As Gu Mian walked away, Zou Qi, who was left behind, put away his aggrieved expression.
Having failed to curry favor with a powerful ally, Zou Qi reluctantly pulled out two vials of purification potion and gulped them down.
[System: The third wave of polluters has appeared. Players are requested to eliminate them as soon as possible.]
Seeing that the number of polluters had doubled again in the third wave, the players all started cursing.
"This damn system is such a rip-off! If you had told me there were so many polluters, I wouldn't have even signed up for this mission."
"Is this system trying to kill us? Killing a Corruptor doesn't drop purification potions; on the contrary, getting injured increases our corruption level. Is this damn system trying to turn us all into Corruptors?!"
"Brother, you're absolutely right. We're really in deep trouble this time!"
...
Having distanced themselves from the crowd, the number of pollutants also decreased. Looking at the longsword, which still had half its durability left, Gu Mian felt a little regretful.
Nobody expected there to be such a huge pitfall in the mission. They originally just wanted to get a silver treasure chest, but now they don't know how many waves of polluters they'll have to clear before they can complete the mission.
The longsword's durability was reduced to half; it was truly a double loss.
After clearing out a few more pollutants attracted by other players, Gu Mian took out a purification potion from her backpack and drank it.
Even after fighting for so long, she inevitably got scratched by the corrupted creatures, but fortunately she stayed away from the crowd, so her corruption level only reached 60.
Suddenly, someone cried out in despair, "Why are there so many polluters? Can we still complete this mission?!"
Gu Mian looked over and saw players being transformed into new polluters, who then attacked the remaining players.
At this point, there were fewer than one hundred players left! Meanwhile, the number of corruptors was more than double that of the players!
Gu Mian felt a chill run down her spine. If this continued, not only would the mission fail, but the remaining players might also be transformed into corruptors.
At that time, she definitely wouldn't be able to handle hundreds of polluters by herself.
Thinking of this, Gu Mian immediately shouted into the arena: "Players with a pollution value of 85 or higher, run to me! I have purification potions here."
Hearing the shout, the remaining players turned their heads and saw a beautiful young girl with a long knife in her hand, quickly rushing towards them, taking down each corrupted being with a single strike.
"My contamination level is 90, quickly give me the purification potion." A middle-aged man in his thirties rushed up to Gu Mian, followed by a dozen or so contaminated individuals.
Without time to investigate whether what he said was true or false, Gu Mian tossed a purification potion to the middle-aged man and then attacked the polluted one who had followed her with her long knife.
"My contamination level is also 85, hurry up and give me the purification potion!" A young girl carrying an iron axe led several contaminated individuals over.
Gu Mian took a moment to toss her a purification potion and continued dealing with the polluters that were chasing after them.
The middle-aged man and the young girl drank the purification potion, grabbed their respective weapons, and quickly returned to the main battlefield.
Ever since Gu Mian shouted, people kept running towards her for the purification potion. After drinking it, they would take their weapons and go back to continue fighting.
Fortunately, she had a large stockpile of purification potions, and in the end, no players continued to transform into polluters.
Half an hour later.
[System: This mission is now complete. All players who participated in the mission will receive a Silver Treasure Chest*1.]
Additionally, the top three contributors to this mission will receive an extra silver treasure chest.
Before she could think any further, Gu Mian was teleported back to the raft.
[System: You have a new email. Please check it promptly.]
It must be a mission reward. Gu Mian opened the email.
[Talent Use: Obtain 4 Silver Supply Crates]
Wow!
Gu Mian's first reaction was that there were actually four silver treasure chests, she had made a huge profit.
My second reaction was, "She actually made the top three contributions?"
That's amazing!
Instead of opening the box, Gu Mian first checked the task leaderboard and found that she was indeed lagging behind in third place.
The first is Jiang Bai, and the second is someone named Wu Jie.
The chat channel was buzzing with discussion about the mission to eliminate the contaminants.
"Damn it, I almost got screwed this time. This damn system is really hard to guard against."
"What do you mean? Isn't the mission just to clean up the contaminated ones? What kind of traps are there?"
The man gritted his teeth and replied, "It's true that we're cleaning up the polluters, but this damn system didn't say there were several waves of polluters!"
Furthermore, being scratched by a corrupted creature will increase your corruption level. Once the corruption level reaches 100, it will transform into a new corrupted creature and attack the player!
The channel erupted in an uproar.
"Is the system really that unfair? I was regretting that I signed up too late and missed this mission, but now I'm just so glad!"
"Me too. I was initially regretting not signing up, but now that I see what they're saying, I'm glad I didn't. Otherwise, I probably would have failed."
"The third wave of pollutants outnumbered the players. If someone hadn't kept providing us with purification potions, I think we would have all been wiped out on this mission!"
"Who is it that has so many purification potions to provide for you?"
"I don't know, I was busy fighting monsters. I only remember that she was a really beautiful woman."
"Absolutely, absolutely! Beautiful women are just different. Everyone else looks disheveled, but she's got a natural filter on her, she's clearly from a different dimension!"
"After all that talk, who is it anyway?"
"[Photo] Taken secretly, does anyone know her?"
"Wow! Isn't that my girlfriend? Bro, I suggest you send me the picture, or my girlfriend will get angry."
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