The game has begun!

"Mountain City's Ning Caichen?"

This nickname truly made Qin Feng lose his composure.

Of course, that player's codename wasn't this, but rather 'South Bank Little Monster'. It was just that because of his actions, he was affectionately called 'Mountain City's Ning Caichen' by the players of Mountain City…

Due to severe burns all over his body, no one spared this young man a second glance.

As for his combat power, within the scope of the Mountain City Ruins, he could only be considered an average player who blended into the crowd.

But a chance encounter…

…led him to obtain a mirror.

Inside the mirror was a woman in white who completely enchanted him, and he soon came to regard her as the love of his life.

However, the young man's parents were opposed to it. Not for any other reason, but simply because the woman inside the mirror always had her face covered by black hair, at most revealing pale lips, and her body and skin were icy cold!

After all, what parents could stand their son finding such a 'partner'?

Of course, the young man's parents didn't do anything excessive; they just remained consistently opposed to the matter…

But unexpectedly, word of this matter soon spread.

Furthermore, local guild players heard that the young man's strength had increased significantly after obtaining that mirror!

Thus, on a dark and windy night, they attempted to rob the young man of the mirror, killing him directly in the game and threatening to keep killing him until he handed it over!

Naturally, the young man was unwilling to give up the mirror and stated clearly that the mirror was soul-bound to him; he couldn't hand it over even if he wanted to.

Then last night, on another dark and windy night, the young man discovered that his beloved mirror had shattered…

Along with it, the woman in white inside the mirror was also covered in wounds.

It was this very incident that sent the young man into a violent rage.

From their time together, he knew how kind the woman in the mirror was; she had no combat power at all and could only provide him with a tiny bit of help in battle… yet she was still targeted, and someone had actually smashed the mirror!

But he didn't know who had done it.

He could only harbor thoughts of taking revenge on society.

He had originally come today just to see if there was anything to be gained from this Mythic BOSS.

As it turned out, hearing the official evacuation announcement gave the young man a perfect opportunity.

However…

When the Mythic BOSS was activated because of the young man's display of affection, the young man himself was also absorbed into that Mythic BOSS, the 'wriggling spirit painting'!

In the field, players were fleeing in all directions.

Only the figure of a woman in white, her body covered in glass-like cracks, stood motionless in the field. Her long black hair veiled her face, making her appear eerie and sinister…

…

"I see."

After learning of the situation, Qin Feng said to Wan Ye Wei Yu in a heavy voice, "In short, continue to evacuate the people around here. Especially the players who were absorbed into the painting; each of them has someone they are most intimate with nearby. Those intimate partners will soon be hunted by the Painting Spirits. It's best to have them scatter and flee."

Wan Ye Wei Yu immediately signaled her understanding.

Then, Wan Ye Wei Yu seemed a bit uneasy and asked Qin Feng, "Um… Great God, were you originally planning to take Senior Ghost Spirit to activate the BOSS together? Did we… ruin things for you?"

Qin Feng: "…Don't talk nonsense. It doesn't matter who activates the BOSS. It's just that because it was activated early, too many people were sucked in, making the BOSS a bit troublesome to deal with."

Besides, this sudden situation wasn't something the Great Xia Official could have decided…

This made Qin Feng feel a bit sentimental.

It seems that in the future, I still shouldn't explain BOSS mechanics too clearly!

When it's time to be cryptic, I must be cryptic. Otherwise, among humans, there will always be some fellows who do the most inconceivable things…

After finishing his conversation with Wan Ye Wei Yu…

Qin Feng took Ghost Spirit, who had just hurried back, and walked toward the Evil Spirit Academy's self-built teleportation array.

As soon as the girl heard she was coming back to help kill a Mythic BOSS, she immediately became incredibly nervous.

On today's Blue Star, Ghost Spirit had long been the top person in the world besides Qin Feng, and had even soloed an Epic BOSS not long ago!

In fact, while Qin Feng was participating in the Calamity Ancient God's survival challenge, Great Xia had killed a total of seven Epic BOSSes, putting their progress far ahead of other countries!

There was even a friendly neighboring country that directly invited the Great Xia Official to go and take down an Epic BOSS…

But other than Qin Feng and Ghost Spirit, no one else in the world had appeared who could solo an Epic BOSS.

And even so…

Ghost Spirit didn't have an inflated ego at all.

Especially now…

She knew very well that between Epic and Mythic BOSSes, there was still the Legendary rank!

A Mythic BOSS's health and damage reduction were both a hundred times that of an Epic BOSS!

She couldn't even beat a Legendary rank, and now she had to cooperate with 'Teacher Shadow' to kill a Mythic BOSS… could she really do it?

On the way to the teleportation array, Qin Feng told her some precautions for the outer field.

"If we get to the scene and you are sucked into the inner field, remember, you must immediately end your own life."

"After resurrecting at a nearby teleportation array, fly back over."

"Until I am sucked into the inner field…"

Qin Feng explained the rules to her.

The strategy for the wriggling spirit painting was divided into inner and outer fields.

Its most basic mechanism was the ability to recognize the 'intimacy' between players within the BOSS's range and the players around them.

This value increased the more players chatted or teamed up, whether in the game or in reality, but the players themselves couldn't see it.

For the 'wriggling spirit painting', as long as the intimacy between two players within range reached a certain level, it would choose one of them and suck them into the painting's inner field!

In the inner field would be the BOSS's true body. Men sucked in would see a woman, and women would see a man, and it would have a health bar.

In the outer field was the BOSS's avatar, which was completely invincible and would indiscriminately slaughter surrounding players!

And once in the inner field…

The players would first face a collective choice.

Option one: Watch the BOSS dance. All players in the inner field would continuously gain massive amounts of experience while the BOSS danced, during which time the BOSS would be invincible.

Option two: Tell the BOSS to get lost. This would cause the BOSS to blacken and reveal its health bar, which was the correct procedure for killing it.

However…

There was a crucial point.

If more than half of the players in the inner field chose to 'watch the BOSS dance', then for every round the BOSS danced, the BOSS avatar in the outer field would gain another stack of buffs!

Attack, speed, kill range… and most importantly, a massive damage bonus against the 'most intimate' person corresponding to the players in the inner field!

For example, if player A in the inner field had player B in the outer field as their most intimate person, then once B was killed, B would suffer true Death, and their remaining lifespan would become nutrients for the BOSS, granting it another life…

Thus, for every 'intimate person' killed by the BOSS in the outer field, the BOSS's true body in the inner field would gain an extra life.

A BOSS with only one life wasn't very difficult to kill.

But if it had multiple lives, then upon losing each life, the BOSS would enter a 'hiding' phase, concealing itself within the painting world. During this phase, the players in the outer field would need to complete certain mechanics to make the BOSS's true body in the inner field reappear.

It could be said that this was a high-difficulty BOSS that required cooperation between players in both the inner and outer fields.

Especially now, having been activated while many people were present, over two hundred players had already been sucked into the inner field!

"Most people sucked into the inner field will probably choose to watch the BOSS dance to continuously gain massive experience…"

"But they have no way to contact the outside world. They don't know that their most intimate partners will be hunted by the BOSS avatar outside because of it, and once they die, they will become nutrients for the BOSS, becoming its next life!"

…

Just as Qin Feng and Ghost Spirit arrived at the Mountain City Ruins via the teleportation array…

…at the Abandoned Mine where the Mythic BOSS, the wriggling spirit painting, was located, a svelte and alluring figure—whose gender was temporarily indistinguishable—had condensed beneath the painting…

As soon as this svelte figure shrouded in pink mist appeared, an incredibly seductive laugh immediately spread across the field.

“Now then… the game has begun.”

The figure pursed its red lips; beneath the long pink hair was a pair of soul-stirring eyes.

To men, it looked like a woman; to women, it looked like a man. It was extremely eerie!

Once the figure condensed, it was in a state of complete invincibility, without even a health bar, and it immediately launched a terrifying assassination attempt against the surrounding players!