16: Chapter 16: If you're bad at math, you'll be unlucky with critical hits.

[Great Xia Challenger: Lin Ye, resources uploaded successfully!]

[Detecting...]

[Resources: Silver Shuttle Fish]

[Quality: Perfect (Rare)]

[Triggered 50,000x critical hit!]

The upload announcement rang in everyone's ears.

"Rare, that's probably just because of the size."

Lin Ye was stunned for a moment, subconsciously starting to count on his fingers.

"One fish weighs about thirty or forty jin when I carry it... multiplied by fifty thousand... how many jin would that be?"

Finally, he scratched the back of his head:

"Whatever, it's just a huge pile of meat anyway."

...

Blue Star, Great Xia.

On the square of the national resource warehouse.

"Clatter—!"

Fifty thousand giant Silver Shuttle Fish, nearly a meter long, poured down from the void.

A fishy smell permeated the area, filling the entire square, piling up into a shimmering silver mountain of meat on the ground.

The logistics staff were dumbfounded, then erupted into deafening cheers.

"Quick, get the trucks here immediately!"

A supervisor shouted into the walkie-talkie:

"Hurry and dispatch all cold-chain trucks in the vicinity!"

In the Great Xia Live Stream, the screen was flooded with barrage comments.

[Holy crap! Perfect again! 50,000x critical hit!]

[Hitting the jackpot! I declare, Brother Eye is a god!]

[God, what god? The goofy look he had counting on his fingers just now exposed the god's weakness.]

[What do you know? This just shows that our Brother Eye is a down-to-earth guy!]

[Bad at math, no worries with critical hits!]

[This round, us fishermen have won! Let's see who dares to call us skunked from now on!]

Just as the Great Xia citizens were immersed in ecstasy, a large number of foreigners collectively lost their composure, reeking of jealousy.

[USA: This is cheating! How can Perfect quality appear consecutively!]

[Island Country: The Great Xia people must have exploited a system loophole! They must be severely punished!]

[India: We strongly demand that Great Xia's results be cancelled and the resources distributed to us!]

[South Korea: These fish were released there by our ancestors, sumnida!]

Commentator Chen Guofeng at the commentary desk could no longer hold back.

He slapped the table and started ranting directly into the microphone.

"Cheating? Loophole? If you can't poop, you blame the Earth for having no gravity, right!"

"Our ancestors had a saying, 'You cannot discuss ice with a summer insect,' which translates to: Shut up!"

"If you're weak, practice more, don't spend all day looking for attention here!"

Su Qinglan added the most fatal blow with the gentlest tone:

"I understand the feelings of certain countries."

"After all, watching others eat a feast while you can only swallow your saliva, it's inevitable to feel a psychological gap."

"This behavior is often called 'incompetent rage.' I hope everyone doesn't waste their precious time on meaningless jealousy."

The two's hardcore output directly boosted the morale of Great Xia netizens to the max.

The audience chased down foreign IDs to roast them.

[Insulting without profanity, every word cuts like a knife!]

[USA: Teach me how to cheat! Great Xia: The IQ threshold is too high, you can't learn it!]

[Don't 'baka' anymore, go chew on some bugs, get some high protein so your hands don't shake when typing!]

[South Korea, hurry up and bring out the evidence, let us see it!]

Under the barrage of fire, the overseas trolls were roasted with no chance to fight back.

...

H City, Lin Ye's home.

The glow of the TV screen shone on Li Mei's face.

In the footage, her son was sitting by the campfire.

On the right side of the screen were countless netizens' support and praise for him.

Her eyes were slightly red, but her face beamed with immense relief and pride.

Her son was no longer that one-eyed teenager who needed her care everywhere; he had become a hero of Great Xia.

...

Disaster Prevention Administration, Third Research Group.

Lu Chen heard the announcement, his face showing no surprise.

Lin Ye's confident demeanor while "fishing" during the day had already allowed Lu Chen to predict this outcome.

At the same time, he became extremely curious about the implicit standards of "quality judgment."

"In the same stream, with so many fish, how does he manage to pick the Perfect quality one?"

A flash of inspiration crossed his mind, and he vaguely grasped some key clue.

Lu Chen immediately pressed the communicator on his desk to summon his assistant outside.

"Immediately help me find all the livestream data for every Challenger from the moment they boarded the plane."

The assistant paused: "Do you mean the two batches of Great Xia Challengers?"

Lu Chen shook his head: "No, globally! Every single Challenger from every country!"

...

Void Sea, a certain Level 3 Floating Island.

The surviving Soldier King from Great Xia's first batch, Xu Haifeng, was sitting in a cave.

He heard Lin Ye's announcement, paused for a long while, and finally smiled helplessly.

"This kid, how on earth did he do it?"

He pulled up his national destiny system screen:

[pollution: 4.2%]

Having survived until now, Xu Haifeng vaguely felt that "quality" was linked to "pollution."

Because he had been watching his own "pollution" rise bit by bit from 0.00%.

But he had absolutely no idea what "pollution" specifically referred to.

Environmental radiation?

Unknown virus?

Or some kind of indescribable substance?

He couldn't distinguish which piece of meat was cleaner or which fruit was deadly.

The only thing he was clear about was that ever since he arrived here.

His appetite seemed to have increased, and his strength was also growing.

But...

[Spirit Grid: 99.65%]

He didn't even know when this Spirit Grid had decreased.

The screen explained that Spirit Grid was the degree of mental health, but he didn't feel like there was anything wrong with his mental state.

Xu Haifeng sighed and turned to look to the side.

He tapped the upload terminal, and a semi-transparent light frame covered a "Cloud Feather Chicken" tied up with vines beside him.

"Confirm upload."

With a flash of light, the resources disappeared.

[Great Xia Challenger: Xu Haifeng, resources uploaded successfully!]

[Detecting...]

[Resources: Cloud Feather Chicken]

[Quality: Good]

[Triggered 6,000x critical hit!]

The announcement rang out, and the Great Xia Live Stream became lively once again.

"Good?"

Xu Haifeng scratched his hair, "Other than running a bit fast, this chicken is no different from the chickens on Blue Star... how exactly is it judged?"

He also fell into the same confusion as Lu Chen.

The night grew deeper, ushering in the daily peak period for resource uploads by Challengers from all countries.

The vast majority were "Standard" or "Flawed" quality, and occasionally a few high-multiplier Standards would trigger celebrations from their own citizens.

[USA Challenger: Benjamin Allen, resources uploaded successfully!]

[Resources: Velvet Grass Sheep]

[Quality: Good]

[Triggered 5,000x critical hit!]

The USA Livestream instantly reached a climax.

[USA: Did you see that! 5,000x meat reserves! And the wool can keep us warm!]

[USA: Exactly, don't get cocky, our elites will soon surpass you!]

[USA: We still have our ace, William; he can definitely crush you!]

[USA: The great America will eventually win!]

Although Great Xia netizens couldn't stand this attitude, since the other side had results, it was hard to roast them for a moment.

Until...

[USA Challenger: William Davis, resources uploaded successfully!]

[Resources: Dream Hemp Leaves]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Triggered 40,000x critical hit!]

These two consecutive hits sent the USA into a frenzy, with some people even more excited than before.

They swarmed into the Great Xia Live Stream, their barrage comments extremely arrogant.

[USA: Great Xia people, we also have Perfect-level resources!]

[USA: William is our hero! The beacon of freedom has been lit once again!]

[USA: We have the purest leaves, 40,000x! Woohoo!]

[USA: Admit it, you Great Xia people were just lucky before!]

[USA: Tonight belongs to free America!]

Great Xia viewers looked at the screen full of dancing IDs and fell silent for a few seconds.

Then, the entire livestream burst into laughter.

[Hahahaha! I'm laughing so hard I'm hitting the table! Leaves! Perfect quality!]

[Can't compare, can't compare, we admit defeat this round, you win!]

[I went to check, that William spent the whole day guarding the leaf field! He didn't leave an inch!]

[Breaking Bad single-handedly drove down the price of leaves!]

[Great Xia feeds back survival resources, America feeds back spiritual resources, each has their own national conditions!]

[Right, we eat meat, you smoke leaves, everyone has a bright future.]

...

The outside world's clamor and frenzy were unknown within the Void Sea.

The Level 2 Floating Island where Lin Ye was located.

Night shrouded the jungle, and it was pitch black all around.

Only the campfire in front of him flickered with orange light.

Lin Ye sat cross-legged on the ground, looking up at the "tree-top duplex" he had built with his own hands.

He wouldn't be naive enough to think that sleeping high up would be safe.

Who knew if there were tree-climbing creatures in the middle of the night, or poisonous vines that could sneak up silently?

In this godforsaken place, it's better to be safe than sorry.

He decided to set up some small warning gadgets below before going up to sleep.