Chapter 252: No Sleeping—get Up And Fight For Crystal Coins
Many teams without firsthand intelligence who directly entered the urban parallel road weren’t so stable.
By evening, many people also discovered that the safe time here wasn’t reliable either, with chaos on the public screen—some complaining bitterly, some begging for medicine.
Snowflake Fluttering: [Holy crap! What the hell was that thing in the house? I didn’t get the box, and I nearly died. Just a chill suddenly crept up my back, a humanoid creature flashed by, and then it was right in my face!]
Sexy Leg Hair: [What happened to the promised nighttime protection? We just lay down to sleep when footsteps sounded on the car roof. Looking out the window, a face with large black spots under the skin was hanging upside down! Nearly scared the piss out of me.
That’s the monster “Doomsday Wraith.” It instantly knocked 5% wear and tear off my vehicle, and we’re still racing down the road.]
Dead Duck Won’t Soften Its Beak: [Ordinary vehicles can’t handle them unless equipped with special items on the vehicle. Run fast! White-named ones are okay, but don’t hesitate with red-named ones on top—unless you’re a big shot, don’t even think about fighting!]
Sharking Like Spicy Hot Pot: [I was wrong. I shouldn’t have entered the parallel road. I thought I could finally scavenge some supplies and rushed in without thinking. Help! This thing is too fierce. It hits me and I lose health, I hit it and it disappears—what the hell is this!]
Fuling: [Just heard a teammate scream suddenly. By the time I ran over, they were gone. Everyone be super careful at night! This monster seems to only circle fixed houses. Seeking healing potions, liniment for bruises and sprains.]
Susu: [Too scary. Any teams to carry us? Please take us along.]
Ye Wuyou: [LOL, one sentence from you, why should we carry you? Wishful thinking.]
Pillow Dream Star-Picking: [No need to kick them when they’re down. Others said no reward either.]
Ye Wuyou: [Weakness is the original sin.]
Before the server merge, Ye Wuyou was in the top ten combat power ranking; after, dropped to 19th, but still has the capital to be cocky. Many people have long disliked him but didn’t dare say it.
He and Sicily wouldn’t team up otherwise—they’re similar. Against same-level combat power players, he wouldn’t act like this.
At this time, Han Jiang Gu Ying shared intelligence:
[This monster doesn’t have a thick health bar, but its attack and flash have patterns. Seize the opportunity—at the instant it attacks, that’s when you can hit it, and normal attacks are useless. Oh right, there are also explosion zombies in the urban area.]
Wang Zi Nougat: [Thanks for the reminder, big shot! Luckily our server still has good people who share info from time to time.]
Word Duck: [So terrifying. Good thing I didn’t enter the parallel road today. Leave card was worth it.]
Yu Jiang’s private chats were blowing up, but she didn’t reply to a single one.
Her trading platform homepage has long taken medicine processing orders. Merchant caravans also have medicine for sale, just at higher prices, especially after the server merge.
Many private chatting her said exactly that—selling her an extra share of medicine at a discount was no big deal for her.
For such people making demands, Yu Jiang directly ignored them.
After scrolling the public screen and getting a general idea of the situation with people entering the urban parallel road, Yu Jiang turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Despite knowing there were plenty of warning devices around the camp and teammates on night watch, strange noises kept drifting into her ears from time to time—crying, painful groans.
Not sure where they came from. Hearing such sounds, how could anyone sleep soundly?
Yu Jiang’s RV had excellent soundproofing. One could imagine the environments other players were in.
The urban road is completely different daytime and night. The scary part of the “Doomsday Wraith” isn’t the attack, but not knowing when it will appear—the nighttime safe time could fail at any moment.
Red-named elite monsters have no house restrictions, meaning they wander randomly. Wherever it appears is its area of action.
Yu Jiang turned on the speaker by the bedside, started the vehicle light music, set to auto-off in 1 hour, and turned the volume low.
Great, now she couldn’t hear the outside sounds.
At 3 a.m., the night watch had long changed shifts. Yu Jiang abruptly opened her eyes at the sound of the bell.
Something was approaching the camp.
“What’s going on?” Yu Jiang cautiously didn’t immediately go to the terrace or open the window to check, but first asked in the team.
“A wandering ordinary monster.” Shi Xu’s voice sounded. “I’m preparing to test its attack pattern.”
Yu Jiang acknowledged, put on her jacket and old man cloth shoes, and got out of the car. She hadn’t killed this thing even in daytime and wanted to see the attack mechanism.
Purple Butt Can Do It on the nearby vehicle trembled as he watched Yu Jiang dress like a total softie, put on sunglasses, and come out—his expression froze solid.
Though he knew her sunglasses were an item, wearing them at night would confuse anyone.
“The sunglasses really work! I can see its movement trajectory!” Yu Jiang said delightedly.
The vengeful spirit didn’t vanish and reappear out of thin air; in the sunglasses’ view, you could see the shadow trailing as it moved.
That was enough for Yu Jiang to predict the direction of its next attack. She could kill it.
But there was only one monster here, so Yu Jiang didn’t steal the kill. She knew Shi Xu’s profession often had kill missions, some with time limits.
Shi Xu had no sunglasses item and initially couldn’t keep up with the vengeful spirit’s extremely fast displacement attacks, nearly getting his neck strangled.
Touching this monster makes players lose health— not much, but it ignores physical defense, and its attack is very high.
Shi Xu’s combat ability was top-notch. After two rounds, even without item assistance, he figured out the vengeful spirit’s mechanism and ended the battle.
“Ordinary monsters are okay. No info yet on the red ones.” Shi Xu returned to Purple Butt Can Do It’s vehicle.
“Check again in the morning.” Yu Jiang asked again, “How many crystal coins per Doomsday Wraith?”
“20 crystal coins, and a chance for reward supplies—just got a bottle of water.” Shi Xu answered.
“So valuable!” Yu Jiang met his gaze. “How about we look around nearby?”
She was excited—her knife was quite effective against this type of monster!
Jackpot!
Shi Xu wasn’t surprised at all by her expression of “sleep what sleep, get up and farm crystal coins.”
He nodded. “Good.”
They still had to guard the camp’s safety and couldn’t stray too far, so they wandered both sides of the road.
Purple Butt Can Do It keeping watch from the car window: 6
Monsters wander at night, and they two also wander at night—too intense. Otherwise, they could be rank 1.
Unfortunately, their team had really good luck, or maybe because they were still at the urban area edge, they didn’t encounter a second monster wandering over.
Yu Jiang searched around, but even holding the White Crystal Bayonet, there was nowhere to use it, so she went back on the vehicle to sleep.
The next day, right at 6 a.m. when they got up, there was quite a stir on the public screen.
Teams with few people all chose to team up with others to spend the night, forming temporary teams of ten or twenty people.
The incident happened in one temporary team—they were almost wiped out, and the scene was extremely tragic.
Next chapter’s Monster Merchant: Hey, wanna buy things?
