Chapter 83
Qiao Ning ignored the red signs and continued driving forward. However, not long after, someone crossed from a side road and blocked her way.
Even if the other car wasn't level 7, it was at least level 6. Qiao Ning didn't want to waste her repair card, so she simply stopped the car.
"Female player?" Four people drove up from all sides, completely blocking Qiao Ning's car.
The owners of the car were all men in their twenties to forties. The man in the lead was of an uncertain age, appearing to be in his thirties, but his eyes were more mature and deep-set. He was a refined and capable man, dressed in a sharp suit and even carrying a briefcase.
In a different setting, Qiao Ning would probably mistake him for the CEO of some company.
"She really is a young girl. Judging from your appearance, I wonder if you're even an adult yet." The group could clearly see her through Qiao Ning's lowered car window.
"This car is quite good. Calling it a car is an understatement; it's more like an aircraft."
"Mr. Huang, did you see that? This vehicle even has protective gear, which should be able to isolate pollution and toxic gases. The vehicle isn't damaged at all. If we had this gear, we wouldn't have needed to waste our precious pollution removal agent."
Huang Longsheng smiled at Qiao Ning: "I have a daughter, she looks about your age. Little girl, I won't kill you, you can go on your own, go as far as you can. You have to leave your car and everything in it, including your storage items."
Qiao Ning met Huang Longsheng's gaze, remained silent for a few seconds, and then actually got out of the car.
The others thought she was obedient and preparing to abandon the car and leave, but unexpectedly a dark figure suddenly emerged from the car and tore apart a man who tried to get close to Qiao Ning in the blink of an eye. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and some of the blood even splashed in front of the other three people.
Ice Scale opened its massive maw and roared at them, the deafening roar causing a distant garbage mountain to collapse.
Even those with equipment or props for protection were in a sorry state; for a moment, Qiao Ning was the only one standing.
Ice Scales was completely unrecognizable from its usual silly dog-like appearance; it was truly a top predator standing at the top of the food chain.
The way those three looked at each other was as if they were looking at ants or dead things.
Qiao Ning teleported in front of someone and grabbed the person's neck through her gloved equipment.
"Wang Zhou!"
"You're offering a way out but you refuse, insisting on courting death? Mr. Huang, this woman killed my brother, I can't let her go for your sake, she must die!"
As he spoke, Wan Minghai summoned two giant beasts. Although the beasts were clearly animals, they had plant-like features, as if they had forcibly fused together some kind of mutated beast and mutated plant.
Mr. Huang's gaze never left Qiao Ning. He always felt that this girl... was a bit dangerous. Not that she looked dangerous or unapproachable, but rather that she herself gave him a huge sense of threat.
And there was that enormous, bizarre-looking monster beside her.
"Ice Scale, come back." Just as Ice Scale was about to tear these things in its way apart, it heard its master's call, and immediately braked, turned around, and rubbed against Qiao Ning's side.
At this moment, the two giant beasts swung their fists, spewing flames as they smashed down towards Qiao Ning.
Qiao Ning raised her hand.
A giant dragon formed from ice and snow roared and soared into the sky. A breath of dragon's breath froze a mutated giant beast into an ice sculpture. Another beast, seeing the situation was not good, tried to put away its flames and retreat, but the ice dragon devoured the flames and charged towards it. In the end, the beast and its master were frozen together!
At this moment, Qiao Ning flicked her finger and shot out two ice arrows. After hitting the frozen people and beasts, they shattered into countless ice blocks and finally turned into dust and frost. A cold wind left by the ice dragon blew by, and even the dust and frost were gone.
The whole process took less than a minute.
The man whose neck was being gripped by Qiao Ning was now pale and ashen-faced. Just when he thought Qiao Ning was about to snap his neck, he heard her ask, "Where did the pollution remover come from?"
"It was... stolen."
"Where did you steal it from? Do you know how the other party got it?" Qiao Ning increased the pressure on her hand.
"A girl...about your age...I don't know..."
Qiao Ning's face remained expressionless. "One last question."
"Why don't you use your pet?" She knew that his skill, even when used, didn't harm her.
"Pet lock..." The man's face turned purple, and veins bulged on his forehead.
Qiao Ning exerted force and snapped the man's neck. Then, looking at the man's filthy body from his death, she couldn't help but disgustedly throw the corpse away.
Upon seeing this, Binglin immediately came over and conjured a stream of water to wash her hands and gloves thoroughly.
There is only one person left.
It's hard to tell whether Huang Longsheng was truly calm or just pretending; even as death approached, he remained completely unperturbed.
He even said with a smile, "Little girl, you should be reasonable. I didn't mean to kill you just now; I even wanted you to leave."
Qiao Ning asked in confusion, "Do I have to thank you?"
Who would thank an enemy who wants to kill them?
Qiao Ning had no intention of listening to this person's sophistry and nonsense; the murderous intent in his eyes had never disappeared. In any case, during this natural disaster cycle, all players were her enemies, without exception.
Huang Longsheng stared into her eyes, his tone gentle yet strangely alluring: "You can thank me, after all, I didn't mean to hurt you. You're so charismatic and beautiful, so likable. I really like a girl like you..."
He didn't finish his sentence.
Because he saw the army of locusts flying up behind Qiao Ning.
“Someone like you is better off not even leaving a corpse behind.” Qiao looked into his eyes without flinching or being bewitched.
Huang Longsheng's special methods had no effect on her.
"Wait, why didn't you..."
Qiao Ning frowned impatiently, and a swarm of poisonous locusts swarmed up, devouring Huang Longsheng and the pets he had summoned before his death in no time, leaving not a trace.
After the poisonous locusts finished eating, they did not return to Qiao Ning's side. Instead, they flew towards the highway barrier. After passing through the barrier, they began to eat one garbage mountain after another!
The spiny turtle in the pet enclosure seemed to sense something and kept sending signals to Qiao Ning, insisting on coming out.
Qiao Ning couldn't persuade it otherwise, so she released it.
As soon as the giant tortoise emerged, it crushed a mountain of garbage, and trash flew everywhere it went. To avoid being affected, Qiao Ning had to erect one ice wall after another.
Everyone says turtles are slow, but this big turtle is anything but slow. In less than a minute, it crawled into a sea of garbage.
If a mountain of garbage is full of solid or random trash, then a sea of garbage is a mixture of liquid and solid waste.
Qiao Ning watched as the giant turtle devoured everything in the sea of garbage—not the garbage itself, but the monsters formed by pollution and erosion.
For example, there's the Helicoprion shark, whose body is studded with objects like water bottles, plastic, and metal. There's also a giant octopus with an alien-shaped mouth, whose suckers on each leg constantly spray a highly acidic pus that corrodes its surroundings.
Just by looking at those monsters, you could tell their pollution levels were high, and the giant tortoise could eat several at once without even chewing.
Qiao Ning guessed that it didn't want to taste it either. Those monsters smelled terrible, and it was a wonder that the big turtle could eat them.
She had originally intended to release Fat Tiger, but now she thought better of it and decided that it was better for Panda to just enjoy the crisp and refreshing bamboo shoots.
She did release Green Pearl, which can absorb toxic gas and purify the air, just like cleaning up garbage. When the air purification level reaches a certain value, some resources may appear.
Seeing that Binglin was still standing next to her, Qiao Ning deliberately asked it, "Everyone has gone to eat, why aren't you eating?"
Ice Scales' furry face couldn't hide its shock; its beastly eyes were wide and round, as if saying, "Master, why are you talking nonsense?"
Qiao Ning knew that it was more picky than other pets, only eating good food, and even if it ate mutated beasts, it didn't like to eat anything that looked too strange.
For example, the food that the giant tortoise eats is the kind that ice scales would never touch; you can forget about ever being on its menu.
As the pets cleared away more and more trash and toxic gas, supplies kept appearing in the area around Qiao Ning.
It wasn't a box, just simple supplies, floating in the air with a faint glow, not much different from the rewards scattered after defeating monsters in a game.
Qiao Ning put everything away. After sorting through it, she found that apart from some daily necessities, the rest were all tools related to garbage and air purification.
Items include trash shovels, garbage trucks, trash cans, and air fresheners. There are also self-defense items such as air membranes and pollution protective suits, and offensive items such as pollution purification cannons.
In short, there were all sorts of things, and they were all quite useful.
Host #1 didn't specify the area where the Law Stone is located; players have to explore and find it themselves. Staying in one place makes it difficult to find, and it would be troublesome if someone found the Law Stone before her.
So Qiao Ning returned to the car and continued on her way. Every time she came to a garbage mountain, she let her pets gnaw on it to make sure there was nothing like the Law Stone before leaving.
As it got darker, Qiao Ning drove slower and slower.
She had been observing those garbage mountains.
Whether it was her imagination or not, she felt that these mountains of garbage were gradually coming to life.
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