Back to the Forest Floor

Lin Feng: [All right, all right, we get it. You're a hopeless romantic, okay?]

Qin An: [Hehe, okay, I'm off to post more ads. If we get the chance to meet, I'll definitely make you call me Daddy.]

Lin Feng: [Get lost.]

Qin An: [Wait! How the hell is your elevator already level 6??]

Lin Feng: [Call me Daddy, and I'll tell you how I did it.]

Qin An: [Dad!!!!!]

Lin Feng: [...]

Lin Feng: [Where the fuck is your dignity?]

Qin An: [Who was that talking just now?]

Seeing Qin An act like this made Lin Feng want to laugh. He then told Qin An all about the materials needed to upgrade the elevator to levels 5 and 6, as well as what would be added after each upgrade.

As for how to upgrade, Lin Feng only typed four words: kill people, steal goods.

Lin Feng had originally wanted to give Qin An some weapons to help him out, but the guy flatly refused, insisting that he had a gun. Faced with that kind of bragging, Lin Feng could only choose to believe him.

Looking away from the Chatroom, Lin Feng smiled. He didn't have many close friends. Qin An counted as one, and might even have been his only one.

Being reunited with his best buddy-looking at it that way, things didn't seem so bad.

Inside another elevator, Qin An wiped down the Glock Pistol in his hand and smiled.

"Lin Feng, you dumbass. I bet you have no idea who your daddy really is."

"You'd better stay alive!"

Lin Feng chuckled as he watched Qin An flood the Chatroom with ads.

Hahaha, the guy was still as outrageous as ever.

He really hoped he could meet him soon. Of course, Lin Feng hoped to meet Qin An on a peaceful floor. He didn't want to run into Qin An in a death game.

With those thoughts in mind, Lin Feng ate something, then started working out.

His muscle definition was already very pronounced, and he had developed an eight-pack. Just one more, and all nine could unite as one!

Because he had taken the Body-Strengthening Pill, every workout yielded twice the results with half the effort. That was why he had achieved such good results in such a short time.

Ding! Upgrade quest triggered. Please upgrade the elevator to level 7. Host reward: expert-level Wilderness Survival Skill.

Ding! The floor the host is about to enter is the Cannibal Camp. It contains 25 cannibals and one cannibal chief. There is a golden treasure chest in the Cannibal Camp. Opening it will yield: 5 gold coins, one Universal Antidote Pill, one Rhino Horn Bow, and 20 arrows.

Ding! Extermination quest triggered. Each cannibal killed rewards one gold coin.

Twenty-five cannibals?

Completely unfazed, Lin Feng switched straight to the HK416 Assault Rifle he had obtained on the zombie dog floor.

Who cared how many savages there were? One magazine would wipe them all out.

If that wasn't enough, he still had the underbarrel grenade launcher to show them some fireworks.

This floor offered quite a lot of gold coins. Once he finished it, he should have enough gold coins to upgrade the elevator to level 7.

At that point, Lin Feng still needed 80 kilograms of wood, 20 kilograms of iron, 30 gold coins, and 100 kilograms of copper to upgrade the elevator to level 7.

He still hadn't used up all the gold from his last bank robbery. Unfortunately, that gold couldn't be made into gold coins.

Lin Feng remembered seeing someone in the Chatroom say that these gold coins weren't pure gold; they contained other impurities.

Perhaps that was to prevent people from counterfeiting gold coins.

Soon, the elevator announcement sounded, and Lin Feng checked his equipment again.

[Ding-dong! Elevator descending. Please hold on.]

Soon, the elevator doors opened, and Lin Feng raised his gun and walked in.

He was greeted by a cluster of crude houses built from wood and dry grass.

These were probably the houses where the cannibal tribe lived.

But where were the cannibals?

Lin Feng looked at the nearest straw hut. There was no sign of any savages inside.

The other straw huts were the same.

But the system wouldn't lie to him. Just as Lin Feng was puzzling over it, several savages carrying wooden clubs crawled out of a concealed underground opening.

"Roar!"

The dark-skinned savages roared when they saw Lin Feng, then charged at him.

Having waited a long time for the savages, Lin Feng naturally showed no mercy. He raised his gun and fired in one fluid motion.

A few bursts killed all the savages that had crawled out.

Since the gun had no suppressor, even the savages outside the camp were drawn in by the gunshots.

At the same time, more and more savages were crawling out of the underground opening.

Elsewhere, Wang Lei, who was controlling his game character, also heard the gunshots.

Ever since he had discovered the "Easter egg" that was Lin Feng, his livestream's popularity had skyrocketed.

After all, The Forest ranked first worldwide among virtual reality games in his world.

Although Wang Lei didn't know how he had triggered the Easter egg, he had enough brains to keep his popularity steady by bluffing and stalling.

The game company had also gone along with it and added Lin Feng's character model to the game, setting him up as a rescue team member searching for survivors. Following him would unlock an achievement.

It had to be said that this was quite a slick move by the game company, and the game's popularity surged once again.

The game company also rewarded Wang Lei with a deluxe gaming pod.

Now, Wang Lei was livestreaming while lying in the gaming pod. Riding the Easter egg's popularity, he kept pulling stunts in the game. Combined with his naturally goofy personality, this had taken his follower count from tens of thousands to over a million.

"Guys! Did you hear that? More gunshots! Sounds like they're coming from the savage camp. Let's go take a look. Could it be the rescue team again?"

As Wang Lei spoke, he controlled his character and ran toward the savage camp.

[Lei, if there's an NPC, try killing him, hahaha.]

[Exactly. Maybe killing the NPC will unlock a new achievement, like "Your Only Hope, Gone."]

[You're wasting your talents by not becoming game designers. Streamer, the guy has a gun. You'd better forget it.]

[So what if he has a gun? Beyond seven paces, a gun is faster. Within seven paces, a knife is faster! Go for it, streamer! You can even take his gun and use it.]

[You're wrong. Beyond seven paces, a gun is faster. Within seven paces, a gun is both fast and accurate. You don't even need to aim! Besides, didn't someone figure out how to kill a rescue team member not long ago? The gun in his hands didn't drop.]

[I'd actually like them to add a relationship-building system. Build up your affinity with this NPC, and once it's high enough, he'll listen to you and do whatever you tell him.]

[Oh!? In that case, I'd rather they added a female NPC.]

[What are you planning to do?]

The chat was full of laughter, and Wang Lei was quite excited too. He knew that the Easter egg released by the game company wasn't the same as the one he had encountered last time.