Chapter 12
It was a small monster that looked a lot like a goblin from a game. It was very small, all green, holding a wooden stick, with a pointed snout and a few sparse hairs on its head. It was so short that even if it jumped, it might not be able to hit Qiao Ning's knee.
After seeing Qiao Ning's car, the goblin didn't move. It just paced back and forth next to the 2-star supply box, looking a bit impatient. It kept making threatening noises, and its big eyes were wide open like copper bells.
After getting out of the car, Qiao Ning didn't get close, but took out her horn bow and shot an arrow.
She hadn't practiced archery much before, so her aim wasn't great, but she seemed to have some talent. After a few shots, she got the hang of it, and on the fifth arrow, she hit the goblin right in the chest! Although she had intended to shoot its head...
The goblin screamed and fell to the ground. Its body gradually faded away until it disappeared, leaving behind two leather bags. One bag contained 100 grams of wood, and the other contained 500 grams of smoked meat.
Qiao Ning felt that killing the treasure-guarding monster was far too easy, unlike what everyone in the chat channel said about how difficult it was to fight monsters.
Perhaps it was because of her high luck that she encountered the weakest treasure-guarding monster?
After collecting all the supplies, Qiao Ning returned to her car and sent a message to Li Yangxing while driving, attaching a picture of a goblin. The system was excellent in this regard; it could record video in real-time, and you could simply set the desired photo to capture—it was incredibly easy to use.
I thought Li Yangxing was busy fighting monsters and might not have time to reply, but to my surprise, as soon as the message was sent, it showed that Li Yangxing had read it and was typing.
A moment later, his reply arrived:
Goblins are indeed the weakest of the treasure-guarding monsters, and they drop the fewest items. Your 100 wood and 500 grams of smoked meat are incredibly lucky. If it were me, I'd probably only get wood.
[But Sister Qiao, how come you're still encountering such low-level wooden club goblins? You know, the goblins I encountered two days ago were all elite monsters.]
Qiao Ning chuckled awkwardly, unsure how to respond. Could she simply say that this was the first time she had encountered a treasure-guarding monster?
That definitely won't work.
"Sister Qiao, you're pretty lucky. But be careful when fighting monsters. Make sure you wear that stone python skin coat, okay? Don't worry about how ugly it is, it just needs to be useful."
Qiao Ning asked him, "How come you have time to chat with me today? You were busy fighting monsters at this time yesterday and didn't have time to talk."
Li Yangxing sent a sighing dog emoji: [Didn't you check the chat channel? I don't know what's going on today, but nobody seems to be encountering any treasure-guarding monsters. There are hardly any high-star chests, and I haven't seen a single 2-star chest today, but there are tons of 1-star ones.]
Qiao Ning was stunned when she saw the message.
She quickly opened the chat channel, and sure enough, it was filled with cries of despair, almost entirely requests for moisturizing products and drinking water. The number of online users had somehow increased to over 75,000. The sheer number of deaths shocked Qiao Ning, but upon reflection, it wasn't entirely unexpected.
The bizarre drought conditions today make survival impossible without game items and props, inevitably leading to the immediate elimination and death of anyone lacking moisturizing supplies and water.
Qiao Ning frowned. They were initially pulled into the game at 8 a.m., which meant that the 5th day of the natural disaster was after 8 a.m.
The drought will last for a week, starting at 8 AM tomorrow, and will continue until 8 AM the day after tomorrow.
With over fifty hours and two and a half days to go, given such a terrifying elimination rate, how many of the remaining 75,000 people will ultimately survive?
On the first day, she thought it wouldn't be easy for the mortality rate to reach 80%. Now it seems that she underestimated the difficulty of surviving the increasing natural disasters that followed.
The natural disaster is escalating, but supplies are dwindling... Basically, those who didn't go full speed ahead to find supply crates in the early stages will find it much harder to do so now that they want to go full speed ahead.
If she didn't have enough gaming experience, she would probably subconsciously try to find supplies in the most cost-effective way, using the least amount of gasoline, in the early stages.
This game is full of traps. It could easily set the fuel consumption to be the same every hour, but it insists on creating a dividing line, causing many players who are careful with their money and used to saving to fall into a trap.
Qiao Ning sighed inwardly and continued driving at full speed.
On the chat channel, Li Yangxing had been arguing with a group of people since yesterday. These people were trying to morally blackmail Qiao Ning, forcing her to hand over her supplies and share them with everyone. Li Yangxing wouldn't let Qiao Ning come forward; instead, he was the one who was loudly cursing in the entire chat.
They were still arguing. Qiao Ning tried to persuade Li Yangxing privately for a long time, but seeing that he was young and hot-blooded, she couldn't persuade him. So she simply stopped caring and let them argue. Anyway, no one could see each other, and neither side would lose a hair in the end.
Because the vehicle's speed limit increased after the upgrade, it only took half an hour to travel 50 kilometers today. I drove for a total of 11 hours, encountering 22 supply crates, each containing 3 crates, for a total of 66 crates.
There are 26 1-star supply boxes, 25 2-star supply boxes, 12 3-star supply boxes, and 2 4-star supply boxes!
This was the first time Qiao Ning had encountered a 4-star supply box, and she even encountered two in one day.
Out of sheer curiosity, she opened two 4-star supply crates first:
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining the purple outfit "Spring Breeze"*1
[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for being the first to collect all equipment parts and successfully unlocking the equipment ranking in server 1408. Players with equipment combat power ≥ 1000 can be ranked on the list. The main page of the ranking only displays the top 100 players in terms of equipment combat power.]
[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for unlocking the equipment ranking in server 1408. Would you like to make a server-wide announcement? (Friendly reminder: The reward for this announcement is a random piece of purple equipment. The coordinates will not be revealed. Both the announcement and the ranking can hide the player's name and personal profile information.)]
Qiao Ning chose to hide the information and then make a server-wide announcement.
Then I drew a random purple item called "Spring Wash," which was a pair of silver-threaded gloves that were quite beautiful.
It was so beautiful that Qiao Ning felt it was completely out of place in a survival game.
The previously obtained Spring Breeze set, which includes a headdress, necklace, bracelet, clothes, and shoes, is also of the same type.
The headdress was a headband, which Qiao Ning could use since she had long hair.
The necklace is a platinum and diamond necklace, and the bracelet is a pair of matching silk armbands connected to platinum rings below.
After being bound to Qiao Ning, the clothes transformed into a long white dress with gold threads, the skirt layered, flowing and mysterious, with an exceptionally high quality and feel.
The shoes are a pair of uniquely styled low-heeled shoes, exquisite and beautiful, with an overall white and gold color and intricate silver patterns.
Qiao Ning frowned and stared at the equipment for a long time, wondering if it was really practical.
And to be honest, these equipment items look very much like those in online games, no different from the pretty but useless costumes that make you spend money on in-game purchases.
This survival game is a product of forcibly integrating modern online games.
This game has too many similarities to online games. This includes the way equipment value is represented—its various attributes—which are also similar to many online games.
She didn't care about the appearance of the equipment; good-looking items were useless for survival. She mainly looked at the stats.
Fortunately, this set has decent stats.
Set Name: Spring Breeze
Tier: Purple (Cannot be upgraded; when worn as a set, the player can choose to display their desired appearance.)
Inlay: None
Defense: +800
Attack: +800
Speed: +500
Set bonus effects:
1. Can passively block one fatal attack per day.
2. You can actively trigger invincibility defense once a day, lasting for 1 second.
3. External injuries can be actively treated once a day.
4. The negative effects of dryness and high temperature are reduced by 30%.
These four additional effects will only take effect if all pieces of the set are worn at the same time; wearing one piece or damaging one piece will not work.
Equipment has durability. The purple set has a durability of 200. The longer you wear it, the more times the various effects will take effect, and the more durability will drop.
Currently, Qiao Ning has a humidifying water balloon in her car, so it's not dry. She hasn't encountered any danger, so she doesn't need to wear the Spring Breeze outfit for now, lest she waste her durability.
Qiao Ning then looked at the attributes of [Spring Wash]:
Attack: +300
Equipment effect: When attacking beasts or treasure-guarding monsters, players have a 5% chance to trigger a purification effect, reducing the enemy's attack, defense, and speed by half.
Having played so many games, Qiao Ning could tell at a glance that this equipment was rarely used in normal times, only useful when fighting monsters. It was especially useful when fighting powerful monsters, or even monsters of a higher level.
Don't be fooled by the seemingly low probability of 5%. When fighting monsters, you'll likely get hit more than once or twice, so this probability is actually quite high.
There's only this one item in the 4-star chest.
It's unclear whether it's because Qiao Ning unlocked the equipment rankings, but the Stone Python Leather Armor, which previously didn't display specific attribute data, now has attribute values: Defense +100.
This is a blue-tier item; it has no special effects.
Qiao Ning then opened the second 4-star supply box.
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