Chapter 139: Picking Up A Prop Card For Free
Stamina and status improved to optimal, Yu Jiang rushed straight into the second Investigation Area on the right side.
As soon as she entered, she smelled a strong rust smell, and followed the shoe prints on the snowy ground inward.
A twisted corpse lay on the ground, with a large hole broken in its chest, red blood falling on the snowy ground, particularly striking.
Even more eye-catching was the glowing Prop Card dropped on the ground nearby!
Yu Jiang spotted it at once. Things in a player’s Storage Compartment disappear with the player’s death, but those taken out and not used in time do not.
Thanks to Player 4, it was her first time picking up a Prop Card for free.
Yu Jiang stepped through the snow, quickly stepped forward, bent down to pick up the Prop Card and ran, her movements agile without the slightest hesitation.
The Ghoul Clone that jumped out from behind even froze for two seconds in its posture of arching its body and spreading its arms.
No, she heard crying from behind but didn’t even turn her head to look?
It felt even more proficient than it; who exactly was the Boss?!
Turn back? Yu Jiang’s mouth curved up; with the things already in hand, who would bother with it.
She had long heard those chilling footsteps and knew the Ghoul Clone was nearby.
When she went to pick up the things, she had already predicted where it would come from and planned her escape route.
These houses all had cabinets for dodging, prepared by the game for players.
After confirming safety, Yu Jiang scanned the Prop Card in her hand:
[Acceleration Card: After use, gain Flying Legs for three minutes, enjoy lightning-fast speed! No stamina consumption~ (just be careful not to crash into walls or break your legs)]
Hard to evaluate; how to put it, it’s indeed a good item when it doesn’t backfire.
If Player 4 had used it, the Ghoul couldn’t have caught up; he must have triggered the Finishing Skill.
Now it was cheaper for Yu Jiang.
She was proficiently dodging the Ghoul and searching for Manjusaka when another team hurriedly arrived at the house.
Player 9, who was timid and fawning when entering the game, now seemed like a different person, with a cold hard expression on his face, no trace of fear or worry, just a bit anxious.
He and Player 10 had gone to the Investigation Area diagonally across from the motel and discovered the use of Manjusaka.
With a slight thought, he guessed that someone had already taken the Manjusaka from that area.
So they immediately headed to the next Investigation Area, thinking other teams wouldn’t be this fast and regular players would prioritize exploring nearby.
They went straight to the farthest one to snatch the things first.
Upon arrival, they were dumbfounded; someone had predicted their prediction.
They played cat-and-mouse with the Boss clone inside for half a day, the Healing Potion cooled down, health points not fully restored, and ended up with nothing.
It was obvious who did it: Player 1 and 2; they had long figured out the Ghoul Boss’s mechanism.
Regular Players had no need to risk taking Manjusaka; at least one of those two must have also taken the Kill Mission.
The two Investigation Areas on the left of the motel were hopeless; they rushed to the right side without stopping, to the Investigation Area where Players 3 and 4 went.
Player 4 was dead, and Player 3 didn’t seem like he would last much longer; the Manjusaka here was likely still untaken.
This was their last opportunity.
Player 9 Miyamoto, Player 10 Zhan Xian, both had good combat stats, especially Player 9 with his agile figure, unaffected even without a Flashlight.
Player 10 couldn’t keep up, so he simply searched in the opposite direction, then they discovered the two emptied vending machines,
and the wooden ceiling of the basement with a large hole broken in it, plus ordinary Manjusaka growing in the corner.
They found the basement key, that’s true, but there were obvious signs of the ground being rummaged through again, and half-exposed bones; useful items had clearly been dug away by someone.
Player 9 looked up at the hole above, his fists clenched tight.
Busy for most of the night and got nothing; failing to snatch important items was one thing, but Players 1 and 2 wanted to kill the Boss and would also use Manjusaka, and they could even snipe mobs.
But even the Supply Vending Machine had been cleared out, not even a Compressed Biscuit left.
“Damn! He didn’t search for clues and just smashed the floor to come down; what profession is that, a demolition worker?!”
Player 9 recalled the black shadow he saw earlier; its figure wasn’t like a Ghoul, its feet ran too fast to see clearly, only an afterimage, whooshing away, and the already dilapidated sliding wooden door had a hole crashed into it.
Things happened too fast; at first they thought the Ghoul had a second form and got scared, but when they turned around, they saw the Ghoul tilting its head, equally baffled.
So it was a person, didn’t know if it was Player 1 or 2; thinking of that scene made Player 9’s molars grind.
He was also in the First Echelon of Area 002, with a high-burst high-output profession, a master at playing possum.
Several teams wanted to recruit him; Player 10 was arranged by the other side to help him with missions.
Since entering the game, he hadn’t suffered such a big setback.
“What should we do now?” Player 10 asked.
“They’ll meet up next to fight the Boss; let them fight first, and when they’re almost done, we make our move. Player 6 is an Alchemist; you go find them and say we can buy the Healing Skill at a premium.”
Player 9 snorted coldly, “I’ll keep an eye on Players 1 and 2 first; in just a few hours, they’ve gathered all the important items; their combat power is probably not low.”
Player 10 nodded, “Okay.”
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Outside the house, on a secluded small path.
The scenery in front of Yu Jiang blurred wildly backward, then she stepped on the slippery stone slab, did a neat slide tackle, and then hugged her head and fell.
This was already the best outcome; otherwise, she couldn’t stop and would crash into the Ghoul.
It would twist her head off!
Yu Jiang timely turned a corner and rushed out of the house, leading to the slide tackle moment.
Flying Legs, ah no, Acceleration Card; this thing couldn’t brake at all.
Luckily she was dressed thickly; falling once was fine, not particularly painful. Yu Jiang got up, opened the Team Channel, and sent a message: “I’m done here.”
Shi Xu: “I’m almost done here too, about ten minutes.”
“Good, meet at the back of the Hot Spring Motel.” Yu Jiang patted the snow off herself.
First found a relatively safe place and checked the team’s shared Investigation Progress: 86%
Some clue items they didn’t find; completing the mission was enough.
Based on the existing information on the Light Screen, they could roughly deduce the origin of the Ghoul and what had happened here.
When Doomsday came, a heavy snow blocked the road outside; people outside couldn’t get in, and those inside couldn’t get out.
The town’s residents thus survived; at that time, there seemed to be some Infectious Disease outside.
The Hot Spring Motel Boss’s family had supplies; the Boss’s wife took out supplies to help everyone.
But as the town’s supplies dwindled, when she fell ill and needed medicine, those she had helped used it as an excuse to drive her out of town.
Those people thought there were still many supplies in the Hot Spring Motel, forced their way in and ransacked it, and seeing there really were no supplies, they turned to her child.
Former kind neighbors, people who had thanked them profusely not long ago, suddenly became ugly and ferocious.
After that, she turned into the Ghoul and killed everyone here, including the bystanders.
The 5 Investigation Areas corresponding to houses were the places where the ringleaders lived at that time.
The burn marks behind the first house were from residents trying to kill the Ghoul; it should have succeeded, but the Ghoul revived.
Things were probably like that; over time, the Ghoul also lost its memories as a person and became a monster that kills on sight.
After this Instance ends, the road disaster on the highway will change too~ Primitive Forest Highway preview
