Casual conversation naturally turned to the Cooling Stone and the possibility that San Mei Shi might be the first to enter the fifth layer of Lost City and receive the rewards. During this, San Mei Shi deeply regretted that the Cooling Stone could not be traded; otherwise, she would have given it directly to Ye Luo. After all, it could not be nearly as effective in her hands as it would be in Ye Luo's.
Of course, since things had already come to this, they no longer dwelled on it. After dinner, they went to get some proper rest in preparation for the next day's competition.
Early the next morning, everyone logged into the game on time and joined the Lost City competition. For the time being, San Mei Shi continued hunting ordinary monsters to meet the system's requirements as soon as possible and enter the fifth layer of Lost City. After parting ways with her, Ye Luo hunted players from other servers while killing ordinary monsters, gradually making the latter his priority—he planned to kill enough ordinary monsters first. If a player from another server looked likely to be the first to meet the requirements and enter the fifth layer of Lost City, he would immediately kill the final few monsters and get there ahead of them. He had no intention of letting the rewards fall into another server's hands.
However, at present, San Mei Shi was still the most likely person to meet the requirements first and enter the fifth layer of Lost City. Ye Luo was merely preparing for the worst.
Ye Luo was highly efficient at killing monsters. Before long, he had slain 9,990 ordinary monsters on the fourth layer of Lost City, leaving him only 10 short of meeting the requirements. Killing 10 ordinary monsters