Looking at the seven map sections on the panel, Kong Yi glanced at Ji Yan beside him. "Have you decided which one to pick?"
Ji Yan asked in return, "What, you need to follow my lead?"
Kong Yi spread his hands. "Don't tell me you want to queue solo? With a panel like this that lets us choose a 'stage theme section,' of course we should sweetly duo queue together to maximize our clearance rate!"
"Now there are only the two of us left from Hua Country's team. Fellow countrymen need to stick together for warmth."
Ji Yan dug at his ear. "Actually, there were five people who activated the original body of [The Tower]... It's just that the [Lying Eerie], working with Cherry Blossom Monk, altered the side quest's game panel and hid the other three."
"It was originally a section meant for five people to clear together, but one small alteration turned it directly into a mutual slaughter."
That was why Cherry Blossom Monk had said that eliminating three people would already be a huge profit...
What puzzled Ji Yan was this:
Judging from all these sections, this [Elysian Stage] should be enormous. With only the two of them from Hua Country, could they really gather this many players?
"Stop dawdling. Time's almost up. If we wait any longer, the system will randomly choose one for us!" Kong Yi reminded him as he watched the countdown.
Ji Yan's eyes flickered, and he clicked on a section. "Let's go with [European Town]."
Kong Yi said, "The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets? What's the reasoning?"
A vague memory surfaced in Ji Yan's mind. "When I was at the orphanage, I used to imagine that once I had the means, I'd take a trip through a European town. No particular