For player convenience, the competition notice specifically detailed which items would take up a slot and which could be worn on the body.Yun Luohe read it carefully and found that armor and rings were wearable gear and didn’t occupy backpack slots, but the golden crocodile backpack didn’t count.There were also special rules about carrying pets—if the pet was stored in the satchel, it counted as one item.Before heading out, she posted the list of items she planned to bring in the trainee group chat and discussed it with everyone.Since nearly all the trainees were going to join the competition, it was a good chance to talk things over together.And if they ended up meeting during the match, they might be able to help each other out.After the discussion, Yun Luohe changed her mind right away.She decided to leave the golden sickle behind and bring a fire starter instead. There was no point wasting so much time making a fire, especially since Mist Veil Island was full of fog—the air was damp, and there was no way to start a fire by friction. Without fire, she wouldn’t be able to cook food or boil water, so a fire starter was essential.The golden sickle was just for harvesting fiber, but the hunting knife could be used instead.And since the fog on Mist Veil Island wasn’t poisonous, she wouldn’t need to bring a gas mask.In wild survival, the most important thing might not be scoring points, but first making sure she could survive as well as possible.A few minutes before the countdown ended, Yun Luohe finalized her list of items to bring.Night stalker hunting knife, for close combat and as a backup kitchen knife.Upgraded bow and arrows, for ranged attacks and hunting; Yun Luohe even rubbed frog venom on the arrowheads.Pet satchel, with Yúntūn inside, so she could release it for help when needed.Multi-function entrenching tool, not just for digging but also for clearing paths and chopping wood.Acid-resistant waterproof tent, for building a temporary shelter and protecting herself from nighttime acid rain.Oil barrel made from refined steel, for storing oil. There was lots of oil on the island, and she wasn’t going to miss out. At least one large barrel to bring back.For that, Yun Luohe made a 200-liter barrel, using up several pieces of refined steel.Portable grill for outdoor cooking.She also brought a bottle of recovery potion, made from energy essence, a high-grade potion that could quickly restore stamina and health. In case she got hurt or ran into danger on the island, she could recover quickly by drinking it.Because players might fight each other in this event, Yun Luohe also brought a teleportation card—something she’d only use at a critical moment to save her life.The last slot went to a steel pickaxe, for mining.After all, fluorite was one of the target resources for this competition.[Welcome to Mist Veil Island…][The wilderness survival competition has begun][Basic points system rules:Time limit: Seventy-two hour survival challenge. Scoring period is from 6:00 to 18:00 each day. On the second day at 10:00, the real-time leaderboard will be opened.Safety mechanism: If a red alert is triggered, or if severe injury or poisoning threatens your life, you will be forcibly withdrawn and your points reset to zero.Killing another player lets you plunder all their points and items, and puts you on the red-name list. Killing a red-name player awards extra points.]Yun Luohe stood in the forest, a thick white mist all around her. She couldn’t see anything ten meters away.She must have been randomly teleported into the forest on Mist Veil Island.With the rules just announced, this competition was sure to turn into a bloodbath—killing other players let you plunder their items. Who knew how many would die this time?Yun Luohe kept her hunting knife within easy reach.Since she’d have to survive here for two days, the most important thing was to find a water source first, and then build a shelter nearby.Her view was blocked by the mist, so it would be hard to find resources quickly. Yun Luohe released Yúntūn—the pet’s senses for the environment were much sharper than a human’s, so she sent Yúntūn out to scout ahead.The woods were mostly pine, along with a few other kinds of trees. Yun Luohe started chopping trees and gathering pine resin and pinecones as she worked.Cutting trees and gathering plants would increase her gathering experience and also give her points.With nothing else urgent to do, she decided to just keep chopping trees for now.Yúntūn went ahead to look for water and would come back to find her if it found anything.Once she landed on the island, her locked backpack was released, so anything she collected on the island now she’d be able to bring home.Wood could be used for building shelter. Yun Luohe planned to gather some first, and when she found a good spot, she’d start building.While chopping, she discovered a kind of tea plant that parasitized on the pine trees. The underside of the leaves had fine silver hairs and gave off a fresh fragrance.[Mist veiled tea: Specialty tea from Mist Veil Island. Contains caffeine substitute. Brewing it sharpens the mind and leaves a lingering sweet aftertaste.]She’d brew some tea later—at night it could warm her up.There was a big temperature difference between day and night on the island.Still, there wasn’t much tea to be found.Once her stamina was down to half, Yun Luohe stopped.She had to always watch her stamina now—couldn’t let ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ it drop too low, because nobody knew what might happen next.——As soon as the competition started, players back on the reef all entered the live channel to watch the contestants.Everyone saw the same main perspective, randomly selected by the system and switched every hour.In the upper right corner, the player’s region and name were displayed.The first player shown was a male contestant from zone 3, in bracket one.At that moment, all the region chat channels were talking about the competition.“This guy’s pretty strong—he’s already found some supplies and racked up more than ten points.”“The fog is so thick, you can’t see a thing. If you’re spending the night out here, you’d better hurry and find shelter. If it rains, you’ll be out in it all night.”“There’s no need to rush for points at the start. It’s better to get used to the environment first.”“When can we switch perspectives? This person’s boring.”“Yeah, if only we could choose who to watch.”“I already messaged the system assistant—maybe it’ll work.”Players on the reef were all interested in what was happening to the contestants, but they had plenty of their own things to do and couldn’t just sit around watching the stream.Besides, the system switched perspectives every hour, and some players just weren’t interesting to watch, so viewers’ enthusiasm slowly dropped.Until the perspective switched to Zone 1’s Chen Jin.The discussion picked up again.Chen Jin was a well-known figure in Zone 1.He was always first on the leaderboard, and he often shared his own survival insights and island experiences on the forum, so he had a lot of followers.For this competition, all the players in zone one wanted to see from his perspective. When it finally switched to him, everyone in zone one stopped what they were doing and stared intently at the livestream screen.Chen Jin had been dropped into the depths of a canyon on Mist Veil Island. This place was shrouded in grayish-white thick fog all year round, with visibility under five meters.It was even worse than the outer areas.But the rock walls at the bottom of the canyon were covered in oil-seeping holes.You could smell the strong scent of oil in the air.Light crude oil slowly flowed out of the cracks, and you could see a stream covered with a black film of oil.All the water sources here were polluted by oil, but the sight of so much oil everywhere was enough to make anyone jealous.That was real oil.The audience went wild.But Chen Jin stayed perfectly calm. He crouched down, pulled out an iron bucket from his backpack, and used the lid to skim the crude oil from the stream into the bucket.His points kept rising.Just when everyone thought his luck was incredible, Chen Jin walked a few steps further—and found this was a blocked-off dead end. Behind him was the oil-covered stream, ahead was a pit of sticky asphalt mud, and above were cliffs and steep rock faces. The area he could stand on was only about a dozen square meters.“No way, he got teleported to a place like that? Looks like there’s no way out.”“There’s nothing here but oil. Even the water is gone, and all the plants are polluted by oil. No food, no water—how’s he supposed to survive for two days?”“If only he brought food and water.”“Who would actually bring food and water? That’s two whole slots, and it’s gone after just one meal.”“Just now I thought his luck stat must be off the charts, but now it looks like it’s actually bad.”“But if he can get out of there, it’s a different story.”“How’s he going to get out? He’s at the bottom of a canyon. All around are rock walls and cliffs.”An hour passed quickly.The perspective switched away from Chen Jin to someone else.Zone one players all groaned in disappointment.“I really thought the pro would win us first place for zone one this time.”“Everyone knows Chen Jin’s luck stat is super low, I guess even strong players can’t do anything about that.”“Forget it, who knows when the camera will switch back to him. There’s not much to watch in this competition now.”“Well, let’s see what Su Misheng is up to. Chen Jin isn’t the only one we have in our zone.”“Yeah, Su Misheng’s perspective should be good—she’s got a ruthless style. She’ll probably just attack players right away to steal points.”Yun Luohe had been thinking, With only a few hundred people on the whole island—even divided into three brackets, that’s still two or three hundred per bracket—it should be easy to run into someone. So why hadn’t she seen anyone after chopping trees for so long in the woods?The next second, she heard a cry for help.The sound came from her front right, maybe a hundred or two hundred meters away.It was a male voice.Since she’d heard it, Yun Luohe decided to check it out.But as she got closer, Yun Luohe didn’t go straight over.The ground was thick with pine needles, so not a sound when she walked, and she was careful, so she hadn’t been noticed.Once she was near, Yun Luohe immediately felt something was off. She quietly climbed a tree to observe from above.She saw a boy in red clothes, stuck in black mud, both arms flailing, his body slowly sinking, looking like he was in real danger.Yun Luohe suddenly smiled.Because she noticed that no matter how much he moved, the mud never went over his shoulders.It was like watching an adult pretending to drown in a children’s swimming pool.Still, he was putting on a good act.Yun Luohe waited a little longer and soon saw the boy throw a rope over to a tree in the distance, then pull himself out using the rope.The panic on his face faded and turned to disappointment.“How come there’s not a single person around here?”He muttered this, climbed out of the black mud, and quickly left.Yun Luohe shook her head helplessly.If she’d rushed over to help just now, she’d probably have ended up playing out the fable of the farmer and the snake.

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