Chapter 116: Strategy succeeded!

My goodness!

Zhang Jie looked at the processed beast meat and food filling the room, his eyes widened.

Just how many players did he rob...

Just the bows and arrows alone number four; how could one person possibly make that much?

Zhang Jie roughly counted: over ten pelts, processed meat blocks nearing five hundred kilograms, seventy-odd cans, and all kinds of medicines were fully stocked.

Even at the highest difficulty, gathering all supplies from the entire map together couldn't possibly amount to this much!

Zhang Jie pondered a moment, quickly realizing the other party had very likely robbed a rich player.

That is, the kind of player who prepares to buy a heap of supplies, stash them somewhere, and plans to rely on those supplies to survive two hundred days to clear the game.

Opportunities to purchase supplies are relatively precious, not something you can just buy whenever; only the first ten days allow free purchasing.

Once past ten days, buying supplies thereafter requires waiting for the Aurora Night, and purchasing can be done via the radio in the gas station located on the map's "highway".

But this move is fraught with danger: not only must one face the extremely ferocious beasts of the Aurora Night, but also players eyeing them hungrily.

Therefore, finding a base and stocking up on supplies at the outset is the best choice.

【System notice】 F-rank player "My Father Hu Sanpao" died of hunger in the map "Snow Ridge"!

The system prompt sounded in time, directly confirming Zhang Jie's guess; thus, only five players remained in the field.

Come on, come on, move it out, move it out, move everything out!

Zhang Jie summoned the Nightmare; the Nightmare Giant Bear had its jaws pried open by Zhang Jie, and supplies were stuffed into its belly one by one.

The tentacles behind Dark Blade swiftly snatched things up, continuously hurling them into the giant bear's mouth.

Soon, all the surrounding supplies were sent into the bear's mouth; the once mighty bear was now completely stuffed into a ball, even walking became laborious.

Roar...

The giant bear strained to close its jaws, letting out a weak, feeble howl.

All right, all right, just bear with it and it'll pass.

Zhang Jie patted the rotund giant bear, comforting it.

At this moment indoors, the supplies that had been neatly stacked were now completely looted empty.

Even the bed was torn apart by Dark Blade for firewood, leaving nothing for the opponent.

OK! Job done!

Zhang Jie and company began their journey back.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man whose home Zhang Jie had ransacked naturally didn't know his own home was gone, but he had already reached the vicinity of Zhang Jie's base.

Holy shit!

He hadn't truly entered Zhang Jie's hut yet, but merely glancing inside filled him with immense excitement.

To preserve those meat chunks, Zhang Jie piled all the cooked meat at the entrance, and even stacked heaps of processed meat on the roof.

He dared not imagine how many beasts the owner of this house had slain, or whether he was another rich player.

He forcibly suppressed his inner joy; for now he couldn't let his guard down, as he didn't know whether the base's owner was inside.

The middle-aged man raised his hunting rifle and slowly approached the doorway.

The door wasn't locked; he easily pushed it open and peered inside.

A few shafts of sunlight streamed in; since it was daytime, the interior wasn't particularly dark, but after making out the situation inside, he jumped in shock again.

The supplies outside compared to those inside were merely the tip of the iceberg: firewood stacked like a wall, counters full of cans and snacks, and pelts laid out to dry on the ground.

If he could claim these supplies as his own, he wouldn't need to worry about livelihood in his next life!

He cautiously toured the interior, including the second floor, and seeing no one, he finally relaxed.

Hahaha! Mine! All mine!!!

The middle-aged man shouted excitedly, gazing at the countless fuel and supplies filling the room, his inner excitement reaching its peak.

Now, he only needed to secretly ambush somewhere, point his rifle at the doorway, kill the room's owner, and then all this would be his!

Just as he was overexcited, he suddenly felt a chill behind him, then a shadow loomed, and the sound of footsteps on the floor arrived.

Who!

He whirled around, aiming his rifle behind him, only to see a wolf's head larger than his entire body.

Nightmare Giant Wolf: Hello!

Night... Nightmare!!!!

The man's face instantly turned deathly pale; he dropped his rifle and scrambled toward the door, crawling and rolling.

Roar!

Before the man could react, the giant wolf's paw slammed down, instantly turning him into a clump of data.

【System notice】 You have been eliminated!

The man still held his running pose, but his vision blurred and he found himself directly in the preparation hall.

I... I didn't die?

He couldn't tell whether he was dead or alive now.

Wasn't it said that being killed by a Nightmare turns you into a blank?

Before him, the system began to pop up the settlement and rewards for this round of the game.

It seemed... he really hadn't turned into a blank.

How could this be possible?

The middle-aged man wore a look of confusion; he would never mistake a Nightmare for anything else, absolutely not!

After calming his emotions a bit on the spot, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and chose to exit the Dream Realm.

Returning to reality, that sense of unreality from the Dream Realm gradually faded.

His hand still trembled a little; he only saw a middle-aged man pick up his phone and make a call.

"Hey... is this the Dream Management Bureau? I've encountered a Nightmare..."

"No, who is this?"

"An intruder?"

Zhang Jie looked at the man lying in his own room, his body emitting white light, and was startled.

"Ah! Ah-ah!"

The giant wolf made a series of gestures, and Zhang Jie, looking at the man lying on the ground, also figured out its meaning.

A Nightmare scepter appeared in his hand; with a casual swing, the man's body instantly shattered into white fragments, vanishing into the air.

"You used the Nightmare staff to kill the player 'Wo Hao Xiang Li Hun'."

"Gained 1% of the opponent's attribute points!"

"Obtained an old rifle x1"

"Obtained...."

A series of pop-up windows kept coming; all the items in the opponent's Backpack were transferred to Zhang Jie.

"Really fat."

Zhang Jie didn't expect the opponent to give him a kill so quickly; looking at this situation, the opponent is definitely the owner of the assets he copied.

The red veins and dark blades kept moving things out of the black bear's mouth; the bloated Nightmare giant bear finally gradually slimmed down.

Zhang Jie opened the store and took a look; this rifle is the only one on the entire map, in high demand in the store, and purchasing one costs nearly 200,000 game currency.

"Haha, my little staff! Wait for big brother to upgrade you properly!"

"From then on, you began the retirement mode; every aurora night will spawn many aurora creatures, and you thus gained many aurora meat chunks."

"Your Nightmare will automatically grill meat and hunt for you; as a Legendary Player, you have nothing to do, and being extremely bored, you chose to fast-forward time; during this period, an AI will take over your account, maintaining some of your simple settings."

"Soon, you fast-forwarded two hundred days, and you successfully cleared the first game of your life."

"(Happy New Year! Ginseng here wishes all you adoptive fathers a happy New Year! Again, wishing you all more and more snakes!)"