mtl008 Chapter 334, Part 2: A penchant for outsourcing projects and taking kickbacks.
Chapter 334, Part 2: A penchant for outsourcing projects and taking kickbacks.
"Jiang He, let's rely on our own abilities."
Wanqi Ziye, Lan Yingshu, and Zhong Liyu simultaneously shattered the item "Eye of the Dungeon." In an instant, three different skies appeared within the dungeon, in addition to the existing gloomy sky.
Four different scenes appeared in the sky at the same time.
The cultivators still inside the instance watched as the surrounding situation suddenly changed.
Amidst the raging winds, lightning, smog, hail, and heavy rain all appeared simultaneously.
"Holy crap, this is what the apocalypse is all about."
"! Three dungeons open at the same time, looks like the other two dungeons are in extreme weather."
The long-absent mechanical female voice rang out again, cold and devoid of emotion:
Welcome to Lilith's Manor
Please find out why Lilith is angry.
……
Welcome to "Hospital Horror"
Please investigate the cause of death in Qiaoxi.
……
Welcome to the "Infinite Classroom"
Please escape the campus within 120 hours.
……
The communicator kept flashing red light. The four instances merged, and the instance rules coexisted. All the cultivators fainted after the female voice spoke.
The fainting spell lasted only a short time, less than a second. Under the rules of the instance, everyone was teleported to different scenes.
Due to the limited area of the instance, the four instances suddenly merged, and the weather and environment within the instance were all integrated together. When they woke up, they found that the surrounding environment was unusually strange.
It possesses both the eerie and mysterious feel of Gothic architecture and the typical style of Wanling Compulsory Education College.
The three newly added dungeon buildings are a towering castle, a hospital, and a school.
After the dungeon merged, they abruptly blended into the "Zombie Siege" architecture.
For example, Jiang He woke up to find that she had regained her spiritual power.
The body is no longer the character's body in the "Zombie Siege" instance, but rather a model of oneself.
Jiang He knew that the dungeon had been completely integrated, and the idea of "integrated dungeon" had been realized.
The first step is to deal with the zombies in front of us.
Each of the four dungeons has its own tasks, which may seem tedious, but the points that can be earned are enormous.
—Stellar Technology Copy Design Part Five—
"Sister Kui, they actually succeeded. The cultivators in this year's Academy Competition are really smart. The dungeon almost collapsed just now. If it were me, I would never have seen that it could be broken like this."
"It took our entire department three days and three nights to come up with this idea. I remember the person who told us to go all out. Now look what's happened, the key to breaking the deadlock has been uncovered. I hope we won't get our salaries docked."
"Yeah, Sister Kui, so the hidden plot you were talking about was dungeon fusion. You were all mysterious and told us it would definitely become a dungeon template or something, but I didn't believe you. Now it seems the boss really has rated it as an excellent dungeon."
Hearing her subordinates' flattery, Xu Kui exhaled a deep smoke ring. Her expression was unusually complex, but she made no attempt to hide anything.
"What a load of rubbish, the hidden storyline I was talking about isn't that at all."
"Huh? Sister Kui, you didn't design this hidden plot?"
“Design my foot! Didn’t you guys already see the scenario plan? There’s only one way to break the ‘Zombie Siege’: find the two hidden ones and kill them.”
"!!! Sister Kui, what is this dungeon fusion...?"
Xu Kui stubbed out the cigarette with two fingers:
"Forget about it, we're all going to lose our performance bonuses this month. Notify the holographic engineering department to fix the bugs as soon as possible."
Xu Kui threw away her cigarette and quickly got to work:
"These are four instances; merging them will likely create countless bugs."
Keep a close eye on the live stream, and tell the administrator to report any unusual situations to us. Also, coordinate with the departments designing the other three instances.
"By the way, I remember that the Lilith Manor instance was designed by the Second Department. The Second Department loves to outsource projects and take kickbacks, so we have to have the Second Department contact the outsourcing companies."
"If there are any problems with these four dungeons, let alone being fired, every single one of them will be packed up and sent to Star Prison together immediately."
Xu Kui continued giving instructions.
Upon hearing Xu Kui's words, the playful smiles on the faces of the other department members vanished, replaced by deathly pallor, a look that was identical to those of the other members.
"Oh my, is it that serious? Sister Kui, I'm going to get back to work."
"Count me in, I'm going to work too."
Xu Kui watched her subordinates working diligently, and her head throbbed with pain.
The "Zombie Siege" instance is tentatively designated as an S-level instance and was designed by the five departments.
The higher the dungeon level, the more likely the items to be found will be hidden in a secluded place. According to Xu Kui's plan, only cultivators at least at the Nascent Soul stage would be able to discover the key hidden at the resource point.
As it turned out, things went awry from Xu Kui's predictions, starting with the key to unlock the instance.
Bai Zhizhou, a Golden Core cultivator from Wanjue Academy, was the first to find the key to the supply point. Although he didn't actually get it, the subsequent development of the situation still surprised Xu Kui.
The cultivators from the four academies entered the "Zombie Siege" instance at the same time. Xu Kui remembered that the initial design of this instance was extreme.
When a certain academy cultivator and other scattered academy cultivators discover and enter the instance, the hidden identity will be randomly assigned to the academy cultivator with fewer cultivators in the instance, according to the program design.
Conflicts exist between universities with larger student populations and those with smaller student populations.
For example, if Wanjue Academy and Mingyue Academy enter the instance at the same time, the hidden one will most likely be randomly assigned to a Mingyue Academy cultivator. At this time, Wanjue Academy will either find the hidden one to break the deadlock, or be eliminated by the hidden one from Mingyue Academy.
Extreme profits or extreme failures.
Regardless of the outcome, the purpose of this copy has been achieved.
The idea is always wonderful, like meeting someone you met online in person.
Online, your online dating partner seems perfect in every way, but when you finally meet them in person, you discover the harsh reality. At that point, you might just want to grab a sky train and run away overnight.
That's exactly what Xu Kui was thinking. If it weren't for her subordinates and the fact that she had to consider whether she could handle going to the Star Prison at her age, she would have run away long ago.
Xu Kui has high cultivation; even at eighty years old, she looks like a forty-year-old urban woman.
She was busy going back and forth.
Xu Kui's hidden plot wasn't about a "fusion instance" at all, but rather the presence of two hidden individuals.
The system's task is to find the zombies hidden among them. According to conventional thinking, ordinary people would only think that there is one hidden zombie, not two.
Therefore, there are two hidden figures in the instance. This is the hidden clue planted by Xu Kui. Killing one person will not end the instance unless both are killed.
Before the competition, Xu Kui was still smug about his brilliant proposal after submitting it. Little did he know that the cultivators participating in this year's academy competition would really cause trouble.
They've even come up with the theory of "merged copies".
From Xu Kui's perspective, Jiang He's conjecture is entirely feasible and conforms to the underlying logic of replication.
After all, the initial design of the dungeon was indeed inspired by the patterns of how secret realms appeared.
The key point is that no one has ever done this before.
For example, merging two instances is something that Xu Kui, who has been in the industry for at least sixty years, has never seen before.
She now just hopes that the cultivators in this instance aren't as clever as Jiang He.