Chapter 658: Don’t Think About the Future Yet - The Priority Now Is Surviving!
“With the Wicked Gods protecting us, the Evil King Building should be safe for the first two hours!”
The Evil King Building players filed out of their rooms and stood in the hallway, an unspoken consensus forming in their minds.
Safe for the first two hours. But what about the last two?
The seventh round had four phases, and the Dorm Survival Game had directly provided a counter-strategy!
“Let’s go. Hit the Amusement Park Building and grab their fireproof materials!” Qi Hengsan drew the long sword from his back and shot toward the Amusement Park Building like a bolt of lightning.
Most of the Amusement Park Building players were already dead, but their supplies were still inside the dorms.
A whale falls, everything thrives.
Right now, the Amusement Park Building was a massive treasure trove, ripe for the taking.
Plenty of players had keenly sensed this and charged toward the Amusement Park Building in unison.
These Evil King Building players who dared to come out all had ways to deal with the sun’s glare.
Actually, the simplest solution was to wear a pair of sunglasses.
This humble accessory had just skyrocketed in status, becoming a “looting license”!
“Idiots! Head for the Mad King Building!” the Evil Dragon bellowed. “That building is way too suspicious. Who’s coming with me to scout it out?”
“Haha, Evil Dragon, are you scared? In the old days, you’d have gone alone,” someone taunted.
“You moron! We have a damn good chance of surviving to the end this round. Once we do, all three dormitory buildings will be our granaries!” the Evil Dragon cursed. “The best way to maximize profit is to stop the other three buildings from surviving!”
Credit where it was due—the Evil Dragon actually had some foresight.
A few Evil King Building players fell silent, their faces thoughtful after hearing that.
But most Evil King Building players just kept doing their own thing. Several people from each dorm formed small teams and all headed straight for the Amusement Park Building.
The Amusement Park Building players were the soft targets. Heaven’s Judgment Building and Mad King Building weren’t on the looting list.
The X-Ray Bursts in the sky fired intermittently—at least a few minutes between each eruption. As long as they timed it right, they could slip into the unmanned Amusement Park Building dorms and thoroughly loot those corpse boxes.
Back in the sixth round, gravity had crushed plenty of facilities. Some people’s doors had been blown apart from the pressure.
And in the fifth round? Explosions never stopped from start to finish. That went without saying.
Across all four dormitory buildings, over 95% of the dorms were destroyed!
If you didn’t take advantage of this chaos to grab some loot, you’d be letting yourself down.
And more importantly, they could hunt for fireproof materials and raw supplies to deal with the coming solar storm!
If you died in this round, your own dorm’s supplies might also be destroyed by subsequent disasters.
Not entering the seventh round was one thing. But once you were in, everyone realized a very serious problem: this round was designed to wipe out supplies!
The moment that hit home, many Evil King Building players went a little crazy. Some, even without sun protection gear, wrapped their heads in whatever they could and charged out into the blazing sun!
…
The players from the other three buildings all noticed the Evil King Building players’ movements.
At first, the Amusement Park Building players were confused.
Why were Evil King Building players coming to their dorm building?
It wasn’t until ten thousand Evil King Building players started climbing the floors that someone’s face twisted in horror, realization dawning.
“Holy shit, those animals!”
“That’s our teammate’s dorm! Even if they’re dead, their supplies belong to us! Put it down!”
“Don’t go in there!”
“What the hell are you doing? Why are you trashing our Amusement Park Building!”
“It’s all rubble inside. Nothing good in there! Get the hell out!”
The Amusement Park Building players were frantic.
Robbers had broken into their home!
Actually, some Amusement Park Building players had thought about looting earlier. But the environmental impact was just too severe—most of them didn’t dare go out.
In the Chat Room, the Managers and Dorm Owners went back and forth in a heated discussion before finally agreeing: they had to go out and intercept the Evil King Building players!
If they didn’t go out and throw down now, it would be too damn humiliating!
Their Amusement Park Building players might be weak, but they weren’t cowards!
…
In Heaven’s Judgment Building, the surviving players had all relocated to three large dorms on the top floor. They had also already gathered most of the important supplies from the other dorms.
Back in the sixth round, they had been looting bit by bit.
Even if the Evil King Building players came over, they wouldn’t find much that was actually useful.
“What a show!” Solaris sat cross-legged in the room, a cold-blue void projection floating before him, displaying the scene outside.
“Inquisitor, should we search the dormitory building one more time?” the gaunt young man asked gravely. “The second phase of the solar storm will need fireproof materials. The other dorms should have some.”
“Mm, alright. Once this next radiation burst ends, Osiris, take the men out.” Solaris nodded with a smile.
A golden-haired burly man gave a curt nod and immediately began organizing the team for the sortie.
Solaris turned to the gaunt young man. “Chen Bo, continue working with the Illuminati to deduce the third-phase changes of the solar storm. Find a way to deal with the Coronal Mass Ejection.”
The Dorm Survival Game had provided counter-strategies for both the first and second phases. That meant the third phase’s changes should also have specific countermeasures.
The hints were obvious now.
For this final round, brute-forcing it with stats wouldn’t work. You had to find the “solution” to the puzzle.
To be honest, Solaris was deeply grateful that the Demon King Castle had pulled aggro back in the sixth round. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have gotten this chance for a comeback from the brink!
Deduction and strategy formulation? That was what they, the Heaven’s Judgment Building players, excelled at. They could find the answer. The other three buildings? Probably not!
Just then, the third X-Ray Burst on the sun’s surface had finished coalescing.
A beam of energy, several meters in diameter, blasted toward Heaven’s Judgment Building. The air and all suspended matter in its path were instantly vaporized, as if divine punishment had struck!
Solaris’s eyes flew wide.
The X-Ray Burst slammed into Heaven’s Judgment Building. The entire structure wobbled dangerously, and Solaris’s heart trembled along with it!
[Pure Order Door Durability -83000!]
Out of a total durability of 100,000, this one blast took out 83,000?!
Was that even human?!
Solaris scrambled to give orders, practically jumping out of his skin.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Get that door repaired!”
“Chen Bo, drop the predictions about the solar storm’s third phase for now! Go search the rubble for raw materials to fix the Order Door!”
“And find a backup door! Preferably a heavy metal door!”
“Speed is everything!”
Don’t even think about whether they’d survive to the end yet. Just get through the crisis in front of them first!
And the Demon King Castle players had really kept their mouths shut tight!
An X-Ray Burst hit that hard, and they got pounded without saying a single word!