Chapter 157: The Third Floor of the Cave
Seeing that Ye Fei returned safely, and promised her that she would not go deep into the third layer, she tore open a spatial positioning scroll and used a single small teleportation array to leave the Thousand Rock Cave and return to Most.
Mo Xiaoqi originally wanted to stay, but Ye Fei drove her back, the reason? One more treatment that can't sneak and disappear might as well be on his own. Assassins are a profession that lives alone and lives in the shadows, and if you have one more person to go with, you will be tied to your hands and feet.
So, Mo Xiaoqi happily returned to Mode City, ready to go to the city guards to go through the inauguration procedures. Soon after, a "city management team" of Most City, which was later nicknamed the "Brook Women's Army", was officially established, and became popular throughout the Ironton district.
Of course, this is a later story, and when Ye Fei came to the entrance of the second layer of the Thousand Rock Cave, there was a fierce battle here, and when Luo Ka and the others returned from the second layer, a group of underground races pursued them, and they sacrificed several people to escape back, but these underground races chased after them reluctantly.
The second layer has already been lost, how can the first layer allow these guys to grab it again?
So, there was a big battle between the soldiers of the expeditionary force here and the underground races that pursued them. With the advantage of numbers, the expeditionary force finally swept away the incoming enemy, and Ye Fei blended in the crowd, occasionally using the shadow to assassinate and sneak attack. But unfortunately, there are so many NPCs that his attacks are almost negligible, and of course the system will not count the military merit on his head.
After Loka rested for a while, he saw Ye Fei in the crowd, and immediately said in surprise: "Your Excellency Night Hidden Bow, why haven't you left yet?" ”
Ye Fei said: "I plan to go down to see the situation, if I encounter a monster that can be killed, I want to get some military merits." ”
Loka frowned: "Does the commander know?" It's very dangerous down there! ”
Ye Fei said: "I have already talked to her, and she has no objection. Now that Linda has returned to Most, it's up to you. ”
Loka pondered for a moment and said, "That's it, I'll go down with you, at least I can protect you." You may be a wanted criminal, but since the Commander chooses to believe you, we will believe you too. Since you're a friend of the commander, we can't let anything happen to you. ”
Ye Fei laughed strangely, the greedy wolf had joined the expeditionary force, but his identity as a night bow was still a wanted criminal, if it weren't for Linda's sake, he would have been arrested and rewarded a long time ago. He shook his head insistently: "No need, Captain Loca! I have a way to get out! ”
Seeing that he was so persistent, Luo Ka didn't say anything more, and after telling him to be careful, he handed him a teleportation scroll: "This is a special scroll that can only be equipped by the squad leader of our expeditionary force, and it can be teleported to a thousand meters away by using the power of space." ”
"It's a good thing to save your life." Ye Fei took the scroll, this thing is somewhat similar to the one Linda used just now, but it is not as advanced as hers, after all, people can locate it, and the teleportation distance is relatively far. And this scroll is moving within a kilometer of the next moment, although it is a good thing to save life, but it is unstable, in case it falls into the monster pile, it is still a dead end.
Ye Fei thanked Luo Ka for his kindness, and then entered the stealth, and when he walked through the passage to the second layer, he immediately put on Zorro's mask, and wore the rank and military emblem of the expeditionary force that he had prepared before!
After turning into a greedy wolf, Ye Fei felt that he had an extra layer of protection, although death would still drop experience points, but his identity would not be exposed, and he would not be pursued by law enforcers.
He cautiously sneaked around the cave, it turned out that the poisonous snakes and poisonous insects all over the cave had long since disappeared, and there were groups of remnants of the underground race everywhere. This time, he was also an eye-opener, not to mention the minotaurs, werewolves, half-snake people, undead, etc., they have all been seen before, and there are also some goblins, phantom butterflies, dark elves, black dwarves and other special races can also be seen here. However, these guys are either ridiculously strong and are all fifty or sixty level monsters, or three or five together, and it is almost impossible to kill them.
There are only some phantom butterfly demons that seem to have weak defenses and slender bodies, Ye Fei has tried to attack the level 30 monsters of this kind of monster with shadow assassination and treachery, if she is lucky, she can kill them in seconds, and then use one to disappear and escape before her companions catch up, otherwise, the level is three or four levels worse, and she can't withstand the attacks of so many level 30 ordinary monsters.
When Ye Fei was exploring in the Thousand Rock Caves, news also came from Chen Hao's side, and the official gave a supplementary announcement about the maintenance of the system, which was almost impossible to happen before, but this time it happened.
The content of the announcement is very brief, and it is an explanation of some changes, one of which is an explanation of Ye Fei's situation where the damage fluctuates - penetrating attack!
Piercing attack refers to a physical or arcane attack that penetrates the armor's defenses, and when it directly attacks the body of a monster or hostile player, it will ignore 80% of the opponent's armor's physical defense and magical defense. In other words, if a warrior wearing a defensive suit is directly attacked to the body, then his equipment is equivalent to not wearing it, and he can only exert twenty percent of his defensive power.
As soon as the news came out, there was a lot of scolding, but not many people were able to see the actual impact of this change during the actual game.
The reason for this is simple, as not many players are able to use piercing attacks. After all, piercing attacks are meant to hit the opponent's body directly, not armor, which is difficult to do for both melee and ranged players. What monster would be so stupid as to let you smash them in the face with a weapon? When attacking their vital points, they dodge, block, and parry, so there aren't many players who can hit a piercing attack.
Since there was no one to pour out, the players' protests gradually subsided.
But Ye Fei knew that such a change might have no impact on ordinary players, but for an existence like them, the improvement in strength was obvious.
What about a piercing attack that increases damage by fifty to one hundred percent, plus a critical hit? This kind of damage was cumulative, making Ye Fei instantly feel that he was not weakened, but strengthened.
"BUG, I'M REALLY A BUG!" Ye Fei, who had been feeling unhappy since the update, finally laughed happily. However, Chen Hao also said that this kind of penetrating attack is basically only effective against humanoid monsters, and for some monsters such as beasts and dragons that do not need to wear armor, the penetrating attack is ineffective, because their own thick skin and flesh are their armor.
After getting this news, Ye Fei became even more handy in killing, and while walking towards the entrance of the third layer, he killed some phantom butterflies with his hands. Because it's a leapfrog to kill monsters, the experience gained is extremely rich. Moreover, the monsters of these underground races have a nameplate and emblem that represents their identity, and these nameplates and emblems are all pick-up bindings, and they can be exchanged for military merit at the quartermaster's office, otherwise, how will the army know if you have really killed the monsters of the underground race?
All the way to the entrance of the third layer, Ye Fei only collected nearly twenty nameplates, and he didn't even have six military merits after replacement. The rubble leading to the third level has long since been shattered, and the remnants of the underground race continue to rush up from below. Ye Fei spotted a gap, and a dodge entered the third layer.
As soon as he stepped into the third floor, he felt a hot current coming from under his feet.
"What's going on?"
He looked at the soles of his feet in wonder, the ground of the third layer was not ordinary soil or mountain rocks like the first two layers, but something like a crimson volcanic rock. In some places, these rocks still exude steaming heat, but the one under his feet is a little different in color, but not particularly hot. Not only is the rock under your feet different, but even the air around your body is hotter than outside, and it is full of stuffiness.
"Could it be that there is still a volcano underneath this cave?" Ye Fei walked cautiously inside, and without taking two steps, he stepped on a red rock emitting black smoke, and a flame jumped upward, he only felt a pain in the soles of his feet, and the sneaking state actually disappeared.
"I'll rub!"
As soon as Ye Fei's stealth state was lifted, the nearby orcs immediately discovered him, and rushed over with a shout, he hurriedly dodged and jumped back to the entrance of the third floor, and at the same time started to disappear, quietly walking to the side.
A red-eyed minotaur spun around twice in confusion, then snorted and ran back.
At this time, Ye Fei breathed a sigh of relief, but he was puzzled in his heart, how could the stealth state be suddenly lifted? Is that flame harmful?
Thinking so, he hurriedly opened his attribute panel, only to find a number of damage prompts: "You take 0 points of fire damage (10 points reduction)." ”
"You take 0 fire damage (11 reductions)."
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"You take 9 fire damage (50 reductions)."
Seeing this, Ye Fei understood, no wonder he felt wrong when he walked down, it turned out that these rocks on the ground can cause damage to people, and according to the different colors, the damage caused is not the same. However, because he has 50 fire resistance, the damage caused by this rock, which is basically just a little dark red, has been reduced, and when he walks on the crimson rock, because the temperature here is relatively high, the damage caused is also higher, and after reducing the damage by 50 points, it still causes 9 damage.
While stealth, stealth will not be broken as long as it does not deal damage, but as long as it takes even a little damage, the stealth will disappear.
Ye Fei knew this setting very well, so he also understood what was going on. And depending on the time it takes to generate damage, basically every 3-5 seconds, the damage will jump.
He glanced at the remnants of the underground races on this level and shook his head secretly, how did these guys survive in this place? Were they not burned to death?
With a sigh of emotion, Ye Fei drank a bottle of fire-based secret method resistance potion, adding thirty points of fire-type secret method resistance to himself, and then walked cautiously on the rocks, while observing the damage on the attribute panel, while distinguishing the color of these rocks, he wanted to count the damage that each type of rock can generate, so as not to be burned next time, or avoid those more special rocks.