Chapter 616: Choosing Sacrifice

Clearing dungeons and making guides requires not only fighting, but also thinking.

From the designer's perspective, when designing a dungeon, the ones they consider immersing are definitely normal players, not super players.

Therefore, Xiao Feng instantly killing people like that won't be counted.

Mist Valley uses their own people's damage to hit their own people; it hurts, at most just unpleasant, creating a sense of fear, rather than intending to wipe them out here.

In that case, just keep raising HP while moving forward!

What Xiao Feng is a bit worried about is that the small monsters and bosses of each stage have some connection.

The minions and boss of Stage 4 are both 'invincible upon seeing a person'; if Stage 5 also does this 'backstab' on them, things would get troublesome.

Xiao Feng's buff potion lasts at most five minutes, so everyone speeds up and rushes forward.

The path in this valley is hard to travel, but the distance isn't particularly long.

After running for over three minutes, a pond appeared before them.

The pond isn't big, just a 30-meter radius; it must be the boss room.

At the center of the pond, there is a disc.

The disc is divided into ten petals, slowly rotating, and there is nothing else besides it.

"Greedy sinners, what lies before you is a poison pool; touching even a drop of water means death."

"Jump onto the platform, each person gets a spot; the last person alive can receive a reward of one million cultivation."

"Otherwise, they will be destroyed!"

"You…… only have one chance!"

The voice heard when they first entered the valley sounded again.

At the same time, a 30-second countdown appeared; if they don't follow the mechanism, they might miss a boss stage and lose a key.

Thirty seconds is short; Xiao Feng recalled the words he had just heard and the possibilities of this stage.

He quickly said, "The keyword for this stage should be 'greed'; the dungeon will lure us into backstabbing our teammates!"

The teammates' injuries along the way, and the current condition of 'the last person alive,' all indicate that this stage hopes to eliminate others, leaving only one alive to obtain the final reward.

"Greed, selfishness… these are the keywords of this stage; if everyone is greedy and selfish, we might not be able to pass!"

Zhang Fan nodded and said, "No matter what happens next, we'll all protect Miao Jie together; she can pull people and rescue in time if something goes wrong. We won't rush to fight over the reward; first we'll figure out the tactics—after all, we can come back to the dungeon later, so we'll just take turns enjoying the reward."

"Good!"

Everyone had no objections.

"Eh

"?"

Feeling that Lucky Cat was useless, Xing Yun Miao was suddenly overwhelmed with favor.

As the countdown neared, everyone used jumping and flying skills to reach the central disc of the poison pool.

The pool looked clear to the bottom, but on closer look, the floor was full of skeletons and white bones, creepy as hell.

On the disc are ten small petal platforms, prepared for a ten-person team.

They only have six people, leaving four slots empty.

The disc slowly rotated; all six people landed, and the game began.

Splash~

First, the four empty slots were revoked and sank into the water.

The next moment, everyone felt their ears sealed, unable to hear their teammates' voices.

Even the communication function was shut down, making it impossible to contact teammates.

Xiao Feng heard a sinister voice: "Young people, the disc will start rotating soon; whoever falls in will be swallowed and die by the poison pool. If you can survive to the end, you can get the final reward… well, I just lied to you; actually the final reward is ten million cultivation and one unranked supreme divine artifact."

Xiao Feng's mouth twitched.

What's this, trying to sow discord?

Looking at the teammates' eyes, it was obvious they had heard a similar temptation.

Their mouths were sealed, unable to communicate; not even lip-reading works, so they can only communicate via eye contact.

Their hands could still move; Zhang Fan pointed at Xing Yun Miao, then gave a thumbs-up, meaning clearly, as we discussed earlier, just protect Xing Yun Miao.

The disc's speed increased, making everyone feel a bit dizzy.

Soon, a system prompt sounded in everyone's ears.

What Xiao Feng heard was: "Choose a person and push them down! Otherwise, everyone will fall down!"

"Emmm……"

Xiao Feng frowned, instantly feeling a bit embarrassed.

If everyone's order is to push one person down… wouldn't that mean we're all doomed?

After the order is issued, there are only ten seconds to execute it.

He thought it over……

"I'll go down myself!"

Then he jumped backward and dove straight into the water.

Splash~

The clear pool swallowed him; a damage of several billion appeared, taking him away at full health.

The others didn't move.

"What the hell? What's going on?" Xiao Feng froze.

Could it be that everyone heard something different?

He wanted to ask, but nobody could communicate; even after his death he remained unable to chat, only able to be in the water

Corpses lay at the bottom.

Xiao Feng's disk sank down.

Zhang Fan and the others exchanged a glance and sighed helplessly.

Everyone heard a different command; someone heard: 'Stay put.'

Someone also heard: 'You must stay still, or everyone will die!'

The disk kept turning.

After a few turns, the speed slowed, and the prompt sounded again.

Xiao Feng found himself lying underwater and could see the prompt on each floating platform.

Zhang Fan's prompt was: 'Push someone into the water, or everyone will die.' — same as before.

Li Li's prompt was: 'Stay put.'

Mang Mei's prompt was: 'You must stay still, or everyone will die!'

Dun Dun's prompt was: 'Fall into the water to revive a dead person.'

Xing Yun Miao's prompt was: 'Stay put.'

A 10-second countdown for choosing.

Dun Dun's option isn't compulsory; you may choose it or not.

But before Zhang Fan could jump in, she acted first!

Loli T happily jumped into the water, her expression as if shouting: 'Xiao Feng senior, I'll take your place!'

Then the health bar went black.

Xiao Feng rose helplessly from the water, appeared at Dun Dun's spot, and his health was full again.

Dun Dun sacrificed herself, so Zhang Fan didn't have to choose, and this round incurred no losses.

The disk kept turning, moving on to the third round.

This time Xiao Feng could only hear his own prompt.

His prompt was: 'Stay put.'

The others exchanged glances, clearly they hadn't gone through all the options yet and weren't sure how to play.

After three seconds, Li Li jumped in.

Xiao Feng expected Dun Dun to float up, but she didn't.

Clearly this round lacked the 'swap' option; instead it demanded that one person be eliminated.

Li Li's foothold also sank, leaving only four spots.

The incomplete disk kept turning, moving on to the fourth round.

This time Xiao Feng heard: 'Push someone into the water to gain an extra 1 million cultivation!'

He waited five seconds, watching his teammates' reactions, to see if anyone could go in and pull someone up.

But no one did.

So he decisively jumped in.

What's 1 million cultivation? Does he, Xiao Feng, care?

Of course not!

So he just died…

(End of chapter)