Chapter 341
At the same time, Yu Xunge and Tu Lan noticed the information hovering above each other's heads.
【Mo Wu 8th Rank 95%┃83%┃Impatient·Alert┃Taboo: Breaking Rules┃Weakness: Exhausted Mana】
The moment they saw the combat power, Yu Xunge and Tu Lan exchanged no words; they moved simultaneously!
Yu Xunge dispelled the Animagus disguise and swiftly drew her weapons, Twilight and Night. At this distance, there was no need to aim; the moment the gun fired, Mo Wu emerged from the stone wall Yu had just shattered, taking the bullet squarely in the face.
Tu Lan's icy mist had already enveloped Mo Wu's hooves—she was, after all, a centaur—and froze her in place.
As Yu Xunge pulled the trigger, her left hand was already gathering energy for a spell called 【Cheers】. With her strength, a sniper rifle was a piece of cake to handle with one hand.
So, after taking a bullet to the face, Mo Wu was met with a grotesque orb of lightning?
It resembled a cup or a bowl.
However, her movements were hindered by the ice magic, but she did possess a teleportation skill. Yet before she could act, a net of lightning descended from above, woven by Yu Xunge.
Frozen and paralyzed, Mo Wu could only lower her head and brace herself with her horns against the lightning ball.
But from the moment she connected three strikes and still couldn't escape, her fate was sealed.
The second gunshot rang out.
This was already the fourth strike.
If Yu Xunge hadn’t been so cautious—she preferred ranged combat unless absolutely necessary—if she had charged in for close combat, Mo Wu would have been dead much quicker.
【Ding——Congratulations, Zai Jiu Xun Ge has killed the potted plant Mo Wu. Player Mo Wu has chosen to exchange three S-rank skills for a chance at resurrection. You will randomly draw one S-rank skill as your loot.】
【Ding——Loot drawn, you gain 7 points of Constitution.】
【Loot extraction complete, you have obtained Mo Wu's S-rank skill—Wild Call.】
【Wild Call】S-rank: After use, you can command all non-divine beasts, consuming 100 mana points per minute.
Not the best, but certainly unique.
As Yu Xunge felt the ground before the stone wall closed, she found the World Tomb that Mo Wu had dropped.
【World Tomb·Cursed Bear Paw】: Belonging to the potted civilization, players from other civilizations can only use it as a ticket.
With the blue and red glass orbs from the Ling Cha civilization, she now had three World Tombs in her possession.
Yu Xunge continued mining alongside Tu Lan.
After staring at the information above Tu Lan's head for a while, she suddenly asked curiously, “Why do you never ask me what taboos and weaknesses I see for you?”
Tu Lan replied, “You never asked me what information I see about you either.”
Both the girl and the dragon fell silent.
Yu Xunge glanced at the information above Tu Lan's head.
【Tu Lan 4th Rank 100%┃89%┃Joyful·Excited┃Taboo: Insincerity and Deceit┃Weakness: Zai Jiu Xun Ge】
Tu Lan looked at the information above Yu Xunge's head.
【Xun Ge 5th Rank 100%┃72%┃Alert·Wary┃Taboo: Betrayal by Friends and Loved Ones┃Weakness: Ice Dragon Tu Lan】
Uh-oh! The girl and the dragon simultaneously turned their heads away, burying themselves back into their mining.
Ew! Gross!!!
After they mined three more precious ores, chaos erupted in the special trading area 1211.
If it were just the inspectors checking players and issuing penalties, that would be one thing. Those who had been penalized would quietly stand aside, waiting for others to be punished, while those who hadn’t been penalized found it hard to cooperate in a short time to topple the inspectors.
However, what no player expected was that this inspector boss, after reviewing half the players, suddenly announced that penalized players could transfer their criminal marks by killing the remaining unexamined players.
Once the criminal mark was transferred, the penalties would also shift.
At this point, the battlefield chat channel was eerily silent, with hardly any players from the special trading area 1211 speaking up.
Even the inspector's command was something a player with a special divine gift had managed to uncover through great effort.
Yu Xunge let out a long breath, straightened her back, and said to Tu Lan, “This is a dog-eat-dog world! A dog-eat-dog world! We don’t need to engage in anything too thrilling, right?”
Tu Lan: ???
【Chapter 443: Divine Game: Diamond Miner 11】
Every time Yu Xunge reflected on whether she was being too cautious, fate would leap out and pull her back.
She had also noticed the cunning nature of B8017913.
It might indeed be honest, as the information it sold was true, but it wouldn’t actively warn about potential pitfalls.
One could only say that the emotions and personalities conveyed in the information were too one-sided.
Until Yu Xunge and Tu Lan had mined ten ores and paid various costs to uncover two rules, the battlefield channel still had no players from the special trading area 1211 speaking up.
Moreover, the number of online players had decreased by over two thousand. Although the Divine Game was a world where players died every minute, Diamond Miner was somewhat different.
The mining area was vast, and the terrain was complex; even if players encountered each other, it was easy to avoid combat.
In the past hour, the number of players disconnecting had reached an all-time high since the game began.
Even Ze Lan Wu Ren couldn’t help but call out to Ze Lan Fei E in the battlefield chat, wanting to ask for news.
【Ze Lan·Wu Ren】: Fei E, are you okay?
【Ze Lan·Fei E】: You actually have the nerve to care about me???!!!
【Ze Lan·Wu Ren】: Why wouldn’t I?
【Ze Lan·Fei E】: Did you get your account hacked on Maple Syrup?
【Ze Lan·Feng Tang】: Who are you cursing?
【Ze Lan·Wu Ren】: This is the battlefield chat channel; don’t embarrass Ze Lan. Hurry up and tell me, what’s the situation? Did the inspector really make you all turn on each other?
【Ze Lan·Fei E】: Understood.
【Ze Lan·Wu Ren】: Are you out of your mind?
【Ze Lan·Fei E】: Sure.
Ze Lan Fei E was met with a barrage of insults.
But this evasive attitude, even joking with Ze Lan Wu Ren, made everyone subtly sense something amiss.
All high-ranking players sensed the potential benefits in this situation.
If the inspector allowed penalized players to hunt down those yet to be judged to transfer their criminal marks… that meant the special trading area was essentially a cage, gathering a large number of player resources together, which was akin to free rewards for high-ranking players.
No one would complain about having too many World Tombs or S-rank skills.
Conversely, players with insufficient combat power were shaken to their core. Most players idling in the safe zone quickly chose to clear their precious ores and leave the area.
But Yu Xunge found it strange…
Undeniably, the inspector's actions added a layer of intrigue to the game that the divine beings desired.
She would always remember the first time she entered the Divine Game and the beginner's tip she received.
—The Divine Game emphasizes a balance between fun and fairness.
Regardless of whether this rule was meant to ensure players provided more enjoyment for the divine beings, it had given her immense comfort and courage at the time, supporting her journey to this point.
However, the situation in the special trading area 1211 was too bizarre. The inspector judged fraudulent behavior, a special plot she could attribute to a normal “accident,” as there were preconditions—players committing fraud and thus being judged.
But the inspector's later decision to have players kill each other to transfer criminal marks was simply unfair.
Even if the inspector randomly selected players for judgment or conducted an average check across various combat powers, it couldn’t mask the unfairness of this method.
Because locking players of different combat powers in a confined space was almost a death sentence for lower-ranked players; they had no way to escape, only to wait for their demise.
The players who had been chatting earlier included Ze Lan·Fei E at 15th rank Abyss, Ting Zhou·Dou Kou at 12th rank Nightmare, Dong Hai·Jing Man at 9th rank Pain, Ling Cha·Yi Xiu at 5th rank Casual, and Huang Yan·Lan Pai at 4th rank Casual.
This indicated that the special trading area 1211 had not, like the initial racing game, funneled players of different ranks through track and gas station switches—perhaps they hadn’t had the time, but Yu Xunge leaned towards the idea that they hadn’t funneled at all.
She stomped heavily on the ground beneath her feet, and through the hole she created, she saw a new marketplace, clearly another safe zone.
This kind of game, where you could directly dig down to reach a safe zone, made it hard to implement any funneling.
Each safe zone likely corresponded to a mining area.
So…
Since this game was unfair.
It meant the inspector would have further moves to adjust this fairness.
For example… killing one player transfers the criminal mark, but what if you continued to kill? Would that be a new crime?
After all, attacking each other was prohibited in the safe zone. The inspector had given players a reason and freedom to attack each other, but both the reason and freedom were limited.
She always felt that Ze Lan Fei E had also sensed the underlying issues; otherwise, he wouldn’t be so evasive, perhaps worried that saying too much would alert other players.
Yu Xunge glanced at the player traffic in the marketplace below; it wasn’t too crowded. She already had ten ores, so she jumped down with Tu Lan, entering this safe zone.
As usual, the first thing to do was find the game monument.
【Game·Diamond Victory】:
This safe zone is a special trading area and will not convert into a battle zone, but you cannot leave this safe zone until the game is completed.
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