Chapter 711

"Yes! I will definitely work hard, Master!"

After Rovero left, Irina finally showed her true nature and celebrated by jumping up and down and pumping her fists.

"——YaDaZe! Hohohohoho!"

Seeing her look like this, the classmates laughed helplessly.

Both obscene and arrogant, yet straightforward and true to himself.

"Teacher Biki like this is our English teacher in Class E."

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"Hey, what's going on with that armor?" Karasuma asked, pointing to the octopus-shaped full-body steel armor that Cheng Rang secretly wanted to destroy.

"Hey...it's actually the insurance prepared by Master for that second agreement..."

Cheng Rang laughed dryly, kicked the armor into the storage room, and said with a series of jingling and hammering sounds: "The things agreed upon must be fulfilled. This is the example that teachers should set for their students... Haha... …”

Karasuma: "If I had known, I wouldn't have let go!"

Cheng Rang: "There is a kind of love called letting go~ Giving up for love lasts forever~"

"Shut up—stop singing!"

Chapter 59 Meeting

Time came on Sunday. Early that morning, Cheng Rang received a message from the player on time. It included the time and meeting place, and the location was accurate to the coordinates.

Duan Buhuo: "Please use the teleportation function to reach the designated coordinate location, and we will reimburse your travel expenses."

[Player number No.0000006, traded to you: 600 system gold coins]

A system transmission costs 300 gold. Is this all the round trip expenses paid at once?

Thinking that the other party was quite considerate, Cheng Rang also followed what the other party said, calling the system's transmission function and filling in the location coordinates given by the other party.

After half a minute of guidance, as the scenery in front of him changed, Cheng Rang came to a place with a unique style that seemed to be a small town, but it was obvious that it did not belong to any place on this earth.

The quasi-medieval Gothic-style buildings with long pointed corners and blue bricks are arranged at random. The stone tiles under your feet reflect the light of broken diamonds under the sunlight.

We are in a long alleyway surrounded by buildings on both sides. Looking forward, there is an exit. Outside the exit, there seems to be a larger bustling street, and it seems that we can hear the bustle of people.

Just when Cheng Rang was about to step forward towards the exit, a cold girl's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"This guest, please go this way."

The girl has long metallic but soft silver hair and blood-red eyes. Wearing Gothic-style clothing, black wings are folded on the back.

As delicate and inorganic as a doll, he turned around and walked deeper into the alley without waiting for a response.

Arriving at the depths of the alley opposite to the exit, the girl directly pushed open the iron-clad wooden door at the end without knocking, and announced to it: "...He's here."

"Thank you, mercury lamp."

The silver-haired girl nodded, then walked past Cheng Rang and left.

There are all kinds of books placed in the bright room, which looks very similar to the style of Leticia's house. The man sitting in front of the desk...or rather the boy, is closing the book in his hand and holding it in his hand. There were many tools that Cheng Rang had never seen before, as well as ball-shaped parts similar to the joints of a doll.

She has short, fluffy brown hair with eye-catching curly horns on both sides of her head, coiled up into a donut shape. He has emerald green eyes and is wearing an ordinary white shirt and black trousers. It's just that his face is rounder and slightly less angular. He looks as delicate as a scholar, and his figure is half a head shorter than himself.

As Vera guessed, the player in front of him had disguised his appearance when he met her, but Cheng Rang couldn't tell whether it was his true appearance now.

After all, there is no clue whether the other party has used a heaven-defying potion similar to a disguise potion.

Cheng Rang raised his hand to say hello and said with a smile: "When we first met, I should be the "test player" you are looking for. Just from the text message, I thought your tone was very mature. I originally thought you might look more... More mature. "

"This appearance is fixed due to race. In fact, I am indeed quite old." He spoke in a very neutral boyish voice, "Mr. Cheng should be the same, right?"

"Ah, age? Haha... big

Probably. Cheng Rang touched the back of his head and mumbled, "By the way, is your real name Duan Buhuo?" It sounds like—"

"Yes, I am from China, before I was selected into the game." The young man nodded, seemingly not shying away from where he was from before playing the system game. "The personal information on the system panel does not allow players to modify it themselves, so it shows The name will be the real name. This is also a distressing matter for many players who choose to strengthen the vampire or blood-bound race."

"Is that so...then we can be considered fellow villagers?"

Duan Buhuo smiled slightly: "Well, that's right."

"What a fate!" Cheng Rang stepped forward quickly, held his hand and shook it, "It feels like I have found an organization!"

"Mr. Cheng is really... eloquent." Duan Buhuo seemed a little unaccustomed to pulling his hands out of Cheng Rang's restraints.

"Let's talk about business, please take a seat." He extended his hand to signal, and the scene in the room instantly changed like the reorganization of a Rubik's Cube. Two soft fabric sofas appeared, separated by a transparent glass coffee table.

"what do you want to drink?"

"Water is fine. It would be great if there was good tea." Cheng Rang looked around curiously and sat down on the sofa.

The boy then sat down, and a steaming teapot and delicate teacup suddenly appeared on the empty coffee table. The teapot automatically floated up and poured tea for the two of them.

The bright-colored tea liquid exuded a refreshing aroma. Cheng Rang picked it up and took a sip before raising his eyebrows in surprise.

"Great tea! By the way, what is this magic trick you have here?" Cheng Rang gestured to the layout of the surrounding rooms.

Duan Buhuo replied: "The entire town here is my personal enchantment. I will probably transfer to the mage series. At the end of the skill point, I will have the skill of personal enchantment. It can be used in various harsh environments. The other world provides safe and hidden shelter for friendly forces, and houses can be purchased from the system store to add them.”

"My Master is so good... I'm so envious." Cheng Rang sighed.

Let Leticia play with it another day.

When the topic returned, Duan Buhuo explained to Cheng Rang: "As Mr. Cheng knows, the system gives us the title of "player". We will travel through various worlds according to the task assignment, complete the task and then become stronger. However, for many players who were not chosen voluntarily, such a repetitive death game is basically equivalent to torture for them. "

"really."

Abandoning the original peaceful life and venturing into various worlds, although this is a fantastic and exciting journey for some people, there are always people who don't want to do this.

"However, the system only gives players the opportunity to travel through the world, but does not tell everyone when such a journey will end. Speaking of me alone, I have experienced at least a dozen world missions, and some of them are also based on The mission failed and ended sadly.”

"So are you planning to think about how to return to the original world?"

"That's right." Duan Buhuo nodded, but then showed a bitter smile and said: "If this continues, it's very likely that I won't be able to go back."

Cheng Rang raised his eyebrows: "How do you say that?"

"Mr. Cheng should also have a deep understanding. Although we are called "players," every world we have experienced seems to really exist. The people in those worlds are all living beings with flesh and blood and sincere feelings. people. As players, we will inevitably form bonds with the people in those worlds. When there are too many things that involve you...it may even gradually outweigh your attachment to the original world..."

"Then will you choose to go back? Choose to give up everything you get here - whether it is money, power, strength, friendship, love, or even... family affection."

Chapter 60 The entangled bond

Duan Buhuo continued: "To tell you the truth, before I was selected by the system, I was a complete loser in reality."

"My academic performance was not good when I was a child, and my appearance was mediocre. After entering the society, I found a job where I was waiting to die, and I lived a mediocre life with the end in sight."

"But here, I can change everything through my own efforts, and get everything I want, whether it's looks, money, power beyond common sense... Because of all this, I can change everything around me, and I love This is an ideal life beyond the framework, like finding your own sense of existence in a game that can be restarted infinitely."

"Either fighting with all one's strength, or facing death calmly, this kind of vigorous life, no matter how you live it, you seem to have no regrets."

Cheng Rang was silent in a rare moment. He listened quietly to the words of the young man in front of him. Many people's faces also flashed through his mind. He subconsciously looked at the vow ring with Isabella on his finger.

... Pain exists, but the happiness and joy that are opposite to this pain, I also gain a lot.

"Why do you want to go back?" Cheng Rang suddenly asked Duan Buhuo in front of him, "Wouldn't it be good to live like this forever?"

"It's true, that's why I said, if this continues, maybe I won't be able to go back."

""also"? Cheng Rang captured the key point in the young man's words, "Has anyone chosen to give up and go back?" "

"Very many." Duan Buhuo nodded.

Opened my own friends list.

【Friend List (23/75)】

In the top half of the list are colorful avatars with bright gold frames, but most of them are completely black.

"If I guess correctly, these players who are not online are already..."

"died."

As if it was no big deal, the young man's tone was calm.

"Oh." Cheng Rang nodded.

"If we had never entered the game played by this system, would Mr. Cheng still be as indifferent as he is now in the face of so many dead friends?"

This is the system's friend list. In other words, all the players in Duan Buhuo's list are basically people who have had friendships with him. Or maybe it's a guy who just met each other, or a close friend who fought closely.

And now——

"They can't go back."

Duan Buhuo scrolled through the list of friends in front of him, repeating the names that had been completely darkened one by one like a treasure trove. He even remembered what everyone said when they met him, the adventures they had experienced together, playing together, laughing together, and going crazy together. When you are wild.

But now they are all dead.

Dead in this endless cycle of "game" that has no end at all.

[Player: Yeft Leslie, number: Test-0000021 (Status: offline)]

"Eyefut Leslie, she was the second test player we found. She rejected our invitation to break the cycle and clear the system game together. Because at that time she had already found her own love here. , established her own family, and even had children. She couldn't let go of the bond here, saying that there was nothing left for her to miss in the previous world."

Duan Buhuo sighed softly, "However, after the last world ended, I found that her avatar had completely darkened."

"What will happen if the player dies in the time travel world?" Cheng Rang asked.

"All system assets of a player who dies in battle will be recovered, unless inheritance inheritance rules have been set in advance. The memories of all the world's indigenous people who have had communications and memories with this player will be erased."

"You said she has a child, what to do with the child?"

"He will continue to grow up. In the world that originally belonged to him, if he is taken into the time-travel world, the memory before entering the world will be cut off and bounce back to the world where he is."

"That means the child will be left behind and grow up with his father, but neither of them will have any memory of Yeft?"

"Yes."

Cheng Rang pursed his lips and said, "I'm a little curious about the "inheritance rules" you mentioned. "

Duan Buhuo explained: "We learned this from system inquiries. This system has many hidden functions. If you don't take the initiative to ask for them, they will not be unlocked over time or through level progression."

"I have a deep understanding..." Cheng Rang nodded in agreement.

The young man picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a sip, and said, "It's a bit cumbersome for me to explain, so why don't you just ask the system directly."

"also……"

Cheng Rang then took the initiative to ask the system.

[System, what are the rules of inheritance? 】

【Ding--】

[Legacy inheritance rules: Before a player dies in battle, he or she can choose a legacy heir. After death, all system gold coins, props, and equipment are automatically sent to the heir via system email. Except for bound titles that cannot be inherited, all other exclusive equipment will be unbound by the system. , to send to heirs. 】

[The designation of the inheritance heir is limited to the current team members or the players in the list who have already formed an alliance. If the selected heir takes the initiative to terminate the alliance before the death of the donor, all the inheritance will be recovered by the system. 】

[If the inherited equipment or props have the "exclusive" affix, they will be classified as souvenirs, lose all effects, and cannot be used, but they can be saved. "Falled Player Souvenirs" do not take up backpack space or weight and can be kept permanently. "Falled Player Souvenirs" can be transferred to others, including but not limited to "any player" and "any native of the world". 】

"A souvenir of the fallen players, a relic?" Cheng Rang raised his head and looked at Duan Buhuo.

"Yes." He took out a pendant and placed it on the coffee table. "This is the souvenir I got before."

"Can I watch it?" Cheng Rang asked.

The young man stretched out his hand to signal, and Cheng Rang took the pendant on the table in his hand.

[Souvenir of fallen players: "Broken Jade Tears Pendant" Quality: Gray Eternity. Effect: None. Explanation: I just want to save more people I care about. Even in the days when I am gone, please continue to live with a smile. (From player number: No.0000007-Duan Meng)]

Seeing the last player number and name, Cheng Rang hesitated, and finally asked tentatively: "Duan Meng is...?"

"My biological sister, she and I were selected into this system game at the same time, and experienced seven worlds together. In the eighth world, the final enemy was too powerful, and she sacrificed herself... so I survived. ." Duan Buhuo's calm tone finally showed some fluctuations.

Cheng Rang handed the pendant back, "Sorry, my condolences."

Duan Buhuo shook his head and said: "This is the professional-specific equipment that my sister obtained after changing jobs, so I know exactly what the effect of this pendant is."

[The Tears of Broken Jade pendant, quality: exclusive to red, can only be used by professional "healers". Effect: Before the player enters the near-death state, he will receive a huge increase in all attributes, and the proficiency of all system skills will be raised to the highest level. At the same time, a 25-minute invincibility time will be generated. There is no limit during the invincibility time except for world travel. The invincibility time will not be available until the end of the invincibility time. Killed in action. 】

"Sister, she is a full-time healer...a top player who has never learned any attack skills. But when she stood in front of me, who was seriously injured and fell to the ground, and triggered the effect of this pendant, the two of us originally worked together. Even the enemies that she couldn't defeat were instantly killed by her using normal attacks. Isn't it incredible?"

"After that, my sister used a healing technique that I had never seen before, resurrecting all the companions who died in that world, and finally cured me who was seriously injured, and then... she died in my arms with a smile."