Player 1212: “Besides, this is a black spatial stone that expands storage space! Isn’t it only right that I ask him to make it up to me with a few more supplies? My request isn’t even excessive! I’m barely surviving over here, and it’s not like he’s short on supplies!”
Light Shines on Everyone: “Everyone’s having a hard time, so let’s stop arguing. As a fair-minded person, let me say a word. @Invincible Black Whirlwind, just give him a little something extra so he can feel better about it. After all, meeting each other is fate.”
Seeing someone take his side, Player 1212 kept playing the victim. “Right! All I wanted was a bit of fairness, and he straight-up blocked me!”
Qi Xu was in a hurry to work on her Stamina and had no interest in wasting breath on him, so she cut straight to the point.
“Going by your logic, does that mean anyone can back out of any trade we make whenever they feel like it, and demand the other side cough up extra supplies?”
That immediately rubbed everyone the wrong way, and ordinary players jumped into the fray one after another.
“That’d be total chaos. We’d be arguing endlessly every single day.”
“Exactly. Pay more attention when you’re making the trade. Who goes back on a deal after it’s done?”
Qi Xu couldn’t be bothered to read any further. She shut off the light screen and started her workout!
Although Qi Xu threw herself into her workouts every day, aside from feeling like she had shed a bit of weight, the training didn’t seem to be doing much.
She had originally weighed around 130 jin (65 kilograms). She hadn’t weighed herself lately, but she felt at least 5 jin (2.5 kilograms) lighter! Even the pudge on her belly felt a whole chunk smaller to the touch.
After all, before entering the game, she had been an online novelist who sat in front of a computer every day. To save money, she never even ordered takeout and cooked all her own meals.
So she got zero exercise…
Combined with an irregular schedule and staying up late every night, her weight had been slowly creeping up…
Exhausted and drenched in sweat, Qi Xu wet a towel to wipe her face, stretched a little, and finally got ready to rest. One step at a time!
Before going to bed, she sharpened her blade again, then finally fell into a sound sleep.
Starting on Day 4, the required driving distance changed, going up by 20 kilometers!
That didn’t affect Qi Xu much, though. Aside from Day 1, when she had arrived mid-morning and hadn’t had enough time, she had driven the full 200 kilometers on both of the following days!
If she didn’t get ravenously hungry, she wouldn’t even want to stop for meals!
She just wanted to take a gamble and see if she could turn the tricycle into a motorcycle or an enclosed mobility scooter… Anything with a roof over her head, at least.
She immediately put her guard up.
True, in the early stages of the game, there wouldn’t be too many malicious people. There wasn’t much danger yet, the weather and environment weren’t harsh, and anyone could survive as long as they had enough food.
Even so! Bad people were always out there.
Sure enough, not long after she kept going, the two highways began merging into one, and a silver minivan came into view.
Qi Xu forged ahead at full speed without changing a thing.
Instead, the silver minivan suddenly slowed down and cut in front of her.
Qi Xu double-checked to make sure her personal information was indeed hidden, then eased off her speed to overtake from the side.
Yet the silver minivan swerved in front of her again. Its window rolled down, and a few sleazy laughs drifted out.
In the minivan’s side mirror ahead, Qi Xu saw a buzz-cut man driving one-handed, practically hanging half his body out the window. He wasn’t even watching the road; he was staring at her in the mirror and whistling.
Qi Xu rolled her wrists and ankles, then brought her tricycle to a stop, acting as if she didn’t dare contend with him.
What choice did she have? Riding a frilly pink princess tricycle, she could hardly pull off the act of a cool, ruthless killer who didn’t bat an eye! All she could do was play weak first and lure him out of his vehicle.
Her little tricycle couldn’t take a ramming.
Sure enough.
Once Qi Xu stopped, the silver minivan pulled to a stop as well.
“Sweetheart, that ride of yours is pretty cute. No need to rush. It’s rare to run into someone, so let’s chat a bit before we go.”
Qi Xu scanned his profile with her light screen and found that he had quite the nerve—he hadn’t even hidden his username, only his personal stats.
His username was: 【Badass PLUS】
Qi Xu didn’t check the chat lobby very often and had no idea what this guy’s deal was, though the name rang a vague bell.
She just stayed silent and didn’t get off her tricycle.
Carrying a club, Badass PLUS swaggered over.
Only then did Qi Xu hesitantly, sluggishly climb off the tricycle.
“D-don’t smash my vehicle. I have instant noodles I can give you.”
“Oh-ho, you’ve got good stuff like that! Hurry up and make it for me, and bring me a bottle of water too.”
Qi Xu bit her lip slightly and nodded. “Then what are you going to trade me for it?”
Badass PLUS flashed a thoroughly sleazy grin. “How about big brother rewards you with a sweet kiss?”
The moment those words left his mouth, Qi Xu finally remembered why his name looked familiar.
Wasn’t this the idiot she had blocked after he tried to trade a kiss for supplies?
Whatever she was thinking inside, Qi Xu just shook her head frantically and took a small step back. “I’ll go get you the instant noodles!”
Qi Xu kept rummaging around in the cargo bed until Badass PLUS lost patience. “Did you find it or not? Taking forever. I’m warning you, don’t try anything funny with me, or you’ll be sorry!”
The moment Badass PLUS stepped within a body’s length, Qi Xu whipped around and slashed at him without a split second of hesitation.
The blade struck him squarely in the chest. Then, while he was still howling and hadn’t even processed what had happened, she drove the blade straight into his neck.
Since she was in this survival game, if she wanted to live, she couldn’t be afraid to kill. In her previous run, it had taken Qi Xu a long time to get past that mental block, and she had suffered several heavy losses before finally overcoming it.
Now… looking at the idiot in front of her, she felt he wasn’t any different from a monster.
After making sure he was dead, Qi Xu searched his pockets and actually dug out half a pack of Chunghwa cigarettes and a lighter! In the right buyer’s hands, those could fetch a very high price!
Once she was sure he had nothing else on him, Qi Xu dragged the body over and tossed it straight into the thick black fog lining both sides of the road.
The moment she turned back around, the system announcement chimed again.
“Congratulations, player, on obtaining the new game title 〖Executioner〗! You really are an equal-opportunity killer, slaughtering your own kind too. So vicious, you’re scaring little old me! When this medal is equipped, Overall Combat Power +3 against human players!”
For the time being, it wasn’t very useful—its bonus wasn’t as good as 〖Carefree Kiddo〗—so she chose not to equip it.
Qi Xu guessed that the requirement for unlocking this title… was probably the first player kill?
After making sure no new vehicles were coming along the parallel highway, Qi Xu walked up to Badass PLUS’s minivan, pulled open the door, and broke into a smile. This idiot didn’t have an inventory backpack—she had hit the jackpot!