Chapter 153 What to do if the portal shrinks back?
Even in the gloom, a few rays of dawn will always shine through, and the busy crowd finally turned their attention to the outside world.
The main problem is that there have been a lot of people coming to us lately. After doing some research, we found that in just the last two or three days, the number of broken channels around us has reached three digits, and the number of people joining us is countless. It kept rising until it reached 20,000 before it stopped. Shen Dixin guessed that the system didn't want humans to gather.
This was the first time they had learned about the situation outside. When those listless players heard that Chen Dixin was in this channel, they felt that they could still struggle on. Who would want to die if they could live?
This vigorous vitality and will to survive left Hunter Blade in awe. If a pale-faced person could have this kind of energy, Moonflower could probably go out with it!
Don't be fooled by the fact that some pale-faced people are as vibrant as moon white or azure blue. That's because those with less intense pale faces have already ascended to heaven. They have no resistance to death, let alone any obsession with it. If they can't live, they simply don't live.
Otherwise, such a large race, which used to outnumber humans, wouldn't have been reduced to a few hundred channels.
Hunter Blade was afraid that she would also succumb to despair, so he used all the praise he had he could find to encourage her these days.
Because they expend too much mental energy during the day and are unwilling to waste time sleeping at night, their dream courses have long been discontinued. Chen Dixin only goes to see Lie Ren for an hour every few days.
Therefore, when she discovered that outside players trusted and respected her exceptionally, Shen Dixin was somewhat bewildered.
This means... she didn't ask her to help, and she conquered herself?
The so-called spiritual leaders, Chen Qingxin, are all in it for personal gain, dreaming that they can use this to soar to great heights. But after all this time, nothing has changed.
She thought it was because she hadn't crafted her persona well enough, and that people weren't paying much attention to her. After all, people come from the information age and aren't easily fooled anymore.
Despite being puzzled by the result, Shen Dixin could not stop because of it. After confirming that the god-making plan had failed, he immediately put his efforts in other directions.
Paired with an outsider, the situation was both hilarious and absurd. The good news was that she did receive a lot of support, but the bad news was that it was all in vain!
For a moment, Shen Dixin wanted to go back to her room and sleep, and first find Lie Ren to ask her clearly: wasn't her influence enough to be a leader? Could it be that they were just making empty promises to fool her into working hard?
The thought flashed through her mind for a moment, but she remained focused on what was in front of her, and Coffee began to talk incessantly.
“Those new players are all thinking of coming to our base. They’re all elites! Their average quality is no worse than the ones we find from all over the place. People have started dying these past few days. I think we can recruit 800 people first. Training will take at least a few hours, and it’s not easy to find the time. The sooner we start preparing, the better.”
"We can feed about three hundred more people."
Shen Dixin, familiar with his own reserves, raised a problem. Actually, having more wouldn't be a problem, but eight hundred was just too outrageous. The players with the three-dimensional points had an alarmingly large appetite!
"It's alright~ They brought their own funding to the production, they're quite well-off!"
"Tell me in detail?"
Shen Dixin thought of an exaggerated possibility. Coffee was also confused. If she hadn't personally verified several of them, she wouldn't have believed that this group of people were so rich, as if they had robbed the entire channel.
"Well, they said that before they were eliminated, many people gave them their remaining supplies."
"I've received about a dozen or twenty, that's all."
"Anyway, the supplies are real!" Coffee said cheerfully.
"Maybe the boss's strategy of reforming the world has worked!"
After carefully understanding the situation, it was found that some people delivered supplies to the area with as few as a dozen or twenty people, while others received one or two hundred.
The supplies they received might have been collected by more than a dozen people working together; it would be strange if there weren't many.
There was another person who was incredibly wealthy, bringing over 500,000 units of basic supplies, enough to build a section of the city wall!
It is said that this person was very popular on the original channel. She was not only adored by everyone, but also a loyal follower of Chen Qingxin, who diligently promoted her ideas every day.
After careful consideration, she realized that even if a channel with tens of thousands of people were to break down, only about ten people could escape. If even one-tenth of the remaining ten thousand were persuaded to leave their supplies to others, that would amount to a thousand people.
Even if some die before they can deliver supplies, some spend all their supplies to save their own lives, or some want to take revenge on society... in short, all of these factors may block a lot of supplies.
Moreover, the disaster has been going on for a week now. Apart from players like Shen Dixin who are rich and have stockpiled a lot of goods and are able to be self-sufficient, other players are probably running out of supplies.
But they cannot intercept all the gifts; there will always be some left over, and plenty of it.
In this light, it seems she underestimated the power of the players.
She thought that even if some people were persuaded by her with good intentions, the benefits that could be passed on to them would be insignificant. However, she did not expect that with the increase in the number of people, the amount of goods in circulation would be so large!
If one person only sends out a few meals or a few hundred units of supplies, then five people, ten people... will eventually accumulate to a considerable amount.
Shen Dixin suddenly felt a sense of clarity; with this development, she would have nothing to worry about!
Upon further inquiry, it was discovered that, aside from the one who brought a massive amount of supplies to their final resting place, all the players who survived to the end carried at least tens of thousands of supplies. Were these thugs? This is like a windfall!
Shen Dixin said seriously, "We really need to bring in some fresh blood! Eight hundred people on the island isn't too many, let's add another two hundred to make it a round number." Any more and we might not be able to handle it.
Coffee couldn't help but chuckle, and hurried off to discuss the list with her assistant. They couldn't be too meticulous in screening those who boarded halfway, but selection was still necessary.
Unfortunately, the banquet hall can't accommodate so many players on the island in such a short time. They'll arrive in the remaining days, if they can survive outside until then...
Before the third day had even passed, Shen Dixin received news that many of the remaining players had died. They had tried to recruit more players, but the rate of replenishment seemed to be slower than the rate of death.
Shen Dixin sighed. After all, two weeks had passed. Humanity had secured two stars in this test, but that wasn't enough!
Lu Mingang was fighting enemies not far from her. Whenever he had a moment to catch his breath, he would unconsciously look for her. He finally managed to hold out for a gap of more than ten minutes.
He greeted her with a smile, "Dixin! It's been so long since I've seen you. There weren't enough people up front, so I applied to come over."
"Yes, there are too few people on the island, not even a thousand." Who can stand the thought of one or two hundred people dying every day?
He was one of the few people who could say discouraging things, so Shen Dixin could relax and frown without worry.
"Wait a little longer, wait for some time."
"You mean, a teleportation portal?" Lu Mingang asked. He vaguely knew about such a thing, but the fact that he had unleashed such a powerful weapon meant that he had run out of cards to play.
“Yes,” Shen Dixin muttered. “We have enough food to last a long time, but we’re almost out of any slightly lethal items, and we don’t have enough medicine either. The only thing we have in abundance is the bloodworms, but they can’t really restore health. They reproduce so much! Soraya only said that the breeding cycle is long, but she didn’t say that there would be tens of thousands of offspring per litter…”
"Never mind, let's talk about something else."
She touched the tip of her nose, stopping herself from muttering to herself, otherwise she really felt she couldn't live any longer, and she still had to hold on for a full seven days!
Anyway, she can live, or if she can't, she can at least linger on for a few decades, maybe even longer than her original lifespan. Relax.
Lu Mingang stared straight behind her, then helplessly spread his hands, "I guess there's no time to say anything else."
He remained calm despite not being able to see the specific attributes, but Shen Dixin had gold-rimmed glasses!
[Level 35 Hybrid Sea Monster: Constitution 63, Strength 46, Agility 85, Health (830/830), Stamina (232/650), Special Status: Excitement.]
[Level 36 Hybrid Sea Monster...]
Everyone swallowed hard, surprisingly not rushing forward immediately, because sea monsters were constantly emerging from the sea in front of them.
Instead of launching an attack, they remained in the water, bizarrely disassembling and reassembling themselves, as if the Godzilla monster was about to emerge.
Players controlling heavy firepower from a distance can fire at targets so large that aiming is almost unnecessary.
"Bang! Bang bang—"
The shell blasted open a layer of flesh and blood, but it was quickly wrapped up and stuck back together. In just a short while, not only was there no external wound, but there wasn't even a trace left.
With her gold-rimmed glasses, Shen Dixin could see more clearly that the cannonball had indeed damaged it, but the monster recovered its health in the next second, with the progress bar clearly displayed above its head.
[The fusion process is 0.02% complete.]
Her eyelids twitched uncontrollably. No, what were they waiting for? If they didn't call for reinforcements soon, they would all die here!
Without hesitation, she found a high, open space, took out a portal—a small origami-like object—which quickly unfolded to its normal size after being activated.
At the same time, she sent a message to Anmian Yixia and the group of players who were ready, asking her to come quickly.
Shen Dixin studied the knowledge left by Yuehua and made further progress in her exploration of the spirit, specifically in that she discovered the hidden one-time use of her talent.
It means sacrificing all power to double the effect of the talent. The effect is worse when applied to objects of higher levels. After use, the talent will shatter. The portal is the result of the sacrifice by the A-level messenger on his way home.
Once in position, Anmian Yixia did not hesitate and sacrificed her A-level talent, the Blade-Borrower. She showed a pained expression and felt something being peeled away from her body.
The somewhat illusory portal that had just been summoned immediately solidified, and the ability to borrow power from the swordsman was a perfect fit for this situation.
Even those talents who barely matched the skill set attracted quite a few: A-level architects, B-level growth talents, B-level hardening talents, C-level nurturing talents...
...
The S-rank koi fish was sacrificed, and the portal was enveloped in a layer of seven-colored light.
The sacrificial S-rank critical strike caused the portal to expand again, becoming several stories high and nearly ten meters wide, easily accommodating twenty or thirty people entering and exiting simultaneously.
Chen Dixin forced a smile, "My method is still the most effective!"
The crowd caught the player, whose mind was damaged after the sacrifice. Luck was held in my hand, and my eyes were fixed on the teleportation portal. "Sis, are you sure you don't want me to sacrifice myself? Gambler is an A-level talent, after all, it's valuable!"
"Absolutely not! What if they let you roll dice to determine the increase? And if you roll a 1, they'll just pull it back?"
Shen Di looked at her guiltily. Almost all the talents on the island that were not helpful in combat and were purely positive had been fed to the teleportation portal. He just hoped that more people could be gathered here.
The stronghold's easily defensible terrain was their last resort. Once both city walls were breached, the accumulated stones could be piled up from the mountains on both sides, compressing the battle lines and preventing them from being surrounded by enemies on all sides, as they had on the ship.
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