As the doll headgear disappeared, Yu Gui gradually returned to normal.
This made Wu Ruici’s heart finally settle down.
He didn’t believe that getting free help was really possible in this unlimited world, but he was very willing to cooperate before the Dawn team made any request.
Wu Ruici didn’t consider himself a good person, but he always did what he promised.
Chi Ting simply asked about a series of details encountered during the search for the nature’s punishment. Then without saying much, he directly arranged for others to continue the search.
As long as they didn’t go into the interior of each large game project, there were actually only a few areas outside the Starry Sky Arcade. According to the information provided by Wu Ruici, they soon saw those so-called exquisite wooden boxes in some hidden corners. After opening them, they also got new game cards one after another. These game cards had the ‘nature’s gift’ of increasing game coins and the ‘nature’s punishment’ of decreasing game coins.
Due to reasonable distribution within the team, there was no obvious doll-like situation among Chi Ting’s group.
This was exactly what Chi Ting wanted.
Originally, if nature’s punishment was obtained then it was bound to promote the occurrence of doll transformation. This could indeed be called an unsolvable situation. However, it was only related to the number of game coins then it was much easier to deal with.
After all, no matter whether it was nature’s gift or nature’s punishment, players only needed to reach a consensus on the exchange to transfer it smoothly. In this way, as long as players whose game coins were on the edge of the danger line didn’t continue to lose game coins, and other players with a high amount of coins bore the consequences of the punishment, it was actually very easy to work together to ensure the safety of all members of the cooperative group.
In fact, after knowing the game’s clearance rules, Chi Ting started to imagine the possibility of leading as many players as possible to pass the instance safely. But from the previous situation, even if he wanted to transfer game coins within the team, it was impossible to complete the operation, let alone transfer them to other players. In this way, if he wanted to complete the rescue of players in the instance then he would undoubtedly have to rely on leading other players to complete the game projects. Considering that there were also competitive projects such as the go-kart, this obviously wasn’t very practical.
Due to this, Chi Ting had a bit of a headache along the way. He never expected that such an animal party would suddenly appear in this instance. In this way, it actually solved his most troublesome problem.
In this process, Chi Ting also discovered that during the animal party, each player would indeed experience a reduction in game coins when there were no new discoveries for a long time. The amount of this loss was gradually increasing over time. However, when the player obtained any effect of nature’s gift or nature’s punishment, the negative effect of reduced game coins seemed to be reset to zero and then re-stacked from the situation of the least loss.
In this way, even if several people of their team voluntarily bore the effect of nature’s punishment, the game coins lost were actually less when compared to the negative loss effect that was accumulated from finding nothing. This was actually a good thing.
So here, Rule 4 became the most interesting one.
Gifts from nature could be transferred after being accepted by both parties, but they weren’t allowed to be discarded. It seemed that this was actually promoting transactions between players, but in fact, the most reasonable way to use it was to cooperate as a group.
“Ah no, don’t give it to us any longer. We already have enough.” Wu Ruici had been struggling in this unlimited for so long. He had always taken seeking good fortune and avoiding loss as a survival criterion. But even so, he felt a bit embarrassed seeing Chi Ting handing him a newly discovered game card.
Compared to before entering this stage, his current game coins had basically increased several times. Judging from the quantity alone, he only needed to wait until the end of this project. He and Yu Gui would have enough to exchange for passes to pass the level smoothly.
This was already going much more smoothly than Wu Ruici had initially envisioned. However, along the way, Chi Ting hadn’t mentioned receiving anything in return, but had continued to give them nature’s gift. Even the most shameless person couldn’t stand it.
Wu Ruici looked at the man standing in front of him and was a bit confused for a moment.
He didn’t think there were any purely good people among the players who could enter the Sanctuary. However, Chi Ting’s gentle and harmless appearance simply wrote the word ‘pure’ directly on his face.
“Just take it if you are told to. Don’t just stand there and look at it.”
A cool voice sounded from the side, bringing Wu Ruici back to his senses.
He turned around and happened to meet Yue Ren’s gaze, who was about to smile. At this moment, it was as if he suddenly fell into reality from a gentle alien space. He felt a slight chill on his back before stretching out his hand. “Then I’ll accept it.”
“Yes, you’re welcome.” Chi Ting pointed ahead. “We’ve almost found all the ones in this area. Let’s continue to look over there. If possible, we might run into Hang Jing.”
Now there weren’t many surviving players left. Chi Ting might be willing to lead everyone to pass the level together, but all players in this world were inevitably still vigilant. If he wanted the remaining people to let down their guard and cooperate together, he naturally had to make sure as many people as possible stand on his side so that he could better convince others.
“There is some movement over there. I’ll go and see if it is Hang JIng!” Ji Xingque said as he ran over quickly. Then he stopped at the corner. It was hard to tell what his expression was, but the corners of his mouth were clearly pressed down and he didn’t show a happy expression. Finally, he looked back. “Captain, it is… someone from the Jazz team.”
The Jazz team had obviously also seen Ji Xingque’s arrival. As Chi Ting and the others approached, they looked over from a distance.
Since there was no speech for the time being, the atmosphere around him seemed a bit solemn. Chi Ting’s gaze passed over Qu Leng and fell on the figure lying at his feet. This made Chi Ting frown slightly.
Qu Leng naturally noticed Chi Ting’s expression. The faint smile on his face didn’t change at all, and his tone of voice was as calm as ever. It was as if their two teams had never had a confrontation before. “Sorry, Captain Chi. I’m entangled with some things here, so I won’t talk to you any longer.”
After that, he gave a kind reminder. “Oh, by the way, we have already searched that area. If you don’t want to waste time searching it again, I suggest you go over there instead.”
“Okay, thank you for the reminder.” Chi Ting replied, but he still stood there and didn’t move.
Qu Leng naturally noticed that Chi Ting’s group had maintained their human forms extremely well. Seeing that he had been looking at the player in front of Qu Leng, he smiled indifferently and didn’t say anything else.
He lowered his eyes to look at the player in front of him, who was almost fully dressed in a doll costume. He slowly squatted down, speaking calmly as always. “If I were you, I would try my luck this time to see if I can find nature’s gift rather than wasting time here.”
The player, who had almost turned into a monkey doll, tried to reach out and grab Qu Leng’s pants. However, his movements were too slow, and this caused the other party to avoid it calmly. This made the expression under the hood look even more desperate. “No… No, that isn’t what you said just now! What you said was that as long as I can help you take out the game card here, you will take me with you…”
“Hmm? Did I say anything just now?” Qu Leng smiled slightly. “Sorry, I don’t remember.”
The tone was clearly soft and gentle, but it revealed an indescribable coldness. He didn’t look at the humble player again. He turned around and glanced at Chi Ting’s group, who were still standing there. He smiled meaningfully and turned away without any mercy.
The monkey doll jumped up in shock from the ground and wanted to keep Qu Leng. However, due to the uncoordinated state of his body, he fluttered and fell heavily to the ground again.
The moment he made such a violent movement, he seemed to vaguely feel that there were countless dense threads moving around and infiltrating him. The distinct touch was enough to make him feel numb, and he wanted to expel them hysterically. As he struggled, he vaguely felt that these threads seemed ready to penetrate his body.
The player screamed in horror. As he opened his mouth in extreme fear, he realized that his voice had subconsciously become sharper along with the shape of the doll costume. It was just like the monkeys in the zoo, sharp and unpleasant.
No, he was going to die, he was really going to die here!
The appearance of the bulky doll costume looked extremely funny as he fluttered on the ground, but his crazy desire to survive made it hard to laugh at all.
He was like a dying fish stranded on the stall. Even though he was already in despair, he still tried to grab the last straw without giving up.
The player was almost completely turned into a doll, and his mind gradually became blurred. He knew that he had lost his last hope the moment the Jazz team abandoned him, but he still reached out his hands aimlessly around him.
The next second, he suddenly felt as if he had grabbed something.
The player gasped deeply. The view from inside the headgear to the outside was very narrow. It took great effort for him to turn his head.
The next moment, he was completely stunned.
It turned out that it wasn’t an illusion. He really grabbed someone’s trouser legs.
Could it be that the members of the Jazz team had returned?
The player struggled to look up. But what he saw wasn’t Qu Leng, but a face that he seemed to have seen somewhere before.
He was stunned for a moment before belatedly recalling that he had seen this man at the service desk. He had a delicate and beautiful face, which looked particularly handsome due to his shoulder-length black hair.
No matter whether it was when they first entered the instance or at the gathering before the party started, it was easy to notice him at a glance.
At this moment, there were two snow-white cat ears on his head, which looked soft and cute. They were inexplicably a perfect match.
When viewed from a backlit perspective, one could vaguely catch the halo of music surrounding the squatting figure. It was as if a messenger descended from another dimension, making the players a bit dazed.
Vaguely, he saw the other person put snow-white cat claws in front of him. The overly gentle tone seemed to be slightly tempting. “If necessary, give me your punishment.”
Give him the punishment?
The player stared blankly at the man in front of him?
For a moment, he wasn’t sure if he was hallucinating due to his overly tough sense of survival.
At this moment, a thought that he had never dreamed of before came into his mind. Was there really a savior in this world?
He stretched out his hand clumsily and awkwardly, handing over the game card with the punishment in a trembling manner.
It didn’t matter if it existed or not.
The person in front of him now was the only light he could reach to escape from the abyss.
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