Chapter 161: Teammate Arrives
“But… we can’t beat so many Poison Bees either.” The player in sportswear sighed and calmed down.
Even if there really were benefits, they couldn’t get them. They just saw the dozens of Poison Bees behind the female player, and recalling the honeycomb they had seen earlier, they didn’t even have time to run.
As for this benefit, if others didn’t give it to them, he had no objections.
“But if we hadn’t told her there were things here, she wouldn’t have known either.” Another player in work pants said.
They discovered it first, spent a long time and got nothing, and now leaving just like that, how could they be willing? At least they needed to know what was really going on.
The mission has passed 4 minutes, progress (22/100)
Yu Jiang also didn’t know how many she had pulled; her hand had been stung several times, the electric mosquito swatter was smoking from overuse, and zapping a Poison Bee only made it lose a few health points—it wasn’t that easy to kill.
She timed it right, ran back into the forest, released Poison Rain; area damage needed to maximize profit, there might be other larva hiding in the forest, 1 crystal coin was still money!
She didn’t dare go to the honeycomb side; thousands of Poison Bees flying over could bury her directly.
With Poison Rain’s damage, plus stacking the electric mosquito swatter, the efficiency went up.
5 minutes, progress (43/100)
Shi Xu had also arrived.
Yu Jiang looked over in confusion. Before she could ask, Shi Xu spoke up to explain, “Afraid of being late, used a Teleportation Card.”
To get this mission, he had really gone all out; Teleportation Cards could only be used within the same parallel kilometer, within the same team, and they were quite rare.
“12 o’clock direction ahead, there’s a honeycomb. Wait for me to finish farming and I can help you.”
Yu Jiang said, panting, without stopping her hand movements; the scorched smell mixed with the damp, stuffy air was hard to bear.
“Or you could gamble on it—if they can make it, having area skills would make it much easier to fight.” She suggested.
“No need, this limited-time task has a lot of randomness; it might close in a bit. Do you need help here?” Shi Xu drew his Miao Blade.
“No need either, I should be able to finish it.” At this moment, the electric mosquito swatter in Yu Jiang’s hand was being swung fiercely,
one after another crispy Poison Bee dropping from the air, smashing onto her head and clothes; she paid it no mind, her eyes fixed only on the mission.
Shi Xu acknowledged and turned to walk deeper in, searching for the honeycomb she mentioned.
The Poison Bees outside were all lured out by her for her own mission; she couldn’t sniping mobs from her own people.
Yu Jiang used her healing skill on herself, ignoring her aching arm and shoulder, no longer dodging damage, staring tightly at the mission countdown and progress.
8 minutes (71/100)
A bit slow; the electric mosquito swatter’s loss rate was high, so it wasn’t as effective as at the start.
And after fighting this long, many Poison Bees were dead, so they weren’t as dense anymore.
Yu Jiang frowned slightly, took out a can of insecticide spray, and sprayed wildly into the air.
Insecticide spray could only take off 25 health per hit; spraying a few was very inefficient, so she chose to expand the spray’s area of effect.
Yu Jiang had protected her eyes and mouth/nose, so she wasn’t afraid of the insecticide spray affecting her.
After using up one can, she followed up with swings of the electric mosquito swatter for finishing blows, racing against time to do the mission.
9 minutes, (87/100)
Faster, even faster!
Yu Jiang urged herself inwardly; otherwise, realizing too late that it was unbeatable and giving up early would be better—fighting this long and almost missing by a tiny bit at the last moment was the most frustrating.
Last 10 seconds, 99 done; Yu Jiang used the electric mosquito swatter to slam a Poison Bee against a tree trunk, crackling away, its body sparking wildly, dead as dead could be.
[Congratulations, player, Road Segment Limited-Time Task completed.]
Yu Jiang let out a long breath, removed her eye mask and mask; her body was already soaked in sweat, the buzzing in her head not yet faded.
She shook her hand; the electric mosquito swatter was nearly scrapped, with many Poison Bee wings and broken half-bodies stuck to it.
Yu Jiang followed her teammate’s position and walked about ten meters inward.
Shi Xu’s mission had 7 minutes left; his skills were one attack speed and one short-distance teleportation.
Though one slash could empty a Poison Bee’s health bar, dealing with such small-bodied, high-quantity goals in a timed mission was still troublesome.
He was ruthless too, directly slashing the lower half of a humanoid honeycomb to pieces; a huge swarm of Poison Bees swirled around him, nearly encasing him like a cocoon.
He shadow teleported out, pulling a group of mobs while walking and fighting; the pitch-black blade sliced through, a large swath of Poison Bees bisected and dropping to the ground.
9 minutes 20 seconds, mission complete; Yu Jiang lit a mosquito coil, helped him break away from the Poison Bee pursuit, and returned to the road.
At this time, the other three teammates arrived one after another, and the four players ahead also came back.
“What the hell is going on? We discovered the honeycomb first; by reason, we should get a share too.” The Crew Cut Man said.
“You guys go do the mission first.”
Yu Jiang said to the three teammates; two had area skills, and with their coordination plus insecticide spray, completing the mission wouldn’t be hard.
“Okay.” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, dressed in colorful clothes, nodded.
After they entered the dense forest, Yu Jiang turned to the four players and nodded,
“Makes sense. Kill one Poison Bee to trigger the limited-time task; kill 100 within 10 minutes for a reward—it’s a single-player task, teaming up doesn’t share progress.
If you want to do the mission, you can still make it; 2 minutes until it closes.”
She hadn’t said it before out of selfishness, afraid someone would affect her mission progress; at that time she was alone and couldn’t handle interference—the mission would definitely fail.
Now it was fine; their team of 5, plus Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy’s strong control skill, made sniping mobs extremely difficult.
“10 minutes, 100 of them?” The sportswear player twitched his mouth; was this a task a person could complete?
“Forget it, can’t do it.” He stepped back two paces, away from the forest.
The Crew Cut Man eyed Yu Jiang skeptically, then looked toward the direction her teammates had gone; there seemed to be quite a commotion.
Was the mission content she described real?
The Crew Cut Man wasn’t fully convinced and decided to test by killing a Poison Bee first, so he called another male player to go together.
Not long after, the two ran out in a sorry state; one had a swollen cheek from a sting, his mouth turned into a sausage mouth.
Less than 5 minutes, and they looked like completely different people.
“Limited-time… task… is real.” Sausage Mouth said with difficulty, hissing from the pain.
The sportswear player looked at them, glad he hadn’t gone in; getting stung also meant losing health, and he hadn’t sniped the Big Shot’s insect bite cream yesterday either.
The Crew Cut Man had seen the mission difficulty with his own eyes; a supermarket 100 crystal coin shopping voucher was something he’d never seen before—it felt very valuable, and he was still unwilling to miss it.
“We agreed to cooperate before, split supplies evenly; shouldn’t you help out?”
Yu Jiang looked at him speechlessly, “We barely completed our missions on the wire; you think you can just casually kill 100 Poison Bees? Help is fine, as long as the reward is right.”
“You told us there were things here so I could pick up this mission; I also told you the mission info, didn’t I?”
Hiring First Echelon to work wasn’t cheap.
Besides, for this mission, even with help, you had to be capable yourself, or it was all for nothing.
Yu Jiang sharing the mission info had another purpose: she wanted to see if these people could farm the mission again; if they helped, splitting some reward would be reasonable, right?
Facts proved they couldn’t do it, so there was no need to waste effort.
