Chapter Ten: A New Form of Wandering, Eerie Amplification Multiplied Dozens of Times!
Chapter 10: A New Stance of Wandering, Uncanny Value Multiplies Dozens of Times!
Chen Ye wore the Wanderer’s Boots. Each step spanned over three meters, his speed soaring like the wind, instantly leaving the three Gluttonous Fiends far behind.
Yet, the three Gluttonous Fiends grew even more enraged, seemingly mortified that such a small figure ahead of them could so easily escape. It was as if their very prowess was being mocked by a mere boy.
For these muscular brutes, it was an unbearable humiliation!
They quickened their pace.
The chainsaw-wielding man’s saw blade began to spin wildly, emitting a harsh, grating roar like a demon’s howl.
But Chen Ye’s speed kept increasing, the distance between hunter and prey widening steadily.
Nearby, the men with the wooden stick and the cleaver lagged far behind, their speed no match for the chainsaw man’s relentless pursuit.
Only the chainsaw man’s engine-like roar remained, closing in relentlessly.
Chen Ye’s brow furrowed slightly. He hadn’t expected this Gluttonous Fiend to be so fast!
If not for the Wanderer’s Boots granting him superior escape abilities, he would have been caught long ago.
Still, three meters per step was not Chen Ye’s limit.
He was merely maintaining a wandering posture, walking while incrementally increasing his stats.
Naturally, the speed slowed somewhat.
But if he switched to running posture, his true speed would be fully unleashed!
At this moment, Chen Ye could no longer bother with side quests.
The Gluttonous Fiends’ sequence endowed them with stronger physiques. After all, they devour anything and grow rapidly, their abilities enhanced by whatever they consume.
Among the three, the chainsaw man was clearly the leader.
He had acquired the most resources and gained the greatest power boost.
Even his base abilities surpassed the ordinary fiends by a wide margin!
Without any tools, his speed was still on par with Chen Ye’s current pace, making it hard to shake him off.
In the next instant,
Chen Ye unleashed his full speed, breaking into an extreme sprint with strides of five meters!
In the blink of an eye, he had already surged thirty meters ahead.
To his surprise, these numbers were being recorded by the stage quest!
Running such a great distance caused his uncanny value to soar by fifty points!
Combined with the earlier boost from playing the suona horn, Chen Ye now held seven hundred points of uncanny value, climbing at an astonishing rate.
On the leaderboard, newcomers had previously pushed him down from the hundredth spot.
But now, his name shot up to ninety-fifth place, surpassing the hundredth by dozens of uncanny points!
“Wait…”
“Isn’t the stage quest’s step counter supposed to only register wandering posture?”
“But even when running desperately like this, it’s still counted and boosts uncanny value?”
Chen Ye was a bit taken aback.
“Ding!”
At that moment, his Blood-Red Phone pinged with a message. Opening it, he read—
[Congratulations on discovering a new stance for wandering!]
[Being chased on the streets is also part of wandering.]
[Enjoy this process of flight to the fullest!]
Chen Ye was slightly stunned. So the Blood-Red Phone could send messages when encountering unknown situations?
Its tone was rather cheeky!
But at least Chen Ye now understood that fleeing was a legitimate facet of wandering.
His eyes brightened.
“A wanderer is inherently down-and-out, and being hunted only deepens that plight.”
“Therefore, sprinting in this phase not only doesn’t violate the role of a wanderer but enriches its meaning!”
“Not only does movement speed increase, but the uncanny value gained per unit distance also rises.”
Chen Ye had calculated before that walking a thousand meters would raise his uncanny value by about ten points. But just now, after running roughly the same distance, his uncanny value had surged by fifty points.
Under this chase phase, his uncanny value gained a fivefold multiplier!
And this multiplier hadn’t even factored in the efficiency of running over walking.
Hence,
Chen Ye’s current rate of uncanny value growth was at least twenty to thirty times faster than usual.
If he pushed his running speed to the limit, the multiplier could reach fifty times!
“Thanks, Chainsaw Brother!”
Chen Ye nearly laughed aloud.
Without the chainsaw man’s inadvertent help, he might have taken a long time to discover that the Wanderer’s role could be played in this way.
Filled with excitement, Chen Ye sprinted over a hundred meters ahead, watching the chainsaw man’s figure begin to fade from view.
He quickly slowed down.
However, after being distanced, the chainsaw man’s fury seemed to wane.
His steps faltered as he pondered whether to let the boy go.
After all, the boy had only been practicing the suona horn at reasonable times. Though the sound was unbearable—roughly equivalent in their language to curses like “you filthy bitch,” “your horse is dead,” or “go back to your mother’s womb and be reborn”—
On second thought, the boy didn’t seem to mean any harm…
The suona was an external tool, not something growing from his mouth like their own weapons.
Even if he pursued, his speed wasn’t enough!
Yet,
Seeing the chainsaw man entertain the idea of retreat irritated Chen Ye.
Here was a rare benefactor helping him boost his uncanny value—how could he just let him off?
He immediately raised the suona again, blowing into it with fervor.
The shrill sound once more echoed through the narrow alleys of Xining.
The chainsaw atop the man’s head spun furiously, emitting a buzzing, piercing noise like an unintelligible curse hurled back.
Seeing Chen Ye persist in playing the suona…
The chainsaw man finally lost patience and charged at Chen Ye with renewed speed, his strides now even larger than before.
His running posture grew more exaggerated, as if he could leap off the ground with each step. Before his front foot landed, the back foot kicked off forcefully, barely touching the ground with his heel before his body was airborne—an extremely bizarre gait best described as—
A mutant!
Chen Ye smiled faintly. When the chainsaw man was only thirty meters behind, he suddenly exploded into a powerful sprint, leaving him far behind at the alley’s end in just a few strides.
At the same time, he maintained a steady run, keeping the chainsaw man roughly fifty meters behind, all while playing the suona…
The chainsaw man’s saw spun wildly again, his roar growing fiercer, his running stance like a mad dog!
[Uncanny Value +50!]
[Uncanny Value +50!]
In this state, Chen Ye’s uncanny value skyrocketed at an incredible pace—nearly every ten minutes, it surged by fifty points!
Such an increase would place him among the top ranks of the leaderboard, with few rivals able to match this pace.
At this moment,
Chen Ye’s ranking surged rapidly!
From ninety-fifth to ninetieth, then eighty-fifth…
All players in the Uncanny Era watched Chen Ye’s uncanny value and ranking climb at an unbelievable speed, as if possessed, instantly igniting a wave of discussion in the “Destiny Jianghu.”