12: Golden treasure chest!

Not just Wu Yuan.

Yuan Feng had even less of an idea of what had happened!

He only felt a sharp pain in his throat, his mind went completely blank, and after that, he couldn't feel anything anymore!

All of this had happened too quickly, too surreal!

Yuan Feng barely had time to realize his own death!

The iron axe held in his right hand fell to the ground with a thud.

In the final second before his death, his left hand instinctively clutched his incessantly bleeding throat.

Then, his entire body collapsed weakly.

To be more precise, he knelt!

His body was leaning forward, and his knees were the first to hit the ground!

Afterward, his corpse fell prostrate on the ground.

And above his corpse, a golden treasure chest burst forth!

At the same time, a system prompt rang out in Lin Chuan's mind—

[Ding! Player has killed a level ranking powerhouse! Rewarded with one golden treasure chest!]

A golden treasure chest!

Even though Lin Chuan had anticipated this, he had never expected that Yuan Feng would actually drop a golden treasure chest!

In fact, Lin Chuan's intent to kill Yuan Feng had already arisen when he helped him secure the Global Announcement!

The reason he waited until now to kill him...

...was not because Yuan Feng had forced him to kneel and apologize.

...but because of the appearance of the level ranking!

On this first day of the apocalypse, many people took pride in being on the level ranking, complimenting and respecting the level ranking powerhouses as if they were mythical figures.

But Lin Chuan knew.

It wouldn't be long before everyone would realize the true meaning of the level ranking!

In later generations, the level ranking and the slaughter chart were jokingly referred to by players as the Boss Chart!

In other words, in the eyes of players, a level ranking powerhouse was just like a boss—a target they frantically wanted to kill!

What was even more ridiculous was that level ranking powerhouses would have golden text reading "level ranking No. X" floating above their heads, as if to remind other players: Hey, I'm a boss, come and slash me!

And the most attractive trait of a boss to players was undoubtedly a one-hundred-percent chest drop rate!

In the Killing Game, the probability of Dimensional Monsters dropping treasure chests was despairingly low!

According to the summaries of countless people in his previous life, players only had a chance of getting a chest to drop if they killed Dimensional Monsters of a higher level!

Overcoming a 1-level difference yielded a chest drop probability of one in ten thousand!

Overcoming a 2-level difference yielded a chest drop probability of one in a thousand!

By extension, one had to kill monsters with a 5-level difference to guarantee a one-hundred-percent chest drop rate!

And the drop rates mentioned above were only for the lowest-tier white treasure chests!

The drop rates for higher-tier green, blue, purple, orange, red, and golden treasure chests were so low that they would make one question their life!

Overall, it was simply too difficult for players of the Killing Game to obtain treasure chests by hunting monsters!

Ordinary people stood absolutely no chance!

Even the strong would feel despair!

Under such circumstances, killing a level ranking powerhouse could absolutely be considered a shortcut that people would be willing to take risks for!

Before the apocalypse, there was a popular saying: "The most profitable methods are all written in the Criminal Law."

And after the apocalypse, another saying became popular: "The fastest way to get rich and the fastest way to get stronger are both written on the level ranking."

After all, even if one only killed the person ranked 999th on the level ranking, it would at least drop a green treasure chest!

With good luck, a blue treasure chest was also possible!

As for what kind of treasure chest the number one on the level ranking could drop, Lin Chuan really didn't know in his previous life.

After all, in his previous life, when he was keeping a low profile and developing, the first place on the level ranking was occupied by a foreign powerhouse.

He had been focused on developing and seeking revenge; how could he have the time to go abroad?

And later on, he dominated the first place on the level ranking himself. He couldn't exactly kill himself, could he?

And ever since he ascended to the number one spot on the level ranking, he had never fallen from it.

This resulted in Lin Chuan never having killed the number one on the level ranking in his previous life.

In this life, however, through a series of schemes, he had killed the counterfeit powerhouse whom he had intentionally helped reach the number one spot on the level ranking.

Honestly, he really hadn't expected a golden treasure chest to drop!

After all, the level ranking in the early stages of the apocalypse was far too inflated.

Many powerhouses hadn't made it onto the level ranking simply because they hadn't found a way to level up in time.

The level ranking during this period could not represent individual strength at all.

Take cannon fodder like Yuan Feng, for instance; those who could instant-kill him globally numbered at least ninety-nine thousand, if not a hundred thousand.

Yet, such a counterfeit who could be easily instant-killed actually dropped a golden treasure chest!

To Lin Chuan, this felt as casual as stepping out the door and picking up a divine artifact!

Outrageous! Simply beyond outrageous!

But!

No one would refuse the good fortune of picking up a divine artifact just by stepping outside!

Lin Chuan looked at the golden treasure chest with burning eyes!

However, a hand actually reached out toward the treasure chest a step ahead of him.

Lin Chuan smiled.

Next came an earth-shattering scream!

Naturally, the source of the scream was Wu Yuan!

Before his hand could even touch the chest, Lin Chuan stomped on it ruthlessly!

Not only did Lin Chuan's all-around attributes exceed 2 points, but his strongest attribute, Strength, was also close to 3 points!

With this stomp, the bones in Wu Yuan's fingers were completely crushed!

He let out a pig-slaughtering shriek, his face turning deathly pale as cold sweat poured down, nearly fainting from the pain.

Only now did he finally realize his situation, frantically begging Lin Chuan for mercy in a weak voice:

"Boss, I was wrong... I was really wrong... I'll kneel to you... I'll be your dog..."

Although Wu Yuan was quick and decisive about becoming a dog, in reality, he didn't think Lin Chuan would kill him.

After all, his S-Class Talent was practically a treasure of humanity!

No one would have the heart to directly kill a talent like him.

No matter how much they hated him, they would definitely keep him fed and housed just to have him refine talent blood crystals!

Wu Yuan secretly swore in his heart that he would definitely find an opportunity to latch onto another powerhouse's thigh in the future!

When that time came, he would slice Lin Chuan into a thousand pieces!

No, even slicing him into a thousand pieces wouldn't be enough to appease his hatred!

He wanted to turn Lin Chuan into a human swine!

While Wu Yuan apologized and begged for mercy with his mouth, his mind had already conjured countless ways to torture someone.

However, Lin Chuan simply found him too noisy.

He squatted down and whispered in Wu Yuan's ear:

"There's a drama I really like called 'Your Turn to Kill'."

As soon as he finished speaking, the blade slit Wu Yuan's throat.

After a prompt about plundering an S-Class Talent rang in his mind, the world finally fell silent.

In the entire Room 411, Lin Chuan was the only living person left.

He immediately opened the golden treasure chest!

And when he saw the four rings connected by a chain inside the chest, he was completely shocked!

Even more shocked than when he had obtained the golden treasure chest!

This chest had actually yielded the "Death Grip"!

This was the secret weapon with which the Killing God of his previous life had won a hundred battles!

In this life, Lin Chuan had actually obtained it on the very first day of the apocalypse!

After his surprise faded, Lin Chuan suddenly realized that the Killing God of his previous life had probably also killed the very first number one on the level ranking of that life, obtaining the Death Grip from a golden treasure chest!

But in this life, the number one on the level ranking had become Yuan Feng.

And the person who killed the number one on the level ranking became Lin Chuan.

Thus, this weapon of mass destruction had naturally fallen into Lin Chuan's hands!

Without any hesitation, Lin Chuan bound the Death Grip to himself with a drop of blood and wore the four connected rings on the four fingers of his right hand!

Ordinary equipment did not require binding with a drop of blood.

Only divine artifacts required ownership recognition!

On the Divine Artifact Chart of his previous life, the top ten divine artifacts all had the prefix "Death".

Death Grip was ranked fourth!

The top three were the Death Scythe, the death god mask, and the death gods cloak!

In his previous life, some had speculated that if gods truly existed behind the Killing Game, then the God of Death must be the most powerful among them!

And in this life, as Lin Chuan wore the Death Grip on his hand, a "small goal" suddenly sprouted in his heart—

He wanted to collect all of the Death divine artifacts!