Game Over, Dormitory "Mad King"

Bang—

Zhou Tao had not even gotten close before Xu Lang fired.

Clean and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Whenever he had nightmares and faced pursuit by those butchers, he always liked turning the tables when they were feeling smug. He had no intention of letting that happen to him.

Kill when it was time to kill; even if there were any lingering grievances, having Cao Yaxuan and the others farm a few Nightmare Coins would make them vanish anyway!

Based on the information he knew, the zombies had already been wiped out.

Xu Lang had no other pressing tasks for the moment. He crouched down, raised his head, and watched his surroundings as he looted the body.

It would have been nice if Tong Qi and the others were here at a time like this. They could cover his position and make sure there wasn't a second gun.

Xu Lang muttered that to himself, then suddenly froze.

Wouldn't that mean using Tong Qi and the others as human shields?

Hiss~ He seemed a little shameless.

His backpack slots were already full. After picking up the items that had dropped from Zhou Tao's backpack, Xu Lang continued searching the rest of his belongings.

Come to think of it, players were sometimes quite like monsters.

After being killed, everything in their backpacks would drop, and the killer also had a thirty-second head start.

Suddenly, Xu Lang paused and looked to his left, raising his pistol at the same time.

"Don't shoot, it's me, Huang Hao!" The figure hurriedly stepped out from behind cover with both hands raised.

"Oh, it's you. I thought you were a zombie." Xu Lang smiled.

Huang Hao approached, his outline becoming clearer. He swallowed and said to Xu Lang, "Xu Lang, I heard gunfire just now. Did you kill Zhou Tao?"

Xu Lang glanced at the bloody hole in Zhou Tao's head and smiled. "Yeah. He tried to ambush me, so I killed him instead."

"Good kill. I could tell long ago that he wasn't a good person!" Huang Hao chuckled. "I'm Zhou Tao's roommate. Brother Lang, can you give me the key to Dorm 24?"

"No." Xu Lang shook his head and prepared to continue looting Zhou Tao.

But as he bent down, his pistol fell to the ground!

The ingratiating smile on Huang Hao's face vanished instantly. In just a few steps, he charged to within two meters of Xu Lang.

Thud!

Xu Lang twisted around, and a baseball bat abruptly appeared in his hand, swinging back to smash into Huang Hao's forehead.

Huang Hao went down cleanly, his skull caving in.

"Anyone who kicks down my door dies."

Saving a bullet made Xu Lang quite happy.

He continued looting.

Zhou Tao did not have many good things on him—just a few cans and a hockey stick.

Huang Hao was even poorer. The three items in his backpack were all food, and he only had a small dagger on him.

Xu Lang strapped the hockey stick to his back, adjusted his baseball cap, and continued toward the gymnasium.

No one had ever said that resource points would not refresh items at night!

It was simply that no one had come here at night before.

Xu Lang entered the gymnasium and searched around. Sure enough, he found something.

[3 of Clubs]

[Type: Playing Card]

[Level: Unknown]

[Description: Cannot be dismantled... No idea what it's useful for]

Xu Lang slipped the card into his inner pocket.

Anyone who had played games knew that unknown items had collectible value. Besides, there were no upgrade requirements—this practically screamed that there was something fishy about it.

After searching the gymnasium, Xu Lang headed straight for the nearest medical room.

Along the way, he repeatedly opened and closed the chat room, gathering information on the movements of other players.

News of the Big Zombie's death had already spread, and through the rankings, everyone knew that Xu Lang had killed it.

Now the entire public chat was filled with @ mentions of Xu Lang.

Xu Lang remained unmoved, keeping his gun in hand as he ran at a steady pace.

Those players had not reacted yet. The ground was covered in free supplies—there was no reason not to pick them up.

Soon, Xu Lang reached the medical room and encountered a "prominent figure" there.

When Zhang Dahai saw Xu Lang, he swallowed and instinctively tried to hide a medkit behind his back.

Seeing Zhang Dahai there, Xu Lang's eyes flickered, and he immediately hurried to the next resource point.

Zhang Dahai let out a sigh of relief and quickly left the infirmary as well.

Before long, this place would become a hotbed of trouble.

Next, Xu Lang found a Level 2 item each in the equipment room and cafeteria.

[Instant Sirloin Steak]

[Type: Food]

[Level: 2]

[Satiety: 100]

[Effect: Rapidly restores stamina]

[Upgrade Requirement: 40 Nightmare Coins]

[Description: I am a delicious steak]

[Alloy War Blade]

[Type: Cold Weapon]

[Level: 2]

[Damage: 30]

[Durability: 25/25]

[Can Be Dismantled Into: Alloy X10]

[Upgrade Requirement: 150 Nightmare Coins]

[Description: Although I don't have any special effects, just looking at my durability should tell you how durable I am, right?]

A baseball bat only had 14 durability, while the Alloy War Blade had 25. It really was quite durable.

As he passed the entrance to the equipment room, Xu Lang spotted a zombie with both legs broken that had yet to die. He casually drew his war blade, placed it against the zombie's neck, and pressed down.

The zombie's head immediately fell off!

"So sharp!" Xu Lang nodded with slight satisfaction.

Just then, the dormitory broadcast rang out.

[Dormitory Broadcast: All monsters have been killed. This round of the game has ended early!]

[Congratulations on surviving the first Dormitory Survival Game!]

[The second round will arrive in 7 days and 14 hours!]

[In three minutes, leaderboard rewards will be distributed one by one!]

[Leaderboard—]

[Xu Lang: 201]

[Zhang Dahai: 100]

[Wang Ao: 98]

[...]

[This dormitory building is a primitive building. Thanks to everyone's valiant efforts, it has been unsealed and gained the title—Mad King!]

[You are all players of "Mad King: Phase One"!]

[To celebrate the unsealing of the dormitory building, when the first ray of sunlight shines into the building, a super gift pack will be dropped downstairs. Please look forward to it!]

[The shop and Blood Mist Exploration Mode will also open then. Please look forward to it!]

The dormitory broadcast sounded faintly impassioned, as though unsealing the building was something truly remarkable.

Xu Lang was deeply intrigued by this unsealing, but returning to the dormitory was the proper priority right now.

With a pile of items stuffed on him, plus a first-place gift pack waiting for him when he got back, it was like being dealt ten Harvest cards—if he didn't draw some cards, his whole body would feel uncomfortable.