On the second floor, Claret watched the car leaving through the window.
Cold wind slapped her cheek, making her even more awake in this early dawn.
It was too early.
But she could no longer sleep.
‘In that case, I should take care of the supplies and enter the game first.’ Claret’s eyes flickered when she thought about the Survival Game.
The Survival Game was actually more like a normal action game that descended into the world.
The main reason why it was called Survival Game was because of the refreshed monster that could overrun the cities.
Because if the monsters were not taken care of within a certain period of time, the game would continue to refresh and increase their number until a monster horde happened.
Several countries all over the world was precisely destroyed because of these monsters horde.
Claret had watched more than enough of destruction in her previous life.
The game controlled every aspect of life.
Everything had to use resources from the game because resources outside the game will deteriorate at much faster speed than normal.
Food that was still fresh today could turn into rotten food in a single night, causing many people who stockpiled food to wail in agony from their wasted money.
Only some materials could remain intact even after the Survival Game descended.
And Claret had modified her fighting skills to match these things as much as possible in order to preserve her life.
Tep.
“Miss, this is only 4 AM, where are you going?” The steward was stunned when he saw Claret came down after she had changed her clothes.
“I’m going for a walk,” Claret replied.
Walking at 4 AM?
The steward was baffled, but Claret had no intention of explaining as she walked out of the house.
The cold wind made Claret trembled slightly, but her eyes were firm as she swept her gaze across the areas.
Rather than stockpiling first, which would be utterly useless, Claret would rather enter the game first.
There were three methods to enter the Survival Game.
The first and also the simplest method was to wait for the Survival Game to descent and pull every living beings into the game.
Be it humans, animals, plants, or even the aliens out there, everyone would be pulled into the game and could see the world being changed by the game bit by bit.
But Claret knew that if she waited for the game to descent or like what the Survival Game said, ‘Open Beta,’ then everything would be too late.
Because the open beta would happen 40 days after the first ‘closed beta’ started.
This is only the 22nd or the 23rd day before the open beta and there were still two weeks left, which Claret definitely couldn’t afford to wait.
If she entered the game at that time, many resources would have been taken by the closed beta players.
So she could only choose the second method.
The second method was for the living creature to consume anything that belonged to the game.
Simple, isn’t it?
But in truth, it was not that easy.
40 days before the open beta, the closed beta had started and the digitalization would transform some ordinary structure at the beginning.
Rocks, lands, grasses, trees, and so on.
It would happen slowly day by day and on the surface, there was no difference between these resources that existed in the game and those in reality.
So entering the game 40 days before the start of the open beta would be very difficult.
And only the third time of people could do so.
That is the official invitation from the Survival Game.
Claret only knew about their existence in her previous life after some time had passed because the world system log had already refreshed several times because too many people entered the game.
As for the number of people who were invited… there were only 10 people, 2 from each country.
The Green Planet only have 5 big countries and two people would be selected from each country to enter the game early.
Even though there was almost nothing in the beginning, but they could also started to collect the early resources and things that had turned into the game.
As for the players from Country A, which is her current country…
It’s Martin.
Yes, that guy whom she encountered right after her return.
Claret had no idea what Martin saw in her that might be related to the Survival Game or it was because of her change of personality.
After all, she knew that she was no longer the same person after experiencing the harsh and brutal Survival Game.
The other player was a major general, a soldier in Country A.
He reported this matter to the higher ups and then slowly but surely brought more people into the game, allowing the government to have relatively better control when the Survival Game’s open beta officially started.
Still…
Chaos and madness still descended in various places at that time.
Anarchy, looting, murder, and so on.
“The continuous resources only started appearing on the 16th day, which is around 6 days ago.” Claret didn’t particularly remember the exact date, so she could only guess it.
The so called continuous resources were actually the kind of never-ending sources such as water.
But there were only a few official water sources in the beginning.
As for later…
They could build well on their own with the materials and blueprint from the Survival Game.
And then starting from the 26th day, the refreshing resources would start to appear such as fruits, mines, and even small packs of animals such as fish, rabbits, and so on.
But Claret was not particularly sure about their order of appearance.
What she knew was that these resources were both non renewable and renewable.
Non renewable because these things would be gone after they had finished mining or taking it all.
But at the same time, the game would refresh these resources after a period of time in another place.
This is what allowed most small forces to survive.
Because the big forces couldn’t occupy the resources all the time.
Starting from 31st, various structures would start appearing such as farm, bridges, water storage, factories, and so on.
Recipes from the Survival Game would also start appearing in various places such as the library or even other places.
It was also from this time onward that the situation in the world tensed up slightly.
Because many ordinary people felt that there was something strange with their environment but couldn’t quite put their fingers into it.
Starting from the 35th day, various special stores, some NPCs, safe houses, and other special resources would start appearing.
Claret heard that monster had also started appearing from this point onward, but she was not particularly sure about it.
At least, no monster ever appearing in the city before.
It was just hearsay.
And then from the 40th day… the Survival Game open beta started and everyone could now ‘see’ the changed world completely.
That’s when chaos descended as monster refreshed in various parts in the cities and the only places that were safe enough was the temporary safe houses that was refreshed from time to time by the game itself.
“Since this is only the 22nd or the 23rd, no fruits and other food could be refreshed by the game yet, so I can only find water.” Claret stopped in front of the biggest open park in City A.
This is the only place that she could think that could possibly be digitized first by the game.
Because from what she knew, the Survival Game would start from nature before entering into the cities to transform various things and also abandon many other things.
Buildings that were not selected to be part of the Survival Game… they would be destroyed sooner or later.