Inside Linjiang City.
The Thorn Guild already had more than 1,000 players, and within a single day, all of them had gained 50 points to every attribute.
Calculated by level, that was equivalent to being ten levels ahead of everyone else.
Chu Fu had been busy all day.
When she looked at the players in the guild who had obtained the attribute points, she felt deeply satisfied.
They were all elite players now.
Then she thought of something and looked toward Feng Huimin in the guild.
The entire night had been incredibly hectic. Coordinating players into teams, recording everyone’s advancement times to ensure fairness, deciding which teams would enter the dungeons with whom—all of it was troublesome.
And yet everything had proceeded in perfect order.
Feng Huimin deserved all the credit.
If Feng Huimin were in Linjiang City instead of Thorn Town, things would surely be even more convenient and efficient.
Moreover, as large numbers of players from Fengdu Town reached Level 20, the Thorn Guild’s main forces had begun moving from Fengdu Town to Linjiang City. Chu Fu needed Feng Huimin to come here and help as well.
Leaving her in Thorn Town would also affect the improvement of her own strength.
Chu Fu had been busy for twenty-four hours, and her experience bar was already more than halfway full.
But Feng Huimin had reached Level 10 yesterday and was still Level 10 today. Clearly, she had been too busy to find time to go to Fengdu Town and level up.
Thinking of this, Chu Fu sent Feng Huimin a message.
“Manager Feng, accept a quest in a moment, then teleport to Fengdu Town and come to Linjiang City with the main group. I’ll help you level up.”
The busy Feng Huimin froze.
“Me?”
Wasn’t she still supposed to handle the Thorn Guild’s affairs?
“Yes. We can’t let your leveling fall behind. Don’t miss out on these attribute points either. I’ve sent the quest over—go ahead and accept it.”
Feng Huimin quickly spotted the quest.
As the town mayor, Chu Fu could issue quests in the mayor’s name.
[System Notification: Do you accept the quest: Assignment for Study?
Quest Issuer: Thorn Town Mayor Who Wants to Be a Vegetable?
Quest Description: Thorn Town has just been established. Its population is small and its food supplies are insufficient. The mayor, Who Wants to Be a Vegetable?, is sending you to Linjiang City for an inspection and study tour. Accept or Decline?
Quest Rewards: A small amount of experience, 1 gold coin.]
This was allowed?
Upon seeing the quest, Feng Huimin immediately became excited.
At the same time, however, she began thinking about many things.
Her efforts must have been noticed by her boss. Otherwise, the boss could simply have kept her in Thorn Town.
Just like Wan Huanyu, she could have been treated as a manager—someone who did not need to fight, but who would not be given any chance to improve her own strength, either.
As for why Chu Fu had not sent for her sooner, that was obviously a test.
Both of them had their own standards in mind.
Chu Fu felt that Feng Huimin had passed, and thus issued her a reward.
Feng Huimin, meanwhile, had given everything she had to demonstrate her value. She had earned her boss’s appreciation while proving her own abilities.
“Boss, I’ve accepted the quest!”
Feng Huimin accepted the quest and immediately reported back to Chu Fu.
“Good. Teleport to Fengdu Town, then come to Linjiang City with the next batch of players. I’ll arrange a team for you. Once we reach Level 26, continue following the team.”
“Okay, okay! Thank you, Boss!”
Feng Huimin agreed at once.
Without this quest, Feng Huimin could indeed have teleported from the Thorn Guild to Fengdu Town. However, she would not have been able to leave the boundaries of Fengdu Town because her level was too low.
The system’s protection mechanism would prevent her from leaving Fengdu Town.
Of course, if Region 030 successfully passed the goblin invasion, that protective barrier would disappear as well.
In the end, when it came to crossing regions and allowing low-level players to travel to high-level villages, quests were the only method.
Very soon, Feng Huimin also arrived in Linjiang City.
She first joined Shen Chi’s team and helped secure the first clear on Normal difficulty.
After that, she began organizing teams outside the dungeon entrance.
“Elder, at your current speed, you can reach the boss in ten seconds. The boss takes three seconds to leave its spawn point, and the team’s maximum attack power allows it to be killed in one second.”
“In theory, if each speed run improves the record by one second, we can still run this dungeon 154 more times. If your team can consistently carry seventeen people, at least 2,618 players can obtain five points to every attribute.”
“Do you think we should push the time limit and allow more guild members to obtain these five all-attribute points?”
“Of course, the closer we get to the time limit, the higher the team’s damage requirements will be. Later, if the team doesn’t have enough damage to carry seventeen people, carrying seven will still be worthwhile.”
“It will just be a little hard on you!”
Feng Huimin kept her voice as calm and firm as possible, hoping to convince Shen Chi to follow this plan.
She was not sure whether she could persuade him.
After all, she knew that Shen Chi also owned shares in the Thorn Guild. He was its third-largest shareholder.
Feng Huimin’s plan was not merely to work Shen Chi like an ox.
It was to use him like a machine.
What Feng Huimin had not expected was that Shen Chi accepted the plan almost immediately.
“I was actually wondering whether the speed-run rankings count completion times down to the millisecond. It wouldn’t be safe, but we might have a chance to run the dungeon a few more times.”
“Even if we fail, it’s no big deal. A single run only takes a little over two minutes now. If we fail, we can just try again.”
Shen Chi began discussing the plan with Feng Huimin.
Feng Huimin felt a surge of emotion.
Was this what it felt like to work alongside capable colleagues?
She felt completely at ease, an experience entirely different from the past, when she had been so furious that she felt her lungs would burst.
After that, they carried out the plan in earnest.
If the players from Fengdu Town had leveled up faster, and if transporting them had not taken time, then completing 154 dungeon runs would have taken only about four hours.
During the final few runs, Shen Chi indeed no longer had enough damage. Killing the boss by himself took him a full ten seconds.
However, once Chu Fu and Xie Lin joined the team, one second was enough to instantly kill the Necromancer.
At the dungeon entrance, the floating speed-run rankings showed that this dungeon could no longer provide any more speed-run attribute points.
[Speed-Run Ranking—First Place: Completion Time: 14 seconds]
[Speed-Run Ranking—First Place: Completion Time: 15 seconds]
[Speed-Run Ranking—First Place: Completion Time: 15.3 seconds]
[Speed-Run Ranking—First Place: Completion Time: 16 seconds]
[Speed-Run Ranking—First Place: Completion Time: 17 seconds]
Those were truly despair-inducing results.
Still, Chu Fu could honestly say that they had completely farmed this dungeon dry.
At present, at least 4,000 Thorn Guild players had obtained five points to every attribute.
This was what it meant to make full use of every resource.
Even professional farmers could not have harvested wool this efficiently.
Afterward, Chu Fu and the others focused mainly on the Hell-level dungeon. That difficulty was so high that even A-rank talent holders would have trouble monopolizing the speed-run rankings in the short term, so they still needed to be carried.
As for Hard and Nightmare modes, the Thorn Guild players were strong enough to try them on their own.
Another day passed.
Chu Fu and the others finally reached Level 26, completely bidding farewell to this dungeon.
Remembering what Laoji Fuli had brought up earlier, she sent the old man a message.
“I can enter the new dungeon now, but there are only six spots available.”
“And there’s one player at level 16, three at level 21, and one at level 22. We have nine of our own people at level 26, but our average level is still fifteen points short. We’ll need you to help make up the difference.”
“Of course, Classmate Chu. I’ll arrange it right away!”
Seeing the situation, Laoji Fuli thought for a moment and directly replaced everyone in Soldier King Duanfeng’s group.
“If we replace just one, these brats will complain. We might as well replace them all.”
