Chapter 62: Desert Survival Day 9 (5) Another bad luck has come...
Yu Miaomiao took out a crossbow from the system backpack, and her hand had already grasped the bow arm, ready in advance. As long as a monster appeared, she could shoot it immediately.
The closer she got to the end of the road, the more cautious she walked. She no longer had the heart to explore the plants on the roadside, and just waited for a chance to go back and collect them slowly.
At the end of the sight is a standard sand dune. In the middle of the sand grows a green columnar succulent plant. A green flower blooms on the top of the plant, and a red treasure chest is placed in the middle of the pistil.
This treasure chest is different from the rusty boxes and small iron boxes I have seen before. It does not seem to have any rust on it.
The texture of the treasure chest is better than any I've ever encountered before. From a distance, you can vaguely see some special textures on the surface of the box, as if it was carefully designed by someone, rather than a box made casually.
The box is so good, the things inside must be good too.
But what about the guardian monster of this treasure chest?
Yu Miaomiao stood seven or eight meters away, close to the road fence on both sides, and looked back and forth at the sand dunes in front of him several times, but couldn't find the monster.
The system is definitely not that good, giving away a box for free.
Yu Miaomiao took a few more steps closer and saw a slightly raised bulge on the sand dune. After a few seconds, the bulge disappeared from its original location and reappeared somewhere else.
Could it be that the guardian monster is underground?
In fact, starting from the guardian monster on the first branch, the appearance of the monsters was different from what Huabie described, but the one in front of him looked somewhat similar to the guardian monster he mentioned.
Sandworms are a kind of thick, long insect monster that can burrow into the ground. They have a mouthpart at each head and tail. They will cooperate with the barbs on the plants around the end of the field to besiege the survivors. Once the survivors intend to escape, they will burrow into the ground and shake the ground continuously. After the person falls, they will quickly drill out of the ground and bite the survivors fiercely with their mouthparts.
Of course, the last sentence was added by him, because Hua Bie was not bitten by the sandworm at all.
To be precise, the moment he saw the sandworm crawling out of the ground, he stood up and shot the mouthparts again, ending the battle.
Yu Miaomiao felt that she should not have the ability to react in this way. This behavior was equivalent to putting herself in danger of death. Whether she could survive was a probabilistic event.
If you shoot at its mouthparts, you can get rid of the sandworm monster, but the consequence is that it will attract patrolling monsters.
Hua Bie didn't say whether the bow and arrow would work, but if it really was a huge mouthpart, then with her current level of strength, it would be impossible to penetrate it with an arrow.
Is this succulent-looking plant in front of me the so-called sandworm?
The area at the end is still surrounded by various strange-shaped succulents, forming a square-shaped enclosed space, and the exit is the road where you are standing.
Each succulent plant has the same sharp thorns as those seen before, and some are even sharper and longer.
The thing with the flower in the middle also has thorns on the bottom. They are more like long and thin hairs than thorns. When you squint, you can see that the hairs are swaying slightly up and down, but the movement is very small. It looks like soft white hair.
So this isn't a plant at all!
It should be the sandworm that Hua Bie mentioned.
The things that look like petals that open upwards are not real flowers, but its open mouthparts.
As expected, without text explanations for the pictures, it is easy to miss a lot of details.
The part of the sandworm exposed above the ground was higher than Yu Miaomiao. From her current angle, she couldn't shoot the center of the open petals with her gun unless she stood at a higher position.
The succulent plants on the roadside were covered with thorns, and she had no idea where to climb up.
While Yu Miaomiao was still thinking about her response strategy, she happened to see a patrolling monster - a bee monster - coming towards her out of the corner of her eye.
It really doesn't give her a chance to breathe.
She immediately changed into light wind shoes and drank half a bottle of energy drink, and her physical strength instantly increased to 50 points.
Yu Miaomiao first used all his strength to shoot three arrows in succession from the crossbow, aiming at the top of the sandworm, the middle part, and the small bulge on the sand dune respectively.
It would be great if you could hit it and cause damage, but if you can't...
The other party was quickly angered by Yu Miaomiao's provocative behavior. At this time, she was not at the end of the place, but within the guardian monster's protective combat range.
After being provoked, the sandworm swallowed the treasure chest into its stomach, bent its upper body on the sand dune, and rushed towards Yu Miaomiao, spinning rapidly.
The sandworm's body stretched longer and longer, with its entire mouthparts exposed in front of her. Yu Miaomiao could see the so-called petals closing and shrinking to the middle, forming a high-speed rotating turbine crushing gear. If bitten by this thing, the whole person would be crushed to pieces.
Yu Miaomiao had already switched to a shotgun shooting posture, and a bullet was fired instantly.
"Bang"
The loud gunshot shocked her eardrums again. The arm that pulled the trigger was still numb. She was not sure whether the bullet had penetrated the gun or whether it had been bitten to pieces by its mouthparts.
While the sandworm was still spinning at full speed, she shot again, but still failed to stop the sandworm from moving forward.
Hua didn't know that she could only kill the sandworm by shooting when it was close to her. She couldn't gamble with her life, so she endured the discomfort in her fingers and used her little finger to pull the trigger again.
Then, she saw that the sandworm's pace had obviously slowed down, and it swung its body left and right, repeatedly hitting the fleshy barbs on both sides of the road. Countless blood holes appeared on its skin in an instant.
This action is somewhat similar to the one performed by the yellow snake before. I don’t know if it was the effect of being shot or the snake repellent on my body taking effect.
Just as the sandworm was struggling to move forward, Yu Miaomiao fired the last shot, aiming the muzzle directly at the center of the gap in the rotating mouthparts, and the sandworm fell to the ground.
The distance between the man and the insect was only two meters, and she was sweating from nervousness.
She had no time to worry about the sandworm that was still turning into ash. She turned around and pointed the gun at the bee monster whose body stripes could be clearly seen.
Yu Miaomiao could feel her trigger fingers trembling. She quickly switched her grip on the gun with her left and right hands, aimed the crosshairs at the distorted facial features, and fired a shot.
Before she could check whether she was on time, another request to enter the expedition area appeared in her sight.
The applicant still chose "honesty first". Yu Miaomiao cursed and immediately selected "reject".
Perhaps it was the dangerous moment that unleashed all her potential. Before she could fire the second shot, she saw the bee monster lying on the ground and turning into ashes. She actually killed the patrolling monster with just one shot.
On the third branch, she used up 5 bullets, which was somewhat contrary to her original plan of relying mainly on arrows to kill, but fortunately she solved the problem.
This patrolling monster came at a really bad time. In Huabie's words, patrolling monsters appear once every 2-4 hours, and this one appeared almost within 2 hours.
Oh, and there was someone who timed the situation to disturb her—the liar named "Integrity is the basis".
She had just decided to kill this man. Not only was he annoying, but he almost put her in danger.
She had rejected him too quickly just now and didn't read all the words he typed. It seemed that he was saying that if he was allowed in, he could work for a small amount of money just to help him make progress on the expedition.
The applicant does not know the ID of the current owner of the expedition site, but the application pop-up windows that appear again and again at an unspecified time are really annoying to her.
Yu Miaomiao approached the sandworm's corpse that had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the treasure chest made of better material.
During the battle, she noticed the battle time countdown in the upper right corner. It had just disappeared, indicating that the sandworm was indeed dead and there was no possibility of it burrowing into the ground again.
This battle plan was also something she came up with on the spur of the moment. Since Hua Bu said that the sandworm would use its geographical advantage and the help of the venue, she would not fight the sandworm on the spot.
Use archery to attract the sandworm and place the battle outside its dune territory. The ground here is covered with green grass, so it may be more difficult for it to burrow into the ground than in the sand.
Moreover, when fighting at a certain distance, the sandworm, which originally needs a larger area to move around, can only rush towards you. This will not only allow it to expose its mouthparts that are originally out of reach in advance, but also prevent it from falling into a dead corner at the end and putting itself in a passive position.
But as for the bee monster, it was simply because she had a little extra hitting power after shooting a few times.
Her arms were still a little numb. After hastily changing into her shoes, Yu Miaomiao walked to the treasure chest.
At this moment, she even had difficulty raising her hands.
After carefully observing the treasure chest, she realized that the pattern on the chest was exactly the same as the pattern on the back of the card.
The treasure chest is locked with a red lock of the same material.
She didn't have the strength to lift the heavy lock with both hands, so she could only kick hard with her feet, overturn the treasure chest, and squat down to take a closer look.
From the side of the treasure chest, you can clearly see the shape of the screws at the bottom of the lock. It is diamond-shaped, completely different from the previous lock.
It seems that it can only be opened with the toolbox made by Ziren.
She had just sent a message to Ziren when her attention was once again occupied by a request to apply to enter the expedition area.
Who is it? It can’t be ‘Integrity is the basis’ again. It may not be the hour yet.
[Player Life Big Winner Apply to Enter the Adventure Zone]
[Reason for application: I am the vice president of the Tiandihui]
【Agree/Reject】
What kind of reason is this for applying?
Applying to enter someone else's adventure zone, and being so arrogant? The reason is actually that I am XXX.
Yu Miaomiao cursed in her heart, "I don't care who you are, just looking at your ID, I won't let you in."
After clicking 'Reject', Yu Miaomiao sent an inquiry message to Ziren and sat down where she was. During the break, she began to look through the list.
The treasure chest hadn't been opened yet, and her strategy guide was still ranked at 99. She looked around the list and saw a few familiar names.
The progress of Huabie's strategy has not changed, but it has dropped to fourth place, while Iris still remains in first place.
The big winner in life was ranked 100th, right behind her. She remembered that this person seemed to have been in the fifties before. She probably saw that he was about to fall off the list, so he hurried in to improve his ranking.
But this one was called "Integrity-based". She remembered that she didn't see his name at the beginning, but how come he was ranked 70th now, and the progress suddenly reached 3%.
That is to say, after 12 noon, the expedition progress suddenly reached 3%. No, it seemed that when Miaomiao looked at his previous ranking, he didn't see his name. In just over an hour, he improved to 3%.
How did he do it?
It should be after 12 o'clock that I used another adventure card to go to another adventure site, and used another to apply to enter my own place.
According to the timeline, he had at least two in his hand, and he was clearly in another expedition site before.
Why should you give up that adventure site and continue to apply for your own?
Suppose he used a card and some method to apply to enter other people's territory, shared the exploration progress, and at some point embezzled the treasure chest containing the new exploration card. Then he found that the monsters behind were difficult for him to deal with, so he set his sights on another explorer and wanted to repeat the same trick.
It seems that this is the only explanation that makes sense. Otherwise, how could he have progressed to 3% in less than two hours after drawing the card, and then given up and moved on to other places.
What a coincidence, whether it is the liar Chengxinweiben or the scumbag Life Winner, the fixed adventure sites corresponding to the adventure cards in their hands are owned by Yu Miaomiao.
Although she felt very unlucky, she could always refuse these two people. Now the expedition cards were limited, and they could only be anxious and angry. She wanted to prevent these two people from having the opportunity to chase the list or harm others again.
While resting on the spot, Yu Miaomiao munched on a hot bun while reviewing the battle that had just ended.
She was a little anxious when shooting the gun at that time, especially when dealing with sandworms, which was a bit of a waste of bullets. The bee monster was closer and the probability of hitting it was higher. She found that after the bullet was shot three meters away, it would have a falling effect and the firepower would also be weakened. When using a gun in the future, she must find a good angle and distance.
Yu Miaomiao was curious whether the fact that he had just killed 5 monsters would increase his ranking in the monster kill rankings.
I took a look and found that the kill count was updated, but the ranking dropped a few places. It seems that many people are slaughtering monsters in the expedition area. I hope that the monster kill ranking can remain in the top 100 before the settlement today.
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