Rewards

The forum was still shrouded in gloom, filled with wails of despair.

Compared to yesterday, things had become even more outrageous.

There were already enough players who had died in the [Resident Evil] dungeon to form an alliance of eighteen feudal lords and launch a campaign against Lu Xiu...

And they really did just that.

The main reason was that other system dungeons with low entry requirements simply did not have this much influence, while those with high entry requirements did not have enough people who could enter them, nor enough people who would lose their minds over failing to clear them.

That made [Resident Evil] an anomaly among dungeons. Enough people had attempted it, and it had sparked enough discussion.

On top of that, no one had ever seen such hellish gameplay before.

This brought [Resident Evil] enormous traffic, and it rose to fame overnight.

Though none of that fame was particularly good...

Besides those crusading against Lu Xiu, there were also people seriously discussing it, though not many.

"I still can't figure out what this creator was thinking. How could someone be that deranged?"

"I can't figure it out either. Does making a dungeon like this to torture herself really earn her any rewards? The part at the beginning of the dungeon, and the part where you get hunted down by your wife, were practically concentrated malice... But I heard it gets even less humane later on."

"By the way, how's Brother Heng doing? He still hasn't come out?"

"No. That reply saying 'easy as pie' was deleted too, along with the comments beneath it. Obviously, he failed to clear it as well and ended up losing it."

"An S-rank dungeon really isn't something ordinary people can clear. Heavenly Palace... truly beyond reach."

"True, but hadn't Brother Heng cleared an S-rank dungeon before? Why can't he clear this one now? I'm pretty curious what kind of rewards this thing gives after making things so hellish, but sadly no one's posted them."

"This player-made dungeon is way too malicious. Anyway, this dungeon has nothing to do with us. It's just another Heavenly Palace."

"Yeah. Even if we can enter it online, no matter how good the rewards are, they have nothing to do with us. And the rewards might not even be that great... There are so many S-rank system dungeons. There's no way a player-made dungeon's rewards could be better than those S-rank system dungeons."

"What a disappointment. I thought..."

"..."

Some people on the forum were crusading against Lu Xiu, while others sighed in despair. Some had already entered the dungeon, while others had not.

But all of them could only imagine and guess at the rewards for clearing the dungeon, just like when faced with a way of life they completely did not understand, most people could only make guesses based on what they knew.

But generally speaking, guesses and reality tended to differ greatly.

And at times like this, there would always be people who chose not to guess. Whether driven by longing, stubborn persistence, sheer endurance, or even a mentality close to gambling with their lives, they simply dreamed of crossing that threshold and seeing for themselves what that way of life was like.

That way of life could mean a massage, or it could mean a high-difficulty dungeon that was beyond the reach of most players.

Now that there was finally such a high-difficulty dungeon they could enter directly without going offline or competing for a spot...

Many people simply refused to give up.

More than anyone, they wanted the rewards for clearing an S-rank dungeon! They dreamed of changing their circumstances! Of turning their lives around!

And among them, there would always be people with extraordinary talent who had yet to be discovered...

Very soon.

While everyone was still crusading against Lu Xiu and discussing the dungeon's difficulty, someone quietly made a post. It seemed unrelated to the [Resident Evil] dungeon, and the poster's ID was unfamiliar.

Yet it immediately drew the attention of countless people.

It was a trade post.

[I have an item, a life-saving item. Does anyone want it? I want to sell it for 5,000 Survival Points.]

Below the post, the original poster uploaded a screenshot of the item's description.

[Item Name: Hand Sanitizer]

[Rank: S]

At first, many people who saw the post were curious. What kind of item dared to sell for 5,000 Survival Points? But once they clicked in and saw it, they all fell silent.

Then, IDs that normally never posted or joined discussions on the forum began appearing in clusters.

"Bro! List it!"

"I'll buy it! DM me directly!"

"6,000! Let's trade through the system right now."

"Bro, is the item still available?!"

"I'll take it. Also, would it be convenient to say where you got it?"

"..."

They were scouts from the major guilds, or top players whose reputations were not widely known.

More than anyone, they understood the value of such a precious life-saving item. Compared to that, 5,000 Survival Points truly was not much to them.

And the ordinary players who had merely been watching the spectacle finally realized what was happening.

One item. 5,000 Survival Points. Thirteen years of lifespan!

Where did it come from?!

And what the hell did it mean for this god-tier item to be called Hand Sanitizer? That had nothing to do with anything.

People began frantically asking beneath the post where it had come from. Even many of those who had just said they wanted to buy the item were asking.

But the player selling the item did not respond, seemingly having gone off to complete the transaction.

After that, the number of replies to the post kept climbing.

And the mystery was quickly solved.

The player who had cleared the instance had presumably sold the item. Combined with the fact that such rewards were only available for the first clear of an instance, and seeing so many people asking, he directly explained the item's source in the post.

[The item came from the [Resident Evil] instance. It wasn't just Hand Sanitizer—there was also a skill... Don't ask me how I cleared it. My memories have been blurred. All I can tell you is: stay calm, observe carefully, and endure.]

Soon after.

He posted the skill rewarded for clearing the instance.

[Skill Name: Ordinary Person's Courage]

[Rating: S]

[Type: Mental/Attribute Enhancement]

[Effect Description: When the player suffers severe injuries such as dismemberment or impalement, or is in a state of extreme fear, emotional collapse, or near death, the restraints of rationality will break, and the survival instinct will enter an overloaded state. Pain is reduced by 50%, while 35% of your [Mental] attribute is temporarily converted into [Agility] and [Strength].

When facing terror, bloodshed, and utter defeat beyond all reason, ordinary people have no superpowers—only the obsession that refuses to back down.]

[Cost: None]

[Duration: 300 seconds]

[Remark: I'm just an ordinary person. I didn't come here to save the world. I only wanted to bring my wife home. This ordinary love gave me the strength to face the abyss.]

"?????"

At last, the reward for clearing the [Resident Evil] instance was revealed.

And beneath the post.

In an instant, it was filled with question marks.

Wait, wait a second.

So this meant that this instance not only rewarded life-saving items like Hand Sanitizer, but also gave out an S-rank skill.

Not only did this skill reduce pain, it could even temporarily convert the most useless Mental attribute into [Agility] and [Strength] in a crisis?

The [Resident Evil] instance's featured tag said, "the courage of ordinary people facing fear for love"... It was referring to this skill? Such a useful skill?

Was this some kind of joke?!

After a brief silence, the post instantly exploded.

And when the second player to clear the instance appeared on the forum and made a post selling Hand Sanitizer.

Everyone's eyes turned red.

At that moment, countless thoughts merged into a single sentence—where there's a great reward, there will be brave men!

What was so hard about it!

It was offering far too much!!!