Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

After the excitement faded, Zhang Shi put on the title and had an idea, so he tried to use it on himself.

"Ding, use failed. What are you?"

Zhang Shi's face was filled with black lines. He tried it again on Pipi, but still failed. He had to give up the idea of ​​upgrading the creature in disappointment.

After checking, he found that apart from Lao Duan, the highest-level item he owned was the Territory Control Module. Unfortunately, it had been integrated into the shelter and could not be upgraded again.

Zhang Shi tried to upgrade the shelter again, but found that the shelter, as a non-grade item, could not be upgraded either.

After considering for a long time, Zhang Shi tried to upgrade the title itself...

Unable to figure out whether he was smart or stupid, Zhang Shi temporarily gave up using the effect of the title.

Set your sights on the Talent Card Chest.

[Talent Card Treasure Box: After opening, you can obtain a talent card of random quality.]

Zhang Shi had another flash of inspiration and tried to use the doubling effect of the VIP privilege to open the treasure chest.

Ding, successfully opened the talent card treasure chest, triggered the VIP privilege, doubled the items, and obtained:

[Talent Card - Scholar (Gold) x2: Epic-quality Talent Card. Use to gain the Talent - Scholar. Scholar: Increases experience points gained by 80%.]

Ding, detected that you have two identical talent cards, automatically synthesizing them to obtain:

[Talent Card - Scholar (Colorful) x1: A mythical talent card. Use this card to grant the talent - Scholar. Scholar: Increases experience points gained by 100%.]

Zhang Shi was stunned. He didn't expect that he would obtain a mythical talent by accident.

The incredible effect of doubling experience gained will make Zhang Shi's development speed even faster.

Zhang Shi happily learned the talent card, and the talent card turned into a rainbow and merged into his body. Zhang Shi felt vaguely that he had become smarter.

Thinking that he still had a sign-in reward to claim, Zhang Shi decisively clicked on the sign-in button.

System prompts, congratulations on signing in and getting:

【Pig iron (white) x20】

【Concrete (blue) x10】

[Skill Card - Triple Strike (Green) x1: Universal skill that allows the next attack to be calculated three times. Each attack deals 80% of the attack's damage.]

Zhang Shi was worried about not having any skills, so he was given one as a sign-in reward.

Zhang Shi started thinking again and used the upgrade effect of the title to try to upgrade the skill card.

System prompts, congratulations on obtaining:

[Skill Card - Triple Strike (Purple) x1: Universal skill that allows the next attack to be calculated three times. Each attack deals 100% of the damage of a normal attack.]

"It's done!"

Zhang Shi learned the skill card, and a skill icon appeared in the skill bar. The cooldown time was only 10 seconds.

Zhang Shi excitedly pushed open the door, braved the wind and snow, took out the bone bow, and shot an arrow at the ground in front of him.

"Whoosh~"

An arrow sank into the snow, and two arrows formed by phantoms appeared out of thin air, following closely behind, blasting a big hole in the snow.

Zhang Shi was pleasantly surprised. After waiting for a while for the CD, he took out Lao Duan again and used three consecutive attacks on a wooden stake.

"Brush~"

Old Duan passed through the wooden stake without any suspense. At the same time, two phantoms appeared and slashed twice at the same position.

Wood chips flew in the air and merged into the wind and snow, and the wooden stakes were cut into several sections.

Zhang Shi was very satisfied that it could produce such a powerful effect on the first use.

After putting away his weapon, Zhang Shi returned to the stone house with excitement. He opened the system panel and found that his private chat had reached 99+.

Zhang Shi noticed that the world channel was also unlocked with the end of the novice period, so he clicked in to check it out.

The language on the world channel was automatically translated into the survivors' native language. A huge amount of information flashed by quickly. Zhang Shi took a casual glance and found that survivors from all over the world were discussing this system reward. Among them, his topic was naturally the most talked about, and many people even thought that he had cheated.

"Where does this Zhang Shi come from? Why haven't I heard of him?"

"Important news! I have a friend in the same zone as Zhang Shi. I heard he's a lone wolf player."

"Damn it! We mobilized the entire region to get the boss into the top ten. How could a lone wolf like him be number one? I think he probably cheated."

"Maybe they've discovered some bug. I suggest we all boycott Zhang Shi."

Zhang Shi saw this and felt a little angry. He silently edited a few messages on the world channel.

Zhang Shi (VIP): If you’re not good at it, practice more!

Zhang Shi (VIP): Don’t play if you can’t afford it!

Zhang Shi's privilege effect is also effective in the world channel, and the chat message is pinned to the top in colored fonts.

The survivors below were suddenly in an uproar.

"Fuck, he said he wasn't cheating. Can't everyone in the world channel only send one message per day? How could he send messages continuously?"

"I don't think so. It says VIP after his ID and his message is pinned. Do you think he spent money on it?"

Zhang Shi sneered.

"I never pay attention to rumors and slander."

He glanced at the number of survivors above.

40.5 billion/80 billion

Zhang Shi sighed and switched back to the regional channel.

In the regional channel, everyone was also discussing ranking rewards.

Cheng Xiaobai: Wow, I didn’t expect that VIP Boss is not only number one in our region, but also number one in the world.

Zhu Dachang: I didn’t expect that the low-key Chen Beipan could be ranked second. It seems that this wilderness world is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Hou Kun: That's a bunch of Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons! Let me tell you, that Chen Beipan set up a mutual aid group and raised a huge amount of resources under the guise of helping members. He claimed to be distributing them to those in need, but he secretly pocketed them. That's how he managed to get second place on the regional leaderboard. His chat group is abuzz with this right now. Poor me, I joined hoping for some benefits, but he ended up taking a lot of my money.

Liu Yu: Fellow members of the Mutual Aid Association, this incident was caused by my choosing the wrong person. I have withdrawn from the Mutual Aid Association. From today on, I, Liu Yu, and Chen Beipan will be irreconcilable.

Chen Beipan: Dear fellow members of the Mutual Aid Association, I did not embezzle the supplies you raised; I was simply delayed by some unforeseen circumstances. I will distribute the supplies as planned, so please be patient.

After the parties involved came forward to share their stories, the regional chat channel was divided into two camps.

One group is the vested interests of the mutual aid society. They all support Chen Beipan and express their understanding for him, and various whitewashing remarks emerge one after another.

"No one knew the system would distribute rewards based on rankings. I think this incident was purely accidental."

"Yes, yes. President Chen has given us so many supplies for free. He has worked hard and made great contributions. I have nothing to say about receiving this ranking reward."

The other faction is represented by Liu Yu, who are survivors who withdrew from the mutual aid association.

They accused Chen Beipan of despicable behavior and defrauding his companions.

The two sides soon started a war of words on the regional channel until the chat time ran out.

Neither party had anything to do with Zhang Shi, so Zhang Shi watched them for a while and then dealt with the private chat.

Most of the private chats were to congratulate him, but a small number were to beg for favors and request resources from him.

As usual, Zhang Shi blocked these people. When he scrolled down, he unexpectedly found a private message from Ge Dalong. He sent him information about an item. Zhang Shi took a look at it and immediately became interested.