Chapter 38: The Rise of Zone 118, the Blazing Fire Lizard!

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As soon as the progress bars appeared, the scores of both the blue and red teams began flashing within less than a minute.

They changed almost every second.

However, the blue team quickly pulled ahead of the red team.

Blue Team: 50

Red Team: 23

The chat channel was equally lively, with the entire No. 118 district mobilizing in an emergency.

Cai Kun: “Brothers, I’m on a killing spree! My squad and I just killed three Level 3 feral beasts in a row. I feel insanely powerful!”

Liu Daqiang: “Hahaha, same here. I put together a temporary squad. It doesn’t matter who kills the Level 3 feral beasts, as long as we get the points.”

Wang Gang: “Keep it up, everyone! The enemy has more people than we do, so we should try to hunt higher-level feral beasts.”

Huang Peng: “Holy crap, I wasn’t paying attention to the level rankings. I just checked, and aside from God Ye being Level 8, Boss Wang Gang is already Level 6! And there’s Zhuang Liang, Lei Chen, Liu Qian, Huang Yun—so many people have reached Level 5 already?”

“There are dozens of people at Levels 3 and 4 as well. Good heavens, I had no idea our No. 118 district was this formidable!”

Lei Chen: “Of course we’re formidable. We’ve won the resource challenges twice. With all those resources poured into us, how could we not level up quickly?”

Huang Li: “Enough talk. I’m going to challenge a Level 4 feral beast by myself.”

Feng Yu: “Brothers, those of us at Levels 1 and 2 shouldn’t give up either. Let’s gather together and swarm a Level 3 feral beast. No matter what, that’s still one point!”

Feng Yu: “Hahaha, sounds good. Let’s go!”

Half an hour passed.

Blue Team: 406

Red Team: 188

Chat Channel of Asan Nation, No. 55 District

Sharma Rafi: “Hahaha, see? The score of our blue team has already surpassed the other side! This is a joke—ten against four. How could we possibly lose?”

Takar Sal: “I’m so happy I could sing! Let those lowly Shudras hunt the feral beasts for us. We’ll dance and sing first.”

Sharma Rafi: “Exactly, exactly. We are the noble Brahmins and Kshatriyas. Vaishyas, get up and dance too!”

“Too cold! I’m playing in the mud in the Northeast. Though the Northeast isn’t very big, I don’t even have a home in Dalian—ahhhhh!”

At this moment, the people of Asan Nation had already been blinded by the points.

Chat Channel of Sakura Nation, No. 346 District

Ichido Shuichi: “Damn it! Just because we lost a resource challenge, our resources were halved, our energy gain was halved, and the highest level we can reach is only Level 5. We can’t even fight many feral beasts.”

Kitahara Sosuke: “Damn fool! Isn’t this because you recklessly used the resource challenge token? Shut up. This time, we must wipe away our former humiliation.”

Ichido Shuichi: “Damn it! If we lose again this time, I, Ichido Shuichi, will immediately disembowel myself!”

The people of Sakura Nation, No. 346 District, seemed to see hope for revenge.

Several other nations also appeared to see victory approaching, and happy smiles spread across their faces.

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Ye Chuyun had also arrived at his next destination.

After spending half an hour traveling, he finally reached a small mountain range that gave off wisps of heat.

Because he had been hurrying to get there, he had not killed any feral beasts along the way.

As a result, his score remained at zero, placing him dead last on the current individual rankings.

Ye Chuyun glanced at the individual rankings for District 118.

First place: Wang Gang, 36 points

Second place: Zhuang Liang, 22 points

Third place: Lei Chen, 18 points

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Eight hundred fifty-third place: Ye Chuyun, 0 points

Total score: 89 points.

Ye Chuyun ignored his own ranking and stared at the list with delighted surprise.

He truly had not expected Wang Gang and the others to improve so dramatically, as though they had been reborn.

They were actually this capable.

The red team currently had 188 points, and District 118 had contributed nearly half of them.

Their momentum was incredibly fierce.

No, he could not hold everyone back either!

With that thought, Ye Chuyun quickly set off toward the small mountain range ahead.

Although the place they were in was called the Poisonous Swamp, that did not mean every part of it was swamp.

There were mountains, rivers, and plains as well.

The feral beasts occupied different regions according to their traits and strength, forming territories that belonged exclusively to them.

Soon, Ye Chuyun reached the foot of the small mountain range. Before him stretched a vast and desolate landscape.

He had not even fully entered the mountains, yet he could already feel the scorching heat rising from the ground, as though the earth beneath his feet had been roasted red by intense flames.

The air was filled with a stifling heat, making him feel as though he had been placed inside a gigantic oven.

The temperature was so high that the air itself seemed slightly distorted, rendering the distant scenery hazy.

Yet Ye Chuyun showed no reaction whatsoever to the extreme heat.

“Thank goodness my Iron Tortoise Set has maxed out my fire resistance. At this temperature, I’d be roasted alive within minutes otherwise.”

Ye Chuyun muttered under his breath.

This equipment had greatly increased his resistance to fire. Even in such a scorching environment, he could walk with ease, entirely unaffected by the heat.

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He looked around.

There seemed to be no vegetation in the mountains at all. Only yellow earth and bare red stones were scattered across the slopes.

The stones glowed faintly red, flickering beneath the sunlight like flames.

With a thought, Ye Chuyun used Appraisal on one of the red stones.

Name: Fire Copper

Function: Can be used for forging and refining.

“Fire Copper!”

Ye Chuyun’s eyes lit up.

This was a rare mineral vein!

It would be extremely useful in the future.

As far as the eye could see, almost the entire mountain range was made of Fire Copper. It was practically as common as cabbages.

Ye Chuyun’s fingers itched at the sight. He wished he could transform into a miner on the spot and sweep up every piece of Fire Copper.

Unfortunately, his top priority now was hunting the feral beasts hidden within the mountains.

He could only return here when he had the opportunity in the future.

Fortunately, this was not a place that just anyone could enter at will.

Anyone who wanted to collect Fire Copper here would first have to withstand the tremendous heat.

Combining the map with the memories of his previous life, Ye Chuyun soon arrived before a gigantic cavern entrance.

The intense heat pouring from the pitch-black opening was even greater than that outside, which meant there had to be something unusual within.

Ye Chuyun’s expression turned solemn. With Night-Vision Goggles over his eyes, he was not afraid of the darkness inside the cavern.

He activated Stealth and silently made his way inside.

Only after entering did Ye Chuyun discover that the cavern contained an entirely different world.

Countless pieces of Fire Copper shimmered with red light throughout the cavern. They radiated a brilliant glow that illuminated the interior and dispelled the surrounding darkness.

At the same time, countless branching passages crisscrossed one another, making the cavern intricate and bewildering.

Ye Chuyun took cover behind a massive piece of Fire Copper and observed the surroundings carefully.

Suddenly, a dense rustling and crawling sound echoed through the cavern.

Ye Chuyun abruptly turned his gaze toward the surrounding walls.

Several enormous red lizards were sprawled across them!