Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

Jasmine was silent for a few seconds, her azure eyes looking at the ground. After a long pause, she nodded.

"I agree."

Zhou Ning couldn't help but look at her. If he remembered correctly, this girl should be a little fond of One Piece Zhou Ning. This really made things difficult for her.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will also have his first meeting with his simulator self, the Pirate King Zhou Ning, who is deeply involved in the history of the "Apocalypse" world.

I wonder if the other party appears in the form of a dream NPC or a dream seed?

If it was the latter, Zhou Ning had reason to suspect that the Life Elf Goddess had already known some of his secrets, which was not something he wanted to see!

Wait... Zhou Ning's eyes focused and he noticed that just now, the main task target that had been dormant for a while finally changed!

[A-level serial main quest: Shadow of Death has been updated.]

[Mission difficulty A→S, the highest is UR]

[Explanation: The large number of missing people in Dockland has caught your attention. This incident seems to be related to an old friend of yours, and also involves a huge conspiracy, a conspiracy that interweaves reality and dreams, and merges history and the present.]

If this plot succeeds, the entire Kingdom of Blaxton, and even the entire Kingdom of Luins, will become the material for the enemy to complete the godhood ritual. Please unite with your teammates, break into the deepest dream, and thwart the enemy's conspiracy.

[Current Mission Objective 1: Cause the collapse of the four-layer dream realm and find Archbishop Edward in the fifth layer of the dream realm. (Current Progress: 4/0) (1/)]

[Current Mission Objective 0: Defeat Archbishop Edward and his followers (Current Progress: 1/).]

[Optional Mission 0: Defeat the Sea God and his followers. (Current progress: 1/)]

[Optional Mission 1: Destroy the four landmark buildings in the dream. (Current Progress: 4/)]

[Overall mission completion progress: 49.53%.]

[Note: This quest is a large, serialized mainline quest. Due to its high difficulty, you can ignore the quest objective at any time and choose to complete this quest. A new mainline quest will be generated. All other players' mainline quests will be synchronized with yours. Rewards are determined by your quest completion progress.]

[Task Reward: 4.3 million experience points, random reward.]

The highest UR level of mission difficulty? Zhou Ning couldn't help but take a deep breath. This was the first time he had encountered a mission of this difficulty. Perhaps this meant that the final challenge to the Life Spirit Goddess would reach the highest UR level of difficulty!

This was the first time he'd seen a task prompt that allowed him to ignore the objective and choose to complete the task at any time, so he could imagine how difficult this task would be. Fortunately, he had prepared two Colorful Advent Cards in advance.

Zhou Ning glanced at the other players and saw that they were unusually silent at this moment, all looking down at their tasks. It seemed that the players had indeed synchronized their main tasks.

Of course, Zhou Ning wouldn't care about these things. In fact, he was the one who wanted the players to grow quickly. Although the battle was fierce just now, he also saw the whole scene of the players and NPCs killing the fake Stuart Crow together.

Unlike the previous fight against the hundred-headed dragon Fafnir, where players accounted for less than 30% of the damage, this time the reverse is likely true, with players accounting for over 70%. And they're just super-class professionals. What if they're demigods? What about angels?

According to his own experience, players above level 90 have reached the threshold of demigod status and no longer need to accommodate authority. Although this is a matter for players in the next version, it is not difficult. Zhou Ning waited for this day.

When that time really comes, with the support of the Starry Sky Church, I would even dare to challenge the real God without cheating.

Zhou Ning immediately laughed at his own wild imagination and chose to settle the previous prize pool task.

Among the four teams, the Tangshui team composed of Shuidi Chenxing, Jinse, Tangshan Daxiong and others ranked first without any suspense. Although Shuidi Chenxing's Phoenix armor was not as strong as before, his +12 divine equipment was still not to be underestimated, accounting for 1.7% of the output of the entire team.

The European and American team led by Alex and Purple Arthur ranked second; the Splash Brothers team led by Haicheng and Qingbaiyejiu ranked third.

XB still played like an AI who regarded life as dirt. Not only did I die twenty-one times, but because of him, his team, the Xiaobai Brotherhood, also became a group of loose sand, died many times, and ranked fourth in glory.

Fortunately, the experience rewards are generous, so the experience is not lost.

Just as the players were excitedly looking at their gains and discussing the subsequent main tasks, Zhou Ning wrote the subsequent tasks and chose to send them.

Unlike the first dream, the players were perfect cannon fodder for the second dream, a rather clueless exploration. Also, considering that sending so many players to explore the map wasn't necessary, and considering that XB's team had suffered significant losses from being implicated by the victim, Zhou Ning briefly considered and directly selected a designated team to launch the campaign, while the rest would explore with him.

At the same time, players who were still excitedly checking their harvest received a prompt:

Wayne Stewell has issued a faction mission: Explore in the Dream. Do you accept? Yes/No

[Instructions: Try to explore the second dream and return to Wayne Stewell within the time limit.]

[Task time limit: 45 minutes.]

[Mission Reward: 150 million experience points, Starry Sky Church contribution points.]

This quest is a low-difficulty, high-reward map-opening quest that players in Buster Forest on Hood Island have previously completed. When they tried to take the quest, they discovered that it was restricted to members of the Little White Brotherhood. They were immediately shocked, and chat bubbles flew everywhere:

"Fuck, why is Boss Wayne always so considerate of XB? Is it because he has a high favorability?"

"Could it be that the person above is dissatisfied with XB and is afraid that he will drag the team down?"

"Brother Gao, this should be it!"

"Let me bleed you. I'm a professional player after all. Dying a few more times is just for show." XB was almost furious. He didn't bother to argue with them and quickly accepted the task. Then he boasted in the team channel:

"Brothers, I told you that if you follow me, you will definitely get soup, right? When Wayne was still a student, I bought him meals. This is what brotherhood is like."

"Awesome, XB baby, mommy loves you!"

"This is the merit of following the dragon! Back then, a meal was equivalent to a house today, right?"

XB and his team chose to explore the southwest direction. Not long after, a deafening roar was heard from that direction, and the entire team's panel went dark.

A moment later, they appeared at the same place covered in dust and dirt. This was the 22nd time XB had died.

Even Zhou Ning was a little unsure. He turned around and looked at Miracle to You. Miracle to You nodded calmly and said softly:

"This Chosen One has asked me too many times these past few days if I want to poop. This is just a small punishment. Do you want to cancel it?"

"No wonder..."

Zhou Ning said helplessly: "Cancel it first."

Wait… Zhou Ning suddenly stopped and looked back to the southwest. There, he sensed an extremely strong energy fluctuation. It seemed very familiar.

That's right, that belongs to the Pluto! That's the flagship of the Lord of the Seven Seas!

"Let's go this way." Zhou Ning pointed to the southwest without hesitation.