Universe Infinite Canteen

Wang Chongyang placed his finger under the noses of the six children to check their breaths, and he too sighed in relief when he found they were still breathing.

He then affixed a Water Repelling Talisman on each of the children and took them back to meet with the others.

By that time, Principal Ma had already packed the Banana Game Tree into the Collection Bag.

When everyone got back to shore, the day had already brightened, and the catastrophe belt had vanished with the first streak of dawn.

Looking back at the river, the students and teachers of Hou De couldn't help but feel as if they were in a different world.

However, before they could reflect any further, they saw a group of parents running down from the dam—it was those who had been stopped earlier by the guards from the Patrol Office.

Upon seeing this, Ma Lu instructed everyone to place the seven children they brought out from the catastrophe belt on the ground.

Initially, upon seeing the children motionless with their eyes tightly shut, the parents thought they were dead and were struck as if by lightning; some even threw themselves onto the bodies, sobbing loudly.

But when they found that the children were still warm and breathing, their grief turned to joy, and they each hugged their children tightly.

Subsequently, some of the parents even began kowtowing to Ma Lu and the students of Hou De, thanking them for rescuing their lost children.

Many of the students, including Qiutong, felt deeply moved by this. Although they had just been through a great battle, seeing this scene made them feel that everything they had done was meaningful.

This was different from the joy they felt after defeating Lingnan and Heroic Concealment; it wasn't as intense, but it gave them a new understanding of their identities and professions.

Although everyone was physically and mentally exhausted, without the need for Ma Lu to make a passionate speech or offer a great reward, after taking a short rest, they immediately embarked on their journey to another catastrophe belt.

After cleaning up three catastrophe belts, all the students were so tired they fell asleep on the plane on the way back.

Ma Lu, however, did not sleep; before boarding the plane, he had called Yuan Ruonan to tell her the item she wanted had arrived and to come to the school to pick it up.

He then scheduled the week's scientific research projects, and immediately upon returning to school, handed over the Cultivation Methods and talismans he had copied from the turtle shell and Dragon Pattern Pillar to Cao Youyi for the instructors to study.

During this period, Ma Lu also demonstrated his outstanding time management skills as a leader, finishing all tasks at the very last second before being summoned back.

Returning home, he placed the three portions of ingredients he obtained into the Desktop Farm.

His Desktop Farm had now been upgraded to level 10.

The ecological planting and breeding limits had reached 20,000 pounds.

The total weight of the ingredients had even exceeded 120,000 pounds, producing about 14,000 pounds of ingredients daily.

With so much food, the Universe Infinite Canteen certainly couldn't use it all; the rest was turned into cured meats, ham, bread, and various vegetables by Old Wang, all easy to store and also delicious.

A portion was supplied to the Dimensional Pirates, and some was also temporarily stored by Ma Lu in the basement, which was quickly filling up.

Therefore, Ma Lu began to launch some clever small events for "Red Ridge."

Essentially, under all sorts of random pretexts, he crammed an extra batch of fragments into the monster drops and battle honor exchange system.

Moreover, this time, Ma Lu adjusted the difficulty of accumulating fragments so that players could easily exchange the fragments they obtained in the game for a bag or two of snacks every few days.

The diligent players, online 24 hours a day, even had snacks to eat every day.

This move reignited the players' enthusiasm once again.

In general, game benefits are mostly about drawing cards resources, and a few give out real items like standees or pillows, but those are among millions vying for just a dozen spots, with less than a one in ten thousand chance of winning.

Everyone was stunned by such generous management; real rewards were available for everyone as long as they collected enough pieces to claim snacks at the Universe Infinite Canteen.

Ma Lu had single-handedly raised the standard of benefits across the entire gaming community, killing off a host of competing businesses.

In fact, Red Ridge had gradually made a name for itself among players.

Especially the warfare gameplay with Nightmare Town and the subsequent feudal and merit systems attracted a large number of players who love national warfare into Red Ridge.

The game's registered user count had already surpassed 100,000 three days ago, and the peak online number had reached 70,000.

This was also why those Evil Weavers in Nightmare Town had lost so quickly.

There was no helping it, the Skeletons on the other side were just too numerous, especially in the later stages when they had unleashed the effect of the Undead Sea.

Moreover, they could resurrect, dying only to return again.

By the time that grandmother of the Evil Weavers realized the terrifying entity she had provoked, it was already too late.

The fierce army of players took less than twenty days to end the war.

Including that grandmother of the Evil Weavers, all the spiders living underground in Nightmare Town were wiped out by the players.

Afterward, Baldy and others fulfilled their promise, giving away the lands of Nightmare Town and its surroundings, to the three players who had shown the most outstanding performance and ranked in the top three in military achievements.

These three players, without exception, were backed by clans. It was collectively, with the help of everyone, that they had amassed such high contributions to secure the top three spots.

After releasing the land, the project team stayed up overnight to launch a building system that allowed players to control Skeletons to build houses.

Everyone was initially excited about the new feature, calling friends to mine and transport stones and use them to build houses.

But overnight, many ramshackle houses were built, and many were even crushed to death by their own collapsing new homes.

It was only then that everyone realized that the building system in Red Ridge was a bit different from other games, seemingly too hardcore.

Fortunately, with the increase in the number of players, many experts appeared, and soon architectural players drew up construction diagrams and explained construction points in forum posts.

After that, the quality of houses in Nightmare Town began to improve, but some players didn't care about these aspects—they chose to move underground, living in those ready-made caves left by the spiders.

After all, Skeletons don't need much light, and torches provided illumination, so living underground wasn't much of a problem.

It was just a bit easy to get lost at first, but if they really couldn't find their way out, they could commit suicide and respawn back in Red Ridge Town.

Once accustomed to it, these caves had advantages too—easy to defend but hard to attack. Players had often been ambushed by the spiders through the complex underground tunnels during their attack on Nightmare Town.

Once they knew the routes, the players could produce the same effect if someone invaded.

Overall, this major version update received positive reviews from most players, and the survey circulated by the project team afterward proved it, with an approval rating reaching 82%.