BXBX NOVEL Chapter 201: The Loot Crate
Chapter 201: The Loot Crate
"He says he wants to do a trade!"
"No, he didn't say that, he says he only wants some of the cards!"
"What cards does he want again?"
"I want the skill cards," Adam reiterated in a patient manner. "You want to earn money, so the points cards are obviously most important to you."
"Yeah, he did say that. I feel like that's fair."
"It does make sense, but if we kill him, then we'll get to have everything in the crate."
"That sounds even better!"
The rabbit-headed adapter seemed to be very impressed, and upon receiving this praise, the mole-headed adapter immediately raised his head as he declared, "That's why I've always been saying that I'm the smartest out of the three of us."
"You three are definitely some of the smartest people I've ever met, but you were saying earlier that you've seen footage of my past matches, and you know how strong I am. If we get into a fight, even if you can win, it'll still take a long time. By the time the battle ends, all of the other crates will have been taken by other people. That doesn't sound like a very good deal, does it?"
"I think he's right!"
The rabbit-headed adapter quickly expressed his agreement.
"He seems to be a smart guy as well."
The mole-headed adapter gave Adam's intelligence his seal of approval.
"Alright, then let's do as he says. All we want is money, anyway," the armadillo-headed adapter decided.
The trio approached the loot crate as they spoke, and one of them smashed it open to reveal a glowing golden card inside, bearing a message that read: "Jewel card. The one who obtains this card and manages to survive to the very end can trade it in to the director for a 25-carat Graff pink diamond."
"What's a Graff pink diamond?"
"As the name suggests, it's a type of pink diamond. As long as it has decent purity and color, a 25-carat Graff pink diamond will be worth somewhere in the tens of millions."
As soon as Adam caught sight of the light radiating from the contents of the loot crate, he immediately knew that some good stuff was going to be uncovered. He had thought it would perhaps be an advanced skill card or an exit card, but he certainly wasn't expecting it to be essentially a jewel redemption voucher.
"Looks like the director's trying to spice the game up a little with all these different types of cards." A disappointed look appeared on Adam's face as he turned and prepared to depart. "As we agreed, you can have this card."
"Wow, you're a man of your word!"
"I can't believe you're handing so much money over to us!"
"He's definitely a good person." The three psychic mutants immediately began to shower Adam with praise. "If we see you in the final zone, we'll consider killing you last!"
All of a sudden, a thought occurred to Adam. It was clear that these three were mentally handicapped, which meant that they could potentially be used and exploited.
"By the way, may I ask where North Leg King is? You mentioned that he was the one who recruited the three of you, right?"
"He called us stupid, so we ate him."
"His legs were very chewy!" the rabbit-headed adapter proclaimed. "But the rest of his body wasn't that good."
"Yeah, he tasted pretty bad."
Adam had to fight back the urge to denounce the trio upon hearing this. No normal person would've killed their own teammate in the battle royale.
"He got what he deserved! I can't believe he would dare to insult the intelligence of such incredibly smart people as yourselves. He deserved to be eaten!"
"He called us smart!"
"No one's ever called me smart aside from you two, not even my mum!"
"Same with me! My dad almost sent me to Carlin Asylum. It's a good thing I'm so smart and killed him before he could do that."
The three deranged adapters began to exchange words of praise, commending one another's intelligence.
"I'll be going now. I'm sure given how incredibly intelligent the three of you are, you wouldn't forget your promise, right?"
"What promise?"
"Your promise to kill me last if we make it to the final zone."
"Of course we wouldn't forget! We never forget anything with our massive IQs!" the rabbit-headed adapter promised in a confident manner. "Don't you worry!"
"Alright, see you around!"
This promise from the three psychic mutants was far more useful than any skill card, and Adam was very content as he rushed away in another direction.
At this point, all of the airdropped loot crates had already landed, so he could only search for them based on his recollection of where they were going to fall.
On the way there, he sensed through his psychic connection with his anomalies that Sludge and Mummy were under attack, and he hurriedly withdrew them.
Looks like they must've run into some other participants.
Thankfully, Sludge and Mummy were pure defense-type anomalies with immense physical resistance, so they were able to survive the attacks.
After running for a while longer, Adam sensed Hellhound rushing back to him, and he turned to discover Hellhound rapidly approaching him from a certain direction, leaving a trail of flames in its wake. Most importantly, there was a loot crate clutched between one of its jaws.
"Damn, you really did it!"
The fact that Hellhound was able to capture this loot crate indicated that there had to have been no other adapters near it, and Adam eagerly met it halfway to inspect the contents of the crate.
He pulled the huge wooden crate out of Hellhound's mouth, then sliced it open with his sharp claws to reveal six points cards inside.
That's disappointing.
After stowing the points cards away, he withdrew Hellhound and continued to advance in the direction where he recalled one of the loot crates had been airdropped to.
After traveling for around six to seven kilometers, he spotted a small wooden shack, and the loot crate had landed directly in front of it.
Adam was just about to approach the loot crate when he noticed several gun-wielding figures who resembled soldiers arriving on the scene.
That's the team that attacked King Arthur earlier!
Adam noticed that one of the figures had a sniper rifle on his back.
Initially, there were only 136 battle royale participants, but a large chunk of them had to have already perished at this point. Furthermore, there weren't many sniper-rife-wielding adapters, so Adam was almost certain that he had found the culprit.
So you like to ambush people... Let's give you a taste of your own medicine!
Adam was hiding in a bush, and given Nun's relatively small stature and dark clothing and complexion, it was ideal for carrying out sneak attacks.
The team up ahead was quite adept at ambushing others, but it was clear that they were also quite susceptible to ambushes themselves.
Telegnosis was the primary tool at one's disposal when it came to protecting oneself against ambushes, and the potency of one's telegnosis had a direct correlation with their power. Aside from telegnosis, the only other tool that could be relied on to detect hidden opponents would be special detection abilities, such as the one displayed by Rattlesnake.
In contrast, abilities related to concealment, infiltration, and burrowing were primarily relied upon for ambushing others, and that had nothing to do with telegnosis. Adapters who possessed abilities of that nature generally didn't have any detection abilities. After all, one could only have a limited set of abilities, and those limitations applied even to powerful adapters.
Just as Adam expected, the team of gun-wielders completely failed to detect Adam's presence, and they immediately opened the loot crate after arriving at the airdrop site.
However, as soon as the crate was opened, a facehugger sprang out from inside before jumping onto one of the adapters' face, then curled up into a ball before squirming through the adapter's nostrils and into his brain.
Is that a parasitic artificial adapter?
Through his research into the subject, Adam knew that just like normal anomalies, artificial anomalies were born from certain deficiencies or obsessions, thereby giving them all types of different forms.
There were massive anomalies that were as huge as trucks, but also far smaller anomalies like facehugger.