National Survival: I Supported the Dragon Nation by Hunting Dinosaurs

In the crevice of the rock, Huang Xiaoying gazed at the blood-red setting sun, a smile forced onto her pale face.

She opened her storage space and placed the handful of sea buckthorn berries into the offering basket.

"Dragon Kingdom... I did my best."

After the sacrifice was completed, she did not sit idly by and wait for her death.

Instead, he leaned against the rock wall, forcing himself to enter a resting state to conserve every bit of energy.

As long as I can still move, I will fight to the very last moment.

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Inside the cave, Zhang Li wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth.

He dragged Fabrelong's corpse from the corner and offered it as a sacrifice.

Zhang Li thought for a moment: "I hope that after the dinosaur is realized ten thousand times, everyone in the Dragon Kingdom can taste dinosaur meat skewers."

Inside the Dragon Kingdom livestream room, the audience's emotions were complex.

"Team Yellow sacrificed all their food..."

"Li Shen is awesome! There's dinosaur meat tonight! But I can't laugh..."

"The Yellow Team isn't far from Lishen! The riverbank is Lishen's hunting ground during the day! Please, let them run into each other!"

Amidst countless prayers, the system's voice sounded once more.

[The rankings for the second day's resource sacrifice are now being released!]

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[Ranked 9468th: Huang Xiaoying from China! Contribution: Half a pound of sea buckthorn berries]

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[10th Place: Leng Feng from China! Contribution: Compsognathus x1]

[9th place: ...]

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[2nd Place: Zhang Li from China! Contribution: Fabre Dragon x1]

[1st Place: Roland Wilke from the United States! Contribution: Sub-adult Deinosuchus (2 meters) x1]

The rankings caused a global uproar!

The Dragon Kingdom's live stream room exploded instantly!

"Holy crap! It's China again! Leng Feng and Li Shen are both in the top ten!"

"Li Shen is only ranked second? Who is this Roland? He can actually hunt down a Deinosuchus!"

"The Deinosuchus! The prehistoric aquatic overlord that Academician Ma mentioned! Is this guy a monster?!"

He Jiong immediately shouted, "Director, switch the main screen to Roland from the US!"

Screen switch.

A muscular man appeared on the screen, his muscles sculpted like a sculpture.

Short flaxen hair, hooked nose.

He was shirtless, chopping logs as thick as bowls with a huge hand axe.

Behind them was a semi-subterranean shelter.

They dug down nearly a meter into a natural rock depression, surrounded it with a fence made of sharpened logs, and covered the top with huge fern leaves and soil, leaving only a small smoke vent.

"The perfect sanctuary!"

At the Dragon Kingdom Command Center, geologist Professor Chen exclaimed in amazement.

"A semi-subterranean structure that maximizes the use of ground heat to maintain temperature, making it extremely defensive! The entrance is narrow, making it impregnable! Roland is a professional!"

Viewers in the live chat exclaimed in surprise.

"I remember now! Roland Wilke! The three-time champion of the Discovery Channel's 'King of the Wild' program!"

"In one episode, he hunted adult black bears alone in the Rocky Mountains, using traps and an axe!"

"His shelter-building skills are textbook-level!"

The atmosphere in the live stream instantly turned tense as soon as the news broke.

This Roland is a top survival expert who is on par with Zhang Li and Leng Feng, and even stronger in some aspects!

However, Zhang Li, inside the cave, showed no emotion when he saw his second-place ranking.

Ranking?

It doesn't matter.

As long as the supplies are successfully delivered back to the Dragon Kingdom, whether it's first or second place is completely unimportant.

He knew very well that if that Tyrannosaurus Rex hadn't stolen the Utahraptor, he would have been the one to reach the top today.

This composure moved the experts at the command center once again.

"Unperturbed by honor or disgrace, with a heart as firm as a rock... this is the ultimate mindset to survive to the end in the dinosaur world!" Academician Ma exclaimed sincerely.

Zhang Li ignored the outside disturbances.

He sorted the smoked snake and frog jerky into freshly fired earthenware jars and sealed the jars with large leaves.

After doing all that, he picked up the cleaned leg bone of the bird-eating dragon, gripped his military dagger, and walked to the rock wall where he had previously discovered the pyrite.

"Thump!"

He pressed the tip of the dagger against the crevice in the rock and used his heavy leg bone as a hammer to strike the end of the dagger with all his might.

The hard rock splintered into fragments with each impact.

"Is Zhang Li trying to... excavate more pyrite?" Professor Li Zhengying, a physicist, wondered.

A chilling glint flashed in Professor Wang Zifei's eyes, and his voice trembled.

"Not only that! Have you forgotten the charcoal he burned before? High-purity carbon! Plus the sulfur and iron in pyrite... He had carbon, iron ore, and a high-temperature kiln..."

He Jiong exclaimed in shock, "He wants to smelt iron?!"

The moment these words were spoken, the live stream chat went completely wild!

"Iron smelting?! Are you kidding me?! This is the prehistoric world!"

"Li Shen, just how many more tricks are you hiding? Wasn't yesterday's chemistry lesson enough? Are you going to teach us metallurgy tomorrow?"

"Mom! Come quick, look at the fairy! He's going to make steel in the prehistoric world!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Zhang Li simply focused on tapping.

A leg bone isn't a hammer, and a dagger isn't a steel spade. After hammering for a while, they only managed to shake off a few pieces of pyrite the size of a fingernail.

"Damn, this tool is inhuman."

Zhang Li spat and muttered a complaint, "If only I had an entrenching tool or a pickaxe..."

Despite his complaints, his hands didn't stop moving at all.

Right now!

That cold, majestic voice descended upon everyone's minds once more!

[Special Announcement: Dinosaur World Survival Mode Upgraded!]

Starting tomorrow, "supply airdrops" will begin!

[Tomorrow, a total of 2000 airdrop supply boxes will be delivered randomly and irregularly across all areas!]

[Upon landing, the airdrop will release a striking red smoke column, reaching a height of 100 meters and visible to the naked eye within a radius of 30 kilometers!]

[Note: Red smoke was highly attractive to most dinosaurs!]

[The supply crate contains food, medicine, tools, blueprints... and even, with a very small chance, banned firearms!]

boom!

The news exploded like a nuclear bomb in the minds of all the contestants!

gun!

In this world where cold weapons are used to fight prehistoric behemoths, this word represents absolute power!

Zhang Li's tapping motion suddenly stopped.

He seemed to see the prehistoric jungle about to be disrupted by the blood-red smoke column.

At this moment, countless competitors around the world had their eyes gleaming with greed and fervor.

The viewers in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream were also trembling with excitement.

"Gun! Stand up! Hurry and grab the airdrop! Having a gun greatly increases your chances of survival!"

"This is a golden opportunity! We absolutely cannot miss it!"

However, it was met with the expectant gazes of hundreds of millions of viewers.

Zhang Li paused for only three seconds.

Then he lowered his head and raised the leg bone and dagger in his hand again.

"Thump!"

The dull, rhythmic tapping sound echoed once more in the cave.

It was as if the announcements from the outside world, which were enough to stir up a bloody storm, were nothing more than an insignificant breeze to him.

"2000 airdrops to 197 countries, that's an average of only 10 per country! This is practically forcing the players to fight each other!"

"Use red smoke to lure everyone and the dinosaurs there..."

"It's just an open, bloody arena."

"Gambling with human lives for such a negligible probability? Ha, what a fool's business."