Chapter 184: The Reason
The other teammates also stood up.
Han Jiang Gu Ying: 【Want to use a Tracking Card to bully our team? Come on, let’s clash.】
Kuang Kuang Kuang: 【Open a team meetup and fight directly. Do you think we’re all dead, and only A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow has people behind her? Can our Little Sugar just be bullied?】
Desert Eagle: 【I never actively attack players. Whoever wants to harm my teammates, one comes, one gets dealt with.】
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: 【My cleaver has long been thirsty and impatient!】
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: 【Look down on people who aren’t highly ranked on the Combat Power Ranking? So what if we make enemies, we’re not afraid! Worst case is death.】
Shi Xu: 【‘Tracking Card’ @The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain, I can head over anytime.】
Strawberry Candy looked at the messages from her teammates, feeling her eyes heat up. No one had ever stood so firmly on her side, protecting her.
She wanted to say something, but for a moment didn’t know how to start, feeling guilty inside. If it weren’t for her, everyone wouldn’t need to make an enemy of another team.
At this point, quite a few people who had grabbed meds and come to the public screen to watch the drama weren’t few.
Poor and Starving: 【What’s the situation? About to fight? But, Wire Big Shot, don’t you use an axe?】
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: 【That way the cleaver fits my nickname better.】
Moon Doesn’t Sleep You Don’t Sleep: 【Does Little Drill Wind Big Shot’s team still need people? No discrimination based on combat power, that’s too good. Even regular players get protected. Look at me, Big Shot.】
Lightning Shrimp: 【Sis, give me a chance to show myself! I have no other strengths, just that I follow commands.】
Great Luck Chariot God: 【Heartless Water Big Shot isn’t scared, right? Heard their team setup is pretty good.】
A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow and Heartless Water watched as, aside from those fanning the flames, most people were praising Yu Jiang. The two felt like their throats were gripped, faces ugly, unable to utter a word.
At this point, for them to swallow their pride and take a step back to seek peace was impossible!
They were at least players with some reputation.
A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow was the team’s only Level Four Alchemist, with healing and damage reduction BUFF skills, and Heartless Water was the team leader.
If they backed down, their team would be at a disadvantage against equal-level teams in the future. Could Heartless Water’s teammates still respect him?
They had originally banded together to improve strength and reach higher positions.
With more team members, resources couldn’t be evenly divided. Treatment was based on strength and utility, inevitably leading to competition and conflict.
Heartless Water had strength, so he was leader. If he couldn’t rally the team, he’d be replaced by someone else.
Several key combat powers were all blocked. No more Miasma Dispelling Pills to grab. Though out of respect for the two, no one said it outright, the teammates weren’t without opinions on the matter.
That wasn’t ordinary supplies; it was medicine to resist the poisonous miasma pervasive in the air. In battle, it was lighter and more convenient than an Anti-Miasma Mask.
Anger surged to his heart. Heartless Water sneered, nearly crushing the cup in his hand, but thinking that in doomsday everything was precious, he held back his strength.
【Good, very good. I’ve noted it @The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain. Hope you don’t regret it. My people aren’t ones to be bullied casually either.】
Their team’s individual combat power couldn’t match those few from the other side, but average strength was nothing to fear.
The other side would soon learn how stupid it was to recruit strong enemies for a lackey.
That Strawberry Candy, how could she compare to a Level Four Alchemist? To level up A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow, their team had put in so much effort.
Yu Jiang looked at his statement and responded bluntly:
【Best if you remember. I really don’t have time to argue with you. Fight if you want to fight, shut up if not. Don’t play the victim.】
The grudge was already formed. In future encounters, neither side would hesitate to strike if possible.
Of course, right now neither side would go mutually chop late at night. As leaders, acting without considering consequences, sending teammates to their deaths over a moment’s pride, with no real benefits or plan—this wasn’t a game where you could respawn after dying.
【Player Reputation reaches 500, obtain Achievement ‘Renowned’
Reward: Level 6 Component Card*2】
Yu Jiang looked at the popup message, eyebrows slightly raised. An unexpected surprise. She hadn’t expected A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow and Heartless Water to help her get an achievement.
Yu Jiang switched to the team channel and asked Strawberry Candy, “Any prior grudge with them?”
Strawberry Candy first expressed apology to everyone, “Sorry, I got everyone in trouble. And thank you all.”
Han Jiang Gu Ying: “We wouldn’t know our own people? If anyone’s causing trouble, it’s them.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: “Yeah, we’re companions. Of course we can’t let others bully our own!”
Yu Jiang: “Don’t overthink it. Now the ones with headaches are them. Without Miasma Dispelling Pills, they’ll have to spend more Crystal Coins buying other anti-miasma supplies from merchant caravans.”
Let them fight those giant insects and mutant forest pythons. In the end, they’d all be working for Wholesale King Defa.
Poisonous Miasma Zone monsters were numerous. Either wait to be killed by miasma, or grind Crystal Coins, scrambling for armor before Health Value drops to zero.
Anti-Miasma Masks were also consumables.
Purple Butt Can Do It also said: “Don’t worry, I got a Merchant Association discount Service Area Admission Ticket. Can get a batch of supplies. Already talked to the merchant caravan, won’t let them easily get armor.
Just checked too—A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow has high professional level but never got the Medicinal Material Illustrated Guide. Their team hardly does gathering. Making Pebben Gu Yuan Pills isn’t cheap. Probably not enough internally. Merchant caravan won’t let Sister Jiang’s Miasma Dispelling Pills reach their hands.”
Strawberry Candy wiped her tears and thanked again, “Thank you everyone. I’m not good with words. If you need me in the future, just say!”
Then, she explained the grudge with those two.
“Just before, in the second instance Lost Wilderness, during run the map, when my progress was at 85%, I ran into A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow.
I thought it’d be like the previous players I met—mutually non-interfering, just stay away from each other. But she pulled out her weapon and attacked me.”
“She said she wanted to practice, and among roadside players, I seemed most suitable. She wouldn’t take my life, would let me clear.
I didn’t want to and fought back. She got knocked away. Heartless Water jumped in to help. I couldn’t beat him, let alone both together.
They taunted me as a noob, toasting but eating penalty drink. I could only run, or I’d have died there.”
Fleeing in defeat looked bad, dying there worse. Only by living was there a future. She could only console herself that way.
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “Fucking hell! How about checking where those two idiots are? My hand’s itching to loose arrows.”
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: “I also want to spar with that kid.”
Yu Jiang: “First gather intel on their team. Let the Poisonous Miasma Zone wear them down a bit.”
The other team wasn’t small fish. Not easy to beat. Charging in directly, they couldn’t retreat unscathed and would have to watch for others waiting to pick them off.
Best to take them out in an instance. Outside, first probe their bottom line, check their strength.
