Starting from Robinson Crusoe

After all, no one is willing to work for others without getting the credit, and Chen Zhou was no exception.

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Trees on the grasslands are seldom slender and growing upwards.

The forests on the prairie are mostly sparse, without large trees to block the sunlight. Small trees mainly focus on storing water or securing their roots firmly. Chen Zhou took a detour but didn’t find any suitable trees for making a gun stock. However, he unexpectedly encountered an old, frail spinous antelope.

This creature had loose fur all over its body, with a pair of nearly straight horns on its head. There were two spirals on the sides of the horns, one of which had already broken in the middle, and the other was not intact either, covered with dents and scratches.

When Chen Zhou discovered it, it was leaning its head against the trunk eating grass.

Seeing the strange creature Chen Zhou, the old spinous antelope tried hard to lift its head, glanced over as if intending to run, chewed the grass in its mouth, and then abandoned the idea, standing honestly in place to be captured by Chen Zhou.

There wasn’t much meat on the old spinous antelope, but it was large-sized, weighing about 50 pounds or more. More importantly, being captured alive, it could be bled for eating, making it taste better than beasts bled after being killed.

Not wanting to soil his clothes with sheep’s blood, Chen Zhou twisted a grass rope to tie up the sheep’s hooves, then slung the old antelope on his back, intending to bring it back to the temporary camp to slaughter later.

Grabbing the horns, having just collected a few blades of tough, rope-suitable dead grass, when he looked up, Chen Zhou suddenly noticed an extra sun in the sky.

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From last night to this morning, the wind on the prairie hadn’t stopped.

Even if there were a few small clouds in the sky, they’d soon be blown away by the wind. Due to the chill of late autumn, the sky remained a faint blue.

The cold white sun hung in the sky, not very large, so its rays didn’t seem so warm or intense.

When it had just peeked over the horizon, remnants of the moon and Venus accompanied it, and once it fully ascended to its zenith, showering light, no other celestial bodies were visible.

Yet in this clear blue sky, at the moment, there was an object shining with light no less than the sun, hanging far above in the highest sky.

Initially, Chen Zhou thought it was some kind of weather phenomenon, like the double or even triple sun scenarios once reported in the news.

After standing in place and watching for a while, he gradually realized that the "new sun" was descending at a slow pace, which immediately made him think of the "air-dropped supplies" mentioned in the challenge rules.

"So, this sun-like glow, could it be the ’laser beacon’ mentioned in the rules?

No wonder a civilization capable of manipulating time and space at will has created such an exaggerated laser..."

Chen Zhou had thought the so-called beacon would be something similar to a flare or signal flare, visible within at most a few hundred miles.

But from the looks of it, this glow isn’t just visible for a few hundred miles; in fact, it might be seen by every challenger in the entire challenge field, which covers a total area of 600,000 square kilometers.

Moreover, the light’s descent is very slow, taking at least ten days or more to reach the ground, giving all the challengers wanting to compete for the supply ample time, and might even prompt some who originally didn’t intend to enter the fray to try their luck.

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"I must rush back to inform Paul, the first contention for the air-drop supply might be fiercer than we imagine."

Throwing away the grass rope, Chen Zhou directly slung the old antelope onto his back, grabbed his long spear, and started running towards the temporary camp—

The beacon’s location wasn’t far from them. If they set off immediately, they could very likely be among the first to arrive.

At this moment, all challengers who saw the beacon were like runners at the starting line; the starting gun had already fired, and no matter what, they had to sprint as fast as possible.

At this stage, setting off even ten minutes earlier could snowball into a huge advantage.