Chapter 90 Hell Community
"Lao Yao, the next wave of beans will be in ten minutes. This time, in addition to black beans, there will also be red ones! Remember to shoot them from far away!"
In just half an hour, wildlife observer Lao Yao, at the warning of the forecaster, had knocked away countless fist-sized, biting soybean heads with just a baseball bat.
The two also successfully figured out the eating habits of Shimo. Currently, only yellow beans are safe. Shimo will become irritable after eating black beans.
The effects of red are unknown, but to be safe, it's best to keep those red beans away as well.
During this process, we must try our best to put normal soybeans into the mouths of the stone mills closest to them, otherwise those hungry guys will directly attack humans.
On the contrary, the golfer who was assigned to the same team as the umbrella seller, somehow, although he could accurately feed the soybeans into the correct stone mill most of the time, he would occasionally "accidentally" knock the black soybeans to a closer place.
The big guys who ate the black beans became particularly aggressive and almost broke through the defense line several times.
But at this time, the golf man will make timely remedies, lure them away with soybeans, and explain with sweat on his forehead.
"I'm sorry that I swung the club so fast just now that I couldn't see the color clearly. I'm really sorry. Otherwise, I have a defense card here for you to take. If there is any danger later, you can use this to block it first."
The umbrella seller was already somewhat dissatisfied with him, and sometimes could only accept the things he gave him with suspicion.
Huh? It's actually a one-time defense card!
This actually made the umbrella seller feel a little embarrassed, after all, this kind of card is one of the very useful disposable props and it is not cheap.
His skill item, the umbrella, can be refreshed continuously, so exchanging it for other people's disposable defense items is a bit like taking advantage. After all, apart from providing the umbrella, he basically can't play any other role.
"Okay, you better be careful next time. I'll help you pay more attention to the color of the beans so you don't make any mistakes again."
The golfer nodded and said yes.
Lao Yao, who had been observing them from a distance, had already noticed something was wrong: "The guy with the golf club did it on purpose."
The forecaster who was huddled together with Lao Yao also nodded. She turned the weather vane in her hand and kept an eye on the situation: "He is deliberately hitting the black beans nearby. The red beans will fall soon. Let's not get too close to them."
Old Yao paused and added, "The man selling the umbrella is not a bad guy. We can help him out if something happens. Tongyu, take this."
Lao Yao took out a baseball prop of the same model as his own.
【Street Boy Defense Set Baseball Bat】
[Quality (Normal)/Current remaining usable time 99 minutes]
"There are more and more beans behind this, and offense is more important than defense."
Fu Tongyu accepted it without hesitation. This was not the first time they had dealt with each other. Every time after using each other's props, if they could survive, they would return the soul coins and other props. In a critical moment, it was given by a friend, so she would use it first.
Not long after picking up the baseball bat, Fu Tongyu's face turned serious and he shouted:
"Red Bean will be here in one minute, everyone get ready!"
This voice could not only be heard by the person selling umbrellas, but Qiao Song, who was not very far away from them, could also hear it clearly. It felt like it was being spoken intentionally for her to hear as well.
Qiao Song waved the baton in her hand. Although she did not change her weapon, she could still deal with anyone who dared to approach her with ease.
If I remember correctly, she is now equipped with bandages and a ghost cloak. She should look spooky and abnormal. It would be enough if she doesn't scare people half to death. Why would anyone take the initiative to approach her?
Just as the forecaster said, soon, a 100% red bean rain fell from the sky. These red beans were much more ferocious than yellow beans. Not only were they larger in size, but they also had a mouth full of fangs and serrations that took up half of their heads.
Previously, most of the soybeans would quickly lose their vitality after falling to the ground. If they did not bite people in the first place, they would be eaten bit by bit by the stone mill that came over.
The black beans will slowly disappear after falling to the ground, like melting ice.
After falling to the ground, these red beans quickly grew two thick arms. They used their arms as hands and ran directly towards where there were living people, like mad dogs.
Qiao Song swung his stick and knocked a red figure flying.
She used half her strength at first, but found that after Hongdou's head was deflated by her beating, it still dared to bite back. She immediately increased the strength of her attack, and this time she used 100% of her strength to hit the thing on the head.
After a few popping sounds, red bean powder soon exploded all around.
Fu Tongyu and Lao Yao who were not far away were both shocked. This ghost was so powerful. Unlike them, he didn't have an umbrella for protection, but he was holding such a small black stick that not even a single bean could get close to him.
The baton that Qiao Song was holding was quite special. I had discovered this when I was hitting soybeans before. If you use too much force, the beans will be crushed on the spot. I don't know if it was the baton's tearing effect that played a role.
She also had to feed the millstone with soybeans, so she hardly ever used her full strength, just to whip the soybeans over the top of the nearby millstone.
But there was something clearly wrong with this red bean.
"Tongyu! Get out of the way! There's another millstone coming towards you!"
The umbrella seller shouted from a distance, and Lao Yao reacted immediately. He took the baseball bat in his hand and hit the ferocious red head that was entangled with them. However, he obviously underestimated this guy's defense. Even with his baton, Qiao Song had to use 100% of his strength to smash the red head, but Lao Yao's ordinary baseball bat hit it so hard that a dent appeared on the baton.
【Street Boy Defense Set Baseball Bat (Damaged)】
The baseball bat in his hand quickly turned into a piece of scrap metal. Lao Yao cursed and quickly took out another baseball bat card of the same model, but in a different color.
The new stick was more durable and soon hit Hongdou's head with a clanging sound.
But the red bean monster was only defeated briefly. It shook its head and immediately came back with its fangs and big mouth. This time, Lao Yao reacted quickly. He used the baseball bat to push the red beans into the mouth of the big stone mill that was coming towards them.
Since humans can't handle it, let's leave it to someone who can grind the beans!
The beans were indeed restrained, and the stone mill no longer rushed towards humans after eating the food. This solved two problems at once.
But the large stone mill, which was originally bluestone in color, instantly turned red after consuming several red beans. The entire top of the stone seemed to be on fire, and smoke was sizzling out.
The weather vane in Fu Tongyu's hand turned again, as if a new report had appeared, and her face turned pale instantly.
"Extremely catastrophic forecast: local areas are about to experience lava rain... What does this mean..."
Old Yao's alertness, brought about by observing animals in the wild, suddenly flared up. He immediately pulled her under the umbrella and instantly pointed the umbrella directly towards the big guy in front of them who had turned red.
Qiao Song also noticed something was wrong and moved away for a distance in advance.
Large pieces of magma were seen erupting directly from the millstone mouth closest to Lao Yao and Fu Tongyu, instantly splashing onto the entire surrounding area. Everything including soybeans, black beans, and red beans showed signs of corrosion when being sprayed by the magma rain. Each bean became like a sponge ball, full of holes.
Qiao Song said "Hmm?" and subtly felt that something seemed to be wrong.
Why did the style of the game suddenly change?
Each layer of hell has its own game mode. The focus of the Stone Mill Hell should be to get the correct beans into the stone mill and prevent other beans from attacking humans. But how come this red guy even corrodes the stone mill itself?
The attack method on the 17th level should fit the theme of this level of hell.
This method of attacking with lava, why does it feel more like...
"What are you doing, you bastard!?" A roar came from the distance.
The umbrella seller watched Lao Yao and the others escape, and just as he felt his heart settle down, he felt the man next to him holding a golf club suddenly hit a black bean and headed straight for another nearby millstone.
The stone monster that ate the black beans immediately started running rampant. The golf man kept up his efforts and soon found a red bean. He took aim and hit it with his stick, hitting it into the mouth of the stone mill that had already started to go crazy.
Black Bean strengthened the stone monster's attack power, and Red Bean made it erupt like a volcano. With this combination of skills, the two men were caught off guard and were either killed or injured.
But all this happened so quickly that in an instant, a new round of magma erupted again.
The only thing to be thankful for is that those two people had been prepared for this side. Lao Yao and Fu Tongyu almost always kept their umbrellas facing this side. If they hadn't reacted quickly, they would have been gone by now.
"Gao Hui! Why did you sneak attack them? Are you sick?!"
The umbrella seller breathed a sigh of relief and immediately wanted to kick the golf guy out from under the umbrella. He didn't care whether this guy gave him a prop card or not. People with this kind of mentality should not be allowed to stay in the team!
Strangely, he found that he could no longer control the umbrella in his hand.
【Financial trap】
[For high-return financial products, you must read the terms carefully. Please confirm the contract in advance. Once you sign and agree, you need to follow the corresponding rules until the contract expires.]
[It is detected that the other party has already received the interest. You cannot take back the principal in advance. You temporarily have the right to use the special item "Defense Umbrella". 】
[Remaining usage time: 27 minutes and 58 seconds]
The golfer just gave the umbrella seller a defensive prop, but it was certainly not given for free.
An ordinary disposable shield might be very useful in other dungeons, but it is quite useless in a dungeon like this where beans are falling all the time.
The golf man used this shield, which was not inexpensive, in exchange for a defensive contract clause.
"Don't waste your energy. You won't be able to get me out in at least half an hour, and I only need 10 minutes to get through it."
Gao Hui tugged at his collar slightly, a smile that could be described as that of a villain showing on his face.
"I thought I would need a lot of props to get through this game, but I didn't expect to run into a bunch of you suckers."
His financial skills are different from his ball skills and can only be used on people, so most of the time, if he doesn't have teammates, he will first try to wait for someone to invite him, and then try to use traps to complete some special transactions.
In this game, a golf skill of hitting soybeans is enough to attract other players to cooperate.
He knew very well what he was, so he had been trying to find a mirror on the 4th floor to see which numerical hells he couldn't go to. Although the 4th floor had exploded and he couldn't get the mirror, this didn't stop him from being wary of any level of hell.
"I'm different from you poor people. If you lose the game, you only lose your life. I have a lot of prop cards and funds on me. So, your death is much more valuable than mine. So I have to trouble you to feed the monsters first."
He had observed earlier that although these stone mills needed to eat soybeans, the digestion speed of soybeans was very fast. Even if he kept pounding the soybeans into the stone mills, these big guys would still digest on the spot for a minute or two and then move again.
But it’s different for humans. Several ghosts entered this copy. Those ghosts would deliberately interfere with humans. Several people in the distance made mistakes and were fed into the stone.
After that, the man-eating millstone stopped moving.
Obviously, since there is no negative effect when feeding soybeans to a stone mill, then it can also be fed to humans. The right food is not just soybeans, but also humans.
"The volume of a soybean is only about that big, and a person is equivalent to more than ten or twenty soybeans."
Looking at the frightened and regretful expression of the other player under the umbrella, Gao Hui happily took out a new golf club.
"Don't worry, we are in a 'partnership'. I won't let you die. The price is that your umbrella will always serve me, and I will also help you pass the customs. You're welcome."
The man holding the umbrella was so angry that he wanted to punch him twice, but any attack on Gao Hui was prohibited.
In the distance, Lao Yao and Fu Tongyu, who had recovered, also discovered that something seemed to have happened at the umbrella seller. Although he had been holding the umbrella for Gao Hui without moving, he looked anxious and shouted at them to run away quickly.
"He's going to kill you! Go, that umbrella can still be used for half an hour, go!"
Although the three of them only met in the game, in this world, any friend who can be honest with each other and support each other is precious.
"Fu Tongyu, why are you still spinning the needle? Run away!"
The umbrella seller was still yelling anxiously, but Gao Hui thought he was too noisy and simply took out a cheap prop card and stuffed it into his pocket.
"Keep quiet from now on. You can't react in any other way when I tell you not to."
The financial effect takes effect, and the other party accepts the interest he gives, so the assets including the five senses will be temporarily distributed by him.
Without the shouting sounds, Gao Hui slowly and methodically swung the club again.
His golf skills are actually more effective than you think. After all, if you want others to join you, your skills cannot be too strong. You need to show weakness effectively and appropriately so that you can be quickly accepted by other players.
A huge golf bag fell directly at his feet, and countless golf clubs flew out automatically. Gao Hui, no longer concealing his abilities, used multiple golf clubs to attack Huang Dou at the same time.
whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A large number of yellow spheres were smashed directly onto the millstones' heads, as if they were being actively fed, calming their aggressive emotions.
Gao Hui was somewhat dissatisfied and tilted his head:
"Well, I told you, eating soybeans is not as efficient as eating people."
He hit a red bean with a pole, and it accurately hit the stone mill near Lao Yao and the others that had just eaten black beans.
Another big stone monster's belly swelled up, and under Fu Tongyu's almost horrified gaze, the red stone mill exploded again.
"Wow, it's so beautiful, just like a volcanic eruption. I probably won't be able to survive this time. It should be enough to eat these two people..."
The words on the tip of his tongue were suddenly stuck in his throat and couldn't move. Gao Hui felt that the scene in his vision was suddenly broken into large pieces. Rays of golden light appeared in front of his eyes, making him dizzy.
What happened——
The feeling of suffocation gradually surged up, and he realized that his neck was strangled tightly.
Yes, who?
The long metal pole fell to the ground, and he pulled it hard on his neck, but could only reach a few thin golden threads.
No, he was clearly inside the umbrella, so how could something attack him? He used his skills to control the player using the umbrella, so there was no way this player would not protect him!
The umbrella owner, whose five senses had long been restricted and who had been trying to speak, had undisguised mockery in his eyes.
'My umbrella only restricts spherical objects of red, yellow and black colors, but not yellow lines.'
If his mouth had not been sealed, he would have definitely spoken out to remind Gao Hui due to the influence of the contract, but it was obvious that the other party restricted his ability to speak, and he directly shot himself in the foot.
"Well, help, help..."
The gold thread around his neck was getting tighter and tighter. Behind him, Jin Daya slowly turned the ring on his thick finger.
"Song Qiao, is this him you are talking about?"
Qiao Song, who had been watching the show, nodded: "He has a lot of numbers on him, don't kill him directly, there should be many layers that can be used."
As soon as these words were spoken, the other player who was still standing under the umbrella and unable to move, immediately trembled all over.
It's over, the ghost is coming.
The guy next to him has fallen, and he is afraid he will die too.
"However, let's put these few living people aside for now," Qiao Song suggested. "Although we have more ghosts than us, if we offend too many players at once, it will easily arouse their thoughts of uniting to fight against us, which will interfere with our most important work."
Qiao Song hinted at something.
Jin Daya immediately understood that this guy was talking about Boss Cai’s request to seize the Gate of Hell.
Indeed, these players had all kinds of abilities. If it weren't for the sudden attack from behind, this guy swinging the golf club would have been difficult to deal with. He almost killed the other three by himself.
If we talk about internal fighting, it has to be the players.
"Okay, first carry him and find a millstone to feed him. If you can summon the gate of hell, you will have done a great deed this time."
Immediately, a kid nearby took out a mirror and waved it around Gao Hui. As expected, he saw a circle full of numbers in the mirror.
"Good guy, you're full of evil." Jin Daya smiled and touched the human's head, then pulled him aside and threw him aside.
"Carry it over there and cut off a finger first to use as a doormat later."
Gao Hui was so angry that he started to struggle immediately. His pockets began to vibrate wildly, as if many prop cards were about to be activated.
Jin Daya just gently pointed at the air with his finger.
Golden threads flew out from the jewelry on his body and tied this human tightly into a golden cocoon. All his skills and props were put to use.
Jin Daya was also very considerate, leaving his younger brothers' ears and limbs outside.
"Remember to bandage it after you chop it, don't kill it, the next few layers should be able to be used."
The younger brothers hurriedly said yes and carried the man away.
Qiao Song looked for a while, then looked away expressionlessly, and raised his baton to look at the area where the red millstones had erupted.
That area was quite tragic. Many beans and millstones lost their vitality due to the collective attack. This obviously confirmed Qiao Song's previous idea, the identity of red beans.
However, there are still living things here right now.
Lao Yao and Fu Tongyu coughed as they crawled out from under a piece of animal skin and struggled to climb out.
After seeing Qiao Song, although he was a little scared, he still nodded slightly and thanked him quietly, then continued to flee. When he left, he took the owner of the umbrella, who was standing there like a wooden stake and had escaped the disaster, with him.
Qiao Song watched these players fleeing quickly, then he squatted down and used a stick to poke at the pool of red, thick material left behind by the explosion.
She was right, it was magma.
What the weather forecaster said was right. Volcanic eruptions and magma disasters, things that are obviously not the characteristics of this layer, actually appeared here.
The red beans don't look like items from the 17th layer, but more like items from the 16th layer of the volcanic hell.
In the Hell Wheel, are the levels directly connected? Otherwise, how did the props from the next level end up here?
I don’t know if it was because too many beans were consumed in this wave, the frequency of beans falling from the sky slowed down, and soon the millstones stopped moving.
Some of the stone mills were covered in blood, obviously they were not only full of soybeans but also had eaten enough people.
This fellow, which was obviously larger in size, stopped in place and quickly fell to the ground with a clang. Its four legs disappeared and it turned back into a millstone.
Jin Daya immediately called his younger brothers, found the largest one among them, and threw Gao Hui's finger, which he had just harvested, into the millstone.
A teeth-grinding creaking sound was heard, and the stone mill, which had no legs, began to turn by itself without anyone pushing it, and circles of blood foam slid down the passage.
Under Jin Daya's delighted gaze, a circular gate emitting light appeared at the bottom of the millstone.
At the same time, Qiao Song heard a prompt sound in his ear.
[Congratulations on clearing the Stone Mill Hell mini-game and gaining two hours of safe time! Players can now choose to return directly to the safe zone, or stay in the current area to continue the game! ]
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