Chapter 142: Residential Complex Number One |
"You watch first." Wang Yun instructed in a low voice, then he entered the bedroom.
Lin Yi was leaning against the chair, her head tilted to the side, as if she had fallen asleep.
His heart sank with panic, and he hurried over, checking for her breath.
He then let out a sigh of relief.
She was still breathing, just seemed to have fainted.
He carried his wife back to the bed, carefully tucking her in.
Wang Yun's movements suddenly froze. He raised his head, a flash of disbelief and wild joy in his eyes. "This is..."
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"Holy crap, bro, there's actually a transmigration settlement! Holy crap, there's ranking rewards too!" Qin Ziwu jumped up, his face full of astonishment. "Bro, you must be first, right!"
Because the Home's little glowing ball floating in front of him was actually displaying a string of text that felt both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiar because he saw it every day when he woke up.
Unfamiliar because this damn thing was actually provided by the Home.
And there were also differences in the details between the two.
[Home Settlement: Congratulations to the esteemed Level 2 Authority Holder · Home Master for successfully passing the novice period and officially becoming a Home Master. More card types have been unlocked.]
[Current Stage Unlocked: Hunting Ladder Function]
[Calculating your performance during the novice stage: Combat S, Cultivation S, Wealth SSS++]
[Comprehensive Score: SSS]
[Current Residential Complex Ranking: 1]
[Reward Obtained: Random Level 2 Red Card*1]
"Hmm, first place."
Qin Ziwen looked at Qin Ziwu. "What's your rank?"
"Fifty-fourth." Qin Ziwu chuckled. "I'm perfectly happy getting a free card."
Qin Ziwen said, "Good thing I let you use it. Otherwise, if you missed this chance, you'd have one card less than others, and they'd have one more. That's a two-card swing."
The Home was still scrolling, lines of red text appearing one after another.
[Current Stage Type: Challenge Level]
[Time Limit: 30 days]
[Challenge Objective: The residential complex completes Hunting Ladder tasks ≥10 times (Level 2 tasks ≥2 times)]
[Please complete the objective within the time limit. Failure to meet the objective by the deadline will result in permanent confinement to this world.]
Seeing this, Qin Ziwen was stunned. Permanent confinement to this world?
So, would that count as a punishment or a reward?
Could it be that some people were tired of transmigrating and wanted to stay permanently?
Qin Ziwen pondered, but the Home didn't stop, continuing to scroll.
[Current residential complex has merged: Total survivor count 2025 people, Number of activated Homes: 82]
[Home's Blessing: The miracle of hunting belongs only to the brave.]
After reading the Home's scrolling text, Qin Ziwen rubbed his temples.
"So, that means the two residential complexes have merged now."
His palm felt heavy, and a crystal card radiating red light appeared in his hand.
[Function Card] Level 2 Guild.
Qin Ziwen silently willed it to activate.
[Function Activated: Level 2 Guild]
[Authority level increased. Current authority: Level 2 Authority (3/4)]
[Level 2 Guild: You may choose Home Masters to form an alliance. Current maximum number of alliances: 20. After forming an alliance, the following functions are unlocked: Goodwill Alliance, Shared Building (1)]
[Goodwill Alliance: When an ally harbors strong malicious intent, the alliance state is automatically terminated, and a warning is issued to other members.]
[Shared Building (1): The Guild Leader can set any building to Shared Mode, opening an entry passage within the Home of allies. During the sharing period, that building's characteristic levels +1. Current number of buildings that can be set to shared: 1]
This Goodwill Alliance... it's genuinely useful. In this kind of environment, the hardest thing to discern is the good and evil in others.
With the Goodwill Alliance, it at least saves allies from internal scheming and allows them to focus their efforts outward.
The only flaw is the limited slots; a Level 2 Guild only has 20 slots.
Then there's the Shared Building, which is pretty easy to understand.
Once sharing is enabled, a passage to enter that building will appear in the other members' Homes.
This passage can only lead into the corresponding building. After exiting, they can return the same way to their own Home.
That's a pretty good feature. Qin Ziwen set the Celestial Star Arrow Gallery as the Shared Building.
From now on, they could practice archery by directly entering the arrow gallery without needing to come to his Home.
After practice, they could return the same way, each going back to their own place.
[Level 1 Celestial Star Arrow Gallery: 2+1 Level Archery Boost, 2+1 Level Stamina Recovery, 1+1 Level Calm Mind and Steady Spirit] (Special Effect: Arrows are generated infinitely and cannot be taken out of the gallery.)
All characteristics increased by one? Qin Ziwen was somewhat surprised.
He originally thought it was a random characteristic level increase, but it turned out all of them were boosted by 1 level.
That made the benefit terrifying.
It was practically a master archer training class.
At this moment, noise gradually started coming from outside the residential complex.
"Let's go, we're heading out." Qin Ziwen picked up the new three-pronged fork forged by Li Tieshan. This steel fork was forged entirely from pure steel, with exaggeratedly long three prongs at the tip. It weighed about forty pounds, which felt just right.
Du Yu was even more fully armed, donning the Mountain Pattern Armor, putting on a face mask, carrying the Monk's Knife at his waist, and holding a Long Spear, following behind Qin Ziwen.
Footsteps sounded outside the door. Opening it, Li Yue, Deng Guang, Zhao Pu, and a few others were gathered at the entrance.
"Captain."
"Mr. Qin."
"Brother Qin."
Qin Ziwen looked at them. "The new residents are here?"
Zhao Pu nodded with a grave expression. "Mr. Qin, the new residents are here. It's a new building. The exterior doesn't look like a residential building, and they probably aren't complete newcomers."
"Let's go downstairs. We'll check out the situation first." Qin Ziwen thought to himself. The windows at home were all blocked by the Expansion Card. While that improved safety at the time, now with the Safe House ability, it felt a bit redundant. He planned to rearrange things, clearing out the balcony area so it would be easier to observe the outside sometimes.
Exiting the fire escape and stepping outside the building, a wave of heat hit their faces.
Dry, stuffy, the temperature was at least ten degrees higher than in the forest. Although there was only one sun in the sky, the sunlight was glaringly bright.
Li Yue was somewhat awed. "There's only one sun. We're probably not on that previous planet anymore."
"It's too incredible. Unimaginable."
Coming out from the stairwell, Qin Ziwen looked towards the north. Outside the northern courtyard wall, a five-story teaching building stood closely adjacent.
The exterior walls of the teaching building were mottled, with many dried bloodstains visible.
The most eye-catching thing, however, was the silent students standing on the corridors.
Compared to the residential complex, one could clearly sense that the surviving students in the teaching building were much more united.
Qin Ziwu said, "It should be a university teaching building, doesn't look like a high school's."
Zhao Pu murmured, "It's hard to imagine what they've been through. The outer walls of the corridors are covered in blood."
Outside the north gate's railings, a man who looked like a teacher stood behind the door. His voice was loud and clear. "Do you have a leader?"
Downstairs of Building 2, Zou Jianghe straightened his suit jacket and strode forward with his head held high.
But not long after, he walked back with a dark expression on his face.
He looked at the group of high-ranking members of the Alliance, his gaze sweeping over Zhang Bo, Huang Tao, and the others. "Hiding your light under a bushel, huh? I never expected our residential complex to be hiding the complex's number one ranker. That esteemed person, please step forward yourself. The other side wants to meet the complex's number one."
The number one wasn't Zou Jianghe?
Huang Tao was shocked. If it wasn't Zou Jianghe... a figure surfaced in his mind.
Zhang Bo's eyes flickered, filled with surprise and uncertainty.
The two exchanged a glance and, without prior agreement, thought of the same name!
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