Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1192 - 1108: Opening the Coffin

The onlookers also realized something was amiss and looked at Dai Xuan with sympathetic eyes, whispering among themselves.

"Damn it!"

"To scam me, Dai Xuan, out of money takes some serious guts!"

Dai Xuan felt like he had lost face completely, having spent 500,000 gold coins without seeing even a hint of fur, and that too right in front of so many people. It was nothing short of a great humiliation!

Especially hearing the whispers of the players around him, his face darkened as if covered in soot. With a hmph, he teleported away from the place.

In the God and Devil Forum, news of Dai Xuan being scammed spread like a virus, becoming more exaggerated with each retelling, taking on various versions. This made it even harder for Dai Xuan to show his face, and he didn’t appear in public for a long time thereafter.

As for the Shield Warrior player, the outcome was not hard to imagine. Hunted by the Dancing Demons guild for months on end, his gaming experience became one of constant fear and unease.

Whether the 500,000 gold coins earned were worth the trouble, only he knew.

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"Overturning Water, there’s an island up ahead!"

Xue Wuqing pointed at the small island in front, her heart filled with excitement. After all, she had been flying for nearly two hours, and even the Pegasus was showing signs of fatigue. Finding an island to land on at this moment was exhilarating.

"The radar shows it already, no need to make a big fuss."

Su Ran lay on the small boat, having activated the autopilot mode, speeding across the sea surface leisurely. He had no idea that his willfulness had caused such trouble for that Shield Warrior player, especially Dai Xuan – it had become the greatest stain of his life, something Su Ran could never have imagined.

As soon as she stepped onto the sandy beach, Xue Wuqing promptly returned the Pegasus to the Pet Space. After flying for so long, it had surely been tough.

Su Ran then packed up the boat and walked into the sky, scanning the entire island from above. It was then that he noticed the island was shrouded in a layer of black fog that obscured the view completely. It was unclear what kind of creatures lay within, making it difficult to determine what type of Pet Island it was.

"So, any findings?"

Xue Wuqing saw Su Ran descending from the sky and asked curiously. The island gave her an eerie feeling of danger that made her feel involuntarily tense.

"This island is enveloped in a layer of black fog, making it hard to see. I haven’t heard any sounds of fighting either, so it seems no players have found this place yet."

Su Ran shared his preliminary analysis, which was that as long as no players were involved, everything was manageable.

"Forget about that for now, quickly take out the treasure you got and let’s see!"

Xue Wuqing had been holding back the entire journey and now that she finally had the chance, she wasn’t going to let it pass. There on the beach, she wanted Su Ran to show off his spoils.

"What’s the rush? It’s already in our hands; do you think it’s going to fly away?"

Su Ran first looked around the area to ensure there was no danger, then reached into his bladder and pulled out the ice coffin.

"Overturning Water, that’s enough! Don’t take out such a ghastly thing to fool people with, put it away this instant!"

Xue Wuqing had always disliked items associated with the dead; they gave her nightmares, made of ice or not.

"This is the precious item I went through so much to get, and you don’t respect my effort?"

Su Ran said irritably, though he understood that even if the coffin was made of ice, it was not exactly a symbol of good fortune.

"All this trouble, and you’ve only got a coffin to show for it?"

Xue Wuqing asked incredulously. She couldn’t understand why – was losing a coffin reason enough for a Boss to go crazy and sink an island?

Making a big fuss over nothing!

"What did you expect? That I could move a mountain of gold here?"

Su Ran stopped talking. Since this woman seemed so disdainful of the coffin, he decided to witness the moment of striking it rich by opening it himself. With this in mind, he swiftly placed his hand on the coffin lid and after observing it and noticing it wasn’t locked, he forcefully lifted it without much effort.

"Crack."

A crisp sound echoed as an extremely cold chill burst forth from the coffin, catching Su Ran off guard. He was instantly affected by the cold and turned into a block of ice.

"Eh? Overturning Water, I thought you weren’t afraid of the cold? How come you’re frozen?"

Xue Wuqing looked in astonishment at the human-shaped ice sculpture. In her memory, Overturning Water’s resistance to cold was much stronger than her own, the fact that he was frozen was just incredibly bad luck.

As for the already opened icy coffin, Xue Wuqing didn’t bother to give it another glance, simply waiting for Overturning Water to emerge from the frozen state.

Unexpectedly.

Xue Wuqing had been waiting for nearly five minutes before Su Ran finally freed himself from the ice.

"Damn it, if I had known about this trap, I would have directly used the bone scythe!"

While chewing on tomb grass, Su Ran took out his bone scythe to expel the chill inside his body, relieved to see that the icy coffin was still in place.

"Luckily, it wasn’t refreshed by the system. That was close!"

Glad that his worst fear hadn’t materialized, Su Ran hurriedly opened the lid only to find a transparent lump of ice inside.

"No way, all that risk for this piece of junk?"

Without even a cremation urn, Su Ran couldn’t help feeling disappointed. He had hoped this would make him rich, but unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.

It was just as the old saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

There was no choice; he had to take whatever the system gave him. Even a mosquito was flesh—he might yet find out that it was a supreme treasure, maybe he just hadn’t discovered its true value.

Harboring a sliver of hope, Su Ran reached into the coffin. Just as his bony fingers touched the ice lump, something unexpected happened.

The lump of ice instantly turned into liquid, winding its way up along Su Ran’s bony fingers, through his arm, and into his skeleton.

Su Ran was shocked to find that his body was gradually becoming encased in ice; his arm was numb, and he could no longer control his body or even make a sound. He could only watch helplessly as the bone-chilling current moved towards his skull.

In this critical moment, the bone scythe emitted a flash of light, and to Su Ran’s surprise, the cold current receded like a tide. The control over his body returned to him.

"Thud, thud, thud."

Su Ran took several steps back, his face showing sheer terror, distancing himself from the eerie coffin. But before he could catch his breath, the coffin turned into a torrent of ice, slamming against Su Ran’s skeleton.

Su Ran was too preoccupied to care about anything else, clinging to the bone scythe for dear life. All his hopes now lay with the Ice Orb; only with it could he possibly survive!

"Overturning Water! You must hold on!"

Xue Wuqing had also realized something was amiss and instinctively cried out in alarm.

In her wildest dreams, she had not anticipated that the coffin would be a death trap, utterly catching her off guard!