Money moves people's hearts.
Especially… under such high returns. The items that cannot be taken out of the game alone were enough to make these players think of "dividing" or "robbing," let alone items actually bought with points? Dangerous… indeed dangerous, but the rewards were just too great! This was a weapon worth thousands of points! If they failed… reviving once only required 500 points.
Moreover, looking closely—the ring on the female player's hand, could it be a storage ring? And the badge on her chest! The bracelet on her wrist! Even the sportswear she was wearing became special under the aura of a wealthy woman. In that instant, to this group of players, Mu Anqi had become a moving "item warehouse"!
The kind you could attack and get ultra-valuable items to drop!
Failing to intimidate the players, it instead sparked a fight… Mu Anqi sighed silently and did not immediately pull out her rifle for a sweep. Instead, she pointed one finger to the sky: "Money, come!"
"Money, come!" *4
Five massive ingots crashed directly down onto the group of players, pinning several unlucky ones beneath them. But that wasn't all—at the moment all five ingots landed, pale blue ripples spread from their surfaces, radiating outward about a meter… causing a slight slowing effect!
"Da da da da da—" After using the skill, the next moment she switched to rifle sweep fire suppression mode. The four teams of players quickly united, with players using defensive skills taking the frontline. Layer after layer of invisible barriers blocked the bullets, but cracks began to appear in the barriers. Immediately after, the hand grenade thrown by Zhao Guogu suddenly exploded! The lucky player's attack always landed last; even throwing the grenade was timed perfectly, making it the final "straw" to break the defenses.
"Area gravity, gravity suppression!" The silver stick was tossed high into the air by the buzz-cut boy. It spun in midair toward the four teams of players, gradually transforming into a massive silver pillar that stood straight between the five large ingots. Ripples spread, and the four teams' movements suddenly faltered. Mu Anqi saw the indecisive team leader lose control for a moment, his foot sinking straight into the ground.
"I thought you were defeating the Boss with powerful abilities, but now it seems…" The female team leader sighed inexplicably, slowly raising her hand and spreading it in the air, then suddenly slammed it downward! "It's money power."
Gravity suppression combined with psychokinetic control suppression!
"Fu**her!" Several of the players were pressed to the ground under this sudden overwhelming force. "Fk! Don't you feel tempted by the items?!"
"Tempted, yes, but at the start, you came out to duel us one-on-one." The female team leader shrugged. "You still have to do what needs to be done, right?"
"Exactly, and~ even though they're so strong, they didn't think about killing players to steal your points or items. You really are…" With a sigh, the mage raised a hand and waved, forming a circle of crimson magic array beneath their feet. Unlike the icy magic before, the moment this array appeared, the surrounding air became scorching hot.
Twenty-two players.
"Who are you underestimating!" A player suddenly let out a sharp scream. A tiger shadow overlapped on him, and a gigantic tiger phantom appeared behind him. With another furious roar, he threw a punch, distorting the air with a sharp "crack." The enormous tiger phantom also swung a fist, directly shattering the psychic suppression applied by the female player.
Chaos!
The four teams of players were all well-equipped. Except for the team reduced to four after losing two members, the other three teams all had defensive and support players. At this moment, their combined skills actually formed a barrier that blocked all ranged attacks. Xia Yun flew above the players on her sword, dropping hand grenades from her hand. Si Suying retracted her bronze sword, transformed her claws into cat claws, and directly used her skills to engage the tiger-shadowed player in close combat.
Two massive black iron hammers were fiercely thrown directly at the shield. A female player from the five-person squad stepped forward, while the psychic female team leader made an upward support gesture, giving the hammer player leverage to kick. The two hammers were retrieved back into her hands using her skills, swung violently, and then slammed down with the force of their descent. "Boom!——"
"Wishing you longevity, success for all five sons, safe travels, fortune along the way…" The warm blessings sounded almost like a magical chant. Mu Anqi didn't hold back and immediately opened her action list. She directly targeted the indecisive team, letting each of these blessings rain evenly down on them! The guy in the baseball cap froze, his body uncontrollably pressed against their team leader, while their leader—a burly man—suddenly, unbelievably, began an eye-watering sing-and-dance!? The absurdly chuunibyou magical girl music, the bizarre butt-wiggling and heart-hand gestures made the baseball cap guy wish he could gouge his own eyes out. Yet his body wouldn't obey him, forcing him to press against their dancing leader, even curling his fingers like an orchid and tracing down the leader's chest in an intimate, close-contact dance—ugh.
The worst part was, the leader blew him a flying kiss, and his body couldn't dodge! Not only could he not evade, he even ended up lifting the leader's chin and said in a deep voice: "Little demon, you've provoked me."
The moment control returned to his own body, the baseball cap guy and the leader practically teleported apart, their faces extremely unpleasant, even clutching their stomachs and gagging. So disgusting, so disgusting! How could a player have such a revolting skill? Killing both body and mind! Heartless trickery!
And their unfortunate teammates… one of them, face pale and barely able to breathe, was doing push-ups. His thin arms trembled continuously, yet he stubbornly lifted his head to look at him, whispering: "Baby, do you think I'm strong?"
Two female players lost balance and fell after doing fifty handstand spins, while another counted aloud through fifty push-ups.
Pathetic—truly, capital-P pathetic.
However, that devilish female player didn't seem interested in simply killing them. The moment the movements ended, she reinforced the blessings to control them again. The baseball cap guy humiliatingly jumped into street dance while awkwardly rapping, and the teammates began another round of motions. Meanwhile, the instigator—Mu Anqi—picked up her rifle and went to charge at the other players!
Mu Anqi's thoughts were simple: this team had items, and she needed to get the ritual-related items, so she couldn't just kill them. As for the talismans in their hands… obviously they were meant for fighting the Boss. Since they were all human, touching the talismans caused no adverse effects.
After firing three hundred bullets, Mu Anqi was running low on regular ammo cards, since she didn't have many in stock. She attached another regular ammo card, pulled back an arc hand grenade, counted down in her mind, and threw an instant-detonation grenade into the pile of players struggling near the ingots! "Boom!" Electricity crackled everywhere, tossing everyone violently.
"Do none of these players have control skills?" Mu Anqi wondered. She didn't know that although none of the players had control skills, some had psychic interference abilities. However—since that five-person squad had been fighting alongside Mu Anqi and her team, Wu Sansheng had also activated mental protection. The psychic interference players were completely neutralized. At first, he even suspected something was wrong with his own abilities, testing his skill on a teammate. When the teammate instantly misstepped and got blown away by the grenade, he realized: ah, it's not the skill—it's that these players are weird!
The battle ended quickly.
After all, under the suppressive fire of the rifle, it was hard not to move fast. Xia Yun flew on her sword to the window outside the apartment, controlling her flying sword from above to repeatedly activate "Power Strike" and "Sword Array" skills. When skills were on cooldown, she directly used the flying sword to disrupt and kill enemies. The sixteen players quickly couldn't hold out under the fire suppression and combined encirclement. The moment their defensive shields shattered, the psychic female player grabbed several players from thin air and knocked them out. Si Suying swung her bronze ancient sword to sever the limbs of several players, and the hammer-wielding female player smashed each opponent with a hammer. The mage summoned a small "meteor shower" to crash down. The sixteen players were powerless, some stunned, some injured, some even blown away by hand grenades, forced to return to Nirvana Space.
Only the indecisive team was the liveliest—they seemed like cheerleaders for the battle, singing and dancing, doing hot moves, doing sit-ups. One player even squatted and shouted while doing sit-ups: "I'm most afraid of ghosts! Most afraid of death! Most afraid of points! Most afraid of dying alone! Most afraid of social embarrassment—" and a series of other fears.
The baseball cap guy more than once wanted to use his ability to teleport everyone back to a room—yes, he had learned his lesson. He had set the teleport destination to a room in the apartment, treating it as a safe house. He thought: Surely no one would destroy his mark again, right?
In the end, the mark wasn't destroyed—it was just that there was no chance to use the skill.
"Hand over the items you got from the coffin." Mu Anqi walked up to the team leader, whose face was flushed red from counting sit-ups, and said, "Don't lie to me, don't waste time. Hand over the items and I'll let you go. After all, the baseball cap guy can teleport, right?"
"?!" She actually knew?
Seeing the surprise in the team leader's eyes, Mu Anqi smiled and pointed at Zhao Guogu: "She has a monitoring item. By accident, she recorded everything that happened on the sixth floor along with you. So… don't even think about secretly keeping a few items~ Oh, and we destroyed the baseball cap guy's mark. Surprise?"
The team leader's eyes almost shot flames. If Mu Anqi had mind-reading, she would've heard a string of friendly greetings like "Surprise, you insert expletive." But Mu Anqi didn't, so when the team leader forced a smile and grit his teeth saying, "Got it," Mu Anqi simply returned a gentle, harmless smile.
Mu Anqi applied the blessings to the other five players, deliberately leaving out the team leader, just waiting for him to hand over his items. "Hurry up and give me the items—yours first, then go to your teammates and take what's left on them." Mu Anqi drew her demon blade and swung it elegantly twice in the air, then walked over to the baseball cap guy standing at attention, resting the demon blade on his shoulder. Si Suying also approached, holding the bronze sword, blood constantly dripping from the blade. Expressionless, he casually stood beside a female player, in a guard stance.
"We're done for," thought the captain.