Major Rule Changes, Second Round of Disasters!

"Seriously? I can understand you adding restrictions to all items, but why mess with the crafting function? Now even making a Wooden Spear costs 1 Disaster Point, and you only gave me 13 in total??!"

"The end of humanity is here, and this damn game is showing its true colors. This is just another way to kill us!"

"Down with the game's rule! The people should be in charge of this world! Ula!"

"Trading now requires points? A 4kg item costs 3 points in handling fees? Are you robbing us blind??"

"Big reward! My mom was dropped at XX location. Are there any brothers nearby? Please take care of her. She has no points, and we can't send private messages!"

"I'm screwed. Without storage space, my meat will rot in a few days!"

"Looking for kind-hearted people to band together. My location is around XX. If you're nearby and interested, DM me!"

Sitting in his Shelter, which was already overflowing with items from his inventory, Su Mo grimly read through the Shelter upgrade announcement.

This change undoubtedly pushed the somewhat game-like survival world a big step closer to reality.

The crafting system was nerfed. The Torch, which could burn for 12 hours with just a piece of wood and two plant fibers, disappeared.

Other crafting options that allowed for the creation of bug-like items with just materials were all gone, leaving only essential tools and weapons that required points to craft.

"Trading needs points, inventory needs points, crafting needs points, private messages need points... Everything needs points."

Every word of the update announcement revolved around Disaster Points.

Everyone thought the days of being penniless were gone, but they returned in such a ridiculous way.

Opening the system interface, Su Mo saw his points in a very conspicuous spot in the lower right corner:

632 points! "Good thing I upgraded the Shelter first and got a ranking. First place gets a whopping 400 points, what a steal!"

After examining the cost of all the items, Su Mo's heart, which had been in his throat, finally settled.

Because he was ahead of everyone else and, being alone, enjoyed all the Disaster Points, he seemed incredibly wealthy to others.

Before any further major changes, Su Mo could still use the crafting and trading systems.

As for the others... the end of the newbie period forced many who were still hiding in their Shelters to face the harsh reality.

It was time to leave the Shelter and explore the wilderness! For Su Mo, the most fatal change was the massive nerf to storage space.

The old storage space didn't have this Space Cube thing. No matter how big the item, it only counted as one unit in the inventory.

For example, he could stack all his stone and iron resources into one inventory slot, which was incredibly convenient.

Now, after the change, he couldn't be as carefree with storage, throwing in dozens of units of resources at once.

Clicking on the space icon in the inventory, Su Mo thought, "Pay 100 Disaster Points to open storage space."

Like buying an inventory expansion scroll in a certain dungeon game, Su Mo's vision seemed to pierce through space in silence, arriving at a small space one meter long, one meter wide, and one meter high.

Record: Your Disaster Points -100. Your current storage space volume: 1 cubic meter.

After opening the storage space, the usage method remained the same.

As long as he focused his mind on an item for one second, he could absorb the unowned item into the space.

The absorbed item could also reappear in Su Mo's hand or within 50 centimeters of where it needed to be placed within one second.

Switching to the trading channel and trying it out, Su Mo gave up on continuing his water-selling business.

The current trading system charged by weight. The starting price for the first 3kg of items was 2 points, and each additional 1kg cost 1 point.

This meant that mass hoarding resources through the trading system had become a pipe dream.

The game panel's ultimate goal was to promote the exchange of goods between each Area Channel, with resource trading taking place inside the Trading Realm.

"Indeed, this isn't just a simple survival game."

"Fortunately, my sister is 16 and my parents are 54. I don't have to worry about them being dropped into this disaster yet. Otherwise, with the current exploration progress, I'd have to risk my life."

After observing the World Channel and Area Channel chats for a while, Su Mo's sense of urgency returned.

Exiting to the upper right corner of the game panel, a number 15 and a snowflake icon reappeared next to the disaster display.

When Su Mo focused his mind on the number of days, a prompt appeared.

[Countdown to the next disaster event: 15 days]

[Disaster Event: Blizzard (Negative 20 degrees Celsius, lasting 72 hours)]

"Damn it, negative twenty degrees? Is this game crazy or what!"

The black words on the white panel obviously wouldn't change in the slightest because of Su Mo's anger.

"Just got through the Acid Rain, and now suddenly a Blizzard? How are ordinary people supposed to survive?"

Su Mo suppressed the anger in his heart, his face flushed red.

If the first Acid Rain disaster was aimed at the difficulty of surviving in underground Shelters, then this Blizzard is a super test for above-ground Shelters.

Once the temperature drops and it's freezing cold, going out to explore, obtaining food, and most importantly, the need for heating will all be huge problems weighing on the above-ground Shelters.

"72 hours..."

Su Mo gritted his teeth.

Currently, the underground Shelter is a full 140 square meters, and the corresponding temperature is definitely much lower than other underground Shelters.

If he can't find suitable heating facilities within half a month, I'm afraid... Thinking of this, Su Mo impatiently closed the game panel and began to think about how to take countermeasures against the disaster fifteen days later.

The disasters in survival games are too frequent.

If there was one disaster every month, Su Mo would be confident that he could completely return to the electrical age with Survival Points in less than a year.

But now, the second disaster is coming in just fifteen days, completely disrupting his development plan.

"I'll go out to scavenge tomorrow, no, I'll go today. I must find heating facilities as soon as possible...!"

With disaster looming, Su Mo no longer had the idea of waiting for the rain to dry up before setting off.

Spending another two hundred points to upgrade the Space Cube to 2 cubic meters, Su Mo began to move the messy items on the ground.

First, he moved all the stone and iron blocks to the innermost corner of the Shelter.

Then, he used 8 units of wood to make Wooden Boards, piecing together an ugly storage cabinet, and put all the food resources into it.

At this time, only some sundries were left on the ground.

"Oh? Isn't this the complete Shelter Core?"

Picking up the glowing Tortoise Shell on the ground, Su Mo touched his forehead.

There were too many things to do every day, and he was too busy. Last night, he didn't even have time to fuse this core, and his attention was drawn to the generator.

Now it seems that it was just right.

The current Shelter is already big enough, and the supplies can't fill it up at all. Once it continues to expand, the temperature in the Shelter will inevitably drop further.

At that time, he would be suffering in silence, unable to voice his pain.

Carefully putting the Tortoise Shell into the Space Cube, and then moving all the sundries to the corner, Su Mo began to prepare the things he would take with him to explore the Ruins today.

With the disaster looming, exploring the outside world is urgent.

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