"Good thing I've got 45 minutes."
Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Special bosses like this all had a time limit on their appearances.
They would remain in one location for a while, then disappear.
There were still 45 minutes left, which was enough for Qin Feng to kill the Golden Ghost Ship.
"Time to kill it."
Qin Feng glanced at his Shadowmeld skill. Its cooldown had finished, so he immediately launched an attack on the Golden Ghost Ship.
Instant Shadow Slash!
-549!
-549!
-549!
Five damage numbers popped up from the ghost ship in rapid succession.
Qin Feng's figure flashed out of sight, then reappeared. A Deadly Poison Dart struck the Golden Bell aboard the ghost ship.
-621 (weak point attack)!
-207!
-207!
The ghost ship's weak point wasn't the Oar-Wielding Skeleton aboard it, but the Golden Bell.
After using both skills, Qin Feng immediately activated Shadowmeld and retreated as fast as he could!
Immediately afterward, the Oar-Wielding Skeleton aboard the Golden Ghost Ship let out a creaking sound, and ghostly flames lit up its empty eye sockets.
Water suddenly surged through the surrounding swamp!
Dozens of raging water columns erupted around the ghost ship in an instant!
Qin Feng knew perfectly well that with his current fragile body, getting hit by any of those water columns meant certain death.
Fortunately, he had come prepared.
He retreated immediately after his sneak attack, but even so, water columns erupted in front of him, behind him, and on both sides, nearly killing him.
"The closer you are to the ghost ship, the more densely packed the water columns are."
"Unless you're a Warrior in a full set of Silver Tier equipment, you can't survive even one hit from these water columns."
Qin Feng remained calm, using prediction and careful movement to dodge one erupting water column after another far from the ghost ship.
Meanwhile, after the water columns erupted, rotting water ghosts crawled out of the swamp one by one...
There were twelve Rotting Water Ghosts in all, each with the combat strength of a Silver Tier boss!
And killing these Rotting Water Ghosts gave no rewards whatsoever.
That was the most obnoxious thing about the Golden Ghost Ship boss.
If you didn't kill the water ghosts, twelve Silver Grade mobs were enough to wipe out any party.
If you did kill them, you got no rewards and wasted a huge amount of time.
The most terrifying part was...
The Golden Ghost Ship summoned twelve Rotting Water Ghosts every three minutes!
If a party's damage output wasn't high enough, the Rotting Water Ghosts would keep multiplying until the party was wiped out.
As for the Golden Ghost Ship's HP...
Even with Qin Feng's current damage, those two skills had only taken off a tenth of its HP.
That meant it had a whopping forty to fifty thousand HP!
For the current players, who generally dealt only twenty or thirty damage per skill, killing the Golden Ghost Ship was nothing but a pipe dream!
"Little Black, I'm going to die once in a bit."
While dodging skills, Qin Feng opened his private chat with Lin Liyu and gave her an instruction. "Don't worry about the boss while I'm gone. Just wait for me to come back."
Lin Liyu was dumbfounded when she heard his private message.
She said, "Who's Little Black?"
Qin Feng said, "Aren't you Little Black?"
Lin Liyu nearly lost it, but she had no comeback... she was the one who had chosen the ID "Black Plum Big Li," after all.
Meanwhile!
Several players were searching along the road from Shell Town to the swamp.
"Damn it, does he really think I, Iron Man, am a pushover?"
A middle-aged man wearing heavy armor, with a cross-shaped scar on his face, was searching everywhere for traces of Qin Feng with a grim expression.
This middle-aged man's code name was "Iron Man."
The trackers Qin Feng had just killed in an instant were his men.
"Back when I was hacking my way through Legend and taking Shabak over and over, that brat was still sucking milk!"
Iron Man was very interested in Qin Feng.
He had been trying to track Qin Feng all along, but Qin Feng stayed invisible whenever he left town, making him impossible to find.
At last, his opportunity had arrived.
Qin Feng had left town with a girl!
"He's still a young guy, after all. Couldn't resist carrying a girl this soon?"
Iron Man laughed.
He figured that even if Qin Feng could turn invisible, surely the girl couldn't, right?
All he had to do was follow them, and he could discover Qin Feng's secret...
But he hadn't expected Qin Feng to turn around and kill all his men!
Now, Iron Man had brought twenty-odd people with him, spreading out and searching in the direction Qin Feng had gone.
Quite a few of his underlings were surrounded and killed by Demons along the way, but Iron Man didn't care.
As long as he could uncover Qin Feng's secret, it would all be worth it!
Finally...
"Boss, we found that woman! She's on top of a cliff!"
"There's a swamp up ahead. Dark Shadow is soloing a boss!"
The discovery made Iron Man incredibly excited.
He immediately ordered his men to assemble, and all twenty-odd of them hurried toward the swamp together!
At that moment, Qin Feng was constantly dodging the Golden Ghost Ship's various water element attack skills, seizing openings to unleash Instant Shadow Slash and Deadly Poison Dart again and again.
Since the boss attacked so frequently, Qin Feng didn't have many opportunities to strike.
By the time he brought the boss down to half health, about ten minutes had passed.
In other words, Qin Feng could only find an opening to attack roughly once every two minutes.
Just as the Golden Ghost Ship's HP dropped to half, the ghostfire bell at its bow suddenly rang... an invisible wave of soul energy spread outward, reaching more than a hundred meters!
The moment the wave of soul energy touched Qin Feng, he was immobilized!
Even though Qin Feng was invisible, the wave swept him out of stealth.
The next instant, a water column violently erupted beneath his feet, engulfing him...
-1059!
It killed Qin Feng instantly!
This was the Golden Ghost Ship's half-health mechanic: an unavoidable, large-area forced immobilization lasting five seconds. There was no way to dodge it; you could only tank it.
And Qin Feng had expected this all along.
--
[You have died. You lost 326 years of lifespan (non-tradable)!] [You have died. You lost 1,087 days of lifespan (tradable)!]
--
He had dropped half the lifespan he was carrying.
It was a substantial loss, but it wouldn't have much impact. Once Qin Feng returned, he could pick up the tradable lifespan he had dropped.
As for his non-tradable lifespan, even if he recovered it from the Demons, he would still lose 50%.
Of course, that loss hardly mattered compared with the item the ghost ship would drop!
Just as Qin Feng died and returned to town, Iron Man arrived with his men.
He immediately saw Qin Feng get killed and drop his lifespan.
"Hahahaha! Even heaven's on my side!"
"That dumbass really let it go to his head. He actually dared to solo a Gold Grade boss?"
"Come on, boys. We'll take over the boss and pick up the lifespan Dark Shadow dropped while we're at it."
"Look at the size of that gray-white orb. That's got to be at least several hundred days of tradable lifespan, right?"
Iron Man led his underlings straight toward the Golden Ghost Ship!
But just moments later...
Thirty to forty Silver Grade Rotting Water Ghosts in the swamp, together with the Golden Ghost Ship's water columns erupting everywhere, wiped out all twenty-four of them on the spot!
They hadn't even managed to reach the place where Qin Feng had died!
Gray-white lifespan orbs dropped all over the swamp!
How could a special boss that even Qin Feng had to die once to kill be so easy for anyone else to beat?
After dying and returning to town, Iron Man and his men were all dumbstruck.
"Fuck... how is this boss so strong?"
"How the hell did Dark Shadow get it down to half health? This is unreal!"
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