Rest day, the fourth day.

[Base Nightmare Coins: 1280, Conversion Rate: 5734%, Eight-Hour Total Output: 74,675 Nightmare Coins]

[Total Nightmare Coins: 853,955]

Last night, a large wave of players suddenly moved in. Xu Lang spent a good while reading private messages before finally going to sleep.

So today, he woke up a bit later again.

At the time, Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan wanted to go out and check, but Xu Lang stopped them. Otherwise, the rhythm of farming points would get thrown off again, and that would be a headache.

The moment Xu Lang woke up, a pair of resentful eyes locked onto him.

"Xu Lang, can I get up now?" Cao Yaxuan's tone was gloomy, carrying a chill.

From just reading the chat room conversations full of calls for blood and battle, she could tell how intense the fighting had been outside last night.

"No way! They've already finished fighting, what are you trying to join in for?" Xu Lang shrank back down and burrowed under the covers.

"Then why didn't you let me go last night!" Ever since Cao Yaxuan had her awakening, her head was filled with nothing but kill, kill, kill, as if she was evolving into a righteous extremist.

"They're in the middle of a fight right now. What would you go for? Wouldn't that just cause trouble?"

Xu Lang's voice came from below. Cao Yaxuan looked down and was stunned to find he had already crawled right up in front of her. She let out a delicate shriek.

...

Today, the girls all got up exceptionally late, and the scene was pure chaos.

But no matter how chaotic it was, it couldn't compare to last night. Even now, the lingering smell of gunpowder still hung in the open space outside the Mad King Building.

A massive influx of new players had arrived, frantically trying to occupy the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first floors. Some players preferred a horizontal expansion strategy, others a vertical one. There was no fixed playstyle.

And for the ambitious players, after learning the rules here, they naturally wanted to occupy both horizontally and vertically.

In reality, the fuse had been lit long ago.

During these rest days, quite a few new players had come. It was just that last night, a sudden flood of them arrived, finally escalating the conflict.

The Three Major Departments of the Mad King Community received word last night but kept their mouths shut the entire time, refusing to join the melee.

As for veterans like Wu Huihui, they couldn't avoid being dragged into the vortex of conflict.

Everyone had their own ideals and the path they insisted on following. Playing with fire for personal gain was completely normal. Besides, there were also debts of gratitude to consider.

If a player who had helped you during pioneering was now in trouble, did you help them or not?

These relationships were a tangled, chaotic mess. Xu Lang couldn't make sense of them, and he didn't want to.

Anyway, today, they'd just do a unified safety inspection and that was that!

...

"Open up! New players, pay your residency tax and complete your information registration!"

Dormitory 384, Zhou Ye knocked on the door.

Last night's chaos had impacted the upper floors. Some local players had died, and a few promising talents had been absorbed by the upper-floor dormitories.

Dormitory 384's door opened. A female player poked her head out and, seeing that the entire Three Major Departments had shown up, her face turned pale. "Sister Yaxuan, Brother Ye."

"Your dorm has a new person." Zhou Ye tapped his notebook with his pen.

"Brother Lang never said no new people were allowed! Besides, I already submitted the new person's info!" The female player tried to argue, but Zhou Ye waved a hand to cut her off directly.

"What you submitted isn't necessarily true. The Inspection Department needs to verify it!"

"Huff... I see. Qing Man, come on out."

Soon, a short-haired girl in sportswear walked out.

She didn't look very old, probably just old enough for high school. She wore sneakers and white knee-high socks. The shape of her legs beneath her denim shorts was very smooth, her figure was good, and her face had a youthful, energetic look, giving off a tomboyish vibe.

At the moment, she seemed a bit nervous. Staring at the people outside, a blush crept across her cheeks, giving a visual impression of someone who had just finished exercising.

Even Zhou Ye was momentarily dazed. In his mind, he recalled the girl he used to play badminton with in junior high.

Immediately, his expression softened a bit. He quickly finished taking the statement and even threw in a welcome package for new residents.

...

The floors from the twentieth down to the eighth went without a hitch. That was, until they reached the first dormitory on the seventh floor.

"Open up! In this unit, all three of you are new residents!" Sensing this place was a bit dangerous, Zhou Ye didn't bother knocking. He just stood outside and shouted.

Usually, this kind of thing was handled by the underlings.

But this time, with Cao Yaxuan standing right next to him, he wanted to put on a good show.

To be honest, after going all the way down, he was already starting to get impatient.

And at this very moment, there was someone even more impatient than him.

The dormitory door flew open with a bang. A burly, bear-backed man cursed, "What Mad King Committee? We're players from the Storm Building, and we don't recognize that crap!"

"Were you players from the Storm Building?" Zhou Ye asked with a frown.

The Storm Building was recorded in the Blood Mist Archive as a Tier 2 dormitory building, with players over level twenty who were extremely battle-hungry.

"So what if we are!" The burly man lifted his chin slightly. This was a classic provocative and threatening posture in nature, often seen during animal fights.

But he wasn't making this move just for show. He was actually observing the situation outside.

A small feint like this helped him mask his true intentions.

"You're refusing to report your information? What about the other two?" Zhou Ye's eyes were filled with pity as he asked repeatedly.

"I'm the Dorm Owner!" the burly man snorted.

The next second, a wave of bone-chilling cold surged forward!

The burly man was instantly frozen solid. The two players hiding on either side of the door also couldn't escape their fate and were frozen into ice statues along with him!

In the blink of an eye, the entire entrance hall had turned into crystal-clear ice! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Crack~!

Immediately after, the three ice statues shattered, turning into ice powder. Even their very bones had been frozen out of existence!

Zhou Ye's forehead was slick with cold sweat. At the same time, a rush of adrenaline surged straight to his heart!

Strong!

So damn strong!

This is Brother Lang's tenant! This is a player from the Demon King Castle!

"Should we check out the loot inside?" a member of the Inspection Department asked in a low voice.

"I'm in a hurry," Cao Yaxuan said flatly.

Behind her seemingly cold, ice-blue eyes, a hint of joy was hidden.

Her free attribute points had gone up again!

As long as she kept executing justice, she would one day surpass Xu Lang and become a true Stats Monster!

She didn't know if it was the feng shui or what, but Cao Yaxuan, Kui Zi, and Senior Sister Red Butterfly all wanted to surpass Xu Lang and complete their underdog-rises-to-greatness story arc.

Cao Yaxuan was because she had been oppressed right at the start of the game. As for Kui Zi and Senior Sister Red Butterfly... it seemed they had also been thoroughly crushed by Xu Lang.

Well, that made sense.

Wanting to surpass Xu Lang was completely normal.

If you got surpassed, you had to surpass back. That was the dignity every top student should have!