After investigating the reasons for the changes in this world, Xie Tianlang and Song Sanchuan both had very complicated feelings.
In the previous three worlds, no matter what kind of disasters they encountered, humans were at the top of the survivor list. However, here, humans have to build high walls to confine themselves and suddenly fall into the position of being hunted.
Such a disparity is probably hard for humans to accept, but people have no choice but to accept this change.
"Boss, what should we do now? Because of the earthquake, the magnetic field in some areas is chaotic, and the communication band of the watch is difficult to transmit, making it difficult to contact Fugui and Si Glasses."
"However, since the communication signals within the safe zone are stable, we can deduce that neither of them is in this Ninth City safe zone."
Should we go to the other two safe zones to look for them? There are two other large safe zones, the second and sixth, throughout the entire China region.
Xie Tianlang thought for a moment and shook his head: "If you post the information online, even if they can't see it in the wild, as long as the two of them reach the second or sixth safe zone, they will be able to see the message you posted online."
"Instead of running around aimlessly, we should prepare in a safe zone. In a safe city, social order is still maintained, and we can ask others to help us find Yuanyuan and Si Wuyai."
Xie Tianlang stood up as he spoke: "Let's find a house to stay in first, and then do a simple mission to see what's going on in the world."
The core of this world is most likely related to the wildly evolving flora and fauna, or perhaps to that earthquake. In any case, we absolutely must make more contact with animals and plants.
"Once we're familiar with the world and its flora and fauna, we'll sign up for the Golden List mission to exterminate the giant rabbit. There are still two weeks left before we can accept the mission, which is enough time for us to get to know this place."
"Then, if the conditions for posting the task are not too demanding, we will post another missing person task."
The "Ninth City Mission Hall" website, which has the highest number of views and clicks, is right in front of them; it would be foolish not to make good use of it.
Song Sanchuan had no objection to Xie Tianlang's arrangement. He immediately hugged his backpack tightly, a look of nouveau riche joy on his face: "Before, because Fugui'er was with me, I almost forgot that I had a backpack full of things!"
Although the large backpacks he and Xie Tianlang carried could not compare to Fu Gui'er's personal space, they were still precious backpacks that could hold three gold bricks, ten days' worth of rations, and more than a dozen weapons and tools!
Their backpacks could definitely be exchanged for a lot of things!
As Song Sanchuan pondered, he rapidly typed on the keyboard, searching for the common currency of this ninth secure city.
As expected, paper money and even gold have lost their monetary value. After all, in the current context of global evolutionary catastrophe, nothing is more important than food and tangible goods.
People mostly barter for necessities, but in the three safe cities, they can use "contribution points," which are recognized and recorded by all three safe cities in Huazhou, as currency to buy essential food and weapons.
Earning "contribution points" is also very simple. Just select any task in the Ninth City Task Hall and complete it to get the corresponding contribution points.
The tasks posted in the task hall range from small tasks like cleaning, doing housework, and trading items, to large tasks like making trap tools, planting low-risk plants, and hunting and exterminating dangerous giant animals. As long as there is a need for something, a task will be posted.
However, if an individual posts a task in the Ninth City Task Hall, they will need to contribute a certain number of "contribution points" according to the importance of the task. Because the Task Hall is the largest communication platform with many people posting tasks, the official team will not allow the task poster to pay more than 10 contribution points as a commission.
However, each posted task will be displayed in the corresponding section according to the order in which it was posted. In other words, the older the task, the lower it will be displayed and the less likely it is to be seen.
At this point, the official strategy employed a familiar yet frustrating monetization tactic—
If you want your posted tasks to be seen by more people, you can choose to spend money to improve the display position of your tasks.
It's like a missing person task. On the homepage of the missing persons and lost items section, there are ten bolded headlines. You only need 100 contribution points to stay in one of those headlines for a whole day.
As for those tasks that are prominently displayed on the homepage of the task hall, even highlighted in red and bold, they would require at least 10,000 contribution points to keep them up for a day.
This is the highest-ranking advertising spot that all 20 million survivors in the Ninth City can see! It will even appear in the related section below the homepage of the mission hall in the Second and Sixth Cities.
However, no one has posted a private task to occupy this position so far.
After all, compared to the official authorities, an individual's power is still too small.
Although contribution points can be obtained by completing tasks and exchanging resources, it is not easy to obtain enough contribution points now that the world is dominated by rapidly evolving animals and plants, human survival is threatened, and resources are drastically decreasing.
"...Boss, I miss Fugui'er." Song Sanchuan walked out of the mission hall of the Ninth Safe City, his face turning green: "Three gold bricks only gave us 30 contribution points, and the price is the same as compressed biscuits!"
"A gun that I modified to be exceptionally good is only worth 100 points, less than a good quality dagger?"
Song Sanchuan thought about how his backpack full of treasures, which he thought he could exchange for at a high price, ended up with a pitiful less than 500 contribution points. He had never thought so much about his brother Fugui!
Just think about the hundreds of tons of food in his rich brother's huge space! Waaah, he could totally trade that for a big villa in the base and then just laze around doing nothing!
But now he and Captain Xie have almost emptied half of their backpacks, and they've only managed to get enough points to rent a small two-bedroom apartment for a month.
Xie Langren's expression was even colder than Song Sanchuan's.
After he took the keys and walked into the old, small two-bedroom apartment they rented, the atmosphere around him became even more oppressive.
How is he supposed to raise his precious Yuanyuan in such a living environment?!
His wealthy Yuanyuan should live in the best villa, eat the most delicious crabs and Australian Wagyu beef, and wear the most expensive and comfortable clothes.
Oh, and he was wearing the most beautiful necklace, which he had personally crafted.
Clearly, he and his round face are completely mismatched here.
Xie Tianlang frowned, threw his backpack onto the sofa in the old house, and then picked up Song Sanchuan's computer to search for officially released hunting missions with high contribution points.
After browsing around, he directly selected the mission "Kill the giant man-eating frog on the southwest riverbank".
[Long-term Bronze Ranking Quest: Kill the Giant Man-Eating Frog.]
Location: Within a 3-kilometer radius along the Jinshui River in the southwest of Ninth City. Giant man-eating frogs frequently appear every evening or on rainy days.
Note: This giant man-eating frog is two meters tall, one meter wide, and has a two-meter-long tongue. A small portion of its leader has venomous skin, and most of its tongue has a paralyzing mucus. It also possesses excellent jumping ability.
This mission is suitable for players with high agility and speed, but not recommended for players with low strength and speed.
Reward: 500 contribution points for each giant man-eating frog. No upper limit.
Xie Tianlang accepted the mission to kill the giant man-eating frog and entered his ID number into the pop-up input box. His name then appeared below this long-running mission.
Below this task are the names of seven other people, who were clearly also task takers who had accepted the task but had not yet completed it.
Song Sanchuan watched the whole thing from the side, and after thinking about it, he was still a little uncertain: "Boss, are we taking on a bronze-ranked mission on our very first day here? These giant man-eating frogs seem pretty difficult to deal with."
Xie Tianlang glanced at Song Ruoji, a weakling with mechanical information expertise, and that one glance was enough for Song to understand that if it weren't for Song Ruoji being dragged down by him, his team leader Xie would probably have gone straight to challenge the high-risk missions on the Silver or Gold List.
"Heh, giant man-eating frogs are great! They're two meters tall and a meter wide! One frog leg is enough for us to braise for several meals!"
Song Sanchuan quickly entered his ID number under that task, completely at ease.
Then he started to miss his brother Fugui again. He hadn't felt much when Fugui was around, but now that Fugui was gone, he realized that without Fugui to back him up, his devilish captain would seem especially cold and ruthless.
...Is it because he's not good-looking enough? Or does he not have long hair that can be dyed like a rainbow?
But Song Sanchuan didn't have time to think too much and quickly followed Captain Wolf Extermination out of the city to do the mission.
Although, I'm still a little excited—
You can't see much change in the world while inside the Ninth City safe zone, but once you leave the city, you'll probably see this dangerous yet novel world where humans are no longer at the top of the food chain!
While Xie Tianlang was taking Song Sanchuan out of the city on a mission, on the other side, the wealthy and beautiful woman that both of them missed so much was playing a thrilling game of hopscotch.
He certainly couldn't jump around on a real house, but the hundreds of large rabbits beneath his feet, each as big as a house ranging from eighty to one hundred and fifty square meters, could be considered mobile "houses."
He was already unlucky to have fallen onto the back of a giant rabbit, but at first he still held onto a sliver of hope, thinking that since the rabbit only ate grass and not meat, it wouldn't do anything to him.
However, reality taught him a lesson. The giant rabbits of this world showed him that rabbits can not only eat grass and gnaw on trees, but also stomp a groundhog the size of a human to death with one foot, and then use their door-like incisors to gnaw and swallow the rat into their stomachs.
To the rabbits, who ranged in size from 80 to 150 square meters, he was nothing more than another form of mouse.
So, the giant rabbits spotted him, their bathtub-red rabbit eyes fixed on him.
If the wealthy and beautiful man hadn't already seen all sorts of unimaginable grand scenes, just being stared at by those scarlet rabbit eyes that were almost as tall as him would have made his legs go weak.
Okay, now he can still jump.
Because he happened to land on the back of a giant rabbit, the giant rabbits could kick him with their feet or bite him with their teeth. In the end, the rabbits could only use their huge bodies to press down on their companion's body, trying to drive him off.
But the wealthy and beautiful man was clearly not one to sit idly by and wait for his doom. When the first giant rabbit, which was over 80 square meters in size, jumped up, he activated the bloodline of the seven-colored mantis shrimp in his body and nimbly jumped onto the back of another large rabbit.
After activating his mantis shrimp bloodline, he looked at the rabbits huddled together around him, all around him, with their big heads raised and staring at him, and suddenly felt that he couldn't escape.
The moment the thought of being trapped with no chance of escape crossed the mantis shrimp's eyes, they lit up. Why bother jumping around? There are rabbits all around, and if it lands, it will be trampled to death. So why not spread its wings and soar into the sky?!
He still has that adorable little owl, the Rich Long-eared Owl, by his side!
So after hopping around like a few more big rabbits, Pipi Shrimp Fugui decided to transform into Owl Fugui and fly away from this terrifying rabbit den.
However, just as he was about to slap his wrist, he suddenly noticed that the sky had darkened and a huge shadow had appeared above the group of rabbits.
The giant rabbits, who were originally extremely ferocious towards the groundhogs, began to tremble with panic at this moment. Several rabbits screamed and tried to run away, but suddenly a particularly strong flat-topped rabbit stood up in the group. It had a scar on its eye and let out an angry cry. The panicked rabbits actually gathered together one by one and made a motion as if they were about to kick their legs back together.
The largest, flat-topped giant rabbit even stretched out its enormous paws and scooped up a huge tree from the vast forest beside it... a tree with only sharp branches remaining.
If this giant tree were shrunk a bit and polished to be more rounded, it would really resemble a spiked club from the weapon rankings.
The rabbits went on high alert.
This was originally a perfect opportunity to escape.
But the wealthy beauty was first shocked by the giant rabbit that used a tree branch as a spiked club, and then she was so startled by the true form of the shadow that fell from the sky that she dared not transform at all—
He initially thought the clouds in the sky were blocking the light, but when he looked up, he realized that the huge shadow was actually the shadow cast on the ground by the giant eagle.
Gou Fugui had also seen a semi-zombified giant eagle in the zombie world, which was twice the size of a normal eagle. He even developed a good relationship with that giant eagle because he was a wet nurse.
However, compared to the giant eagle that appeared in his eyes now, the former eagle father might only be considered a cub now.
Yes, the eagle that descended from the sky, emitting a sharp cry, and charged towards the rabbit herd was enormous.
Its wingspan is so large it blots out the sun, and its claws can easily lift a house. Its eyes are sharp and cold; if Gou Fugui were standing in a house, the giant eagle's eyes could fill an entire French window.
Looking at this giant eagle, Gou Fugui even thought of the mythical "Peng bird".
While it might not be unaware of distances of thousands of miles, its wingspan is certainly nearly a hundred meters.
This is the undisputed ruler of the skies. A terrifying existence that tiny humans simply cannot contend with.
If he were to transform into the long-eared owl Fugui, perhaps a single flap of the giant eagle's wings would be enough to kill this little insect.
Therefore, Gou Fugui ultimately did not take the picture of the transforming hand.
The giant rabbit and the giant eagle had given him a tremendous shock and a great sense of crisis.
Compared to flying through the air, where he might encounter unknown enemies or be accidentally swatted and eaten by a giant eagle, it would be safer for him to stay with the rabbits for the time being... right?
At least, these rabbits are relatively mild-mannered; their only means of attack are kicking and gnawing with their front teeth, and they don't seem particularly intelligent. If he's a bit agile, he could easily dodge them.
Well, except for that giant leader rabbit who knows how to use tree trunks as maces.
Thump!
The wealthy beauty clung tightly to the rabbit's fur, hiding herself inside the large rabbit's fur as she watched the battle between the giant rabbits and the giant eagle.
The giant eagle was much larger than the rabbits, and one of its sharp talons could easily snatch a rabbit away.
However, whenever the giant eagle locks onto a target and tries to snatch the giant rabbit, the lead giant rabbit, which has a scar on its eye, will shriek and swing its giant wooden mace at the eagle's talons.
The lead giant rabbit wielded its giant wooden mace with incredible speed and ferocity, always managing to stop the giant eagle's talons at crucial moments.
With the help of the lead giant rabbit's spiked club, the giant rabbits targeted by the giant eagle can also use their rabbit legs to kick the giant eagle hard, occasionally causing some effective damage.
It seems the giant rabbits have found a way to deal with the giant eagles, but without an absolute size advantage, the hierarchy of the food chain remains unshakable.
After the giant eagle let out a sharp cry of anger and increased its speed and power, one of the more than one hundred giant rabbits was finally snatched away by the eagle's outstretched talons.
But Gou Fugui knew that this result was already a victory for the giant rabbits.
If the lead giant rabbit hadn't clung to the tree trunk with its sharp branches like a mace to stop the giant eagle, at least three or four of the rabbits would have been killed or taken away by the eagle.
And now, the rabbit colony has only lost one rabbit.
Even the wealthy and beautiful woman, sitting on the rabbit-skin cushion, couldn't help but feel excited and joyful about the thrilling battle she had just fought.
It's like a rabbit fighting an eagle!
This is the perseverance and victory of the weak in the face of the absolutely strong!
"It's truly shocking."
The wealthy and beautiful woman sighed.
They tried to hold on tightly to the fur of the giant rabbit, which was jumping around with joy as the giant eagle left.
However, his joy in celebrating with the rabbits didn't last long, because...
The giant rabbits stopped hopping around a couple of times and stared at him again with their bright red, bathtub-sized rabbit eyes.
This time, the wealthy beauty didn't even dare to hopscotch—
Among all the rabbits eyeing him, there was a pair of particularly red giant rabbit eyes with a scar next to them staring at him. The natural spiked club made from the tree trunk that had previously struck even the giant eagle was pointing at him.
Gou Fugui: "..."
For a fleeting moment, I even thought of my last words.
However, under extreme fear, the will to survive becomes even stronger, and the mind works even faster.
Rabbit!! Rabbit!!
What animals are the natural enemies of rabbits?
It's not an advantage in size, but an advantage in intelligence or special abilities... or perhaps a way to make the rabbits stop attacking because they're stupid?!
The answer is yes.
Just before the tension reached its peak during that dangerous eye contact, Gou Fugui took a deep breath and lightly touched his left wrist, silently transforming under the watchful eyes of the giant rabbits—
[Lingyou Fugui: I am the wicked concubine who brought ruin to the country, let Lingyou dance for you!]
Traits/Skills:
1. A single dance captivates the rabbit.
Complete Transformation: The weasel has a slender body, short limbs, and small ears, but its round, bright eyes make it a cute and delicate little creature. However, don't let its cuteness and small size fool you into thinking it's ferocious and cunning—this weasel can dance to confuse rabbits and can eat 3,500 mice and countless rabbits a year.
Bloodline Bonus (Basic): Everyone who has seen the Weasel dance will be captivated by its enchanting and beautiful moves! Perform a mesmerizing dance for your prey, and it will be stunned for 3 minutes and develop a natural affinity for you for one hour.
If the object is a rabbit, no matter what kind of rabbit it is, it will be charmed for 5 minutes, and the natural affection bonus will be doubled, and the duration of liking will be doubled.
The weasel's dance is an inescapable calamity for the rabbit!
2. Master of Disguise.
Complete transformation: The weasel's fur is short and dense, with an excellent feel. In winter, it will shed its gray fur and wear a white coat, and in summer, its white coat will turn into gray fur. It is a clever little weasel that can change clothes and hide itself!
Bloodline Boost (Basic): Wearing clothing that matches the color of the environment reduces the chance of being detected by 30%. (The closer the clothing color is to the environment, the higher the concealment rate.)
3. A ruthless killer!
Complete Transformation: Although the Weasel is small and cute, its fighting power is by no means low. The Weasel is swift and agile, with highly sensitive vision, hearing, and smell. Add to that its natural ability to seduce enemies through dancing and its absolute mastery of disguise, and the Weasel, capable of eating 3500 mice and countless rabbits a year, it is truly a born killer!
Bloodline Bonus (Basic): Speed bonus 30%, Agility bonus 30%, Vision, Hearing, and Smell bonus 20% collectively.
Go, beautiful weasel! We may be good-looking, but we're just as powerful!! Don't let those who see us as small and cute think we're easy to pet and raise. We'll wipe out all the enemies in the blink of an eye!
4. Ineffective/Negative Characteristics:
Dancing too much can sometimes affect your walking posture. But don't worry! No matter how you walk, the enchanting diva will still be alluring and beautiful!
Because of frequent changes of clothes, occasional shedding is normal, right?
Don't worry, the weasel will always be beautiful and will never go bald. Just maybe it should eat more black sesame seeds or walnuts?
When the magical transformation light flashed, a group of giant rabbits that had been watching intently discovered that the weak human sitting on his companion's back was gone, leaving only a few pieces of clothing behind.
However, the familiar scent hadn't disappeared, which meant the human hadn't left! They were determined to keep their eyes glued to that human and then bite him to death!
Soon, a tiny, pointed head popped out from the pile of clothes.
The giant rabbits were taken aback.
Then, the little head, dragging its slender body and covered in snow-white fur, jumped out of the clothes.
Finally, under the watchful eyes of the giant bunnies in their bathtub, they saw this little guy start twisting his waist, shaking his head, rolling and jumping in front of them! He actually started dancing?
Giant bunnies: ...!!!
Why is she inexplicably a little bit cute?!
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