Chapter 113: Countdown Ends
Players not on the Hard Mode Road could also feel how severe the situation was through the Public Screen, with many posting Pictures.
Dodged the previous Instance, but couldn’t dodge the Steel Coil Truck and Giant Swing.
Those who plunged headfirst into the Snowy Ground to avoid disaster and got seriously injured were considered lucky.
The Public Screen was in chaos, with everyone in the Team asking about Yu Jiang’s situation.
Before Yu Jiang made a move, Shi Xu and Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, Kuang Kuang Kuang sent Team Up requests.
After joining the Team, Yu Jiang saw a Mutated Beetle in the Silver Box, bigger than a basketball, and that’s when she called her Teammates to help.
66 Mutated Beetle Toxins, she definitely couldn’t handle them alone, and she’d already used all her Skills today.
It requires a team of high Combat Power Players’ Skills, and even at a Friendly Price, not many Players can afford it.
Fortunately, she had Crystal Coins and Supplies, Yu Jiang thought reassuringly.
The Teammates didn’t ask about the specific Reward amount, they set off first, and would settle up after the job was done.
“I estimate the Steel Coil Truck and Giant Swing on this road section will only appear once. I’ll check the Monster deployment situation first; maybe I can use this Giant Swing.”
Yu Jiang looked up at the Sledgehammer over ten meters high; if this thing could be used for recycling, it would definitely be very satisfying.
It looks tough, but it’s actually not simple at all, quite a test of mental fortitude.
Compared to the Giant Swing de-stress Game of simulating driving, the passage Space here is larger with the Hammer, but you have to time it right, grasp the rhythm of the Giant Hammer sweeping over the Road, and not panic.
Panic and you’re done for.
Monster deployment remaining 03:29
A System Message appeared on the Public Screen: [Misfortune Card·Hard Mode, administrator ‘Sui Feng 220’ has died, all Rewards return to Challenge Players, calculated by Kill Monsters Tier!]
As soon as this Message came out, the Public Screen was full of applause and cheers.
Lone Wolf 2009: [Good riddance! He screwed me over bad, my Tire got stuck in the Snowy Ground, saw a Silver Box nearby and thought I was lucky, but it was a Monster! This Monster was especially tough and poisonous; now I’m hiding On the Vehicle and don’t dare get down.]
Walnut Pliers: [Which Big Shot did this good deed? I want to say well done! So he dragged us into Hard Mode and took the benefits himself.]
He Qi Sheng Cai: [Usually full of righteous talk, but so unethical behind the scenes! I actually believed his nonsense before, saying there was a cheap Alchemist to help with Drug Manufacturing, but my Medicinal Herbs went to waste, left me eating chaff and swallowing veggies, almost didn’t make it!]
They scrolled up ahead, closely looking at the Players who had spoken, searching for possible culprits, realizing that the first to guess it was a Prop Card was…
Sicily asked: [@The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain Big Shot, was it you? You really vented everyone’s anger! Otherwise, everyone would still be working for Sui Feng 220.]
Great Luck Chariot God: [As expected of a Big Shot, handling big things without a word! Heard this Big Shot is an Alchemist, little sister check me out, begging to join a Team with a Healer.]
Has Supplies and Healing Skill, this Team is great; if I can get in, with the Wealth Ranking number one support and Supplies backing, what’s there to fear about dominating the Road?
Thinking this, he got excited and sent a Private Chat,
“Little sister, you can summon me next time, I’ll help you take out the opponent. How can a Alchemist like you do such hard work.”
Yu Jiang had a face like an old man on the subway, what the heck, opening with such heavy dad energy.
She didn’t reply, but Great Luck Chariot God kept sending: “Driving? Public Screen says Monsters will deploy in a few minutes, want me to come help? You just give me Healing, large-scale Monster deployment is still very dangerous.”
“??? Too many Messages, didn’t see mine?”
Yu Jiang just swung her Axe, touched the Zombie’s back, smashed off the Ice with a few Axes, then switched to Bayonet to stab it into a Sieve.
She treated the Messages as unseen; replying to this kind of person felt like a waste of time, who knows where his confidence came from.
Yu Jiang wiped the blood off her knife on the clean Snowy Ground, looking at the string of thanks and adulation Messages on the Public Screen, about to say she didn’t kill Sui Feng 220.
In the System Message, it was also a Mutated Beetle that killed Sui Feng 220, what did it have to do with her?
She just delivered a Silver Box!
No matter how nicely the Players on the Public Screen talked, it was just talk, no substantial benefits; the higher they praised, the more they’d use it against her later.
Yu Jiang never cared what strangers thought of her; she only cared about tangible Things.
So, the next second when she saw the Achievement Message, she immediately changed her tune:
[Saw the Player inexplicably taken out by the Steel Coil ahead, and the Silver Box on my side was also a Monster, saw him watching the show, so I simply sent him on his way.]
[Congratulations, Player Reputation reached 100, obtained Achievement ‘Rising Fame’
Reward: Overall Fitness +2, 50l Gas Card *1]
Not much given, but better than nothing; improvement in Overall Fitness is very important!
Thanks again to Sui Feng 220, not only brought her a Silver Box full of Mutated Beetles, but killing him also gave her an Achievement.
Old Jar Pickled Mustard: [As expected of a Big Shot! This guy used a Prop Card to try to kill us, now we’re satisfied!]
Sicily: [How did Big Shot know it was Sui Feng 220? We guessed for half a day and still didn’t figure it out, as expected of Big Shot.]
Yu Jiang certainly couldn’t say there was a Detector for Prop Cards; the lender had said to keep it confidential.
This Game’s Items are all sorts, hard to say; other Players might not have things like Misfortune Cards, and the Detector would be a liability for them.
If the Detector’s owner hadn’t been screwed by the Misfortune Card themselves, they absolutely wouldn’t have lent the Detector.
Great Luck Chariot God was still posting on the Public Screen: [@The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain, can you see my Message on Public Screen?]
A curious Player asked: [You know the Big Shot?]
Great Luck Chariot God: [Guess, I originally told her I could handle taking out the guy who used the Misfortune Card.]
Toward the Sky Laugh: [Awesome, you’re actually in Big Shot’s Team! Pull me in too.]
Great Luck Chariot God: [No problem.]
Monster deployment with only half a minute left, Yu Jiang frowned at the Public Screen and issued a statement:
[Don’t know him, Private Chat already blocked, I post all my Trades myself, if anyone uses my name to say anything to you, it has nothing to do with me.]
The scene was awkwardly silent for a moment; in the past Great Luck Chariot God could retort and redirect, but with the Tracking Card existing now, he didn’t dare.
In Private Chat he sent, “You’ll regret losing a potential Teammate like me! I have a 7-meter truck, can become a hundred-ton king later, probably not many in the entire 002 Game Area!”
Didn’t send, followed by a bright red exclamation mark; Great Luck Chariot God snorted coldly in anger, no vision!
The bright red countdown ended.
A huge horde of Ice Zombies from who-knows-where surged onto the Road, the scale of a large Zombie Horde.
Just like scenes from movies before, cold wind obstructing visibility, one Humanoid Monster after another emerging endlessly; not sure if it was the strong wind, it pressed down oppressively, making it hard to breathe.
Yu Jiang roughly judged their movement tracks and distances, timed it right, floored the accelerator to rush past the Giant Swing.
