Two minutes later.
Xia Ning opened her eyes.
A flicker of doubt crossed her eyes, but she quickly regained her composure, sat cross-legged on the floor, leaned against the edge of the bed, and silently surveyed her surroundings.
This is an unfamiliar room with light purple lavender wallpaper and two rows of bookshelves embedded in the walls. Under the bookshelves is an almond-colored desk with cosmetics scattered haphazardly on the table, as if the owner had just removed their makeup and hadn't had time to tidy up.
A young woman's room.
Slowly standing up, Xia Ning tiptoed toward the bookshelf. On the second shelf were three artistic photos. Although the people in the photos were young, their features looked very familiar to Xia Ning, so familiar that... she couldn't help but have an absurd thought.
This is... her room in a parallel universe.
—Ding-dong.
The phone screen on the bed lit up.
Even though the model number was similar, Xia Ning knew that it wasn't her phone.
Xia Ning easily unlocked the phone with her fingerprint. Inside the unfamiliar phone was only the Extreme Survival app.
Xia Ning was astonished; how could a half-finished game dare to come up with so many tricks?
When you open the app, you'll see a pixelated character based on her image.
Bubbles kept popping up above the head of the short-haired pixelated character:
"Welcome to the Disaster City Arena."
"This round is an elimination tournament. When your stamina reaches zero, you are considered dead and eliminated immediately."
"Completion conditions: Players must survive in the instance for 30 days or the number of players in the instance must be less than 10%."
"There are currently 1000 players on this map."
Upon opening the toolbar, Xia Ning was surprised to find that not only had the [Vehicle] interface disappeared, but even the [Channel] and [Mission] were gone.
In other words, players cannot exchange items or form alliances in this instance; they must explore on their own. If a player is willing, they can even blend in with the NPCs.
When Xia Ning first saw the second half of the conditions for clearing the game, her heart skipped a beat, and she suspected that the game was about to switch to a battle royale mode.
Now it seems different. It's hard to distinguish between players and NPCs. A city has at least hundreds of thousands of people, and big cities have millions. Even if there are antisocial players who want to hunt other players, it would be difficult to accurately find 900 people in the vast sea of people.
For Xia Ning, losing the [channel] meant she was now completely fighting alone, unable to even chat and joke with her older sister anymore, but considering the overall situation, it wasn't too bad.
A month is nothing for a stay-at-home girl.
She has now briefly returned to the civilized world and has internet access, even though she knows that the current peace and tranquility will not last long.
Disaster-stricken cities—that doesn't sound peaceful at all.
Despite how much Xia Ning longed to lie in bed all day, reading novels, watching TV, and eating snacks, recklessly clinging to the last vestiges of her youth, only to waste it and regret it later.
Wasting time on eating, drinking, and having fun, and then wasting more time on regret—that's the life an ordinary person should lead!
Unfortunately, there's no such opportunity now.
Xia Ning opened the window and looked out. The sky was filled with drifting clouds, and pedestrians hurried by on the street. It looked just like every ordinary day she had lived before entering the game.
World peace, cold indifference, corporate slaves spend their days oscillating between lying flat and endlessly toiling away.
Xia Ning had read novels about hoarding during natural disasters, where disasters strike without reason, catching people off guard.
She had to prepare as quickly as possible.
First, I activated the skill cards and power cards that I had bought at the cost of my entire fortune.
Xia Ning consumes [Skill Learning Card x1] to learn [Humanoid Walkie-Talkie].
Humanoid walkie-talkie: One-way communication, capable of transmitting audio over long distances three times a day.
Xia Ning: emmmm...
It seems practical at first glance, but I can't think of a use case for it right away.
She tried to call Ji Li, but the skill failed to be used, indicating that the two were not in the same arena.
In short, having more skills is never a bad thing, so let's keep them for now.
Additionally, the [Power Recharge Card] unsurprisingly yielded 4 points of defense, which performed consistently well.
Xia Ning checked her updated status.
Name: Xia Ning
Gender: Female
[Nickname: Phantom Princess (0 edits remaining)]
【Number: 000】
[Occupation: Unemployed]
[Level: 2 (Experience Points: 200/500)]
[Stamina: 105/110 (affected by a combination of factors including cleanliness, satiety, and health status)]
Attack: 42 (+21)
Defense: 24 (+15)
[Equipment: Powerful crossbow, greatsword, pocket knife, guardian ring, protective robe, defensive dagger (maximum 6)]
[Skills: Portable Supermarket, Ancient Awakening, Humanoid Walkie-Talkie (Max 3)]
Survival Points: 0
Xia Ning's eyes widened. Wait, what did she see?!
【Number: 000】
Xia Ning counted on her fingers three times: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...
Eight figures! Tens of millions of players participated in the ranked matches!
Xia Ning couldn't see the first number, and it might be a large number. After all, there's a huge difference between ten million and ninety million.
Not everyone has a ticket to the ranked matches; the timed challenge in the first round of the dungeon has already set a hurdle.
Even so, millions of people still qualified for the preliminary selection.
If we broaden the scope further, those simply involved in survival games number in the hundreds of millions.
When Xia Ning was first drawn into the game, she thought she was just unlucky.
Other protagonists who transmigrate are all orphans, own a house and a car, have successful careers, and millions in savings, but she is not like that! Xia Ning is just a recent college graduate who stays at home, saying she is preparing for the civil service exam, but actually secretly writing novels at home. She has parents and an older sister, and her savings are less than four figures. Logically speaking, such a mysterious thing as transmigration should not have happened to her.
Although they had discussed it with Ji Li, the "6666" in the road survival map only represents the number of people in one area, and the actual number of players is probably greater than they imagined.
However, Xia Ning has truly experienced the terror of survival games over the past ten days.
This is a truly global catastrophe.
Will her parents really be spared?
Xia Ning shook her head vigorously, stopping herself from letting her thoughts wander further, and focused on her current predicament.
She discovered that under the "Status" tab, there was a character biography, which she guessed was the character card she obtained in "Disaster City".
The system assigned her the following identity: Xia Ning, female, 19 years old, failed the college entrance exam for the second time and is preparing to retake it for the third time. Her parents run a wholesale business and have gone to a neighboring province to buy goods these past few days, telling her to stay home and study hard.
Because their daughter's grades were really bad, her parents felt ashamed and rarely mentioned her to relatives or neighbors.
In short, unless Xia Ning shouts through a megaphone that she is a game player who has traveled from another world, no one will notice that Xia Ning has changed her identity.
It's impossible to learn.
Xia Ning touched her face: "I'm 18 again, a flower in full bloom."
Then she looked in the mirror and saw that there was no skin smoothing or beautification; she still looked like she was in her twenties, her body ravaged for more than ten days in the highway dungeon.
When she went out and showed off her looks, everyone commented that the girl looked a little older than her age.
Exams are making people age faster than ever.
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