Chapter 176: Natural Disaster Survival System (5)

However, before the Trading, Xie Yang tentatively asked the other party: 【Are you a Dragon Country player?】

【Yes, yes! Are you one too? That's great! I've found my people!】

Xie Yang:...

She couldn't help but ask her: 【How old are you?】

【18! Otherwise, I wouldn't have been dragged into this pit of a game! I just finished the College Entrance Examination and was planning to have a blast for two months, but as soon as I got out of the cage, I was trapped in a hotel before I could even have any fun. My life is so hard!】

Xie Yang:...

She could tell.

Young, inexperienced, and unguarded.

【Hey, let's add each other as friends! Meeting an acquaintance in a strange land is one of life's four great joys! Survival isn't easy, please take care of me!】

Xie Yang accepted the friend request sent by the other party.

Xie Yang's own personal information had been reset; the other party could only see her ID, and the originally public information of country of origin and gender had been hidden by her.

In an environment like the apocalyptic natural disaster, staying low-profile is the golden rule.

But the other party clearly didn't know about this function, or perhaps didn't think to hide it even if she did; she clicked in and saw the country of origin at a glance—Dragon Country. Confirming she was one of her own, that was that.

Xie Yang sent over a set of thermal underwear and a set of outer jacket and trousers.

For shoes, she picked a pair of fur-lined slippers with heels.

Number 5, having received the cold-weather supplies, was moved to tears.

Seeing that voice chat was possible after adding each other as friends, she sent a voice message directly:

"Wanyi, you are too kind! Did you take the clothes and shoes off your own back to give to me? Wuwu! You are practically my second parent! Please keep the Tool Bench safe! My name is Chang Lebao, let's keep in touch!"

"..."

Xie Yang received the Tool Bench and proceeded to install it under the small windowsill.

This was a Primary Tool Bench, capable of crafting small tools like Iron Nails and hammers.

Number 5 probably didn't look closely after opening it; the Tool Bench came with a mini Iron Ore attached, which could be used to craft 20 Iron Nails.

After that, she would need to provide her own Iron Ore.

In other words, she had traded a set of thermal underwear, a set of outer clothes, and a pair of fur-lined slippers for a Primary Tool Bench + 20 Iron Nails.

This deal was quite a bargain!

With this, she had enough Iron Nails on hand to upgrade.

Xie Yang sat on the chair, resting her chin in her hands, warming herself by the Small Fire Stove while watching the Tool Bench clatter away making Iron Nails.

She had already spent 9 Gold Coins to buy 9 pieces of Wood, and once the number of Iron Nails was sufficient, she could upgrade the Wooden House.

Ten minutes later—

【Shelter upgrading, please wait!】

【Congratulations to player GY for being the first to upgrade their Shelter! Reward: Player Blind Box Treasure Chest *1!】

The second message was not only heard by Xie Yang, but the loudspeaker on the World Channel also broadcast it three times in a row.

Xie Yang: "..."

Fortunately, it was just an ID, not her real name.

Let them broadcast it!

As long as she could open up satisfying supplies, that was all that mattered!

However, she wasn't in a hurry to open the Blind Box Treasure Chest, planning to wait until the Wooden House was upgraded.

【Shelter upgrade successful! Reward: 50 points, 2 Attribute Points. Attribute Points can be distributed freely!】

Here it comes!

This was what Xie Yang had been waiting for!

She didn't even bother to look at the upgraded Wooden House, instead adding both free Attribute Points to her Luck Value.

Now, her Luck Value was 10, on par with the player average.

Only then did she rub her hands together and open the Blind Box Treasure Chest.

【Congratulations to player GY for obtaining Gold Coin *10, Ordinary Cast Iron Axe *1, already added to player's backpack】

"..."

Why was she still so unlucky?

Forget it!

At least it gave her an axe.

If all else fails, she would just chop wood herself to earn Wood!

Xie Yang stopped dwelling on it and opened the Game Panel to check the information of the upgraded Shelter:

【Name: Barely Acceptable Wooden House】

【Level: Level 1】

【Attributes: Withstands blizzards below level 6, resists low temperatures of -15℃ and above】

【Next upgrade requirements: Wood *100, Iron Nail *200】

Then she looked around the interior of the Wooden House—

The area had doubled;

The single glass window had been upgraded to a large double-pane window;

The one-meter small bed had been upgraded to a 1.5-meter large bed;

The single table and chair had become a set of bar counter and high stools;

Additionally, there was now a nightstand, a wardrobe, and a rattan rocking chair.

The Small Fire Stove that was flickering out disappeared, but a burning fireplace appeared in its place, and the temperature in the room rose by several degrees instantly.

Xie Yang took off her down jacket and still felt warm.

Next to the fireplace, where there used to be a corner of the wall, a small door had appeared; upon opening it, she saw it was actually a bathroom inside.

Although there was no bathtub or showerhead for bathing, there was a toilet, so the matter of nature's call was resolved.

Not bad!

Xie Yang's gloomy mood, dampened by her bad luck, improved quite a bit.

Xie Yang took out all the water-storage containers from her Storage Space, such as buckets, washbasins, foot-soaking basins, and laundry tubs, and went to the doorway to fill them with clean snow.

She carried them inside and placed them by the fireplace; after waiting for the snow to melt into water, she made do with a wash, then changed into a set of long-sleeved pajamas and crawled into the covers to sleep.

Some other players had traded for Wood and Iron Nail and upgraded as well, so they didn't feel cold once they had a fireplace.

There were also some players who were reluctant to use the cold-protection supplies and food and water opened from their Xinsou Libao; they wrapped themselves tightly in their cold-protection supplies and huddled around small stoves with weak charcoal fires, barely managing to fall asleep.

Only a very small number of players, who had few supplies on them when they were snatched into the game and had bad luck, failed to open enough upgrade materials, food, water, or cold-protection supplies, causing them to fail to survive the first night in the game.

Death in the game means death in reality.

The Protective Shield for the corresponding units of the deceased players' countries was removed.

【Survival Game Day 1: 9,981 players on Gaia Star have survived. The list of Survivors is as follows—】

On the Sky Screen outside the game, just past twelve midnight, a scrolling list suddenly appeared; it was the IDs of the players globally who had been snatched into the game and were currently surviving, along with their respective countries.

1. GY, Dragon Country

2. GY06753, Ice Country

3. GY, Hop Country

4. GY00572, Great North Country

5. GY08100, Ice Country

6....

If the serial number was a ranking, then among the top thirty players, except for the first-place GY, the other 29 players' countries all had territories near the Arctic Circle where temperatures were low all year round.

Experts in the outside world quickly analyzed a conclusion based on this list: the first season of harsh natural disasters that the players encountered in the game was likely the Extreme Cold.

Netizens around the world barely closed their eyes all night, flooding every social media platform:

【It's over! Our country is near the equator, and even in the coldest season of the year, it's close to thirty degrees. If we suddenly enter an Extreme Cold Natural Disaster, won't we be dead for sure!】

【Has anyone kept count of which countries the 19 players who didn't even make it through the first night belonged to?】

【It was tallied long ago; they are basically all those small tropical countries.】

【Go look at the international news quickly, the Protective Shields of those few small tropical countries have shrunk instantly!】

【Holy crap! How come my Dragon Country only had 33 people enter? Doesn't that mean the risk is huge? If one hangs, 3.03% of the national territory will lose the protection of the Protective Shield?】

【Damn! It's true! Is my Dragon Country that unlucky? With a total population of 1.5 billion, only 33 people were snatched? I see that small country with a total population of only Wanyi has over a dozen players.】

【It's over!】

【At daybreak, I'll have my mom go pray before the Bodhisattva, hoping my Dragon Country's 33 great generals can hang on to the end!】

(End of this chapter)