Hard to Find Supplies?

The Lost Land was a world invaded by evil gods.

With Blue Star's blessing, everyone had ten chances to enter the Lost Land.

In that world, items used to fight the evil gods remained, along with treasures that could strengthen a person and... runes that allowed one to step into the Transcendent Sequence and become a mysterious transcendent being.

Cao Fengqi's constitution might have been only 14, but even a strongman on Earth wasn't as strong as he was.

This body was now eighteen years old and had also found some supplies in the Lost Land.

But the price had been steep: he had lost "five lives."

He now had only five chances left to enter the Lost Land. Once those were used up, if he died on another visit, he would die permanently.

He clearly remembered that his own attributes had never included [Activate cheats?]

Cao Fengqi's eyes flickered, and he thought expectantly, Activate.

[Ding! Game cheats activated. A change in game content has been detected. Cheats will adjust according to the host.]

[Supply display cheat activated. (1-kilometer radius)]

[Script assistance activated.]

[One-click maximum skill proficiency activated.]

[These cheats are bound to the host. Their effects will improve as the host grows stronger.]

"Are these the cheats from the game I played?"

Cao Fengqi looked at the information on the cheats, delight spreading across his face.

He had been playing a game where he searched for supplies, equipped his character, and killed monsters to level up. After being tormented by monsters for several days, he had angrily downloaded cheats online.

Before he could enjoy them, he had come to this world full of danger.

According to the memories in his mind, in the ten years since the evil gods' invasion, the world had grown bitterly cold, and blizzards fell frequently. Food had nearly run out, and only mutated plants had survived.

As time passed, almost all the old technology in the small county town had become unusable.

Some animals had been invaded by evil energy and begun to mutate, becoming bloodthirsty.

Evil spirits proliferated, active in the darkness and attacking humans.

After nightfall, everywhere outside a shelter was a forbidden zone.

As the evil spirits and beasts grew stronger over time, even some weaker shelters could no longer withstand their attacks.

Cao Fengqi and his family came from Liangmin County, a county town that had once had a population of 500,000. Over ten years, it had lost more than 100,000 people.

Not long ago, an unknown black fog had swept in, forcing the people of Liangmin County to migrate in search of shelter in a major city 500 kilometers away.

Ten years ago, driving 500 kilometers would have taken only four or five hours. But now, with families to bring along and heavy shelters to transport, covering seven or eight kilometers a day was considered good.

Cao Fengqi surveyed his family's level 3 shelter, which was over forty square meters.

Among the entire fleeing group of 500,000 people, his family's shelter counted as large.

But shelters weren't judged by size alone. Their level mattered too, and level 3 wasn't particularly high.

In the past, it could have held off an invasion of evil spirits.

But lately, four or five families with level 3 shelters were being slaughtered by evil spirits and beasts every day throughout the fleeing group.

Moon spirit stones emitted light when activated, and that light could drive away evil spirits, greatly improving safety.

That made moon spirit stones a hard currency these days; their value went without saying.

Just thinking about how the original owner had given half his family's moon spirit stones to the woman he was pursuing made Cao Fengqi wince.

What a fucking idiot. Those were things that could keep his whole family alive.

"That Wu Qianqian actually said that if I wanted to marry her, I had to give her thirty moon spirit stones or ninety moon spirit insects, three hundred jin of meat, and a level 3 shelter of at least twenty-five square meters as a bride price. She even called it the 'three golds.' Fuck you."

Cao Fengqi grumbled inwardly, This fucking bride price would bring even our folks from Shanxi on Earth to tears. The problem is, that idiot 'I' actually gave her ten moon spirit stones, and even dared to go out at night to catch moon spirit insects. Damn it.

He was utterly speechless. He rubbed his stomach; the bowl of wild vegetable soup he'd just had had only made him two-tenths full.

Right now, his family didn't even have enough to eat.

Even those wild vegetables had taken his mother and sister-in-law four or five hours to find nearby.

As for meat?

He hadn't eaten any in a week.

If his body hadn't been strengthened, an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to hold out.

"Famine, disaster, evil spirits and beasts... Supplies are hard to find in the Lost Land, and death is only a hair's breadth away."

Cao Fengqi assessed this world based on the information in his mind.

Frowning, he looked at his father, who had lost an arm, his mother, whose face was sallow, his pale-faced sister-in-law, and the scrawny Dabao and Xiaobao.

Scenes of familial affection surfaced in his mind. People weren't made of stone; how could they feel nothing?

Besides, in his previous life, Cao Fengqi had been an orphan who had never known the warmth of a family.

Other people became orphans after transmigrating. He was just the opposite...

Cao Fengqi shook his head, glanced at his father, and said, "I'm going into the Lost Land to see if I can find some supplies."

"All right. Be careful."

Cao Jiancheng nodded, then hesitated and added, "I'll go to the Lost Land too. You all keep an eye on the house. Call us if anything happens."

"All right, Jiancheng. Please be careful."

Liu Xiuxiu spoke to him with concern, then looked at her son, bitterness on her face.

If only her son weren't so devoted in love.

Her eldest had been the same. To make his wife happy, he had given his mother-in-law's family a lot of resources.

Fortunately, her eldest had been capable. But sadly, he was gone, and his in-laws had forgotten his kindness.

And now her youngest son was like this too...

"When it comes down to it, he takes after his father. I can't blame anyone else."

Liu Xiuxiu thought about how her husband had left Tianbei City to settle in the county town of Liangmin County to pursue her. At that moment, she didn't know whether to laugh or feel helpless.

"Are you taking that Dark Iron Staff in? Be careful."

In the smaller bedroom, Cao Jiancheng saw Cao Fengqi holding a five-foot Dark Iron Staff and reminded him, "It doesn't matter if you can't find supplies. Don't let the losses outweigh the gains."

"Okay."

Cao Fengqi felt a little speechless at his father's words.

Did he really have that little faith in him?

He looked at the black staff in his hand.

[Weapon: Dark Iron Staff (level 3 quality)]

[Effect: Possesses considerable striking power and can damage evil spirits and beasts.]

Once equipped, a weapon could be taken into the Lost Land, but if its owner died, it would be lost.

Aside from Cao Jiancheng's black iron saber, the Dark Iron Staff was the Cao family's only other weapon. His elder brother had given it to him while he was alive.

It was an important weapon for defending himself and staying alive.

Now that he had cheats, he would naturally give it his all.

Cao Fengqi spread out a layer of plastic bags and lay down on the bed. His father, Cao Jiancheng, lay down beside him. At night, father and son usually squeezed into this cramped room together.

Once he was ready to enter, he made the decision with a thought.

[Enter the Lost Land?]

[Enter!]

The next second, the scene before his eyes changed.

"Caw! Caw!"

The cries of Rotten Crows came from afar, and a dreary gray world appeared before him.

The viscous ground had just been drenched by a rainstorm and was covered in mud.

He could see reasonably clearly within five meters, but beyond that, he could make out only extremely blurry shadows.

Compared with the dangers of nighttime on Blue Star, the Lost Land was no less dangerous.

Sometimes it was even more despair-inducing.

[Scan of the one-kilometer radius complete. Found: 5 level 1 supplies, 2 level 2 supplies, and 1 level 3 supply.]

At that moment, a voice sounded, and a guide appeared in his field of vision immediately afterward.

???

Cao Fengqi froze, delight appearing on his face.

"There are so many more supplies in this world than I remember. Weren't supplies supposed to be hard to find?"

He murmured, "They're practically everywhere!!"