Chapter 287: No One Can Be This Unlucky
Meteor Shower alarm sound rang out again.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy stopped, panting, and looked at the mark she had added on the map.
That was the coordinates where Yu Jiang first tracked the War Machine, and she wasn’t too far from it.
But many places were blocked by fallen meteors, making them impassable, so she had to take a detour, which took some time.
She didn’t know how Captain Jiang was doing; she had just seen the battlefield announcement and was stunned for two seconds.
They were already fighting in a group? Had they all arrived?
Was she the only one still on the road? Had she become a battlefield scrounger?!
No way! She had been in the battlefield for so long, afraid of being discovered, always sneaking around like a dog, not even daring to play the suona.
Without using skills, how could she level up or get stronger?
She had to hurry there; if she missed the first fight, Heartless Water and the others probably hadn’t made their move yet.
The nicknames on the battlefield rankings, hidden or not, didn’t make much difference.
The first one was Wu****, which clearly looked like Heartless Water.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy was about to continue on her way when she suddenly saw a faint white glow ahead.
It wasn’t very obvious, but compared to the dark surroundings, it looked off at first glance.
Was it finally her turn for the good fortune of picking up treasure on the road?!
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy thought excitedly, carefully approaching the white light and stopping three steps away. She just picked up a stone from the ground and said to throw it to see what it was.
Before the stone left her hand, the white light flashed twice, and a monster appeared—or more precisely, a player wearing a monster skin.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy paused. A player who had just respawned? There was still a 5-second countdown above their head, probably invincibility time.
She dropped the stone, and after the 5-second countdown disappeared, she showed a polite smile.
Hatred Lock Card could only find the target if they were within 2 kilometers.
Wasn’t this just perfect?
Hyena had just shaken off the fear of death. He was at least a master, had plundered resources in the battlefield for two days, and couldn’t bear to leave no matter what, so he decisively chose to respawn.
The players still in the battlefield now probably all had stockpiled resources.
Hyena took a deep breath, several plans flashing in his mind, but as soon as he looked up, he saw the familiar monster skin in front of him, and his expression froze instantly.
He didn’t expect himself to be so unlucky. He cursed inwardly and was about to run, praying the cockroach monster opposite hadn’t recognized him.
It was impossible not to recognize him. Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy excitedly spoke up,
“Hello there, spawn of the C6 zone slayer. Did you kick an iron plate and get taken out? Finally fallen into my hands!”
Respawning in the battlefield only happened in the Safe Zone, and now, with the Safe Zone shrinking, the probability was higher.
Hyena’s face changed drastically. His reaction was quick too; he swept his right leg across the ground, sending building debris smashing toward Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy.
He went all-out; in the complex terrain of the battlefield, he could reach cover in two or three seconds.
Control-type player—as long as he got far enough away, she couldn’t lock on and thus couldn’t use her skills.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy wasn’t strong in one-on-one fights, but her combat reaction ability was top-notch.
She didn’t dodge, tanking the cement and brick attacks, pulled out her saber, caught up to Hyena, and hacked away.
Hyena screamed and tried to dodge, but his Matchstick Man Item was already consumed. Dying again would be truly over. He begged for mercy loudly and shouted to the players coming to investigate the noise,
“She’s a madman, she’s killed a lot of people, help!”
“No shame at all, inverting heaven and earth!” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy clenched her fists.
She sped up her attacks and cleared Hyena’s health bar before others could come interfere.
This time, Hyena was truly dead; his corpse didn’t turn transparent and disappear.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, holding her bloodied saber, quickly left. She didn’t have time to waste with these people around; her teammates were fighting in a group.
Not long after, in the battlefield channel, a member of the player alliance just trying to survive to the end issued a reminder.
“Watch out for the cockroach monster skin; heard the player underneath kills without blinking. Run if you see it.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy wanted to explain, but thought it would expose her, so she let it go.
Anyway, they didn’t know her info, and players she met on the road would dodge her, which wasn’t bad. She was in a hurry.
On the other side.
Lightning Mage King, who had just finished running from the poison and was about to take a shortcut to meet his teammates, collapsed listening to the alarm ringing in his ears. The current Meteor Shower warning was only 1 minute.
He had been running for two days. On the first day, he had just found a resting place, planning to recover stamina and continue grinding monsters to stockpile more resources, to amaze his teammates later.
Halfway through a can of canned food, the Meteor Shower came.
From then on, a life of running from the poison began. Forget amazing his teammates—his equipment was beggar-level, and the soles of his shoes had worn off.
In the Danger Zone, he really had no time to stop and change to spare shoes. He was afraid that halfway through changing, splat, a meteor would smash down and crush his crown of the head.
He could only run in the delaminating shoes. With stones and iron sheets all over the ground, the road surface was terrible. While running, the sole finally couldn’t hold and completely fell off.
Now he could finally find a corner to change shoes.
But it came again?
Teammates slaying all sides in the battlefield, each dominating, while he was just running running running—who understood his bitterness.
Finally encountered some robbers, thinking he could show off his skills.
Before the fight even started, Meteor Shower came down. He shouted in the name of thunder, tossed an area of effect skill, and ran— so proficient that even the robbers were shocked.
Inhaling too much dust from the Meteor Shower hurt his lungs; staying longer would make him cough blood. He had experienced it—better to run fast and inhale less.
That feeling was awful, like his entire respiratory tract was burned to rot.
Lightning Mage King now got PTSD just hearing the alarm sound.
Not long ago, he had seen with his own eyes: players had run out of the Danger Zone, but seeing the resources dropped by those wiped out behind, greedily turned back to pick them up.
Then got themselves killed too—Meteor Shower double kill.
The Skill Card dropped right nearby, unlike other resources; it would disappear after 5 minutes if not picked up, but who dared go get it.
Meteors blanketing the sky, firelight illuminating the pitch-black sky, not even ash left.
Lightning Mage King looked at the shortcut flashing red on the map; no matter how beautiful his mental state, he wanted to go mad.
Couldn’t pass; he had to take the long way again.
Was this a battlefield or an ironman triathlon marathon?!
No one said before coming in that this was a parkour instance. He still wanted to follow the captain to boost the ranking; missing the group fight, he was spinning in anxiety with no options.
Either keep running or get smashed dead by meteors.
Looking at the countless firelights lighting up in the sky, Lightning Mage King raised a strong smile, took a breath, and rushed toward the Safe Zone.
At the same time.
Yu Jiang intercepted the respawning War Machine at the edge of the other side’s Safe Zone.
The Tracking Item was Gold Quality; she had grinded so many monsters over two full days to get it—not so easy to shake off.
As long as the target was still in the battlefield and alive, the tracking location persisted, and it was entire zone map tracking.
She had originally wanted to use it to locate Heartless Water, if not for running into this group.
