"No problem!!" Tian Qi and the others agreed almost without thinking. In their eyes at this moment, this expert's value already exceeded those valuable materials dropped by the hidden boss. They had been worrying about finding some way to curry favor, and now this expert actually had a need—that was just great. Forget just the Strength Bead Silk—even if they had to hand over all the materials, at this point Tian Qi and the others wouldn't hesitate much.
Moreover, Tian Qi, wanting to make a good impression, decided to go all the way. He turned around and said, "Xiao Yueyue, hand the team leader position over to Expert Bro!"
"Call me that again and I'll kill you!" Yuezhongmian said through gritted teeth.
"Haha, it's such a cute nickname, why don't you like it?" Tian Qi said with a laugh, but he didn't take the joke too far and quickly added, "Fine, fine, I won't call you that! Hand the team leader position over to Expert Bro."
Yuezhongmian understood the meaning. Making the other party team leader and setting loot distribution to leader-assigned would completely dispel their doubts, allowing both sides to have full trust in each other. Things had reached this point, and Yuezhongmian could see it clearly—Jun Moxiao no longer needed to play any tricks. If he really wanted to take everything for himself, one word would be enough, and the three of them wouldn't have any objections. Yuezhongmian had no choice but to transfer the team leader position over.
As a result, Jun Moxiao didn't change any leader permissions at all. He merely said "let's continue" and led everyone onward.
The killing method hadn't changed, so naturally everything went smoothly. The path ahead in the cave came to a fork, and everyone knew that one side led to the Spider Lord's lair. Jun Moxiao didn't hesitate and walked straight toward the side where the lord was hidden, the four following closely behind.
This passage didn't exist in the normal dungeon. Along the way there were some spider eggs that would hatch the moment players approached. The little spiders that jumped out were extremely small, scurrying about as they attacked the players. The damage wasn't high, but because they were so small and fast, they were very hard to hit. The four stared so hard their eyes were about to pop out—it basically took three to five attacks to land a single hit. But on Jun Moxiao's side, one raise of the hand and a spear flew out, never missing, one spider per strike, clearing them astonishingly fast. Seeing the four in such a sorry state, he turned around to lend support. The four all let out a sigh of relief. Without this person, they could still have seen the Spider Lord, but this path alone might have worn away an hour of their time.
"Hey, do you think we'll get the Spider Lord's first kill again?" Qianshengli said, feeling a little hopeful about the future.
"That depends on luck. I don't know if we're early enough," Tian Qi said.
"If we get the first kill, it means we're already the earliest party to enter the Spider Cave. Our speed isn't slow either. It's the third round now, and there's been no system announcement for the hidden boss first kill. I think our chances are pretty good," Qianshengli said, actually quite good at analysis.
"Without some real skill, even if you ran into the hidden boss, you wouldn't dare kill it!" Muyunshen remarked with emotion.
"We have Expert Bro to thank for that," Tian Qi said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," the other two chimed in.
"I say, aren't you guys disgusting?" Yuezhongmian looked upon the three of them with utter contempt for constantly trying to get close to Jun Moxiao—and without any fear that Jun Moxiao would hear.
The three of them felt depressed and awkward, and couldn't help feeling annoyed at Yuezhongmian. Speaking of that original grudge, weren't you the one in the wrong first, kid? Why couldn't you just take a step back? Tian Qi gave Yuezhongmian another round of private-message lecturing. Logically, of course, Yuezhongmian couldn't out-argue Tian Qi, and in the end his attitude was simply "well, I just don't like him, so there." Tian Qi was starting to lose patience too, and declared on the spot that if he kept being unpleasant, he could get lost once they left the dungeon and stop causing trouble here with his on-and-off antics.
Yuezhongmian felt bitter, felt wronged. Had the time finally come for them to abandon him, this little commoner, for the sake of an expert?
"We're here." Ye Xiu had been walking at the very front. Seeing that there was another cavern nested inside the cave ahead, he knew this was where the Spider Lord made its home.
"How do we kill it?" Tian Qi asked.
"Hold on a moment, I'm going to switch out and check the strategy guide," Ye Xiu said.
The four immediately fell into chaos. What was going on? Only checking the strategy guide at the last moment—was there anyone who sharpened his spear right before battle like this?
"Expert Bro, this... you..." Tian Qi fumbled, not knowing how to express himself, but Jun Moxiao just stood there without any reaction at all—he really had switched out of the game to read the strategy guide. The four were dumbfounded! They had already concluded that this person was a super expert, but how could something like this happen to a super expert?
"Could it be... someone swapped in?" Tian Qi voiced a terrifying conjecture.
"I knew it! An expert this awesome, if he were doing so well in God's Domain, how could he possibly come all alone to a new server to do pioneering runs!!" Qianshengli said.
"Damn it, before it was a real expert playing for us, and now a fake expert has swapped back in? He can't even fight a boss and ran off to read the guide?" Muyunshen said.
Expert Bro, how could you abandon us like this? At least stay until we finish this boss! The three of them were in tears. Yuezhongmian, on the side, said nothing. He had suddenly come up with a conjecture too—that this person was so calm and unresponsive toward his own behavior. Could it be because he wasn't the same person he had first run into back then?
Just as he was sinking into this line of thought, unable to pull himself out, Ye Xiu had already finished reading the guide and returned.
"All done," Ye Xiu said.
"Expert Bro... you... did someone swap in?" Tian Qi asked cautiously.
"Swap in?" Ye Xiu didn't understand.
"This account—has it always been just you playing it?" Tian Qi asked.
"Yeah!" Ye Xiu said.
"Then I don't get it. An expert as awesome as you still needs to read a guide to fight a boss?" Tian Qi said.
"I haven't run this dungeon in years. If I don't read the guide, how would I remember how to fight it?" Ye Xiu said.
"Then earlier..."
"I read the guide earlier too!" Ye Xiu said.
The four were dumbstruck.
"When?" Tian Qi asked.
"When I was learning skills. I glanced through it a bit after learning them. But it was too long, so I skipped the hidden boss section for now," Ye Xiu said.
The four continued to be puzzled. Of course they had studied the Spider Cave guide long ago, but there was no such thing as the method Jun Moxiao had commanded them through the whole way. What kind of guide had he been reading?
Meanwhile, Ye Xiu had already begun explaining the strategy for the Spider Lord: "I just looked over the Spider Lord's introduction. We can still use the same method we used on the Web-Spitting mini boss—surround it and keep it locked in infinite hitstun through coordination. But there's one difficulty here: the Spider Lord will continuously spawn spider eggs, and this cannot be interrupted by any skill. The little spiders that hatch are similar to the ones in the passage, but their bite applies a mandatory three-second imprisonment effect on the target. You all know the imprisoned state, right? You can't move or attack, and you can't be attacked either. Although there's no damage, it will interrupt our coordination, so we absolutely cannot let the little spiders bite us."
"Then what should we do?" Tian Qi asked.
"I'll take care of clearing the little spiders, so don't worry. So our final difficulty is—can you four coordinate to land continuous hitstun attacks on the Spider Lord?"
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A new week has arrived, and the fierce battle for the rankings begins—clicks, recommendations, don't hold back!