"Hahaha! Fifty thousand points! Haha!"
Jiang Jiayou had gone completely wild, as though he had won five million in the lottery.
Beside him, Che Yisi and Han Wenju hugged each other excitedly, and waves of cheers rang through the command room.
Such a high score made everyone feel as though they were dreaming. It was unbelievable!
"Student Lin is my god!"
"I've decided! From now on, Student Lin is my one and only idol!"
"Aaah!"
Quite a few people let out meaningless screams, but no one found it strange. Not only did they not stop them, they even joined in, because at that moment, no flowery words could express the admiration and gratitude everyone felt toward Lin Xiaoran!
Just look at the countless countries across the world struggling to survive natural disasters, and the unknown numbers of people in Country L still living amid deep waters and scorching flames.
In those days of scarce resources, even food and drinking water had become scarce commodities.
Sky Blue Star had long since become an apocalyptic landscape.
Not to mention all the countries that had held on without collapsing. Every one of them hoped to change their current predicament through the National Fortune Game.
The higher the points, the better the national fortune rewards would be, and the more people would survive.
All those resources that had already nearly disappeared would also reappear with the national fortune rewards, restoring the victorious countries.
Now, Lin Xiaoran had once again broken her own points record and reached the fifty-thousand-point milestone, shocking everyone around the world!
They looked at Lin Xiaoran's ranking, their eyes red with jealousy, nearly going mad!
Because they wanted it too!
Not just the points. They wanted Lin Xiaoran even more! They wanted Lin Xiaoran to take their nationality and lead them to more victories! To lead them into becoming a superpower on Sky Blue Star!
But obviously, only if Lin Xiaoran or Country L went mad would they do something as stupid as changing her nationality. They were bound to be disappointed.
Thus, some people with extreme ideas began thinking about how to kill Lin Xiaoran, holding to the notion that if they could not have her, they would not let anyone else have her either!
Their simple probing last time had yielded little. At the same time, they had thought that Lin Xiaoran had only won one round, after all, and might die at another challenger's hands in the second round.
In the end, not only were they sorely disappointed, Lin Xiaoran had even given them an enormous fright!
These people were almost mad with anger!
"Kill her! We have to kill her! Kill her, whatever the cost!!"
"Che Yisi! Han Wenju!" Jiang Jiayou shouted, his face glowing.
"Director!" The two hurried over.
"Look into what young girls like! Whether it's food, things they use, clothes, or things to play with! Put together a detailed list for me! Have everything ready before Student Lin returns!"
"Huh?" Che and Han were dumbfounded.
They had thought Director Jiang was speaking so loudly because he had an important assignment to announce, only for it to turn out to be preparing things for Student Lin?!
Besides, they were the National Fortune Game's heads of analysis and intelligence! Having them investigate things girls liked was surely using great talent for a trivial task, however you looked at it?
"Hmm? Is there a problem?" Jiang Jiayou shot them a glare.
"No! We'll complete the mission without fail!" The two immediately saluted!
They would be doing something for the great hero Lin Xiaoran. They would have to be idiots to refuse!
Never mind anything else. If they dared utter a single [no] in that setting, they would not even make it out of the command room that day!
So many people were scrambling to do it without getting a chance!
"Right! I feel the home we arranged for Student Lin before is still too small. How about this? Isn't there another unused three-story building next door? While there's still time, get it furnished and make it Student Lin's new home!
"Have the assistants, bodyguards, service staff, chefs, and cleaning team move into the first and second floors, so they can be available for Student Lin's instructions around the clock!"
Jiang Jiayou thought it over and felt that the treatment Lin Xiaoran received was still too modest.
Fortunately, when the National Fortune Bureau was established, its grounds had been extensive, and aside from accommodations and offices, some of the buildings constructed were still standing unused.
Although this building could not compare with the luxurious villas outside, its interior finishes and other amenities were not bad, and it was more than sufficient for Lin Xiaoran to live in alone.
Moreover, if Lin Xiaoran kept winning, Jiang Jiayou believed that even if he did not bring it up, the country would find ways to keep improving her treatment.
Even moving her elsewhere was not out of the question.
Meanwhile, Chang Jian also received a phone call. The military would send three more companies over, and he was to prepare to receive them and make proper arrangements.
This time, the military was determined to make the National Fortune Bureau's base as tight as an iron barrel! Not even a fly would get in!
Chang Jian knew that all these measures were meant to protect Lin Xiaoran.
Although the scale of the operation was somewhat large, it was worth it!
Country L's national fortune was now bound to Lin Xiaoran. Absolutely nothing could happen to her in the real world!
Inside the game.
Lin Xiaoran and Madara had already set off again, but the aftermath had yet to settle. Instead, it only grew more intense.
When the surviving challengers saw Lin Xiaoran's outrageous score, they all briefly wondered whether they had failed to learn math properly. Otherwise, why were there four zeroes after that five?
Weren't there supposed to be three zeroes?
Wasn't that supposed to be 5,000 points?!
Why was it fifty thousand?!
Sophia was utterly stunned. Only after a long while did she come back to her senses and look at the dispirited Yasaka Shidō and Kim Jun beside her. "You saw it too, right?"
The two raised their pale faces and nodded woodenly.
At the same time, they thought that this must have been how Andrei, Park Bu, and the others had felt when facing the falling meteorites in the previous round: such despair and terror.
Likewise, how lost they must have felt as they watched Lin Xiaoran's points constantly accumulate and rise, even to the point of being unable to sleep all night.
Because now they could not sleep either.
After all, it was only the second day!
None of them, Sophia included, knew how they could possibly work hard enough to earn fifty thousand points in the remaining three days!
Even going without sleep or rest might not be enough to catch up!
Sophia clutched her hair with both hands, muttering over and over, "How on earth did she do it! Why, why, why!!"
Her voice gradually grew hysterical, but no matter how she screamed, unless they found Lin Xiaoran right then and asked her face-to-face, they would never know the answer without an omniscient view.
As for Lin Xiaoran, she also felt she had been quite lucky to encounter a group of F-rank ferocious beasts that liked to cluster together, in particularly terrifying numbers at that!
Although these ferocious beasts were not large, no bigger than a fist, their combined damage was by no means low!
Even A-rank ferocious beasts would choose to retreat upon encountering them.
But as it happened, with Madara's strength and techniques, he had no need to fear them at all, allowing Lin Xiaoran to reap a huge windfall!