Slacking off in the Game of Survival

Chapter 36 Ten Square Metres Island(13)

Qian Yue encountered someone who specifically came to kindly remind her to “take a detour” for the first time.

She calmly asked, “What’s wrong with that uninhabited island ahead?”

The male player stuttered, “It’s perilous, it’s better not to go.”

Seeing that he was unwilling to tell the truth, Qian Yue turned around and used a bamboo pole to push the bamboo raft several meters forward.

“Hey, wait!”

The person immediately became nervous and hurriedly caught up, jumping directly onto Qian Yue’s raft.

Qian Yue was like she had eyes on her back. The bamboo pole in her hand turned and swiftly aimed at the person’s face.

Startled, the person stumbled and nearly fell off the bamboo raft.

“What are you doing?”

Qian Yue said coldly, “If you have something to say, say it. If not, I have things to do.”

Since the person hadn’t done anything deserving of a beating, Qian Yue’s words were already quite polite.

However, the person didn’t think so and complained, “You, why don’t you listen to advice…”

After waiting for a couple of seconds and seeing that Qian Yue had no intention of retracting the bamboo pole, the person could only cautiously avoid it and pursed their lips, saying, “Alright, alright, I just can’t bear to see such a good bamboo raft given away for nothing to those people.”

Qian Yue relaxed her grip on the bamboo pole, and one end of it sank back into the water. “What do you mean?”

The person evaded the question, “Let’s make a deal. I’ll tell you, can you sell me the raft?”

Seeing Qian Yue’s expression change, the person quickly changed their tune, “Or teach me how to make a raft.”

Qian Yue: That would take forever.

She glanced at the person’s rough and crude bamboo raft, paused for a moment, and said, “I can’t teach you, it’s too troublesome. At most, you can ask some questions.”

Although in Qian Yue’s eyes, the bamboo raft had problems everywhere.

The male player agreed without much thought, “That’s fine.”

“My surname is Chen, you can call me Chen Er.”

[T/N: Chen Er is an indication of a ranking possibly in the Chen family— He is the second-born child in the Chen family]

He neatly put away his raft and sat cross-legged on Qian Yue’s bamboo raft, lowering his voice and speaking mysteriously, “Your island should have been flooded a long time ago, right?”

Qian Yue, ?

Why ask about that?

She vaguely replied, “It’s okay, just a few days ago.”

“A few days ago” was just a figure of speech. However, up until now, it had only been five days since the start of the instance, so when this sentence reached Chen Er’s ears, it became “The island was flooded shortly after entering the instance.”

He immediately showed an “I see” expression and said, “Then you must not know that all the uninhabited islands are chaotic right now.”

“Chaotic?” Qian Yue suddenly became interested. “How are they chaotic?”

She hadn’t heard nor seen any chaotic islands among all the archipelagos she had seen.

Chen Er sighed, “There are plenty of them like that.”

He continued to explain to Qian Yue, thanks to the frequent traffic of players in their archipelago in recent days, the island had become well-informed about the news.

“Let me tell you about something I just heard yesterday. Some archipelagos appear to have abundant resources. However, if outsiders want to enter, they have to pay a toll. If they don’t pay, they cannot trade on the island.”

“And some islands allow people to enter freely, but they can’t fight or compete for resources on the uninhabited islands either.”

Qian Yue, “Isn’t this normal?”

If you go to someone else’s archipelago and try to share resources that they don’t even have enough of for themselves, it’s strange if you’re not kicked out.

Chen Er exclaimed, “Listen to me first. Do you know why no one dares to fight? I heard there’s a local tyrant protecting that island!”

“Every transaction that happens on that island has to pay a commission, like protection money!”

“Don’t even mention fighting. If you even raise your voice a bit and disturb that person, a bamboo pole will immediately come flying at you, knocking your teeth out!”

Qian Yue, “…”

Why does this situation at the end sound so familiar? Has she heard this somewhere before?

Why did the rumors escalate to her becoming a local tyrant?

Qian Yue really wanted to shake the person’s shoulders and clear their mind, telling them that rumors are unreliable!

But the person’s appearance was as if they had revealed some earth-shattering secret, causing Qian Yue to feel a mix of emotions.

Chen Er didn’t notice her change in mood and continued gossiping, “In some archipelagos, the uninhabited islands have turned into arenas. Every day when the crops ripen or when airdrops land, the scene is quite astonishing—”

Before he could finish speaking, a familiar roaring sound suddenly came from above.

A massive propeller kept spinning in the air, and Chen Er’s face immediately changed.

“It’s an emergency! I can’t tell you any more! Just leave quickly!”

Qian Yue: What?

Qian Yue was utterly bewildered, but the other person plunged into the water, moving like a nimble fish. In a matter of seconds, he released his bamboo raft into the water and swiftly drifted away.

At the same time, there was a commotion coming from the surrounding cliffs.

Qian Yue instinctively turned her head and saw numerous people rushing out from both sides of the islands, using every trick in the book to charge in the same direction!

“I’ve claimed this airdrop!”

“Shameless! You already claimed one a couple of days ago! You should have withdrawn from the competition!”

“If it’s each person for themselves, why should I withdraw? Your island has such a good harvest, why don’t you withdraw?!”

“If you keep being slow, those people will snatch everything away!”

Those people? Which people?

Qian Yue was utterly confused.

Suddenly, there were sounds of people falling into the water everywhere, and many of them were even jumping straight down from cliffs several meters high.

Qian Yue, “…Excuse me.”

If it weren’t for the absence of decorative vines on those cliffs, this group of people might have reenacted a scene from Tarzan.

The resource points on this archipelago are almost the same whether they exist or not. It’s likely that everyone is in a state of resource scarcity. When they hear about an airdrop, it’s like they’ve been injected with chicken blood.

Qian Yue didn’t want to join in the excitement and turned around, ready to leave.

But at that moment, there was a splashing sound from the side, and several people emerged from the water and climbed onto her boat at the same time.

One of them, a person with deep facial features, smiled and said, “Look what I found? A good boat.”

Another short person pushed him aside, “Get lost, I saw it first!”

Just as they were arguing, a female player managed to climb onto the edge of the bamboo raft and sneered, “Sorry, everyone, I was waiting to use this boat to snatch the airdrop.”

The person who initially boarded the boat sighed, “I’m sorry, ma’am, that’s what I was thinking too.”

“Then you all have no hope—” The short person sneered and started fighting!

The three of them immediately started a brawl.

Qian Yue, who was being ignored, sat cross-legged at the front of the bamboo raft, resting her chin on her hand, finding it somewhat amusing.

“I mean, is it appropriate for you to discuss who will take over my boat right in front of me?”

The three of them were fighting intensely and didn’t pay any attention to her. In their eyes, Qian Yue wasn’t even worth mentioning.

They had all witnessed when that guy, Chen Er, had come on her boat to test her, but the two of them didn’t end up fighting. Although they had no idea why Chen Er gave up halfway through, these people who had been without a boat, couldn’t possibly give up on slaughtering this fat sheep that had walked right to their doorstep!

Qian Yue glanced at the location of the airdrop and then at the three people who were fiercely fighting.

She boredly rested her head on her hand, plucked a small white flower from the vines, and played with it in her hand.

“Let me remind you, the airdrop will probably land in a few minutes. If you keep fighting, someone else will likely snatch it.”

It was better to jump into the water and swim over rather than waste time fighting here.

Qian Yue glanced at the water, although she couldn’t see clearly, she could sense that there were big fish underneath.

One person hesitated upon hearing her words. Just then, his opponent suddenly pushed him, and the man crashed into the bamboo hut, causing it to tilt!

Qian Yue’s hand paused as she stopped playing with the flower, and her smile slowly faded from her face.

The other two hadn’t stopped fighting yet, and the entire bamboo raft was swaying, making creaking sounds.

The male player kicked the short person off the boat and sneered, “Give up already, you’re no match for me.”

Unaware, at the moment he kicked the person into the water, the short person regained consciousness.

Instinctively, the short person struggled, but his mouth and nose were already submerged in the water. The sudden drowning prevented him from making any sound!

Amidst the turbulence of the bamboo raft, the faint sound of bubbles was barely audible.

At the same time, a dark shadow swiftly gathered around him underwater. Several seconds later, the short person’s figure disappeared beneath the water.

But the people on the boat were still in a tense standoff and hadn’t noticed anything amiss.

The female player, after being provoked, was equally unwilling to back down. “Humph, stop talking and come at me!”

She held a dagger in her hand and was about to stab the man, but suddenly, a swooshing sound came from her ear—

The man who had been confident in facing her just fell straight down!

Female player, ?!

However, the shock only lasted for a moment. She instinctively avoided the person who was about to land on her, but what she didn’t expect was that almost in the next second, a bamboo pole came swinging towards her, so fast that she could almost see its ghostly image!

The female player managed to dodge the person who was coming down but couldn’t avoid the bamboo pole. Moreover, due to her accidental change in position, the pole struck her directly in the face.

The female player immediately felt a hot sensation in her nose! The world was spinning!

She had actually been hit in the face and started bleeding from her nose!

“Sneak attack?! Have you no shame?!”

The female player angrily turned her head to find the person who had
launched the surprise attack, but she didn’t expect it to be the same woman they had considered a fat sheep before.

Without hesitation, she retorted, “You’re a woman, don’t you know that when you fight someone, you don’t aim for their face?!”

Qian Yue replied, “But you said it yourself, it’s about hitting ‘someone’.”

The way she said it, wasn’t she indirectly insulting her by saying she wasn’t even human?!

The female player suddenly became furious, but when her gaze fell upon the bamboo pole in the other person’s hand, she paused.

That woman had just used this unbelievably long bamboo pole to launch a surprise attack on them. She knew firsthand how powerful the strike was.

—This person’s strength is unexpectedly strong?

At the thought of this, the female player’s spirit faltered for a moment, and only now did she have the chance to carefully examine the other person.

Although the woman in front of her didn’t pay much attention to her appearance, she had a pretty face, coupled with a good figure. It subconsciously led people to label her as fragile.

So, they had never taken her seriously from the beginning.

But at this moment, that fragile-looking woman in their eyes had put away the bamboo pole and casually pushed aside the reed curtain as she stepped out. In the instant she raised her gaze, her eyes were filled with killing intent.

The female player covered her still bleeding nose with one hand, tightly gripping the dagger in her other hand, her voice tinged with nervousness, “Wh-what are you going to do?”

“I should be the one asking you what you intend to do, right?”

Qian Yue sneered and let go of her hand. The reed curtains behind her fell completely.

She advanced step by step toward the female player. For a brief moment, the latter actually felt a strong sense of oppression.

“Boarding my boat without permission, allowed.”

“Discussing the ownership of my boat in front of me, allowed.”

“But—”

Qian Yue’s tone suddenly changed. Before the female player could react to what was happening, she saw Qian Yue suddenly approaching, and she instinctively raised her hand to block, but a sudden pang of pain shot through her arm!

She widened her eyes, “Wait, my dagger?! How did—”

“Sorry, but now it’s my dagger.”

Qian Yue swiftly took off her backpack and kicked the person into the water, causing a splash of water to fly.

The dagger spun gracefully in the air, and Qian Yue turned her head coldly, staring meaningfully at the male player on the ground.

She calmly uttered the second half of her sentence, “Destroying my belongings is not allowed.”