Chapter 42: You’re Absolutely Ruthless
Time reached 6:40 PM, with more than an hour left until the instance ended.
Instance survival count: 10
Two more players completed the mission and came out, “If you’re brothers, come chop me,” but didn’t speak again, unsure what happened next.
Yu Jiang had already gathered all the herbs and wild vegetables that could be collected behind the rest stop, preparing to return on the road.
Before leaving, she stood in front of Shi Xu and said goodbye to him,
“I’m off. This cooperation was very pleasant. See you in the next instance if there’s a chance.”
Shi Xu smiled lightly and nodded, “That’s exactly what I was going to say.”
The two stood under the deep blue sky, the only streetlight in front of the rest stop lit up, and the fine rain threads seemed to glow.
Yu Jiang took off her outerwear, got into her green pickup truck, while Shi Xu walked toward the black sedan opposite, and the two drove away from the culvert one after another.
After 7 PM, Yu Jiang left the parallel road, parked the car, and began inventorying the supplies obtained from the instance.
At the same time, the green game area notification popped up.
[Player ‘The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain’ obtained Mutated Poisonous Spider rating—You’re simply insane!
Obtained instance title ‘Poisonous Spider Hunter’!]
[Player ‘X’ obtained Mutated Poisonous Spider rating—Don’t come over!
Obtained instance title ‘Poisonous Spider Killer’!]
Yu Jiang looked at her personal notification.
[In the instance, using poisoning, stabbing, poison needle, setting fire, and other methods, you actually killed a full 30 Poisonous Spiders!
Next time, absolutely don’t get close there; they’ve all remembered your smell!
Obtained title: ‘Poisonous Spider Hunter’, reward: Agility +1
Poison Master with this title gains immunity to low-level insect and arthropod toxins!]
She wasn’t full and idle; she definitely wouldn’t approach that wasteland again, and besides, you can’t go back on the road.
Yu Jiang thought this way, and a prompt appeared.
[Detected player currently possesses Mutated Poisonous Spider·Spider Queen toxin*1,
Poison Master can refine weapon; attacks have a chance to apply poisoned bleeding buff to target. Confirm refining?]
[Player possesses Mutated Poisonous Spider·Spider Queen’s spider silk*1, which can add 10 extra healing to skill Healing Light. Confirm refining?]
Yu Jiang’s mind blanked for an instant, excitedly.
Did this even need thinking?
“Confirm!”
This was the reward she deserved for adventuring cooperatively to kill the Spider Queen!
Refining would take a few minutes; Yu Jiang’s gaze returned to the public screen.
As soon as the two announcements came out, the screen above boiled over.
My name is Gu: [Such cold text. I just escaped the instance with my life, half my HP nearly gone. Comparing people is infuriating.]
Luò Tuó Xiángzi: [Damn, how many Poisonous Spiders did those two big shots kill?]
Kuángtú Zhāng Sān: [They’re not the first time appearing together in the entire zone announcements. For a moment, unsure which is scarier: insane or don’t come over.]
Player 8579: [Is it possible they were really in the same group? Around 3 PM, they completed the instance mission; I saw the instance announcement with my own eyes!]
Lone Wolf 2009: [Damn! Real or fake? Did you see the two big shots?]
Player 8579: [Don’t know. Anyway, when I returned to the rest stop, everyone there said they weren’t big shots.]
Kuángtú Zhāng Sān: [What epic leaderboard battle, thrilling! You two big shots are so fierce; Poisonous Spiders got slaughtered. Your teammates are so lucky『envy』]
Zǎorì Bàofù: [Indeed! When I was looking for the fourth watchtower, the road was full of dead Poisonous Spiders, so tragic. I followed the trail on the ground to successfully complete the mission! Thanks to the two big shots.]
Sui Feng 220: [Stop envying. I was in that group too. The channel said to ask them to exit the instance later to carry everyone and reduce casualties, but they ignored it completely, didn’t speak from start to finish, pretty selfish!]
Steamed Bun: [Bro, you okay? Did you help others yourself?]
Player 8579: [He helped jack shit, saw it with my own eyes. Someone asked the helpful guy for help, and he went silent. I even suspect the player who lured the Poisonous Spiders over and got someone else killed was him.]
[Don’t talk nonsense! I was busy dealing with Poisonous Spiders at the time, couldn’t spare hands!]
Sui Feng 220 was still explaining, but everyone wasn’t stupid; few believed him.
Those echoing him were mostly self-interested, hoping others would help them without return.
Anyway, just shouting mutual help on the public screen cost them nothing.
The bayonet refining was done; its quality changed from the lowest light green to dark green, same as the upgraded crowbar.
Yu Jiang was very satisfied and specifically checked her profession page,
[Profession: Alchemist Level 3
Skills: 1. Poison Rain, 20 damage, and applies 10-minute bleeding status.
2. Healing Light, restores 10 (+10) Health Points.】
【Equipped Weapon: Critical Hit Bayonet (chance to inflict Critical Hit damage and Duration Bleeding on the target, can occur simultaneously)】
If luck is good, one Poison Rain, then another slash, Critical Hit plus double Bleeding BUFF, can directly take out those whose Defense and Agility stats are insufficient!
If luck is bad, then two slashes!
The time on the Panel jumps to exactly 8 o’clock, the Instance officially ends, and regardless of whether the mission is completed, everyone will be forcibly transferred out.
Instance Ranking shows settling.
Only the first batch of players who participated in the Instance and completed the mission can participate in the Entire Zone Ranking.
Those entering at 8 o’clock tomorrow have already gotten some information from the Public Screen.
However, the Watchtower position in tomorrow’s Instance will be different from today’s.
Even with Items like positioning or Tracking, there’s no way to help tomorrow’s people compete for the ranking.
The Punishment “Nothing Gained” also starts counting from tomorrow morning.
In some ways, this Survival Game is quite fair.
Some pretty strong people will deliberately choose to enter the Instance tomorrow, directly giving up on the Game Area Ranking and settling for competing in the Instance Group Ranking.
The first truly deadly Instance also provides players with some help in terms of Mechanism.
What exactly does this Survival Game mean? It suddenly pulled them in, yet it seems like it wants to help them survive.
No, it should be said it hopes those with Survivor abilities survive; it has been that way since the initial Novice Trial.
Yu Jiang shakes her head; she can’t figure these things out, so she’ll stop thinking about them for now.
The Instance Ranking is out.
【First Place: X (mission completion time 14:58)
Second Place: The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain (15:02)
Third Place: Sang Biao (17:36)】
Game Area Ranking has also settled.
First and second places unchanged, third place Han Jiang Gu Ying, completed Progress at 15:15.
He brought Pig Intestine in with him; this speed is very strong.
Kuang Kuang Kuang ranked ninth in the Game Area, first in the group
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire ranked sixth in the Game Area
Other friends: Yu Jiang glanced at the friend chat group; fortunately, all the names are still lit up, none died in the Instance.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy and Lightning Mage King, 28-bar Bicycle, all first and second in the group.
But a Little Frost was only 2 minutes off from tenth in the Game Area, also first in the group, and is regretting it right now.
And 188 Male College Student and Strawberry Candy are preparing to bravely tackle the Instance tomorrow.
Current Yu Jiang: Crazy Positioning, set fires, throw Stones,
Future Yu Jiang: Everyone in my Damage range has to die!
Team girls:
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: Highway Wandering Artist, one blast of the Suona and even the Zombie King has to dance
Kuang Kuang Kuang: Amateur hobby of Shooting Arrows turned pro Archer, don’t run anywhere in sight
Strawberry Candy: Baseball Bat God of War, nothing a stick can’t solve, if not then two sticks
