For instance, if a skill has already been forcibly activated, why interrupt it? If an interruption is necessary, then extending the duration a bit would be fine too.
05:21
Yu Xunge's shield had already shattered, and her health was down to 37%.
The skill she used at the end of the last round, "If You Can, Kill Me," had finished its cooldown, and Yu Xunge immediately activated it.
05:35
Health: -47%
At this moment, the number of stone sculptures on the field was increasing, with many flying stone sculptures in the air as well.
After using "Yang Zhi Gan Lu" to restore 50% of her health, Yu Xunge didn’t immediately activate "Mysterious Power."
She glanced at the sky and targeted a large flying stone sculpture in the corner with "Romantic Tourist."
Success! Why aren’t stone sculptures considered buildings?!
Yu Xunge quickly used "Romantic Tourist" to teleport onto the flying stone sculpture, where it was safer to shoot.
She cast the healing skill she had copied from the serpent-necked beast on herself, bringing her health back above 19%, which finally put her at ease.
During this time, a duck sparrow spotted her standing on the flying stone sculpture and deliberately shattered the stone sculpture she was on. Yu Xunge quickly jumped to another stone sculpture, but unfortunately, the tremor from her landing shattered that flying stone sculpture as well.
Yu Xunge had to use "Romantic Tourist" a second time.
She switched to a flying stone sculpture that was slightly closer to the serpent-necked beast.
05:41
"Congratulations, player Zai Jiu Xun Ge has completed a removal."
"You will receive the death penalty of player Huang Yan Mang Mang."
"Player Mang Mang has chosen to exchange a divine talent skill for the tenth resurrection opportunity in this divine game. You will receive that divine talent skill as your loot."
"Ding—Reward for the kill drawn, you gain +12 Intelligence."
"You have obtained Mang Mang's divine talent skill—Secrets of the Wind."
Another S rank.
"Secrets of the Wind" (S): "I’m blind, but I’m more gossipy." This skill allows the user to capture secrets carried by the wind, consuming 50% health and 50% mana with each use; cooldown time is 7 natural days.
Very special.
She would have to go out and test it to see how secretive these wind-borne secrets really were, to determine whether this divine talent was a useless trinket or a treasure.
Two consecutive rewards, neither of which was SSS rank, but each was unique.
Yu Xunge felt even more invigorated in her killing spree.
Unfortunately, the number of Mang Dings on the field was dwindling. Not just the Mang Dings, but all forms of players were in the same situation; the number of players still running was fewer than the number of stone sculptures.
There were still 19 minutes left.
Yu Xunge wasn’t sure if she could complete a third removal.
She also didn’t know if that spectacular removal in the fifth round counted as one or two.
**Chapter 575: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 91**
Back on the battlefield, Yu Xunge hid at the wing root of a flying stone sculpture, waiting for the nearby duck sparrows engaged in combat to leave before she emerged.
At this point, chaos had erupted in the game. Rabbits were attacking players of the other five forms, serpent-necked beasts were fighting each other and the Jiang Jiang Bear, and the Jiang Jiang Bear and the snail scorpion were locked in battle, while duck sparrows occasionally swooped down to kill snails and Mang Dings.
The bizarre match was laid bare for all to see.
Players who had been slow to react had already exited the game and turned into stone sculptures.
Yu Xunge estimated that there were still about three thousand players left in the game. Perhaps due to the presence of stone sculptures, the number of players was decreasing, but the area of the game remained unchanged.
The Mang Dings were nearly extinct, with only about two hundred left, fewer than the initial number of rabbits.
Moreover, of those two hundred Mang Dings, at least half were out of her shooting range.
The remaining half were also not close, and the long shooting distance meant the opponents had ample space and time to dodge.
The previous round of removals had been quite a stretch, and given the current situation with the Mang Dings, if Yu Xunge wanted to successfully kill three Mang Dings in the remaining 19 minutes, she would have to leave the flying stone sculpture.
The cooldown for "If You Can, Kill Me" had ended, and using this skill could ensure the success rate of "Mysterious Power."
But looking at the various small animals on the field and the densely packed skills weaving between the stone sculptures, she felt a bit lost.
After observing for two minutes, the number of Mang Dings had decreased by over thirty.
Without any skills to probe player health bars and without "Midnight Exile," even if Yu Xunge wanted to pick off other players, she couldn’t.
05:45, the game notification rang out again.
"In five minutes, stone sculptures will block all attacks."
This meant that players on the field would be free to act without restraint; previously half-sealed area attack skills and various ultimate skills would be unsealed.
The difficulty of the game was far greater than she had anticipated. Yu Xunge decisively abandoned "Mysterious Power" and also gave up her original plan to become a "High-Class Eater."
There were too many strong players on the field; using "Mysterious Power" would merely delay the inevitable.
05:50, all stone sculptures turned dark.
Yu Xunge ran to the head of the flying stone sculpture, shooting while quietly taking out B8017913. She used her claws to push it to the edge of the flying stone sculpture's horn and forcefully wedged it in.
Pets could return to their pet space at any time, and leaving B8017913 outside could help her monitor external movements. Even if it couldn’t scan the entire battlefield, just observing the player density in a small area could yield a lot of useful information.
After doing all this, Yu Xunge took one last look at the ground battlefield before returning to the most concealed spot at the wing root, transforming into a white ship.
At the moment she transformed into a white ship, she felt a pang of regret.
If only she had brought "Midnight Exile" and "Absurd Story."
If she had, she wouldn’t have stopped here.
She wouldn’t be limited to just killing Mang Dings, and her efficiency in doing so wouldn’t be so low.
That day, when faced with the calm questioning of the No. 3 rabbit, she had only felt anger and grievance at being misunderstood.
But for some reason, after every game ended following that battle, a voice echoed in her heart.
That voice asked her.
—You could have gained more, moved faster!
—You don’t lack the courage to start over after losing everything; why don’t you have the guts to go all in?
—You’ve missed another opportunity.
These relentless questions crashed against her heart like waves, refusing to calm or recede.
They made her moment of passion and pride seem like a joke.
She confided her feelings to her two pets, unable to help but ask, "Did I really make a mistake?"
They both instinctively countered her with similar questions.
Tu Lan asked her, "Huh? If you could keep your current feelings and forget the game rules, would you add those two skills back?"
B8017913 also asked her, "If in the next round of the game you could choose skill icons again, would you add them all?"
At the moment the questions arose, Yu Xunge knew her answer—there was no changing a thing!
The regrets and self-doubt she felt didn’t stem from truly believing she was wrong, but rather from the greed stirring within her; her inherent restraint was simply unchangeable.
Greed and restraint played a seesaw in her soul.
Understanding this, Yu Xunge laughed in the dark space, laughing at her own greed and at her own restraint.
B8017913, observing the three anonymous deities drawn in by Yu Xunge’s mention of the "No. 3 rabbit," for the first time accurately grasped the emotions of "speechless" and "irritated."
Who are these people?! Who are they?!
Peeking into the privacy of their master and pet was one thing, but one of them even sent a pop-up warning to it!!!
—"Do not remind her in any form that the No. 3 rabbit and other nicknames will attract the attention of deities."
B8017913: "Okay, got it, smile."
—"Retract the smile."
B8017913: "Okay, got it, thumbs up."
—"."
……
05:53
B8017913: "Oh, you’ve been picked up by a duck sparrow."
B8017913: "Another duck sparrow saw it, and they’re fighting."
05:54
B8017913: "The second duck sparrow killed it. You’ve been knocked out, and you’re falling."
B8017913: "You’ve been grabbed by a serpent-necked beast!"
05:55
B8017913: "Eight players have given up on the match to fight over you."
05:57
B8017913: "Now there are twelve."
05:58
B8017913: "One active gift package raised a question, saying it doesn’t look real."
B8017913: "It snatched you away and threw a few punches."
Yu Xunge looked at her health, now down to 10%, and felt quite anxious.
B8017913: "A serpent-necked beast grabbed you back and put you in its backpack!"
B8017913: "It got killed, and you’ve been knocked out again."
Yu Xunge had initially been calm, but B8017913’s reports made her quite nervous.
07:00! Game over!
The disguise skill was forcibly解除.