Chapter 422
Three seconds later, Yu Xunge exploded.
【Restaurant No. 353 has been rated as a low-quality establishment by inspectors. The restaurant staff has been eliminated. Please rest assured, diners.】
Yu Xunge sat cross-legged in the starting room.
This was her third death in this game, and she had to surrender three S-level skills.
She had only mined three S-level skills from the treasure of the Diamond Miner. She had already used one after her first death, leaving her with just two, which she surrendered.
But the last one posed a dilemma. The best choice would have been the interruption skill she obtained during the previous closing time, 【Poor Signal】.
However, that skill's icon was on her arm. If she encountered a situation where skill icons were randomly lost, having this icon would reduce the chances of other premium skills being selected.
In the end, she chose an S-level skill, 【Wild Call】, which she had obtained by killing an alien player. This skill allowed her to command all non-divine beasts.
Just the third death had already caused Yu Xunge heartache; she couldn't even imagine the pain of losing an SSS-level skill.
Once she got out, she needed to kill more alien players to earn skills.
This thought led her to consider the invisibility feature that came with being a black market player.
It was indeed convenient for assassination, but black market players couldn’t enter restaurants...
The only targets she could assassinate were the employees leaving the restaurant to restock and those strong players searching for inspectors outside...
Lost in thought, the countdown ended.
Yu Xunge appeared near Restaurant No. 353. She glanced at herself and could still see a shimmering outline, the skill icon on her arm also visible as a raised contour.
But she should be invisible, as she couldn’t see any other black market players around.
She took a small step back to avoid a player approaching her, but this caused her to bump into another invisible black market player.
Remembering her idea of using the skill icon to reduce the chance of losing premium skills, Yu Xunge instinctively threw a punch.
At the same time, her collarbone was struck by the other player’s fist, causing her health to drop by 30% in an instant!
The pitfalls of this invisibility feature just kept coming!
She couldn’t see the other player’s face, nor could she judge their strength based on her memorized images of strong players and their combat power to determine if they were someone she could kill.
She had no idea about the other player’s strength, nor could she assess their wounds or condition to see if they were a viable target.
Wasn’t this just like opening a blind box?
But conversely, just as she could gauge her opponent’s strength by her own health loss, the other player could also judge whether she was killable based on her attack power.
As Yu Xunge tried to retreat, her wrist was grabbed by the other player immediately.
Without hesitation, she used 【Dandelion Wind】 to escape, realizing that her transformed dandelion form was also in an invisible state. Were black market skills intangible too? She didn’t know whether to feel happy or worried.
After successfully breaking free, Yu Xunge flew into the air, only to collide with another invisible black market player...
What else was there to say? Fight! When she discovered that the other player only took 3% of her health with their hit, her eyes lit up. Now it was her turn to grab the other player’s wrist and start swinging!
To avoid colliding with other black market players, Yu Xunge locked onto the other player’s neck and soared into the sky to continue her assault. She pulled out a kitchen knife from her backpack.
Using the combat skills she had trained in the 【Close Combat】 course and her significantly higher attributes, she quickly succeeded in killing the other player.
【Chapter 549: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 54】
【Ding——Congratulations, Zai Jiu Xun Ge has killed the Furious Farmer. The player Farmer has chosen to exchange two SS-level skills for a fifth resurrection opportunity in this divine game. You will randomly draw one SS-level skill as your loot.】
【Ding——Drawing kill rewards, you gain +7 Constitution.】
【Loot drawing complete, you have obtained the Farmer's SS-level skill—Yang Zhi Gan Lu (Willow Branch Sweet Dew).】
Upon hearing the kill notification, Yu Xunge immediately focused on her arm, but unfortunately, unlike during the closing time, this skill did not transform into a skill icon!
This completely blocked all players from reducing the chance of losing premium skills by grinding skill icons, thwarting one of Yu Xunge's plans.
However, it wasn’t all bad news; this skill was usable, and the description of 【Yang Zhi Gan Lu】 appeared in her mind.
It was a healing skill, not particularly powerful, restoring only 50% of health each time, but it had a short cooldown of just three minutes.
Unfortunately, just like when she killed the potted plant, there was no World Tomb.
As soon as she used this skill to restore her health to full, Yu Xunge felt an invisible wave crashing from the side, causing her health to drop by another 30%.
It wasn’t targeting her specifically; as she was knocked back by the skill’s shockwave, she noticed other invisible black market players being pushed back as well, and they accidentally bumped into each other.
Damn it, who was so inconsiderate as to unleash a big move here?!
Since they couldn’t be seen, it was a free-for-all, right?!
So infuriating!
Yu Xunge threw punches and kicked, clearing risks on both sides, and kicked at the black market player she had bumped into.
B8017913 commented: “This is street dance.”
Yu Xunge almost twisted her waist. Even in an invisible state, she blushed and looked around, exclaiming, “...Shut up!”
Had she known the black market world was this lively, she would have brought all her area attack skills with her!!!
The food street below was bustling, and the black market world was equally lively, but this liveliness was downright chaotic.
Yu Xunge rummaged through her backpack for a large beast bone to use as a weapon, swinging wildly at the air, hitting whoever was there!
Now and then, she would throw in a spinning kick at the air.
It was all about blind fighting!
Not only were her skill weapons invisible, but even her sounds were muted...
She felt that Rabbit No. 4 was mistaken; black market players weren’t hiding to avoid giving advantages to the official employee players; they were just too busy!
B8017913: “...You seem really excited.”
Yu Xunge: “Yeah, I need to earn more skills. I have to at least make up for the losses from my first nine deaths. If I can earn a few divine talents, that would be even better.”
Unfortunately, even if she obtained divine talent skills, they couldn’t be used to offset her death penalties.
When she was killed by Song Gui, her first instinct was to look for the divine talent skill she had obtained when she killed Mai Mang Dun Dun—【Fishing Master】.
But that divine talent skill was gray; not only was 【Fishing Master】 gray, but the 【Thief Dragon】 she got from Tu Lan was also gray.
These divine talent skills obtained through various rewards and scrolls had all turned into ordinary skills in her hands.
However, the divine talent skills she had once snatched through the 【I Could Just Steal】 bug could still be used as a resurrection cost.
Because they had been taken as divine talents, even if some were incomplete, they were indeed divine talents, and their skills were naturally her divine talent skills.
Yu Xunge took out a healing pancake, munching on it while continuing to fight, swinging and hitting, then running away, never staying in one place for too long.
Although most of the black market players here were eliminated in the last round due to insufficient strength, many strong players had just been killed by inspectors after actively seeking them out.
During this time, Yu Xunge was hit several times, whipped, and even hammered once.
That hammer was most likely from Song Gui because she caught a whiff of the fragrance on her; that was the only thing not muted.
Yu Xunge immediately flew away a bit further.
——08:00——
【Ding Dong——The first round of last-place eliminations begins!】
At that moment, the world fell silent. Yu Xunge felt as if she couldn’t move; she and the world were pressed on pause.
A leaderboard magnified to her height automatically appeared before her, displaying the current real-time game rankings.
At the top, four positions were horizontally divided: 【Chef】【Cashier】【Cleaner】【Restocker】.
On the left side were the ranking numbers, and below each of the four positions were the names of the players.
Since becoming a black market player, Yu Xunge had been wondering what would happen if, during a certain round of eliminations, the number of employees fell below 8000.
Now she had her answer.
It was as if an invisible hand was sliding through the leaderboard, pulling it down to the bottom. The number of surviving employees in each profession varied, but the number of 【Restocker】 employees had fallen below 8000.
This dangerous yet free profession had likely wandered into the territory of black market players doing square dances.
【Detected a large number of employees perishing in the line of duty. The last-place elimination mechanism has changed. The lowest 10% of employees based on scores will be forcibly eliminated.】
Starting from the bottom of the leaderboard, one red “×” after another covered the players’ names.
【Surprise egg now open, drawing lucky employees.】
The leaderboard began to spin like a slot machine, the players’ names blurring to the point of being unreadable.
A few seconds later, the leaderboard stopped, densely listing the names of the winning players.
Yu Xunge thought this was the end.
Little did she know that after three seconds, the player list disappeared, replaced by the skill icons that players had lost.
Next to the skill icons, the skill names and ratings were kindly noted, and looking around, they were all SSS-level.
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