Chapter 586 - Skeleton (4K)
Chapter 665 of "Player Reload" opens with suspenseful action: "Brother Pifu."At this moment, Bartmos, holding his lover, Jayna from the Russian Security Bureau at... Keep going!
"Brother Pifu."At this moment, Bartmos, holding his lover, Jayna from the Russian Security Bureau at Level 27, walked over and without a word gave Li Cheng a deep bow.
"Whatâs this about? You donât need to be so polite."
Although Li Cheng said this, he didnât hesitate to take out a grand chair with red sandalwood inlaid with cloud-patterned marble from the three-dimensional warehouse and sat down in a majestic pose.
In the extremely Darwinian and brutal environment of the killing field, good deeds do exist, but they definitely canât compare to the total amount.
From their perspective, Pifu, who risked rescues to forcibly retrieve them from the Otherworld players, could be considered a savior, a benefactor reborn.
However, they didnât seem to notice Gray Rain quietly taking out a phone, capturing this moment, with Bartmos and Jaynaâs faces blurred out.
Then using the short video platformâs built-in editing software, he added background music and captions,
"Public welfare isnât a multiple-choice question, itâs a must-answer question for businesses! The Star-casting Anvil supports student couplesâ self-employment, making every profit shine with goodwill."
Uh... In the slum where every inch of land is precious, a small convenience store of about 30-50 square meters might be backed by a listed company, so all promotional work in each shop is well done, including short videos, public accounts, official forum accounts, live broadcasts, and cross-border collaborations.
The Star-casting Anvilâs revenue is no less than that of a listed company, and to catch up with the corporate image, Li Cheng occasionally posts ads using a small account on forums, bickering thousands of floors with rival dark flow trolls.
"Whatâs wrong with using prefabricated organs? This day and age, which body modification clinic doesnât use prefabricated organs, I ask."
Gray Rain, who considers himself the number two manager of , also runs the official account, using AI software to post abstract short videos for promotion.
For example, Wu Jiaowu uses the Star-casting Anvilâs specially made glue to successfully bond the upper and lower body, escaping the fate of being cut in half;
An eight-year-old child, unfortunately selected as a Summoner in the killing field, was about to participate in the Script Task. As the anxious parents watched, the Star-casting Anvil acted righteously and transplanted the childâs brain into a Bear Goblinâs skull;
The Chinese national football team went to the Star-casting Anvil to group purchase and implant strong orc-like tendons and glands, successfully entering the World Cup main event. Although they didnât qualify for the top 32 elimination rounds, being part of the top 33 is better than staying home;
So on and so forth.
Also expressing thanks was Guns Stone, a Level 26 member of the Monster Alliance Guild, whose appearance resembled the Stone Man from the Fantastic Four.
Li Cheng asked, "By the way, whatâs your mission content this time?"
"The Task Name is Armed Escort. The requirement is to carry instruments and move as far away as possible from the designated coordinates within 72 hours."
Wanli Sealed Blade retrieved a blue transparent cube with a side length of about half a meter, floating above the ground, from the void.
It perpetually folds inside-out, in a cyclical manner, like Euclidean four-dimensional space.
Although it doesnât have any external markings, seeing it, a line of information spontaneously appears in the mind, "3396.57 kilometers."
Considering that the Otherworld players like the Mushroom King interrogated the captives immediately, Wanli Sealed Blade didnât hide anything and directly showed the briefing from his personal log to Li Cheng and the others.
At the start of the task, the distance displayed by the four-dimensional cube was 2625.49 kilometers. Players are required to carry the cube and move as far as possible, increasing the distance.
As the distance increases, the rewards become more lavish. Ten thousand kilometers is equivalent to completing two Regular Tasks with a moderate evaluation, twenty thousand kilometers equals a Level 30 Transcendent completing one Regular Task with an S+ Level evaluation, and thirty thousand kilometers specifies that one of the rewards is the customization of an Epic item.
And as a restriction, the failure condition is only not reducing the distance to 2000 kilometers.
Li Cheng and White Horse Tombstone exchanged glances, not because the task was difficult, but because it was too simple.
The Earthâs equatorial circumference is 40,075 kilometers; the highest level of thirty thousand kilometers seems far, but they are given a generous 72-hour task limit, averaging only four hundred kilometers per hour.
World War II propeller planes had speeds of six or seven hundred kilometers per hour.
Even considering that the killing field isnât flat, with various terrains and risks, requiring detours or looking for exits, moving twenty thousand kilometers by the task deadline to claim the second-tier rewards seems easy enough.
"Like the saying âImages are for reference only and do not represent product qualityâ, with the killing fieldâs usual style, thereâs a 100% chance an insidious part is hidden in what seems like an easy task."
Bartmos said with a bitter smile, "Jayna and I agreed to withdraw from this Resonance Task early. No matter how big the profits, we need to have our lives to enjoy them."
Along with Guns Stone, the three of them expressed gratitude to Li Cheng and White Horse Tombstone again, saying they would transfer thanks when they return to the real world, and then logged out of the killing field, disappearing from sight.
"Brother Blade, youâre not leaving?"
Li Cheng looked in surprise at Wanli Sealed Blade, who still stood there. His injuries had healed, but his Spiritual Power was entirely drained, putting him in what the forum called a state of "severe exhaustion."
In this state, the natural recovery speed of Spiritual Power greatly diminishes, and even the efficacy of Magic Potion weakens, only recovering slowly over time.
For players who universally suffer from PTSD, anxiety, and manic depression, losing Extraordinary Power even for a short time is unacceptable, much less in a crisis-filled environment like the Resonance Task.
"Youâd better call me Brother Xiao Dao, as the term âBrother Bladeâ reminds me too much of a useless blade whose master is unknown,"