Brahman: "Hahaha, just lucky, that's all!"

After modestly saying a few words, the old man began to speak about his insights into physical combat skills and his experiences with breaking through limits twice.

This kind of information, if placed in the outside world, would be invaluable experience worth a fortune.

Don't think that just because you're in a dormitory building, no one keeps secrets. Unless the atmosphere in your particular dorm building is truly excellent, everyone is basically hoping you die before them.

After listening, Xu Lang felt he had gained a lot and wanted to reciprocate with some useful, unique information of his own.

Zero Number: "Thank you, seniors, for sharing your wisdom. I also have a piece of information to share, one I think you'll be interested in."

Brahman, who was about to log off, stayed after hearing this.

Brahman: "I'm all ears."

Zero Number: "First, I need to ask you a question. We're all from the same world, the same timeline, right?"

Rainy Night Blade: "I entered the Blood Mist Game on March 30th, 2025... the historical dynasties were Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing..."

Brahman: "I came in a bit earlier than Blade."

Zero Number: "So it seems we are all from the same world. My news is about our home world... Not long ago, I obtained a special item that could summon relatives and friends..."

Xu Lang explained the matter of the anomaly in the real world.

The radio fell into a long silence.

[Rainy Night Blade, Brahman, Zero Number are continuously active...]

The radio screen flickered on and off, but no one spoke.

Until a certain moment, Rainy Night Blade spoke up, his voice strained, as if a chicken claw was stuck in his throat.

Rainy Night Blade: "Is what you're saying true?"

Zero Number: "Besides that, I also noticed something strange. Before this tenant of mine arrived, other people from the real world had come, but the timing doesn't quite line up."

Brahman's voice carried a hint of a sigh: "The flow of time outside the dormitory buildings isn't very normal. The farther you are from a dorm building, the more chaotic time becomes."

Both he and Rainy Night Blade had realized that what Xu Lang said was true.

Unless Xu Lang was a born bad seed and an idiot, he wouldn't spread such a meaningless false rumor.

After all, there was no conflict of interest between them.

Rainy Night Blade: "Can you let that tenant of yours speak? I have some things I want to ask."

Xu Lang nodded to Zhen Lu.

Zhen Lu: "Go ahead."

Rainy Night Blade: "How is Haishi? Have any Blood Mist Secret Realms descended there?"

Zhen Lu: "Yes, but the rescue efforts in Haishi were very strong, so the casualty rate was relatively low."

Rainy Night Blade: "What was the casualty rate?"

Zhen Lu: "Thirty-three percent."

Rainy Night Blade: "Do you know the Yupu District?"

Zhen Lu looked at Xu Lang, her expression becoming hesitant.

"Tell the truth," Xu Lang said, his expression flat, yet somehow giving off a chilling feeling.

Lu Xun once used an analogy about an iron house. Xu Lang was the kind of person who would wake everyone up.

Those who indulge in fantasies will only drown in their memories.

Zhen Lu: "Yupu District was the landing point for the secret realm!"

Rainy Night Blade: "I need a moment."

No one needed to say it;everyone knew Rainy Night Blade had someone very important in Yupu District.

The radio fell silent again, a silence that lasted about two minutes before Brahman suddenly spoke up.

Brahman: "Blade, don't lose heart. As long as you're alive, there's hope. I've heard rumors that deep within the Blood Mist, there are items that can bring the dead back to life. I've also heard of players who managed to leave the Dorm Survival Game. As long as you're alive, there's hope."

That was the most practical thing to say.

Family dead? Don't despair.

As long as you live long enough, maybe one day the dorm building will do a backflip and pull something off for you.

"Thank you," Rainy Night Blade's voice was muffled.

Zero Number: "Brahman, what's this about an item that can bring the dead back to life?"

Brahman: "Just rumors. There are many such rumors in the Blood Mist World. For example, an amusement park that grants any wish if you find it, a spring that grants immortality if you drink from it, the remains left behind by deities... These things probably already exceed the grading scope of the dormitory buildings. Like, for instance, the Blood Calamity."

Zero Number: "Blood Calamity?"

Brahman: "It's a type of disaster that even the dormitory buildings can't withstand. I don't know much about it either."

Zero Number: "Alright."

No one was really in the mood to chat after that. After exchanging a few perfunctory words, they all logged off.

Xu Lang turned off the radio and suddenly sighed with some emotion: "This Blood Mist World can actually produce disasters that even the dormitory buildings can't withstand. That's truly terrifying."

"Perhaps the Dorm Survival Game is just one type of anomalous phenomenon within the Blood Mist World," Cao Yaxuan speculated.

"Regardless, getting stronger is never wrong," Wang Yazhi said, getting up from the bed, ready to practice her sword.

Xu Lang, meanwhile, started contacting Bai Wuya.

Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened;you can't be careless when it comes to choosing a path.

Bai Wuya responded quickly and seemed fairly enthusiastic.

[Bai Wuya: I think for us players, output is the most important thing. Open the door, unleash the output, then come back inside.]

[Bai Wuya: Once you have enough output, supplement it with one or two skills that target people, and that should be sufficient.]

[Bai Wuya: If you have time, we could spar bare-handed.]

Spar? Be a punching bag?

Xu Lang had no desire to play bare-handed with someone who had two Grandmaster-level combat skills.

[Xu Lang: Thanks. Maybe another time.]

[Bai Wuya: I heard you extended Ginkgo Avenue to three hundred meters out.]

[Xu Lang: Yeah.]

[Bai Wuya: You probably didn't search very carefully back then. An Excellent-grade raw material was picked up by someone else.]

[Xu Lang: Raw materials don't seem very useful right now.]

[Bai Wuya: Once players occupy a stronghold, corresponding blueprints will spawn in that Safe Zone. If the blacksmiths inside the dormitory are skilled enough, they can use these raw materials to forge new equipment recognized by the dormitory building.]

Xu Lang felt this Bai Wuya was actually quite decent, not as domineering as his outward appearance suggested.

The two exchanged some experiences. At the end, Xu Lang remembered a rumor.

[Xu Lang: I heard you've been Top Player several times?]

[Bai Wuya: Do you think Top Player is as common as cabbage? I just happened to get lucky once, but that building was also ruined. That's the reason I moved here.]

'Building ruined' meant the ecosystem was completely gone, all creation-type players and blacksmith-type players dead. And not all dormitory buildings were like the Mad King Building, starting each game with a full roster.

Usually, if too many people die in a dormitory building, the second round can only start with a severely weakened team.

"Bai Wuya had one bad ending, so he might even be richer than me."

After ending the conversation with Bai Wuya, Xu Lang thought to himself.

He already had a clear direction for how to proceed with fusing his physical combat skills.

Since he was going to fuse, he'd fuse something big! 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

With such a long rest period, the cost of trial and error was right here!

He wouldn't rest until he'd fused two or three legendary physical combat skills that suited him!

With this thought, he tore open several selected skill scrolls and entered the Fusion Dream.