“Brother An!!”
“Hurry and let me in!”
Xu Youyou stood at the edge of the white mist, shouting at the top of his lungs.
Zuo Lin'an sighed and controlled the white mist where Xu Youyou was standing to quietly part, letting him in.
Xu Youyou rushed in at top speed and headed straight for the sofa after entering the house.
“Brother An, have you finished setting it up?”
Zuo Lin'an said, “I've already applied. When midnight on Monday arrives in a few days, players will enter my dungeon.”
Xu Youyou gave him a thumbs-up.
“As expected of Brother An. I've successfully applied on my end as well. Guess what kind of specter item I crafted?”
Zuo Lin'an replied, “It couldn't be a specter item that repels specters, could it?”
Xu Youyou shook his head. “Of course not. If they found that and repelled me directly, wouldn't I be finished?”
“Hehehe, I won't tell you exactly what it is yet.”
He pointed to his phone. “I saw a lot of fun things on the forum. Look at this...”
While waiting for their dungeons to open, the two continuously browsed posts to study various tactics against players.
Xu Youyou said, “The probability of players having a special talent that directly repels specters is actually very small, but it's not non-existent. I just saw a post specifically addressing this situation.”
“First, catch them off guard and knock them out, then execute the Death Rule. Unlike before in Sin Hunter City, we don't have to worry about the prey dying too early now.”
“We just need to use our specter aura to keep them barely alive, and we can mess with them however we want!”
Zuo Lin'an nodded. “I know about that.”
He was also looking at that post.
Besides the method Xu Youyou just mentioned, there was another.
And that was using specter thralls.
They would make the players mistake a specter thrall for a specter, baiting them into using up their talent.
Plus, players' talents have cooldowns. Although different talents have different cooldowns, the absolute minimum is at least a day.
Zuo Lin'an murmured to himself, “Specter thralls?”
He frowned slightly. “I saw a post earlier saying that specter thralls can only be created by specters that possess a domain, or those with a specific rule for converting specter thralls, right?”
Xu Youyou said, “Indeed. That's why I was thinking we could make our second rule something related to specter thralls.”
Zuo Lin'an felt that was unlikely.
“As artificial Human-Specter Symbionts, we have to return to Sin Hunter City to add rules in the future. What kind of method would you use to establish a rule related to specter thralls?”
Xu Youyou's mind instantly went blank. “Uh?”
Zuo Lin'an sighed. “Alright, let's not think about such unrealistic things for now.”
“For us, knocking the players unconscious is more practical. After all, even if they have talents or specter items that can repel us, they still have to be able to use them.”
Xu Youyou stopped dwelling on it. “Alright.”
Over the next two days, they communicated back and forth many times. They also dug up many technical posts on the forum about dealing with players and studied them diligently.
They even compiled a list of highly troublesome players mentioned by many dungeon bosses.
However, both of them felt they wouldn't be so unlucky as to encounter such formidable players the very first time they opened their dungeons.
Time gradually passed.
Soon, the time arrived for their first official dungeon opening.
Xu Youyou was sitting in the living room at the moment, casually glancing at the clock on the wall.
【11:53】
“Tomorrow is Monday.”
“Yeah, more precisely, seven minutes left... Go back first. If there's anything, come find me after the dungeon ends.”
Xu Youyou stood up. “Alright, I'll head out first.”
Zuo Lin'an rose to see him out.
Xu Youyou returned to his own territory; he had to prepare on his end as well.
After going back inside, Zuo Lin'an casually picked up a backpack. It was packed with plenty of food and drinks beforehand—courtesy of Xu Youyou, of course, who told him to enjoy them while watching.
Zuo Lin'an slung the backpack over his shoulder and walked out of the house. Although it was the middle of the night and pitch black outside, to him, it was no different from daytime.
He slowly walked toward the center of Zone Two, his body undergoing some changes as he walked.
His originally flesh-colored skin instantly turned deathly pale and gray, and some faint bloodlines appeared on it.
The most obvious change was in his eyes.
A speck of deep crimson welled up from the depths of his pupils, rapidly spreading. In the blink of an eye, his eyes had transformed into a pair of scarlet, vertical slits.
At this moment, Zuo Lin'an had perfectly fused with his specter body!
This was also something he and Xu Youyou had discovered while browsing the forum.
Ordinary Specter Masters could achieve perfect fusion with their specters. After the fusion, the Specter Master could transform into a specter form.
However, the specters that Specter Masters fused with were ultimately not themselves, so the fusion duration was limited—usually around ten minutes or so.
But for Human-Specter Symbionts, there were no such restrictions.
Their living body and specter body were originally one, so this perfect fusion was a hundred percent match for someone like him.
Zuo Lin'an took a step forward. The scenery on both sides rapidly receded. By the time he snapped out of it, he had actually traveled over a hundred meters.
“This feeling is truly...”
Although he had controlled his specter body to travel like this before...
...when his living body and specter body acted separately, splitting his consciousness to control two bodies was ultimately not as clear and seamless as it was now.
Or rather, not as exhilarating.
Zuo Lin'an grew excited. Taking steps of a hundred meters each, he rushed to the edge of the inner ring's white mist at his fastest speed.
Only when he was about to touch the white mist did he stop, feeling like he hadn't fully had his fill.
He exhaled slowly, then randomly chose a flat, large rock nearby, took a picnic blanket out of his backpack, spread it over the rock, and sat down.
A sinister, ghostly figure materialized beside him, and his own appearance reverted to his original living form. As for the separated specter body, it naturally walked slowly into the white mist.
When a dungeon officially opened, the dungeon boss had to be inside and could not leave before it ended.
As a Human-Specter Symbiont, either the living body or the specter body had to be inside.
The other could enter and exit at will.
However, for his first dungeon, Zuo Lin'an did not plan on having his living body disguise itself as an NPC or a player.
He planned to observe the players first.
After all, a wuxia world would definitely be ancient. The way ancient people sat, stood, walked, spoke, and behaved would inevitably be very different from modern people like him.
He had to watch them closely first and mimic them.
He pulled out his phone and took a look. Time was up!
In the next instant, ten figures appeared on the highest mountain peak inside the white mist.
All ten people were scattered in different spots. Since the surroundings were pitch black, none of them dared to make a move rashly for the time being.
Zuo Lin'an immediately selected the player closest to his specter body. Taking a step forward, he silently appeared behind them in the blink of an eye.
A pair of scarlet, vertical slits slowly emerged.
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