Chapter 1102: Hang Out

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Whoosh!

Game time: final 10 minutes!

It wasn't supposed to take this long, but at the final moment the anti‑demon potion ran out.

It's not that it was completely used up; the last two bottles were both transferred to Su Sheng, because Su Sheng has the highest damage taken and output.

Naturally, that last bit of anti‑demon potion had to be used at the critical moment, and fortunately we still took down the BOSS.

The BOSS's HP finally emptied, and two golden lights flared up!

In the BOSS's contribution ranking, just behind the Scholar, Zhu Meng Junjie and Zhu Meng Xiao E both lit up with upgrade golden light.

Zhu Meng Junjie's damage was only second to Su Sheng, and although Zhu Meng Xiao E's damage wasn't great, when facing the BOSS's terrifying attacks, the healing she gave Su Sheng was very high, forcing her into third place in overall contribution purely by healing amount.

This Fourth Rebirth, 80‑something level Elite Boss, even without experience protection in the Dungeon, plus the XP gained from grinding monsters earlier, it's not surprising that the two of them leveled up.

The other two members of the Dream Building Squad, even without leveling, wouldn't have been far off; but Su Sheng checked the XP and, being less than 20% short, also leveled up.

That was pretty fast!

Then Su Sheng looked at the BOSS's loot.

One orange glow, plus one purple and several blue and green.

Dropped Epic-level Equipment?!

Su Sheng immediately became a bit interested, but only a little… because unless there's a glitch, all the gear this BOSS drops requires Fourth Rebirth or higher.

After all, this BOSS is already a Fourth Rebirth template; it's normal that its drops demand Fourth Rebirth.

Still, not disappointed; this was expected, just preparing for future gear—at level 80 you'll definitely need to replace equipment… if better gear exists.

But when Su Sheng picked up the items, disappointment remained.

The dropped gear wasn't great; the best was a purple piece, its stats barely acceptable, a mid‑high quality item.

The issue isn't Su Sheng's use; as for that orange loot, unfortunately it's a quest item.

It turned out to be a key!

The Dream Building Squad members, seeing Su Sheng's announced loot, couldn't help feeling disappointed.

"We worked so hard to beat this boss, and the orange loot is just a key," Zhu Meng Ali complained.

"It doesn't matter, after all this is the Easter egg's unique quest; our core isn't how many rewards we get, but the reward for completing the Eagle Sauce Server's sole quest," Su Sheng said with a faint smile, having already guessed what the final reward might be.

If this is true, as long as I complete this unique quest, the Eagle Sauce Server will suffer a massive loss.

Of course, if I actually do it, there might be some trouble later… like protests in reality?

But… that's not a problem for me to consider; this is just normal in‑game competition.

As for that pressure, Su Sheng doesn't need to worry; he trusts the Azure Dragon chief… after all, he's served under the Azure Dragon for many years, so he knows his superior quite well.

Su Sheng grinned, then called the Dream Building members over to rescue the hostages.

Clack~

The lock opened, and all the hostages were rescued.

At the same time, a task notification came through, and golden light shone on Su Sheng, Zhu Meng Ali, and Zhu Meng Qingyuan.

Experience!

The first-stage quest was completed, rewarding abundant experience.

The three who hadn't leveled just now all leveled up together; I have to say, that does justice to the unique quest's prestige. Though the BOSS's drop was weak, the experience reward was truly sweet.

Su Sheng happily opened his system panel: Level 74!

And the XP increased by 10%; I must say, the experience reward was indeed generous.

After allocating points per the old rules, Su Sheng closed his attribute panel.

"Wow, my experience jumped straight to 80%; another boost and I'll level up again," Zhu Meng Xiao E said excitedly.

Zhu Meng Xiao E is now Level 67; after the BOSS fight, she just leveled up, meaning the quest directly gave her 80% of the XP for a Level 67.

Su Sheng, at the 73–74 level range, only received about 30% of the XP, so the gap of five or six levels of XP is that large.

That comparison shows nearly a three‑fold difference; as levels rise, the difficulty of leveling naturally increases.

Ding~

At that moment, the system notification sound rang.

Task Notification: Congratulations, player, on completing the first-stage quest.

Now offering an optional second quest: Explore the Demon Cave. This unknown cave has mysteriously appeared here and clearly threatens Huangcheng; after rescuing the hostages, you may choose to continue exploring.

Note: The quest can be abandoned; after abandonment, it will still appear randomly near the city as a unique quest.

Warning: Once accepted, the quest cannot be abandoned; failure will cause it to disappear permanently and may cause adverse effects.

Su Sheng narrowed his eyes; after seeing this, his guess was most likely correct.

But with this comparison, there is still a chance to abandon; if this were a Domestic Server quest, Su Sheng might have given up.

Because in the first-stage quest, their five‑person squad was nearly exhausted; the anti‑demon potions were depleted, and Su Sheng's stock of Dragon Blood Secret Medicine was used up.

Moreover, even if they had reserves, among the five, Su Sheng is the highest at Level 74, so the upcoming quest difficulty would be enormous.

It's definitely beyond their current capability; they'd likely need to wait until after reaching Level 80 Fourth Rebirth, and not just any player, but a top‑tier expert.

…This stems from Su Sheng's experience back at Wutong Town.

And the task notification also warned that once accepted, you cannot abandon; if you fail, the quest disappears and may cause adverse effects.

But this isn't the Domestic Server.

Su Sheng gave a meaningfully sly smile.

"Accept the quest!"

Su Sheng immediately made a choice.

Ding—

Mission prompt: Accept mission, investigate the demon lair, mission officially starts second stage.

Hidden condition activated:

Explore the demon lair, discover the source of the demon lair, and successfully suppress it.

Mission limit: Time 12 hours.

Looking at the mission prompt, the people from Zhu Meng were stunned,

"Ah? Chairman, are we still taking missions here? Obviously we can't continue."

Zhu Meng Ali said somewhat foolishly.

Zhu Meng Junjie slapped Zhu Meng Ali on the back of the head: "You're silly, you forgot where we are now?"

"Ah? Oh, right, this isn't our domestic server." Zhu Meng Ali came to his senses, scratched his head foolishly. He mainly does many missions, so subconsciously reacts to these uncertain missions.

No way, who made him have a captain with an Innate Mission Holy Body?

"It's just a pity, Junjie and Xiao E might lose 50% of their experience."

Su Sheng looked at the two and said.

"Hey, what's the big deal? We already leveled up once, the follow‑up mission rewards can still leave a bit of experience, it's just a 50% deduction." Zhu Meng Xiao E said indifferently.

Her experience bar is now 80%; if she dies and exits the dungeon, deducting 50% of the current level's experience still leaves 30%.

After accepting this mission, there is no option to give up; doing it is impossible, so one can only fail and exit. Failure means dying inside the dungeon.

The dungeon is still ongoing, and the Return City Ticket cannot be used.

"Besides, we still have a cross‑border mission not turned in. Although this mission's difficulty isn't as high as the Eagle Sauce Server's unique mission right now, it requires cross‑server, over‑level monster killing to collect 1000 mission items, so its reward definitely won't be low."

Zhu Meng Junjie also said with a chuckle.

As for Zhu Meng Ali and Zhu Meng Qingyuan, they naturally have nothing to say, since just like Su Sheng they leveled up directly; the extra experience isn't much, so losing it is fine.

Su Sheng said with a chuckle: "Later I'll compensate each of you with 1000 guild contribution points, making up for the lost experience."

"No need, no need…"

Zhu Meng Ali hurriedly spoke to refuse.

However Su Sheng waved his hand, cutting him off: "Alright, that's settled; let's continue deeper to look at this second‑stage mission."

"Just consider it broadening our horizons."

Su Sheng smiled and said.

The game time still has over six minutes left; we can go see what stage of monsters and difficulty this is.

Anyway we'll eventually log out; we can't just waste 12 hours here for the mission to be judged a failure, we also have to exit the dungeon, and at that point we'll be counted as logged out.

Of course these 12 hours count game time; offline 12 hours are not counted.

Thus, everyone turned and came to the door behind the original boss.

This door also has a keyhole.

Su Sheng had previously wondered why the item didn't disappear after using the key to save someone; it turns out it was placed here.

Then this door was opened, and immediately a thick demon energy surged out from behind it.

Ding—

System notification arrived, the ambient demonic qi suppression effect increased to 15%.

Su Sheng and the Dream Building Squad members glanced at each other; although they no longer intend to continue this mission, any ensuing bad situation naturally has nothing to do with them, anyway this is the Eagle Sauce Server.

"Who would have thought that opening this door would directly increase the suppression effect by 5%."

Judging by this, even if they truly reached level 80, after the fourth rebirth this mission still wouldn't be easy.

"Of course, still the same thing: this is just a mission on the Eagle Sauce Server, but at least there's a reference, right?"

"Since the Eagle Sauce Server's imperial city has this unique mission, logically all server imperial cities should have such a mission."

"Let's go, go in and take a look."

Su Sheng gave a hehe laugh and then took the lead.

The others immediately followed in.

Soon!

They then encountered the first monster.

Demon Lair Patrol Guard!

Level 83 elite monster.

After checking the game time, Su Sheng immediately called everyone to act.

Barely able to fight, but very strenuous. After all, attributes are suppressed by 15%, and this is also an elite monster, a demon race unit, plus there's a fourth‑rebirth panel; attribute suppression is simply heaven‑defying.

When the game time had only one minute left, several people working together took nearly four minutes to kill this monster.

This is just a small monster!

However the experience gain is still decent; if possible, grinding monsters here would still yield high experience.

But grinding for ten‑plus hours, whether one can earn enough 50% experience is another matter; if not, they'd still have to die later, which wouldn't be a waste of time.

Moreover Su Sheng's experience is only ten percent; if he logs out now, he'll lose only 10% of his experience.

If he were greedy for experience here, grinding up to over 40% and then logging out, that would be pure waste.

"Alright, there's still a bit of time; let's not waste it, let's go home."

Su Sheng said.

"Good!"

The members of the Dream Building Squad all nodded at the same time.

Immediately after, they found the next Elite Monster.

But this time…

Everyone didn't resist and were killed one after another by the Elite Monster.

Su Sheng watched the four dreaming people turn into white light one by one, and then immediately activated the Demon Spirit Pain Strike skill!

Sacrifice HP 99%!

A single spear dealt nearly 200,000 true damage to this Elite Monster, but the Elite Monster was not instantly killed.

As an Elite Monster over level 80 and a Demon Race unit, its HP is well over 200,000.

Then it brushed past, and Su Sheng also turned into white light.

Su Sheng opened his eyes again… uh… uh…

He was already in the game cabin.

The game time was up; I had just died, and was kicked out of the game.

Su Sheng immediately got up, not knowing what the system's "adverse effect" referred to. Anyway, any effect would be on Ying Jiang's side.

Anyway, this time he completely blew the unique quest, and Ying Jiang's loss is definitely huge.

Because based on previous unique quest experience, if this quest can complete the hidden stage, it should grant a Dungeon.

And a permanent Dungeon like the Hui Long Zhai in Wutong Town back then!

At the 80‑level stage, and a permanent Dungeon within the Main City area.

The value is simply incalculable!

This is far higher than that Hui Long Zhai Dungeon in Wutong Town back then, by an unknown many times.

Hehehehe~

Su Sheng couldn't help but chuckle, but this is only his speculation; the specifics will have to wait until he reaches the 80‑level stage, goes to the Main City, and completes that unique quest there.

However, Su Sheng's guess is eight or nine parts out of ten correct.

Thinking of this, Su Sheng sat up from the game cabin and took out his phone.

If this whole thing blows up later, the Eagle Sauce Server side will definitely exert pressure in reality.

So it's best for me to tell the Cang Long Chief about this, so he can make a mental preparation.

Although nothing is definitively decided yet, a greeting is still necessary.