Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 87 The Impact of the Mutant Fish Swarm

Jiang Ran was unaware that the two identities, "Young Miss" and "Little Spinning Top," had been successfully merged into one.

But even if I knew, I wouldn't panic too much.

From the day she directly used Little Spinning Top's account to speak for the young lady, she was already prepared to be exposed.

It is precisely these smokescreens of true and false identities that make it easier for her to hide her true self.

After the world channel was opened, she told Xiaobai to pay attention to whether any special items were being sold in the world channel every day.

Regardless of whether they are useful or not, buy them first, especially those props related to identifying one's identity.

Once the communication platform becomes large enough, all sorts of strange things can be found.

Jiang Ran experimented with several different types of identity-specifying tools, but fortunately the game wasn't that insane.

After all, the use of many items in the game is highly dependent on the correspondence between real identity and ID. Therefore, relatively speaking, there are not only few items that can obtain the other party's real identity information, but the cost is also quite high. Most importantly, the probability of success is not very high.

Especially for C and D level items, the probability is only slightly higher than that of fortune telling.

What pleased Jiang Ran even more was that these props revealed her "identity".

In other words, even if they can see through a certain degree of disguise, Jiang Ran's alternate accounts are all real identities.

From this perspective, no prop could possibly find Jiang Ran herself, hidden deep within, by using these two pieces of real identity information.

However, not being able to find Jiang Ran does not mean that the connection between the IDs cannot be found. After all, there was a skill that could deduce the relationship chain of deceased players before their death.

As for that Majik, there's no breakthrough to be found for the time being.

Being arrogant has its advantages, but it also makes it easy to encounter situations where the enemy is in the dark while your alternate account is in the open.

But... Jiang Ran looked at the series of grooves below her game panel and poked at them helplessly: "Can't you give me some game hints? Now we all know that Majik has another notebook, at least give me some clues, like which sea area or which train he's on?"

She had only made a casual comment, but when she poked it, she suddenly noticed a problem: the groove in the explorer's journal... was it a little fuller than before?

Jiang Ran herself was somewhat uncertain, but she believed in her enhanced memory and sharpness after her body was strengthened.

The originally somewhat sharp cross-section has indeed become slightly rounded.

She stopped complaining. Could it be that this groove could repair that tattered notebook?

What about the other one? Will it also be repaired?
Ugh, I'm even more eager to kill Majik now. If I could collect all three notebooks, the repair speed might be a bit faster.
An unprecedentedly powerful impact interrupted Jiang Ran's thoughts.

Before I knew it, it was already 12 o'clock.

She could feel her house, along with the bamboo raft, being hit by something and flying up; the entire wall and the handrails on it vibrated.

Jiang Ran immediately looked at the display screen.

Such an impact must have come from some kind of large marine creature.

In her previous life, however, she did not encounter any attacks from large creatures.

Is it because the house in this life is too conspicuous that it has attracted something more dangerous?

Fortunately, Jiang Ran's house was built very sturdily. After the house was completed, she also received some wooden boxes from the magical girl shop and chose to upgrade it in the direction of sturdiness.

Even the sturdiest bamboo raft would eventually crumble into pieces if a large creature were allowed to crash into it. On the monitor, only a huge afterimage flashed by; judging from its shape, it resembled a shark.

The splash of water as it fell back into the water sent her little boat flying into the air once more.

Xiao Bai suddenly realized something and said with self-reproach, "Could it be attracted by the broken boat? I shouldn't have thrown it directly into the sea, Master, I'm sorry. I can go out and lure it away."

Jiang Ran was taken aback upon hearing this; it was indeed quite possible. Mutated fish are inherently very sensitive to the smell of blood, let alone sharks, the apex predators of the ocean.
She reassured her, "It's not your fault, it was my order after all. Besides, even if you hadn't thrown it into the sea, the smell in our house probably wouldn't have been able to escape. It's alright, it can't do anything to us."

This is also part of the game's balance.

Every seemingly suicidal arrangement hides a glimmer of hope, as if forcing players to survive under extreme conditions.

In the rules of the ocean, bamboo rafts will not capsize, and marine life cannot leave the surface to invade them.

Therefore, most fish can only hide in the swirling seawater and sneak a bite, or try to lure the player into the sea.

Whenever marine creatures attempt to knock people off a raft into the sea by ramming it, the reaction force they experience is no less than the force of their impact.

Even a mutated shark can't withstand too many impacts, at most two or three. Once it realizes it can't do anything to Jiang Ran, it will give up on its own.

Because the entire ocean is like a giant arena.

Once the mutated shark is injured during the collision with Jiang Ran's house and bamboo raft, it will instantly transform from a predator into food.

In particular, Jiang Ran used the blank item card given to her by the top player on the leaderboard to randomly create a D-level item: Reaction Force.

[Reaction Force: After use, it can counteract 30% of the force of an external impact (single use).]

Because it is a single-use item and cannot reduce damage except for counterattacks, it is an item that can only reduce damage by 30% even if you die, so it is only rated D.

However, it is very suitable for use on bamboo rafts.

Sure enough, after only two violent impacts, the commotion outside returned to the raging wind and rain, along with some persistent fish, shrimp, and crabs.

These attacks seem insignificant.

Seeing the huge black shadow leave, Xiaobai finally breathed a sigh of relief from her self-blame.

For Jiang Ran, this night was just a sleepless one where she had to hold on tightly to the handrail to avoid having her brain shaken, but for some players, it was a nightmare from which they could never wake up again.

The mutated fish, in large groups, were eyeing all the players' vehicles, especially the initial bamboo rafts that had no cover.

No need to smash it; just make the player above lose their balance, and the delicious food will fall down naturally.

As the number of fish increased, some players couldn't bear the psychological pressure and jumped off the bamboo raft for some relief.

Some tried every possible means, even enduring the pain of nailing themselves to the bamboo raft, to ensure they wouldn't be left behind.

Others, together with their companions, picked up harpoons and fought desperately against the fish that were being tossed about by the waves.

But the number of players who hack their avatars continues to grow.

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　　(End of this chapter)