There was a very special thing about her skills. Liu Jiayiâs skills didnât stipulate the use of the next round according to the level of her physical strength gauge.
Yet for most players, the use of their personal skill was severely limited by the physical strength gauge. For example, Mu Sichengâs Monkey Thief Claw. If his physical strength gauge was emptied and he couldnât restore it with physical strength recovery agents, Mu Sicheng could only continue to use the skill once his physical strength naturally recovered.
Liu Jiayiâs skill wasnât subject to this restriction except for her explosive skill, Poison Fountain. Her poison was a âmageâ type skill and it only needed the cooldown to be over before it could be used again.
So as she waited for the skill cooldown, Liu Jiayi created eight bottles of poison. She couldnât move herself so she handed the poison to Bai Liu. Then she stayed on the ground to rest and recover her strength.
Bai Liu took the poison and circled around to check if there were still any vagrants in the Magic Space. If there were any, he would splash a bit of poison to kill them.
He thoroughly examined all the vagrants before taking off the Magic Space and collecting the roses. It was because not far away, there were surging vagrants and tentacles.
He simply calculated that the combined rewards obtained in their system panel had exceeded 80 kg and put Liu Jiayi on his back to run toward the tent.
Liu Jiayi lay reluctantly on Bai Liuâs back. Her arms lay against his back and her tone was hoarse and calm. âI just remembered something. Magic Space is an item you got from me. I thought you dropped it. It turned out you brought this item into the game and youâve already had itââ
âThen why didnât you use it on us at the beginning to cover ourselves for an hour and wait for my skill to finish the cooldown time. There was no need to fight so hardâŠâ
Liu Jiayi moved up with difficulty and she held Bai Liuâs neck with her trembling hands. She asked in a low voice and with a blank expression, âMagic Space has a maximum area restriction that can only be used once a day.â
âBai Liu, donât tell me you had me hold on for an hour in order to use the maximum area of the Magic Space and clear the monsters at once to get the most rosesâŠâ
Bai Liu, ââŠâŠâ
Liu Jiayi was so resentful that she was about to cough up blood. âBai Liu, you ****. You *** used me. You **, ** to me! You can *** a bit more!â
[Warm system reminder: If a child says dirty words, the small TV will be shielded.]
The vagrants behind them kept chasing Bai Liu. Just as the tentacles were about to wrap around Bai Liuâs ankle, Bai Liu rolled into the tent and neatly pulled up the zipper of the tent.
The wriggling tentacles slammed against the cloth of the tent and the zipper slowly moved upward. It felt like these vagrants would use the tentacles to enter at any time and drag out the two physically exhausted players.
Bai Liu calmly took out the rotating Rubikâs Cube.
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has used the item âMagic Space.â The space used: the small tent where the player is located. The space is small and the duration of the use is longer. Usage restrictions: any living being other than the player himself and Liu Jiayi are prohibited from entering.]
[System notification: The player has previously overdrawn the maximum area of the item Magic Space so the Magic Space usage duration is reduced. It can be used in this tent space for around three hours.]
The Rubikâs Cube rotated in Bai Liuâs hand. It spun a few times and became much smaller. Then it scattered in all directions and became a square, tent-like shape.
Liu Jiayi, who had been scolding Bai Liu just now, became subtly embarrassed.
Her gaze fell on the much smaller tetrahedral Rubikâs Cube in Bai Liuâs palm. She thought that Bai Liu had chosen to confront the monsters head-on in order to maximize the benefits of the one usage. She didnât expect that it was to allow the two of them to safely stay in the Magic Space until dawn.
Bai Liu had obviously calculated the duration of the item⊠She shouldnât have speculated that Bai Liu had such dirty intentions. It seemed that she had scolded him a bit too much.
Liu Jiayi wasnât one to mince around. She looked at Bai Liu and directly apologized. âIâm sorry, I scolded you a bit too much just now. I didnât know that you chose to save the item to ensure our safety.â
Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi in a strange manner. âNo, I saved the item to make you kill the most monsters at once.â
Liu Jiayi, ââŠâŠ.â
Bai Liu explained it seriously. âI reserved the time limit of this item in order to collect enough roses at one time. I can use the item to remove the negative state of your physical strength gauge so you can continue to use your explosive skill and over-exhaust your body. This item can be used to trap more monsters and earn more roses. I might already have 80 kg but this type of item that fits the positioning of the game is definitely goodâŠâ
Liu Jiayi, ââŠâŠ.â
Bai Liu fell into his own thoughts. He seemed to look at the exhausted Liu Jiayi with great regret and sighed. âHowever, you donât look good. Perhaps it is because you are a child but your state after being physically exhausted is too bad. It really isnât very goodâŠâ
Liu Jiayi suddenly smiled very sweetly, even showing two small dimples. She held up two bottles of potions toward Bai Liu and obediently and cutely tilted her head to look at him. âBrother Bai Liu, I will be really angry if you say this again.â
Bai Liu looked at the black fog of the poison that wrapped around his neck and sensibly changed the topic. âLiu Jiayi, my little friend, you have worked really hard tonight! Do you want to go to sleep now?â
Liu Jiayi, ââŠâŠ.â
She really wanted to swear.
There was a reason Bai Liu came to the tent to let Liu Jiayi rest.
After three hours, if it was still dark and dawn hadnât arrived then they would have to go out and fight again. In these three hours, Liu Jiayiâs skill could create more poison and Liu Jiayi could recover part of her physical strength. Then they could barely rely on the poison to survive until dawn.
Inside the tent was only a dirty bed that was half the width of a person and around the length of a person, with a dirty wool blanket hanging over the edge.
Bai Liu put Liu Jiayi on this small bed. He casually cushioned himself against the ground with a wool blanket and curled up on the blanket to sleep.
The right side of his face was still covered with blood from the tentacles. Before he could wipe it, he closed his eyes tiredly and fell asleep.
In a situation where he couldnât restore his mental value, Bai Liu took on the job of sweeping the monsters and protecting Liu Jiayi, the main attacker. This caused his mental value to drop a lot due to the tentacles and the contamination of the vagrants. At the same time, the continuously declining mental value aggravated Bai Liuâs physical exhaustion. It was like working overtime with high intensity. In the state of staying up all night without allowing any mistakes, Bai Liuâs fatigue was doubled.
[System warning: Player Bai Liuâs mental value has dropped to 61! Please restore your mental value quickly!]
The black cracks on his face sank down and the skin on Bai Liuâs face felt like it was going to peel off.
In his sleep, a rustling sound awakened Bai Liu. He glanced at Liu Jiayi, who was curled up in a sound sleep on the bed, and lowered his head to confirm that the time limit for Magic Space hadnât passed. There was still almost an hour left.
Then he had slept for almost two hours.
The vagrants outside the tent seemed to have disappeared as the sky grew brighter. The sound that woke Bai Liu up didnât come from outside the tent but from inside the tent.
Bai Liuâs gaze slowly fell toward the bottom of the bed where Liu Jiayi was sleeping. This rustling sound was like something slowly crawling out from under the bed and it was getting louder and louder.
Liu Jiayi, who was still asleep, seemed to be affected by this sound. She frowned and turned over. Bai Liu took off his coat to cover her ears. Her brow relaxed again and she sank into sleep.
Bai Liu half crouched down in front of Liu Jiayiâs bed. He held the whip and cocked his head to look under the bed.
He clearly specified when using the Magic Space that any living being apart from himself and Liu Jiayi couldnât enter this space. At this time, something other than himself or Liu Jiayi could enter this space without being repelled and could make a sound. Perhaps it wasnât a living creature.
The other option was that this creature had the ability to break through the barrier set by Magic Space, an extraordinary level item.
Items of the extraordinary category were originally items that came from the monster book in level three games. So in turn, it wasnât unusual that there was a high level monster in a level three game that could crack the extraordinary level item.
Bai Liu blocked his chest with the whip as a preventive measure and glanced directly underneath the bed. The bottom of the dirty bed was a mess. There was a broken half of a pencil, a few used balls of toilet paper, a broken sack and a beautiful model of a right hand.
There were no traces of any living creature under the bed. It was black and smelly and looked like the normal bottom of a bed that had been used by many workers and hadnât been cleaned much.
It was as if the sound Bai Liu heard just now was a hallucination. After all, his mental value was indeed low enough to be near the limit of seeing hallucinations.
Even so, Bai Liu didnât retract his gaze. He stared at the bottom of the bed or to be more precise, the hand model that looked like some type of toy.
Bai Liu could recognize this perfect model of a right hand that seemed to be carved based on a golden model.
This was a right hand he once clenched tightly and then voluntarily released.