Xie Lin’s body dodged in a flash.
His talent [Heart’s Eye] activated: Blind Dodge!
He evaded it.
But the shockwave still sent Xie Lin flying, dealing 450 damage as he crashed through the air.
+300!
Suture Saint’s healing needle struck Xie Lin.
He slammed into a massive tree, taking another 200 damage. If Suture Saint hadn’t healed him, Xie Lin would have already deleted his character.
Chu Fu’s heart clenched as if a giant hand had squeezed it. Thankfully, the danger passed.
[Taunt]
Jiaojiao Bu Jiao took the aggro again.
But the werewolf had grown even larger. She could only take two hits before dying!
Just then, another giant appeared.
“Leave it to me!”
Shen Chi’s massive mech was finally fully assembled, charging forward.
“Boom!”
The mech’s fist slammed into the enemy, and the arm-mounted guns began to glow blue.
“Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!”
Like a Gatling gun firing.
It all seemed to stretch on forever—
But only five seconds had passed since the watermelon bomb exploded.
Nerve-wracking!
Still, the situation stabilized.
“Crush him!” roared Jiaojiao Bu Jiao, charging in with her shield to attack.
Countless creeping vines crawled up Weredog Tuge, binding him.
Poison Art!
Slow Art!
Plague Spread!
As the toxins stacked, Weredog Tuge’s movements grew slower and more clumsy, fear flickering in his eyes like a human’s.
Chu Fu’s Poison Master wasn’t a burst class. But the longer the fight lasted, the deadlier the poison grew, and the stronger her damage became.
Three minutes later, Weredog Tuge’s giant mutation ended, shrinking him down to just two meters tall!
Shen Chi’s mech struck him like a father beating his son.
The mech only had 50,000 HP, and Weredog Tuge could still tear it apart. But Shen Chi was a Mechanic; he could repair machines.
So the mech’s HP recovered again.
Add in Jiaojiao Bu Jiao’s taunts, Xie Lin’s forced knockback control, and Chu Fu’s vine binds, Slow Art, and Plague—
This werewolf was already dead!
And though Weredog Tuge had a massive HP pool of one million, being a humanoid boss, his defense was very low.
In just twenty minutes!
This epic boss’s health bar was emptied!
But even with his HP gone, the boss still rambled on.
“Don’t think I’m dead! This body is just one of my avatars. Who wants to be a Plant Girl? I’ll remember that name!
The evil god lives forever!
Humanity will fall!
When the gods descend, you’ll only wail, scream, and become blood food.
Then you’ll regret today’s choice.”
Chu Fu stomped her foot onto the boss’s head.
“Then bring it on! I’m waiting. My brother and I will cross the Primordial Gate and wipe out every monster invading Earth.”
Chu Fu pressed down hard, stepping on him. Her pale, sickly face held a hint of fierceness as Weredog Tuge turned into black ash burned to nothing.
[You have slain Weredog Tuge!]
[Your level has increased to 8!]
On the ground, only a golden mask remained.
Mask of the Impostor (Gold).
That Golden-tier equipment had finally dropped for Chu Fu.
Or rather, this was simply the reward for killing the Werewolf Tuge.
"Wow, Plant Girl, you were really into it back there! The immersion was strong, like something a member of the protagonist team would say. But why did it have to be you and your brother, instead of you and the rest of us?"
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao asked.
Chu Fu couldn't help but feel a bit awkward. Ah, she had just been thinking about the original storyline and felt genuine anger toward the boastful Tuge, so the words came out naturally. Now that she thought back, it felt like she had acted like a chuunibyou girl.
Her toes were practically digging a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment inside her boots!
"Ha! I didn't mean to do that! It's definitely because this NPC is too lifelike—I just got caught up in the act!"
Shen Chi pursed his lips and smiled, saying, "Plant Girl is still young. Hmm, maybe her mental age is only fifteen—right in the chuunibyou phase!"
Xie Lin raised an eyebrow. "Is that what you call chuunibyou? I've had chuunibyou for over twenty years, because the Blind Monk is my faith!
But,
what this so-called Werewolf Tuge said is probably part of the main storyline of the Origin Gate. Maybe through this information, we can pick up a main quest in areas with lots of NPCs."
"Am I the only one concerned that we only got one piece of gold equipment? My hands are sore from all the healing!"
The twenty minutes she spent casting healing skills were more than what she'd used in three days of gaming—thrilling and dangerous, a real test of her nerve. If she hadn't studied medicine, she would've been totally flustered.
"Sister Suture, you were amazing!" Chu Fu gave a thumbs-up, then said, "That's because this boss isn't a regular boss. It only drops this one piece of equipment, and it's bound, so I have to take it myself."
[Equipment Binding: Who Wants to Be a Plant Girl!]
Chu Fu didn't want her friends to help for free, so she said:
"How about I put in some money to give everyone bonuses.
Also, I'll share this information. If you ever need it in the future, just call me, and we can kill Werewolf Tuge again."
Chu Fu directly contributed 100 silver. If a gold piece of equipment actually dropped, it might be worth more than that, but Tuge's difficulty was a bit lower than what a gold boss would require.
Chu Fu made sure no one took a loss, but she didn't want to put herself at too much of a disadvantage either.
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao, however, lit up and asked, "So this gold equipment can be farmed infinitely?"
"Obviously, the NPC was attracted because Plant Girl had 10,000 sin points. It's just not easy to pull off—did everyone from the Universal Studio die off?" Xie Lin frowned.
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao slapped her thigh.
"Forget about the Universal Studio—just shout it out loud. Someone will eventually sell a character for 10,000 blocks. At worst, she can start playing later."
Chu Fu smirked.
Even with her blindfold covering it, Xie Lin's face showed a look of utter despair, as if he wanted to fight Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao.
Chu Fu quickly eased the tension, saying:
"Alright, since everyone has figured out this strategy, let me share another one!"
Chu Fu pointed mysteriously at the beehive.
"In the Origin Gate, besides the first-kill system, there's also an achievement system.
If you kill 100,000 of the same monster, you get 1 achievement point, plus 1 extra point to all attributes."
At the moment, the easiest task in the entire novice village is this honeycomb bee quest. All you have to do is go to the novice village, find an NPC, buy some bombs, and blow up the beehive to complete the mission.
The beehive respawns every 24 hours. I’m taking this wave first!
But since achievements require you to do them solo, I’ll have to leave the group.
