Chapter 763: Exploration Craze, the Mad King Building's New Structures

"Still not asleep?"

A voice came from beside her.

Kui Zi turned her head and saw that Xu Lang was already awake, his back against the headboard, his gaze directed toward her.

"Mm." Kui Zi responded, then reported, "All the construction tasks have been claimed, and most of them have already been completed."

The ones overseeing the facility deployment plan were Wu Huihui, Li Shuwen, Sword Saint, Floating Life Play, and other floor leaders.

Xu Lang seemed to trust them a great deal, and they, in turn, handled matters exceptionally well.

All four were Nightmare Apostles, thoroughly familiar with every player, down to their very bones. Even without drawing weapons, if they came face to face with players they had tormented in dreams, they could effortlessly suppress them.

Because they knew what every Mad King Building player's deepest fear was.

"Good." Xu Lang nodded, then asked, "Has anyone gone into Exploration Mode?"

"Yes. Want me to send you the list?"

Exploration Mode was guarded by Neighborhood Committee members. Every team or individual that entered had to register.

"No need. As long as people are going in, the information inside will gradually be brought out. Have the intel team properly gather relevant intelligence."

"Understood. Also, I think we should add another field to the exploration registration booklet, asking players which missions they've accepted."

"No need."

"It is necessary. I know you want to give Mad King Building players room to develop, Xu Lang. But the missions posted in the Mission Hall can be claimed repeatedly. Once someone submits a mission first, everyone else's mission becomes void. And if two teams accept the same mission, once they enter the exploration world, conflict is inevitable!"

"Then let conflict happen." Xu Lang shrugged and chuckled softly, his voice light.

Kui Zi looked utterly bewildered.

Wasn't this just encouraging internal strife?

Xu Lang didn't keep her in suspense. He waved her over and explained:

"First, the weak are eliminated and the strong survive. That's the rule among players."

"Second, among weaker players, an intelligence network will gradually take shape, allowing them to avoid conflicts with powerful exploration teams."

Kui Zi leaned against Xu Lang and said, "You're that certain?"

"Heh, certain beyond any doubt." Xu Lang grinned. "Under survival pressure, all paths will gradually converge. Don't doubt it!"

And even if the players didn't do so, Demon King Castle could always intervene later.

"Kui Zi, you're too clever, so you like to overthink things." Xu Lang wrapped his arm around Kui Zi's soft waist, defined with its abdominal muscle line. "Later, you don't need to think about anything. Just hand the initiative to me."

Hearing this, Kui Zi realized something, and her expression changed drastically.

"I'm starving, I need to go eat!" The moment she finished speaking, her wrist was caught by Xu Lang.

She was finished!

Was she really going to handle Xu Lang at his strongest all by herself?

"Don't mess around, Yaxuan and the others are still asleep!"

"Then fine, let's go to the kitchen and eat together."

……

【Basic Nightmare Coins 1600, conversion rate 9231%, eight hours total output 149296 Nightmare Coins】

【Total Nightmare Coins: 1984280】

【Mystic Sovereign Meditation Art Harvest Summary: Constitution +40, Spirit +40, Demon-Sealing Slash +2, Martial Saint +2】

【Ghostly Deity Power Harvest Summary: Ghostly Deity Power +30】

【Attributes: Constitution 1320, Spirit 1320, Ghostly Deity Power 810】

"Attributes are improving so slowly. I really want to upgrade the Mystic Sovereign Meditation Art."

Xu Lang was somewhat conflicted.

His skill Status was impressive enough, but his raw numbers were relatively weak. If there was a single chink in his armor, this was it.

Cultivation skills were a developmental investment, so he could upgrade them ahead of time in one go. But then he thought about how all his major Sequences were waiting on the Nightmare Bed to save them, and he temporarily abandoned the idea.

Last night, he had also fused the Lucky One and Judgment Executor, which instantly pushed the Fusion time out to over forty days.

"Master, do you want to eat? Today we have delicious honey-glazed smoked chicken." Zhidong came bouncing over.

"Haha, do you really want to eat it that badly?" Xu Lang laughed.

According to her settings, Zhidong was supposed to be a gentle, soft-spoken older-sister type. But right now, she was acting childishly, clearly buoyed by some good turn of fortune.

Zhidong's cheeks flushed. She unconsciously licked her lips, then shook her head. "I didn't... If Master wants to eat more, I can go without."

By the end of her sentence, even she looked miserable, her brow furrowed as though she were suffering some kind of ordeal.

"You go eat first." Xu Lang shook his head. "I still have some things to take care of."

"Thank you, Master!" Zhidong said her thanks, then bit her lip. "Master, you can always handle proper business first from now on."

Xu Lang and Kui Zi hadn't even gone to the kitchen yet, but they had already started eating. At this moment, Kui Zi lay on the sofa, a blanket draped over her body. Firelight from the Fireplace flickered across her snow-white skin, yet she showed no reaction, looking as though she were asleep, or perhaps unconscious.

"Zhidong, remember this well. Everything I do is proper business!" Xu Lang said with a stern face.

Zhidong didn't believe a word of it. She stuck out her tongue and left.

Just then, Cao Yaxuan and the others arrived in the main hall.

"Xu Lang, what happened to our Mechanical Queen? " Zhen Lu came closer. When she saw it was Kui Zi lying on the sofa, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"She's tired." Xu Lang replied.

"So she just collapsed and fell asleep, huh." Cao Yaxuan curled her lip, clearly unconvinced.

"Good timing, all of you. Come here, quick." Xu Lang shifted the subject. He produced a yellow-brown scroll that radiated a crimson aura.

It was the complete Mad King Building map.

"What's going on?" Tong Qi walked over.

Xu Lang replied, "Help me think it through. How should we lay out our buildings?"

"Do you mean large-scale structures like the Iron Blood Colosseum?" Cao Yaxuan was slightly surprised.

"No. The Iron Blood Colosseum is a public structure of the Dorm Survival Game. I mean structures of our Mad King Building." Xu Lang shook his head.

Tong Qi's eyes lit up. She asked, "You mean the Mad Spire and the Mad Vanguard Barracks from the broadcast?"

Cao Yaxuan interjected, "Don't they need to be created at the construction center?"

"I'm the Acting Dorm Owner, so I can control it remotely." Xu Lang raised an eyebrow and pointed at the map. "Besides, from the map I can already see how much empty land is in the Safe Zone. No need to go all the way to the construction center for something like this."

The women had come up beside him by now. Hearing that, they all turned their eyes to the Mad King Building map.

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On the map, where bloodlight seemed to drift across its surface, there were tiny green dots. Each one was a Mad King Building player. Apart from them, there were also many blank little square grids.

Counting carefully, there were thirty small squares, distributed across different parts of the Safe Zone.Some stood alone, while others joined together.

"Lang Ge, these people gathered here went into the exploration world, right?" Tong Qi pointed at a specific region on the map.

It was a corner inside the Mad Supermarket.

There, seven large doors had been drawn. In front of each door lingered groups of small red dots. If one looked carefully, the red dots would even drift out numbers.

"Correct. Those numbers indicate how many people are inside." Xu Lang nodded.

The Zombie Attack world was the most popular, already containing players from around a dozen dormitory rooms who had gone in.

Everyone tacitly assumed that the very first game to appear would be the lowest in difficulty.

"So magical." Cao Yaxuan's eyes glittered.

She saw Xu Lang tap the construction center once, and that section unfolded, revealing three icons.

They were a twelve-story spire, a square tent, and a copper-colored ore vein.