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"Prop Name": Annihilator's Display.

"Prop Grade": A-level.

"Prop Effect": This is a bomb that, once activated, will start a 10-minute countdown to detonation; its explosive power is enough to completely destroy a city capable of housing millions of people.

"Prop Restrictions": Once activated, the prop will enter an irreversible phase.

"Prop Description": "You can use it to create or destroy worlds, but only if you can escape the blast radius within 10 minutes. I hope you're fast enough."

"..."

Chen Yi was slightly startled before a hint of a smile flashed across his eyes, an A-level prop, not bad at all.

This is only the seventh hook, and he already netted an A-level prop?

Not bad.

Better than he expected.

Although it wasn't of much use to him, he didn't particularly lack A-level props with area attacks; having one was better than none, especially since it was an A-level consumable prop that could come in handy the next time a large-scale attack was needed.

Wait!

Suddenly, he noticed something was off.

Why did it seem like there were numbers flashing on what looked like the bomb's display?

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Immediately after—

An irritating sound suddenly started coming from the bomb that looked like a display, accompanied by a flashing, blinding red light.

"..."

Chen Yi's face changed dramatically, fuck, had the bomb already been activated?

And fucking hell, there were only 4 seconds left on the countdown!

In 4 seconds, there was no time for him to get the prop out of Yancheng; even if he survived, all the players who had crawled up from hell would be dragged back down to hell again.

Even if his Christmas sleigh was fast, it couldn't transport the bomb far enough away in 4 seconds!

No, now it was 3 seconds!

Chen Yi's complexion turned a bit pale, and he glanced back at the group of people preparing hotpot. With 2 seconds left on the countdown, a brilliant idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he quickly reactivated the Gold Miner's Occupational Effect!

With the familiar white portal appearing!

Without any hesitation, he shoved the bomb with only 2 seconds left on the countdown straight into the white portal.

Soon—

10 seconds had passed.

There was no occurrence around them, as if the timed bomb that had just appeared was nothing but an illusion.

Seeing this, Chen Yi breathed a sigh of relief, wiped off the nonexistent sweat from his forehead, and thought to himself that indeed the white portal could be used as a trash can.

It was a good thing he handled it in time; otherwise, Yancheng might have suffered an inexplicable disaster once again.

But this Gold Miner occupation, why does it feel a bit unreliable, hooking all sorts of weird stuff back?

He finally hooks an A-level prop, but it turns out to be a bomb with a nearly finished countdown. If it had been hooked even a few seconds later, there would've been no time to react, and they all would have had to be buried with this thing.

However...

Chen Yi suddenly thought of something and hesitated without speaking. That white portal led to other parts of the Blue Star game; throwing the bomb in there couldn't have hurt other people, could it?

The bomb was still very powerful.

If he had killed a whole city for no reason, he would have felt some guilt.

After a long pause with no kill notification sound coming, he finally exhaled in relief. It looked like no one was bombed, probably just luck that it landed in some uninhabited desert.

After such an incident.

He temporarily lost the mood to mine and instead sat on the beach chatting about everyday life with Jiaye, not bothering with the Gold Miner anymore.

Twenty minutes later.

Tuberculosis Rabbit came up to them, telling them everything was ready, and after the hotpot restaurant owner and the staff retreated, Chen Yi and his group enjoyed their first gathering in a month!

Everyone was happily raising their glasses in celebration.

They were celebrating Yi's safe return.

They were celebrating not just Yi's safe return, but his triumphant return!

"Cheers!"

"No rest tonight until we're all drunk!"

In the night, the group around the hotpot table, holding their glasses, stood up to toast and laugh together—the whole scene was extremely harmonious, making one want to join in.

...

"How nice."

Outside the neighborhood, the hotpot restaurant owner led his staff and looked up at the lights on the rooftop of the nearby building and Chen Yi's faint sounds of laughter, couldn't help but remark, "With players like Yi in Blue Star, it really makes people feel safe."

"Yi has reached such a status, and yet he still likes to eat hotpot."

"Someone once said that those who like to eat hotpot have no class, that no matter what ingredients are used, even abalones and lobsters taste the same in the hotpot—they're all about the seasonings."

"But even at Yi's status, he still eats hotpot. What does that tell you? It's the mark of a man who is high in status but not haughty."

After the hotpot restaurant owner ruminated for a while, he turned and walked towards the distance under the streetlights, his silhouette stretching longer under the lights, followed by nearly a hundred employees stretching their limbs behind their boss.

They looked somewhat like the mob.

"Let's go, everyone's heading back."

...

"You all are going to die today!!!"

"Hahaha, go ahead and accompany me in death!!!"

In some deep place in hell, a man with a bare upper body and covered in strange tattoos was crazily raising a bomb that looked very much like a display, laughing ferociously at the surrounding people.