With no other choice, Cao Yaxuan had to agree, but she demanded a tenant slot for herself.
Xu Lang readily agreed.
"You're so fast..."
In the darkness, that was Cao Yaxuan's final act of resistance.
Xu Lang couldn't care less. All he wanted were Nightmare Coins.
At the same time, he noticed a blind spot.
Cao Yaxuan's first time had been with him.
No wonder. For a rich young lady like her, those scumbags at university weren't worthy of fooling her.
Afterward, with the advantage of home turf, he confiscated the items Cao Yaxuan had obtained from her beginner's gift pack.
They were five boxes of tissues and a baseball cap.
After doing all that, Xu Lang disarmed Cao Yaxuan.
Her clothes, leather shoes, and little white socks were stuffed into the pillow, while her stockings were used to bind her hands.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.
Game prompts were game prompts. Xu Lang wasn't about to gamble with his life.
What if Cao Yaxuan pulled some stunt like trading her worn underwear for a dagger and stabbed him in the middle of the night? That would be quite the joke.
Xu Lang fell asleep.
But Cao Yaxuan couldn't sleep.
She really had considered stabbing Xu Lang in the middle of the night!
The problem was that Xu Lang had used some unknown method to bind her wrists tightly with two stockings. He was also sleeping while holding her from behind, leaving her hands trapped around her crotch. Any slight movement would earn her a "get out" warning.
I'll put up with him for now... But he really does seem as weak as the rumors say... A stunning beauty like me, and he fell asleep after just once.
Weak. Far too weak!
Impotent bastard, scumbag, piece of trash, disgusting creep!
Once I figure out how this game works, just watch me replace him!
Cao Yaxuan gritted her teeth, the flames of vengeance blazing in her heart. She kept a close eye on the chatroom messages, determined to secretly outpace Xu Lang.
That hateful junior probably had no idea how important information was.
While you slept, I grew stronger. What could you possibly use to fight me?
When light appeared in the room, Xu Lang woke up.
A new day began with a stretch.
Cao Yaxuan had not slept all night. Seeing Xu Lang so carefree, the flames of complaint in her heart ignited again.
A thick-skinned guy like him would die in this survival game sooner or later.
"What are you looking at?" Xu Lang curled his lip.
"Heh!" Cao Yaxuan's lips formed a perfect thirty-five-degree arc of cold mockery.
"Get out..."
"Sorry, dear landlord!"
Xu Lang leaned against the wall and opened the chatroom, only to find that many profile pictures had turned gray.
[Chatroom 251/400]
Whoa! So many people had been wiped out in just one night.
The casualty rate was nearly over half.
[149 Wang Dazhuang: Mom, I want Mom!] [32 Ye Fan: This is a dream, this can't be real!] [40 Zhao Shuang: Look, it's daytime. Those zombies have retreated into the hallway.]
Some people's main-character dreams had been shattered in a single night.
Seeing classmates they had spent every day with die right before their eyes was not something everyone could accept.
Xu Lang quickly skimmed through the messages and found several key pieces of information.
The people on the casualty list had generally died within the first five minutes.
And apparently, not a single player had been killed after zombies broke through their doors.
The dorm rooms seemed to possess some hidden stealth ability, making the players hiding inside less likely to be discovered.
On the other hand, those clever people who had hidden in other buildings as soon as the game began had suffered terribly.
Not one of them survived. Every last one had died!
"Zombies really can infect people, and the incubation time is only three minutes. That's fast!"
Xu Lang frowned to himself and looked outside through the peephole.
There didn't seem to be any zombies in the hallway anymore.
Zhao Shuang was in the last room on the second floor. He said the zombies had retreated into the hallway, so he probably wasn't lying.
"Junior, zombies become less mobile during the day. Do you want to go out and take a look?" Cao Yaxuan asked.
"No." Xu Lang shook his head.
"If this continues, isn't it no different from sitting here and waiting to die?" Cao Yaxuan frowned, her little expression pitiful enough to melt anyone's heart.
Whenever she showed that delicate, girlish side of herself before, no man had ever been able to resist it.
Not to mention that she and Xu Lang had done that last night!
She was confident...
"That's still better than going out to die." Xu Lang shook his head and plopped back down on the bed.
Once he had pulled out, he became a cold and heartless Sigma Man!
Cao Yaxuan was so furious that her chest seemed to swell by a size.
Didn't you say you treated your girlfriend well? Could you really bear to let your girlfriend wait in the room to starve to death?
She guessed that Xu Lang's beginner's gift pack had contained blueprints and the corresponding upgrade materials. Since the gift pack had been so generous, it surely hadn't included food.
And neither had hers!
At this rate, the two of them really would starve to death!
Xu Lang leaned against the room door and checked his Nightmare Coin balance.
[Base Nightmare Coins: 40, Conversion Rate: 106%, Total Production Over Eight Hours: 82 Nightmare Coins] [Total Nightmare Coins: 116]
The production of Nightmare Coins had directly doubled!
This score-grinding slave was just too useful!
Xu Lang gave Cao Yaxuan an approving glance. "Don't worry. I won't let you die."
"At least you have a conscience." Cao Yaxuan's heart warmed.
Xu Lang's words sounded so gentle, and they didn't seem like a lie.
With so many Nightmare Coins, Xu Lang had to consider what to strengthen.
At first, he wanted to strengthen himself, but that wasn't possible.
Living things apparently fell outside the scope of Nightmare Coins' ability to strengthen everything.
That meant he could only strengthen items.
He opened the Trading Network and found that there were very few items listed, and the trade requirements were outrageous.
One loaf of bread for a barrel of water? Did they think the Trading Network was a wishing well?
The Trading Network had two forms of trade: barter and currency purchases.
However, very few people currently possessed currency, and few trusted the currency system. Most chose to barter.
"There's nothing much on the Trading Network. I'll wait and see."
"I'll save my Nightmare Coins for now and let those who can't hold out any longer test the waters."
"As long as I'm stronger than everyone else, disaster will always be one step behind me!"
When Xu Lang was rich enough to rival the world, he didn't mind helping the poor.
But right now, he was barely able to protect himself, so survival naturally came first.
Just as he was about to close the panel, a friend request popped up.
[86 Wang Ao: Bro, I heard you upgraded your door too.]
Xu Lang accepted the friend request.
[200 Xu Lang: What is it?] [86 Wang Ao: Nothing much, just saying hello. Too bad we're so far apart, otherwise we could've worked together. I think highly of you.] [200 Xu Lang: Thanks for the compliment.] [86 Wang Ao: Let's see who lives longer!]
Was he trying to discuss heroes over wine or something? Xu Lang mocked inwardly.
Wang Ao's reputation was probably too rotten, and no one was willing to talk to him, so he had come looking for Xu Lang.
Xu Lang replied with an "okay" and closed the chat window.
"Xu Lang, what do you plan to do next? Do you have a plan?" Cao Yaxuan asked.
"I'm not worried. Why are you so anxious?" Xu Lang said indifferently.
Cao Yaxuan's mouth twitched. After a moment of silence, she said, "Can you untie the stockings for me?"
"No." Xu Lang shook his head. "Stockings are elastic. It's fine even if they stay tied for a long time."
"But I'm uncomfortable~"
"It's fine. You'll feel comfortable soon enough... Come on, put on your little leather shoes."
"..."
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