There was simply too much loot dropped by thirty thousand people, and Liu Xuan had no way to inspect every item carefully.
So he focused on the ones that were glowing. Whenever he spotted purple, golden, or red light, he would go over and rummage through the pile.
And he actually managed to find quite a few good things.
First, there was a huge amount of Giant Salamander Leather. Quite a few of the dead had been the leaders of their respective battlefields, and after killing Giant Salamanders, they had obtained Giant Salamander Leather as well.
The problem was that this material could only be used after capturing Orenburg, finding Parker, the leatherworker's son, and sending someone to learn leatherworking from him. On top of that, a considerable amount of gold had to be spent training the leatherworker.
At present, apart from Liu Xuan's battlefield, none of the other battlefields had a high-level leatherworker of their own. As a result, all the Giant Salamander Leather from those battlefields had been sitting uselessly in the inventories of various experts, with not a single piece they could put to use.
Now, it had all become Liu Xuan's.
Unfortunately, a player could equip only four bags.
But he soon found another good item that made up for this shortcoming.
Expansion Belt
Quality: Epic
Level Requirement: Level 12
Armor: +10
Effect: Grants two additional inventory slots.
If the belt hadn't been glowing purple, Liu Xuan probably wouldn't have noticed it.
The extra stats were negligible, but two additional inventory slots were incredibly useful.
He had just acquired a huge amount of Giant Salamander Leather, so he could have Old Zhuang make two more bags. That would give him forty additional inventory slots, while also expanding the range of his auto-loot ability by another ten meters.
Speaking of Giant Salamanders, Liu Xuan suddenly remembered that he also had a Giant Salamander Slayer's Proof. However, he had searched every location where he found Giant Salamander Leather, and the item was nowhere to be seen.
He had no idea whether the proof was guaranteed not to drop, or whether it was an item only Liu Xuan, the first person to kill a Giant Salamander, could obtain.
…
When the six hundred people responsible for collecting the equipment arrived outside the southern gate, they were all dumbfounded.
The entire ground was covered in equipment!
Just think about it. A single person carried at least seven to nine pieces of equipment.
Now there were thirty thousand people, not even counting the items stored in their inventories. How much loot did that amount to?
There had to be hundreds of thousands of pieces!
And many of them had also been carrying potions, crafting materials, and other items. At a glance, calling it a mountain of loot was no longer enough to describe it.
It was a sea!
By this point, Liu Xuan had nearly finished picking up all the money. There was even more than he had expected—a full 130,000 gold coins.
As expected of the elites from all over the world!
When he thought about the current bonus from Money Offensive, even Liu Xuan found it a little frightening.
If he used it against Zhang Meng, it would provide a ten-thousandfold damage bonus.
Unfortunately, there were still too few opportunities to fight other people, so he rarely had a chance to use this passive ability.
He wondered whether, after they finished all the battles in the Blue Star phase, he would have more opportunities to fight people from other planets and other races.
The captains of the three teams stepped forward to ask Liu Xuan for instructions, their eyes constantly darting around.
“Boss, there’s way too much stuff here. How are we supposed to deal with it?”
Liu Xuan thought about it. There really was far too much.
At least hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment and items.
Having him collect everything and mail it to Zhang Meng so that Zhang Meng could put it up for auction was hardly realistic.
They wouldn’t be able to do anything else for days.
Besides, their battlefield simply didn’t have enough people to make use of so much equipment.
Giving everything away directly would also cause major problems.
They couldn’t just let whoever picked up an item keep it, could they?
That would easily lead to fights.
“Man, these thirty thousand people have really caused me no end of trouble,” Liu Xuan sighed.
If Ikeda Masato and the others in the special space had heard him say that, they probably would have been furious.
Picking up our equipment is more troublesome than killing us?
Unable to think of a way to divide everything, Liu Xuan simply stopped trying and tossed the problem to Zhang Meng.
“Old Meng, I’ll leave these items to you.”
Liu Xuan was preparing to wash his hands of the matter. They could divide the loot however they wanted.
They were just pieces of equipment around Level 10. It wasn’t worth much to Liu Xuan, and even the other people on Battlefield 2468 were now aiming for Level 20.
Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment, probably only a small portion still had any real use.
As for selling them for money, Liu Xuan glanced at the more than one hundred thousand gold coins in his inventory and could only say that he had no such worldly desires.
It was like being a wealthy person and suddenly receiving hundreds of thousands of cheap plastic washbasins. They might be worth some money, technically speaking, but if you actually tried to sell them, finding buyers would be a headache.
Their battlefield had fewer than five thousand people in total. They simply couldn’t absorb that much equipment.
…
The remaining “geniuses” who had hidden themselves away were quickly found and dealt with.
As the last red dot on the sky screen was surrounded by green dots and eventually disappeared, everyone, both inside and outside the battlefield, watched the announcement nervously.
They needed to know exactly what would happen to the losing side.
The first Blue Star Promotion Defense Battle has ended. Congratulations to the defending side, China’s Battlefield 2468, on its victory.
All warriors from China’s Battlefield 2468 have been awarded the title “Fighter.” If they continue to win future competitions, this title may be upgraded.
The best performers in this battle will receive additional rewards, which will be distributed separately later.
The penalties for the losing side will now be announced.
Here it comes! The most important part!
Under the announcement, countless people widened their eyes, especially those from the island nation, the peninsula nation, and other Asian countries.
With the exception of China, all other Asian countries are considered defeated nations in the Promotion Defense Battle. From this moment onward, they will all be demoted and become vassals of China.
Citizens of all defeated nations are forbidden from holding important positions. Violators will be executed.
Citizens of all defeated nations are forbidden from privately gathering in assemblies or organizations of more than fifty people. Violators will be executed.
All citizens of defeated nations who are sixteen years old or older will be forcibly enlisted into battlefield service. They may retire and leave the battlefield as ordinary civilians only after reaching Level 40 on the battlefield.
Furthermore, ninety percent of all experience and gold obtained by defeated nations on the battlefield will be distributed equally among all Chinese warriors.
The battlefield modes of the defeated nations will also undergo several changes. Every day, a wave of monsters whose strength varies according to the average level of the warriors will be spawned to attack all safe zones. Anyone outside a safe zone will also come under attack.
…
China is requested to take over all defeated nations within three days.
As the penalties were announced one after another, countless people from the Asian countries collapsed to the ground in despair, especially high-ranking officials and politicians.
“It’s over. Everything’s over.”
“Anyone sixteen or older will be forcibly sent into the battlefield?”
“What am I supposed to do? I turn sixteen tomorrow…”
“You have to reach Level 40 before you can leave, and ninety percent of the experience is still given to the Chinese. At this rate, no one will ever get out!”
“Doesn’t that mean we’ll be their slaves for the rest of our lives?”
“At least slaves get fed… We’re working for free.”
“I don’t want to go in! I worked my ass off and saved for over a decade, only to buy a house in Seoul. I haven’t even had the chance to enjoy life yet—I don’t want to enter this damn battlefield!”
“I was wrong! I only switched to citizenship of that island nation a month ago, but I’m Chinese! Can’t you let me go back? I still love my country!”
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
