"Fortunately, there are 45 minutes."
Yang Shung breathed a sigh of relief.
This kind of special BOSS has a time limit. It will only exist for a short period before disappearing.
Now, there are still 45 minutes, enough for Yang Shung to take down the golden ghost ship.
"Start killing."
Yang Shung checked the cooldown of his 'shadow' skill and immediately launched an attack on the golden ghost ship.
Instant Shadow Slash!
-549!
-549!
-549!
...
Five consecutive damage numbers appeared from the ghost ship.
Yang Shung's figure flashed, and he appeared again. A poisonous dart struck the golden bell on the ghost ship.
-621 (weak point attack)!
-207!
-207!
...
The weakness of the ghost ship was not the skeleton holding the paddle, but the golden bell.
After using his two skills, Yang Shung retreated quickly using 'shadow'!
The paddle-holding skeleton on the golden ghost ship made a "squeaking" sound, and ghostly lights flickered in its empty eye sockets.
In the surrounding swamp, water surged up!
Dozens of water columns erupted around the ghost ship!
Yang Shung knew that with his fragile body, if he was hit by any of these water columns, he would die instantly.
Luckily, he was prepared.
He retreated immediately after his sneak attack. Even so, the water columns erupted in front, behind, and around him, making it hard to escape.
"The closer you are to the ghost ship, the denser the water columns become."
"Unless you're a warrior with silver equipment, you can't survive the bombardment of these water columns."
Yang Shung was calm. Using his knowledge and prediction, he avoided the water columns time after time, staying far from the ghost ship.
Meanwhile, as the water columns erupted, twelve rotting water ghosts crawled out of the swamp.
These were silver-level monsters, and killing them yielded no reward.
This was the most annoying part of the Golden Ghost Ship BOSS.
The rotten water ghosts couldn't be killed for reward, and wasting time fighting them only increased the threat.
Even worse, every three minutes, the golden ghost ship summoned more rotten water ghosts!
If the team's damage output was insufficient, the water ghosts would overwhelm them, leading to complete destruction.
As for the health of the golden ghost ship, even with Yang Shung's current power, his two skills only reduced one-tenth of its health.
The ghost ship's health was a staggering 40,000 or 50,000!
For players with only 20-30 damage per skill, defeating this BOSS was impossible.
"Xiao Hei, I'm going to die once in a while."
While dodging, Yang Shung opened a private chat with Lin Liyu: "Don't worry about the BOSS for now, just wait for me."
Lin Liyu, confused, replied: "Who is Xiao Hei?"
Yang Shung: "Aren't you Xiao Hei?"
Lin Liyu was stunned, realizing her ID "Black Plum Big Plum" had been mistaken. She had no response...
---
Meanwhile, in Shell Town, a middle-aged man in heavy armor with a cross scar on his face was searching for traces of Yang Shung.
"Do you really think I, Tienan, am easy to bully?"
Tienan had just lost a man to Yang Shung, who had killed his tracker.
"When I was taking down legendaries, this guy was still sucking his milk!"
Tienan was very interested in Yang Shung.
He had tried to follow him, but Yang Shung had gone invisible, so he couldn't find him.
Now, Tienan saw an opportunity. Yang Shung was out with a girl!
"After all, he's a young man, he can't resist bringing a girl."
Tienan smiled, thinking that if Yang Shung was invisible, the girl likely wasn't.
He followed them to find Yang Shung's secret...
Then, Yang Shung killed all his men.
Now, with more than 20 people, Tienan led the way, heading towards the swamp where Yang Shung was fighting the BOSS.
---
At the same time, Yang Shung was dodging water attacks from the Golden Ghost Ship. Every time he had a chance, he launched Shadow Slash and Poison Darts.
Since the BOSS attacked too often, Yang Shung had few chances to strike.
It took nearly ten minutes for the BOSS's health to drop to half.
The Golden Ghost Ship's half-health triggered a ghost fire bell on its bow. A soul wave spread for over a hundred meters!
Yang Shung was caught in the wave and became frozen!
Even though he was invisible, the soul wave revealed his position.
Suddenly, a water column erupted beneath him, covering him.
-1059!
Yang Shung was killed instantly!
This was the mechanism of the Golden Ghost Ship at half health: a large-scale forced freeze for five seconds. It was unavoidable.
It was within Yang Shung's expectations.
---
[You have died, and you have lost 326 years of life (not tradable)!]
[You have died, and you have lost 1087 days of life (tradable)!]
---
Half of his life was instantly lost.
It was a huge loss, but not catastrophic. Yang Shung knew he could retrieve the tradable life.
Non-tradable life was lost with 50% recovery if picked up.
But the item the ghost ship would drop was worth much more.
Just as Yang Shung returned to life, Tienan and his men arrived.
Seeing Yang Shung's death and the lifespan drops, Tienan laughed.
"Hahahaha, God is helping me!"
"This fool actually tried to challenge a gold-level BOSS alone?"
"Let's take over the BOSS and grab his lifespan!"
Tienan led his men toward the Golden Ghost Ship!
But just moments later...
Dozens of rotten water ghosts appeared, and with the water columns, Tienan's group was wiped out instantly!
They couldn't even reach Yang Shung's corpse.
Lifespan light balls exploded everywhere in the swamp!
How could a special BOSS that Yang Shung had to die once to kill be easily conquered?
Tienan, who returned to town, was stunned.
"Fuck... why is this BOSS so powerful?"
"How did Shadow take down half its health? What the hell?!"