Chapter 2
[Survivor Shen Qinglian, please open your game interface]
The mechanical sound appeared again in her mind, awoke her from drowning in emotion. Game? So this is not a dream then.
[Please open your game interface]
The sound reminded her once again.
Unknowingly, she waved her up in a sliding gesture. The next thing she knew a translucent window unfolded and appeared before her eyes. It hovered in the air filled with unfamiliar buttons and symbols.
[Welcome to Ocean Survival]
The text appears in the middle of the translucent window.
[All Planet Blue-X326 survivors aged 17-60 have been transported successfully]
All of us?
[All survivors have been assigned a healthy baseline body regardless of previous conditions and age]
A healthy baseline body… So this is really not a dream then.
The text confirmed all of her worries, that this was just her mind playing tricks on her. Like a terminal lucidity for people near their deathbed. She continued to read the next text on the window.
[Survivors outside the age range will join in one month from now]
[All the present survivors can invite those in the age range to be with you when the time comes]
[The current Survivors have been divided into multiple servers to reduce density during the ocean voyage]
[You are assigned to server #27]
[Server population: 10.000.000/10.000.000 survivors]
Ten million. The numbers felt absurd, but if she remembered correctly, from the doctors' conversation around her, the earth population was left around 1 billion people. So there should be around 100 servers in total, huh…
One of the symbols, the one that looks like a globe, kept blinking. Feeling curious, she clicked on it.
[World Chat - Server #27]
[Daily Limit: 20 Messages per survivor]
Before she could do anything else, the window was flooded with many messages from people.
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[World Chat - Server #27]
[ID 457219]: WHAT IS THIS?? WHERE AM I?!!
[ID 880134]: Is this VR?? I was just driving away from the fallen building
[ID 901122]: Where's my wife?! Does anyone see my wife?? Wifey, answer me!
[ID 334829]: The Federation's capital city was having an earthquake before this. I thought I was going to die.
[ID 554009]: Meteor alerts were going around before. Did it hit us??
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The messages came so quickly that they overlapped one another. However, she could gather some crucial information from them.
Earthquake? Meteor?! Is that why the chamber turned off?
More messages were passing through the translucent window.
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[World Chat - Server #27]
[ID 119203]: Earth was collapsing. Power grids are down. Fires everywhere. The federation shield had failed to hold off the meteor.
[ID 882310]: Right, I saw the sky crack. I swear I did.
[ID 902112]: This is a dream. It has to be a dream. Right?? Right??!!
[ID 11099]: Everyone, check your mission page!
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Through the flooded message, she quickly noticed someone mentioning the mission page. She then clicked the [Mission] button.
The interface changed; a bold red translucent window now popped open.
[Primary mission issued]
Her pulse quickened.
[Create a simple raft]
[Create a simple raft for your ocean voyage within 12 hours]
[Requirements: Fiber x30, Wood x20]
[Failure to complete the mission will result in elimination]
Elimination
The word cut through her mind swifter and colder than the termination her doctors had mentioned before.
Below the population window now appeared a new window, the timer that began to count down.
11:57:50
11:57:49
11:57:48
The world chat continued to buzz even busier than before.
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[World Chat - Server #27]
[ID 774210]: What is this mission?! What does it mean that we'll get eliminated?
[ID 21100]: There's ocean everywhere. I think I'm on an island. Where can I get the items I need for the raft???
[ID 661003]: Same, I'm also on a small island. There are a bunch of trees here.
[ID 998211]: Guys, I landed on some crab here. It's not our normal size, though. It's so huge.
[ID 998211]: No, the crabs keep chasing after me. Help—!
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The message was cut off. After a brief pause, something blinked.
[Server 27 Population: 9,999,874/10.000.000]
Then, as she blinked, the number changed again.
[Server 27 Population: 9,999,612/10.000.000]
In the midst of panic and confusion, another translucent window popped out.
[Ocean survival - Initiation Mission begins]
[Please read carefully!]
[1. Everyone needs to finish the initiation mission to join the world officially. Anyone without a raft wouldn't be able to join the voyage.]
[2. Elimination/death in the survival game means real death.]
[3. Newbie protection lasts for 5 days. No monster or animal will attack you proactively. However, if you attack them first, they can still attack back, but their stats are 50% reduced.]
[4. Every activity will create fatigue. If one's health drops below 10 or the fatigue exceeds 90, they will be incapacitated state. Fatigue can be relieved by resting and eating, while health can only regenerate 10 each day or be added to with a potion.]
[5. Silently call up the game panel can allow you to access various menus, such as [Chat] in various modes, [Mission], [Character Information], etc.]
[6. To obtain resources for survival and finishing the mission, you can forage from the surroundings or obtain them from various supply crates.]
[Fortune and misfortune are intertwined, may you turn adversity into prosperity. Begin your journey now!]
Then the world chat exploded.
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[World Chat - Server #27]
[ID 997833]: Wow, so they really die.
[ID 900022]: Everyone, pay attention to the number 3. The monster will not attack unless we are actively trying to attack it , so don't be scared. Just stay away from any monster, focus on gathering and foraging the needed items.
[ID 100478]: The monster ignores me just now! Scared me to death!
[ID 456788]: My beach is full of things to pick up.
[ID 666779]: Ahhh, I hate small insects a lot, why is my beach full of them!!
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That's a lot to digest.
Slowly, she read the entire announcement from the system. The wind kept on blowing to her face, letting her hair run a bit wild as a result.
She looked down on her body, observing her 'new' body and look. Her legs are small and fair, wriggling on the warm sands, along with the quite long legs that it attaches to. Continued to her other limbs, which were her hands. It had the same fairness and thinness.
It had been long enough since she could control her limbs again, she kept on playing and wriggling her toes to feel the sensation of sand on it.
After a long time, she noticed that she was still using the attire she had from her pods. As it was why she was bare feet and only had a long hospital dress cover her body. Her hair was also hanging loosely reaching her mid back.
Feeling enough to regain her sensation and feel again, she now focused on the second most important thing, which is the one that gave her this new opportunity, the system. The system mentioned that there's many menus and panels it has provided to all of the survivors.
Let's try all of the menu and panels first
The system has given her a new beginning and opportunity, she will obviously not waste it and will live to the fullest like what the system had reminded her before.