I have an Apocalypse City - Chapter 1422

Chapter 1422: Chapter 1424 Opportunities Chapter 1422: Chapter 1424 Opportunities The Ghost Ship silently drifted through the fragmented universe, occasionally bombarded by the forces of space and time on its hull, yet all were blocked by the skull-like black mist on the ship’s surface, leaving it unaffected.

In these densely packed space-time nodes, akin to stars, numerous travelers had already met their end, their physical forms annihilated, and even their souls unable to escape the clutches of the Space-Time Rift.

The Doomsday Cruise Journey lasted a total of seven days, and only one day had passed. The monitoring mirror showed that already a third of the people had died. For them, these space-time nodes and fragmented universe appeared as individual dungeons with randomly assigned difficulty. Those lucky enough would temporarily survive upon entry, while the unlucky might find themselves in mortal peril the moment they landed.

What was surprising was that among this third of deceased travelers, the majority were god’s chosen ones, while only two of the game world’s natives, the NPCs, had died, which was somewhat astonishing.

However, upon further reflection, this situation was unexpected yet logical. It must be noted that the NPCs of the game world had been aware of the sudden event of the Doomsday Cruise Journey for quite some time. Those who dared to venture onto the deck were individuals who had great confidence in themselves and had made thorough preparations beforehand.

In contrast, from the moment players received the system prompt, the vast majority who had the opportunity to arrive on deck charged over without a second thought, completely disregarding the high mortality rate of the Doomsday Cruise Journey!

Initially, players were extremely cautious when they first entered the game world, as they knew that in this game, players only had one life. Dying in the game meant death in the real world too, so in the beginning stages, few players dared to hunt monsters beyond their capabilities, to the extent that most would spend over a month leveling up by attacking trees and rocks, showing just how much they cherished their lives!

As players delved deeper into the game, especially upon discovering that increasing their in-game strength could influence the real world, they began their frenzy. They tried every means to enhance their power. In the real world, an ordinary person hardly ever encounters a chance to change their destiny in their lifetime, but in the game world, such opportunities arise periodically. The difference lies in whether players seize these chances, altering their fate and life, or hesitate and give up, eventually fading into obscurity, just as they would in the real world.

Fortunately, in the game world, such opportunities were plentiful. Those who previously encountered these chances but failed to grasp them watched as friends of similar strength soared after seizing an opportunity, drastically increasing their power and widening the gap between them. This sense of loss, like a bug gnawing at their hearts day and night, compelled them to hold onto the next opportunity at all costs, to grasp the chance to change their fate!

People are audacious in their actions; if they don’t die, they can live for a very long time.

People focus on those who succeed in seizing their fate-altering chance, while the many others who die trying are often selectively forgotten.

Guo Zhiqi was one such player, who, upon entering the game, quickly realized its brutality and thus chose to become a lifestyle profession player, selecting Chef, a lifestyle profession – because in the real world, he was also a chef!

And so, until level thirty, Guo Zhiqi spent his days in a third-tier city, making a living by preparing food with special effects. He managed to live comfortably in the game and even saved a considerable amount of Doomsday Coins, which he converted into real-world currency to improve his life outside the game.

Although he envied those players rampaging through hordes of monsters, for the sake of his own life, he didn’t choose a main profession but instead made his Chef lifestyle profession his primary focus. Two years passed in this manner, and his Chef level had reached an unprecedented height, that of a Great Grandmaster, only half a step away from the divine level!

As his chef level increased, his days in the game world became leisurely. His level nearly kept up with mainstream players, as he was already at level 89. He had managed to acquire some silver and even gold quality equipment, and had even earned an epic-level kitchen knife due to a hidden quest.

Originally, Guo Zhiqi thought he would continue on like this forever, but after the Abyssal invasion plot began, the third-tier city where he resided was instantly overrun by hordes of Abyssal monsters. Countless humans died before his eyes, and it was then that Guo Zhiqi’s perspective began to change slowly!

“The game is not a utopia. There is always the threat of death, and one’s safety must be in one’s own hands!” After the city he had lived in for over two years was slaughtered by Abyssal monsters, and Guo Zhiqi managed to escape by chance, he underwent a transformation.

In the past, faced with similar opportunities, Guo Zhiqi would have chosen to give up, but now, he seized every chance to improve his strength.

Despite this, because he had wasted so much time, his actual combat ability was far below that of other players of the same level, except for his Great Grandmaster chef level, which was worth mentioning.

With his current strength, he would have been unable to complete even the initial Endless Hunting Trial, but he somehow managed to defeat many players much stronger than him, surviving purely on the diverse effects of the food he had prepared in his inventory. Those who knew him would surely be astonished.

However, Guo Zhiqi, who never gave up, felt despair for the first time upon entering a fragment of the universe and finding himself surrounded by undead skeletal monsters.

The food in his inventory was running low, and he was surrounded by the undead, in a world imbued with the Force of Death. What was more despairing was that time flowed fifteen times faster here compared to the game world. This meant that the seven-day Doomsday Cruise Journey would last 105 days here. Forget about exploring this space-time node for treasures–whether he could survive over a hundred days without starving was now the real challenge!

“A chef dying from starvation, huh, how ironic!” Guo Zhiqi muttered with a wry smile on his face as he looked at the last piece of bread in his inventory that could increase his strength.

Guo Zhiqi, who had been hiding in a narrow cave for thirty days, devoured the last piece of bread and for the first time stepped out of the cave, swinging his epic kitchen knife towards a wolf-shaped skeletal monster. In his heart, he was ready to die alongside the creature, or even be killed by the level 80 undead.

Fearless, he desperately swung the knife, chopping at the wolf-shaped skeletal monster. He did not try to dodge the monster’s attacks at all, fighting in a do-or-die manner. Finally, he hacked the skeletal monster to pieces, and it dissolved into a puff of black mist. All that was left was a pitch-black bone.

“Could it be that my kitchen knife has an attack bonus against the undead?” Guo Zhiqi, looking at his Vitality Points that were still nearly half full, stood somewhat dazed before picking up his spoils of war and once again charging at the next skeletal monster.

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