Chapter 173 173 Chapter - Surrounded By Thousands Of Snakes, Gain Experience!
173 Chapter - Surrounded By Thousands Of Snakes, Gain Experience!
Whoosh!
A feather entwined with lightning instantly shot down from above, slicing the attacking viper in two.
It was the Azure Bird, on alert in the sky.
Bai Cheng and Leng Ningxue were both slightly startled by this.
Through the open gap in the door, a hissing sound continuously entered the train, lingering in their ears.
Although they couldn't see what was happening outside the train, the sound alone made it easy to tell that the train was now surrounded by vipers!
"What's going on?!" Leng Ningxue asked, surprised.
Bai Cheng, without hesitation, immediately closed the train door again.
Fortunately, to prevent insects from entering the train before Silent Night arrived, all doors and windows had already been closed.
The larger vipers were completely helpless against this steel behemoth.
"It should be another anomaly..." Bai Cheng fumbled in the dark, looking at the detection platform.
The faint light emitted by the screen was enough to read the information but not bright enough to attract the insect horde.
【Current Anomaly: Ten Thousand Snakes Surrounding】
"No, how many anomalous states does this Rainforest even have?!"
Leng Ningxue felt her head was about to explode, mainly because these anomalous states were truly disgusting.
She continued, "Bai Cheng, these should be two rotating anomalies. Let's start the train. The Insect Horde anomaly is at least better than the Ten Thousand Snakes anomaly."
It wasn't hard to guess that stopping the train, while avoiding the 【Demonic Mire Insect Horde】, would invite the new 【Ten Thousand Snakes Surrounding】.
But Bai Cheng didn't answer Leng Ningxue's question; instead, she gestured to her, "Ningxue, look at the screen."
【Your employee successfully killed a Demonic Mire Snake (Magical Beast), you gained 0.5 experience points!】
【...】
"Eh?" Leng Ningxue was also surprised, "It actually gives experience?"
They had gained nothing from facing the insect horde before, except for being disgusted.
Now, killing the Ten Thousand Snakes summoned by this anomalous state could even yield experience points, which surprised both of them.
"But their strength is too weak. Why don't they even have magic crystals?"
Bai Cheng fumbled around the control panel but didn't find any magic crystals as she wished.
"And the experience points given are too..."
But soon, she understood what was happening.
These vipers were likely similar to the beasts that appeared during Silent Night in the Dark Forest; they were both classified as Magical Beasts under the influence of a special state.
Therefore, while killing them yielded experience points, it was pitifully little.
"But no matter what, even a small mosquito is still meat!"
This alone was enough for Bai Cheng to abandon the idea of starting the train.
"Let's just stay put and farm experience. As long as the train doesn't move, the Ten Thousand Snakes Surrounding anomalous state will likely continue smoothly until tomorrow morning."
"Okay!" A bright gleam flashed in Leng Ningxue's eyes.
This was, after all, the first time they had gained experience points since entering the Deathly Rainforest.
"The experience points I need to advance to General-grade are a lot, but Ningxue and Nian Nian are still at Elite-grade," Bai Cheng said, then patted Leng Ningxue's shoulder.
"So, tonight is your main event!"
"Alright, I'll do my best."
"Oh, by the way, where did Nian Nian run off to?"
"Her? She secretly ate a bunch of snacks this afternoon and then went to sleep."
【...】
Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng immediately fumbled in the dark to Carriage Five. At this point, the advantage of the connecting corridor between carriages became apparent; there was no need to worry about being attacked by vipers while moving between carriages.
Passing through Carriage Three, Bai Cheng also handed the Silver Pickaxe to Lü Duo.
"Lü Duo, I'll trouble you to mine in a bit."
Lü Duo was flattered: "Miss, how can you speak so politely? Just give me orders!"
After speaking, she took the pickaxe and was about to head outside, and she even seemed somewhat happy?
"Wait, I haven't even said where the ore is buried yet..."
Originally, Bai Cheng wanted to let Scarlet Flame just set fire, but there were large swathes of trees around, and if they caught fire, it would likely cause a massive blaze.
But she wasn't concerned about that; rather, she was worried that all the surrounding vipers would be burned to death, and then what experience would there be to farm?
Soon, Bai Cheng had assigned all the tasks.
Currently, the lowest-level individuals inside the train were Leng Ningxue, Yu Nian, and Huang Yu, so this time, the Ten Thousand Snakes Surrounding was mainly left to the three of them to kill.
Azure Bird ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) was responsible for patrolling the sky, Lü Duo was to mine, and Scarlet Flame and Zi Yuan were assigned to cut trees.
After all, smelting required extra fuel, so accumulating more charcoal was always a good idea.
And what was Bai Cheng doing? Of course, she was watching the show.
It was a good opportunity to understand the power of Yu Nian's and the others' Life Artifacts.
At this moment, all three stood on the train roof, a position completely out of reach for the vipers, making it quite safe.
Moreover, both of them had long-range attacks, which didn't hinder their ability to kill.
Yu Nian, holding the Blade of Infinity, instantly manifested countless Life Artifact afterimages around her, which then shot out violently in all directions under her activation.
Golden afterimages flashed by in an instant, followed by boom, boom, boom!
Explosions continuously echoed around them, and countless vipers were engulfed by the bursting impact.
Bai Cheng looked at the continuously replicated Life Artifact afterimages and couldn't help but be slightly surprised: "You can replicate so many?!"
"Of course, this characteristic complements my talent perfectly!"
Meanwhile, Leng Ningxue's attacks were even simpler and more brutal; countless ice cones condensed around her and shot downwards, instantly freezing all the vipers in place.
Then, as new ice cones struck again, the vipers, frozen into blocks of ice, completely shattered along with their flesh.
The two attacked non-stop, barely pausing.
When they got tired, Huang Yu would provide backup, and the experience points gained from the vipers killed by Huang Yu and Azure Bird would still be distributed to them.
It was also fortunate that both Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian's attacks were large-scale AoE, making the killing of these vipers extremely efficient.
In comparison, Zi Yuan and Scarlet Flame, not far away, also cut down trees with considerable ease.
With each strike, large swathes of trees crashed to the ground.
And there was more good news: as the trees around the train were continuously cut down, the invading poisonous mist also began to recede.
"So, the release of these poisonous mists is related to the surrounding trees."
Using the constantly exploding and flashing firelight, Bai Cheng also noticed the surrounding situation.
Tired from watching, she yawned and, with an inverted hang from the rear of the train, flipped directly into the bedroom balcony.
Stretching, she entered the room, pulled the curtains shut, and then Bai Cheng stripped naked.
"You guys keep killing slowly, this young lady is going to sleep!"
Perhaps due to extreme fatigue, Bai Cheng quickly fell asleep, even with the explosions as background music.
But after who knows how long, Yu Nian's soft call from beside her forced her to wake up.
Still not fully understanding the situation, Bai Cheng only heard the excitement in the other person's words.
"Xiao Cheng, Xiao Cheng, I discovered a secondary use for Ningxue's talent!"
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