52: Chapter 52 Special Event: The Crimson Hunt

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

[Supplies: Antlered Spirit Goat (Live)]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Triggered 50,000x Critical Hit!]

Blue Star, Great Xia's exclusive National Fortune Resource Plaza.

A golden light descended from the sky, landing on the open space.

"Baa—!"

"Baa, baa, baa—!"

Before the light had even dissipated, countless bleats echoed from within the golden glow.

Fifty thousand robust Antlered Spirit Goats filled the plaza entirely.

Sheep were packed against sheep, horns locking with horns.

The leading rams pawed the ground with their hooves and charged outward.

"Holy crap!"

The on-duty logistics director shouted at the top of his lungs:

"What are you standing there for! Catch the sheep!"

"Don't let these beasts butt down the warehouse gates!"

Hundreds of logistics staff and garrison soldiers charged into the flock, grappling with the sheep's necks and rolling on the ground.

The Great Xia Live Stream barrage went collectively wild with laughter.

[Hahahaha! I've lived to see it! This is literally an airdropped prairie!]

[Look at that soldier, he's almost crying from being dragged around by the sheep!]

[Logistics Staff: I thought I was here to move supplies, but it turned into sheep-catching?]

[Hey America, is your canned tomato beef soup tasty?]

Lin Ye knew nothing of the sheep-catching drama happening on Blue Star.

With a swift motion, he bled, skinned, and gutted the dead sheep.

He threw the entrails downstream into the Water Pool, letting the current wash them away.

Lamb chops, tenderloin, hind leg meat...

Lin Ye used vines to bundle them up by category.

With the fresh meat on his back, Lin Ye raised his hand, used Wind-Chasing Claw, and returned to the cave behind the waterfall.

Lin Ye set up a small iron pot, chopped up some meaty lamb bones, and tossed them in to make soup.

Nearby, sharpened branches pierced through lamb ribs and were slanted into the fire pit to roast.

High-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.

Grease bubbled to the surface, dripped onto the charcoal, and sent up a plume of white smoke carrying the fragrance of meat.

He pinched some coarse salt and sprinkled it evenly over the ribs.

Once the skin was roasted to a golden brown, Lin Ye tore off a rib and took a bite.

The skin was crispy, and the juices mixed with the meaty aroma exploded in his mouth.

He lifted the iron pot, blew away the foam, and took a small sip of the piping hot lamb bone soup.

"Hoo—!"

Lin Ye let out a long breath and squinted his eyes.

In the Great Xia Live Stream, the netizens who were just laughing wildly instantly grew restless.

[This is cruelty! I'm gnawing on a cold bun while he's eating a whole roasted lamb!]

[What kind of wilderness vacation channel is this? Brother Eye, you've gone too far!]

[Brother Eye, can you put those lamb ribs on the shopping cart?]

After eating his fill, Lin Ye didn't idle.

He walked to the deeper, drafty cracks in the cave.

Using the branches and wood he had brought back in the morning, he built a two-meter-high wooden frame.

He placed the remaining lamb meat and ribs on the crossbars.

The cross-breeze blew through the fissures, slowly drawing out the moisture from the surface of the meat.

Air-drying—the most primitive yet effective method of preservation.

...

At the same time, on another Level 3 Floating Island.

Soldier King Xu Haifeng lay prone behind a rock.

A hundred meters ahead lay a medium-sized city ruin.

At his feet lay the corpse of a Pale Species, black blood pooling on the ground.

Xu Haifeng poked his head out slightly, staring at the ruins ahead.

Dozens of Pale Species wandered within the ruins.

This medium-sized Lost Lands was even more dangerous than he had imagined.

He lowered his head and glanced at the scratch on his left arm.

Having just fought this lone monster, he had already figured out its characteristics.

"No vision, relying entirely on hearing and vibration for positioning..."

Trying to silently sneak into the ruins to scavenge in this environment was harder than climbing to heaven.

"This is so damn tricky."

Xu Haifeng cursed inwardly.

"That kid named Lin Ye... how exactly is he rummaging through boxes under the noses of a group of white-skinned monsters?"

He shook his head, cast the distracting thoughts aside, and gripped his military knife tighter.

No matter how difficult, he had to fight for Great Xia's National Fortune!

...

In a cave in the wilderness.

The firelight flickered.

Two female contestants from Great Xia had miraculously joined forces.

The short-haired girl, Zhao Mengmeng, had blood all over her hands and was struggling to peel a Cotton-Ear Rabbit with a dagger.

In the deepest part of the cave.

Liu Tingting was wrapped in a dirty coat, her body shivering uncontrollably.

"Zhao Mengmeng! Can't you do that further away! It stinks!"

She looked at the other girl's bloody hands, covered her nose tightly, and looked at her with disgust.

Zhao Mengmeng didn't stop her movements and couldn't even be bothered to lift her head.

"If I don't process it, what are we going to eat? Wait for death?"

Liu Tingting stood up, pointed at Zhao Mengmeng, and shrieked:

"I don't care! I can't stand this smell! Throw it out right now! I feel like throwing up!"

Great Xia Live Stream.

[What the hell! What kind of peerless giant baby is this!]

[This woman is mentally ill! Does she think she's staying in a five-star hotel?]

[I fear brainless people who act so righteous the most; she'll be the first to sell out her teammates when danger hits!]

[So unlucky! Why did sister Mengmeng run into such a useless teammate.]

...

USA exclusive livestream.

Scott stood in the middle of a ruined street like a tireless killing machine.

The rebar in his hand was already deformed from use.

Three Pale Species surrounded him from three directions.

Scott didn't even frown.

He endured the biting of one of the Pale Species, swung the rebar in a wide arc, and smashed the skulls of the other two.

The wounds on his body had already scabbed over.

A manic emotion spread across Scott's face.

USA netizens went crazy in the barrage.

[Look! This is the invincible Berserker!]

[His wounds healed so fast! He has obtained God-given power!]

[Kill them all! Let the whole world see America's absolute martial force!]

...

On a Floating Island plagued by extreme cold.

Gale winds whipped snow against the face of Russia's Challenger, Ivan.

The two-meter-tall giant let out a roar, displaying Russia's terrifying physical resilience.

He gripped a polished beast leg bone and smashed it down with all his might.

"Bang!"

The Pale Species' chest cavity instantly caved in.

It twitched twice in the snow and stopped moving.

Ivan stepped over the corpse and walked to a rusted iron door half-buried in ice and snow.

He wiped the melted snow from his face and kicked the metal door.

"Clang!"

The iron door was kicked until it warped and collapsed.

Ivan strode into the abandoned underground air-raid shelter.

...

Days passed, and more and more Challengers found the Lost Lands hidden on their Floating Islands.

Exploration, slaughter, survival.

The meat grinder of the Void Sea began to spin faster.

...

The morning of the seventh day.

Lin Ye opened his eyes on time.

He crawled out of his sleeping bag and first checked all the early warning and defense measures in the cave.

Everything was fine.

He used the lamb ribs left over from yesterday to boil a small pot of meat soup again.

The aroma of meat wafted through the air.

Lin Ye blew away the grease on the surface and had just taken a sip.

The broadcast of yesterday's battle report sounded on schedule.

Over two hundred people had died yesterday, and Great Xia had also lost one.

Lin Ye put down the iron pot and wiped the grease from his hands.

As long as the surviving contestants were careful enough, they could basically continue to survive.

Those who died now either encountered beasts that were too powerful or killed each other.

The battle report finished broadcasting, and Lin Ye prepared to get up and work.

Just then, the broadcast, which had stopped for less than three seconds, sounded again.

[It has been detected that Challengers from over 20 countries have successfully unearthed the "Lost Lands".]

[Triggering special event: Scarlet Hunt!]