The three of them split up to evade the first wave of attacks. After hiding in the dense forest for a while, they took out their signalers and tried to regroup.
But the players lying in wait nearby seemed to have detection tools. The moment the signalers were turned on, they came after them, so the three had no choice but to turn them off. Fortunately, they were already fairly close and could sense one another's locations. After hiding for a while longer, they managed to evade the people nearby and meet up.
The situation was clear now: points were their lifelines. If they couldn't find a way to raise their scores, Challenge Island might eliminate them after eight hours. They didn't know what form that elimination would take, but they could guess it would be much harder to evade than attacks from other players.
Fortunately, hiding for a while had helped them figure out that hitting someone else could raise their own points.
"What's going on with your points?" Xiao Deng asked Ice Shovel.
"I'm not sure," Ice Shovel replied. "The wristband didn't give me any notification."
Xiao Deng glanced at him but didn't press the issue. Instead, he looked at Xu Huo. "Brother, thanks for your help just now. I didn't expect you to be a Super Evolver."
"I barely qualify," Xu Huo said, waving a hand. "But the company hasn't forbidden us from wearing props and instruments. Even if they don't work, we can still use them as ordinary weapons. Why wouldn't they count as effective items?"
"Maybe once we accumulate enough points, we'll unlock access to props and instruments?" Ice Shovel said uncertainly. "If so, then this probably isn't a Dungeon."
It wasn't a Dungeon, but it was a closed-off area where the game channels had