Chapter 323: Special Treatment

The remark carried an obvious sting, directly piercing Ba Tie Lu Fei's petty thoughts.

On the other side, Ba Tie Lu Fei stared at the line, his complexion flashing between pallor and green, hammered the table hard, yet had to keep typing.

After all, he had already softened, the path was chosen; giving up midway would yield nothing.

Ba Tie Lu Fei gritted his teeth to the bone, cursing in his heart while typing.

【Ba Tie Lu Fei】: Hey, big brother! Please don't get the wrong idea! I'm just putting on a show in front of the brothers, just talk for appearances! It shouldn't be taken as real! I have a hundred percent respect for you! Your domain is so large, your power so strong, we at Dark Star truly admire you! My subordinates don't know what they're doing and spew nonsense, I've already scolded them!

His words were half true, half false; the softening was genuine, but how much genuine admiration there is is hard to say.

Cheng Shuili let out a snort, and was too lazy to engage in his pretentious banter.

【Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji】: Fine, keep your people in line. Next time someone jumps at me, I won't be polite. Your "performance", I'm waiting to see it.

That word "performance" again hit Ba Tie Lu Fei's sore spot with precision, almost taking his breath away.

But he could only endure it.

【Ba Tie Lu Fei】: Yes, yes, yes! We'll definitely keep it in check! Guarantee it won't happen again! Thank you, big brother, for your magnanimity! As for those hundred sets of leather armor, I'll definitely rush them out for you, with quality and quantity assured!

Cheng Shuili gave no further reply and closed the private chat window.

She knew that Ba Tie Lu Fei must be seething inside, but he still had to bow to reality.

Black Feather and her own strength were there, and a direct confrontation at this stage would bring no benefit to Dark Star.

He could only swallow that resentment himself.

It's just a dog's bark, annoying to hear, but a beating makes it quiet.

Now, it's quiet.

Quiet is impossible.

The system is silent, surely up to some mischief.

"Since the afternoon, there have been no treasure chests on the road."

When Su Rui emerged from the cockpit with a heavy expression, Cheng Shuili still thought something serious had happened.

It turned out to be this situation that had occurred long ago.

If nothing unexpected, it's the reward road, right?

Press on, keep moving forward; when the day is about to end, the reward road will appear.

Back then, the group owner Ka, who created the small group, also emerged from the reward road.

She spoke a couple of soothing words to Su Rui, explaining the reward road matter.

The other's eyebrows furrowed even tighter.

"I obviously know about the reward road."

Su Rui's gaze carried a hint of helplessness; the reward road had appeared quite early, and she had been a player back then, so she knew it, "But that time the system stopped providing supply crates from the morning, and we were bottled up with a whole day's worth of emotions. Now it's only half a day— is this really a reward road?"

Su Rui's worry was not unfounded, but Cheng Shuili always adhered to the principle "When troops come, block them; when water comes, dam it."

In this unknown situation, they could only do their utmost to fulfill what they ought to do.

Su Rui returned to the cockpit to drive, while Cheng Shuili opened the regional channel to take a look.

The earlier bustle had vanished; by comparison, the regional channel now refreshed at a glacial pace.

And…

Cheng Shuili paused; she suddenly realized that aside from Su Rui's claim of not seeing supply crates, no one else seemed to have this trouble.

If everyone is like that, that's some system mechanism.

But if only she is in this situation, that's a blatant targeting!

Cheng Shuili frowned, about to ask on the faction channel, when the pending 500,000 debt notification popped up again.

At that moment, it jumped out…

Cheng Shuili found it hard not to link the two events.

She examined the debt page carefully, confirming no new deadlines or terms had appeared, then set her mind at ease.

The system probably wouldn't stay silent and just start punishing.

That would be too infernal!

Cheng Shuili decided to first check the mortal side's things.

The regional channel had no news about road treasure chests, while the faction channel was blowing up.

"Friends, did you see any road treasure chests this afternoon? I didn't see a single one."

"+1! I've been watching since 1 o'clock, not a single one!"

"I thought it was just my face that was dark… turns out everyone is the same?"

"Reward road, right? Isn't it?"

"No, sir, what time is it? Isn't the reward road supposed to start from morning? What does it mean it only starts this afternoon?"

"Something's off! It's ten out of twelve wrong!"

"Why panic? Maybe it's just a delayed reward road? Isn't waiting to get rich fine?"

"Getting rich? Brother, when things go abnormal there must be a monster! When has the system ever been so kind? I always feel a weird feeling inside…"

"+1, feels like the calm before the storm."

Looking at it this way…

Cheng Shuili paused; had everyone in their faction encountered this?

Cheng Shuili originally thought something was targeting their faction, but then considered that members said they hadn't seen supply crates since 1 p. m., while those people joined the faction after 2 p. m.

Who can join Black Feather? This is hard to predict in advance.

Then…

Why is it specifically them?

Unexpectedly, all these members of Black Feather have appeared?

Cheng Shuili's beautiful eyes flashed, and she instantly realized a key point.

The members of Black Feather are all elites who participated in the elite Instance; that is, the system's abnormal operation this time is very likely targeting only elite players!

This is just speculation; whether it's true or not still needs to be determined.

Faction Channel:

【Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji】: Everyone, report roughly when you last saw the road supply box.

Lao Da personally spoke, the channel instantly fell silent, followed by a neat and uniform report.

Messages scrolled by, and the answers were almost astonishingly uniform: the time all members last saw the supply box clustered in the morning! From the afternoon onward, nobody saw the supply box again!

This can be confirmed.

This is the specific event targeting elite players!

The members in the Faction Channel also quickly realized this; the atmosphere that had just boiled over from gaining a title instantly cooled, replaced by a sense of solemnity and faint unease.

"Targeting only us? What does the system mean?"

"It should be targeting only elite players, right? Even before joining Black Feather, the supply box had already stopped appearing; it definitely has nothing to do with the faction."

"I knew it wouldn't be good! Is this special treatment?"

"What is this? A punishment mechanism?"

"Could it be... an enhanced version of the reward road? Just the trigger conditions changed?"

"Give me a break! This looks like giving out rewards? To me it looks like causing trouble!"