Chapter 56: 056 I also have one condition.
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Chen Xu chewed carefully. The compressed biscuit was very hard, and the texture was quite poor, but the taste was unexpectedly good. It was scallion flavored.
He swallowed the biscuit in his mouth before speaking, “Go ahead.”
Xia Jinse held the bitten biscuit in her hand and slowly said, “I need private space, at any ti. You can’t co close.”
“Heh…”
Chen Xu couldn’t help but laugh, not hiding the sarcasm in his laughter.
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“What’s so funny?”
Xia Jinse’s face turned sowhat cold, and at that mont, her gaze gave Chen Xu an odd feeling again, as if he was facing a company leader.
He was a bit curious about what this woman did in real life. Anyone who could create a sense of oppression with just a glance surely wasn’t ordinary.
However, this was his dreamscape. Even if Trump showed up, he would fearlessly go head-to-head.
“Your request is kind of ridiculous.”
The sarcasm on Chen Xu’s face deepened, “Look at our current situation. This place is a wasteland, with monsters possibly appearing at any mont, making survival difficult to guarantee. You’re still demanding personal space?”
After the previous dreamscape, he had learned so lessons. With won like this—pretty, from a good background, and full of ambition—one should never try to ingratiate or accommodate.
In his younger, more naive years, he had once innocently believed that as long as you treated others sincerely, you would receive the sa sincerity in return. But reality gave him slap after slap.
The result was often that the more you tried to please or accommodate others, the less they took you seriously.
Many tis, if you showed a little bit of color, they would open a dye shop.
As long as you held a firm stance and could stick to your principles, others might actually respect you more. At least, they wouldn’t dismiss you.
Sotis he felt, are these people just a bit an-spirited?
Understanding this, he had fewer friends, but felt more at ease in life.
As for won like Xia Jinse, who were probably used to being strong, with innate arrogance, he figured that if he relented a bit, she might even make more bizarre demands.
So, his attitude was blunt, “What if you’re attacked by a monster while you’re sleeping or bathing?”
Xia Jinse replied coldly, “Even in that case, I wouldn’t need your rescue.”
“I won’t just watch you die,” Chen Xu said, unwilling to ramble on, and continued eating his biscuit.
Xia Jinse stared at him for a while before she finally said, “Let’s talk again under special circumstances; in normal tis, you must comply.”
Chen Xu swallowed the second bite of biscuit, nodded, and said, “Alright. However, I also have a condition.”
“Go ahead.”
“Respect is mutual. If you want to be treated a certain way, you have to treat with the sa attitude.”
Chen Xu looked into her eyes, “I don’t care what your previous status was, how superior you were, or how many people revolved around you. Here, it’s just you and ; no one is more noble than the other.”
“And don’t say that n should yield to won or that won should be taken care of. It doesn’t exist with . If you want to survive, you have to contribute your strength. Don’t expect to take care of everything.”
Xia Jinse looked at his serious expression, showing a look of astonishnt, and was speechless for a long ti.
After finishing, Chen Xu ignored her, drank so water, and finished his biscuit before standing up and saying, “Hurry up and eat. We’ll set out once we’re done.”
“Set out?” Xia Jinse asked, puzzled.
While packing up, Chen Xu said, “Just now, on that car, I saw a place marked as a settlent on a machine that looked like a navigation device. It’s not far from here.”
“What did you say?” Xia Jinse asked, surprised, “Why didn’t you ntion it earlier?”
Chen Xu, with his back to her, said, “Earlier, you weren’t my companion yet.”
Xia Jinse watched his back for a long ti.
The sky remained gray, casting a sense of oppression on their hearts.
Chen Xu, carrying all their belongings, took Xia Jinse and set out just like that.
They first went to find the transport vehicle, opened the navigation device, and both of them noted down the route to the settlent.
The settlent wasn’t far from there, a total distance of 12.3 kiloters. The route wasn’t complicated; the navigation device displayed a live-action route, so they only needed to rember a few landmark buildings.
Once they were ready, they officially set out.
Chen Xu was on the left; Xia Jinse was on the right, keeping a distance of about two ters from him. They silently moved forward, progressing wordlessly.
He constantly observed their surroundings to prevent a sudden monster attack. Occasionally glancing at her, he couldn’t help but ponder a lot.
The virtual dreamscape world gave him a kind of split personality feeling.
On the one hand, in terms of detail, it pursued extre realism, making it impossible to distinguish from reality. On the other hand, it would leave obvious loopholes in certain places, constantly reminding you that this was not real.
In the previous dreamscape, he had felt this deeply.
Now, too, he had this feeling. The most noticeable thing was that in a world capable of producing cutting-edge technology like exoskeleton chanical arms, the city’s architectural level was surprisingly the sa as Earth’s.
When he looked at the map on that navigation device earlier, he found it so familiar. Upon closer inspection, he realized this was his city.
The place where he had woken up was just where he rented an apartnt. He hadn’t recognized it at first because most of the buildings had collapsed.
Once he figured this out, he matched many locations with reality. The site of the exoskeleton chanical arm battle was a dium-sized supermarket. The surviving building was a newly constructed residential complex.
The sa was true for people, whether it was Luo Xiyun or Xia Jinse, they were inherently intelligent. Yet, they never found the inconsistencies in the dreamscape world strange, nor did they delve into it.
Up to now, Xia Jinse hadn’t ntioned anything about why she appeared in this world or how it all happened.
This was already very bizarre. Under normal circumstances, anyone encountering such a thing would first wonder, what happened?
But Xia Jinse hadn’t even brought it up, as if she accepted her setting in advance.
Chen Xu had felt this sense of discord with Luo Xiyun as well. Of course, over ti, the more they interacted, the more he gradually overlooked this point.
He guessed that this must be to prevent users from getting too imrsed in the dreamscape. After all, for most people, dreamscape life was far more abundant than reality.
Because of this, although he often reminisced about days in the first dreamscape, he didn’t feel sad about it.
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