Of course, the Great Gods wouldn't ignore Baozi's strength, but after a close study, they all had the same feeling as Jiang Botao: they couldn't see through him.
"His mechanics are solid, but his awareness is erratic," Lin Jingyan commented as the most experienced rogue player.
"That's what makes him so unpredictable!" Jiang Botao sighed.
"In Zhang Xinjie's words: an overly impulsive player," Lin Jingyan said.
"That sounds like something he would say," Li Xuan laughed. Zhang Xinjie was known for his meticulousness and discipline, and impulsiveness was his greatest enemy.
"That's a good assessment! He is indeed quite impulsive. His actions are really hard to predict. He doesn't seem to learn from experience, and just fights with some kind of innate intuition," Jiang Botao said.
"A natural balance breaker," Wang Jiexi said.
"Have there been players like this before?" Jiang Botao asked.
"Look at the person above you," Lin Jingyan laughed.
"Uh... magicians aren't quite that reckless," Jiang Botao said.
"Is it because a magician's innate intuition is more accurate?" Lin Jingyan said.
"That's a very accurate way to put it," Jiang Botao said admiringly.
"But Wang Jiexi, do you still have that kind of intuition now?" Lin Jingyan asked.
"Want to try me?" Wang Jiexi said.
"Haha, I wouldn't dare," Lin Jingyan laughed.
"What will happen to this Steamed Bun Invasion in the future?" Jiang Botao asked with a thought-provoking expression.
Wang Jiexi helped Tiny Herb win the championship because he changed his style. Steamed Bun wasn't as talented as Wang Jiexi. Can he maintain this impulsive style?
This question was difficult to answer, and the pro players channel fell silent. Everyone was probably thinking about something. Maybe it was about time to go to sleep...
The first day of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade ended.
The next day, at the same time, the hundred ghosts respawned again, but careful players noticed that the number of ghosts that spawned on the second day seemed to be more than on the first day.
Kill, kill, kill!
With the experience of the first day, everyone was no longer panicked when facing the slightly stronger ghosts. Although the hundred ghosts had powerful attacks, they also had their own fatal weaknesses in defense. Even if they couldn't grasp the weaknesses, everyone could team up and help each other.
What about the major guilds? This time, they were no longer conservative or secretive. As soon as the event started, they announced loudly in the guild that they would be on the lookout for any "raising" monsters.
In this kind of environment, it became very difficult to raise monsters, so the guilds simply stopped thinking about it.
Without this kind of strategic confrontation, it was naturally difficult for the rankings to fluctuate drastically. Everyone's scores were very close, and of course, the pro players' pro accounts were still in the lead. In the end, the rankings didn't really matter. It all depended on who was lucky enough to find more ghosts.
The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day...
The event continued in this ordinary way. The lead that Team Happy's characters had created on the first day wasn't a particularly solid foundation. Their rankings on the overall leaderboard had declined somewhat. After all, this was something that hard work couldn't fix. Luck was an inexplicable factor.
The guild leaders all breathed a sigh of relief. They were really worried that Ye Xiu would have some other devilish tricks up his sleeve. Now that a few days had passed, they finally felt more at ease. Seeing Lord Grim's ranking gradually slip from first place to seventh, the guild leaders couldn't help but feel happy!
However, the top spot still made them unhappy.
Deception!
Mo Fan had been very lucky in the past few days, and he had further widened the gap between himself and the pursuers behind him. With only two days left in the event, it seemed that unless someone had an unbelievable stroke of luck, the overall first place would ultimately belong to Happy.
The guild leaders were also racking their brains, trying to find ways to help their own players. However, the past few days of peace had led them to realize one thing: in this state of peaceful coexistence, Ye Xiu didn't seem so scary; but whenever they tried to do something fancy, they would be repeatedly toyed with by Ye Xiu until they were left with nothing.
Perhaps they should just gamble on their luck for another two days? If they messed up their plans and Ye Xiu took advantage of it, wouldn't he send all of Happy's characters into the top ten?
It was better to be cautious!
With this in mind, the major guilds chose to continue to remain silent. On the sixth day of the event, Deception's position still seemed unshakeable, but Ye Xiu's luck seemed to be even worse today, and Lord Grim fell out of the top ten, much to the delight of the major guilds.
With Lord Grim's fall, Happy only had Deception, who was in first place, in the top ten. The rest had fallen out of the top ten.
Then, on the sixth day of the event, for the first time ever, all the refreshed ghosts were eliminated. No one had expected that this event would have a hidden bonus. After all the ghosts were cleared, the system didn't announce the end of the day's event, but instead announced that in the process of clearing the hundred ghosts, the Hundred Ghosts Lair had been discovered by five valiant warriors.
The five heroic ghost slayers were Sweeping Monk, Dazzling Hundred Flowers, Deception, Pretending Ignorance, and Howling Flame.
Everyone could see that these five people weren't randomly chosen. They were the top five characters in terms of total points for today's event.
The system then announced that these five warriors could each organize a five-person team to enter the Hundred Ghosts Lair and search for the Ghost King. The team that ultimately killed the Ghost King would receive a reward of self-selected materials and equipment.
As soon as this announcement was made, the teams that hadn't made it into the top five today were filled with regret. Self-selected! This reward method was simply too tempting. Teams had clear plans for what they needed, and self-selection could fully meet their most important needs. But now, the only ones with this opportunity were these five characters, which meant that only these five teams had the chance to receive the self-selected rewards.
Sweeping Monk, Team Wind Howl.
Dazzling Hundred Flowers, Team Tyranny.
Deception, Team Happy.
Pretending Ignorance, Team Misty Rain.
Howling Flame, Team Wind Howl.
Each character could form a team of five, which meant a standard team. These five teams would compete in the Hundred Ghosts Lair, a place that seemed like a dungeon.
The people who didn't get the opportunity were cursing, while the five who did were already starting to organize their teams. When the system announced the news, they each received a Hundred Ghosts Lair teleportation scroll, which would automatically disappear if not used within 10 minutes, meaning they had to form their teams within 10 minutes.
For the teams, this was too easy. The main lineup was pulled together, and a five-person team was immediately formed.
The one with a slight problem was Pretending Ignorance. His operator, Lu Yining, was a rotation player on Team Misty Rain. After Misty Rain signed the Sharpshooter Sisters, his chances of leaving this summer were very high, as he was also a Sharpshooter. Players in this kind of situation didn't really have the mood to sacrifice their vacation time to strengthen a character that might not belong to them next season. However, everyone saw things from a different perspective. Lu Yining realized that his chances of transferring were high, so he actively participated in these events, hoping to use this kind of positive professional attitude to win the favor of some potential employers and benefit his future development.
For any pro player, fighting monsters wasn't difficult, and everyone was equally efficient. Lu Yining had been very lucky today and had squeezed into fourth place, which had helped Team Misty Rain get an entry ticket to this event. When he thought about how he was about to be abandoned by the team, Lu Yining really wanted to throw away the scroll. However, he obviously cared more about the evaluation of his actions, so he had to force himself to find his Misty Rain teammates.
Another one with a bit of a problem was Deception.
The system announcement had made the hidden bonus very clear, but only Mo Fan knew that the entry ticket was a teleportation scroll with a validity period of only 10 minutes.
He was waiting for Ye Xiu and the others to call him to form a team, but everyone didn't know about the time limit and was still slowly dealing with their own affairs. Time passed minute by minute. Mo Fan looked around, hoping someone would notice him, but no one did. No message was sent in the game.
Nine minutes left, eight minutes left, seven minutes left...
Two minutes!
Mo Fan stood up abruptly in a hurry, and this finally caught everyone's attention.
"There are two minutes left," he said.
"Huh?" Everyone was at a loss.
Mo Fan looked at the teleportation scroll that his mouse had been hovering over. It wasn't 2 minutes anymore, it was 1 minute and 45 seconds.
"Team up to go to the Hundred Ghosts Lair," Mo Fan said.
"Oh, oh, let me see who should go!" Ye Xiu leisurely looked left and right.
"Hurry, one and a half minutes!" Mo Fan said.
"There's a time limit? Damn, you only said that now that there's only one and a half minutes left!" Ye Xiu understood and immediately became anxious. "Little Tang, Steamed Bun, Su Mucheng, let's go!"
Mo Fan quickly sent team invitations to the characters that Ye Xiu had casually named, but when he tried to operate, he realized that he hadn't even added these people as friends.
Mo Fan was sweating profusely and frantically added friends one by one. Ye Xiu was urging him on, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" He accidentally misspelled a word, Mucheng Su... what a strange name. Mo Fan even took the time to complain in his heart!
Finally, with only 10 seconds left on the scroll's countdown, the five-person team was formed. Mo Fan didn't dare to delay at all and quickly right-clicked to use it. Team Happy entered the Hundred Ghosts Lair in such a hasty manner.
"Stay alert." The first thing Ye Xiu said after teleporting in was this. Only one team could get the reward, but the system didn't explain how to compete for it. Was it one team entering a dungeon and competing on speed? Or were they all thrown into the same dungeon, where they had to deal with the Ghost King while also fighting each other? It was still unknown. Ye Xiu first reminded them to be alert, naturally to guard against the second situation. Then, he quickly scanned around, already observing the situation in the Hundred Ghosts Lair.