"I just hope they can get some tangible thanks," Ye Bugui said casually, "like giving you a gift as a reward."
Lu Shi hadn't expected Ye Bugui to be so meticulous for his own sake. The Demon Lord paused for a second, then immediately shook his head, no longer pondering this question he couldn't understand.
Ye Bugui, however, told him directly why he did this: "There are rewards for making it into the top three of the leaderboard every time we stream, and if we draw top-tier items, it can greatly increase our survival rate."
"Yes," Lu Shi nodded. "That's right, Ye Bugui is a pragmatist just like me."
"What do we do next?" Lu Shi wasn't really going to open the door and let all the Faceless Men in, just like they had been talking about.
If the waiter takes advantage of the situation, they'll be completely finished.
The rule that they couldn't go out after midnight came to mind at the same time. Lu Shi even suspected that the group of faceless people was a trap, deliberately luring them out.
Players might be able to endure not eating for a week, at least they can still survive.
However, he absolutely could not tolerate a group of monsters that grew stronger every day at his door, because they would threaten his life.
Ye Bugui had obviously thought of this as well: "If we don't go out, how can we kill the monsters outside?"
"Can you do that?" Lu Shi guessed. The randomly selected abilities were varied, and Ye Bugui's ability might even be the ability to summon wind and rain!
Ye Bugui shook his head; he and Lu Shi had both overlooked this point.
Now that he's calmed down, he realizes how dangerous it would be to go outside.
"The rule says we can't go out, right?" Lu Shi had already thought of a solution, and his cold eyes shone like two stars in the night sky.
"You mean..." Ye Bugui always caught up with Lu Shi's train of thought immediately: "If we don't step out the door, we can kill them behind it."
“Yes, and I have an even more cautious and safer method,” Lu Shi said confidently.
Although the lights were off in the room, Ye Bugui felt that the man standing in front of him was radiating light.
Lu Shi looks even better like this.
Moreover, Ye Bugui could sense how eager Lu Shi was to try. He must have been absolutely certain to speak like that.
Lu Shi is now like a magician who has the upper hand, just waiting to go on stage and fool his audience, letting them witness a grand miracle.
"Is there anything I can do?" Ye Bugui quickly understood his place. Since Lu Shi had a solution, he would not try to be a hero and would just play the role of an assistant.
If his teammates back then knew that he was willing to be a support for someone else, they would definitely think he was crazy.
"Try to hold this door open as long as possible." While Lu Shi and Ye Bugui were discussing tactics, the Faceless Man continued to tirelessly ram the door.
Its perseverance is quite touching. I just don't know if the door can hold up.
Without saying a word, Ye Bugui immediately used his body to block the door, and didn't forget to ease the atmosphere: "Don't worry, I've grown so tall just to have this day to use my strength."
Unexpectedly, Ye Bugui's joke made Lu Shi laugh.
Lu Shi was very grateful to Ye Bugui, as the experience of teaming up with Ye Bugui for the dungeon was excellent.
Ye Bugui may often say childish, chuunibyou, or arrogant things, but he is actually trying to lighten the mood and minimize the loss of sanity.
Moreover, with him around, Lu Shi would feel a strange sense of security; he was no longer facing danger alone.
That's the power of a true friend!
Lu Shi didn't hesitate any longer. He immediately sat down cross-legged and cut out a row of small paper figures.
After clearing the last dungeon, Lu Shi noticed that his attribute values had increased, with his spirit rising from 90 to 100, which also meant that he could control more paper figures.
But for Lu Shi, what he was about to do would be a great test of his mental strength and spiritual energy.
Don't be fooled by his confident demeanor when facing Ye Bugui; it was just that he didn't want the other party to worry.
His plan was actually very simple, a routine that everyone would naturally think of when playing games.
At this moment, Lu Shi was like a summoner; his body was frail, and he couldn't afford to let enemies get close. He was about to face a group of monsters.
So, as a summoner, the simplest method is to use your summoned creatures to kill monsters.
When he got to Lu Shi, his first thought was to imprint magic on the paper figures.
Like talismans, it is a best-selling item in the cultivation world because it allows cultivators with lower cultivation levels to use advanced spells.
The principle behind talismans is to use talisman paper as a carrier to imprint spells on it, which can be released simply by throwing it out.
Lu Shi cleverly replaced the talisman with a paper figure, because the paper figure could attract the attention of the Faceless Man.
The problem is that the only spell he can remember right now is the Bone Ghost Fire, a spell with high destructive power but also very high mental and spiritual energy consumption.
Lu Shi also came up with a solution: he could disperse the power of a single white bone ghost fire, breaking it down into several smaller ghost fires, and then imprint them on each paper figure.
This is the most difficult part of his plan. He needs to precisely allocate his spiritual energy, condense it into a small white bone ghost fire, and then imprint it on the paper figure.
For a cultivator, casting spells is never about maximizing power; that would only be a waste of limited spiritual energy.
Truly powerful cultivators are like genius prophets, able to accurately predict how much spiritual energy is needed to kill an enemy, and never waste a single drop of it.
Lu Shi, a man who once stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world, had such confidence.
"There's one more thing I need to trouble you with." Lu Shi's face and back were covered in sweat. In addition to the exhaustion of his energy, his physical strength was also depleted.
He had only made three paper figures with their own ghostly flames when his stamina dropped by 10 points.
Although Ye Bugui did not know what Lu Shi was doing, he instinctively realized that the paper figure lying next to Lu Shi was extremely dangerous.
"Okay!" He had just approached the cat when he came face to face with the faceless man.
The faceless man was completely focused on banging on the door and paid no attention to Ye Bugui.
Surprisingly, despite the commotion this Faceless Man caused, the other Faceless Men didn't come to his aid; instead, they continued to wander around the corridor.
“12.” Ye Bugui finished counting quickly.
"That should be fine." Lu Shi suddenly coughed, and he tasted a hint of blood in the saliva that flowed from his throat to his mouth.
At this moment, Lu Shi, whose face was becoming increasingly weak, still had the mind to joke:
"I may have to rely on you to leave this instance from now on."
"Alright!" Ye Bugui nodded immediately, almost raising his hand to swear an oath to the heavens: "With me here, no one will be able to harm you in the slightest!"
Lu Shi nodded in agreement. He trusted Ye Bugui to keep his word and felt even more at ease making the paper figures.
Soon, twelve paper figures appeared in Lu Shi's palm.
"Are they really useful?" Although Ye Bugui trusted Lu Shi, the paper figures looked too ordinary and he couldn't really feel at ease with them.
"You'll see in a moment." Lu Shi had just glanced at the panel, and sure enough, just like before, he was experiencing a state of low energy, indicating that he could no longer use magic for 24 hours. This could still be cleared with a stamina potion.
However, Lu Shi also noticed that his energy was much greater. The mental energy expended by those 12 paper figures should be enough for him to use the White Bone Ghost Fire twice.
This gave Lu Shi another motivation: if he cleared enough dungeons, his strength might gradually recover to its peak.
"Now, open the door a crack for me." Lu Shi's voice was very soft. His stamina had dropped to 53/100, which was a very dangerous level. His low stamina made even speaking difficult.
“Of course.” Ye Bugui immediately did as instructed.
The moment the door was opened a crack, the faceless man's claws immediately reached into the crack, almost grabbing Ye Bugui's body.
The claws stuck in the crack shook frantically, trying to open the door completely.
Ye Bugui must have been incredibly strong; he managed to forcefully block the Faceless Man, then casually said to Lu Shi, "Hurry up, I can't hold out for much longer..."
Lu Shi nodded and blew on a paper figure, which then quickly ran away.
Even after the upgrade, the Faceless Man, still lacking in intelligence, saw the paper figure and excitedly pounced on it, completely unaware that it might be a trap.
Meanwhile, the fleshy growth on the faceless man's back was excitedly clamoring, as if it had caught its prey.
But Ye Bugui never expected that the moment the faceless man bent down and touched the paper figure, the paper figure suddenly transformed into a skull-shaped ghost fire the size of a head, which burned up from the faceless man's arm.
The will-o'-the-wisp spread extremely quickly, soon engulfing the faceless man's entire body.
When the will-o'-the-wisp burned the tumor, the faceless man's body deflated rapidly like a punctured balloon, and then turned to ashes in the will-o'-the-wisp.
The scene was so shocking that Ye Bugui was stunned for several seconds before a look of wild joy appeared on his face.
"I think I've seen this move before in the Plague Prison. But it was much more powerful that time."
"Hmm, I didn't control my strength well that time, and I wasted a lot of energy." Lu Shi actually started to reflect: "I controlled it well this time."
As expected, Lu Shi heard a constant stream of donation notifications.
When Lu Shi receives tips from his friends, he is never stingy with his beautiful smile:
"To thank everyone for their donations, I'll now burn the remaining Faceless Men to death!"
Faceless Man: ?
After the battle, the viewers in the live stream all realized that the tumor on the Faceless Man's back was a weakness, and Lu Shi was naturally aware of it as well.
So he manipulated the paper figure to hop and skip onto the back of the faceless man, and easily dealt with the remaining 11 faceless men.
One after another, clusters of will-o'-the-wisps exploded, like a magnificent fireworks display.
The corridor was filled with the aroma of barbecue, but no one had any appetite at the moment.
Besides Sherry, Cao Ran also hadn't slept, listening to the noises outside.
When she heard the screams of monsters coming from outside the corridor, she knew that someone had cleared out the faceless men in the corridor.
Unfortunately, she wasn't Lu Shi's teammate and couldn't watch Lu Shi's live stream in the dungeon, otherwise she would definitely have given Lu Shi a reward right now.
Lu Shi really did it. Without leaving home or taking any action, he elegantly and quickly dealt with all the Faceless Men.
The faceless figures burned to ashes in the corridor could never have imagined that their exit would be so pathetic.
When Ye Bugui closed the door again and stared at Lu Shi, Lu Shi felt uneasy.
Do you think I'm too dangerous?
Lu Shi had always understood the principle that possessing a treasure can be a crime. If he hadn't been so powerful, perhaps he wouldn't have ended up like this in the cultivation world.
"No." Ye Bugui immediately shook his head: "I just think that making you my teammate is the most successful investment I've ever made. But you'll soon find out that I won't hold you back."
Ye Bugui's unusual reaction warmed Lu Shi's heart.
He wasn't lying; Lu Shi could only see pure admiration in Ye Bugui's eyes.
Has someone finally witnessed his power and yet remained unafraid?
“Alright, I’m also very curious about your true strength.” Lu Shi naturally knew that Ye Bugui had not revealed his true strength at all.
"By the way, your stamina must have dropped quite a bit. Do you need me to buy you some stamina potions?" Ye Bugui asked with concern, looking at Lu Shi who was almost unable to stand.