Chapter 1010: Hunting, Ruins (Expanded 4000)

After laying everything out in the open, Su Sheng finally felt a little relieved.

However, Su Sheng still didn't choose to quit his job…

Of course, it's not that Su Sheng is reluctant to give up this job or anything like that.

Moreover, those rats lurking in the dark were probably after him.

If he stayed at home long-term, although there are various arrangements, if his identity were exposed and these guys couldn't find an opportunity, they might take some action against his family.

Although there are many contingency plans, there's no way to guarantee absolute safety; even if Huan Jie and his parents had a minor accident, Su Sheng felt he couldn't accept it.

So, if his identity were truly exposed, or if those rats managed to find him, his regular going out to work would at least give them a chance.

The main purpose is definitely himself; in this situation, it also counts as an alternative protective measure for Huan Jie and his parents.

As for them coming to find him…

Who will cause trouble for whom is still uncertain.

Do you really think the two words 'Soldier King' are just for show?

If too much time has passed since his discharge, Su Sheng might have gotten rusty, or maybe it's still okay.

But how long has Su Sheng actually been discharged? Although because of the game he's slightly neglected training, he walks to work every day to make up for that lapse.

Although the training intensity definitely can't match what it was in the army, at least it won't let Su Sheng's physical condition deteriorate too badly.

Furthermore, now that he has special approval from Canglong, he also has some old comrades on his side.

He even hopes those guys will cause him trouble, so he can settle it once and for all, without worrying about his family.

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Game time went online again.

Su Sheng appeared directly at the training spot's location, since it was his own turf, so he didn't return to town.

Others also logged on one after another.

Su Sheng also called his dad to cooperate with him, and they did another monster-gathering focus fire.

Time passed little by little like that.

Although things were dark, winds and clouds were stirring.

But on the surface, everything appeared completely calm and peaceful.

Su Sheng also steadily trained for another day's level, or in other words, completed a day's worth of tasks.

However, afterwards, Su Sheng merely split the experience evenly with Feng Wu Jiu Tian.

Su Sheng's own experience didn't increase much, but after adjusting the experience distribution, the suanni leveled up.

It reached level 64!

Looking at this trend, if they keep grinding, the suanni will probably reach level 65 before long.

I don't even know what skill the suanni will get at level 65.

At this point, Su Sheng was also in high spirits.

His task should be about finished by tomorrow.

By then, when the suanni reaches level 65, it will gain another skill.

All told, he could harvest two skills at once. Not bad at all.

Thus, Su Sheng logged off feeling satisfied.

Days passed as usual, everything remained normal.

After logging back on, Su Sheng eagerly called his dad, preparing to do another monster-gathering focus fire.

After blasting through this round of Demon God Lightning, the number of tasks he'd completed should be about the same.

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But perhaps heaven just didn't want Su Sheng to idle.

After unleashing a round of skills…

Su Sheng was less than a hundred task targets away from completing the mission.

But at that moment, a notification popped up.

It was the guild channel.

Someone tagged him in the guild channel.

Su Sheng opened it to see that the one who tagged him was none other than the Nightcoming Big Bear, who had only recently joined the guild.

Previously, there was a hammer knight wielding a huge two-handed hammer.

"Chairman! Chairman! Come help quickly!"

At the same time, there was also a screenshot!

It was a huge expanse of ruins!

Before the ruins stood a translucent spirit, with a golden exclamation mark above its head.

Quite obviously, there was a quest!

Just…

Su Sheng's face looked a bit odd; this guy was really too careless.

If you openly post something like this in the guild channel, other guilds will probably get the news soon enough.

As for core members, Su Sheng now feels confident; after screening and having them sign contracts, the core members he selected are trustworthy.

However, the Yanhuang Guild now has over 40,000 members, with nearly 10,000 of them having just joined not long ago.

You say that if there were no spies from other guilds, Su Sheng would absolutely not believe it.

Not mentioning other guilds, even on the Yan-Huang side, under Chen Guan's manipulation, some guilds have also been bribed to have informants… but the situation here is basically all managed by Chen Guan; Su Sheng himself doesn't know the status of those informants.

This also counts as trust in Chen Guan; besides, it's also a kind of protection for those informants.

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Afterwards, Su Sheng also immediately got in touch via Private Chat with Nightcoming Big Bear.

This guy, if I don't contact him quickly, I'm afraid everything will be spilled out on the Guild Channel.

"What's the situation? Let's communicate via Private Chat."

As Su Sheng sent the Private Chat over, Nightcoming Big Bear also seemed to react.

"Hehehe, sorry, Chairman, I got a bit too excited."

Nightcoming Big Bear sent a message somewhat embarrassedly.

"It's fine, not a big problem. Specifically, what's the situation? Where are the coordinates?"

Su Sheng asked.

"It's a small town under our Zhuque Main City, Red Cloud Town."

Su Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly, wondering how he ended up running to that town.

However, the scholar also didn't continue speaking, but silently waited for Nightcoming Big Bear's follow-up.

Sure enough, Nightcoming Big Bear continued to send a message explaining the situation.

"I came over following a quest, just a small quest that I had completed a long time ago; I didn't pay attention at first either. The reward was also very ordinary."

"However, the boss of that quest dropped a white map; I thought it might be some kind of treasure map."

"But it's a white treasure map, and according to the instructions on the map, it's in the town below."

"I thought there probably wouldn't be anything good, so I never thought about it."

"Until this time, when I happened to come to this town while doing a small quest, I remembered this and went to the warehouse to take it out and use it."

"Yesterday I rushed for a few hours but didn't arrive, so I logged off on the spot; today I logged on and rushed over, never expecting that following the sugar treasure map I would actually find this ruins."

"Moreover, looking at the difficulty of these ruins, it's not a town-level difficulty. I wanted to take the quest, but the prompt told me it's a team quest, and I can't accept it personally."

After hearing Nightcoming Big Bear's description, Su Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly.

The team quest in that town?

"About what scale of team quest is it?"

Su Sheng asked.

"I don't know."

Nightcoming Big Bear answered.

Su Sheng was speechless…

"You come up with an 'I don't know', what am I supposed to do?"

"Forget it, send me the coordinates; I'll arrange someone to check it out, I might not have time on my end."

Su Sheng replied.

After all, it's just a town team quest; Su Sheng indeed didn't pay too much attention.

Although the scale of those ruins looks not small.

But I'm just a little bit away from completing this quest myself, so it's fine to arrange others to take a look.

"Okay."

Nightcoming Big Bear immediately reported the coordinates.

Afterwards, Su Sheng directly opened Huan Jie's Private Chat, briefly explained the matter, and asked her to arrange some personnel to take a look.

"Just getting to these coordinates by foot would take quite a while, right?"

Lin Huan hesitated a bit.

"After all, it's still a team quest; although I don't know the reward, you see who's free and arrange a Hundred-Person Team to go check it out."

Su Sheng gave the order.

"Alright, I'll arrange it."

Lin Huan immediately agreed.

Huan Jie went to arrange it, so Su Sheng naturally didn't have to worry.

Afterwards, Su Sheng peacefully did his own quest.

As the game time passed…

Su Sheng looked at the quest completion count and couldn't help but be silently speechless.

999!!!

Only the last one left, the Critical Hit Aura's time ended.

Without the Critical Hit Aura guaranteeing my crit rate, I basically can't instantly kill these level 75 monsters.

Forget it, I've come this far through hardship; it's not a big deal to lack these last 25 minutes.

But don't say that; if it were normal circumstances, Su Sheng really wouldn't be anxious.

But right now I'm only missing this last one, and this really is a bit frustrating.

Afterwards, Su Sheng narrowed his eyes and thought of a method…

Although there's no crit, I still have a skill that, if it hits the weak point, should be able to instantly kill a monster.

Demon Spirit Pain Strike!

One of the skills attached to the Demon Spirit Necklace: sacrifice one's own HP to deal equal true damage!

Su Sheng's HP, with Mounted State plus Holy Word Buff, can reach over 200,000, but he still can't directly instantly kill those level 75 monsters.

But if he can hit the weak point, dealing 1.5x damage, it would still work!

In that case, Su Sheng didn't hold back!

Su Sheng directly picked a nearby monster. Then white mist coiled around it!

Smoke Swirl!

5-second Stasis!

If the boss had control resistance, that would be fine, but it's just a normal monster!

Then Su Sheng cast Demon Spirit Pain Strike!

A heavy shot struck the weak point!

Pffft!!

But, unexpectedly!

This strike actually directly triggered the crit effect!

It dealt 4x true damage, hitting nearly 900,000!

This 75-level monster with only about 300,000 HP died in one hit, and still owed Su Sheng over 500,000 HP.

Ding~

Trial mission completed!

Congratulations, player, you have comprehended the Fierce Lion Knight skill!

Execution Skill: Hunting! (Passive)

Effect: When attacking a target with total HP below 10%, there is a chance to instantly kill.

The trigger chance for boss units is greatly reduced; the higher the boss's grade, the lower the trigger chance.

Note: This skill cannot be triggered on hero units.

Su Sheng frowned; at first glance this skill seemed a bit useless.

Execution Skill?

Basically, I'm just overpowering everything with stats; most monsters in front of me don't even get a chance to trigger this execution skill.

The only thing is to see if it can work on a boss.

But the skill also says the chance to work on a boss is very low.

Moreover, the higher the boss's grade, the lower the chance to take effect.

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Although a bit disappointed, it's not an AoE skill, but Su Sheng doesn't dislike it; maybe in boss battles it could occasionally create a miracle.

Then Su Sheng checked the lion-like beast's experience bar.

The pet's levels up a bit faster than the player's, and with the experience distribution focus, the lion-like beast's experience gain is not slow.

Su Sheng reached out and rubbed the lion-like beast's head.

Next, we'll see what skills the lion-like beast can gain after level 65.

Anyway, nothing else to do, let's keep leveling up.

Then Su Sheng seemed to recall something and asked about the feedback from the Nightcoming Big Bear regarding that relic.

According to Lin Huan's reply, Weiwen Huaming happens to be free.

So they arranged for him to bring a hundred-person team over to check the situation.

However, since it's in a small town, Lin Huan didn't pay much attention; the arranged people weren't very reasonable, just picking whoever had a fast mount to go and check the situation.

After all, getting to that small town takes a not‑short time.

So if the mount is fast, the journey can be a bit quicker.

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Su Sheng has been leveling up peacefully, and now wants to raise the lion-like beast's level to 65 to see what skills it gets.

But after a few hours or so.

A private chat came in.

Weiwen Huaming!

He wasn't supposed to meet the Nightcoming Big Bear in that small town? Could there be some unexpected situation?

"Chairman, I think you still need to personally lead a team over."

Below this message there is also a screenshot.

Zhu Que Huangcheng Ruins (Mission)

Large-Scale Raid Mission.

Mission requirements: Explore the Huangcheng ruins and let all the dead rest in peace.

Participant limit: 1000

Recommended level: 70

Mission rewards: various city-related rewards.

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A 70-level Thousand-Person Raid?!!

And this is actually a Huangcheng ruin—no wonder it looks so grand in scale.

But that's supposed to be a small town—how could there be a 70-level raid mission?

And the rewards are actually related to city construction.

Su Sheng's eyes lit up involuntarily.

How could it be!

Will they come out with similar city map blueprints?!?!

This is Huangcheng!

Under normal circumstances, players' assistance can at most build up to the scale of Main City.

Anyway, according to the published data, it's like that.

Can we pull it up to Huangcheng's scale? There's no description at all; according to estimates, it probably cannot.

But after this period of gameplay experience.

Su Sheng also came to realize something: you can completely treat this game as a real world.

Besides some absolutely dead-set rules, nothing else seems impossible.

This is the Huangcheng ruins!

If we could really fish out the Huangcheng construction blueprints!

Su Sheng suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.

Go!!

We must go!

Immediately, Su Sheng no longer had the mood to continue leveling up.

"Report on the status of the Hundred-Person Team you're leading. I'll adjust the formation and then bring another 900 people over!"

Su Sheng immediately replied.

Weiwen Huaming also didn't hesitate, sending over the configuration of his Hundred-Person Team from his side.

Su Sheng immediately contacted Huan Jie, after explaining the general situation.

Su Sheng then started mustering troops!

But unfortunately, there's not much game time left today; even if we rush over, there probably won't be enough time to carry out the mission!

But we'll strive to have all personnel in place before logging off today!