forget the river mirror

blue star.

The transparent suspended track, like a water slide from centuries ago, connects the nine federal safety zones.

Lin Chuan and Jing Xuan, who were sitting in the ordinary car, did not hide their curiosity at all, and looked at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window seriously.

Intercity air rail is a new product that has only appeared in the past five years. In the dark age when the safe zone was first established, each safe zone was an isolated island, and the military forces in each safe zone could barely cope with the dangers from the wilderness. .

It wasn't until the emergence of the floating fortress that the federation had the ability to resist the attacks of mutated birds, completely cleared the mid- and low-altitude areas between the various safety zones, and allowed the construction of floating orbits.

The White Eagle Forest outside the Ninth District was cleared five years ago.

After seeing the familiar forest, Lin Chuan's eyes dimmed.

Lin Chuan has long been accustomed to using a gentle smile to cover up his inner indifference. He has always felt that his character is flawed, as if he was born unable to understand what is warmth and what is kindness.

Before being picked up by Dean Wu, Lin Chuan was just following his biological instinct and trying to survive, indifferent to life and ignoring pain, just like a frozen snake.

But Dean Wu, A Li, and Jing Xuan, the three farmers, never cared about the risk of being backlashed, and melted Lin Chuan's cold shell with the purest kindness.

If you are always in the dark, you will not yearn for the light.

Lin Chuan is greedy for the light that shines into his life, even if he can't understand it, he still carefully guards that bit of tenderness.

So since Dean Wu left, Lin Chuan made his own life plan early.

Making money, saving tuition fees, and going to the ideal university, but never thinking about what to do after passing the ideal university. It seems that only in this way can he be given a reasonable enough reason, a reason to leave the orphanage.

Although Lin Chuan didn't want to admit it, he really couldn't let go of the old church, as if as long as he was still there, he could always wait for Dean Wu's return and A Li's return one day.

But after meeting Hundred Ghosts, Lin Chuan's plan was completely disrupted, as if an invisible hand had disturbed the strings of his fate.

Lin Chuan touched the diamond-shaped imprint on his chest, and all the nodes that promoted the event flashed through his mind:
From the beginning of Jue Ling, the transfer of the floating fortress, the plunder of the ghosts, the sudden appearance of Yu Sheng, the destruction of Base 12, Wu Fa's close rescue, to the familiar reading sound in "Xian Fan" at the end.

All of this is like a well-arranged script, and Lin Chuan, a puppet, is naturally sent to the extraordinary road...

Xiao Hua suddenly stretched out in Lin Chuan's hood, then changed into a comfortable position, and fell into a deep sleep.

Lin Chuan put his hands behind his head, rubbed Xiaohua's head lightly, his eyes became brighter, and he gave up tracing. Anyway, it was a good thing to see A Li and Dean Wu again.

……

Jing Xuan didn't think too much about it, and when he got tired of looking at the scenery, he imitated his elder brother and ordered a drink from the bionic flight attendant. After knowing that it wasn't free, he decisively put the drink back, not caring about others' eyes at all.

He has a generous personality, and he can adapt quickly no matter where he is.

"What are you thinking? It's been three hours and you can go online."

Jing Xuan put on the brain-computer glasses frame as he spoke.

Xianfan's anti-addiction system is very user-friendly. Although it is stipulated that each time you go online is usually eight hours, you can go online again as long as the interval is three hours.

However, most people will choose to go online at night, because after connecting to the brain computer, the brain is actually in a moderate sleep. Although playing Xianfan will consume some physical energy, it can be regarded as a kind of rest.

As for the daytime, students need to go to school, and employees also need to go to work in the company. Even if they enter the Metaverse, they are still working or studying. Only a small number of people with money and time will play games.

After all, in the eyes of the public, no matter how realistic the game is, it is just a way of entertainment.

As soon as Lin Chuan thought of the 6 yuan price of the brain computer, the doubts in his heart disappeared in an instant, and he quickly put on the brain computer glasses frame, and at the same time designated the backpacks of the two of them in the security alert area.

In this way, as long as someone touches a person or object in the security warning area, the brain computer will automatically warn.

Although there is nothing valuable in the bag, it is better to have one more thing than one less thing, and there are still 7 hours of empty track to reach the eighth district. Lin Chuan is going to use this time to pass the perverted test.

[Welcome to the fairy world. 】

This time Lin Chuan's avatar did not enter the palace, but directly appeared in the trial area.

The familiar sound of piercing the air sounded, and Lin Chuan subconsciously used Shunpo to leave the spot. Thousands of deaths had already formed his muscle memory, and he spent 30 seconds in the rain of arrows without any suspense.

Before Lin Chuan was kicked off the assembly line, he had persisted until 54 seconds.

After three hours of rest, Linghe An had quickly relieved the soreness of Lin Chuan's leg muscles. This time, avoiding Lin Chuan was like a miracle. When the wall of arrow feathers appeared in the last few seconds, Lin Chuan stood upright. lying on the ground.

[Congratulations to the player who passed Trial 1 and won the title "Lan Ying", with a base movement speed of +5]

[Do you want to start Trial 2? 】

Looking at the prompt box in front of him, Lin Chuan clicked "No" without hesitation. He had had enough of the word "should" and just wanted to quickly enter the game.

It's a pity that Lin Chuan clicked for a long time, but the prompt box didn't dissipate, and it was still blocking his eyes. Lin Chuan thought that there was something wrong with his brain, so he clicked "Yes".

As a result, the world in front of Lin Chuan's eyes began to flip and change instantly.

[Trial 2, start. 】

As soon as the system's notification tone fell, before Lin Chuan could see clearly where he was, he felt his feet slip, and the word "should" appeared in front of his eyes again.

[Resurrection Countdown 4.3...]

Lin Chuan, who was in the state of soul, quickly digested the aggrieved emotions, and began to look around seriously, but failed to find his body, only saw a sea of ​​flames.

The resurrection time is coming soon, Lin Chuan tensed his body, and at the second of resurrection, he directly used Shunpo. No matter what, it is always right to run first.

But Lin Chuan immediately regretted it, because he rushed directly into the flames.

Although the word "should" in front of him is very annoying, Lin Chuan finally figured out the content of the trial in this level.

[Resurrection Countdown 4.3.2.1]

This time Lin Chuan did not act rashly, but stood firmly on top of the two spheres, surrounded by an endless sea of ​​flames.

At the same time, he finally saw the countdown in front of him.

60.59.58...

It seems that as long as you can persist for 1 minute, you can pass this trial, but when there are 50 seconds left in the countdown, the ball under his feet suddenly spun, Lin Chuan didn't pay attention, and fell into it again. There was a sea of ​​flames.

"Should"

……

……

After two full hours, the countdown before Lin Chuan's eyes finally reset to zero, and a flat open space finally appeared under his feet.

The two balls had no rules at all, and could rotate or move at any time. Lin Chuan could only rely on his own reaction ability and balance ability to keep his body stable.

But in the high temperature state, it was difficult for Lin Chuan to concentrate, so he had to stay up for two full hours before seeing the countdown count down to zero in the state of a horse.

[Congratulations to the player for successfully passing Trial 2, fire attribute resistance +2]

It's a pity that he didn't get any title this time, only got two points of resistance.

Lin Chuan still doesn't understand the use of those attribute points, because he hasn't really entered the fairy world yet.

Fortunately, the system did not display a new prompt box this time, but instead notified Lin Chuan, and finally got the admission ticket for Xianfan.

[I'm about to enter the Ninth Novice Village, and the place of birth is random, please set the character ID. 】

"Lonely tree."

[Please set the character image of the player. 】

"constant."

[The initial rating of the character is... E+, and the map transfer begins. 】

When the system gave the evaluation, it was obviously frustrated, but this rating did not exceed Lin Chuan's expectations. If the D-level evaluation is so easy to get, then [-] yuan is too easy to come by.

Lin Chuan didn't believe that Ideal Company would make a loss-making business, but the sudden sense of weightlessness quickly interrupted Lin Chuan's thoughts.

The lights and shadows flickered alternately, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Chuan was already in the wilderness, which was different from what Jing Xuan described about Xinshou Village. He didn't see any thatched cottages at all, only a hungry wolf baring its fangs.

The saliva dripped from the wolf's mouth, and the thin wolf's face was wrinkled with ferocious hills.

Lin Chuan seemed to have returned to the time when he lived in the wilderness. Before waiting for the hungry wolf to pounce on him, he took the initiative to rush up. Facing animals like wolves, he could only hope to survive if he behaved more aggressively.

Most lone wolves would hesitate when faced with an active attack from humans, but this one in front of them decisively rushed forward.

The attack method of a creature like a wolf is very simple. The first attack target is to bite the throat of the prey, but Lin Chuan has the advantage of height, coupled with the speed increase of Shunpo, at the moment the lone wolf leaps, Lin Chuan Chuan's elbow hit it on the head first.

Taking advantage of the lone wolf's pain, Lin Chuan firmly pressed it under his body, and tightened its throat with his forearm.

Not long after, the hungry wolf fell silent, and Lin Chuan finally had a chance to catch his breath.

It's just that after killing the hungry wolf, Lin Chuan didn't hear any system prompts, and nothing dropped from the wolf's body.

Lin Chuan got up and began to look for the system panel in his field of vision, but found nothing, no character attributes, no inventory, no system prompts, only a folded contact list in the lower right corner of the field of vision.

"Character panel? Item bar?"

Lin Chuan tried voice control again, but the system still didn't respond.

"I want to quit the game!"

The system finally jumped out of the prompt box.

[It is detected that the player is not in the safe area, are you sure to go offline (there is a risk of death)? 】

Lin Chuan clicked "No" helplessly, found a random direction, complained that the game was not playable at all, and started exploring the fairy world.

But Lin Chuan didn't realize that the ID on his head had already turned blue.

……

On the other side, Jingxuan returned to Xinshou Village with only a few thatched huts, with a white ID on his back "Punch to the Stomach". He walked straight to the village chief who was farming at the entrance of the village, and asked:
"Old man, do you have a task for me?"

"Ok?"

Yao Daqing frowned and glanced at Jing Xuan, subconsciously lingering on his bald head for a second, then shook his head.

"Then how do you get to the city?"

"Don't go, you can't get in without an identity."

Yao Daqing replied without raising his head, and then picked up his hoe, and let Jing Xuan say something beside him, but didn't speak again.

"I'll find it myself."

Jing Xuan suppressed all the swearing in depression, even though he was only an NPC, he would not swear at the old man.

He didn't know which birth point he was assigned to. In this dilapidated small village, there were all NPCs with blue names, and there was not a single player.

Seeing that there were all kinds of shouting and team formation in the regional channel, but he couldn't speak.

The bored Jing Xuan opened the inventory, dragged out the dead body of a brown bear, and laid it down on it as a natural sofa.

The hoe in Yao Daqing's hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, even if it hit his feet, he didn't react, he just stared blankly at the brown bear under Jing Xuan.

"This bear... you killed it?"

"Ah, this thing is quite resistant to beatings. I beat it for most of the night before killing it. If you don't want to, I can sell you. You see, this bear has a lot of meat on it, enough for you to eat several meals."

This was the first time that an NPC took the initiative to talk to Jing Xuan. He thought he had triggered some mission plot, so he stood up enthusiastically, like a hunter selling game, and began to sell the dead brown bear behind him to the village chief.

But before he finished speaking, Yao Daqing walked over with a hoe in his hand, with two lines of tears still hanging on his face.

"It's okay, don't be moved, it's all a matter of little effort, to eliminate harm for the people... eh!"

Before Jing Xuan could finish speaking, the hoe in Yao Daqing's hand made an afterimage and hit him directly on the head.

This is the setting that there is no pain in the immortal world, otherwise, this action would cast a psychological shadow on Jing Xuan.

"Should"

Jing Xuan, who had turned into a soul state, looked blankly at the word "should" in front of him, not understanding what happened at all.

[Resurrection Countdown 10.9.8.7...]

Ten seconds passed quickly, and the revived Jing Xuan reappeared in the center of the village. Yao Daqing, who had just killed him in seconds, was crying loudly while hugging the brown bear's body.

"My little Huanhuan..."

"Xiao Huanhuan?"

Question marks were written all over Jing Xuan's bald head, and Yao Daqing seemed to sense something, and turned his head around in an instant, staring at Jing Xuan with red eyes.

Without saying a word, the old man rushed forward with a hoe in his hand, the wrinkles on his face were full of murderous intent.

"Fuck!"

Jing Xuan saw that the hoe in Yao Daqing's hand sparkled on the ground, and turned around and ran away in fright.

But just as he turned around, the word "should" appeared in front of his eyes again...