Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Lin Sui'an analyzed, "There aren't many people left who can run on the ground. Since the Ice Tree can't find any prey, the game is setting out a trap to lure out the people who are hiding."

"Players who come out to grab the treasure chests become easy targets for the Ice Tree."

After listening to Lina's translation, Lydia showed no sign of backing down; instead, she touched her wrist.

She spoke, uttering a couple of words in Russian, before switching back to her broken Mandarin: "I want to steal it."

Lina glanced at her: "Are you crazy? There are eerie trees everywhere outside!"

Lydia slapped her thigh: "Speed... I... hurry!"

She added, "I don't know... where the treasure chest is."

Lin Sui'an nodded: "Don't worry about that. Since the game wants to fish, it will definitely tell you where the bait is."

She looked at Lydia: "How else can we fish?"

Lydia grinned and punched her chest twice.

Lina squatted down beside her, twisting the hem of her clothes with her fingers: "I'm not going. I can't run fast. Going out would just be suicide."

She looked up at Lin Sui'an: "If the treasure chest spawns nearby, I'll go grab it. If it's far away... never mind."

Sergei also spoke up: "This round... if I'm alive, I won't leave."

Lin Sui'an glanced at the three of them and nodded: "I'll go."

Lina nodded, not at all surprised. After two rounds of the game, Sui An was already extremely skilled in her eyes, and she had no doubt that Sui An would not be able to get the treasure chest.

Lin Sui'an reached into the hidden pocket at his waist, took out a tinderbox, and handed it to Lina.

"If a treasure chest spawns nearby and an ice tree is approaching, and you can't escape, grab a handful of dry leaves from the ground, light them with a tinderbox, and throw them to the side. It will stop to deal with the fire, giving you time to create distance."

Lina took it: "Okay! I'll stuff some dry leaves into my clothes beforehand, it'll be easier to light them."

Lin Sui'an nodded, then looked at Lydia: "Go towards the pond. Sister Jiang Lai said there's water there. Even if you can't get the treasure chest, just jump into the water and the Ice Tree can't do anything to you."

Lina's quick translation.

Lydia nodded: "Our country said so."

"it is good."

"Let's go."

Lin Sui'an turned and ran back towards the starting point.

Lydia followed Lin Sui'an's example, first applying mud to her exposed skin, then rushing in the opposite direction towards the pond area to the southeast.

Lina and Sergei exchanged a glance, and then began to collect dead leaves, stuffing them all into Lina's clothes. Once the clothes were full, they retreated back into the pit and covered the pit again with the covering.

The soil fell, and the light dimmed.

Lina, with a reed in her mouth, clasped her hands together and began to silently chant.

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Lin Sui'an moved through the bushes, keeping his body low and dodging left and right, avoiding the positions of the ice trees.

The countdown to the treasure chest respawn is still being broadcast.

One minute left.

Fifty seconds.

Forty seconds.

A rustling sound suddenly appeared, coming from directly in front.

Lin Sui'an paused, dodged to the side, and hid behind the trunk of a thick tree.

An ice tree emerged from the bushes to the right, its gray bark swaying in the dappled light and shadow, its roots swirling and moving westward.

Lin Sui'an held his breath, and once the ice tree was far away, he immediately slipped out and continued running.

[Countdown has ended.]

[The treasure chest has been launched.]

[Countdown to claim: Three minutes.]

Three beams of light descended from the sky, very conspicuous, as if afraid the players wouldn't notice them.

The first path, due north, is the starting point.

The second path is to the southeast, not far from the pond.

The third path, due west, is also where the ice trees are most abundant.

Lin Sui'an's lips curled into a smile: There really is one refreshed here.

She sped off, skirting two palm trees standing side by side, passing through a patch of low bushes, and a clearing appeared ahead.

At the starting point, in the open area, a beam of light shone down from the sky, and a box was embedded in the ground.

There was no one else there; she was the first to arrive.

Lin Sui'an rushed to the box and pressed his hand on the lid.

hot.

The box is dissipating heat.

The moment her palm touched it, heat surged out of the wood, and the temperature of the entire box was higher than that of a human body.

She paused for half a second, then realized what was happening—

This thing itself is a heat source, and it's even hotter than the human body.

Ice trees use heat to find their targets. Since the temperature of a treasure chest is higher than that of a person, what will the ice tree prioritize locking onto?

"Goodness."

She really knew exactly what she was doing, she cursed, grabbed the edge of the box lid with both hands, and lifted it up.

The lid popped open.

Inside lay a token with a dark gold border and words written on the front. Without having time to look at it closely, she reached in, grabbed it, and stuffed it into her hidden pocket.

I'm not watching anymore, I'm running away.

In the distance, a rustling sound came from three directions at the same time, as three ice trees were converging on the location of the pillar of light.

Lin Sui'an turned and ran, pushing off the ground with his toes, and darted into the bushes on the left.

The pillar of light behind her was still shining, and the chest was still dissipating heat. The ice tree was rushing towards the treasure chest, not her.

Hahahaha! Roaring roar!

She walked through the bushes and glanced in the direction of another beam of light.

The west direction is neither Lydia's nor close to Lina's hiding place. Let's go check it out!

Without hesitation, Lin Sui'an turned and rushed towards the pillar of light. After running about one or two hundred meters, a noisy sound came from afar.

Lin Sui'an walked around a patch of fallen, dead trees, and his view opened up...

Beneath the beam of light, the box had been pried open, and a corpse lay beside it, blood still seeping from the wound on its head, its eyes wide open, dying with its eyes open.

A yellow-skinned man knelt beside the box, his arms tightly gripping something he had pulled out of the box, his whole body curled up to protect his chest, like a wild beast protecting its cubs.

The other three players surrounded him and pounced on him like madmen.

"Let go!"

"Let go of me!"

A burly white man kicked the yellow-skinned man hard in the lower back. The bone cracked, the man screamed, and his body fell forward, but his arm held on tightly.

Another person pounced on him, straddled his back, grabbed his hair and slammed his head against the ground, once, twice, his forehead hitting the hard ground, tearing his skin and blood smearing his face.

"Fuck! Let go!"

The third man squatted down and pried open his fingers, turning them out one by one. The yellow-skinned man roared and bit one of the men's forearms, his teeth digging into the flesh. The man screamed in pain and swung his fist to smash the man's temple.

"Bang!"

The fist slammed into his temple, and the yellow-skinned man's eyes glazed over for a moment. His mouth loosened, and he collapsed to the ground.

The three men pounced on him immediately, like vultures tearing at carrion, raining down punches and kicks, stomping on his hands and kicking his ribs, one thud after another, until he curled up into a ball and could no longer protect anything. One of them ripped the object out from between his deformed fingers.

"Ha ha......"

"Sizzle!"

The laughter abruptly stopped. Behind him, a branch of an ice tree shot up and pierced the man in an instant.

"Bang!"

The branch was pulled out, the man fell to the ground, and the prop flew out of his hand and rolled into the grass next to him.