Chapter 221: The Start Of The Black Eat Black Free-for-all
The vehicle is covered in dust and stains, the originally white car paint has turned into mottled yellow.
But every vehicle’s chassis, tires, and bumper clearly took a lot of kung fu to modify, with decent off-road performance.
Especially the second dump truck, its body has rust spots and looks very old, but there’s a black mechanical device placed in the truck bed at the back.
It looks like a homemade launcher, full of killing intent, very menacing.
Several burly men got out of the vehicle, all fierce-looking with a bloody aura about them, wearing clothes whose original colors can’t be made out and still stained with blood, messy hair, and decent weapons and equipment in hand. Just this stance alone would make regular players run away.
“Boss, we’ve arrived at their 002 game area. Look at their wealth value, this area’s supplies are abundant.” The man in the short sleeve shirt said, looking ahead on the road with expectant eyes.
The burly man called Boss, with the nickname ‘Black Wind Stronghold Ghost Worrier’ above his head, smiled, revealing a mouth of yellow teeth.
“Yesterday I monitored the public screen for several hours and heard that the 002 game area has developed a merchant caravan, full of people without combat ability, led by a woman. It seems the people in the 002 game area are quite harmonious.”
His mouth was saying complimentary words, but his expression and eyes were full of disdain.
In their 003 game area, merchants, manufacturing players, vegetable and medicinal herbs planters—there were some at the beginning, and they even let them develop for a while.
Later, well, raise the pigs until they’re fat, then slaughter them for meat.
Except for a few who work for the team in exchange for protection, there aren’t many such players left outside.
Not just their one team, there are stronger combat power teams too. According to the list on the trading platform, they go one by one to find them.
Whoever has good things and doesn’t play smart gets directly slashed with a knife. After a while like this, the rest naturally become obedient.
Forget the trading platform, even on the public screen, those without some ability don’t dare to speak.
After a long time, the probability of encountering players on the parallel road became low, and it got boring.
“This group in 002 has such a high proportion on the combat power ranking, yet they let the merchant caravan make money from them. What a bunch of idiots.” A teammate with the nickname ‘Scar Old Zhou’ sneered from the side.
In the doomsday of the survival of the fittest, still talking about hammer’s rules and morals. With strength in hand, yet letting the merchant caravan take supplies from their own hands—what else could that be but brainless?
High combat power doesn’t mean they’re great at actual combat. In terms of fighting skills, these people are probably much worse than them who have killed their way through.
They not only rob regular players but also rob their peers. Who hasn’t stepped over others’ corpses to get here.
“Let’s go, first complete the mileage task, then find a place to block the road and wait.” Black Wind Stronghold Ghost Worrier waved his big hand.
Over a dozen players whistled and laughed cheekily as they got on the vehicle, their eyes full of excitement.
On the other side.
Life is Like a Play wore work pants, a short sleeve shirt, with a jacket tied around her waist, sitting on the vehicle roof, twirling her uniquely shaped saber in hand, cold light reflecting out.
“Sister Xi, I’ve scouted it out. Several game areas, especially 3 and 5, have few survivors, lots of ruthless killers, and plenty of bandit teams. They’ve come to the 002 game area wanting to do a big score, using us as stepping stones.” The teammate ‘Play Shadow’ carrying a straight-handled knife came to report.
Life is Like a Play smiled coldly without a word.
“They’ll definitely target the people on the wealth ranking first. Let’s see what they’ve got. As for stepping stones, whoever competes with us for the robber profession achievement gets taken out.”
Whether the 002 game area is chaotic or not has nothing to do with her. If the merchant caravan collapses, she’ll go grab a share too.
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain is the number one alchemist.
How can she allow the title of number one robber to be taken by someone else? Regular players can no longer satisfy this profession’s KPI.
“If you’re ready, let’s depart.” Life is Like a Play pushed off the vehicle roof with one hand and agilely jumped into the driver’s seat, the caravan behind her ready to go.
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Yu Jiang’s side was also preparing to depart. The merchant caravan boss came over; she was still bringing Wholesale King Defa and 4 other merchants.
“I heard Heartless Water is willing to take you on the parallel road for free; the instance can also be negotiated.”
Yu Jiang poked her head out the vehicle window, smiling at Wholesale King Defa.
“This vehicle is so good; living in it must be really comfortable.” Wholesale King Defa couldn’t help but look a few more times at Yu Jiang’s vehicle, then waved her hand.
“I’m a merchant; I know better than anyone that free is the most expensive. It’s more reliable to follow you.”
Heartless Water and A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow are no pushovers; their team has strength to have a say, with clear hierarchy.
If the merchant caravan follows them, they’ll reach into the merchant caravan to get resources from her hands. She can’t let that happen.
The two exchanged a tacit glance; the merchant caravan would still side with Yu Jiang as long as everyone keeps cooperating.
“But… is this nickname of yours serious?” Wholesale King Defa looked shocked at the text above Yu Jiang’s head.
In the next few days, on the parallel road, it will display the player’s game area, achievement title, or self-set nickname.
Above Yu Jiang’s head were two lines of text: No Martial Virtue.
Looking at the vehicle in front, it said: Full of Martial Virtue.
Yu Jiang shrugged, indicating it was just a coincidence—who made No Martial Virtue give the highest stats.
The prefix Road’s Number One Desperate Poison Master—she hadn’t equipped it yet; it was too eye-catching and would expose her profession right away, making her vulnerable to information gap disadvantages.
Her vehicle was fitted with battle-damaged limited-time car cover, looking corroded, with paint peeling and rust in some places.
Wholesale King Defa’s 6-meter-long RV also had camouflage, a higher-grade item than car cover, looking just like a beat-up van.
Yu Jiang: “You even got such an awesome item.”
“Don’t mention it. As soon as the server merge notice came out, I started hunting for camouflage items. It cost me a lot of supplies—heartbreaking.” Wholesale King Defa sighed.
Is it easy for her? She finally led the merchant caravan to gain a foothold on this road, and suddenly server merge happened.
Last night she received quite a few messages: the 005 game area only has a little over 4 thousand survivors left, yet someone made the wealth ranking. A little thought tells you where the wealth value comes from.
Nothing is faster than robbery and black eat black.
That Kiss of Death in fifth place on the wealth ranking is also in the top 20 on the combat power ranking.
The combat power ranking has been reshuffled; even just looking at the top hundred, the 005 game area has a good share.
“But I camouflaged my vehicle to avoid being robbed. Yours…” Wholesale King Defa looked at Yu Jiang and Shi Xu’s vehicles.
“Oh, I’m afraid they won’t come.” Yu Jiang pursed her lips, her expression sincere. “Black eat black really makes money. I know you brought a healer, so I sent our team’s level 5 healer to the other team. When the time comes, we take them down together and split the supplies.”
Wholesale King Defa: Damn, she even guessed that.
But splitting supplies isn’t bad. Bringing the healer was just in case; she always felt Little Drill Wind’s strength was great, but healing might not be, and luckily the merchant caravan had a healer too.
The two had reached a consensus. Yu Jiang properly closed the mosquito net, and the team officially departed.
Yao Yao Qie Ke Nao was teamed with her two companions and Han Jiang Gu Ying. Cleaver Brother and Kuang Kuang Kuang were bringing 188 male college student.
The strong combat power teams paired with level 4 healer, Han Jiang’s group with level 5 healer—perfect.
On her side, if it really came to a fight, the healer Wholesale King Defa brought would heal too.
Not far ahead there was also an Ice Cream Assassin. Since everyone was on the same parallel road, they were still allies. Ice Cream Assassin and his group were also bringing a few merchant caravan bosses.
