If you slap me, the whole world will suffer the same harm.

A month is neither a long nor a short time in the apocalypse.

But for Lin Chen, this past month has been the most comfortable time of his life.

With the Bloodthirsty Alliance destroyed and its leader killed, the entire shelter was completely brought under Lin Chen's control.

He established strict rules: pain training during the day, defense in shifts at night, and everyone had to obey the schedule.

At first, some troublemakers were unconvinced, thinking that Lin Chen was just a kid, but after seeing the pile of corpses in the square and experiencing the intense pain of the "pain training," they all became obedient.

"Brother Lin! What's the intensity of training today?" a burly man who had just joined asked cautiously.

Lin Chen chuckled and patted him on the shoulder: "You're a newbie, starting from level three."

The burly man breathed a sigh of relief: "Level three, that's not bad."

Lin Chen added: "Level 3 for one hour continuously."

The burly man: "...Can I quit?"

Lin Chen: "Sure, you can sleep outside tonight."

Big Man: "Brother Lin, I was just kidding! Level 3 for an hour, no problem!"

(￣▽￣；)

Of course, Lin Chen wasn't idle either.

He bound all the people who had no fighting ability to his account. Although the masochistic value wasn't much, the sheer number of people made the masochistic value rise rapidly.

"Ding! Host's current masochistic value: 1560 points."

"Ding! Host's current masochistic value: 2035 points."

"Ding! Host's current masochistic value: 2480 points."

Lin Chen stared at the constantly changing numbers on the system panel, his smile almost reaching his ears.

At that moment, Zhang Han walked over from a distance, his expression somewhat grave: "Lin Chen, come here for a moment."

Lin Chen stood up and walked over: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Han pointed to the distant sky: "Look over there."

Lin Chen looked up.

On the blood-red horizon, something seemed to be surging, the clouds were rolling, and the light of the blood moon appeared and disappeared intermittently, as if it were brewing something.

"Another evil entity?" Lin Chen asked.

Zhang Han shook his head: "It doesn't seem like it. I have a feeling... something big is about to happen."

Lin Chen nodded: "I've felt it too. Although the level of the evil creatures hasn't been high recently, their numbers have been increasing. Last night alone, several thousand level one evil creatures spawned."

Zhang Han: "It's impossible to guard against."

"Please prepare more supplies recently to deal with any emergencies."

"it is good."

Lin Chen didn't expect this "unexpected situation" to come so quickly.

Moreover, it was ten thousand times more exaggerated than he had imagined.

At noon that day, Lin Chen was leading a team of people in high-intensity pain training in the square.

Thousands of people clutched their stomachs and howled in the square, creating a spectacular scene.

"Brother Lin! I can't take it anymore! Stop!"

"It's only been twenty minutes, hang in there!"

"I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"

"He won't die, at most he'll just pass out!"

"You're making me even more scared!"

(；´д｀)

Suddenly, the entire ground began to shake violently.

"Rumble..."

The shaking grew stronger and stronger, and everyone lost their balance and fell to the ground.

"An earthquake? Another merger?" Iron Wolf shouted.

"No! Look outside!" Chen Hu pointed to the distant wall, his voice trembling.

Everyone looked outside and were stunned.

Beyond the wall lies the sky.

A blood-red sky.

"Holy crap!!! Shelter is flying away!!!"

"What? It's flying? How is that possible!"

"It's really flying! Look! The ground is getting farther and farther away from us!"

Everyone rushed to the windows and the walls, staring in disbelief at the ever-shrinking ground below.

The shelter, a massive city pieced together from countless wreckages, actually flew into the sky like a floating island.

Hong Ji gripped the iron rod tightly, a look of panic appearing on her face for the first time: "What's going on?"

Xiaoya turned pale with fright: "Are we...are we going to fall and die?"

Zhang Han remained calm, gripping the window frame, and said in a deep voice, "Don't panic! Let's see how things go."

Lin Chen stood in the center of the square, his legs firmly planted on the ground, looking up at the sky.

"System! What's going on?"

System: "Ding! The shelter is undergoing a 'spatial migration'. This migration was automatically triggered by the shelter's core system. Estimated flight time: 10 minutes."

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to everyone, "Don't be afraid, everyone! This is a shelter relocation! We'll be landing in ten minutes!"

"Really? Brother Lin, you're not lying to us?"

"Have I ever lied to you?"

"You fooled me! Last time you said level three pain wouldn't hurt, and I almost peed my pants!"

Lin Chen: "...That was an accident."

(￣▽￣；)

Ten minutes later.

"boom!!!"

A deafening roar.

The entire shelter shuddered violently, as if a giant hand had slammed it onto something.

Everyone was shaken so badly that their feet left the ground and they were left dazed and confused.

"Fall... landed?" Iron Wolf got up, rubbing his butt.

"Look outside!"

Everyone rushed to the window again.

This time, what they saw made everyone gasp in shock.

Huge shelters, like dumplings being dropped into a pot, plummeted from the sky.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Every time a shelter was built, it stirred up clouds of dust.

Some landed on the plains, some in the valleys, and some crashed directly into the rivers, splashing water tens of meters high.

From a distance, as far as the eye could see, there were shelters everywhere that had been set off.

"One, two, three... I can't count them all!" Xiaoxue covered her mouth.

Zhang Han stood by the window, counting rapidly: "At least dozens... no, hundreds."

"Hundreds of level-two shelters?" Lin Chen's pupils contracted slightly.

Just as everyone was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a cold system notification sounded in everyone's mind at the same time:

"Ding! The Top 100 Tournament has begun!"

"A total of one hundred level-two shelters participated in this competition."

"The top ten will be merged into Level 3 shelters."

"Shelters that do not make it into the top ten will be eliminated."

The moment the word "annihilation" was uttered, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

The system notification tone continues:

"The rules of the competition are as follows: Level 6 Evil Kings are located in the central area outside the sanctuary."

"Defeat a level 6 Evil King to obtain an Evil Soul."

"A sanctuary with evil spirits will be protected from attacks by evil creatures at night."

"Conversely, without a sanctuary for evil spirits, one will be vulnerable to attacks from armies of evil creatures."

"Competition duration: 30 days."

"Thirty days later, based on the number of evil spirits possessed, the top ten will be merged, and the rest will be eliminated."

Have fun, everyone!

The system notification sound disappeared.

The entire shelter fell into a deathly silence.

Then, it exploded.

"Elimination? Eliminate someone for not even making the top ten? Are you kidding me!"

"One hundred shelters, only ten to keep? Wouldn't that mean ninety percent of the people would die?"

"A Level 6 Evil King! We need to kill another Level 6 Evil King! Last time we almost wiped out the entire team fighting that Level 5 Evil King!"

"The problem is, without evil spirits, we'll be attacked by evil creatures at night!"

"Isn't this fucking sending us to our deaths?"

"What should I do? I don't want to die!"

Panic spread like a plague.

Lin Chen stood in the crowd, his face terribly gloomy.

Zhang Han walked over and lowered his voice: "This rule is a vicious cycle."

Lin Chen nodded: "Without evil spirits, you'll be attacked by the army of evil creatures at night. After fighting all night, you'll be exhausted during the day. The more tired you are, the less you can kill the evil king. The less you can kill the evil king, the less evil spirits you'll have... In the end, it's a slow death."

Iron Wolf: "Then what do we do? We have to get the evil soul before tonight!"