Chapter 349
As for the Abyss Skill Blind Box, she glanced at the instructions: there was an 80% chance of drawing an S-level skill, a 15% chance of an SS-level skill, and a 5% chance of an SSS-level skill.
She looked at the countdown—75 seconds remaining.
Yu Xunge took out the half-white, half-gold Abyss Skill Blind Box, resembling a Pokémon Poké Ball, and opened it without hesitation.
She was about to head to the abandoned zone, a place shrouded in uncertainty for her. She needed to convert every resource at her disposal into something tangible right away; the more cards she had when she got to the abandoned zone, the better.
Perhaps it was the bad luck of encountering a special storyline as soon as she entered this commercial district that had turned in her favor at this moment.
[Mysterious Power] SSS Level: This skill can only be used when your health drops below 5%. Once activated, your health will be locked at 1% for 24 hours. During this time, you cannot regain health, and all beings can only inflict damage on you once; any subsequent attacks will be ineffective. Moreover, the damage ignores enemy and ally attributes, directly deducting 0.2% of your health. Each use consumes 20% of your mana, with a cooldown of 7 natural days.
Wait, does that mean that once her health is locked, no matter how strong the enemy is, they would need to gather five different beings to take her down?!
What kind of wicked deal is this?
So powerful!!
Yu Xunge immediately decided that for the upcoming rewards from the Golden Tree, any reward that could modify skill parameters would be invested in this skill!
Not only did she want to change the percentage of health deducted, but she also wanted to modify the cooldown time.
Her dream was to one day reduce that 0.2% to 0.0001%, so that it would take a thousand people to take her down! And ideally, she could use this skill once every day.
What’s the difference between this and being invincible?
She glanced at the skill panel; there were no chains attached to this skill, meaning it could be used in the Divine Battlefield without consuming any essence.
With this skill alone, even if she lost the rewards from this Divine Game, she would have no regrets.
Yu Xunge checked her collection of languages; none were duplicates. With the rewards from the Fraud Game, she had already acquired eight different languages in this Divine Game, bringing her total to an impressive 587.
Plus, she had just picked up 77 World Tombs; even after giving Feng Tang 30, she still had 47 left for herself.
Although she didn’t make it to the end of this Divine Game, her gains were incredibly rich.
Content, Yu Xunge waited for the merging of the abandoned zone.
She scanned the players around her; their expressions varied, clearly reflecting the same eagerness to open their rewards.
At this moment, she had the leisure to observe the more than six hundred players who remained.
Most were players with combat power between levels 9 and 12, while those below level 9, including Yu Xunge, numbered only twelve.
There were just over seventy players at levels 13 and 14.
With this configuration heading into the abandoned zone, Yu Xunge only hoped to survive a little longer.
At the very least, she wanted to hide in a dark corner and steal a few from the mechanical race before she died.
Lost in thought, the walls of the market suddenly dissolved into dust, revealing a gray-blue sky.
There was no sun or moon in the sky, only a rotating ninth-level magic cube, each block radiating dazzling light, serving as the primary source of illumination in this abandoned zone.
As she looked around, the ground was the same black-gray as the abandoned market, but while the market was tidy, this place resembled a dump.
Mountains of trash, large and small, were scattered about, composed of various states of mechanical beings—broken, incomplete, and long out of operation.
Yet in Yu Xunge's eyes, some of this "trash" still had health bars; they were still "alive"...
In the distance, she could see other mechanical beings and players sitting on the ground, neither fighting nor speaking.
The players on Yu Xunge's side were also hesitant to engage in battle, remaining vigilant while subtly maintaining their previous cooperative relationships, huddled together to observe their surroundings.
The surviving mechanical beings had already begun to approach others of their kind.
Yu Xunge wanted to check her leaderboard and the battlefield chat channel, but found the leaderboard unresponsive.
Her actions caught the attention of some players, who also tried to touch the marks on their wrists, but received no response.
The expressions of all the players grew serious.
They all thought of the same thing: without game time and task instructions, what were the conditions for leaving the abandoned zone?
Death?
Feng Tang and Yu Xunge almost simultaneously flew toward the players who had entered the abandoned zone first.
Feng Tang shot her a glance: "Tagalong."
This term in the Xiangxiao language is often used jokingly among close friends; Feng Cang used to tease Feng Mu about being Feng Tang's tagalong.
Yu Xunge replied, "I was the first to move."
Feng Tang smiled but said nothing more.
Feeling a bit uneasy, Yu Xunge distanced herself from her; she wasn't used to such intimacy and warmth, feeling a sense of danger as if getting too close to a flame might burn her.
The seated players noticed the newcomers but showed no extreme reactions. Even though Feng Tang was a level 15 player, they remained still, not revealing any signs of concern or vigilance.
This reaction made all the following players frown.
Feng Tang landed and stopped at a safe distance, looking at the highest-level player among them.
He was a level 14 player from the Zichuan language family, a fruit race, standing under a meter tall, with short purple hair. His round face and eyes diminished any coolness he might have had.
Feng Tang asked in the fruit language, "Exchange information?"
Zichuan Fushi hugged his knees, poking at the food in the fire with his curved knife, not bothering to look up as he replied, "Can't die, can't leave, no tasks."
Yu Xunge's language library happened to lack the fruit language, but she could vaguely guess what was going on from their expressions.
The most pressing issue now was that she was hungry...
She had been in the Divine Game for nearly 13 hours without food, and her physical condition was no longer what it used to be.
Since the global gaming phenomenon began, she hadn't felt such a strong sense of hunger in a long time.
She wasn't worried about the hunger itself; she was concerned that the accompanying weakness might affect her combat power and mobility.
There was something wrong here.
**Chapter 454: Abandoned Zone 1**
Yu Xunge no longer cared about the conversation between Zichuan Fushi and Feng Tang; she wanted to gather information herself to discern the truth—if possible, to trade for some food.
The other players who had followed Feng Tang did the same, spreading out.
It was fine to follow the strongest in times of need, but when it came to gathering information, everyone preferred to rely on themselves.
Yu Xunge didn’t prioritize players; she was observing the mechanical beings.
At this moment, most of the mechanical beings had transformed into another form, not the combat mech type, nor the mailbox-like work form they had in the market.
Perhaps to conserve energy, these mechanical beings had shrunk to mini sizes.
The mini mechanical beings were only knee-high to Yu Xunge, with square bodies and four wheels beneath them.
On their square bodies sat even smaller square heads, with their "eyes" resembling brown windproof goggles, taking up 70% of their head's surface area. Occasionally, data flashed across the goggle-like screens, making them both cool and cute.
Yu Xunge carefully observed the emotions and personalities of each mechanical being, trying to find one that was easy to communicate with.
However, there were no more "innocent" or "indecisive" mechanical beings like L12857777; most of them appeared to be in an awakened state, displaying emotions like "excited," "at ease," "elated," "guarded," and "apprehensive."
These emotions were too intense, and Yu Xunge didn’t want to provoke them.
Occasionally, there were "confused" little robots, but behind their confusion often followed "unexplainable happiness" or "mysterious joy."
They looked silly, but these confused little robots usually trailed behind the combat-form mechanical beings like little chicks.
Yu Xunge stopped looking because she had felt a dirty gaze on her since earlier!
That gaze was so intense that she couldn’t ignore it.
Frowning, Yu Xunge shifted her attention back to the players and locked eyes with Ze Lan Fei E, whose furious gaze met hers.
Yu Xunge:
Was the retribution for drawing [Mysterious Power] coming so quickly?
Though called Fei E (Fat Goose), Ze Lan Fei E was as thin as a reed, tall—at least 1.9 meters—with long silver hair that flowed like seven white flames, paired with a delicate face that exuded an exotic beauty.
Seeing that Yu Xunge finally noticed him, Ze Lan Fei E sprang to his feet and walked over to her.
Yu Xunge didn’t back down; she wasn’t afraid. With Tu Lan not around, she could also find a way to die through Ze Lan Fei E.
She recalled the numb expression on Zichuan Fushi's face when he spoke, growing increasingly uneasy.
Fei E stood before Yu Xunge, his eyes blazing with anger, and without caring whether she understood, he immediately began to settle the score: "Zai Jiu Xun Ge, we have no grudges against each other."
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