Chapter 41: A Bold and Wild Idea, Continuing to Lie Flat and Develop

At eight o'clock the next morning, Xu Lang climbed into bed on time to farm points, and then slept soundly for a full eight hours.

[Base Nightmare Coins: 56, Conversion Rate: 304%, Total Yield for 8 Hours: 226 Nightmare Coins]
[Total Nightmare Coins: 230]

Waking up, Xu Lang glanced at his earnings, no longer feeling as thrilled as he did the first time.

With only a few days left before the game started, counting every single day, it would only allow him to farm Nightmare Coins four more times. Under absolute limit conditions, that might be enough for him to upgrade his Nightmare Bed once.

However, when he originally saw that upgrading the Nightmare Bed required one thousand Nightmare Coins, Xu Lang had immediately dismissed the thought of upgrading it anytime soon.

It was simply too tight; one misstep and everything would easily go sideways.

Coupled with the fact that he was later tainted by Blood Hatred, he abandoned such thoughts completely.

"The best approach is to save up the cost for upgrading the main door twice... As for the upcoming Nightmare Coins, it's best not to spend them anymore," Xu Lang pondered to himself.

What a pity.

If only he could know the intensity of the next game in advance, he would be able to estimate his dormitory's defensive capabilities, directly attract a wave of Blood Hatred, and wait for the monsters to deliver points right to his doorstep.

Through the remarks of veteran players in the chat room, he had managed to gather some information.

That was, for the games faced by first-generation players, the leaderboard would run from start to finish, and upon encountering weaker monsters, veteran players would take the initiative to attack.

How wonderful it would be if he could make monsters come knocking on his door to throw away their lives; by then, it would simply be a matter of upgrading his offensive facilities a few more times.

If veteran players like Xu Ruyan knew what Xu Lang was thinking, they would probably be shocked to death.

While everyone else was desperately trying to cling to survival, you actually want to lure monsters in to farm points?

Xu Lang was truly living far too comfortably; otherwise, he would never come up with such wild ideas.

Those players who lived in perpetual panic day in and day out would definitely not even dare to entertain such a thought.

...

Time flew by, and the daylight passed quickly.

Throughout the day today, apart from the addition of a few dozen new residents, basically nothing happened.

Of course, that was from the perspective of Xu Lang and his group.

While veteran players were desperately scavenging for supplies, novice players were also racking their brains trying to figure out how to extract a little more from supply points without getting caught.

Rest time might be called rest time, but the competition never truly stopped.

If human beings were capable of genuine unity, they would have already gone into space to fight the Trisolarans two thousand years ago.

...

The lives of the four occupants in Dormitory 200 were exceptionally cozy.

Cao Yaxuan and the other two women played cards whenever they had nothing to do, and when they were leisurely, they would even take out cosmetics to put on makeup.

As for Xu Lang, he would occasionally play poker with them, while spending the rest of his time either doing physical training or meditating.

The practice of cultivation was something that could become addictive.

Although his base attributes had not changed, Xu Lang could clearly sense his physical condition improving, which proved that working out was effective.

The day passed just like that, quite ordinarily.

The start of the game was drawing closer and closer.

[Total Nightmare Coins: 456]

After checking his harvest as usual, Xu Lang opened up the chat room.

The atmosphere in the chat room today was noticeably more tense than yesterday.

There were fewer people chatting idly.

Everyone was racking their brains over how to develop themselves so they could survive the next round of the game.

Meanwhile, the number of players in the Mad King Dormitory Building had officially surpassed two hundred!

Those veteran players who had transferred over, while having experienced at most three rounds of games, had nevertheless disclosed a wealth of information.

For example, how to allocate attribute points!

"Focusing on constitution is the most conventional build, suitable for the vast majority of games."

"Focusing on spirit specializes in ghost-type games, and it relies quite heavily on skills."

"The best distribution ratio for attribute points is three to one. A more extreme approach is four to one, and five to one is the absolute extreme of extremes, which people only use under special circumstances... such as a specialized tenant led by a powerful landlord!"

"No rush, no rush. The information isn't quite comprehensive yet. The development path for Cao Yaxuan and the others can only be determined after the next round of games; after all, I don't have that many resources left."

Hiding out at home was one thing, but Xu Lang never let his guard down when it came to gathering intelligence.

And precisely because he stayed at home with plenty of free time on his hands, he read every single message in the chat room.

So far, this particular piece of information was relatively important, and he could discuss it with Cao Yaxuan and the others later.

As for the path he should take himself...

To be honest, he hadn't figured it out yet.

The game was still at too early a stage, and greenhorns like them had virtually no career planning, mainly because they lacked the foundation for it.

Although they had free attributes to enhance themselves, they hadn't reached an inhuman level yet, and their primary means of attack still relied on external items and the dormitory's defensive fortifications.

Moreover, the reason many people were able to determine their development direction was primarily because they possessed a critical item or skill.

In reality, many veteran players knew the importance of confirming a development path, yet they remained in a state of confusion.

Because they lacked a game-changing core skill or item, they could only follow the crowd, and some third-generation players were no exception, which showed that locking down a development path was no easy task.

Not long after Xu Lang woke up, Wang Yazhi and the others woke up as well.

Looking at Wang Yazhi's slender and graceful back as she cooked, Xu Lang felt a wave of pleasant contentment.

To reiterate: when it was time to enjoy life, one should enjoy it; otherwise, there was no telling when one might kick the bucket and vanish from this world.