10: Chapter 10 Surviving a Desperate Situation, Landing on a Second-Tier Island

The chat in the Great Xia Live Stream erupted like a volcano.

[ Awesome!! Who else is there!!! ]

[ Everyone stand up! All of you, get on your feet!!! ]

[ Wind-Chasing Claw: This is what a real buyer's showcase looks like! The previous bird egg digging doesn't count! ]

[ Bird Egg: I feel like you're scolding me! ]

[ Is there anyone else like me who was already typing up a eulogy just now... ]

[ +1, I even typed out "Rest in peace"! ]

[ I don't care, starting today, Brother Eye-Gouger is my religion! ]

[ Gouge what gouge, do you know the rules? Use an honorific! ]

[ Uh... Eye... Gaze? ]

[ What kind of gaze are you talking about, call him Brother Eye! ]

[ ... Castration? ]

[ How bold! ] X10086

[ Are you guys done yet? You need to call him Brother Eye with reverence! ]

Commentator Chen Guofeng stood up from his chair and slammed his hand onto the commentary desk, making the microphone bounce.

"Well done! Lin Ye! Well done!"

"This isn't luck! This is skill!"

Xu Mingyuan held onto the edge of the table, wiping the sweat from his forehead with one hand.

"I retract my previous judgment. To be able to pull off this extreme maneuver in such a desperate situation is a true miracle of survival."

He gave a bitter smile, his fingertips trembling: "I admire Lin Ye's mental fortitude."

Su Qinglan wiped the corner of her eye with her hand, then turned around and smiled.

H City, Lin Ye's home.

Li Mei knelt in front of the television.

On the screen, her son was suspended in mid-air, with an endless sea of clouds beneath his feet.

Alive.

Her son was hanging up there, still moving.

She couldn't hold on any longer and covered her face with both hands.

The string that had been taut all night finally snapped at this moment.

Fear, despair, lingering fear, relief.

The pent-up emotions surged from her chest, turning into heart-wrenching wails.

As long as he is alive.

As long as Xiao Ye is alive, it's enough.

Great Xia western border, a duty room at a certain outpost.

Lin Changshan held his phone in front of his chest, the image on the screen still shaking.

A dozen comrades let out earth-shaking roars.

The young soldiers hugged each other, jumping up and down.

Someone patted Lin Changshan on the back, while others grabbed his arm and shook it vigorously.

Some even rushed outside the outpost and roared at the mountains!

"Old squad leader, your son is too awesome!"

"This is definitely like father, like son!"

"Old Lin, your seed is truly tough!"

Lin Changshan stood motionless in place.

The light from the phone screen reflected on his face.

That face, etched with deep ravines, showed no change at all.

But deep within those bloodshot eyes, a layer of hot mist had long since covered them.

Disaster Prevention Administration, command center.

Throughout the entire hall, cheers and applause almost blew the roof off.

Director Wei Tiejun finally unclenched his fists, his palms covered in cold sweat.

He let out a long breath of stale air and turned to look at the seats below the big screen.

"Quiet."

"Summarize all data on this Floating Island collapse immediately!"

"Yes!"

Three minutes later, Intelligence Team Leader Zhou Jianping walked up with a freshly printed brief.

"Director Wei, the preliminary statistics are out."

"This Floating Island collapse event covered the outermost Level 1 Floating Island cluster of the Void Sea, involving 5 people on our side."

"2 survived: 063 Chang Wei, 066 Lin Ye."

"3 sacrificed..."

The muscles in Director Wei Tiejun's jaw tightened.

"What about the global data?"

Zhou Jianping turned the brief to the next page.

"A total of 679 Challengers encountered the collapse, with 51 surviving. The survival rate... 7.51%."

Less than ten percent.

"Follow up with compensation work immediately, follow the standard, and do not miss a single person."

"Yes!"

At this moment, in the Great Xia Live Stream, several glaring, highlighted chat messages drifted in.

[ USA: Hmph, just relying on equipment! Without that claw he'd be dead! ]

[ South Korea: Exactly! If it were our Challenger, we could have survived with that equipment too! ]

[ USA: Ultimately it's just the gear carrying him, his personal strength isn't that great. ]

The Great Xia chat area replied in seconds.

[ Where did the equipment come from? Traded for with perfect quality! If you can't produce it, don't be sour! ]

[ If you're so capable, why don't you trade one? Oh, right, you can't even tell the difference between good and bad. ]

[ Exactly, you morons who can't even recognize a fruit, are you jealous? ]

[ USA, your Jason also has standard claw ropes, did you see him survive? ]

As soon as this chat message appeared, the USA IDs collectively went silent.

[ Hahaha! You hit them where it hurts again! ]

[ USA: ... fuckyou! ]

[ Hey, look, they're anxious again! You're so out of words, why are you even on the international web? ]

[ I suggest you sign up for a Chinese class first, otherwise I feel no sense of achievement when I scold you! ]

Under repeated bombardment, those overseas IDs were sprayed into oblivion by Great Xia netizens.

In the Void Sea, Lin Ye's situation was not easy.

His right arm was pulled straight, and he hung dangling at the end of the cable.

A sharp pain came from his shoulder joint, feeling as if it were being torn apart.

He gritted his teeth and pressed the switch on his arm guard with his left hand.

"Buzz—"

The cable began to retract inward inch by inch.

His body was slowly pulled upward.

The distance of several dozen meters seemed infinitely long.

30 meters.

20 meters.

10 meters.

The cliff face above his head drew closer and closer.

Finally, a thick layer of green moss appeared in front of him.

He lunged forward with his left hand, grabbing the edge of the cliff, his fingers embedding into the soil.

He kicked his legs.

He flipped his body.

He rolled over the cliff edge and fell onto the ground of the Level 2 Floating Island.

Lin Ye lay sprawled out, his chest heaving violently.

His back pressed against the damp, soft moss, and that solid tactile sensation traveled from his spine to his limbs.

He stared at the sky above his head, panting heavily.

He had survived.

Damn, he was lucky to have survived another day.

He lay there for a full two minutes, and only after his heartbeat had calmed down slightly did he slowly sit up.

He moved his right arm slightly; it hurt.

It was just a strain, not a dislocation.

That was a stroke of luck!

The skin on his right knee was scraped, and dark red blood was seeping through his pants.

Although the wound was small, in this world without medical care, it could be fatal.

He activated the light screen in front of his right eye.

[ Name: Lin Ye ]

[ Nationality: Great Xia ]

[ Vital Signs: Imperfect ]

[ pollution: 0.02% ]

[ Spirit Grid: 100% ]

Lin Ye was stunned.

0.02%.

It had always been 0.00% before.

"pollution? Where did it come from?"

He went through everything he had eaten since yesterday in his mind; it had all been confirmed as "clean" by the Eye of Destiny.

It was unlikely to be the food.

Finally, he looked at his right knee.

Lin Ye squinted his left eye slightly.

Eye of Destiny, activate.

At the edge of the wound, there were a few tiny gray spots.

Gray spots.

He fell silent.

The gray spots were attached to the wound.

It wasn't something he had eaten; it had seeped in from the external environment.

Sure enough, the body's pollution was related to the gray spots.

Even a scrape could cause pollution; it seemed that in the Void Sea, high-dimensional energy invasion was everywhere.

Or rather, the Void Sea itself was a high-dimensional world.

He deduced that from the very first second everyone landed, their bodies had already been in contact with this stuff.

The only difference was who died quickly and who could hold on.

However, Lin Ye did not indulge in this emotion for too long.

Among the first batch of Challengers, some had already been living here for over ten days.

0.02%, he was still far from death.

Rather than worrying about this, it was better to solve the immediate problem.

He stood up and brushed the dirt and moss debris off his body.

He looked around.

It was completely different from a Level 1 Floating Island.

Under his feet was a patch of moss, leading to a dense thicket of bushes.

Further inside, there were patches of forest, and some trees were so thick that even a few people couldn't wrap their arms around them.

In the distance, he could see rolling hills.

According to the official classification standards, the area of a Level 2 Floating Island was dozens of times larger than a Level 1 Floating Island.

It was estimated to be larger than a small town.

There were more resources here, more cover, and more threats.

Previously, when he air-dropped and scanned with the Eye of Destiny in the air, there were golden light spots on this island.

At the same time, the golden spots were surrounded by a dozen red dots.

Treasures and dangers were right next to each other.

However, finding a temporary place to stay was the most important thing.

He needed a water source, shelter, and a place to spend the night.

Lin Ye tightened his backpack and checked the hook of the Wind-Chasing Claw.

The three claws were intact, and the cable was retracting normally.

He re-inserted his dagger into his belt and lifted his leg, walking towards the interior of the Floating Island.