Hey everyone, sorry I missed yesterday’s update. I visited my parents over the weekend and I was not released until today! 🙈
Surprisingly, after Bai Lixin and his group refused Nian Suihan’s shameless proposal, Nian Suihan did not make things difficult for them and instead allowed them to leave easily.
However, before they left, Nian Suihan still smiled and said something that was half a threat, half a joke: “I look forward to you changing your minds.”
“Unless the sun rises from the west,” Hong Yue fumed as they left the door of the Shentian Guild, which made Song Yuntian, who was beside her, to feel very distressed.
At the elevator on the 800th floor, they encountered someone unexpected.
The moment the elevator doors opened, Sun Ning’s usually calm eyes immediately shot out a murderous glare.
Little Overlord stepped out with his fiery, Shamatte hairstyle, his gaze arrogant and his expression cold.
It had been a while since they last saw him, and Little Overlord had grown a lot.
He used to look like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, and he was still in his growth phase.
Now, he looked like an apple tree that had started to bear fruit, his height shooting up to over 1.8 meters. His long, slender legs were straight, his jawline was smooth, and his features had matured a lot. He looked like a handsome young man in his mid-twenties.
However, they immediately recognized him as Little Overlord. Whether it was his facial features or temperament, there was no one else like him.
Little Overlord, who was taller than Sun Ning, looked down at her with cold eyes and said, “If you look at me like that again, I’ll gouge out your eyes.”
Sun Ning gritted her teeth but eventually averted her gaze in frustration.
She couldn’t defeat him.
As infuriating as it was, that was the truth.
She wasn’t the heroine of a revenge novel; she was merely a cannon fodder female supporting character in Little Overlord’s upgrade novel.
In the face of absolute strength, she couldn’t touch Little Overlord, let alone avenge her brother.
She was powerless.
“It’s good that you know your place.” Little Overlord snorted coldly, then shifted his gaze to Bai Lixin. “Bai Lixin, I’m on the 999th floor now. Surprised? Shocked?”
Bai Lixin: “…”
He really had no interest in talking to this arrogant, chuunibyou.
Little Overlord: “Where did you hide those things?”
Bai Lixin: ?
‘What things?’
Little Overlord: “Don’t play dumb. Didn’t you hear me? I’m on the 999th floor now.”
Bai Lixin’s expression gradually shifted from confusion to clarity.
The 999th floor, Dijia’s original floor.
Could Little Overlord be asking about Dijia’s belongings?
Did he know about what happened between Dijia and him?
As expected of the game’s favored child, while other players had lost their memories of Dijia, he hadn’t.
Little Overlord really had the horror game as a cheat.
Little Overlord: “Don’t think you can hide what you’ve done from me. He spent years in the copies and accumulated so much wealth. Where did it all go!”
Bai Lixin’s expression became solemn. “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask him yourself?”
Little Overlord sneered, “That would be possible if he could still talk.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘So something had indeed happened to Dijia.’
“You are still so calm after what I have said?” Little Overlord looked at Bai Lixin with disdain. “Bai Lixin, you really have a cold heart. I feel sorry for him. He kept pushing the limits of the main brain for you, coming down here to mess around with you. How many places in the game lobby bear the marks of your…activities together? Did he really think the main brain didn’t notice? It knew all along but just couldn’t be bothered to say anything. The main brain is omniscient and omnipotent; nothing escapes its eyes.”
Everyone else: “…”
Did we just accidentally overhear some shocking secret?!
Who is “he”?
Where did they…do those things?!
Tell us more!
The others discreetly perked up their ears.
Bai Lixin: “If nothing escapes the main brain’s eyes, then why can’t it find those things? Isn’t it supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent? Ask your god, not me.”
“Don’t play games with me. I’m not who I used to be. I won’t be fooled by a cunning man like you anymore.” Little Overlord took out a mirror from his backpack. He fiddled with and the image of a man suddenly appeared in the mirror. “It seems you won’t believe me until you see it with your own eyes. Take a good look at your beloved man.”
The man had his eyes closed, lying in a hexagonal coffin made of silver metal and transparent glass.
The surroundings were dark. The man had handsome features, but his face was pale, his lips were devoid of any color, and his chest showed no signs of movement.
He lay silently in the coffin, as if he were dead.
Bai Lixin’s pupils shrank violently, but he quickly regained his composure. “What happened to him?”
Little Overlord: “As you can see, this is what happens when you defy the main brain.”
‘Is he dead?
If I use that resurrection card, can I bring him back?’
Little Overlord: “I bet you’re thinking about using the resurrection card to revive him, right? Let me kill that hope for you. He’s not dead. The main brain was furious with his betrayal. Death would be too merciful. What he’s enduring now is a pain you can’t even imagine.”
“How about we make a deal?” Little Overlord suddenly chuckled. “I’ll help you kill him, so you can use the resurrection card to revive him. In exchange, you tell me where he’s hidden all the wealth he’s accumulated over the years.”
Bai Lixin took a deep breath. “I really don’t know. As you saw, every time he comes to see me, it’s just to sleep with me. To put it bluntly, we’re just steady bed partners.”
Little Overlord: “Impossible! The main brain said he’s never been like this with anyone. He’s usually as calm as a man with erectile dysfunction.”
Bai Lixin felt his sadness reverse instantly.
‘Erectile dysfunction?
How dare you say that!’
Bai Lixin: “Who knows? Maybe he held it in for too long, and when he met me, he just couldn’t control himself. After all, someone as handsome as me is one of a kind.”
The others’ ears practically shot up to the sky: “…”
What? Bed partners? Couldn’t control himself?
Tsk tsk tsk, who would’ve thought God Xin had this side to him.
Strange, why does this feel surprising yet perfectly logical, as if they already knew about this?
Little Overlord looked Bai Lixin up and down thoughtfully, his gaze gradually becoming more explicit. “Are you really that good? How about you follow me in the future? I’ll take care of you.”
Bai Lixin rolled his eyes at him. “What nonsense are you talking about? You think you’re worthy?”
“Good, good, very good.”
Little Overlord said “good” three times in a row. “Let’s see how long you can keep being stubborn. I have plenty of time to play with you. Bai Lixin, I think you’ll really enjoy the next phase of the game.”
As if thinking of something, he laughed loudly. “I’ll be waiting for you to crawl and beg me to take you in.”
Bai Lixin: “.”
‘Go ahead and laugh, let’s see how long I can keep rolling my eyes.’
Little Overlord strode away on his long legs, leaving them with a whirlwind of a departing figure.
Everyone tacitly cursed him as a “lunatic” and headed to the elevator, arriving at the Core Fire Guild.
Along the way, Xia Chi was a bit distracted, not even noticing when the elevator arrived.
It wasn’t until Bai Lixin called his name that Xia Chi reluctantly stepped off the elevator.
“Little Sun.” Lin Jue wrapped an arm around Xia Chi’s neck from behind. “You’re usually so cheerful, those big white teeth of yours flash around more than anyone else’s. What’s wrong today?”
“Zhou Guang returned to the real world,” Xia Chi said with a somewhat dejected voice.
Lin Jue: “That’s a good thing, isn’t it? He didn’t die in the horror game, and he managed to escape.”
Sun Ning: “Yeah, we should really celebrate for Zhou Guang.”
Liang Xi: “How about… tonight? I can order food now.”
“Um, my game progress has also reached 100%,” Xia Chi said softly. “After I left the last copy, I got a system notification that I’ll be leaving the horror game lobby and returning to the real world in seven days.”
The conversation came to an abrupt halt.
“I didn’t voluntarily enter the last copy. I knew that once my game progress reached 99%, clearing just one more game would mean leaving. So, before I found Tan Yue, I didn’t plan on entering another copy.” Xia Chi was very frustrated. “But I don’t know if there was a system bug, and I ended up in the copy.”
“What do I do? If I leave, what will happen to Tan Yue?”
“Brother, I can’t leave yet.”
Everyone: “…”
“Look on the bright side, you’re safe now.”
“On the brighter side, you still have seven days. Maybe you’ll find this Tan… Tan whatever in that time.” Li Cancan racked her brain trying to find comforting words. “If you really can’t find him, those of us still here will help you search. How about that? Can you tell us more about this Tan…?”
Li Cancan’s voice trailed off.
Because she realized she couldn’t even remember the name of the person Xia Chi had just mentioned.
This meant that person, like Li Cangshan, was probably already dead.
Just as she hadn’t forgotten Li Cangshan, Xia Chi hadn’t forgotten that person either.
If someone truly needed to find him, perhaps only Xia Chi could do it.
This was really too terrible.
[Dear players!]
[The horror game is about to enter the second nationwide game! To ensure the smooth completion of the game, the system will initiate an emergency plan. All players that are participating in copies will have their games end in victory, and they will be immediately transported back to the game lobby.]
[All players in the tower, please proceed to the first-floor game lobby!]
[Countdown: 10 minutes. Players who do not appear in the game lobby within 10 minutes will be punished by the system.]
[Punishment: Beheading!]
The system’s sudden electric voice exploded through the players’ ears like a loudspeaker. The group had no time to dwell on their emotions and immediately set off for the game lobby.
When they arrived at the lobby, it was still relatively early; only three minutes had passed. However, the lobby was already filled with several people.
Some players were in a miserable state, some were injured, and some were missing limbs and suffering from severe wounds. These must have been the players forcibly transported from their copies by the system.
These people showed expressions of relief after surviving a disaster and were busy using their mall points to heal their bodies.
“Thank heavens, I thought I was dead this time. Did I just get a cheat?”
“What a coincidence, I got the same cheat.”
“We were gathered so suddenly, what’s this game up to now?”
Green lights continuously emerged in the lobby, like waves of green ripples in a wheat field.
At first, when there were fewer people, it was easy to form groups. People who knew each other gathered together.
Bai Lixin, Song Yuantian, and Sun Ning’s three guilds were allied, so naturally, they occupied a corner of the lobby. As more members of their guilds arrived, they automatically gravitated towards them.
But as the crowd grew, the game lobby became packed.
The players were bustling and chattering, making the air hot and stuffy.
“Move aside, everyone, move aside!”
The elevator doors opened, and more than three hundred people marched out in an orderly line.
Behind them were robust young men and women,but they were surrounding an old man with a cane who was walking in the front.
