Outside the window, the sky was brilliant and bright.
Dense explosions lit up the high heavens, accompanied by numerous giant "sailships" that were the first to land.
At the far end of the city, their fleet seemed to be exchanging fire with the Military, but unfortunately the distance was too great to see clearly.
A massive number of varied aircraft followed close behind, all carrying Bakatan Civilization lifeforms, surging toward every location in Modu, overwhelming in number.
Were those all their warriors?
Perhaps they too had once been "civilians" just like the people in the Dragon City Imperial Scenery Residential Area, only now, they had become part of "Everyone is a Soldier," while the tens of millions of humans in the city below were the true civilians.
The so-called awakening of talent could not let people live much longer.
But the residential community had gone silent. Lin Qun looked down from his floor, and below was a pitch-black expanse, no figures in sight, no sounds to be heard.
The remaining two Bakatan people seemed to have disappeared.
Those still alive had hidden themselves as best they could. Few buildings had a "Super Expert" like Li Xinghe. Most people didn't dare make a sound, trembling with fear, praying that those terrifying creatures wouldn't appear outside their doors.
Lin Qun felt a faint unease.
In the stairwell of his building, there were actually quite a few voices.
Survivors like Fan Wenchuan undoubtedly had more confidence.
Lin Qun took a deep breath, sat back down in the corner, and continued checking.
The Battlefield Ranking System had opened.
He needed to confirm an ID first before he could view and log in to the Data.
Lin Qun pondered for a moment. He didn't use his real name, but instead used the ID he often used in games — Night Shadow.
Then, the Battlefield Ranking System officially opened.
With a thought, a brand new Panel appeared before Lin Qun.
On it were three Options: Global Ranking, Civilization Ranking, and Regional Ranking.
The Global Ranking was greyed out, inaccessible, because the Global Battlefield had not officially opened yet — this was only an early landing.
Only the Civilization Ranking and Regional Ranking could be viewed.
What was displayed were individual rankings.
Lin Qun pondered for a moment, then first looked at the Civilization Ranking.
It was a massive ranking that kept changing and scrolling, refreshing in real time.
At this moment, the front of the ranking was filled with strange characters Lin Qun had never seen before, with remarks behind them in a language he could understand, translating and marking their respective locations.
The ranking was based on Contribution Points.
And in this Civilization Ranking, those at the very front were, unmistakably, all Alien Civilizations.
And the top ten Alien Civilizations had Civilization Contribution Points that had already exceeded ten thousand!
This meant they had killed tens of thousands of aliens.
And without even needing to think about it, one could tell that those they had slaughtered were absolutely humans.
Those endlessly scrolling, refreshing numbers were thousands upon thousands of living human lives.
From the early landing until now, less than two hours had passed, yet someone had already killed this many people!
Lin Qun looked at the very front of the Civilization Ranking.
It was a Bakatan Civilization being, translated as Bakalie, and its location was — of all places — Modu!
In Lin Qun's heart, a chill rose up for no reason.
This was a terrifying and insane Civilization War.
In this War, between civilizations there was only victor and vanquished!
Killing each other to gain Contribution Points was the sole target of all who participated in war!
Could he himself survive?
Lin Qun didn't know.
The network had already been cut off.
On the Civilization Ranking list, not a single human Name could be seen among the top tens of thousands...
Lin Qun exited with a heavy heart and clicked into the Regional Ranking.
But entering the Regional Ranking, it was the same.
In the Modu Area, across the five Urban areas of Modu — east, west, south, north, and central — and their six detailed rankings, no human made the list.
However, within the Regional Ranking, there was a ranking list that only displayed one's own civilization.
Lin Qun, somewhat curious, entered the East Urban area where his Dragon City Imperial Scenery Residential Area was located.
Only then could he see traces of humans.
At the very front was someone named Xia Qing, who already had ten Contribution Points.
Only by killing enemy civilization lifeforms could one gain Contribution Points — this meant this person had already killed ten Bakatan people!
Was she from the Military? Or was she a Super Expert?
Lin Qun scrolled down the interface and found that he too was on the list, ranked ninth.
"Killing three got me to ninth place... this situation looks grim..."
He knew that perhaps some people hadn't registered an ID and so weren't shown on the list, especially the Military's warriors, who had probably killed quite a few Bakatan people.
Even so, it wasn't hard to see that the current situation was not optimistic.
Below, Lin Qun also found an explanation about the ranking.
It turned out that achieving a high rank on this Battlefield list came with Rewards.
As long as one remained in first place for twenty-four hours straight, one would receive a substantial extra Contribution Point Reward.
The larger the scope of the ranking list, the richer the Reward!
First place on the Global Battlefield ranking gave a one-time Reward of a hundred thousand Contribution Points!
As for the smallest region Lin Qun was in — first place in the East Urban area — the Reward was only thirty points.
The Reward decreased going down from first place.
Even tenth place had a Reward.
Lin Qun was ranked ninth — if he could hold steady for twenty-four hours, he'd gain one Civilization Contribution Point!
Lin Qun's gaze moved upward.
It grew heated.
If he could climb to seventh place, he'd gain three Contribution Points.
If he could reach Fifth place, he'd gain five Contribution Points.
He finally understood why the Bakatan Civilization beings had gone on a mad massacre the moment they landed — they were all fighting for ranking!
Lin Qun thought to himself: you hunt us, treating us as experience from grinding monsters — but we're your experience too!
He knew that waiting for death wasn't an option.
He had to make good use of his Skill, become a sly, proactive attacker, and gather ten Contribution Points as soon as possible so he could activate the Skill card draw again!
And the function of Contribution Points went far beyond that.
Contribution Points also had a dedicated exchange Mall.
Inside, there were no daily necessities — only Weapons. From tens of millions, even billions, all the way to quadrillions worth of Black Hole Weapons, Super Warships, Annihilation Weapons, down to knives that could be exchanged for just one Contribution Point — everything was available!
This whole system existed to drive these civilizations mad, to make them fight desperately, slaughtering each other — whoever killed the most could exchange for terrifying top-tier Weapons, and with a single strike, unleash a Dimensional Strike, wiping out the Opponent completely!
Lin Qun's heart skipped as he watched.
Who exactly had started and orchestrated this Civilization War?
What kind of existence could stir up a war like this?
It was so insane and twisted, as if meant only to make countless civilizations fight to the death, and even now Lin Qun hadn't seen any condition by which this mad global struggle for civilization supremacy could be judged as won.
Did they have to kill off every other civilization?
Lin Qun took a deep breath.
He wasn't that noble-minded.
The affairs of civilization were beyond his concern — becoming stronger and surviving was his top priority.
Right now he only had three Contribution Points, not enough to exchange for a Card Draw Opportunity, but he could exchange for Weapons here in the Contribution Point Mall!
Lin Qun's gaze shifted.
Exchanging for a pistol required only one Contribution Point.
Thirty pistol rounds also only required one Contribution Point to exchange.
Should he exchange for a Weapon now, or save up until he had ten Contribution Points?
As Lin Qun browsed and pondered, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He saw something.
It was...
An Energy Recovery Potion!
"Holy shit, there really is a Blue Potion!"
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