Chapter 24

Because the number of people had already reached the limit of the first stage, the officials started the first stage.

In a small room, ten holographic images on the table were all lit up.

The room instantly became noisy. Most of the people were discussing how Maas’ sudden appearance had disrupted their plans.

Only three parties had been defending Maas.

Among them, the people from the Gorvin family were more furious about Maas’s matter than anyone else.

During the meeting, he angrily rebuked, “What you guys are doing is against the rules! It was clearly agreed upon from the start. Why did you suddenly push this man up midway?”

“And you even sent your elites to his subordinates!”

As he spoke, three three-dimensional images of Shirley and Maas appeared in the middle of the table.

The people from the three major financial groups sitting across from him all laughed. One of them, a man dressed like a gentleman, laughed and said, “We didn’t sabotage the plan at all!”

“It was your Gorvin family that sabotaged the plan, right!”

“You controlled a drone during the competition, trying to kill the person selected by our three big families.”

“Aren’t you going too far!”

“The rules have been announced long ago! Before the first stage is over, no one can control the game from behind the scenes!”

“And your Gorvin family actually attacked before the first stage even started!”

“Don’t you need to give our three families an explanation!”

The plan was originally to enter the first stage, after which the various factions would begin to choose their own representatives from these wilderness survival contestants.

This competition was not simply a survival contest, but a high-stakes gamble by their ten great families.

Therefore, all the rich countries in the world participated in this ‘game’!

They should not have made their choice so quickly, but Maas’ performance was too outstanding, so the three families had no choice but to place their bets in advance.

The representative of the Gorvin family, who had been dissed by the other party until he was unable to reply.

Immediately, this person, who had recklessly wasted the resources behind the scenes, was completely erased from this world.

After releasing the scene of this man being executed by a gun, the representative of the Gorvin family immediately said, “I’m very sorry about this matter!”

“Now, I’ve already given you a perfect answer. Please calm down, you three families!”

After seeing this, the people from the three big families stopped pursuing the matter.

There was no problem with Maas within the stipulated time, so there was no need for them to directly become enemies with him.

After seeing that the matter between these people had been settled, the person behind the scenes immediately said, “Alright! Since everyone has no objections, I now announce that this match has entered the first stage!”

“Everyone has no objections, right?”

The representatives of the ten great families around nodded one after another. A few minutes after the meeting ended, the holographic projections on the table had all disappeared.

The room once again returned to darkness.

Not long after this meeting, the Sun rose on the twelfth day.

Today, everyone had received information from the drone. They had learned some information through the drone’s holographic effect.

From the first stage onwards, all the contestants would no longer be alone. One of the UAVs would give some hints about the airdrop.

Then, the players could use these hints to go to the designated area of the airdrop and look for the treasures that fell from the sky.

The items in the airdrop box were very rich. Not only were there supplies, potions, daily necessities, beauty treatments, but there was also a certain probability of cold weapons and hot weapons appearing.

After receiving this message, all the contestants were excited.

Although the probability of hot weapons was only a few in a thousand, once one obtained a hot weapon, they would be invincible in this primitive forest.

Maas carefully read these rules and found that there were more problems than he had imagined.

“Shirley! What do you think about this?”

Although she had known the inside story, she still carefully read the words on the ground.

After thinking for a few minutes, she replied, “If this goes on, our situation will become more and more dangerous!”

“If there is really an airdrop around us, we must move ahead and snatch it!”

“This will reduce the probability of the surrounding contestants obtaining firearms!”

“After all, it’s impossible to fight against guns and ammunition with a body of flesh!”

Hearing Shirley’s words, Maas could not help but nod in agreement with her.

After the two of them finished their conversation, the drone projected a countdown on the ground.

The time of ‘2:15:20:00’ was beginning to count down.

Maas looked at the time on the ground and roughly calculated, “There are still two days and 15 hours?”

“Is this the time for the air drop?”

“It should be. He said these things in the first stage. This time is about the time for the air drop!”

Seeing that the time on the ground was still counting down, Maas brought Shirley back to the camp.

At this time, only a few wisps of smoke remained from the flames around the camp.

In the middle of the night, Maas added firewood to the fire beside the wall, so that the fire burned until they woke up.

After breakfast, the fire around the wall had been completely extinguished.

One of them stood inside, the other outside, constantly cleaning the debris on the wall.

After cleaning, Maas took out a stone and smashed it against the wall.

The stone hit the wall, making a loud sound, and the stone that had been thrown shattered.

The soil had become extremely hard after being heated. The stone that was smashed just now only left a shallow dent on the wall.

“There’s still one last wall and a big door left. Then we can sleep peacefully at night!”

Watching Maas build these things, Shirley, who was beside him, was extremely happy.

Putting aside her mission, at least she was living better and better life since following him.

At this time, Shirley not only fell in love with Maas physically, but also completely in love with this man psychologically.

She had a premonition that this man in front of her could lead her to break through all the darkness and let her get rid of the masterminds behind her forever.

At this time, Maas was not in a hurry to build the last wall and gate. Instead, he dug under the wall at the back of the camp.

He dug out the narrow tunnel that he had previously reserved for this place.

Seeing Maas digging at the back of the house, Shirley walked over with curiosity.

“This is?”

“I left a tunnel here. If there’s an emergency in the future, you can hide directly under this.”

Because when I was building the wall, I filled this place with a stone that matched the shape.

Therefore, once someone hid inside and covered the stone, no one would be able to find the person hiding inside.

Shirley looked at the hole under the wall and frowned.

The hole was very narrow and there was no room for two people to hide inside. Therefore, this temporary shelter was not built for the two of them.

To be more precise, the most important purpose of this place was to protect Shirley from danger alone.

“You! This is not good!”

“If there really is an accident, what will you do?”

Maas smiled and said, “If you open your mouth too wide and there is an emergency, it will be very easy for others to find out.”

“So I set it up carefully!”

“If there is an accident and I can’t deal with it, at the very least, I can make sure that my favorite person is safe and sound!”

After hearing this, Shirley’s heart started beating rapidly.

This was the first time in so many years that she felt loved by someone.

Therefore, she decided that no matter what happened in the future, she would definitely stand up for Maas.

Before dinner, Maas completed the hidden escape route between the middle of the camp building and the wall behind the house.

While eating, Maas had time to check the system.

‘Congratulations, host, for surviving till the thirteenth day. You have received the 13th day’s signing reward, Eagle Eye (beginner) .’

After checking the message, Maas received this ability.

‘Wasn’t knowledge uploaded into my brain before. Why has that changed?’

‘And the various skillset rewards have become strengthening of the body now.’

‘Could it be that the system would change through sensing the environment?’

While thinking, he looked into the distance. As there was no specific measurement method, Maas did not know how far he could see.

In the dark night, Maas could clearly see the insects moving on the leaves a few hundred meters away.

‘This is too abnormal!’

Shirley looked at Maas’ strange expression and looked in the direction where he was looking. Other than blackness, there was nothing else.

“Nothing at all. Could it be that he’s just in a daze?”

However, a woman’s sixth sense told her something about Maas must have changed again. She just did not know it.