A Slight Smile is Very Charming

Part 30: The Demeanor of an Expert

StormGoddessNiNi wants to die when adding the party.

After setting it up, StormGoddessNiNi suddenly feels a surge of HP (energy) just from looking at the list of IDs in her party.

Just like the old saying: when one NiNi is struck by lightning, tens of thousands of NiNi's will stand under the sound of thunder and lightning!  It's all for the sake of gossip!  Fists up!

StormGoddessNiNi stares at her computer screen with eyes burning at a million watts.  Her left hand presses the print screen button firmly as she thinks inside her head: come!  Let's see some sparks fly!

Unfortunately, as the clock ticks by, the "sparks" that she hopes for never comes.

The Underworld Cave is actually a six stage tree cave.  The Underworld Cave boss, more precisely—–is the Underworld Demoness and her boy toys >_<.  Besides the first stage, which consists of Nie Xiao Qian calling out for help, triggering a cut scene and starting a warmup fight, the rest of the stages are guarded by the Underworld Demoness and her boy toys.  They can only get to the final stage after fighting and scaring away her boy toys——a huge final fight against the Underworld Demoness and all her boy toys who fled from the fight in the previous stages.

It must be mentioned that the setup of this quest is very twisted.  But it gets even more twisted later——if a female player dies attempting the Underworld Cave quest, the system bot will simply announce that the player is dead, but if a male player dies, the system bot will announce: "Player XXX disappears forever in the deepest end of the Underworld......"

Those suggestive dot, dot, dots along with the fact that the Underworld Demoness loves to find boy toys, it's pretty obvious what happened to those male players.  Therefore, whenever a team is defeated, others can't help but make a few comments on the world channel.

"Sigh, another has been sucked out of his 'essence' by the Demoness."

"Brother XX, how does it feel to be a boy toy?"

In the beginning, some players couldn't stand having their names associated with the Underworld Demoness, so they argued that they died in the first couple of stages, but the reactions on the world channel were——

"Holy!  The beginning stages?  You were raped by other men?"

Or——

"You couldn't even defeat little Nie Xiao Qian?  Are you still a man?"

In comparison, they're better off being a boy toy >_<

Their party passes the first few stages smoothly, but Wei Wei still feels that it's taking too long to get through them.  Since they're in the same team as RealWater and LittleRain, Wei Wei just wants to get this over with and leave with the Great Master; she doesn't want to waste time fighting the little bosses.  However, LittleRainYaoYao is just too rotten at playing; she's always attracting the little bosses to chase after them, so they have no choice but to waste time fending them off.

After defeating the little bosses in the second last stage, StormGoddessNiNi stops in front of the warp hole to the final stage.  She says hesitantly: "Who will take lead in the last stage?"

The leader should have been decided before even entering the cave, but StormGoddessNiNi was too afraid to ask.  The previous stages weren't a problem because just having Wei Wei and NaiHe alone were enough to get by.  But this won't do for the last stage; there needs to be a main leader when facing a tough opponent.

StormGoddessNiNi naturally believes that the leader should be ASmileNaiHe; she has long wanted to see the legendary number one expert's manner of planning strategies.  But since RealWaterIsScentless and LittleRainYaoYao are here, it's not as easy for her to make this suggestion.