Chapter 61 Desert Survival Day 9 (4) The Scammer Sends a Fraudulent Invitation...
The next second, she saw the slender snake swimming at an extremely fast speed to a corner surrounded by cacti. The whole snake was trying hard to drill into the short bushes, but the road was blocked and half of its body was still outside.
Yu Miaomiao could see the snake trembling.
This snake and insect repellent potion really works!
It is not only useful against snakes, but to be more precise, it can be used in adventure areas!
Yu Miaomiao discovered that for an item to be usable, it must be used by the user himself, such as guns, bows and arrows, and potions. If it is placed, it cannot be used, such as a campfire, a workbench, etc.
She sighed a second time. It seemed that in the end times, you had to prepare everything and you couldn't save on anything. Some things would always come in handy in special circumstances.
Just in case, she changed her shoes into the windbreaker shoes that she had "treasured" for a long time. Now that the snakes had gone away, it was a good time to take the things!
Without further ado, she walked towards the big treasure chest, identified the screw pattern on it, took out a flat-blade knife, and screwed it into the bottom of the lock.
[Successfully triggered the Lucky trait, Adventure Land Gift Pack: Screws*8, Iron Ingot*15, Copper Ingot*5, Wood*8, Snake Heart Grass*9, Animal Hide*3, Gyroscope*3, Thermometer*2, Life Jacket Crafting Plan*1, Antidote*4.]
While the system was still reading, the snake, which was originally hiding, twisted left and right uncontrollably and was about to turn back.
The snake and insect repellent says not to provoke them, otherwise there is no guarantee of the consequences.
Yu Miaomiao moved the box guarded by the snake, which obviously meant she provoked it.
After she confirmed that the treasure chest in front of her had disappeared, she didn't care what was inside and ran away. She could feel that her pace had become much faster, and she was running with the wind.
He looked back every three steps. The snake seemed to be still trying its best to endure the discomfort of its body. It twitched twice and crawled towards the direction he ran.
Yu Miaomiao burst out with a primitive will to survive. With the idea of avoiding fighting with the snake if possible, she ran with all her might, leaving the snake far behind.
After getting a certain distance, she saw that the snake was still chasing her. She felt a little annoyed. When would it end? Forget it, she would wait until they reached a fork in the road. If she couldn't get there, she would just shoot it with her gun.
But just as she was about to run to the fork in the road and was about to take out her shotgun, the yellow horned snake chased her to the middle of the branch road, and it was like being blocked by a barrier, its head bumping forward again and again, unable to get past it.
It instinctively couldn't retreat. After hitting it several times, it found that it couldn't break through this invisible barrier. The whole snake simply arched its body and jumped forward with all its might.
The next second, its yellow body instantly turned into a ball of yellow dust and dissipated into the air as it passed this distance.
Is this considered an escape from combat? It ended with the snake seeking its own death.
She stood at a distance and carefully confirmed for a while. The slender figure was indeed no longer where the snake disappeared. Only then did she dare to stop and take a breath.
She had only been running for less than three minutes when she felt clearly exhausted. She changed her windbreaker shoes back into ordinary sneakers and took out some oranges to replenish her strength.
I glanced at the exploration progress percentage in the upper left corner and saw that it had indeed reached 2%.
She achieved her goal this time, and her name was already on the adventure site guide rankings.
But her name is only ranked 92nd?
She remembered that before, there were less than 30 people whose expedition progress had reached 2%, but now there were 92 people. No, it should be 100 people, because the last person also reached 2%. She just reached 2% earlier than the other 8 people.
This list is updated in real time, indicating that after drawing cards, many people entered the adventure area and found more treasure chests.
If around 60 players have improved their rankings, does that mean there are more than 60 expedition sites, or are many of them in the same expedition site?
Thinking of this, a request to enter the copy popped up in the center of Yu Miaomiao's field of vision.
[Players apply to enter the expedition area based on integrity]
【Reasons for application：】
【Agree/Reject】
?
Integrity-based?
Someone who had disappeared for several days actually applied to enter his own adventure site?
Yu Miaomiao immediately chose to "reject". He still had the nerve to come to her.
The adventure location corresponding to an adventure card is designated, and once it is fixed, it cannot be switched to other adventure locations.
He actually wanted to explore, get more supplies, and refresh the exploration progress?
Dream on.
Although this way of "revenge" did not meet her expectations, Yu Miaomiao was still secretly happy that she could make the other party "suffer a loss".
She didn't want to waste her energy on this kind of person right now; she had to catch up on her progress.
Now that the gray snake was no longer chasing her, she could check each of the things she had just obtained.
She remembered that there was a recipe that recorded the relevant method of making snake heart grass, but she was not in a hurry to look it up now.
The anti-roll gyroscope is level 10, and its properties say it can reduce the shaking of the ship caused by wind and waves.
All signs point to one thing: there will be many ocean and lake situations in the future.
As for the antidote, Yu Miaomiao was quite interested in it. It said that it could instantly cure poison injuries, which looked good.
Continuing along the main road, it took her almost an hour to collect two treasure chests. At this time, she received another request to apply to enter the copy.
The applicant still acts in good faith, so why won’t this person give up?
Each application to enter the expedition site requires an interval of one hour. Yu Miaomiao glanced at the time and realized that he really applied according to the time.
The reason for application column is no longer blank, but a sentence is added: Hello, I have an adventure map of this adventure site, which can help you improve your adventure efficiency. Moreover, our treasure chests are independent and do not affect each other. We can cooperate in adventure together.
This honesty-based speaking is only half-hearted, only saying what is beneficial to oneself and nothing else.
The treasure chests that everyone sees on the road are indeed independent. After opening them, they are counted into their respective adventure progress. However, the guardian monster treasure chests on the branch roads are shared.
Treasure chests that have been obtained by the current owner of the expedition are counted towards the current survivor's progress, but treasure chests encountered by multiple people afterwards are all counted towards the expedition progress and all have the right to pick up supplies.
In other words, if the second person who comes in has bad intentions, he can kill the first person and take the treasure chest while fighting against the treasure chest guardian monster together with the first person, and he can also get all the supplies on this person.
Many of the rules of the expedition area were learned from the forum and summarized from her inquiries.
Hua Bie said that when he went there for the first time, he didn't know the rules and let an outsider in. That person wanted to kill him on the first branch road, but he killed him back, so he would never agree to let anyone enter his adventure area again.
Looking at the skilled rhetoric of "honesty is the basis", it seems that this is not the first time he has said this. Yu Miaomiao also vaguely feels that "he" should be more clear about the rules of the expedition site, and even use these rules to do some deceptive things.
For a habitual criminal like him with bad intentions, there are only countless times he can cheat others.
The entire application interface took up a lot of space, and Yu Miaomiao had to choose one, so she clicked "Reject".
Yu Miaomiao felt that Cheng Xin Wei Ben would not give up. She wanted to see what other nonsense he could say. When she got out, she could hang out Cheng Xin Wei Ben's complete "script" to see how he would cheat again.
After updating the three-person group chat about this matter, Yu Miaomiao continued to move forward.
After opening two more treasure chests, Yu Miaomiao arrived at a new fork in the road.
There are four forks in the road this time.
In Hua Bie's words, everything after the first two intersections is random.
But she always felt that it was not the case. Just like the apocalypse outside the exploration area, the monsters everyone encountered were similar, and the monsters' weaknesses were also the same. Then there should be similar rules inside the exploration area.
After marking the road features with lipstick, Yu Miaomiao chose one of the roads and walked along it.
She walked very slowly, carefully observing the situation on the roadside all the way.
Although the treasure chests on the roadside increase the expedition progress relatively little, and it may take opening more than ten or twenty of them to increase the progress by 1%, and the treasure chests at the end of the branch road increase the progress more, but for Miaomiao, she can increase the expedition progress without fighting and get supplies, so why not do it?
Fortunately, the sun in the adventure area is not hot. There is only sunlight and you can't see the sun. The temperature is just right, so people feel comfortable staying inside.
There is no danger in the early stage of the adventure area. If you can get an adventure card every day and stay there all the time, it would be great except that you can't make crafts.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Yu Miaomiao felt something was wrong.
Why did she think it was a good thing to stay in an adventure area with a broken system?
This is a cannibalistic apocalypse, how can it be good?
In the early stages, you stayed in the expedition area all the time. Apart from getting a small amount of supplies, you couldn't do anything else but just sit there in a daze. Is this good?
Only by moving forward can you get better supplies and open new adventure cards, but the monsters you face will also be more powerful and you may die at any time. Is this a good thing?
After spending a long time in an environment with scorching heat during the day and fighting monsters at night, people will actually develop a liking for the adventure area. This kind of subtle influence is terrifying.
Yu Miaomiao walked on this road for a long time, about forty minutes, before returning to the fork in the road.
Glancing at the mark made with branches on the ground, she was sure she had returned.
So of the four roads ahead, two are interconnected interference roads, and there are not even treasure chests along the way.
There are two roads left, the leftmost and the rightmost. One of them must be a branch road and the other is the main road. Although this sentence sounds like nonsense, Yu Miaomiao thinks he can try to find a pattern.
The first time she came, of course she had to walk every road to improve the progress of the adventure, but when she came again, especially when she wanted to make progress next time, some branches might have to be skipped.
On the left side of the road, there is a whole row of shrubs, including sea buckthorn and some dead branches. On the other side are rows of cacti, some flat and some round. The two sides are clearly separated.
Could it be that the road covered with cacti is the main road?
"Ouch~"
Yu Miaomiao's calf was hit by a small object again, and the violent impact made her scream in pain.
Looking again, it was still a small gray-black hamster, running away slowly and quickly.
Even when he was halfway there, he turned his head to look at her, and when he saw that Yu Miaomiao didn't follow him, he disappeared among some fleshy balls.
Why did she feel that the mouse was saying, come on, why don’t you come?
It was such a small animal, but it was very strong. It hit her other calf and hurt her. She didn't know if it was the same one that hit her when she first came in.
Yu Miaomiao squatted down and rubbed the red place, his eyes fixed on the direction where the little hamster disappeared.
Why are there small monsters in the exploration area that are not actively attacking but actively bump into people?
At the first intersection, Yu Miaomiao was still thinking about which way to go when she was bumped by a little hamster for no reason. The direction the little thing ran away was the branch road.
If she had been very angry after being hit, and really chased after it, and then used a gun or other weapon, she might have led the patrolling monster to its death.
The hamster did not appear at the second fork in the road.
Did its appearance this time happen by chance, or was it intentional by the system?
Yu Miaomiao still remembers that when she reached the second fork in the road, she didn't stay there for long as she was attracted by the fragrance of the flowers.
Could it be that the system is using various methods to lead the survivors to the branch roads?
Although there are treasure chests on the branch roads, they are all guarded by very strong monsters.
As long as the survivors get close to a certain range, they will be thought by the guardian monster as trying to occupy the treasure chest and will be attacked by the monster.
There are risks as well as rewards, but many people who have just arrived at the exploration area are not familiar with the rules here. If they accidentally walk into a branch road and make a lot of noise in a hurry, they may very likely die at the hands of the guardian monsters and patrol monsters.
If this is true, the designer of the game system is really cunning.
She had a weapon in her hand, and if she went further down the main road, she would probably encounter patrolling monsters. It would be better to go to the road where the little hamster disappeared and take a look to confirm her guess.
The succulents on the roadside are big and small, but the big ones are too big. There is a thick one that is wider than your arms can hold together, and taller than Yu Miaomiao. There are countless small thorns on it, and it feels very painful if you get pricked by it.
But even so, it did not affect Yu Miaomiao's checking one by one to see which plants could be put into the backpack. However, the treasure chest on this road was very obvious, right in the middle of the road. After Yu Miaomiao opened it, he saw the end of the road.
In the sight, you can vaguely see the end of the roadblock formed by a combination of succulents and cacti.
It seemed that just as she had guessed, the system was always luring them to the branch road.
In the leaderboard, her adventure progress ranking has dropped to 99th. It is estimated that it will be difficult for her to squeeze into this list just by opening boxes along the way.
In that case, she wanted to see what kind of monster was waiting on the third fork in the road.
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