Free Web NovelChapter 137: Chapter 137: The Snake That Was Thrown Twice Is...
Faye Yardley calculated the time. In four hours, it would be 6 PM sharp.
A two-hour mini-game, then a break to recover Spirit before the second one starts. ’So, will there be a third round at midnight?’
’No use overthinking it. The first round is over, so I might as well check the public channel for some intel.’
[Oh my god, thank goodness time was up at the last second. Otherwise, I’d be totally dead.]
[Was that supposed to be ’Drop the Handkerchief’? It was more like ’Drop Your Life’!]
[Drop the Handkerchief? Wasn’t it car racing?]
[If you don’t have a race car, you get turned into all sorts of random props. You can’t move, you can only pray you don’t get hit by a racer or a random fruit bomb. It’s a truly tragic tale.]
[You think having a toy car is any better? We had to do non-stop 360-degree spins, plus long spiral turns, then climb up a ladder-like track to the top only to be sent plummeting down. I nearly pissed my pants!]
[What do you do in Drop the Handkerchief? Do you just have to stay quiet and guess right?] freёwebnovel.com
Watching the messages constantly scroll by on the public channel, Faye Yardley couldn’t help but frown. ’It’s such a pain to piece together fragmented information like this.’
Willow Yardley chose that moment to hand her an iced fruit juice. "Sis, let me watch the public channel. I’ll organize the info," she said. "You can go talk to your friends in the private group. See if they’re all okay."
"Thanks." Faye Yardley took the juice and had a sip. It was ice-cold and instantly made her feel better.
’As for not having had her period for a month, who cares? It would be great if it never came again.’
Her fishing rod wasn’t moving, so she turned her attention to the small group chat.
Bonnie Callahan: ┭┮﹏┭┮ A giant snake flew right at me during the race. It scared me to death! Of course, I was tiny by then, so maybe the snake wasn’t actually that big. The scariest part was that it was yelling for help.
Faye Yardley thought for a moment. ’Could that big snake be the little snake I threw away?’ ’Nah, better not say anything.’
She checked the avatars of her group members. Good, they were all still alive; none of them had grayed out. A truly joyous occasion.
Kyle Lewis: Miss Callahan, the snake you mentioned that was yelling for help might have been my mom. She said that since she didn’t have a car, the system turned her into a snake. She wrapped herself around a girl in a large toy sports car twice, got thrown off both times, then got bumped around before crashing into a small toy car...
Reading Kyle Lewis’s message, Faye Yardley completely lost the desire to speak. ’Good thing I didn’t run my mouth earlier. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know how to face two of my group members right now.’
Wade Warren: As long as everyone’s okay. I was in Drop the Handkerchief. It was terrifying. One time, someone secretly put the floral handkerchief behind me. Just as the little spider was about to crawl over, a kind person next to me gave me a heads-up. I wadded up the handkerchief and secretly threw it into the middle, and the round was actually nullified and we had to restart.
Leo Sloan: I was in Drop the Handkerchief too. Tossing it into the middle only works if the little spider doesn’t see you. If it spots you, whoever threw it dies.
Wade Warren: Σ(⊙▽⊙" Lady Luck must be smiling down on me.
Leo Sloan: I got a floral handkerchief from a chest. As long as a second floral handkerchief appears in a game, that round ends. If we have enough handkerchiefs and take turns using them, we can safely survive the two hours of Drop the Handkerchief.
Ethan Yardley: I see. But with so many people, I bet no one wants to be the first to use theirs. Or maybe everyone will use them up all at once.
Wade Warren: The next game probably won’t be one we’ve just played, right?
Ethan Yardley: That makes sense, but there must be some patterns we can find.
Faye Yardley: Did you guys run into any other "kids"?
Bonnie Callahan: I was shrunk down to the size of a lollipop, wasn’t that "little" enough? So many people packed together, oh my god, I never knew I could develop a fear of crowds.
Faye Yardley: No argument there. A lot of people did get shrunk.
Leo Sloan: The "kids" in Drop the Handkerchief were probably the little spiders. There was a dense swarm of them, but only one came out at a time.
Ethan Yardley: You all just got back, so rest up first. Otherwise, you won’t have enough Spirit for the next round.
Zachary Pierce: Ethan’s right. It’s more important for everyone to build up their Spirit. If you’re injured, treat your wounds now.
The fishing rod twitched, and Faye Yardley’s attention immediately shifted. She pulled up the rod and reeled in an eel.
After the system disassembled it, there were only 2 pieces of Fish Meat.
"Willow, has the ocean pollution gotten worse lately?"
"Yeah, most of the seafood we catch needs to be disassembled before we can eat it. Even the seaweed has to be disassembled."
Faye Yardley let out a soft "oh." She probably knew what a future system event would be about now.
’What a headache. And this game event is still ongoing.’
’Better not to overthink it.’
Over the next three hours, Faye Yardley reeled in 3 Wooden Treasure Chests, 2 Iron Treasure Boxes, and some seafood.
Seeing the time, she went back to open the treasure chests. Willow Yardley also went back to prepare dinner.
"Willow, prepare some fried skewers that kids like. Make the portions small, but make as many as you can."
"Okay, Sis."
Faye Yardley went into the bedroom off the living room, closed the door, and started opening the treasure chests.
"System Daddy loves me most! Open, open, open!"
[Acquired: Floral Handkerchief x1, Cool Sunglasses x1, Flashlight x1, Small Toy Car x1] ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Talent triggered... Doubled.
The other two wooden chests yielded basic materials and food.
[Acquired: One-time ’I Said It, You Didn’t’ Card x1, One-time ’Time Stop’ Card (1 sec) x1, Oil x10, wood x20, Cartoon Pencil x1]
Talent triggered... Doubled.
[Acquired: Guardian Doll Crafting Blueprint x1, Color Change Card x1, ’I’m the Shiniest’ Candy x1, stones x20]
Talent triggered... Doubled.
Faye Yardley felt that the items from the Iron Treasure Boxes had gotten weird because it was an event period.
Still, she gave her brother a copy of everything besides the basic materials.
Ethan Yardley was depressed. After getting back, he’d only managed to fish up a single wooden chest, which only contained one small toy car. It was nothing compared to what his sister gave him.
’Looks like I can’t count on chests if I want to give my sister something good or special.’
But then, the next moment, he received another delivery of good things from his sister.
Was he really one of the Veridians, or was he from the "leech-off-my-sister" tribe?
Faye Yardley had no idea what was going through her brother’s head. Her greatest wish was to clear this sea survival game with him. Of course, it would be even better if they could do it with a few more compatible friends.
"Sis, come and eat dinner! The next round is about to start, you won’t have time."
"Okay."
[Good afternoon, players. The second round of the game will begin in exactly three minutes. Please prepare yourselves.]
’Three minutes?’
Faye Yardley shoved the bun in her hand directly into her mouth. CHEW, CHEW, CHEW. Then she chugged a large gulp of juice.
"Sis, I could only make this many of the small-portioned fried skewers you wanted."
"It’s fine. This is enough."
As the final 10-second countdown finished, Faye Yardley was once again teleported by the system into the mini-game arena.
