Chapter 71
◎ Return? ◎
After comforting Zuo He for a while, this Princess He finally stopped throwing a tantrum.
Yu Chi sat on the chair, mentally exhausted. She thought that as time went on, her two companions were becoming more and more unreliable, which made her start to yearn for a new life.
“Should we call the twins?” Her eyes were full of expectation.
Li Feng: “Fickle.”
Zuo He: “A philanderer.”
“…Enough,” Yu Chi sneered at Li Feng. “Do you have the right to speak?”
It was clearly this guy who had provoked Zuo He, but she was the one who had to coax him. What kind of alliance leader was she? She was more like a parent!
“A person who accomplishes great things…”
Seeing that Li Feng was about to continue, Yu Chi coldly stuffed the milk tea cup on the table into his mouth, and at the same time, she smiled at Zuo He and said, “Let’s talk about serious business, okay?”
Zuo He sat upright. “The prophecy says that a single person’s death is greater than a team’s. The system probably doesn’t want us to split up.”
“I’ve been wanting to ask for a long time. How did you get so much information from that crappy lottery tube?” Li Feng took the milk tea cup out of his mouth and threw it into the trash can next to him.
Zuo He glanced at him faintly, and two words rolled off his thin lips, “Stupid.”
Li Feng’s eyes narrowed. Seeing that the topic was about to go off track again, Yu Chi suddenly shouted, attracting the attention of the two of them. Staring at their baffled gazes, she said calmly, “Zuo He, you post the prophecy result in the group and ask everyone to stick together as much as possible.”
Zuo He: “Oh.”
Yu Chi turned her head: “Li Feng, what’s the situation with your little brothers?”
Li Feng pondered: “There are seven with a territorial sea and 10 without. They will assign themselves. No need to worry too much.”
“Your territorial sea has more strategic resources. You can take care of these people yourself. I can provide resources and food. If you’re short, come to me,” Yu Chi arranged simply.
“The twins are An Jin’s friends. They haven’t contacted me yet. I’ll have An Jin talk to them.”
After quickly and perfunctorily arranging things, Yu Chi let out a breath, shed her identity as the alliance leader, and took out an All-Purpose Little Horn from her space.
“This is quite interesting. Want to play?”
That’s right, she wasn’t here to discuss serious business at all today. She was clearly here to play with her good friends!
There were few leisure games on the sea, and there were no mobile phones to play with. Yu Chi would either take out the All-Purpose Little Horn, or Lucky Match-3, and if that didn’t work, there was still her Rubik’s Cube.
But in fact, she was already tired of these three. However, it should be quite interesting to watch others play with the [All-Purpose Little Horn].
“I’ll go first,” Li Feng looked very interested.
【Little Horn】: Who does Li Feng think Yu Chi is to her?
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow at the question. This horn is really damn annoying. It has to mention her even when asking others.
Li Feng thought for three seconds and shouted, “Friend, brother, buddy, great alliance leader!”
【Little Horn】: Correct.
【Little Horn】: Li Feng wet his bed once when he was 10.
Li Feng: “???”
Yu Chi: “Eww?”
Zuo He: “Interesting.”
Li Feng sat there with a blank expression. “This horn isn’t very reliable, is it?”
“A 50% probability,” Yu Chi looked at him meaningfully. “Who knows the truth?”
Indeed, the news from the little horn was difficult to prove. He handed the horn to Zuo He with a dark face. “Your turn.”
Zuo He took it calmly.
【Little Horn】: Who do you hate the most in the alliance?
Li Feng: “It’s not me, is it?”
Yu Chi: “What if there’s no one you hate?”
The two of them were still thinking, but Zuo He had already calmly given the answer.
“An Jin.”
“Huh?” Yu Chi blinked. “Did that kid provoke you?”
Zuo He: “No, I just don’t like him.”
Li Feng gave him a thumbs up.
【Little Horn】: Correct.
【Little Horn】: Zuo He likes to hide under the covers and read dog-blood novels.
“False,” he said calmly before the two of them could look over.
Yu Chi & Li Feng: Stare—
Zuo He sat on the spot, motionless.
Li Feng: “Hey, reading dog-blood novels isn’t an unspeakable hobby, is it? Just admit it.”
Yu Chi: “You don’t understand. This will ruin his image! At least, He is very concerned about this.”
Zuo He smiled and gave her the horn. “Your turn, dear alliance leader.”
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow, completely unafraid.
After answering the epic Shura field question of “Who is more handsome, Zuo He or Li Feng?”, the information Yu Chi got was—
【The “Scavengers” will return tonight.】
The three of them, who had been watching the show, instantly changed their expressions, from cheerful to serious in a flash.
“A 50% accuracy rate,” Li Feng clicked his tongue. He glanced at the others. “It seems you all know about the scavengers.”
“It’s ‘SurfingTheSea,’ right?” Zuo He mentioned this somewhat distant name.
The guy who had sent people to assassinate Yu Chi several times at the beginning.
Yu Chi pursed her lips. “It seems that tonight will not be peaceful.”
The three of them’s sources of information were different, but they all felt that the return of the scavengers was very tricky. Yu Chi remembered the information that the person in charge of Yanhuang had told her—100,000 scavengers were initially teleported to a level one island. For every 20,000 people reduced, the island’s level would increase. The final 20,000 people would have a decisive battle on a level five island.
Yu Chi told the two of them the information she had obtained. “In short, let’s prepare ourselves.”
To survive from a level one island to a level five island… those guys are really terrifying.
Waiting was undoubtedly a long process. Yu Chi sat quietly on the deck, scooped up a spoonful of the ice cream that the chef robot had made for her, and looked up at the calm and waveless sea.
Yanhuang was worthy of being a large alliance. They could even get their hands on the internal news of the scavengers. The most important piece of information about the scavengers was—all the scavengers who could survive could directly obtain five islands.
And it was the five islands they had successfully cleared. It was really a terrifying reward.
The time jumped to midnight. The sea surface did not show any changes, and the system did not pop up a notification sound. Yu Chi pursed her lips and opened the rankings.
—All the players on the strength ranking had collectively dropped 300 places in an instant.
The channel and the forum had already exploded.
“What happened? What the hell happened? Did I remember the ranking wrong?”
“Fuck, the top players are back! Aren’t these the top players who disappeared before?”
“…What the hell? The name of the original 17th on the strength ranking has directly disappeared from the ranking!”
“Holy crap—these suddenly appearing top players can directly attack your home base without starting a territorial sea war!”
…
Yu Chi’s heart skipped two beats. The number one on the ranking was not Longevity Species. She continued to look down. His name was not in the top 300.
Longevity Species—this name did not appear.
She was a little dazed. She looked through it from beginning to end again and was sure that she had not missed it.
What…?
Bad things always happen together. A “didi” sound suddenly came from her private messages.
【Mushroom No. 1】: Sister, the territorial sea on the twin sisters’ side has been attacked. I’m going to help.
An attack. It should be those scavengers. Almost every one of them was above the others.
It was the first time Yu Chi’s face had looked so ugly. “I’m coming too.”
The channel and the forum were constantly refreshing. From them, she could learn that the 300 people who had suddenly appeared were frantically attacking other players. They were not restricted by the territorial sea rules, and the players did not even receive a notification of a territorial sea war.
In just a few minutes, hundreds of territorial sea players had fallen. Not just the territorial sea, but also the players’ lives. And among them were players who had previously been in the top 20 of the rankings.
The natural disaster they were facing this time, was it really just a natural disaster?
Yu Chi’s heart pounded. Chaotic thoughts crowded together, making her visibly irritable.
Yu Chi quickly clicked on the alliance teleportation function. The moment the space in front of her distorted, a deafening explosion was heard in her ear.
She appeared on a chaotic battlefield—the twin sisters’ territorial sea was burning.
The originally exquisite sea garden was now riddled with holes. The two sisters stood back to back in the center. One held a longbow, and the other wielded a staff. Around them were the corpses of seven or eight strange creatures.
An Jin stood on the other side with an ugly face, with several bloody marks on his wings.
A black shadow was suspended in the air. He was stepping on a strange aircraft, and dark red energy patterns were wrapped around his body—
This should be one of the 300 survivors.
“Sister,” An Jin flew towards her. “Be careful. Their abilities are very strange.”
Yu Chi did not speak, her right hand on the hilt of her saber.
She could feel that this scavenger was completely different from an ordinary player. He exuded a suffocating pressure, like…
Like a demon that had crawled out of hell.
“Yo, another one to die,” the man in the air grinned, revealing his white teeth. “Just right to make an even number.”
Yu Chi slowly drew her long saber. The blade glinted coldly in the moonlight. “I just happen to have something to ask you.”
“Fufufu,” the man seemed to find it very funny and let out a strange laugh from his mouth. “This kind of thing… are you asking about those dead people again?”
Yu Chi’s face turned cold.
A dark red energy suddenly attacked. Yu Chi’s pupils shrank, and her body instinctively reacted—[Saber Qi Release]!
The silver-white saber light and the dark red energy collided in mid-air, bursting into a dazzling light. Yu Chi was pushed back several steps by the shockwave, and a sweet taste welled up in her throat.
So strong!
This is not a level that an ordinary player can reach!
“A little interesting,” the man licked his lips. “You can actually take a blow from us at 30% of our power.”
30% power?
Yu Chi panted, feeling this gap for the first time in a battle with another player. Even before, with Li Feng in the arena, she had not had this feeling of “completely unable to win.”
She gripped her long saber, the blade glinting coldly in the moonlight. She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
Tonight, perhaps no player could be at peace. Although their merge form was different from the Yanhuang Federation, since they had chosen to attack the twin sisters’ territorial sea, this was already an attack on their entire Dazed Alliance.
After all, there were only 300 scavengers in total. After being scattered to the various major alliances, basically, each alliance only had one. And this guy’s plan should be to start from the twin sisters’ territorial sea and break through layer by layer.
“What on earth do you want?” she asked coldly.
The man tilted his head, the corner of his mouth splitting into an exaggerated arc: “What do I want? Of course—to harvest.”
Before he could finish, his figure suddenly disappeared. The next second, Yu Chi only felt a chill behind her and instinctively dodged to the side—
“Swish!”
A dark red energy blade grazed her shoulder, bringing a string of blood beads.
“Good reaction,” the scavenger’s voice sounded in her ear, with a hint of mockery. “But it’s still too slow.”
Yu Chi gritted her teeth and suddenly turned to slash out. The saber qi tore through the air like a silver dragon, but only hit an afterimage.
“Tsk,” she quickly retreated to open up the distance.
However, soon, she suddenly felt a huge pain from the place where the dark red energy blade had grazed her, and it even… began to devour the energy in her body.
Yu Chi’s face was pale. She decisively transformed into her elf form, cast a Holy Light on herself, and suppressed and dispelled this strange power.
She looked up. An Jin had rushed up while she was healing herself, and the twin sisters were dealing with the strange-shaped mutants around them.
Yu Chi summoned the silver wolf and the treant, and gave each of them 30 sections of Thunder Pattern Bamboo. “You go and help the twin sisters.”
The mutants were not that easy to deal with. Compared to the contaminated creatures they usually saw, these mutants were like they had leveled up, becoming more disgusting and difficult to deal with.
Just as Yu Chi was about to go forward to help, An Jin was suddenly sent flying. She quickly flew over to catch him and was pushed back several steps by the impact.
An Jin’s wings were almost torn, and blood soaked his feathers. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, his voice hoarse: “His ability is ‘corrosion.’ The wounds will continue to worsen…”
Yu Chi’s pupils shrank. She immediately cast [Holy Light] on him, but the moment the healing light touched the wound, it was swallowed by a dark red energy.
—Even a healing skill can be corroded?!
However, although most of it was swallowed, a small part of the wound had recovered. Yu Chi breathed a sigh of relief after she found out and directly took out 10 Holy Light scrolls and smashed them on An Jin’s wound.
The man was suspended in the air, looking down at them, a cat-and-mouse smile on his face: “You little flowers in the greenhouse, you don’t understand the real law of survival at all.” He raised his hand, and a vortex of dark red energy condensed in his palm. “Let me teach you…”
“Boom!”
A blazing white light suddenly came from the side. The man was forced to dodge, and the energy vortex was interrupted. Yu Chi suddenly turned her head—
Li Feng and Zuo He were speeding over through a spatial channel!
“Yo, we made it!” Li Feng held a long spear. It was he who had just swung it. On the other side, a bronze lottery stick was floating in Zuo He’s hand. The writing on the stick was glowing with a golden light: [To be born from a desperate situation].
“You’re too slow…” Yu Chi pursed her lips.
“Those two guys kept refusing the application,” Li Feng ground his teeth.
The reason they were able to get to this battlefield was purely because Zuo He’s lottery stick had worked, allowing the twin sisters to take the time to agree to the application in the middle of a fight.
Li Feng took out a rocket launcher from somewhere, turned his head, and aimed it at the scavenger. “Hey, pervert over there, have you ever heard of ‘bullying the few with the many’?”
The man narrowed his eyes: “Ants are still ants even when they’re gathered together.”
Zuo He sneered. The original bronze lottery stick disappeared, and another new bronze lottery stick appeared. He crushed the bronze lottery stick in his hand.
【Prophecy takes effect: For the next 10 seconds, all attacks will be a guaranteed hit.】
Zuo He: “Attack!”
Li Feng’s rocket launcher roared and shot out. He quickly put it back in his backpack and picked up his long spear. Yu Chi’s saber qi turned into a silver dragon. The twin sisters’ arrows and magic circle intertwined into a net. An Jin gritted his teeth and threw out countless poisoned daggers. Even the silver wolf and the treant roared and pounced.
“Boom boom boom!”
In the smoke and dust of the explosion, the man showed a sorry state for the first time. His right arm was blown off, and dark red energy spurted out like blood, but the wound was actually regenerating at a visible rate.
“It’s useless,” he sneered. “We’ve been through a more desperate battlefield than this…”
Yu Chi’s movements did not stop. Instead, she directly flashed in front of him—Space Blade.
The space blade silently passed through the man’s neck, but at the last moment, he dodged it by tilting his head.
“Space-type? Interesting,” the man licked the corner of his mouth and kicked Yu Chi. Yu Chi spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying. It seemed that her internal organs had been shattered, but the corner of her mouth was silently curled up.
The man narrowed his eyes. Just as he was about to say something, another space had quietly approached his neck from behind and directly cut forward.
He had almost cut off half of his neck before the man reacted. He was suddenly furious. “This is not a space-type. What attribute are you?!”
Even if his neck was cut off, he could still regenerate, so this bit of damage was useless to him. However… however, the neck that had just been cut was not regenerating!
Just now, Li Feng had flown over to catch her. Yu Chi was spitting blood and smiling. A huge pain came from her heart, and even breathing brought a sharp pain. She transformed into her elf form, cast three Holy Lights on herself, and only then did she feel a little better.
After discovering that the other party could regenerate even after his right arm was blown off, Yu Chi immediately thought of the devouring sensation that had come from her body when she was injured—it must be that strange energy. For the man, it could help him regenerate, but for them, it was devouring.
However, this devouring energy could be suppressed by Holy Light, so when Yu Chi had swung the space blade, she had added a Holy Light to it.
Actually, she didn’t know if it would succeed. After all, it was a combination of two skills… but no matter what, she could only take a gamble.
But the effect was even better than she had expected. It was just a pity that her current Holy Light was only at the fourth order. Otherwise, it would not have only done this much.
Yu Chi slowly exhaled, knowing that there would not be such a good opportunity next time.
In order for the plan to succeed, she had first used the space of the space blade to attract the other party’s attention, and then she had shown a flaw and been kicked by the other party.
At the same time, the attacks on the other side had not stopped. An Jin’s light waves were continuous. The attack power was not important. What was important was that the light could disturb the vision. Finally, there was Zuo He’s help.
Besides the first lot, [10 seconds of guaranteed hits], he had drawn a second lot, [Secretly crossing the Chencang]. Of course, this was just to increase the probability for everyone, but it was also very useful.
To have completed these cooperations in such a short time, even Yu Chi found it a little incredible. But… she looked up at the person in the sky. The man’s neck was half-broken, and not only could he speak, but he could also jump around.
It seemed that it was really tricky.