Xia Sanfu hid her bicycle in a nearby house, finished the last half bottle of water, and walked towards the cave.
At this moment, the countdown was 6 hours, 40 minutes, and 3 seconds; it took her some time to climb the mountain.
The beam of her flashlight shone straight ahead, and the dense crowd of Night Demons made her gasp.
This place had indeed become a Night Demon base.
To scout it out, she quickly squeezed into the Night Demon crowd, sprinting all the way, becoming more and more alarmed as she ran; the four-lane road was completely filled with Night Demons!
After running for seven or eight minutes, about a thousand meters, a huge circular space appeared before her.
The space was cylindrical, which basically meant the mountain belly had been hollowed out.
She leaned over the railing and looked down; there were seventeen or eighteen floors above, hidden in the darkness.
Looking down, it was a black void, so dark that even light couldn't reach the bottom!
And like the underground, there were endless Night Demons!
Military uniforms and ordinary attire were mixed together.
There were too many to burn, simply too many; hundreds were visible to the eye, not to mention those hidden in rooms.
What could the fuel she held burn?
Didn't this base have a distribution map, so she could find a fuel depot or an explosives depot? But the greatest possibility was that the depots, like the outside, were empty.
If advanced Night Demons had self-awareness, they would certainly clear out dangers.
Xia Sanfu put away her flashlight and put on her Night Vision Goggles, freeing her hands.
As soon as she put them on, there was an unexpected surprise.
Bronze Grade Night Vision Goggles: When worn, allows unobstructed observation of conditions within one hundred meters in dark environments, usable only three times, 1 hour each time.
Its 'unobstructed' actually meant X-ray vision!
Xia Sanfu gained an intuitive understanding of the base's vastness; under the Night Vision Goggles, most of the upper levels were dormitories and offices, with the topmost few floors being fighter jet parking levels.
The six floors below were also dormitories, and further down were various warehouses, laboratories, and power supply levels.
Xia Sanfu quickly pinpointed the locations of the advanced Night Demons; advanced Night Demons usually gathered many low-level Night Demons around them.
From top to bottom, within just a hundred-meter radius, there were signs of two or three advanced Night Demons!
The place was too large, and running up and down stairs was too inefficient for her; she spotted the iron cable hanging by the railing, which should be used for lifting heavy materials, extending from the top floor to the bottom.
She gripped it tightly, and the iron cable clanged, proving to be quite sturdy.
Relying on her current good physical condition and strong hands, Xia Sanfu grabbed the iron cable and climbed directly down, landing on the seventeenth underground floor.
Countless barrels of water were stored here, and she even saw a well connecting to an underground river behind a large door.
An advanced Night Demon stood disheveled on the well, wearing a white dress, with bandages wrapped around its pale skin, looking very much like a ghost that had crawled out of a well.
Xia Sanfu, holding a newly found steel pipe, struck it down to the wellside and, in one go, furiously smashed its head.
This one was definitely more advanced than the one at the hotel; smashing it felt like hitting a lump of iron, and she bent the steel pipe before cracking its skull open.
【Congratulations, Player, for clearing an 8-level Night Demon. Battle Points +800. Dropped a bronze treasure chest.】
【Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 4000. You have been promoted to Level 4 and received an advancement gift pack.】
Xia Sanfu was in a hurry and immediately opened the treasure chest, which contained a full-coverage helmet.
Bronze Grade Night Demon Helmet: Head Defense +5
The advancement gift pack contained the usual three items: free attribute points, a mysterious lucky bag, and a skill blind box. She put on the helmet, as usual, added the attribute points to her Body Development Value, and headed to the sixteenth underground floor.
Unlike the seventeenth floor, which only had one Night Demon, the sixteenth floor was the power supply level, and Night Demons were hidden in the shadows of various machinery and equipment: generators, incinerators, fuel areas...
Time was limited, so Xia Sanfu targeted and killed advanced Night Demons: 700 Battle Points, 800 Battle Points.
She simply sprayed the nearby low-level Night Demons with the flamethrower; whether they died or not was up to their fate, and she wouldn't specifically linger to wait for them to drop treasure chests.
She sprinted all the way, and the notification sounds continuously echoed in her ears: +500, +700, +600...
【Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 5000. You have been promoted to Level 5 and received an advancement gift pack.】
【Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 6000. You have been promoted to Level 6 and received an advancement gift pack.】
【Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 7000. You have been promoted to Level 7 and received an advancement gift pack.】
Xia Sanfu, as usual, intended to add the free attribute points to her Body Development Value.
【Congratulations, Player, your body potential has been fully excavated. Awakened 1-star Stamina.】
Xia Sanfu carefully looked at her personal information panel—
Body Development Value: 10/10 (The potential of Blue Star human body has been fully excavated, unable to increase free attribute points)
Below, a new entry appeared: 【Stamina】: 1 Star (100/1000)
Xia Sanfu was bewildered; had her body's potential been fully developed already? How would she improve her strength in the future then?
Keep killing, killing, killing!
【Congratulations, Player, your Battle Points have reached 8000. You have been promoted to Level 8 and received an advancement gift pack.】
Body Development Value: Failed to add free attribute points. Stamina: Also unable to add free attribute points.
Could there be another way to improve stamina?
She could only add the attribute points to her Brain Region Development Value for now, raising her Brain Region Development Value to 9 points.
From the twentieth minute of the game, when she lit the torch in the shopping mall, Xia Sanfu had never stopped killing. With each level up, instead of resting, she gritted her teeth and killed faster and more ruthlessly. Even with her full physical potential developed and killing low-level Night Demons like cutting watermelons, she dared not relax for a moment.
There must be people in this world who are smarter than her, have better innate physiques, and stronger combat power, but she believed that as long as she didn't waste every single minute and second and continued to kill efficiently, she would have the opportunity to gain more capital for survival!
Countdown: 3 hours, 12 minutes, 33 seconds
【Friendly reminder: Night Demon Hatred Value has accumulated to 10150, reaching 'Undying Vengeance.' You will be hunted by the Night Demon King.】
【Congratulations, Player, for being the first in the entire server to reach Level 10! Reward: Bronze equipment Wolf Tooth Club, Service Area full-field limited-time 50% off card, Bronze Grade repair station (upgradable).】
【World announcement will be made soon. Do you wish to disclose your player name?】
Xia Sanfu said casually, "Yes."
She was a bit dazed from killing; had her Battle Points reached ten thousand? Was she the first to reach Level 10?
【World Announcement: Congratulations to Xia Sanfu from H0081 Zone for becoming the first Level 10 player on the entire server!】
【World Announcement: A player has been promoted to Level 10. The server-wide Combat Level Ranking has been activated. The ranking updates in real-time. At the end of each map round, the top one hundred will receive corresponding rewards on the settlement day.】
【Detected that the player is eligible for ranking. Do you choose to make it public?】
Xia Sanfu paused her action of smashing a Night Demon. "Yes."
She didn't think much of it, just wanted to see what kind of tricks this game could pull off.
【Congratulations, Player, for being the first to trigger the Reputation System! Reward: Golden Forum Creation Token +1. Note: Reputation comes from widespread admiration. When the system detects public admiration for you, it will be converted into Reputation Value. Similarly, when admiration disappears, Reputation Value will drop.】
【World Announcement: The server-wide Reputation Ranking has been activated. The ranking updates in real-time. At the end of each map round, the top one hundred will receive corresponding rewards on the settlement day.】
Fortunately, the world announcement did not reveal the rewards she received.
Just as Xia Sanfu thought the system notifications had ended, she heard two more broadcasts.
【Detected that the player has accumulated ten mysterious lucky bags. Do you wish to exchange them for a mysterious grand prize?】
【Detected that the player has accumulated ten skill blind boxes. Do you wish to exchange them for a secret technique blind box?】
These things could be exchanged?
Xia Sanfu crushed the last Night Demon in this room, took out the flattened sweet potato from her pocket, and began to eat it while checking her personal information.
Body Development Value: 10/10
Stamina: 100/1000
Brain Region Development Value: 11/99
Battle Points: 10150/20000
Combat Level: Level 10
After Level 10, each advancement required 10000 Battle Points, increasing the difficulty.
Xia Sanfu claimed the Wolf Tooth Club. The Wolf Tooth Club weighed about seventy to eighty catties.
It was cast entirely from solid iron, with a handle over one meter long and a club head about seventy centimeters long, resembling a jujube pit or an oval sledgehammer, covered in sharp spikes. The club's tail had a protruding drill bit, which could strike enemies or be planted in the ground.
Before, her arms would ache from holding something weighing ten or twenty catties, but now, holding this Wolf Tooth Club, she only felt a slight heaviness.
With her current strength and this club, an 8-level Night Demon's skull could be smashed like a watermelon.
She always remembered that mysterious lucky bags and skill blind boxes had a chance to yield resources directly related to her.
Therefore, she had always held onto these two items, hoping to wait until she excelled in a certain area to see if she could obtain corresponding resources.
Mysterious Grand Prize and Secret Technique Blind Box were advanced versions of Mysterious Lucky Bags and Skill Blind Boxes.
Currently, Body Development Value could not be increased, and she didn't know how to improve Stamina, leaving only Brain Region Development Value to add attribute points.
Otherwise, after leveling up once more and increasing Brain Region Development Value to 12 points, she would exchange for the Mysterious Grand Prize and the blind box. After all, the stronger she was, the more suitable the items she obtained would be, right?
Xia Sanfu had made up her mind and set off to find the next advanced Night Demon.