Chapter 659: Trouble Brewing? Just Pull the Covers and Sleep

Plans could only be the icing on the cake.

The Dorm Survival Game boiled down to just two things: stats and mechanics.

The Auspicious Gate had high enough stats, so even though it wasn't a heavy-duty metal door, it could withstand the X-Ray Burst's assault.

The real battle had actually started before the game began—it was called management.

Xu Lang was good at management, so he wasn't flustered at all.

The raw materials stored in Demon King Castle could let the Auspicious Gate survive the first stage, but the second and third stages were uncertain.

"Xu Lang, everyone's gone to grab supplies. Should we go too?" Cao Yaxuan was itching for action.

Robbery—that was definitely criminal behavior.

And as long as she punished the criminals, she could gain attribute points.

Cao Yaxuan's ambitions were grand; she'd never confined her justice to the Mad King Building.

But most of the time, when she executed justice, she ended up killing both sides.

There were too few good people in the Mad King Building.

So to outsiders, she sometimes seemed like a lunatic.

"Better not." Xu Lang shook his head and said, "What if the radiation burst's attack frequency changes and happens to hit you? You might not survive."

Cao Yaxuan and the others had plenty of life-saving items, but none had the authority of the Scarlet Shepherd's resurrection.

After the fifth and sixth rounds, very few supplies might have survived, and he wasn't particularly interested anyway.

Even if he could pick through and find something valuable.

Right now, his mind was completely occupied with the Nightmare Bed keeping him safe and painlessly advancing his Sequence. He had zero focus on looting.

And if he really wanted to loot, he'd wait until after the third round of the game.

That would be true, steel-on-steel combat.

Once the resurrection mechanism was lifted, everyone's skills and Sequences could be extracted!

That was the truly valuable stuff!

The other three buildings each had one Sequence Holder. The number was a bit small, but they were just Zero-Tier Dormitory Buildings after all.

The Mad King Building was also a Zero-Tier Dormitory Building, but its Sequence production rate was very high—almost every round of the game produced one.

"From now on, you guys… adapt to the situation. I'm going to lie down for a bit." Xu Lang trailed off, glanced at a black-and-red demonic eye mounted on the wall, and frowned.

The black demonic eye seemed to act as someone's field of vision, showing two players within it.

This was Demon King Castle's special ability, the Demonic Eye. It could be condensed by consuming Terror Force and provided more detailed observation than the Surveillance Cameras.

When the Building War started, Demon King Castle had condensed eight demonic eyes to monitor different locations in the Mad King Building.

"A little mouse got in. I'll deal with it." Xu Ruyan also saw the image in the demonic eye and said calmly.

"Okay." Xu Lang nodded.

Xu Ruyan had the Homeward Mirror. Even if she was "one-shot," she could return to the dorm before dying and clear all abnormal statuses.

It was her exclusive equipment, and everyone was envious.

Life-saving, homeward teleportation, status cleansing—the mechanics were maxed out.

"I'm going to the library to read." Sherry stretched, revealing her stunning waistline.

The second-floor library could speed up knowledge absorption.

Although the Neighborhood Committee's office was in the Demon Box World, Sherry usually went to the library to read. Xu Lang occasionally went too.

Everyone went about their business—feeding the dogs, reading, training.

On the Nightmare Bed, Xu Lang sat cross-legged alone, with the Vajra Guardian's Sequence Crystal and the Annalist of Years' initiation item placed before him.

He stared at these items for a long time before pulling out the Black Market Merchant's Sequence Encyclopedia.

This Sequence Encyclopedia recorded 1050 Primal Sequences and many Later-born Sequences. Whenever the Primal Sequences changed, Goblin Emperor Bartholomew would mutter about it in the book.

*The Primal Sequence Sea's energy has settled. The Butcher Sequence and Animal Tamer Sequence have completely vanished. —Goblin Emperor Bartholomew.*

*"The Fusionist" has been found by the Seventh True Ancestor of the Blood Race, "Philis." —Goblin Emperor Bartholomew.*

*Shit, I personally went to the Blood Race Court. It wasn't the Fusionist who fused the Animal Tamer and Butcher at all. —Goblin Emperor Bartholomew.*

*Heavy bounty on the Scarlet Shepherd. Terms negotiable. Sponsors: Me, the Blood Race Court, and Void Shadow, Lord Balor. —Goblin Emperor Bartholomew.*

Every night, Xu Lang checked the Sequence Encyclopedia's changes, feeling very fortunate.

Thankfully, he hadn't exposed the Scarlet Shepherd's name. Otherwise, tracks would have been left, and he might have been located by now.

Thanks to Grandmother's Sequence Encyclopedia, or he wouldn't have known he was wanted.

Entities like Bartholomew and the Seventh True Ancestor sounded incredibly formidable. He wasn't sure if the Mad King Building could withstand them.

From Bartholomew's tone, traveling through the Blood Mist World was just a routine matter.

And the Black Market Merchant faction, which could establish cooperative relationships with dormitory buildings, was definitely not simple at its core.

If an employee offended the boss's partner, how could they survive?!

As for the Seventh True Ancestor "Philis," Xu Lang seriously suspected they were the original owner of the True Ancestor's Manuscript.

Speaking of the True Ancestor's Manuscript, everyone in Demon King Castle hadn't followed its updates in a long time. Reading it could let the True Ancestor peer back at them.

In the supernatural realm, spying on high-level mysteries was very dangerous.

"The Primal Sequence Sea's order has been disrupted. The Sequence Sea, which had been stable for so long, actually had a permanent mutation… This incident is huge. If I fuse again, the bounty intensity might increase!"

Xu Lang was weighing his options.

Sequence D-39 Animal Tamer plus C-27 Butcher had become Sequence B-3 Scarlet Shepherd!

The benefits were too great; he couldn't help but be tempted!

Excluding the Scarlet Shepherd, he now had B-24 Annalist of Years and C-40 Vajra Guardian. If he fused those two, he might get an A-rank Sequence.

"Let's do it!"

"No, I can't do it!"

"My fate line is converging, so many pieces of information can't be investigated. But White Crow and Huang Shan are different. Who knows what abilities the Diviner Bartholomew has!"

"This Sequence Encyclopedia contains information on all past Sequence Holders. Maybe Bartholomew discovered it through his probing!"

During peacetime, there was an internet meme:

*An orphan sees a VIP license plate in the capital, kicks it, and within three minutes, his parents' info is found.*

The supernatural world worked the same way!

Although the Blood Mist World was chaotic, that applied to the middle and lower levels. The upper echelons still had a certain degree of order.

The biggest problem now was that Xu Lang had no idea what methods Bartholomew and the others were using to probe, or how far along they were.

"If only I had an insider."

"I did buy a one-time communicator to contact the Black Market Merchant before, but those merchants are all cunning. Even asking indirectly is no different from walking into a trap."

Xu Lang pulled out a black walkie-talkie, his eyes flickering.

He wasn't good at diplomacy; he had almost no relevant skills. Demon King Castle had no diplomatic talent either.

Just as he was racking his brain, he suddenly thought of something!

Damn it!

How had he forgotten? He was the Nightmare Lord!

Couldn't solve a problem? Just sleep it off!

Outside.

The X-Ray Burst was destroying doors and homes.

Xu Lang pulled the covers over himself and went straight to sleep.

Others were giving their all just to survive, but Xu Lang didn't need to focus entirely on this stage. He had many threads in his hands, each one allowing him to climb upward.

The highest-priority project was the battle involving four buildings. Winning the Building War also included the Mad King Building.

The secondary project was fusing Sequences.