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Song Fa took Yan Yu to find a safe place to rest, and they finally had time to check the bracelet.
Participant number: 000666
Awakening Talent: Equipment Master (Level Unknown)
Current points: 165990
Rewards received: 15900000 Star Coins
Rank: 1
Total number of participants: 100,000
Current number of survivors: 4200
Participant number: 000520
Awakening Talent: Precision Triple Hit (Level Unknown)
Current points: 165700
Rewards received: 6,700,000 Star Coins
Rank: 2
Total number of participants: 100,000
Current number of survivors: 4200
The two players' points rankings were very different, with third place at just 48,000 points. Song Fa's four younger brothers, ranked fourth through seventh, each with around 46,000 points, effectively securing victory.
Perhaps it was because their rankings were too concentrated, but some of the red dots that were originally approaching began to retreat, exiting the death zone, and some even disappeared directly from the map, either killed by high-level exotic beasts and plants or by other contestants.
The number of survivors continues to decline.
On the fifth day of entering the escape game, Yan Yu was finally able to sleep soundly under the protection provided by Song Fa. He slept for the entire day, and his body gradually recovered during his sleep.
On the morning of the sixth day, probably around morning, when Yan Yu woke up, he got up and moved around. The anesthetic components had been basically metabolized, and his body felt extremely light, and his condition was better than ever before.
Song Fa handed over a blueberry-flavored nutrient solution: "Are you awake? Eat something to replenish your energy." Most of the supplies dropped by the escape game organizers are compressed biscuits or nutrient solutions that are easy to store and carry, with slightly different flavors.
But now is not the time to be picky.
Yan Yu took the nutrient solution and drank it all in a few gulps. The bottle was only the size of two fingers, and it could provide the nutrients and hydration needed for 8-10 hours of non-stop activity. It was much more palatable than the dry and hard compressed biscuits.
After eating and drinking, Yan Yu took a look at the ranking of the six of them, and found that there was basically no change.
Although the organizers announced the locations of all contestants in advance, which may have provided convenience for those contestants who hunted their own kind to gain high points, the hunted could also see others approaching, and either be alert or directly escape. As a result, the number of survivors stabilized and entered a relatively balanced stage.
This phenomenon is obviously not what the audience and the organizers want to see. Yan Yu and Song Fa certainly know that there will be a so-called "shrinking circle" tomorrow, forcing all contestants to the center area of the death zone and forcing everyone to start a melee for the final ten places.
So what they have to do now is to conserve their energy and wait for the final decisive battle.
Yan Yu looked at the dark circles under Song Fa's eyes and said, "You should have a good sleep too. I'll help you keep watch at night."
Song Fa's situation was the same as hers. He must have not had a full night's sleep since entering the escape game. The four younger brothers next to him were not very trustworthy, and the survival game panel was indeed lost, which invisibly added a lot of anxiety to their hearts.
This anxiety intensified as time went by.
They still had no idea or method on how to clear this S-level copy, so they could only take it one step at a time, which was really passive.
Song Fa nodded. With Yan Yu around, he could indeed have a good sleep. So he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep the next second.
Seeing this, Yan Yu smiled and put the blanket that was originally draped over herself on him. He chatted briefly with the four people opposite him. After understanding their personal information, he closed his eyes slightly and released some of his mental power as a warning, and then quickly devoted himself to mental training.
Although a small part of her previously depleted mental strength was restored during her sleep, it was still far from fully recovered and she was unable to cope with the upcoming melee.
Moreover, Yan Yu always had a strange premonition that this battle royale was not worthy of the so-called S-level dungeon rating for her and Song Fa. It was even simpler than the previous A-level zombie dungeon. There must be a bigger pit waiting for them!
Thinking of this, she directly took out an S-level spiritual crystal core, removed the black mist, and began to absorb it, repairing the lost spiritual power bit by bit.
Previously, she had reached a bottleneck when absorbing the spiritual crystal core and could no longer increase the upper limit of her spiritual power, but now she could use it to repair the loss, and the speed was much faster than relying solely on her own cultivation.
After absorbing all the remaining four S-level spirit crystal cores, Yan Yu's spirit value returned to 10,000 points. She practiced for a while and slowly condensed her mental power.
The four younger brothers arranged people to be on duty respectively, and everyone was taking the time to recover their strength and prepare for the final screening.
Song Fa only slept for about 12 hours. After opening his eyes, the first thing he did was to look for Yan Yu. Seeing that she was still sitting not far from him, he couldn't help but relax his brows.
"Awake?" Yan Yu slowly exhaled and ended his practice.
Song Fa said "hmm" and said, "Nothing happened during my rest time, right?"
"No, it's fine." Yan Yu smiled. "Maybe they know that we are tough guys and not easy to deal with, so the other contestants stay away from us and don't dare to get close to us easily."
In the following time, the two of them had a detailed discussion with each other, summarizing all the information they knew about the escape game, dungeon and sky city to fill in the gaps.
Everyone had rested enough and their injuries had mostly recovered. Yan Yu stood up and said, "It's time to close the circle. Let's go hunt some high-level exotic plants and beasts and collect more materials."
Yan Yu took over the leadership from Song Fa, and the four younger brothers naturally had to obey her orders.
In fact, at this point, they were somewhat reluctant to move, fearing they would be killed by those strange plants and beasts and fall before the victory. But their leader, Song Fa, clearly followed Yan Yu's lead, and they had no choice but to obey.
Unless they leave the team.
In the current situation, if they break away from the first and second place and try to fight alone, they would be really stupid.
Yan Yu watched the four younger brothers' constantly changing expressions and smiled to herself. How could it be possible to gain their protection without any effort? Being a younger brother meant having the self-awareness to be a younger brother.
Five minutes later, a group of six people left the densely packed buildings and began searching for S-level exotic plants and beasts.
Congratulations to contestant No. 000666 for killing the A-rank alien beast Shui Teng Jiao. Points +100.
Congratulations to contestant No. 000666 for killing the S-rank beast, the Psychedelic Winged Butterfly. Points +100.
Congratulations to contestant No. 000520 for killing the S-rank alien plant Poison Barrier Tree. Points +100.
Congratulations to contestant No. 000520 for killing the A-rank Hell Dragon. Points +100.
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While other players were struggling to kill each other, Yan Yu and Song Fa led four younger brothers and almost killed their way through half of the Death Zone. The younger brothers were responsible for luring the enemy, disturbing the enemy, and skinning the enemy, while the two of them only needed to go into battle and kill the enemy, with a clear division of labor.
In just six or seven hours, they jointly killed 25 A-level alien plants and beasts, and 10 S-level alien plants and beasts, obtaining 200 pieces of A-level materials, 85 pieces of S-level materials, 10 S-level inner cores, and 10 S-level spirit crystal cores.
It can be said to be a great harvest!
It is worth mentioning that on the last day, the range of the shrinking circle was also set in the center of the death restricted area. Yan Yu and the others did not have to rush to run circles. They went to kill monsters after they had enough rest, and occasionally dealt with two or three waves of players who were not careful enough to run in front of them to make their presence felt. It went extremely smoothly.
Yan Yu even went out of his way to ask for help from his viewers: "My dears, you can go to the other contestants' live broadcast rooms and help me find where there are S-level exotic plants and beasts in the Death Forbidden Zone. Today I'm going to grab the last wave of wool."
After hearing Yan Yu's words, many viewers wandered around the remaining 1,000 live broadcast rooms. They actually found quite a few clues and switched back to her live broadcast room to report them one by one, asking them to be as obedient as possible.
According to the clues provided by the audience, Yan Yu and her team killed 12 S-level alien plants and beasts, and obtained 100 S-level materials, 12 S-level inner cores, and 12 S-level spirit crystal cores.
When they headed to the location of the thirteenth S-level alien plant, the battle circle had shrunk to a very close position to them, and hundreds of contestants officially started the free-for-all mode.
As expected, Yan Yu and her friends were also attacked, and sometimes even became the target of public criticism.
Fortunately, Yan Yu and Song Fa had obtained a lot of weapons and protective gear, and their fighting power far exceeded that of ordinary people. They resolved sieges time and time again, and with their thunderous killing methods, they successfully created a vacuum zone around themselves, and others no longer dared to approach them easily.
It was also at this time that something strange happened!
Yan Yu, who was free, suddenly found that the black fog around him was getting thicker and thicker. Under the influence of the black fog, everyone's hostility became heavier. Many people were so angry that they killed people blindly. There were countless broken limbs on the ground, and the smelly blood almost formed a small river.
As time passed, the black fog quickly enveloped everyone, covering the sky and the sun.
Song Fa also felt restless, as if a voice in his head was constantly tempting him to go on a killing spree. Fortunately, he had amazing willpower, otherwise he would have really joined the battle without considering the consequences.
The performance of the four younger brothers was even worse, as if they had drunk some kind of magic potion, their eyes were blank, bloodshot all over their eyeballs, and their weapons were already raised high.
Yan Yu frowned: "Song Fa, quickly knock them out!"
Song Fa did as he was told, dodged, and knocked four people unconscious with his precise knife.
"Let me check for you." After saying that, Yan Yu's mental power probed into Song Fa's head. During this examination, he found that the black fog was constantly eroding his brain, and a small area had turned light gray.
Yan Yu quickly wove his small strands of mental power into a net, helping Song Fa to expel the black fog from his body bit by bit. The small pieces of light gray gradually returned to their original state, and he left them to him as a protective shield against the black fog.
Fortunately, Song Fa was not severely eroded, otherwise he might have also become a "monster".
In the center of the Death Zone, they discovered numerous mindless alien plants and beasts, like the walking dead, intent only on killing. Their appearance was eerie and strange. This was likely due to prolonged exposure to the black mist.
After checking the other four people, it was found that the degree of erosion in their brains was obviously higher than that of Song Fa, and it had turned from light gray to dark gray. Just when Yan Yu wanted to help them expel the black fog in their brains, the war next to them suddenly affected them.
Yan Yu had no choice but to draw out the laser sword and fight back. Song Fa leaped into the air and fought alongside her.
Realizing something was wrong, all the live broadcast rooms went into chaos.
"Officials, please come out and explain what exactly is going on with the black fog in the Death Zone?"
"Oh my god! The contestant I've always followed is known for his resourcefulness, but now he's gone mad, using close combat, his weakest skill, to fight those burly guys with bayonets!? This black mist must have affected his mind!"
"The authorities should come out and give an explanation immediately!"
The audience in the livestream were all looking for an explanation from the Battle Royale tournament organizers. At that moment, the tournament's general manager was sweating profusely and panicking: "What should I do? The black fog has erupted. Now the entire Endless Island is covered by it, and it's spreading outward!"
He paced back and forth anxiously, his brows knitted into a knot. "It's clear that we only need to sacrifice nearly 100,000 lives every year to stabilize the black fog and prevent it from spreading outward. What should we do now?"
Endless Island was once a bustling resort island. One year, its spatial walls suddenly shattered, merging it with the Death Land of another higher-dimensional world. Black fog invaded, killing countless people. The higher-ups suppressed the news and used Endless Island as the dividing line to separate the Underground City and the Sky City.
The dungeon has become a natural "defense barrier." Over the years, many areas have been quietly infiltrated by the Black Mist, resulting in the emergence of numerous mutants. However, Sky City's leadership stumbled upon the discovery that by dropping approximately 100,000 human lives into the space walls each year, these lives could slow the Black Mist's invasion. Thus, the Battle Royale game was born.
It worked fine in every previous session, why doesn’t it work this time?
Could it be that the "selection" has been advanced?!
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