Chapter 426
B8017913: "What’s up?"
Yu Xunge touched her face. "Finding these Easter eggs is quite the challenge."
She was sure she wasn’t the only one who had noticed; everyone was quietly raking in the rewards, but she wondered if they were limited edition.
9:58
After silently counting to thirty in her mind, Yu Xunge soared into the air.
Before, she had been darting around to attack others, but now she was on the hunt for a few hidden skills amidst the chaos of black market players.
They couldn’t hide too deeply, but they also couldn’t be too obvious. With so many maps in the food street, how many places could they really hide? There were only twenty Easter eggs in total—what were the odds?
She thought from the perspective of the game developers.
Anyone who had played for a few years would have experience with finding Easter eggs and achieving goals.
With her health at 10%, Yu Xunge glanced at the time: 9:59.
Her fourth death.
Yu Xunge stood in the starting room, not rushing to select an SS-level skill to revive. Instead, she waited.
At this moment, she was neither an employee nor a black market player...
10:00
Time froze, and the third round of eliminations began.
She looked at the game leaderboard that appeared before her.
A voice echoed in her ears.
【Congratulations, player, you have discovered hidden Easter egg ·12 (2/20)】
【Where did that temp worker go?: Experienced elimination in a no-identity state】
【Easter egg reward: Guarantees a gift box from the elimination round】
Another Easter egg appeared on her left arm.
【Chapter 554: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 35】
This time, there were clearly more employees; each of the four major positions had over ten thousand, and each type was just a few short of being fully staffed.
This discrepancy didn’t seem to be because employees didn’t want to join; it felt more like they had been overlooked.
She watched the long list of names struck by surprise gift boxes. Previously, Yu Xunge hadn’t paid much attention to this list, but now, in her quest for Easter eggs, she wouldn’t miss a single detail.
However, the list appeared for only a short time before it quickly transformed into what looked like a promotional catalog for gift boxes.
The new round of black market games began, and Yu Xunge activated 【Spring Scenery and Flowers】.
In this place, death wouldn’t refresh skill cooldowns. With 【Fourfold Spring】 on cooldown, she couldn’t use 【I Want to Improve So Badly】. This round, she needed to rely on more kills to gain additional skills.
Just like before, she struck once and moved to another spot, alternating between healing skills and cooking.
With a hundred different buffs, by 11:00, just before the fourth round of eliminations began, she had acquired seven SS-level skills and three SSS-level skills.
Though they weren’t skill icons, they were still usable skills.
As time passed, the rewards she received for each kill grew increasingly valuable.
With each new skill she acquired, her ability to eliminate other players strengthened, and her self-defense options multiplied.
The invisibility of black market players was both a limitation and a protection, but for Yu Xunge, who possessed 【Bedtime Fairy Tale】, it was absolute protection.
Moreover, while her sound and vision were blocked, her sense of smell remained intact. Yu Xunge had plenty of ingredients in her bag, and she always kept the takeout boxes from her meals.
She tied the takeout boxes to a beast tendon and secured them to her ankle, swaying her foot like fishing bait. The moment she saw a takeout box get destroyed, she would immediately unleash her skills below.
With this tactic, she had taken down countless players. Although most of them didn’t end in kills, she had managed to snag a few low-health players.
Choosing to be a black market player meant that as long as she survived, she would grow stronger with each battle.
The food street was bustling, lively, and peaceful, with the mechanical race diligently portraying various types of diners, while players warmly welcomed them.
But in the air, in unseen corners, the fighting never ceased, blood raining down like a storm, only visible when passing through a red light beam.
Tu Lan had died five times. Following Yu Xunge, she had gained quite a few skills but had also lost many.
Five deaths meant losing five S-level skills and five SS-level skills; the next loss would be an SSS-level skill.
When she died for the fifth time, Yu Xunge asked her, "Are you staying?"
The voices of black market players were hard for others to hear, so Yu Xunge didn’t bother to ask in her mind. She knew B8017913 was curious.
Tu Lan didn’t hesitate, her voice bright and full of resolve. "Of course I’m staying!"
When Tu Lan died for the fifth time, Yu Xunge asked again, but this time, she inquired, "If I push you like this, will you be mad at me? I’m just like Rabbit No. 3, right?"
Tu Lan panicked, as if Yu Xunge had insulted her. "How can that be the same! Rabbit No. 3 was bullying you; you want me to stay!"
She understood everything.
Moreover, she knew that Yu Xunge letting her out at this moment was also to share in her kill rewards!
Yu Xunge was in a fantastic mood, better than ever, comparable to the moment she grasped 【Phoenix Seat】 and 【Unchangeable Nature】.
Not only that, but she also unexpectedly completed an achievement.
【Congratulations, player, you have discovered hidden Easter egg ·8 (3/20)】
【Offer Wholesale: Have a player pass through ten employment channels in a straight line within three seconds】
【Easter egg reward: Extension of the time limit for being sent to the food street due to identity issues by 30 minutes】
This was an Easter egg she completed while swinging a large bone with all her might at the end of the food street.
11:00, the fourth round of eliminations began.
Yu Xunge, engrossed in finding Easter eggs, still hadn’t noticed any issues, but the battlefield chat channel was buzzing with problems.
Some players claimed the game was rigged because they had been hit by surprise blind boxes twice.
If it was rigged, then the draws shouldn’t have been gift boxes; hitting gift boxes twice would be luck, while hitting penalties twice would be rigged.
The battlefield chat channel was discussing this matter, while Yu Xunge focused on fighting, asking B8017913 to keep an eye on the chat channel and relay key information to her.
B8017913: "They said they got hit in the second round, and now again in this round, each time losing skill icons."
That did seem a bit off. Yu Xunge asked, "What’s the player’s name?"
B8017913: "Jiangqin Ruanfan."
This was no ordinary player—not just because the name always made her choke a little, but because this was a top 500 player on the ladder.
Yu Xunge couldn’t claim to know the ladder rankings by heart, but she reviewed them repeatedly every time she entered the Divine Game to deepen her memory.
At least she remembered the information of the top 10,000 players clearly. Just mentioning a name or title, or catching a glimpse of someone in the game, she could quickly match it up.
B8017913 shared useful information from the group: "In the second round, they were ranked over seven hundred, and in the fourth round, they were over six thousand."
Yu Xunge wondered if this player was being targeted...
But then she suddenly recalled the new employee regulations and asked, "Did they participate in the Divine Game less than fifteen times last year?"
A few seconds later, B8017913 provided the answer: "A player asked, and they confirmed it."
Even so, the odds of being drawn were still too high.
Thanks to the reward from Easter egg No. 8, Yu Xunge, who became a black market player at 9:59, had her latest employment time pushed back to 12:29.
At noon, just before the fifth round of eliminations began.
Yu Xunge had gained two more SS-level skills and three SSS-level skills.
For the first time, the number of SSS-level skills she acquired exceeded that of SS-level skills.
From 11:00 to 12:00, without the 100 buffs from Spring Scenery and Flowers, kills had become significantly more challenging.
But regardless, she had already made up for the penalties from her four deaths.
From the cooking adventure game until now, including the four stolen skill icons, she had acquired five S-level, fifteen SS-level, and eight SSS-level skills.
Eight SSS-level skills—something Yu Xunge had never dared to dream of before.
Back then, when she learned an SS-level skill from Feng Tang, she had been so moved that she hugged the other’s leg and cried out, "Mother! Why did it take you so long to come!"
While the skills that players discarded wouldn’t be top-tier SSS-level, they were still SSS-level—how bad could they be?
For the current Yu Xunge, each one was incredibly precious.
Among them were one healing skill, one support skill, two single-target attacks, two area attacks, and two defensive skills, greatly enriching her skill library.
Moreover, each kill granted her a kill reward, compensating for the attributes she had lost due to her violations.
【Chapter 555: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 70】
As for Tu Lan, she had changed her strategy.
When Yu Xunge didn’t activate 【Fourfold Spring】, her health was dangerously low. Although she had accumulated more healing skills, each had its cooldown. To prevent any gaps, Yu Xunge wouldn’t use 【I Want to Improve So Badly】; instead, she handed that skill icon to Tu Lan, telling her to hide and shoot from the shadows, avoiding direct confrontation.
The dragon’s health recovery speed wasn’t slow, and with more healing methods available, Tu Lan lurked in a corner, using 【I Want to Improve So Badly】 on players in semi-employment status on the street.
These semi-employed players had already exited their invisibility and were searching for restaurants to join.
Though Tu Lan hadn’t memorized the ladder rankings as diligently as Yu Xunge, she knew quite a few strong players because she loved following the gossip in the battlefield chat channel.
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