According to the rules of the game, killing stray beasts would grant a supply pack.
Wen Yuzhi and the others had killed two stray beasts, so what they received should naturally be two supply packs.
A crack suddenly split open in the sky, and a balloon dropped out from within it.
The balloon swayed unsteadily, and two objects like gift boxes were tied to the string below.
Whether out of some twisted sense of humor or not, the person behind this game had even specially tied a huge bow on the beautifully wrapped gift boxes with ribbon.
When the survivors opened these supply packs, they would almost have the illusion that they were truly unwrapping exquisite gifts someone had sent them.
Yet the truth was that these supply packs were something they had to fight stray beasts with their lives to obtain.
Looking at the ruins and corpses all over the ground, then looking at the gift boxes so out of place against the surrounding environment, it felt more than a little ironic.
After Wen Yuzhi took them, he quietly muttered, “...Are these gifts from the god of death?”
Complaining was one thing, but after Wen Yuzhi opened the two supply packs, he discovered that both contained weapons.
A laser particle gun with ten rounds of ammunition, and an axe the length of an arm.
Now they had both ranged and melee weapons.
Qiqi, watching from the side, could not help sighing over the young man’s good luck.
At a time like this, nothing was more important than weapons that could be used for self-defense.
Not to mention there was even a laser particle gun inside. This thing was good stuff. Its destructive power was extremely high, and it belonged to the category of controlled weapons. Generally, only armies or police forces could be equipped with it.
With this thing, even if they ran into stray beasts again later, they would still have the strength to fight. The only problem was that there was a little too little ammunition. Only ten rounds, so they had to save it.
The bullet comments were also sighing one after another that the little beauty was actually blessed by luck.
Little did they know, Wen Yuzhi, whom everyone thought was favored by fortune, felt that his luck was a little bad. Both were weapons, and what their team needed least was weapons.
After all, no matter how powerful these weapons were, could they be more powerful than the Saint Clan?
Wen Yuzhi asked Xi Heyan if he wanted the particle gun.
He had not forgotten that the other party was a military academy student, so he should probably like this kind of firearm-like weapon, right?
However, Xi Heyan shook his head. “I prefer mechanical guns.”
His combat style was relatively primitive and rough. The feel of using a particle gun seemed a little too soft and light to him. He preferred the sensation of a mechanical gun’s metal cartridge casing scraping past the gun chamber.
Of course, this was also related to Blackrock Star’s backward and barren conditions.
Children who grew up there all used mechanical guns they had assembled themselves.
After confirming that no one in the team wanted these weapons, Wen Yuzhi simply gave them both to Qiqi.
Qiqi froze for a moment. Although she had also been amazed by the young man’s good luck, she had never once thought she was qualified to take those two supply packs.
These were Wen Yuzhi and the others’ spoils of war. She had not contributed anything to it. On the contrary, Wen Yuzhi and the others had saved her life by arriving.
She did not have anything on her right now that she could use to repay them, so how could she have the nerve to take these two weapons?
“N-no, no, no! I can’t accept them!”
Qiqi hurriedly shook her head like a rattle-drum.
But Wen Yuzhi pushed both weapons in front of Qiqi, not allowing refusal.
“Compared to us, you need these weapons more right now, don’t you? You can keep them for self-defense. Mm... If you really feel embarrassed, then just treat it as an exchange with me.”
“Exchange?” Qiqi’s expression was somewhat lost.
What valuable thing did she have on her that she could exchange with him?
Yet in the next moment, she saw the young man before her puff his cheeks slightly, seeming a little embarrassed as he said, “Can I trade them for the cakes in your backpack?”
Qiqi had naturally come to this cake shop to find food, and her backpack also contained several cakes she had collected.
When she had run into the stray beast just now, Qiqi had put her backpack on the ground and had not had time to pull the zipper shut. The cake boxes inside were exposed openly just like that.
Wen Yuzhi had seen them too. Compared to weapons, clearly the cakes in Qiqi’s backpack were more attractive to him.
“But if that’s the case, won’t you all have no weapons?” Qiqi was still a little hesitant. Cakes exchanged for weapons—no matter how she looked at it, the young man was taking a loss.
Wen Yuzhi silently raised the inflatable hammer in his hand.
“I have this.”
The young man blinked, saying it with an obedient expression.
This was a divine tool specially used to frame stray beasts while playing whack-a-mole.
“You need weapons, and I want cakes. If you agree, then we’ll exchange.”
Qiqi: “......”
Damn it. Who could possibly withstand this kind of temptation?
Qiqi nodded with great “difficulty.” “I’ll trade. But you’re losing too much like this. I’ll write an IOU. These two weapons can both count as money I borrowed from you to buy them, and I’ll repay the debt afterward.”
As she spoke, seeing the young man’s gaze drifting toward the cakes, Qiqi added another sentence.
Qiqi had already thought it through. With weapons, her range of movement could become a little larger. When the time came, even if she did not have cakes, she could find other food.
Only then was Wen Yuzhi satisfied.
Once Wen Yuzhi got the cakes, he immediately could not wait to open the box and eat one.
Only, for some reason, he felt as if his back was a little chilly.
Wen Yuzhi blinked.
...It was his imagination, right?
After all, Dad and Mond did not know he was here, so if he ate a few more little cakes, he probably would not be discovered.
Thinking this, Wen Yuzhi instantly relaxed again.
He even cut up a relatively large one, and Xi Heyan, the Saint Clan royal guards, and Qiqi all received a piece of cake.
And so, a very magical scene appeared in the livestream.
Inside a ruined cake shop, the corpses of two stray beasts were still piled on the ground, while the people beside them were eating cake.
[Is this still an escape game?]
[A bloody livestream turned into a mukbang in seconds. Now I want to eat cake too.]
[Everywhere else is playing escape-from-the-beast’s-mouth, but over here they’re eating cake. Who said our streamer was unlucky? This luck is clearly off the charts.]
Mansendis looked at the young man in the camera, who was eating cake with great enjoyment.
He raised an eyebrow and instructed Mond, “Cancel his cake allowance for this month.”
Judging by the young man’s practiced manner and the tacit movements of the other royal guards, this was clearly not the first time they had eaten cake behind their backs.
Thinking of how the cub’s appetite had noticeably decreased after coming back these past two days, how could Mansendis not understand that the cub had been eating and drinking recklessly outside behind their backs?
It seemed even the cub, who had always been obedient, had learned to lie.
Mond nodded in deep agreement. “I was thinking the same thing, Your Majesty.”
Inside the screen, Wen Yuzhi still did not know that all his little cakes had been deducted.
He saw that Qiqi had been fiddling with something hanging around her neck that looked like a camera, and he could not help feeling a little curious.
Sensing the young man’s gaze, Qiqi took the initiative to introduce it. “This is my livestream equipment.”
“Is your livestream on?”
“It’s on, but it’s useless. There’s no signal, so the image here can’t be transmitted out at all.”
Qiqi shrugged. “But I’m already used to talking to it by myself. Even without a signal, I’ll pretend there are viewers watching my livestream.”
If she had not relied on this method to dispel her fear, she might have gone crazy long ago.
“You can try talking to it too. Imagine that behind the camera is the person you want to see right now. You can say everything you want to say.”
The person he wanted to see...
The person Wen Yuzhi wanted to see most right now was, of course, his father.
“Mm, Dad, I don’t know if you can see me. I’m sorry, I might have to come back a little later for now. We agreed before that I would come back early to eat with you, but it looks like I’m going to break my promise.”
Wen Yuzhi rambled on for a while.
Finally, the young man looked seriously into the camera and seemed to remind him, “Dad, even though I’m not there, you can’t work too late. You have to rest properly. I’m doing fine here, so you don’t need to worry. When I get out, I’ll make little cakes for you.”
[No way! Help! He’s really too cute!]
[Ahhhhh who is his dad? Baby, I want to be your dad too!]
[Want to be his dad +1. If I had such a cute cub, that would be amazing.]
[He’s really so sweet, so obedient and sweet. Sob sob, I want to eat cakes made by the cub too.]
Wen Yuzhi did not know that when he spoke to the camera, the entire scene was being captured by another invisible camera and sent to the livestream room.
At this moment, countless viewers in the livestream room had seen what the young man said to his father.
For a time, bullet comments from people wanting to become the little beauty’s dad filled the entire screen.
Fortunately, as the cub’s real father, Mansendis was watching the livestream room that belonged to Wen Yuzhi. There were not many bullet comments there, nor were there comments saying they wanted to become his father.
Therefore, the silver-haired sovereign temporarily did not know that there were many people on StarNet right now who all wanted to steal his cub.
At this moment, hearing those words from the cub, Mansendis laughed softly.
The silver-haired sovereign’s smile was very faint, almost only the slightest upward curve at the corner of his lips.
But that hint of a smile was enough to make the people present, who had kept their attention fixed on this Saint Clan sovereign the whole time, feel as if they had seen a ghost.
Mansendis did not care about these people either. He looked at the cub on the screen, who was seriously telling the camera that he would make cakes for him, and suddenly said, “There’s no need to cancel the cakes.”
The silver-haired sovereign did not explicitly state whom he was speaking to, but Mond knew Mansendis was speaking to him.
The old chief affairs officer smiled and answered yes.
Inside the screen, after the cake was finished, it was also time to part ways.
Qiqi packed up her backpack. She did not try to have Wen Yuzhi and his group take her along just because their team was strong, although she knew that if she asked, the young man would very likely agree.
After all, she could tell that the other party’s heart was actually very soft.
But Qiqi knew her own level. She did not want to drag others down. So it was better to part here and simply say goodbye to each other.
She also told Wen Yuzhi a piece of information she knew. “Before I came here, I heard someone mention that it seemed like a safe zone had refreshed over by Jewelry Street.”
“If you’re interested, you can go over there and take a look.”
“You know about the safe zone? Then why didn’t you go?” Wen Yuzhi asked curiously.
Qiqi smiled. “I’m used to moving alone. Besides... I don’t think a safe zone is necessarily safe.”
Compared to stray beasts, sometimes beings of intelligent races were more terrifying.
Especially under such extreme circumstances, with that rule also in place.
They separated there.
Qiqi continued walking into the ruins. Wen Yuzhi discussed it with Xi Heyan, and they decided to go over to the safe zone to take a look.
If they wanted to know how to end this game sooner, then they had to gather more information.
That was right. Wen Yuzhi did not want to keep playing according to the intentions of those people behind the scenes.
He wanted to end this game early.
After saying those things to Qiqi’s camera just now, he missed his family outside a little.
Besides, the longer time dragged on, the more people would die, and the stronger the stray beasts they would face later would become.
So no matter from which angle, Wen Yuzhi did not want to keep playing anymore.
“Let’s go. We’ll head this way!”
Wen Yuzhi pointed to the road on their left.
They had gone to that Jewelry Street before, and Wen Yuzhi still remembered how to get there.
As they kept approaching that side, other survivors gradually appeared along the road.
Of course, stray beasts also appeared here.
However, survivors who had lived until now and still dared to walk outside more or less had some ability. They had also grouped together into several teams.
Wen Yuzhi saw that in one team, there was someone like a mantis who directly leaped onto the stray beast’s head, while his companions took the opportunity to restrain the stray beast’s body. Cooperating with each other, they killed the stray beast together.
The other teams were more or less the same.
As for some lone wolves carrying backpacks on the road, when they saw stray beasts, they often chose to avoid them and did not take the initiative to attack.
Among these people, Wen Yuzhi and the others’ team was also very eye-catching.
It looked like a combination of a rich young master who had clearly been very well protected, along with his servant and a group of bodyguards.
Anyone who encountered them could not help glancing over a few more times.
But it was only curiosity. Perhaps because they felt there was someone dragging the team down, they did not think this team’s strength could be all that great.
Wen Yuzhi, who was treated as the burden: “........”
Clearly, he was also very powerful...
He just had not grown up yet. Once he grew up and had a beast form like Dad’s, he could scare these people to death with that alone.
Wen “Very Fierce” Yuzhi thought this while gripping his inflatable hammer.
When they arrived at Jewelry Street, there were even more survivors, though everyone was very guarded against one another, and almost no one interacted.
The so-called safe zone was located around the flower bed in the middle of Jewelry Street.
It was very conspicuous.
A glowing energy shield had covered the nearby area, and people had already entered.
When Wen Yuzhi and the others approached, they happened to hear that the survivors inside and outside seemed to be arguing.
“What happened?”
Wen Yuzhi looked into the crowd with some confusion.
A round-faced fat man beside him had probably arrived a long time ago and knew the whole process behind this argument.
He was not stingy either. Seeing Wen Yuzhi’s tender face, he smiled and directly told him, “This safe zone was found first by people from the Fire Lizard race. Relying on their numbers, they occupied the place. Anyone who wants to go in has to hand over supplies.”
“Whose supplies weren’t obtained with their lives? Who’d be willing to accept that? So they started arguing!”
Fire Lizard race...
Wen Yuzhi kept feeling that this name sounded a little familiar.
Oh, right! Had Blue Zither Star not belonged to this group of Fire Lizard people before? They had wanted to deal with the Saint Clan, only to be beaten black and blue by the Saint Clan and lose Blue Zither Star as well.
He had not expected these Fire Lizard people to have actually run over to Blue Luster Star.
When Wen Yuzhi saw the Fire Lizard people inside the safe zone, he thought of the areas that had been fenced off on Blue Zither Star.
It seemed enclosing territory really was a traditional skill of these Fire Lizard people. Wherever they went, they fenced off land there.
The fat man beside him was clearly also somewhat dissatisfied with the Fire Lizard people’s actions. “Just watch. They’ll start fighting up ahead sooner or later.”
As he was saying this, the fight over there broke out.
This greedy behavior of the Fire Lizard race had undoubtedly offended every other race.
Yet these Fire Lizard people still did not know how to restrain themselves. The moment they opened their mouths, they demanded more than half the supplies. Who could possibly accept that?
Only, because this group of Fire Lizard people was numerous, the first few teams that arrived had not rashly made a move.
This time, the ones who made a move were said to be from the merfolk race.
Beautiful and dazzling female merfolk were the focus of everyone’s attention no matter when or where they were. They were praised as pearls of the sea, peerless beauties of the mortal world.
However, at this moment, that legendary pearl was punching the Fire Lizard people one fist after another.
“I’ve been the boss in the sea for decades! I’m the only one who gets to extort other people! And you actually dare ask me for money?!”
That mermaid, all by herself, pinned down more than a dozen Fire Lizard people and beat them on the ground. Beside her, two older merfolk protected her while helplessly reminding her, “Princess, fighting is fighting, but please pay some attention to your words outside.”
What extortion? That sounded so unpleasant.
“.......”
Wen Yuzhi blinked.
“So the merfolk race is actually this fierce?”
This seemed a little different from the fairy tales.
Xi Heyan told him that merfolk were actually very fierce.
If someone truly fell into the sea, there would not be any gentle and beautiful merfolk princess running over to rescue the prince. Instead, the merfolk princess would happily bring the prince home, and then the prince would become the merfolk’s dinner.
Wen Yuzhi: “........”
“Mond lied to me. The bedtime stories he told me clearly weren’t this version!”
In front of the screen, Mond covered his mouth and coughed.
This could not be blamed on him. It was really that group of merfolk who were too shameless. To outsiders, they kept creating the image that merfolk were actually very kind and peaceful, attracting good-looking young men and women to the seaside, while they took the chance to snatch people back to become captive spouses.
Those fairy-tale books were the greatest scam this group of merfolk had released.
At this moment, Haisena, who had also noticed the livestream image, had a somewhat awkward expression.
“My little sister’s temper isn’t very good. She’s only a little impulsive.”
...Only a little?
The other race representatives who were paying attention to this side also opened Lottie’s livestream room.
Looking at the Fire Lizard people who had been beaten until they were almost out of breath, they could not help gaining a deeper understanding of the merfolk’s brutality.
Lottie lifted her head and saw Wen Yuzhi in the crowd.
Her eyes brightened. She put down the Fire Lizard person in her hand, who was already exhaling more than inhaling, and walked straight up to Wen Yuzhi.
“Little cutie, you’re here too.”
Little cutie?
Was she calling him?
Wen Yuzhi even looked left and right.
Xi Heyan frowned. He stepped half a step forward, blocking Wen Yuzhi in front of him, and looked warily at the mermaid before them.
Lottie’s gaze swept over Xi Heyan’s body.
“Nice figure! Unfortunately, the face is a little lacking. Little cutie, is this your boyfriend?”
Wen Yuzhi quietly poked his head out from behind Xi Heyan’s shoulder.
“You’ve misunderstood. We aren’t in that kind of relationship.”
The young man explained softly.
Lottie looked at Wen Yuzhi, then at Xi Heyan, whose expression had clearly stiffened and become somewhat unnatural, and gave a meaningful oh.
Immediately after, she enthusiastically introduced, “But if you like this type, I can introduce a few to you too. I guarantee they all look pretty good.”
The instant Xi Heyan heard Lottie’s words, his face darkened.
Wen Yuzhi hurriedly refused even more quickly.
Fortunately, at this moment, the two merfolk officers also arrived. They quickly pulled back their princess.
“Apologies. This is Princess Lottie of our merfolk race. Her personality... We’re sorry for troubling you.”
After saying this, they even took out a box of pearls as an apology.
Looking at this full box of pearls, Wen Yuzhi blinked slowly.
It seemed the merfolk race was also quite wealthy. Even their apology gifts were this generous.
When Lottie was taken away, she still waved at Wen Yuzhi. “If you run into trouble, you can come find me.”
Xi Heyan pressed his lips together and, without another word, pulled Wen Yuzhi toward another direction.
This safe zone was not small. After the Fire Lizard people were no longer occupying the area, all the teams that had rushed over each chose their own places to sit down.
Wen Yuzhi and the others chose a relatively cornered spot.
However, not long after they sat down, several teams began arguing over the distribution of supplies.
There were some supplies inside the safe zone.
But the amount was not large. If divided reluctantly, every team could only receive a little, but in that case, the quantity would be too small.
Some people wanted to take more, and when the rest saw others going to take supplies, they were also afraid that by the time it was their turn, nothing would be left. So they swarmed forward to fight over them.
You snatched, I snatched, and the situation instantly became chaotic.
Wen Yuzhi and the others were sitting far away, so they were not affected by this chaos.
Teams were still constantly coming in from outside, while the supplies inside were becoming fewer and fewer.
Wen Yuzhi looked at those survivors whose eyes had turned red from fighting over supplies, and he sighed. “This safe zone wasn’t created for us to rest at all.”
The other party had set that rule, causing the survivors to lose the foundation of mutual trust.
If the former was the fuse, then the supplies inside the safe zone were a fire, instantly causing the survivors who had gone through countless hardships to reach the safe zone to start infighting.
No one knew how long this safe zone could last. The result of infighting would only continuously wear down the strength of the survivors’ side.
Perhaps this was exactly their goal.
Watching these people kill each other in a sealed environment, as if they were watching crickets fight.
Xi Heyan had long known that the person behind the scenes would not be so kind.
The so-called safe zone was merely poison wrapped in honey.
However, compared to these things, what he cared more about was, “Are you hungry?”
Wen Yuzhi had not yet spoken when the other party had already rolled up his sleeves and walked toward the place where the fight was happening.
The people over there were already fighting until their eyes were red, even beginning to attack indiscriminately.
When Xi Heyan walked over, some people even tried to hit him, only to be thrown to the ground by Xi Heyan with a backhanded move in the next moment.
Almost just like that, he fought his way through. Xi Heyan beat down everyone who dared block him.
He directly took away all the desserts among the supplies. The others could only dare to be angry, but not dare to act.
When Xi Heyan went over, he was empty-handed. When he came back, he was carrying armfuls of things.
But just as he was about to walk back, someone suddenly darted out from the side.
It was the fat man who had taken the initiative to explain the situation to Wen Yuzhi earlier.
With an agile posture completely inconsistent with his body type, he rushed in front of Wen Yuzhi.
Before the Saint Clan royal guards beside him could make a move, the fat man shouted, “I don’t mean any harm! I just wanted to come over and ask if you want to make a deal.”
“I know a lot of information. I can use that information to exchange for some food from you.”
