Chapter 40: Hearse Transformation Competition
The middle-aged man from the Newcomer Alliance came up and put on a fairly friendly smile, then took the initiative to ask Qiao Song: "I don't know if you still remember me here. I met you before when our president came to discuss the game plan with you."
Yes, weren’t you the one who asked Xiao Ni whether he knew about the ghost fragrance?
Qiao Song nodded indifferently: "Everyone from the Newcomer Alliance, is there anything I can help you with?"
"My name is Lin Biaoyi, or you can call me Lao Lin," Lin Biaoyi was quite friendly towards someone who had been noticed by the president and the magician.
"You should have seen what happened over there just now. I want to ask you about this large creature being able to drop A-level parts..."
Qiao Song replied at the right time: "We also just discovered it not long ago."
"So since you're here to hunt by the water, are you also hatching little aquatic dinosaurs?"
“Not entirely.”
"What about your dinosaurs?"
"Of course I'm well protected by my teammates, just like you guys."
The two of them played Tai Chi back and forth, neither of them taking the initiative to talk about the most crucial issue.
But it was obvious that Lin Biaoyi had bigger plans, and he was the first to speak up: "I see that there seem to be several groups united here. They must have heard about the conflict between the Wild Grass Union and other small unions."
He looked a little regretful. "The experiences of those two small guilds are indeed sad. The president invited you to join our newcomer alliance before. How about we cooperate temporarily in this game? You know, the Weeds are really barbaric."
Lin Biaoyi was still very polite in front of others. If Qiao Song and the others had not used props to eavesdrop on his conversation with the Wild Grass Union, they might have really believed his heartfelt words.
Qiao Song pretended to be curious: "I saw that the Wild Grass Guild came to visit you before, didn't they?"
Lin Biaoyi's expression became more serious. "That's because they want to compete with us in different regions. We won't set foot in the southern forest, but they won't care about the water area either."
This is indeed true.
Lin Biaoyi did not say the rest, but Qiao Song and the others had overheard it. After they had raised the dinosaurs to a certain extent,
Wild Grass and the Newcomer Alliance will then divide the resources of other players, kill their dinosaurs, and obtain S-level materials.
Qiao Song smiled: "We are just some ordinary players, can you tell us these things on your own initiative?"
Lin Biaoyi finally said his biggest goal: "There are 50 groups of members in this instance. Wild Grass's behavior is likely to anger everyone. We want to take a safer route to pass the level and prepare for the road race. Since you don't have a crafting union, you will probably leave after participating in the car-building competition. Why don't we work together to take over this area of water?"
The main reason is that there are not many teams that can hatch aquatic dinosaurs. According to Lin Biaoyi's previous practice, he will definitely wait until his side becomes stronger and then find a way to destroy these small teams of individual players.
But the situation is different now. After discovering that the other party's level of information acquisition surpasses his own, he feels that cooperation is not impossible. After all, Wild Grass's group is quite arrogant. They want to occupy the southern forest. However, in addition to two aquatic dinosaurs, the Newcomer Alliance team also has a terrestrial carnivorous dinosaur.
The woods in the west are full of small red herbivorous dragons, which are not enough to provide the energy needed for the subsequent evolution of dinosaurs.
Qiao Song finally revealed a relatively comfortable smile: "Dividing the waters is fine, but I have a better suggestion."
"Wild Grass has already obtained two S-level small parts and has caused public outrage. If they continue to attack small teams, sooner or later some players will unite with each other and form a new team like us to deal with them. I think the Newcomer Alliance can take this opportunity to win over a group of people."
Her expression was calm, yet she sounded a little helpless.
"After all, most of us players just want to pass the level safely and don't want to get involved in these fighting and killing. You guys are fighting for S-level parts just for the road race that we won't participate in later, but it's different for weeds. You are the real competitors."
The competition in a friendly road race is much more intense than that in a car manufacturing race. For every opponent killed, the chance of getting into the top 10 increases by one point.
Qiao Song persuaded him: "I have a better plan. It can ensure that you get the S-level parts without causing public outrage. It can also direct a large amount of firepower to the weeds... and then you can pick up some leaks."
Of course, it is hard to say who will get the bargain in the end.
The two major unions are preparing to join forces to divide resources, so what method can be used to disintegrate their alliance first? The method must be to make one of the parties realize the greater benefits.
Qiao Song just didn't believe that the Newcomer Alliance was not wary of the Wild Grass Guild.
Lin Biaoyi couldn't help but frown when he heard her words, but after listening to the girl's next few plans, his brows gradually relaxed.
As he listened and thought, his eyes became brighter and brighter.
"It's a pity that you didn't join our Newcomer Alliance." The tone was much more sincere than before.
Qiao Song replied perfunctorily: "I will definitely join if there is a chance."
Lin Biaoyi: "Then we will do as you said. Until one hour before the end of the instance, we will not interfere with your affairs. I hope you can keep your promise and let's cooperate well."
"Of course, it's a pleasure to work with you."
The dinosaur raid was about to begin, and everyone was riding their pterosaurs back. Qiao Song persuaded Gao Chengcheng and the others to leave the dinosaurs in the pterosaur habitat for one night, and also left a large amount of meat for the pterosaurs as childcare fees.
Also left behind were some spare parts that they had buried beneath the pterosaur's nest.
Qiao Song only had one A-grade part left on his body.
The main reason was that before this round of dinosaur attack, she had a feeling that the microphone might cause trouble again.
Sure enough, just after returning to their respective platforms, before Qiao Song had time to ask Xiao Ni, who had already returned home, questions about the Tyrannosaurus Rex, he heard a cheerful and familiar rhythmic drum beat coming from the sky.
“Clang clang clang~! Long time no see, everyone. Our third round of dinosaur raid will begin in 5 minutes. Before that, let us announce the player score rankings for the past 24 hours.
Not bad, not bad, some players have already come from behind, and the current highest scores are 129 points, 120 points, and 117 points. Let's put the spotlight on them!"
These three teams were all from the Wild Grass Guild. A score of 60 was enough to pass the car-building competition, but they had already reached over 100 points when the competition was just halfway through.
It seems that they did get a lot of high-end parts.
Then, the microphone wearing a red cape announced the teams with the most accumulated special food resources among the 50 stone pillar platforms.
"The first place is still the group that Ms. Qiao Song belongs to. They still have 25 portions of ingredients! The second place has 9 portions, and the third place has 6 portions."
With the spotlight shining on her face, Qiao Song could feel that many people were looking at her, but their interest in them had greatly decreased.
After all, raising dinosaurs is the top priority now. Special ingredients seem to have no other advantages except for taming pterosaurs, and pterosaurs can now be bribed with ordinary food.
Those small herbivorous dinosaurs running in the forest are the resources they need to compete for more.
Only after hearing the announcement, Qiao Song felt that it was the right thing for him to keep the food in the white resource bags. These things might be of great use in the future. Otherwise, why would this microphone keep reporting the stock of these things over and over again?
There will no longer be refreshed white resource bags on the entire map. Many dinosaur-raising teams fed this kind of food to their dinosaurs as soon as they were short of food. It has been proven that this can indeed help dinosaurs grow very fast.
But compared to the Triceratops, which is as big as an elephant, eating a few small pieces of meat seems like nothing.
At least that's what several teams from the Wild Grass Guild thought. They had also been asked by several small teams before, asking if they wanted to find an opportunity to attack the small team that Qiao Song was in.
But those guys were weak, so they looked down on them. Moreover, it was time-consuming and laborious to use props to attack a team of players. Just for a little food in the white resource bag, it would be more cost-effective to go directly to the forest and fight a Triceratops.
Adding on the secrets they discovered this afternoon, there are so many things that can be gained from killing dinosaurs, either A-grade parts or a piece of meat that can be used as a meal for one's own dinosaur.
These players need to raise dinosaurs anyway, so let them raise them for a while. After they grow in the southern forest for a while, they can harvest these guys from the small guilds one by one.
The only new alliance that can compete with them is an aquatic dinosaur hatched this time, and has almost no intersection with them, and there are no particularly famous lone wolf players in this arena.
The people in the Wild Grass Guild just felt that they were really lucky in this round of car-building competition. With so many resources in hand, it would be an insult to the Jurassic map if they didn't make a full S-series vehicle that could dominate the road.
After the broadcast, the countdown in the sky showed that there were only a few minutes left before the dinosaur attack.
Qiao Song finally had time to talk to Xiao Ni, who looked troubled: "Why do you look like that? Did Hei Dou get into trouble?"
Xiao Ni denied it immediately. After thinking for a long time, he scratched his head and said, "Black beans have become so strange. They can actually..."
After hesitating for a long time, he finally leaned close to Qiao Song's ear and whispered, "The black bean turned back into an egg and went into my stomach."
Qiao Song: ???
When Xiao Ni turned into a transparent state, she could indeed stuff things into her body, like a human space storage device, but she didn't expect that living creatures could also be stuffed in, and why could the Tyrannosaurus Rex turn back into an egg?
She looked at Xiao Ni's stomach: "Will you feel uncomfortable?"
Xiao Ni: "No, I just can feel Hei Dou sleeping inside. And I always feel like my ability has suddenly evolved."
In the afternoon, he took Hei Dou from the gathering place of the little red dragons in the southwest to the southern forest area, but that place had been surrounded by many players. After they were chased for a while, they wanted to take Hei Dou to jump to another area using the mirror in a hurry. In his hurry, he forgot that the little dinosaur was now a little too big for him to cover.
He kept muttering to himself that if only it could be smaller, like an egg before it was hatched, so that he could carry it away with him.
As a result, the black bean howled twice, then turned into a dot of light, and finally turned back into an egg, which he really took away.
Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard this: "Sorry, Xiaoni, I'm not laughing at you, I just think it's very interesting."
Seeing Xiao Ni's face flushed, she immediately explained, fearing that the other party would be angry: "No, no, listen to me, it may not be the stomach! It may also be a storage space in your body!"
What Tang Xiaoxiao said makes a lot of sense.
But why did Xiao Ni's ability suddenly evolve? Doesn't he need to have the same proficiency as the player?
While Qiao Song was thinking about the reason, a rumbling sound was heard from the sky.
"It's a good thing that you can pack up the black beans, but it's best not to let any other team know. Remember?"
When everyone was thinking about hiding the dinosaurs that had not yet grown up, Xiao Ni's ability had a bit of a bug.
Could it be that individual desires also affect the generation of abilities?
But Xiao Ni is clearly a ghost, a ghost that came out of a copy.
The dark dinosaurs in the distant sky were flying closer and closer. Qiao Song stared at them for a while and realized something was wrong.
This momentum, and the color...
She squinted her eyes to identify the dinosaurs that were getting closer and closer, and suddenly said, "No, today there are not only Microraptors, but also other types of dinosaurs!"
Qiao Song knocked down a chicken-sized Microraptor with a hammer, and soon saw another flying dinosaur that also had feathers and was much larger in size. To be precise, they were stepping on the tops of the surrounding trees and sliding forward.
Qiao Song thought for a while and confirmed his guess again.
She immediately sent a voice message in the group.
"The extra dinosaur tonight is probably the Millennium Ornithosaurus. It has a poison gland on its forehead that can cause paralysis and shock. Don't get bitten. If you want to use it to feed your own dinosaurs, remember to cut off its head!"
After thinking for a while, she added: "Don't throw away the severed head. I can use it."
Messages of "received" flashed across the group immediately.
The other teams were not so lucky. After fighting the newly joined dinosaur for several rounds, they found out that this thing could spray poison! They could only guard against the Microraptor destroying their cars while avoiding being scratched and bitten by the Millennium Ornithosaurus.
The moment Ren Nanping learned that the giant dinosaur was poisonous, he immediately ordered his nephew to stop using the bench and use his skills instead.
Ren Zhuo took out his game controller and summoned a frost goddess.
[Being bad at e-sports is the original sin]
[Frost Goddess: Melee Mage. (Current Level 11)]
The reason why this character was summoned is mainly because she can not only pierce the enemy with her staff, but also use ice magic, which can control and attack. But her skills are a bit difficult to aim.
In the past, Ren Zhuo could easily achieve multiple achievements in the game, such as one on two, one on three, and even cross-level killing, by controlling the characters with a few buttons. However, in this world of infinite survival, two-dimensional things suddenly became three-dimensional, and the operation difficulty increased by more than a little.
He had to be extremely careful when using any skill, otherwise it would be easy to use it incorrectly. When playing a game, if he used a skill incorrectly, at most he would be scolded by his teammates for being a bad student, but if he used a skill incorrectly in this world, he would just turn into a monument on the spot.
Ren Nanping had to use his bench to assist him from time to time.
"Nephew, what happened to you? I remember you were really good at playing games. Didn't you even join some youth training team? How come you used your skills incorrectly? To the right, to the right - there's a giant beast climbing up over there!"
The fisherman has used too many skills by the water today, and now he is a little stretched.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before he heard the sound of a pterosaur flapping its wings.
When a dinosaur raids, pterosaurs generally will not join unless the battle has been completely ended on the current player platform.
When Ren Nanping looked up, he saw a woman holding a hammer jumping directly off the back of the pterosaur.
"I'll help you guys get through this quickly, and come with me to a place later."
Without saying much, Qiao Song picked up the hammer and started smashing the dinosaurs. Except for the time when she was facing the Millennium Ornithosaurus, she would hesitate for a while to avoid using the hammer to break the venom gland on the top of its head. Otherwise, she acted very cleanly and neatly, killing each little Raptor with one hammer.
Ren Nanping finally put away the small stool he had used to smash the dinosaurs, and gave a thumbs up beside him: "Are you serious about this? Does your platform end the battle so quickly?"
The main reason was that Tang Xiaoxiaoshu was very good at controlling the situation. She had not been allowed to perform well before in order to protect the car. However, Qiao Song had decided not to let his car score too many points before the last day. So he did not care about the car today. He focused on killing all the attacking dinosaurs as soon as possible and had to deal with other things later.
Offense is the best defense. In the end, those little dragons didn't cause any major damage to their car and were almost wiped out. Qiao Song cut off the head of the Millennium Bird Dragon and put them into a net bag. He planned to give the bird meat to Hei Dou later, and kept the head for other uses.
She also dealt with the bird dragon on Ren Nanping's platform, and Qiao Song also took away the dragon head that they didn't need.
"Now follow me to the pterosaur habitat. If you are any slower, I am afraid I won't be able to catch any fish."
Ren Nanping grumbled a few words, "Do we still want to go fishing at this time?" But he still followed Qiao Song onto their pterosaur.
Little Feather brought them to the habitat as quickly as possible, and Qiao Song immediately asked Xiao Ni: "Try to see if you can turn it back into an egg."
Xiao Ni, who was riding a pterosaur for the first time, still had excitement on his face. He nodded and reached out to touch the blue little dinosaur that was almost full in the big basin.
There was a flash of light, and the little dinosaur's figure appeared and disappeared, but it finally stayed where it was and did not turn back into a dinosaur egg.
Xiao Ni looked confused: "This one seems too good, I feel like maybe I'm not familiar enough with it."
So the little dinosaur cried out twice and after some resistance, it failed to turn into an egg.
Hei Dou would not resist at all what Xiao Ni asked him to do.
After witnessing this wonderful attempt, Ren Nanping looked at Xiao Ni in amazement: "Your skill is interesting, Pokémon? It's a bit like my nephew."
Qiao Song looked at the time.
"Let's take these two little dragons to the water area. This area of Pterosaurs may not be so safe tomorrow."
She touched the big head of Little Feather next to her.
"Remember to have your tribe move the dragon eggs in advance. Tomorrow, the guilds may start from the pterosaur habitat."
We can already find some patterns from the previous raids. There are a total of 6 dinosaur raids in this game. After the 1st, 3rd and 5th raids, there will be microphone rankings and resource broadcasts. After the 2nd, 4th and 6th raids, the height of the stone pillar should decrease.
As the height of the stone pillars decreases, the value of pterosaurs to players will decrease, and they will be just another kind of food.
Little Feather probably understood what she meant. After rubbing Qiao Song's hand, he raised his head and called a few times in the habitat. Soon, all kinds of echoing calls could be heard one after another in the entire pterosaur habitat.
After leaving the pterosaur colony, Qiao Song and his friends quickly released the little dinosaurs into the water, taking Gao Chengcheng's family with them.
"She has other tasks tonight. Lao Ren, what you have to do later is to fish as hard as you can and feed these two little guys as much as possible."
Qiao Song has already started picking out food from the net bag, while Xiao Ni has made his body transparent. A black egg can be seen floating in his body. The egg is squeezed out bit by bit, and the moment it hits the ground, it turns into a small Tyrannosaurus Rex that is five or six meters tall.
Although it is not small, compared with the height of an adult, the little guy is not too big at present.
"Xiao Ni, can you handle feeding three of them at once?"
There is no need for Huangmao’s family’s velociraptors to grow bigger in a hurry, otherwise there would be four of them.
The latter patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me. Black Bean is very obedient when eating. If you put it next to him, he will eat it by himself."
So he gave priority to taking care of the two little guys in the water who were not very familiar to him, feeding them while getting to know them better.
Qiao Song was cooperating with Ren Nanping, trying their best to harvest the prey in the water. No one would disturb them tonight because this was an exclusive time agreed upon with the Newcomer Alliance.
She would spend the night keeping the dragons well fed.
On the other hand, Gao Chengcheng, who had received a task assigned by Qiao Song, had quietly sneaked into the edge area of the southern forest.
What she had said to Qiao Song before was indeed true. Most of Gao Chengcheng's abilities were in the areas of support and control, with very little frontal attack power.
But the infiltration mission is quite suitable for her.
[You are eating a new product: transparent ice cream jelly, each one you eat can temporarily make you invisible for three minutes]
[Please note that this invisibility is not absolute invisibility, but it greatly reduces the host's presence. When used in low-light environments, it can conceal the body and smell to a great extent.]
There is very little of this ice cream jelly, and Gao Chengcheng only uses it occasionally when causing trouble or escaping. But Qiao Song said that what she has to do is very simple, which is to feed his dragon on behalf of the people from the Wild Grass Guild.
Their dinosaurs are not difficult to find. First of all, they must be in the southern forest area. Several Triceratops in that area were killed today. Those that dropped parts were taken away, and those that did not drop parts became pure meat supplies.
In this case, the growth rate of the Wild Grass Guild's dinosaurs is astonishing enough, and the smell of blood and energy they leave behind will also be astonishing.
Gao Chengcheng slowed down her pace and concentrated. She had already seen the large paws near the dark bushes in the distance. She looked up along the dinosaur's legs and raised her head little by little.
The huge dinosaur, which is almost half the height of the tree, is the result of the Wild Grass Guild's work in the southern forest today.
One could even smell a strong smell of blood in the nearby area. The small red dragons in the west were no longer enough for these big dinosaurs to eat. If they had to eat anything, they would have to eat the giant Triceratops.
In the distance, you can even see a few eerie white skeletons, and you don’t know if they are what these dinosaurs left behind.
The result of uneven resource distribution is that while the dinosaurs raised by others have just grown taller than adults, they have already started raising forest overlords.
If the Wild Grass Guild really takes over this entire area, there would be no need to compete in the second half of the competition, as they would be able to choose all the S-level parts.
No wonder the leader of the Newcomer Alliance agreed to the two-faced plan as soon as Sister Qiao instigated him during the day.
Gao Chengcheng calmly summoned his ice cream cart, then aimed at one of the trees and began to climb up quickly.
As long as the ice cream truck is within 500 meters of her, Gao Chengcheng can take out the contents of the truck.
"Come on, come on, everyone, don't sleep, I'll give you a free midnight snack~"
I saw piles of Millennium Ornithosaurus corpses dumped in the central area where several dinosaurs were sleeping. Gao Chengcheng also added some delicious ice cream that had an appetite-enhancing effect to make these things smell more fragrant.
After all, this is not a complete body of the Millennium Bird Dragon, but only the head, that is, the Millennium Bird Dragon with the bulging venom glands on the head intact.
"Eat more, eat more, it's free, you're welcome."
The double-crowned dragons, awakened by the noise in the grass, opened their eyes. Unlike the little dragons whose eyes were still a little confused, their pupils were already filled with brutality and blood.
With their noses twitching, they sniffed around, and when they didn't smell any strange scent, they turned their eyes and noticed the pile of snacks between them.
The dinosaurs, who were used to being fed, opened their bloody mouths and took a few bites. After tasting something special, they pushed each other and scrambled to get the delicious food into their mouths.
A pleasant chewing sound was heard, and Gao Chengcheng quickly bought a transparent ice cream jelly, maintaining his stealth state and quietly climbed down the tree.
Mission accomplished!
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