Zuo Lin'an did a rough calculation of Xu Youyou's Contribution points.
Right now, there were three unsolvable specters in his dungeon, which would earn him a total of fifteen Contribution points. If he successfully wiped out all the players in the end, he would get an additional bonus point, bringing the total to sixteen.
“I remember he currently has fifty-six Contribution points. Once this dungeon ends, he should have about seventy-two.”
“He's getting close to one hundred points...”
Perhaps Xu Youyou really could become a Two-Star dungeon boss before connecting to the next world.
“But if that's the case, will he have enough money to develop his own dungeon?”
After all, developing a dungeon required quite a lot of Contribution points, so Xu Youyou would definitely need to set aside some reserve funds.
Take himself, for example; this time, he had to spend twelve Contribution points to renovate his dungeon.
The nineteen Contribution points he had left after purchasing the Sin Hunter City Entry Application had now dwindled to seven.
He had purchased many other things later on. When he ran low on cash, he found another dungeon boss on the forum and exchanged 1 Contribution point for two million.
In other words, he only had six Contribution points left.
“Sigh...”
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Xu Youyou's specter body had already restored, but he didn't make a move immediately. Instead, he hid his specter body away.
His living body, however, remained hidden in the shadows, quietly observing the only three remaining players.
Both First-Rate martial artists were severely injured. Yet even so, they continued to confront each other. Not far from them was the possessor of the 【Causality Loop】 talent.
He had a blank look on his face, as if he were waiting for something.
Xu Youyou knew those two martial artists definitely knew he was hiding nearby. However, they basically ignored him, treating him as just a dungeon native who had entered the dungeon with them this time.
They didn't even have the energy to question why Xu Youyou was still alive and kicking after going without food and water for so long.
All three of them were waiting. They were waiting for the specter to appear.
As long as the specter appeared and killed any one of them, the specter would be repelled by the talent.
The remaining two would then be able to clear the dungeon alive.
Therefore, despite their standoff, they wouldn't actually fight. In fact, they were probably praying that the other wouldn't drop dead from their severe injuries.
As long as all three of them remained alive, each person's probability of dying was only one-third, while their chance of survival was two-thirds.
But if one died...
...the remaining two's probability of death would rise to one-half.
That was the last thing they wanted to see.
At this point, the two martial artists were even starting to regret striking each other so ruthlessly earlier.
But it was already too late.
Seeing the other leaning against a tree without moving for a long time, one of them couldn't help but panic slightly.
“Hey, how much longer can you hold out?”
“I put eighty percent of my strength into that palm strike. You're not about to kick the bucket, are you?”
The man leaning motionless against the tree immediately snapped back.
“You bastard, you'd better worry about yourself first. My kick landed right on your chest. You're lucky to still be breathing!”
Having both suffered severe injuries, they had truly fought with raw fury before, and now they were essentially running on pure willpower.
Yet even so, they refused to back down verbally.
But after a short while, they both shut their mouths and fell silent.
They realized that speaking only drained their remaining physical strength even faster.
They had already used their 【Perception】 talent earlier and were certain that the specter had restored, yet it hadn't attacked any of them.
It was as if...
“I think the specter might be stalling for time. It can probably sense that you two don't have much longer to live. Once you're dead, I'll be the only one left—an ordinary person who knows no martial arts.”
“By then, even having the causality mark on me will be useless.”
“After all, if I'm the only one left and the specter kills me, even if it gets repelled afterward due to the mark and the main quest is completed, there won't be a second player left in the dungeon.”
“It will still be a total failure to clear the dungeon.”
The player with the 【Causality Loop】 talent finally snapped out of his daze.
He looked completely calm, as if those words hadn't just come out of his mouth. There wasn't a hint of emotion in his voice, as if he didn't care about his own life or death.
No one responded to his words, but he wasn't discouraged and asked another question.
“Earlier, I suggested it would be best to cooperate and hunt the specter together, but you all disagreed.”
“Under the current circumstances, do you have any other ideas?”
The two severely injured martial artists remained silent.
Now they finally remembered. This guy indeed seemed to have said before that they shouldn't conflict with each other in the dungeon and should cooperate instead, so that more people could clear it.
But back then, the two martial artists with the 【Perception】 talent didn't want to share anything with anyone else.
And so, it had come to this.
Perhaps knowing they were in the wrong, neither of them spoke.
If they could still move freely, they might have gone out to search for a way, but now...
...they could only stay here and wait for the specter to deliver itself to their doorstep.
Moreover, they no longer had any means to deal with the specter. Their only hope was for the specter to personally attack them and kill one of the three, triggering the repel effect.
The scene fell completely silent. Xu Youyou noticed that the player who had been flatly mocking the two martial artists also stopped speaking.
To be honest, this guy was incredibly unlucky.
He clearly had an absolute god-tier start, yet because of a few idiots, he had ended up in this state.
Time passed second by second, feeling both long and fleeting.
Xu Youyou remained extremely patient. He waited for several hours, simply biding his time until he finally wore the two severely injured players to death.
Seeing the unwilling and regretful expressions on their faces right before they died, his heart didn't waver in the slightest.
He only knew that it was time for him to make his move.
“Let's begin.”
Xu Youyou casually put away his phone, stood up, and looked at the figure sitting in a daze in the distance.
“Only one left. I'll just kill him directly to avoid wasting time.”
Originally, Xu Youyou only planned to send his specter body over, but after some thought, he decided to perform a perfect fusion with his living body and then switch his state to his specter body.
“This is the safest way.”
Although only an ordinary person remained, for him, this ordinary person might still hold some highly powerful specter item.
After all, the opponent's talent was truly somewhat game-breaking, so he must have cleared other dungeons before.
“How strange.”
Xu Youyou muttered to himself as he approached.
“I saw posts on the forum before saying that the probability of a player with a unique special talent being assigned to a One-Star difficulty dungeon is extremely small, even less than one percent.”
“How on earth did Brother An and I happen to run into this probability of less than one percent?”
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