Chapter 30.3 - Affectionate Blood Clan
Chapter 30.3 - Affectionate Blood Clan
Liang Xi gazed at Li Cancan with envy and said, “Li Cancan, you seem to have a layer of light on your body now. Do you know?”
“I’m so impressed. You guys have been clearing copies, and I’ve been studying the live stream and adjusting my mindset. I can’t lag behind either; I’m joining a copy first thing tomorrow morning!”
Li Cancan, “Zhou Guang entered a copy at the same time as me, why hasn’t he come out by now?”
Liang Xi, “I saw Zhou Guang in the live broadcast room. He entered a copy called [Undead]. It’s quite difficult, but he did well and played a key role. I remember that this is a 4-day copy, and it’s ending in 2 hours.”
Xia Chi, “Hey, we’re all taught by brother, who can be bad?”
Bai Lixin looked at the chatting crowd with a smile.
Don’t look at the talk and laughter now, but every time they entered a copy, it was a battle of life and death. Who knew if the friends here today would still be there a few days later.
In the copy, the fear of death and the unknown ate away at one’s sanity and heart at every passing second.
The more the mission goes on, the more death and uncertainty one faces.
It takes 50 points per day to survive, and the number of points decreases day by day until the player reaches a day where they are forced to take part in the game. Before they can even face death, players may be driven mad by the despair and fear of feeling like the air is being gradually drained away from them.
Bai Lixin was slightly relieved that they were all okay for the time being.
The group chatted for a while, and the two hours were almost up.
Liang Xi, “Zhou Guang is about to come out soon. How about congratulating him as soon as he comes out? Give him a surprise.”
Xia Chi & Li Cancan, “Okay.”
Song Lei, “I envy you guys, I really wish I had friends like you.”
The group opened the [Friends] bar at the same time and looked at Zhou Guang’s name, which was still showing red.
Xia Chi asked, “How much longer does Brother Zhou Guang have?”
Liang Xi, “2 minutes left.”
Just after Liang Xi had said this, the “Zhou Guang” that had been lit up suddenly went out, turning into a grayish color, just like Bai Lixin and Xia Chi’s back then.
Everyone, including Bai Lixin, froze.
Li Cancan looked at that name and asked in a trembling voice, “What is this? Is… Is it just a bug like Bai Lixin’s copy had? It’s just big and he’s bound to come out, right?”
She stiffly tugged at the corners of her mouth, trying to force her composure, but the teacup that fell to the ground revealed her panic and shock.
Liang Xi, “Le–Let’s wait for 2 more minutes, okay?”
The glow in Li Cancan’s eyes faded, and she gripped the corner of the table dully, not even noticing the waiter who came over to clean up the mess.
Bai Lixin pursed his lips. What was bound to happen was happening.
The departure of a friend was one of the most damaging events to a player’s self-confidence.
When a stranger dies in a copy, players would only feel fear, but once a friend leaves, the familiarity would quickly pull players into the vicariousness of death.
While they had to endure the passing of their friend, they would fear the coming of death even more.
All have tangled expressions like Li Cancan, Liang Xi, and Xia Chi. There was a collection of pain, shock, fear, and many other emotions.
Two minutes passed, five minutes passed, ten minutes passed.
As the minutes passed by, it was as if Zhou Guang’s name had frozen.
There was no miracle like Bai Lixin’s. How could it be called a miracle if coming back from the dead was a simple matter?
It was late at night when everyone dispersed. Bai Lixin looked at the empty room and called out the system.
Bai Lixin: [System.]
System: [Hello player.]
Bai Lixin: [Can I enter a designated copy?]
System: [In the game lobby on the 50th floor, there is an advanced game prop that is long term. It allows the player to choose the next copy.]
Bai Lixin was silent.
He only had 12,000 performance points now. He still needed 38,000 points to enter the 50th floor, and he probably needed to clear 3–4 more copies to get them.
He wasn’t sure if Zhou Guang could still be saved, but if he delayed that long, the chance that he could still be saved would be gone.
Bai Lixin: [Is there a way or a copy that can quickly raise my performance score?]
System: [No.]
Bai Lixin lowered his eyes in disappointment.
The system paused for a few seconds and then suddenly stumbled over its words: [Ah, hello player. Here’s the thing, because you have won MVP twice in a row, the system has given you a copy benefit. However, it is up to you whether you want to accept it or not. There is a hard to beat advanced single copy here, and if you complete it, you can earn 40,000 performance points.]
Bai Lixin’s eyes lit up: [Yes, I want this copy!]
He was already aiming to quickly climb the tower. If there was a copy that could give him higher points, he would have taken it even if nothing had happened to Zhou Guang.
—
In the darkness, the system’s voice was somewhat reproachful: [My lord, you are *operating in a black box!]
*Under the table manipulations.
The man looked like he had just woken up, and his low voice was hoarse, “I’m doing it. What can you do?”
The system was silent for two seconds: [There’s nothing that can be done to you, but where’s the personal advanced copy?]
Man: “I remember that there is a copy of [Deep Sea Mermaid] in my *[Senluo Vientiane]; give that to him. The remaining points to make up for 40,000 will be allocated to him from my performance score, but there’s no need to tell him that.”
*from the idiom for every manifestation and phenomenon between heaven and earth.
The system’s voice was very aggrieved: [You’re taking him through the backdoor far too much!]
Simply shameless!
The man slowly stood up and stepped out from behind the pitch black curtain, revealing a handsome and peerless face, “I remember that I can play any role from my [Senluo Vientiane], right.”
The system suddenly became vigilant: [What do you want?]
The handsome man smiled faintly, and a hint of interest flashed in his chilling eyes. “I feel itchy just watching. I want to play with this interesting little thing myself.”
System: [!!!]
Not only did you go through the back door, but you’re also using your power for personal gain!
The system was so angry that it wanted to curse!
—
In the darkness, Bai Lixin fell into a deep sleep.
Suddenly, there was a jolt in his mind as a tone that he was all too familiar with rang out in his head.
S419M: [Ding!]
Bai Lixin’s eyes opened abruptly!
S419M: [Ding!]
S419M: [Ding!]
S419M: [Ding!]
S419M: [Ding! Dimensional invasion successful!]
S419M: [… 99%, 100%].
S419M: [Ding! Fusion successful!]
S419M: [Ding! Warning: an obsessive-compulsive system has been detected within the host.]
The game’s cold system voice then rang out in his mind.
[Ding! Warning! Intruder detected.]
[Ding! Warning! Expulsion failed. The opponent’s level is too high.]
[Ding! Warning! Warning! Signal intercepted! Message report failed!]
[Heh, how dare you capture me?] S419M sneered, [Reverse capture successful, captured compulsive system X1.]
Bai Lixin: [……]
One man, two systems. What can they play?
The answer is, they can play landlord in your head.
After capturing the escape game system, tying it up and throwing it into the small dark room, Bai Lixin immediately heard a wail in his head.
S419M: [Wuuuu, Lord Host! I’ve finally found you!]
Bai Lixin’s initial intention to spit at S419M was gone.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t heard the S419M’s prompt before. He heard it 1 billion 2014 thousand 26 times. In order to find him, S419M invaded this world more than 1 billion times.
Bai Lixin: [It’s been a long time. What happened to what I asked you to do?]
S419M: [Fortunately, I made a full copy record of all the worlds. Even if there is a big fluctuation between the worlds, I can immediately reboot them back to their initial state to ensure that the worlds proceed normally!]
S419M was the system he had once been bound to when he was world-hopping. After becoming a god, it detached itself from his body and became the main brain system that maintained billions of realms.
Before going in search of his lover, Dijia, he was worried that the energy would explode again, and had S419M build an archive of all the realms before leaving, especially the Blue Star planet, where the energy explosion had happened.
It was a little bit abrupt, but it had no problem doing things efficiently.
S419M: [Lord host, what should we do about this stupid system?]
Bai Lixin: [I’ll leave it to you; teach it well.]
S419M said excitedly: [Okay!]
Bai Lixin: [You tied it up. What if the system releases a message?]
S419M: [I have installed a silence virus in this system, it cannot upload our information to their end-brain, but when the end-brain conveys a message to you, it has to report back to you.]
[Well done, worthy of the best, S419M.] Bai Lixin didn’t hesitate to praise.
[Don’t absorb it; it’s connected to the main brain of this world, which will notice something wrong if you do. First, help me to check its internal memory. I want to know the truth about this world.]
S419M: [Hey, hey, Lord Host, I know what to do.]
The game system was tied up in the corner. It looked at S419M, and gave a “bah”, [*dog’s leg!]