Chapter 145
The cold moonlight made the snow surface look pale. After more than ten hours of long fighting, the players finally held on until the night fell.
The monsters under the city retreated quietly into their nests like a receding tide. The players had been on edge all day, and when they suddenly relaxed, they felt fatigue surging from every part of their body.
The fingers that were tightly gripping the weapon had lost all feeling. When I moved them, I felt a sharp pain.
But this makes people feel more alive.
"I survived..."
Someone whispered, with a kind of unreal confusion in his tone.
There were so many monsters attacking the city, but they managed to hold it?
He pinched himself hard, and his good friend next to him suddenly rushed over and hugged him.
"What are you daydreaming about? We held on! We are not dead!"
"Don't celebrate too quickly, there are still nine days left." Although he said so, the player tried to calm down for a long time but still couldn't, so he just hugged his friend back excitedly.
"Oh, right, contribution points. Let's take a look at our contribution points!"
"Yeah! You're on the overall list! Your ranking isn't low!"
The fact that we managed to get through the first day was obviously a shot in the arm for many people. Especially later on, as more and more people came to the town, defense became easier. The lord of Evergreen Town opened the panel and found that the health bar of the city wall was much lower than he had imagined.
"Maybe I can really make it until the end of the event..." He calculated and took a deep breath.
An intense joy crept into my heart.
This Evergreen Town is not only a territory under his name, but also the home of more than 10,000 people in the game.
Having lost their homes and becoming homeless, even if they managed to survive temporarily, their future life would not be easy.
But now it seems that we don't have to worry about these problems anymore.
He was overjoyed, while the players beside him had already opened the mall with great interest, discussed with each other, and started to redeem prizes with the points they had. Faced with the dazzling array of goods, I was simply dazzled.
Someone has been collecting equipment for a long time, and finally has the last piece of material, so he starts looking for a blacksmith.
Some people took this opportunity to replace their camping equipment, which greatly increased their survival rate in the wild and the comfort of camping.
There were also people who didn't have any immediate needs, and they exchanged for several rare materials in a row, filling up their backpacks, their faces glowing with excitement.
Make a lot of money!
In the meantime, players who passed through Nuannuan Hot Springs and then went to the disaster-stricken town gained particularly much. Looking up at the contribution point rankings on the sky, the top 100 were almost all occupied by familiar names, except for the elite players who had been fighting monsters and crushing the opponents in the disaster-stricken town from the very beginning.
"The captain is in the top five!"
"Rich isn't bad either, 13th place."
The members of Jiang Qing's team looked at the sky and smacked their lips in amazement. They wished they had a screenshot button to record this glorious scene. "I never thought that one day our names would appear on the world rankings!"
They arrived early, and from time to time ate the hot spring food they brought with them, and the various buffs were almost always renewed. Even the top priest team could not continuously provide such a wide variety of buffs with excellent effects, so at the end of the day, it was not surprising that their contribution points surpassed those of higher-level guys in the world.
Lin Miao and others were envious, "Remote professions are popular at times like this."
A knight like Fu Yiming, who has maximum defense but low damage, can only stand aside at this time. The priest had no right to speak and could only watch from the side and occasionally use skills to add buffs.
But when I thought that I was doing it to save the suffering players, I didn't feel so sad.
…嘤.
"As usual, after the event is over, the gains will be divided according to the degree of contribution. Lin Miao, you added a buff, which is very helpful in killing monsters. I will convert your share into ore and give it to you afterwards." Jiang Qing said decisively. The other melee professions followed Fu Yiming to explore and at least got some points, but Lin Miao, as a priest, was the worst off, with almost no output, so she specifically pointed it out at this time, and then continued, "I will also use some of the rest to upgrade the team's protective shield. In the future, when we live in the development area, everyone can sleep more peacefully at night."
"Me too." Xu Ruixi took the initiative and said, "I only need about half of it to upgrade the equipment. The rest will be given to the captain to upgrade the team's equipment."
When everyone heard this, they cheered: "Long live the captain!"
"Rich is generous!"
As the team's strength improves, everyone benefits. In the long run, this little sacrifice is nothing.
…
In Nuannuan Hot Spring, many players were also celebrating.
There are even some players who teleport back specially and catch the last Arctic Fox bus to go back to the hot springs, just to repeat the same routine tomorrow and kill the enemy with the buff. Being efficient is one thing, but during the disaster, they also felt at ease staying in the hot springs at night.
Otherwise, I always feel anxious.
These people brought back the news that no town had been destroyed all day. Although the players had expected this, they still couldn't help but feel happy.
Even players who had been waiting in line for a whole day and still couldn't get through put their worries aside for the time being and joined in the celebration by raising their glasses.
Everywhere was filled with jubilation, and the sales at the pub were particularly good. If you turned on the real-time display function on the 3D map at this time, you could see pixelated people going in and out of the small house at the end of the street, crowding the small building, with "+15", "+35", and "+20" symbols popping up one after another on the top.
Ding ding dang dang, it’s so lively.
Positive reviews poured in one after another, and the total number of reviews rose rapidly. With thousands of reviews, it still incredibly maintained a positive review rate of nearly 100.
Because of her actions today, countless people gave her sincere praise.
Shu Mo found a bench near a stream in the bamboo forest and sat down, clicking on the reviews one by one.
The area of the hot spring has been expanded, and to facilitate people who come for walks, she has also added some outdoor benches along the trail so that people can stop and rest when they get tired.
It's too busy outside now, and her leap to the top of the list today was too shocking, so she just came here to laze around.
Despite this, some people still took the trouble to search through all the hot springs and came to toast with her, saying, "The boss is really a hidden talent, she's amazing!"
The other party was so excited that his saliva flew. "Everyone is talking about it. You saved at least hundreds of thousands of people this time, and the remaining points are enough to buy a lot of rare materials and store them. You don't have to worry about forging equipment in the next few decades. It's like you are directly guaranteed to pass the game. You are really the biggest winner of the event."
With so many contribution points, even though Shu Mo has spent a lot of them, there are still quite a few left.
"This is a great thing. The hot springs are famous all over the world. Business will surely be booming in the future. I would like to congratulate the boss in advance on his financial success."
He was quite talkative, but he had obviously drunk a lot. After he finished speaking, he didn't even wait for Shu Mo to reply. He just grinned and walked away dizzy.
Shu Mo watched him walk out of the path with concern. She was hesitating whether to give him a hand when she saw two people hurried over. They were probably their companions who had been searching for a long time. They came up and supported the man on the left and right. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and sat back on the bench.
Before I could look away, a tall and thin figure came over from the other end of the path.
Mo Bai passed by the three people and met Shu Mo's eyes. She patted the bench next to her and said, "There are too many people over there. Come and sit down."
After he sat down, Shu Mo asked, "Did you hear what he said just now?"
"Well, you said that you gained a lot from this activity, which is equivalent to being admitted to the exam or something." Mo Bai thought about it and repeated.
Everyone outside was happy for themselves and for her.
He thought Shu Mo should be very happy too.
Because she likes stability the most.
Shu Mo held his chin in his hand, listening to the gurgling stream, "...but that's not what I want."
She was a little greedier than they thought.
What she wanted was not the stability of being alone.
Mo Bai frowned in confusion, as if he had thought of something, and lowered his eyes. However, Shu Mo changed the subject, "Do you think the system will be so easy for us to find a solution?"
"If its goal is to eliminate some players to balance the death rate, it would even go to great lengths to organize such an event. If it finds that the goal has not been achieved, it will definitely find a way to adjust it, right?"
Mo Bai nodded silently.
It will definitely happen. The rules of this event are not clear. How long will a monster tide last? How many monsters will be released? There are many uncertainties and many ways to manipulate.
The offensive will only become more intense in the future.
Players will soon discover that today's peace of mind is just an illusion, and the city wall may collapse again in the early morning or afternoon of a certain day.
Those who deserve to die will die.
Monsters are creations of the system. He understands better than anyone how huge, powerful, and unchangeable the system is.
Shu Mo stopped talking and frowned in confusion.
In fact, she doesn't need to be so persistent. Her plan only requires her to survive to the end, but she still wants to save more people within her ability.
Spring will always come, but the dead will never see it again.
Is there any way to add fuel to the fire to end this winter?
Shu Mo frowned in distress, suddenly realizing how small his power was.
After a while, she turned to Mo Bai and said, "I may need you to do me a favor..."
"Okay." Mo Bai did not hesitate, and did not even ask what he was doing. Shu Mo had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard him speak again, but this time there was a hint of hesitation in his voice, "When I come back, can you tell me what the world you live in is like?"
Shu Mo was stunned for two seconds, then turned his head suddenly, "When did you know?"
"That's not hard to guess." Mo Bai said, "A person with a single-digit level won't suddenly appear in the high-level training area."
It's like, it appeared out of thin air.
From the strange goods and buildings that Shu Mo brought out, to her complete ignorance of the game... there were just too many clues.
The so-called "encounters" can fool players, but they cannot fool the monsters who know the game mechanics best.
There is no adventure that contradicts the game itself.
Mo Bai asked again: "Is it okay?"
He looked at her without blinking, his eyes were as black as ink, with dots of fire and moonlight intertwined, and there were some indescribable things hidden in them.
As if reluctant.
Shu Mo paused and nodded: "Okay."
*
The next day, Shu Mo had no time to think about anything else.
During this day, people all over the world were using the teleportation array to move around. Many of them, because they couldn't get the chance to participate in the event, simply came to Guangming Town and then ran to the hot springs to see the world.
The hot spring was crowded, and the mimic was always loaded with passengers going back and forth. Finally, when it was pulling a full car of people back for the last time, it fell to the ground with a thud, its strength exhausted.
Even an S-level monster can't withstand being used like this.
Thinking about how it didn't seem to get a good rest every time it went back and forth, Shu Mo touched its big head apologetically and said, "You should take a rest first and recover your strength first."
Looking at the passengers around me who were eagerly waiting to get on the bus, I couldn't help but feel a headache.
"Do you need any help?"
A cheerful voice with a smile came from beside her. She turned around and saw Fenglong who had disappeared for a few days.
When the game is "suspended for updates", the monsters living in the hot springs rarely go out. It suddenly appeared and scared her.
Coming back to his senses, Shu Mo hesitated, "Is it okay?"
How to help?
"It doesn't matter." Feng Long waved his hand generously, "As long as we don't take direct action, the system can't control what we do normally."
She knew very well the bottom line of the system, so she said this with great confidence.
It was as if he had already tried that line countless times.
Shu Mo: “…”
She stroked her forehead and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
So a few minutes later.
The players all opened their mouths and slowly raised their heads with expressions as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
The giant dragon, tens of meters tall, looked down from above, disdainfully looking down upon all living creatures. Its light green scales reflected a dazzling light, and the sharp horns on its head seemed to pierce the sky.
The wings spread out, easily covering the entire square in front of them, and they felt a darkness before their eyes.
What is this? ?
If I’m not mistaken, it’s a dragon! It's a dragon, right? ?
It's the legendary monster whose legend has been circulating in the world but has never been seen by anyone, right? ?
Is it alive now, appearing before us?
And it’s so—big!
Shu Mo cleared his throat and broke the silence at the right time: "Get in the car, everyone."
The wind dragon gracefully lowered one wing and placed it on the ground.
Players: “???????”
They looked at Shu Mo in horror.
Shu Mo: "The Arctic Fox bus is temporarily closed today. Please take this bus to and from Guangming Town today."
As for the name...she hasn't decided on it yet.
At this time, several people from the Guangming Town official group who stayed in the hot spring and were unable to go to the front line for various reasons suddenly popped up the words "Longlong Express Delivery" in their minds.
——So, has Nuannuan Hot Spring’s express delivery business progressed rapidly from being able to deliver goods even in snowstorms to being able to deliver goods to people?
They looked at the noble and reserved dragon in front of them with horror.
I originally thought that the name was just something the boss came up with on the spur of the moment... I didn't expect you really have a dragon!
Even the elite players at level 80 couldn't help but get scared when they saw this scene.
I always feel that the defense/attack power that I am so proud of is vulnerable in front of it...
With claws that big, it can kill itself with just one slap, right?
And the scales, the edges look so sharp, I always feel that they can easily cut the equipment that I have worked so hard to refine like cutting a piece of tofu.
Even the dragon's tail, which was casually swung behind the dragon, made a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
The players trembled.
"Don't worry, it's not scary."
With Shu Mo's hard work and encouragement, the first brave man finally stepped tremblingly onto the wind dragon's back. After sitting firmly, he tried to put on a stiff fake smile to his companions below, waved his hands silently, and gestured desperately with sign language.
He is also a person who has ridden a dragon!
Friend: “…”
If you are afraid, just say it.
But perhaps the temptation of the legendary creature was too great, the remaining players gritted their teeth, slowly climbed onto the wind dragon's back, and then tentatively grasped its scales.
The wind dragon was much larger than the mimic beast, so there was still plenty of space for the nearly 100 people waiting for the car to get on. She waited until they were seated firmly before she stood up and flapped her wings to fly into the sky.
Before leaving, he looked back at Shu Mo for the last time.
There seemed to be a hint of mischievous and smug smile in those light grey glass eyes.
Shu Mo: “…”
Why do I have a bad feeling?
The wind dragon carried the passengers, leaving Shu Mo's worried "Hold on~ firmly~" behind, and rushed to Guangming Town at lightning speed.
When the plane just took off, the players were thinking: "Hey, I'm actually flying!"
As a result, the next second, they were covered in the face by the strong wind.
The players whose wigs were almost blown off: “??????”
They had no time to think, and for fear of being thrown off, they hurriedly used all their strength to hold on to the scales.
After waiting for ten minutes, the wind dragon stopped at the gate of Guangming Town. Everyone's feet stepped on the solid ground again, their knees went weak, and they almost knelt down.
The player who had just boasted was now walking down with his friend, supporting each other. He was very weak and said, "I... I feel like I was forced to ride a roller coaster for ten minutes..."
There’s still no safety belt, so if you fall it’s game over.
All the rides in the water park combined are not as exciting as this one.
Some people trembled as they touched the top of their heads and asked the people around them tremblingly: "Can you help me check my hairline? How come it feels like it has moved back at least 2cm?"
The dragon behind him seemed satisfied with the players' reactions. It threw the last passenger off and turned away.
The flying posture is so light that players can't help but wonder: Are they being treated as toys by this legendary creature?
*
The players' destination this time is Boulder Town.
If calculated according to the map before the game merged with the continent, the original geographical location of Boulder Town was abroad, but the support still needs to be provided.
They were thinking about something, and after being teleported over, they didn't say anything for a while. Then they saw the staff member guarding the teleportation array with a look of surprise on his face. He said in a foreign language: "You came at the right time. Please go and help! The situation over there is a bit complicated."
"Complicated?" The conversation was automatically converted into Chinese by the game's built-in translation system. They looked at each other and hurried up to the city wall.
When we arrived at the place, we found that the city wall was in chaos.
"Xxxx! Why are the monsters so strong today?"
"What is the system doing again??"
The players rushed forward and looked down at the city wall, their scalps suddenly tingling.
If the composition of monsters in yesterday's monster tide was normal - about 50% C-level monsters, 40% B-level monsters, plus 10% A-level monsters, then today, more than 90% are A-level monsters!
A monster group consisting of thousands of weak C-level monsters can cause enough damage to catch up with an S-level monster with a single combined attack, not to mention a monster tide consisting of tens of thousands of A-level monsters?
Compared to yesterday, the damage has increased exponentially.
The densely packed monsters made everyone feel cold in their hearts, and despair swept over them in an instant.
"The dog system really doesn't let people survive..."
"What should we do? Stop sending people and quickly evacuate the players in the city?"
"You can stop supporting them. If there are still so many monsters, the walls will only break faster. Even if the cooldown is reduced, the players still won't be able to escape."
It seems like we've returned to that dead end again.
"There is no movement in other territories. Maybe only Boulder Town was unfortunately chosen." The lord said, sobbing, "God, why are we the only ones so unlucky..."
He leaned against the city wall and collapsed, as if he had given up hope.
Under the city, countless A-class monsters were launching an attack. Their bodies were a circle larger than C-class monsters, and they were like countless cars squeezed together, their scales rubbing against each other, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound.
Again and again, they crashed into the city wall with a loud bang. Broken bricks and stones fell from the wall and hit the ground like a drizzle, which made people feel cold in their hearts.
There were cries all around, but the next second, the cries were interrupted by a dragon's roar.
With their backs against the city wall, they felt a shadow cast in front of their eyes. They looked up in a daze and saw a huge figure flash by.
Covering the sky and the sun.
The black dragon landed in the center of the group of monsters, with its back to the city wall, and it spread its wings and let out an earth-shaking roar towards the sky.
The sound waves became material and swept through the densely packed monsters. Many monsters' bodies exploded. The A-level monsters, which seemed powerful just now, were made to look like ants in front of the giant dragon. They were easily crushed without any resistance and turned into countless pixels.
People didn't even have time to wipe away their tears as they scrambled to get up and watch this incredible scene.
"This is..." Seeing the dragon for the second time today, some players from the hot springs couldn't help but think of the giant blue dragon just now. They exchanged glances.
But the dragon in front of him clearly had black scales.
After hesitating, the black dragon opened its mouth and suddenly spewed out a stream of fire that swept across the snowfield.
The flames burned the air and distorted it, and by the time the hot wind blew to everyone, it had turned into comfortable warmth.
They immediately determined that—
This is what the boss sent!
...How many surprises has she hidden that they don’t know about! !
With the experience of riding the giant dragon just now, the people in the hot spring suddenly became strangely calm.
It was in stark contrast to the group of noisy foreigners around him.
"Dragon! Dragon! It's a giant dragon!!"
"Did you see that? The dragon is helping us fight!"
"I see, I see." They couldn't hide their laughter, but they had to pretend to be calm. They took out a bunch of things like a magic trick and handed them out one by one, "Eat first, then fight."
The blond foreigner was devastated: "No! There is a dragon there!"
With a giant dragon in front of you, are you still thinking about eating? ?
The player from the hot spring muttered, "What do you know? Maybe they want to finish the game earlier and go back to eat more than we do..."
As long as they were from the hot springs, she had never seen anyone who didn't like to eat!
The poor foreigner was struck by lightning and stood there dumbfounded, his hands still instinctively holding the thing he had taken.
Because the players in the hot spring had prioritized teleporting to the territories that originally belonged to China all day yesterday and had not had time to transport supplies to these territories, he stood there stupidly for a while, and was soon attracted by a strange fragrance.
Holding a take-away box in his arms, he opened it out of curiosity and saw six chicken wings neatly stacked inside.
It was thick with red sauce, bright in color, and garnished with a few snow-white sesame seeds. It was completely different from what he had eaten in the past.
...but it smells damn good.
His stomach growled shamelessly, and before he had time to think about where the food came from, he immediately succumbed to his instinct, picked up a chicken wing and took a big bite.
The chicken wings are stewed until they are soft and tasty. The meat separates easily from the bones with a slight bite. All the flavors seem to have been absorbed into it. The sauce is thick, and when you taste it carefully, there is a sweet aftertaste, which makes you want to eat more.
After wolfing down six chicken wings, he did an instinctive human action, sucking his fingers, and then looked up eagerly to find the player who was still distributing supplies, "Excuse me, what exactly is this? I have never eaten it before."
"Coke chicken wings." The player replied quickly. When he heard that he had never eaten them, he immediately looked at them with pity, as if he was looking at a large, pitiful child. "How about this, next time you go to this coordinate to find Nuan Nuan Hot Spring, there are a lot of things to eat there."
Having said that, he really quickly wrote down a coordinate for him, patted him on the shoulder and left.
He was left with a head full of question marks, confused and alone.
Is that the Coke he was thinking of? Can Coke be used to make chicken wings?
Similar scenes are playing out everywhere.
When arriving in the distant territory, the food brought by the hot spring players not only means "food that appears for the first time in the Doomsday game" to the local players, but also an extra buff of Chinese cuisine.
They fought even more frantically, as if they hadn’t eaten in ten years—no, they hadn’t eaten in ten years.
The players in the hot spring only felt a gust of wind passing by, and the supplies in their hands were almost used up.
When the mage attacks again, the volume of his chanting is higher than usual.
And what's strange is that the players in Boulder Town seemed to have discussed it beforehand. They all used large numbers of area attacks to reduce the monsters' health bars to a thin layer, then stopped and attacked other monsters. So when the attacks of the players in the hot springs fell, they just killed the monsters that were left with only a thin layer of blood, and easily pocketed the contribution points.
Players in the hot spring: “?”
After repeating this several times, the contribution points of both sides widened a large gap, and they finally realized that something was wrong.
Are these people giving them contribution points?
Why?
Contribution points can be exchanged for supplies at will, which is very useful.
A player with a more straightforward personality asked directly.
Then, the group of starving kids exchanged glances and hesitated. Finally, one of them stood up and asked with a shameless face: "We just want to ask, after the fight, can we go back with you to eat?"
Players in the hot spring: “…………”
Didn’t you just say that there was a dragon in front of you and you had no appetite?
And...are we familiar with each other?
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