Chapter 2: This Reward Is Quite Nice

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Chapter 2: This Reward Isn’t Bad

“System, is this the only reward? Aren’t you being a bit stingy?” Xu Yi had just voiced his question in his mind when a new notification rang out.

“Ding, you have acquired Stone Tool Crafting Skill.”
“Ding, you have acquired X-ray Vision.”

What, X-ray vision?
Now that’s something!

Xu Yi turned his head and saw that Su Keke had turned grayish-white—all her blood vessels, bones, and internal organs were perfectly clear to him. He felt as if he’d become a walking X-ray machine.

After he exited the X-ray state, Xu Yi noticed that his vision had become blurry. Nearsightedness—one of his physical shortcomings. But since his body had undergone the physical defect repair serum, his nearsightedness was also cured. This, Xu Yi found quite satisfying.

He took off his glasses and slipped them into his pocket. This was something he was sure would come in handy.

“System, was this livestream room your doing?”
Xu Yi rather hoped the system was behind it—if so, he could send Su Keke back. With the system, he could survive alone in this world for a while. Since this was a show, there must be a time limit. As long as he held out until the end, he could return safely.

“No.”

“Then what kind of rewards will you give me, and how can I earn them?” Xu Yi pressed on with his questions.

“As long as the Host consumes a new type of animal, you will receive a corresponding reward. In addition, under special circumstances, you may obtain some survival knowledge.”

“So, eating makes me stronger?”

As a foodie, Xu Yi felt this reward system was pretty decent. He wondered what reward he’d get for eating a dinosaur. Dinosaurs should be at the top of the food chain in this world, right?

But hunting a dinosaur wouldn’t be easy. Still, as long as he kept eating, Xu Yi would grow strong enough.

He just hoped there were enough species of dinosaurs. That way, he could collect more rewards.

As for obtaining survival knowledge under special circumstances, the system hadn’t explained that part very clearly to Xu Yi.

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He figured he’d have to figure it out on his own.

Xu Yi’s system wasn’t very talkative, and it wouldn’t answer questions unrelated to its functions.

“Out of more than seven billion people worldwide, is it really so hard to pick just ten thousand?”
Having waited nearly forty minutes in the same spot, Xu Yi realized he couldn’t just keep standing there foolishly. Staying put was a waste of time.

He’d observed that the soil here was rather moist. It had probably rained not long ago. Though not a professional, he knew the three essentials of wilderness survival—water, fire, and shelter.

In a place where it rains, shelter is more important than fire. If you get wet, your body will lose heat. Severe hypothermia can be fatal. Especially since he was responsible for a six-year-old like Su Keke, they needed a shelter from wind and rain even more.

[Number 1, how did you get in with a little loli? All the other contestants are alone!]
[He looks like a total nerd who couldn’t hurt a fly, what’s so impressive about him?]
[Didn’t the livestream warn not to leave the ten-meter radius? Is someone really that reckless?]
[He’s not the only one. A girl moved about twenty minutes ago, but nothing happened to her.]
[You mean Number 7, right? She said her grandpa, grandma, father, and mother are all forest rangers—she grew up in the wild, a real pro!]
[There’s no rule against teaming up, right? Number 1, take the little loli and find Number 7—guaranteed win if you join her!]

Reading the comments, Xu Yi immediately became interested in Number 7. A whole family of forest rangers—her survival skills must be maxed out!

At the same time, he thought of Lu Ning, who was almost his girlfriend. She’d said she was half a forest ranger herself—a botanist, always working in the mountains. Xu Yi had seen many of her selfies, often with dirt on her face, yet her beauty still shone through.

He believed all love started with looks. Unfortunately, before he could meet Lu Ning in person, he’d been sent to this parallel world.

But once he gained enough attention, he could explain everything to Lu Ning through the livestream. Perhaps she’d even see him.

After all, the livestream was broadcast worldwide—no country had the power to block it.

Then, he’d be able to clear things up.

In his previous life, Xu Yi had been a heartthrob surrounded by countless beautiful women, but he’d grown tired of it. In this life, he just wanted to marry an interesting woman. Lu Ning was the one he wanted to marry.

But what he didn’t know was that the woman he wanted to marry had also entered this parallel world.

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At that moment, Lu Ning was digging up a plant.

“My goodness, I’m so lucky! I actually found ‘bamboo shoot greens’ here—it’s a very special wild vegetable. That’s what we call it back home; I don’t know its scientific name. It looks a lot like bamboo shoots, but it’s not—the top is different, a bit like asparagus. It usually grows at altitudes over three thousand meters. Of course, that’s in our world. The environment in this parallel world shouldn’t be too different, so the plants shouldn’t have changed much either. I think I must be somewhere between two and three and a half thousand meters above sea level. Knowing this is important for survival.”

[Wow, amazing! A family of forest rangers, truly hardcore!]
[I’ve learned something new, though I’m at an Arctic research station so it’s not much use.]
[We have a lot of this stuff around here, and the altitude isn’t as high as you say. Maybe you’re not a real forest ranger?]
[Sis, what’s your name? Were you super excited when you saw the invitation card and just pressed yes?]

Lu Ning glanced at the stream chat and paused.

She took out her phone and looked at it. The screen was cracked but still usable.

She’d smashed the phone Xu Yi gave her on the spot because she thought he’d deceived her. When it hit the ground, she heard the phrase “goddaughter.” Only then did she realize she might have misunderstood Xu Yi.

But when she picked up the phone, she saw a video of dinosaurs tearing into prey on the screen, and she couldn’t exit. Then a prompt to agree appeared, and she accidentally tapped it.

The next thing she knew, she was in the wilderness.

Through the stream chat, she learned she’d joined a survival challenge show in a parallel world, where dinosaurs existed, and she was the seventh to agree to join.

Now, she deeply regretted it.

In another world, there was no way she could contact Xu Yi. Though they’d never met in person, her heart had already been won over by him.

“Stop asking my name. Just call me Number 7. Also, I really regret coming here. Don’t ask me similar questions again. I won’t answer!”

With that, she continued digging for bamboo leaf greens.

At present, with fewer than ten thousand people having entered the survival challenge, the rules hadn’t been announced yet.

Under these circumstances, she could only focus on finding food, water, shelter, and materials for making fire.

Staying put was a waste of time.

She had only one goal now: to complete the challenge as soon as possible and return to find Xu Yi.

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