Chapter 427
In order to keep up with the gossip, she often went to the Tian Ti Bang (Sky Ladder Ranking) to gather information about others, and from there, she got to know all the powerful figures related to the gossip center.
And who would gather to chat if not the strong?
Oh, the previous "Zai Jiu Xun Ge" (Searching for Songs While Drinking) didn’t count; that was just this no-name trying to ride on Ze Lan Feng Tang's (Zelan Maple Syrup) popularity.
During this time, Tu Lan had died once more, but in that hour, she had actually managed to steal two skill icons.
She even shared one with Yu Xun Ge.
Yu Xun Ge didn’t hesitate to accept it; she took it with a clear conscience.
The skill rewards she obtained from defeating players could also be shared with her pet. Although she intended to train Tu Lan, she also thought about letting Tu Lan tag along to soak up skills. If Tu Lan got something good, she would want to share it with her too.
As she handed the skill icon to Yu Xun Ge, Tu Lan said earnestly, “You absolutely have to take this skill; it’s your destined skill, and you’re going to love it!”
Yu Xun Ge: ?
【Stable Happiness】(SSS): Shout “I want stable happiness” at the sky. For the next 3 seconds, the success rate of any skill used by the player will increase to 95%; cooldown time is 1 hour.
It didn’t mention any mana cost for using this skill, but after reading it, Yu Xun Ge understood that the real cost was her face.
She even suspected that Tu Lan was too shy to use it herself, which is why she passed it on to her.
But that was fine; she thought this skill was great!
Yu Xun Ge reclaimed 【I Want to Progress So Much】 from Tu Lan, flew around the food street, and set her sights on a player in the top 500 of the rankings, who was standing at the restaurant entrance, staring blankly at the sky.
She immediately activated the skill, shouting “I want stable happiness!” and used 【I Want to Progress So Much】 on that player three times in a row.
When the skill ended, she found herself holding a box of dishes and two skill icons.
【Borrow and Return】(SSS): Select a player and temporarily steal the last skill they used for your own use, lasting 5 minutes; each use costs 200 mana, cooldown time is 3 minutes.
【Family Bucket】(SSS): After using this skill, for the next 5 minutes, all single-target attack skills you use will split and scatter to attack the nearest 100 targets of the same type with equal power after hitting the original target; each use costs 100 mana; cooldown time is 0.3 hours.
From the data, it was clear that these were all modified and optimized skills.
This was happiness! The taste of happiness!
Tears of joy sparkled in the corners of Yu Xun Ge's eyes as she excitedly said to Tu Lan and B8017913, “This is so stable!!!”
Tu Lan: “I told you she would love this one!”
B8017913: “Yeah…”
Clearly, the two had been chatting privately at some point!
At the end of the fifth round, the elimination time froze.
Yu Xun Ge looked down at the restaurants in the food street; every restaurant was fully staffed, and she had to get a job before 12:29.
The safest method was to get a transparent job cursor through the red light column, and then rush over as soon as a restaurant was cleared by the inspector.
Otherwise, by the time she heard the notification that a restaurant had been cleared, it would be too late to enter the red light column and grab the job cursor.
But this meant she had to survive in a half-employed state until she completed her job.
In a half-employed state, not only would she lose her invisibility, but both employees and black market players could attack her. She had to defend against employees and the invisible black market players.
Of course, she also had to watch out for players in the same state as her.
But she had to get this job, and after that, she would leave the restaurant again to become a black market player.
If at first, she was reluctant to part with her skill icons, wanting to use her black market identity to skip the surprise blind box, now she was reluctant to give up the huge benefits that came with being a black market player.
She seemed to understand where the real profit point of this game lay for her: in the world of the 【Black Market】.
She didn’t know which demon designed this game, but she was sincerely grateful to them!
If she chose to stay in the restaurant to draw surprise blind boxes, even if she successfully dodged every time, her gains wouldn’t be as great as they were now, and by the third day, things would only get tougher.
Staying in the restaurant, the best outcome would only be to die a few less times.
Stepping out of the restaurant, she gained the confidence to survive longer on the third day.
Yu Xun Ge suddenly murmured, “Rabbit No. 3 was right.”
Tu Lan & B8017913: “Huh?”
Yu Xun Ge quickly corrected herself, “I mean, a little bit right.”
“My previous choice wasn’t wrong, but… what they said wasn’t bad either… I’m right more!”
“It’s just that in special circumstances, facing challenges does indeed yield more profit than being cautious.”
“They were only a tiny bit right, I’m 99% right, and they’re 1%!”
Tu Lan cleared her throat, lowered her voice, and spoke in a broadcast tone, “Did the lady realize her mistake?”
B8017913: “Just a little bit.”
Yu Xun Ge: “…”
At 12:00, after the end of the fifth round of eliminations, Yu Xun Ge immediately entered the light column to start her job initiation ceremony, having already sent Tu Lan back to her space.
This time, she didn’t use the white coral; when she kidnapped the lychee, time was tight, and there was no room for error. But now she had enough time, and the job initiation wasn’t the hardest step.
Three seconds later, Yu Xun Ge, with her newly acquired translucent job cursor, began to flee through the food street, waiting for the notification that the inspector had cleared the restaurant.
As she passed by a pancake-shaped customer, she casually grabbed them and hoisted them onto her back, binding them with beast tendons to use as a shield.
Pancake Customer: ?
B8017913: “Didn’t you say you wanted to be a star player? Isn’t this a bit creepy?”
Yu Xun Ge: “It’s not green.”
B8017913: “But there are white turtles in other worlds.”
Yu Xun Ge paused: “...What’s wrong with turtles? Longevity is good, right? It has a great meaning!”
B8017913: “As long as you’re happy. If you encounter other mechanical beings, please don’t reveal my number.”
Yu Xun Ge flew up to dodge a skill and asked, “With so many mechanical beings around, haven’t you heard them talking about anything?”
B8017913: “I did, but it was all really boring… Wait a second.”
Yu Xun Ge: “Don’t say that… I have a bad feeling about this.”
B8017913: “They were saying that the Y-series merchant group suddenly changed their route for some reason and is heading this way.”
Yu Xun Ge: “How long until they arrive?”
B8017913: “I don’t know, I’ll let you know when they get closer.”
Yu Xun Ge didn’t press further because the notification came: the employees of Restaurant 2091 had been optimized.
Flying at high speed, Yu Xun Ge made a sharp turn, tracing an arc in the street, and headed back in the direction she had come from.
In an instant, nearly a thousand half-employed players in the food street did the same.
At that moment, the food street resembled a fish pond suddenly sprinkled with fish food, with all the starving fish converging towards one spot.
……
“Qihua, the lady has realized her mistake.”
“Qihua, the lady has realized her mistake.”
“Qihua, the lady has realized her mistake.”
“Just a little bit, huh?”
“Wow! Doesn’t that mean she’s not far from hugging Qihua’s leg and crying for forgiveness!”
Qihua: “…”
【Chapter 555: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 50】
Just as Yu Xun Ge turned around, the area around Restaurant 2091 erupted with a series of explosions and various colored skill effects.
Yu Xun Ge wasn’t far from Restaurant 2091; in terms of distance, it was just over a hundred restaurants away, and she could fly there in under 5 seconds. But that was enough time for hundreds of players to rush in…
Still, Yu Xun Ge had to give it a try; she couldn’t just pray that the inspector would conveniently clear the restaurant she was passing by.
She had considered following the fruit inspector directly, but players had already noticed the pattern after the first round ended. After each round of eliminations, the inspectors would change.
The fruit inspector for this round would just be an ordinary customer in the next round.
And now it was a new cycle, with all inspectors being new.
When Yu Xun Ge arrived, the battle at the entrance of the restaurant was still ongoing, with ice sculptures, sand sculptures, and stone sculptures filling the entrance, all players controlled by skills.
But soon, these controlled players were drowned in a sea of skills.
To be precise, the only entrance to Restaurant 2091 was continuously bombarded with skills, thick and fast. Even with 【Sleepy Fairy Tale】, Yu Xun Ge couldn’t get in; at that moment, at least dozens of skills were active there.
Some came from nearby restaurant employees, some from black market players, and others from these half-employed employees.
Having arrived late, Yu Xun Ge didn’t plan to fight for a spot. Instead, she kept her distance from the center of the battle, on guard against possible attacks around her, while looking for a target—someone suitable to use 【Borrow and Return】 on, preparing for the next round of competition.
This skill lasted 5 minutes, but its cooldown was only 3 minutes, making it possible to use it continuously.
The only issue was that if the borrowed skill had a long cooldown, she might only be able to use it once.
Yu Xun Ge planned to keep an eye on those players who successfully entered the restaurant, hoping to copy a skill that would help her get in.
Table of Contents
