Zuo Lin'an scrolled through the forum posts while contemplating the main quest.
“Is three days enough?”
“Maybe five?” He hesitated.
“Forget it, three days it is.”
“But if I do that, won't the plotline I set up go to waste?” Zuo Lin'an's finger paused mid-scroll.
“No, that's not right.”
“It's still useful.”
After all, the location of the path of survival had to be deduced step-by-step from the plot. Otherwise, even if a player stumbled upon the correct spot by sheer luck, the path of survival wouldn't appear.
Perhaps by coincidence, as he was lost in thought, his finger accidentally tapped on a post, opening it.
The content inside happened to address the very issue he was pondering.
【When confirming the path of survival, players must have a relatively correct chain of logical reasoning in their minds.】
【Therefore, I sincerely suggest that Two-Star dungeon bosses set a survival time combined with a path of survival quest as the dungeon's main quest.】
【This way, you don't have to worry about the plot you painstakingly designed going to waste.】
Zuo Lin'an instantly understood the poster's point.
If players wanted to confirm the location of the path of survival, they had to make a logical deduction, which meant they had to figure out exactly what had happened there. Why did they judge the path of survival to be in that spot? What reason placed the path of survival there?
In his dungeon, the path of survival was located at the end of the path leading away from here, close to the white mist. This was because, to the “brother,” his greatest wish was for his “older brother” to completely let him go, leave this place, and embrace a brand-new life. To understand this, players had to investigate everything that had occurred beforehand.
“Looking at it this way, why does the 【Investigate the Truth】 quest feel a bit redundant?”
No, that wasn't right. It wasn't entirely redundant.
After all, in many cases, even if players uncovered the truth, it didn't guarantee they would find the path of survival. Conversely, finding the path of survival didn't require uncovering the entire truth; sometimes, knowing just a portion of the circumstances was enough to deduce its correct location.
【Furthermore, we can pair these two quests to maximize our harvest of living players, which will also greatly diversify your types of puppets.】
【This paranormal world has only just begun, but I can already tell that the quality of players here is much higher than in the previous Wuxia World, and they come in many varieties!】
【I hope everyone can take my suggestion into consideration to acquire puppets that are useful to you.】
【By the way, if you are interested in selling puppets, please click the link below to jump to the system's mall transaction page...】
Zuo Lin'an automatically ignored the latter part. He nodded to himself; the poster was indeed correct about pairing the main quests.
From his recent phone call with Xu Youyou, he knew that the players over there included a ghost, a Buddhist cultivator, and someone practicing Ghost Gu, while his side had fiendesses who could drain human yang energy, vital essence, and even souls. Not to mention the two authentic Daoists, one old and one young.
Moreover, the dungeon had only just begun—not even two hours had passed—and they were already killing one another. Xu Youyou's side had likely lost several players already. On Zuo Lin'an's side, though the young Daoist Lin Xiaolei hadn't killed anyone directly, the lightning technique he cast earlier had indirectly caused two female players to die from the Blood Ghost Curse.
The sights and sounds of just over an hour had already given him a clear estimation of the chaos within this 【Paranormal World】.
Frankly, Zuo Lin'an was somewhat surprised by that lightning technique. Recalling the two bolts of lightning that had erupted from Lin Xiaolei, their power was... How should he put it?
Aside from being useless against specters, its power was actually comparable to the common talent 【Minor Thunder Talisman】.
“There really is a wide variety...”
Furthermore, everyone in this 【Paranormal World】 was ruthless—both fierce and cruel.
Zuo Lin'an made his decision.
“I'll do as the post says.”
“Before opening the dungeon next time, I'll remove the investigation quest and change it to a survival quest. As for how much time to set...”
Zuo Lin'an was currently leaning toward three days, but he would wait until this dungeon run ended to think about the exact duration.
As for Daoist Wufang and Lin Xiaolei... Although Zuo Lin'an wanted them, he could only say sorry this time. But it didn't matter; this was just the beginning, and he would surely encounter better ones in the future.
Yet even though he had decided to kill them, Zuo Lin'an had no intention of acting just yet. After all, this was his first time opening the dungeon, and he needed to keep a couple of players alive to test the plotline he had set up. If he found any loopholes, he could fix them in time.
“Let's let them live for two more days. It's a way to make the most of them.”
Zuo Lin'an sat quietly in the crevice, closing his eyes to doze off as he silently awaited the arrival of dawn.
Over half an hour later.
Over at Xu Youyou's side.
By now, the monk had already killed four people, leaving only one last person. Currently, he was pursuing this final target.
Concealing his figure in the distance, Xu Youyou watched as the fleeing man gritted his teeth and spat curses at his pursuer.
“You son of a bitch, you dead bald donkey!”
“You fucking killed four people just now, and now you want to kill me too?”
“You must be tired of living!”
“You dog bastard, just wait! I'm going to skin you alive!”
Yet no matter what he said or how filthy his language was, the monk's expression remained icy. He kept his gaze locked onto the man, pursuing him relentlessly as the distance between them gradually shrank.
Xu Youyou watched with great interest. “The monk completely crushed everyone he killed before. Killing this last one shouldn't be too difficult, right?”
Just then, the monk caught up to the enemy ahead. A hazy golden light flared on his palm as he struck directly at him.
Facing the attack, the opponent did not resist. Instead, he leaped into the air, twisting his body in an extremely contorted posture to dodge the palm strike.
Upon landing, his expression grew solemn as he stared at the monk, no longer running. Instead, his pitch-black eyes, which seemed to glint with a faint red light, locked onto his opponent.
Then, he suddenly grinned, let out a sinister laugh, and stuck out his tongue to lick the corner of his lips.
“I remember who you are now!”
“I knew you looked familiar!”
“So you're the Buddha's Son of Fuling Temple! No wonder my decent team members stood absolutely no chance against you.”
Xu Youyou's eyes lit up.
What?
Buddha's Son?
He felt that this title sounded incredibly high-end. No wonder he was so powerful.
“I say, Fuling Temple is in the far south, and my Ghost Gu sect is in the western mountains and dense forests. There has never been any conflict between us, so there's no need to fight to the death, is there?”
“I know you Buddhists are all the same... Oh, wait, I mean, you are all infinitely compassionate!”
“How about this? I won't hold you accountable for the deaths of my underlings; we can just consider it practice for the Buddha's Son. Let's stop right here. What do you say?”
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