Chapter 340
**Chapter 441: Divine Game: Diamond Miner 9**
Two minutes later, two messages echoed simultaneously in Yu Xunge's mind.
*Ding—The number of online players in Special Trading Area 1211 has reached 5555.*
*Special Event Triggered in Special Trading Area 1211—Inspector Has Arrived.*
*Congratulations, player, you have completed the task—Fraud Game.*
*You have completed a total of 37 unfair transactions, with 37 consecutive instances of improper gain, ranking 587th on the historical fraud leaderboard of this trading area.*
*You have earned the 5th-tier title: Thunderstruck, which grants you access to the title skill.*
*You have received a game reward—The map of Mining Area 10 has been illuminated.*
*Special Trading Area 1211 has been sealed off.*
In the next moment, Yu Xunge felt an invisible hand poke her, and she was thrust out of the tunnel. Just as she exited, the stone ceiling above her closed rapidly, even snipping off a small tuft of her hair.
Yu Xunge was already airborne, and after confirming there were no other players nearby, she began to check her rewards.
To her surprise, those 37 instances of unfair transactions included her and Tu Lan's thieving escapades in the diamond mine.
It made sense; how could a no-cost deal not be considered a transaction?
But if it was a transaction, why didn’t her failed thefts count as losses? Was it because the losses weren’t significant enough, or because the health points she lost didn’t benefit anyone else? Or perhaps, each failure simply didn’t count as a completed transaction?
The stealing skill from the *One-Person Party* was far more powerful than she had imagined.
This left Yu Xunge feeling a twinge of regret. Her ingrained caution and conservatism had indeed helped her avoid many potential crises, but they had also caused her to miss out on quite a bit.
However, she quickly brushed aside that regret and focused on her earnings.
First up was the title.
Now, when she opened the leaderboard, which displayed real-time game scores, her name was already adorned with a title.
25807. Xunge┃Drunk on Wine·Human┃5th-tier Player┃Thunderstruck
It lacked any flair, but Yu Xunge was only interested in the title skill.
After selecting to equip the title, she sensed a new skill had been added—*Transgression*.
*Transgression*: For every self-serving act you commit, you gain a layer of lightning shield, which can warn you once of an undetected ambush. The lightning shield can stack up to 10 layers.
How should she put it? This skill was practically tailor-made for her.
She didn’t even want to classify it as a mere shield skill; she preferred to think of it as a wicked skill…
Self-serving? That was too easy.
Using the skill *I’m So Eager to Progress* on other players, each successful use was, wasn’t it, self-serving?
This skill was impressive, and the fact that such a good skill was merely a 5th-tier title skill made her wonder what stronger skills awaited her with better titles.
If she encountered another special trading area, she would steal from start to finish!
Yu Xunge opened the map and found that the previously pitch-black area had a small section illuminated, revealing a dense yet clear network of paths, even marking the distribution of minerals.
However, this area was tiny, just a small square, merely one-thousandth of the map.
Moreover, it was far from Yu Xunge; after the map lit up, a small figure representing her appeared in the lower left corner, while the illuminated area was in the lower right corner.
Not wanting to waste too much time lamenting, she confirmed her rewards and continued mining with Tu Lan.
During their search, both Yu Xunge and Tu Lan occasionally opened the battlefield chat channel, eager to catch any news from Special Trading Area 1211.
This was normal gossip… no, it was essential intelligence gathering, not a waste of time.
When Yu Xunge and Tu Lan found their first diamond mine, the battlefield chat channel was flooded with messages about Special Trading Area 1211.
5555 players was an enormous number.
Having experienced two rounds of the Divine Game, Yu Xunge had visited several safe zones, each with at most a little over a thousand players, while Special Trading Area 1211 had amassed 5555 players.
Players who weren’t adept at fraud were stuck because they couldn’t complete five unfair transactions, while those skilled in deception, perhaps driven by greed, sought to cheat even more.
After all, the speed of earning diamonds through fraudulent transactions far surpassed that of mining.
She could toil for an hour and only sell a few thousand diamonds, but through the fraud game, she could rake in tens of thousands. Who could resist such temptation and disparity?
And there was also the carrot dangling in front of them: “The more unfair transactions you complete, the more precious the blessings you receive upon leaving the trading area.”
Plus, the game monument didn’t mention any penalties.
With all these factors combined, even though many players, like Yu Xunge, believed they lacked the ability and sensed something was off, their cautious nature kept them from taking risks. After completing the game task, they immediately sought to exit…
But their exit speed couldn’t keep up with the influx and retention of players in Special Trading Area 1211.
Originally, the battlefield chat channel contained information from various safe zones, where players would communicate things that couldn’t be conveyed through simple gestures. However, after Special Trading Area 1211 was sealed for a few minutes, the battlefield chat channel exploded.
*Mai Mang·Eel*: This is insane! How come there are still special scenarios? Didn’t the special events in safe zones always get marked in advance?
*Huang Yan·Mo Wen*: No way, I’ve encountered it before, but the conditions were very harsh.
*Ze Lan·Fat Goose*: Can anyone who got caught speak up? What’s the penalty standard?
*Ling Cha·Jiu Cheng*: Yeah, speak up!
*Ting Zhou·Dou Kou*: It doesn’t matter if you say it; you can’t escape anyway. I got lucky and only had half my diamonds confiscated.
*Dong Hai·Jing Man*: My divine talent was sealed for 100 Star Sea Days.
*Ling Cha·Yi Xiu*: I got ten new game rules.
*Huang Yan·Lan Pai*: I had two World Tombs confiscated.
*Ze Lan·Fat Goose*: This is terrifying! Why don’t we band together and take down that inspector? We have so many players!
*Huang Yan·Mo Wen*: Fat Goose is great, let Fat Goose lead!
*Qiu Long·Ying Shi*: Fat Goose is great, let Fat Goose lead!
*Mai Quan·Xiong Ni*: Fat Goose is great, let Fat Goose lead!
*Pen Zai·Bai Bao*: Fat Goose is great, let Fat Goose lead!
Yu Xunge couldn’t help but wonder if there was some copy-paste function in this battlefield chat channel that she hadn’t discovered; otherwise, why were players so fond of copying and pasting in formation?
**Chapter 442: Divine Game: Diamond Miner 10**
At this moment, the other players had fallen silent, clearly shocked by the news of a safe zone triggering a special storyline. They were quietly lurking, waiting for the conversation to resume and reveal more information.
No one could guarantee they wouldn’t encounter this safe zone.
Safe zones that triggered special storylines were already extremely rare, and judging by the chat records, these players felt the conditions for this special storyline were too simple.
Unfortunately, while the 5555 players in Special Trading Area 1211 were fervently discussing, not a single one mentioned the specific conditions for triggering the special storyline, even though some players, in their eagerness to gather information, mentioned penalties and inspectors.
Yu Xunge and Tu Lan were also glued to the chat channel.
Although many players kept tight-lipped about their penalties, more and more players began to share, perhaps confident that others couldn’t escape their fates.
From confiscated World Tombs to S-tier skills and the sealing of divine talents, the penalties were nothing short of severe.
Moreover, players who were penalized bore a mark on their foreheads, which was a humiliation for the strong.
Strangely enough, even after being penalized, these players couldn’t temporarily leave Special Trading Area 1211.
As the discussions grew heated, the topic shifted to how to evade penalties.
Yu Xunge, observing the chat channel, suddenly recalled what B8017913 had said about methods to escape penalties…
For a moment, an idea flashed through her mind: she could stay behind and buy the method to evade penalties. When the inspector arrived, not only could she escape, but she could also resell the method to other players facing penalties, reaping substantial profits.
But in an instant, she extinguished that thought; the uncertainty was too great, and her current strength wasn’t enough to support such a tightrope act.
Yu Xunge suddenly halted, and so did Tu Lan. They both heard a sound not far away, and now that the map was illuminated, she could use *Hunting Eye* to “see” if there were other players nearby.
In their eight o'clock direction, something was slowly approaching them.
Before the player could arrive, a guiding light pierced through the mine they had just excavated.
Yu Xunge immediately transformed into a spider, hanging from the ceiling of the mine, while Tu Lan shrank down to her smallest size, hiding in a corner.
Soon, a hand clad in metallic gauntlets smashed through the stone wall.
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