The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 258 Blood Sun (5)

Shen Zhaoming smiled slightly and nimbly disappeared into the branches and leaves of a tall tree.

When a blood slave tried to approach, he used his pulse gun to precisely fire and stop them.

At the same time, he activated the Wanxiangshu active defense function that Su Ninglong had previously given him.

As the data analysis capability was activated, the Myriad Manifestations Pivot instantly analyzed the trajectories of all physical attacks aimed at him. Before the attacks hit, multiple tiny shields, resembling data fragments, rapidly generated, tightly surrounding him like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

While Shen Zhaoming was doing everything he could to protect himself, Su Ninglong was facing off against the Blood Slave Master.

The monster swung its muscular arms and charged forward ruthlessly.

Su Ninglong quickly moved behind the giant tree.

With a deafening roar, the thick tree trunk trembled violently, but it did not topple. She felt slightly relieved—as long as this behemoth could withstand the impact.

Using the giant tree as cover, she skillfully maneuvered and dodged. Each shot hit a green core with pinpoint accuracy.

In the brief interval between emptying a magazine, Shadow Silk had already spread along the shadow beneath Su Ninglong's feet, entangled the approaching Blood Slaves, and neatly severed their limbs. Then she calmly followed up with bursts of fire.

The battle rhythm was completely controlled by Su Ninglong.

Shen Zhaoming was under less combat pressure, and the Myriad Manifestations Pivot also had a slight shielding function. In addition, the True Self Mirror limited the hostility that could be directed at him, and he could occasionally cast admiring glances at Su Ninglong.

Watching her fight the monster is a visual treat.

There are no fancy moves; every strike is swift and decisive, and always effective.

However, when things seem to go as planned, unexpected events always happen.

The commotion here is really too great.

Each time the Blood Slave Master charged, it shattered large amounts of wood chips and cement fragments, and the crackling noise attracted even more Blood Slaves and Blood Beasts.

Although these were just minor enemies to Su Ninglong, their sheer number made them quite troublesome.

Just as she was about to finish off the last few green cores of the Blood Slave Master, another powerful shadow suddenly broke into the battle.

Another blood slave master has arrived.

Su Ninglong: "..." The monsters in this game world are too aggressive. They can come from far away and have no sense of territory.

His eyes scanned the surroundings, and inside and outside the building, many blood-red shadows were slowly crowding in.

She had to finish this quickly; once she leveled up continuously, she would need a considerable amount of time to balance the cold, yin energy within her body.

With a flick of her wrist, Su Ninglong's slender figure swept across the battlefield like a ghost, her shadowy silhouettes whispering like the Grim Reaper's whisper as they swept outwards.

The blood slaves and blood beasts that pounced forward maintained their ferocious postures, and then streaks of blood gushed out from their waists and abdomens.

The upper body slid slowly down along the smooth, mirror-like cut, making a viscous sound as it crashed down. A strong, pungent smell of blood exploded, casting a bloody mist over the killing field.

After emptying several more magazines, the last green core of a Blood Slave Lord shattered, and its massive body crashed to the ground.

Congratulations on reaching level 4!

Congratulations on reaching level 5!

Congratulations on reaching level 6!

The continuous upgrade notifications flashed by, but Su Ninglong's spiritual energy was greatly depleted, and she tried her best to circulate her inner core to recover.

The newly arrived Blood Slave Master, filled with fighting spirit, roared at Su Ninglong and shoved aside the monsters that couldn't avoid him.

Shen Zhaoming keenly sensed that the data stream of the fallen Blood Slave Master was undergoing a violent change: "Ning Long, it's about to explode, get out of the way!"

Su Ninglong's breath hitched. Good heavens, the difficulty design of this monster is simply hellish.

Realizing it was too late to dodge to another location, she quickly moved close to the roots of the giant tree and pulled out a nano blanket from her spatial ring, which she originally used for insulation, to use as a temporary shield against the impact of the explosion.

After the Blood Slave Master's corpse swelled to its limit, it suddenly contracted inward and then exploded like a lit flesh bomb.

The viscous shockwave, mixed with bone fragments and internal organs, spread rapidly in a ring shape in all directions.

Wherever it passed, the ground was scraped down by three inches, several blood slaves that were slightly closer were smashed into mincemeat, and even a huge gap was blasted open in the giant tree.

Hiding behind the tree, Su Ninglong was also in bad shape; the stench and immense force caused her internal organs to bleed.

The only saving grace was that the Blood Slave Master, who was charging towards them, was caught in the blast and was blown to pieces, leaving only half of his body.

Despite her physical injuries, Su Ninglong fired at the half-crippled Blood Slave Master who had fallen to the ground and then gotten back up.

Clang clang clang... The green cores shattered one by one. After killing the Blood Slave Master, she heard the sound of an upgrade.

Congratulations on reaching level 7!

"Cough cough cough..." Su Ninglong coughed up a mouthful of blood, her fair skin split open in several wounds, and blood dripped down her arm, forming a small pool of blood at her feet.

At this moment, her figure was so frail that it seemed as if she could be blown away by the wind at any moment, yet she was supported by a strong will and never fell down.

Su Ninglong took a deep breath and injected herself with a clotting agent.

At this moment, the surrounding blood slaves and blood beasts were almost cleared out. Shen Zhaoming quickly jumped down from the tree, carried her on his back, and hurriedly hid in the building next door.

Once inside the building, he instantly grasped all the data for the entire building.

He led Su Ninglong into a storage room and directly modified the data parameters, making this small space temporarily disappear from the system's monitoring and become a temporary safe zone.

In the cramped space, only Su Ninglong's suppressed breathing could be heard.

The roars from the outside world were blocked by an invisible barrier, becoming a distant background sound.

Shen Zhaoming's brows furrowed into a tight knot, his gaze fixed on her, his lips pressed together until they turned white, worried about Su Ninglong's health, but he had no medicine or treatment options.

"Don't worry, I have a lot of health and I recover quickly." Su Ninglong curled up in the corner, with a towel that Shen Zhaoming had pulled out from the corner behind her. The metal wall was no longer uncomfortable, but instead brought a strange sense of security.

Shen Zhaoming was amused by her words and wanted to say something, but in the end he just remained silent.

He hesitated for a moment, then gently placed his hand on the top of her head. The warmth of his palm transformed all his helplessness into a tender pity.

"We killed so many monsters just now, they must have dropped a lot of purification crystals." Su Ninglong suddenly put on a pained expression. "It's a pity we didn't pick them up."

Shen Zhaoming smiled knowingly: "When we get back, I'll have the foreign teacher slaughter two sheep."

This suggestion made Su Ninglong's eyes light up. Teacher Yang Zhu would probably be heartbroken, but what could be more comforting than a whole roasted lamb? One isn't enough, let's have two.

"I was just kidding. Only a fool wouldn't pick up money when it's available." She smiled slyly. "But you can go and tell Teacher Yang about my current miserable situation, exaggerate it, the more miserable the better."

How could she possibly let those spirit stones go? Ying Si had done a great service, pocketing them all.

Shen Zhaoming smiled knowingly, having long known that this little money-grubber would never let anyone take advantage of her. He told Su Ninglong to take something else out of her spatial ring, "Don't sit on the cold ground."

The storage room was simply shielded off; the environment remained unchanged. There wasn't much clutter inside; it was mostly files, stationery, and broken tables and chairs—all cold, hard plastic items.

Su Ninglong obediently added a cushion under her bottom and gave him one too, saying, "You can rest a little longer."

Shen Zhaoming said no need, he would like to study the game data next and try to be in charge in "Blood Sun"!

Su Ninglong offered words of encouragement, urging him to "take over the nest" as soon as possible.

……

After the loud noise subsided, the area around the giant tree, which was rarely visited by high-level players, gradually became active again.

Su Ninglong cleared out the monsters here, making it a relatively safe zone compared to other places. Many players who had been hiding began to cautiously approach.

When everyone actually stepped onto this battlefield, they all fell into a deathly silence, as if an invisible hand had gripped their throats, and everyone's gaze was fixed on the tragic scene before them.

Since the system has not yet refreshed, the battlefield still retains traces of the fierce battle.

The monsters resembled deformed fireworks that had been violently dismantled, their corpses and limbs scattered everywhere.

Different colors of blood and tissue splattered together, forming bizarre splash patterns around them.

The entire scene resembled an abstract painting depicting hell, filled with a bizarre feeling of blasphemy against life.

A moment later, whispers erupted like a tidal wave, and everyone's face was filled with disbelief and horror.

"Which newcomer is so powerful that they've provoked two Blood Slave Masters at the same time?"

"There are still so many blood slaves and blood beasts, there are just too many of them."

A few daring low-level players risked going forward to search.

With so many corpses, there might be some items that were missed.

What everyone urgently needs right now is a purification crystal; the corruption level of everyone present is at least twenty or higher.

In this world, the higher you level up, the easier it is to increase the level of corruption. However, without leveling up, you simply can't defeat the monsters, creating a vicious cycle. This is why purification crystals are needed.

Blood slaves never drop purification crystals, and blood beasts have an extremely low drop rate.

Monsters of level Blood Slave Master and above have a slightly higher drop rate. However, the increase is only slight, and the quantity is insufficient to meet the needs of all players.

However, the more the players searched, the heavier their hearts became. They had initially thought that the combatants in the battle zone would have left behind a few crystals in their haste to retreat.

But there wasn't one, not even one.

It was so clean it looked like it had been thoroughly ransacked.

Among the players gathered here, the majority are net hunters, with a few ordinary people, but those were eliminated in the initial Blood Beast Trial. Those who have survived to this day are either lucky or truly skilled.

Of all the players who arrived, there were only two true hunters: Ziyue and the hunter with the effeminate eyes.

They were new to the game and dared not hunt monsters indiscriminately to level up.

Seeing the monster corpses scattered all over the ground, the effeminate hunter frowned: "It was most likely done by Su Ninglong. With her strength, she certainly has nothing to fear."

"She took care of all of this by herself?" The former hunter asked skeptically, gesturing with his chin towards the pile of corpses before coldly ordering the two net hunters, "Go check it out and see what weapon caused it."

Although the monster was completely dead, its death was still gruesome and terrifying.

The male player trembled, reluctant to touch the wreckage, and hesitated before looking at the female player.

A nameless anger surged within the female player. The female hunter spoke so lightly; prolonged contact with monsters could increase the corruption level.

Especially the original hunter's attitude of giving orders as if it were his own business, leaving no room for discussion, it's hard to know where his sense of superiority comes from.

At this moment, the two suddenly realized how good Su Ninglong was. Although she spoke directly, she had at least made it clear from the beginning that she would not help them, and naturally, she would not force them to do this or that.

Only through comparison can one discern the quality of a person's character.

They used to blame Su Ninglong, but now they can only resent the former hunter who spoke without thinking.

People have to bow their heads under the eaves.

The hunter raised an eyebrow slightly, and with just a warning look, the two had no choice but to bite the bullet and step forward to check the wound.

Some monsters had their green cores shattered directly, without any other damage. The cores appeared to have been penetrated by firearms, requiring only two or three shots for precise destruction.

The female player paused for a moment, then said with certainty, "These wounds all came from the same precise shooting point."

The male player leaned closer for a closer look and was horrified: "A sharpshooter? Or some kind of superpower?"

"Then how do you explain these shredded corpses? The cuts are so clean; they must have been made by an extremely sharp weapon. Could the other party possess two supernatural abilities?"

"Maybe it's a high-level player, or maybe it's a team." The male player shrank back. "And looting so thoroughly, how could it have been done alone? Right?"

The female player wasn't particularly bright and sometimes got stuck on things. She was convinced this was Su Ninglong's doing; since hunters were all gathering here, given Su Ninglong's personality, she wouldn't let the opportunity to clear the contaminated area slip by.

She just couldn't understand why Su Ninglong had lingered in the newbie zone for so long.

While they were examining the body, two other players who had also been forced to do the dirty work were talking in hushed tones:
"I should have stayed in the newbie zone all along..."

I thought the newbie zone was hell, and that escaping it would be the only way to survive.

Who knew that after stepping out of that boundary, they would face an even more cruel world.

In this game, the actions of top players vividly demonstrate the law of the jungle. Without the constraints of real-world laws, they act with even greater impunity.

Oppression, beatings, and exploitation—all sorts of methods were used against these ordinary players. Here, survival was the only victory.

Of course, if there are ordinary players from prominent families, those people will be a little more restrained.

"There's no going back. Once you're out there, there's no going back. Even those top players couldn't get back no matter what they tried."

"Tsk, they've been in here for half a year and they still haven't figured out the map. Who knows when they'll be able to completely crack this contaminated zone."

"My corruption level is almost over seventy... If I turn into a monster, please give me a quick death."

"Don't panic, there's no need to despair. My erosion level is already seventy-five. You'll be the one to give me a quick death first."

The two were dejected and felt sorry for each other.

The male and female players exchanged a fearful glance, filled with regret. When they left the newbie zone, they had been so glad they had found a strong player to rely on.

But now it's finally clear that the original hunter and the effeminate hunter are not good people at all. They also participated in the battle and killed monsters, but they didn't even get a single purification crystal.