The next day at eight o'clock, Xu Lang got into bed on schedule to farm points, then slept soundly for eight full hours.
[Base Nightmare Coins: 56, conversion rate: 304%, 226 Nightmare Coins produced in eight hours] [Total Nightmare Coins: 230]
When Xu Lang woke up and checked his earnings, he was no longer as excited as he had been the previous time.
There were only a few days left before the game began. Even if he calculated everything perfectly, he could only farm Nightmare Coins four more times. At the absolute limit, it would be enough to upgrade the Nightmare Bed once.
But when Xu Lang had first seen that upgrading the Nightmare Bed required a thousand Nightmare Coins, he had given up on the idea of upgrading it anytime soon.
It was too extreme. One wrong move, and he could easily crash and burn.
And after becoming tainted by Blood Hatred, he was even less inclined to do it.
"The best approach is to save up enough to upgrade the door twice... It's best not to spend any more Nightmare Coins from now on." Xu Lang pondered to himself.
What a pity.
If only he knew how intense the next game would be. Then he could estimate his dormitory's defenses, directly stack up some Blood Hatred, and wait for the monsters to come knocking with points.
Through the words of veteran Players in the chatroom, he had learned some information.
That was, in the games faced by Phase 1 Players, the leaderboard would remain active from beginning to end. When they encountered weaker monsters, veteran Players would take the initiative to attack.
If he could make monsters come to his door to die, how satisfying would that be? At most, he would just need to reinforce the attack facilities a few more times.
If veteran Players like Xu Ruyan learned what Xu Lang was thinking, they would probably be shocked to death.
Other people were struggling just to survive, yet he wanted to lure monsters in and farm points?
Xu Lang was living far too comfortably. Otherwise, he would never have come up with such a wild idea.
Those Players who spent every day trembling with anxiety would never even dare to think like that.
Time passed, and the day was soon over.
Other than several dozen new residents arriving, basically nothing happened that day.
Of course, that was only for people like Xu Lang.
Veteran Players were doing everything they could to scour for supplies, while new Players were racking their brains trying to get a little more from supply points without being discovered.
It was called rest time, but the competition never actually stopped.
If people could truly unite, they would have gone into space to fight the Trisolarans two thousand years ago.
The lives of the four people in Dormitory 200 were extremely pleasant.
Whenever they had nothing to do, Cao Yaxuan and the other two girls played cards. When they were free, they could even take out cosmetics and do their makeup.
Xu Lang occasionally played poker with them as well. The rest of the time, he was either doing physical training or Meditating.
Cultivation was addictive.
Although his basic attributes had not changed, Xu Lang could clearly feel that his condition was improving. That proved the training was working.
The day passed uneventfully.
The start of the game drew closer and closer.
[Total Nightmare Coins: 456]
After checking his usual earnings, Xu Lang opened the chatroom.
The atmosphere in the chatroom was clearly tenser than it had been yesterday.
There were fewer people chatting idly.
Everyone was thinking about how to grow stronger so they could survive the next round of the game.
At the same time, the number of Players in the Mad King Dormitory Building officially surpassed two hundred!
Although the veteran Players who had transferred over had experienced at most three phases of games, they revealed a great deal of information.
For example, how to allocate attribute points!
"A Constitution-focused build is the most conventional route and suits the vast majority of games."
"A Spirit-focused build specializes in ghost-type games, and it relies heavily on skills."
"The best allocation ratio is three to one. More extreme builds can go four to one. Five to one is extreme even among extremes; only special circumstances call for that kind of allocation... such as a specialty-type tenant under the leadership of a powerful landlord!"
"No rush, no rush. The information is still incomplete. Cao Yaxuan and the others' development paths can only be decided after the next game, since I don't have that many resources left."
Staying at home was one thing, but Xu Lang never neglected intelligence gathering.
And precisely because he stayed at home, he had plenty of time, so he read every piece of information in the chatroom.
So far, this was relatively important information. He could discuss it with Cao Yaxuan and the others later.
As for which path he himself would take...
To be honest, he had not figured it out either.
The game was still in its early stages. Newbies like them had no real career planning, mainly because they lacked the foundation for it.
Although they had free attribute points to strengthen themselves, they had not yet become especially inhuman. Their main attack methods still relied on external items and the dormitory's defensive fortifications.
Moreover, many people were only able to determine their development paths because they had acquired a key item or skill.
In practical terms, many veteran Players understood the importance of deciding on a development path, yet they were still lost.
Because they lacked a core skill or item capable of settling the matter once and for all, they could only drift with the current. Even some Phase 3 Players were no exception. This showed that locking in a development path was no easy task.
Not long after Xu Lang woke up, Wang Yazhi and the others woke up as well.
Watching Wang Yazhi's slender, beautiful figure as she cooked, Xu Lang felt cheerful.
As he always said, enjoy things when you can. Otherwise, one day you might kick your legs up and be gone.
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