Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

A pale white, semi-transparent door suddenly appeared in front of him and the bald male player, blocking the two blood-red blades that Fan Xiao had shot at them.

Ding!

The blood-red blades slammed against the door simultaneously, producing a metallic clanging sound.

Two cracks quickly spread across the prop door.

The middle-aged man and the bald male player both changed their expressions at the same time.

The two exchanged a glance and, without hesitation, turned and fled.

The semi-transparent door moved along with them, protecting their backs the whole time.

"Humph!"

Lu Xining snorted coldly.

Two more dolls were released, vaulted over the prop gate in the air, and flew toward the middle-aged man at an extremely fast speed.

The Trisolaran puppets surrounded the middle-aged man, blocking his escape route, and launched an attack at the same time.

From the six forearms of the Trisolaran doll, six different weapons emerged: a military dagger, a steel knife, a flamethrower, a crossbow, and so on.

The burst of flames threw the middle-aged man into a panic.

The remaining weapons were then used to attack his eyes, heart, throat, temples, and other locations.

In an instant, the middle-aged man died on the spot.

"Master of drug production".

At this moment, Lu Baizhi took out a staff-shaped item and aimed it at the bald male player who had already run far away.

Suddenly, the bald male player's fleeing figure abruptly stopped.

No one knows what kind of potent poison he was randomly given, but his face began to turn pale, his body stiffened, and his nerves became sluggish.

The bald male player realized he had been poisoned and quickly retrieved the antidote from his storage space.

However, at this moment, Lu Baizhi had already picked up the rope prop from the ground: "Passionate Tortoise Shell Bondage".

The rope flew towards the bald male player, quickly wrapping around him and restricting his movements.

The bald male player struggled desperately, but his strength waned as the toxin took effect.

Ten seconds later, he stopped struggling, his face pale, his eyes wide open in death.

The skirmish ended there.

Lu Xining has retrieved the "Extreme Electrotherapy" device, and the Three-Body puppet has been put back on her skirt.

Lu Baizhi's body trembled slightly, but she endured the intense discomfort and retrieved the rope from the bald male player's corpse.

"Their player IDs have been displayed."

Lu Xining noticed the black numbers appearing on the arms of the four players: "They're all cannibals, they're definitely up to no good."

"Fan Xiao, is this kind of...this kind of thing common?" Lu Baizhi asked Fan Xiao.

"I suppose so," Fan Xiao said. "Players are constantly on the edge of life and death, so their minds are more or less twisted and cruel. Killing and stealing items is nothing out of the ordinary for them, especially since they are cannibalistic players."

"Cannibalistic players" is a synonym for ruthless and cruel.

Perhaps there were kind-hearted people among them who couldn't resist their appetites and thus became cannibals.

But as he was tormented by his appetite time and time again, and had to resort to cannibalism to survive, his morality and conscience were probably already riddled with holes, and he was capable of anything.

They kill every single one they see, with virtually no chance of killing the wrong one.

Fan Xiao manipulated the four suspended, blood-red blades and hid them under the blood-red coat.

He was quite satisfied with the attack power of the blade.

Even the gate that the middle-aged man released was almost smashed. I guess passing through walls and breaking steel should be as easy for him as eating and drinking.

He carried 13 such sharp blades on his person.

He can kill people with 13 flying swords within 50 meters.

Are you scared?

Just ask if you are afraid of it!

In other words, he didn't want to steal kills.

Otherwise, even if the bald male player and the middle-aged man blocked his first wave of attacks, they would still be taken down by his second wave.

At this moment, Lu Xining let out a soft complaint: "I finally got a prop, and you still managed to smash it... What bad luck."

"..." Fan Xiao looked at her with a subtle expression: "Don't tell me you inherited that prop sect."

"Unfortunately, that's the truth," Lu Xining sighed.

Fan Xiao said, "You can't blame me for this, can you?"

"I know, it's just a little complaint."

Lu Xining quickly composed herself.

At this moment, Lu Baizhi said, "I didn't expect there to be other players here besides us."

“It’s normal that there are other players,” Fan Xiao said. “Besides players like us who were dragged in, there must be other players who came in normally through tickets. The four we took down might all be ticket holders.”

"Very weak," Lu Xining commented.

"This is an E-level instance. We came here with tickets, so it's normal for all of us to be E-level players, as we're all weak."

Fan Xiao reminded him, "According to my estimation, I should be considered one of the very strong E-level players. It's normal that you feel the enemy is weak when you have me as your teammate."

"Like a peddler selling melons?" Lu Xining scoffed.

"Hehe, I think you're just jealous of me."

"..."

Lu Xining fell silent.

She was indeed a little jealous.

With such incredible talent and D-grade items... what E-grade player would play like Fan Xiao?

Are they really playing the same evolution game?

"This instance is very large. I estimate that the four gates of the town are all the trigger points for instance quests."

Fan Xiao continued, "So there must be quite a few players coming in; we need to be more vigilant."

Chapter 55 Try and die

After cleaning up the battlefield, Fan Xiao and his two companions headed towards the east gate of the town.

On the way, the three of them exchanged the items they had acquired, seeing if there was anything they needed to trade.

Fan Xiao killed two players and obtained two E-level items that were not very useful.

He currently has three D-grade items permanently equipped.

Unless the effect is special, he doesn't really care about E-rank items.

Seeing that the Lu Xining sisters didn't need it, he simply threw it to the game system for recycling and received 20,000 game coins.

E-level players are lucky to have any items at all; the probability of inheriting something good is very small, so we can't be too demanding in this regard.

"Sister, I want to trade props with you."

After listening to Lu Xining's introduction of the props, Lu Baizhi made a suggestion.

Lu Xining shook her head and said, "You don't need to take care of me. The item you inherited is obviously better. It's called 'Hands Fluttering'—making people unable to hold anything, which can disable most of the enemy's attack methods. This item is very effective."

"No, I just feel that your props suit me better."

Lu Baizhi explained, "What I need are defensive items. With defense, I can first poison the person, then bind them, and then use the defensive items to protect myself and block any ranged attack items the opponent might have. After this combination, once the poison has fully taken effect, the opponent will probably have no ability to resist."

"Shouldn't 'being flustered' also be considered a defensive item?"

"Yes, but it's not as comprehensive as your gadget system. It can only defend against gadgets that the enemy holds in their hands. It can't defend against manipulative gadgets, like the earrings that Fan Xiao has."

"Hmm... what you said makes sense."

"Besides, you're more suited to this item, sister. Your puppet is a melee type. Imagine, once your puppet gets close to the enemy, you suddenly activate the item and disarm them of their melee weapon. They'll be completely bewildered..."

As Lu Baizhi spoke, she became a little embarrassed.

Fan Xiao is still standing there. Won't he misunderstand her as a scheming and treacherous person?

Lu Xining thought about it according to her sister's idea and found that it was indeed good, so she did not refuse: "Okay, this time I'll take advantage of you."

"No, and why should we make such a clear distinction?"

When facing her sister, Lu Baizhi was indifferent to matters of self-interest.

After all, her older sister had been protecting her since she was a child.

The three of them dealt with the props as they traveled.

During their journey, the three encountered several more players.

Among them are demi-human players, and players whose identities are unclear.

Fortunately, none of these encounters resulted in any conflict.

Even after recognizing each other as players, they simply nodded at each other from a distance as a greeting, and there was no other interaction.

The instance has only been running for one day, and it hasn't even gotten dark yet.

No danger occurred, and the players remained vigilant and cautious towards each other.

Besides the players, Fan Xiao also discovered something noteworthy—many houses in the town were vacant and uninhabited.

This subconsciously reminded him of something mentioned in the background description of the game—immigration.

It's not that people from the island emigrated.

Rather, the island of worship is a good place for immigrants, and people from outside the island have immigrated there.

While it's strange to talk about immigration on an island full of monsters, this is background information and it's impossible that it's giving incorrect information.

Based on this, the number of residents on this island should theoretically be quite large.

But the current situation... seems to contradict the background information?

Because he was in a hurry, Fan Xiao didn't think about it too much for the time being.

Before 6:30, he led Lu Xining and her friends back to the entrance of the east gate of the town.

Du Ruo and other Special Affairs Bureau players were already waiting here.

Ordinary people caught up in the chaos were gathered at the foot of the wooden city wall, their faces showing exhaustion, confusion, and fear.

Fan Xiao looked around and noticed two charred corpses not far away.

"They are two cannibalistic players."

After noticing his gaze, Du Ruo spoke up, "They probably know about the 'random instance' and, after recognizing that we weren't protecting islanders, they came up with some wicked ideas. Fortunately, they're not very strong."

"There are cannibalistic players at the East Gate too?" Lu Baizhi asked in surprise.

"Also? You encountered it too?" Du Ruo asked in return.

"We encountered four, and we took them all down."

Fan Xiao revealed: "It seems that there are a lot of players participating in this instance. The ones we killed, the ones we encountered on the way, plus the two on your side, make up 11. If we add ourselves and the ones that haven't shown up yet, the number of players is quite considerable."

"This entire island is within the instance area, so this number of participants is normal."

Du Ruo also revealed: "Besides the two cannibal players, we also encountered two demi-human players near the North Gate. I talked to them and got some interesting information."

"Is it another case of using money to pave the way?" Fan Xiao asked.

Players are very wary of each other, making normal communication difficult, let alone gathering information.

Without a clear benefit, it's difficult to get others to speak up.

Fan Xiao recalled that Du Ruo had once bribed the train attendant; perhaps he often used money to solve problems?

"I guess so," Du Ruo said without denying it.