Chapter Sixty-Two: The End!
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Time raced by.
Competition among the creatures grew ever more intense.
The number of players dwindled steadily throughout the process.
Li Shang withdrew his gaze from the ever-decreasing count.
It had been about half an hour since the incident with the alpaca.
During this time, he had successfully evolved several times more.
His appearance now was utterly transformed from what it had been.
His feathers were now a dazzling mix of red and blue, more brilliant than ever.
His size, too, was much greater than before.
He was nearly as large as a full-grown eagle.
Li Shang beat his broad wings, pushing his speed to new heights as he darted across the vast, deep sea.
With each evolution, his velocity had reached a truly terrifying level.
Within this short span, he had traversed nearly half the map.
He had come to realize that the map in Berserk Mode was nothing like the boundless expanse of Standard Mode.
It was only a planet of 100,000 square kilometers in area—comparable to a small province in the real world.
Resources here were thus extremely limited.
And after this period of mutual predation among the creatures, the distance between lifeforms displayed on his minimap grew ever wider.
Even at his current speed, he had to fly for a long time before encountering another.
Moreover, this mode demanded that one devour different kinds of prey to survive.
The final showdown was fast approaching.
Li Shang circled above the sea, then suddenly plunged into the water.
When he broke through the surface again, a strange-looking big fish hung from his beak.
He quickly swallowed it down, replenishing his hunger meter, which was nearly empty.
The deeper into the game, the faster the hunger meter depleted.
This forced the creatures on the map to hunt more and more frequently.
“This is the last creature nearby.”
Li Shang eyed the indicator on the minimap, feeling a twinge of frustration.
He had originally intended to hide somewhere and wait it out till the end of time.
But as the game advanced, its pace only accelerated.
He was struggling just to survive, let alone stock up on supplies to hole up somewhere.
After finishing his catch and seeing no evolution prompt, Li Shang sighed.
This mode was fun, but it was terribly unfriendly to unlucky players.
Shaking off his disappointment, Li Shang glanced toward the minimap in the upper right of his view.
Within the round display, all the pointers now converged to the north.
Clearly, the remaining creatures had begun to gather.
The final battle was imminent.
Without hesitation, he spread his wings and soared northward.
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Rather than starve to death here, he might as well try his luck in the chaos.
Maybe he could survive a little longer.
...
Where ocean met land—
This was the only place where a few scattered plants still grew.
“Bzzzz—”
From the distant sky, a swarm of insects, darkening the sun, sped toward him.
They glowed with an eerie green light, radiating danger at every turn.
“Rustle—”
On the ground to the other side, a dense, rhythmic scraping began, as if the earth itself was rippling like the sea.
As the undulations grew more intense, their source suddenly burst from the ground, exposed to sunlight at last.
Out sprang black vines adorned with little red flowers.
As the buds emerged into the air, pollen began to spill out.
In the air, they gathered into the ghostly forms of crimson horses, charging en masse as though a thousand steeds were stampeding toward him.
“Thud! Thud! Thud!”
Suddenly, a heavy footstep drowned out all other sounds.
Accompanying that ponderous tread was a giant ancient tree, shrouded in blue smoke.
It soared a hundred meters high, its trunk like a great ape, with a thousand hands.
With a wave, it scattered tens of thousands of seeds upon the ground, which exploded violently wherever they landed.
Nothing survived in their wake.
“Splash—”
From the sea, a massive shadow suddenly broke the surface.
A creature, even larger than the ancient tree—a monstrous sea snail!
On its body were blended features of a sea snail, a leech, and an elephant, all grotesquely apparent.
As soon as it emerged, it swung its thick, trunk-like appendage, snatching a crocodile flying over the water and gulping it down—relishing the feast.
...
[You have been killed by player ‘Master Li’.]
[Match over]
[Your rank: 9]
[Players killed: 0]
[Gene points earned: 20]
[Rank points: 10]
[Rank unlocked]
[Your current rank: Single Cell (10%)]
[Keep up the good work]
“...”
Staring at the match summary, Li Shang was stunned for a long moment before coming back to his senses.
“How the hell did I die?”
He was thoroughly baffled.
He hadn’t even approached those titans—he’d been watching from a safe distance.
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Yet just as he was engrossed in their battle, everything suddenly went black.
“Was I sneak-attacked by some old schemer?”
“Damn it!”
Once he realized what had happened, Li Shang burst into furious curses.
To play a game and resort to sneak attacks—utterly dishonorable.
What a nasty trick!
Definitely a sign of flawed character!
Truly despicable.
This is a game made by Master Biwo for those who love games; these sneaky players ought to get out of Master’s game!
Li Shang immediately opened the comment section to call out the offender.
Defending Master Biwo must begin with protecting the game environment!
...
...
“Achoo!”
Yin Jian frowned and rubbed her nose, puzzled:
“Who’s thinking about me?”
She immediately ruled out her parents—it was a miracle if they even remembered they had a child.
If not them... could it be Zhou Shun?
She quickly shook her head, banishing the odd thought.
After getting up and washing quickly, she sat down at her computer, pulled up the game’s backend, and prepared to see how much the new mode had boosted daily sales.
“Should be around a million, I’d guess,” Yin Jian estimated based on her experience.
However...
“Spore Evolution”
Yesterday’s sales: 3,221,294
“What the—three million?!”
Seeing the figure, Yin Jian leaped from her chair in shock.
The number was far beyond anything she had expected.
“This can’t be right...”
She frowned. While an increase in sales should be a good thing, this spike was simply abnormal.
It made her uneasy.
She quickly opened the game’s comment section, searching for the reason behind the surge.
“Recognized by the Ministry of Education? What? How did they know?”
After reading a few comments, her frown deepened.
Li Jianghe had promised not to credit her in the game, so Yin Jian couldn’t figure out how the players had found out.
“Could it be because the gameplay is too similar?”
With this doubt, she tapped open the Xiahua Education Platform app, then saw that line in bold, highlighted font...
[Personally guided by Teacher Biwo.]
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——!”