Translator: AnubisTL
After confirming that each of the five items truly cost only one blood sacrifice point, Chen Jiang couldn't help but grin with excitement.
He loved this event and was grateful to Feng Jiutian. The mechanical race kept showering him with gifts, making him almost feel embarrassed.
He was certain that no one would ever redeem these items.
Even though they were incredibly cheap, they were utterly useless.
It was like comparing a ten-yuan ice cream cone to a one-mao booger. Even if the booger were dirt cheap, he doubted anyone would spend a mao to buy it.
"Excellent."
Just as Chen Jiang excitedly deployed his turret and prepared to unleash a bombardment, he noticed an extremely subtle gray number behind each item in the Altar Shop.
The five items he had been eyeing also had this gray number:
[Inventory: 10,000/10,000]
Did each of these five items have a total inventory of only 10,000 units?
Chen Jiang nodded thoughtfully, realizing that the Altar Shop's items weren't unlimited. Once they were gone, they were gone.
I need to act fast and strike first!
After all, if some fool actually tried their luck and wasted a blood sacrifice point on those worthless items, he'd be furious.
Just then—
Another global speaker announcement blared across the world.
[Global Speaker!]
[Feng Jiutian of the Mechanical Race: "Chen Jiang, there's only one three-star item in the Altar Shop: the Blazing Fire Sniper."]
["Dare to try and snatch it from me?"]
["Do you have the guts?"]
In a remote valley in the wilderness, Feng Jiutian gradually relaxed as the speaker in his hand faded away.
This should focus Chen Jiang's attention on the three-star item, the Blazing Fire Sniper.
After all, Chen Jiang was the only variable he couldn't control.
If Chen Jiang somehow managed to slaughter more alien race players, amass a massive number of blood sacrifice points, and steal his true target, it would be a complete disaster.
To prevent this scenario...
He had no choice but to make a fool of himself again, appearing before players of all races, all to divert Chen Jiang's attention to the three-star item, the Blazing Fire Sniper.
This should be foolproof.
Feng Jiutian let out a sigh of relief.
Once Chen Jiang, this unpredictable variable, was dealt with, the other alien races wouldn't even consider buying those trash items. And even if they did, how many of them could possibly accumulate enough blood sacrifice points?
He gazed into the distance, a faint smile playing on his lips, saying nothing.
The frustration of the past few days suddenly vanished, replaced by a newfound confidence as he surveyed the landscape.
The true advantage of the mechanical race lay in their precognition—their ability to foresee how to maximize profits in every event and trigger activities that shouldn't have occurred at this point in time, all to benefit their race.
This time, he wouldn't lose.
As Feng Jiutian's global speaker message faded, Chen Jiang paused, his gaze drawn to the three-star item in the Altar Shop: the Blazing Fire Sniper. Its price was steep—a staggering 100,000 blood sacrifice points.
In other words, to purchase this sniper rifle, one had to kill 100,000 aliens within 24 hours.
There was only one in stock.
He glanced at the item description. It was indeed impressive, but it paled in comparison to the allure of that trash one-blood-sacrifice-point item.
Just a mere sniper rifle.
If he could acquire all 50,000 of those trash one-star items, he could directly upgrade his turret into a super sniper with a 3,000-meter barrel and a 300-meter caliber!
Wouldn't that be far superior to that so-called three-star item, the Blazing Fire Sniper?
With this thought, he eagerly instructed Li Hao to manifest the map and Scar Dog to open the phantom gate. He prepared to extend the turret's barrel through the gate, aiming at the city above.
A full 720-degree omnidirectional bombardment with no blind spots!
However, at that moment, he hesitated slightly and glanced at the personal blood sacrifice points leaderboard.
[Player Blood Sacrifice Points Leaderboard]
[Top Ranking: Mechanical Race, Feng Jiutian]
[Blood Sacrifice Points: 179]
[Rank 2: Ape-Man Race, Suville]
[Blood Sacrifice Points: 79]
[Rank 3: Titan Race, Tai Tai]
[Blood Sacrifice Points: 54]
Feng Jiutian was using some unknown method to consistently outscore him in kills, though his numbers were still nothing to scoff at.
Seeing Feng Jiutian's runaway lead, Chen Jiang figured he must have come well-prepared.
In this situation, Feng Jiutian likely had plenty of blood sacrifice points. If he suddenly decided to clear out all those useless one-star items, Chen Jiang's composure would shatter.
Those 50,000 worthless one-star items were far more important to him than several three-star items combined. There was simply no comparison.
After a moment's thought, Chen Jiang pulled out a global speaker.
[Global Speaker!]
[Human Player Chen Jiang: "That item is mine."]
With that declaration, Chen Jiang nodded in satisfaction.
This would completely focus Feng Jiutian's attention on the three-star item, the Blazing Fire Sniper, leaving him no time to bother with the utterly useless one-star items.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered responding to Feng Jiutian at all.
But when he heard Chen Jiang's global speaker announcement, Feng Jiutian, standing at the edge of the valley, couldn't suppress a faint smile. He slowly raised one hand, as if grasping the gentle breeze before him, and murmured with satisfaction, "Go ahead and compete. I'm giving you that item."
The camera slowly zoomed out.
All that could be seen was a man in white robes, his hands clasped behind his back, standing ramrod straight at the edge of the valley, and the sound of his triumphant laughter echoing through the air.
Beside him, his subordinate continuously pressed buttons, slowly opening the protective dome over the Meat Valley.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiang wasted no time.
Scar Dog waved his massive hand, and a void gate materialized before them, engulfing half of Chen Jiang's turret barrel.
On the ground, deep within an underground military base in the mechanical race city, a phantom gate suddenly appeared in an empty dormitory.
A silver-white turret barrel extended from the misty portal.
The scene was utterly bizarre, like some surreal installation in an art museum.
But then, in the next instant—
The patterns on the cannon barrel began to flash violently, and the entire barrel started spinning wildly in small, frantic circles.
Massive white light bullets, like homesick wanderers, erupted from the barrel with ear-splitting sonic booms, blasting indiscriminately against the surrounding walls!
Almost instantly, the dormitory walls crumbled.
But the bombardment didn't stop.
In a location no one in the underground military base could have anticipated, a cannon barrel had spanned the void, unleashing indiscriminate, carpet-bombing destruction from beneath the earth!
In mere seconds, the military base's alarm lights began flashing violently, accompanied by piercing sirens, mixed with the cacophony of shouting, cursing, and panicked cries!
Yet—
The deafening explosions drowned out all other sounds!
At that moment, all anyone could hear was the relentless, ear-splitting roar of the bombardment, filling every corner of their minds!
(End of the Chapter)
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