77: Chapter 77 Crimson Hunting Ranking Announced

[Special Event: Scarlet Hunt has officially ended.]

[All Challengers' points are locked.]

[Distributing Scarlet Hunt ranking rewards now.]

[15th Place: Switzerland Challenger, Hermann, Points: 151.]

[Reward: One high-quality four-season tent.]

[14th Place: France Challenger, Luca, Points: 158.]

[Reward: One multi-functional alloy tool set.]

...

[9th Place: Great Xia Challenger, Zhou Yiming, Points: 197.]

[Reward: One folding shelter, one purification potion.]

Red hearts filled the screen in the Great Xia Live Stream.

[Zhou Yiming is awesome! This guy isn't very brave, but he's really steady. He actually managed to sneak into the top ten!]

[Great Xia, rise up!]

[7th Place: Great Xia Challenger, Han Qing, Points: 214.]

[Reward: One piece of light anti-stab armor, one purification potion.]

[Han Qing was almost killed by two monsters during the day, but she actually fought back and surged up the rankings tonight!]

[That's four people from Great Xia in the top fifteen already, right? Awesome!]

...

As the rankings moved upward, the announcements for the top five officially began.

[5th Place: Russia Challenger, Ivan, Points: 404.]

[Reward: One set of heavy thermal protective clothing, one purification potion.]

[National Resource Gain: 5% restoration of permafrost ecology within Russia.]

The Russian livestream was silent for half a second before wine glasses and vodka icons flooded the screen.

[Russia: Ura! Ivan is a true warrior!]

[Russia: Ecological restoration! Our polar wasteland is saved!]

...

[4th Place: Great Xia Challenger, Zhao Mengmeng, Points: 411.]

[Reward: One piece of polymer anti-stab inner armor, one purification potion.]

[National Resource Gain: 10% reversal of desertified land within Great Xia!]

Inside the office ruins.

Zhao Mengmeng stood frozen on the spot.

She looked at the inner armor that appeared out of thin air before her, then stared at the tube of light blue potion.

Her throat felt dry.

"Holy crap!"

"I finally have equipment!"

She reached out to grab the armor, but stopped halfway and turned to look at Lin Ye.

"Brother Lin, can I take it?"

Lin Ye was fiddling with a wooden arrow in his hand.

"It's your reward, why are you asking me?"

Zhao Mengmeng immediately pounced, hugging the inner armor tightly, her smile so wide her eyes were barely visible.

Blue Planet, Great Xia, deep in the Northwest Desert.

Yellow sand was raging across the sky.

The moment the announcement ended.

The gale stopped abruptly.

Countless green sprouts broke through the sand.

Euphrates poplars rose to the sky.

Saxaul grass grew wildly in the wind.

The groundwater level was forcibly raised, and clear lakes formed in the parched basins.

Within a few short minutes, the continuous yellow sand dunes were covered by an endless oasis.

The Sea of Death was transformed into a miracle.

[The Chuan-Yu Tyrannosaurus has done a great service!]

[Mengmeng is Great Xia's little ancestor today as well!]

[3rd Place: Great Xia Challenger, Soldier King Xu Haifeng, Points: 428.]

[Reward: One Armor-Piercing Cleaver · Rock Splitter, one purification potion.]

[National Resource Gain: 10% increase in forest coverage quality and 10% reduction in soil erosion rate within Great Xia.]

At a certain Level 3 Floating Island.

Soldier King Xu Haifeng stood outside a drainage pipe, his combat uniform soaked in black blood.

A pitch-black cleaver with a thick spine fell into his hand from thin air.

He gripped the hilt and swung it sideways.

Ssh.

A half-man-high concrete block in front of him was sliced smoothly by the blade like tofu.

Soldier King Xu Haifeng's gaze was cold and hard.

"Good blade."

The Great Xia Live Stream bullet chat was in a frenzy.

[A Soldier King with a cleaver, invincible!]

[Soil restoration, forest quality—it's all here!]

[Tonight, Great Xia's national destiny is making an incredible comeback!]

Great Xia Disaster Prevention Administration.

Director Wei Tiejun leaned both hands on the command console, his eyes bloodshot.

Zhou Jianping pointed at the various domestic data on the screen, all of which were soaring in red, his voice trembling.

"They're all rising! They're all rising!"

Lu Chen crossed his arms, his eyes locked onto Lin Ye on the screen.

"The biggest announcement is coming."

[2nd Place: USA Challenger, Scott, Points: 824.]

[Reward: One Mad-Toothed Battleaxe, one purification potion.]

[National Resource Gain: 10% restoration of arable land within the USA.]

The USA livestream was deathly silent.

There were very few bullet chat messages.

[USA: 824 points... how did we lose with this score?]

[USA: How could that Great Xia person get over two thousand! He can't be human!]

[Great Xia: If you can't afford to lose, just say the machine is broken? We already explained dust explosions to you.]

Deep in the ruins.

Scott stood in the middle of a pile of charred corpses.

The dark tumor on his back pulsed rapidly with his heavy breathing, nearly bursting through his combat uniform.

A Mad-Toothed Battleaxe fell into his hand, its edges shimmering with a black-red light.

The purification potion hovered in mid-air.

He didn't take the potion immediately.

His bloodshot eyes stared at the semi-transparent screen.

Second place.

This rank was like a red-hot iron searing his eyeballs.

A few growls rolled out of his throat.

Scott swung the battleaxe.

Splat!

A Pale Species that had just died near his feet was forcibly hacked in two, foul black blood splashing across his mouth and nose.

He grabbed the purification potion and stuffed it roughly into his waist pouch.

[1st Place: Great Xia Challenger, Lin Ye, Points: 2386.]

[Reward: One purification potion.]

[National Resource Feedback: 30% restoration of comprehensive ecological resources within Great Xia.]

[Extra First-Place Reward: Choose one of three pieces of equipment.]

Blue Planet.

In the parched valleys, clear springs gushed out like a burst dam.

In heavily polluted river sections, the black sludge receded, and the water quality visibly cleared.

In the Northwest sand-prevention forest belt, stretches of dead old trees sprouted new buds.

Inside the Great Xia Mining Monitoring Center, a piercing alarm echoed through the hall as over a hundred new large-scale mineral veins appeared out of thin air on the radar detection map.

The Great Xia Exclusive Livestream was instantly drowned in text.

[A total landslide! This is Great Xia's number one!]

[30% comprehensive ecological restoration! With a mortal body, Brother Eye stands equal to the gods!]

[Who still dares to say my Father Lin is blind? Even if everyone in America goes blind, he won't!]

Inside the office ruins.

Three blue projections appeared on the screen in front of Lin Ye.

The first item: A slender black-bladed combat knife.

[Scarlet Broken Blade: An offensive cold weapon with high-speed bleeding and light armor-piercing effects.]

The second item: Deep gray upper body armor.

[Rockbone Armor: High-defense armor that can withstand heavy bites and punctures.]

The third item: A matte black forearm bracer.

[Dark Weaver: A tactical bracer with built-in high-dimensional nano-metal filaments.]

Lin Ye's gaze swept over the three pieces of equipment.

The combat knife had high lethality, and the armor offered steady defense.

He skipped these two directly.

Head-on confrontation wasn't his forte; traps and terrain harvesting were.

His finger decisively tapped the third item.

[Great Xia Challenger Lin Ye has obtained equipment: Dark Weaver.]

The metallic bracer fell into his palm.

The equipment information faded into view on the screen.

[Name: Dark Weaver]

[Type: Special Equipment · Forearm]

[Matte memory metal bracer with a built-in 1000-meter nano-metal filament and a silent payout system, capable of multi-directional concurrent micro-anchoring.]

Lin Ye immediately took off the Wind-Chasing Claw and buckled the Dark Weaver onto his right forearm.

The clasp tightened automatically, perfectly fitting the curve of his forearm muscles.

He picked up a palm-sized, heavy piece of broken brick by the office desk.

With a flick of his hand, he threw it toward the doorway.

The stone flew to the center of the door frame.

Lin Ye raised his right arm.

Ssh—

There was no sound of metal clashing.

The broken brick silently split into two in mid-air and fell to the ground.

The cut surface was as smooth as a mirror.

Light passed through that space, but the outline of the nano-wire was completely invisible.

Zhao Mengmeng stood dazed two meters away.

She subconsciously touched her own neck and swallowed hard.

"This thing... is pretty sinister."

Lin Ye slightly flexed his right hand, and the metal filament retracted into the bracer.

"As long as it's useful."

[I knew it! Bracers are the ultimate equipment for a top-tier camper!]

[Invisible cutting wires? What foreign dog will dare to get close now?]

[Brother Eye plus nano-wires—the ultimate soul-crushing combo is born.]

[Scott, get ready for the Great Xia Guillotine.]

Outside the window, the first light of dawn tore through the gray mist and shone into the Void Sea ruins.

The national destiny announcement continued.

The rewards had been distributed.

The bloody punishment was about to descend.