This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 19 'Rainy Season'

On the third day of the new world, at dusk, a torrential downpour washed over the world. This downpour would last for a month, causing flash floods, landslides, and rapidly rising water levels.

[Rainy Season [Level 1·Blue·Public Daily Event]-
Water is the source of all things, as people often say. Now, a heavy rain has covered the entire world. This may be the beginning of a disaster, or it may be a hard-earned period of time for infrastructure preparation.
Mold growth rate +30%
Organic matter decay speed +30%
Infectious Disease Activity +30%
Bacteria spread more easily
'Water' related element energy activity +50%
-50% activity against non-water elemental hostile units
-90% activity reduction for hostile units with heat/dryness related elements such as 'fire' and 'sand'
Event shared rewards: Crop growth rate +20% (lasting 365 days), livestock water resource utilization rate +20% (lasting 365 days)
Event Personal Rewards: [Water Vein Series Item Box] x1, Basic Survival Resource Pack x30, Clean Water 30L]

Starting at the Blue level, public events offered rewards. Nie Weiyang considered this mission a purely rewarding one, but it was only a reward for countries with mature public health systems and efficient execution capabilities...

As expected, less than a month after the incident began, a Level 2 yellow public hazard event called "The Great Plague" occurred in a country with a large land area in southern China. Half a month later, it not only did not end, but was even upgraded to an orange rating.

This left Nie Weiyang stunned.

In his previous life, he couldn't check the event lists of other regions. At this moment, he was relying on his strong body to build the wall of Lang City in the rain, and occasionally went out to fish...

Nie Weiyang sat in his camp, stirring the stove in front of him. The frying pan sizzled with sizzling meat. Next to him was a simple, transparent thermos cup filled with blood. A half-burned candle provided him with a faint, warm, goose-yellow light.

It was autumn when we traveled through time, and now the weather is cold. The second half of the rainy season will team up with winter to beat humans, and the rising blood moon will appear after the rainy season ends, giving humans a heavy blow.

During this period, he rarely returned to Lang City. Instead, he wandered in the wilderness, rescuing people, fighting monsters, and obtaining resources. Occasionally, he would catch mutant animals and bleed them, but rarely kill them.

The rainy season reduced monster activity, and hunting monsters often meant searching for hours without finding a single one. Fishing became the most convenient way to level up, as the water veins and the creatures within them were incredibly active. But Lang City was a small place, and even the most active of the small fish and shrimp wouldn't provide much experience.

The only good news is that there aren't many aggressive mutant plants, or rather, very few. The direction of plant evolution has dictated that they can only react passively and cannot actively attack.

Even though it is in ruins, the new world still has its own ecosystem. Even though it is beyond recognition, life is still looking for a way out year after year.

Now Nie Weiyang's level has been raised to level 9 and he is about to enter level 10. The opportunity he has been waiting for is about to come.

After eating the meat, Nie Weiyang slowly took a sip of the blood in the cup.

A vampire's sense of smell and taste was mutated, allowing him to sense the aroma and taste of each type of blood was different, but similarly, they all had an appeal to him, though he could control himself. This was one of the reasons why he tried not to go to Lang City: even if he could control himself, it was really too uncomfortable to hold it in.

He didn't want to whet his appetite for bloody battlefields or moving crowds, not at all. At least he had to reduce the frequency...

Nie Weiyang stood up, blew out the candle, straightened his jacket, hung the thermos on the handlebars of the motorcycle, and pushed the motorcycle towards the fence gate a few meters away.

This whole thing was so smooth that it was a bit too smooth. The brother didn't look like a solitary half-vampire at all, but more like an old man out for a stroll.

The biggest difference is that Nie Weiyang changed his equipment recently. He pieced together a set of white light armor and a white iron shield from monster drops, and mixed them with his original outdoor equipment, showing a subtle weirdness.

A high-necked black inner layer, black quick-drying windproof pants, a simple and neat silver lightweight breastplate, matching waist armor and boot armor, and a lightweight and durable coat on top. A ring is on his finger, and the 'Whisper' sword hangs on his left hip. A round iron shield with slight scratches is carried on his back, indicating a durability of 98/100. With this outfit, the 'Whisper' sword, a heavy rapier that was already somewhat out of place with Nie Weiyang's style, looks particularly out of place. But since there is no better sword available at the moment, he has to make do with it.

In addition, he also wore a pair of sunglasses, which were now perched on the top of his head, making his hair, which had grown longer, a little messy.

The price of high resilience is high metabolism. Half-vampires are easily hungry and their energy consumption is much higher than that of people with normal resilience. Their nails and hair also grow much faster than those of ordinary people.

"Today's target location is..." Nie Weiyang opened the sports watch fixed on the inside of his arm armor, "...the river intersection, the 'Three-Headed Water Snake'."

Although the water veins are dangerous, fish is probably the main source of nutrition for people everywhere recently. After all, the activity of other creatures has decreased, so it is better not to use those materials with a long shelf life rashly.

Moreover, the nutrients provided by fish, whether it is high-quality protein, vitamin D or B vitamins, are what people who live in a dark and humid environment for a long time and need to maintain good health need.

But there is a rule in "New World": when the death rate of creatures in a specific area exceeds a certain limit, temporarily disrupting the ecological balance or approaching extinction, a boss will appear in the area to slap humans twice.

To survive in the new world, humans will inevitably cause more or less damage to the environment, and the ecological environment will return it in a more direct way than the Earth itself. Discussions and debates about these issues have continued unabated for twenty years. Some extreme environmentalists even believe that humans should actively reduce their own numbers to achieve ecological balance. However, they have no intention of actively reducing themselves, which is truly interesting.

Nie Weiyang didn't care about the arguments; he just wanted people to survive, one by one, one by one. His long-term goal was to uncover all the secrets of the new world, solve the game system, and allow people to build a stable society. His short-term goal was to defeat monsters, level up, and...solve some insignificant problems.

Now, the ecological balance in the Langcheng area has reached a critical point, but people still know nothing about it. The only thing is that the army that received the news in advance has arrived and is withdrawing the fishermen who once belonged to various industries and professions in various river bends.

Nie Weiyang drove through the hillside and saw the river intersection in the distance. A barely perceptible blue light had emerged there, and on a tree somewhere on the edge of the river, a figure was squatting on it, and the rain made it look very hidden.

It was a figure that looked neither human nor human. It had a green face, fangs, red eyes, and black hair all over its body. It looked like a strange monkey. Although there was a neat diamond-shaped glowing gem embedded on its forehead, it was not discovered by anyone nearby.

Nie Weiyang narrowed his eyes and looked at it from a distance.

From the very beginning when he dealt with 'Ai', he knew that 'Zhongzhou' would be seen by everyone in the world because of that announcement. People with discerning eyes would naturally realize the importance of this matter. And within the Chinese region, and even in Zhongzhou itself, there would be many people with bad intentions.

What's more, there is even a 'World Boss' in Zhongzhou...

This place will become a 'battleground' even earlier than in the previous life.

And now, someone finally came all the way here to die.

(End of this chapter)