Chapter 12: Even a Skillful Housewife Can't Cook Without Rice!
What the hell?!
Is this for real?!
Did they actually draw a beast surge?!
Zhou Yiming was stunned!
He had said that He Zheng, Yang Miao, and Wang Xueyan were jinxes!
Damn it!
In fact, the expressions on He Zheng, Yang Miao, and Wang Xueyan’s faces were grim as well!
None of them wanted the beast surge to actually be drawn!
Especially Wang Xueyan; she reacted the fastest and immediately shouted to Zhou Yiming:
“Teleport! Use the teleportation stone quickly!”
Only then did Zhou Yiming snap out of it and use the teleportation stone Wang Xueyan had given him earlier.
After his figure disappeared, the remaining three veterans began to execute the plan they had prepared.
Almost two minutes after Zhou Yiming drew the beast surge,
a deafening explosion echoed through the three nearby clubs!
Jiang Yi had been lying on his single bed in his room, resting with his eyes closed.
Hearing the blast, he opened his eyes, calm and alert.
Luo Shan, unwilling to waste the all-attribute +5 buff, was downstairs working out with a burly man.
He had just completed over a hundred push-ups without losing breath, impressing the man beside him.
Just as he was thinking about striking up a conversation with the man, the loud explosion startled him so much that he blurted out, “Holy shit!”
The burly man’s face changed abruptly as he said, “Something’s wrong!”
“What… what’s wrong?!” Luo Shan panicked.
The man rolled his eyes at him and said, “How the hell should I know? Wait for news!”
“Wait…” Luo Shan was about to ask more.
The man cut him off and explained, “Official players can quickly communicate through the life chart chat system.”
“Although Gao Chang isn’t an official player, as the death squad captain, he should have contact with at least one official player!”
Just then, hurried footsteps came down the villa stairs, followed by Gao Chang’s urgent and booming voice:
“Gather! Everyone in the villa, gather now!”
Seemingly worried that others wouldn’t listen, he added, “Brother Liao Liao Yuanfeng from Team Seven has sent a message!”
Clearly, the name Liao Yuanfeng, an official player, carried far more weight than Gao Chang himself.
Soon, various footsteps sounded as all nine members of the team assembled in the first-floor hall within two minutes.
Jiang Yi blended in seamlessly, showing no signs of being out of place.
But Luo Shan, seeing the other members, was once again deeply unsettled—
He felt that these death squad members...
Each one looked terribly defeated!
And two or three of them were injured!
Only then did Luo Shan feel a pang of dread deep in his heart!
Had joining the death squad really been the right decision?
No! No doubts! It had to be the right choice!
Because now, he enjoyed the all-attribute +5 buff!
Right now, even Gao Chang might not be his match within this entire death squad!
All of this...
Luo Shan glanced at Jiang Yi.
Then, without making a fuss, he quietly sat down beside him.
Gao Chang tapped on the table and pulled out a map, speaking rapidly:
“Just received news: in the Purple Roulette Zone, the Blood Swallow Club drew the beast surge!”
“What?! Beast surge?!”
“And it came from the Purple Roulette Zone?!”
In an instant, the previously lethargic death squad members reacted fiercely:
“A purple-level beast surge is ten times more terrifying than the one at Hanjiang University!”
“Ten times! What does that even mean?! It’s like the difference between a century and a millennium—ten times more, but who here even has a hundred years to live?”
“Having ten years is already pretty good! And now they want us cannon fodder with just ten years of life to defend against a purple-level beast surge drawn by a millennium’s worth of life?!”
“We’re the death squad, not idiots who want to die!”
Clearly, the death squad members were furious and complaining about this sudden purple-level beast surge.
Gao Chang was not surprised by their reaction.
He banged on the table sharply: “Silence!”
“Rest assured, although this beast surge is purple-level, our club’s veteran He Zheng, the Mountain Water Club’s veteran Yang Miao, and Blood Swallow Club’s veteran Wang Xueyan...”
“These three veterans have made thorough preparations for this surge!”
“That loud explosion you just heard wasn’t caused by the ferocious beasts!”
“It was a trap set by the veterans in advance to exterminate the beasts!”
“So, even though this beast surge is far more powerful than the one at Hanjiang University,”
“our three major clubs’ strength far surpasses the students from Hanjiang University back then!”
“Plus, we’ve made ample preparations before the draw...”
“We can completely handle this beast surge!”
“Besides, our death squad’s mission isn’t to charge the frontlines as cannon fodder!”
At this, Gao Chang slammed his hand on the table again and pointed to the map he had prepared earlier.
“Look here, this is the Purple Roulette draw zone, the current epicenter of the beast surge.”
“And here...”
Gao Chang circled the outermost edge of the Purple Roulette draw zone with a red pen.
“This is our first line of defense, guarded by the core members of the three major clubs.”
Then he drew a larger yellow circle outside the red one.
“This is the second line of defense, manned by official members of the three clubs.”
Hearing this, the death squad members’ tempers finally cooled.
So they weren’t being sent directly into the beast surge to die...
Luo Shan breathed a sigh of relief and asked directly, “So what area are we death squad members responsible for?”
Gao Chang pointed at the map and explained:
“From experience, a beast surge spreads like ripples formed when a stone is thrown into water..."
“Starting from the center, it expands outward in circles.”
“Although the first two lines of defense have stronger veterans stationed there,”
“veterans aren’t omnipotent, and some beasts will continue to spread outward!”
He then used a fluorescent pen to draw an even larger circle on the map.
“This is the outermost zone we are responsible for.”
However, the burly man who had been working out frowned deeply at the vast area:
“That’s a huge area; we don’t have nearly enough people in the death squad, do we?”
“Don’t worry.” Gao Chang gave him a reassuring look and continued, “The beast surge in this area is diluted; the density of beasts is extremely low, so it barely counts as a surge.”
“So today, we only need to guard the key areas within this large circle. As for the other areas, once the beast surge threat subsides, we’ll slowly clear the remaining beasts.”
Gao Chang then used a black pen to draw a square around the area where the Joyful Club is located.
That black square intersected with the fluorescent outer circle.
He shaded the intersection and looked at the members:
“This is the area our death squad is responsible for!”
The other death squad members relaxed, nodding in agreement.
Jiang Yi listened to Gao Chang’s analysis, almost identical to what he knew from his previous life, and felt reassured.
In truth, this beast surge wasn’t very dangerous for him.
What he truly cared about was the opportunity that came with the beast surge!
Don’t be fooled by his current godlike ability to select specific roulette rewards,
or the all-attribute +5 buff stacked on himself.
It might seem like he could now lie back and be invincible, carefree.
But in reality, he faced a very awkward predicament—
His lifespan was only a mere 38 days!
Thirty-eight days! Not even enough to spin the lowest-level white roulette once!
As the saying goes, even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice!
No matter how powerful his ability to select roulette rewards, it was useless without lifespan to draw!
Of course, he could choose to struggle like in his previous life, enduring the horrendous death rate in the death squad for a month,
accumulating time coins and club points to exchange for the club’s low-grade longevity pills.
And those low-grade longevity pills were, unfortunately, made by Chang Jiao’e!
First, this process was far too long and exhausting for Jiang Yi.
Second, in this life, he didn’t want to buy any more longevity pills crafted by Chang Jiao’e!
So...
He had to seize the opportunity presented by this beast surge and quickly secure himself a second chance at the draw!