Chapter 34 Spring Season Day 6 (2) First Day of Activities...
Yu Luowei felt very insecure because her health was not full. She immediately went to find another monster to restore her health.
Fortunately, the remaining monsters in this area were relatively normal. Yu Luowei defeated a total of seven monsters within an hour, and the passage to the next area appeared. As long as this path appeared, it meant that there was no need to search for other monsters, which saved a lot of trouble.
The poisonous fog in the next area doubled in concentration. Fortunately, Yu Luowei had taken an antidote pill before entering, so she avoided being affected. However, in this area, the antidote pill only lasted half an hour, so Yu Luowei frequently checked her bracelet and took another pill at the perfect time.
However, the thicker the poisonous fog, the fewer vines there are. Yu Luowei had a relatively easy time fighting this time and was able to move on to the next area before eating the third one.
The next area was normal fog, and it looked like it was surrounded by bamboo. After clearing the vines, Yu Luowei released Ma Tuan, who had been waiting in the pet space for so long that he was getting impatient.
As soon as Ma Tuan came out and greeted Yu Luowei, he was immediately drawn to the surrounding bamboos. Although the surroundings were foggy, it didn't affect Ma Tuan's sense of smell. He accurately located each bamboo and pounced on one to begin chewing.
Watching Ma Tuan's movements, Yu Luowei waited for a while. When he didn't receive any prompt, he finally let go of his worry: Fortunately, I didn't equip Ma Tuan with the Bite skill card today, otherwise it would definitely be judged as an attack.
Perhaps due to its growing size, Ma Tuan's appetite had also grown, and he was looking for a change of pace. He gnawed through nearly every bamboo in the area, even unearthing several monsters. Just as Yu Luowei was about to attack, Ma Tuan dispatched them with a single slap. Although Ma Tuan's control wasn't quite as precise, and being in the fog, he accidentally damaged several plants, but the health gained from killing the monsters offset it, and Yu Luowei's health remained unchanged.
The area was completely cleared by Ma Tuan. After a satisfying meal, Ma Tuan pounced on Yu Luowei, signaling he was sleepy and asking her to put him back in the pet space. Yu Luowei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He slept after eating. Luckily, Ma Tuan's abilities and monster-killing skills consumed energy, otherwise he'd have become a giant ball of fat. But since he didn't know if the next area would be poisonous, Yu Luowei put him back and entered the next area herself.
Yu Luowei was making good progress, while the others were also showing off their skills. Fang Min's base was in the desert, and the fog had also been generated there. The plants were all unique to the desert, with few species and colors similar to the sand, making them even harder to distinguish in the fog. Fang Min finally managed to deal with all the vines and was just beginning to worry about how to distinguish between plants and monsters when she suddenly had an idea. She pulled a bottle of water from her bracelet, opened the lid, and placed it in front of her. A moment later, a monster sneaked through a few branches and tried to drink from the bottle, but Fang Min caught it red-handed. That was how she dealt with the monster in the fog.
Zhao Linlang's solution was similar to Fang Min's, but she heeded the system's rule of "maintaining the overall environment." Since her area was mostly iron ore and relatively devoid of vegetation, she replaced the water in Fang Min's steps with iron ore and iron blocks. Sure enough, the monsters were lured out, and the situation was resolved successfully.
Survivors like Fang Min and Zhao Linlang, who start out in harsh environments, face a difficult time at the beginning of the game. After all, there's little or no wood, and with the arrival of spring, there are more aggressive vines. Therefore, offering this solution for those in unique environments is a way to balance things out. For example, survivors who spawn in the ocean can use mud or fish to lure monsters.
As for Jin Yu, his surroundings were just ordinary forests, so he didn't have any special methods. However, he had previously forced others in the mutual aid group to buy a lot of identification cards, so he chose to use them from the beginning.
Speaking of which, Jin Yu's first intelligence was about the activities of the Misty Mist, so he had long been aware of the existence and effectiveness of the Identification Card. As for the information about the rain, he "bought" it from another person in the support group. Because that person's ranking was relatively low, his intelligence card could only be used once and its accuracy was only half.
Jin Yu, already well-informed, had spent the previous few days, when everyone had already opened up a lot of Identification Cards, loudly declaring them useless and saying he was willing to pay far above market value for these "useless" skill cards. In fact, compared to the information he'd gained from Zhao Linlang, this was a crucial step in his efforts to regain his reputation within the district. But that was the extent of it. Today, everyone knew the function of Identification Cards. When he returned home tonight, his private messages would likely be flooded with requests from his trading partners. If the game hadn't separated everyone, he'd be the first target.
But now Jin Yu was filled with regret. After all, his intelligence wasn't accurate enough to even give the exact number. He only had about sixty cards, which meant he couldn't last the entire game. If he was unlucky, he'd used them all up in two days. If he'd known this would happen, he definitely wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate strategy.
Turning back to Yu Luowei, she had just finished clearing the seventh area of the day. She checked the time and saw it was already half past five. Since she couldn't finish the next area, she prepared to return to the shelter. There was no way back in the fog, so she could simply click "Exit Activity" in the manual to reach the base directly.
Yu Luowei was stunned for a few seconds before she was inside the fence. Marveling at the game's advanced Legendary techniques, she first checked the base's defenses and arrow towers. Because the base was shrouded in fog today, neither the defenses nor the arrows in the towers had changed. With a sigh of relief, she entered the shelter with peace of mind.
Yu Luowei had been busy controlling the temperature and killing monsters all day. To keep up with the times, he barely checked the loot. He finished two areas in the morning, and five in the afternoon after becoming more proficient. He'd memorized the process. If nothing went wrong tomorrow, he'd be able to finish about nine areas.
First, she checked the leaderboard: she was undeniably first in her zone, with Fang Min and Zhao Linlang in second and third, respectively, and Jin Yu in fourth. But in the overall rankings, Yu Luowei was only fifth. After chatting with Fang Min and Zhao Linlang and exchanging information about the day, Yu Luowei realized that if the surrounding environment is inclement, for whatever reason, more vines will appear in the activity area, and the points earned after defeating all of them will be higher. Fang Min and Zhao Linlang's high rankings were largely due to their early mastery of the correct identification method, but there were also objective factors: the relatively harsh environment surrounding them, resulting in a high number of vines.
If the situation of the top few people on the overall ranking is similar to that of Fang Min and the others, then if Yu Luowei wants to get first place in the overall ranking, he can only clear as many areas as possible in the next few days.
Next came the loot. First, there were various fruits: 5 Life Fruits, 94 Fountain Fruits, and 141 Poison Fruits. However, since they later encountered two areas of poisonous fog, with concentrations reaching as high as 80%, and had consumed a lot of detoxification pills, Yu Luowei simply turned all the Fountain Fruits into detoxification pills.
These five Life Fruits could now be eaten to increase the upper limit of physical fitness, but the increase was only valid during the event and would be restored after the event. Yu Luowei simply cleaned them and ate the Life Fruits while continuing to check the other spoils. By the way, he was lucky to have eaten all five before the event started.
The other items were sixteen white supply chests, five blue supply chests, and seven skill cards. Yu Luowei had killed over fifty monsters today, which was a relatively high drop rate. However, the white chests didn't contain many high-level items, so Yu Luowei planned to wait until the event was over before opening them. For now, he was focusing on the blue chests and skill cards.
The five blue treasure chests yielded high-level items: two Jade Bamboo Seeds, three Electricity Cards, one Water Card, an Electric Grid, a weapon blueprint: Rattan Whip (Blue), and a bag of special bait. The Electric Grid is a base defense measure that can be installed on the fence and activated by plugging in the Electricity Card. The rest were ordinary ingredients. The bait, however, seemed rather useless now that fishing was unavailable. But since it had the word "special" in it, Yu Luowei tossed it into her bracelet anyway.
The skill cards consisted of three Precision Attacks (white), one Flame Wrap (blue), one Lightning Judgment (purple), and two Identification cards. Precision Attacks were auxiliary cards, assisting the survivor in aiming their weapons. Each card had ten uses, while the other two had five. As for the Identification cards, Yu Luowei didn't plan to use them yet. She intended to use them as a last resort in case the temperature-based identification method failed.
After taking inventory and installing the electric grid, Yu Luowei began preparing dinner. She hadn't been able to eat the pheasant eggs she'd found, so she'd put three in the braised pig's trotters. Tonight, she was making Longjiang pig's trotter rice. Ma Tuan couldn't be left out either; he'd contributed significantly today, so Yu Luowei prepared a whole watermelon for him. He'd already eaten a lot in the fog, so the watermelon was just to satisfy his craving.
This bowl of rice was a super large portion of pork trotter. Yu Luowei used an entire pig's trotter, so much so that his mouth was drooling with grease. While digesting, Yu Luowei opened the manual to see how others were completing the activity.
The number of people in the channel remained relatively unchanged. After all, having zero health simply meant being unable to participate in activities. However, today, quite a few people were trapped in the base due to having their health reduced to zero. A closer look revealed a significant number of them denouncing Jin Yu.
Yu Luowei studied it for a long time before finally understanding the whole story: Jin Yu, who had somehow gotten the news, had used various methods to buy up the identification cards from everyone in the support group a few days ago. At the time, because plants and monsters were so clearly distinct, everyone thought the identification cards were useless, so many people traded them for other skill cards, weapons, or food. Only when the event started today did they realize they had been tricked.
It was rare to see Jin Yu frustrated, so Yu Luo'e quickly unblocked Jin Yu, wanting to see how he planned to get through this crisis. Unexpectedly, he was determined to be a coward and was reluctant to speak out, so Yu Luowei checked again to see if she had unblocked him.
Because of Jin Yu's fake death, the outcry in the channel intensified. Many members of the mutual aid group wanted to leave, hoping that Jin Yu would return the items they had previously given him. When they received no response from private messages to Jin Yu, they posted the message in the channel. When everyone gathered their attention, they discovered that Jin Yu had received a lot of items in the name of "resource exchange" but had given out very little. This further ignited their anger, and they began to insult Jin Yu furiously.
After eating the melon for a while, Yu Luowei turned to the small group of three. Fang Min was also laughing at the joke:
[Fang Min: I've always disliked Jin Yu, and now he's finally shot himself in the foot! But his downfall is so swift. In other novels, a villain lasts a few months at most, but he's already fallen before the end of the second season! He's also one of the funniest villains!]
Yu Luo'e: But be careful. He's scammed a lot of identification cards, and he'll probably rank well in this event, so he'll get even more goodies. If we ever meet again, we need to get rid of him first.
[Fang Min: That's true. But considering how angry everyone is right now, I don't think it will be our turn to take action!]
After chatting with Fang Min and Zhao Linlang for a while, restocking the market, and exchanging intelligence with Lin Zhixia and the others, Yu Luowei began to gather her strength for tomorrow's activities. Of course, she had no idea that far away, Jin Yu, unable to cope with the wrath of so many people, had blamed the three of them and vowed revenge. She just seemed to sleep better tonight.
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