My sneak rose to rank 4 and my tracking to rank 1 after spending an hour waiting for the greenies to awake and another hour stalking them. Though, my effort really blooming in a satisfying result.

Right now I was standing a dozen meters away from their village. It was completely covered by trees, most of the houses were made from the leaf, while some were made from the wood. Either way, this place was unregistered on the chart.

Scanning the location...

"Hm?" I tilted my head as the blue screen started its scan, even though I didn't touch anything.

Scan complete.

Adding the (please input the name.) to our database.

Discovery type: Civilization.

"Huh... interesting." My lips curled into a grin, a mischievous one though. It wasn't like the citizen from this planet would know what I had done either.

Registration complete. Bosstown (Location: Strillon 1. 35X,246Y.) Has been added to the database. Please choose your reward: 100 Cosmos Credit Equipment (Rank 1.) Tools (Rank 1.)

While wondering how much a 100 cosmos credit was. I decided to skip the small detail and pick the equipment as my reward. Once again the screen shifted to another list, this time it was a list of equipment.

Rubbing my chin, I kinda wondered why most of the equipment they offered was medieval-ish, such as spear, sword, flail, longbow, leather armour, iron boots and et cetera. Anyway, I decided to pick the leather armour, considering I didn't have any protection for my body, and iron armour seemed heavy and noisy either.

Unable to send the reward.

Please emptied your dimensional storage.

With a sigh and considering I just a few meters away from the greeny village, I head back to the Episoth tree, setting same snare and wire trap before I emptied someplace on my dimensional storage, picked the leather armour as my reward.

Leather Armour. Defence Type Quality Effect Special Property 11 Light, body. 10 - -

Nodding at the screen, I continued by picking light armour proficiency and ended my day in the tree, raising my climb to rank 3 in the process.

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When I awoke, I got welcomed by several spam notifications. From the clickbait ads, dating websites, gambling sites though I found one advertisement that piqued my interest.

Earth's leaders announcement.

To all human coming from the earth.

As more human dies for every second passed, the debt levels could be expected to increase. And those increases mean higher interest for the rest of the mankind.

Put it all together and it raises questions about how long we will survive, what will happen to the people that stranded on the vague and hostile planet, and what impact it all will have for our future.

To overcome this problem, we've already made our decision, calculating the victim and offering the remaining survivor the solution.

From today onward, all people no matter your age, gender, nationality shall devote yourself and gather 100 cosmos credit each week, the milestone and the victim count will be delivered each day at 1313 Star time.

This might be hard and unfair. But together we can pay our debt and go back to the earth!

Milestones: 2,692,530 Cosmos Credit.

Victim Count: 1,521,262,018.

....

I blankly stared at the emergency announcement, while sighing at the victim count and the number of the milestones we'd gathered. Though... this announcement didn't make any sense. Even if we managed to gather 100 cosmos credit for each week, it still wouldn't enough to pay the monthly interest.

Albeit sympathetic... somehow I'd just felt this was a scam, yeah... the calculation didn't match. Then again, it wasn't like the sender was asking for my money either. Everything that the sender did was reminding us to gather 100 cosmos credit for each week.

As I couldn't sense the sender motive. With a deep long sigh, I closed the announcement. After all, there was a probability this message was true, and somehow I couldn't help but wonder about my family and friends wellbeing.

Then again, from the remaining 5 billion people how the hell we only gathered 2 million cosmos credit.

Once again I sighed but after a while, I slapped my own cheek while thinking it was useless to lament about something that still vague.

Stretching my body, I climbed down the tree, did a little exercise and checked my traps, only to find a green rat-like creature had gotten itself caught on one of my snares.

Even though the real purpose from the snares and wires was keeping me safe at night, maybe I should think this as the bonus.

After all, I was unable to rely on the Episoth fruits for much longer. There was no real reason though,  I had just bored of eating the same food. And sooner or later, I needed to eat meat for the sake of balancing my diet.

Scanning the rat, it didn't have any poison that could be dangerous to me. With a sigh, I started my day by cutting the throat of a green rat-like creature, draining its blood, gutting its stomach, and skinning its skin.

This time I didn't get any code but at least I had the green meat, skin and its bone as my material.

Though... I forgot the reason why I searched for a fruit in the first hand.

I didn't know how to start a fire.

"Blunder..." I muttered with a dropped shoulder.