“Icefang Dragon... a forced kiss??” Zhang Siming couldn't believe it.
“Oh, to be precise, it was a simultaneous forced kiss from the Icefang Dragon and a magic frog,” teammate Zheng Cong added.
Zhang Siming was even more confused: “What do you mean, a simultaneous forced kiss?”
“That's why I said Xu Meng is crazy.”
“He hid a magic frog in the Icefang Dragon's mouth!”
Therefore, at 12 noon, after all the games on Dream Builder were updated online, they convinced themselves with the excuse that "we've been training all morning, we should rest during lunch break" and logged into the game.
Dream Builder has now shown its dominance in the gaming industry, and many games have been severely impacted.
To stabilize their daily active users, many have announced that they will be logging into the Dream Builder gaming platform in the future and developing new versions adapted to the Mirage gaming suite.
Even "Fireline Confrontation", as an established FPS game with a stable player base and e-sports system, has also been strongly impacted.
In the end, they had no choice but to announce that they would develop a VR version adapted to the Mirage gaming suite as soon as possible.
This slowed down the loss of players.
After that, the club quickly renovated a brand new training room to allow the players to adapt to fighting and playing games on the Mirage gaming suite.
Physical training has also changed from being non-compulsory to a mandatory item.
Zhang Siming even unexpectedly won a place in the [Tower Rush Grand Prix], making a big splash, and the club gave him a generous bonus.
The trend of "transformation" is already very obvious.
The players no longer feel any pressure running to the holographic training room to play games during their lunch break.
Zheng Cong casually ate a few bites of food and logged into the game excitedly.
After seeing the spectacle of thousands of people in Mansheng City fighting for a magic frog, he immediately dismissed the idea of participating and went to the "Monster Hunter" world to do his daily tasks.
——After completing the main quest hunt, as the frost spreads, large ice-type dragons will invade the normal areas of the Huaiwa Rainforest.
Hunting these trespassing dragons has become a daily task.
The rewards are not only attribute enhancement orbs that can be embedded into equipment, but also randomly dropped Essences, which can be used to enrich the illustrated book or directly feed to the Essence they are raising.
The daily task that Zheng Cong refreshed today happened to be the Icefang Dragon.
The first half of the battle went smoothly.
But after the Icefang Dragon went berserk, it started scurrying around the battlefield like crazy.
The flying ice shards greatly affected Zheng Cong's vision.
He subconsciously reached out to block an ice shard that flew into his eyes, and when he lowered his hand, he lost track of the Icefang Dragon.
When he heard the sound behind him and turned around, the dragon's kiss was almost pressed against his face!
The "Monster Hunter" development team's portrayal of the combat atmosphere is so realistic and detailed that the ferocious fangs suddenly protruding from the ice fog and the oncoming cold wind made Zheng Cong's heart pound and his face turn pale.
But just when he thought he would be swallowed by the Icefang Dragon in one bite, a sparkling magic frog jumped out of the ferocious dragon's mouth!
Before Zheng Cong could react, this blue magic frog puckered its lips at him!!
“Mua!!”
The blue magic frog kissed him squarely on the lips!
The Icefang Dragon, arriving at the same time, "kissed" his entire body away!
“Bang!”
A large cloud of smoke exploded.
When Zheng Cong was knocked out of the smoke and into the sky, he had returned to his normal human form.
While in the air, you can choose to use Wirebug to adjust your posture and reorganize your offensive.
You can also use a recovery action to land smoothly and reduce fall damage.
But Zheng Cong did nothing.
His mind was filled with "I was forcibly kissed by a frog" and "I was forcibly kissed by an Icefang Dragon", and he fell to the ice surface covered with frost, feeling hopeless.
He floundered like a dead fish a few times, then became too lazy to struggle.
In the end, he was carried back to the base by the cat people.
……
After listening to the whole story, Zhang Siming silently patted his good brother's shoulder and softly comforted him:
“It's all fake, it's all fake.”
“Don't worry, your first kiss is still there.”
One sentence stabbed at his good brother's sore spot.
Zheng Cong covered his heart, feeling uncomfortable for a long time before he could speak: “It's not like there were no gains.”
“Look at this.”
He snapped his fingers, and a small blue frog shimmering with tiny starlight appeared on his shoulder.
Zhang Siming leaned closer and examined it for several seconds before tentatively saying: “This is… the object of your first kiss?”
“Are you done yet!!” Zheng Cong was furious, “This is an Essence! The Essence of the magic frog!”
“Oh, oh, an Essence, I know, but magic frogs also drop Essences?”
“It kissed me and was then killed by the Icefang Dragon.” Zheng Cong explained the source of this Essence, and then said excitedly, “This Essence is super strong!”
“How so?” Zhang Siming became interested.
The players are still exploring the Essence system of "Monster Hunter".
Dream Builder designed this system with extremely high cultivation depth. Other than being useless when first obtained and only suitable for raising as a pet for viewing,
each subsequent tier increase will grant an enhancement.
Because of the different types of Essences and the different "nutrients" consumed, the direction of enhancement will also be different.
Many players are studying this system, wanting to see what the Essence will transform into when fully cultivated.
However, the time is still short, and the highest-tier Essences have only just reached Tier 5, which is still a long way from the limit.
“I just obtained this magic frog's Essence, but it already allows me to jump higher!”
As Zheng Cong spoke, he demonstrated.
He jumped up and easily stepped on Zhang Siming's shoulder.
“This is still Tier 1!” Zheng Cong said excitedly after landing, “If I can raise it to a high tier, wouldn't I be able to take off from the spot and infinitely ascend?!”
Zhang Siming was instantly tempted.
“Wait for me, I'll go catch one too!”
“I'm afraid you won't be able to catch it like that!” his teammate reminded him.
“What do you mean?”
“I think you have to become a frog person first to discover magic frogs in the Icefang Dragon's mouth,” Zheng Cong speculated.
Zhang Siming thought there was some truth to it.
But the afternoon training was about to start, and there wasn't enough time.
He could only note this down, return with Zheng Cong first, and proceed with the "Crossfire Clash" training in the afternoon.
Although he sat in front of the computer, his mind wasn't present.
During the intervals between dying and respawning, he couldn't help but pull out his phone to check for new messages.
And there were new messages, of course—
The forum's well-known [Female Pervert] and [Jumping Puzzle Master]—【Little Pepper】discovered:
At the end of the [Crimson Volcano Jumping Puzzle], on the daily refreshed jumping puzzle chest, there really appeared a magic frog!
Moreover, it's different from the Golden Magic Frog in Evergreen Metropolis and the Blue Magic Frog in the Icefang Dragon's mouth.
This magic frog is pink!
It will actively give a kiss to players who complete this super difficult jumping puzzle,解除[Frog Prince's Curse].
It will also spit out a crystal clear bubble and give it to the player.
Using this bubble will continuously summon bubbles around the player, and these bubbles will scatter the surrounding light, creating a dreamy and romantic rainbow effect for the player.
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Even better: this bubble also belongs to 【Collectibles】!
Not only can it be used infinitely, but it can also be brought out of the game world and into Evergreen Metropolis!
Little Pepper posted 16 bubble selfies in her update, each one very beautiful.
Seeing her demonstration, even though this bubble is extremely difficult to obtain and doesn't provide any combat buffs, countless players were moved.
They flocked to Crimson Volcano, wanting to obtain this bubble collectible.
Even many casual and light users, who previously didn't like the intense combat of "Monster Hunter", were attracted by this special item and joined the game.
But they all severely underestimated the difficulty of the [Crimson Volcano Jumping Puzzle]!
The entrance to this jumping puzzle is hidden at the foot of the volcano, in a crack in the mountain wall at the exit of a lava river.
Less than 20 meters into the crack, you have to start playing a jumping game on the dangerous lava river—
You must continuously and accurately jump onto the small stones protruding from the lava river to continue moving forward.
Any slight deviation will cause you to step directly into the bright yellow, scorching lava!
Hunters with fire-resistant equipment can resist for a few more seconds and climb back onto the stones.
New players who have just joined the game are different; they are almost "melted upon entry". Falling into the lava river for two breaths will result in instant death.
Even the cat people can't come to rescue people in this hellish place, and you can only start again from the respawn point.
After jumping over the lava river, you will enter the mountain belly of Crimson Volcano—
A circular lava lake with a diameter of nearly a hundred meters.
Looking up, through the sulfur fumes, you can directly see the circular sky.
The jumping puzzle route is hidden on the steep inner wall of the volcano.
From the very bottom to the top of Crimson Volcano, the vertical climb distance exceeds 1200 meters, and the actual moving distance exceeds 3000 meters!
The difficulty is off the charts!
In fact, it was precisely because the difficulty was off the charts that Happy Superman fabricated false news, saying that it could解除[Frog Prince's Curse] here.
But he never expected that Xu Meng would actually adopt his suggestion!
Not only did she adopt it, but she also placed a precious collectible at the end that no one could refuse!
Now it's good.
His post not only tricked others, but also tricked himself!
……
The dangerous Crimson Volcano has now become like a tourist attraction.
Dense crowds of players lined up, squeezing into the narrow basalt cracks one by one, starting this deadly journey.
But the jumping puzzles designed by Zhu Meng have a gradual difficulty curve.
These players, who have never challenged jumping puzzles before, skipped the earlier, moderately difficult routes and challenged Crimson Volcano right away, and the results were not very optimistic—
Too many people couldn't grasp the distance, and they would accidentally fall into the lava and burn to death.
Even because of the character model collision, they were accidentally bumped into the lava by others and died instantly.
Happy Superman persevered for a full 20 minutes, passing one burned-to-death unlucky person after another, and finally walked through this lava river tunnel, which was only 60 meters long, to the familiar starting point of the volcano lake.
As soon as he stood on the platform of the [Starting Stone], he heard screams of "Ahhh!" ringing out overhead.
The moment he looked up, he saw three unlucky people with ropes around their waists falling from the sky together.
"Plop!"
"Plop!"
"Plop!"
They fell into the circular lava lake, which was of unknown depth.
A moment later, the three of them respawned at the [Starting Stone].
Happy Superman didn't laugh at them but sighed silently.
He had often fallen like this when he challenged it himself before, and he had never climbed to the top.
But now, he had to go up.
He shook his head and braced himself to start.
But just then, the player with the ID 【Nanshan】 next to him suddenly grabbed him, "Don't run, the bus is here."
"?" Happy Superman was stunned, "What bus?"
The next second, all the players on the [Starting Stone] cheered at the same time:
"The Big Brother is here!!"
"The Big Brother is here again!"
"Great, we have hope!"
"Big Brother, take me with you! Thank you, thank you! I'm very grateful!"
"Awesome! Big Brother's Crimson Express has arrived! Line up, line up!"
"Hurry up and don't waste Big Brother's time!"
……
Happy Superman saw that everyone was raising their necks and cheering at the sky, so he also looked up.
He saw a burly man, eight feet tall, bathed in the scorching light of the volcanic lava, walking down from the sky step by step through the poisonous sulfur fumes.
Like a savior, traversing the abyss of poison and fire, coming to rescue the refugees in despair!
At this moment, Happy Superman understood why everyone called him "Big Brother."
Wasn't that obvious?!
Big Brother was fucking cheating to take you to the sky!
Sacrificing himself to serve everyone!
This spirit of selflessness and dedication to others!
What's wrong with calling him "Big Brother"?!
