Chapter 288 The New Round of Business 1 (2/2)
Dungeon Start Countdown: 10 minutes
Dungeon Goal: Survive until the end of the event. Reward: 15,000 EXP
Optional Mission I: Kill five Stardragon or Hesla agents. Reward: 30,000 EXP
Optional Mission II: Protect the real intel in the base from leaking. Reward: 45,000 EXP
Optional Mission III: Pan Kuang and Ji Jie survive. Reward: 70,000 EXP
Optional Mission IV: Defeat Stardragon and Hesla alliance. Reward: 110,000 EXP
Dungeon Failure Conditions: Annihilation.
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”Such high rewards!” Rebels Shall Rule was shocked. As a very important member of the guild, he had seen a lot and knew a lot. The LV30 dungeons that the players had seen at the moment usually only had two to three missions, and the total reward was 70,000 to 80,000 EXP. Yet, there were five missions in this dungeon with so many rewards!
Rebels Shall Rule then thought about it, and his face turned serious. ”However, the higher the reward, the more difficult it will be.”
The other four exchanged looks in confusion.
Is that so?
Never felt any part of the missions from Black Phantom were difficult…
”We are different,” Bun-hit-dog said with a heavy heart. He did not have the heart to correct Rebels Shall Rule.
Frenzied Sword looked at the notification and said with surprise, ”The dungeon will only start in ten minutes, but we can already move freely. What does this mean?”
This the first time that they had met a dungeon with a countdown, so they were a little lost.
Actually, the countdown would only appear in more difficult dungeons. The players would enter the event sometime before it happened so that they could do some preparation. The time for the start of the mission was the night when Hesla agents were going to steal the intelligence, so the players had the opportunity to prevent that. If they successfully did and changed the beginning of the story, the difficulty of the entire dungeon would drop from 'Hell' to 'Difficult'. However, the interface did not notify them about this; the players had to explore this themselves.
In the future, when Han Xiao opened this dungeon, after the players in the sanctuary got tortured by it a few hundred times, only then would they find the correct way to start the dungeon.
Of course, at the moment, the five of them were unaware of the importance of those ten minutes; they started the dungeon as usual. However, this was their first time in this dungeon. This type of dungeon was different from those that were just about killing monsters; it was more realistic and more difficult. The five of them had fun in agony, going around and around like headless chickens. They could only follow the job given by the base and patrol.
One day passed this way. During their patrol on the second night, Bun-hit-dog suddenly received a headshot.
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Your teammate [Bun-hit-dog] has died.
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”What‽” The rest four of them were horrified. They looked in all directions immediately, but the forest was dense. The night was dark, and they had no idea where the enemy was.
Bang!
This time, it was Hao Tian who took a headshot. The rest of the three felt like the enemy was everywhere, and they were understandably anxious.
Hao Tian's voice appeared in the team channel. He said very seriously, ”The interface said I received a lethal attack. The person that killed me was Black Phantom!”
They were dazed. It turned out this was a dungeon with Han Xiao in it! And as the enemy!
They were very discouraged.
Han Xiao's dungeon creation function was to cut out an event that would be generated into a mission. The characters in the dungeon were all mirror images, replaying events exactly as they had happened. It had nothing to do with the original person, and they had a certain amount of dungeon enhancement.
After three consecutive shots, all three of them died. Their visions blurred again, and they were back in the square. They had spent one day in the dungeon, but only ten minutes had passed in the outside world; the flow of time in the dungeon was different.
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Dungeon [Dark Crow Valley Operation] Failed.
Dungeon Cooldown: 3 hours
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The five of them all smiled bitterly.
This was way too difficult. They did not even know how they died.
…
On the other side, Han Xiao saw the return of the five of them from his surveillance image, confirmed the dungeon crystal to be effective, and started pondering.
”Dungeon crystals can only be distributed through mission rewards and can't be sold for money. Its use to me is to gather more players and give them more benefit, so the players will be more willing to do things for me. Also, the players will know about my experience through the dungeon, which will in turn increase my position. These are all rather indirect benefits… I can't sell the dungeon crystals, so there's no direct benefit.”
Han Xiao suddenly paused. He slapped his head and laughed. ”I'm thinking about this the wrong way. There's no need to sell them…”