CHAPTER 489: CHAPTER 373: REFUSE MALICE! NEW METHOD TO OPEN THE TREASURE CHEST!

"The content of the update doesn’t seem like much, but it appears to be quite complex."

Lin Yue looked at these updated "rules," feeling that almost every one was an enhancement of the previous updates, yet they had deeper differences.

On the surface, these so-called updates gave this survival world higher freedom, more resources, and more possibilities for exploration, while constantly refining certain mechanisms.

Increasing the variety and number of mutated creatures, and making them more aggressive and more likely to appear near the refugee villages, thus allowing survivors to more easily obtain food and treasure chests;

The appearance of more resource points will also promote survivors to acquire more resources, thereby further developing;

As for group mergers, although the necessity of groups is not very high now, each merger brings more people from the same area together, which can also promote the connection of the entire region;

The upgrade of the World Trade Mall optimizes searches and also rewards those with high trading volumes differently, which essentially promotes the frequency of bartering, allowing more people to participate in the exchange of goods, further optimizing and circulating resources;

Remarks in the same refugee village and the world channel contain a name search function, making interactions and transactions between people more transparent and more convenient in filtering out some useless information.

It also means that groups like the "beggar" can no longer remain as unnoticed dangers due to past identification issues.

Opportunities and conveniences, even removing unfavorable parts.

On the surface, it seems like this.

But upon slightly deeper thought, one can perceive the "malice" within.

Crisis often appears alongside such opportunities; the bigger the opportunity, the deeper the crisis could be.

The increase in the number of mutated creatures, increased by how much?

Currently, with the strength of the survivors, killing a small number of mutated creatures through group combat shouldn’t be an issue, but if their numbers increase, it might not be achievable.

Especially for the tiger-striped shadow deer, which have high speed and attack power — one or two may not be a problem, but more of them could become a headache for the survivors.

And the appearance of unfamiliar mutated creatures forces the survivors to reacquaint and adapt to them.

Refugee villages with large populations might not face much trouble, but those with fewer people might soon enter a state of struggle.

Encountering a large group of carnivorous mutated creatures wandering nearby could trap a small refugee village, even leading to a vicious cycle due to this sudden situation.

Ultimately, they may have no choice but to merge with larger refugee villages or face extinction on their own.

As for the newly appearing giant creatures, they also compel certain refugee villages to migrate to avoid the threat, while the various resources that appear will simultaneously attract refugee villages, potentially leading to conflicts in the end.

Large refugee villages will gain more advantages in such conflicts, while smaller ones might fail in the struggle between strong and weak, facing a vicious cycle, falling into decline, or being absorbed by larger refugee villages.

As for expanding the size of the Ancient Secret Realm Gate, it’s likely not just about allowing large teams to pass through easily; Lin Yue’s guess is more pessimistic.

Those Lizardmen, who once attracted various monsters into the Otherworld, might also use this opportunity to bring even larger and more numerous monsters into the Otherworld...

Isn’t that possible?

Imagine swarms of storm flying lizards filling the sky, those large spiders weaving webs covering entire streets, the poison celestial dragons with centipede-like forms yet indestructible armor, tentacle monsters with more tentacles and unavoidable attacks, blood-sucking insects and parasites, fast-moving and numerous strange rats...

And various other unknown monsters with even more numbers have easier means and routes to arrive.

This is not a good thing — it might indeed trigger a greater catastrophe!

Finally, Lin Yue looked at that suffix function which completely separates survivors and beggars.

While it does make the beggars unable to hide, relatively, it also helps them find companions, strengthening their cohesion and making their organization more stable.

As another hidden disaster, the threat of Lizardmen and beggars to survivors is undeniable and inevitable.

In the days ahead, unless the number of Lizardmen and beggars drastically decreases, the harassment and attacks on survivors, which have been persistent, will continue to exist.

Thinking deeply, it seems the system has always been trying to use these so-called "upgrades" to force survivors from individual to united, from loosely organized to coalition, pushing small refugee villages to merge or combine into larger ones, perhaps leading to a survival-of-the-fittest scenario in the future.

And as refugee villages integrate into larger refugee towns, and those into larger refuge cities, city-states emerge, countries are born, and after mutual wars, eventually, hundreds of massive countries similar to modern Earth will form.