Chapter 116: City of Miracles

"Killed one dancing puppet, gained 20 experience points."

"The player's level differs too greatly from the dancing puppet's level; experience points gained are doubled."

Looking at the prompt that popped up before him, Wu Chang felt a sense of unreality.

Since when did the Abyss Game take into account a large level gap and provide him with extra compensation?

Hadn't the Abyss Game's attitude toward him always been: since you didn't die at this difficulty, it means the pressure isn't high enough, so let me increase the intensity for you immediately?

Where did you hide my Abyss Game system?

With the doubled experience, a single dancing puppet was worth 40 experience points.

One must know that even for a B-rank dungeon clear, the basic completion reward is only 2000 experience points.

Calculating it this way, wouldn't grinding 50 small mobs be equivalent to clearing a B-rank dungeon once?

Moreover, the dancing puppets he had taken down looked like mere cannon fodder; they should be low-level mobs.

If he were to take down elite mobs or a dungeon boss, how much experience would that be?

No wonder there were conspiracy theories before saying that the reason the dungeon out of control in Yingdao wasn't responded to in time, leading to heavy casualties, wasn't simple inaction, but the result of deliberate indulgence.

Now it seems that is not impossible; it is very likely that the players participating in the raid were having such a good time grinding points that they wanted the dungeon to exist for a while longer.

Xiang Jianxing was anxious to break the situation, so after severely wounding one dancing puppet, he turned his target to another.

Wu Chang rubbed his hands; since that was the case, he would be the one to do this dirty and tiring work.

After the 4 dancing puppets were dealt with, the old man who had been dancing crazily stopped, and the semi-exhausted old man returned to the residential compound with the support of his wife.

Xiang Jianxing glanced at the dancing puppets on the ground and asked casually, "Are they all taken care of?"

Wu Chang felt a bit guilty and nodded.

Xiang Jianxing guessed what was in Wu Chang's mind and said with a smile:

"After a player's level exceeds that of an erosion dungeon, the gains from killing become very low; you don't need to think you've stolen my experience."

"On the contrary, you should take advantage of your low level and the high rewards to kill more so as not to waste them. Daring to risk your life to enter an erosion dungeon—this is what you deserve; the Bureau generally calls this the reward for the brave."

He hadn't expected that Xiang Jianxing was actually deliberately beating the mobs to a near-death state and leaving them for him to finish off.

He is truly... I could cry to death; it wasn't in vain that he saved him back in the Quiet Town.

Although they had organized the dancing puppets on their side, according to news from other members of the Bureau, such motorcades were appearing in multiple places within the erosion zone simultaneously.

Among the eight groups of people, four had encountered dancing puppets.

Through the view from drones overlooking from above, at least 10 similar motorcades had not been intercepted.

These colorful buses drove slowly toward the same direction, and led by the dancing puppets, hundreds of people followed each bus, dancing as they walked.

The situation was extremely bizarre.

Besides the colorful buses, other forms of puppets could also be seen.

They were either holding small tour guide flags or organizing people to ride bikes...

Each team of puppets was leading hundreds of ordinary people.

Once they reached a certain street in the west, they would suddenly disappear, making it impossible to continue tracking.

A rough estimate suggested that at least ten thousand citizens of Wanghai City had been abducted by the puppets.

Having gone to such great lengths to abduct people, they certainly wouldn't take action immediately; in the short term, the abducted people should not be in mortal danger, but if a long time passed, that would be hard to say.

Someone had tried following a motorcade to the designated location, but the motorcade disappeared and he couldn't find the teleportation point, so he had to return.

Others had tried sneaking onto the motorcade; they did get on the bus and did enter the teleportation point with the motorcade and disappear, but the people were gone.

The dungeon replicated by the Painter was a perfect record of the dungeon he experienced when he broke the situation; the situation inside the dungeon remained in the state it was in when the Painter entered it.

This caused the resentment that should have disappeared in the dungeon to remain undissipated. Wu Chang circled the colorful bus twice and saw two clusters of resentment belonging to players on the bus; he saw the method for entering the teleportation point from them, but due to his current identity, he couldn't find a suitable opportunity to provide a reminder for the time being.

He was so anxious he spun in circles on the spot; he hadn't been this anxious even when he was clearing a dungeon alone.

Fortunately, the Bureau's efficiency was fast enough; while they were thinking of countermeasures, intelligence regarding Yifu City had already been transmitted in.

"Dungeon Name: Wish Fulfillment."

"Dungeon Type: Single-player survival dungeon."

"Dungeon Difficulty: B."

"Dungeon Status: On the verge of losing control."

"Main Quest 1: Survive in Yifu City for thirty days."

"Main Quest 2: Leave Yifu City."

"Main Quest 3: Investigate the hidden secrets of Yifu City."

The dungeon Wish Fulfillment belonged to the Western Union region and was broken four years ago.

!

The dungeon's background was Yifu City; not only did the name correspond, but the plot within the dungeon also matched the current situation.

Yifu City, also known as the City of Miracles, contained something called the Great Miracle; as long as citizens made a wish to the Great Miracle, and the wish was pure enough and they believed in the Great Miracle enough, they could have their wishes fulfilled.

Except for escaping death and certain completely impossible wishes, the Great Miracle could satisfy all of people's wishes; it was said to be able to cure illnesses, ward off disasters, bring in wealth, and restore youth.

The Great Miracle asked for no return and never demanded anything; the only thing the citizens needed to pay was sufficient sincerity.

Sincerity leads to efficacy.

The greatness of the Great Miracle caused everything in Yifu City to be built around it, and the city's highest administrator was no longer the mayor, but instead became the Yifu City Miracle Committee, which had the highest compatibility with the Great Miracle.

Everyone in the Miracle Committee had received favors from the Great Miracle far exceeding those of ordinary people.

They understood better how to interact with the Great Miracle and how to realize their own wishes.

After the Miracle Committee took charge of Yifu City, in order to make citizens rely more on the Great Miracle, they carried out drastic reforms, such as canceling 90% of hospitals, banning most entertainment, and so on.

The dancing puppets and colorful buses that Wu Chang and Xiang Jianxing had just seen were one of the arrangements of the Miracle Committee.

It was just that according to the intelligence collected by players, the Miracle Committee members responsible for these tasks should originally have been living people, not puppets.

Receiving the intelligence transmitted by the Bureau, Wu Chang couldn't help but sigh at the importance of intelligence.

It only took the Bureau twenty minutes to investigate a great deal of relevant intelligence based on the name Yifu City, basically clarifying the background worldview of the entire dungeon plane.

It went without saying that to accumulate so much intelligence, the lives of many players must have been paid as the price back then.

With intelligence supporting from behind, raiding a dungeon could indeed save a lot of trouble; if Wu Chang had to investigate it himself, wouldn't that take half a day?

The disclosure of the dungeon plane's intelligence made Wu Chang heave a long sigh; finally, there was an angle to give them a hint.

He activated the Insight Talisman in front of Xiang Jianxing, pretended to patrol the spot a few times, and then said:

"I seem to have sensed a flash of inspiration! When I was lurking over just now, I heard those women in suits repeatedly mention a concept, which is to integrate into Yifu City."

"To enter the teleportation point, one needs to mix in with the abducted citizens, so could the key to not being attacked after entering the teleportation point lie in the word 'integrate'?!"

Noon is a two-in-one, so today is three updates; half of this week is three updates, and the two-update beast is already working hard on three updates.

(End of chapter)