Chapter 174: Skill ‘plunder’
55km, only 56 players left.
Yu Jiang and Red Group No. 2 were in a standoff for a while. She threw Caltrops, the opponent threw Immobilization, and both sides then used Slow Cards and Clear Negative Status Cards one after another.
Neither side used full strength; it was just probing.
Red Group No. 2 glanced at the rearview mirror, gestured to his approaching teammates, and prepared to accelerate past Yu Jiang.
It wasn’t out of fear, but with this bit of time, she could grab a few more Prop Cards. They could fight again in the last 5km, so why fight to the death here.
While Yu Jiang kept an eye on the movements behind, she prepared to shake them off. When a roadblock appeared ahead, she threw another Roadblock Card, leaving only one passable lane.
Yu Jiang was very fast and immediately used an Acceleration Card on herself to rush forward. With the spring’s boost, she jumped three or four hundred meters.
The springs on the lane were very useful, but they consumed vehicle wear and tear and stamina. If not handled well, the landing would be bumpy.
Healing Cards could repair the vehicle and heal at the same time, but they were extremely rare. Yu Jiang had only one.
This was the reason healing skills weren’t banned. Healing was useless; if the vehicle broke, it was over.
Yu Jiang’s vehicle wear and tear: 55%, health points 70, points 450
Reaching the finish line for rewards wasn’t hard, but getting an achievement was a bit difficult.
The prop cards in hand had been consumed in a wave, leaving only 6. It was hard to pick up any on the road now.
1 kilometer, full of all kinds of roadblocks and points, not a single prop card in sight.
60km, prop cards seemed to have just refreshed, and resources finally became abundant!
Since the instance merge, Yu Jiang stopped picking up wooden boxes and focused only on prop cards.
Sure enough, as soon as they refreshed, all players went wild. The players catching up from the side and rear shouted, maxed out their vehicle speed, and rammed another red vehicle with a reckless momentum.
He didn’t stop there. He turned the steering wheel and excitedly charged toward Yu Jiang.
Yu Jiang got excited too; this guy had just picked up quite a few prop cards.
She slowly raised her eyes and, following the opponent’s route, threw her most abundant Roadblock Card.
The opponent disdainfully whistled. Just this? It couldn’t stump him at all.
But as he just bypassed it, Poison Mist enveloped him: Attack -10, Health Value -10, Defense -10%.
This guy was wearing sunglasses, which blocked it somewhat, and his eyes weren’t much affected.
But immediately after, a bizarre wind blew the Poison Moth’s scales powder over. There was a four-leaf clover on the road right then; Yu Jiang deliberately triggered it and even threw a stone to pull a moth over.
The player behind, bearing the debuff of declining stats, could no longer let out arrogant laughter.
Once the scales powder’s hallucination effect kicked in, everything in sight became colorful and flowing with distortions. The poison moths even turned into eerie humanoid creatures that could sing.
Who wouldn’t be dazed by this?
It all happened in an instant. With such high speed, even without hallucination, the vehicle might lose control and not react in time. With the brain disrupted, he directly stepped on the accelerator as the brake.
Bang! He crashed into the roadblock and shattered, exploding prop cards everywhere.
Thanks for the resources from the opponent. Yu Jiang happily looted the body, picking up everything. She could tell at a glance that this guy had plenty of stuff.
She was rich again!
She had a total of 12 prop cards in hand and was still picking up more, her ranking rising from 6th to 5th.
The same-group No. 23 player who had just been overtaken saw her excellent driving skills, accurate and swift pickup of prop cards, and especially the string of poison moths following behind her, all with aggro values maxed out wanting to kill her. He was truly stunned.
He’d seen people kiting dogs, but this was the first time seeing someone kite poison moths. No wonder she was immobilized for 120 seconds—utterly mad!
In the last 5km, the competition heated up intensely. It was no longer a lane, just a battlefield.
Roadblock Cards were thrown one after another, impossible to tell who threw them.
Someone even used “Carry” to remove the tires from an annoying opponent’s vehicle.
Attacks were crazy and dense, with occasional explosion and impact sounds. Without real skill, you couldn’t last 50 meters.
Fireballs, Man-eating Flower digestive fluid, Poisonous Fog—all present. Caltrops covered every lane, almost fully paved—that was the Super Ground Spike Card.
The players ahead were all ruthless. Yu Jiang sighed at the increasingly fierce battle, gaining a new understanding of the current players’ strength. The first echelon of Area 002 was truly no slouch.
She used the Healing Card on herself. She had plenty of prop cards, but few defense ones.
Yu Jiang dodged attacks while finding opportunities to quietly attack others and pick up props they dropped.
At a time like this, no one would check instance messages or care who threw the attack cards. It was all random attack; whoever was weaker got eliminated—simple and brutal, perfect for muddle through.
“Holy crap, what prop cards is that player with the green 6 using? All poison moths and scales powder! Why does she get such a grand entrance!”
Someone shouted in the instance channel with wind noise, “Is it a Beast Tamer?”
“Tame my ass! Poison Moths are high level, can’t tame them. Can only control the spicy strips on the road. His are all aggro value! I saw him throw stones to smash and bring the poison moths over.”
“No. 6 is really lucky. The poison moths in this instance won’t attack players, only drop scales powder, or he’d be dead hundreds of times over.” The speaker behind, Pink Group No. 10, was a real Beast Tamer.
While others threw prop cards, he threw snakes—really vicious. The boss viper smashed into someone else’s vehicle, followed by a few screams as the vehicle crashed into a tree trunk.
“Pink No. 10, fuck your grandpa!”
“No. 6 is an idiot! All scales powder, I’m done!”
“Yellow Group No. 50, this kid threw Dung Bombs, puke—is this a prop card or skill?”
Yu Jiang looked in the rearview mirror. Perhaps out of fear of the Dung Bombs, a group rushed forward recklessly. Nicholas and his group were also there.
Yu Jiang gradually slowed down, waiting for them to catch up. She used a 10-second Pass Card, floored the accelerator in the chaos, and rammed them all onto a 50-meter Super Ground Spike Card.
She smashed Fireball Cards down. Amid screams and curses, several people exploded with props.
The remaining Nicholas still wanted to pick them up, but Yu Jiang hit him with a “Poison Master’s Blessing.” His eyes instantly went dull, he got hallucination and spun in place, health value -20. He was done.
Anyway, players here couldn’t use attack skills. Even if given attack and burst buffs, it was useless. Hitting debuff was pure profit.
He alone dropped 6 prop cards, now all Yu Jiang’s.
In the last 2 kilometers, many players’ prop cards were nearly depleted, while others began full-force attacks.
Yu Jiang and the previously seen Blue Group No. 8 and Red Group No. 2 were among them.
[Player ‘Life is Like a Play’ used skill ‘Plunder’ on you: Prop Cards -5, Health Points -30, Points -50]
Yu Jiang’s expression darkened sharply as she met the gaze of Red Group No. 2 from the side rear.
This skill was damn powerful, and saving it until now showed real composure.
She originally had 600 points, the highest in the field, now down to 550, with the opponent taking the top score.
A hint of regret flashed in Life is Like a Play’s eyes.
‘Plunder’ skill randomly takes a proportion of the target’s stats, with a 5% probability to plunder a non-cooldown skill of the target.
Simply put, the plundered target’s available skills enter cooldown, while she could use the target’s skill once within the time limit.
The downside was the long cooldown time of a full 7 days.
In this instance, prop cards and points were also deemed plunderable.
