Chapter 1118 - 1118: Jinx Qian Shaoyuan

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

The fifty people scattered in different positions felt a strong vibration from the watches on their wrists.

No one was unfamiliar with this.

Whenever there were significant changes, the watches would vibrate.

This time, the content made everyone greatly surprised!

According to a scrolling notification at the top of the watch screen, the remaining fifty people learned that

in half an hour, everyone's location would be revealed and become visible on the map.

At the same time, three safe zones went dark, leaving only one lit.

This all indicated that the final showdown would begin in half an hour.

At that time, hiding would be impossible, and under visible positions, everyone would have to show their true self.

This made Xiao Feng feel like he was being deliberately targeted.

With positions "visualized," wouldn't the unsold five sets of ghillie suits be worthless?

Of course, he wasn't the most enraged. It was the customers who bought the ghillie suits.

At this moment, Ji Yonggang, lying in the grass by the roadside, tore off the ghillie suit from his body: "What a piece of crap! This thing's useless!"

Beside him, Zhuo Fang whispered: "Brother Gang, you weren't saying that when we were ambushing others."

"Really? Then what did I say?"

"You said this ghillie suit was really useful, worth not just eight hundred thousand, but even eight million!"

"Nonsense! How could I have said such a thing!"

Zhuo Fang shook his head and didn't plan to argue further, instead speaking solemnly: "No matter what, ambushing people is unrealistic now.

We should head to the safe zone as soon as possible. With some luck, we might secure a favorable position."

"That's all we can do." Ji Yonggang nodded, thought for a moment, and decided not to take off the ghillie suit.

After all, with half an hour to go before locations are revealed, perhaps it could still be useful during that time.

...

Half an hour passed quickly, and what Xiao Feng had been worried about finally happened...

Among the remaining fifty people in the field, he accounted for twenty-seven, already more than half of the total.

Who would dare mess with that?

Whoever saw those twenty-something closely packed dots would run as fast as they could, as far as they could?

This directly led to Xiao Feng being unable to find new clients.

Approach any red dot, and that red dot would distance itself, clearly intending to cut off his financial paths.

At a loss, Xiao Feng could only look at Lu Yao, asking: "Can you find a way for us to disappear from the map?"

In fact, making oneself disappear from the map was quite simple.

Just toss the watch away, but the problem was, each person's watch was bound to them.

As long as the distance between a person and their watch exceeded five meters, they would be automatically eliminated.

In other words, it was no different from suicide.

What Xiao Feng wanted was a way to disappear from the map without being eliminated.

"I'll give it a try, but I can't guarantee anything." Lu Yao replied cautiously.

After saying that, she unstrapped the watch, gathered materials on the spot, opened the back cover, and began studying it, while the people around stayed on alert.

Although the risk of surprise attacks was greatly reduced with revealed positions, Xiao Feng insisted on keeping everyone vigilant.

Not for anything else, but to cultivate vigilance into a habit.

Because equipment can fail, and apart from high-tech, one must still rely on oneself.

"It would be great to have a magnifying glass." Lu Yao expressed some frustration.

"No magnifying glass here, how about using binoculars instead?" the little girl suggested, raising the binoculars hanging around her neck.

Lu Yao reached out: "Let me try and see if it works."

After working for ten minutes, Lu Yao wiped the sweat off her face and displayed a smile: "Now see if we have one less red dot over here?"

Xiao Feng and the others looked down and counted carefully, indeed twenty-seven red dots had turned into twenty-six.

However, the upper left corner displayed the remaining number of participants, which remained unchanged.

This result astonished not just the others but even Xiao Feng!

He was merely asking casually, not expecting Lu Yao could actually do it.

In Xiao Feng's view, a fish cannot do without water, melons cannot do without vines, just like Lu Yao cannot do without a computer.

But facts proved that away from the computer, Lu Yao with her brain and hands, could still make significant contributions.

"Sister Lu Yao, how did you do it?" the little girl asked in admiration.

Lu Yao smiled shyly: "Actually, it's nothing. On the watch's circuit board, there's a small-sized positioning chip welded on.

Removing it without professional tools is impossible.

However, there's no need to remove it. As long as it doesn't get power, the positioning chip is just an ornament."

"Well done!" Xiao Feng gave a thumbs-up.

...

Half an hour later, the other small half of the people were stunned!

Because they found out that the twenty-seven people previously gathered together disappeared from the map.

And in the upper left corner, the displayed remaining number was forty-seven, while the total number of red dots on the map was only twenty.

"What's going on?" Li Ying looked at Qian Shaoyuan beside her.

Qian Shaoyuan also had a puzzled expression, shaking his head: "I'm not sure, unless there's some signal-blocking device, or they tampered with the watches."

"Then modify our watches and make us 'invisible' on the map." Li Ying instructed.

Qian Shaoyuan chuckled wryly: "I only designed a program, I can't modify watches. If something goes wrong, wouldn't I end up playing myself to death?"

Li Ying appeared slightly disappointed: "I also wonder how the others are doing now?"

"Those who managed to survive so far have some skills. We can only take care of ourselves for now."

Qian Shaoyuan sighed: "What I'm most worried about now is those nearly thirty people who disappeared from the map, we better not encounter them."

"Didn't someone call you a jinx earlier?" Li Ying suddenly asked.

"Besides Brother Shan, who else would say such an old-fashioned thing?"

"So are you a jinx or not?" Li Ying asked suspiciously: "Don't tell me, we'll actually run into those guys because you said this."

Qian Shaoyuan was speechless: "Sister Ying, I remember you didn't believe in superstitions, why now…"

"Why now? Go on." Li Ying furrowed her brow, only to see Qian Shaoyuan widen his eyes, looking behind her, like a scene often seen in horror movies.

Li Ying quickly turned around and saw a group of people marching over, led by...some crafty merchant 009.

Turning back to Qian Shaoyuan, her gaze seemed to ask: Are you not a jinx?

To which Qian Shaoyuan had already, very convincingly, raised his hands, wearing a big smile: "Brother Feng, we're all acquaintances, go easy on us!"

Li Ying glared at him, thinking it would have been better to have Gong Kaishan with her.

At least Gong Kaishan wouldn't be so spineless, this was just too embarrassing!

However, little did she know that Gong Kaishan had long since been eliminated, perhaps at this moment hiding in some corner, silently licking his wounds.