With a roar, another wave of nightmare smoke was spewed out by the Night Demon. A layer of tiny particles suddenly spread between heaven and earth, appearing faintly silver in the moonlight, like a dream, but enough to kill people who were sleeping.

Fortunately, although Nightmare Smoke has a 99.99% chance of hitting sleeping players, it only has a 0.01% chance of hitting awake players.

Ye Miao remained unaffected by any negative effects, calmly sprinting against the crowd. With only a few dozen meters remaining, he leaped, sideways, and powerfully stepped over the wall of the building beside him, gaining a higher leap. After three consecutive attempts at gaining momentum, Ye Miao was at the same height as the Night Demon. He swung the dagger in his hand, gleaming silver in the moonlight, and thrust it towards the Night Demon's face!

-200

A number representing the decrease in blood volume popped up above the Night Demon's head.

Ye Miao: “…”

The Night Demon's own defense is extremely high, and the difference between her levels is not that big. Her equipment is also very low-level, and her attack power of 5800 cannot be fully displayed.

Ye Miao gritted his teeth and dodged in time, using the dagger that had pierced the Night Demon's skin to leap up again. At the same time, he drew his sword and stood firmly above the Night Demon's head.

Lacking equipment or skills, she could only fight hard, trying to slowly wear down Night Demon's health. Fortunately, she had plenty of health, decent defense, and even better agility than Night Demon, so she shouldn't die first.

Ye Miao thought so and stabbed down with the dagger in his hand, one sword after another.

-200

-150

【-220】

-180

【-160】

Health indicators popped up one after another above the Night Demon's head. The Night Demon roared angrily and stopped chasing the crowd.

The people who had just rushed to the intersection ahead noticed something was wrong and subconsciously stopped to look back. When they saw the blurry figure and the series of numbers above the Night Demon's head, everyone was like:?

Is this all right???

Isn't this a map-running survival challenge? Why is someone trying to kill the boss?

After a few more stabs, Ye Miao suddenly noticed that the durability of the [Rough Dagger] in his hand had changed from 19/20 to 18/20.

"Oh no." Ye Miao cursed inwardly.

She was so used to using high-level equipment that she had forgotten that using low-level equipment to fight high-level monsters would quickly reduce its durability. At this rate, if she couldn't kill the Night Demon, her equipment would be scrapped.

At the same time, the Night Demon's black body swung violently, and Ye Miao slipped without any preparation, was thrown out and hit the building next to him.

"Ah——" The crowd screamed, and many people subconsciously covered their eyes.

The game's system is incredibly flexible, with all types of damage factored into health points. Being thrown into a building by a giant monster like this is incredibly damaging, and with everyone's health limited at their current level, most people would instantly die from such a heavy blow.

——However, the next second, everyone saw that the black spot that was thrown out bounced when it touched the wall, and immediately attacked the Night Demon again!

In mid-air, Ye Miao could hear the sharp sound of wind. She sheathed the dagger in her hand, raised her fist, and smashed it hard at the Night Demon's head.

Anyway, the equipment is worse than nothing, so why not keep it for now and let her do the hand-to-hand combat!

"Bang——" Ye Miao's arm went numb from the punch he threw with all his strength.

"Bang, bang, bang—" She grabbed the Night Demon's silver hair and launched a series of attacks.

【-210】

【-170】

-180

…

Next, the durability of the defensive equipment [Rough Soft Armor] is reduced by 1.

Ye Miao paused.

Once the defensive equipment is scrapped, there is a chance that you will be injured in close combat.

With the mentality of giving it a try and running away if it doesn't work, Ye Miao raised his fist again and struck with all his might!

At the same moment, an arrow wrapped in white light pierced through the air, cutting through the night and whistling towards us.

"Bang——" The arrow hit, but due to the long distance, the damage was not high, and the Night Demon's health was -200.

At the same time, a burst of white light exploded, and the entire Night Demon was instantly wrapped in the dazzling white light, and the onlookers were stunned.

Just at this moment, Ye Miao's punch landed!

【-2200】

"?!" Ye Miao was secretly shocked and subconsciously looked up in the direction the arrow came from. However, it was dark at night and she could only see a few dark shadows standing on the rooftop a few dozen meters away.

"Light arrows can indeed penetrate armor."

On the rooftop, Chu Cheng murmured to himself, then stretched out his hand: "Give me all the light arrows, let's help her."

The teammates reacted in time and took out the light arrows they had accumulated for a long time. The next second, the white arrows flew across the sky again.

Ye Miao guessed what the other party meant, took the opportunity to jump up, and kicked down with all his strength.

-3500

In an instant, the Night Demon's health points dropped below 10,000.

The crowd of onlookers shouted in surprise, and some even started to cheer: "Awesome!!!"

"come on!!!"

“Kill it!!!”

On the rooftop a few dozen meters away, Yi Hang stared at the numbers and gasped, "With such high normal attack output, what level is this guy?"

"I don't know." Chu Cheng said in a deep voice and shot another arrow.

Ye Miao drew his dagger and stabbed fiercely.

【-4200】

With the last arrow, Ye Miao emptied the Night Demon's health bar with one blow. The roar shook the world, and the Night Demon's huge body slowly fell down uncontrollably. Smoke and dust suddenly rose up around it, like a sudden sandstorm, scaring the onlookers and making them retreat.

Ye Miao took advantage of the falling body to jump up and somersault, landing steadily on the ground. He turned his head to avoid the dust and smoke, and soon, a prompt popped up in front of him.

[Rewards being settled...]

[A total of 26 items were dropped. Player Ye Miao caused 97% of the damage and can choose 25 items as rewards.]

The text faded after five seconds, and Ye Miao keenly heard footsteps behind her. For self-protection, she immediately pulled up the hood of her windbreaker, pulling the brim down to cover her face, and turned around. "Thank you."

"What the hell?!" Yi Hang was stunned. "You are a woman?!"

"Yeah," Ye Miao replied simply, his gaze surveying the newcomers from beneath the brim of his hat. There were four of them, each carrying a bow slung over their backs, their physiques ranging from tall and muscular. The leader was tall, with a stern face and deep eyes. When he was four or five steps away from Ye Miao, he stopped, and the others followed suit.

"Let's share the rewards." Chu Cheng looked towards the spot a few meters away where the monster had perished. The massive corpse had vanished, and its fallen items, of all kinds, were scattered around.

He had excellent eyesight and quickly noticed a gold card. He said, "We can only choose one. Can the Frostbolt skill card..."

"Let's split it equally." Ye Miao interrupted him.

Chu Cheng was stunned: "What?"

"If you don't help me break the armor, I'll have to slowly chip away at it, and it might take until tomorrow morning." She said calmly, "So the reward should be split equally. But..."

She paused and said, "Can you give me all the gold coins?"

"Damn, this girl is so open!" Yi Hang didn't expect her to be so generous. He rubbed his hands with excitement. "Are you serious?"

"30/70," Chu Cheng said. "Without your output, it's useless for us to fight until tomorrow morning. You take 70 and we take 30. All the gold coins are yours."

Ye Miao thought about it and said, "Okay."

As he nodded, the system popped up a question: "Are you sure you want to change the reward settlement ratio to 70% (your side); 30% (the other side)?"

Ye Miao decisively pressed "Yes".

In an instant, the prompt popped up again, and both sides showed "A total of 26 items dropped, you can choose 18 rewards."

The agreement was reached, and Ye Miao turned and walked towards the drop, collecting all the gold coins. As expected of a high-level monster, even though it appeared at the novice stage, the reward was quite substantial. A total of +2536 gold coins, just one step away from purchasing a shelter construction permit.

Next to him, Chu Cheng first selected the gold card and looked at Ye Miao's thin figure: "Are you a melee fighter?"

"Yeah." Ye Miao nodded.

In the original game, she played with dual swords.

Knowing that he was an archer, she unceremoniously put a purple-quality [Night Demon Heavy Armor] into the equipment slot and threw the replaced [Rough Soft Armor] aside.

Then she noticed a blue-quality [Large Storage Backpack].

The backpacks in the game can be stacked, and the number of inventory slots added varies depending on the attributes. The backpack in front of you can add 30 inventory slots, which is a great solution for Ye Miao who only has three slots.

"Can I take the backpack?" she asked politely.

Chu Cheng: "Please."

Ye Miao nodded and put away his backpack. The remaining items would not affect either party much. Chu Cheng said he had no shortage of potions and gestured for Ye Miao to choose first. Most of the equipment was of no use to either party, so they split it equally.

At the end, there were four cards left, and considering the number of pieces each of them had chosen before, they could each take two more.

Chu Cheng said: "You choose first."

Ye Miao glanced over, and the attributes of the four cards were revealed, namely:

Nightmare Invasion

【Quality: Purple】

[Description: A negative effect card. The terror brought by nightmares will envelop your enemies. Once triggered, it deals continuous damage to enemies within a three-meter radius. The damage value depends on the combat skill level.]

[Critical Hit]

【Quality: Blue】

[Description: When launching an attack, there is a 30% chance of causing 150%-300% critical damage to the enemy.]

【Healing】

【Quality: White】

[Description: The most common healing method, consuming mana to restore health for yourself or others. The amount restored depends on the healing spell's level.]

Braised Sea Cucumber

【Quality: Purple】

[Description: Cooking card. Consuming food restores a certain amount of health and mana. The cooking success rate and the effect of consumption depend on the cooking skill.]

[Required ingredients: sea cucumber*5, soy sauce*1, white sugar*1]

Ye Miao: First of all, let’s give up the braised sea cucumber!

According to the game's rules, each player can only choose five attributes to level up. Combat is almost essential; in the apocalypse, you need to practice at least some of it. She chose Construction, Healing, Animal Taming, and Planting for the other four.

Therefore, her cooking skills are zero, and even if she wants to make the simplest scrambled eggs, it will turn out to be a dark dish.

"Can you give me 'Nightmare Invasion'?" Ye Miao asked.

She plays melee combat, so this skill of applying negative effects to close-range enemies is very important.

"Okay, we don't need it." Chu Cheng nodded readily, and then said, "You can take the critical hit too."

Very good!

Ye Miao was very satisfied.

Although she had taken the initiative to give up part of the reward and the other party had already taken advantage, but critical strike was a skill that was almost universal among all professions. She had just considered that the other party might also want it, and now it seemed that they were very sensible.

In that case, she accepted it without hesitation.

After getting the two cards in hand, Ye Miao immediately chose "Learn" and then put the skills into the equipment bar.

After the drops were distributed, Ye Miao simply said, "It's a pleasure to work with you. See you again if we're lucky!"

Chu Cheng's suggestion to add a friend was choked back.

Ye Miao deliberately didn't want to add friends.

Her personality is easygoing, and she easily develops friendship and trust in others. If this were an ordinary game, it wouldn't matter, everyone would just add each other as friends to fight monsters together and have fun.

But now that she is in the real end of the world, she would rather be cautious, not get emotional, and try to avoid being cheated.

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