Su Ming’an shrouded himself in privacy black mist and passed by everyone as he arrived at the house he had chosen.
He didn’t go for a server close to the front, nor did he pick a room with a great view. In front of him was an ordinary house that could accommodate several people, equipped with railings and a small attached garden.
Even in the retirent server, this house was located in the most remote area, with hardly any residents nearby.
As he entered the garden, he had Moli co out of his personal space.
The young girl seed very happy, chasing butterflies in front of the flowers, her braided hair flying lively behind her.
"Here we go."
Shadow pushed the door open and walked in, followed by three followers.
"You just let him off like that? Are you really that kind?" Shadow was referring to Edward.
"Not really." Su Ming’an looked at Moli chasing butterflies in the garden: "The matter of letting him go... depends on whether I ever considered him significant."
"That’s not being modest, that’s being arrogant."
"Then do I have the capital to be arrogant?" Su Ming’an asked, smiling at him.
"..." Shadow paused, "If I encountered him in a ga instance, I wouldn’t let him go."
"Of course, if it really hindered my affairs," Su Ming’an said, "I just don’t want to start the trend of [fighting each other in the Main God Space]. Any grievances should be settled in the ga instances."
"I thought you wanted to create a perpetual motion machine... A player with a bit of brains like Edward, it would be too wasteful to let him die in the Main God Space. Dying repeatedly in ga instances suits him best." Shadow laughed out.
"..." Su Ming’an looked at him for a few monts: "Shadow, where exactly are you and Ming’an from?"
He had this question for a long ti.
Although these two clones claid to be a variation of his own persona... they were supposedly NPCs endowed with personalities. But he always felt a dissonance.
"?" Shadow shrugged: "You can consider an NPC. Bound by rules, I cannot say anything... Just think of as a creation of your skill."
[Rules].
Sothing they could never escape from since the ga started.
While Su Ming’an was still pondering, he saw Moli run back again.
"Can I go upstairs and have a look?" she asked.
"Go ahead, I’ll take them to another room," Shadow led the three followers towards the back.
Su Ming’an glanced at him, then led Moli up the stairs.
The first floor had a large hall, a reception and a dining room with a long table, and the second floor had rooms, all dark until he turned on the lights, revealing closed doors along the corridor.
"Lighthouse brother, which room are you staying in?" Moli turned to ask him.
"I stay in a personal space."
"You’re not staying here?" Moli sounded disappointed: "It’s such a big house... and it even has a small garden."
"I’m used to it," Su Ming’an pushed open a room beside her: "And it’s safer."
He paused for a mont.
The light turned on, and he saw a piano room.
The house in the Main God Space ca fully equipped. If the player had a hobby of decorating, they could also go to the Main God store to buy furniture and wallpaper. Installing them was like playing a decorating ga, where you just drag and drop with your fingers, nothing too troubleso.
Su Ming’an only cared about the house’s location and size, he hadn’t noticed there was a piano room on the second floor.
Looking at the softly lit corner, the undusty piano standing quietly, he slowly closed the door he had just pushed open.
His thoughts felt sowhat vacant, and as a wave of dizziness suddenly surged, what followed was an overwhelming sense of fatigue that almost devoured him.
He stared at the closed door, then suddenly shut his eyes.
...
When he opened his eyes, it was an unfamiliar ceiling.
Tiny dust particles floated in the light, while a burning sensation emanated from his chest.
Su Ming’an abruptly climbed up from the bed and saw Moli sitting beside him, her palm resting on his chest, emitting a red glow.
It was this red glow, slowly seeping in, that gave him a soothing feeling.
It seed... his constantly tensed spirit was gradually relaxing.
... Is this what they call a healing series talent?
Suddenly, Su Ming’an rembered Moli’s panel marked with a red-level talent, never thinking it would actually be useful.
He looked up and saw a person standing behind Moli, stiff as a post.
"It’s now November 10th, 3:28 PM," Lv Shu said as he noticed Su was awake: "A day ago, Shadow found and told you had suddenly passed out. So, I asked a powerful healing series Player to find you... I didn’t expect this Moli’s talent to be so remarkable, so she took over the task of healing you."
"A healing series Player?"
"A friend from the Hidden Noble Families, trustworthy," said Lv Shu. "If you don’t mind, for our five-person team, I think we can add her."
"Healing series... actually kind of useful, then add her," Su Ming’an said. "No need for more, having more people doesn’t always make a team better."
"Do you want to et her?"
"We can et when the ga starts."
"She told , she has a small guild focused on the healing series, and she’d really like to have Moli join, to make good use of Moli’s healing talent," Lv Shu said.
Su Ming’an glanced at Moli, who was clutching her sleeve, looking sowhat lost.
"Let’s talk about it after the Fifth World ends," Su Ming’an said.
Less than a day till the New World begins, he now needed to check the long-neglected forum, not in the mood to take Moli to any guild.
"So I... should leave?" Lv Shu said. "The forum speculates that the Fifth World might be interstellar, wasteland, or a fantasy world, which you can use as a reference."
"All right, see you when the ga starts."
Su Ming’an watched Lv Shu leave.
Afterward, he quickly set the house permissions so only himself and Cloning could operate it.
He opened the world forum, ready to gather information one last ti.
The first thing he saw was still that pinned post [（Essential) A brief analysis of how Players can self-save].
Early in the World ga, only a few days in, this post was already featured and pinned.
It goes without saying, the one responsible for pinning and highlighting it was certainly not a human.
And this post’s most endorsed yet most criticized section, "drawing a circle within the limits set by the organizers," had beco a topic of contention for many.
The content of the post had not been modified since it was posted, always in its original form.
The initial "I still do not know who the Number One Player who made the speech is, but I believe they can go far" was celebrated by the people on the forum as the "True Prophet Post."
And the post’s concluding line, [Human history has never lacked heroes] [I hope that more Players can beco heroes at various levels], had beco a motto for many people.
At this point, the post had received over a hundred million responses, and Su Ming’an just briefly glanced over many forum users quarreling and bickering in towering comnt threads.
The online ga had begun a month ago, and the original order had already collapsed.
A post made a month ago still seed prophetic.
Su Ming’an was quite curious to et the person who had posted it, but the poster’s ID had been anonymized from the start, so no one yet knew who this early-deceased yet far-seeing player was.
He closed that thread and briefly scrolled through the current trending topics.
Secondary occupations had started to pick up, and many viewers who had only been chatters found new fun, imrsing themselves in the research of new systems. Many forr researchers of Zhai Xing seed to have discovered a new world, diving into it with a thirst for knowledge.
Su Ming’an saw many academic posts that seed headache-inducing at first look, filled with incomprehensible formulas. Many of these academic posts required points, and the prices were quite high.
Next were nurous analysis posts about the Fourth World, where many had boldly predicted the identities of various players, only to have their faces taphorically swollen from being proven wrong. However, Su Ming’an had no interest in witnessing such embarrassing spectacles.
He looked at the analysis posts for the Fifth World. Many predicted that this wave would be futuristic, possibly even more advanced than White City, while others speculated it would be a fantasy world with a magical twist. Inspired by the live broadcasts of the Fourth World, many declared that they, too, wanted to "step into the arena" and experience the "mythical Otherworld."
Su Ming’an also noticed many interesting strategy posts. "Hubert," a sowhat familiar na, had beco very popular. This person was extrely adept at creating comparative charts, listing many cost-effective equipnt combinations and prop ratios—the auction house’s equipnt prices were obviously inflated and not as economical as directly allocating Four Dinsions Attributes points.
The developnt of secondary occupations had not yet reached the level of top players, leading to a significant scarcity of high-end equipnt. This situation might improve later.
Su Ming’an continued browsing, and after collecting recent information, he spotted an interesting new section.
[Peak Player Section]
He clicked on it and discovered that this was a newly created section, only accessible to players with Combat Power above 700.
He glanced at the current player rankings.
...
[World Rankings (Overall Evaluation)]
1. Su Ming’an (Combat Power: 1100) (Number One Player) (Perfect Pass*3) / Occupation: White Judge
2. Noel Agnini (Combat Power: 950) (Perfect Pass*2) / Occupation: Puppet Master
3. Edward (Combat Power: 1350) (Perfect Pass*3) / Occupation: Ti Stopper
4. Lv Shu (Combat Power: 900) (Perfect Pass*1) / Occupation: Beast Tar
5. Mizushima Kawa Sora (Combat Power: 800) (Perfect Pass*3) / Occupation: Illusionism
6. Yamada Machiichi (Combat Power: 750) (Perfect Pass*1) / Occupation: Chasing Darkness
7. Alger (Combat Power: 850) (Perfect Pass*1) / Occupation: Crazy Sword
8. Aiden (Combat Power: 750) (Perfect Pass*3) / Occupation: Dark Priest
9. Iris (Combat Power: 750) (Perfect Pass*3) / Occupation: Charm Sound
10. Eni (Combat Power: 700) (Perfect Pass*1) / Occupation: Fla Magic
...
The top rankings had not changed much, with only minor shifts further down. Future shifts would only beco more static.
The strong continued to grow stronger, and the weak grew weaker. Without the support of a power, once soone failed, it would be very difficult for the weak to catch up... Su Ming’an continued to scroll down the rankings, counting the number of players in the top hundred who had achieved a Perfect Pass—including himself, there were a total of ten.
There might be others beyond the top hundred, but he didn’t consider that now.
He looked at the forum, where the Peak Player Section’s posts were indeed all familiar people. Given there were so few players with Combat Power above 700 at this stage, he imdiately saw a post addressing him.
[Su Ming’an, co find ... I really have sothing very important.]
[Posted by: Mizushima Kawa Sora]
Su Ming’an recalled that at the end of the award ceremony, this person had indeed made a spontaneous 24-hour appointnt, but he hadn’t planned to talk much with her.
He looked down again and saw so posts declaring war.
The posters were all sowhat minor celebrities, who had just reached a Combat Power of 700 and were feeling a bit inflated, wanting to use this opportunity to promote themselves.
In the past, Su Ming’an used to see many posts challenging him in other places, but now these seed to have vanished—perhaps these people had realized the gap.
Their declarations of war now targeted other listed individuals, excluding himself.
Su Ming’an felt he had almost finished browsing and glanced toward the close button, but then he spotted the "Super Topic" column.
...And right at the top was the Super Topic about him.
At the top of the column, a glaring Lighthouse image seed eager to grab his attention.
He didn’t want to click on it.
The last ti he clicked on it, he was brainwashed by the junk information inside.
—There was nothing serious inside, just confession posts or forcefully paired CP posts, along with various precisely captured live stream screenshots, various edits, and s... and so fan fiction.
These people were adept at capturing the implications they wanted in all kinds of ridiculous contexts and labeling them all with the tag "love," writing about a version of him that they desired.
Even his theories had been twisted into a love-struck declaration, with all his plotlines making way for this so-called "love."
Including his life-risking adventures, which were edited into "a love story with xx"... Although so content did indeed increase his popularity and expressed their adoration for him, he did not approve of so entertainnt that forcefully twisted his image.
However, there was the good with the bad, and he had also seen quite a few interesting entertainnt posts, such as fan art depicting the top players progressing together, and inspiring edits that encouraged participation in the ga... He found these quite delightful.
But for those highly celebrated posts that contradicted his own principles, he didn’t approve, but he said little about them—this was these people’s way of enjoying life, driven by the malice of the organizers incorporating live broadcast elents.
He simply wouldn’t click into it anymore.
He closed the forum and missed the post in the Super Topic from Su-style, who wanted to trade with him. He opened his personal information tab and used 183 Points to buy 18 Four Dinsions Attribute Points, distributing them according to his original plan.
He then listed the [Nata’s Legacy Ring] and the replaced [Bone Tooth Necklace] on the online auction site, and after his return, he would be able to collect the Points earned from the sale.
Afterward, feeling that his ntal state was still decent, he began to choose a Skill...
...
[November 11, Noon, 12:00]
"Ding Dong!"
[Rest ti is over—Dear players, welco back to World Ga!]
[Fifth World: Magic World. Global instance decryption/role-playing ga.]
[Participating players: 302,982,937 people!]
[Magic World will be copied into thirty thousand identical instances, each involving around ten thousand players in the ga!]
[As it is the players’ fifth entry into the ga, they will not automatically learn the common language for communication, 10 points will automatically be deducted to learn the Fifth World common language!]
[—The world begins!]
...
Su Ming’an heard the system prompt and felt the transporting white light gradually fade.
But before he opened his eyes to see what the Fifth World was like, he heard a very cold male voice beside him:
"...Watch him closely."
"Before the final ti arrives, I will not allow any mistakes."
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