187: Chapter 187 A Great Harvest!

Watching this scene, the viewers in the livestream were rolling on the floor with laughter.

"Holy crap, you call that striking it rich? That's just toll money from the King of Hell!"

"Too tragic. This guy even had his Servant keeping watch from afar while he ran right into the Grim Reaper's firing range."

Just as that player was happily gathering the loot...

Chu He, hidden in the shadows, had his eyes turn instantly cold, like a viper stalking its prey.

"Do it."

"As you wish, Master."

Robin Hood's grin widened infinitely. He slowly raised the longbow in his hand, pulling the bowstring to a full moon.

An arrow drenched in deadly poison silently condensed in mid-air.

"Whoosh—!"

A faint sound of something cutting through the air rang out!

By the time Cu Chulainn in the distance sensed the magical energy fluctuations in the air, it was already too late.

"Pfft!"

The poison arrow, like a bolt of green lightning, pierced with pinpoint accuracy through the throat of the player who was crouching on the ground picking up money!

"Ugh... you..."

The ecstasy on that player's face instantly froze.

He clutched his neck, which was gushing streams of data, and stared fixedly at Chu He and Robin Hood as they slowly emerged from the shadows, his eyes filled with incredulous frustration and despair.

A dirty camper!

There's actually such a devious camper in this game!!!

The next second, the deadly poison erupted, and the Master's vital signs instantly hit zero.

"Master!!!"

Cu Chulainn in the distance let out a roar of grief and rage, raising his spear as he tried to rush over to take revenge.

However, having lost his Master's supply of magical energy, he had only taken one step before he let out an "Argh" sound and dissolved into blue light particles that scattered into the wind.

"Clatter."

With the demise of the enemy Servant, the moment that truly sent the adrenaline of the entire audience skyrocketing—the "coin drop"—had arrived!

As the player's corpse on the ground began to dissolve into data...

"Clatter-clatter-clatter—!!!"

It was like breaking open a slot machine filled with coins in a casino!

Hundreds of high-purity spirit particle crystals gushed out from his body like a burst dam, instantly covering half of the corridor!

The dazzling blue light was so bright it illuminated the dim corridor like broad daylight!

Chu He stared blankly at the mountain of magical crystals before him, which were almost deep enough to cover his ankles; his brain briefly short-circuited.

"Holy sh*t..."

A few seconds later, Chu He let out a wild laugh that could have blown the roof off.

"Hahahaha! Brothers! A big fish! We've hooked a legendary great white shark!!!"

"How long has this unlucky bastard been scavenging the map? This is at least eight hundred points of magical energy! He actually held onto it without using it, and now it's all mine!"

The chat in the livestream exploded instantly, the screen filled with the sourness of jealous viewers and exclamations of amazement.

"Unbelievable! This is what they call 'don't open the shop for three years, but when you do, you eat for three years'!"

"Using 20 points of magical energy as bait and getting over 800 back! That's a 4,000% profit margin—capitalists would weep at the sight of this!"

"This is the correct way to play this mode! What's the point of working hard scavenging? Kill and burn for the gold belt; fish for kills and explode the loot!"

Chu He ran over happily, like an upstart, and frantically swept the magical crystals on the ground into his system inventory.

850 points of magical energy! Added to the magical energy he already had, his total assets were nearing the 1,000 mark!

"Brothers, with this money, we can upgrade Robin Hood right away!"

Chu He didn't hesitate; he raised his hand and summoned the [Servant Upgrade Panel] in holographic projection mode.

As a fast-paced battle royale mode, Gu Yi had adopted a streamlined and straightforward "three-stage upgrade" system.

On the holographic interface, there were only three glowing upgrade modules:

[Basic Module (100 Magical Energy): Directly increases Servant HP and Attack; can be purchased multiple times.]

[spirit origin Ascension (300 Magical Energy): Unlocks unique Servant skills.]

[Noble Phantasm Release (500 Magical Energy): Unlocks exclusive Noble Phantasm and includes 100% full charge!]

"Who cares about basic stats? We're playing an assassin build; what we need is the core mechanism for one-hit kills!"

Chu He didn't even look at the basic module that could be repeatedly upgraded; with a wave of his hand, he dumped the massive amount of magical crystals directly into the two most core areas.

[Consuming 300 Magical Energy—spirit origin Ascension complete!]

[Consuming 500 Magical Energy—Noble Phantasm Release complete! Current charge: 100%!]

Simple operations, yet they brought immediate, satisfying results!

Amidst a dazzling light of spirit origin reinforcement, Robin Hood, who had previously looked a bit shabby, now had a more magnificent cloak, and the longbow in his hand emitted a dangerous, lethal green glow.

[Noble Phantasm: Prayer Bow—Ready!]

Looking at this Noble Phantasm, designed specifically to inflict terrifying poison explosions on single targets, the grin on Chu He's face was practically stretching to his ears.

"Fully equipped poison bow, plus map-wide stealth..."

Just as Chu He was in high spirits, preparing to plan his next route to slaughter everyone...

"Beep—!"

A piercing system alarm suddenly exploded across the sky in every corner of the Sakura Labyrinth!

Immediately after, a dazzling golden pillar of light in the sky crashed straight down onto the most open arena plaza in the center of the map.

The system notification flashed frantically before the retinas of all surviving players:

[Server-wide Announcement: Super Airdrop—Holy Grail Fragment, has landed at the Center Plaza!]

[The Master who acquires this fragment will receive a Miracle Choice!]

[Option 1: Sever the existing contract and perform a special summon that guarantees an 'SSR Servant (Five-Star)'!]

[Option 2: Retain the current Servant and obtain an extremely rare strategic resource—three Command Spells!]

Seeing this prompt, the entire livestream instantly boiled over, and Chu He's breath hitched sharply.

"Guaranteed SSR? Or just getting three free Command Spells?! Old Thief Gu's 'choose one of two' mechanism is way too tempting!"

It wasn't just Chu He; the players who had been hiding in various buildings to scrape by points were now like a pack of sharks that had smelled blood, beginning to swarm crazily toward the Center Plaza.

In this battle royale mode, this airdrop was practically a nuclear weapon that would trigger a server-wide riot!

Those players holding low-star Servants would definitely go for a chance to defy fate and turn their bicycle into a motorcycle; and those big shots who had already pulled an SSR would absolutely be unable to refuse the ultimate trump card that was three Command Spells, which could instantly heal a Servant to full health or force a Noble Phantasm activation!

Men die for wealth, birds die for food. It was foreseeable that an unprecedented, god-tier chaotic battle was about to break out there!

"Let's go, Robin Hood."

Chu He pulled up his hood and once again hid in the darkness, his voice tinged with the excitement of a hunter about to watch the show and close the net.

"We're heading to the highest point of the Center Plaza."

"Next, it's time to watch that group of swaggering big shots tear each other apart."