National destiny: Starting with a coffin, building an aircraft carrier is broadcast live globally.

[Global Announcement: Dragon Kingdom's contestant number 99, Fang Ming, has been eliminated. Ranking: 163/163.]

The highest command center of the Dragon Kingdom.

The old general, with his gray hair, clenched his fists tightly, his eyes bloodshot, as if trying to see through the screen.

"Are we... going to be the next country to be eliminated?"

His response was met with a tsunami of wailing and insults in the official Dragon Kingdom live stream room.

Is this lousy game targeting our Dragon Country? Why are they only picking the old, weak, sick, and disabled...?

[Damn it! It was clearly people from other countries who deliberately caused trouble...]

[This is a battle for survival, you can't blame them, can you?]

[Damn, we've caught that bastard upstairs alive! Report him!]

[Haha, I'm not going to argue with a dead man! Anyway, my whole family is moving to Australia tomorrow!]

[Damn it! I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well go out and take a few of them with me!]

At that moment, the screens of all the viewers in the Dragon Kingdom, including the main screen in the highest command center, suddenly went black.

"What happened? Is the signal down?"

"Could it be... the last contestant also...?"

The terrifying speculation plunged everyone's hearts into despair.

If this last chance also runs out, then China will end up like the previous 30-plus countries...

Fortunately, the screen lit up again after a few seconds.

[Dragon Kingdom contestant number 100 is available, live stream begins!]

The scene depicts an endless expanse of azure ocean.

The waves gently lapped against the shore...

A thin wooden coffin bobbing up and down in the water.

Some viewers couldn't help but rub their eyes.

It's still a coffin—

The style is outdated.

The edges of the wooden planks had turned black from being soaked in seawater, and they looked like they would break if you tried to break them.

Inside the coffin lay a handsome young man, probably in his early twenties, lying peacefully.

His face was deathly pale, and his eyes were tightly closed. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, he would have looked like a corpse waiting to be buried.

Inside the command center.

The old general, who had just regained a glimmer of hope, swayed and almost fell over, but the guard next to him caught him quickly.

"What... what kind of start is this?"

The old general's voice was hoarse.

After a three-second pause, the live stream chat erupted with a despair a hundred times stronger than before.

[A coffin...a coffin? Am I seeing things?]

[Holy crap! Everyone else has rafts and fishing boats, and our Chinese players start with a coffin?!]

[This character was buried the moment they landed! Did the game developers make a mistake? Is this a punishment mode?]

Other countries watching the live stream from China cast gloating glances their way.

[Hahaha, their era is over.]

In the Dragon Kingdom, military strategist Zhang Guangwei's face was ashen.

Professor Li Shu, a marine ecology professor standing next to him, was also deathly pale.

"Director Zhang... is there still hope?"

Zhang Guangwei let out a long sigh:

"We must believe..."

Although he said that, he knew in his heart:

Judging from the material of that coffin, it's just ordinary wood. It's been soaked in seawater for so long that it's reached its limit.

Forget about wind and waves; even a collision with a large marine creature would break it apart on the spot. This young comrade... probably won't even have a chance to wake up.

Just when the world thought it was only a matter of whether the Chinese athlete would lose sooner or later.

A sharp whistling sound shattered the silence.

A giant seagull with a wingspan of over two meters appeared in the sky above the image.

Unlike the seagulls of Blue Star, its feathers were grayish-black, its sharp beak gleamed with a metallic sheen, and its scarlet eyes were fixed on the young man inside the coffin—

It used the coffin as its lunchbox.

"It's a mutated seagull!"

Professor Li Shu exclaimed in disbelief:

"Its beak can peck through two millimeters of sheet metal! We're doomed!"

No one needs to explain.

Just by looking at the bird's size and fierce expression, you can tell it's definitely not a gentle creature.

Sure enough, the giant bird circled in the air, let out another sharp cry, folded its wings, and swooped down towards Renyi in the coffin!

Its goal is crystal clear—

The head of a young man!

The mutated giant beaked bird is incredibly fast!

It plummeted straight down from the sky, its beak gleaming coldly in the sunlight.

In the Dragon Kingdom's live broadcast room, countless viewers subconsciously closed their eyes or covered the screen with their hands.

[No!]

[Damn it! This piece of trash! What time is it and you're still lying there? Get the hell up!]

[Even a dog would be better than you!]

The wails and cries blended together, as if they could already foresee the bloody scene of the young man having his head pecked off by the giant bird.

command center.

"It's too late. In a state of complete unconsciousness, the speed of a person's nerve reaction has its limits."

Marine ecology professor Li Shu was deathly pale, muttering to herself:

"Its target is the eyeball... This is the instinct of many predators; the eyeball is the most vulnerable part..."

The world's attention is focused on this moment.

In the live broadcast room of the United States, the host was explaining in an exaggerated tone:

"Oh! Look! Death from the sky! This poor Chinese athlete's journey to survival hasn't even begun, and it's about to end in a very dramatic way! Let's observe a moment of silence for him... three seconds!"

The mutated seabird's beak almost made a whooshing sound as it struck the young man's eye sockets in the coffin!

But just before that cold light touched his skin, Ren Yi didn't even lift his eyelids, and his left hand precisely blocked his face.