Qiu Bo sent Wang Yu a team-up invitation.
Team up?
[Wang Yu: No, I'm not looking to team up for now.]
[Qiu Bo: All right. If either of us runs into trouble, we can help each other.]
[Wang Yu: Sure.]
He closed the chat window.
The fish soup was ready. After seven days of eating unsalted roasted meat, he couldn't take it anymore.
Wang Yu picked up the bowl of fish soup and started eating.
Delicious~
After dinner, Wang Yu opened the [Chat Channel]. He saw that there were 99,636/100,000 people in it. More than three hundred people had died in just one day.
What happened?
Wang Yu remembered killing a Strong Man player.
Could the players who'd died have been killed by other players too?
It was certainly possible. Players were all out looking for the "Newbie Benefit," and it was only natural that they'd run into each other and come to blows.
Now that the [Game Map] was available, the game seemed even more dangerous. Players were no longer restricted to a small area, making it much more likely that they'd run into each other.
Wang Yu looked through the messages in the [Chat Channel] and saw that many players had found the "Newbie Benefit" and been bitten to death by Giant Centipedes. They'd posted anguished pleas for help in the [Chat Channel].
Less than a minute later, the pleas stopped. The Giant Centipede's venom was deadly—people could die in just a minute.
He hadn't expected so many people to die at the hands of a Giant Centipede barely over a meter long.
The [Chat Channel] was unusually lively. Many had survived—over ninety thousand people—which might have been thanks to the Newbie Protection Period during the Survival Game First Week.
In the [Chat Channel], players were discussing what they'd gotten from the "Newbie Benefit" that day. Everyone who'd found it had received Edible Salt, as well as medicine, candy, High Proof Liquor, Instant Noodles, and all sorts of other things.
In short, the players had all received quite a lot of supplies.
Everyone knew this might be the last benefit they'd get in this Survival Game.
The seven days of heavy rain were fast approaching, and the players were worried. Seven days of rain was no joke. Few players had confidence that their shelters could withstand it.
[Holy shit, seven days of heavy rain! My shelter's underground. I'm dead for sure.]
[Seven days of heavy rain—does that mean we won't be able to go out and find food? I don't have enough food to last seven days!]
[If it rains for seven days, won't we be unable to burn firewood? What are we supposed to use for light? How are we going to cook?]
[Hahaha, now I finally understand why killing a Giant Centipede drops a Venom Fang. When we can't go on, we can use it to end this game!]
[666, you might be onto something. I was wondering what I'd do if I couldn't go on but didn't have the courage to kill myself. Now I can just stab myself with the Venom Fang. It really is an Offline Divine Artifact.]
The seven days of heavy rain had made many players pessimistic, but even more refused to give up so easily. This game could turn their fate around, and they had to seize this chance to enter it.
[I'm the Son of Jiang City's Richest Man. I'm inviting capable people to team up with me and get through this Survival Game together.
I'll guarantee every player who joins my team a minimum of 100,000 in cash. Anyone is welcome. Those capable of becoming core members of our team will each receive at least a million...]
[I can be a mature woman or a cute little girl. With nothing to do during the seven days of heavy rain, you can add me as a friend, gege, and chat to pass the time.]
[The Qinghong Society is recruiting members! Our chairman and vice chairman are both Players Who Cleared the Survival Game...
Our guild has plenty of supplies, and three Extraordinary Players from our society have entered the game this time. We'll gather all our members together to get through this Survival Game. Join now and enjoy the guild's protection.]
Wang Yu scrolled through the messages in the [Chat Channel].
Now that the [Game Map] was available, players were no longer like headless flies, losing their way in the dark. They could go wherever they wanted, and once they knew each other's coordinates, they could gather together.
Many players were thinking of joining forces in the game. The various guilds seemed to be planning to gather their members, too.
If these players gathered together, Wang Yu felt that the game would grow more and more dangerous.
From now on, when he ran into players, he wouldn't necessarily be facing just one. He might be up against a whole group.
Wang Yu sensed danger. He'd planned to lie low in his shelter until the game ended, but it looked like trouble was coming.
Against groups of players, he'd be alone and in serious danger.
Wang Yu decided that he'd have to reinforce his shelter during the seven days of heavy rain. He couldn't let anyone discover it. As long as other players didn't find it, he'd be safe inside.
That night, Wang Yu didn't sleep.
He took stock of all his supplies and sorted them into categories.
He had plenty of tools: Fire Starter, Oil Lamp*4, Animal Trap*12, Entrenching Tool*3, a small hacksaw, Tin Bucket*6, Crossbow*3, Pine Oil Collector*4, Camping Pot*2.
Food whose quantity had already been increased with dice: 6 large baskets of berries, around 180 jin; Water Snail Meat, about 15 jin in one Tin Bucket; 7 jin of Wild Rat Meat; around 90 jin of Black Horn Sheep Meat; 8 packets of Edible Salt, 200g each.
Food whose quantity had not yet been increased with dice: 32 jin of Giant Lizard Meat; 13 Grass Carp, around 13 jin; 16 Wild Rats, 360g each; 12 White Melons; 27 Wild Oranges; 12 portions of Wild Chili, 12g each; 20 White Rabbit Creamy Candies, 3.6g each.
Other supplies: 2 Black Horn Sheep Horns and one Black Horn Sheep Skin, all with their quantities already increased with dice; one sheep-skin outfit; 20 Wild Rat Skins; 800ml of Pine Oil, with its quantity increased with dice; 3 portions of Pine Oil, 120ml each, whose quantity had not been increased with dice; 2 Giant Centipede Poison Fangs; 5 Amoxicillin Capsules.
Game Currency: 2,456 Copper Coins, 2 Silver Coins.
After taking stock of his supplies, Wang Yu saw that he'd gained a lot over the past seven days. He had plenty of supplies.
"Shuaa~ shuaa~ shuaa~"
The heavy rain finally began in the early hours of the morning.
Rain poured down outside without warning.
Wang Yu climbed the stairs to the opening in the Giant Rock Notch and watched the rain.
The Weather Forecast had called for heavy rain, not light rain, moderate rain, or a downpour. Seeing it pour, Wang Yu had a rough idea of just how heavy the rain was.
He couldn't begin to predict what would happen after seven days of nonstop rain.
Outside, all was pitch-black. He could only hear the rain pouring down.
Inside his shelter, surrounded by giant rocks, Wang Yu felt incredibly safe and at ease.
Then he went down to the first floor. The shelter felt especially cozy on a rainy day.
He lay down on the sheepskin and fell asleep.
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