Chapter 281: Meteor Shower
Yu Jiang also experienced what it’s like to be a Cleaver Brother type of high attack high defense player, tanking damage and just hammering away fiercely—it really feels great.
Whoever blocks the way dies; the useless electric net walls left from the city defense battle were all kicked flying with one foot, smashing into the wall and shattering into pieces.
No need to constantly watch enemies’ positioning and attack directions; attacks smashing down from above her head or around her are just scratching, bone spurs whistling with strong wind sweeping across an area.
Unfortunately, the experience card has expired.
If she could choose, she wouldn’t be human anymore; being a monster is even more exciting.
Wildfire’s body fell to the ground, turned transparent, then disappeared, leaving only a green skill card.
The simple drawing on the card lit up: a bottle with green flames that stood out prominently; this card can be used for 5 Molotov Cocktails.
This thing doesn’t feel like fire; it’s more like some kind of high temperature corrosive liquid.
When killing Wildfire, Yu Jiang got some on her hand, and it hurt down to the bone.
She has burn ointment and repair paste; applying it made it better quickly—no big problem.
This type of medicated plaster and liniment for bruises and sprains are not restricted by battlefield rules; the cooldown time is extended for buffs and healing medicines.
Yu Jiang tucked the skill card into her grid; players who die in the battlefield randomly drop unlocked skill cards, and after choosing to revive, the corresponding skill cannot be unlocked and used in the battlefield.
Matchstick Men can be obtained besides buying with crystal coins at the start, with a small probability of pickup, but the more times you die, the more skills get picked up by others, and having many revival items is useless.
As long as she can kill A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow once and pick up the skill card, it’s like breaking one of Heartless Water’s legs.
Of course, Heartless Water isn’t stupid; she will definitely come up with countermeasures to protect the healer.
Yu Jiang’s skill unlock cards haven’t been used yet, just in case of accidents; her skills are more valuable than unlock cards, and she can unlock them quickly when needed.
In front of her was a mess of debris and dropped resources; Yu Jiang hadn’t finished looting her bag when a sharp alarm sound suddenly blared.
[Beep beep! Meteor shower detected arriving in 5 minutes. Please head to the safe zone as soon as possible.]
All three areas on the map were flashing red; when unlucky, even drinking cool water can clog your teeth.
Yu Jiang was in a meteor shower area, no less, right in the central zone of two danger zones; running in any direction was very far.
The third meteor shower area was next to the central zone, upper right from her position.
It’s not just about avoiding the meteor shower area; terrain and enemies on the road must be considered too.
No need to think—there will definitely be people ambushing at the safe zone edges, a great opportunity to pick up a bargain.
Yu Jiang decided to withdraw to the left side; time was tight, all players in the danger zone were sprinting outward like mad.
Joking aside, only defense 200 has a chance to tank the meteor shower, but no one in all servers has defense that high.
No time to pick up all resources; Yu Jiang selectively picked the important ones, skipping food with too slow healing effects and low-level armor.
First drink a bottle of stamina recovery beverage with duration, then take the rest; she picked up the helmet to protect her head, quickly put it on, lowered the plastic shell in front to protect her eyes, then put on the anti-stab vest, and bolted.
The originally dark sky had now turned red, with flashing light spots above being meteors falling at high speed.
Getting hit once wouldn’t just be patches here and there; your ashes would be scattered.
Yu Jiang ran outward at her fastest speed; in this situation, even Bolt couldn’t leave the danger zone in such short time.
Meteor shower fallout doesn’t cover the entire area right away; as long as you’re not unlucky enough to get hit directly, there’s a chance to survive before the radiation spreads.
On the charred streets, wall tiles and cement chunks were shaken loose by impact force, turning into area-slaying killers flying everywhere.
Someone’s foot was pinned by a cement block, desperately and fearfully asking teammates and nearby players for help.
“Don’t abandon me, save me! My Matchstick Man is already consumed!”
“I regret it, I want to quit, let me quit the instance! Don’t go, please don’t go, I want to live…”
Struggle flashed across his teammate’s face, but looking at the increasingly bright firelight in the sky and feeling the surging hot wave and dust smoke, they still stopped, tossed some healing resources, and fled without looking back.
It’s not that they didn’t want to save, but wanting is easy; when truly facing danger, taking that step to risk your life to save someone is hard, even if it’s a teammate.
Everyone who survived to now had it tough; everyone wants to live.
The player under the cement block watched his teammate turn away, hadn’t spoken yet when the next second, a burning meteor crashed onto the nearby building.
Boom—
The scorching shockwave spread outward, choking smoke and dust filling the nose; players who were a bit slow to dodge had their health bars instantly cleared.
Behind the wall, Yu Jiang struggled to poke her head out, reaching to wipe the dust off the helmet’s plastic shield.
Helmet wear and tear 75%; the armor just picked up was about to be scrapped before it even warmed up.
The plastic shield was already cracked; large harmful dust particles drifted in, making breathing uncomfortable.
Slaying all sides minutes ago, now scurrying like a rat with head hugged—who could imagine it’s the same person.
For disasters of this level, no matter how strong combat power, you can only run; radiation markers on the map spread quickly—touch it and lose health, and it gets faster.
Confirming the shockwave’s aftereffects had dissipated, Yu Jiang quickly stood up and ran outward.
If not leaving now, the second wave of meteor shower would smash down.
The closest to the impact point weren’t smashed to death but instantly killed by high temperature shockwave; farther away, those without armor died from smoke and toxic gas.
Running until fainting, collapsing motionless.
One can imagine how terrifying the meteor shower’s power is.
Sweat and smoke blurred Yu Jiang’s vision; nearby were big fires caused by meteors.
Trash piled on the ground, bloodstained clothing, quilts emitting thick smoke.
Yu Jiang took out a water-soaked old handkerchief to cover her mouth and nose, flipped over the nearby half-collapsed wall, taking a shortcut to leave.
At this point, players and monsters were easy to distinguish; high temperature and toxic gas had no effect on alien species—they were still hunting players.
On the road, for those wanting help or to team up, Yu Jiang held her weapon, warning them not to approach.
She couldn’t tell if they were good or bad, or trying to trick her, so she treated them all the same; those ignoring warnings and lunging at her, she struck directly.
She’d already encountered several sneaky players; seeing her alone, they got ideas—some stealthily following behind for a chance to backstab, others jumping down from roofs.
She was also a sneaky player, so she knew the tricks; all of them got taken out.
Players watching from the shadows saw her ruthless moves and quickly took another route, staying far away.
Exhausted and covered in dust all the way, finally nearing the safe zone.
Yu Jiang’s clothing was scorched by splashing sparks, hair singed a bit, loose hair slightly charred.
The stamina recovery beverages picked up earlier looked plentiful, but running from the poison showed they weren’t enough.
The resources she had painstakingly stockpiled, without even fighting the affluent battle, she was back to scraping by.
