Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

The pen in Old Zhao's hand rolled onto the drawing with a "smack".

Amidst a screen full of red lines and precipitous death statistics, this spike of 0.1 is strikingly alarming and sends chills down one's spine.

Jiang Lai nodded firmly: "I've checked it three times, it really did increase by 0.1."

Jiang Lai turned her gaze to Jiang Zhi, who was sitting at the recorder's table.

"Jiang Zhi".

Jiang Zhi immediately stood up: "Mine has gone up too."

Jiang Zhi raised her voice: "Human Lamp · Soul Fire, increase by 0.08."

Chen Zheng strode across the front of the long table: "How did it grow? What other attempts did you make? What special things did you come into contact with?"

Chen Zheng rattled off a series of hypothetical scenarios.

Jiang Zhi waved her hands repeatedly in denial: "I didn't do anything. The only difference from usual is that I had dinner with An'an yesterday."

Chen Zheng stood there stunned, his mind blank for a few seconds: "Food?"

The other people in the conference room exchanged glances.

Jiang Lai looked at Lin Sui'an: "Yes, the difference between me and usual is that I had dinner with An'an last night."

Old Zhao pushed up his glasses: "You're not referring to the nutritional supplement?"

"No," Jiang Lai replied definitively.

"Yesterday, at An'an's invitation, Jiang Zhi and I broke the rules and had a full meal of hot food in the cafeteria."

"Yes! We ate braised pork, rice, chicken stew with mushrooms, bean sprouts, cucumber, and soup!" Lin Sui-an echoed.

A glint flashed in Old Zhao's eyes: "Natural grains and vegetables, natural carbohydrates from rice, and the melted fat network from pork."

She murmured, "The nutrient solution extracts all the chemical components necessary for the survival of human functions."

"One packet can sustain your body's needs for a day, but only for one day. In terms of nutrition, it is far inferior to a normal diet."

Jiang Lai looked at Zhao Lao's hunched back: "Yesterday afternoon, An'an tried throwing apples at the Nanhuai ruins defense line. As soon as the apple pieces landed, they quickly dried up and shriveled into carbon slag."

Lin Sui'an nodded in agreement: "The strange eat life. The land nurturing wheat sprouting from the soil is life, and cattle and sheep eating grass and growing fat on the hillside is even more life."

"So when you eat proper food, and put those cooked foods into your stomach and body, the good nutrients inside will naturally be absorbed by your body."

Lin Sui'an rolled his eyes: "Isn't this just the simplest way to recharge and replenish energy?"

Old Zhao clenched his fist: "This is the breakthrough!"

She ran to the handwritten analysis board, grabbed the cap of the marker, and due to the loss of control, the worn pen tip made a screeching sound as it scraped against the rubber board.

She circled the terms "synthetic substances" and "earth food".

"These fifteen bloody years!"

"In order to prepare for a nuclear war and preserve hundreds of millions of people on lands with extremely scarce resources, we have implemented the highest-level nutrient replacement therapy for the entire population."

"One bowl of rice can be made into 10,000 servings of nutrient solution, which can only sustain basic life. We even have to use synthetic foods to satisfy the nationwide famine."

"We've fooled stomach acid, we've fooled the body's warning signals, but we can't fool the fundamental law of conservation of energy!"

"Natural organisms absorb the energy generated by the interaction between heaven and earth during their growth cycle."

"This plastic composite has severed the life-giving lock!"

Jiang Lai rubbed her temples: "For fifteen years, the entire nation has not tasted the vitality of grains and soil."

"The three fires within our flesh and blood have long been burned to ashes, which is why the overall physical fitness of the population has continued to decline."

Chen Zheng's chest heaved violently as he looked at Jiang Lai: "Chief of Staff..."

"If we were to forcibly reinstate the nationwide rationing of natural resources, how many months could our total grain reserves withstand it?"

This real-world problem brought everyone's thoughts back to the present, but it also made their emotions even heavier.

Farmland was almost completely destroyed during the nuclear war. The land output in the recovered safe zones has consistently fallen short of standards, and the grain production capacity of the Hanhai District won by Lin Sui'an still needs time to be cultivated.

Opening the granary and releasing a peck of grain completely diminishes one's sense of security.

Jiang Lai's gaze returned to the document: "Currently, we only have data from myself and Jiang Zhi to support this, but the sample size is too small to be sufficient."

"We need to confirm this hypothesis first. We will select two teams from the border guards, one with high Yang Fire value and the other with low Yang Fire value. They will eat one meal a day and we will record the data."

"yes!"

After the meeting, the command center became busy again.

Lin Sui'an had some free time, and Jiang Zhi taught her swordsmanship, tested her treacherous attributes together, and trained her body together.

She learned to browse forums and trending topics online, and saw how netizens admired her. Her face flushed with embarrassment, but she couldn't help but peek at them secretly.

Hehe, everyone seems to really like her~ (* /ω＼*)

Happy days always pass quickly. When Lin Sui-an stood in the "monitoring room" again, a new round of games was about to begin.

"An'an, the notification has been issued. After entering the game, don't rush into the dungeon. If someone in our country is indeed selected, we will come to you immediately."

"However, no one knows how dangerous a level two dungeon might be. In any case, your own safety must come first," Jiang Lai earnestly advised.

"Okay," Lin Sui'an replied earnestly.

A flash of white light, and Lin Sui'an entered the game once again.

Welcome to round 47, a game of hide-and-seek for everyone.

The game's sound started, just like before.

[The participants for this round are now in place. This instance is: Level 2 Instance - Dark Night Marketplace.]

Lin Sui'an looked up and listened carefully to the game information: Level 2, there will definitely be rule changes.

[48 countries participated in this round.]

The rules have been adjusted for this round.

[Hiding time: one hour.]

Hunting time: Six hours.

Lin Sui'an's eyebrows twitched. An hour of hiding?

In level one, the hiding time is half an hour for the first forty-five rounds, and only in the forty-sixth round is it fifteen minutes.

At level two, the rewards double! The hunting time also increases to six hours.

Those captured will die, and a region of their country will be subjected to a bizarre invasion.

Survivors will receive a reward.

The game rules announcement has ended, and the dungeon entrance has appeared.

Lin Sui'an stood at the entrance without moving, her hands in her pockets, her right hand touching the hilt of the Demon-Slaying Blade.

Giving someone so much time to hide—just an hour—is not a good thing.

Either the hiding place is too big, or the thing to chase is too fast.

Six hours of hunting, six hours—it's no wonder the hunters have to tear down every single brick in this instance.

......

The atmosphere in the Dragon Kingdom's strategic command center was oppressive.

Jiang Lai stood in front of the control panel. On the enlarged screen, there was Lin Sui'an and another little girl, Li Yu.

She had a round face, a ponytail, and wore a pink dress with sleeves that were too long, covering half of her hands.

The keyboard in the command center clicked away for a while.

"Report!"

A technician turned around: "The new contestant has been confirmed: Li Yu, from Jiangcheng District, female, ten years old."

"The three fire stats are: 22, 22, 22."

Chen Zheng suddenly stood up from his chair: "Ten years old?!"

His voice snapped: "Damn it! The game cheated on a ten-year-old?!"