Chapter 381
B8017913: "That's because it's you. If it were someone else at level 7, it would be a different story. Do you really think they’re all easygoing players?"
Yu Xunge: "Huh?"
B8017913: "Haven't you noticed how famous you are on the world battlefield?"
Yu Xunge: "What do you mean?"
B8017913: "Your rise has been astonishing. No one else has shot up to level 7 in just a few games, earned a title, and even snatched the talent from Donghai Shark Leng. You’re already connected to powerful players like Feng Tang and Wu Ren."
B8017913: "There are no fools here. You will definitely stand at the same height as them in the future; no one will underestimate you again."
B8017913: "In cooperative games, they won’t trample on your dignity for no reason."
Yu Xunge replied solemnly, "In competitive games, they won’t look down on me anymore, right?"
B8017913: "Your calmness and clarity often amaze me."
Yu Xunge wanted to say more, but a massive customer, resembling a mountain and looking very much like an octopus, stopped in front of her.
One of its tentacles pointed at the Mai Mang Crab, and it babbled something at Yu Xunge, who was sitting at the cash register.
B8017913 quickly translated: "Is it for sale?"
Yu Xunge really wanted to sell the Mai Mang Crab, but she couldn’t make that decision. She kindly translated for the crab: "It wants to buy you."
The Mai Mang Crab scoffed, suddenly standing up from its previous position, ready to take down the customer right there.
But its probing skill revealed that it might not win; the feedback indicated that the opponent's combat power was comparable to level 19.
With a naive expression, the Mai Mang Crab sat back down and chuckled, "Help me refuse it, but be polite, okay?"
Yu Xunge conveyed the answer to B8017913, having learned a new language on the spot, and awkwardly repeated, "Sorry, it’s not for sale."
However, the customer seemed not to have heard the response and stubbornly asked again.
Yu Xunge had to refuse once more. She sensed the customer’s assertiveness; if she kept asking, she would start breaking the rules, and she didn’t know how many times she’d have to violate them. She whispered to the Mai Mang Crab, "How about you just go with it?"
Before the crab could get angry, she quickly added, "I’ll take the money, and after you go with it, you can run back on your own!"
Mai Mang Crab: "Then why don’t you go with it?!"
Yu Xunge: "It’s not me it wants to buy!"
Just as she finished speaking, another tentacle pointed at her: ￥@#%!
The Mai Mang Crab exclaimed excitedly, "Hey? Did it change its mind and want to buy you instead?"
B8017913: "It’s asking if it buys the Mai Mang Crab, can it get you as a bonus?"
Yu Xunge, who had inexplicably become a freebie: ?
Yu Xunge told the Mai Mang Crab, "It’s asking if it can get a buy-one-get-one-free deal; it wants to buy us both."
Without hesitation, the Mai Mang Crab replied, "Then tell it it doesn’t need to buy me; it can just take you."
Yu Xunge’s expression twisted for a moment, ready to scold the Mai Mang Crab for being unreasonable, when a soft voice spoke in Tian Xie language: "Sure."
Both Yu Xunge and the Mai Mang Crab froze in surprise. The next moment, a tentacle wrapped around Yu Xunge, binding her from shoulder to ankle, and hoisted her onto the octopus's back.
Yu Xunge: ?
**Chapter 495: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 11**
The Mai Mang Crab jumped onto the table with a loud shout.
Yu Xunge felt no sentiment; she could guess what the crab was about to say with her toes.
The Mai Mang Crab shouted, "Pay up!!"
Yu Xunge: Ha! She knew it; in this restaurant, there wasn’t a single honest soul!
She planned to use her skill, Thieving Dragon, to escape, retreating to the kitchen before the customer arrived.
But just before she reversed time, she used a skill on the octopus customer—【I Want to Improve So Badly】.
So far, she hadn’t used this skill on the various customers coming and going.
These cosmic beings were too complex; some had no physical form, some looked toxic from a distance, and for some, she couldn’t even see basic health or mana information.
When it came to thievery, the most important thing wasn’t just getting away with it, but being able to escape afterward. Right now, she was in a situation where she could run but couldn’t hide.
She feared that using her stealing skill might attract unnecessary trouble to the restaurant. If she really wrecked the place, her three teammates would probably come after her. But now, she had no more reservations.
As for the time skill…
This brought to mind the clever use of B8017913.
Sometimes, while she was busy, B8017913 would suddenly say in her mind: "There was a ripple in the river of time here just now; a player used a time skill."
It happened quite frequently; in less than half a day since the game started, it had occurred over twenty times.
This was bound to happen when a large number of high-level players with various precious skills gathered in the same area.
Even if time skills were rare, with tens of thousands of divine players in one place, the numbers added up.
There was no need to gamble; the last time she clashed with Liang Pozhou, the river of time had been thrown into chaos due to excessive use of time skills, leading to a ban on time skills. That situation would surely happen again.
B8017913 had been a great help, though the only pity was that it was unwilling to tell her which players had time skills.
B8017913: "This question involves the privacy of divine game players. I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you directly. I can help you investigate the information of players you encounter using my skills and provide you with knowledge and intelligence about the world battlefield, but I can’t give you a list. Do you understand the difference?"
Yu Xunge understood perfectly; one was direct information sharing, while the other was helping to query public information when they intersected.
Yu Xunge: "Even though you’re my pet now?"
B8017913: "Even though I now belong to you."
Yu Xunge: "Great, that’s wonderful."
B8017913: "Yes."
This meant that other players with mechanical race chips couldn’t access her private information.
Moreover, the fact that B8017913 could tell her that players in the current area had used time skills was already a huge surprise.
With the information provided by B8017913, Yu Xunge had made up her mind: unless it was a dire situation, she wouldn’t use time skills and would try to minimize their use. This way, even if time turbulence occurred later, the duration of her time skill ban could be shortened as much as possible.
But right now, it was indeed a critical moment.
She had used 【I Want to Improve So Badly】 nine times, but all had failed.
Such a situation was quite rare.
It seemed she was indeed affected.
Yu Xunge wasn’t angry; after all, the clothes given to her by Songui were continuously healing her, so she was essentially playing with house money.
Meanwhile, the Mai Mang Crab had already started counting money. It held a large handful of fossils, confirming that this was indeed currency that could be counted at the restaurant before waving its claws at the customer: "Welcome to come again."
The next second, the Mai Mang Crab was also bound.
Mai Mang Crab: ?
Just as Yu Xunge was about to give up on improving and use Thieving Dragon to return, B8017913’s voice echoed in her mind.
B8017913: "The river of time has stirred again, and not just once."
Yu Xunge: "Huh? Are you saying many people used time skills at the same time?"
B8017913: "Not only are many players using them simultaneously, but some players are using them repeatedly."
Yu Xunge: "How many players used time skills, and how many times did the player who used them the most repeat their use?"
B8017913: "In the last ten seconds, 31 players used time skills, and the player who used them the most did so 7 times."
Thoughts raced through her mind, and Yu Xunge almost immediately decided to abandon using time skills!
Something serious must have happened here to make so many players with time skills manipulate time.
Of course, it was possible that these players hadn’t experienced time turbulence like she had and didn’t know that frequently messing with time within a certain range would lead to punishment, so they were recklessly causing chaos.
She didn’t rule out that possibility.
But the likelihood was too small…
In the first few hours of the game, most players had been quite restrained, having used time skills only about twenty times in total.
…She had to prepare for the worst.
Yu Xunge relaxed, determined to stick with this octopus customer.
Since it hadn’t eaten her right away, she still had room to maneuver.
Moreover, the Mai Mang Crab was still here.
Yu Xunge turned to the Mai Mang Crab, who was tied up next to her, and smiled, "What a coincidence! Aren’t you going to make it pay?"
The Mai Mang Crab, still cursing, paused for a moment and then shouted at the octopus customer, "Pay up! Throw the money on the table! Otherwise, I’ll die right here!"
The customer, who had already walked a few meters away, actually paused and turned back, tossing a bit of money onto the table.
It even thoughtfully added a protective shield, with silver threads floating up, connecting to the crab and little person in the painting above the restaurant.
Only the creator of the artwork could open this protective shield.
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