Chapter 229: The Hunt Begins
Four level 3 vehicles were parked roadside, people in the swamp, pale all over, mud water covering their clothes.
Lifting them up with a wooden stick revealed a string of dense long strip-shaped worms hanging on, their bodies still desperately drilling into the neck and brain wound.
These are scavenging mutated worms, they bite living people too, but as long as you don’t drink the water here, you won’t get parasitized.
Getting parasitized is the trouble, if you don’t find a way to solve it within 8 hours, you’re in big trouble, it’s hermaphroditic, can reproduce in a few hours with enough food, and the person will be hollowed out.
Two intermediate detox pills may not work, they just have a chance to cure, can delay some time, only worm-killing candy sold by the monster merchant can cure it 100%.
Monster merchants appear randomly on the road, even after entering the rainforest map, Yu Jiang hasn’t encountered any, it’s all about luck, even if you do, this thing is very expensive, may not have crystal coins to buy.
One bottle has 5, costs one thousand crystal coins, can only buy one bottle at a time.
Yu Jiang knew about this because Purple Butt Can Do It bought some, in their team, drinking water reserves are okay, in a place with such high air humidity, even a level 1 water collector is enough for survival, no one would drink water from the swamp.
But not all survivors have water collectors, and there haven’t been any supply boxes on the road in the past few days.
So some people, to save resources, took dirty water and filtered and boiled it like before, who would have thought that even boiling it this time isn’t 100% safe, then they suffered.
This situation exists in several game areas, 002 area has many alchemists, can make some delaying medicine, 003 and 005 areas have no way, they can’t use 002 area’s trading platform yet.
Purple Butt Can Do It sold one worm-killing candy to a friend, kept the rest for emergencies.
“Just now I received a private chat from someone in 005 area, talking about the situation there, regular players are also deeply affected, hope those people get taken out soon.”
Wholesale King Wang Defa’s voice came from the team channel, background sound was the new in-vehicle music card.
This thing one light music per card, some can only play music to soothe the mood, high grade ones have special effects.
She has one that reduces fatigue value and +10% status recovery speed, shared to the team, everyone benefits.
“I’ve compared the info I have, it’s probably true nine times out of ten, not sure if it’s misleading us on certain details.”
Lies are easy to debunk, all truth is hard to discern, Wholesale King Wang Defa paused, continued,
“Just now, people from 002 area also sent me info, saying they spotted Black Wind Stronghold’s 5th team, leader called Flower Thief.
The intelligence I compiled, this person is a pervert, likes both men and women, not sure if it’s a trap. Black Wind Stronghold Ghost Worrier’s info needs a bit more time.”
Merchant caravan spoke on public screen, 002 game area has so many people, as long as the opponent is on parallel road, chance of encountering isn’t small.
Merchant caravan also knows masters specialized in scouting intel, as long as the price is right, someone will take the job.
However, the people the merchant caravan hired mainly scouted Black Wind Stronghold Ghost Worrier’s info, the other robber team leaders’ info came from outsiders, so uncertain if true or false.
Yu Jiang chugged a sip of juice, voice calm, “No problem, hit them anyway.”
Wholesale King Wang Defa had a merchant caravan teammate leave the team, form a group with the reporting player, check the situation first.
It was at this time, Yu Jiang saw the public screen message.
Man and Woman Killer: [Is it easy for me to have a good meal? 005 area sand coins you wait for me! Robbed our team’s ingredients, hit our cook, fine fine, if I don’t beat the shit out of you, I’ll take your surname!]
“What’s this about?” Yu Jiang asked Wholesale King Wang Defa.
“I’ll go ask.” Wholesale King Wang Defa opened friend list, after a few minutes, said in team channel,
“They were cooking, ran into robbers, opponent had more people, not only robbed the food bowls, one small RV in their team flipped, water tank broke, also robbed a basket of ingredients.
Robbers saw they were tough, used an item to run, seems like an item that can switch parallel roads, just like that, Man and Woman Killer joined in.”
Yu Jiang: “Sneaky Player who can rob from Man and Woman Killer at combat power ranking 8th has some skills.”
Wholesale King Wang Defa spoke: “Said the opponent has a skill ‘Leave Buy-Life Money’, things disappear directly, no time to react.
This skill is no joke, if the target doesn’t have much supplies, loses health points instead, no reason at all.”
Yu Jiang recalled the ‘plunder’ skill Life is Like a Play used on her before, probably a bit more advanced.
“The merchant caravan’s hired recon master has results.” Wholesale King Wang Defa told Yu Jiang right after receiving the message.
“Okay.” Yu Jiang opened team channel, started arranging.
“Both teams don’t stop on the road, speed up forward, first have non-combat members return to personal road, the rest meet up with me.”
Yu Jiang looked at the glowing sign on the right lane ahead, on her side, the merchant caravan few had already left the parallel road.
She would bring Wholesale King Wang Defa and the healer, continue pursuing those people.
Yu Jiang team three combat power teams were very efficient, after all joined, expected to meet in twenty minutes.
On the other side, on the empty road.
Several off-road vehicles proceeded not fast not slow, happily tallying the supplies just robbed.
“Not sure if merchant caravan people will come.” The sneaky-looking man bared yellow teeth, smoke filled the vehicle.
What’s the use of regular players giving position, they wanted to send messages for help, but need the ability.
Light screen not even opened, got taken out, only left one to lure merchant caravan, light screen taken over by them, position given by them.
Merchant caravan comes is death.
Just thinking, suddenly, gale swept through the open window, man just raised his head, a black great iron hammer smashed over.
He widened his eyes, “Fuck *&% aaaah.!”
The heart-wrenching scream stuck in his throat, he and the vehicle were hammered flying out.
No matter how good the defense vehicle, can’t withstand such a head-on hammer, even Wholesale King Wang Defa’s vehicle wouldn’t dare take it, let alone his.
In a flash, vehicle scrapped, person dead.
The vehicles behind hurriedly braked, tire friction with ground echoing in the swamp.
At high speed, as everyone knows, hard braking doesn’t stop, easy to rear-end or rush into swamp.
Not to mention a row of triangle spike tire bursters on the ground, upgraded jointly by mechanic and Sixth Brother Blacksmith.
Ordinary roadblock vehicle stoppers where can handle level 4 and 5 vehicles, this thing price not cheap.
Several vehicles flipped, crashed, some directly hit flying by giant swing.
People on the vehicles just cursing rushed down, crackling lightning smashed down.
Then Wholesale King Wang Defa threw tear gas made by weapon master, plus a bit of moth scales powder Yu Jiang gave, her patiently collected golden bark tree velvet thorns, also invested.
Opponent had no chance to react, crackling lightning smashed down again, Shi Xu with goggles provided by merchant caravan, his own face mask, took detox pill in advance.
Just like that one team gone, the leader ‘Flower Thief’, he just ran out of tear gas area, got hit by Strawberry Candy two baseball bats and Yu Jiang one knife.
