CHAPTER 339: CHAPTER 339: ORIGINAL BATTLEFIELD

Arena.

The shadows of the trees swayed, and cold wind blew in gusts...

Ji You couldn’t help but shiver with goosebumps. If she didn’t know she had entered the arena, she would have thought she was filming a horror movie. The environment around her was too realistic. Every blade of grass, every stone, every grain of sand was almost indistinguishable from reality, blurring the lines between illusion and real life...

The wound on her forehead was still bleeding. Ji You had to find a way to stop the bleeding, or else she would become weaker due to blood loss, which would reduce her speed, Physical Strength, and agility.

She crouched down and proceeded step by step, also trying to find some hemostatic herbs in the grass along the way, but after looking around, she found none. This was also one of the rules of the competition: to stop the bleeding and treat the injured body, one must find a medical kit. But where could it be?

Residences!

She proceeded with extreme caution. Fortunately, Ji You was lucky. Soon, she saw a thatched cottage in the woods.

A cottage?

This primitive?

Ji You’s eyes flickered: Could it be that this arena was actually set in an ancient environment? The kind that still used cold weapons, or perhaps an era like the 21st century that used Basic thermal weapons?

That being said, are there no Mecha, Particle Cannons, energy weapons... these kinds of interstellar era technological products anymore?

Having roughly come up with an idea, Ji You did not rush into the thatched cottage. Instead, she nestled in the grass and stood still, carefully observing her surroundings. She found nothing unusual, but she did not dare to let her guard down—who knew if someone might suddenly appear and slaughter her.

At that moment—

The system suddenly popped up a message: [3 people have died, 97 remain.]

Ji You’s heart skipped a beat. Glancing at the timer, the match had started for less than 5 minutes, and already 3 people were eliminated. Wasn’t this too fast?

Brutal.

But it was this system prompt that made Ji You realize her situation:

No weapon.

Slightly injured.

No armor.

...

Just any person with a knife or someone hiding with a gun could easily take her down.

The best course of action was to hurry to the straw cottage and look for something handy.

No longer hesitating, Ji You bent her back, crouched, and quietly approached the straw cottage. She listened carefully and detected no movement inside, so she pushed the door open and entered—

But just as she was about to step in, she suddenly felt a slight airflow. Ji You instinctively leaned back, avoiding the incoming attack.

The opponent was startled but quickly recovered, lifting the Big Chopper in his hand and swiftly aiming for Ji You’s head.

Click—

Ji You flung the door open, and the man’s Big Chopper struck the door panel. It was this motion that allowed Ji You to get a clear view of her opponent—a burly and rugged-looking boy.

Ji You, grinding her teeth, said, "Big brother, cutting down someone without a word of warning, that’s not the right way to be a person."

The boy retorted, "Who do you need to be in the arena?"

Ji You: "..."

Her logic seemed flawed, but she found herself at a loss for words.

The blade of the knife flashed before her eyes, and the boy’s ferocious attack came slicing at her again. Ji You tilted slightly, dodging while feeling deeply the hardship of her situation: bare-handed against the foe’s Big Chopper, she was at a significant disadvantage.

Although the boy’s strikes were fierce and he seemed to wield the Big Chopper with great vigor, his grip on the knife looked awkward, particularly when he needed to rotate the handle, his movements were incredibly stiff—

What does this mean?

It means this person is not good at using knives.

Ji You’s eyes flashed slightly, and she shouted, "So you mean, instead of being human, you opt to be a beast?"

The male student felt a bit annoyed, thinking this girl was really talkative. Taking advantage of the gap, he swung his knife hard and slashed over, "Be quiet and accept your death!"

Just as her head was about to be split open, Ji You didn’t dodge this time. Instead, she met the attack head-on. The male student’s eyes lit up with joy as the blade reached Ji You’s forehead, but at that moment, he felt a pain in his wrist and looked down to see the girl had grabbed the hand holding the knife.

With a bit of effort from Ji You, the male student’s firm grip on the chopping knife became unsteady.

But—

He gritted his teeth, gripped the knife tightly, and chopped down fiercely—

In critical moments, one must be calm. Ji You was not in a hurry. While guarding against the male student’s potential attacks, she exerted a clever force on the wrist she was holding and suddenly, the knife loosened.

The moment the knife was about to drop, she kicked the male student’s chest fiercely.

Bang—

The male student became unsteady and hit the wall of the thatched hut.

Just as the Big Chopper was about to hit the ground, Ji You darted over and grabbed the handle.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The male student’s pupils contracted as intense pain pierced his chest. Staring wide-eyed, he opened his mouth, "Spare... a life under the knife..."

Ji You pulled out the knife, looked at the ’corpse’ before her, grinned, and said, "Spare what? You said yourself you’re not a person."

This fight had made quite a commotion. If someone had been lying in ambush nearby, they surely would have noticed. This place was not safe to stay for long. Ji You quickly searched the ’corpse’ of the male student and found nothing else, her mouth twitching, "A poor dead soul."

Then she dashed into the thatched hut, flipped it inside out, and except for the chopping knife in her hand, found almost no useful weapons—but fortunately got a hold of a box of ointment.

She quickly applied some herbal medicine to the wound on her forehead to stop the bleeding.

Ji You didn’t delay and quickly left the thatched hut.

She had barely left when two people arrived right after. One looked at the traces left around and frowned, "There was a fight here recently, all the stuff inside might have been taken."

The other one said, "The bloodstains are still fresh. The person probably hasn’t gone far. Should we give chase?"

"Chase!"

Hidden in the dry yellow weeds with straw sticking out of her head, Ji You saw this scene and was secretly alarmed: Good heavens, lucky I slipped away quickly. A moment later and I would have to face these two directly. One of them had a gun and the other a bow and arrow. If I had run into them, I would have been doomed.

Also—

She hadn’t expected that in less than a few minutes after starting, people had already formed alliances.

This made Ji You realize that it would not work if she continued to fight alone. But—to make alliances, if there wasn’t a basic level of trust between each other, it could easily backfire.

So—

You can’t just randomly form alliances with anyone.

Quietly staying put for a few seconds, after seeing that the two who had left were not coming back, Ji You eyed the messy straw sticking to her, and a thought flashed through her mind. Without any hesitation, she took out her strongest life skill and fashioned a straw coat for herself. The design was simple, but it covered her arms and legs, leaving only her eyes exposed.

After putting on the straw coat, Ji You lay down in the weeds, and from the outside, it was virtually impossible to tell that a person was hiding in the weeds.