On a certain bus...
Mark, who was once beaten and humiliated by Jason pretending to be David, still held a grudge against David.
Now, he was trying to brainwash everyone on the bus.
"Guys, you've all seen the car owners' situation in the Group Chat App."
"They had two thousand followers killed by the pursuer mode yesterday, and that Chests mechanism is just using our lives to help car owners compete for chests. To those car owners, even if their followers die, they can just recruit new ones from the bus. They don't care at all."
"Do you really think becoming a follower under a car owner will end well? It's much safer for us to stay on the bus..."
"I believe as long as we stick together, we can overcome any difficulty in the future."
After Mark finished speaking, he immediately gained support and agreement from many people on the bus.
Unlike other buses where people were divided into small groups fighting over resources, Mark had already taken control of this bus.
Under Mark's leadership these past few days, the twenty-plus people on the bus worked together to secure chests and even hunted several gray wolves to alleviate the food shortage.
Now, the bus had seven Wooden Spears, making it a formidable force capable of taking down Bronze Chests guarded by two or three Goblins.
But since some car owners came to the bus to recruit people yesterday, many people on the bus became restless.
Mark noticed this and started brainwashing everyone to strengthen his control.
Actually, car owners had tried to recruit Mark yesterday, but he rejected them all.
Mark knew very well that his advantage was his leadership ability. Leaving the bus to work under other car owners would render him useless, and he would end up as expendable cannon fodder.
As the saying goes, better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond. He felt safer and more at ease staying on the bus.
Moreover, he could use the bus to gather resources and increase his strength.
Mark always remembered the scene where David humiliated him a few days ago, which made him understand the importance of strength.
In this Escape World, one's own strength is the key to survival.
"Monty, good news..." Someone came to Mark's ear and whispered something.
Mark's eyes lit up, and he excitedly said to everyone with a smile, "Hahaha, everyone, quickly check the Group Chat App, there's good news."
Everyone on the bus was stunned, wondering what could have made Mark so happy. But they still opened the system to check the Group Chat App.
Soon, the messages being discussed in the Group Chat App caught everyone's attention.
It turned out that chests were landing on some buses, and some people found token-like items inside the chests.
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"That's great! Chests are actually appearing. Does that mean we don't have to get off the bus to fight for chests?" someone exclaimed excitedly.
"Dumbass, it's so windy outside, how are you going to get off the bus to fight for chests?"
"True, I wonder when a chest will land on our bus."
Everyone on the bus was talking, expressing their own opinions.
Unlike others, Mark was focused on the fact that someone in the Group Chat App was buying tokens with Attribute Orbs! Attribute Orbs that could increase strength!
Although he didn't know what the token was, the fact that it could be exchanged for Attribute Orbs meant it was definitely valuable.
Mark's eyes couldn't help but shine, wishing a chest would quickly land on his bus.
As if his wish was heard, a white light suddenly appeared on the bus, attracting everyone's attention.
"A chest has landed!" someone exclaimed after seeing the phenomenon.
Soon, the white light dissipated, and a silver-white chest appeared in front of everyone.
"This... this is a Silver Chest!?" someone couldn't help but exclaim.
Everyone present understood what a Silver Chest represented, and their eyes widened with excitement as they stood up.
At that moment, many people on the bus couldn't help but step forward, wanting to open the chest.
Mark reacted quickly. He immediately woke up from his shock and saw that everyone was about to snatch the Silver Chest. He immediately yelled.
"What are you doing!? This chest belongs to everyone. I dare anyone to take it for themselves."
Mark's prestige, cultivated over the past few days, was still effective. Everyone who was scolded by him immediately stopped and laughed awkwardly.
At this time, whoever dared to open the Silver Chest would definitely become everyone's target, and it could even cause a major fight on the bus.
Mark waved his hand in a deliberately calm manner, driving away the few people who were approaching the chest.
Everyone understood Mark's meaning. The chest would definitely be opened by Mark, so as to ensure that its resources were distributed equally.
Mark didn't waste any time and immediately opened the chest.
Inside the chest were a small pile of Escape Coins and a token.
Mark curiously picked up the token to examine it.
Personal Dungeon Token (Cooking): After using the token, you will be teleported to the Dungeon world to learn cooking.
Dungeon token? Learn cooking?
A hint of disappointment flashed in Mark's eyes. He thought the token would be some powerful item.
It turned out to be just a Dungeon token for learning cooking.
But Mark quickly thought of someone in the Group Chat App buying tokens with Attribute Orbs.
Mark felt a surge of excitement, but he still pretended to be calm and reached into the chest. He quietly pocketed the small pile of Escape Coins into his system, and then picked up the token to show it to everyone.
"Guys, there's only this one token in the chest."
As Mark took away the items from the Silver Chest, the chest disappeared into thin air in everyone's eyes, making everyone understand that there was only one token in the chest.
Mark held the token up to show everyone.
"Check out the stats of this token. It can only improve someone's cooking skills. It's useless. Why don't we sell it and get some resources?"
After seeing the token's stats, everyone on the bus was disappointed. No one objected to Mark using the token to exchange for resources.
On the other side.
The person who was buying tokens with Attribute Orbs in the Group Chat App was naturally Jason. After all, besides him, no one else would take out extra Attribute Orbs to do such a thing.
Jason naturally knew that chests were landing on buses.
Escape World was still fair in this regard. During these three days of the wind disaster, the teams led by car owners did not have chests land, but they would still receive gasoline rewards every day.
After surviving the three-day wind disaster, they would naturally collect the chest resources from these three days when they went to the next world.
And the buses would have chests constantly landing during these three days. The chests not only contained food and water to ensure survival during these three days, but also contained Dungeon tokens of various skills.
There were many types of skills for these Dungeon tokens, such as cooking, planting, animal husbandry, medical care, driving, combat skills, and so on.
Those who learned from the Dungeon tokens naturally became talents in the eyes of the car owners.
Three days later, when they went to the extremely hot world, car owners would naturally compete to recruit talents who had learned from the Dungeon tokens.
In his previous life, Jason obtained a token for gun skills at this time, and then he had the capital to barely survive.
Even now, the skills that Jason taught Chloe and Kira to use Wooden Spears came from the gun skills he learned from that Dungeon token.
This was also why Chloe mistakenly thought that Jason knew martial arts when she first saw him using a Wooden Spear to blind a Goblin's eyes on the first day of Escape World.