Civilization Paradise

Chapter 148 Red Countdown

Chapter 148 Red Countdown (Second Update)

Shortly after, Long Ming returned to the rented building and headed towards his apartment.

Then he saw that the door next door was open, and Zhou Hao was carrying things home in large and small bags.

"Brother Zhou, what are you busy with?"

Long Ming asked curiously.

Zhou Hao looked up at Long Ming and said breathlessly.

"Of course we should stockpile grain. Look how turbulent things are outside right now. I reckon that Shanchengshan might be about to go to war with other cities."

"Isn't it?"

"What do you mean it's not that serious? By the way, didn't you stock up?"

"No."

Long Ming shook his head.

Upon hearing Long Ming's words, Zhou Hao suddenly seemed to remember something and asked somewhat uneasily.

"Brother, you wouldn't be like those clamoring people, hoarding guns while your neighbor hoards grain, treating your neighbor as your granary, would you?"

"Ahem, Brother Zhou, you're overthinking it."

Long Ming said helplessly.

"Haha, I was just joking."

Zhou Hao gave an awkward laugh.

"Well, then I'll go back first."

Long Ming didn't say anything more to Zhou Hao, and went straight to his front door to go inside.

He closed the door, returned wearily to his bedroom, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep immediately.

noon the next day.

Inside the bedroom of the rented room.

"Cough cough~"

Long Ming, who was fast asleep, kept coughing.

He slowly opened his eyes, reached for his phone to check the time, and then sat up.

Long Ming took several minutes to recover, and his mind gradually became clearer.

He got up, walked to the table next to him, picked up some water, and took the medicine.

The intense dungeon runs I've been doing lately have taken a toll on my health.

However, Long Ming had no choice at the moment. Although Dr. Cheng told him that his condition was under control, he knew very well that his health was only a matter of time before it deteriorated.

Therefore, he needs to become stronger and earn more money.

Thinking of this, Long Ming left the room and headed towards the kitchen.

Half an hour later.

After finishing his meal, Long Ming returned to his bedroom and walked to the bedside.

He picked up the helmet, put it on, and logged into the game.

Swish!
When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the City of Stars.

Long Ming raised his bracelet, found the honor list, and quickly saw his name on the safe mission.

He then glanced at the KDI rankings and found that he was actually in the top 100, but fortunately he was only ranked sixty-second, which was not very conspicuous.

This ranking is normal, considering he was unlucky and was killed in an explosion once before.

The only thing he hadn't expected was that there were so many experts.

Long Ming then quickly found the hide button and concealed his information.

But just then, Long Ming suddenly noticed a red countdown in the upper left corner of the Glory Ranking.

7 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 16 seconds.

Long Ming looked at the countdown and a hint of doubt appeared on his face.

What is the purpose of this countdown? There is no explanation whatsoever.

However, Long Ming quickly stopped worrying about it, probably because of the expansion's release date.

He opened his bracelet and accessed the online store to check the recycling prices for meteorites, disks, and photos.

A souvenir from the observatory: 1000 million one-dimensional coins
SC-01 Observatory Confidential Disk: 5000 million one-dimensional coins
Meteorite number X-01: 300 million 1D coins
Long Ming was delighted to see the high price offered for the meteorite and tapped his bracelet to switch to the auction interface.

He was about to put the meteorite up for auction, but hesitated when he did so.

Long Ming carefully reviewed the auction rules to confirm the handling fee for a failed bid. If it was 10%, he would lose a fortune.

Fortunately, it is clearly stated that the minimum handling fee is 100,000 1W Coins, and the minimum handling fee will be charged if the bid fails.

After confirming several times that there were no problems, Long Ming listed 4 million One-Dimensional Coins. After doing all this, he retrieved everything he had brought out except for the miniature optical telescope.

hum~
The bracelet immediately displayed a notification.

"Notification: You have received 5.3 million OneDimension Coins."

Looking at the One-Dimensional Coins he had earned, Long Ming was in an extremely good mood. He then found a place to sit down and picked up the martial arts manual to study it.

Several hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Long Ming opened the auction page and checked; so far, no one had placed a bid.

He sighed as he watched this scene unfold; it seemed the meteorite would go unsold.

Long Ming has figured out the production mechanism. The reason why some high-grade products can be recycled at such high prices is largely due to their inherent value.

It doesn't have much value to players, so it's basically impossible to sell.

Therefore, Long Ming did not hesitate and chose to give up the bidding, decisively recovering the meteorite.

"Notification: You have received 3 million OneDimension Coins."

Long Ming looked at the more than 8.3 million One-Dimensional Coins in his account, then opened the friends interface and sent a message to Xiao Pang.

"Come find me."

Not long after, the chubby boy came running over excitedly.

"I'm here, does that mean I'm rich now?"

"Okay, keep collecting medicine for me. Come back to me when you're done."

Longming traded 1.3 million One Coins to Xiaopang.

"Great!"

Little Fatty looked at the money in his hand and happily opened the store to start collecting medicine.

"I'm going offline to rest now. Call me if you need anything."

Long Ming planned to take a good rest during the time he was collecting medicine. Recently, due to frequent dungeon runs, he hadn't been taking his medicine properly and hadn't been eating much.

"no problem."

Little Fatty replied with a smile.

Inside the rental house.

Long Ming took off his helmet and went to the computer desk.

He turned on his computer, logged into the forum, and searched for information about the countdown on the honor leaderboard, hoping to find out if anyone knew what it was for.

Long Ming quickly found a discussion thread about the countdown.

He clicked on the post and saw many people discussing it.

"Guys, what exactly does that countdown mean?"

"I feel like it's a countdown to a version update."

"I also feel that way."

"Pshaw, you're all wrong. If you ask me, it's a countdown to the charge."

"Damn, there's a charge?"

"Yeah, you think I'd just give you all this big game for free? The initial free release was just to let you experience it, but now that the trial period is over, it's no wonder they're asking you for money. Do you think those guys upstairs are philanthropists?!"

"That makes sense, but it's too despicable."

Long Ming looked through everyone's comments and fell silent.

Actually, these people's guesses are all reasonable, especially the possibility of that version update being very high.

The problem is that no one can give a definite answer, making it difficult to prepare in advance.

However, he didn't dwell on it too much and got up to exercise in his room.

The next morning.

Long Ming was fast asleep in bed.

hum~
Suddenly his phone vibrated.

Long Ming glanced at the phone and, seeing it was Little Fatty calling, answered it.

"Hey, you've run out of money?"

"No, there's a problem."

Little Fatty quickly said to Long Ming.