[Game Hint: Congratulations, adventurer, for obtaining a lucky charm! Your luck will increase by +3 for the time being today.]

[Auspicious Blessing: Congratulations, host, you have obtained a lucky fortune slip Today, your Constitution, Strength, Agility, Luck, and Critical Strike will all receive an additional +2]

What?! I drew the "Good Fortune" card! And all five abilities are boosted? Xi Xi was wide awake now. She opened her eyes wide, picked up the wooden slip engraved with "Good Fortune," and looked at her personal profile with delight. This was truly a genuine "Five Blessings"!

【Basic Information】

Name: Xi Xi

Stamina: 100

Area: 777 (/)

[Personal Abilities]

Constitution: 6 (+2)

Strength: 7 (+2)

Agility: 9 (+2)

Luck: 5 (+5)

Critical Hit Chance: 1 (+2)

Xi Xi's joy lasted only a few seconds before she noticed the sudden drop in the number of people in the area. Her smile immediately vanished, and her eyes narrowed with alarm. What had happened? More than 20,000 people had disappeared overnight…

A bad feeling spread from the depths of her heart, her thoughts seemed to be shrouded in a thin haze, obscuring ambiguous answers. Xi Xi involuntarily frowned, then suddenly turned her head and looked out the window again.

Sure enough, just as she had predicted, a dense mass of dark shadows was approaching her. Some of the scattered shadows even nimbly broke away from the main group and crawled over at an extremely fast speed, seemingly trying to climb onto the car window.

Her breathing became rapid and shallow. Before she could turn off the light screen, Xi Xi quickly started the car, tightly closed the ventilation windows, and slammed on the gas pedal.

She felt her right eyelid twitching involuntarily, each blink feeling like a silent battle against unknown fear.

"Left eye twitching means good fortune, right eye twitching means bad luck... Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Xi Xi muttered to herself as she drove rapidly, her voice trembling slightly. "Left for men, right for women, left for men, right for women, right eye twitching means good fortune!"

It was a terrifying black insect, its body a deep and eerie black, with frighteningly green barbs along its back.

The insect's body is long and winding, covered with rough and uneven wrinkles, like layers of dried cracks on the bark of a dying tree, exuding an ominous sense of vicissitude.

Xi Xi tried to take a deep breath to calm her inner turmoil, but the vague unease was like a stubborn vine, causing her to keep recalling the image of the swarming, venomous insects.

She couldn't help but keep glancing at the rearview mirror while driving, vigilantly observing the road conditions, as if something might suddenly leap out from the shadows at any moment and deliver a fatal blow.

The car drove for an unknown amount of time until the first rays of sunlight broke through the clouds and shone upon the earth, causing the temperature to gradually rise. Xi Xi looked around and, after confirming that there was no longer any danger, finally stopped the car, panting heavily.

Her fingers trembled slightly, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her palms as she gripped the steering wheel.

Xi Xi reached out and moved the still-open light screen back to the front of her field of vision. Just as she had expected, the public screen was filled with people discussing, calling out, and pleading for help.

Xi Xi quickly scrolled through the chat history and learned that the dark green barbs on the back of the insect were highly poisonous. After being stung, the initial symptoms would be unbearable itching. If you couldn't help but scratch, the skin would quickly become red, swollen, and suppurate, eventually ulcerating.

Furthermore, these venomous insects seem to be able to track the life state of living things, even without making any sound or light, and the reason for this is unknown.

"I was so scared! Luckily I didn't open the window. I just didn't sleep all night, and now I'm a bit exhausted..."

"It really disappeared with the sunlight. What's the principle behind this? Is it just a creature that's afraid of light?"

"Afraid of light? Not necessarily. This poisonous insect is not afraid of firelight, but only of sunlight."

"But they've all burrowed into the sand! What should I do? I'm afraid to touch the sand anymore..."

"The corpses of the insects I killed have also disappeared. That's strange."

"I can't go on, I'm exhausted. I fought the bugs all night, and I'm completely drained..."

"How did you manage to fight those bugs? I've had swarms of them all night... and there are more and more of them."

"I didn't have many bugs, but they scared me so much that I couldn't sleep well. But at least my stamina is fully restored."

...

Xi Xi finally understood why she had slept so soundly; it was all thanks to the car curtain talisman. She vaguely remembered the item's description: when all the vehicle curtains were opened to create a closed space, it could conceal one's presence to a certain extent and reduce the car's overall presence.

Last night before going to bed, she drew all the curtains on the car, so the poisonous insects could only sense signs of life nearby, but could not locate her car, so they gathered on the sand pile not far away and crawled in place.

The thought of not closing all the windows tightly last night to keep the car well-oxygenated, leaving a small gap in the screen window, sent a shiver down Xi Xi's spine. "Luckily, the screen window was locked, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable."

After confirming there was no potential danger in the surroundings, Xi Xi quietly got out of the car and quickly took care of her business. She then returned to her car, drank some water to moisten her throat, opened her personal profile, and quickly scanned the various sections before finally settling on the trading page.

Xi Xi, who hadn't initially held high hopes, suddenly widened her eyes in disbelief. Perhaps due to the poisonous insect infestation the previous night, players were desperately short of weapons, and all her stone axe and stone knife trades were showing as successful!

A surge of indescribable joy welled up in Xi Xi's heart. Her eyes focused, and she eagerly opened each transaction interface, carefully browsing the information and secretly planning her next move.

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