Chapter 123: Players from a Foreign Land

Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Players from a Foreign LandYu Qingqing glared at him resentfully for a while before relaxing her expression and pouting, "Cousin, my hand hurts."

Xu Huo released her, "If your hand hurts, eat chicken feet. It’s like healing like with like."

Yu Qingqing’s spirits lifted again, and she got up and circled him, "I knew you were just talking smack but still think of me as your cousin at heart. Otherwise, you wouldn’t buy things I like to eat."

"It’s just the person cooking the hot pot is a bit annoying. Cousin, you cook for me."

"Eat it or not."

"Then I’ll cook for you."

When it was time to eat, Yu Qingqing squeezed the Girl in the painting to one side, but the Girl in the painting didn’t care at all; her eyes were fixated on the bubbling pot. After a while, Yu Qingqing’s attention also drifted, and the two started competing for food inside the pot.

While they were fervently battling it out, Xu Huo received a game notification.

He went back to his room and opened the game interface:

Upon selecting "V Fan Xiao’s Tools of Crime," a black lighter with a skull relief on its surface fell into Xu Huo’s hand. Compared to "Arsonist’s Tool," this lighter added a time restriction; it must be ignited within three seconds of opening.

After trying out various shaped items in the bathroom, he had a good grasp of how this new item worked.

The act of arson now had a time restriction, but the scope of damage had increased. "Arsonist’s Tool" could only light a single flame, whereas this lighter could instantly set ablaze an area of three square meters without accounting for shape. For instance, if the target was a rope, the fire would burn an area of three square meters regardless of length.

Moreover, once ignited, the flames would almost instantly grow large and were not as easy to extinguish as before.

Additionally, since its target was no longer people, simply mouthing the word "burn" would suffice.

Compared to these qualities, the time restriction was nearly negligible.

He already had a general plan for how to deal with the crisis brought about by this super item, but he was lacking some conditions for execution. This item arrived just in time.

"Cousin, did you fall into the toilet? Do you need me to rescue you?" Yu Qingqing knocked on the door from the outside.

Xu Huo washed his hands and went out, asking her, "Do you have any plans coming up?"

"None. I can play as long as I want," Yu Qingqing said.

"I haven’t been back in years, I plan to go home to take a look," Xu Huo said. "My room probably hasn’t been tidied up by anyone. You go back first and help me clean it up, do some cleaning, buy some daily necessities."

"You should come back with me." Yu Qingqing was indifferent to the location.

"I still have a group performance job that will take a few days," Xu Huo paused and added, "in a rather remote rural area."

"My high heels will be ruined if they get muddy," Yu Qingqing made her decision easily, "Alright then, I’ll go back tomorrow and ensure your room is decorated beautifully!"

The Girl in the painting leaned over with her phone in hand, "I want to go too."

"Sure," Xu Huo nodded, since the Girl in the painting was unwilling to leave, he had no choice but to let her stay and help.

The next day, after sending off Yu Qingqing, he went to a car rental company and rented an off-road vehicle, then took the Girl in the painting to look for Wang Chaoqing.

This time Wang Chaoqing didn’t run away and got into the car with a gloomy expression, "Bro, where are we going?"

"Sea City."

In some Level E Instance in Zone 014, a muscular man with his upper body covered in strange tattoos tossed the last body onto a pile of corpses and doused it with gasoline before setting it on fire.

As the fire rose with black smoke, he grinned, showing off a mouthful of pitch-black teeth, and joyfully said, "I just love this smell!"

Sitting under a tree not far away, a blond man sheathed his polished dagger into his shoe and asked a young person with a head full of braids beside him, "Is everyone here?"

The youth, fiddling with a device that looked like a handheld gaming console, replied, "Still missing two..."

He had not finished speaking when suddenly, two square planes popped open in the grass like doors, and two people walked out from each one. The older of the two said, "That was really unlucky, just now in the instance we ran into those hypocrites from the Holy Sword Society. It sounds like they’ve sent a few Three Swords Golden Disciples this time, all Rank-A Players."

"The Holy Sword Society can be set aside for now, after all, they are Rank-A Players, we have to give them some respect," another flamboyantly dressed man said. "I ran into two Rank-C idiots. I caught them and questioned the leader; it turns out he’s just a Rank-B Member. I have no idea where they got their tickets from."

"That’s good for us too," the braided young man said. "Tickets for Zone 014 are hard to come by. If they all end up in the hands of such people, our chances of winning will be greater."

The tattooed strongman laughed out loud, "As long as there are no S-rank Players entering the fray, I fear nothing!"

The others laughed as well, and then the blond man asked, "Have you chosen a good location?"

The braided individual quickly looked down and pressed the buttons on the gaming console, "Based on the distribution of super-weapons, the strongest firepower in Zone 014 should be in Country Y, followed by Country B and Country X. However, Country X has the largest population; the likelihood of Super Prop owners being from there is higher."

"It’s troublesome to search country by country, let’s just go where there are more people," the flamboyantly dressed man said.

"There are three super large population centers; let me see which to pick," the braided one tapped his finger back and forth between the three cities of different latitudes, finally settling on one in the middle.

The blond man produced a circular jade disk in his hand, featuring six diamond-shaped slots. The others slotted their diamond-shaped jade pieces into the grooves, and the blond man twisted an eye-shaped protrusion in the middle. The disk immediately projected a square beam of light into the sky, forming a gateway at the end of the beam. On the other side of a vast ocean through the gateway, stood a metropolis brimming with skyscrapers.

"Let’s go to say hello to the new friends in Zone 014," the blond man said, patting his clothes as he walked through, with the other six following closely behind.