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“Bro Xiao, we’re here!”

There were more than 100 players at the entrance of the instance zone. They formed more than 20 teams, but most of them were major guilds. The idle teams and the idle players who hadn’t formed a team were in the corner.

Qian Duoduo did not notice the various looks cast by the major guilds after the arrival of Xiaofeng. She called his name loudly and asked him to come over.

“This is the healer you’ve just mentioned?”

There were about 10 to 20 people in the team of idle players. The Nicholas brothers and Qian Duoduo were standing together and there was also a handsome juvenile standing around them. He stared at Xiaofeng up and down and asked Qian Duoduo with disdain.

“Hey! Little guy! Be polite. Bro Xiao is a master.”

Qian Duoduo was irritated by his words and said sharply at the boy.

“I’ve never seen a master wearing the newbie suit.”

This juvenile was about 16 or 17 years old. He was clean-cut and handsome. To quote a current catch-phrase: “He was the fresh meat.” The name on his head was Shangguan Aochen.

“Who is this?”

Xiaofeng didn’t want to argue with a kid. But he still gestured towards Shangguan Aochen and asked for his identity.

“A stranger. We’ve tried and found that we couldn’t finish the trail mission by ourselves. So we wanted to form a team. After finding this guy, we also wanted to look for a priest. But we didn’t expect that you would come back and help us in person. But now we have enough players and can form a team of five.” Nicholas Tiezhu explained.

“Hey! I didn’t agree to form a team and enter the instance zone with you. You two have good equipment, but there is a Passer-by in your team. No one wants to work with you.”

Shangguan Aochen was also a warrior. He held a one-handed sword in his arms and said with a poker face. It was obvious that the Passer-by he’d mentioned was Qian Duoduo.

“This boy is annoying.” Nicholas Zhaosi gnashed his teeth and glanced sideways at Shangguan Aochen. But he rolled his eyes and suddenly had an idea.

He immediately opened his mouth and said, “Hey, buddy. Do you want to bet?”

“Bet on what?” Shangguan Aochen looked at Nicholas Zhaosi with disapproval.

“Let’s see if four of us can successfully finish the trial mission this time. Do you dare to make a bet with us?” Nicholas Zhaosi gave him a sinister smile.

“What? Just four of you? You don’t have a shield warrior and your healer looks weird. You also have a Passer-by in your team! And you also want to pass it the first time! It’s impossible! If you can finish it, I’ll eat shit!”

Shangguan Aochen had a baby face, but he was very arrogant and proud.

“OK! That’s the deal!” Nicholas Zhaosi immediately made the decision and continued to say, “If we finish the trial mission the first time, you’ll eat shit!”

“…What if you don’t finish the mission this time?”

Shangguan Aochen stopped speaking for a while. Although he was young, he still noticed that he had been deceived. But he was reluctant to admit his mistakes and continued to ask.

“If we fail this time, I’ll eat two pounds of shit. And if we succeed this time, you only need to eat one pound of shit. What do you think? Do you want to make a bet with us? As a man, you have to stick to your words!” Nicholas Zhaosi gave him a sinister smile.

“I’m not afraid of you! Let’s wait and see! You will definitely eat two pounds of shit!” Shangguan Aochen made no concessions.

“You’re so disgusting!” Qian Duoduo couldn’t stand their conversations.

“Haha! Buddy, you’re bound to eat shit this time!” Nicholas Zhaosi was very happy. He smiled and continued to say, “Bro Xiao! Hurry up and enter our team! Let’s teach this boy a lesson!”

Xiaofeng smiled with resignation and sent him a team application.

“I have to go into the instance zone with you to prevent you from cheating! And I will not help you!”

Shangguan Aochen had already entered the team and he said immediately.

“Alright! We can treat you as the Passer-by!”

Crowds were discussing the trial mission and this team of five entered the instance zone. No one paid attention to them except the players of the Midsummer Guild and Doomsday League. In fact, many teams had already entered the instance zone, but all of them had been killed and sent back. That was the reason why so many sullen players were standing at the entrance and discussing with each other non-stop.

After entering the underground hole, Xiaofeng saw the familiar tunnel of the thorn vines. It was very dark here and the visibility was poor.

“Bro Xiao, to be honest, we are stuck in the first barrier at this entrance. I have enough HP and can pass it by taking drugs. But Zhaosi and Qian Duoduo can’t do this.” Nicholas Tiezhu said with embarrassment.

“But we are not alone. Most of the players at the current stage, including those standing outside, are stuck in this place. We’re killed before even seeing the monsters.” Nicholas Zhaosi also complained to him.

Xiaofeng nodded and he clearly knew that this trial mission was difficult. This tunnel was too dark and the thorn veins were dense. Players would be poisoned and die if they were careless.

“Well, this is very difficult. I don’t think you can pass the first barrier.”

Shangguan Aochen crossed his arms over his chest and looked at them with complacency.

“I can do nothing about it. You must be careful and walk slowly. You can turn on the lighting effects in the equipment settings. Although it is not very bright, it can be used for lighting in this environment.”

Xiaofeng opened his mouth and said. Advanced equipment had lighting effects. Excellent equipment had the green light and rare equipment had the blue light. But the system would automatically hide the light after the player equipped it, otherwise, the player was too dazzling in the crowd.

“Yeah! Why hasn’t it come to my mind?”

Nicholas Tiezhu became excited and turned on the equipment effects without hesitation.

Greenlight suddenly appeared around him. He lit up the ground like a humanoid firefly.

“I can also do this!”

Nicholas Zhaosi also turned on the equipment effect. Green and blue light appeared around him. He stood together with Nicholas Tiezhu and the tunnel became brighter. They could clearly see the thorn vines around them. They could avoid it if they were careful enough.

“Bro Xiao, you can also turn on the effects. They are not bright enough and look like two big worms.” Qian Duoduo said and looked at Xiaofeng eagerly.

“Yeah. Bro Xiao, please join us. Then we can be brighter!” The Nicholas brothers also echoed Qian Duoduo’s words. They knew that Xiaofeng had excellent equipment.

“Alright.”

There was only one outsider in the tunnel and he was still a boy. After thinking for a while, Xiaofeng put away the newbie suit and turned on the equipment effects.

In an instant, golden light, silver light, and even white light appeared and intertwined with each other. The tunnel was as bright as day!

“Gee… Fuck…”

Xiaofeng was wearing the newbie suit. Shangguan Aochen didn’t think he could turn on the effects. He was about to sneer at Xiaofeng but the tunnel suddenly became as bright as day. He was stunned and his mouth opened in astonishment.

He immediately realized that he had made a big mistake.

“Let’s go.”

Xiaofeng waved the Golden Bull Totem which looked like a searchlight and said.

The Nicholas brothers were also stunned while Qian Duoduo was staring greedily at Xiaofeng’s equipment. Both of her eyes were full of symbols of gold coins.

They finally collected their wits after hearing what Xiaofeng had said. Then they passed through the tunnel of thorn vines carefully.

With Xiaofeng’s help, they were not in danger even if they touched the thorn vines. So they passed the first barrier within half a minute.

The hissing sound.

Soon, the first wave of monsters – Poisonous Rock Snake appeared in front of them. They saw five 10th-level elite monsters that had the power of ranged attacks. The shield warriors whose equipment was not good enough couldn’t resist its attacks. It was definitely a big challenge in the instance zone.

“Bro Xiao, what should we do?”

Nicholas Zhaosi asked. Xiaofeng had already finished the trial mission before and he must have rich experience.

“Attack them as usual. These little monster are delicate.”

After speaking, Xiaofeng used the Weapon Blessing on Nicholas Zhaosi.

“Hey! You’ve got the help of the Weapon Blessing. Your ATN will be increased by 97 and it will last for 60 seconds. This comes from your teammate – Dad.”

“What? My ATN is increased?”

Nicholas Zhaosi also heard the system prompt at the same time. But his knee-jerk reaction was that he must have misheard. So he opened the attribute panel immediately and found that his ATN was over 150 points now. He was stunned at first and then his eyes widened.

“Gee! What’s this? This buff is invincible!” Nicholas Zhaosi nearly jumped with surprise.

“What are you doing? Hurry up and attack the monster!”

Nicholas Tiezhu was dissatisfied with Nicholas Zhaosi after finding that he was stunned and didn’t move.

“Stop! I want to attack these monsters by myself!”

Nicholas Zhaosi looked at Xiaofeng with astonishment and then said to Nicholas Tiezhu excitedly.

“Are you stupid? This is the 10th-level elite monster! It has 280 health points and 15 points of defense…”

Before Nicholas Tiezhu finished his words, Nicholas Zhaosi used the scattering skill and five arrows fell on the head of the 5 Poisonous Rock Snakes accurately.

“-132!”

“-136!”

“-137!”

“-133!”

“-268! Crit!”

Nicholas Tiezhu: “…”

Nicholas Tiezhu was stunned. Four of the five elite monsters lost half of their HP after being attacked by Zhaosi’s skill. One of them triggered crit and only had a few health points now. He was astonished and didn’t know what to say.

He knew that Nicholas Zhaosi’s attack power was a little higher than his. But Zhaosi only had 60 points of attack power and he couldn’t cause these high damages!

After collecting his wits, Nicholas Tiezhu immediately looked at Xiaofeng. They only had one priest and only Xiaofeng could add buff.

“Bro Xiao! No! Healer God! Please help me! I also want to seckill the monsters!”

“Wait for a moment. It’s still cooling down.”

Xiaofeng shook his head with resignation. After 30 seconds of cooldown time, he used the Weapon Blessing on Nicholas Tiezhu.

“Hey! You’ve got the help of the Weapon Blessing. Your ATN will be increased by 97 and it will last for 60 seconds. This comes from your teammate – Dad.”

After confirming that his eyes did not deceive him and his attack power was indeed increased by three times, Nicholas Tiezhu directly became crazy.

“Ah! Leave a monster to me! I want to seckill it!”

“No! They are all mine!”

“Are they crazy?” Looking at the Nicholas brothers who were extremely excited, Qian Duoduo felt strange and walked up to Xiaofeng secretly.

“Why didn’t the boy follow us?” Xiaofeng looked behind and didn’t find Shangguan Aochen. Teammate information showed that he was still at the entrance of the instance zone.

“Haha! Awesome! I feel great!”

After killing several Poisonous Rock Snakes easily, Nicholas Tiezhu came over with excitement.

Nicholas Zhaosi directly rushed over and hugged Xiaofeng’s thigh. He shouted, “Ah! Bro Xiao! From today you are my god! Ah! You are so brilliant! You’re like the sun in June! I want to be with you all the time! I want to follow you wherever you go! Death can’t separate us! I don’t know how to attack monsters without you!”

“Get away!”

Xiaofeng kicked his leg but failed to get rid of him. So he asked him to get away with a poker face.