Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 835 - 834: Comic Book

Lost World, 41st floor.

Builder Elephant, a massive elephant-shaped Builder, strides forward on its building-like four legs through the debris-strewn ruins.

With each step, the ground trembles violently.

Creaaak!

The Builder extends its trunk, easily breaking a five-meter-diameter metal pipe blocking its path. It stuffs the pipe into its mouth, crunching it like chocolate,

then opens its abdomen to reveal a blistering power furnace and a mechanical forging device,

extracting new metal components from the mechanical forging device, installation regardless of aesthetics on the open pipe ends.

Dismantle—Recycle—Build.

This is the mission of the Builder, tirelessly toiling away day after day, year after year, in this silent world, reshaping the environment and terrain.

On the back of the elephant-shaped Builder, secured by ropes and nails, sits a large bamboo basket with four girls inside.

Chewing gum with a bored expression, the blonde girl, Qin;

Wearing glasses, quietly reading a large book on her lap, the red-haired girl, Eva;

Dusky-skinned, sitting in a corner of the basket, silently controlling an Unmanned Scout Drone, the Indian girl, Nina;

And the Asian girl, Pei Youzhen, with features as delicate as a doll;

These four are members of the seventh group from the "Wind Chaser" show, gathered first due to close proximity during transmission,

as Nina has special tools to communicate long-distance and middle-range with teammates without the Lost World's walls absorbing the signal,

allowing them to become the first small group to meet, defeating another four players from different factions in the first half-hour of the contest, collecting their belts.

Sitting in the bamboo basket seat and swinging her legs, Qin looks at the dim, silent city below and remarks, "It's so quiet, there aren't even roaming mech beasts on the streets, quite different from the 40th floor."

Sitting beside her, the younger, darker-skinned Indian girl, Nina, softly replies, "Ah, maybe this elephant-shaped Builder is so aggressive that ordinary mech beasts are too scared to approach it."

Qin reclines, lazily lying against the edge of the bamboo basket and says, "But that has nothing to do with us anymore."

Nina pauses, "Huh? Why?"

"Everyone has been saved."

Qin says matter-of-factly: "At the beginning of entering the Lost World, encountering mech beasts might have been very troublesome.

But after tests, it's known that mech beasts like to slaughter fleshy creatures, tracking players by scent, sound, and light.

Our 'Airy Camping Bamboo Basket' can block scent, sound waves, and light, perfectly shielding us from mech beasts' detection methods, ensuring we don't alarm them.

As long as we hitch a ride with the Builder, we can move freely between floors and use drones to scout the surroundings.

As for the Particle Identity Verification Device, we happened to defeat two players before, so we're not short of powder for a while.

The next task is to find the teacher and that talented guy, or other teammates,

gather strength, leave the Builder, head to other locations on the map, seek powder, and the comic book that serves as a key clue..."

"Wait a minute."

Eva, who had been reading, raises her hand to stop Qin from continuing.

She looks up, the others follow her gaze to see the System Detector that appeared before.

Eva frowns slightly, and Qin and others react instantly, silently picking up their weapons.

Pei Youzhen polishes a metal baseball bat adorned with various anime designs, softly reminding, "Nina."

"Mm."

Nina nods, her fingers tapping on the tablet, causing the Unmanned Scout Drones flying around the Builder to transform, pulling out massive cannons from the void and scanning the surroundings.

The presence of the Detector suggests either there are fewer than ten battles currently, randomly capturing them,

or they have entered combat mode...

Ideally, it's the former.

The four girls quietly waited for five minutes,

the elephant-shaped Builder moving on its own, completely unaffected,

and the System Detector in the sky not vanishing.

"Seems it's a random shot..."

Qin finally breathes a sigh of relief and waves amicably at the Detector—they are unexpectedly popular in the real world, with a fan base across the country, with influence greater than some idol stars. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

In some ways, akin to a top girl group—backed by the Global Occult Coalition, they are safe from any criticism.

"Don't rush to wave yet."

Eva calmly says, "There are likely still many players alive, being capturable by the Dafens is a kind of luck.

Seize the opportunity to communicate the known information to the outside world."

Unlike players who are only responsible for themselves,

Ash and Eva, players with an official background, have a duty to fully disclose the intelligence they know when in the camera's view, to help the outside world make better judgments, even if revealing intelligence entails certain risks.

"Mm."

Nina nods, raising her hands, fingertips releasing soft, flexible beams like threads, weaving hundreds of lines of dense text, detailing their actions in the Lost World.

Emphasizing—they acquired crucial information after defeating three opposing faction players.

Those three also defeated a player, obtaining a belt,

around which they conducted experiments,

namely, removing the box device from their belt and replacing the radioactive powder of the box device on another belt.

To test if the so-called Particle Identity Verification Device can indeed protect players,

and if so, protect from what.

Additionally, whether players will be attacked while the powder is being replaced.

The three players conducted the experiment and, indeed, faced an attack by humanoid puppets during the powder replacement process.

The humanoid puppets had no special abilities, but their body strength far exceeded the average Lv20 player. They appeared in groups and did not attack those with the Particle Identity Verification Device,

targeting only the player removing and replacing the particle emitter device.

They likely function as Security Guards.

The three players faced a Security Guard ambush and hastily fought, managing to stall enough for a teammate to replace the belt—upon replacement, the Security Guards suddenly stopped attacking, allowing the three players to use the transmission tool to escape the battle site.

During the attack, the belt previously seized by the three was destroyed,

however, they found a brand-new color comic titled "When the Stars Return" inside a smashed Security Guard, with the number ⑨ beside the title.

The content Nina showcases to the camera is precisely what's inside the comic.