A gentle breeze wafted in through the bedroom window.
Chen Yu lazily rolled over and stretched.
"Hoo!"
He had slept very soundly that night.
With groggy eyes, Chen Yu yawned and groggily got out of bed, instinctively raising his wrist to check the time.
"Huh?"
Chen Yu, still half-asleep, suddenly froze.
[Camp Bed Lv6]
On his wristband's screen, a new piece of data had appeared for the camp bed.
"What's going on?"
Chen Yu thought he was mistaken, rubbed his eyes, and looked again carefully.
[Camp Bed Lv6]
[Overall Score: 320]
The more he rubbed, the more data that appeared.
"What the heck?"
Chen Yu scratched his head and sat on the bed, remaining silent for a long time.
There wasn't this data before.
As he was wondering, his wristband then projected onto the camp wall.
[Survival Camp Lv6]
[Overall Score: 6400]
"Whoa?"
Chen Yu couldn't help but exclaim again.
What was going on?
What was this sudden data, and what was the purpose of this overall score?
At this moment—
The best course of action was to open the chat channel.
The chat channel was a hub for gossip, where any information or news could be obtained.
However, as soon as he entered the regional chat, Chen Yu was stunned!
He had never seen such an active regional chat. Usually, if he didn't chime in, the channel wasn't exactly quiet, but the messages didn't scroll by particularly fast.
Now, however, messages were appearing one after another. Most importantly, the number of people online—
27653.
"Holy crap, how did it suddenly get so many people?"
Chen Yu was utterly bewildered.
Although he didn't pay frequent attention to the number of people in his region, he remembered that the population in his region was less than 8,000.
Now it had ballooned to nearly 30,000!
"Display bug?"
Chen Yu scratched his head and secretly lurked in the regional channel, watching the masses chatter. After a while, he did notice that something had happened in the underground caves, but he wasn't entirely clear about the specifics.
He decided to directly send a message in the channel.
"Ah!!! What happened!!!"
Instantly, the channel fell silent.
A brief pause in messages was followed by a flood of scrolling text.
"Worship the great one!"
"Great Chen Yu, I love you!"
"See that? Newcomers, this is our Great Chen Yu. Why aren't you quickly kowtowing?"
"Ahem, hello, great one. I'm from a neighboring region and am very happy to witness your post firsthand. Uh, I have a sister, 18 years old, delicate and easy to push over. Do you want me to push her contact details to you? No other intentions, just want to get acquainted, definitely not trying to become your brother-in-law."
"Upstairs, scram! Don't delay the kowtowing to acknowledge your father."
"Take me with you."
"Me too!"
Chen Yu silently watched the messages on the screen.
As warm and enthusiastic as ever!
It's just that—
From these messages, he could tell that many strangers had indeed appeared in his region.
"Wait, you said you came from a neighboring region, how did you get here?"
"The regions merged, great one!"
"Huh?"
Regional merge?
Chen Yu was completely confused.
"Great one, how did you do it? Your overall score is so high, and your combat score is also outrageously high. Are you a lucky dog?"
"Watch your words, who are you calling a lucky dog? Clearly, you're a cheater!"
"Hey, you outsiders are a bit disrespectful. Who are you talking about? Say another word about Great Chen Yu, and I'll break your legs, believe it or not?"
"What loyal guard dogs, the master hasn't spoken, and you've started barking?"
"Say it again!"
"What do you mean, your region's Chen Yu is problematic? Others' overall scores are only a few thousand, so why is his overall score in the six figures, and his combat score tens of times higher than our region's number one, Brother Ye?"
"Lucky dog!"
"Attack the lucky dog Chen Yu!!!"
"You silly dogs from outside, how did our region merge with trash like you? It's disgusting. Your number one is nothing. When did a trash region dare to yell in a high-level region?"
"Who are you calling a trash region?"
"You outsiders are all trash regions, none of you can fight. Our Great Chen Yu can beat all three of your region's number ones combined. Look at your pathetic appearances."
"Bro, don't talk like that. No one in our 8837 region is insulting you guys."
"Trash dares to speak loudly?"
"???"
The regional channel had suddenly devolved into a shouting match.
This was exactly like when two servers merged in a game, and people started fighting upon meeting. The top player of each region was like the faith of their respective regions.
The two sides engaged in a war of words over this.
Unexpectedly—
This scene could be witnessed in this underground world.
Unfortunately, Chen Yu was still in the dark about what had happened. Why was there a regional merge, and what were the overall and combat scores for?
It was all so strange!
Seeing that the regional chat had descended into chaos, with people even starting to post coordinates for duels, Chen Yu quietly exited the chat window.
It was too bloody.
He was afraid that if he watched any longer, blood would splash onto him from the projection.
It was too terrifying.
Whether they were from outside or from the original region, their verbal skills were formidable. If they were in the Three Kingdoms period, and they managed to anger Zhou Yu three times, Zhuge Liang would have no chance.
These were all seasoned manipulators.
After pondering for a while, Chen Yu opened Jiang Yaqing's private message box.
Good heavens!
Messages: 99+.
They were all sent by Jiang Yaqing the previous night. From the content of the messages, it was not hard to sense Jiang Yaqing's gnashing teeth.
She probably wished she could have devoured him whole.
Licking his lips, Chen Yu tentatively sent a message.
"You there?"
[Jiang Yaqing invites you to a video call]
Sent instantly!
"Is this girl always staring at her message box?" Chen Yu muttered to himself and accepted the video call.
"Hi!"
As the video connected, Chen Yu waved with a smile.
In the picture—
Jiang Yaqing, with dark circles under her eyes, leaned weakly in a rattan chair and raised a finger.
"Chen Yu, you... can actually sleep."
"Oh my god, what's going on? Don't tell me you didn't sleep all night." Chen Yu looked surprised. "Is it that serious? Although I know I'm very charming, it's not enough to make someone lose sleep over me. What's up, have I become your White Moonlight, or the Cinnabar Mole in your dreams?"
"Just shut your stinking mouth!"
"Hey, hey, be civilized, be civilized..."
"Civilized my ass!" Jiang Yaqing jumped up in anger. "I waited for you all night yesterday. I thought you were just bluffing me, but you actually slept through it. Are you even human?"
"..."
"Quickly, sell me the equipment!"
"Don't rush. Come, since you haven't slept all night, you must know what's going on with this underground world. I just saw that other regions have merged with ours?"
"Yes."
"What's the situation?"
"Didn't you see the announcement?" Jiang Yaqing explained. "The underground plane updated, and regions merged..."
Chen Yu's eyes widened instantly.
"Ah? Ah!!!"
Updated?
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Author's note:
Good midnight, time to sleep!