Chapter 1629: Chapter 1629: Players Trust Their Own Strength More
Of course, this strike didn’t hurt Xu Huo; even though this player was fast and used props to compensate for his disadvantage from a broken leg, the person sitting before him wasn’t Xu Huo himself. No matter how well-prepared he was, it couldn’t be effective.
Seeing the person in front suddenly disappear, the player realized he had been tricked. Before he could turn around, Black Blade pierced through his chest.
Xu Huo kicked the corpse away and looked at the remaining two people. "The contact method has not changed."
The two had no choice but to keep using antitoxin to slow the onset of the toxins, but their physical condition was certainly getting worse, as the medicine was not the right remedy and couldn’t eradicate the toxins.
Xu Huo ignored them and planned to go search through the props on the two corpses.
"Let me, let me!" Tong Qi ran out of the mall with a big smile and said, "You keep an eye on those two people, so they don’t take advantage, leave the small task of gathering props to me!"
These two players weren’t wealthy; each wore more than ten props, more than half of which were Level D.
Tong Qi gathered the props and handed them to Xu Huo, "Killing and arson make gold belts, this is much quicker to make money than completing the instance."
Xu Huo let him pick one and took the rest, then looked at the Shi Family; it was already five-thirty in the morning, the sixth day of entering the instance.
It wasn’t long before Scarred Glasses returned with Young Master Mo with difficulty.
They didn’t seem surprised at all by the situation outside the mall, just explained to Xu Huo why they left.
Young Master Mo’s venue props were good, but unexpectedly, a player got moving props and moved the entire venue props away. Young Master Mo was already asleep, and Scarred Glasses couldn’t let him fall into other players’ hands, so he had to follow them.
"The other party’s original intent was to lead me away too." Scarred Glasses was somewhat apologetic, as he had previously agreed to stay at the mall and leaving on his own broke that promise.
"It’s not entirely his fault," Young Master Mo said, "Those people planned to send some people to the mall, but were all dragged away in the end..."
But upon seeing the corpses on the ground and the two people lying there, he had to swallow the rest of his words.
Xu Huo gave them a way out, "To hurt Rank-B players like this, the number of opponents should be significant. If you hadn’t held them back, there wouldn’t be many survivors in the mall."
Had it not been for his single-handed killing of the two Rank-B players before, Young Master Mo and Scarred Glasses might have believed his praise.
Regarding the other six people, one disappeared on the spot, two were killed, three probably fled when the situation looked grim, and as for the monitoring devices in the mall, some were taken away by ambush players, and the rest presumably taken by the escapees.
"Taking just one isn’t enough insurance, they want the whole lot, these people are really greedy!" Tong Qi said angrily.
"Actually, those monitoring devices aren’t very useful." Scarred Glasses commented.
Just like now when they roughly know how to clear the instance but can’t find the door, this instance has strong randomness, and everyone’s experiences are different.
He and Young Master Mo tacitly didn’t ask Xu Huo why he woke up so quickly.
But soon they had other developments; after two players struggled for an hour, one indeed disappeared, but the other met the same fate as the one before.
"This is risking life on luck," Young Master Mo frowned, "Can you really clear the instance in the end?"
"Instead of considering whether others can clear it, shouldn’t you think about yourselves?" Tong Qi said, "You don’t have tickets, who knows what the final situation will be."
This statement chilled the atmosphere.
"Are you always this stubborn?" Scarred Glasses looked at him; surviving with such stubbornness is not easy.
Tong Qi laughed heartily, "I do have some luck with me. Besides, who would bother with a poor man like me? Look at those People of Zone 013, if not for Yi Jun’s misconduct, no one would have cared about them."
"Moreover," he looked at Young Master Mo with a hint, "People like you are living well."
This guy exudes disdain for others from head to toe, almost writing "you lowly peasants" on his face.
"But it’s not surprising, having some family background in the game is indeed something to be proud of."
Young Master Mo was peeved but chose not to leave in a huff; after a moment, he said, "A person without clothes and food can’t be expected to have high moral character, I’ve seen many such people."
"That’s too exaggerated; I’m poor but not to that extent." Tong Qi defended himself and other players.
"He means compared to players with family backgrounds, we wild players are the ones without clothes and food." Xu Huo added.
Tong Qi snorted, "Just because your family has money doesn’t mean everyone else is a thief."
Young Master Mo didn’t get angry at this remark, "More or less, people in dire poverty tend to want to snatch everything they see. My family’s been around for over a hundred years, there are too many of such people, especially those relying on themselves in the game, they often adhere to the law of the jungle, completely abandoning humanity, acting like beasts driven solely by their desires."
"Can’t control their own behavior, aren’t such people a result of inferior genes breeding?"
The air fell silent for a moment, Xu Huo said nothing, Tong Qi scratched his head, "Feels like I’m being dissed."
"I don’t mean you two," Young Master Mo added, "You’re not people without limits."
Xu Huo didn’t dwell on the topic but instead asked, "Without absorbing outsiders, how does your family ensure continuous prosperity?"
The death rate in the game is high; even those with guides and bodyguards in the instance may not be absolutely safe. As he said, players unconstrained by laws and ethics believe more in their own strength. Not to mention player families, they would even rob the Game Government Base. If a family can’t continuously produce talented players, it will eventually decline. Even if it maintains a certain power, for family expansion, it can’t entirely reject outsiders.
Assistances gained through alliances like Scarred Glasses can only be a small part.
Young Master Mo smiled slightly, "If a family doesn’t have powerful players, then no matter how many strong outsiders it absorbs, it will eventually be replaced or divided. Unless, like those families with higher-level Wormhole Points, they have special ways to cultivate genius players."
"What special method?" Tong Qi asked eagerly.
"Do you think I know?" Young Master Mo turned to him, "There are quite a few player families that get wiped out on a whim by a passing player."
Xu Huo stroked his chin:
Special cultivation methods, regarding physical evolution, might be similar to tools used by Eye of Platinum for assisted activation methods. As for intelligence, there might be related potions or equipment results.