16: Another global announcement!

As they were about to step out of the dormitory building, Aiya looked out at the curtain of rain in the dark night. After hesitating for a long time, she finally spoke:

"Um, B-Big Boss..."

Lin Chuan glanced at her coldly and said indifferently, "Lin Chuan."

In the apocalypse, the term 'Big Boss' had been used to death.

It sounded just like 'President Wang' or 'President Liu' before the apocalypse.

Lin Chuan didn't like this form of address.

Aiya took the cue to change her wording, "Senior Lin Chuan, President Qi Feng analyzed earlier that there might be something wrong with this heavy rain..."

"Mm." Lin Chuan gave a casual response and then stepped straight into the rain.

...

With wire still wrapped around her neck, Aiya naturally had no choice but to follow behind him into the rain.

The rain was heavy.

Yet to Aiya's surprise, being drenched in such torrential rain didn't hurt at all.

Moreover, normal rain was freezing cold.

But this rain, however...

It actually felt... warm?

It wasn't that the rain itself was hot, but rather that after being soaked, one inexplicably felt a surge of warmth.

That warmth felt like the adrenaline rush after watching a war movie, making one's blood boil with excitement.

Soon after, about ten minutes later, Aiya discovered that in her stats panel, her four main attributes had all risen above 4 points!

But she wasn't happy at all; instead, she grew increasingly uneasy.

Lin Chuan, walking ahead, also took a look at his own stats panel—

[Lin Chuan]

[Level: 0 (0/10)]

[Strength: 9.2]

[Constitution: 8.5]

[Speed: 8.7]

[Spirit: 9.1]

[Talent: Fireball, Little Fireball (F-Class), Constitution Enhancement (F-Class), Strength Enhancement (F-Class), Vajra Shield (B-Class), Invisibility (B-Class), Forbidden Magic Domain (S-Class), Blood Refinement Secret Technique (S-Class)]

It could be described as a massive stats surge!

No wonder so many people couldn't resist standing in the rain for ten minutes, even after being warned that there was something wrong with it.

Unfortunately, such stats would only last until the heavy rain stopped.

Once the rain ended, everyone who had been out in it would receive a Weakened debuff, reducing all four main attributes to 0.1!

People in a weakened state were practically no different from being paralyzed!

However, since Lin Chuan dared to walk into the rain, he naturally had a way to become immune to the Weakened debuff!

In a quite good mood, he led Aiya with the wire and actually headed to a small grove!

A rainy night, cold, unforgiving iron.

Aiya grew increasingly frightened inside.

Although Lin Chuan was quite good-looking, possessed impressive strength, and even carried an unfathomable air of mystery,

Aiya had no desire to sleep with someone she had no emotional foundation with.

That wouldn't be intimacy; it would be having her dignity and soul trampled upon!

She was unwilling, preferring death over giving up her self-respect!

She engaged in intense mental preparation, continually resolving to fight to the death!

Then she saw Lin Chuan look around before suddenly saying to her, "Raise your hand."

Puzzled, Aiya hesitated for a moment before obediently raising her right hand.

She was somewhat petite, and her arms appeared exceptionally slender and fair.

The hand she raised was small and trembled slightly in the curtain of rain.

Lin Chuan walked over and reached out to hold her hand.

Aiya's hand trembled even harder. She gritted her teeth, about to fight back with all her might,

when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her palm!

She looked up to see that the enigmatic man before her had actually sliced open her palm with a blade!

Blood gushed out, quickly filling her entire palm.

Lin Chuan frowned slightly and covered her hand with his own, barely shielding it from the rain.

As he threw a stone in a direction, he snapped at Aiya, "Activate your Talent, hurry!"

"Huh? Okay..." Dazed, Aiya subconsciously obeyed.

But then she suddenly snapped out of it and asked, "You know what my Talent is?"

She felt her Talent was somewhat evil, but she had never mentioned it to anyone.

Lin Chuan gave no explanation.

Aiya didn't dwell on it too much either, because she suddenly heard a strange sound.

Buzz buzz buzz...

Buzz buzz buzz buzz...

"Hornets! It's hornets! The stone you threw just now hit a hornet's nest!!" Terrified, Aiya subconsciously tried to run.

But the wire was still wrapped around her neck.

Lin Chuan didn't run, so she couldn't run either!

The hornets swarmed aggressively toward Lin Chuan, the intruder who had attacked their nest.

But then, they seemed to be suddenly attracted by something else.

Hornet after hornet suddenly changed direction, targeting Aiya's bleeding hand!

Aiya had mild trypophobia; seeing her right hand densely swarmed by hornets made her face turn pale.

As time passed, her face wasn't just pale—her mind was going blank.

That was a symptom of severe blood loss!

Blood Gu Technique was, in Lin Chuan's eyes, a very practical Talent.

It was just a bit blood-consuming.

Fortunately, it wasn't consuming his blood.

He casually watched Aiya work while browsing the chat channel for a bit.

The messages widely discussed in the World Channel were all about certain murderers appearing in certain countries, with players fiercely condemning those murderers.

Without exception, all those murderers had made it onto the slaughter chart.

As for the current level ranking, it was too inflated, so Lin Chuan didn't pay attention to it.

On the slaughter chart, however, he saw a few familiar names—

Bakanov, the God of Slaughter in his past life, possessor of the Death Grip.

He hadn't expected that he had already made it onto the slaughter chart on the very first day of the apocalypse; it seemed he really loved killing.

August, the owner of the Ring of Slaughter in his past life.

The Ring of Slaughter could convert slaughter values into skill points or attribute points, making it a bug-level gold-tier item as well.

Terao Yuina, possessor of the S-Class Talent Fate Abyss.

The Destiny talent could drain life in an instant, making it impossible to guard against; even Lin Chuan didn't want to bump into this person for now.

Although these three celebrities' positions on the slaughter chart weren't particularly prominent yet,

all three were the type of existence that could grow progressively stronger through slaughter.

It wouldn't take long before they shone brightly, just like in his past life, becoming regulars on the slaughter chart.

Just as he was thinking about this, a global announcement suddenly rang out in everyone's minds once again—

[Ding! Congratulations to player Bakanov for becoming the world's first player to reach Level 2! Reward: +2 to All Attributes!]

[Ding! Congratulations to player Bakanov...]

[Ding...]

The global announcement repeated three times.

This news instantly triggered a wild debate in the chat channel—

[Holy crap?!! Wasn't it said that theoretically, you could only reach Level 1 on the first day? How did someone suddenly reach Level 2?!]

[Bakanov? This guy wasn't on the level ranking before! Does anyone know who he is?]

[Damn! I remember 892nd place on the slaughter chart was Bakanov!]

[You remembered wrong! Or rather, this murderer's rank went up again! He's currently 1st on the level ranking and 618th on the slaughter chart!]

[Holy shit! Terrifying! This is a real boss! Insanely awesome!]

[I say, can Big Boss come out and share his leveling method?]

[If I had to guess, this Bakanov has been killing people nonstop ever since the Killing Game began, killing like crazy! Do you guys think his secret to reaching Level 2 might be related to killing people?]

This single sentence triggered a period of silence.