Chapter 453: Chapter 453
To achieve better quality of life, one needs to continuously open treasure chests.
Morning light streamed through the enormous glass window, illuminating the shelter.
Lin Yue, sitting by the window, ate a cookie and drank coffee; his drowsiness gradually vanished, and his mind became clearer.
He opened the system panel and directly looked at the rankings.
The shock and confusion he felt initially at the names listed above were now gone.
After exchanging a massive amount of nitrate for a large quantity of supplies this time, it wouldn’t make sense if his score wasn’t high.
Of course, not being first would be strange.
"The rankings, they’re not without highlights."
1. Lin Yue 45,411 points
2. Lily Kalahao (Refugee Village) 17,951 points
3. Jia Yunzhan (Refugee Village) 7,557 points
4. Xing Lingfeng (Refugee Village) 7,493 points
5. Caspar (Refugee Village) 6,998 points
6. Alessandro (Refugee Village) 6,741 points
7. Sun Si (Refugee Village) 5,988 points
8. Kamal James (Refugee Village) 5,622 points
9. Fei Yue (Refugee Village) 5,567 points
10. Takeda Nobushige (Refugee Village) 4,917 points
Among the top ten, there’s a name Lin Yue is quite familiar with.
"Fei Yue has certainly improved... unexpectedly raised to ninth place this time."
Fei Yue’s progress is evident.
During the last disaster, Lin Yue saw their Refugee Village ranked among the top five groups, but this time they’ve directly moved to the top ten in the world!
In just seven days, Fei Yue and the others transformed, finally achieving the height of being ninth in the world.
Keep in mind, this world’s groups aren’t just a few dozen or a few hundred; among at least a million groups within a population of over two billion, making it to the top ten is quite commendable.
There’s indeed considerable credit to him for this.
After the Lizardman night attack on Fei Yue’s Refugee Village, Lin Yue—considering the potential of this ally and for various reasons—disclosed the design of the crossbow and the secret of the Lizardman’s Sweat Blood to them, which precisely marked the beginning of their rise.
The evidence is that after relocating from their original Refugee Village to a new survival point, they settled in at lightning speed, and later acquired a massive amount of resources within the Secret Realm.
Once the crossbow was equipped for their entire combat team, with proper tactics and aided by the Lizardman’s Sweat Blood, advancing in the Secret Realm was no significant issue.
The only deficiency might be their ability to engage in collective battle against large enemy troops.
After all, the crossbow, however formidable, is still a cold weapon. Faced with ten thousand Lizardman soldiers, no matter how accurate Fei Yue and his people might be, they would likely be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of attacks.
True, in the realm of cold weapons, sheer numbers can effortlessly annihilate a Refugee Village... Although Lin Yue cannot fathom why those Lizardmen haven’t done this already. They clearly have the numbers and the weapons given by beggars to dominate the Otherworld.
Yet they have remained in small-scale activities and rarely left the underground. Even when attacking Refugee Villages, from the world channel’s chat records, it seems only he and Fei Yue encountered such events.
Perhaps the reason they haven’t assaulted Survivors’ Refugee Villages is that they themselves have countless organizations and tribes, where information among them isn’t even smooth.
The number of beggars is unknown, while the Lizardmen’s numbers are vast.
For quite a long time in the future, they will be a dreaded existence among all survivors.
Or one could say, they’re another kind of "disaster"!
And this hot disaster forces these Lizardmen and beggars to cluster together, migrating to mountainous areas and other regions...
Could it be assumed that they’ll take advantage of this opportunity to exchange information and rapidly integrate, forming stronger cohesive forces, and then during the next disaster cycle, become the "disaster" that survivors most wish to avoid?
It might not be impossible...
Lin Yue shook his head, hoping that wouldn’t happen.
Even he can’t wipe out tens of thousands of Lizardman troops in a short period. Moreover, those reckless guys haven’t so far mobilized even a thousand-man force against him. The smooth operation at the Nitrate Ore was also partly related to him taking the initiative to attack.
"If things develop like that, indeed strategies would be necessary."
Considering contingencies has always been a habit for Lin Yue.
It’s the wisdom that enabled him to survive alone in this peril-laden Otherworld.
Although a 100% drop rate is powerful, those who can’t utilize it, or merely depend on it without capabilities, wouldn’t have made it this far.
He hadn’t expected to lead by such a large margin on the rankings, directly reaching a score that made the second place Lily Kalahao somewhat despair.
The gap was nowhere near as vast last time.
Lily Kalahao seems like a heroine among women; Xing Lingfeng mentioned her several times, saying she wanted to absorb Xing Lingfeng’s Refugee Village and consolidate them.
Judging by the score now, it seems Kalahao has absorbed many survivors into her Refugee Village, and also successfully widened the gap with the third-place village. The rıghtful source is 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱
They won’t be able to catch up for quite a while.
The gap between the third, Jia Yunzhan, fourth, Xing Lingfeng, up to the ninth, Fei Yue, isn’t too pronounced, any could potentially ascend to third place next time.
This time, half of the people in it are Tang Country people, making Lin Yue quite pleased.
It shows that Tang Country people have greatly surpassed others in this disaster, gradually becoming the leading group in this Otherworld!
As a Tang Country man, Lin Yue also felt a special sense of pride.
Though frankly speaking, among these people, there are quite a few unfamiliar faces.
Among the top ten, only Xing Lingfeng, Jia Yunzhan were there last time; Sun Si and Fei Yue their Refugee Villages are the only ones Lin Yue is familiar with.
Although Xing Lingfeng maintained a relatively good relationship, Lin Yue is barely familiar with their Village, and his relationship with Xing Lingfeng is merely that of simple stable trading partners.
Despite Xing Lingfeng leading many from Refugee Villages to blockade Levik’s troops near his shelter once, seemingly ready to help, reflecting back, they feared total annihilation; once you remove the world number one, how long can the world number three last?
As for Jia Yunzhan, this person and Sun Si are like a mystery, Lin Yue’s only understanding is their avatar, and that’s it.
Speaking of which, last time Xing Lingfeng mentioned Lily Kalahao, Jia Yunzhan and Caspar wanted to form some alliance, but later, no news emerged, and it directly evolved into Lily Kalahao wanting to incorporate other strong Refugee Villages.
A neon occupant in tenth place warrants some attention...
Lin Yue sighed as he once again looked at his score.
[Comprehensive Score: 45,411]
[Shelter Score: 13,569]
[Material Score: 26,014]
[Population Bonus: 0]
[Disaster Resistance Bonus: 5,808]
This time seems different from the last.
The Shelter Score saw a tremendous increase while Material Score terrifyingly multiplied nearly tenfold, and the Disaster Resistance Bonus has grown significantly...
Seemingly, there are no evident flaws or weaknesses.
However, one mustn’t be complacent because of this.
As many survivors’ Refugee Villages continue to expand into so-called Refugee Towns, Refuge Cities, his leading advantage will be offset by the Population Bonus from others.
Maintaining world first place indeed has certain benefits.
[Congratulations, you have become the top rank in the group; air-drop rewards will be deployed, please check!]
[Congratulations, you have become the world top rank; air-drop rewards will be deployed, please check!]
Two timely messages appeared, and Lin Yue realized he’s about to witness another treasure-opening session.
What’s the Platinum Treasure Chest and Golden Treasure Chest going to yield this time?
Quite looking forward to it.
After finishing the last sip of coffee, Lin Yue pushed open the shelter’s door.
Outside, at some point, gentle breezes formed by heat waves began to waft in!