Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 84 The Stormy Night

But as the storm gradually intensified, even those players who had initially spoken in a relaxed tone began to feel the pressure.

"How can a bamboo raft withstand a storm? I think this game is just trying to kill us!!"

"Could it be your own problem? Anyone knows that the sea can't be calm forever, right? Don't tell me you didn't see the upgrade button on that bamboo raft."

"What's the use of upgrading? There are only two days left. No matter how much you upgrade, can you upgrade a submarine for me? Some people shouldn't let this stupid game manipulate them."

"@Miss, are there any useful items? I'll spend my life points to buy them!"

"Yes, yes, I'll buy one too. Is there anything that can be used to secure it? I just upgraded the bamboo raft to 'sturdy,' and wow, it's now a single-person boat. It feels even less secure now."

"Aaaaaah! Those fish jump onto the boat when they're tossed up by the waves!! I got bitten on the hand! It hurts like hell!"

……

The entire chat room was filled with howls and screams, as if everyone was afraid of being thrown into the sea to feed the fish if they weren't careful.

In an instant, all the players who hadn't yet upgraded their bamboo rafts or didn't have the right tools were frantically buying up anything that could tie them to their rafts.

Jiang Ran sent Xiao Bai to put a batch of ropes, ordinary wooden boards and the like on the shelves, while she stared intently at the parchment book she had found among Zhe Zhou's belongings.

The texture is exactly the same as her previous one.

However, the cover of this notebook reads: "The Handbook of the Chosen One".

Perhaps because it had been used, Jiang Ran didn't see the word "incomplete" on it.

Opening the journal, it was also completely blank.

Jiang Ran couldn't help but wonder, could this be the way Zhe Zhou obtained the Sacred Seed?

Just like when I obtained that amazing passive skill through the Explorer's Handbook.

However, since his own notes disappeared after being used, why are Zhezhou's notes still preserved?
Could it be because his notebook is complete? This one does indeed look much thicker than hers.

I just don't know what the identities of this explorer and the chosen one are.

If an explorer is like a traveler searching for the truth of the world, then the phrase "favored by the gods" easily brings to mind the kind of people Zhe Zhou mentioned earlier who "dedicate everything to the gods."

Given this, are there any other notes?

Jiang Ran curiously flipped through the notes of the chosen one, wanting to see if there was any information left behind.

Just as she turned to the last page of the journal, she noticed a small, seed-like pattern in the corner of the very last page.

She instinctively reached out to touch it, but something unexpected happened.

The note actually broke free from Jiang Ran's grasp and floated up.

At the same time, a new notification appeared in the system.

[The system detected that you have obtained more than two Real Fragments simultaneously. A hidden quest, "What is Reality?", has been activated for you. Your quest progress has been updated to your game panel; please click to view it.]

As the notification disappeared, the notebook also vanished.

Instead, Jiang Ran's game panel now features a collection bar with ten small square slots. Two of these slots contain miniature versions of handbooks, made of what appear to be stone slabs. One of the stone slabs is incomplete, missing a small piece.

But apart from that, there were no other prompts. She tried clicking on the grooves, but there was no response. It seemed that the next stage would only appear after all the fragments were collected.

Jiang Ran was speechless. What kind of hidden quest was this? Apart from knowing that there were eight and a half so-called fragments left, they didn't give her any clues about where to find them.

However, given the mission's title, "What is Reality," it is highly likely related to these train survival games.

Before she could utter another word of complaint, a violent shaking nearly threw her off the bed and onto the floor.

Little White staggered into the room carrying a small plate: "Master, the wind and waves are getting bigger and bigger, should we go downstairs?"

Jiang Ran nodded and, amidst the increasingly violent waves, practically used both hands and feet to descend to the first floor.

When the two of them got downstairs, the whole house was shaking like a roly-poly toy.

Jiang Ran was worried that she might be hit in the face by a pile of furniture for no reason, so she put away the unstable items first.

Although there are no windows, a 360-degree camera is installed outside so that the direction of the bamboo raft can be controlled from inside the room, and a monitor is also installed in the middle of the control room.

Even with night vision, though the rapid waves made the view somewhat blurry, it was still possible to see pairs of scarlet eyes hidden beneath the dark sea surface.

The dense clusters of red dots continued to gather with the wind and waves, as if they knew that a fresh feast was about to be enjoyed.

The sea at night is indeed much more terrifying than during the day.

Suddenly, the sound of raindrops pattering outside filled the air, rapid and dense, like countless steel balls hitting a wooden board.

The howling wind whipped up huge waves that crashed against the walls of the house, making one wonder if the door would be smashed through at any moment.

Looking at the house that showed no signs of falling apart no matter how much it was shaken, Jiang Ran couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had acquired the "Construction Specialization" beforehand. Otherwise, even if there were many safe houses, they would not be able to be welded firmly to the bamboo raft like they are now.

As long as the house doesn't separate from the raft, the game's premise that "the raft will never capsize" makes this episode the most reassuring.

While the other players didn't have Jiang Ran's resources, they still came up with their own solutions.

Perhaps realizing that the system message before entering the instance, "the bamboo raft will never capsize," was true, they used various methods to bind themselves to the raft.

Some were even posted in the chat lobby.

The player who initially claimed that the bamboo raft had turned into a wooden boat because of the "Sturdiness" upgrade, whether by using a skill or having special craftsmanship, neatly covered the cabin of the wooden boat with ropes, and sat upright in the cabin, with the ropes intertwined and woven from his limbs and body, firmly securing him to the boat.

Just a few minutes ago, he was smugly pleased with how effective his method was, but a few minutes later, his smugness turned into screams of agony.

"Holy crap, those fish will dive out of the waves and bite me!!"

“I told you long ago that fish can jump up and bite people. A big chunk of flesh was bitten off my hand, and I’m so worried about getting an infection.”

"But they bit my face! [Image] I had my hands tied to the boat for security, so I couldn't dodge them at all!"

The image shows a man's bloodied and mangled face, and at the moment the photo was taken, a barracuda several times larger than usual was pecking at his face.

　Thank you Mei'er for the Xiaoxiang ticket! ()
　　Thank you for the monthly pass, Dingding Baby! ─=≡Σ(((つ3)つ

　　(End of this chapter)