Lords Survival: I Summoned A World Tree First But Why Is It Different! Chapter 4: Chapter 3: Going Outside

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After reading through the heartbreaking messages in the Local Chat, Luis's gaze naturally drifted upward, towards the top corner of the interface window. Right next to the title Local Chat, there was a line of small text and numbers that he hadn't noticed before. Local Area #105: 997,489 / 1,000,000 "What is this?" Luis muttered, leaning closer as if he could read it better. He was completely dumbfounded. "Does this mean, there are almost a million people in just this single area alone? One million people transported to the same region? And there are countless other areas numbered differently. Just how huge is this world exactly?" As he sat there staring at the numbers, trying to wrap his head around the scale of everything, the digits suddenly flickered and changed right before his eyes. Local Area #105: 997,488 / 1,000,000 It had decreased by one. "What? It went down?" Luis froze, his mind instantly connecting the dots. "Does that mean- someone just died? Or maybe they vanished somehow? Did they went outside the protection barrier?" His heart sank as the realization hit him hard. He thought back to the chat messages he had just read. Almost everyone was screaming about the same problems: No food. No water. No supplies. They were stuck inside a small safe zone with absolutely nothing to survive on. It had only been a short while since everyone arrived, yet people were already desperate. "If you stay inside, you starve or die of thirst eventually," Luis analyzed quietly, his voice heavy. "But if you go outside the territory wall, you leave the protection of the newbie shield. You run the risk of meeting monsters, wild beasts, or who knows what other dangers. But people are already choosing to go out. They have no choice. They need to find water and find anything edible just to stay alive." He rubbed his face with his hands, feeling the weight of reality pressing down on him. "This place really isn't safe at all. And this world, it isn't just about sitting inside and building. It's forcing us to go out there. It's forcing us to take risks just to survive the first few days." Luis sighed deeply. He knew very well that sooner or later, he would face the exact same dilemma. Right now, he had nothing. No food, no water, no resources. Even if he had a mythical World Tree and piles of gold, those things couldn't fill an empty stomach or wet a dry throat. If things continued like this, he too would eventually have to step outside his wooden walls and face the unknown. "Okay, enough moping around," Luis shook his head, trying to shake off the gloomy thoughts. "Let's check the other functions. Maybe there's something useful here that can help me right now." He moved his finger and tapped the icon labeled Marketplace. Instantly, a new interface expanded, divided clearly into three distinct tabs at the top: Buy, Sell, and Auction. "Buy tab first. Let's see what other people are offering," Luis murmured, clicking on the first option. The screen refreshed and immediately filled with rows and rows of listings, updated almost every second as more people posted their items. Luis began to read through them one by one. - Selling fresh green leaves! Good for boiling or chewing! 10 leaves = 1 cup of water or 1 ration of food! - Selling dry twigs! Good for fire or crafting! 20 twigs = 1 ration of food! - Selling smooth rocks! Can be used as hammer or weight! 5 rocks = half ration food! Luis blinked rapidly as he read these. He couldn't help but let out a dry laugh. "Seriously? Selling leaves and rocks? That's what people are doing? Everyone is basically selling whatever little useless thing they could find on the ground, just to trade for food or water. That just proves how desperate everyone is. The real currency right now isn't gold or silver, it's food and water." He kept scrolling down, the list getting longer and longer. - Selling sharpened stone axe! Crafted by hand! Strong and durable! Price: 3 rations o