On the last day of March, Shi Jinzhe watered the willow branches, told them he was going to enter the game, and then entered his tenth game at 8 pm sharp.

[All players have arrived. Welcome back to Pyramid Survival Battle!]

Dungeon Name: [Block City Speed ​​Race]

Dungeon types: Survival, Faction, Battle Royale.

Dungeon Description: This is a city built from building blocks. Every so often, the buildings become misaligned, collapse, and are rebuilt.

Task requirements:

Within the time limit of each collapse, all players must collect twelve crystals from the scattered blocks and place them into the recessed area of ​​the tower in the center of the city. (20 points)

Advanced task requirements:

1. Clear out the monsters in the city; 1 point is awarded for each monster killed.

Players in the same area are automatically teammates. If all teammates survive at the end of the game, they will receive 20 points.

Players earn 80 points for each crystal they successfully acquire.

Special Note:

1. There is no time limit for this round of the game. The instance will close immediately once all twelve crystals have been placed. Players are advised to leave as soon as possible and not linger.

2. The winning player in this round will receive +10 points in their game division.

3. No points will be deducted if you fail to complete this round of the game.

“Jigsaw City.” Shi Jinzhe raised his head and repeated the dungeon name.

Before him lay a city built from hundreds of millions of colorful blocks, quite unique, with a blurry, mosaic-like quality.

The colorful glass blocks were illuminated by the blazing sun, turning the entire street, or rather, everything in sight, into colorful projected blocks.

Red is particularly prevalent, and when exposed to high temperatures and direct sunlight, this intense color amplifies his intolerance to the temperature both psychologically and visually.

Shekh, feeling hot, stood in the shade behind him. "Are glass blocks considered building blocks? When they're turned upside down and collapse, won't they shatter into pieces?"

"It's hard to say, but it feels like something a gamer would do," Shi Jinzhe replied. "It's at least forty degrees here, let's find somewhere else to stay."

This round of the game added a teammate from the same region, which I assume refers to the game's regional division.

Being in the same region means being in the same world, assuming you're teammates...

Shi Jinzhe took out the reward item he had obtained from the game where he searched for the bomb.

Props: [Flower-wrapping rope]

Effect: Allows you to connect with teammates and share your real-time location.

He put the colorful braided rope on his hand, and a 6x8 cm virtual screen appeared in front of him.

There was no specific map on the screen, only simple route directions, with two dots, one blue and one red, appearing on it.

When the time comes and the blue dot stops, the blue dot also stops, which means that blue represents him.

The other red dot, representing a teammate, is moving quickly toward his location.

He turned his head and asked Shekh, "Can you see the location of my teammates floating in my palm?"

“Sure.” Shekh looked over his shoulder: “This red dot also has tools to find teammates, it’s fast, and it’s quite strong.”

"Yes, but it's a bit unexpected that there's only one teammate. I thought there would be quite a few."

Shi Jinzhe turned off the screen. A teammate who actively seeks out others is not the lone wolf type of player who prefers to play alone.

Let's meet in person and see what kind of person they are before deciding whether to cooperate to clear the game. If they are a hassle, then there's no need to endure it for those twenty points.

There's no extra time to work out personalities in a race; everyone just does their own thing.

Shi Jinzhe lifted his leg and started walking: "Since this person has taken the initiative to come to us, let's first look for information about crystals."

Teammates will proactively find someone to meet up with, so there's no need to repeat the process. As long as he doesn't wander around aimlessly and his general direction is towards his teammates, that's fine.

As Shi Jin pondered, he suddenly remembered Li Jin: "I wonder how many people are in this round of the game. I hope someone else is as lucky as Li Jin, picking up crystals with ease."

He touched the mosaic-like colored glass: "We need to find at least one crystal first, to prevent the instance from closing after all twelve are collected. This way, both for me and the other player in the same area, the first two advanced quests can be completed with greater assurance."

The instance closes instantly, and failure doesn't deduct points. Based on my understanding of the game, the reason no points are deducted is because no one dies. If you can't die... then if you fail this round, you'll most likely be left in the instance.

He looked around and saw that the building facilities of the block city were very complete. It was not just an empty shell with a beautiful exterior. Many details inside were very exquisite.

There are cameras with red lights at the street corner, shopping malls on the roadside with square-shaped merchandise displayed in their windows, and flowers and plants made of building blocks in the blurry green belt.

This doesn't feel like a city built from building blocks; it's more like a place that was originally a city that has been turned into building blocks.

Shi Jin looked around carefully, then raised his hand to press his eyes.

The city is very realistic, but for someone with his evolved eyesight, looking at it for too long would make his eyes blurry.

There are no flowers or grass, no insects or birds chirping; this is not a city where one can live normally.

The high temperature wore down patience. Sunlight refracted through the glass and shone on the body, causing the already scorching surface temperature to rise even further, making it unbearably hot.

But this is a game, so no matter how hot it is, we have to keep going.

The sweltering city was peaceful. The two walked down a street, not forgetting to keep an eye on the situation despite the heat.

After walking for half an hour, Shekh felt something was off.

She remembered the game saying there were monsters here, but so far, not a single one has appeared.

After passing two street corners, she was certain that within her sensing range, there were no monsters, and apart from the creature that had just died, there was no other living being.

Shehe raised his hand to fan himself, glanced at Shi Jin's folded clothes, turned his wrist, and fanned him twice on the back, saying as he fanned, "The monster may not be in the city, or it may not be out at this time of day."

Shi Jinzhe asked, "So it's safe now?"

"There are no monsters, but it's unclear whether these building blocks pose any danger."

Since it wasn't life, neither she nor Shi Jinzhe could sense much of it.

"It's okay, you protect me. Let's go into a shop by the roadside first." Shi Jinzhe chose a bookstore, which was full of building blocks, including books.

The pages look very thin, but when you squeeze them, you realize that the texture is not paper at all. If you shake it a few times, the book will fall apart.

The lights were on in the shop, and the temperature was slightly lower than outside. There was an old, oscillating fan on the counter.

Schech walked around to the counter, pushed the mouse on the table, and the thin computer monitor lit up.

"The building blocks here can be electrified. Something must have happened to cause this. But they still function and can still be used."

Shi Jinzhe walked over to the counter, holding onto the edge, clicked the mouse, and then touched the chair.

The assembled chair has a slight indentation in the middle, forming an arc when viewed from a horizontal plane. He touched the corner and then the indented center of the chair.

Two places, two temperatures.

"The fans and computers were on. Someone had used them, but I guess their experience is different from what we understand."