CH 172

It's better to be impressed than to act.

Having decided that he wanted The Endymion to add to his path of poverty, Xiao Lan quickly began to think about how he was going to do it.

With about twenty minutes to go before Pheasant organises support, time is limited and it needs to be done quickly.

Meanwhile, there is another indentured player in the process of slaughter not far above, so be careful to avoid him when you move.

It is therefore important not to make too much noise when dismantling a ship and not to leave too obvious traces, it is best to dismantle one piece for another and do it quietly.

Xiao Lan suddenly thought of a point: "[The Bone of Paradox] has been enhanced with your core, will they find it?"

Luo shook his head: "The power in the core that belongs to me has long since been consumed, and with the [Bones of Dalet] incorporated, it no longer has the same aura as me."

Xiao Lan: "By the way, would the contracted player recognise your face if he saw it?"

Luo: "No, I never appear in front of them. If the Juggernaut, he always issues quests directly and has no interest in chatting with any players."

Xiao Lan is now a little more at ease.

With time running out, Xiao Lan beckons Luo to start their demolition project.

The two men rushed to the bottom first and roughly opened part of the watertight compartment.

Xiao Lan then switched the [Bone of Disobedience] in his hand to a blade, and a number of holes opened up in the hidden spots of the ship's hull.

Luo didn't stay idle either, and although he couldn't use his powers, he still demolished the [it's a dagger covered in poison] handed to him by Xiao Lan with aplomb.

The speed at which the two men did it was extremely fast, and the two figures kept moving through the boat.

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Ten steps to dismantle a cabin, a thousand miles to go.

I'll leave after I've done that, and I'll hide my poverty and my name.

Today, the emotionless demolition machine and his loyal lackeys are also very hard at work in business.

Wherever they pass, which at first glance seems to be nothing, there is always a silent leakage of water.

Soon the leak in The Endymion became worse and worse and the ship began to tilt slightly with the amount of seawater pouring in.

But at the same time, the rumble above the two men's heads was getting closer.

It eventually became the same level as them.

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The other side.

A player is struggling to run forward.

He ran with his face white and panting, clearly having used all his strength.

He was a long-range attacking player, already fast in his own right, with all his acceleration skills and props turned on at this point.

As he was running away, he kept using his skills to try to block the guy behind him, and props were thrown at him like no money.

But the sound of footsteps behind him continued to grow closer and closer, as if a call of death.

The player shouted in despair, "I said I don't know!!! I've never seen this thing in your hand at all!!!"

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"It doesn't matter, I'm in a bad mood, you're unlucky, that's all." The voice behind him, however, was very calm, as if to say, "Boss please bring me another handful of onions.

The player couldn't hold back his anger: "You're a madman!!! Pervert! Killing people-"

No sooner had his words fallen than his opponent's attack had arrived.

The baseball bat landed on the back of his head at a relentlessly high speed, and the person who struck seemed to use so much force that his entire skull was shattered straight away, sending red and white liquid flying out at once.

The player's body, still in a running position, lurched forward several steps before collapsing violently.

The body is still twitching, but the life is gone.

The dreadlocked man in beach trousers stepped forward and tore off the body's shirt to wipe his bloodied baseball bat.

After wiping the baseball bat clean, the dreadlocked man casually discarded the soiled rag in his hand.

He surveyed his surroundings, oblivious to the bodies on the ground, "Not after looking for so many, how many little bugs are there in this playground, anyway? Looks like this mission probably won't be finished, ugh ...... my vacation ...... annoying ......"

He scratched his hair impatiently and smashed a baseball bat hard against the hull with a loud thud.

As he attacked, a huge amount of seawater poured in.

"Kam!" Braid wiped the water that had gotten on his face.

He walked forward carrying the bat in his hand, destroying the hull relentlessly along the way, with no intention of saving his boss a bit of money for his descent into the world.

Suddenly, as he stepped around a certain corner, he saw from afar the figure of a man coming out at the other end of the corridor.

Pigtails smiled, "Caught two more bugs ......"

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Xiao Lan sensed a murderous intent that made his hair stand on end the moment he stepped around the corner.

Also in view was the figure that appeared far away at the end of the corridor. The distance between the two sides was so great that he could not really see it, but this unmistakable murderous intent made him instantly realise that the other side was up to no good.

At this point in time, the identity of the player who is treated with such killing intent cries out for the identity of the other player -

The indentured player who entered the playground!

Without any hesitation, Xiao Lan and Luo ran at the same time.

Despite moving up to senior level, Xiao Lan will not blindly assume that he can now fight hard against the pact.

What's more, the other man was sent by the Juggernaut to find Luo, and he must not be allowed to find Luo, or better still, not even get close.

The two figures move swiftly away.

Behind him, however, the dreadlocked man reacted quickly and came in hot pursuit.

He seemed to be the same physically enhanced type as Xiao Lan, but he was far faster than Xiao Lan and ran as fast as lightning, quickly closing the distance between them.

At this rate, in a few seconds, the dreadlocked man will catch up with Xiao Lan.

The cold killing intent came like a blade, making people feel like they were immersed in ice water and their muscles couldn't help but tremble.

The dreadlocked man's voice came from the rear, "Hey, what are you running for?"

Luo's brow furrowed slightly, "Sir, I'll go and distract him."

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Xiao Lan decisively refused: "Speed up, let's continue."

With no time to be distressed by the poverty value, he decisively turned on the skill.

[Title: Poverty Can't Limit My Imagination]

[Ability: Sixteen times acceleration]

Xiao Lan's speed increased abruptly and he leapt forward.

Luo followed suit and the distance between the two figures and the pursuers behind them closed again.

"Chit." The dreadlocked man made a dismissive sound.

He also continued to accelerate, chasing the figure ahead of him.

This time, however, the distance between the two sides became slower to close and he was unable to catch up just in the nick of time.

Xiao Lan has also noticed this.

Since the pursuers were already behind them, it was useless to just hide one's tracks.

He advanced all the way and kept attacking towards the hull, destroying it while creating obstacles for the guys behind him.

More and more gaps appeared in the hull, and countless seawater poured inwards.

The amount of debris and debris coming through mixed with the sea did make a small dent in the dreadlocked man, but it couldn't quite get Xiao Lan off his back.

The dreadlocked man swung his bat to break up the clutter in front of him.

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He was truly enraged by these two little insects and accelerated at full speed, chasing Xiao Lan and the two men to death.

The two sides are still chasing each other in the sinking The Endymion.

As Xiao Lan moves, the whole ship is tilting and sinking downwards.

The distance between them was at times great, at times pulled apart by the obstacles created by Xiao Lan and Luo, at times brought closer by the dreadlocked man, and the situation remained stagnant, with no one in full control of the situation.

Until, there is no more road ahead.

The Endymion is limited in size, and this is the part near the bow where Xiao Lan sees the corridor in front of him come to an end.

In a short time, they were about to run out of road.

He heard the dreadlocked man behind him whistle with pleasure, as if celebrating the self-seeking death of his prey.

Xiao Lan's eyes turn to the side.

There would have been the steel plates of the hull, which would have been a little thicker than the rest, but no more than ten centimetres.

He leapt up and slashed hard towards there with the sharp blade in his hand.

The blade, which had absorbed the core of the Paradox, combined with Xiao Lan's strength far beyond that of an ordinary player, drove deep into the hull of the ship.

However, Xiao Lan's actions did not stop there.

With the sixteen-fold acceleration brought about by his skill, he darted up over the vertical surface of the hull, leaving a long gaping hole in his wake.

Luo instantly understood Xiao Lan's intentions and at the same time a slash into the hull sped forward and another narrow wound appeared.

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As the two men ran wildly, the two wounds on the hull grew larger and larger, and a huge amount of seawater poured violently towards the boat.

Xiao Lan ran to the end, and with a vicious slash of all his might he severed the joint between the two cuts, and then forced himself to lift the long wound with his exceptional strength.

In an instant, it was as if the gates of hell had been opened and the sea poured out in a frenzy, directly into the boat.

The incoming sea separates Xiao Lan from the two men and the dreadlocked man in hot pursuit behind them.

All he had time to let out was, "Crap-"

Then, caught off guard, he was instantly and violently pushed towards the other side of the boat by the huge volume of water that poured over him.

It was as if a tank had been pressed on top of a camel that was about to fall.

The battered and bruised The Endymion was finally unable to withstand the incoming seawater any longer and the ship plunged downwards, accelerating the sinking rate several times over.

The cruise ship, which bears the name of the beautiful boy who sleeps forever, has finally embarked on a sleepy journey that shares its name.

The Endymion, sinking downwards, swirls into a huge vortex and a powerful suction appears, seemingly dragging everyone down with it.

Countless debris and dust mixed into the water, clouding the waters and obscuring visibility.

But it also makes it easier for Xiao Lan and Luo to hide their whereabouts.

Xiao Lan fought his way through the sea, using the acceleration of his advanced player physique and skills to combat the terrible suction.

Because Xiao Lan's vision was impaired, Luo guided him all the way away from the dreadlocked man.

Finally, Xiao Lan surfaced and was out of the vortex's suction range, also temporarily shutting down his skills.

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The next moment he hears the delightful system prompt.

"Sabotage an important scene (Engagement: 10%), The Endymion's entire boss has expressed great concern for you and wants you to hurry up and die"

"With a $2.9 billion increase in poverty value, Xiao Lan stands at the pinnacle of poverty"

As expected of a luxury cruise ship, the cost of construction is really super luxurious, even 10% is such a frightening figure.

As it happens, how bold one is, how productive one's poverty value is.

The feeling of reaching the pinnacle of poverty is simply to die for, and as for the attention of the bosses, it doesn't matter.

Then came a succession of system prompts.

"Poverty value exceeds 1 billion, skill [Poverty Can't Limit My Imagination] upgraded to LV.4"

"Poverty value exceeds 3 billion, skill [Poverty Can't Limit My Imagination] upgraded to LV.5"

[Name: Poverty Can't Limit My Imagination (Bound)]

【Ability: 1. Imagine an ability, the poorer the ability the more powerful it is, consume 10 million poverty value per minute when using it, can increase the consumption multiplier of poverty value (2/4/8) to enhance the effect of the skill (lv.5)

2. Enhances the player's physical fitness according to the poverty level and has a chance to obtain random items when attacking the target (passive)]

[Description: I may be poor, but I can dream! This is the last stubbornness of the poor]

The man standing at the pinnacle of poverty calms down a little.

Looking at the description of the skill, he has the option to increase the consumption of poverty to gain a boost to the effect of the skill.

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The Life and Death just burned up a total of 130 million of his poverty value, and with the proceeds from the shipwreck, he now has just over 3 billion.

If the maximum 8 times poverty consumption is turned on, it will consume 80 million poverty values every minute.

Total number of skills that can be used -

About 37 minutes.

How come it feels like the poverty value is increasing, but it's also getting spent faster?

Without waiting for Xiao Lan to think about it, a new system prompt reappears.

"After testing, player Xiao Lan's combined battle power exceeds 1000% of that of a senior player, meeting the conditions for a contracted player upgrade"

"Do you accept the contracted advancement trial now? [Yes/No] (Hint: Players can also participate in the trial on their own afterwards)"

Xiao Lan decisively chose no, and even tried to tick "Do not prompt again", but unfortunately there was no such option available.

I didn't expect so much poverty value to push his battle power straight forward by a large margin, even contractually.

He would have liked to take on the dreadlocked indentured player, but the sea was too misty for Xiao Lan to see him, and with Luo at stake, he didn't dare risk it.

It's better to leave this playground early, before any further accidents occur.

Just then, there was a noisy motor sound coming from the mists.

The motor sounded ragged and breathless, not a high class thing by the sound of it.

The sound of the motor is slowly approaching Xiao Lan's position.

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Xiao Lan, however, laughed.

This sense of poverty that comes through just by the sound of the voice must be that affable pheasant organisation.

Sure enough, the old little rickety boat sailed out of the white mist.

Most of the hull is pitted and pockmarked, and there are many places where the paint has fallen off, and rust mixed with stains creeps all over the hull.

On the surface is also an extremely flamboyantly printed advertisement "For the treatment of infertility, please recognize XX Men's Hospital, professional male medicine, trustworthy".

The lettering is bright and full, with a striking effect with the yellow background.

Xiao Lan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth; it really is an instantly recognisable boat.

No one else has the business skills to put out small ads on the high seas to save money.

"Gee SB001 your location is hard to find, good thing I have a location or I would have run out of gas later." A dark-skinned Asian Little Huang Mao waved at Xiao Lan from the window.

The voice was familiar, it was the unreliable guy who had been in contact with Xiao Lan.

Xiao Lan The two men climbed into the boat, the worn hull creaking with an unbearable sound.

With a hull of this quality that probably wouldn't hold up to a punch from a current Xiao Lan, the Pheasant organisation really looks like it's on its way out.

Little Huang Mao saw one more person and wondered, "Who is this?"

Xiao Lan had already thought of a response: "This is the investor I pulled for the organisation this time, making particularly good money."

Little Huang Mao was all smiles at once: "Oh oh oh, hello hello hello hello! Welcome, our organization loves gold masters like you ...... Oh no, talent! Talent!!!"

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By the look of his enthusiasm, he wasn't about to delve into Luo's identity.

I guess Xiao Lan would have tried to stop him even if he had volunteered not to take this man.

Little Huang Mao fired up the boat with a big smile: "SB001, I'm debiting your account oh."

"Hmm." Xiao Lan said.

"Special conditions triggered, poverty value increased by 1572815,000"

Xiao Lan: "......"

Not bad for a poverty-stingy pheasant organisation, it was the first time he had seen so many decimal points after the poverty value.

The small rickety boat sails slowly away through the mist.

The sounds around them faded and darkness slowly descended.

"Ding dong--"

"Congratulations to Xiao Lan for clearing the game 'The Endymion'"

"Pass to get the bonus prop [Mouthpiece]"

[Name: Mouthful].

[Ability: Ban the target for 3 minutes (cooldown 24 hours)]

[Illustration: How to make everything indescribable]