event, the experience penalty after death has been greatly reduced. Even if you don't kill many monsters in the ruins, you can make up for the experience after a death by practicing in the wild for dozens of minutes. What's more, there is contribution as an incentive, plus this lively atmosphere, which is not something you can experience at ordinary times. This is the charm of group activities.

Re-entering the Orca Forest Guild in the Undercity ruins, although we still walked through the middle area under the guidance of Yuexiajiu, the route was slightly different from before.

After entering and passing several forks and the crowds dispersing, I double-checked again and tried to move in a direction away from the swamp.

So after walking for a distance, everyone was surprised to find that they were still standing on solid rocky ground, not in some sticky and dirty mud.

"I feel much more at ease. It's more comfortable to be down to earth."

"That's right, the swamp is not convenient at all."

Everyone whispered.

Shi Guang Jingmi noticed that Yue Xia Jiu was a little silent, and couldn't help but feel curious, "What's wrong, Brother Jiu, is there a problem? I feel like we should be quite far away from the swamp."

Yuexiajiu shook his head. "That's not what I'm worried about. Haven't you noticed that we haven't encountered any monsters so far?"

"It was similar in the swamp before. Maybe we need to go a little deeper to see."

"No, the road we just walked on has already entered the swamp for quite a distance." Yuexiajiu seemed to be thinking about something, "It feels a bit weird, never mind, let's keep walking and see, maybe it's really like what you said."

But before he could finish his words, news came from the front.

"Vice President, there is no way ahead." A paladin who was exploring the way in the front row turned around and said to Yuexiajiu.

"Then let's take another route." Shi Guang replied quietly subconsciously, feeling a little surprised that the other party didn't have this kind of judgment.

But the paladin soon gave an answer, "No, we just came here from another dead end, there is no way out now."

Being reminded of this, Yuexiajiu and Shiguangjingti remembered that they had indeed changed to this road because the other road was a dead end, but they did not expect that this road was also a dead end.

"It's impossible that both roads are blocked." Yuexiajiu frowned, walked forward with the fluorite lantern in his hand, carefully observed the stone wall in front of the team, as if he saw something on it, suddenly raised the sword in his hand and chopped heavily at the wall on the left.

In an instant, stone chips flew.

Quiet Time put up a shield to block the flying debris, "Brother Jiu, these walls are designed to be indestructible... at least they can't be destroyed at our current level."

Yuexiajiu smiled slightly, "That's not necessarily true, come and have a look."

Upon hearing this, Shi Guang Jingmi and several people in the front row moved closer, but did not find anything strange. It was Shi Guang Jingmi who discovered the key, "Wait, why is there a health bar on this wall?"

Looking in the direction indicated by Quiet Time, they saw the words floating on one of the walls, but they seemed a little hidden in the dim environment of Undercity.

Destructible wall: integrity 842/1000

At this moment, everyone in the Oka Forest understood what was going on. Several people in the front row picked up their weapons and broke down the wall in less than three or four seconds. A group of output professions at the back tried to bombard other walls, and they actually managed to blow holes in the other two passages.

Even Yuexiajiu had not expected this to happen. Looking at the looks from everyone, he thought for a moment and said, "Let's go this way first and see how it goes."

As it turned out, Yuexiajiu also had moments of misjudgment. Just a few steps into the rocky passage, he ran head-on into a wall. Even with everyone's attacks, it still stood firm, which was completely different from the previous situation.

"It seems like this is a completely wrong idea. Let's change the route." Yuexiajiu turned around and called out to his companions around him, intending to return the way they came.

Everyone couldn't stand this kind of trouble. To be honest, Yuexiajiu was a little impatient with this kind of design. It was a waste of time, but the most important thing was that there was no gain at all. If they could meet a few monsters and get some points, it would be okay.

However, just as he was thinking this while drinking under the moon, his wish came true the next moment.

"Squeak."

Suddenly, a series of shrill cries came from the top of the cave, and then more than thirty pitch-black shadows suddenly fell from the sky and landed among the crowd. When they met people, they used their sharp claws and fangs, and their dark green eyes looked particularly terrifying in the darkness.

The people in the Oka Forest who were originally planning to return did not expect such a thing to happen, and their formation was disrupted in a panic.

"Damn, what kind of monsters are these."

"The attack is so high."

"Is there anyone in the front row who can help block it?"

Fortunately, Yuexiajiu reacted in time, and while using his shield to knock away a shadow that was rushing towards him, he quickly gave orders, and then everyone calmed down and killed the monsters one after another.

It was not until the last few monsters were hit and killed by fireballs that they could see the monsters' appearance clearly.

Black claw monkey, level 16.

This is a monster that originally existed on the first floor of the Undercity ruins. Because of its thin body and pitch-black body, it usually hides on the top of the cave and sleeps, making it difficult to be discovered.

However, shrill sounds can usually be detected in advance and prepared for, and many guilds have experience in dealing with them. However, given the previous situation, it was not surprising that the people in Oka Forest were ambushed.

Although all the monsters were killed in the end, the Oka Forest also paid a certain price and lost four mages.

"Let's try another route." Yuexiajiu sighed, contacted the two dead players, asked them to level up nearby first, then led the team back to the original place, and chose the left route to go in.

There were no problems this time. The front row even checked the surroundings, especially the top of the cave, and there were no signs of any monster activity.

However, before they had gone far, they ran into a stone wall head-on.

"..."

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I went to the dentist today, so I will only update once.

Chapter 54: Let’s Invite the Victim Case (IV)

Yuexiajiu didn't say anything. The people behind him consciously used their skills to bombard the wall. This time the situation was slightly different from before. Only the outlines of two holes appeared.

Just when things were about to be completed, an accident suddenly happened.

A wall was finally broken under the attack of the people in Oka Forest, revealing a dark passage. Two impatient warriors immediately walked in with fluorite lanterns.

Just when Yuexiajiu wanted to speak out to stop them, with a few strange noises, two warriors quickly ran out, crawling and tumbling, with embers of fire and several arrows on their bodies.

"Vice President, there is a trap here..."

"I was almost scared to death. Suddenly, there were flames and flying arrows."

Although thanks to these two people's exploration, the team avoided the unexpected situation of entering and triggering the trap in time, but seeing their embarrassed appearance, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

However, they soon stopped laughing because what they experienced next could no longer be described as ordinary pain.

There will definitely be walls blocking each section of the road, and the process of blowing up the walls to find a way out will be repeated. If it were just this simple, it would be fine. However, sometimes there will be multiple obvious passages, and when you encounter some walls that cannot be blown up, you will realize that it is a complete dead end, and you will have to spend more time trying to find another way and blow up the walls.

Even if you successfully blow up the wall, there will often be at least two or more routes. At this time, you must be more careful and vigilant, because in addition to the correct route, there will be various unexpected situations, such as hidden monsters, traps, etc.

If you are not careful, the team may suffer serious damage.

Along the way, the people in Oka Forest encountered similar situations at least dozens of times, and even summarized a pattern -

Each area has at least one safe route, and the walls at the end of areas where monsters and traps are hidden usually cannot be blown open, and are complete dead ends.

After more than an hour of wasting time, everyone in the Oka Forest was exhausted both physically and mentally. After all, during this period of time, they not only had to repeat the boring process of blasting the wall, but sometimes they also had to be highly vigilant to prevent being attacked by monsters or traps.

What's more, the Undercity ruins are already very dark. In such an environment, even an energetic person would not be able to stand it after a while.

However, at this time, some shocking news came from the front of the team.

Yes, it was indeed shocking news. After hearing the news, the people who were originally numb shuddered subconsciously and some of them woke up.

"Vice-Chairman, it seems we have walked into the swamp again."

"Oh, we've walked into the swamp... um, wait, which swamp?" Yuexiajiu couldn't help but be inspired when he heard this and asked quickly.

"It's the swamp we encountered before." The paladin in front said helplessly.

After being reminded like this, Yuexiajiu noticed that the ground beneath his feet had become muddy. His face suddenly darkened. Or rather, it was not just him, but everyone in the assault team behind him had a bad look on their faces.

After all, they still remember clearly what happened in the swamp before.

Yuexiajiu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the terrain is just similar. Let's go a little further and see."

Facts proved that his speculation was wrong. Not long after they advanced a short distance, they encountered the familiar monster, the Exploding Flaming Mother and Child Tree. Yuexiajiu did not hesitate at all and immediately led the team back to the previous area along the original route.

"How could this happen? I remembered that we were quite far away from the swamp over there?" Quiet Time looked back at the passage behind him and expressed the confusion of most people in the group.

"Maybe he got confused about the direction." Yuexiajiu was also a little annoyed and could only think of this answer.

After all, they had been following the correct route before and had no time to think about the swamp. In addition, the environment in the ruins was already dim, so it was natural that they would unknowingly lose their direction.

But in fact, this was just a "psychological trap" deliberately set up by a pink-haired creature. The swamp route they had just walked through was actually the real "correct route". Of course, the people in the Oka Forest were unaware of this.

So after retreating from the swamp, Yuexiajiu led the team again, and after re-exploring several other passages, they finally chose another passable route.

However, before they had advanced for a minute, the people in Oka Forest were stunned again, because a familiar terrain appeared in front of them again -

The ground was muddy, with some hazy fog floating in the air and a few familiar flames that lit up from time to time not far away.

That's right, they had unknowingly found themselves in the swamp again.

"That's impossible. The route we chose is completely different from the previous one. How come we are still in a swamp?"

"Is there a swamp on both sides, or is it..."

"Many areas on the first floor are covered in swamps?"

After reaching this conclusion, everyone in Oka Forest was speechless, or even looked a little desperate.

"Brother Jiu, how about we go back and try to find out if there is another way?" Shi Guang Jingmi hesitated for a moment and spoke out. After all, he had once experienced being killed by his own skills, so he could naturally understand the embarrassment of the fire mage in this area.

"Before, there were only two roads to take, and you saw the other one, which is no different."

"Then look back?"

"This is such a waste of time." Yuexiajiu pointed it out directly and shook his head. "Besides, I had already planned to give up on that place. All our time is spent on the journey. There are traps and too few monsters. We can't earn many points at all."

"Brother Jiu, what do you mean?"

"It's just a swamp, don't be disgusted, we need to hurry up and raise our points." Yuexiajiu glanced at Shi Guangjingmi who looked troubled, "Don't worry, you don't have to deal any damage, just let others handle it."

Shi Guang Jingmi wanted to say something, but seeing Yue Xiajiu's determined look, he sighed silently and gave instructions to the fire mage in the team behind him.

Although the team lacks the output of a fire mage, the good news is that we know the mechanism here and don't have to worry about the sudden disappearance of our back row.

Moreover, they came around from the nearby area and apparently arrived at the area slightly behind the swamp. At the very least, they had passed the interference of the explosive trees in front. This could be seen from the sudden increase in the number of monsters around them.

The front row was not idle. They immediately stepped forward to attract more than a dozen Explosive Trees and other monsters, and slowly cleaned them up. Of course, they did not forget to use a charge to dodge in advance when the health of the Explosive Tree was about to return to zero.

But as the fight went on, Yuexiajiu discovered something was wrong.

Chapter 55: Let’s Invite the Victim Case (V)

Although it was not difficult to slowly deal with these monsters after understanding their general characteristics, Yuexiajiu realized that something was not right as the fight went on.

The other monsters are fine, but it seems like the number of these explosive trees is impossible to clear out. Although the monsters have the ability to resurrect under the effect of events, isn't the resurrection time a bit too short?

And the most important thing is——