[Name: Lin Bei]
[Codename: Bei Ming]
[ID: 10101]
[Level: 40 (Cap Reached)]
[Class: Combat Power – Ammunition Expert]
[Skills: Martial Arts Master, Potential Surge, Explosive Destruction, Super Intuition, Battle Madman, Ammo Proficiency, Ammunition Expert]
[Combat Power: 25,000]
"Holy… t-two and a half thousand Combat Power? Seriously?"
Lin Bei's breath came in short gasps, his heart stinging sharply.
He rubbed his eyes and looked again at the Combat Power column.
The number was crystal-clear—still "25000"!
"W-what the hell… killing other Survivors gives that much return? This is insane…"
Lin Bei's scalp tingled. If he kept hunting Survivors from now on, wouldn't his Combat Power break 100,000 in no time?
"Damn, that temptation… it's huge."
He'd thought of himself as kind-hearted, but ever since the Bei Ming Hunting Group showed up he'd turned over a new leaf and decided to start afresh.
Now an absurdly fast road to power lay right in front of him!
"No, I need to calm down…"
Lin Bei shook his head hard and opened the notification panel to check why his Combat Power had sky-rocketed.
As it stood, his current Combat Power was more than triple what it had been before striking the Bei Ming Hunting Group.
Utterly outrageous!
Soon he had the answer.
When recycling Survival Bracelets for Combat Power he'd triggered three 1,000× Critical Hits and over twenty 100× Critical Hits. Add the sheer number—five hundred-plus people—and the final boost was this crazy.
"So for me right now, the fastest way to raise Combat Power is to hunt other Survivors."
"At the very least, among the Hunting Group members I logged, more than three hundred stragglers are still at large."
"Looks like I need to dispatch the shadow tanks ASAP to wipe out the remnants and boost my Combat Power."
Chin in hand, Lin Bei murmured to himself.
Then he left the Healing Pod and handed the list to Qing Qing, telling her to build ten more security robots, each leading five shadow tanks to head out and hunt the stragglers.
The shadow tanks could be remote-controlled anyway, and the robots had high-AI cores, so he felt safe letting them handle the mission.
Even without the tanks their own defense rivaled excellent quality gear.
Sending them felt like using a butcher's cleaver on a chicken.
Pity he had no weaker underlings right now, so the security bots would have to do.
Besides a mountain of Combat Power, the Hunting Group raid had also dropped loads of materials.
The basic stuff wasn't worth much; he left it all in temporary storage to pull out as needed.
What Lin Bei cared about most was the huge haul of primal stones from killing five hundred-plus Survivors.
Every Survivor had at least a thirty-square-metre island, plus a few primal stones on them.
Coupled with his built-in Critical system, the raid netted him over five hundred thousand common primal stones in one go.
As for high-grade prime stones, thanks to Quality Critical Hit he'd scored more than two thousand.
He was filthy rich now.
"I hid and farmed forever, yet one big heist beats it all!"
"Sure enough, this Survival World is dog-eat-dog. The fastest growth for anyone is to plunder others!"
"Well… looks like I'm no different."
To grow fast, the best way is to rob other Survivors.
Lin Bei frowned, lost in thought.
With such a path before him, how should he choose?
"Forget it, I'll think about that mess tomorrow. If I remember right, Qing Qing said Nilu and I need higher-tier food every day to raise Combat Power quickly."
"I've got nothing else to do, so let me browse the Braves Shop and see if I can snag some top-quality food."
Lin Bei took a hot shower, then lounged on a soft king-size bed while a maid-bot massaged him and he refreshed the shop interface.
"Nice—excellent quality Kenda-Chicken Family Bucket, 500 brave badges a set, but with 90 % off only 50 badges! Cheap—buy all hundred sets!"
"What's this… excellent oysters? 100 badges each? I'll take all thousand!"
"Excellent steaks too? Grab them!"
He kept refreshing, scooping up every ingredient or dish that met the quality bar, even tossing in plenty of Fine and excellent crop seeds.
That way the manor's Perfect soil could finally shine.
Soon he'd be self-sufficient and wouldn't have to buy everything.
To squeeze every drop of value, he bought each item one by one—tedious, but every purchase had a chance to trigger a Critical Hit.
With luck a 100× popped and one badge netted him a hundred items—felt absolutely "magnif-i-cent~"
He glanced at the mountain of food and ingredients in his kun bag and nodded, satisfied.
He glanced over; food stored in the kun bag can't have its quality raised through the Refine function, but fresh ingredients can!
This way, after a short wait, the oysters and other ingredients he'd bought would advance to Perfect quality.
An absolute jackpot!
Of course, while shopping he'd also triggered a Quality Critical Hit, landing some Perfect—and even transcendent—quality food and ingredients outright.
Thanks to buying every item individually to proc the crit, he'd scored big; otherwise a whole night of hustle might have yielded nothing above the original grade.
Yet while Lin Bei lay in bed happily shopping online, the public chat channel was exploding.
Many Survivors were still reeling from the livestream, unable to believe the Bei Ming Hunting Group had been wiped out in an instant.
"Oh my god! Was… was that really Great Lord? So brutal! And where did he get those missiles? That blast caused a tsunami across a hundred li of sea—way past the power cap!"
"Damn, Great Lord is awesome—! (voice cracks) Those scumbags deserved a lightning strike—wipe them all out!"
"I second that! Once Expeditionary Force members power up, they'll just rob us common Survivors—thanks, Great Lord, for removing the scourge!"
"Sure, but what if Great Lord turns on us? We'd be sitting ducks."
"Exactly! I read that killing Survivors lets you claim their legacy—do you think Great Lord might…"
"Crap, stop! I'm sweating buckets here—spare me, boss! I'm a law-abiding Survivor, please leave me a way out!"
"Me too! I'm one of the good guys—don't kill me!"
"Upstairs, that's not what you said half an hour ago—I've got screenshots; you were bragging about joining the Bei Ming Hunting Group!"
"WTF, you set me up… Fine, I've reformed—please, boss, don't kill meeee~~~"
The public chat channel had turned into total chaos.
As for Lin Bei, he'd already dragged a drowsy Nilu to the dining hall and was tucking in heartily.
"Wow, Brother Bei, this smells amazing!"
"Yep, it's Perfect-quality food—eat up. Train hard tomorrow and grow stronger fast."
Lin Bei gently ruffled Nilu's hair and spoke softly.
Before he'd had a Healing Pod, Nilu had saved him twice in a row; he doted on the little cutie he'd summoned.
So whenever he had good food, he didn't hide it away—he shared it with everyone.
"Qing Qing, you want some too?"
"Mm, I've got a digestive system installed; eating lets me recharge and grow stronger."
"Then join us."
Lin Bei studied Qing Qing curiously, nodded, and invited her to sit and enjoy the Perfect dinner together.
Honestly, apart from the occasional flicker of electricity deep in her pupils, Qing Qing looked no different from a normal person.
After the hearty meal Lin Bei felt light-headed, his body brimming with energy.
"Master, that's normal—when humans absorb too much energy at once it's like being drunk."
"Just rest properly and follow the training plan; you'll digest the energy and convert it into blood-qi strength."
Seeing Lin Bei drowsy, Qing Qing couldn't help giggling behind her hand.
That momentary charm stunned him completely.
Well… a full stomach stirs other appetites.
Night passed; after another round of morning exercise with Qing Qing, Lin Bei rose refreshed and began training.
Sure enough, the Perfect feast doubled his results—his Combat Power soared remarkably.
In just half a morning he finished every drill, gaining 200 Combat Power—equal to what he'd previously gotten from one level-up with a Ten-fold Critical Hit.
Compared with his former "bread-and-water" gains, the improvement was a full 100% boost.
Moreover, he could tell his body hadn't digested all the energy—only about half of it.
In other words, one Perfect feast could net him roughly 400 Combat Power.
Of course, that was thanks to his crit system.
Anyone else, even with Lin Bei's Perfect underground gym and training plan, would gain at most 20 Combat Power a day.
"Master, there's a sky-demon called Great Dark Heaven outside asking for you."
Qing Qing swayed over, her slender waist twisting, interrupting Lin Bei's drifting thoughts.
"Who? Da Hei is here? Wait—what did you just call him? A sky-demon?"
Lin Bei snapped back, looking at Qing Qing in surprise.
It was the first time he'd ever heard the term "sky-demon."