Chapter 143: Completely Overhauling The Doomsday Hot Spring Service Area
The moment the ghoul’s body dissipated, a miserable and resentful cry echoed throughout the entire town.
The dilapidated courtyard gradually restored itself. It reached out toward the building in front of it, then completely disappeared, leaving only blooming Manjusaka where it had stood.
Everything was over.
Warm yellow lights lit up inside the motel, giving it the appearance of a proper Hot Spring Motel.
If not for the traces of the fight still visible in the snowy ground and the few people’s disheveled low health status, they would almost think that what they had just experienced was merely a hallucination.
The rounded font on the price card lit up.
Fatigue Elimination Pack, 500 Crystal Coins, Health Value permanently +2
(A healthy body is the capital for survival.)
Qi and Blood Replenishing Pack, 200 Crystal Coins (Guaranteed to restore your energy, spirit, and vitality)
Fox Boss is off duty, open for business tomorrow afternoon at 4 PM.
Horror Instance overhauled into Doomsday · Full-Service · Hot Spring Service Area.
Yu Jiang had not yet put away the bayonet in her hand. She stood behind Shi Xu, looking indifferently at the remaining three.
She now had only 15 Health Points, in an exhausted state. She could drink the Qi Replenishing Drink, but the Healing Potion still had several dozen minutes of cooldown.
Standing further back was safer, and at the same time, she couldn’t let the others see that she truly had few moves left.
Player 10, with only 10 Health Points left, had just crawled up from the ground, looking panicked in both expression and eyes.
There were also Player 5 and Player 6, with messy hair covered in snowflakes. One had 20 Health Points, the other 40 Health Points, but if it came to clashing head-on with Yu Jiang and her teammate, they had little confidence.
Player 5 was control, with a skill to divide battlefield, average close-combat kill ability.
Even if their teammate had a skill to remove negative status, the instance channel notification had already revealed Player 2’s nickname.
Top of the Combat Power Ranking, with 30 Health Points remaining.
Player 1 was his teammate, daring to swing a knife at Player 9, and there was only one alchemist in the Top Ten on Combat Power Leaderboard.
It wasn’t necessary to fight to the death. Player 9 was already dead, so why were they still looking for trouble, gambling whether the two big shots had any moves left.
Player 10 reacted faster, “Sister Little Drill Wind, misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding! I’ve even snatched supplies you were selling before. If I’d known it was you, I never would’ve helped Miyamoto.”
Afraid Yu Jiang wouldn’t believe him, he continued explaining,
“Really, I haven’t been with that idiot for long. He just used me to block damage, you all saw it. That’s when I decided to split from him.”
“I didn’t attack you all either. How about we call it even? The motel has turned into a service area. No need for us to be at each other’s throats. Let’s go in, rest properly, soak in a hot spring— isn’t that better than anything?”
Miyamoto was dead, but he still wanted to live!
And there was the hot spring pack that added 2 Health Points.
Player 5 also spoke up, “We only assisted Player 9 for supplies. We didn’t give him the Purification Skill just now, and he didn’t give us the things in advance either.”
Yu Jiang had thought it through carefully. Players 10 and 6 both had pretty high defense values. Taking them all out would take quite some effort.
Having just gone through a fierce battle, neither side really wanted to fight.
As for her information, she didn’t know how much these people had figured out. Having survived here for a long time, information couldn’t be hidden forever, unless she killed everyone outside her team every time she entered an instance.
It wasn’t out of excessive kindness. Surviving here was never easy to begin with. People who posed no threat to her didn’t need to be killed.
These people and Player 9 weren’t close enough to avenge him. They were all just in it for profit.
As long as they left the courtyard and entered the current motel, fighting would be prohibited.
Player 10 looked at the lit-up interior of the motel not far away, wishing he could flash inside, while nervously watching Yu Jiang and Shi Xu, afraid they wouldn’t agree.
The air suddenly grew quiet. The three players nervously gripped their weapons, anxious and uneasy.
After a few seconds, Yu Jiang spoke, “Makes sense. You go ahead, enter first.”
She wouldn’t dare walk behind this group, afraid of getting stabbed in the back.
The premise for agreeing to a ceasefire was that they went first.
The three players’ expressions froze slightly, they hesitated to speak but ultimately said nothing and agreed.
They were also afraid Yu Jiang would go back on her word and attack from behind.
If they had a choice, who would want to expose their back to others? They had no other option.
Player 10 had the lowest Health Points and walked at the very front, Player 5 in the middle, Player 6 at the end. The three walked forward uneasily, glancing back from time to time with their peripheral vision.
Only when everyone stepped into the bright interior and the no-fighting marker appeared above their heads did they breathe a sigh of relief.
The no-fighting rule in special areas wasn’t just talk. Even if you attacked here, you couldn’t reduce the target’s Health Points; instead, you would receive system punishment.
The conflict between the few stopped, but that didn’t mean everyone could get along without reservations.
As soon as they entered the motel, they dryly said something and then each returned to their team’s room.
The Hot Spring Motel wouldn’t open for business until tomorrow, so they could only wait. Perfect timing—they’d been running around all night and nearly died of exhaustion. Everyone was worn out and could finally rest properly.
Except for Player 8, still hiding in the wardrobe in the investigation area, shivering alone and not daring to come out.
He had sent several messages in the instance channel, but no one responded. Now he was even more frightened.
Listening to the howling cold wind, the rustling sound of leaves as if right by the ears, the creaking sound from the scrap door frame.
Player No. 8’s hands and feet were numb but he didn’t dare move, cold sweat dripped from his forehead onto his eyelids but he didn’t dare lift his hand to wipe it.
Even seeing the kill message, he always felt the ghoul was still outside, as if moving would get him caught.
There seemed to be footsteps outside too, he wasn’t sure.
“Help! Big shots, I really don’t want to die, please, help me out.”
“What’s the situation outside? How did No. 9 get killed too? I see everyone’s health bars red on the instance interface.”
Everyone was busy just now, no one had time to check his message.
Yu Jiang returned to the room, took off the down jacket stained with snow particles, weeds, soil, and wood chips.
This clothing of hers was scratched, a lot of down flew out, it hurt her heart—this was doomsday rare resource!
Hurry and put it away, process it later, and it could still make a new one.
After that, Yu Jiang sat on the woven seat cushion, let out a long breath, and looked at the instance channel.
Before the few people in the motel went to grab the BOSS, they shared information through messages and pushed the investigation progress to 80%.
Mission completed, their mood was of course different from No. 8 whose progress was stuck at 25%.
Previously, he almost never spoke in the instance channel, but now it’s different.
Player No. 10: “Bro, you said our health bars are all red, and now there’s no way we can go out to bring you.”
You’re going out to investigate clues? Haven’t I already told you what the clues are and their locations? The Main Body has already been killed, what the hell are you afraid of!
Player No. 8: “Big shot, I’m really scared of these things 『crying』. Can someone take me along? Crystal coins are fine, okay?”
Yu Jiang: “The Ghoul Main Body was killed, but that doesn’t mean there are no Clones in the Investigation Area. In the Instance clues, Clones are products condensed from resentment; it’s hard to say if they count as entities. I told you the Route; if not, just half-crouch and move.”
“When morning arrives, the Investigation Area will close, and it might not be possible to get out before it opens again at nightfall. Decide for yourself.”
If her health bar weren’t so dangerously low, she would really want to earn this money.
Who knows if No. 8 is pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger? At this juncture, no one will go over. Telling him the clue location is already pretty good.
Player No. 8: Lying win, but dare not go out
