Little Fairy was clearly a bit scared.
She tugged on Xing Xing Bu Kong’s sleeve and cautiously said, “How about we just give up? I feel like she’s not bluffing.”
Xing Xing Bu Kong was also a little hesitant, but with the woman he loved encouraging him to back down, it was a different matter altogether.
Xing Xing Bu Kong felt that under these circumstances, no man could bear it.
“To protect my Little Fairy, even if it costs me my life!”
So he said to Mao Lei, “Little Fairy sister, don’t be afraid. I will definitely protect you, even if it means sacrificing my life!”
After hearing that, Little Fairy was already teary-eyed.
“Xing Xing brother~”
They completely forgot that as long as they didn’t cause trouble, there was actually no danger at all.
The risk could have been easily avoided, but these two insisted on ignoring any method of risk prevention.
As they say, death is always self-inflicted.
Su Luo listened quietly to their conversation on the side, silently mocking.
But when she recalled the various miraculous actions of male and female leads in Mary Sue novels, Su Luo felt relieved—after all, it was a Mary Sue story.
The Mary Sue duo thought Su Luo was focusing on healing and not paying attention to them.
Xing Xing Bu Kong made a hand signal, and the two of them, thinking they were being very stealthy, stepped forward to launch a surprise attack.
Su Luo sighed.
What’s this called—life never stops, but so does courting death?
This was the perfect example.
As they approached, Su Luo timed it perfectly and unleashed her Skill One, then took advantage of the cooldown gap to quickly move next to Xing Xing Bu Kong.
Xing Xing Bu Kong was a warrior, not particularly fast.
After four dungeons, Su Luo’s speed was already at 15, and every attribute point made a noticeable difference for the player.
So now Su Luo was much faster than Xing Xing Bu Kong.
Besides, they were standing quite close, only a few steps apart.
So when Su Luo slid over, Xing Xing Bu Kong hadn’t even reacted before she delivered a clean, swift hand strike that knocked him out cold.
By the time Xing Xing Bu Kong fell, Little Fairy finally realized what was happening.
She screamed, “Ah!” and instinctively threw a Skill One at Su Luo.
In the trial dungeon, players’ skills don’t affect each other.
Su Luo made a silent shushing gesture to “Little Fairy.”
“Shh!” Then she turned and cast Skill One on Yun Feibai just as the five-second cooldown ended.
Although Yun Feibai was busy struggling with an Elite Monster, he had been keeping an eye on the situation here as well.
Seeing Su Luo handle Xing Xing Bu Kong perfectly, he finally relaxed and withdrew his gaze.
One Little Fairy wasn’t a real threat.
At the same time, he felt very satisfied inside.
His teammates could handle the issues behind him so well, allowing him to fight without worries.
This made him more confident entrusting his back to Su Luo.
Little Fairy saw Su Luo quiet down, instinctively shut her mouth, then fearfully dragged her “Xing Xing brother” close to her, stepping backward several paces.
This surprised Su Luo.
She had always thought these two were a fake couple, but she didn’t expect that in danger, Little Fairy would remember to take “Xing Xing Bu Kong” away—even if it was by dragging him.
Once Little Fairy felt safe, she angrily looked at Su Luo and asked, “Why are you so cruel? Why did you knock out ‘Xing Xing brother’?”
Good, she had regained her Mary Sue heroine attitude.
Just look at that question—is that something a normal person would ask?
Su Luo glanced at her amusedly and replied, “Weren’t you two the ones planning to come cause trouble first?”
Little Fairy said righteously, “But hitting people is wrong!”
This time Su Luo didn’t look at her, only calmly asked, “Then what were you originally planning to do to me?”
Little Fairy said, “We just wanted to persuade you not to heal your teammates anymore.”
Su Luo was shocked by her shamelessness.
She never expected Little Fairy to say something like that.
Since the other party was completely illogical and ignored facts, Su Luo didn’t see the point in communicating with her using normal reasoning.
“Persuade? Ha, I was just persuading you not to come over.”
“But you hit someone!” Little Fairy insisted.
Su Luo laughed and said, “I didn’t! He fainted out of shame because of my persuasion.”
At that moment, Yun Feibai suddenly shouted, “Hurry up!”
Su Luo knew it was time for her to finish things off.
Little Fairy’s eyes lit up, secretly thinking that there was no way she could defeat the Elite Monster alone.
Grabbing the BOSS would be tough as well.
It was better to just steal this Elite Monster and make a last profit.
After all, this “Lost One” didn’t kill, so knocking it out was no problem.
Plus, it was a way to avenge Xing Xing brother.
But Su Luo was no fool.
Once she saw the look in Little Fairy’s eyes, she immediately knew what she was thinking.
So Su Luo said, “I advise you not to think nonsense. If I can knock out Xing Xing Bu Kong in five seconds, I can also knock you out before you get there. Then if you two are both unconscious and a Minor Monster comes by…”
Little Fairy was reminded by Su Luo and realized that if both of them fainted, they might get killed by passing Minor Monsters.
That would be too tragic.
She decisively said, “Farewell.”
Then she hugged Xing Xing Bu Kong’s waist and with a strong “Ha!” managed to lift him onto her shoulder.
???
Su Luo gave her a puzzled look.
‘What was this? This Little Fairy had completely changed style—from Mary Sue heroine to strongwoman sailor?’
Su Luo was thoroughly confused by this move.
Yun Feibai was equally baffled.
Hadn’t this woman just been complaining to him about his coldness and cruelty?
How did she suddenly become like this?
Didn’t she have the strength to fight him?
Why would they want to gross each other out?
Little ones, do you have many questions in your hearts?
At least Su Luo and Yun Feibai were both full of question marks.
Little Fairy obviously knew her current behavior was a far cry from before, so she quickly carried Xing Xing Bu Kong out of Su Luo and Yun Feibai’s sight.
Su Luo watched them leave, unbelieving, then quickly finished off the enemy and turned to Yun Feibai.
“Did I just go blind?”
Yun Feibai looked equally dumbfounded, “I think I went blind too.”
The two exchanged a confused glance, but Su Luo was the first to recover.
“Forget it, don’t think about it. Let’s go, keep fighting.”
Yun Feibai obediently nodded, “Let’s go.”
The Minor Monsters became fewer and fewer.
Both of them knew clearly that the BOSS was coming.
Sure enough, soon ahead, they saw the BOSS spawn.
Incredibly, this BOSS was a huge, terrifying orange fireball, covered with many strange black spots on its surface, surrounded by massive pillar-like structures made of swirling flames.
‘What was this?’ Su Luo was puzzled.
She had never seen anything like it before.
The last steel wool ball BOSS was basically just an enlarged version of layers, but this time the BOSS, Elite Monster, and Minor Monsters all had different forms.
The only thing they shared was the fire attribute.
Next to her, Yun Feibai looked grave, muttering as he observed the BOSS’s form, “Orange fireball, black spots, pillar…”
Su Luo looked at him questioningly, and Yun Feibai suddenly said, “I remember now! This is Cthugha!”
Su Luo was confused so she asked, “Cthugha? What is that?”
Yun Feibai’s face turned pale as he explained to Su Luo, “It’s a High Elder God from the Cthulhu Mythos, a deity created entirely by Dres. Among the ‘Elemental System’ of the Elder Gods, it’s a rare fire-element Elder God.”
Su Luo knew a little about the “Cthulhu Mythos,” but had never studied it systematically.
Fortunately, her teammate knew it well enough to risk his life to tell her, which gave her some reassurance.
Yun Feibai continued, “Cthugha commands a large number of small fireball minions—that must be the Minor Monsters we encountered. Also, the ‘Fire Vampires’ are his descendants, which are the Elite Monsters we faced.”
Although Su Luo was still baffled after his explanation, she understood one thing clearly: a “High Elder God” must be very powerful and difficult to fight.
Suddenly, the system notification sounded:
[Ding, a game BUG has appeared and is being fixed… Fix failed, remedial action underway… Remedial results completed, all players present have their attributes temporarily doubled. Please defeat Cthugha.]
Just as Yun Feibai suspected, the attribute doubling as remedial action was no joke.
They didn’t have many skills, and attribute doubling only helped their single Skill One, so they were still the underdogs!
But the system’s mention of a “BUG” probably referred to this ultimate, untimely BOSS appearing in the newbie village.
No wonder they had attribute doubling as compensation.
Hopefully, they could handle it.
At this moment, A Li Ya and If You Are Not Here also received the system message.
The two exchanged a glance and felt the situation was serious.
They immediately gave up resting and hurried across the map toward the BOSS.
Little Fairy had already woken Xing Xing Bu Kong by now.
When they received the message, both wore determined expressions.
“Little Fairy sister, this is the kind of unexpected challenge that protagonists must go through.”
Little Fairy held Xing Xing Bu Kong’s hand and said, “Xing Xing brother, we’re going to get through this together again. Every challenge has you by my side, and I’m really, really touched! But… sigh, it’s my shining aura that’s causing trouble for the other players in the dungeon.”
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