Chapter 240: Picking Up Supplies, Picking Up Supplies Like Crazy
Before heading to the Banquet Hall, Yu Jiang’s bayonet still had more than an hour left to finish refining.
She didn’t know what was going on either; the quality of the White Crystal Stone wasn’t high, and previous upgrades with quality items had been quite fast, but this time it actually needed 12 hours.
Yesterday when she arrived at the Manor and changed clothes, she had clicked to level up in the system panel.
With one less weapon in hand, she didn’t dare to act rashly yesterday.
Yu Jiang still chose an outfit similar to yesterday’s; the clothing fabric provided by the Manor was all very comfortable, and the matching accessories were also very nice-looking.
She directly picked two pieces from the frame and stored them in the grid; it would be nice to collect them as souvenirs.
Of course, she didn’t forget to take everything recyclable in the room that could be taken away, including those from her teammates’ rooms.
Night fell, dim lights lit up one by one, and the entire Manor seemed to suddenly come alive.
At 8 PM, the butler finally invited the players to the banquet.
The event that started at 7 had to wait until 8 to let the “honored guests” in.
Clearly, they were the ones on the plate.
The butler led them to an area of the Manor that wasn’t open during the day, just like a scene from an old movie.
The heavy ornate doors were pushed open, and the scene inside was hard to describe in words: luxurious, eerie, mysterious, and carrying a bit of deadly temptation.
The table was filled with a dazzling array of food, and on the sofa were young men and women in gorgeous attire with stunning looks; even their gazes carried an irresistible sexual tension.
There was also a young woman nearby wearing a black small top hat, elegantly playing the violin; just her side profile looked very beautiful, the melody of the music was a bit strange but very pleasant, making one’s thoughts involuntarily sink into it.
Lying flat and enjoying pleasure is human nature; how many people don’t like it? This was testing the survivors—who among the survivors could withstand such a test.
Player No. 7 took a wine glass handed over by a pretty young lady, his whole person glowing with excitement, and was led to sit on the sofa.
Don’t get hooked, don’t get hooked, it must be fake; how could there be such a place in Doomsday? Yu Jiang shook her head, reminding herself mentally not to follow the music melody.
“Good grief, I’ve met my match.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy patted her own face and looked toward the woman playing the violin, resisting the urge to pull out her musical instrument and jam with her.
“We can’t stay in this place for long.” Shi Xu said softly from behind Yu Jiang.
It was also the first time seeing this from him—an emotion he couldn’t hold back. At the banquet, these handsome men and beautiful women seemed to be face-obsessed; they were all staring at him like they stare at food.
“I know.” Yu Jiang lowered her voice.
This was a spirit pollution attack; the longer they stayed, the harder it would be to leave.
Look at No. 7 sitting in the middle of the sofa, grinning happily with his butt stuck to it, not noticing how chilling the gazes were from the group of top beauties around him who looked soft and fragrant.
These “people” at the banquet wouldn’t actively attack them or have any physical entanglement; that’s exactly why it wouldn’t provoke their resistance—their mental defense line would be slowly swallowed by the environment.
For players who fought for survival on the road, not knowing when they might die, this place was too dreamlike.
“My weapon refining time still has more than 40 minutes left.” Yu Jiang turned sideways to block the outside view and quietly took two plates from the table.
This tableware is nice and matches her RV well, along with those exquisite small bowls.
Seeing no one noticed, Yu Jiang took a plate of cherries with the plate and stored it in the grid.
Shi Xu: ???
Her heart for picking up things was too resilient; she had been mesmerized just now, but as soon as she turned her head, she was back to her old trade.
“Take it easy; if the table empties, it’ll be noticed.” Shi Xu blocked the butler’s line of sight for her.
“Impossible!” Yu Jiang was very firm. “What I’m taking are all inconspicuous little things. That ham, I’ve had my eye on it for a long time and held back from taking it, and this tablecloth, that basket of bread—this place really is paradise!”
Look at these supplies, and the wool handmade carpet underfoot; the wool can be recycled to make clothing and blankets.
“If I don’t gather supplies, I won’t hold on.” Yu Jiang sighed; she wasn’t joking.
Just now, a voice had already appeared in her mind: Go on, go join them and have fun—who wants to go back to that damn road.
These voices and scenes kept distracting her attention.
She started racking her brains thinking about how to grab supplies when no one was looking, and her mind finally cleared a bit.
“10 o’clock direction is the area servants pass through; we can’t go out the main door, need to think of another way.” Yu Jiang whispered her idea.
The abandoned Storage Room has an item; that place is usually connected to servants’ residence and work areas.
Besides that, the castle interior is full of passages with many places to search.
There were twenty or thirty of these flashy “people” at the banquet, plus servants and the butler; conservatively, there were fifty or sixty in the Manor—monsters with human intelligence; unknown if there are several items or just one.
If it’s the latter, even if they have to snatch from the other team, they need to get it.
“Have you noticed anything?” Yu Jiang listened in all directions and watched everywhere, quietly grabbing two baguettes and knocking a candlestick.
Her teammates watched her actions, their faces full of admiration; others were uneasy surrounded by monsters, but she was directly hoarding under the monsters’ noses.
“We’re already surrounded; there are servants guarding several doors, and under the terrace is the Garden with ‘people’ standing there too.” Shi Xu spoke up.
“I can act anytime.” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy said confidently. “Let them feel the king of hundred joys; it’ll surely drown out the violin sound. Eh, how are you so clear-headed?”
She looked at Lightning Mage King; she was a wandering artist with built-in resistance, but how was Lightning Mage King also acting like nothing was wrong.
Lightning Mage King smiled, “I even shock myself!”
“Good! You’re all tough ones.” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy looked at the handsome young man not far away who was holding a wine glass, with red lips and white teeth, revealing a piece of chest muscle, and cleared her throat,
“To be fair, everyone here is so pretty.”
“The other team is waiting for us to run first, but it looks like they’re getting impatient.” Yu Jiang turned around and knocked on the table legs twice more.
These were all good wood, which she would sell back to Wholesale King Defa at a high price.
Over there, numbers 5 and 6 finally dragged out the dazed number 7 after much effort.
“Yu Luo, are you fucking okay? We were all ready to group up, and you dumbass were hugging a monster.” Number 6 immediately gave their teammate a big slap.
“The red wine they’re drinking has a bloody smell, these are all monsters!”
Yu Luo turned back to look at the decadent banquet and smiled,
“Enter the instance, find supplies, isn’t it all just to reach the end point? This is my end point. I don’t want to work myself to death like before. Here there’s food and drink, women, and servants to wait on you. Isn’t that great?”
Their eyes were full of fanaticism at this moment, inviting their teammates, “Why don’t we all stay here together.”
Number 6 was furious and pointed at them in warning, “You sober the fuck up.”
“You all need to sober up. Please, outside it’s doomsday, and we’ve finally found such a good place. They say they were refugees too before.” Yu Luo looked at the crowd in the banquet.
“I think you’re really” Number 6 had only gotten halfway through their words when the violin melody changed.
A piercing metal scraping sound appeared in the minds of all the players present.
Looking back at the scene, the smile on the red lips of the woman playing the violin grew wider and wider.
Bang!
The next second, a loud bang exploded. Not only the players, but even these ‘people’ at the banquet were stunned.
