Fierce Woman Youyou (Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Fierce Woman Youyou (Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Kill a BOSS?

Ye Weiming's heart stirred at her words, and he immediately asked, "You mean Chen Ming, the leader of the West Lake Bandits?"

The Divine Constable Bureau had also posted a mission to eliminate Chen Ming of the West Lake Bandits. It was rated four stars. The description did not specify whether Chen Ming was a BOSS or an elite monster, only that his whereabouts were elusive and even the exact location of his lair was unknown. The local authorities were completely unable to deal with him.

Originally, Ye Weiming had planned to accept this mission. But then You Jin had recommended the Dragon Gate Escort Agency's five-star mission to him, the kind with an ultimate martial art as a reward and a penalty for failure.

To avoid being distracted and making mistakes, he could only give up this relatively ordinary mission.

After entering the underground palace and discovering that a large number of West Lake bandits had gathered here, Ye Weiming had guessed that this might be Chen Ming's lair. Now that Scarred Woman had mentioned fighting a BOSS, he could basically confirm it with absolute certainty.

Scarred Woman was slightly surprised. "Weren't you here for him?"

Asked about the purpose of his visit, Ye Weiming merely smiled faintly without confirming or denying it.

Scarred Woman immediately understood. "I was being presumptuous. So, interested in working together?"

"We can cooperate," Ye Weiming said after considering it. "If you can wait for me to go back and accept the mission first."

"No need for that trouble. Join my team first, and I'll share the mission with you." Scarred Woman was as tough and straightforward as ever. Without waiting for an answer, she sent Ye Weiming a party invitation.

Ding! Player Youyou has invited you to join a party.

He had not expected this woman to be so bold and forthright. Her name, like her appearance, was rather delicate. After Ye Weiming clicked accept, he casually asked, "Didn't you accept a sect mission? Can that be shared too?"

"No!" Youyou said without reservation. "Since I'd already decided to kill this BOSS, of course I accepted every mission related to him, including the government bounty."

Government bounty missions could indeed be accepted by anyone, but only missions below five stars. Missions like the one from the Dragon Gate Escort Agency could not be accepted by players from other sects. Of course, sects such as Wudang Sect and Shaolin Sect, which were closely tied to such missions, were exceptions.

Clear Out the West Lake Bandits

Mission Level: Four Stars

A large number of bandits have appeared around West Lake in Hangzhou, roaming about and committing crimes while plundering travelers and merchants. Their leader, Chen Ming, is an especially vicious criminal, but he keeps his whereabouts hidden, and the local authorities are unable to capture him. Please capture or kill him.

Mission Reward: 4,000 experience, 400 cultivation, 5 gold.

The shared mission was exactly the same as the one he had seen at the Divine Constable Bureau. Ye Weiming then checked the party's loot distribution setting and found that it was set to leader distribution.

Heh heh...

Taking a silent loss was not Ye Weiming's style, but before he could raise an objection, another system notification popped up.

Ding! Player Youyou has transferred party leadership to you. You are now the party leader.

Damn, this girl was really straightforward!

Did she really intend to take only the mission rewards?

After becoming party leader, Ye Weiming immediately changed the loot distribution to equal distribution. "Since we're doing this mission, we should do it thoroughly. Let's clear the tunnels one by one and make sure we don't miss a single bandit before we fight the BOSS."

Youyou could not help smiling. "You want to grind some levels while you're here? Do whatever you want. I don't mind."

"Not just that!" Youyou was generous enough, so Ye Weiming did not intend to hide anything either. "Based on my previous mission experience, many missions have a hidden completion rating in addition to their fixed rewards. Since this mission is called 'Clear Out the West Lake Bandits,' I figure that if we kill every bandit in this underground palace, the reward should be better than simply killing one BOSS."

Ye Weiming's claim was not baseless.

Take the mission to deal with Chou Ba, for example. The normal way to complete it was simply to find Chou Ba and hold him off for a while until You Jin naturally arrived with reinforcements. But in that case, not only would there be no BOSS drops, the mission reward would be limited to what had been listed when they accepted it. Yet after Ye Weiming and the others killed Chou Ba, the benefits they received were more than twice what they would have gotten from the simplest completion method.

In fact, Ye Weiming had noticed this back in the beginner village. The village blacksmith had asked players to collect ten portions of chicken meat so he could nourish his pregnant wife.

At the time, the beginner village was packed with people. Even the lowest-level chickens would be hacked to pieces by surrounding players within two seconds of spawning. Once the other players had collected ten portions of chicken meat, they eagerly turned in the mission, happily took their Fine Steel Swords, and went off to do higher-level missions and fight stronger monsters.

Only Ye Weiming persisted in killing chickens until he had gathered ten portions of chicken meat dropped by hens. Only then did he turn in the mission. As a result, he received a higher-quality Hundred-Forged Sword, accepted another mission from the blacksmith to deliver a message to Xiao Bai, and then... became a disciple of the Divine Constable Bureau.

Ye Weiming even suspected that the game's hidden mechanic was a subtle way of telling these immigrants that, in most cases, diligent and serious work yielded different rewards from merely going through the motions.

Youyou clearly had not thought things through as thoroughly as Ye Weiming. She did not even ask why. Ye Weiming said they would clear out the bandits, and she immediately loaded her crossbow.

They continued onward. After turning a corner, they found seven West Lake Bandits occupying the corridor. From far away, Ye Weiming could not wait to activate the active effect of Tai Shan's Secret.

His left hand formed a finger-counting gesture. Tai Shan's Secret, activated!

555 × 13 =

After the inner cultivation technique activated, a math problem appeared before Ye Weiming's eyes.

What was this?

Did he have to solve the math problem correctly before he could activate Tai Shan's Secret's active effect?

How could there be such a bizarre martial art?

As Tai Shan's Secret activated, one of the West Lake Bandits cursed and charged at him with his saber raised high.

Fortunately, Ye Weiming was not fighting alone. Youyou fired a crossbow bolt from beside him, striking the target directly and taking away 56 health points.

However, although her attack hit successfully, she failed to pull the bandit's aggro away from Ye Weiming. The West Lake Bandit still rushed straight at Ye Weiming with bloodshot eyes.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Seeing that she had failed to draw aggro, Youyou fired another five crossbow bolts in rapid succession, taking away more than half of the bandit's health.

Meanwhile, Ye Weiming was still calculating nervously.

Seeing this, Youyou could only step forward to meet the bandit. She dodged his downward slash, grabbed his wrist, kicked him in the groin, and threw him over her shoulder. After slamming the bandit to the ground, she pounced on him and pressed her hand crossbow against his forehead.

At that moment, Ye Weiming finally calculated the answer to the math problem.

7215!

But immediately afterward, another math problem popped up before his eyes.

111 × 15 =

???

There was more?

Helpless, Ye Weiming continued calculating. By then, Youyou had already pulled the trigger again.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

After another volley, Ye Weiming, who was still calculating, received a system notification: the target had died, and Tai Shan's Secret's active effect had failed to activate!

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