Chapter 142: Players lead the elimination group to fight against the slime...
Although it is a little different from what players imagined, the NPCs' stats have actually been improved.
From this perspective, no matter what method is used, as long as it can achieve the goal, it is a good method.
The players nodded in understanding, and at this moment, the eliminated groups, the high school and middle school students, faced with a common life-or-death crisis and enemy, resolutely put aside their past grudges and let bygones be bygones.
Are you kidding? How can any grudge or distance be more important than your own life?
The closer we get, the clearer the flames become. The green slime that pops out is attacked by the high school and middle school students from the U17 elimination group.
It changed from a pool of slime to a piece of slime - and finally, it was beaten so flat and thin that it turned directly into a piece of slime!
The attack method was effective and the cooperation achieved initial results.
After watching the monster for a long time and confirming that it would not resist again, the members of the U17 eliminated group, with lingering fear, moved a little further away.
When the adrenaline surges, I can't pay attention to my surroundings for a while, I just want to survive.
Now I look back—Wow! What a huge slime!!
The person who was squatting in front of the slime to study it looked at it tremblingly for a long time. Kirihara Akari, one of the brave members, also hesitated.
"Hey...is this a slime?"
As fellow game enthusiasts, Kamio Akira and Momoshiro Takeshi were even more daring. They poked the chewy slime cake on the ground with their fingers.
"This seems to be a slime... Otherwise, there is nothing else that can correspond to it..."
Kirihara Akaya pondered: "So...are we really still in the human world now?"
“…”
After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
After all - no matter how you look at it, it's extremely unreasonable!
He was kicked down from such a high place and didn't die, not to mention being seriously injured, his clothes were only slightly dirty.
Now I've encountered something that doesn't seem to exist in the real world...
Touching his chin, Kamio Akira fell into deep thought. "Generally speaking, the most unlikely answer is the one that's closest to reality—"
“So—we’ve really traveled through time now?!!”*4!
Kirihara Akaya, Momoshiro Takeshi, Kamio Akira, and Fuji Yuta who had somehow entered the scene blurted out this sentence, their hearts filled with a tangle of emotions.
Fear, excitement, and a faint sense of anticipation——
After all, this kind of hot-blooded young man’s Jump dream of traveling through dungeons, leveling up and fighting monsters—who wouldn’t want to experience it for themselves!
Not to mention that these guys are just junior high school students.
Some people are excited and looking forward to it, while others will associate and think more about it.
"...The probability that we're not in the real world is 54.8%. Judging from the speed of our descent, the height, the source of the wind, and the sound of the water, we've most likely strayed into a sealed-off area." Inui Sadaharu adjusted his glasses.
Guan Yuechu of Saint Rudolph curled her hair with her fingertips and chuckled softly, "As expected of Qingxue's Gan-kun, data can be useful at times like this. However, I also agree with Gan-kun's point of view."
Just when they were debating whether they were in the real world or the world they traveled through,
The Rikkai people, who had long been accustomed to the unpredictable changes in their worldview that would occur once they got close to a jerk, looked at Yagi Kei silently.
Wait, where's the cat?
From Sanada Genichirō's shock to Yagyu Hiroshi, their reflex was to run away, but the only way out had been blown up by the cat without a care in the world.
Now it is completely dark, with no escape.
They also have to be on guard against cats that may pop out from corners and punch them at any time.
After all, Jibaimao always attacks my opponents and blows up my teammates...
The heart of the Rikkai public tightened, the back of the head felt numb, and the conditioned reflex raised his head. The moment he saw clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Wait, something's wrong!
Kirihara Akaya, Momoshiro Takeshi, and Kamio Akira, who were squatting in front of [Green Slime·Death], finally cooled down briefly and came out of their high state.
Thinking of the others who had been silent for a long time, I turned around with confusion - I didn't know when the other members of the U17 elimination group had already retreated back -
...Huh? Back off?
Why retreat so far? Hasn't the problem here been solved?
"How strange, everyone! We've already defeated this slime. It's not dangerous anymore. There's no need to be so scared!"
The honest child Hai Kelp scratched his head and laughed. Taocheng Wu also nodded half-doubtfully and half-agreeingly.
Kamio Akira first glanced at his teammate Ibu Shinji's expression. As far as he knew, Ibu Shinji's deadpan expression would never break no matter what happened, so now—
Isn't it all about fear and panic?!
My intuition tightened immediately, and my back felt a chill. Judging from the state of the U17 high school and junior high school elimination group that was constantly retreating,
The four of them, already vaguely guessing what was going to happen, struggled to turn their necks, which were as stiff as puppets.
In the trembling pupils illuminated by the firelight—a vast army of slimes, rolling, surging, and sticky, was reflected, overwhelming them and rushing towards them! !
At a glance——all I see are menacing green slimes!!!
"No, no, this is not right, why are there so many of these things here?!!"
"I don't know... The most urgent thing is not to worry about this, but how are we going to escape!!!"
“…”
"Can we really escape?"
As soon as these words came out, silence spread.
A heavy blow made everyone dizzy.
There was no way to escape, and standing still was no solution either. What else could he do besides surrender?
"Wow, wow, wow, I don't want to die so young!!!"
Genichirō Sanada's face was as dark as coal, and he tightly grasped the racket in his hand... the racket!
"We still have weapons!" Sanada said immediately, holding up the racket in his hand.
"Just now—we defeated these things with rackets. Even if more come, as long as we have rackets, we can resist!"
This was a revelation, and the racket once again brought me an extremely strong sense of security.
That’s right—as long as they have the racket, they can still resist, they can still fight back—!
He immediately made up his mind and looked up at the overwhelming and aggressive slime army.
Everyone decided to convince others with reason again. There was nothing that couldn't be solved with a racket!
If so - then hit him 10,000 more times!!!
In an instant, the fighting spirit was raised to the peak!
The battle between humans and slimes—is about to begin!
Behind the slime army, the player who kept chasing all the slime monsters on this floor towards the NPC coordinates was hiding his merits and fame.
I stared at the floating value of the NPC status bar, feeling quite satisfied.
It seems that the sea of questions tactic is still effective, although I don't understand why these NPCs are so obsessed with banging on the slime.
But the players respected it and chased the scurrying slimes towards the NPCs.
Smash one and there's still one left. Smash ten and there's still ten left.
The U17 elimination group, who were gradually becoming numb from the game, suddenly imagined that they were working in a rice cake shop.
But the one he hit was not a rice cake, but a slime that was a bit anti-human.
Not with a mallet, but with a tennis racket...
Isn't that how you use a tennis racket?!
Aren’t tennis rackets supposed to be used for playing tennis? ! !
—— Having finally grasped the correct method of use, Echizen Ryoma suddenly paused.
Tennis racket, tennis ball... He just happened to have a tennis ball in his hand right now!!
That tiny bomb ball, representing the U17s' ticket to the tournament, was considered a penalty after they were eliminated. Its purpose was to keep it in their hands...
He slowly lowered his head and looked at his teammates who were about to be drowned by the slime army not far away. Even though half of his body was sucked into the slime, he still persisted in elbowing them with his tennis racket.
All of a sudden, his thoughts became clear.
That’s right, that’s right, this is how it should be used!!!
Noticing that Echizen Ryoma beside him paused and struggled to resist the slime that was rushing towards him, Oishi Shuichiro, who was in a dilemma, glanced at him.
Seeing the huge slime about to devour Echizen Ryoma, he was immediately startled. He even stretched out his racket to rescue him without caring about his own safety, and hurriedly shouted to be alert.
"——Echizen!! Watch out!!!"
Standing still, Echizen Ryoma suddenly looked up. Right under the eyes of Oishi Shuichiro, whose pupils were dilated with nervousness and panic, he raised his racket and pulled out a net from his bosom... a tennis ball?!
Shuichiro Oishi: "...?!"
The next second, swing the racket, bend your knees, jump up, "bang bang bang bang bang!!!"
The yellow ball flew like lightning, drawing an unignorable golden arc in the eyes of everyone who heard the sound and looked over.
The next moment, it directly crashed into the body of the slime that was heading straight for Ryoma Echizen!
In just a blink of an eye,
“——BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
The devastating sound of the explosion washed straight into the eardrums, and the people who faced this scene without any preparation were drenched in the slime's remains.
There was only a crater created by the tennis ball bomb and the slime that splashed all over everyone's head and face.
“…”
Silence, stillness, and confusion,
The man who was half swallowed by the slime and was still struggling with the slime slowly lowered his head, looking at the physical racket in his hand, and then at Echizen Ryoma's physical bomb.
They wiped their faces silently,
Echizen Ryoma sent the ball, stared at the slime wreckage that was blown into fireworks for a while, then stared at the racket in his hand for a while.
He was silent for too long. Oishi Hideichiro, who had just recovered from the thrilling scene, racked his brains to organize his words.
"Um, Echizen, you are now..."
"Oishi-senpai,"
Suddenly, Echizen Ryoma spoke up.
Oishi Shuichirou's heart tightened, and he looked nervously, "Yes, yes, Echizen, are you okay?"
The person being questioned, Echizen Ryoma, took off his hat, shook off the slime corpse that had splattered all over his head, put it back on, twisted it, and raised his upturned cat's eyes from under the brim.
His tone was a little vague and a little unsatisfied, "...This thing is quite useful."
Shuichiro Oishi: "..."
No, why are you still savoring it?!
Times have changed. Now it is no longer fashionable to convince people with reason, but with firearms.
Echizen Ryoma threw a bomb ball, which directly gave a huge impact to the U17 elimination group members who were still stuck in cold weapons.
No, it turns out it can be like this.
But it seems like it should be like this... So why was the racket banging there in the first place? ! !
All of a sudden, I found the right way to fight the enemy.
The U17 elimination group was scrambling to hit the tennis balls to drive back the slime army.
In an instant, slime corpses flew everywhere, and the entire mine was covered with a layer of sticky slime liquid.
After beating one, there is another one, and the slimes keep coming one after another.
The U17 players, who already knew how to kill these guys, gradually gained confidence as the tennis balls were unstoppable.
"Come on, I'll blow one up! Come on, I'll blow up a pair!!"
“Art—it’s a blast!!!”
The people who were immersed in the pleasure of bombing could now fully understand Jibaimao's pursuit of bombs - no, nuclear bombs.
But among them, there were also some clear streams, such as Rikkai University. Only Kirihara Akaya was eager to join in the fight when others used the tennis balls that everyone had in their hands.
But as soon as he moved, he was held down.
I turned around and saw that it was Sanada, holding his racket and looking sullen and silent.
Kirihara Akaya was bewildered, "Hey, Vice Minister Sanada, don't we need it?"
Jack Sangyuan and Yagyu Hiroshi were also a little puzzled, but their intuition after getting along with Jibaimao for a long time prompted them to stay where they were.
The current situation seems too easy.
Something is wrong, nine out of ten things are wrong.
Yagi...hasn't shown up yet, and will he really let them get away so easily?
Sensing something vaguely, Kuwahara and Yagyu remained silent and looked at Sanada Genichirō who was holding Kirihara Akaya.
“…There’s only one ball.”
Sanada Genichirō's words were concise and to the point, and Kirihara Akari, who was initially confused, immediately understood what he meant.
If each person only has one bomb ball, then it will be gone once it is used up!
But they have just entered here, and according to the game settings that Kirihara has played, the real BOSS is still far behind!
His heart tightened, and Kirihara, who was about to use his ultimate move, hurriedly pushed the bomb ball into his pocket.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked Sanada, "But, if we can't use this ball, what should we do..."
The damage caused by simply attacking the slime with a racket is too low, and it takes hundreds of hits to kill one.
There are simply too many slimes now, and there is simply no time for them to fight hundreds of times one-on-one!
Genichirō Sanada was also thinking, and while thinking, he did not forget to look around and observe the environment.
After spending so long with the pseudo-human juniors, the Rikkai public has more or less figured out their own style of doing things.
The most basic premise is that you will never really die!
The gate of life is in the gate of death. Since the cat is not in sight now, it means that in the current environment, the cat definitely believes that they can overcome it.
Deep mountain caves, caves...mines, mines?!
Sanada Genichirō suddenly opened his eyes and looked around. He had been so unfamiliar with the place when he first entered that he had never carefully observed his surroundings.
But now, at a glance, in addition to the overwhelming slimes, there are also many unmined ores here!
Then they felt the racket in their hands. The texture was different from the rackets they usually used. It was more like the racket that Yagi Kei used when he was chopping trees in the back mountain.
If my guess is correct...
Kirihara Akaya, Kuwabara, and Yagyu were staring blankly at each other, and suddenly looked up in the middle of their thoughts.
He took a step forward and ran straight towards Sanada.
Kirihara Akaya: "Deputy Minister Sanada? Deputy Minister Sanada...are you still awake?!"
There was no response, leaving him with only a dark skull.
Seeing that Sanada was about to merge into the darkness, Kirihara and the other two people from Rikkai University exchanged a glance, and resolutely rushed forward to rescue Sanada.
"——Don't be seduced by the darkness, Vice Minister Sanada, come back soon——"
"—Buzz—Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz!!!"
Suddenly, a sharp and piercing friction sound rushed into my ears without any preparation. In addition to the friction, there were even more terrifying "bang bang bang bang bang bang bang" and "kang kang kang kang kang".
Metal and stone were constantly struck hard.
Kirihara Akaya and the other two who arrived a step behind just stared blankly at Sanada Genichirō who stopped at the edge of the darkness, took out his racket and started mining and smashing rocks.
Because the hitting force was too strong and the hitting speed was too fast, the racket even hit the stone surface and produced sparks.
This scene was so familiar that it directly evoked some images hidden deep in my memory.
With his eyes twitching, Jack Sangyuan finally uttered a weak question.
"Sanada... is he possessed by Yagi now?..."
Good question,
The junior is nowhere to be found now, so... the chance of him possessing Sanada is non-zero!!
On the left is the dark-faced miner Genichirō Sanada, who is silent and focused on smashing the ore with a tennis racket, sending sparks flying.
On the right, the U17 junior high and high school elimination group were immersed in the barrage of tennis balls, taking it as their golden rule, and shouting "This thing really works!"
The three people from Rikkai University who were caught in the middle were at a loss for a moment.
"What should we do now..."
Kirihara Akaya and Jack Kuwahara looked at each other in confusion. Yagyu Hiroshi slowly pushed his glasses down. In the end, after comparing them, Sanada looked more reliable.
"Let's go together,"
“…This is the only way.”
Li Haida picked up the tennis racket and resolutely joined the miner game.
On the other side, the people who were having a great time bombing with tennis balls finally felt relieved and proud after killing most of the slimes.
"I knew it—dealing with these little monsters is a piece of cake!"
"That's right, with the tennis ball here - there's nothing that can't be solved!!"
“Hahahahahahaha…”
“—Hehehehehe!”
After finally sitting down to catch his breath, Ken Oshitani waved his hand, "That being said, there are way too many slimes. Is that normal?"
“…”
I vaguely guessed some possibility, but at the moment, the adrenaline was soaring, and everyone was immersed in the passion and had no time to care about those things.
"It doesn't matter - we have the tennis balls here, even if ten, no, a hundred come! We're not afraid at all, hahahahahaha -"
Kamio Akira, who had hit the target, lifted his bangs and laughed handsomely.
He was laughing, and the others laughed too.
Laughing and laughing,
“…”
"...Why do I feel a chill on my back?"
"Don't tell me, hey, don't tell me, I feel the same way..."
The mastermind, Jibaimao, came out of the darkness and brought a huge surprise to the NPCs——
Now that we have successfully defeated the slime——
Then, let's defeat the boss, the Slime King! !
The ominous feeling continued to rise, and at a certain moment it reached its peak.
A huge black shadow suddenly appeared, and when I looked closely, the slime liquid that had been bombed everywhere before was all rushing like a stream, converging towards the center.
As they gathered, a giant slime as tall as a mountain appeared before everyone.
It was far more than just a mountain. After touching the ceiling, the Slime King, which could not grow in height, began to expand horizontally at a very fast speed, and in just a moment it seemed to occupy the entire space!
Everyone who breathed a sigh of relief one second and tensed up again the next: "!!!"
No, how come after beating the small one, the big one comes? ! ! !
No one said this kind of situation would happen!!
Collapse, confusion, puzzlement, hesitation, fear and panic appeared on everyone's face.
Forcefully calming himself down, Kamio Akira shouted, "Don't panic! Just like we did just now—we still have bomb balls to use. Now we just need to take out the bomb balls and attack this guy, just like before..."
He stopped talking and couldn't continue.
Kamio Akira reached into his pocket and slowly realized the reality.
The tennis bomb is useful, but there is only one!!!
This thing isn't a basic attack at all, it's a one-shot ultimate skill—and they used it so easily!!
"Who has tennis balls? Hurry up and get them out!!!"
"Help! Help! I can't dodge this thing, and I can't hit it!"
After realizing that there is a lack of means of attack and even now the firepower is completely insufficient,
Fear suddenly rose, firmly occupying my entire heart. I retreated step by step, with nowhere to retreat.
Seeing that the Slime King was about to touch the members of the U17 elimination group, the people next to him tightly grasped the rackets and hit them with hammers, bang bang bang!
The lucky guy, Takeshi Momoshiro, who was tied up by the Slime King again, gasped: "I'm so stupid, really. If I had known that there was only one tennis ball, I wouldn't have used it up so quickly. Now it's okay, there's no way to escape——"
Looking at the people in front of him who did not give up rescuing him even when he was in trouble, and kept attacking him with rackets in one hand, Taocheng Wu was deeply moved.
"Everyone, abandon me! Giving up on me alone will only make everyone safe—"
"No—Atao-senpai! We will never give up on you!!"
When Echizen Ryoma said this, everyone's blood boiled with deep emotion and they rushed forward to rescue him.
The player standing on top of the Slime King watched silently.
Oh, shouldn't it be practice time now?
So what does it mean to stage a melodrama here?
Looking at the stagnant training progress, the player ruthlessly urged Skip to speed up.
Skip all the cutscenes and CGs - players only care about progress and data!
The scene was just like Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather, one after another was sent away, but in the blink of an eye, half of the people were swallowed by the slime!
A feeling of despair suddenly spread in my heart. The strength difference between the two sides was too great. Even if I hit them with the tennis racket, I couldn't cause any damage at all.
My eyes went dark.
Oishi Hideichiro's face turned grim. "Are we going to die here today?"
Inui Sadaharu was still fighting with the slime for his glasses. He turned his back to the crowd and said, "No, according to the data, there is a 0.000001% chance that we can break through the current situation."
“…”
“…0.00001%?”
——Isn’t that equivalent to zero? ! !
When everyone was shouting in despair, suddenly, a black light flashed at the corner of their eyes!
“——whoosh——boom!!!”
There was a sudden, dull sound of impact, and Oishi Shuichiro's eyes suddenly widened as he turned his head abruptly—
The body of the Slime King that was about to invade was suddenly punched with a hole!!
"That is..."
Inui Sadaharu took this opportunity to snatch back his glasses, helped him put them on, and said decisively, "It's Rikkai University's Sanada's Thunderbolt."
"But there was no explosion..." Oishi Hideichiro murmured,
"——That's because it wasn't a bomb ball that was hit, but this——"
A clear, high-pitched voice echoed immediately afterward, and the racket traced an arc. Immediately after, a black ball flew out, continuously spinning at high speed and emitting a terrifying pressure from the friction.
Inui Sadaharu: "Knuckle serve... No, the center of gravity is too high, and the spin trajectory is even lower!"
——However, when it touched the slime's body, it resolutely caused an extremely terrifying blow, and the entire body was hollowed out.
“What is that…?”
Jack Sangyuan held a round black object in his hand. He had a complicated expression when he heard this. He tried to explain but was stuck for a long time.
"It should be a substitute for tennis... Anyway, it can be used now. It's better to be able to attack!"
"——There are still some left here, come and get these balls to save the people who have been swallowed!"
As soon as these words were spoken, those who were still able to move rushed forward and picked up the black balls scattered on the ground... Are they balls?
With the help of the dim light, Gan Zhenzhi took a closer look.
The texture is heavy, the surface is rough, and it barely resembles a sphere, but that's about all it has to do with tennis.
The texture is also subtly strange, like stone... no, metal... mineral...
Ore?!
Looking around again, Sadaharu was shocked.
If it's a mine, it makes perfect sense!
This texture, this density, this weight, can definitely cause enough damage.
But problems also arise at the same time. Compared with the lightness and stability of tennis balls, the temporarily polished mineral balls...
It is heavy and difficult to control the center of gravity, and even hitting it is extremely difficult. Without enough strength, it is impossible to serve!
There were many people in the U17 loser group who picked up the mineral balls to try to rescue, but only a few succeeded. Most of the main forces were still concentrated in Rikkai University and Hyotei.
No, why are they strong enough to hit a ball like this!?
Although the trajectory of the ball was still much worse than normal, it was still a successful attack and caused huge damage to the Slime King.
Look at the wooden racket that remains intact despite the extreme gravity, serving ball after ball.
From the special rackets given before entering here...
The dry lens flashed, revealing the real purpose of going down to the mine.
A pop-up window [ding] flashed in front of the player.
The strength value of the NPC equipped with the [Mineral Ball] weapon gradually recovers and increases with continuous serving and swinging.
It looks like the first level is almost solved, it's time to start the next level!
Players have no intention of treating NPCs as human beings.
The NPCs had no idea that they were not being treated as human beings.
Attacking ball after ball, I can't count how many balls I hit,
When he came back to his senses, the Slime King had been blown to pieces, and the people who had been swallowed were vomited out one after another.
Genichirō Sanada and others felt a slight pain in their arms, but they all vaguely realized that... the force that the serve could withstand had increased.
Looking at the special racket in my hand, which is several times more flexible and durable than ordinary rackets, and the mineral ball that is spherical when it is cultivated,
In addition, the slime was beaten into a sieve, and it only devoured but did not cause any actual damage.
Even if they are slow and clumsy, they know the person who does all this for them and the deep meaning behind these actions.
Sanada slowly clenched his palms, took a deep breath and raised his head. His face did not show it, but his peripheral vision was already looking for traces of Yagi Kei.
"Yagi..."
“—Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!!”
Just as Sanada spoke, a series of urgent sounds made his brain tighten.
“——Could it be that the King of Slimes has appeared again?!!”
Kirihara Akaya, who had yelled "Oh no!", was taken aback. "...Huh?"
"Ah, that's not the case, the king of kings or something...haha."
“…”
Sanada Genichirō suppressed his voice, "What happened? Screaming and yelling is so rude!"
"that is……"
Kirihara Akaya, who was scolded, rubbed his cheek, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Everyone in the slime... seems to have been accidentally hit by a stray bullet just now."
"Hey, he seems to be still unconscious..."
“…”
Kirihara Akaya cautiously suggested,
"How about we give them...some juice?"
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