Lu Ming opened his backpack and found a hat that looked like an ant's head lying quietly inside.
Though it looked a bit ugly, it was a top-tier item!
[Man-Eating Ant Hat] (Lv16 Bronze Equipment)
[Armor: 110]
[Magic Resistance: 95]
[Additional Attributes: Stamina +20, Stamina +20]
[Additional Skill: Strong Acid Rebound (Passive, releases powerful ant acid when the wearer is attacked, dealing 8% of the received damage back to the attacker / when forming an array, teammates benefiting from the array can share this skill)]
[Durability: 55/55]
[Class: Trickster]
[Description: A hat refined from the acid of man-eating ants, containing strong acid that makes enemies fear and avoid you...]
Equipment of the same quality becomes less valuable as the level increases.
This was originally a level 24-25 task, and players in their 20s could at most get a piece of level 20 bronze equipment after completing the tenth tier.
However, Lu Ming completed the task at level 16, so the level 16 bronze equipment he received was more valuable than the higher-level bronze equipment others got!
Just right, Lu Ming had an empty spot on his head.
He immediately equipped the hat.
The main reason was the skill [Strong Acid Rebound] attached to this equipment, which also had a bonus effect against Undead Warriors.
Otherwise, with Lu Ming's nature, he would have sold it for money!
After all, defense wasn't much use to Lu Ming, who currently had no defensive arrays.
With the bonus from this bronze armor, Lu Ming's armor increased from 96 to 255 points; magic resistance from 84 to 224 points!
At this moment, Lin Youwei suddenly said happily, "Nether brother, I got 8 silver coins and a piece of bronze equipment as a reward!"
"The value of 8 silver coins is... two sixes are twelve, two sevens are fourteen, two eights... sixteen hundred! The value of a level 15 bronze equipment is... over seven thousand! Oh my god! So much money!!"
Lin Youwei was so happy she was out of breath.
After all, she used to work in the real world, earning only two or three thousand a month.
And now, just one morning, she earned so much money from a task.
If she didn't react this way, it would be abnormal!
Seeing Lin Youwei calm down, looking at the bronze staff she just got, her eyes were a bit dazed.
Lu Ming immediately guessed that she was reluctant to part with this top-tier equipment but also wanted to sell it for money.
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Once Lin Youwei paid off her debt, she might not rely on him as much.
Thinking of this, Lu Ming started to persuade Lin Youwei, "We're about to advance to the second plane of the Nether Ghost Tower. The monsters there are stronger, and my array bonuses alone won't be enough. You need to improve your own strength, or you won't be able to solo monsters, earn copper coins, and you'll hold me back."
Hearing Lu Ming's words, Lin Youwei immediately dismissed the idea of selling the staff, nervously saying to Lu Ming, "I won't, Nether brother, I definitely won't hold you back!"
With that, Lin Youwei quickly equipped the staff.
Lu Ming appeared skeptical on the surface, but inside he was secretly laughing: This naive girl is so easy to fool!
Checking the time, it was already 11:30.
Lu Ming said to Lin Youwei, "Let's log off for lunch first, and in the afternoon, we'll go to the second plane of the Nether Ghost Tower."
"Okay!"
With that, the two logged off simultaneously.
They forgot to order takeout today, mainly because they just moved and Lu Ming hadn't memorized their new address.
So, they went downstairs to the community to eat braised chicken rice.
During lunch, Lu Ming checked the messages in the Tianxuan Team group.
He unexpectedly discovered some bad news...
"Guys, why did we lose the PK in the second plane again today? We've lost three days in a row!"
"I haven't been able to enter the Nether Ghost Tower for three days, feels like I've lost a billion..."
"We've already sent out the best in each level field, but it seems like God Slayer's solo strength is indeed stronger than ours, nothing we can do about it~"
The second plane was occupied by God Slayer today, which meant Lu Ming couldn't enter?
Although that was the current situation.
After logging back in, Lu Ming still headed straight for the Nether Ghost Tower.
To see if there was a chance.
When Lu Ming and Lin Youwei arrived at the Nether Ghost Tower, they indeed saw that both God Slayer and Tianxuan had sent people to guard the map entrance!
God Slayer won the PK today in planes 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8, so they guarded these five planes, preventing Tianxuan players of the corresponding levels from entering.
Tianxuan guarded the other three planes, preventing God Slayer players from entering.
Neither side gave way to the other.
However, as Lu Ming approached the Nether Ghost Tower.
The God Slayer Squad player responsible for guarding prepared to ask Lu Ming's identity.
The leading black-armored warrior [God Slayer, Courage] used reconnaissance to check Lu Ming's ID and immediately ordered, "The lady has ordered, at no time should Nether be obstructed from entering the Nether Ghost Tower!"
"Let him pass!"
With God Slayer, Courage's order, the God Slayer players made way for Lu Ming.
The lady?
God Slayer, Moon?
It seems this woman has put in a lot of effort to get Lu Ming to join the God Slayer Squad!
Lu Ming said nothing and directly led Lin Youwei into the tower.
This scene left the Tianxuan players outside dumbfounded.
"What's going on? Isn't this Nether one of our Tianxuan people?"
"Yeah, what's his relationship with God Slayer?"
"Damn! Is this the charm of a strong person? Gold shines no matter where it is, I wish one day I could be fought over by two sides too!"
"Fought over for what? To be kicked around like a ball?"
"Get lost, get lost!"
...
[Ding~ You have entered the second plane of the Nether Ghost Tower "Thriller Paradise"!]
With the system prompt, Lu Ming and Lin Youwei appeared in a huge amusement park.
An automatically swinging pirate ship; a creaking Ferris wheel; dolls emitting eerie laughter.
The vast amusement park was lifeless, exuding a terrifying atmosphere everywhere.
The park was still filled with undead monsters.
However, the level increased from the 10-15 in the first plane Night Watchman Camp to 16-20.
Without a word, they started fighting!
Lu Ming immediately summoned all three hundred and twenty Undead Warriors, releasing War Tread and Life Barrier, and issued a command to kill monsters.
For the Undead Warriors who could easily cut down level 24-25 man-eating ants in the Cannibal Ant Nest, dealing with these level 16-20 undead monsters was naturally a breeze.
As the Undead Legion went on a rampage in the amusement park, Lu Ming's ears were filled with kill reward notifications.
Meanwhile, the number of Soul Stones and copper coins in his backpack rapidly increased.
To pay off her debt to Lu Ming as soon as possible, Lin Youwei, holding the bronze weapon she just received as a task reward, also joined the battle.
Using her own abilities, she killed undead, earning copper coins and Soul Stones.
The afternoon passed in a flash.
At six in the evening, it was time for dinner.
Lu Ming recalled all the Undead Warriors and called out to Lin Youwei, who was still busy killing undead, to exit the Nether Ghost Tower.
On the way back to the city, he tallied up the gains.
Lu Ming found that the drop rate of high-purity Soul Stones had indeed increased significantly!
Yesterday, in the first plane Night Watchman Camp, over 90% of the Soul Stones dropped were fifth-grade with 0%-40% purity, with less than 10% being fourth-grade with 41%-70% purity.
But now, in an afternoon at the second plane Thriller Paradise, they collected a total of 625 Soul Stones.
Of these, 472 were fifth-grade purity; 140 were fourth-grade purity; 13 were third-grade purity!
According to market prices, it added up to over 17,000 dollars!
And that didn't even count the copper coin earnings.
"I wonder if I can meet God Slayer, Moon again. If I sell to her at ten times the price again, that would be tens of thousands of dollars!"
For a moment, Lu Ming actually looked forward to meeting God Slayer, Moon, to extort her again!
Just as Lu Ming was thinking this.
Suddenly, a group of players rushed by.
"I heard God Slayer and Dragon Soul are fighting up ahead!"
"Really? Aren't these two top teams ranked in the top ten of the Great Xia Team leaderboard? And they don't seem to have any connection, why are they fighting?"
"Don't know, let's go check it out!"
Dragon Soul?
Lu Ming suddenly remembered the seven players from the Dragon Soul Squad he killed last night in the desolate city, who had kidnapped Lin Youwei.
Could it be that Dragon Soul was confronting God Slayer because of that incident?
Thinking this, Lu Ming followed the crowd to see if God Slayer, Moon was involved.
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