Chapter 86: Black Mist – Reality 1
In the end, Chu Yian never fully explained what the treasure box was to Lu Qingyuan.
“Congratulations, player Chu Yian, for successfully surviving 20 days and clearing the game ‘Extreme Heat’.”
Along with the game prompt, she was ejected from the game world.
The next second, her body functions began to recover, and a cool sensation washed over her. Chu Yian let out a long sigh, never expecting that one day she would actually find the Black Mist World quite good.
At least she wouldn’t be burned to death.
“This round of the game has no level ranking. A total of 3,637,289,901 players passed the game. All players who cleared the game are awarded 5 points.”
The number of players who cleared the previous few rounds of the game never broke a hundred million, but this round’s number of clearers directly accounted for half of the total, making it the most cleared game among all.
However, considering the current situation, this was already the fourth round of the game.
If players hadn’t cleared any of the first three rounds, then failing to clear the fourth round would mean only death awaited them.
Thirty-six billion players clearing it, in that light, it didn’t seem like too many.
By the way, how did they clear it?
Chu Yian recalled the game world that resembled a fiery hell, which could be considered the most difficult game she had experienced, apart from the very first world.
She almost kicked the bucket.
Although she wasn’t particularly strong in games, she did have some skill.
She almost died, so how did these people survive?
With doubts, Chu Yian opened the forum. At this time, the forum had already exploded.
[World 472847829: Ahhh, finally cleared a round! I thought I was dead for sure this time, it scared me to death.]
[World 93838109: Thank the god of luck for letting me clear it, finally I don’t have to worry about dying. The food package is really useful, it instantly gives a feeling of fullness.]
[World 1203302891: Did you also go to a shelter, and that’s how you cleared it?]
[World 39281913: Yes, on the twelfth day of the game, I went to a bunker outside the city. It was already built underground. Besides life being a bit tough, it wasn’t hot at all. As long as you worked hard, supporting yourself wasn’t a problem…]
[World 601938948: I went to an air-raid shelter where there were soldiers guarding it. There were also rain bombs at the time; it rained twice in our area on the fifteenth and seventeenth days of the game. Although the rainwater was scalding, it solved the drinking water problem. Living there must have been harder than in the bunker, but I stubbornly held on until my last breath, perfectly…]
Those who cleared the game basically all talked about similar things—shelters.
In the last round of the game, various shelters appeared all over the world. Some shelters were better, making it easy to survive twenty days; some were slightly worse, but people still survived and cleared the game. Chu Yian, however, left the city very early and stayed in a house in the suburbs, having very little contact with the outside world in the later stages, so she naturally didn’t receive any news about the shelters.
And those who gradually left the city in the later stages of the game were all refugees heading to shelters.
She chose a house that happened to be on a main road between the city and a shelter, and on the last day, she even encountered a wildfire. This round of the game, which was supposed to be the easiest of all the rounds, was turned into a hellish mode by her.
They were unlucky enough.
Chu Yian inferred the relevant information from the players’ chat messages in the forum and couldn’t help but click her tongue.
However, compared to her, those who were even more unlucky were the players who had gone through four rounds of the game and hadn’t passed even once. Points, fullness, cleanliness, health… these had already dropped to an insufficient level, and after just two more days, what awaited them was not an endless game, but death!
[World 4728948292: Help, I didn’t clear it again! So desperate, so hungry!]
[World 203934992: Am I really going to die? I’m only sixteen, I don’t want to die…]
[World 90391931: Zhang Zhibin, I love you!]
[World 12360988: I’m sorry, wife, I cheated on you with a colleague from the company when you were pregnant. I’m sorry, truly sorry, I regret so much not staying by your and our child’s side to protect you both.]
[World 89319381: I’m starting to miss school and homework now. Only now do I realize that the days I once found so painful were actually so happy. I’m so hungry, I really want to eat the braised pork ribs from the school Cafeteria again…]
Indeed, billions of people cleared it, but there were still over two billion people with no points.
Death was approaching; some had already begun to repent and post their last words.
On the forum, sadness gradually took over…
On the first day of reality, Chu Yian’s fullness was 90%, cleanliness 90%, and health 100%. For those without points, their fullness and cleanliness had already dropped to 10%.
People had no other options.
Many people on the forum had already organized group suicides, and some had organized rushes into the Black Mist to find a way out. Many of the suicide organizations were live-streaming, while all players who rushed into the Black Mist disappeared without a trace.
On this day, people were extremely sensitive to time.
People on the forum were constantly giving time updates, counting down how much time was left until the second day of reality. Regardless of their current mood, whether they had points or not, everyone was waiting for this moment.
Just four hours before the second day of reality, the silent game sound suddenly rang out again.
“Hello, players, the Survival Game Trading Platform has been activated.”
“Items on the trading platform can only be Survival Game items, and the currency for transactions can only be points. This is a welfare period; all players can freely trade Survival Game items and points within 3 hours and 59 minutes.”
The cold voice echoed in everyone’s ears, and immediately after, the forum exploded.
[World 38293484: Survival Game items? What are Survival Game items?]
This was the only chance for those players who hadn’t cleared the game to survive. These people, as if grasping at a lifeline, inquired everywhere.
[World 2129301: Things from the game world can’t be brought out at all. Do the items drawn from the lottery before the first round of the game count?]
The forum was not lacking in smart people, and someone quickly thought of this.
[World 2416348901: Yes, yes, that’s it! I’ve already asked my friend to help me trade; I gave him the item I drew, and he directly gave me 5 points!]
[World 3910392031: What kind of divine friend is this? Do we still need friends? I have a bottle of toner I drew from the lottery here.]
[World 1283912390: Does anyone want a game prop? I drew a two-meter-long knife.]
