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Chapter 17: I am Weak
The strange stir in Ren Suo’s heart finally vanished when he returned ho from lunch. He realized what had just happened only after he cald himself down.
Based on the theory that he had deduced, the stirring feeling in his heart was due to the ga’s [Searching for Keys] function. The mont he left his house, anyone whom he could retrieve a key from would cause a stir in his heart.
Although Ren Suo was still unsure of what kind of people he could retrieve keys from, he knew that, at the very least, these people should possess a stronger physical ability than an ordinary university graduate like him who did not make regular efforts to keep in shape. Mo Zhaolong and Li Dan were two examples of such. This implied that “Stealing Armor” was not going to be a feasible thod.
Ren Suo figured that he had to find better rewards in the ga.
Setting his niggling worry aside, he continued steadfastly in the ga [A Strong Warrior Ascends 10,000 ters]. Upon reaching the checkpoint at 2048 ters, Ren Suo realized that his rate of ascent had greatly increased. Previously, he could only rise two ters for every minute of jumping; now, he would elevate two ters every 30 seconds.
However, that required him to constantly keep the Seeker moving.
At the current stage, the platforms on the screen were no longer placed as close to one another as they were in the first 2000 ters. The Seeker had already died once when Ren Suo pressed the ga controller with too little strength and caused the Seeker to not jump far enough to reach the target platform. As there were no other platforms beneath it, the Seeker dropped all the way to the bottom of the screen and died. Ren Suo had no choice but to restart from the latest checkpoint.
In another attempt, Ren Suo used too much strength, and this resulted in the Seeker jumping too far. As the Seeker was about to fall to her death from missing the platform, the stickman-like Seeker suddenly turned around and grabbed onto the edge of the platform.
It was only then that Ren Suo recalled it was the effect of the female Seeker’s ability: [Female character: Faster response ti when faced with danger]. However, after staring at the stickman-like character for tens of hours, Ren Suo had long forgotten that the character he was controlling was a female one.
When the Seeker reached approximately 3000 ters above sea level, Ren Suo discovered a hidden ssage: As the Seeker moved around in different directions, specific white markers on the elevation ter would turn grey.
When the Seeker jumped to the left, the 5896-ter checkpoint marker turned grey; when the Seeker jumped to the right, the 6853-ter checkpoint marker turned grey instead.
This ant that there were two split paths at this point of the ga; the checkpoint for going left was totally different from that of going right. Furthermore, there would be no way of going to the other checkpoint once the player chose a specific path unless the player restarted from the checkpoint at 2048 ters.
Ren Suo quickly selected a path without much thought. When he reached 4000 ters, he found that the elevation rate increased further. For every minute of jumping at full speed, the Seeker gained 5 ters.
At the sa ti, however, the journey was getting tougher and Ren Suo finally encountered the first ‘trap’.
It was a grey platform that had a slightly lighter tone than the other platforms. When the Seeker leaped onto it, the platform suddenly shattered into pieces. Ren Suo instinctively pressed to jump again, allowing the Seeker to leap and grab a hold on the edge of another platform. It was such a close shave.
Ren Suo heaved a sigh of relief. Had he dropped all the way down, he would have wasted all the efforts he had put in for the past 10 hours…
10 hours?!
Ren Suo looked up and realized that it was close to midnight. He quickly ordered so food to be delivered to his doorstep, using his mobile phone, after which he resud his ga. He was still feeling rather energized as he had only woken up in the afternoon.
When he reached 4500 ters, Ren Suo saw other people appear in the ga.
They were matchstick-like characters.
These matchstick-like characters did not move like the Seeker did. Instead of jumping directly onto the platforms, they took a hidden path that was not shown on the screen. However, they moved upwards relatively slowly.
When the Seeker breezed past these matchstick characters, they stopped instead.
[This is a team of fully-equipped climbers. They are currently talking about you.]
A strange ssage popped up in the ga.
Ren Suo stopped for a short while, but the characters did not continue moving, and he continued on his quest upwards instead.
While there were also similar traps in the path ahead, they were not difficult to handle. When he reached a height of 4800 ters, another group of matchstick-like characters appeared from behind. This ti, however, the group sped past him in the blink of an eye, unlike his previous encounter.
These matchstick-like characters seed to be sitting on so sort of transport vehicle which resembled cars…
“Wow!” Ren Suo exclaid in amusent and continued, “What sorcery is this?”
Ren Suo was starting to think that he had missed a location in the ga and failed to obtain a similar transport vehicle. Just then, the group of matchstick-like characters looped back around in the car.
[Do you need any help?] A ssage from the matchstick-like characters appeared.
To Ren Suo’s delight, two reply options appeared:
①”No need.”
②”No, thanks.”
…
There were no other options given.
“How the heck do I even make a choice!” Ren Suo uttered in pique. “Both options would an that I’m rejecting their help!”
However, Ren Suo soon realized that when he chose an option, the ga would not proceed with the reply imdiately. He had to select [Confirm] before a response was given. Thus, he could still select the other option at this point in ti.
Finally, the Seeker said, “No, thanks.”
The car that the matchstick-like characters were riding on did not move from its position. Instead, they left together with Ren Suo when he controlled the Seeker to move forward.
Finally, at 4 a.m. in the morning, Ren Suo managed to lead the Seeker to the 5896-ter checkpoint!
Upon reaching each checkpoint, Ren Suo felt as if he had accomplished a major goal in each stage of his life. He could finally relax his body.
Interestingly, the checkpoint at 5896 ters was different from that at 2048 ters. While all checkpoints had large platforms taking up the entire bottom portion of the screen which was impossible for the Seeker to fall through, there were many other matchstick-like characters on the platform at this checkpoint.
There was also a special na given to this checkpoint: Base Camp.
The other matchstick-like characters crowded around the Seeker in surprise when they saw her. Many speech bubbles appeared montarily and disappeared very quickly; thus, Ren Suo could not read what they said in ti.
Ren Suo put the ga controller down and went to bed. He only awoke at 11 a.m. the next day to his usual famished stomach. Hastily, he proceeded downstairs to satiate his hunger. As soon as he arrived, the lady at the stall said, “The usual, two large bowls of Yee-fu noodles with beef briskets in fried bean sauce?”
Ren Suo also felt slightly weird that he was able to stomach so much food recently. Although he enjoyed eating, he was far from being a glutton. But now, his appetite seed to have doubled.
Once he arrived back ho, he continued his quest in the ga [A Strong Warrior Ascends 10,000 ters]. Ren Suo realized that on the large platform at the 5896-ter checkpoint, the matchstick-like characters were no longer crowding around the Seeker.
After playing the ga for two days, Ren Suo figured that the ga seed to have a special appealing power. All the Seeker could do was jump, but the strength and direction of her jump required the player’s finesse and delicate control.
For example, before Ren Suo reached the platform at the 5896-ter checkpoint, he encountered the light grey platform which would shatter upon landing on it. It appeared along a route that he could not avoid unless he took longer and obscured route which was out of the right side of the screen. Embracing the challenge, Ren Suo decided to jump directly onto the shattering grey platform, but just as he landed on it, he jumped again. He managed to achieve a double jump, and successfully landed on a safe platform before the grey platform shattered!
Although the Seeker had almost depleted all her energy, it was an exhilarating challenge for Ren Suo!
The Seeker was now more than halfway through to the 10000-ter summit. Furthermore, for every jump the Seeker made, she gained nearly 1-ter elevation. Ren Suo was thrilled as one can be.
“Great, I must finish and conquer this ga today!”
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