An Suisui’s eyes lit up, and she bounced up from the ground.
A 15% speed boost—were these shoes a piece of equipment?
Other players also noticed the usefulness of the glowing orbs.
It turned out that after killing monsters, there was a chance for equipment to drop, but all equipment would be tallied and distributed only after each round ended.
If players really had to face increasingly powerful monsters empty-handed, they’d lose sooner or later.
But with equipment, it was a different story.
Equipment was quickly snatched up—except for the items around Jian Shi, which no one dared touch, everything else ended up in the players’ hands.
The previously harmonious atmosphere among the players now had a faint whiff of gunpowder.
An Suisui also picked up all the equipment around her.
She’d always been the only one guarding this area. Although there weren’t as many monsters as at the spawn point, she handled them all herself.
Besides the speed-boosting shoes, An Suisui also got a few other things.
For example, a sharp long knife—exactly what she needed most right now.
She also got a gun that could fire freezing rounds, which was quite useful.
The rest were all defensive or support items, including a bottle of green liquid labeled as a stamina recovery potion. After drinking it, An Suisui immediately felt light and energetic, back at her peak.
It seemed the game didn’t actually want to kill them all off.
Jian Shi slowly walked over to An Suisui.
An Suisui sat on the ground, looking up blankly. “What’s up?”
Jian Shi didn’t waste words. He laid out all the equipment he’d gotten in front of An Suisui.
“See if there’s anything you need—let’s trade.”
Actually, An Suisui already had enough gear for herself. She was about to refuse, but then noticed the looks from the other players not far away.
Their eyes were full of wariness toward each other, each clutching their own equipment tightly, unwilling to let go even if they couldn’t use it.
An Suisui suddenly understood—Jian Shi was trying to remind everyone that mutual help was the only way to grow together.
The two of them were familiar enough to understand each other’s intentions, so An Suisui immediately laid out her own items as well.
She sorted the equipment into three categories: weapons, armor, and support.
The equipment effects were varied and complex, and what each person got was random. If something didn’t match your own stats or you had duplicates, it was pretty useless.
Trading equipment was a good idea.
Jian Shi actually had a few items that An Suisui needed.
An Suisui focused on speed—quick, ruthless, and accurate, ideally able to kill in one strike.
She also needed some agility and endurance, but strength was already sufficient from her last stat boost, so she didn’t need more.
Jian Shi was the opposite.
He didn’t need much speed or reaction time, focusing instead on attack power and stamina.
In a traditional online game, he’d be a versatile, powerful mage.
With someone setting an example, the other players hesitated for a while, then started trading again.
At this point, Jian Shi took out a strange card and showed it to An Suisui.
“Do you know what this is?”
An Suisui craned her neck. “Infrastructure card—it says so right on it.”
But this card was different from the usual silver cards they got. It was pure white, and marked as “for this game only,” meaning it was definitely something they’d need to use in this round.
Jian Shi tapped An Suisui on the head. “Duh, I can read. I want you to think about what it’s for.”
He’d thought about it himself, but hadn’t figured it out yet.
An Suisui was pretty capable and quick-witted, so he had high hopes for her and brought out the card to remind her.
If she figured out its use before he did, that would be great.
Break time ended quickly, and there was movement at the spawn point again. Jian Shi rushed back to the front line.
No one knew what kind of creature would appear this time, so everyone kept the same formation as last round.
The fifth wave of the battle began.
A faint white light glowed at the spawn point, and a hedgehog with gray-white spikes slowly crawled out.
All the players froze.
Wow, with all those spikes, if you didn’t have a ranged weapon, you couldn’t even get close.
A few players cursed under their breath, looking at the short knives in their hands.
They wanted better weapons, but no one would trade with them.
Jian Shi noticed this and frowned.
“This is a team game. The more players die, the harder it gets later. Now’s not the time to fight over resources.”
He laid out a few of his own weapons.
He didn’t need them, and neither did An Suisui, so these items were left unused.
A few players without long weapons gratefully thanked him, traded, and hurried to join the fight.
With her new gear, An Suisui felt refreshed. Seeing that this round’s monsters were hedgehogs and she didn’t need to guard the back for now, she joined the front line.
These hedgehogs were much tougher than the previous wave of ants.
With the ants, as long as you dodged quickly, you were basically safe.
But the hedgehogs were different. In the middle of the fight, they’d suddenly squat down and shake their spikes, shooting them right at the players’ faces.
An Suisui got hit a few times by the dense attacks, suffering some scrapes and losing a bit of health.
This batch of players was pretty good—no one ran away, and they kept the monsters contained near the spawn point.
Puff, puff, puff.
Suddenly, among the crowd of hedgehogs, a pangolin appeared.
The pangolin didn’t fight like the others. Without a word, it started digging underground.
Since the ground had already been tunneled by the ant army, the pangolin had an easier time digging.
If it were just one pangolin, it wouldn’t be a problem, but this one was big, and after it burrowed underground, a string of small monsters followed.
Here we go again.
Jian Shi swung hard, killing a swath of hedgehog monsters.
These damn things always ran when they couldn’t win.
The situation was urgent. Jian Shi immediately turned to An Suisui and explained, “A pangolin just ran out and took a bunch of hedgehogs underground. You go guard the back; I’ll hold the front.”
An Suisui immediately broke away and left without hesitation.
She ran to the carrot, and sure enough, saw a pangolin poking its head out nearby.
Quick as lightning, she raised her gun and fired.
Before the pangolin could climb out, it was frozen by the ice gun, its body blocking the hole. The string of monsters behind it couldn’t get out.
With the leader down, it was much easier to deal with the rest.
This wave of monsters was odd. After the ant wave, the ant queen had appeared as the boss, but this time, a pangolin suddenly showed up.
The pangolin was stronger than the hedgehogs but not quite a boss—somewhere in between. Probably a mini-boss.
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