People are Collapsing, But the Integration Strategy is Starting (Volume 1-5, Chapter 40).

Summary

Xia Ling, after assessing a potentially dangerous situation, decides to enter a cave filled with drunken Ursus people rather than avoiding combat. She discovers that the cave is not a combat node, as she initially feared, and interacts with the inhabitants who offer her a colonial permit. After leaving the cave, she encounters Kanott, a supernatural merchant, where she successfully trades source stone ingots for an encrypted tablet. Following this, Xia Ling navigates through the first layer's nodes, eventually reaching a scheduled maintenance event that grants her two hopes. She uses these hopes to transform a battle node into an unexpected encounter, leading her to meet a peculiar man laying out equipment.

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