Chapter 445
Unlike the transparent barriers that surround every restaurant, the Dark Food Street is made up of a series of food tents, each concealing its interior from view. The tents are all identical in style, but their colors vary, and there are no signs or scrolls of rules hanging at the entrances.
Looking around, it feels as if one has stumbled into a camping area or perhaps the black market of a magical world.
From the outside, the entrances of the food tents resemble black holes, making it impossible to discern what lies within.
The street is bustling with countless fruit enthusiasts and players, along with various event packages.
The liveliness here rivals that of the previous food street.
Yu Xunge didn’t rush into a restaurant; she was searching for a suitable architectural landmark to use her skill, 【Romantic Tourist】.
With ten marking opportunities left, she first marked a distant white food tent, then flew to the entrance of the Dark Food Street to mark the stone tablet at the street's entrance before she began to explore.
Now that she no longer had her sole healing skill, 【Yang Zhi Gan Lu】, she couldn’t use the skill 【I Want to Improve So Badly】 on passing players, which required sacrificing health points. Without the skill icon, she had no chance to compensate for her current lack of healing abilities.
It was a vicious cycle.
She could only keep an eye on the players passing by, hoping to see someone using a healing skill. If she could borrow it, she might have a chance to progress.
Yu Xunge didn’t plan to recklessly enter a restaurant; she wanted to see if there were any hidden Easter eggs to discover.
Moreover, the reward for completing tasks was 5000◆, and if she faced the Dark Chef, it would mean her demise.
The Easter egg reward for seeing through a player’s identity was limited to three uses.
Not knowing the remaining rules of the Dark Food Street, it seemed safest to just lay low and do nothing!
At that moment, Yu Xunge suddenly stopped in her tracks as a player fell from the sky, landing heavily in front of her—Donghai Shaleng.
Without a word, he unleashed a skill on her.
Her health plummeted to 40% in an instant, and Yu Xunge immediately activated 【Romantic Tourist】 to return to the entrance of the food street.
But the next second, another attack came. All she remembered was seeing his emerald feathers before she was sent back to the starting room.
Her eighth death.
And Song Gui had once again used a kill penalty item, upgrading it to the maximum level.
Yu Xunge had a countermeasure, though: the reward from the second hidden Easter egg—using it would reduce a death penalty by three levels.
Song Gui had raised her death penalty to level 10, and she could use the second hidden Easter egg reward to bring it down to level 7, meaning she would only need to sacrifice an SSS-level skill as the cost.
But the question was, what would she do after going out…
After several rounds of the game, the hunters who had been patiently waiting were finally surfacing.
They might still be camping outside, waiting for her.
The situation she had been worried about had finally arrived; the most dangerous part of this game for her was here.
And there were still nearly 17 hours left until the game ended.
【Mysterious Power】?
She had only just used 【Come on, Kill Me】 at the end of the last game, and this skill still had five minutes left on its cooldown.
Facing the attacks from those strong enemies, her health was dropping at the limit of 【Bedtime Fairy Tale】—four hits and she would be wiped out. Without skills like 【Come on, Kill Me】 or 【Reward or Punishment】, she wouldn’t even have a chance to use 【Mysterious Power】.
Using 【Survive Until the End】 to control her health and then activating 【Mysterious Power】?
Not very optimistic; once she went out, she would have at most one chance to use a skill. If she used 【Survive Until the End】, she might not even have time to deactivate it before her health was drained.
Yu Xunge felt a headache coming on.
Transforming into a white ship using 【Survive Until the End】? But that tactic was no longer effective against strong players; it had already been exposed in the battlefield chat channel, and what good would it do to transform in front of them?
She had exhausted every means at her disposal, using each skill to its utmost limit.
But now, what should she do?
Just randomly enter a restaurant?
After entering the Dark Food Street, she had marked a food tent.
For now, it seemed to be her only way out.
Since food was so sacred that even players with superior culinary skills faced penalties, theoretically, food tents should also be places where players couldn’t attack each other.
Otherwise, how could low-level players survive here?
But what if battles could occur inside the food tents as well?
What if she couldn’t handle the dangers inside the food tents?
The countdown above the starting room, composed of glowing dots, showed 29 seconds remaining.
Yu Xunge opened her backpack and looked at the last slot, where a rabbit’s fur lay.
It was a piece she had obtained during the last closing time, which, when used, would randomly teleport her to a location on the world battlefield.
She had a second option.
Once she confirmed that she wouldn’t jump from one dead end into another pit, her tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed.
In addition, she still had a piece of white coral given to her by a little seahorse.
She had used one while enduring attacks to let diners enter the light column, and another when she joined in the seventh round.
Yu Xunge carefully considered everything she had that could help her resolve the crisis.
With 17 seconds left, she left the starting room early.
The moment she stepped out, her hand pressed down on the icon for 【Romantic Tourist】, which depicted a small figure standing atop a mountain under the bright moon, gazing at countless buildings in the distance.
In the next second, her form transformed into a shadow, leaving the entrance of the Dark Food Street, evading the skills aimed at her, and escaping the players surrounding her. In that final moment, she caught a glimpse of the players’ faces.
Zelan Song Gui, Donghai Shaleng, Mai Mang Xiexie, Mai Quan Yan Shan, Jian Qi Feilie, Yinghua Wulong…
**Chapter 579: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 94**
The skill was successfully activated.
Upon appearing above the white food tent, Yu Xunge immediately marked the farthest red food tent she could see with 【Romantic Tourist】.
Then, without wasting a second, she dove down, her toes touching the ground before she pushed off forcefully, tumbling backward into the food tent behind her.
At this point, she had 7 marking opportunities left with 【Romantic Tourist】.
Passing through the entrance of the food tent, which resembled the mouth of an abyss, Yu Xunge felt as if she had entered another world.
A desert—she found herself in a desert. Looking back, there was a mini oasis behind her, about the size of two basketball courts.
There were a dozen sets of tables and chairs, an open kitchen, and two stalls.
Chefs were cooking, diners were busy eating, and there were players sleeping behind the stalls? Of course, they could also be cosmic wanderers or something similar.
Upon seeing Yu Xunge, the various players in the oasis restaurant merely cast her a casual glance before returning to their tasks.
Yu Xunge looked around but didn’t find anything resembling a rule scroll; the players here didn’t have job indicators above their heads either.
By the kitchen, there was a tree, and on its large, drooping leaves floated data about the chaos value and revenue.
The most unique aspect of this restaurant was perhaps that the eleven players, including the stall owners, were all of different races.
Yu Xunge first approached the stall to check the items available.
Her gaze swept over the meat chops, fruits, vegetables, plants, potions, and… a complete player from the Huangjiang tribe.
The two players behind the stall were of different races—one was a Fa Ling and the other a Sui Dao. Yu Xunge vaguely remembered that these two players weren’t very strong. She opened the ladder ranking and quickly found them in the real-time game rankings: one was level 7 and the other level 9.
Both were in the blind spot of Yu Xunge’s language system, but fortunately, B8017913 could help. After asking B8017913 what she wanted to express, she repeated the Fa Ling language that B8017913 translated for her and asked, “Do you have any rules for your stall?”
The level 7 Fa Ling player replied, “No bargaining.”
Yu Xunge looked at the Sui Dao player, pretending not to understand the Sui Dao language, and used sign language to convey her meaning, asking the same question.
The Sui Dao player shook his head and waved his hands to indicate no, but in Sui Dao language, he said, “Once you ask the price, you must buy.”
Upon hearing B8017913’s translation, Yu Xunge relaxed her expression.
She wasn’t angry at the Sui Dao player’s little trick.
She went back and forth, asking many questions, sometimes the same question several times, until they finally said, “We’ve told you some of the rules,” before she stopped.
Throughout the process, Yu Xunge pretended not to understand the Sui Dao language. She noticed that these two players always provided answers, and interestingly, the Sui Dao player’s sign language meaning was always the opposite of what he said.
The Fa Ling player was also interesting; knowing she could understand Fa Ling, when she asked if they accepted items, the Fa Ling player bluntly replied, “If you sell me an item, you need to pay me money in return.”
After just a few exchanges, it seemed there was a very clear conclusion laid out before her—they couldn’t lie in the language they spoke.
Yu Xunge fell silent for a moment before suddenly asking, “How many times can you lie to the same player?”
The Fa Ling player’s gaze toward her became extremely complex. He pressed his lips together, fell silent for two seconds, and reluctantly replied, “Three times.”
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