A Comprehensive Network: An Endless Adventure Begins as a Wanderer

Chapter 125 The Ghost Chronicles of the Fourth Season

A message immediately popped up in the team chat.

Subtract five and add ten to replace thinking: Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!!!

Subtract five and add ten (abbreviation): The fourth person has finally arrived!!!

Subtract five and add ten: Welcome, welcome, a warm welcome!!!

Stop reciting dead books! : Mofa, you're spamming the screen with dead recitations again (abbreviation): But I did wait quite a while, I thought I wouldn't be able to gather four people. AAA Professional Exorcist Master Zhou: Trying to sneak around in broad daylight. Master Zhou (abbreviation): This ID————

Master Zhou: How should I put it? It has a philosophical feel to it, like "holding a pipa while half-concealing one's face"—

Cheng Yi's eye twitched as he attempted to stealth in broad daylight:

Guangtian (abbreviation): Just call me Cheng Yi. Guangtian: Your IDs are quite unique.

Dead Thoughts: Thank you for the compliment!

Death Thoughts: My name is Mimi, a level 8 halfling scribe mage. Death Thoughts: As for this ID—

Dead Thoughts: My family's spellbook has a bad temper and often curses.

-5+10: I am Mofa Anti, an Orc Arcane Warrior, level 9. -5+10: My ID is "Great Weapon Master," those who know, know. -5+10: Anyway, as long as the damage is enough. Master Zhou: I am Zhou Wu, a Human Medium, level 9.

Master Zhou: As the ID suggests, I specialize in exorcising spirits. Master Zhou: By the way, I don't believe in ghosts or spirits. Spirits are natural phenomena, not supernatural. Dead thoughts: ???

Death Thoughts: Do spiritual mediums not believe in ghosts and gods?

Master Zhou: Ability is ability, and faith is faith.

Subtract five and add ten: What if you really encounter a ghost?

Master Zhou: Approach supernatural phenomena with a scientific attitude: first understand, then verify, and finally solve.

Death thought:

Si Nian: Never mind, whatever makes you happy. Cheng Yi looked at the chat in the channel and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

This team's style is... quite unique, but not bad either?

Subtract five and add ten: By the way, Brother Cheng, what school of thought do you, the Wanderer, follow?

Guangtian: Shadow specialization, stealth, assassination, shadow teleportation. Death Thought: Got it, the sixth brother specialist. Guangtian:

Master Zhou: Alright, enough chit-chat, let's get down to business.

Master Zhou: You've all seen the information about this battle, right?

Subtract five and add ten: Willow Bank Town, which disappeared a hundred years ago, should have "Kuja Bodhi" as its battle boss.

Subtract five and add ten: It sounds like an evil god or a great monster —

Death Thoughts: I think it's more like some kind of local curse or ghost story. Death Thoughts: This kind of setting often appears in folk tales from Tianxia. A village offends the mountain god, and the entire town disappears overnight.

Master Zhou: Possibly. Master Zhou: But the battle description mentions "eternal lamps" and "nine copper coins blessed by the gods," which seems more like a man-made seal or ritual. Master Zhou: This means that someone tried to protect or suppress something using some method back then. Subtract five plus ten: So our mission is to find the nine copper coins, light the lamp, and then dispel the fog.

Subtract five and add ten: It sounds like a standard dungeon puzzle-solving process. Dead thought: I'm afraid the real trouble will begin after the lamp is lit. Dead thought: Think about it, a place that has been sealed for hundreds of years, if you break the seal, won't the things inside come out?

Subtract five and add ten: ————

Subtract five and add ten: What you're saying is making me panic. Master Zhou: It's also possible that lighting the ever-burning lamp is itself a purification method, so there's no need to fight any boss.

Master Zhou: We'll find out the specifics once we enter the battle. Guangtian: Anyway, let's just follow the quest. Guangtian: Nine copper coins, nine shrines, and most likely each one has a guardian monster. Guangtian: We're around level 9 on average, so we should be able to handle level 13 or 14 elites without any problems, as long as we coordinate well. Minus Five Plus Ten: Yes, yes, yes, coordinate well!

Subtract five and add ten: I'll tank the damage, you guys deal the damage, classic warrior-mage-priest combo — uh, we don't have a priest?

Dead Thoughts: I'm a mage, not a priest. Dead Thoughts: Master Zhou, do you have any milk?

Master Zhou: The medium has healing spells, and one of the spirits is more of a defensive type, which can provide some healing. Master Zhou: But don't expect me to be a pure healer.

Subtract five and add ten: It's okay, it's okay, every little bit helps.

Subtract five and add ten: Anyway, I'm tough and can handle it!

Guangtian: The countdown is almost over, get ready! We can discuss any details when we meet. Si Nian: OK~

[Network notification: Battle teleportation initiated.]

[Network notification: Player is being teleported to the target dimension —]

[Network notification: Death in this battle will not result in actual death, but will inflict a soul weakness state for 7 natural days —]

A familiar feeling of dizziness washed over me.

Cheng Yi felt as if he were being gripped by an invisible hand and then suddenly pulled downwards. He passed through the gray-white mist, through the cold darkness, and through layer after layer of invisible barriers.

The film industry is trembling.

The feeling was exactly the same as when assimilating into the shadows in the Shadow Realm.

Cheng Yi closed his eyes, letting that force engulf him.

When Cheng Yi opened his eyes again, he was standing on a gray and white wasteland.

The sky hung low, thick with dark clouds, making it impossible to tell what time it was.

The air was filled with a damp smell, a mixture of decaying leaves and earth.

In the distance, there are mountains, their outlines blurred and indistinct, as if distorted by some force.

He immediately opened the team channel.

Guangtian: Are you all here?

Guangtian: Giving my location. Si Nian: I'm in a misty forest, it feels like the opening scene of a horror movie.

Subtract five and add ten: I'm by a river. Subtract five and add ten: I'm a little panicked. Subtract five and add ten: By the way, are there any fish in this river? I'm a little hungry.

Master Zhou:

Death thought:

Guangtian:

Subtract five and add ten: Is there a problem?

Death Thought: Your first thought in this underworld place is to find food?

Minus Five Plus Ten: I'm starving! I didn't eat before teleporting. Master Zhou: Just bear with it. Maybe we can find food once we get to town. Minus Five Plus Ten: Okay, okay, I won't eat anymore.

Subtract five and add ten: (Cat shrinking its head.jpg)

Master Zhou: I'm near a bridge. At the bridgehead, there's an extinguished stone lantern. Master Zhou: On the other side of the bridge, there's something strange. It looks like a giant, and there are seven or eight smaller monsters.

Cheng Yi stood up and looked around.

In the distance, the outline of a cluster of low-lying houses could be vaguely seen, like the edge of a village.

The village is bisected by a river, and a stone bridge looms in the distance.

Guangtian: I can see the outline of the town, on the other side of the stone bridge. You guys move closer to the town first. Master Zhou: Okay, five minutes to go. Si Nian: I'm so disoriented in the woods—let me use the GPS—

Subtract five and add ten: I'll walk along the riverbank and I should be able to reach Guangtian: No rush, let me scout ahead first. Cheng Yi put away the panel, his figure flickered, and he disappeared into the shadows.

He moved silently along the grass in the fields, quickly passing through the quiet village and approaching the bridge.

The fog was so thick that visibility was less than fifty feet, but that was enough for him to see what was happening on the other side.

The stone bridge is not long, about a hundred feet long, and its surface is paved with bluish-gray stone slabs, with withered yellow weeds growing in the gaps.

At the other end of the bridge stands a stone lantern, symmetrical to the one on his side, which is also extinguished.

And next to the lantern was a huge object.

It was a giant that was three meters tall, covered in dark red scales, and had a huge single eye on its head.

He was leaning against a "throne" made of a pile of furniture, holding a wine jug in his hand and gulping it down.

Around him were seven or eight small, gray-blue figures, mimicking human movements and comically performing something.

Cheng Yi narrowed his eyes and extended his senses over there.

[Level 13 Warlord/Cyclops Awakening/Dragon Vein Enhancement/Elite Boss Template/Bloody]

[Status: Drunk (Nausea 3)]

[Level 8 Monster/Minor Monster/Shadowbringer]

A level 13 elite boss, plus 8 level 8 mobs.

Cheng Yi silently calculated in his mind.

The boss has a debuff; if I go in myself, I can probably take care of it.

So he sent a message in the channel.

Guangtian: On the other side of the bridge is a level 13 elite Dragonblood Giant in a drunken state, and eight level 8 mobs. Guangtian: I'll go first.

Master Zhou: ? ? ?

Death wish: ? ? ?

Death thought: A person? ??

Subtract five and add ten: Wait, wait, wait, Brother Cheng, you're fighting a level 13 elite all by yourself??