Strands of red light flew from the Mistbreaker Totem and condensed into a lottery box before Li Qinglang.
Immediately afterward, light spheres the size of ping-pong balls condensed one after another. Once formed, they fell through the circular opening above the lottery box.
Li Qinglang noticed that most of them were blue light spheres, while only a very few were black. Among them was also a purple light sphere.
“S-rank evaluation reward:
Two blind-box draws, with ninety percent being excellent-grade items, nine percent being special items, and one percent being excellent-grade items.”
“Evaluating whether the current Survivor qualifies for S+. A successful evaluation requires ranking among the top one hundred within the current reward tier. Upon success, the probabilities of obtaining Excellent-grade and special items will be doubled.”
“Evaluation failed. Please begin the draw.”
When the first half of the System’s announcement came out, Li Qinglang was still very excited. He had not expected there to be a further + ranking within the same tier.
But ideals were beautiful, while reality was cruel.
This also made him realize that there was always someone better, and there were always greater heights beyond the heavens.
He had merely relied on good luck in the early stages to obtain more supplies than the others. There were plenty of people with true strength.
“Still, luck is also part of strength. Humility is a good thing, but I must not belittle myself.”
“I should hurry up and draw. Why does it feel like the surroundings are starting to become a little eerie?”
Li Qinglang had already been in the Dense Fog Zone for nearly five minutes, and the cloth strip in his mouth had long since lost its effect.
All kinds of discomfort surged toward him like a tide.
He reached into the lottery box and had just grabbed two light spheres when the entire box, along with the remaining light spheres, transformed into fluorescence and dispersed.
“I can’t breathe!”
Li Qinglang stuffed the two light spheres into his pocket. Without even having time to examine them carefully, he hurried toward the Light Mist Zone.
The originally ordinary mist now seemed to writhe slowly with a sticky texture. When inhaled into his lungs, it carried a metallic, fishy sweetness that stung his throat and made it tighten.
Most frightening of all was the bone-deep chill. It did not come from the temperature, but seeped out bit by bit from within his blood vessels.
“Tap tap tap tap.”
Li Qinglang quickened his footwork.
“Just persist for twenty more seconds! As long as it’s only twenty seconds, I can get out!”
“Tap tap tap tap.”
!!
Li Qinglang, hurrying forward, suddenly stopped. The surroundings were terrifyingly silent; the sounds of insects and birds had all vanished.
“Something is following me!”
There had been a slight inconsistency in the footsteps just now. He had taken only three steps, yet four footsteps had sounded.
Li Qinglang suddenly took three steps forward, then stopped again in an instant.
“Tap tap tap tap.”
…
An eerie atmosphere spread through the surroundings. Even though the mist erosion had left his body icy cold, it could not stop cold sweat from sliding down Li Qinglang’s forehead.
The symptoms were growing more severe, and breathing was becoming increasingly difficult…
“No. I can’t let this thing follow me out of the Dense Fog Zone, or there will be endless trouble!”
At this critical moment, Li Qinglang pulled out the glowing Barbie Doll and quickly wound it up.
“I can only rely on you.”
“Click, click…”
The tightened spring loosened, accompanied by multicolored light radiating from the Barbie Doll.
Li Qinglang used all his strength to throw the Barbie Doll deeper into the Dense Fog Zone.
Approximately two seconds later:
“Tap tap tap tap…”
The unknown footsteps headed toward the Barbie Doll.
“Run!”
The Barbie Doll could only glow for ten seconds, but that was enough time to get out of the Dense Fog Zone!
As he ran, he did not forget to send the large coconut in his in arms to Wang Yixin.
“I originally only promised to treat him to a cup of coconut water. This is a huge loss!”
Li Qinglang felt that, apart from when he had been chased by the neighbor’s large yellow dog at the age of seven or eight, he had never run so fast in his life.
He did not stop after reaching the Light Mist Zone, but ran all the way to the Shelter in one breath.
“Huff… huff… huff…”
After collapsing onto the stone slab ground without any strength left, Li Qinglang removed the Mist-Piercing Glasses, struggled to his feet, and gulped down two hundred milliliters of purified spring water.
“I’m finally alive again.”
The Dense Fog Zone was far too dangerous. Huang Zhiteng must have had other items besides the Mist-Piercing Glasses at the time!
The vision provided by the glasses was only the most basic requirement. To explore the Dense Fog Zone, one had to possess something capable of saving one’s life.
Even if the others had not encountered an unknown creature, they still could not withstand the mist erosion alone.
Li Qinglang’s body had already been strengthened by spring water, and he had still been holding a mouthful of spring water. Even so, staying inside for five minutes had already reached his limit. The others would probably die in the mist after only three minutes!
“At least I got the rewards. Let’s see what I drew.”
First, he took a light sphere from his pocket.
“All right, just as expected. It’s a blue ball~”
【Happy Sweet Potato（Excellent）】
Introduction: A high-yield, highly adaptable tuber crop with abundant nutritional value, a delicate texture, and a high level of sweetness.
“Good grief! You call this a sweet potato?”
Li Qinglang stared at the sweet potato before him, which was as large as a computer screen, and exclaimed in astonishment.
“Not only are the coconuts and rabbits huge here, even the damn sweet potatoes are huge! One sweet potato could feed me for three days!”
Although he said that, he definitely would not use the entire sweet potato just for eating. At most, he would taste it; otherwise, it would be too much of a waste.
Although he did not understand farming, he knew more or less that with food like sweet potato, cutting off a piece about the size of a fist would be enough to use as a seed. A sweet potato this large could be planted in a circle around the Shelter.
Steady happiness!
Without exaggeration, the value of the Happy Sweet Potato was even higher than that of the Purified Water Pearl and homeland spring eye combination!
This was an excellent-grade staple food that could be obtained continuously—no, in large and continuous quantities. As long as Li Qinglang survived until the First harvest of Sweet Potatoes, he would have an inexhaustible supply of excellent-grade staple food afterward!
Although the Purified Water Pearl combination could also continuously provide a water source, its daily output was simply too low.
He still did not know what additional functions the Happy Sweet Potato had, but it definitely could not be bad. After all, the System had said that it possessed abundant nutritional value.
“If I remember correctly, yesterday someone in the World Chat Channel was selling fertilizer. It was just that the Grade of that fertilizer was too low, so it was not very effective on Excellent-grade crops.
Looks like I’ll have to find some resources that can accelerate plant growth if I get the chance.”
After roughly planning how to use the Happy Sweet Potato, Li Qinglang happily prepared to examine the second reward.
“The First reward already gave me such a huge surprise. I wonder how the second one will be.”
He reached into his pocket and grasped the remaining light sphere. Li Qinglang declared loudly:
“I’m willing to use my only two friends, Huang Zhiteng and Wang Yixin, and shorten Dingding by five centimeters! In exchange for an excellent-grade item! Come out, Pikachu!”
The instant Li Qinglang pulled out the light sphere, he saw its color clearly. At that moment, he seemed to faintly hear something in his mind: “Ding, trade successful~”
“Hahaha, I got something good! I got something good!”
Although it was not purple, which represented an Excellent Grade, it was not the guaranteed blue either. What Li Qinglang held in his hand was a streak of multicolored black.
A special item!
A nine-percent probability was not particularly low, but it was definitely not something everyone could draw.
Li Qinglang, dancing with excitement, directly crushed the light sphere, eager to see what the special item was.
The next moment, he was dumbfounded.
“Wait, System! ‘Come out, Pikachu’ was just a slogan. I didn’t ask you to actually give me a Pikachu…”
A yellow creature resembling an orange cat lay on the floor as if it had fallen asleep. Its back fur could clearly be seen rising and falling with the rhythm of its breathing.
That’s right. This thing was alive…