Chapter 61
Qingyao goes straight to the guild channel:
[Ripe Tomato: @墨色, Boss, I'm going to the Star Picking event in an hour. I sincerely invite you to team up with me. Is that okay with you? (shy.jpg)]
Xia Mo, who was doing a city mission in Huangs City, was stunned when he saw the news.
[Mo Se: What is the star-picking activity?]
Ripe Tomato: Oh my goodness, you didn't even know? Today is the Qixi Festival on Alman Star. We've officially updated a special Qixi Festival event. There's a competition called Picking Stars. You need to form a team. What do you think? (Rubbing Hands.jpg)
Xia Mo was about to answer yes when several replies from other people suddenly appeared in the channel.
[Laughing until his face is paralyzed: Boss, don’t look at him! Look at me!!! I can do it! (Waving hands frantically)]
[Salad with Meat Sauce: Ahem, if you're willing, I'd also like to invite you to team up with me, but the final choice depends on your opinion~@墨色]
Yun Yao: What's wrong with you guys? Sister Mo Se is mine! Who allowed you to team up with her? I'm your sister! Choose me! I'll make sure you win the Grand Slam! @Mo Se]
Looking at the scramble all over the screen, Xia Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Mo Se: Well, there's only one of me, and all four of you want to join. So, I'll play four games with you?
Since it's a holiday today, she doesn't mind playing a few more games.
Who knows.
[Ripe Tomato: Ahem, Boss... Each person can only participate in this game once...]
[Laughing until his face collapses: ...So you can only choose one among the four of us]
【Salad with meat sauce: I raise my hand to join the battle】
Yun Yao: Sister, choose me! (Raises arms and cheers) (Shouts loudly) (Greedy and eager)
Xia Mo was overwhelmed.
How could she choose? No matter who she chose, she would be neglecting the other three...
After a few seconds of thought, she decided to try a method that didn't involve rolling the dice. It would be the fairest, the most unbiased option... After all, she'd team up with whoever won.
Just about to reply, suddenly...
[Qingshui Zhubaicai (President): @MoSe, can you team up with me?]
Xia Mo: ??? Why is there another one?
Ripe Tomato: Aaaaaaaaa!!! Qingshui, what's wrong with you? Stop cutting in line! We all got here first, so move back.
[Laughing until my face is paralyzed: Ahem, President, you are being disrespectful.]
[Salad with meat sauce: Unkind +1]
Yun Yao: Brother, why are you here to join in the fun? Don't compete with me for Sister Mo Se, damn it!
[Boiled Cabbage in Clear Water: This isn't a fight, it's a reasonable self-recommendation. This activity requires one team to remove their equipment and collect stars on the map, while the other team retains their equipment and protects their teammates throughout the entire process. Your combat power is lower than mine, and I don't think the chances of winning with Mo Se are high. Why don't I do it~]
Ripe Tomato: Oh my god, look at that! What a derogatory comment without even a single curse word! Qingshui, you're such a green tea (gritting your teeth)
puff--
The dignified president was actually teased as a green tea, and Xia Mo laughed on the other side of the screen.
Yun Yao: I don't care! I refuse to accept this! I want to team up with Sister Mo Se!
[Boiling Cabbage in Water: OK, but what are you going to do if you can't get into the top five?]
Yun Yao: What? Top five? You're crazy, bro! The competition hasn't even started yet, and there are already thousands of teams pre-registering! Hey, bro, wake up!
[Boiling cabbage in water: very sober]
It seems that Qingshui is aiming for the top five. Xia Mo thought about it and agreed. Since she is going to play, she should play to the best of her ability. If she just goes there to make a cameo appearance, it would be a pure waste of her time.
So he said bluntly: [Then let’s strive to get into the top five]
[Boiled Cabbage in Clear Water: Thank you. I will do my best to win honor for you.]
Xia Mo:...Ahem, there’s no need to be so formal.
When the others saw this, they knew they had no chance, and immediately howled and cried in the guild.
Xia Mo watched them competing with each other with various emoticons and couldn't help laughing out loud on the other side of the screen.
At the star-picking event, the word "crowded" was not enough to describe the grand occasion.
After all, it only takes two people to form a team, and there is no restriction on gender. No matter if it is a man-man, a man-woman, or a woman-woman, as long as there are two people, they can sign up, so there are countless people who come to join in the fun.
Xia Mo is not short, he is about 165cm tall, but once he stood in the crowd, he was instantly drowned in the crowd.
Qingshui looked back at her and smiled gently, "Follow me closely, don't get lost."
Xia Mo blinked in amusement: "I'm not a three-year-old child."
"The freshmen who just arrived are just kids in the eyes of us seniors~"
"What?" Because of the noise all around, Xia Mo didn't hear clearly what he just said.
Qingshui smiled and said, "Nothing, just saying that you are obedient, sensible and well-behaved."
Xia Mo: ...
Is she so easy to fool?
Knowing that the other party was joking, she snorted and ignored it.
After squeezing for more than ten minutes, they finally got to the NPC for registration.
[Please confirm whether you would like to team up with [Boiled Cabbage in Clear Water] to participate in the Qixi Festival special event to pick stars? ]
【yes】
After the registration is successful, all you need to do next is wait for the time to come and the system will automatically transmit it for you.
Ten minutes later, she felt the scene in front of her eyes change, and when she looked again, she and Qingshui had entered the activity map.
The deep blue starry sky fills the sky above my head, with silver-white stars hanging above it. From time to time, there are shooting stars streaking down from the corners. Just one glance and I feel like I'm about to fall in love with them.
Under the night sky, there are glimmering mountains, dotted with stars, which are the stars that players need to collect.
The star-picking activity is limited to 1 hour. After entering the mountains, contestants need to collect the stars that fall in the mountains while being vigilant against attacks from monsters in the mountains. At the same time, they must bypass the mountains, enter the back of the mountains, and reach the other side through an iron chain wooden bridge. Put the stars into the mechanism set up on the other side to be considered a successful process.
During the entire game, all the player's props and potions will be frozen. If they lose blood or get poisoned while fighting monsters, they can only rely on the props picked up in the mountains to protect themselves.
If a teammate dies, the surviving player can still find a resurrection ball to successfully revive the teammate.
However, Xia Mo felt that the number of resurrection balls must be extremely rare, so she and Qingshui should not pin their hopes on them.
In terms of points, players can get 10 points for collecting a star, 2 points for defeating a monster, 20 points for going around the back mountain and crossing the wooden bridge, and finally putting the star into the mechanism, which counts as 50 points.
At the end of the final time, the winner will be determined by the team's points. It is said that the top five will receive a guaranteed reward of 200 gold coins and 20,000 experience points, the top ten will receive a guaranteed reward of 100 gold coins and 10,000 experience points, and the rest will receive participation prizes. In short, no player will return empty-handed.
Putting aside other things, just for the 200 gold coins for the top five, Xia Mo is already excited and eager to try.
She wanted to be the one who picked stars, but the star pickers generally recommended players to go in without any equipment, so when communicating with the NPC, she chose to go in without any equipment and weapons.
As the game started, players at the foot of the mountain rushed up in droves!
From a long distance, Xia Mo saw a silver-white star hanging on a tree.
"It's on that tree!" she shouted as she rushed towards the target tree.
"Okay, I'll cover you."
Qingshui followed behind and quickly and efficiently blasted away several ferocious-looking monkey monsters for her.
The team's points suddenly increased by 8 points.
The speed of the naked character is adjusted to the average by the system, which means that the agility of all the naked players is the same, so when Xia Mo ran under the tree, other naked players arrived at almost the same time.
It depends on who climbs the tree first and gets it.
Bang! A fist-sized stone suddenly hit her.
Xia Mo was climbing up the tree trunk holding on, and she didn't expect the other party to use a dirty trick. Fortunately, she was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and turned to the side, successfully avoiding the attack.
Attacking other players is not allowed in the star-picking competition, but the male star official under the tree attacked her. Xia Mo sneered, thinking that this man was probably a fool.
"Player 34, please note that if you attack anyone else again, you will be disqualified from the competition."
The system's voice echoed over the venue.
The male star official who had taken action turned pale and reluctantly withdrew his attack.
However, just as he was about to pull it back, a monkey monster with its teeth bared pounced on his back and started scratching it.
-210, -180, -190...
A series of bright red numbers popped up.
The male star official was so scared that he screamed and kept fighting against the monkey monster.
But he was at a distance and the monkey was nearby. Even though he had the Star Staff, he didn't know how to deal with the monkey. He could only pull with the monkey and roll around on the ground.
Something went wrong on his side, and the girls on his team were frightened and at a loss. Xia Mo seized the opportunity, climbed up the tree trunk, stretched out his hand, and easily took the star like a monkey picking peaches.
[Collect stars +1, get points +10]
"I got it!" She smiled and showed off to Qingshui.
Qingshui looked up at her from below: "I know, be careful when you come down~"
Xia Mo grabbed the branch and swung gently, landing exceptionally lightly even without the bonus of equipment.
"Let's go somewhere else."
The male star official who attacked her maliciously was still being harassed by the monkey, and his health was gradually decreasing. His teammates were naked and could do nothing at this time, so they could only stare blankly.
Now that Xia Moxingxing was in their hands and they had gained nothing, the girl was so angry that she stomped her feet and scolded him.
"Who told you to do this? Did the rules get eaten up by your brain? It's all your fault. We had a chance to get that star."
The male star officer launched several attacks and finally got rid of the monkey, but he also succeeded in scratching away half of its blood. He looked at the girl with some resentment: "What chance do you have? Didn't you see who just climbed the tree? Even if I didn't break the rules, you wouldn't be able to get the star."
"Hey, who was that guy who climbed up the tree just now? Is he that great?" The girl was already angry, and when she saw her boyfriend's elbows sticking out, she got even angrier.
The male star official got up from the ground and held his forehead helplessly: "My dear, that person is Mo Se..."
The word "ink" made the girl speechless instantly.
Seeing his girlfriend silent, the male star official thought to himself that something was wrong. Damn it, his girlfriend was already very upset about not getting the star, why did he have to be so stupid as to make things worse?
He was just regretting that he couldn't speak, so he opened his mouth to comfort his girlfriend, but unexpectedly, she slapped him on the head.
"Ahhh, I'm so pissed! Why didn't you tell me earlier that that person was Mo Se?! Ah, my idol! My great god! I was clearly in the same frame with her just now, but I didn't recognize her!!!"
"Damn it, that's so damned! Look at you, you don't say what you should say, and you often say things you shouldn't say!"
The male star who was inexplicably shot:?
"I don't care, you have to let me see Mo Se again today! Otherwise I will kick you out tonight!"
Male star official: ???
Wait a minute, sister, who is your boyfriend?
*
Halfway through the competition, Xia Mo had successfully collected 18 stars in the mountains, which means he picked one in less than 2 minutes on average. His speed was simply astonishingly fast.
What made the other teams feel even more terrified was that she and the warlock named Qingshui were completely unharmed throughout the entire process, without even losing a drop of blood.
Good guy, look at them again?
Being chased and scratched by monkeys, he wanted to kill those monsters to vent his anger, but at the same time he felt that it was not worth it to spend so much effort to get 2 points, so he had to run wildly in the mountains, just to save his life.
"I'm impressed. How on earth did they manage to avoid the monsters?"
"Yeah, there are monkeys everywhere in this mountain. You can bump into them wherever you go. I don't believe they haven't run into each other before."
"That's really weird. Is the monster really going to pull out our health bars?"
Among the participating teams, many people complained after seeing the rankings on the points table.
It was terrifying. While other teams were still trying to escape, Mo Se and her teammate Qing Shui were forging ahead, their points soaring to first place! They were simply envious!
There are 10 minutes left in the game.
Xia Mo took out another star from the tree, and the points were credited to her account. She jumped to the ground and said, "Let's go to the back mountain."
Although they had intended to move towards the back mountain, there were always monkey monsters blocking their way. Sometimes it was the Monkey King who showed up. They had high health and strong attacks. Not only did they waste their mana bars by attacking them, but they could only get 2 points in the end. It was not cost-effective at all.
The wisest way is to avoid them, so Xia Mo chose to take a detour.
After five or six times, it is inevitable that there will be deviations from the general direction.
In order to get to the bridge before the end of the game, Xia Mo felt that he had to set off now.
Qingshui followed behind him: "Okay, I'll do as you say."
Along the way, Xia Mo and Qingshui picked up a few bottles of potion from the grass, just in case.
He rushed to the back mountain, only to see several groups of people standing at the entrance of the bridge, pushing and shoving each other. Some people wanted to cross the bridge, but were stopped by the bridge guards. The people who were stopped were swearing, and one of them couldn't help but fight, and was immediately warned by the system.
Some people ignored the warning and still launched the attack. The next moment, the players disappeared from the spot, and it was obvious that they were forcibly teleported out of the map.
"Those who want to cross the bridge need to pay a toll! Just give three stars per person, it's not much. Everyone should think carefully to avoid getting into trouble!"
Several players wearing equipment stood at the entrance of the bridge, completely blocking the road.
The naked players who were stopped were very dissatisfied, but they could do nothing but curse.
They had no equipment and were no match for the gangsters in terms of combat power, and their teammates had just been cleared out by the system when they were forced to attack, which meant that they were now completely defenseless.
Those who don’t have the strength will be crushed in the world of games.
The players without any equipment were filled with resentment, but in the end, due to the huge gap in strength, they gritted their teeth and reluctantly handed over the stars.
The bridge on the back mountain connects two mountains, and there is a cliff in the middle of the mountain. If you accidentally fall off the bridge, you will be eliminated immediately.
Probably because of this, players crossing the bridge are very cautious. They all choose to go up the bridge from the entrance and hold on to the chains on both sides tightly as they move forward.
However, for Yu Xiamo, there is never only one way to solve a problem.
As she climbed up the nearly 90-degree slope above the bridge, she lowered her head and asked Qingshui below with a smile, "Want to try something exciting?"
Qingshui looked up, met her smug and playful face, and smiled: "Of course, as long as you want, I will accompany you anytime."
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