Chapter 37: Asking for Death
Chapter 37: Asking for Death
“Dead woman, watch your mouth!”
The three male players hired by Chen Mo immediately cursed in anger after hearing her.
Unsuccessful in real life, and even getting yelled at while playing a game, their rage was instantly ignited. They were just passing by and had absolutely no intention of seeking out the boss to die. Being yelled at and scolded by this woman for no reason—no one could stomach that insult.
“What? Did I say something wrong? If you want to die, go somewhere far away. If you mess up our boss kill, can you pay for it? Looking at your shabby appearances, you probably couldn’t afford to, right?” Leng Xiaoqian sneered, looking at the three of them with utter contempt in her eyes.
The people Chen Mo hired were mostly struggling financially in real life. Chen Mo could tell, and Leng Xiaoqian, who was good at reading people, could roughly see it too.
“Boss, isn’t your cousin going a bit too far?” The warrior player in Leng Xiaoliu’s team quietly sent a private message to Leng Xiaoliu.
“She’s been in a bad mood these past few days. Let her do as she likes. These guys aren’t even as good as regular players, and we won’t cross paths with them again. Offending them doesn’t really matter.”
Leng Xiaoliu glanced at the three of them and shook his head dismissively.
The game had been live for more than ten days. Players who only now reached level ten—what was there to fear?
If they were wealthy and potential clients, Leng Xiaoliu would naturally be more polite. But these three clearly would never become their clients. In that case, there was no need to be courteous. With so many players in the game, if you worried about offending every single one and held back, how could you even play anymore?
Leng Xiaoqian’s words had stabbed right at their sore spots, completely igniting the three men’s fury.
“Bro, we won’t dig the pit anymore. Get someone else.”
The three left Chen Mo behind. Instead of continuing to argue with Leng Xiaoqian, they charged angrily toward the boss, intending to use it to kill Leng Xiaoqian and the others.
“Looking for death! Do you think trash like you can actually pull something off?” Leng Xiaoqian sneered as she watched the three charge over.
As the three rushed forward, Leng Xiaoliu and his team, being very experienced, shifted their positions accordingly.
The three tried to mess with the Slime King’s aggro. In the end, the Slime King’s aggro was indeed pulled—but it turned toward them and attacked. Before the three had even reached them, Leng Xiaoliu’s team had already readjusted the Slime King’s aggro. As soon as the three arrived, the Slime King fixated on them. Just as Leng Xiaoqian said, they really had come to die.
In just two or three hits, the three were killed by the Slime King. Their actions hardly caused any disruption to Leng Xiaoliu’s team.
Leng Xiaoqian was in high spirits. She raised her head and looked at Chen Mo, who was still standing to the side seemingly lost in thought, and taunted, “Your buddies are all dead. Aren’t you coming over to join them? Or are you even worse than these three pieces of trash—too scared to even come over and throw your life away?”
Chen Mo was only there to dig pits, so he wasn’t wearing his full set of Green Equipment or Purple Equipment. He would only put them on when it was time to lure the boss, since even if he hid the equipment’s glow, it would still attract too much attention. In Leng Xiaoqian’s eyes, Chen Mo was no different from the three who came before.
Chen Mo lifted his head and stared at Leng Xiaoqian, looking her up and down.
“What are you looking at?” Leng Xiaoqian shouted angrily, as if she felt Chen Mo’s gaze held some kind of strange intention.
“I was just thinking, you look decent enough—so why can’t you say anything nice? Why is your mouth so filthy?” Chen Mo asked curiously. He really couldn’t understand what was going on inside this kind of woman’s head.
“You’re looking for death! I’m telling you, you’re dead. From now on, every time I see you in the game, I’ll kill you!” Leng Xiaoqian was furious, staring coldly at Chen Mo.
“Watch your mouth, kid. Offend us, and you won’t have a good time in the game from now on,” Leng Xiaoliu calmly threatened at that moment.
Damn, playing a game and acting all superior! Even learning to threaten others!
Even a Buddha would get angry. Chen Mo considered himself fairly even-tempered, but by now, he felt a surge of anger too.
“What, just because you can kill a boss, you think you’re so amazing? You think you’re invincible?” Chen Mo stared coldly at Leng Xiaoliu and Leng Xiaoqian.
“We can kill the boss while trash like you can only watch. Of course we’re better than you!” Leng Xiaoqian said arrogantly.
“Fine! So amazing, huh? Let’s see just how amazing you are then!” Chen Mo sneered.
“Roar!”
The moment Chen Mo finished speaking, the Slime King suddenly let out a furious roar. Its body instantly doubled in size, and its color changed from jade green to amethyst purple!
The Slime King! It mutated!
“Be careful!” Leng Xiaoliu was shocked. He never expected the Slime King to mutate right at that moment.
They had fought several Slime Kings before and never encountered a boss mutation. They knew nothing about the Mutant Slime King.
The Mutant Slime King wouldn’t go easy on them. The instant it mutated, Leng Xiaoliu and the others were still attacking it. After the mutation, a large number of purple spheres shot out from its body.
Bam! Bam! Bam! …
Completely unprepared, Leng Xiaoliu and his team were each hit by several purple spheres in an instant. Damage numbers of seven to eight hundred appeared, and all six of them died immediately.
The Mutant Slime King didn’t forget about Chen Mo, the one who started it all. It wanted to come after Chen Mo, but Chen Mo had already used his Camouflage Skill. The Mutant Slime King’s movements halted immediately.
Having killed the Mutant Slime King over ten times, Chen Mo understood its traits better than anyone.
The Mutant Slime King had a large aggro range, but this range was divided into two main circles. One was the inner circle with a thirty-meter radius. Inside this inner aggro range, even the Camouflage Skill would be detected. But outside the thirty-meter outer circle, using skills like Camouflage or Stealth could remove the Mutant Slime King’s aggro.
“Why did the Slime King mutate?”
After resurrecting in Earl Town, Leng Xiaoliu and his team all looked rather upset. The boss had only one-third of its health left, and no one expected it to suddenly mutate and instantly wipe them out.
Moreover, they had just looked down on that hunter, only to be killed and sent back to town by the boss the next moment. The slap to their face came too fast and too hard. Leng Xiaoqian’s brief good mood vanished completely.
“Boss, what do we do now?” the warrior asked.
“Go back and start over. I remember reading on the forum that after a boss mutates, it returns to normal after a while,” Leng Xiaoliu had already calmed down. Boss mutations causing team wipes weren’t a big deal—he had encountered them many times over the years running his studio.
He wouldn’t just give up on this Starter Village boss. Giving up meant missing out on a whole day of boss farming. Not only would they suffer losses, but Mu Sen’s team would also pull ahead.
More than ten minutes later, Leng Xiaoliu and his six teammates returned to the Slime King’s spawn point.
The six of them had already started fighting the boss when Chen Mo slowly wandered over.
The Slime King had not mutated. Long before they arrived, Chen Mo had logged out once to remove the effect of the Slime Venom potion.
“Weren’t you so amazing? How come the boss wiped you out and sent you back to town?” Chen Mo chuckled.
“Get lost! We don’t have time for you right now!” Leng Xiaoqian snapped coldly.
No time? Too bad I’ve got plenty of time right now! I don’t even need to lift a finger to teach you some manners!
Looking at Leng Xiaoqian, Chen Mo smiled slightly. With a thought, he used another bottle of Slime Venom.
“Roar!”
The Slime King let out an angry roar and mutated again!
Leng Xiaoliu’s gloomy eyes shot toward Chen Mo!
There was no proof, but years of gaming experience told him that the boss’s mutation was related to this guy.