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A few minutes later.

The screams that echoed in the dormitory were no longer those of fear, but rather the shouts of extreme excitement.

"Awesome! That's fucking awesome! My experience bar is already half full!"

Chen Fei frantically poked at the clothesline pole, his face flushed with excitement.

"Hey fourth brother, move aside! I need to finish him off! I'm just 5 experience points away from leveling up!"

Zhao Lei was also in a bloodthirsty frenzy, and he was squeezing the broom handle in his hand so hard it was almost dripping wet.

Su Hao wiped the sweat from his face, looked at the system notification screen that was flashing wildly in the upper right corner of his vision, and couldn't help but let a wild smile spread across his face.

[Experience points +15]

[Congratulations to player Su Hao! You have reached level 2!]

[Gained 1 free attribute point. Current health fully restored!]

A faint golden light of upgrade rose from Su Hao's body, instantly sweeping away all his fatigue.

"Brothers! I've leveled up! Fully healed!" Su Hao shouted excitedly.

"Holy crap! Why did you level up first?! Did you steal an extra hit from that monster just now?!"

Chen Fei panicked and instantly sped up his poke at the clothesline.

"Quick, quick! Boss, let two more in! I need to level up! I need free attribute points!"

They've gone mad. They've all gone mad.

When the crisis of survival turned into visible gains, the greed of these young people completely overcame their fear.

……

At the same time.

A higher-dimensional astral realm, an abandoned divine domain.

"Pfft—cough cough cough cough!!!"

Sitting on the throne, Lin Xian suddenly sprayed a mouthful of iced cola all over the virtual screen in front of him.

He stared intently at the four college students frantically "working on an assembly line" through the crack in the dormitory door, as if he had seen a ghost.

The power collection tank on the control panel is emitting a rapid alarm.

It wasn't because he lacked source energy. Rather, it was because the emotions these four people were experiencing were not the "fear" and "despair" he had anticipated!

[Received the emotion of 'extreme excitement/greed' from Su Hao, Source Power +0.5.]

[Received the emotion "Extreme Frenzy/Hunting Pleasure" from Chen Fei, Source Power +0.8.]

[Received a "money-grubbing" sentiment from Wang Qiang, Source Power +1.0.]

"Fuck your grandpas..."

Lin Xian was so angry that her hands trembled, and she pointed at the screen, cursing loudly:

"This is a survival scenario I've prepared for you! It's the end of the world! It's a hellish battlefield where you'll cry out in despair!"

"You guys are just killing monsters here, blocking the doorway?!"

"Using my zombie rat horde as easy experience farm? Do you think this is some kind of AFK (away from keyboard) game?! Don't you have any respect for the monsters created by higher-dimensional gods?!"

Lin Xian angrily pounded on the control panel, trying to manually modify the mouse's AI pathfinding logic.

"System! Immediately correct the collision volume of the mutated rat swarm! Don't let them get stuck in the doorway and line up to be killed!"

The system's cold, mechanical voice immediately responded.

[Warning. My Lord, due to insufficient funds invested previously, the currently generated 'low-level physics engine module' suffers from a serious clipping bug.]

[To perform real-time hot update repairs, at least 50 Source Points are required as server computing power consumption.]

"50 points?!"

Lin Xian almost fainted.

"I only earned less than 20 Source Points from this mini-launch, and you want me to spend 50 on fixing bugs? This is practically a bankruptcy prevention line!"

The tragedy of being a penniless schemer was fully revealed at this moment.

If you don't have the money to buy a good server, you can only watch helplessly as players exploit the system using a rudimentary physics engine.

Lin Xian slumped onto the throne, watching the guy on the screen called Fatty Wang, who was bent over on the ground, picking up gold coins while shouting in an extremely irritating tone.

"Fourth Brother is awesome! There are so many gold coins on the ground, they can't even cover them all!"

Lin Xian felt his blood pressure rising sharply.

"Players... truly are the game planner's nemesis!"

Lin Xian took a deep breath, forcibly calmed himself down, and a sinister smirk appeared on his lips once again.

"You're having a blast exploiting bugs, aren't you?"

"You think this broken system only has this much trick up its sleeve?"

Lin Xian's fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of the throne as he issued a new command to the system:

"System, activate the behind-the-scenes manipulation. Secretly increase the durability loss rate of those basic weapons they possess by 300%!"

"I'd like to see what you'll use to jam the door when all your firewood sticks break!"

……

Earth, Room 404, Jiangcheng University.

Through the narrow crack in the door, the floor was smeared with foul-smelling blood.

"Creak—"

Another large, mutated rat, its eyes red, squeezed through the crack in the door, its sharp claws scratching the floor with a harsh, grating sound.

"We've got a job! Boss, hold them down!"

Chen Fei was so excited that his voice cracked, and he skillfully held the aluminum alloy clothes rack level, like a Spartan warrior guarding a city gate.

"Just you wait! Get down on your knees!"

Zhao Lei was covered in sweat, but he was extremely excited.

He roared, gripped the plastic broom covered in bits of flesh and slime with both hands, aimed it at the rat's neck, and pressed it down hard with practiced ease.

Based on their previous smooth teamwork, once this pressure was applied firmly, the rat would be stuck in the door crack and unable to move. Then Chen Fei would be responsible for poking its eyes, and Su Hao would be responsible for blowing its head off with a calculus book.

It's practically a ruthless and efficient assembly line operation.

however.

Just as Zhao Lei's entire weight pressed down on the broom handle...

"Snap—!"

A crisp, abrupt cracking sound rang out in the cramped dormitory room.

Zhao Lei felt his hand suddenly go empty, and his body, which had been tense, instantly lost its support. He staggered and fell forward.

Holy crap!

The old plastic broom that had been used by previous students to sweep up sunflower seed shells and by Zhao Lei to trap dozens of mutated rats suddenly snapped cleanly in the middle!

The Lv.2 mutated rat, now free from its restraints, immediately let out a sharp screech.

Ignoring Zhao Lei who had fallen to the side, it suddenly turned its head, opened its barbed mouth, and bit down hard on the upper of Zhao Lei's sneaker!

"Ouch! It bit my foot! Third brother, poke it!"

Zhao Lei was terrified and kicked his legs desperately, trying to shake the rat off.

"I'll do it!"

Chen Fei was also startled, but he reacted very quickly, and with all his might, he stabbed the rat's scarlet eyes with the clothesline pole in his hand.

"puff--"

It missed the eye and pierced the rat's hard carapace.

Even stranger things happened.

Chen Fei's powerful blow not only failed to harm the rat, but instead produced a muffled "crunch".

His prized "Spartan spear," a two-meter-long aluminum alloy clothes drying pole, was bent at a ninety-degree angle from the middle, just like a cooked noodle!

"Damn it! What a shoddy construction project! My Purple Lightning Frost Sword is broken!"

Chen Fei stared dumbfounded at the broken pipe bent at a right angle in his hand.

"Get out of the way!"