As for time, that was the second major challenge.
Ren Suo had played the game for three days, his hat count increasing from 13 to 16, yet he had only transformed five hats.
It was well known that hats required plot-driven idle collection of resources. However, each hat only needed about 3 to 4 hours. Ren Suo, being a night owl, could easily set an alarm to wake up on time, collect the resources, and continue the hat trials.
However, each hat trial presented a different scenario. While most were memories from boys' childhoods or adolescence, their troubles varied widely. Some required confessions to progress, while others wished to cherish their tender memories forever.
Each trial and error consumed resources. Sometimes, after a mistake, continuing only led to a dead end that drained resources in vain, wasting both time and resources, unless Ren Suo could still pull off Survival of the Fittest in such dire straits.