Killed a thousand zombies, and Kyushu was sanctioned?

The scarcity of food mostly stems from a lack of farming knowledge.

Everyone knows plants need water, so they should be planted near a water source. After that, you just need to wait for time to pass, wait for them to mature.

These are the preset rules for all contestants, scientists, and research institutes.

As for bones, bone meal, and the like.

To Gu Yu, they were fertilizer that could be found everywhere, dropped by killing Little White.

Yet, many Players had never even seen one.

Skeletons! They are one of the most difficult Monsters to deal with!

It's hard enough to avoid them, let alone kill them to pick up dropped bones?

Even if they happened to find some, no one would think to place it on a Crafting Table, then associate the processed item, bone meal, with planting.

The two seem completely unrelated.

Using bone meal to accelerate food growth is beyond everyone's comprehension; it's no different from magic!

After planting the Potatoes, Gu Yu didn't stop.

The three Oak Saplings he had planted earlier were still germinating, so he casually threw the remaining bone meal on them.

As a green light reappeared, the saplings suddenly grew into trees.

Following the assurance of food, successfully achieving Tree-for-Tree, the first step towards Log freedom!

"Wood can be accelerated too?"

"Trees grow Apples, damn it. Now Gu Yu won't have to worry about food!"

"Who the hell said he had no food? He's gonna die tonight?"

"Wasting our signboards, you K-Nation player's mom!"

"Stupid Park Sam-chang, stupid K-Nation!"

"I believed your nonsense!"

Having believed Park Sam-chang's deduction, the Free Nation audience collectively turned red with anger.

If the food problem was solved, how could they compete for first place with the Kyushu Nation's monster-killing efficiency?

They had just wasted an expensive signboard for nothing!

In the Black Palace, the old man with blond hair had a grim expression.

It was precisely because he had believed Park Sam-chang's deduction that he had rushed to issue the warning. Who could have imagined the situation would change so quickly!

"Starting today, all funding subsidies to K-Nation will be cut off, and an additional 5% tariff will be imposed on K-Nation products!"

The value of a signboard cannot be measured in money; it could provide information at a critical moment and turn the tide of the battle!

Something must be done to quell the public's anger.

When the news spread, even K-Nation viewers couldn't help but curse.

"Cutting off subsidies and adding tariffs!"

"Life is already hard enough, won't adding tariffs make it even harder?"

"It's all Park Sam-chang's fault for making stupid deductions about the situation!"

"Because of you, we have to pay an extra 5% tariff!"

"How much more money do we have to spend, you idiot Park Sam-chang!"

K-Nation's land area is small, and they lack many resources, requiring them to purchase from outside.

Increasing tariffs was tantamount to cutting off their lifeline, directly impacting everyone's lives!

"Magic?!"

Seeing the food with his own eyes, Park Sam-chang had the same reaction as the audience.

Upon seeing the Free Nation's ranking steadily rising, he quickly realized something was happening outside.

He immediately explained.

"This isn't my fault, who could have known he had such a skill!"

"Listen to me, Gu Yu is definitely not a novice Player; he must have obtained skills from participating in the Block Civilization!"

Park Sam-chang had his own reasoning for believing it was a skill rather than a game mechanic.

If it were a mechanic, it would require using items from the Block World. Clearly, there were no such items for him to use on the Floating Island!

Otherwise, the saplings wouldn't have waited until now to be accelerated.

The only possible source was killing Skeletons and Zombies. They had already investigated the drops from Zombies.

Food, Rotten Flesh, heads, iron.

Besides this, no other items could possibly drop!

Since the number of Skeletons killed was small, Park Sam-chang wasn't sure of the specific drops, but he knew.

After killing a dozen Skeletons in total, even if there was a drop every time, Gu Yu could only use the items a little over ten times.

Through the glass, he could see very clearly; those green lights appeared at least thirty times!

Three times more than the Skeletons; the numbers simply didn't match!

Therefore, he concluded that Gu Yu must possess a skill to accelerate growth!

"If you want to blame someone, blame Kyushu for being too secretive and hiding such a person!"

Park Sam-chang made his judgment.

At the Research Institute, Dean Qi nodded.

"That makes some sense."

"Kyushu actually has such a master hidden away?"

For people like Gangcun Kuzi, Mark, and Jet, acquiring new abilities was commonplace.

If Gu Yu had entered the Block World before, the matter of 'magic' could be explained.

Shu Tiao asked curiously.

"In all the player records, there's no Gu Yu or anyone with similar experiences."

"In other words, he didn't join the game after appearing in the arena."

It was simple for a nation's power to investigate a person; they had thoroughly examined Gu Yu's information.

Shu Tiao suddenly had a startling guess.

What if he didn't join after appearing in the arena, but had entered the Block World before the arena appeared?

In other words, a so-called...

Beta tester!

Shu Tiao shivered, startled by his own guess.

If that were true, it would be terrifying!

Just as he was about to tell Dean Qi his guess, a tremendous sound suddenly erupted.

In front of all the spectators, a bolt of lightning tore through the sky, illuminating the night, and struck the stone house with pinpoint accuracy.

"Is that... that Monster!?"

Pumpkin Island.

Mark had used his last pumpkin pie.

Aside from the food he brought with him, to maintain his ranking, he had even cut down half the Sugarcane on the island and made three extra pumpkin pies.

But as his Satiety gradually dwindled, he realized something was wrong.

"The notice board clearly said Kyushu players would soon die from food shortages, what's going on now?!"

More than half the night had passed!

They were almost starving to death, yet look at the rankings.

[1st Place: Kyushu Nation, Zombies killed *1013, Skeletons killed *160, Special Monsters killed *36]

[2nd Place: Free Nation, Zombies killed *143, Skeletons killed *12, Special Monsters killed *5]

[3rd Place: Samurai Nation, Zombies killed *51, Skeletons killed *6]

The number of Zombies had just broken a thousand!

This was supposed to be them dying soon?

"If I keep fighting, I'll starve to death before Gu Yu does!"

Hiding back in his room, Mark's palms were bloody.

Aside from his treasured golden sword, which he was reluctant to use easily, the durability of all his other weapons was completely gone. Many Zombies had been killed with his bare hands.

Mark was in a terrible state!

Jet beside him wasn't much better; three arrows were embedded in his muscles, making him look like a hedgehog.

"How on earth did those guys use their items? Are they trying to get us killed?"

Hiding in the room, Jet cursed loudly.

He had almost been killed by Skeleton archers!

"It's hard to imagine how Kyushu managed to kill a thousand Zombies. Won't the Block World punish them?"

As miserable as they were, having only killed a little over a hundred Zombies in this long time, it was hard to imagine Kyushu having such exaggerated data.

RUMBLE!

Fierce thunderclaps echoed, illuminating the entire sky.

All Players, whether sleeping or hiding, were startled awake.

Mark saw the following announcement.

[Reminder! Kyushu Player Gu Yu has killed over one thousand Zombies!]

[New Monster type triggered: Creeper!]

[The storm arrives, thunder rolls!]

[Creepers absorb the power of lightning and have completed their evolution!]

[Lightning Creepers will possess greater destructive power than ordinary Creepers, please be cautious!]