The sharpest spear, the strongest shield.

The Mist Shadow Assassin's dagger struck the strongest shield, while its head caught the brunt of the strongest spear.

The Qi Wave Shield shattered upon contact with the Mist Shadow Assassin's attack, but it provided just enough obstruction to allow Bai Shi Jing Lun to more calmly use his skills to neutralize the assassin's attack.

Using force to negate force. The principle behind the Dragon Swallowing Clouds technique was that simple, but how to actually neutralize the attack in practice was something outsiders couldn't comprehend. Although this was a game and the opponent was an NPC, all actions within the game, whether by players or NPCs, were based on the physics engine. While there might be occasional anomalies, it generally wasn't nonsensical.

Therefore, Bai Shi Jing Lun still had a way to neutralize the Mist Shadow Assassin's attack.

This was something Gu Fei couldn't do because he lacked the necessary strength.

Deflecting a thousand pounds with four ounces was merely a vivid exaggeration. In essence, it was a clever technique to overcome strength, but ordinary people didn't understand it, only imagining it to be infinitely amplified. In reality, the difference in strength between two forces couldn't be too great, or even eight ounces wouldn't be able to move a thousand pounds. Gu Fei's strength was simply too weak; he could use it against players occasionally, but he was well aware of his limitations when facing this level 60+ Boss.

As a result, Gu Fei's sword strike had little effect on the Mist Shadow Assassin, while Bai Shi Jing Lun had exhausted all his strength to neutralize its attack. Finally, with a resolute double chop, he managed to deflect the Mist Shadow Assassin's attack in another direction.

For Bai Shi Jing Lun, this was already a kind of failure. The Dragon Swallowing Clouds technique wasn't meant to redirect the opponent's power but to completely devour it, dissolving it into nothingness. Bai Shi Jing Lun had only managed to redirect the Mist Shadow Assassin's attack, indicating his inability to digest it and forcing him to settle for second best.

But he wasn't discouraged by this. The Mist Shadow Assassin's attack was diverted to his side, and Bai Shi Jing Lun reacted immediately. He reached out and grabbed the opponent around the waist, executing a body slam in one motion. The Mist Shadow Assassin soared into the air, still swinging its legs in a counterattack as before. This was the unintelligent aspect of a computer compared to a human brain: it could only judge the merits of threats that had already occurred, unable to foresee the greater danger lurking nearby.

As it soared into the air, it kicked out at Bai Shi Jing Lun, who had already experienced this move and was prepared for it, blocking with his arms. At this moment, Gu Fei also leapt into the air, brushing past the Boss, and the Palm Thunder (zhangxin lei) struck the Boss, completing the second half of his Floating Clouds Obscuring the Sun (fuyun chuiri) technique.

Bai Shi Jing Lun, who had witnessed everything, completely ignored the Mist Shadow Assassin's state and was simply amazed by the brilliance of Gu Fei's move. He wondered if he could evade this move if he were truly sparring with Gu Fei...

Gu Fei, who had successfully landed this blow in mid-air, also directed the Palm Thunder's knockback force towards the direction the Mist Shadow Assassin was flying. This increased the force, causing the Mist Shadow Assassin to take damage and fly even faster. With a "whoosh," it was passively sent flying into the mist without any active effort on its part.

"Hey!!!" The two coordinated well, and Bai Shi Jing Lun punched the air to express his excitement. Gu Fei couldn't be bothered to pay attention, his first reaction was to pull out an apple and start munching on it. Bai Shi Jing Lun had only used a Qi Wave Shield (qi bo dun) once, relying entirely on his own strength and skill to resist the Boss's attacks. Gu Fei, on the other hand, had consumed a great deal of mana with his Double Flame Palms and Palm Thunder, and he needed to replenish it quickly, or he wouldn't be able to output such efficient damage when the Boss came again.

This was their mode of cooperation. Although the Mist Shadow Assassin had gone berserk, it hadn't added any new attack patterns, only strengthened the existing ones. Gu Fei was already familiar with these patterns, and after a brief explanation to Bai Shi Jing Lun, he naturally understood the key points.

As a result, if he could neutralize the first attack, he could also neutralize the second, the third... The Boss's target was now only the two of them. When it attacked Bai Shi Jing Lun, he neutralized it even more skillfully. When it attacked Gu Fei, he anticipated it and prepared in advance, and everything proceeded extremely smoothly. Although he would suffer some damage from the Mist Shadow Assassin's powerful impact each time he neutralized an attack, he could also eat some bread or other food to replenish his health while Gu Fei was eating fruit, so he could fully sustain himself.

The two were increasingly confident. If they continued like this, defeating the Mist Shadow Assassin was only a matter of time unless this guy went berserk again and became even more abnormal...

Whether the Boss had a second berserk mode was something they didn't need to discuss for the time being because this first berserk mode was already causing the game operators a lot of headaches.

Ye Xiao Wu's cheat modifications were indeed clever. Any action the Mist Shadow Assassin took after going berserk was considered a completely compliant and legitimate operation by the system, so it wouldn't trigger any alarms. However, he had overlooked the fact that too many colleagues from the monitoring team were watching the Mist Shadow Assassin's performance with their own eyes.

At first, everyone was excited about the Mist Shadow Assassin's berserk state, but when they saw it abandoning its original target and starting to slaughter indiscriminately in the leveling area, everyone was stunned.

The Mist Shadow Assassin's actions were now completely in accordance with its settings, so the system wouldn't treat this as an abnormal state and raise an alarm. However, in the eyes of the staff, it felt extremely bad to continue like this. This killing mode seemed to be endless.

"Director Ye, this..." Someone had already raised a question to Ye Xiao Wu, but stopped short. This wasn't a programming error but a major problem with the Mist Shadow Assassin Boss's settings.

Ye Xiao Wu's face was already pale. Even the monitoring team's colleagues had realized that there was a problem with this Boss's settings, so how could he, the planner, not have noticed that the Mist Shadow Assassin in this state had become a disaster?

No one waited for Ye Xiao Wu's answer because handling sudden situations in the game wasn't something Ye Xiao Wu was responsible for. The monitoring team members, who had been watching the hunt for the Mist Shadow Assassin, had already dispersed, and some had even asked Ye Xiao Wu to leave his seat. They had begun the work they were responsible for. Ye Xiao Wu heard the leader of the monitoring team reporting the situation to higher-ups.

Because this wasn't player cheating but a loophole in the game design, it was the same situation as when the Boss wandered into the main city and started killing. Therefore, the monitoring team didn't dare to deal with it rashly and immediately asked higher-ups for instructions on whether this situation needed to be dealt with urgently.

At the same time, You Ge's detailed complaint report had also attracted the attention of the GMs. Compared to Han Jia Gongzi's playful "The Boss is slaughtering the city!", You Ge's complaint was so detailed that even the GMs couldn't find an excuse to brush it off. Based on the situation described by You Ge, the GM he contacted immediately saw the tragedy in Xixia Mist City: the Boss was completely out of control, slaughtering any player it encountered!

However, the GM's authority was only directed at players. They could silence players, suspend players, or even delete player accounts. These were all within their scope of authority, but they had no authority over system settings issues such as the Boss going berserk.

Therefore, this GM immediately reported the situation to higher-ups.

Of course, there was only one higher-up...

The highest person in charge of game operations, who had received multiple reports, quickly arrived at the monitoring team's location and saw Ye Xiao Wu as soon as he entered the door.

"Xiao Wu is here too!" He greeted Ye Xiao Wu, still unaware that Ye Xiao Wu had only come to watch the excitement and had caused the incident. He thought Ye Xiao Wu had come to participate in the discussion because of the incident, after all, he was the main designer of the game.

At this time, the Mist Shadow Assassin had not yet reached the point where it was only fighting Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun. The high-level leader quickly witnessed the Boss's endless slaughter. He also didn't know much about the background settings and immediately asked Ye Xiao Wu about the cause of this situation.

Ye Xiao Wu repeated his answer woodenly. The leader of the monitoring team had already asked him this question once before. It was nothing more than the Mist Shadow Assassin's settings issue.

Ye Xiao Wu answered truthfully. The current situation had made him realize that the Mist Shadow Assassin's aggro system was clearly also a major bug. In order to resist the player bug, Gu Fei, he had triggered the Mist Shadow Assassin's berserk mode, but it had released an even bigger bug. Countless players had lost levels and their lives as a result, which was truly a disaster.

After listening to Ye Xiao Wu's explanation, the high-level leader didn't say anything. Like the leader of the monitoring team, he immediately judged that there was a major problem with the Boss's settings. However, with Ye Xiao Wu, the main designer, present, they were both too embarrassed to say much. But the high-level leader had already issued instructions, immediately let the monitoring team come forward to resolve this crisis, and at the same time, notify the staff in the data background to investigate the players who had suffered misfortune due to the Boss's berserk mode and restore their losses.

This aspect of the work was actually more difficult than eliminating the Boss. To eliminate the Boss, the monitoring team could easily do it by starting the modifier. Investigating this data was just a very tedious task. The staff who were in charge of supervising the background data cursed while they could only obey orders. At this time, the Boss's slaughter had already passed more than half, they were thoroughly investigating the player data who had died at the hands of the Boss before, while tracking the Boss's actions in a hurry and hurriedly locking in the target data he would hurt next.

This was also the reason why Han Jia Gongzi and others died but were not reborn according to the rules. It was only because their data had been locked in by the background. This wasn't any special treatment, it was just a behavior for these staff to reduce their workload.

While the monitoring team was preparing to correct the Boss's behavior, they suddenly stopped, because there were no other players around the Boss on the screen at this time, and the two players he was facing had been entangled with it for many rounds and seemed to have the ability to kill it.

Everyone stared at the screen, the leader of the monitoring team looked at the high-level leader, pointed at the two people on the screen who were fighting the Boss: "Let them continue?"

The high-level leader took a look at the Boss's life on the screen, which was already on the verge of death, and nodded after thinking for a while: "Continue."

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How dangerous, how dangerous, I almost didn't update again. Eventful autumn, eventful autumn!