First, what can be confirmed is that this world is indeed a mutated world as Bai Yi understood it; zombies, ability users, and mutated creatures are all present.
The three groups are hostile to each other. Zombies have no rationality and form their own faction. They include not only zombie humans but also zombie animals, collectively forming the zombie group, which roams in cities and suburbs.
Ability users, on the other hand, established shelters of varying sizes with ordinary people. This information was released by a lord who had contacted the Bai Yang City shelter. This portion of humanity is mainly concentrated in the original cities.
Bai Yi had already seen mutated creatures, which are massive in size, robust, and powerful, occupying the vast wilderness that has returned to its primitive state.
From the lords currently speaking in the channel, the vast majority of them landed in areas with remnants of civilization, such as cities and abandoned villages. Those like Bai Yi, who landed in the pure wilderness, are not common.
Among the lords who have appeared so far, only four are noteworthy. One is Shui Shui Shui, who established his territory very early and claimed to possess a warehouse. He sold a lot of food at high prices in the channel, accepting wood and stone in return.
The second is the Corpse King, who just appeared, put on a show, and incidentally made an enemy of Shui Shui Shui. The perversity of his ability to control zombies in this world goes without saying.
Further back is a player named Anonymous.
He reportedly submitted a bug and also received a game announcement. At the time, this name almost fooled many lords, but eventually, someone with sharp eyes discovered the anomaly and learned his lord name.
However, that was before Bai Yi established her territory, so Bai Yi did not receive the announcement.
Even earlier, there was Jun Lin, who achieved the first kill upon the server's opening.
Looking at the chat logs from that time, everyone was still expressing their despair at transmigrating into this dangerous world, and they were all helplessly crying for help when this lord named Jun Lin directly achieved the first-tier first kill.
He even spoke in the channel to encourage others, helping many to overcome their panic.
But after that, he only came online to post a "GG," exchanging practical items, food, and water for stones and wood, and then he never appeared again.
Besides these, there isn't much more information worth noting, as it's been less than two hours since everyone transmigrated.
"It seems that currently, everyone is more in need of water, while no one is shouting about food yet, after all, everyone has just transmigrated."
Bai Yi also noticed that she had transmigrated before she even had a bite to eat after waking up, but after running for so long just now, she still didn't feel hungry.
Instead, because of the chase just now, she now felt a bit parched.
"Did transmigration also reset our bodies?"
It was pointless to continue thinking about this question, so Bai Yi clicked into the Free Market.
There were quite a few items listed for sale, mostly stones and wood. What was sought were water, a small portion of food, and many with specific requirements, such as demanding bread, fresh meat, or simply meat.
Besides these transactions with varying prices, Bai Yi also saw that Jun Lin. His trade items were things like lighters and spears, all uniformly priced at 20 units of stone or 10 units of wood.
Bai Yi didn't see any transactions selling food or water, but she quickly realized:
"Even if there were food or water for sale, they would have been traded immediately, so how could they still be listed?"
Continuing to scroll through the Free Market page, Bai Yi roughly estimated the current market prices.
Specific types of food were generally around 20 units of stone or 10 units of wood, which seemed to be the standard price established by Jun Lin's consistent trades. 1 unit of water was also in this price range.
More common food, however, was much cheaper, roughly 2 units of food for 1 unit of water.
Other tools did not have a uniform price, but they were all much cheaper than water. Only the tools sold by Jun Lin could command such high prices because their quality was green.
Having a general idea of the price range for her Giant Tusked Pig meat, Bai Yi tried the market's listing function and found that she could actually set who could see it and who could trade.
Bai Yi's eyes lit up, and she immediately had an idea.
"I can list the pork in the shop! If I set it to only be visible to myself, wouldn't it function as a refrigerator!"
Without delay, Bai Yi immediately exited the panel, planning to check the results of her previous card draw, but the scene before her was completely beyond her expectation.
"Holy crap!"
Before Bai Yi's eyes were the untouched desktop and two piles of cards: one with rose card backs, and one with ladybug card backs.
At this moment, only one sound echoed in Bai Yi's mind:
"Holy crap crap crap crap crap!"
...
Outside Bai Yang City, within an abandoned factory.
Jun Lin threw the flame in his hand, incinerating the last zombie in front of him. The charred corpse crashed to the ground.
He opened his panel and saw the conspicuous notification.
"This Bai Yi indeed achieved the first kill at this time. Fortunately, in this life, I gained a second talent ability due to rebirth, allowing me to secure the Tier 1 first kill.
Otherwise, with normal development, I might not have been able to snatch it so quickly."
Yes, he was a reborn individual.
Recalling his previous life, although the panel indicated he had a fire-element ability talent, he ultimately lost his territory and was killed in the chaotic regional integration.
"I didn't expect to have a chance to be reborn, and to even gain a second Lord Talent!"
Clutching a blue dagger crafted with his new talent at his waist, Jun Lin shook his head helplessly again:
"I really don't know how he did it, to be able to kill a Tier 2 so quickly. He was too mysterious in his previous life, there was no information about him at all. No lord had even seen his true appearance, as if he had vanished into thin air..."
Slowly walking to the side of the zombie's corpse, Jun Lin continued to recall his memories from his previous life:
"However, according to the memories of my previous life, these 7 days of the adaptation period are the most crucial time. Only by developing the territory as quickly as possible within these 7 days can one secure a place in future challenges.
Heh, who knew at the time that this adaptation period was truly just an adaptation period? If one didn't develop their territory, they would die in the first monster invasion challenge.
Even if one managed to survive by chance, as resources become scarcer in the future, weakness is the original sin!"
Jun Lin's tone was self-mocking as he half-squatted and fiercely plunged his dagger into the zombie's skull, digging out a Tier 1 crystal core from within.
"Now that I have the advantage of foresight, I can first cooperate with those big shots from my previous life.
They can all be said to be the most promising stocks right now; investing just a little can earn their friendship.
Coincidentally, I opened a box and got a watermelon. I'll give it to Fan Mao, the big shot who specializes in planting. If I stick with Fan Mao, no matter how I develop my territory in the future, at least I won't have to worry about food issues.
That's Fan Mao, the great benefactor!
Speaking of which, Big Shot Fan Mao is also quite mysterious, and I haven't heard any news about him...
Hiss! Could Big Shot Fan Mao be this Bai Yi?!"
...
Fan Mao: A mysterious major food provider. Everyone suspected his Lord Talent was related to planting. Although people often talked about robbing him, Fan Mao didn't care at all.
Instead, he always sold cheap food in the channel, helping other lords. This saved many people during the insect plague at that time...
—Jun Lin's Memoirs