Chapter 420: 194: A game where only I know the rules_2
Among these three people, the Mule Horse Kneeling Pawn and the Cunning Widow seemed to have already made contact in reality, and their cooperation was in tacit agreement.
However, this team did not attract much attention.
Zhou Baiyu only saw them in the guild channel.
In the public channel, Zhou Baiyu saw the team that was receiving the most attention, which was composed of three second-tier Advance Pioneers.
The reason for their popularity, second only to a few legendary pioneers' teams, was because their team setup... was very good.
A second-tier Time Spirit leading, combined with a second-tier Death Curing, and complemented by a second-tier Demon Walker, could be said to be an exceedingly powerful magic-oriented team.
Before Jiang Xianwu, a legendary pioneer, emerged and dominated all topics, there were actually many other pioneers who were very topical.
But with the emergence of Jiang Xianwu, many topics had changed.
Nowadays, this large-scale team recruitment has once again brought up those legendary pioneer contenders...
Again being mentioned by people.
Zhou Baiyu saw a team formed by three Beastwalkers.
According to the information he found in the library, Beastwalkers seemed to take the path of merging with the summoning beasts... Hmm, knowing that the God of All Beasts and the God of Vitality had pioneered this path with the Pet Love God —
Zhou Baiyu always felt that these three... were playing big under the radar.
There was also a team made up of three Voyeurs, a purely supportive team, but Zhou Baiyu was not optimistic about this team, which was almost certainly doomed.
Unless the three looked at one item, and the information each gleaned was completely different, allowing them to complement each other.
Zhou Baiyu continually collected information in the Voice of Advance, and many people were silently, not knowing with whom to team up, continuously advertising for team members until one minute before recruitment started.
If they had not formed a group of three, they would likely still enter the recruitment, but... it's hard to fight against many hands, and there might be games requiring cooperation.
As time dwindled, in the very last minute, Zhou Baiyu stopped looking at any information.
He closed his eyes and quietly waited... to meet Zhang Haoyun and Zhen Shi.
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At the southern edge of the Unknown Island.
The sea breeze carried a salty fish smell, swaying a tree unique to the Advanced World called the White Rubber Tree.
The tree trunks were tall and straight, often found by the sea. When the bark was cut, it would secrete a milky, glue-like liquid.
The tree itself looked quite like a coconut tree.
Boulders obstructed the view, and although there was a breeze, it did not disperse the light white mist.
This mist was not thick, so one could still see the distant boulders, strangely protruding as if the entire massive island were a labyrinth.
When Zhou Baiyu opened his eyes and saw this scene, he frowned immediately.
"Since we can see the sea, it seems we are on the outermost perimeter... If the rules do not promote staying still, then our explorative purpose is at the island's center… we need to gradually delve deeper into this island."
"But obviously, even though the island is enormous, not everyone can be on the outer edge... because the scale of this recruitment is just too large."
"Just the Advance Pioneers alone number in the thousands, so it's certain that some people's random positions are inside the island..."
Those who walk from the outside towards the inside and those originally located inside have different advantages.
Zhou Baiyu discovered that despite his enhanced vision, he struggled to see through this mist; while it wasn't the kind of thick fog that cut visibility to a few meters, it... nonetheless severely limited one's field of view.
"About thirty meters..."
The beach, the boulders, the bizarre trees, and the strange fog, Zhou Baiyu sensed that strange rules would probably soon appear as well.
But he didn't think too long about it because soon, Zhang Haoyun's voice shifted his attention.
"Is this place the Advanced World? Are you... Baiyu? Who are you, your presence feels very familiar to me!"
Zhou Baiyu followed the sound and saw the somewhat bewildered, somewhat wary Zhang Haoyun.
"Shh! It's me, Hao Yun, Zhen Shi, over here, don't call out my name here, here I'm called Jiang Xianwu."
Zhou Baiyu looked at Zhang Haoyun beside him and at Zhen Shi, who was looking around.
Teammates would be assigned to one location. This made Zhou Baiyu feel somewhat relieved.
Zhang Haoyun looked at the man in front of her; since he had a familiar feeling and could even call out her and her brother's names...
It had to be Zhou Baiyu.
But Zhou Baiyu looked like this in the Advanced World?
Wasn't that a bit too enchanting?
After Zhang Haoyun became a Corruption Seed, she basically lacked any typical human desires.
When she used to frequent nightclubs, there were essentially two types of men there... one who seduced women with money, and the other who did it with male charm.
But she had to admit, Zhou Baiyu's current appearance was just too handsome.
Jiang Xianwu's body had been cultivated with drugs, developed from childhood to fit the aesthetics of demonesses.
If demonesses could like it, Corruption Seeds could naturally be seduced.
She looked for several seconds, the more she looked, the more she liked:
"Okay, I've got it, your name is Jiang Xianwu, and I'll call myself... Miserable Fortune."
"Then I'll be Jia Shi." Zhen Shi said, smiling as he joined in.
Zhou Baiyu was very serious:
"Although you are not Advance Pioneers, now that you've entered the Advanced World, act as if you are. Consider it like entering a virtual game and play the role of a character with an online nickname."
"Alright, I understand. What should we do now? I can feel... this place is very dangerous."
As a Demon Emperor level Corruption Seed, if not because her cocoon state was interrupted, Zhang Haoyun might as well have been a transitional existence between Demon Emperor and Demon King, and this was innate.
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