["Did you all see the pinned message? I'm done for. I still haven't gathered enough, one hundred pieces of wood, to upgrade my small wooden house. What should I do?"]
["Same here. Am I seriously going to die tonight? Someone sponsor me, please!"]
["I upgraded my wooden house, but I'm worried I won't make it into the top hundred! Didn't the pinned message say that people outside the top hundred will also be eliminated?"]
["There'll be a cold wave tonight? What do I do, my bed is still just a primitive straw bed, and I just finished upgrading the wooden house. I'm out of wood. Do you all think if I go chop some now, I'll make it in time?"]
["If you go out now, you probably won't even need to wait for the ranking tomorrow, you'll just say bye-bye tonight."]
["Which big brother can save me? If you do, I'll belong to you from now on. If you're interested, message me privately. I'll send you photos, every single one is definitely gorgeous! But before you confirm you want to see, please pay one piece of wood as a viewing fee first!"]
["Anyone got wood? I'll trade stones! Ten stones for one wood."]
["Advanced wood for normal wood, one—"]
["Advanced stone for normal wood, one for three."]
Since the announcement came out… the whole channel basically exploded, because no one wanted to get eliminated just like that for no reason.
This time, no one held back anymore. Everyone brought out every good thing they had on hand, hoping only to trade for enough wood to upgrade their wooden house, and also have enough fuel for a bonfire that could burn through the night. That alone would make them satisfied.
"Maybe, take advantage of the moment and rob them blind while the fire's hot."
It wasn't that Ethan was being ruthless on purpose, but this world truly was survival of the fittest. If he didn't fight for himself, it'd be his turn to be eliminated next.
In the trading channel, Ethan posted the most unreasonable exchange offers in history.
[3 Wood: Trade for 1 Advanced Wood]
[1 Wood: Trade for 1 Advanced Stone]
[1 Wood: Trade for 10 Dead Branches]
[1 Wood: If you have something good, message privately. I'll buy at a high price if I like it.]
At first…
No one wanted to buy wood at all, and instead left all kinds of comments for Ethan.
["Damn! You're way too greedy! Three pieces of wood for one Advanced wood? Do you even know how hard Advanced wood is to get?"]
["The person above, if it's for burning, the burn time of Advanced wood is the same as ordinary wood. And for building houses, it can't even be used. Other than trading, what else can you even do with it?"]
["Shit! This is too much! Anyone who's willing to pay more than him, I'll trade with immediately! I'm not letting this black-hearted dog profit off disaster like this!"]
["Big brother, you have lots of wood, right? Can't you give your little sister some? I can show you where I give birth, you know!"] [T/N: Wtf?]
Of course, aside from all the people cursing Ethan for being black-hearted, there were still some smart ones who went straight to message him privately.
["Boss, I have 100 pieces of fur, do you want them?"]
"Fur? Good stuff!"
Ethan immediately replied: ["I want it. I'll trade you 10 wood for it. If you agree, initiate the trade."]
["Boss, make it 20. It wasn't easy for me to collect all this fur. I picked penguin feathers at the beach for so long to gather them. Please give a bit more wood, I'm begging you!"]
["Fifteen. That's the most. Trade now or leave it."]
["Trade! Trade! Trade!"]
[-15 Wood, +100 Fur]
["Brother Ethan, I have 10 spirit stones. Can I trade them for wood?"]
["Ten wood. No bargaining!"]
["Deal!"]
[-10 Wood, +10 Spirit Stones]
["Boss, do you want silver? Only 5 wood for 1 silver."]
["One for one. If you don't want that, go find someone else."]
["Sigh, okay!"]
[-10 Wood, +10 Silver]
["Boss, do you want bronze? I have a lot."]
["Five bronze for 1 wood. Trade fast, no bargaining!"]
["What, Boss you used to do 1 for 1, didn't you? This is too—"]
["Say one more word and I'll block you!"]
["No! No! No, I'll trade!"]
[-10 Wood, +50 Bronze]
[-2 Wood, +2 Animal Hides]
[-10 Wood, +100 Dead Branches]
By the end of the night, Ethan had truly earned a fortune. As for himself, he kept 10 pieces of wood and sold everything else while he could.
Anyway, most of his future upgrades required Advanced wood, and as for burning a bonfire, dead branches were enough. As long as he survived until tomorrow, he could rely on selling water and items again to trade for tons of wood.
Even if he couldn't trade for it, he could just go cut it himself.
He really didn't need to worry about running out of wood.
Altogether, from 244 pieces of wood, Ethan obtained 33 Advanced wood, 88 Advanced stones, 100 dead branches, 10 spirit stones, 2 animal hides, 50 bronze, 10 silver, and 100 fur.
Huge profit.
After finishing the trades, Ethan was already exhausted. He planned to get some sleep first.
Lying on the soft straw bed, Ethan felt colder and colder as he slept deeper. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he found a thin layer of ice had formed on his window, and even the stone walls were covered in white frost.
One could only imagine how cold it was outside.
Ethan had no choice but to get up and feed the bonfire more fuel, then prepared to continue sleeping.
"This must be the cold wave, right?"
Ethan suddenly became curious about the situation of the people in the region right now.
He opened the region channel in the magic book, and what he saw inside was practically wails and misery everywhere.
["Someone save me, I'm freezing to death!"]
["I clearly already upgraded my wooden house, so why is it still so cold! I can't feel my feet anymore!"]
["The person above, did you not upgrade your bed? Without a good bed, of course you'll be cold!"]
["It's over, I just looked at my feet. They're already purple! Do I have to amputate them?"]
["Do you have feeling? If you still have feeling, maybe you can still save them. If not, then there's no hope!"]
["Help!! The ice froze my bonfire, I'm so cold—"]
But, the person who shouted that his bonfire froze had only half of his message appear before the characters started being erased one by one.
Everyone in the group immediately understood, this person was probably already frozen to death.
For most people, tonight, was destined to be a SLEEPLESS NIGHT.
And Ethan glanced at the region's online count, already down to 312 people.
In just a few days, seventy percent of the people had already been eliminated. Even Ethan was a bit stunned. The difficulty of this survival game was just too high.
And this was supposedly still the newbie stage of the first three days.
But, it wasn't like the game hadn't warned them about the coming cold wave.
Whether it was the weather forecast in the magic book or the upgrade prompts that occasionally mentioned the cold wave coming in three days, the signs had been clear.
This meant the game was telling everyone that the main tasks of the first three days were to upgrade their wooden houses and prepare enough cold-resistant supplies.
But many people didn't take it seriously.
Some did, but still couldn't manage it.
Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do.
These people were simply destined to be eliminated.
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