Chapter 15 Fifteen Minutes

The dagger that Xi Yao Wu used to stab the miner's eye didn't seem to be precious equipment. After stabbing, she didn't even want it, just leaving it in the miner's forehead. The miner now seemed to have lost his language function, only howling, frantically shaking his head, the thick green blood constantly being flung from his eye socket, and the dagger being slowly shaken out.

"Double Flame Flash!!" Gu Fei charged forward again with his sword. In the eyes of a professional, the miner was now full of openings. He chanted a spell and struck with his sword. The miner vigorously shook his head, and the dagger stuck in his eye, along with a clump of green goo, flew towards Gu Fei's face. Gu Fei dodged the dagger, but couldn't avoid being splashed by the green stuff.

Even saliva could cause damage, let alone this even more disgusting thing. Gu Fei felt a burning sensation on his face, and his health began to drop once per second.

"This green stuff is poisonous," Gu Fei said to the three. Looking back, the three of them didn't seem to have any intention of attacking again, watching from a distance. Hearing Gu Fei's warning, Xi Yao Wu hurriedly turned to look at the two: "How is it? Did I get splashed?"

Yu Tian Shen Ming closely and carefully examined Xi Yao Wu all over, shaking his head and saying, "No."

"Thank goodness, how disgusting." Xi Yao Wu breathed a sigh of relief. When she stabbed the miner's left eye, the blood that spurted out startled her, and in a panic, she only retrieved Dance Wind, leaving the dagger behind. In fact, although this dagger wasn't as good as Dance Wind, it was still a decent piece of equipment. Now that she knew she didn't have that disgusting stuff on her face, Xi Yao Wu hurried to pick up the equipment.

Gu Fei continued to fight with the miner, but Xi Yao Wu's eye-stabbing seemed to have turned on some switch in the miner. From then on, every time he attacked, the miner would generously spew blood, and even when he broke his joints to attack, it would be accompanied by these poisonous blood splashes. Gu Fei knew it was dangerous, but this kind of attack was impossible to catch, and despite his best efforts, he would still get splashed from time to time.

Gu Fei had no choice but to slow down the pace of his attacks. After research, he found that although the damage from this poisonous blood had a time limit, it could be stacked. When the stacking was low, Gu Fei could still support it with his own health regeneration, but when it stacked too much, he couldn't withstand it. There were no priests among the four, and this kind of continuous damage couldn't be dealt with by eating food outside of combat. The damage of one tick per second would interrupt the effect of eating food.

"Blood splatter, be careful of getting splashed," Gu Fei reminded the three again.

"Of course," the three nodded, still maintaining their previous observing posture, with no intention of coming up to support him.

"I said, if you guys have health regeneration equipment, you can still come and try," Gu Fei said dejectedly.

"No," Yu Tian Shen Ming and Xi Xiao Tian said.

"I don't want to, it's too disgusting," Xi Yao Wu said. She had all kinds of equipment, but the current battle wasn't a matter of strength, it was a matter of the monster's quality. Spitting saliva and randomly spraying dog blood, it had no gentlemanly demeanor at all, and Xi Yao Wu didn't like it.

"This isn't the time to be fussy about that!" Gu Fei said.

"Qian Li, keep it up, we'll always support you," Yu Tian Shen Ming switched to cheerleader mode.

"Look at this monster," Xi Xiao Tian finally did something practical, carefully observing and saying, "Every time you cut a wound, he'll automatically restore it after he spills blood."

"Oh? Automatic restoration?" Gu Fei's mind moved, and he waved his hand, taking out another tool from his pocket, the holy Flame Baptism, which had the function of "preventing regeneration."

He struck with his sword. Although the damage wasn't at the same level as the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, this monster had developed a habit of bleeding from wounds when attacked, not caring whether the damage was high or low. After taking this blow and spilling blood, Gu Fei stared at the wound. As a result, the wound remained as it was, slowly healing itself after the blood was spilled.

"It's useless!" Gu Fei dejectedly put away the Flame Baptism.

"Does your current attack do any damage to this monster?" The three gradually became suspicious. It seemed that every attack created a wound, but these wounds didn't seem to be caused by the attacks at all, but rather the monster splitting itself open using the force of the attacks, just like when it broke its joints. Gu Fei had been entangled with it for several minutes, with Double Flame Wounds constantly being inflicted. With Gu Fei's damage, even a Boss should have lost a lot of health, but looking at this miner, he was still energetic, his howls full of vigor, and his bone fractures and blood splatters were still as enthusiastic as ever.

"It definitely can't be defeated by attacking directly like this. We must find some trick," Xi Xiao Tian said.

"That's right, maybe we need a few people to help," Gu Fei felt resentful towards the three guys who were only watching and not participating.

"Yu Tian, go back to the mine and see if there are any clues for this mission," Xi Xiao Tian said.

"Me? Well, this mission is Qian Li's! Is it even useful for me to go?" Yu Tian Shen Ming expressed his doubts.

"Or maybe if we were in the same guild, it would be fine, but Qian Li is actually Rebirth Purple Crystal, and we're Extremely Heaven, aren't we?" Yu Tian Shen Ming continued to add.

"More importantly, you're already confused about how to get to the mine, right?" Gu Fei also added a point for him.

"We agreed..." Yu Tian Shen Ming dejectedly sent Gu Fei a message.

"Hey, you, go take a look at the mine!" Gu Fei reassigned personnel.

"Who's 'you'?" Xi Xiao Tian was displeased.

"Whoever answers is who," Gu Fei said.

Xi Xiao Tian helplessly set off for Cloudbreak Mine. Gu Fei continued to fight with the monster, Yu Tian Shen Ming continued to cheer him on, and Xi Yao Wu continued to check her body over and over again to see if she had gotten any of that disgusting stuff on her.

Although the miner's attack methods were illogical, it was still a system after all. After fighting for so long, Gu Fei had gradually seen the clues and could deal with it relatively easily. However, after being entangled for so long, Gu Fei also gradually felt that killing this monster might really require some special means, and relying solely on damage output might not be enough.

Xi Yao Wu checked her equipment one hundred and eighty times, finally confirming that she hadn't gotten any disgusting stuff on her, and then began to focus on the battle. After watching for a while, she suddenly said, "Doesn't your mission prompt say to stop him? Stopping him doesn't necessarily mean killing him!"

Gu Fei thought about it and nodded, "Then what do you say we should do?"

"Shouldn't we first figure out what he wants to do? Ask him," Xi Yao Wu said.

"Oh?" Gu Fei was stunned, so he asked while attacking the monster, "What do you want to do?"

"Engineering..." The miner muttered two words unclearly, his mouth wide open.

"Engineering what?" Gu Fei asked, giving him a sword strike at the same time.

"Mistake... mutation... revenge..." The miner revealed three more words intermittently.

"Can't speak anymore?" Gu Fei wondered. When he first said that Gilgino had died, this monster spoke quite smoothly.

"Revenge... revenge..." The miner began to repeatedly chant this word, wildly spraying green blood.

"Hmm, it's very simple! They were doing some engineering, and then something went wrong during the engineering, like a nuclear material leak or something, and then he was infected, and then he turned into the monster he is now, and then he wants revenge. That's how it always is in movies," Xi Yao Wu said.

"What revenge? How will he take revenge?" Gu Fei pressed.

"Revenge... revenge..." The miner continued to chant.

"What's the plot of this mission?" Gu Fei was frustrated. When the Guard Squad first sent him out, it was for missions like finding people and rescuing, which didn't require any complicated plot, but when it came to the assistant, there was suddenly a story background, which really made people a little confused.

"What kind of engineering? Was it mentioned before?" Xi Yao Wu asked.

"No! Wait... Could it be related to the cave at the bottom of Cloudspur Lake?" Gu Fei suddenly remembered.

"Cave?"

"At the bottom of Cloudspur Lake, there's a cave. We found that place through a series of missions. At first, the entrance was sealed with a 'Water Barrier' spell, and then we found a way to open it... This cave should be an important part of the mission plot, right? But after that, when we wanted to continue, Gilgino died, and then suddenly it was time to find his assistant," Gu Fei said.

"So, this assistant also knows what's going on in that cave?"

"Do you know about the cave at the bottom of Cloudspur Lake?" Gu Fei asked the miner.

The miner didn't answer, but his face twitched obviously. Gu Fei's question clearly hit a sensitive spot. The miner suddenly roared, and his attack suddenly increased to another level, speeding up.

"Damn..." A sudden burst always catches people off guard, and Gu Fei dodged awkwardly. The miner's arm didn't break this time, but suddenly stretched out. And this stretching wasn't cute at all. He saw the bones, flesh, and tendons on that arm completely separating, sliding off layer by layer, stretching the arm to a great length. The exposed flesh flowed with thick green juice, and from time to time, two bubbles would pop up.

"Ugh..." Xi Yao Wu couldn't stand it again, and quickly turned her head to the side. Yu Tian Shen Ming finally acted like a man at this time. Seeing that the monster was making strange moves again, and guessing that Gu Fei was about to suffer, he quickly drew his bow and fired an arrow. The arrow hit the miner's shoulder, and the miner twitched involuntarily, and the grab that almost caught Gu Fei also deviated slightly. Without saying a word, Gu Fei suddenly used Instantaneous Movement, not to escape, but to flash forward two meters, and then swung his arm, raising his sword and chanting Double Flame Flash, cutting right at the weak point where the bones and flesh were connected after the miner's arm stretched out in a disgusting manner.

A beam of fire flew straight up. The miner's connection point was indeed a major weakness, and it was actually cut off by Gu Fei. The detached part immediately became a pile of dead flesh, dropping to the ground with a splat, continuing to rot and bubble.

The miner's right hand now only had a skeleton left. Yu Tian Shen Ming, who was just about to fire a second arrow, was so frightened by this scene that he didn't dare to move. Gu Fei was really brave, waving his sword and hitting the miner's bones, which were no longer covered in flesh. The sound was extremely harsh, and the bones of this guy were obviously not very strong. Under Gu Fei's not very strong blows, broken bones splattered everywhere.

"This is the most disgusting battle I've ever seen..." Yu Tian Shen Ming put away his bow. He decided to leave all the disgusting honor to Gu Fei.

Xi Yao Wu had just turned her head, calmed down, and prepared herself mentally for the long arm connected by bones and flesh, so when she turned back to watch the battle, she saw a pile of dead flesh on the ground and broken bones flying around, smashed by Gu Fei...

"I really can't do it anymore..." Xi Yao Wu completely turned her body away. The system had already given her a warning, a bunch of medical terms, basically saying that if you continue like this, we'll forcefully disconnect you.

Gu Fei struck and beat him, completely destroying the monster's right arm. At the same time, he was careful to guard against his left arm. If he also played the stretching trick, Gu Fei was prepared to repeat his old trick. As a result, the miner didn't give him this opportunity. His left arm continued to use breaking attacks, but Gu Fei was inspired, carefully observing the breaking point of each of his breaking attacks. Finally, when the left arm broke again, Gu Fei seized the opportunity, and with a quick flick of his sword, the connection point was indeed fragile. This time, the miner's left arm flew out with both bone and flesh.

The miner, who had lost both arms, still didn't know how to retreat, waving his two stumps and howling at Gu Fei. He looked rather miserable. Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, stepped back a few steps, and looked at the two, saying, "Is that considered solving it?"

"What's wrong? Is he dead? I can still hear him yelling," Xi Yao Wu asked.

"Don't turn around," Yu Tian Shen Ming quickly said, "Unless you want to accept the scene of being dismembered alive."

"Let's leave this place... Let's not do the mission," Xi Yao Wu suggested.

"I'm asking you now, how are you going to take revenge? Speak quickly, or I'll knock out all your teeth," Gu Fei was still threatening.

"No humanity!" Yu Tian Shen Ming shook his head repeatedly.

"Revenge? Revenge!" The miner seemed to only be able to say these two words.

"Hey, I found something..." At this time, Xi Xiao Tian's voice came. She was running from the direction of the mine. Her trip actually yielded results.

"Really? Can we end the mission now?" Xi Yao Wu heard Xi Xiao Tian's voice and was pleasantly surprised.

"What did you do?" Xi Xiao Tian ran up to them, and saw the miner, who was missing both shoulders but still struggling and wandering, trying to attack, and was horrified.

"What did you do?" Gu Fei looked behind Xi Xiao Tian. Xi Xiao Tian didn't come back alone. She had attracted countless players behind her.

"There's no way... It's been cordoned off... I was able to sneak in, picked up this thing, and then I was spotted," Xi Xiao Tian said helplessly.

"What is this?" Gu Fei asked.

"Are we talking about this now?" Xi Xiao Tian was holding an iron box in her arms, and behind her, the pursuers were getting closer and closer.

"Then what about this?" Gu Fei pointed to the miner.

"Literally, you've already stopped him! Let's leave!" Xi Yao Wu shouted.

"Alright... Retreat..." Gu Fei nodded, and the four abandoned the miner and slipped away. The players arrived and were all frightened by this monster miner.

"What is this?" Everyone discussed in whispers.

"What kind of mission are Qian Li Yi Zui and the others doing?" All the guilds were wondering.

When they received the news that Qian Li Yi Zui had appeared in Cloudbreak Mine, all the guilds attached great importance to it and sent people over. They didn't necessarily want to fight Qian Li Yi Zui, but they realized that Qian Li Yi Zui's sudden appearance wasn't without reason. There might be some large-scale mission, so they all sent people to see what was going on. As a result, what they saw was such a monster.

"It's coming over!" The players exclaimed. The miner monster turned his head at this time, staggering and approaching them.

"Attack, attack!!!" No one would think that this monster would be everyone's friend. One person gave the order, and all the players supported it. All kinds of spells and attacks were launched.

The miner monster howled loudly. The four who had fled felt a sense of urgency in their hearts. They looked back and saw that he was being attacked by a large number of players. The screams became more and more shrill, but they became weaker and weaker. Finally, he completely disappeared into the wilderness.

"He's dead?" Gu Fei sighed, "Sure enough, there's strength in numbers!"

"After you turned him into that, it wouldn't be fun if he didn't die," Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"The players don't seem to be chasing anymore," Gu Fei said, looking.

"Could it be that he dropped equipment?" Yu Tian Shen Ming had eagle eyes and could see that the players over there seemed to be a little agitated.

"Damn, could it be a key mission item?" Gu Fei said.

"It's too late now..." Yu Tian Shen Ming sighed.

"What did you pick up?" Gu Fei asked Xi Xiao Tian.

"I haven't had time to look, but I think it should be related. I dug it up where we met him," Xi Xiao Tian said.

"Oh, let's see."

The iron box was dirty and old, but it was easily opened with a light lift. The joint was bright and shiny, probably because it had been opened and closed so many times that it had been rubbed like this.

"A necklace," Xi Xiao Tian picked up a string of things from the box.

"What is it?" Gu Fei asked.

"It's a necklace!" Xi Xiao Tian said.

"I mean, what's its name according to the system," Gu Fei said.

"I said it, a necklace," Xi Xiao Tian said.

"Oh..." Gu Fei was depressed. The system always played these tricks.

"And these!" Yu Tian Shen Ming was quick, and he scooped out all the remaining things in the box. They were many small pieces of paper.

"Going to the mountains after class?" Yu Tian Shen Ming picked up a piece and read. Under this sentence, in a different font, was the following sentence: No, I have to help the teacher analyze the mineral samples from Morgans Mountain. Further down: The teacher seems to be very interested in minerals lately? After that: Seems so. After that: Is he trying to find new building materials? After that: I don't know.

"This... could these be the little notes that the two were passing back and forth in class?" Yu Tian Shen Ming was surprised.

"One of them should be this monster, the other... probably his girlfriend?" Xi Xiao Tian looked at the necklace, which wasn't very exquisite, but it was undoubtedly an ornament that only women would wear.

"The teacher here, is he referring to Gilgino?"

"Gilgino doesn't look like an old man," Gu Fei said.

"I heard you're a teacher too?" Xi Xiao Tian asked.

Gu Fei was depressed... teachers are old men, this logical relationship was obviously not valid.

"There are many more pieces of paper here. Let's separate and read them. There should be some clues in them," Xi Xiao Tian divided the pile of paper in Yu Tian Shen Ming's hand into four piles, and gave one to each person.

"There's a name mentioned here, Courtney!!" Yu Tian Shen Ming was the first to make a discovery, "Courtney, last night's party was so much fun."

"Pay attention to the font, and figure out who's who," Xi Xiao Tian reminded.