Chapter 294
Yuxun Ge took off her windbreaker, trying to cover the wound and hide the bloodstains, but the coat simply fell to the ground. The sounds from outside grew closer, and Yuxun Ge had no choice but to pull out a blank canvas and unfold it, aiming it at the corpse.
【Ding—You have violated a game rule. A divine punishment will be randomly drawn.】
【Divine punishment complete. You have lost 5 points of agility.】
Yuxun Ge was taken aback, but then, to her astonishment, the blank canvas revealed the image of Ah Ling! She got it right on the first try! But there were bloodstains on it, indicating she had violated the rules.
Regardless of whether Tulan had found anything, Yuxun Ge stowed the canvas away, expending her essence and the 1% mana she had just regained. With one hand, she grabbed the windbreaker, and with the other, she pulled Tulan, using a shadow shift to escape.
Almost at the moment their figures vanished, two otherworldly beings burst in.
Yuxun Ge and Tulan hid in a nearby building, their hearts racing.
Yuxun Ge whispered, “Did you find anything?”
Tulan pulled out a tiny red airplane, about the size of a finger. “I only found this.”
【Chapter 381: Divine Game: Little Painter 8】
Yuxun Ge took it and looked—【World’s Tomb·Red Airplane①】: Belonging to the buried spring civilization, other civilization players can only use it as a ticket.
Another World’s Tomb… and in a different form. What is this? A flying chess piece? Or a game from the buried spring civilization?
She leaned towards the latter; otherwise, she couldn’t imagine how this could serve as a key, or how its arrangement could determine the key’s level.
She just didn’t know if it would grant her honor points; she received no prompts here.
Tulan asked, “Did you get any rewards? I did!”
Yuxun Ge tucked the red airplane away, her eyes lighting up. “You did?”
She had a hunch when the experience points were divided, but to think it was true! She didn’t mind that her experience was being diluted by Tulan; on the contrary, she needed Tulan to grow alongside her so that their combined strength could exceed the sum of their parts.
She felt increasingly grateful for having contracted Tulan. Once upon a time, her only requirement was that Tulan wouldn’t aid the enemy or throw tantrums at her. But Tulan had surprised her time and again.
Not only could she help, but in critical moments, she was genuinely obedient, never asking pointless questions like, “Do we really have to do this?”
Tulan said, “Yeah, I got a kill reward. I received 4.7% experience, and the loot is an S-rank skill, Air Slash, but I violated a game rule and lost 5 attribute points.”
After the initial excitement, Yuxun Ge’s expression grew serious. If the kill reward was 10% experience, it meant their death penalty could also result in lost experience or other things. And as it stood, she and Tulan were indeed considered one entity, receiving rewards together, but violating the rules meant they would both face punishment.
She glanced at her new skill, 【Air Slash】.
【Air Slash】 S-rank: After use, every part of the body can manipulate air. Each movement unleashes a giant blade, consuming 3000 mana per second. Skill damage is influenced by intelligence, with no cooldown time.
The consumption was immense; the mana cost was calculated per second. With Yuxun Ge’s current mana, using it for just one second would cost nearly 8% of her mana. But there was no cooldown—an exceptional close-range skill!
And this was terrifying. If the winning side’s pets could also acquire the same S-rank skill, how deep would the reserves of those powerful beings’ pets be? She reminded herself not to underestimate any pet in this place.
Moreover, skills obtained on the battlefield could be used directly in combat…
Just from killing one otherworldly being, the rewards were so substantial. No wonder those beings wanted to kill her.
She nestled in a corner and unfolded her canvas, revealing a lizardman in a windbreaker. No red? What rule had she violated?
Opening the leaderboard, she found it had transformed into something else.
No longer a strength ranking, but a completion ranking, featuring only the 12,931 online otherworldly beings. She ranked 1,355th.
Rank—World·Name—Completion
1,355—Zai Jiu·Xun Ge—3.5%.
There were only 11 otherworldly beings in total in the painting, and she had “painted” one, yet her completion was only 3.5%. She immediately thought of the painting’s background, the ship, and those more formidable otherworldly beings. They were likely the key to completion.
At that moment, another round of the game ended.
New stars appeared before her! Now she had two solid stars.
One more round.
But Yuxun Ge’s mood was far from light. Winning three rounds would force her to leave the battle zone, and if she left simultaneously with those otherworldly beings, she would likely face death… and her progress with Wurou was probably not in sync.
Even if it were in sync, she had become less useful to Wurou in this game. She had translated everything she could; at least in this divine game, Wurou no longer needed her.
A new game began, and this time, the symbol above her head was a red heart.
As usual, she avoided the battlefield, waiting for her mana to recover while foraging for fruits in the oasis. Though there were very few left, most had been snatched by otherworldly beings in the first round, there were bound to be some that were overlooked.
However, in this round, the red heart lost.
The game progressed rapidly.
In the fourth round, she found herself as the flag bearer again!
Why? Had she gotten lucky again without realizing it? Or was there another reason?
She looked up at the red beam of light shooting into the sky from behind her, and the red team’s Shark Cold rushing towards it. She fell silent; this was just too unfortunate.
He pointed to a corner, indicating she should go there, where the throne would land.
This round was secure, but Yuxun Ge felt an unprecedented heaviness. What she was worried about was how to survive after this round ended when she was forcibly expelled from the battle zone.
In the fourth round, aside from the first, Shark Cold would definitely win the second and third rounds, which meant that after the fourth round, she would likely leave the oasis alongside him.
Tulan clearly shared her concern about the game rules: “How do we survive after we leave?”
Yuxun Ge replied, “Let’s prepare for the worst. If we really can’t win, you immediately return to the space, and I’ll self-destruct to exit. Got it? I’ll take the exit penalty; it’s the most cost-effective option. You shouldn’t stay behind; it’s too risky.”
Tulan nodded, “Okay, I understand.”
The throne was established, and a second red beam of light rose. She looked at Shark Cold. “Shall we go find the blue throne?”
“Let’s go.” As Shark Cold protected Yuxun Ge, the flag bearer, flying towards the blue beam, he asked, “How many languages do you know?”
Yuxun Ge replied, “535 languages.”
Shark Cold said, “Help me translate the game rules when we get out. I’ll protect you for a while.”
Yuxun Ge agreed, “Sure.”
She had no right to negotiate with Shark Cold. Whether it was the number of rules or trying to get him to protect her to the next oasis, it was futile because once this deal ended… Shark Cold would undoubtedly not let her continue this game alive.
And despite Shark Cold seeming easy to talk to now, every interaction with him sent chills down her spine.
She needed to think of a way to survive Shark Cold…
As for the option of directly self-destructing to exit? That thought flashed through her mind for a moment but was quickly dismissed. She was unwilling; she wanted to take a chance.
This time, following Shark Cold went smoothly. Although the blue team had gathered several high-tier players to protect their flag bearer as they rushed towards the red team’s throne, Shark Cold and Yuxun Ge were clearly faster, and hardly any otherworldly beings dared to block him.
Soon, the third star lit up, and at the same time, she was thrown out of the battle zone, her body uncontrollably flung outside the shield. As her wings of light spread, she steadied herself.
However, before she could use her skills to escape, she felt an invisible hand grasp her neck, and her mana instantly dropped to zero—Shark Cold!
This action halted several otherworldly beings who had intended to follow and take Yuxun Ge.
Shark Cold flew with her and Tulan for several minutes before stopping. He descended, and Yuxun Ge felt the air currents swirling around her as she followed Shark Cold down.
Shark Cold landed first, and with a heavy stomp, gray thorns rapidly erupted from the desert, creating a nest around them.
The thorns bore information; this was Shark Cold’s pet—【Hateful Thorns】.
Yuxun Ge and Tulan were casually tossed to the ground, and the thorns grew rapidly, blocking the sky while part of them surrounded Yuxun Ge, and another part covered Tulan, pinning her down tightly.
【Chapter 382: Anger and Regret】
The spikes trapping mini Tulan easily pierced her dragon scales, digging into her body and starting to collect her dragon blood! The blood flowed up the thorns, disappearing into the unknown.
Moreover, one spike was leisurely scraping off Tulan’s dragon scales, and in that moment, her dragon might faded. The little ice dragon seemed like just a fish laid out on a cutting board.
Yuxun Ge watched in horror, ready to self-destruct and exit, but Shark Cold spoke first: “You can try to self-destruct. I can guarantee that even if you leave, I can keep your pet here.”
Yuxun Ge halted her actions, for both she and Tulan had acquired two new statuses—【Forced Stay】 and 【Time Hater】.
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