Players’ NPC daddy

Chapter 612: Soft persimmon, hard stubble

【The Sphinx】

[The huge living stone statue in the center of the three-dimensional maze. Walk solemnly in front of it and accept its test. Those who pass it will have hope of survival.]

[The difficulty of the puzzle will fluctuate according to the number of steps the testee walks. The more steps the testee walks, the easier the puzzle will be.]

"When I see each of your faces, a question will appear in my mind. Only when you solve this question will the solution appear in my mind."

The Sphinx tried hard to explain, hoping to gain the understanding of these hooligans.

"It's no use for you to hit me. This is the ability I was given. It's not up to me to decide."

Dali Feizhuan was now completely out of temper. He, a man who had walked honestly for a while, was facing problems that were as difficult as those that were deliberately looking for trouble, not to mention the others who flew directly over.

According to the normal process, they should first get the information about Hermanubis from the Sphinx, and then attack Hermanubis.

As a result, they were attracted by the dog-beast statue and skipped all the steps and the Sphinx to pull out the statue, awakening Hermanubis.

In this situation, it is simply a brainless decision to [SKIP], and the highest difficulty is selected by default.

It’s an old trick, but I still repeat it every time.

This is when the benefits of NPC following missions come into play! No matter what tricks the player takes, the NPC teammates will always be there as a backup.

The only one who walked up most of the stairs. If this group of people hadn't insisted on activating the BOSS in advance, he would have definitely walked up all the stairs and turned this BOSS challenge into a plot-killing mission.

Now the sleep signs have accumulated to 75, and they are running out of time and must make a decision immediately.

"Blazer, change players!"

Dali Feizhuan roared and made the decision first.

That is, even if everyone is wiped out, Blaze must win.

This decision was made after careful consideration. All of these players were affected by the Heart of Hermanubis and their movements became slow, but Blaze was not affected at all and his movements were still agile.

This means that Hermanubis's sleep kill is useless against Blaze, or it takes longer to take effect, and Blaze has a better chance of winning than them all.

Dali Feizhuan and others took action because they had been with Blaze for a long time, and naturally treated Blaze as one of their own, so it was no big deal to let their own people win.

The reason why [Azazel] moved was more realistic.

In a situation like this where you challenge a god-level BOSS, even if you don't form a team and don't survive to victory, as long as you win the round of the challenge, you will get a share of the rewards, but the person who completes the kill will get more.

But Blaze is an NPC, the kind that fights for his life and is used as a tool by players, risking his own life. In the end, all the substantial rewards go to the players, and the NPC is only thanked verbally in the plot.

Even if Blaze defeats Hermanubis, the reward will be split evenly.

After the whole team was wiped out, and there was no way to tell whether Hermanubis would stay here obediently, and they might lose the chance to challenge Hermanubis and the drops of the god-level BOSS, and between losing the drops of the god-level BOSS and letting the NPC defeat the monster and sharing the drops of the god-level BOSS, they decisively chose the latter.

The strangers bravely replaced Blaze's position, and Blaze came to the front of the Sphinx.

He... saw a statue of a smiling cat with a round body and a somewhat sly smile on its face, but the cute body had a huge arm with bulging muscles. This thing is called a fortune cat, a culture brought by foreigners, and just like its name, it can attract wealth. In fact, as long as you put up a fortune cat, you can indeed attract foreigners.

"An arm this thick must bring you exceptional wealth."

"Ah! It's you, you bastard! You smashed my three-dimensional nose and attracted those gangsters!" Facing Blaze, the Sphinx became tough again.

"Don't let me see you again!"

"A nose that straight is easy to break. You look good now." Blaze sighed helplessly, "Well, since you don't want to see me, I'll let the stranger talk to you."

"Wait! I was wrong!" The Sphinx's self-esteem was as fragile as the material it was made of, and Blaze surrendered before he even turned around.

"Do you really have to go through this and suffer this?"

At this point, Blaze was a little curious about where the Sphinx's strange arrogance came from.

Could it be that the Sphinx couldn't see that he was also a tough guy?
"My creator told me that those who jump over the stairs are ruthless and can't be provoked, while those who walk quietly are weak persimmons. I have tried the first theory, as for the latter..."

Obviously, Blaze, who was planning to go back to exchange for the foreigner, was still a soft persimmon in front of the Sphinx. Its despicable nature made it unable to help but show off by stepping on Blaze's head.

"Well, it seems you enjoy talking to another person."

Blaze canceled the transformation into the silver werewolf and looked back at the Sphinx.

Under the black armor that looked like a ferocious beast, a pair of deep black eyes made the Sphinx tremble.

"As long as you answer my riddle, I will tell you what you want to know!"

"It would have been better if you did this earlier." Blaze shrugged and made a gesture to invite a move. "Come on, let me hear your puzzle. Please hurry up if you can."

"Ahem, there is an animal that has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening. What kind of animal is this?"

"A super rare beast with three phases. In the morning, it is the evil phase of a beast lying on all fours. At noon, it is the righteous phase of a hunter walking on two legs. At dusk, it is the dying phase using one arm as a crutch."

"Oh! You are so smart! You know all this!" The Sphinx exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

After all, Blazer hadn't completed the whole process, so he had to face the extremely insidious "unexpected answer" question. That is, the answer that you would subconsciously say, and the answer should be like this, but in fact the correct content stipulated is something else.

"Now that you have answered the question, I can finally know how to free that guy." The body of the Sphinx Fortune Cat emanated a faint light, sad yet solemn.

"No one knows how to free this pitiful beast-god, so we set this challenge with infinite treasure and infinite wisdom."

"One question, one question."

The fragments of the nose that had been knocked down and scattered on the ground by Blaze emitted light, and one of the pieces shattered quietly, revealing a horn.

Horn of Plenty

(End of this chapter)