Progress Soars

Knowing that his health would automatically regenerate after leaving combat, Liu Xuan grew a bit bolder.

At this time, most of the other teams were still at the edge of the fields, carefully pulling monsters one by one, terrified of pulling too many and causing a party wipe.

But because he had previously pulled a huge wave of monsters, he had already penetrated deep into the fields and was now heading even further in.

As he ran, Liu Xuan noticed that the density of [Vicious Dogs] was getting lower and lower. After crossing a ridge, he couldn't see a single one at all.

In the distance, over a hundred meters away, the white outline of the beginner village was clearly visible; it seemed the buildings there were all white.

Liu Xuan didn't rashly step into the quiet field ahead of him.

With this battlefield being so twisted, how could it possibly leave a safe zone for you to easily stroll into the beginner village?

He simply rested in place for two minutes, letting his health fully recover, and then charged into the monster-free zone ahead at top speed.

Swish!

Just a few steps forward, a strange sensation suddenly came from beneath his feet. A long black shadow struck like lightning, coiling toward his ankle.

Fortunately, Liu Xuan had been sprinting at full speed from the start. The black shadow only brushed against his pant leg and failed to entangle him.

Looking back, he saw a black snake over two meters long coiled in the grass.

[Killer Snake]

Level: 2

Attack: 35

HP: 170

A level 2 monster. Its HP wasn't much higher than the [Vicious Dog], but its attack had increased, and it was significantly faster.

It probably had around 11 points in Agility, which meant it still couldn't catch up to Liu Xuan.

The gap between level 2 and level 1 isn't too huge. It seems the problem lies in the fact that the initial stats of us Earthlings are just too low. Once the others level up to 2, things should get slightly easier.

Upon first contact, Liu Xuan roughly understood the difficulty of this battlefield for the people of Earth.

Simply put, because there were no services provided by the beginner village, the progression of the fighters—or rather, the players—before reaching the village was entirely predictable.

With no skills and no equipment, the only possible improvement was basically the 5 free attribute points given upon leveling up.

Therefore, the gap between a level 2 and a level 1 monster couldn't be too ridiculous; it had to be lower than or equal to the boost players gained from leveling up.

Otherwise, it would be a dead end.

It was simple logic. If you swapped in Superman, a level 1 Superman's stats might be 10, and a level 1 monster's stats would also be 10, so he would definitely have an easier time fighting than an Earthling.

But if after leveling up, his stats became 15 while the monster's became 20...

If you couldn't keep up with the monster's stat inflation rate, being Superman would be useless.

Earthlings were losing solely because their starting stats were too low, which led to heavy casualties right from the start.

They would need to reach at least level 3 to 5 and gain a dozen or twenty bonus attribute points to truly establish a foothold.

As Liu Xuan analyzed the situation, he didn't stop moving. He constantly darted left and right through the fields, pulling out a massive number of [Killer Snakes].

[Gained 12 experience points from troop ability]

[Gained 30 experience points from troop ability]

[Gained 63 experience points from troop ability]

......

[Gained 81 experience points from troop ability]

Liu Xuan was now level 3. A level 2 Killer Snake gave 1.5 experience points each.

But it couldn't offset the sheer volume of monsters Liu Xuan had pulled.

There was no one else here to steal his monsters, nor did he have to worry about catching others in the crossfire.

Plus, some burrows hid two or more [Killer Snakes], making the overall monster density higher than in the [Vicious Dog] zone.

So in the end, while ensuring no monsters dropped aggro, Liu Xuan managed to pull a whopping 54 snakes, farming 81 experience points per minute.

......

What Liu Xuan didn't know was that after he reached level 3 and started farming [Killer Snakes], the outside world was in an uproar.

On the light screens in Huaxia, a few lines of data had undergone massive changes, sparking intense discussions.

Previously, Huaxia's progress had been very low, but now it read:

Earth Battlefield Current Survival Rate: 37%.

Huaxia Battlefield Current Survival Rate: 78%.

Huaxia Battlefield Phase One Progress: 28%.

Because few dared to actively join the battle, the survival rates of countries worldwide were continuously plummeting.

It was evident that many countries were already approaching the 30% threshold for random drafts.

On Huaxia's side, however, the phase one progress had suddenly surged, leaping straight from single digits to 28%, instantly attracting a massive amount of attention and controversy.

It should be known that prior to this, Huaxia had been heavily flamed for its slow progress.

A single-digit progress meant that among the mainstream countries, they had the most survivors but the slowest advancement.

Consequently, people from many other countries had previously mocked Huaxia citizens for being cowards.

Even though our island nation's survival rate is down to 33%, our progress is at 34%. This is the courage of the imperial samurai, fearless in the face of death!

Huaxia is actually only at 4%. They are truly too weak.

Look at us in the US: 51% survival and 27% progress. As expected, we are comprehensively the strongest. Huaxia isn't fit to be mentioned in the same breath as us!

India is awesome! Even though their survival rate is only in the 20s and they've already started automatically drafting replacements, at least their progress is at 10%.

Huaxia netizens were furious reading this, but they were helpless.

They could understand the people who had been pulled in—you couldn't demand that a group of randomly selected ordinary folks fight fearlessly like real soldiers, right?

So they really couldn't figure out how these foreigners managed to achieve such progress.

It wasn't like these guys usually seemed so unafraid of death, right?

What was even more infuriating was that some foreign bootlickers took the opportunity to jump around online, wildly hyping up foreign countries while belittling their own.

They kept throwing around phrases like inherent national inferiority, making readers' blood pressure spike.

Who would have thought that right at this moment, Huaxia's progress would suddenly soar to 28%, while their survival rate remained at 78%.

This didn't just allow them to hold their heads high; more importantly, it made the people from other countries look like complete idiots.

Haha, speak up! Bootlickers, say something!

Weren't you Japanese acting all cocky just now? Your 34% progress isn't much more than our 28%, so why is your survival rate so low?

I've always admired the 'courage' of India; they'll charge at any species. They only have 10% progress, yet their survival is in the 20s, and they're actually celebrating online about being better than Huaxia.

Normal behavior. They just want to beat us for once.

Now it was the turn of the netizens from other countries to suffer a mental breakdown.

Previously, when their progress was faster than Huaxia's, they could entirely accept having a higher death toll.

They called it a little sacrifice is worth it for victory.

Besides, we are on the outside; it's not us dying anyway.

But now, Huaxia still had over 70% survival and a progress that rivaled theirs. Didn't that make them look both stupid and incompetent?

Dammit, there must be something wrong with this data.

I know! Huaxia must have sent in a massive batch of new people, which is why their survival rate is still over 70%. The first batch must have all died long ago!

Baka! Whose side is the guy above on? If you explain it like that, how can we still flame the Huaxia people for being cowards?!

Shiba! If we don't explain it like that, are we supposed to admit that we're just too stupid and got way more people killed for the same amount of progress?