CHAPTER 469: CHAPTER 164: DEATH RECOVERY, DARK RACE TRAP

"Can’t afford to mess with it!"

Lu Xing decisively chose to take a detour.

Contrary to the typical player’s mindset, he had no interest in exploring such potential opportunity locations.

In comparison, he preferred treasures that were ready-made; risk-taking wasn’t really for him.

At that moment, the Treasure Hunting Mouse on his shoulder began to paw at his shoulder with its front paws, its head constantly nudging towards the Blood Soul Barrier.

"Too dangerous, not going."

Lu Xing tapped the mouse’s nose, unwavering in his decision to detour.

Meanwhile, spectators in the live stream could not help but criticize Lu Xing for being overly cautious.

It was foolish to retreat after finally encountering a special event.

Especially since the Treasure Hunting Mouse had reacted.

This indicated that there were definitely treasures in the Blood Soul Barrier, warranting exploration regardless of their value.

Even if there truly wasn’t any valuable item, the decomposition information suggested that the dormant Dark Race members held the wealth’s secrets.

However, for the veteran players in Lu Xing’s live stream, they remained quite calm.

The streamer "Explorer" was notoriously timid on the forums.

He had several times given up opportunities to get rich to other players, being a purely Exploration Faction player who wouldn’t change his mind for wealth.

But while Lu Xing had no interest, many players in the live stream did.

They recalled Explorer’s previous discovery of the Jile Hall through puzzle-solving.

The players who set out early harvested a vast fortune in Jile Hall, while the latecomers only picked up the tough-to-kill remains.

Confronted with an opportunity potentially holding wealth, players suddenly became uneasy.

Many players promptly headed to the "Opportunity Location" marked on the map, determined to uncover the secrets of the Blood Soul Barrier.

What seemed like extremely dangerous traps were viewed by players as potential treasure lands for wealth creation.

hours later, the first batch of players with flying vehicles arrived.

Landing on the forest clearing, they began to discuss how to explore inside.

Attempting to attack using skills resulted in the barriers being penetrated effortlessly.

After a brief contemplation, a player in the group approached the Blood Soul Barrier voluntarily, reaching out to touch it.

Instantly, the seemingly lifeless barrier became animated, quickly engulfing the touched player amidst the grimaces of the others, rapidly consuming him, and blood spurted out from his body.

Ultimately, after his life ended, the blood and limbs turned into mist and dissipated, returning his soul to Emperor Zhao.

Observing that the interior scenes of the Blood Soul Barrier wouldn’t allow for normal exploratory methods, the first wave of players fell into deep thought.

At that moment, a player posted a decomposition screenshot in the team channel:

"Hey, has this value changed? (Decomposition screenshot)"

[(Recovery requirement: 22558/3902485)]

The team players opened the screenshot, looked at the recovery requirement numbers, and compared them with the numbers in Explorer’s video clips.

Sure enough, they found the problem: the recovery requirement value changed after the Blood Soul Barrier absorbed the team member.

After a brief silence, a player in the team exclaimed in delight:

"I get it, this is a special scene in the game that requires conditions to be met before it can be opened; we need to sacrifice to enter it."

"Exactly, I remember the Titan’s Gate scene in the Land of Sin required gathering three keys and entering on a rainy day with character health below 10% to access, this Blood Soul Barrier is clearly a special condition scene as well, requiring preconditions to be met for opening."

"Smart! Quickly post the message on the forums, rally everybody to come and sacrifice, after Feng sacrificed, the recovery requirement increased by less than 200, we probably need the sacrifice of about twenty thousand players to open it, we need the power of the masses."

Before long, these players shared their findings on the forum.

[Explorer Latest Discovery of Hidden Scene "Blood Soul Barrier", Come Get Rich, Early Bird Gets the Meat, Latecomers Drink the Soup!]

Post Owner: Evil of This World

Content: Explorer has made another discovery, brothers come quickly to get rich, this special scene requires sacrifices to open, hurry to lend a hand.

(Explorer video attachment) (Explorer live stream screenshot)

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The title of this post was very enticing, veteran players seeing the name Explorer recognized a chance to get rich, soon many players answered the call and headed over.

At this moment, Qi Sheng, standing at the Primordial Altar, was somewhat amused.

When player Lu Xing discovered this special scene, he had already received guidance feedback and began an investigation.

After delving his consciousness beyond the Blood Soul Barrier, he found a life form with a Hunting Level reaching the Original Hunting Level of 297 sleeping inside this scene.

The specific situation was not difficult to analyze.

Decomposition information showed that during escape, members of the Dark Race were severely wounded, their life critically endangered.

To survive, it landed in the forest clearing east of the Colorful Mist Coast, setting up a sacrificial trap here, then voluntarily entered a dormant state to mitigate physical damage from the wounds.

The recovery plan was actually quite simple, using an invisible trap to devour any trespassing flesh life, nourishing the dormant state of the Dark Race life form.

However, the interesting part about this trap was that it could not wake up from dormancy on its own.

Therefore, the Dark Race member set a Qi-Blood consumption value needed for self-recovery, embedding it in the Blood Soul Barrier in the form of a Rune.

That was the recovery value shown in the decomposition information.

Each time a life was devoured, the corresponding Qi-Blood value was detected, and the values (runes) in the trap program changed accordingly.