As for the endurance data of the Wind Spirit Hoverboard, Bai Qiu had Zhang Shiyao test it.
She seemed to really like this new mode of transportation.
It could fly, was highly maneuverable, fast, and firmly gripped the user’s feet.
Since she was quite light to begin with, even with her equipment and weapons, her total weight was under 100 kilograms.
The final test result showed that at full speed, it could last for two and a half hours, covering a distance of about 1,075 kilometers.
After that, the ten Wind Crystals would be completely drained of energy, turning into transparent empty shells.
Only after replacing them with new Wind Crystals could it continue operating.
Endurance: 2.5 hours at full speed.
…….
Two nights later, Zhang Shiyao approached Bai Qiu, who was busy making potions, and asked, “Brother, tomorrow is the day Zone 2203 delivers resources. Are you going?”
“Ah, has a week already passed so quickly?” Bai Qiu said in surprise.
Thinking about it, since his last awakening, he had gone nearly ten days without sleep.
He finished refining the mental power potion, stood up to stretch his joints, and rubbed his slightly aching temples.
“Then I’ll go with you tomorrow. Wake me when it’s time,” Bai Qiu said, sounding a bit tired.
At the moment, he was in Zone 2243.
He headed back to his resting room, preparing to finally enter a meditative state to recover.
“Mm!” Zhang Shiyao nodded, clearly looking forward to the next day’s gains.
…
Late at night, a series of voices in his mind suddenly woke Bai Qiu from his meditation.
He looked around in confusion.
Zhang Shiyao was sound asleep on the bed, hugging a pillow, while he himself had been meditating on the sofa.
Checking the time, it was already past 3 a.m.
To recover his mental state, he had actually meditated for a full four hours, yet he still hadn’t completely returned to peak condition.
It seemed that the fatigue from prolonged sleeplessness required even longer rest to fully offset.
“So hungry… so hungry…”
“Master… A Yuan is so hungry…”
Realizing the voice came through telepathy, Bai Qiu quickly took out the contract space card.
Inside, A Yuan—having just finished molting—looked extremely uncomfortable.
It was twisting restlessly in the contract space, seemingly lacking energy…
Seeing this, Bai Qiu hurriedly threw in some extraordinary flesh from his backpack.
But even when the food was right in front of it, A Yuan didn’t open its mouth to eat.
Rather, it hadn’t awakened at all—it was still in a sleeping state.
The earlier voice had only been a subconscious cry.
Right! Bai Qiu suddenly remembered—A Yuan didn’t need to eat to absorb energy.
As long as liquids containing water-element energy were poured over its body, that would suffice!
With that in mind, Bai Qiu poured all the potions related to the water element over A Yuan.
The moment the liquid touched its shriveled scales, it was instantly absorbed without a trace!
Bai Qiu was overjoyed—if it could absorb energy, that was enough!
He had plenty of resources to feed it!
Seeing that A Yuan was still not satisfied, and its desire continued to echo through telepathy, Bai Qiu took out all the water-element ores and began refining them.
After removing impurities and refining them into Water Crystals, he cautiously placed one on A Yuan’s body.
The moment the blue crystal touched its scales, the energy within it was instantly drained, turning it into a transparent empty shell…
It worked!
Overjoyed, Bai Qiu immediately refined all the water-element ores into Water Crystals and poured them all over A Yuan at once, nearly burying half its body…
“Not hungry anymore… so comfortable…”
As A Yuan’s subconscious voice echoed through telepathy, Bai Qiu finally let out a sigh of relief.
……
At 10:30 in the morning, Fei Wu led a group of people out of the fixed dungeon, their faces pale.
Over the past few days, Bai Qiu had shown no movement at all.
Otherwise, given his strength, he would have had countless opportunities to wipe them out over the past week.
It seemed that Bai Qiu truly was a man of his word—someone who disdained underhanded tricks.
But Fei Wu didn’t dare give Bai Qiu any reason to act.
To fulfill the resource quota they had promised him, more than two hundred of them split into three groups, arriving at the fixed dungeon at 3 a.m. every day to camp.
As players grew stronger, competition for resources intensified.
They had no choice but to guard the dungeon around the clock.
By now, their control over Zone 2203 had become little more than a formality.
Not only did all dungeon resources have to be reserved for Bai Qiu, but after each run they were exhausted like dogs, with no energy left to grind monsters or level up.
As time passed, players from other Zones grew increasingly dissatisfied with their daily monopolization of the spot…
Eight days had passed since the agreed deadline with Bai Qiu.
Everyone had lost weight, their hair greasy and tangled, with heavy dark circles under their eyes…
At that moment, Zhang Shiyao flew over on the Wind Spirit Hoverboard and asked coldly, “Have you prepared everything?”
Fei Wu immediately stepped forward, nodding and bowing. “Of course, of course.”
Facing Zhang Shiyao, he didn’t dare show the slightest disrespect.
She was now ranked second on the Tide Points leaderboard, with an exceptionally high reputation—and rumor had it she was personally trained by Bai Qiu.
He spread several pieces of cloth flat on the ground, then took out a storage card and carefully released the dungeon materials, piling them into several small heaps, all neatly sorted.
Zhang Shiyao stepped forward and stored everything into her own storage card.
After roughly checking, she found there was even a bit extra, and nodded.
Her eyes curved into a harmless smile as she said, “The amount checks out. See you—do your best to stay alive.”
Hearing those “encouraging” words, Fei Wu couldn’t help but feel a strong sense of unease rising in his heart.
Looking up again, Zhang Shiyao had already jumped onto the Wind Spirit Hoverboard and flown away.
As his gaze followed her departing direction, a chill suddenly ran down his spine.
About 200 meters away, atop an intact streetlamp, stood a handsome young man.
He wore casual clothes, stood tall and straight, and had his hands in his pockets as he looked over at them.
Their eyes met—and through those shattered-gold pupils, Fei Wu instantly recognized him as Bai Qiu.
Cold sweat broke out all over his body.
At that distance, Bai Qiu wouldn’t even need to take a single step—he could kill them all where he stood.
Yet his gaze was calm and unfathomable, devoid of any emotion, not even killing intent.
He simply watched them from above, like a distant, untouchable observer.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
A series of hurried yet synchronized footsteps echoed as a group of people in identical armor rushed in from all directions.
Several swift figures flashed past.
Before Fei Wu and the others could even react, familiar chains appeared out of nowhere and in an instant, they were tightly bound by iron shackles!
Assassin-class players holding iron chains revealed themselves, handing one end of the chains to Berserker-class players.
With a sudden, forceful pull everyone was instantly forced to their knees!
Fei Wu and the others struggled with all their might, but they couldn’t break free.
In fact, they couldn’t even budge the chains in the slightest.
They recognized these chains all too well.
They were the very chains that had once bound the Hydra serpent—and the same item that had once restrained Bai Qiu himself!
Only now, the ones bound by them… were themselves.
“Bai Qiu! Didn’t you say you’d spare our lives?! What is the meaning of this?!” Fei Wu shouted, trying to stand, only to have his shoulder violently pressed down.
The response he got was a voice that sent a chill straight to their bones.
“He, Bai Qiu, may have agreed to spare your lives… but what does that have to do with me, Li Zhongjun?”
— The end of the Chapter–
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