In fact, Qin Feng had not said that without good reason.
From the girl's description, Qin Feng knew that the Gold Tier boss was a rare special boss—the Golden Ghost Ship!
This type of boss could appear at any level.
If it appeared near a starting town, it should be level 5.
Its health and attack were comparable to those of ordinary Gold Tier bosses, but it had far more skills, making it extremely difficult to defeat.
Most importantly, this boss dropped a very useful special item!
In the later stages, even a thousand years of lifespan could not buy that item!
How lucky to encounter a Golden Ghost Ship near a starting town this early.
Besides, a level 5 Golden Ghost Ship is the easiest version to beat.
At higher levels, its skill ranges and damage become utterly ridiculous...
A few minutes later.
Qin Feng sold his last two items, then left Shell Town with the girl, Black Plum Big Li.
He tallied his earnings.
He had sold everything for a total of 650 days of lifespan, bringing his accumulated tradable lifespan to 2,174 days.
But...
It still was not enough!
To transfer his level, attributes, class, equipment, and skills from the Godforsaken Game into reality, six or seven years of lifespan was nowhere near enough!
Level 10 isn't far off now.
Until then, I'll stockpile as much lifespan as possible.
For Qin Feng, this unexpectedly discovered boss, the Golden Ghost Ship, would be another turning point.
Once he killed it and obtained that special item, Qin Feng's growth would accelerate even further!
Qin Feng left town with Black Plum Big Li.
The pretty girl's real name was Lin Liyu, and a lingering shock still showed deep in her large eyes...
She could hardly imagine how Qin Feng would solo a Gold Tier boss.
A Gold Tier boss must have wide-area attacks, right?
Even if he can turn invisible, he can't possibly avoid all damage...
With an assassin's fragile build, he could easily die on the spot if the boss lands a hit...
Suddenly, Qin Feng doubled back to her side.
"You're a little slow."
Qin Feng said flatly, "Someone's following us."
The girl's eyes widened. "Huh? What should we do?"
Being followed was clearly bad news. Getting ambushed during the boss fight would be a real problem.
Qin Feng said, "Just keep walking. I'll be right back."
Lin Liyu did not look back.
Dressed in a black mage robe, she continued forward across the scorched earth...
Meanwhile, Qin Feng quietly vanished.
A few seconds later.
Qin Feng retreated into the woods several dozen meters behind them and immediately spotted five players tailing him.
Instant Shadow Slash!
His figure flashed through the Dark Forest.
Blade light flared!
-817!
-821!
-798!
Four damage numbers floated up before Qin Feng's eyes.
Four pursuers died on the spot!
The last one's expression shifted as he watched all four get killed instantly. He was about to flee when a Deadly Poison Dart struck him squarely in the back of the head.
-948 (weak-point attack)!
An instant kill!
Unfortunately, all five were broke. Qin Feng collected the tradable lifespan they dropped, but it only added up to a little over ten days...
I'll just count that as killing a couple of normal monsters.
Qin Feng calmly left the woods...
"Let's pick up the pace."
Qin Feng returned to Lin Liyu up ahead.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her into a run.
"Huh?"
Caught completely off guard, Lin Liyu practically flew off her feet.
Qin Feng's speed stunned her!
With a total of 72 agility, Qin Feng's normal movement speed was now 8.5 meters per second. Running flat out, he could reach 25 meters per second!
In other words, he could cover a hundred meters in just four seconds.
That was already far beyond humanity's former limits!
Once I reach level 10, I can spend tradable lifespan to transfer these attributes into reality...
Then I'll have these attributes in the real world too!
Qin Feng thought.
At his top speed, the girl he was pulling along fluttered through the air like a strip of cloth.
Lin Liyu felt as though they were hurtling along at lightning speed, with the woods on both sides racing backward.
Although this was a game, its physics were no different from reality.
In the Godforsaken Game, players' height, weight, appearance, movements, and expressions could all match their real-life counterparts exactly.
This was another reason people had quickly concluded that the Godforsaken Game was a supernatural game.
Such technology was completely beyond Blue Star's current capabilities.
At that moment.
Although Qin Feng could not turn Lin Liyu invisible along with him, no one else could keep up while he sprinted with her in tow.
I'm strong now, but I have no Anti-Stealth means. I can only kill the enemies I can see.
If someone follows me while invisible, I won't be able to spot them...
His only option was to pull Lin Liyu along at top speed. That way, no one could possibly keep up.
Following Lin Liyu's directions, Qin Feng made his way through the Dark Forest.
Whenever he encountered a normal monster, he casually killed it with a single Deadly Poison Dart!
Watching this, Lin Liyu was left speechless...
Qin Feng was far too strong!
After more than ten minutes, the two finally reached a cliff!
Looking ahead from the top, they saw a swamp shrouded in spreading gray mist beneath the low cliff, which stood a little over ten meters high.
There was a ship in the swamp.
It was a wrecked ship that shimmered faintly with golden light. Even from over a hundred meters away, they could just make out the health bar above it.
The health bar was long and framed in gold-the mark of a gold-tier boss.
It really is the Golden Ghost Ship!
At the sight of the wrecked ship, Qin Feng's heart began to beat a little faster.
He set Lin Liyu down on the cliff. "Wait here, and watch out for anyone trying to ambush you. I'll take care of the boss."
Without waiting for Lin Liyu's reply, Qin Feng found a small path nearby and followed it down the cliff...
When Qin Feng stepped into the swamp, a system notification sounded in his mind:
-- [Due to the ghost ship's influence, this area has become a Frenzied Zone!] [Lifespan depletion rate within the area: 100×!] --
Lifespan currently drained a hundred times faster in this swamp.
In other words...
Spending just fifteen minutes or so in this Frenzied Zone would consume an entire day of lifespan!
Of course.
A temporary Frenzied Zone like this had little impact.
But one month after the Godforsaken Game arrived, the first Desolation Spread would erupt. All of Blue Star's real world would become a Frenzied Zone, with even more terrifying disaster zones and nightmare zones appearing!
When that happened...
Humanity's true catastrophe would begin!
For now, Qin Feng merely glanced at the system notification before dismissing it.
He had already entered stealth and was walking across the swamp.
Even in a swamp, players in stealth would not leave footprints or similar traces...
Qin Feng headed toward the center of the swamp.
Before long, the gray mist parted like clouds, revealing a battered ghost ship nearly five meters long.
A skeleton that looked ready to fall apart stood aboard the ghost ship, holding an oar.
At the bow hung a bell burning with golden ghost fire...
-- [Golden Ghost Ship (Lv5)] [Tier: Gold (Special)] [Time remaining: 45 minutes 25 seconds] --
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