There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Being in a state of significant blood loss for a long time was not a big deal for Chen Yi, but the sensation of continuously bleeding, especially from a major artery, was indeed strange.

This could only happen to Chen Yi.

Ordinary people, if their major artery were severed like this, wouldn't even wait for an ambulance to arrive before they were gone.

I remember a news report from my childhood where two kids were roughhousing, and one child stabbed the other's thigh artery with a pencil sharpener blade, causing blood to spurt out uncontrollably.

The speed of bleeding was frighteningly fast.

Before they could even get to the hospital, the child was dead.

Chen Yi, constantly losing blood, felt a drowsiness coming over him. He lay on an ordinary beach chair on the rooftop, eyes half-closed and in a daze, chatting with Jiaye in a hit-and-miss manner, enjoying this moment of peace.

Time passed by imperceptibly.

It was the crowing of a rooster that brought Chen Yi out of his haze.

"..."

Upon opening his eyes again, Chen Yi glanced at the time on his personal panel.

October 17th, 4 p.m.

He had been bleeding for nearly thirty hours.

Only after Chen Yi checked the "Blood Emperor's" stored Life Value and saw that it had reached 1 billion did he stop the bleeding process. He stretched lazily after getting up, and casually remarked, "It's already afternoon, why is that rooster crowing with such gusto?"

"And since when did the neighborhood have roosters?"

"The Blood Emperor" had already stored 1 billion Life Value, enough for now, so there was no plan to continue bleeding. The process was too torturous; he could do nothing but lie on the beach chair and wait.

It was so boring it could drive one to madness.

Just then—

Tuberculosis Rabbit, holding a rooster and a black donkey hoof in its arms, tentatively spoke up from the side, "Should I have the people downstairs stop then?"

"Yeah, stop it."

"Alrighty."

Tuberculosis Rabbit looked at the chat box of Sword Without End on his personal panel and yelled, "Tell those people to stop, make sure to keep count of everyone, we may use them again next time, don't lose track."

Only after he saw Chen Yi looking at the rooster in his arms with a bizarre expression did he grin and explain, "Just now, a feng shui master said that gathering so much blood and resentment in the neighborhood could ruin the feng shui."

"Afraid of some evil spirits possess us."

"So, we got some roosters to bring in some yang energy to deal with these evil spirits."

"..."

Chen Yi, expressionless, was silent for a moment before he finally said, "Cook it for dinner tonight. I need to replenish my blood."

"Understood."

...

Unnoticed.

The night gradually deepened, and by mid-October, the weather was no longer so hot, especially at night on the rooftop, when you could even feel a hint of chill.

Normally, the most annoying thing about this weather was the insects.

But Yi had long ago obtained a title that kept all mosquitoes at bay, making this summer much more comfortable.

"You two received a quest requiring you to become number one?" Chen Yi frowned as he looked at Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit before him.

"Yes," they said.

Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit exchanged glances before explaining, "You see, yesterday when Tuberculosis Rabbit and I were driving the sleigh to the neighboring city to pick up a psychologist, we spotted a golden treasure chest in the wild."

"Since we saw it, of course we had to open it, so we did."

"After opening the chest, Tuberculosis Rabbit and I each received a quest chain claiming there would be some sort of mysterious grand prize upon completion."

"This quest chain has nine tasks, and Tuberculosis Rabbit and I have completed the first eight. It's just the last one we haven't finished."

"Yi, look."

He projected the last part of the quest chain into the air.

'Quest Nine (Final): Become number one on any leaderboard or in any domain within 48 hours.'

"See."

Sword Without End sighed with a bit of frustration, "This quest chain couldn't have come at a worse time. There are no global events these two days, no leaderboards to top in order to become number one."

"We don't stand a chance with the existing leaderboards."

"Like the Global Vehicle Leaderboard, Yi, after the last enhancement, your sleigh is far ahead at the first place, completely unshakeable."

Just then I realized that the quest didn't specify that in-game leaderboards wouldn't count, so I immediately rushed to 'Sands of Time,' the map we previously cleared."

"You know that map has the 'Sands of Time Dried Corpse Player Infection Leaderboard!' and 'Sands of Time Human Player Kill Leaderboard!', right?"

"I thought, with my strength, wouldn't hitting first place on either leaderboard be a piece of cake?"

"But the moment I entered, I was stupefied. The insanely dedicated players around Yancheng, I don't know if they have nothing else to do or what, but they've inflated the figures on the two leaderboards to ridiculous levels."

"I calculated that to reach first place, I would have to kill non-stop in the map for ten days straight!"

"But the quest is only for 48 hours, and now there are less than 10 hours left."

"Besides, there's also the 'Global Fashion Scoring' leaderboard, no chance there either. I checked, even if I bought the most expensive outfit in the shop, the score wouldn't even be close to what others have. They have globally unique limited edition outfits, complete with all parts, scoring ridiculously high."

And over there, Tuberculosis Rabbit also sighed helplessly, "Tell me about it, I never knew being at the top of a leaderboard could be so tough. The remaining leaderboards have things like 'Global Couples Leaderboard,' which is useless to us."