All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards.

Chapter 374 Team Offense Exposed
Late at night, deep in the Dark Desert, near the black tower placed by Wang Zhifan.

A dozen strange gray-black birds suddenly descended from the night sky of the same color and landed collectively in front of the black tower.

As soon as these strange birds landed, they transformed into players one by one, revealing expressions of fatigue but also a bit of curiosity.

"Little brother, thank you for helping us with your item! But it consumes too much energy!"

"Thank you so much!"

"I guess that painting is at least an excellent item!"

……

An Asian man who looked to be in his forties spoke first, expressing his gratitude to the square-faced Xia player who shared the power of the props with everyone, which prompted other players to express their gratitude as well.

"It's just a tiny help! Don't take it to heart! Helping each other is the basic rule of survival! As for the high consumption, there's nothing we can do about it, because it took us a long time to get here, and the longer I use my landscape painting, the greater the consumption will be!"

The square-faced player immediately answered these people. He also showed a bit of fatigue on his face, but his eyes were much more relaxed than when he was besieged before. This was an inevitable change after escaping.

After a simple thank you, everyone focused their attention on the black tower in front of them and the white player who was responsible for guiding the direction along the way.

"There's a light up there! There must be people living here! It really is a great place!"

A player first noticed the top floor of the black tower in front of them. That was the place that provided them with all the light at the moment, and it was as precious as a lighthouse in the sea in this vast and terrifying desert.

"Which assassin player with good skills will go up first to help scout the situation?"

Another player took the opportunity to encourage others to go up and check the situation. This seemingly ordinary suggestion actually had some ill intentions.

Because the height of the black tower in front of them is a piece of cake for high-level players like them. I'm afraid that even the priests or summoners with the weakest mobility can easily go up there, but the question is, is this behavior really risk-free?
Sure enough, no one responded after he finished speaking. Everyone was either silently observing the black tower in front of them, or waiting for the player who brought them here to explain the situation. This reflects one of the common characteristics of high-level players, which is to act cautiously.

"My companion told me that this is probably a place similar to a trial tower. It is divided into many floors, and there are monsters on each floor. But it is not difficult to deal with them. There may be water or food in the environment, which is a perfect hiding place. It won't be a big problem to hold out for a month..."

The white player said as he spread out his palm, revealing a small, ordinary black beetle, the same one that had contacted the mage's companion.

"I suggest that everyone enter in groups or individually, because according to speculation, people who enter this tower are likely to be separated into different spaces. If everyone enters together and concentrates in one space, it is likely to cause tension in resource allocation."

The man then added a sentence, which stopped the players who were about to enter the tower to take a look.

"Your companions have even discovered this kind of independent dungeon-like mechanism? But why does this setting appear in this dungeon? It doesn't fit the world background no matter how you look at it, right?"

A player who had already walked to the entrance of the black tower turned around and asked, looking a little confused about the information provided by the other party.

"I'm not very clear about this...but they're about to come out, so just ask them directly."

After the white player finished speaking, he focused his gaze on the brass door of the black tower not far in front of him and said no more.

Two or three seconds later, under the gaze of everyone, the brass door was suddenly opened, and a thin mage player and a tall and strong female warrior player walked out. They were also white, and judging from their appearance and temperament, they were in the same group as the summoner.

"David, you brought so many people? This is beyond my expectation."

As soon as the thin mage walked out of the brass door, he spoke to the summoner player with a surprised expression on his face, and then glanced at the other players.

"Little brother, it's our first meeting. Can you help introduce the situation inside the tower?"

The older player who had previously expressed his gratitude to the square-faced man for helping everyone was the first to respond, with a standard smile on his face.

"I don't think there's much to introduce. You must have encountered hidden levels like this in previous dungeons. Once you play a few levels, you'll understand everything."

The thin wizard immediately shook his head.

"But I suggest that you enter in batches to avoid conflicts over resources."

The advice he gave was the same as what he told his companions, which was for everyone to form teams and enter in batches.

But some players were a little unconvinced when they heard this, and expressed doubts:

"Hehe...How do we know if you have bad intentions and deliberately let us go in separately so that we can be killed one by one by your ambushes?"

The person who spoke was a skinny Asian player who looked a bit cunning. Judging from his face and accent, he was most likely a Han Chinese, with the shrewd temperament unique to a small country.

Even though what he said was not very pleasant to hear, from the perspective of the players currently remaining outside the tower, it was not impossible. Or perhaps it was because everyone took this into consideration that no one entered directly. After all, there were no real idiots among the players who could reach this level, and they were all very familiar with the infighting within the player group.

"You can think whatever you want. Even if all of you go in together, it has nothing to do with me... David, I suggest that you try to open a separate space first, and then come out and join us..."

The thin wizard was too lazy to explain himself in the face of doubts. He turned to his summoner companion and made a suggestion.

"OK, I'll be right back."

The white man whose occupation was the Swarm Summoner nodded and walked towards the brass door.

When he was about to enter, a foreign player wearing a hooded black coat also wanted to follow him in, but was stopped by a tall and strong white female warrior.

"Stop! You can't go into the tower with David!"

Her attitude was tough, but the other players understood what she meant in an instant.

To put it simply, since people who enter the tower together will be assigned to the same space, if a stranger deliberately enters the same space with you, it is almost certain that he has ill intentions, such as following you and launching a sneak attack or something.

Especially assassin players are the best at doing this kind of thing. It is difficult for other professional players of the same level to withstand their deliberate attacks, especially magic professions that are not good at close combat. "Okay! Ma'am! Don't be nervous! I was just anxious just now, I will wait behind!"

The player, who looked very likely to be an assassin, quickly took two steps back and responded, in order to prevent these people from having unnecessary hostility towards him.

In this copy, the penalty level mechanism has been lifted, and players are allowed to fight each other freely, but since everyone has only one life, this behavior, which theoretically has high benefits, also has great risks.

Therefore, smart people will not start a war without certainty. Only a very small number of powerful and crazy lone wolf players dare to act recklessly.

The Swarm Summoner player then entered the tower alone. More than ten seconds after he entered, the assassin player who wanted to enter with him was allowed in. Seeing this, the other players began to discuss on their own, mainly discussing matters related to team formation.

"I'm a Lv54 Thunder Mage! Is there any melee class willing to enter the tower with me?"

"I am Lv58 Shadow Assassin, willing to cooperate with you."

"Okay, then we'll go in together later."

"Beauty, are you a summoner? Are you interested in cooperating with me, a gunner?"

"Haha... OK... But don't shoot me in the back..."

"Oh, beauty, you are joking. How dare a mere gunner like me do this? I will probably be torn to pieces by your summons..."

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All the conversations were either candid or with ulterior motives, but surprisingly, not many people chose to enter the tower alone. The reason for this is probably only understood by the players themselves, as an internal fight is about to unfold inside the tower.

Wang Zhifan was still practicing on the top floor of the tower at this moment, but he couldn't have been unaware of so many people suddenly appearing outside the tower. He couldn't help but observe for a while, and his doubts grew.

"Why are there so many players here again? Is my Black Tower really considered part of the dungeon? But the dungeon has only been going on for a day, the news shouldn't be so well-informed... How did these people find me?"

He mainly didn't understand why these players had to go into the desert where he was hiding. It was obvious that this area was not suitable for living and violated the basic needs of players in survival. It can be said that the situation was quite weird.

Of course, Wang Zhifan’s misunderstanding mainly stems from the lack of information. He did not go deep into the indigenous area of ​​this copy to explore, and stayed comfortably in the high tower, so he did not understand the tremendous pressure other players were under in this copy.

It can be said that this kind of pressure was almost at its maximum at the beginning of the dungeon. If the players had not known about his tower by chance, they would definitely still be running and fighting desperately.

"Maybe I should send one or two clones out to investigate the situation. It's not good to be confused all the time..."

Wang Zhifan, who was used to controlling the overall situation, couldn't help but have this thought in his mind, but considering that his current practice had reached a more critical part, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​using his mind to control his clone to go out, and continued to concentrate on practicing the Wind and Thunder Treading on the Sky Art.

He was looking forward to breaking through the realm as soon as possible. After all, there was still a long time before the end of this copy, so there was plenty of time for further exploration.

As for this group of newly arrived players, his attitude was the same as before. Just make sure that the basic settings of the tower were correct. No matter how they messed around in the tower, they couldn't do anything to the Dark Tower with their abilities. The only ones who could go wrong were themselves.

When Wang Zhifan finished thinking about this issue and was about to return to his practice, he suddenly noticed an impolite visitor appearing outside the window.

It looked like a flying bird, with human wisdom in its round brown eyes. It was hovering outside the large arched window, trying to investigate what was going on inside.

But there could be no natural flying birds in this desert, and Wang Zhifan had long ago set up the dark tower in a mode where no one from the outside could explore inside. Therefore, there was no way that this uninvited little thing could discover what was going on inside. Even if Wang Zhifan had a party or sang K inside, no one outside the tower would be able to know anything except that the lights were on inside.

"Is a player using summons to test me? He's not that stupid... But any probing behavior cannot be allowed. Otherwise, how can I, the master of the tower, still have any dignity?"

In an instant, Wang Zhifan, feeling offended, reacted by ordering the tower to launch a powerful attack, covering the unidentified flying birds that were exploring outside his window.

Therefore, the players at the bottom of the tower soon saw a terrifying and strange sight:

They saw the black tower next to them, which was originally extremely calm like a lighthouse on the ocean, suddenly released deep purple thunders from the top. These thunders were like the craziest thunderstorm, sweeping through the second floor and above of the tower with terrifying momentum, and finally gathered in front of a window, completely crushing a tiny existence without leaving any trace!
The process happened extremely quickly, but it was clear enough for everyone below to see what happened. They understood that someone had offended this mysterious black tower and incurred its wrath.

"Who is being stupid? You can kill yourself! But don't let others get hurt!"

Upon seeing this, the thin mage player immediately looked at all the suspicious people in front of him with a very stern expression and shouted in a very annoyed tone.

"not me."

"Whoever wants to kill everyone, stand up!"

"Little brother, it can't be you? That flying bird looks very similar to the one in your scroll."

"How is that possible?! I didn't even take out the miraculous landscape painting! And doing such stupid things is not my style!"

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The players got into an argument for a while, but no one admitted who had offended the Black Tower. There was no clue or evidence to find out who was the culprit, so the matter was left unresolved.

However, this little episode was not meaningless. It at least proved that the black tower in front of them was as mysterious as they thought. There would be no problem if they used it according to the rules, but if they insisted on doing something offensive, the consequences would be disastrous.

Therefore, the players no longer thought about exploring the upper level of the black tower directly from the outside. After seeing the sudden terrifying thunder, everyone chose to cherish their lives. Those players who really did whatever they wanted without regard for everything could not reach this level of dungeon.

When these players began to form teams and enter the Black Tower to challenge the levels, the natives around the Black Shadow Desert also had further reactions.

In a high-tech underground base, a young man in a white coat and glasses, a gloomy middle-aged man with a hooked nose, and a hunchbacked old man with a head full of silver hair were looking at a large screen in front of them.

The screen shows a spire in the desert. Some red dots can be seen moving near the spire. There is no doubt that it is the scene around the Dark Tower.

(End of this chapter)