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[Daily System Reward Task: The Diligent Miner.]

[Task Description: Due to the scarcity of resources in the starting village, a limited-time exchange event is being held at the supply station to encourage players to be proactive.]

[Exchange Rate: Collect 10 complete mutated rat teeth and deposit them into the supply station's recycling slot to exchange for 1 Source Energy Coin.]

[Note: Work hard, young man! Every drop of your sweat will become the foundation for this system to become stronger! Keep it up, you can do it!]

After reading this line of annoying notification text...

The entire stairwell corner fell into a deathly silence.

Ten seconds later.

"Damn you, you dog planner!!!!"

A series of neat, mournful roars, filled with deep resentment, erupted simultaneously from the mouths of four male college students, echoing for a long time in the dark corridor.

……

At the same time.

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

"Achoo!"

Lin Xian sat on the throne and sneezed comfortably.

He watched the resentment rising wildly on the control panel, displaying "Source Power +2" and "Source Power +3," and then took a satisfied sip of cola.

"Go ahead and curse, curse all you want. After you're done cursing, you'll still have to obediently go back and pull my rat teeth, won't you?"

"The primitive accumulation of capital is just that bloody and tedious."

Lin Xian stretched comfortably.

"The economic system in the starting village has been tested and is perfect. Next..."

Lin Xian turned his gaze to the map of Jiangcheng University.

Especially the overgrown little garden that lies between the boys' dormitory No. 7 and the girls' dormitory No. 8, a wicked smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"What's the point of holed up in a boys' dorm as a tooth-pulling assembly line worker? What's the point of grinding monsters in a single-player game compared to taking girls and showing off your skills?"

Lin Xian leaned back on the throne, his fingers interlaced, his eyes gleaming with the light of a jovial man.

"Go, Fourth Scourge! For the girls, for the experience, go conquer the new map!"

He pressed the Enter key, and a [Regional Chain Trigger Quest] with a pink skull icon was silently airdropped into the night at Jiangcheng University.

......

Pulse back

"Damn you, you dog planner!!!!"

A series of neat, mournful roars, filled with deep resentment, erupted simultaneously from the mouths of four male college students, echoing for a long time at the dark corner of the staircase.

The four people stared intently at the line of small red text scrolling across the vending machine screen, as if they could see through the screen a ruthless capitalist hiding in the back counting money.

"This is insane, absolutely insane."

Fatty Wang slumped down on the stairs, desperately clutching his hair.

"A bucket of instant noodles costs 5 gold coins. One gold coin costs 10 rat teeth. There are four of us, and each of us gets a bucket of instant noodles, that's 200 rat teeth!"

"Is this some kind of post-apocalyptic survival game, or a dental hospital simulator?!"

Chen Fei was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and the small fruit knife in his hand scraped against the wall with a screeching sound.

"The key thing is, we killed so many of them by squeezing through the door crack on the fourth floor, and they all turned into light and disappeared! Who knew we had to manually pull out their teeth? Why didn't this damn system issue the mission sooner!"

The eldest brother, Zhao Lei, rubbed his throbbing temples, took a deep breath of the blood-scented air, and forced himself to calm down.

"Alright, stop howling."

Zhao Lei patted the fat man on the shoulder

"This system is clearly messing with our mentality. It's just two hundred teeth, right? This building is full of mutated rats. Let's just treat it as gaining experience while working as dentists on the side."

Su Hao didn't speak; he simply shone the beam of his dim flashlight toward the stairwell leading to the third floor.

It was still pitch black below, so quiet it was a little unsettling.

"The boss is right, we can't expect instant noodles to fall from the sky by sitting here."

Su Hao gripped the fire axe tightly; the cold touch of the handle reassured him considerably.

"We've basically cleared out the monsters on the fourth floor. Let's go down the stairs and clear out each dormitory one by one."

"That tooth extraction job..."

The fat man swallowed hard, looking at the mangled, bloody remains scattered on the ground, and his stomach churned.

"Who's coming?"

Three pairs of eyes simultaneously fell on him.

"Look at you, Fatty,"

Chen Fei patted his shoulder earnestly.

"The fourth brother is the main DPS, but his axe is too heavy, so he needs to conserve his stamina. The eldest brother tanks the damage, and I'm the assassin responsible for finishing off enemies. This is the dirty and tiring work of cleaning up the battlefield and looting corpses..."

"I'll do it! I'll do it!"

The fat man, with a mournful face, pulled a wad of toilet paper that looked like it had been sitting in his pocket for ages, tore it in half, and stuffed it up his nostrils.

"I'll risk everything for a living!"

Having made up their minds, the four-person team rearranged themselves and began to feel their way down the stairs.

The situation on the third floor is not much better than on the fourth floor.

The corridor was covered with scratches and splattered dark red blood.

Some dormitory doors were wide open, and it was quiet inside. When you shone a flashlight through them, you could only see torn sheets and a mess on the floor. You couldn't even see a complete corpse.

Clearly, those students who didn't survive the first wave of rat attacks have become food for the monsters.

"Shhh."

When they reached the entrance of dormitory 308, Su Hao suddenly raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.

He turned his ear and heard a faint "crunching" sound of bones being gnawed on coming from inside the door.

Su Hao winked at Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei nodded, tiptoed to the door, and grasped the broken broom handle with both hands. Su Hao, holding an axe, stood in the middle of the doorway.

"Bang!"

Zhao Lei kicked open the half-closed wooden door.

The flashlight beam shone in instantly.

In the center of the dormitory, three large, Lv.2 mutated rats were frantically tearing at the unrecognizable human remains.

The sudden burst of bright light made them instantly bristle.

"squeak--!"

The three rats turned their heads at the same time, their scarlet eyes fixed on the four people at the door. With mouths full of bits of flesh and blood, they pounced on them.

"The instant noodles have been delivered to my door!"

Chen Fei let out a strange cry and advanced instead of retreating.

They are completely different now from the rookies who were trembling in dormitory 404 just half an hour ago.

With the help of equipment and level, and having figured out the attack patterns of these low-level monsters, three ordinary rats were no different from three moving money bags in their eyes.

"Whoosh!"

Su Hao swung the fire axe, creating a gust of wind. The rat at the front, still in mid-air, was cleaved in two by the sharp axe blade, green blood splattering all over the ground.

"-42!" (Instant kill!)

Seeing this, the remaining two rats became ferocious and flanked the mice from the left and right.

"Get down!"

Zhao Lei roared and swung the broom handle in his hand like he was hitting a golf ball, sending the left broom flying and crashing into the iron bunk bed.

Chen Fei reacted swiftly, sliding forward and precisely plunging the fruit knife into the rat's eye socket. With a twist, he pulled it out cleanly and efficiently.

Before the last rat could even bite Su Hao's thigh, Su Hao swung the back of his axe and smashed it onto its head.

With a muffled thud, his brains splattered.

The battle ended in less than ten seconds.

No one cared about the blood on the ground. The three men skillfully shook the blood off their weapons, then turned to look at Fatty Wang, who was huddled outside the door.

"Your turn, dentist."

Chen Fei raised an eyebrow.