Death announcements are not rare.
With 100,000 people crammed into a single server, every death is broadcast, leading to near-constant sudden deaths.
But to have dozens pop up in an instant like that? That's quite a spectacle!
All 100,000 players couldn't help but take notice.
Even Baihu Xu Meng, who was busy hunting and feeding, and had grown from the size of a forearm to over a meter long, raised his head in surprise.
"How many died?"
"22!" Xiao Meng replied excitedly, "So cool! One gulp and they're all swallowed!"
"…"
Xu Meng was speechless.
22 people… How densely packed would they have to be to get swallowed by the Emperor Sandworm in one bite?
Did you guys come to hunt, or to deliver takeout to the sandworm?
But then he thought, "If the players are all this weak, that's good news."
Hunting will be even easier!
From the start until now, he had only hunted 5 players.
He originally thought that these players had just entered the game and didn't even have decent equipment, so he was going to show some mercy and let them go.
But as soon as these guys saw him, they actually charged at him with wooden sticks and stones!
Helplessly, Xu Meng could only send them on their way.
—Not to mention the white tiger's agility, its [claws] and [teeth] are "natural weapons" with no shortage of damage.
"I wonder if anyone will try to challenge it. Going now is basically suicide."
"Xiao Meng is watching!"
Xiao Meng was in high spirits, the pink code in her pupils flowing rapidly, clearly watching the drama in real-time.
Xu Meng shook his head and continued his hunting journey.
He hadn't gone far before he encountered another player.
This player seemed to be developing well, carrying a bow and holding a spear, and even wearing a set of leather armor.
He turned to leave.
Hunting beasts can help you develop, but hunting players doesn't yield much, and it wastes valuable development time.
Huan Yue, wearing the leather armor, didn't give chase either.
He was still shocked by the announcement.
His initial goal was to hunt giant beasts, and he had made a lot of preparations.
But in his expectations, the so-called [Giant Beasts] were just beasts from 《War of Kings》 magnified several times in size.
The appearance, weaknesses, and behavior patterns shouldn't change much—otherwise, the workload would be too great.
His plans and strategies were all based on this idea.
But…
"Are you guys being serious?! You even made new monsters??"
"What the heck is an Emperor Sandworm?"
"How did it kill 22 people in an instant?"
Looking at the coordinates in the announcement, Huan Yue struggled and hesitated for a long time, but still decided to go take a look.
…
Beside the coordinates, Qi Huahua looked at the dark pit and felt a little weak in the knees.
That big guy leaped over her head; the visual effect was too shocking.
That thing was probably over forty meters wide and five hundred meters long!
"Can something like that really be killed?"
Qi Huahua was deeply skeptical!
The hundred-person construction team hadn't even accomplished anything decent, and they had already lost nearly half, which was really an inauspicious start.
What's worse, the remaining people were standing by the big hole, eager to try, looking like they wanted to go down and explore.
—It was a loose team to begin with, and she couldn't stop them, so she could only watch helplessly as those 5 people disappeared into the darkness with torches.
The remaining people then set off again with tools and materials, looking for a third place to build a base camp.
Qi Huahua watched her group carrying large and small packages and felt that they didn't look like a group of players, but rather like a group of wandering Gypsies…
…
By the time Qi Huahua and the others finally found a suitable place to settle down and build a simple wall and house, it was already two hours later.
In the competition map, more than 30,000 people had died one after another.
Most of the early deaths were due to unfamiliarity with the game mechanics and extreme environmental factors.
But after 1 hour, fewer and fewer people died for this reason.
"Players" became the main force causing deaths.
Of these 30,000 people, more than 80% were killed by other players.
—Competing for resources, competing for weapons, competing for collectibles, or even competing for nothing, most people would kill first if they encountered each other!
After all, everyone is a competitor, and everyone has resources on them.
And the first-mover advantage is very important!
This caused the players in the competition server to be extremely bloodthirsty.
But even so, it did not reduce the number of people in the competition server at all.
—No matter when someone is eliminated, someone will immediately fill the spot.
The server's strife never ceases!
When Qi Huahua and the others built their house and took turns going offline to eat, the intensity of the battles in various corners of the map was still rapidly escalating!
At first, it was wooden weapons.
In less than 10 minutes, it quickly transitioned to stone weapons and simple assembled weapons scavenged on the map.
40 minutes after the server opened, Huan Yue followed the large hole left by the Emperor Sandworm deep underground.
When he raised a torch in the darkness, what he saw was not the sandworm's lair, but a complex underground cave network!
In this cave network, he discovered veins of ore sparkling under the firelight.
The blueprint was thus unlocked, and technology rose to the Iron Age.
50 minutes after the server opened, the news of the iron ore was exposed, and everyone realized the importance of "mining", and the open-pit mines on the map were quickly utilized.
1 hour and 20 minutes after the server opened, fierce and lengthy battles broke out between players around the open-pit mines.
At first, it was just battles between individual players, but it soon evolved into battles between small teams.
Finally, as Xia country players habitually began to form alliances, the scale of the battles quickly expanded!
And battle is a powerful driving force for climbing the tech tree.
Iron Age technology began to upgrade again—
Some players put wood, metal, and animal tendons together and unlocked new blueprints.
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Bows, crossbows, and other ranged weapons appeared.
At this point, players finally broke away from the primitive warfare mode.
Reaching this point had taken the players an entire day.
At 6 PM, at the critical point when sulfur mines were discovered, the server entered a truce period.
The first "safe exit" window arrived.
But the players were too busy fighting and climbing the tech tree, continuing to fight with their new weapons, and didn't find any valuable collectibles.
During the 1-hour truce period, many people went offline, hastily stuffed something into their stomachs, and then hurriedly went back online.
—Players can go online and offline at any time, but only when going offline during a truce window will the character disappear with them.
If you go offline during a non-truce period, the character will remain in the game.
If someone finds you, you're almost 100% done for.
Even with teammates protecting you, you can't guarantee foolproof security.
At this point, all players realized that—[Global Survival Competition] is not a short-term activity, but an endurance marathon!
To survive to the end, a secret hiding place that only you know about is essential.
It's best to also stockpile enough food supplies.
—Of course, you can also desperately upgrade your weapons and armor and then rob others.
As for hunting giant beasts…
That's not something one or two people can do!
This day, after the Emperor Sandworm, another giant beast appeared and easily slaughtered more than 60 people.
No one even saw what this guy looked like; they only learned from the system announcement that this guy's name was [Nightmare Rain Squid].
It wasn't until the evening that a unlucky fellow released a first-person view of his encounter with the [Nightmare Rain Squid]—
At the time, I was collecting supplies in the continuous rain, wearing a full set of iron armor with a total defense of [28] points, and the weapon in my hand was also an upgraded steel sword with an attack power of [18] points. I felt invincible!
Until the crude wooden-handled spear in the opponent's hand began to glow and burst with lightning, and the sword he drew also began to emit fire, I realized a problem…
We're not playing the same game at all!
I'm playing a historical martial arts game.
The other side is playing a freaking immortal cultivation game!
I felt like I was going to be done for at the time.
But I guessed the result correctly, but I guessed the reason wrong.
On the screen, as the opponent rushed over with lightning in one hand and fire in the other, huge tentacles like whips suddenly stretched out from the cloudy sky and lashed at them!
He tried to struggle, but cutting into the tentacle with a knife had no effect.
He was still tied up and dragged into the sky.
On the contrary, the other guy's spear shot out lightning, and the tentacles loosened for a moment as the spear shattered, allowing him to avoid the first round of attacks.
He couldn't see what happened next because the screen quickly rose, dragging him from the ground to the sky.
A huge squid swimming and hunting in the rain appeared before everyone's eyes.
The squid's body floated in the rain and mist, its tentacles lashing at the ground, grabbing players who couldn't dodge like an anteater licking ants and sending them into its mouth to eat.
The video ended abruptly the next second.
The poster died.
This video immediately caused a huge reaction in the player circle:
"Can this thing really be killed?"
"Killed my ass! It can fly! How can you kill it?"
"@Xu Meng, you kill one and let me see."
"Could it be… these giant beasts are actually a means of limiting players' activity areas, just to drive the players together to prevent them from hiding and stopping the competition from proceeding?"
"You mean… Xu Meng set an impossible challenge?"
"Not necessarily! You can use magic! Didn't you see that guy? Lightning on the left, fire on the right! Cool! I want to play too!"
…
That night, there were three most popular videos in the player circle.
This [Nightmare Rain Squid] ranked third.
Qi Huahua's video of the [Emperor Sandworm] leaping out of the sand sea ranked second.
As for the first, it was more outrageous. The video title was:
[I was killed by Xu Meng, I want to withdraw 50 yuan in consolation money, can a good brother help me cut him once!]
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