"Wait a moment, I'll upgrade the room."

Su Lin said in a deep voice, "Of course I won't abandon Xiao Linlin."

Since the free dorm rooms provided by the system are not enough, we can just upgrade!

It's just resource coins, of course he... doesn't have enough.

Most of Su Lin's assets are props; the only real resource currency he has is the 500 points that Huang Yi gave him.

All paid operations in the waiting area only accept resource coins; assets cannot be spent directly and must be sold on the trading post.

The asset trading platform offers two modes: 1. Sell to other survivors. 2. Sell directly to the system's internal escape shop.

Clearly, most survivors currently don't have much resource currency, and there aren't many items listed for sale in the trading market. Most people choose to sell some items in the shop first to save up money.

Su Lin opened the warehouse and sold some of the blue-quality collectibles to the store.

[Sold successfully, resource points earned.]

The current dormitory area is at level 1. Upgrading requires 1000 resource coins. Upgrading will unlock more privileges (including the ability to purchase beds and rooms).

[Dormitory area successfully upgraded! Residents in the Level 2 host area will receive a 1% boost to all their physical stats!]

[Successfully expanded the dormitory with a new room, costing 2000 resource coins! This room can now be used by other survivors and followers.]

[Consumes 1000 resource coins to automatically fill the new room with basic living facilities.]

[Consuming 3000 resource coins, successfully filled all rooms in the dormitory area with a large refrigerator (full of food and water), basic entertainment facilities, a desktop computer (local area network only in D-1 waiting area), and a large wardrobe (for all ages and all seasons).]

As several notifications appeared, Su Lin's private dormitory underwent a dramatic transformation.

"Alright, come in."

Su Lin waved to the girl, indicating that it was his new room: "That's yours now. Followers automatically get dormitory access. You can buy anything you need with resource coins, or just tell me."

"Big brother is so nice!"

Xiao Linlin smiled sweetly as she cautiously entered the house, looking around her room with great delight.

Although the Class 2 dormitory is still rudimentary, it is at least clean, bright, and well-equipped, which is much better than the dirty and chaotic environment in the underground shopping mall.

"Big brother, I remember there was a place for entourage members. Why didn't you put me there?"

"The retinue's accommodation area only provides cryogenic storage, which can only sustain the retinue's life to a minimum. I don't think that kind of thing is for normal people."

Su Lin glanced at Xiao Linlin. The girl knew the answer already, but when she heard Su Lin's reply, her smile became even brighter.

"We just escaped, so let's rest first and not worry about anything else for now."

After sending Xiao Linlin away, Su Lin went into the private bathroom in her dormitory room. While washing her dirty body, she manipulated the information interface in the waiting area in front of her, continuously learning more about the mechanics of the escape game.

The waiting area is a temporary rest area for all escapees. It is very safe and provides the most comprehensive logistical support.

But as Huang Yi said, everything here is great, except that everything costs money.

For example, upgrading dormitories to Level 2 not only accommodates more residents and provides a better quality of life, but most importantly, it also enhances residents' physical fitness, making them stronger!

"Do you want to upgrade to a level 3 dormitory?"

Su Lin pondered as he took a bath.

He was carefully considering how to maximize the use of his assets.

Currently, the most valuable items in Su Lin's assets are a Tang sword and a revolver, which together are worth as much as 2.8 million.

Most of the remaining items were weapons and equipment captured from the last match. He and Xiao Linlin each had a 30-slot backpack, which was filled with various craft collectibles and consumable items.

First of all, the weapons that Su Lin mainly uses cannot be sold; in fact, it could be said that all of his weapons are temporarily unavailable for sale.

There are also purple-quality collectibles, which, although they cannot directly affect combat, are mostly materials for upgrading dormitories and other logistics modules, and Su Lin does not plan to sell them for the time being.

The remaining items that can be exchanged for resource coins have a total value of just over two hundred thousand.

"If it's only 200,000 or so, it probably isn't much in the D1 waiting area."

Su Lin sighed slightly. He had an escape value of up to three million, but others didn't know that Su Lin was actually quite poor.

"Even if it's just 200,000, it can't all be used to upgrade the dormitories. We also need to set aside some for logistics procurement to prepare for the next escape."

"Only expenses that contribute to a successful escape are truly valuable."

"But the key lies in..."

Su Lin squinted his eyes in thought: "What type of escape will it be next?"

When Huang Yi left, he emphasized that everyone's escape experience is different and the escape worlds they have been to are completely different.

Even the first escape, which is hailed as a "beginner's tutorial," does not mean that everyone's escape world revolves around Resident Evil.

For Huang Yi himself, his first escape world was an encounter battlefield set against the backdrop of World War II technology. It was not large in scale and the mission time was extremely short. He was among the first group of people to successfully escape and arrive at the waiting area.

According to Huang Yi's intelligence, based on the known information in the D-1 waiting area alone, the fastest escapee was 12 minutes.

This means that each escape game is unknown and random.

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