Chapter 15: Black Mist – Reality 2
The 20,109th place got 50 points, while she got 100 points. So, the higher the rank, the better the rewards?
Chu Yian gave up on speaking up and continued browsing through other information, attempting to gather more details from everyone’s complaining chats.
More and more people were waking up on the forum. Whether it was the [Area] or [World] channels, the number of messages was increasing exponentially. Many people had cleared the game, but compared to the total population of six billion, they were still a tiny minority.
Chu Yian also saw more and more people who had cleared the game posting their results. Among them, the lowest point reward was 5 points, and the highest was 200 points.
Most people’s initial situations were also vastly different, with some being lucky and others not.
In the best-case scenario, the safe zone was extremely close. One person got on a bus, and when the zombie outbreak occurred, it turned into a scene from Train to Busan. He didn’t do anything himself; he just buckled his seatbelt and followed the veteran NPC driver as he drifted along the highway. Under the driver’s superb skills, he was carried to victory in a daze.
He entered the safe zone in eight hours, ranking 119th in the escape.
As for the unlucky ones, some opened their eyes in a Hospital and were bitten by a fellow zombie patient before they could even react. Some weren’t bitten to death by zombies but were hit by cars instead. Others were sent to places extremely far from the safe zone; they fought their way through and carved a bloody path through the zombie hordes, only to fail to arrive by the end of the fifth day because they chose the wrong mode of transportation.
[World 568907]: I really didn’t expect the safe zone to be so far away back then. When I saw a plane flying over my head, my mind went completely blank. I couldn’t even hack at the zombies anymore!
There were always one or two eccentric replies that provided a bit of a diversion for people who were tense and lost, not knowing what the future held.
However, just then, that mechanical voice coming from nowhere rang out again.
[Novice Game: Road to Survival has ended]
[Total number of players participating in the novice game: 6,103,455,781]
[Total number of players who cleared the novice game: 479,801]
Out of six billion people, only 480,000 actually cleared it. The probability wasn’t even one in ten thousand.
[Congratulations to the players who cleared the game. The 1st place player receives 1,000 points.]
[Players ranked 2nd to 10th receive 500 points.]
[Players ranked 11th to 100th receive 200 points.]
[Players ranked 101st to 10,000th receive 100 points.]
[Players ranked 10,000th to 50,000th receive 50 points.]
[Other players who cleared the game receive 5 points.]
[Please note!! These rules will be carried over to some of the later games.]
First place only gets a thousand.
What a stingy game.
That was Chu Yian’s first reaction.
[The next round of the game will take place in two days at 14:00. Please be prepared, all players.]
The game would be held again the day after tomorrow. A wave of wailing filled the forum upon seeing this news.
On the first day back in the real world, the Satiety of people who hadn’t eaten the food set dropped to 80%, and their Cleanliness also dropped to 80%. Everyone realized that Satiety and Cleanliness both decreased by 10% daily. Only 6 days remained before they dropped to 20%.
[Area 2908976]: Will Satiety and Cleanliness really kill you? Can eating and being hygienic affect the reduction of Satiety and Cleanliness?
[Area 618237092]: Friend upstairs, I’ve tried it; it’s useless. I ate two big buckets of instant noodles, and my Satiety is still 80%.
[Area 17837891]: In other words, you’ll really die if you don’t earn points. Isn’t there a big shot in our district who cleared the game? Did you eat the set sold in the Point Mall?
[Area 20109]: Not yet. The item description says there’s a life-threatening danger only when Satiety and Cleanliness are below 20%, so I’m waiting for these two to drop to 30% before using the food set and cleaning set. It’s more cost-effective that way.
Chu Yian couldn’t help but nod at this.
That’s so true. She had wasted two points yesterday out of curiosity, and her heart ached just thinking about it now.
On the second day, most people’s Satiety and Cleanliness dropped to 70%, while Chu Yian’s was at 80%.
On the morning of the third day, the game hadn’t started yet.
Most people’s Satiety and Cleanliness dropped to 60%, while Chu Yian’s was at 70%.
Many people on the forum already stated that with Satiety down to 60%, they were experiencing a vague sense of hunger.
[World 7387481]: It’s terrifying. Normally I’m full after eating one piece of bread, but today I ate three, and it didn’t do anything.
[World 5882783]: If you feel hungry at 70%, will you be hungry enough to gnaw on tree bark when it’s even lower?
…[World 4331831]: I’m not afraid of hunger, but being dirty is really unbearable. I feel like I smell all over… [World 837218]: The young man above is so pretentious. I really envy those who cleared the novice game; they don’t have to worry about these problems at all right now. If I had dared to run out and escape to the safe zone back then, that would have been great.
[World 7381783]: I always feel like there’s a sharp knife hanging over my head.
[World 671732]: So we must work hard to earn points, otherwise we’ll really starve to death… Chu Yian watched them discuss, occasionally standing up to move around and warm up, preparing for the next game.
Two o’clock in the afternoon.
The game’s broadcast voice rang out on time.
[Novice Game: Deadly Infection]
[Game Content: A new type of epidemic has broken out worldwide. Players must hold out for 30 days and find and inject the specific medicine for the infectious disease in the last 10 days.]
[Initial Funds: 2,000 Coins]
[Initial Supplies: ID card, 1 set of clothing, communication device]
[Current total number of novice players: 6,103,281,134]
[Please note!! Survival supplies can only be obtained by clearing the game. Please take it seriously, all players!]
The game began.
This time, Chu Yian stood inside an empty airport. She was currently carrying a backpack, dressed as if she were going on a trip.
The bag contained a three-piece set: an ID card, a cell phone, and two thousand yuan in cash.
Inside the terminal of Da’an Airport, crowds of people were surging back and forth.
Chu Yian looked at her surroundings and remembered the content of this game—an infectious disease.
An infectious disease wouldn’t be very safe in crowded places. She shouldered her backpack and ran out of the terminal hall. Then she hopped into a taxi headed for the city, rushing toward the city center first.
“Little sister, where in the city are you going?”
The driver asked while driving. The city was so big; it was fine to take her for a spin as long as she didn’t mind the fare.
