The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 218 Can this thing really kill? ? (Seeking monthly votes at the beginning of the month)
Death announcements are not uncommon.

There are 10 people crammed into one server, and every death record will be reported, which results in people dying suddenly almost every minute and every second.

But if dozens of them appear in an instant like this, it would be really spectacular!

All 10 people looked at it with awe.

Even Xu Meng, the white tiger who had grown from the size of a forearm to more than one meter long and had been busy hunting and eating, raised his head in surprise.

"How many died?"

"22!" Xiao Meng answered him excitedly, "Super cool! I swallowed them all in one gulp!"

"..."

Xu Meng was speechless.

22 people... How close together do they have to stand to be swallowed by the emperor sandworm?

Are you here to hunt or to deliver food to the sandworms?

But then he thought, "If all players are this bad, that would be good news."

It is also easier to hunt!
From the start to now, he has only hunted down 5 players.

Originally, he thought that these players had just entered the game and didn't even have a decent piece of equipment, so he was kind enough to let them go.

As a result, when these people saw him, they rushed up with sticks and stones!

Xu Meng had no choice but to send them away.

——Not to mention the White Tiger’s agility, its [claws] and [teeth] are both “natural weapons” and the damage they cause is not low at all.

"I don't know if anyone will challenge me. If I go there now, I will basically die."

"Xiao Meng is watching!"

Xiao Meng was very excited, with pink codes flowing rapidly in her pupils, and she was obviously eating melons in real time.

Xu Meng shook his head and continued his hunting journey.

Not far away, I met another player.

This player seemed to be in good shape, carrying a bow, holding a spear, and wearing a set of leather armor.

He turned around and left.

Hunting wild beasts can help you develop, but hunting players does not bring any benefits and wastes precious development time.

Huanyue, who was wearing leather armor, did not pursue him.

He was still shocked by the announcement.

His initial goal was to hunt the giant beast, and he made a lot of preparations.

But in his expectation, the so-called "behemoth" was the beast that appeared in "Lord of War" but its size was magnified several times.

Appearance, weaknesses, and behavior patterns shouldn’t change much—otherwise it would be too much work.

His plans and proposals are all based on this idea.

but……

"Are you guys so honest?! And you made a new monster??"

"What is an emperor sandworm?"

"How did he kill 22 people in a split second?"

Looking at the coordinates in the announcement, Huanyue struggled and hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to go over and take a look.

……

At the edge of the coordinate point, Qihuahua looked at the big dark pit and felt a little weak in the knees.

The sight of the giant leaping over her head was truly stunning.

This thing is probably more than 40 meters wide and more than 500 meters long!

"Can this kind of thing...really be killed?"

Qihuahua is deeply suspicious!
The infrastructure team of a hundred people lost nearly half of its members before they could accomplish anything decent. It was really a bad start.

But the remaining people were still standing at the edge of the big hole, eager to try, as if they were going to go down and explore.

Qihuahua hurried over to dissuade him.

But in the end, five people still ran away.

——It was a loose team to begin with, and she couldn’t stop them. She could only watch the five people carrying torches disappear into the darkness.

The rest of the people took their tools and materials and set off again, looking for a third place to build a base camp.

Qihuahua looked at her group moving their belongings with large and small bags, and felt that they did not look like a group of players, but rather like a group of wandering gypsies...

……

Two hours later, Qihuahua and his friends finally found a suitable place to set up camp and built a simple wall and house.

More than 3 people have died in the competition map.

Most of the deaths in the early stages were caused by unfamiliarity with the game mechanics and extreme environmental factors.

But after one hour, the number of people dying from this cause began to decrease.

"Players" have become the main force causing deaths.

Among these more than 3 people, more than % were killed by other players.

——Fighting for supplies, weapons, collections, or even nothing at all, if they meet, most people will just kill first!

After all, everyone is a competitor and everyone has supplies.

And the first-mover advantage is very important!

This caused the players on the competition server to become extremely murderous.

But even so, the number of people in the competition server did not decrease at all.

——Whenever someone is eliminated, someone will immediately fill in.

The server disputes never stop!
After Qihuahua and the others built their house and took turns logging off to eat, the intensity of battles in every corner of the map was still rising rapidly!
At first, it was still wooden weapons. Less than 10 minutes later, it quickly transitioned to stone weapons and simple assembled weapons found on the map.

40 minutes after the server was opened, Huanyue went deep underground along the big hole left by the emperor sandworm.

When he raised the torch in the dark, what he saw was not the lair of sandworms, but an intricate network of underground caves that extended in all directions!

Within this network of caves he discovered veins of mineral matter that glimmered in the firelight.

The blueprint was thus unlocked, and technology advanced to the Iron Age.

50 minutes after the server was launched, news of the iron mine was exposed. Everyone became aware of the concept of "mining" and the open-pit mines on the map were quickly utilized.

One hour and 1 minutes after the server was opened, a fierce and long battle broke out between players around the open-pit mine.

What starts out as a battle between individual players can quickly turn into a battle between small teams.

Finally, as the Xia players began to form alliances as usual, the scale of the battle expanded rapidly!
And combat is a powerful motivation for climbing the technology tree.

The technology of the Iron Age began to upgrade again——

Some players put wood, metal and animal tendons together to unlock new blueprints.

Long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows appear.

At this point, players have finally escaped from the primitive warfare mode.

It took the players a whole day to get to this point.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, at the critical node where the sulfur mine was discovered, the server entered a truce period.

The first "safe exit" window arrives.

But the players were only concerned with fighting, climbing the technological ladder, and continuing to fight with new weapons, and they didn't find any valuable collectibles at all.

During the one-hour break, many people went offline, quickly stuffed some food into their stomachs, and then hurried back online.

——Players can log in and out at any time, but only when they log out during the truce window will their characters disappear.

If you log off during a non-break period, your character will remain in the game.

If someone finds out, it's almost certain that we're doomed.

Even with the protection of teammates, there is no guarantee that you will be safe.

By this time, all players realized that the [Global Survival Competition] was not a short-term event, but an endurance marathon!
If you want to survive to the end, a secret hiding place known only to you is essential.

It is also best to stock up on adequate food supplies.

——Of course, you can also upgrade your weapons and armor as much as you can, and then steal other people’s.

As for hunting giant beasts...

That's not a job that one or two people can do!

During the day, after the Emperor Sandworm, another giant beast appeared and slaughtered more than 60 people with ease.

No one even saw what this guy looked like. They only learned through the system announcement that his name was [Nightmare Rain Squid].

It wasn’t until the evening that an unlucky person posted a first-person view of his encounter with the Nightmare Rain Squid.

He was collecting supplies in the incessant rain when he suddenly encountered an outrageous enemy.

"At that time, I was wearing a full set of iron armor with a total defense of [28] points, and the weapon in my hand was an upgraded steel sword with an attack power of [18] points. I felt that I was invincible!"

"It wasn't until the crude wooden-handled spear in the opponent's hand began to glow and emit lightning, and the drawn sword began to emit fire, that 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 fucking immortal cultivation game!"

“I felt like I was screwed.”

"But I guessed the result right, but I guessed the reason wrong."

In the picture, when the opposite side rushed over with lightning in one hand and fire in the other, huge whip-like tentacles suddenly stretched out from the dark sky and whistled towards them!

He tried to struggle, but the knife cut into the tentacle and nothing happened.

The body was still tied up and dragged towards the sky.

Instead, the guy on the opposite side fired a shot and there was a flash of lightning. The spear shattered and the tentacles loosened for a moment, allowing him to avoid the first round of attack.

He couldn't see what happened afterwards because the picture quickly moved up from the ground to the sky.

A giant squid swimming and hunting in the rain appeared in front of everyone.

The squid's body floated in the rain and fog, its tentacles flicked toward the ground, and it grabbed players who couldn't dodge in time and ate them in its mouth like an anteater licking ants.

The video stopped abruptly the next second.

The publisher is dead.

This video immediately caused a huge response in the player circle:
"Can this thing really be killed?"

"Kill the chicken feather! It can fly! How do you kill it?"

"@Xu Meng, come and kill one for me."

"Could it be that... these behemoths are actually a means of restricting the players' activity areas, just to drive the players together and prevent them from hiding and causing the game to be disrupted?"

"You mean... Xu Meng set an impossible challenge?"

"That may not be the case! You can use magic! Didn't you see that guy? Thunder on the left and fire on the right! So cool! I want to try it too!"

……

That night, there were three most popular videos in the player circle.

This [Nightmare Rain Squid] ranks third.

The video of Qihuahua witnessing the [Emperor Sandworm] leaping out of the sand sea ranks second.

As for the first one, it is quite outrageous. The title of the video is:

[I was killed by Xu Meng, and I want to withdraw 50 yuan of compensation. A good brother, please help me cut it! ]
　Please give me 6k as a guaranteed monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)