Chapter 38

Qi Sheng sat cross-legged on the altar, with multiple split-screen light curtains floating in front of him, live-streaming the fierce battle of players in the Gloomy Cave.

After two consecutive days of attacks, players successfully advanced to the third underground space.

The number of iron-shelled insects here has obviously increased, and there are a large number of Earth-Hole Clan lives under control wandering around, and the confrontation intensity has been significantly improved.

While the player death frequency has become higher, the income produced has also increased accordingly.

What makes players happy is that the quality of spirit ore on the third underground floor is much higher than the first floor space they explored before.

The main spirit ore on the first floor is the spirit ore level 1 Energy-Surplus Stone, while what is dug out from the rock wall on the third floor is generally spirit ore level 2 Source Energy Stone. Every one can get more than 10 points of sacrificial power income feedback after sacrificing to Di Zhao.

The only drawback is that the mining difficulty has become greater.

The rock wall on the third underground floor is hard, and it is difficult to break it with only ordinary mining shovels. You need to buy higher-level mining tools in the shop.

Combat consumption, resurrection consumption, equipment replacement, monster output... After the mission to purify the Gloomy Cave was released, Qi Sheng's income has obviously improved.

The sacrificial power extracted every day can recruit 60 players.

The total daily income flowing into the sacrificial power pool is around 200,000, but except for the extracted sacrificial power income, he will not move the part of sacrificial power belonging to players without special circumstances.

Before the player recruitment plan started, he carefully considered whether to use the player's sacrificial power.

In essence, the sacrificial power balance seen by players is just a string of numbers. Sacrificial power is not stored on players. When they use sacrificial power, they extract it from the sacrificial power pool below Imperial Tomb Village, convert it into corresponding energy or props, and then transmit it to players.

So the sacrificial power earned by players is in his hands.

But this part of sacrificial power will be used by players at any time, consumed in shop purchases, Star Pulse improvement, Body Tempering level improvement, etc.

Excessive consumption may exist when players want to use it, he has no inventory sacrificial power expenditure because he misappropriated a large amount of sacrificial power.

The sacrificial power pool he controls is like a bank. Sacrificial power can be understood as real currency.

Players deposit sacrificial power and also consume sacrificial power. The difference is that he cannot earn income through lending, so he cannot use leverage, and how much he spends must be filled in later.

In order to avoid the problem of excessive consumption of sacrificial power inventory, he chooses not to use the part of sacrificial power belonging to players without special circumstances, and only uses the part of sacrificial power belonging to himself after extraction.

[Boss, they are fighting again!]

The guide's voice interrupted Qi Sheng's thoughts.

Looking up at one of the light curtains in front of him, hundreds of players in the screen encountered Earth-Hole Clan lives leading iron-shelled insects, and the battle started instantly.

Players switched to monster forms and engaged in a head-on confrontation with iron-shelled insects.

Through the observation of these days, Qi Sheng found that players will reasonably use tactics in small-scale battles, but after the scale expands, they will become lawless, confronting head-on like reckless men. The scene is also extremely chaotic, each fighting their own targets.

During this period, the small regional voice channel is even more chaotic.

"Brothers playing with fire, don't throw fireballs randomly, okay? If your eyes are bad, you can give them to others. If you throw them at me again, don't blame me for fighting back!"

"The brother in front is really fierce, rushing into the iron-shelled insect group and opening Taunt, but he didn't hold on for 3 seconds and turned into black smoke. This is purely sending death, hahahaha."

"Don't push me, I'm low on health and want to go back to replenish health, please don't push, if you push forward again, I'll really die!"

"Hahaha, picked up three iron-shelled insect essences, this wave of death is worth it."

It is inevitable that accidental injuries will occur in scenes that are too chaotic.

In reality, players who brush past each other will respond humbly and politely, but in the game world without any constraints, player nature is completely released. If there is a grievance, they will scold on the spot, and if there is a grudge, they will fight directly.

Secondly, after killing monsters, only sacrificial power and evolution point income are obtained directly, but the insect essence dropped after iron-shelled insects are refined needs to be picked up.

Faced with the benefits falling on the ground, players will not ask who the ownership belongs to at all, and will decisively take action to pick them up.

Under the intensification of various contradictions, players will also fight other players while fighting iron-shelled insects.

But while there are internal small frictions, the main target of player confrontation is still iron-shelled insects and Earth-Hole Clan lives.

The fierce battle is still continuing, and iron-shelled insects are also not afraid of death under the control of Earth-Hole Clan warriors, and the casualties on both sides continue to expand.

The advantage of players lies in the rapid follow-up of subsequent forces. Rear players will quickly fill the gap of forward dead players to continue fighting.

Looking at players advancing underground from a macro perspective, it presents a long dragon queuing up. Although there are multiple fork roads in the third underground floor that split players to different directions, players in the first two floors are completely queuing and waiting to play.

These queuing players, in addition to brushing the forum to chat, or watching other players live-stream fierce battles at the forefront, will also pick up mining picks to pass the time by digging ore, waiting for their turn to charge.

The rapid follow-up of subsequent forces makes the rhythm of players advancing underground appear very steady.

Die a batch, fill a batch, little by little cannibalizing iron-shelled insects and Earth-Hole Clan lives.

The player's ability to resurrect infinitely has limited effect when confronting the evil spirit warrior whose strength is completely crushed, but it can be called unsolvable when facing iron-shelled insects of equal strength.

Judging from the current advancement trend, taking the Gloomy Cave is just a matter of time.

The battle in the screen lasted less than 20 minutes and came to an end, exchanging the death of 692 players for the smoothness of this section of the road.

Ahead is another fork road, and players split at this fork road and continue to move forward.

Qi Sheng's light curtain also has an extra split-screen picture following.

[Boss, discovered Source!]

Hearing the guide's prompt, Qi Sheng turned to look at a light curtain on the right.

The monster in the screen is bound and imprisoned in the cave by special iron chains like Taunt, shaped like an enlarged salamander, dragging a large tail, its head is round, and its body is covered with a layer of crystal mucus. At this time, it is looking at the players with a fierce expression, revealing two rows of sharp teeth.

Parsing information is quickly fed back to Qi Sheng's mind.

[Eat Qi (First-generation Source)]:

Hunting level: 12

Characteristic ability: Eat Qi

Characteristic parsing: Can automatically filter energy particles in the air through breathing to replenish mental power and blood energy consumption

Guide note: The specific replenishment effect is affected by the energy particle content in the area. For example, in areas with higher moon phase intensity, the energy particle content in the air is generally higher, and the mental power and blood energy recovery speed obtained by breathing is faster.

Containment prompt: Killing Source monsters can automatically complete containment, and those who participate in the killing will share huge rewards.

Seeing that it is a Source monster, Qi Sheng suddenly gained spirit.

(End of chapter)