There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

[Dream Difficulty: Gray Five Stars]

The City of Night is a place that only reveals its charm at night, which is why it's called the City of Night. Hmm... that's a saying from outsiders; as for the truth, those living in other cities probably don't know.

However, one thing is certain: in Night City, anyone can become rich overnight, or they can become rich overnight. In short, this city offers many opportunities, but it also has many pitfalls, making it no easy feat to survive here.

However, recently, some problems have been reported in the city. Some people claim to have seen figures shrouded in gray mist at night, but they vanished in the blink of an eye. They suspect they encountered the legendary ghosts, and some even say they met vampires and werewolves!

"What a joke! Why don't these people just say there are witchers in the world?" the Night City's upper class said dismissively.

Although they didn't believe what the street thugs and hooligans said, many strange corpses had indeed appeared in Night City recently. There was no other way; these powerful figures still sent out a group of people to investigate these matters...

[Phase One Main Objective: Successfully enter the Night City within ten days]

Secondary objective: None (No secondary objective has been triggered yet)

"The primary objective for the first phase? And what about the secondary objectives, which need to be proactively triggered?"

Lu Qing frowned as she looked at the information on the notice board.

This was the first time she had encountered such a situation, and she had never seen it on the forum before.

"In short, let's just follow the main objective."

Lu Qing looked around at the surroundings. There was nothing here except a desert, and the only green thing was the cacti growing on the yellow sand.

"I don't want to do a live stream in the wilderness," Lu Qing said, her brows furrowed.

She didn't have any wilderness survival skills. If she were in a forest, Lu Qing could survive there by relying on her physical attributes, but in the desert, it would be very difficult to survive by relying solely on her physical attributes.

Lu Qing felt that the system wouldn't be so unfair as to put her through a wilderness survival challenge in a place like this; there should be some clues or something.

After all, the main goal is to get her into the Night Capital within ten days. If we don't give her any clues, what if she goes in the wrong direction?

With that in mind, Lu Qing activated Eagle Eye and began searching the vicinity.

Sure enough, after searching for about three minutes, Lu Qing successfully found a line of tire tracks on the yellow sand in the distance.

Lu Qing doesn't know much about cars, but she can still tell from the marks on the ground that the car that passed by here before must have been very large.

Besides these, near the most obvious tire tracks, there are many other tire marks left by tires, but they have been mostly covered by yellow sand, and only a few traces can be seen with an eagle eye.

"Let's just follow these tire tracks."

Looking up at the blazing sun in the sky, Lu Qing pulled her hood down further and walked away step by step.

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Chapter 123: The First Player Eliminated

[It's starting! It's starting!]

[I'm here!]

By the time you see me, you'll already be ranked outside the top 1000.

As the video appeared in the live stream, the viewers became excited.

Most of them are not dream summoners, but ordinary people, or low-level dream summoners who, after entering the dream twice and finding themselves unsuitable, have never entered again.

In short, everyone was very interested in this official newcomer event, and in just a short while, the number of viewers in the live stream reached over a million.

Moreover, this number is rising rapidly and will probably reach the tens of millions in a short time.

At this moment, Li Mu temporarily put aside the dream he was still designing after the event started and opened the official live broadcast room for the event.

He's going to watch the live stream for inspiration. After all, it's an official event, so the design must be quite novel.

Thinking this, Li Mu looked at the screen in the live stream.

What comes into view is a vast desert. The sweltering heat even makes the air seem distorted. Scattered cacti are the only green in the entire yellow desert.

A line of light purple, square characters appeared in the center of the screen.

[Phase 1 Main Objective: Successfully enter the Night City within ten days]

After occupying the center of the screen for about three seconds, the large text slowly shrank and eventually settled at the top of the screen.

In the upper right corner of the screen, a string of numbers was displayed.

The current number of survivors is 10354.

The appearance of these two lines of text immediately triggered another surge in the live stream's chat.

Holy crap!

【? ? ? 】

[Where is the City of Night?]

[Over 10,000 people, holy crap, only the top 100 get the reward.]

Can't the live stream camera be controlled? There are over ten thousand people; it's impossible for them all to see.

More than 10,000 people!?

[Night City: I'm terrified.]

Li Mu chuckled as he looked at the comments on the screen and casually typed three question marks.

He wasn't surprised at all by the number of participants. If you had known how popular the event was before it started, you wouldn't have thought that 10,000 people was a lot.

As for why the main target is displayed, it's mainly to help viewers in the live stream understand what these players are doing.

However, many more details will probably not be shown.

As I was thinking this, the scene on the live stream gradually changed. The camera zoomed in and finally focused on a figure.

This person is Lu Qing.

The system's live stream will definitely feature the most exciting parts, and currently most players who were randomly assigned to indoor or city areas are searching for information related to Night City because of their location.

There's nothing worth live-streaming about this; it's only just begun, and the exciting parts haven't even started yet.

Among the players who were randomly assigned to the wilderness, Lu Qing was the first to discover the traces deliberately left by the system.

If Lu Qing knew about this, she would probably only marvel at how useful Eagle Eye was, allowing her to find the tires left on the ground after just one inspection.

At this point, she had only just begun to follow the tire tracks and hadn't gone very far.

As she walked, Lu Qing was also reflecting on her situation.

The tires have been there for quite a while, but not too long, probably only a day or two. That's why the deepest tire hasn't been buried yet, but the shallower ones have been buried by the sand.

This gave Lu Qing a slight headache.

A person can't walk as fast as a car, but running, even putting aside the speed, would exhaust her just by the amount of physical exertion involved.

It's hard to find food here. Lu Qing does remember that there was a story in her elementary school textbook about a person who got lost in the desert and survived by eating a part of a cactus, but the problem is that she has long forgotten about it.

"Speaking of which, can the cactus itself be eaten?" Lu Qing thought uncertainly, touching the mithril dagger as she recalled some unreliable memories from her past life.

If she really can't find anything else to eat, Lu Qing will have to consider eating cactus.

Meanwhile, in the live stream, as the camera gradually changed, the viewers finally saw Lu Qing's face.

Just then, the camera in the live stream suddenly shrunk and was then divided into more than a dozen sections, each showing the figure of a player.

[Damn it, I want to see girls, why did you shrink to a tiny size at this time?!]

Although I can't see her whole face, I'd bet my roommate ten years of his life that this girl is absolutely gorgeous!

Slurp slurp, not even a needle prick.

Why can't I look at girls alone? Thumbs down!

[Why are you looking at girls? Real men should be with other men.]

"Quickly, let's fencing!"

........

"That's weird, why does this girl look so familiar?"

Li Mu stroked his chin, staring at Lu Qing's small square, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before.

However, before he could continue observing, the live stream zoomed in again and moved to a different location.

This is a very dilapidated street, with many people standing on it, and a player is currently surrounded by these people.

As for why it's so easy to tell who the player is at a glance, there's no way around it; the two sides look so different that you can tell who's who at a glance.

"You brat, tell me right now where the hell you're from, or we're going to smash your skull in!"

A young man with dark skin, holding a steel rod and wearing a light purple T-shirt, spoke to the player with a fierce expression.

"You guys?"

The surrounded player laughed disdainfully. In his eyes, these street thugs were no match for him.

"I'm fucking idiot!"

"You're asking for a beating!"

The player's actions successfully enraged the group of thugs, who each grabbed a weapon and rushed forward, ready to teach this arrogant young man a lesson.

"hehe."

The player sneered, drew his long sword from his waist, and started fighting with the thugs.

However, just as his weapon clashed with that of the thug, his expression changed drastically.

"How can this guy be so strong!" the player exclaimed in surprise.

He must have spent a lot of attribute points on this, so how could an ordinary-looking street thug have such a high strength attribute?

Surprised as he was, this player felt the thug was still lacking.

Easily dodging the opponent's straightforward attack, the player slashed the thug in the chest.

Surprisingly, the thug didn't lose his fighting ability after the slash; he just twitched his mouth and retreated, allowing more thugs to rush up and attack him.

While the thugs behind them were generally more capable in combat than ordinary people, they were still under the player's control.

until........

The thug who had stepped down earlier took out a capsule and pressed it to his lips.

A large amount of gas was released, the pained expression on the thug's face disappeared, and the wounds on his body began to heal rapidly.