The one who jumped was Zhang Yan from the eighth floor.
Before she died, she had asked for help several times in the chatroom, but no one helped her.
Her desperate leap did not inspire any sympathy in the chatroom. Instead, it drew a barrage of insults.
Some Players were still outside searching for resources. Wasn't she screwing everyone over by doing this?
Xu Lang remained silent.
Beside him, Cao Yaxuan was awakened by the sound of the fall and the zombies' howls. After checking the chatroom messages, she said to Xu Lang, "Xu Lang, Zhang Yan jumped!"
"I know." Xu Lang nodded calmly.
Cao Yaxuan pressed her lips together. "Xu Lang, a lot of people saw that my room number is the same as yours. They're asking what's going on."
"Say whatever you want." Xu Lang perfunctorily answered Cao Yaxuan while editing a message in the chatroom.
"Oh." Cao Yaxuan nodded.
She did not reveal her PY transaction with Xu Lang. She only said that when the game started, she had happened to be in Xu Lang's room.
[200 Xu Lang: Buying one weapon. Offering ten paper cups of purified water, one liter total.] [24 Zhou Tao: Where did you get that much water? Quit bragging.] [112 Li Ming: Holy crap, it's real. Xu Lang put it on the Trading Network.] [32 Ye Fan: You really kept a low profile, Lang Ge!] [24 Zhou Tao: No one will trade with you. Weapons are the most valuable thing right now, and they'll definitely be useful in the future. Whoever has weapons, I'll trade supplies for them too.]
Xu Lang truly did not want to speak in the chatroom, precisely because he was afraid of running into this sort of thing. But no one was selling weapons on the Trading Network, so he could only shout in the chatroom.
[200 Xu Lang: @Zhou Tao, Say one more damn word, and tomorrow when you go downstairs, I'll keep my eyes on you!]
Dormitory 24.
"Damn it! Does he really think the supplies I found can't last until the game ends?!" Zhou Tao's face darkened as his fist slammed into the bed.
Just then, several friends sent him private messages. They were all low-level Players who had scavenged supplies with him today.
Without the high-level Players knowing, these people had added one another as friends and formed a certain tacit understanding.
Every private message told Zhou Tao not to act rashly.
They still wanted to keep enjoying the benefits. If the high-level people really disrupted things, it would be no different from losing their mothers.
"The group saved you!"
Fuming, Zhou Tao chose to back down.
After shutting down Zhou Tao, Xu Lang began watching his friend requests.
Soon, one friend request caught his attention.
[12 Wang Zhiwei: I have a baseball bat. Do you want to trade for it?]
Xu Lang accepted the friend request, and the other party sent over the item information.
[Baseball Bat] [Type: Weapon] [Level: 1] [Damage: 8] [Durability: 14/14] [Can be dismantled for: Birch Wood x9] [Upgrade requirement: 50 Nightmare Coins] [Description: Bonk bonk!] [12 Wang Zhiwei: Weapons are rarer than food now, and mine is even a level 1 weapon, so I want two liters of water. No problem, right?] [200 Xu Lang: You have a weapon. Shouldn't it be easier for you to search for resources tomorrow? Why trade it away?] [12 Wang Zhiwei: This is all I found today. My girlfriend is still on the eighth floor, and I want to bring her something to drink. Besides, if I give it to you, you won't give it to the people on the first or second floors, right?]
This Wang Zhiwei loved his girlfriend, but he was not completely stupid either. He knew that giving a weapon to someone in the same line of work would increase the competition.
[200 Xu Lang: Deal.] [12 Wang Zhiwei: Oh, and here's some extra information. You've played online games before, right? A lot of resource points are guarded by big guilds. Ordinary people die if they get close. Even if you can get downstairs, you won't be able to get any supplies.]
Xu Lang's heart tightened, then quickly returned to calm.
This information seemed useless to him.
After all, he only needed to lie low and develop!
Even so, Xu Lang prepared an extra cup of water.
The trade interface opened. The twenty-one stacked paper cups in his inventory vanished, replaced by a baseball bat.
Xu Lang took out the baseball bat and swung it twice. Then he sent another message in the chatroom.
With his safety secured, he could begin carrying out the next step of his plan.
A dormitory could have two tenants, after all!
[200 Xu Lang: Two liters of water. Dormitory 200 wants a Xiao Mei. One tenant slot remains. (Image)] [88 Cao Bin: Boss 866 isn't even pretending anymore.] [112 Wu Leiting: Lang Ge, Lang Dad, Lang Grandpa, please support me a little!] [89 Zhou Li: Xu Lang, where did you get so much water? Aren't you with Cao Yaxuan already?] [9 Lin Han: Don't care who he's with. Someone like him won't survive even if he's with Wonder Woman!] [48 Qin Yun: Why does someone like this get such great resources?!] [78 Zhao Juan: Xu Lang, add me as a friend. I can't come in person, but I can send you voice messages.] [5 Zhu Yan: Brother, do you know how hard it is to find supplies outside? Don't be stupid.] [186 Wu Huihui: @Zhu Yan, Who are you calling a horse? Are you oppressing women?]
One stone stirred up a thousand waves.
Many people who rarely spoke all surfaced, and chatroom messages flooded the screen.
At the same time, a huge number of people tried to add Xu Lang as a friend.
Dormitory 5.
After being cursed at, Zhu Yan's face darkened.
In Dormitory 1, Jin Xin laughed like a pig.
"Damn, there really is such an absurd idiot!" As he mocked Xu Lang's stupidity to his friends on the first and second floors, he replied to messages from several female students.
Some female students had already sent him private photos, and quite a few had even called him husband.
To save face, he would give them a tiny amount of supplies.
Of course, only a tiny amount.
Still, he believed that what he was doing was a noble act of salvation, completely different from Xu Lang's idiocy.
Even if I'm lustful, I'm lustful on a higher level than you!
Asking for women directly? Pah, how vulgar!
That said, Liu Qianqian on the fourth floor wanted to be his girlfriend.
Was there a way to get her downstairs?
Living alone in this tiny dormitory was indeed lonely.
Wasn't that how many apocalypse novels went?
With power and women, you could kill whoever you wanted and sleep with whoever you wanted.
Xu Lang had not recruited a second Xiao Mei before because he was afraid the Xiao Mei might come with a Big Strong.
Now that he had a weapon, even if there was a Big Strong, he was not that afraid.
Taking a suitable risk was worthwhile.
However, comfort seemed to be related to how he rated women.
For example, if Cao Yaxuan took off her stockings, the comfort level would decrease. Odors and dirt would also lower comfort.
"Xu Lang, what did you say in the chatroom? What do you mean, hiring a Xiao Mei?" Cao Yaxuan glared at Xu Lang angrily.
Although they had only spent a short time together, she had genuinely begun to feel as though Xu Lang was her boyfriend.
Yet Xu Lang had actually done something like this.
"You're so heartless." Xu Lang scolded her.
"What did I do?" Cao Yaxuan's delicate body trembled with anger.
"Don't you want to help your classmates? Can you bear to watch them starve to death? How can you be so vicious?"
Hearing this, Cao Yaxuan did not joke around with Xu Lang. Instead, she coldly said, "Xu Lang, don't think I'm stuck with you!"
Xu Lang showed no courtesy. "If you don't want to stay, you can leave. But don't tell me you think this is still a society ruled by law, where you can leave and take half my property."
Cao Yaxuan was important, certainly, but if she could not distinguish priorities, then her value needed to be reassessed.
Hearing that, Cao Yaxuan's expression stiffened, and she calmed down somewhat.
"Come here yourself. I'm counting to three!" Xu Lang put his hands on his hips. "Three... two..."
"I'm coming, okay? Can't you be a little nicer to me? Why are you so fierce?"
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