Heiniss asked the right person, how to make adventurers settle down?
For Gong Qiying, that's exactly his area of expertise; he's best at making adventurers fall silent, and death counts as silence too.
And considering the operability of the Cangyin Dungeon isn't low, this sudden request is just like a side quest popping up — pure thrill!
However, Gong Qiying cannot excessively pursue thrill and ignore the objective situation.
If it was in his own Sain Dungeon, he could start designing so underworld stuff right away.
But this is soone else's Cangyin Dungeon, and he rembered…
"I rember, your dungeon doesn't seem to feature difficulty as its hallmark." He said.
Dungeons that sell on the difficulty are good; most City Lords also like to create such setups. But the problem is, with increased difficulty, there must also be sufficient rewards to drive people forward, forming a cycle that encourages constant exploration of the dungeon. Otherwise, it would beco a dung heap of a dungeon with only difficulty and no rewards.
Very few dungeons can present adequate rewards to construct such a sustainable model; a dungeon like Sain Dungeon, which has endless inspiration and never-repeating materials, is even rarer.
If Cangyin Dungeon truly wants to raise its difficulty, it really ought to deliberate well and consider if it's worth it.
Don't make the sa mistake as last ti, which drove adventurers originally from the dungeon away out of disgust.
"Yes, I've already increased the intensity to the maximum level that everyone can handle."
Heiniss's eyes were still a bit red from wiping away tears, her expression one of helplessness and lancholy, like a hoowner watching a bunch of thieves run rampant doing indescribable things in her house while powerless behind the surveillance.
Well, quite a few City Lords live like this—rather oppressed, unlike Gong Qiying who could do whatever he wanted, a rarity.
"Now I understand why people used to co here."
"People used to be attracted by Green Tree Spirits, the juice of which can promote plant growth and has a chance to cause gigantic mutations, supporting the agriculture of Spring Sun City where I'm located. Because Green Tree Spirits are elite monsters, the spiritual power of those who challenge them can maintain the dungeon's operation."
"But due to certain events, the market for Spring Sun City's agricultural products has suffered, so fewer people co here."
Saying this, she smiled.
"Thankfully, I was able to revive this dungeon thanks to the magical plants you gifted !"
Gong Qiying also displayed a smile full of humility, nodding.
Yet, he seed to have guessed what impacted the market for Spring Sun City's agricultural products, hence the slight awkwardness in his modest smile.
There's no helping it — how could ordinary giant vegetables possibly taste as good as those ingredients from the gourt district? It's not surprising they got their market squeezed out.
"What did you do with those plants?" He was rather curious about how Heiniss used them, and right, along with that, those accompanying zombies.
"I planted the plants in hidden places to ambush adventurers," Heiniss imdiately said.
Very straightforward usage, nothing problematic.
After all, a real-life version of Plants vs. Zombies is hard to replicate; you can't exactly trap adventurers in a courtyard to plant plants and then have zombie soldiers advance strictly according to a pre-arranged route, can you? It'd look a bit odd.
"Planting them on the zombies' heads and letting them wander around to ambush adventurers," Heiniss added.
Not a bad thod, could even deliver a bit of a ntal shock to adventurers.
"Placing so prettier plants in the garden for people to admire when they co in," she finished with the final use.
Cangyin Dungeon doesn't chase intensity; it's roughly divided into two areas: one is a garden district where there's no danger, where people can take a stroll and look at the scenery as if in a park; the other is the combat area, ho to elite monsters like Green Tree Spirits and wandering zombies and plants.
"And the rewards?"
"They include the juice of Green Tree Spirits and so items that can be used in planting, along with so plants given to those who are pleasing to the eye. I can't offer anything too good," she said with lowered eyebrows and eyes, adding:
"Because of that misstep of giving away plants, a bunch of peculiar people were attracted."
As she said this, she took out a dungeon recording to show Gong Qiying and let him experience what "peculiar" truly ant.
Upon seeing the antics adventurers got up to, even Gong Qiying displayed an indescribable expression.
"So those people online who have desires for plants really do exist…"
Even excluding those sleazy adventurers, the remaining people's antics were quite strange.
There was a magician who cast defense enhancent magic on himself, squatted in front of a Pea Shooter with his mouth open, eating each pea as it was shot, only leaving after patting his belly full.
Others with higher aspirations gathered Pea Shooters, Cabbage-pult, and Waterlon-pult to fashion a healthy salad to eat.
Yet again, there was an Elf Clan chef nad Curipa who sohow ended up here with a bunch of gourt area ingredients from Sain, exploring ways to fuse them with these plants… So the one who dared to eat Fiery Chili was you!
Additionally, soone attempted using the juice of Green Tree Spirits on plants, cultivating Pea Shooters and Sunflowers the size of small houses, delighting the lovers of giant structures.
It seems that due to the demonstration effect of these people, the citizens of Spring Sun City have sparked a wave of exploring other magical uses for the plants in Cangyin Dungeon, and to this day, there's a lot of excitent surrounding this activity.
Among the developnts discovered, there are even more bizarre applications than the aboventioned ones.
Currently, in Cangyin Dungeon, people have begun to actively search for these plants and then find a cozy spot to lie down, waiting with their mouths open for the food to fall from the sky.
"…Behaviors like theirs, you just need to increase the power of the plants a bit and blow off a few more heads to stop them." Gong Qiying said with a look exuding a wish for destruction.
"But I just want people to hold more awe towards my place; well, not awe, at least a bit of respect. If I increase the power of the plants, I'm afraid it might affect the flow of people again," Heiniss said, troubled.
"But if I don't increase the power, recently more and more adventurers are complaining about the low difficulty here, saying they'd rather drink northwest wind than take on requests related to this place—how excessive!"
Ah, now I see. She's reluctant to let go of the current foot traffic, yet this drives her nuts.
Can't say she's being too sentintal, because if soone did sothing like that in Sain Dungeon, Gong Qiying would find it unbearable as well.
But adventurers complaining about low difficulty in a dungeon?
Where did these masochists co from?
Heiniss gave him a bunch of recordings of adventurers discontented with Cangyin Dungeon's low difficulty.
Gong Qiying watched those adventurers cloaked entirely in Sain Dungeon-produced gear, falling into silence.
If there's anyone to bla, bla the proximity of Bed City to Spring Sun City; it draws in the demons and monsters locked in Sain Dungeon.
"I swear I never intended to cultivate adventurers with peculiar preferences," Gong Qiying murmured to himself in a voice only he could hear, "I won't take the bla for adventurers turning into masochists."
"Is there any way?" Heiniss looked at him with eyes filled with hopeful light.
Facing the plea of his junior, Gong Qiying's answer was—
"Since adventurers are having fun with plants, then you—no, we should do sothing fancier with them than adventurers."
"Huh!?" Heiniss exclaid incredulously, "But I don't have anything that can fit into a Big Enoki Mushroom…"
"Use this!"
Gong Qiying slapped a card down in front of her.
She eagerly leaned in to look and saw sothing she had never envisioned.
The card's na was [Fusion].
The effect was to select one's monster as fusion material and summon a fusion monster.
"What do you an by giving this..."
Holding the card, Heiniss was at a loss as Gong Qiying patted her shoulder and gave a thumbs up, saying:
"Release your imagination."
Hybrid plants, magnificently debut!
"Also," Gong Qiying said, "you made it too easy to give away plants. Such rare things shouldn't be given out so simply; you need to set a few more conditions. I have experience in this area and can teach you."
He now resembled a conscientious teacher, but not the kind who drove a Jeep with a cane.
"And there are complaints about your low difficulty, right? Then add so intensity to the battle zone on the map, but it can only be intensified in the depths of the battle zone. With my design guidance, they'll feel like they've co back ho blissfully."
Under the worshipful gaze of Heiniss, Gong Qiying drew a line on the micro-model of Cangyin Dungeon.
"Let's start with two Road of Suffering trials."
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