Chapter 81, 343 perspective related content
Compared to the previous killing dungeons cleared in 343 and 9350, there were far fewer players choosing to kill this time.
This meant that what should have been the most intense ninth day of fighting only lasted for a morning before quickly returning to the level of the previous days. Of course, this mainly refers to the liveliness in the public chat.
Since the seventh day of rest, 343 hasn't been chatting happily in the public chat much. Even when a few messages are sent, they're quickly put down, unlike the first few days when they entered the instance and could chat non-stop from morning till night.
On the morning of the ninth day, things got even worse. From the moment the rules system announced the benefits, 343 collectively disappeared from the public chat. It wasn't until the abrupt 150,000 points on the world map caught their eye that they finally couldn't resist discussing who this crazy player was.
Although the battle was over, the excitement seemed to linger:
[Alright, seriously, grandson, shouldn't you be chasing after those 300,000 dots now?]
It wouldn't have been wrong to give it a try, but now: [...]
[Grandson, your ellipses have become sentient! Speak up!]
Why didn't you go when you asked me to?
[Because I'm not as strong as you, and you have two get-out-of-jail-free cards, hahaha! I'm laughing so hard!]
Why didn't you just die laughing?
[Grandson, you look so down! You're not even whimpering or making those twanging noises anymore!]
[But honestly, Sun Minwei was just unlucky; he just happened to die on the ninth day. Sun, you can save your two immunity cards for the beginning of the next dungeon, that way you won't have to worry about not having enough time to reach the designated location.]
[You're cursing me to die at the very beginning of the dungeon? You big idiot, should I thank you?]
You're welcome. I'm just as helpful as player 10736.
"So you're really not going to hunt down those 300,000 dots? That's 300,000! Double that and it's 600,000, then double that again and it's 1.2 million. If you don't go after them, and those dots keep doubling, your first place will really be gone!"
Sigh, it's gone, it's gone. I'm so tired, I want to sleep.
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Of course, it's impossible to actually sleep. There's no need to risk chasing after 300,000 dots, but the rewards for the top ten and top three dungeons are quite good. Especially the overall upgrade to the vehicle item; it's practically as valuable as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Furthermore, vehicle upgrades increase speed, meaning even if you only have two days left to use the "immunity card," you might still be able to reach the designated location due to your superior speed. Not to mention the bonus of 10x supplies…
So the 343 player quickly realized that this guy was indeed a jerk. He said in the public chat that he was tired and wanted to sleep, but then his 5,000 points doubled and doubled again, reaching 20,000 points! However, by this time, it had already gone from noon to evening.
Yes, throughout the entire afternoon, although Sunzi didn't really give up on securing points and earning resources, he only managed to double his points. This was actually the reality of the ninth day of the killing dungeon.
After all, catching up with a dot doesn't guarantee victory. If a dot realizes it's outmatched, it will quickly change course. This forces you to chase the next dot, which will likely also change course.
Especially for high-scoring players like the cub and grandson, other players nearby are already prepared to change routes as soon as they see these two points approaching. Of course, the cub's point only appears to be approaching other points; in reality, it's diligently traveling under A11's control. Only when it reaches the vicinity of other points will it slightly veer to avoid them. Although other players who see the conspicuous 300,000 points often run away before the cub's car gets out of the way…
Furthermore, the dots displayed on the morning of the ninth day were mostly players who chose to kill in the killing instance on days 1-3. These players weren't actually very strong; after being chased all morning, those who were slow to change routes had already been taken down by stronger players. Now, those remaining are truly skilled or have ways to survive, and even if they're trapped inside the barrier, a battle might not necessarily occur.
It's not easy to farm points naturally anymore.
But this situation has never occurred so early before.
It's usually around midnight on the ninth day that you start to feel like you can't climb any higher. And right now, it's only evening…
[This killing spree is so mild, I can't believe it's already day nine.]
Yes, it seems like we didn't say a word in the public chat for the entire day on the ninth day last time?
[You've already mentioned it, haven't you? We complained about the slow reporting speed of the rules system on the ninth day, just like this time~]
Oh right, I just remembered, it seems like it doesn't matter if it's slow or not, since I can't keep up with the score this quickly anyway.
[This is actually quite good~ The ninth day was too intense; my heart couldn't take it.]
[By the way, are we not merging with 10736's servers this time?]
【no. 】
"Ugh, how disappointing. Does that mean we'll have to separate from them after this killing spree ends?"
[Yeah, unless we wipe out the players in the current six servers to less than two thousand like we did in the first kill instance of 343—in which case the rules system might make an exception and merge us directly.]
Players in Zone 5: ?!
Yes, that way we can be sent away with high-level stealth too!
[I really can't keep going, I'll just leave it at that and wait for day nine to end!]
【Okay, let's chat then~ I want to know if my grandson will use the forced dungeon card! I really don't want to go into the killing dungeon again qaq】
[I can use it, but I don't know which dungeon is the easiest besides the killing dungeon. *sigh*]
Why did you specifically mention the Killing Dungeon? Do you think it's easy?! I'm furious! You son of a bitch!
Does the mandatory dungeon card list exactly how many dungeons are included? If there aren't other dungeon names, how do I choose?
Yes, there are many, a whole bunch of dungeon names. And they're all listed as one-star low-difficulty dungeons, but I don't know if they're really low-difficulty; they don't look easy to me anyway.
Wow, there really are! For example?
I can't tell you this; the rules and system don't allow it.
[...I really want to smash the rules system!]
[How about asking 10736? I'm curious about which dungeons they've played before; I wonder if they'll also be blocked by the rules system.]
[I think what you should be more worried about is—they're completely ignoring you, hahaha!]
Although they were saying in the public chat that they couldn't farm any more points, many players were still searching for and chasing after other players. So Cheng Wen and his group decided not to start traveling and continued to stay leisurely inside the barrier.
Seeing these messages in the public chat, even though I didn't really intend to speak in the public chat, I still tried to start typing.
Sure enough, information about instances other than the killing instance couldn't be sent out at all.
It seems that apart from the owner of the mandatory dungeon card, other players have no way of knowing any information about dungeons they haven't cleared.
Even the copy name is not allowed.
It's already difficult to rack up points by evening, and it gets even harder after dark. The roads in the killing instance are already vast, and after the "benefit" of being forced to gather together by the rules on the eighth day was broken, chasing a single target now takes at least half an hour unless you're incredibly lucky. The distances are just too great. And even after catching up, the target will almost always escape... Sigh.
This was truly the first time player 343 had participated in such a brutal killing dungeon on the ninth day.
The most fundamental reason, surprisingly, was simply the unity of 10736.
Because of the unity in this region, nearly two thousand players didn't participate in any killing. If it were the two previous killing raids before 343, today, the ninth day, would have at least reduced the total number of players by half. But today, so far, only a little over a thousand players have been lost… so many fewer than before.
Surprisingly, this feeling didn't bother 343 much. Instead, he felt more envious of 10736.
Especially for the initial players of 343.
On such a dark highway at night, I was so melancholy that I felt an urge to cry.
Their initial player count of 343 is really bad, especially compared to 10736.
They had just left the beginner's area, and their first dungeon was the Slaughter Dungeon. Because the dungeon had so many rules, even though the rules system had given them half an hour to prepare before the dungeon officially started, they were still completely bewildered.
I have absolutely no idea what to do.
Lacking experience, they frantically formed teams and then convoys in that half hour. They thought this would allow them to survive the killing spree, but this decision turned out to be the one that caused them the worst.
Of the 13,000+ players who perished, at least 3,000 died from exhaustion due to depletion of resources.
They had just left the beginner's road and didn't have many supplies to begin with. Joining a convoy meant that if they got trapped inside a barrier… they'd have to use up all the convoy's supplies to change routes. And to make matters worse, their two zones were teeming with powerful, ruthless killers…
I have no idea how to live.
I dare not rest, day or night.
When they heard about the tempting benefits on the ninth day, their first reaction wasn't to kill other players, but rather how to survive on the ninth day.
Yes, the highway in the killing instance is so vast. Yet, at that moment, they seemed to hear countless screams right beside them.
That was only their first instance, and only seven days had passed since they embarked on their survival journey.
Just seven days ago, we were living in a peaceful world, but seven days later it felt like we had been transported directly to hell.
Their hell is a playground for those powerful, murderous maniacs.
But they, 343, also have their own savior, namely Sun Tzu.
On the ninth day, when those powerful killers went berserk, Sun Tzu also went berserk.
However, unlike those powerful killers who gain ten times the resources by killing other players, Sun Tzu specifically targeted these powerful killers. He successfully killed two cartloads of players; one cart belonged to the player with the highest kill count on the map at the time, and the other belonged to the player in third place.
Thus, he successfully became the top player in that killing instance.
With fewer than two thousand players remaining, the rules made an exception and allowed them to merge into one server. The entire public chat was deathly silent; no player spoke. There wasn't even a sense of relief or joy at escaping death. They just felt numb, as if they were already on the verge of death.
At that moment, the grandson spoke.
Although it was just a line of text, it felt like it was filled with laughter to all the 343 players at the time:
We survived! Hahaha, come worship me! I'll take you flying again next time!
The less than two thousand players looked at this line of text, but remained expressionless and didn't respond at all.
So that bastard continued to speak in the public chat, saying things that seemed completely out of place with the atmosphere of server 343 at the time. His words were cheerful and lively, as if they had just finished not a killing dungeon... but simply had a fun day at an amusement park.
They had already been teleported to the rest area by the rules system.
A lush green lawn, a gentle breeze. The aroma of food wafts through the air, and the chat is filled with joyful messages.
Suddenly, for some unknown reason, the less than two thousand players couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
But after crying, he gradually calmed down, and the chat was still filled with his grandson's cheerful words.
They closed their eyes briefly, and finally, they didn't disappoint their grandson's thoughtfulness, joining in the fun in the chat.
And they carried this tradition into the second killing instance.
Since their player count of less than two thousand was insufficient to participate in the killing instance, the rules system matched them with four other servers with the same number of players. When those four servers first encountered their less than two thousand players, they almost thought they were all crazy.
He actually managed to laugh even after entering a killing instance.
Those four regions were incredibly unlucky; their first dungeon after leaving the beginner's area was the Killing Dungeon, and after clearing it, they just wanted to cry their eyes out. But they never expected Region 343 to be so insane; they encountered the Killing Dungeon again and were actually laughing.
But of course they can still laugh.
They even survived the incredibly difficult first kill instance...
Influenced by these fewer than two thousand players, the other players from the fourth server who were matched with them gradually joined in the lively atmosphere. This resulted in the eerie yet joyful 343 that 10736 was now familiar with.
So although everyone seemed to be joking about Sunzi in the public chat, the players of 343, especially the initial players, were actually very grateful to Sunzi. Because if he hadn't tried to pull them out of that heavy and oppressive emotion... they might have perished completely in the second killing instance, carrying that despair with them.
Because at that time, they truly saw no hope of surviving.
Even if they had survived the first kill-fest instance, if they had been in such a subdued state when they learned that the second match would also be a kill-fest instance... utter collapse and death would have been their only fate.
So although they envied 10736, it was just simple envy.
Because if they really had to choose, the players in 343 might not necessarily choose to stay in 10736 or exchange with the players in 10736.
It's not that they don't want to be protected by veteran players like the other players in 10736.
Rather, they had learned through these three killing sessions that in this survival journey, they might need to rely on themselves even more.
After all, even top-tier gamers sometimes can't protect themselves, right?
But I'm still very envious. After all, who wouldn't want to be protected?
The ninth night was not as difficult to endure as expected. When the morning sun shone on the car's exterior again, the players in Zone 6 received the announcement from the rules system for the tenth day.
After having a nearly full day of leisure, Cheng Wen and his group were finally able to start their frantic journey at 7:00 AM.
As for the cubs at this moment?
With 300,000 shining points on the world map, no other point dared to chase after him.
So they had already traveled a long distance.
If no other unforeseen circumstances occur on the tenth day, we expect to arrive at the designated location by evening at the latest.
And that Sun Minwei?
Oh, he's still waiting for the countdown of his get-out-of-jail-free card to end.
We could only begin our journey around noon on the tenth day.
As for whether they will be able to successfully reach the designated location?
Who knows? Anyway, 343 has already laughed first.
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