Online Game: My Decay Drives the Entire Server Crazy

Chapter 18: The entrance to the newbie village turns into a graveyard, and the bounty becomes a joke.After Zhao Kai’s bounty of one million real-world currency was posted, the entire server went into a frenzy.

What did one million real-world currency represent? In a second or third-tier city, it could cover the down payment on a house; in a small county town, it could buy a decent two-bedroom apartment in full. A common brick-moving player would have to work themselves to death for a year just to earn tens of thousands. One million was enough for them to move bricks for twenty years.

Under great rewards, there will surely be brave men. Although the previous waves of people had been thoroughly dealt with by Lin Ye, there were always those who thought they were the exception.

”What’s there to be afraid of? No matter how badass he is, he’s just one person! If a hundred people charge together, can he hold out?”

”Exactly! No matter how fierce that debuff of his is, can he hit a hundred people at once?”

”Brothers, one million is right in front of us. Just charge!”

The World Channel was filled with such voices. In just half an hour, over three hundred players who had accepted the bounty flooded into the Novice Village, completely clogging the respawn point, teleportation array, and Trading House. These people came from all over—lone wolves, small guilds, and even a few top experts ranked in the top fifty.

Lin Ye stood in the center of the Novice Village square, looking at the dense crowd around him, a wicked smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

”Over three hundred people? Zhao Kai must have dug out his coffin money for this,” he said to Su Qinghan beside him.

Su Qinghan scanned the crowd and frowned. ”With over three hundred people, how do you plan to fight? My shield can only withstand focused fire from fifty people at most.”

Lin Ye smiled. ”Who said I was going to fight head-on?”

He turned, walked to the entrance of the Novice Village, and began setting traps. He applied the debuff to all the wild mobs near the entrance—rabbits, chickens, wolves, and even passing birds. He stacked fifty layers on each and then activated the ”Proximity Contagion” effect. As long as someone approached these mobs, the debuff would automatically spread to them, regardless of whether they attacked.

After setting that up, he had Su Qinghan place a hidden forbidden Healing spell at the entrance—any target hit by the Decay Debuff would be unable to restore health through any Healing skills.

After Su Qinghan finished placing the forbidden spell, she couldn’t help but ask, ”Are you trying to turn the Novice Village entrance into a graveyard?”

Lin Ye shrugged. ”Pretty much. Since they’re all here, I have to leave them with a deep impression.”

After finishing their preparations, the two sat on the rocks by the entrance, snacking on virtual melon seeds, waiting for the bounty hunters to arrive.

The first group to rush over was a small guild team of over twenty people, led by a warrior with the ID ”Overlord War God”—the same one who had been wiped out by the elite wolf army last time. He didn’t believe in the hype and had organized another group, hoping to fish in troubled waters with their superior numbers.

”Brothers, charge! That Ye is right at the entrance! Kill him, and the million is ours!”

Over twenty people howled as they rushed toward the Novice Village entrance. Just as they neared the gate, they triggered the ”Proximity Contagion” trap Lin Ye had set—the debuffed mobs at the entrance were instantly activated, and red damage numbers popped up over the heads of all nearby players simultaneously.

”Holy shit! Why is my health dropping so fast?!”

”Me too! I’m losing more than half every second!”

”Priest! Heal us, quick!”

”I can’t! Healing is useless! I’ve been hit with a Healing block!”

”What?! Healing block?!”

The twenty-plus people panicked and tried to run, but the debuff’s damage was too fast. Fifty layers per second meant losing 50% of their maximum health every second; they were dead in two.

”Ding! Player [Overlord War God] has died. Level dropped: 15 → 10.”

”Ding! Player [Blaze Mage] has died. Level dropped: 14 → 9.”

”Ding! Player [Iron Wall Shield Guard] has died. Level dropped: 13 → 8.”

All twenty-plus people died sudden deaths within four seconds. Their corpses piled up at the entrance, and equipment exploded all over the ground.

[World Channel]

[Player ”Overlord War God”: Holy shit! There’s a trap at the entrance! Don’t come!]