Chapter 83: "Event Announcement: Player 'Chen Yi' grandly gestures with a face full of boldness...
"Brother is brilliant!"
The man with two tufts of mustache below his nose, crouching in the corner, said with a serious expression as he cupped his fists in salute, "Yi and I have relied entirely on Brother's wise decisions all along!"
"Of course, we'll listen to Brother,"
And just then—
The bratty bear boss not far away suddenly roared, as if enraged, twirling the gift sack in his hand like a massive hammer.
He then violently smashed it towards a player who was shooting arrows a dozen meters away!
The player's face changed instantly, and he turned and ran like mad!
But obviously, the gift sack was coming at him faster, and it seemed about to crush the top of the player's head!
Just as the gift sack's shadow had enveloped the player.
"It's our turn to enter the stage."
Watching this scene unfold, the leading middle-aged man snickered, then turned to his two younger brothers behind him, exchanging glances before they stood shoulder to shoulder and pointed at the player frantically dodging the attack, shouting loudly.
"Go!"
As soon as they spoke!
Three jade-like beams of light shot out from their hands simultaneously, intertwining in mid-air to form a fist-sized jade orb, which, with an almost untraceable speed, surged into the body of the player.
This was their skill.
It was a support skill.
Once this jade-like light entered a player's body, it would slightly increase their movement speed for three seconds—a buff skill.
The cooldown was an hour, and it was an E-grade skill.
But if the three brothers stood together, they would trigger the special effects of the skill, "Mind as One!"
Only when the triplet brothers possessed this skill simultaneously would this special effect emerge.
If used on the same player at the same time, the three light orbs would merge into one, giving the target player a significant boost in movement speed for 10 seconds.
And the cooldown would be reduced by ninety percent.
It was indeed an exceptional support skill.
The three brothers had obtained these skills by a fluke.
During the 520 Valentine's Day event with Cupid in disarray, they used this support skill to rake in quite a few rewards.
It was safe and rewarding.
Could there be anything better?
And that combined jade orb, under the expectant eyes of the three brothers, drilled straight into the body of the player who was sprinting for their life.
Suddenly—
The speed of the running player tripled!
Like thunder tearing through clouds, he charged along the street directly towards his target!
He was saved!
Many players who were watching this scene breathed a sigh of relief for the sprinting player, who had received assistance. With such a high increase in movement speed, he would surely dodge that gift sack flying straight at him.
However... the next second.
People looked somewhat puzzled at the gift sack that had flown over the head of the darting player.
The bear child boss seemed to have overexerted and missed.
But then—
Everyone saw the sprinting player, like the first thunder of spring, shooting straight forward with his legs nearly smoking from the speed.
Even his newbie underpants were nearly flung off.
Finally.
The sudden burst in movement speed allowed the player to catch the gift sack thrown by the boss at the very last moment!
"Bang!"
A loud collision resonated!
People's jaws dropped in surprise, staring blankly at the quiet gift sack lying on the cracked street, momentarily stunned.
By then, the player had been buried under the gift sack.
After a moment of silence.
Someone finally muttered in bewilderment.
"Did the boss seem to have aimed poorly?"
"It should have, if I saw correctly. If the player hadn't run, it seems he wouldn't have been hit at all."
"Even if he ran, it wouldn't have mattered. Without that sudden boost in movement speed, he couldn't have caught it."
"If the movement speed buff had been a bit stronger, that brother would have just run past; a little slower, and the gift sack would have landed right in front of him."
"But... right on the mark, not too fast, not too slow, just perfect."
For a moment, many people looked toward the three bald men standing a few meters away from the gift sack with strange expressions, the same thought dawning on all of them.
You did that on purpose, didn't you.
...
Sitting on the sleigh and witnessing the scene below, Tuberculosis Rabbit couldn't help but be taken aback, "Are they serious?"
"Can these players really coordinate together to fight a boss?"
Chen Yi glanced at the gift sack and then turned his attention to the boss with only 7% health left.
Although he could no longer claim the reward for the highest damage inflicted, the reward for the last hit wasn't bad either.
Two bullets were fired in succession.
"Bang!"
He successfully secured the last hit.
So far, no one had managed to outdo his last-hitting skills!
'Ding, congratulations to player Chen Yi for successfully killing boss number 28822, securing the last hit.'
'Last-hit reward: 99 roses.'
'Damage reward: 121 Points.'
"99 roses?"
Chen Yi looked at the prop that had suddenly appeared in his backpack, which also had a three-day countdown on it, clearly indicating that after three days, the prop would expire.
It belonged to the limited-time consumable props.
That's when he remembered the "Rose Guardian" event from the Children's Day activities, which he really had no interest in.
Spend Points to buy Roses and then send them out.
Did he think he had so many Points in his pocket that it weighed him down?
Did he have too much money with nowhere to spend it?
But since they gave him 99 for free, it would be a waste not to use them, so he immediately followed the activity path guide and found the option to send flowers in the chat with Jiaye.
There were several levels, too.
"1 Rose."
"9 Rose Bouquets."
"99 Rose Baskets."
"999 Rose Rain."
"9999 Rose Sea."
"99999 Rose Planet."
"..."
Chen Yi glanced at the different flower-sending levels with some speechlessness. The highest level, Rose Planet, required a whopping 99999 Roses, which is a total of 100,000 Points!
Spending nearly 100,000 Points to buy a Rose Planet to give away, has he gone mad?
What was the point of having such an event appear?
If anyone could send this thing, he'd stand on his head and wash his hair!
Even if someone really collected a huge number of Points in May, they wouldn't lose their senses and spend 100,000 Points on something so utterly useless.
If the Snow Sea Project Team can't plan an event, they shouldn't bother planning at all. What was the point of creating such an event that nobody would participate in? It was simply an insult to their intelligence.
If it really came to it, let him be in charge of planning.
At least when you plan an event, you should know what players want, evoking their desires.
Chen Yi selected the 99 Rose Basket option without much enthusiasm.
The next second—
A cascade of Roses suddenly appeared above Jiaye's head, as 99 dew-kissed Roses fell from the sky and landed on her white camisole dress.
The combination of red Roses and the white camisole dress was nothing short of perfect.
Enveloped in a waterfall of Roses, Jiaye looked somewhat dazed as she lifted her right hand to touch the Roses in the air, her earlobe tinged with a faint blush. She pursed her lips pretending as if nothing had happened and tried not to let her joy show too obviously.
But her eyes, almost squinting into crescents, and the joy in her pupils betrayed Jiaye's thoughts completely.
Eventually.
Jiaye could no longer hold back the joy in her heart; she failed to manage her expression again as she involuntarily smiled, stopped pretending, and, with great openness, stood amidst the falling Rose petals, spinning in place.
With an expectant expression, her hands clutched behind her, she tiptoed and leaned forward, looking up at Chen Yi.
"Does it look good?"
"It looks good."
Before Chen Yi could respond, Tie Chui clapped his hands with a simple-minded smile and said, "It really does look good."
At this moment, Chen Yi had not noticed any of this, but his mouth slowly widened as he looked dazed and incredulous at the light screen panel in front of him.
Seeing Chen Yi not paying attention to her,
and with the Rose Rain now stopped, the Roses that had fallen on the white dress turned into red dust and dissipated in the air, Jiaye slightly lowered her head with a bit of disappointment and turned to look down without speaking.
The toes that had been pointed also drew back into their normal position.
She pursed her lips, and her pale and tender hands unconsciously fiddled with her dress.
The air was quiet for a moment.
Tuberculosis Rabbit lightly coughed with one hand in a fist to ease the awkwardness and then nudged Yi with his elbow as if to say, "Come on, man, show some romance!"
Even Tie Chui, who had the brain of a patient with cerebral palsy, managed to blurt out "You're as beautiful as the moonlight" last night.
How could Yi be even less impressive than Tie Chui?
When was he not able to look at the panel?
Why didn't he just look at it some other time?
Tuberculosis Rabbit felt a bit embarrassed for Jiaye, but obviously, he couldn't say it looked good; that wasn't his line to pick up.
Though he was a chatterbox who liked to talk,
he still knew when he could contribute to the conversation and when he couldn't.
However, even after Tuberculosis Rabbit nudged Yi with his elbow, Yi still did not react, staring blankly at the panel in front of him as if he was seeing something fascinating.
Tuberculosis Rabbit couldn't help but sigh in disbelief, looking at Jiaye who had completely turned away, he nudged Yi a bit harder with his elbow.
But Yi still did not respond.
Just as Tuberculosis Rabbit was about to increase his effort once again.
"Hey!"
Chen Yi suddenly shouted loudly, his eyes shining as he looked up at Jiaye's figure from behind with pupils filled with intense excitement and eagerness, and his face nearly spilling with impatience!
"What the!?"
Tuberculosis Rabbit was startled by the roar, looking confusedly at Yi who seemed not quite right, and asked blankly, "Yi, what's wrong with you?"
But then, the next second—
Above Jiaye's head suddenly appeared a Rose Sea spanning hundreds of meters in diameter!!!
Immediately after that—
World announcements kept scrolling as banners across the screens of all players!
"Event Announcement: Player 'Chen Yi' has flamboyantly and lovingly sent a 9999 Rose Sea to Miss 'Jiaye'. Let us send our sincere wishes to them!"
"..."
The same world announcement scrolled across the screens of all players in banner form, not once but three times!
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PS: More coming tonight, probably around chapters three, four, five, six, seven, eight will be posted before morning.