Chapter 68: A Bountiful Harvest
“Right, you’re lucky.” Shi Xu’s tone was calm, even though there was a narrow sharp bend right ahead.
After he spoke, he stood up without hesitation, supported himself with one hand on the seat back, jumped over, and swung his blade to block the incoming attack.
Purple Butt Can Do It was forced into the driver’s seat and gripped the steering wheel tightly, while the two in the back had expressions like the sky was falling.
“Captain… what are you going to do?”
Sad Pig Intestine noticed that Shi Xu had already reached the back of the vehicle, the original trunk area.
It looked like he was about to jump down.
“We can’t leave if we don’t deal with them.” Shi Xu first used Popeye’s Spinach, boosting his combat power value.
“Give me the buff skill in a bit.”
“Okay, alright.” Sad Pig Intestine was timid and couldn’t fight, but he followed commands.
Cook’s Blessing: Increases the target’s attack by 50% and burst damage by 20% for 10 seconds.
The first time he used it, he accidentally flung it onto a zombie, nearly getting himself killed; he didn’t dare recall that scene, and afterward he was very careful when using the skill.
With a leap, Shi Xu borrowed strength and vanished from his own team; the next second, his figure appeared on the vehicle pressing closest from the right side.
With his skill positioning and level, no single player on the field was his match, but facing a group attack was strenuous.
Single-target attacks and melee combat offered no advantage here; the only opportunity was a quick battle, to first eliminate or cripple the strongest team’s main force.
The surrounding teams hadn’t reacted yet, only seeing Shi Xu suddenly disappear and searching everywhere for his figure, when he was already expressionlessly swinging his Miao Blade.
The captain of Team 10, who thought victory was in his grasp and had cornered the field’s only Level Four Vehicle, still had the smile on his face when his health points dropped to zero and he fell into the water.
He had swimwear, but didn’t have time to jump into the water.
The vortex he created also dissipated, and the vehicle trapped inside was pushed by the water flow and crashed.
Shouts, splashes, and impact sounds rose one after another.
Eyeing the vehicle driven by Purple Butt Can Do It, it was already airborne, smashing toward the jagged boulders.
This time they’re done for! The two in the back seemed to see the Grim Reaper beckoning them, shouting as they closed their eyes.
Suddenly, with a boom, a drifting totaled vehicle rammed them back, just grazing the sharp mountain rocks and smoothly turning direction.
“This, this works too?” 28-bar Bicycle was utterly dumbfounded.
Sad Pig Intestine’s half-dead teammates nearly fainted with eyes rolled back; now they couldn’t even make a sound.
“Not bad, not bad.” Purple Butt Can Do It took a deep breath and gave everyone an “all good” look.
Not far away, Team 10, which had been slaying all sides moments ago, now had only Shi Xu left on the vehicle.
Blood mixed with splashing water dripped down his knuckles; the few teams that had attacked the fiercest beside him were already routed.
Several main forces were floating in the water in their swimwear, and the remaining uneliminated teammates didn’t dare approach again.
This guy is suicidal!
He actually dared to use his skill to teleport into someone else’s team!
Watching him take down four from Team 10, everyone was still fearless, thinking it was a desperate struggle.
Their team’s driver, Skinny Dog, and the Cook who didn’t look too bright had already used Intermediate Healing Potion once, so they probably had no more healing left.
They’d tested earlier; their team had no Alchemist.
But when Shi Xu charged into the next team, using his eerie movement technique to tank the armored strong man,
With his health down to 20 points—easy pickings for the strong man’s blade—everyone wanted to seize the chance to steal the big shot’s kill.
Maybe there’d be an achievement?
But in the blink of an eye, he topped up his health again!
Now, everyone started retreating.
A high-attack player with 50 health left, striking decisively and viciously, with a buff lasting over ten minutes on his head.
No matter how bold or tough, they feared the suicidal ones.
Those who wanted to challenge the big shot were done for; no need to risk it for such minor rewards.
And so, Purple Butt Can Do It turned direction, picked up Shi Xu, and the team successfully broke through the encirclement.
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Yu Jiang chugged another Qi Replenishing Drink.
1 Level 3 Vehicle and 4 Level 2 Vehicles had turned into unrecoverable metal frames in her hands.
The three teammates watched in stunned silence.
“Hurry! Captain Jiang, the teams behind are reaching the finish line and about to come out.”
Pure Love Cockroach, constantly monitoring the instance channel, reminded them.
Yu Jiang stowed her crowbar and returned to the team, acting like nothing had happened.
Half a minute later, two teams of players, soaked and exhausted from exiting the instance, arrived at the parking plaza and first saw those vehicles reduced to mere metal frames.
Several of them stared in bewilderment.
They’d seen them before at the parking plaza—vehicles left by players who died in the instance—but those just looked old and dull, not like this!
Besides, there were still a few normal abandoned vehicles nearby?
“What’s going on? Did we exit wrong? How did they end up like this?”
The speaking player rushed to the vehicle in a few steps, circled it twice, his face full of shock, then looked up at Yu Jiang’s group of four.
“Do you know what happened?” He pointed at the abandoned vehicle.
Lightning Mage King shrugged, Yu Jiang sat on the rest chair munching bread, and the other two looked perfectly natural, showing no flaws.
Not them? The players exchanged glances.
“Maybe it’s this instance’s doing.” One player waved it off. “People are dead; who cares what happens to the vehicles.”
There were more important matters at hand.
The group’s attention shifted from the abandoned vehicles to Yu Jiang and her team.
“Don’t know which one is The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain big shot; we’re Team 9, third place.” The player in the orange windproof and waterproof jacket tried to cozy up,
“To be honest, we’ve long disliked those idiots from Team 2; it took the big shot stepping in. We definitely didn’t join the attack back then.”
“About the healing price, could you… make it cheaper? Top 5 teams only got 100 crystal coins reward each; 100 okay?”
This was his real goal: haggle the price, ideally build a connection so the big shot would sell them healing potions cheap.
And that woman with the baseball bat earlier—her Overall Fitness +10% buff was prime stuff!
Yu Jiang: “Once we hit the parallel road, low health makes you easy prey; you’d lose everything. Minimum 150 for 20 health restored—no deal, forget it.”
150 crystal coins for 20 health was indeed a bit steep normally.
But right now, after the race, plenty had made enemies; the unlucky ones got ambushed right after exiting—so it didn’t seem expensive.
The orange windproof and waterproof jacket player hesitated for over ten seconds, then gritted his teeth,
“150 it is; can the big shot add me as a friend?”
“Sure.” Having taken 150 crystal coins from the boss, she couldn’t be too cold.
After the trade, Yu Jiang and her teammates prepared to leave.
Grassroots Team, the orange windproof and waterproof jacket player, felt excitement surge seeing the prominent nickname in his list,
“I knew it! The one driving so ferociously had to be a big shot—finally met one!”
“Big shot, which one in your team used Poison Rain?” Grassroots Team asked curiously.
First, rule out the girl playing suona; the one with the Pig Herder didn’t seem likely either.
The big shot’s an Alchemist, so not her; then the girl with the baseball bat?
“Isn’t asking about team comp a bit inappropriate?”
Yu Jiang said just that, then called her teammates to head out from the parking plaza.
Afterward, she distributed to the three teammates: Iron Block*20, Steel Block*20.
These were materials scavenged earlier; Yu Jiang kept Iron Block*60, Steel Block*20, and Rubber*20 for herself.
Still a great haul; the race reward Material Blind Boxes might not even yield this many materials.
Yu Jiang: We’re scavengers picking up wherever we go, main thing is not to come in vain (take all we can).
Sad Pig Intestine: Who gets the feeling of accidentally buffing a zombie with your skill while hands shaking(╥﹏╥)o
