PNB Chapter 104 Give each side three lashes
Chapter 104 Give each side three lashes
Today's journey was particularly unsuccessful. People kept making mistakes. For each boss, either someone would inexplicably make a mistake at the very beginning, causing a short-term pain and forcing a restart, or someone would suddenly have a breakdown and start acting out when the boss was about to die, resulting in an extremely long and painful experience.
When the live battle report was sent back to the group chat, some people couldn't help but feel glad that they hadn't joined the fray today.
Unfortunately, even someone as good-natured as Chen Sui had to announce that every boss from now on would be a performance.
Because normal speedrun groups are assumed to be composed of experienced players who understand the boss mechanics, if you make a mistake and act as a "feeder," wasting the time of the other 24 people, you will have to pay a certain amount of gold as a penalty, which will be added to the group's wages. This is known as the "feeder penalty."
Of course, it was implemented only after obtaining unanimous agreement from everyone on the team.
Next, we finally reached the last boss, number five. Many people had already paid their fines, but thankfully, with the last boss defeated, this painful ordeal was finally over.
Everything was progressing normally at first, but then the boss used a name-calling mechanic, and the person who was called on started acting erratically. I guess people get confused after fighting for a while.
Upon seeing the ID "Pure Purple Cloud," which was indeed Lü Zhizhe himself, Chen Sui sighed but didn't say anything. Fortunately, the healer's battle resurrection skill was still intact and could still be used. So, she calmly gave commands over the microphone:
"Nai Xiu, pick up the innocent Zixia from Team Three."
This way, once Qi Chun Ge is revived, the next mechanism can be handled normally.
As a result, Nai Xiu seemed to be sleepwalking, remaining motionless. Chen Sui waited a few seconds, but Qi Chun was still lying motionless on the cold ground. She couldn't help but urge again, "Nai Xiu, quickly pick up Qi Chun, do you hear me?"
Nai Xiu remained motionless and unresponsive.
Chen Sui panicked. The next mechanism required the participation of everyone. If the Qi Pure warriors weren't revived, the total number of people who could take damage wouldn't be enough, and the entire team would be wiped out.
As the countdown to the game's conclusion drew ever closer, Chen Sui was powerless to do anything, no matter how well she commanded the game. After all, this was a team game that required the cooperation of twenty-five people.
Unsurprisingly, they were all wiped out.
In the chat, the team members started frantically typing question marks. This is the last boss, which is already the most complex in terms of mechanics and the most troublesome to fight. Everyone should stay focused and avoid making mistakes. Wouldn't it be better to just take it on the first try?
Since someone has made a mistake, it's time to settle accounts. At this point, the group leader will act as the judge and make the ruling.
There's nothing more to say about the person who died in front of the Qi Chun Milk Show having to pay a fine.
However, the final point that led to the team wipe was that Qi Chun died, so the Healer's battle resurrection was needed. However, because the Healer failed to pick up Qi Chun in time, the subsequent mechanics could not be handled, leading to the team wipe.
Chen Sui's conclusion was that both of them should pay the fine.
Although the fine was set at three thousand gold coins, Qi Chun Ge was Lü Zhizhe, and for Young Master Lü, the fine was no big deal. He even paid a very generous fine of twenty thousand gold coins.
But the healer stubbornly refused to hand it over. First, she pretended to be dead and didn't say a word, then suddenly typed in the team chat: "The team wiped because the Qi Pure died, what does that have to do with me?"
"Aren't you part of the team? If you pick up the Qi Pure, you can still fight, right?" Chen Sui asked rhetorically over the microphone.
"And you had so much time to use your battle resurrection before the next mechanism. I called you several times, what were you doing?" Seeing that Nai Xiu was stubborn, Chen Sui continued to ask.
Chen Sui's words were reasonable and well-founded, and the other members began to agree, saying that Nai Xiu should definitely take the blame.
Unfortunately, it was clear that Naixiu didn't think that way, and continued typing in the team chat:
"Heh, you're all in cahoots with the leader, just bullying me because you outnumber me. I did nothing wrong, I won't pay."
Seeing her stubborn refusal to admit wrongdoing, Chen Sui sneered, "Half of the people in this car today are random people from our group. If they were all from our own group, we would have finished them off long ago. Besides, everyone thinks you're also at fault. What do you have to say in your argument?"
"That's right, stop making excuses, pay the fine and keep fighting, don't waste everyone's time," a member of the group chimed in.
Perhaps the overwhelming criticism was too harsh, and Nai Xiu couldn't accept being collectively bullied. In a fit of anger, she turned on her microphone and started arguing against everyone:
"You're all just sycophants of the leader, aren't you? You just do whatever she says, right? It's disgusting that so many of you are bullying me."
Nai Xiu babbled on and on, in a dialect from who-knows-where.
When people communicate, everyone uses Mandarin, so at least the other person can understand it, which means you have the willingness to communicate.
Once you start speaking in dialect, the other person will completely lose track of what you mean and will only think that you are refusing to communicate and venting your emotions by hurling insults in a language they can't understand. But this won't solve the problem; it will only escalate the conflict.
Sure enough, before Chen Sui could even speak, Hua Luo, in order to defend her master, had already taken the lead and started attacking: "You crazy woman, stop acting like a lunatic. If you don't want to talk properly, then get lost."
Soon more people joined the fray, arguing in the team chat and fighting in the microphone, turning the Jin-Northwest region into complete chaos.
However, arguing and fighting only leads to endless disputes and is not a solution to the problem. As the team leader, Chen Sui could not let this situation continue, so she directly initiated a vote to remove Nai Xiu from the team.
Sure enough, apart from the few people who came in with Nai Xiu and were her relatives and friends, who naturally wouldn't click "agree," everyone else clicked "agree."
Seeing this, Hua Luo knew that her side had won big, and she chuckled, "I'm from Shudao Mountain, three... two... one, bye-bye, you happy old woman."
As soon as she finished speaking, Nai Xiu was removed from the team, and the others who came in with her also left the team immediately.
But the team still had to keep fighting. Chen Sui sent out the group members, and after finally getting everyone together to enter the instance for a fight, they failed. Before the fight, it was made clear that the group was being punished and had to pay a fine.
But the other party clearly didn't want to pay; rather than pay the fine, they preferred to leave the group and disappeared in an instant.
Chen Sui had no choice but to send out more members of her group. This cycle repeated several times, and the team's performance deteriorated with each game, leading to even more players quitting.
Therefore, this situation is less likely to occur if the group consists entirely of members from the same community. This is why group leaders create groups to recruit members; starting a group without a stable membership will only bring endless trouble.
Fortunately, Chen Sui, as the backbone of the group, had a firm Dao heart and did not make any mistakes in command. His tone was as calm as ever, and his style was as steady as ever. This was both a talent and the experience accumulated from countless battles.
The final boss was down to its last sliver of health. All the tanks were dead, battle resurrections were used up, and the boss was killing DPS one hit at a time. It looked like the raid was going to wipe and have to start all over again. People in the raid chat had already started chatting in advance.
Chen Sui made a quick decision: "Poison Master, summon your toad to tank the boss's aggro. We can clear this round."
Upon hearing this, Du Jing listened obediently and did as instructed.
Finally, after the team panel was mostly black, we cleared it.
Chen Sui finally breathed a sigh of relief in the team, not even bothering to check the boss's loot.
Chen Suizhen was resting with her eyes closed when she heard a scream in the voice channel: "Master, we're outta here! We got a Mystic Crystal!"