I added points steadily in the age of gray fog

Chapter 1 Two Bowls of Pig’s Knuckle Noodles (New book for collection)

"Your father's surname is Feng, your mother's surname is Mei, and your name is Mei Feng."

"Uh, why isn't it called Feng Mei?"

"your mother died."

"???"

"He died when you were born. Your father disappeared not long after you were born. The people in the shelter gave you the name."

"...Well, it's the 'Orphanage Law' again."

"What did you say?"

"Uh nothing."

In the distant sky, the billowing gray fog billows and surges, and the drowsy sunset gently brushes past the towering "barrier" of the Far West, like a fireball about to fall into the boundless abyss.

Xiajiang City, a small noodle shop.

This small restaurant should be lively and steaming, but at this moment there are only two people sitting opposite each other, which is incompatible with the lively atmosphere of this street.

Outside the door of the restaurant, two rows of people stood apart. One row was wearing a suit but looked menacing, while the other was wearing a navy blue uniform. The arm of the uniform was a mechanical prosthetic body with a cold metallic luster.

In the back kitchen, the boss scooped up peanuts, pig's knuckles and broth and poured them on two large bowls of noodles. With a nervous expression on his face, he trot over and placed them on the table in front of a middle-aged man in a suit.

"You two's pig's feet noodles are ready, call me if you need them."

Beside the dining table, a middle-aged man was wearing an exquisite black suit, with broad shoulders and slender arms, a neatly tied tie, and deep eyes that made it impossible to guess his true intentions. Although he was not tall, his still eyes Brows always make people inexplicably feel that once raised, many people will bleed.

At this moment, he raised his hand and pulled out a pair of chopsticks, knocked on the dining table to align them, turned his head and asked with a smile to the leader of the group on the right outside the door in uniform:

"Captain Guo, do you want to eat something together?"

The man in uniform outside the door waved his hand, and said with an ugly face, "Mr. Cheng, it's getting late, don't make things difficult for us."

"I happened to meet my nephew, and we had a bowl of pork knuckle noodles together. Brothers from the Public Security Bureau, thank you for waiting an extra 2 minutes."

Cheng Qiang smiled, and after he finished speaking, he bowed his head like a coolie who had worked hard on the pier all day, and took a big mouthful of noodles, but there was a look of nostalgia on his face.

He looked up at the boy across from him, smiled and said, "What? Doesn't it suit your appetite?"

"Uh, it's okay."

Mei Feng nodded.

Since his soul traveled through this world, this was the first time he had personally come into contact with the nominal "Seventh Uncle" in front of him, the leader of the Xiajiang City Wangjiang Group and the Wangjiangmen Gang, but he felt a little sad in his heart.

The former owner of this body was also named Mei Feng.

Orphans raised in shelters.

The "seventh uncle" who came to join him a month ago was secretly a spy sent by a rebel army named "Heart of Steel" in the wilderness of the Assia Federation to get close to the middle-aged man in front of him, with the purpose of using the Wangjiang Group to manipulate him. A certain powerful politician who lives in the Jiangcheng City Hall is the handle, and at the same time, his seventh uncle arranged a "stable job" in the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau.

It sounds a bit messy, but in short, it is a proper way to force and beat workers.

Yesterday, Mei Feng had just received the urging from the online liaison officer of the rebel organization, asking him to take action to investigate the relevant information as soon as possible. He was worried about how to deal with the soul transmigrated.

Unexpectedly, the Wangjiang Group was seized by the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau today, and the man in front of him became the "outcast" of that politician, and he lost his job before his inexplicable second-five career even started.
What's next?
Return to organization?

What if the organization finds out that he is a counterfeit?
Life is really a big intestine wrapped in a small intestine,
Capricious.
Mei Feng shook his head, and asked out of the blue, "Uncle Qi, have we stopped cooking?"

The middle-aged man looked up at Mei Feng in surprise, as if he didn't expect this taciturn nephew Xiaozui to be so "talkative".

However, he did not answer this question immediately, instead he smiled and recalled slowly:
"More than 20 years ago, your mother and I had the thirteenth sister. That is, your seventh aunt, who grew up in a shelter named Sunflower in Xiajiang City. According to age, I was the seventh, your seventh aunt was the thirteenth, and your mother She is the youngest youngest sister."

"When you were young, your mother and Thirteenth Sister were very greedy for pig's feet noodles, so I ordered one." The middle-aged man pointed to the bowl with his chopsticks, and recalled without haste:

"Yaomei eats pig's feet, Shisanmei eats noodles, and I"

"Do you drink soup?" Mei Feng hurriedly answered.

"No, I'll have another bowl."

"."

The air seemed to be quiet for a moment.

The two looked at each other.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man let out a hearty laugh, shook his head and smiled wryly, "I was 11 years old that year, and every day when I woke up, I ran barefoot to the pier to help fishermen move things and do odd jobs until it was dark, and there was nothing in my stomach. The goods have no strength."

Gradually, the smile on the man's face gradually faded, and he turned his head to look at the majestic and stretching "Bright Barrier" in the distant sky and the weird gray mist outside the wall that seemed to be eternal.

"For thousands of years, the history of human beings has been a history of escape; for a hundred years, the history of human beings has been a history of lingering. There have been many times when human beings thought they had nowhere to go, but now we are still sitting here eating pig's feet noodles."

"All human wisdom lies in waiting and hope." Mei Feng interrupted suddenly.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man was slightly taken aback, with a look of approval on his face, "Why do you say that?"

"Maybe it's because I'm more stable."

Mei Feng nodded seriously, and said casually, "But I'm not someone who relies on hope to live. Waiting doesn't really matter to me. I prefer to move forward step by step by myself."

Never ask for "hope"?

The middle-aged man smiled, nodded empathetically, "That's true, 'hope' may not be a good thing for children who come out of the shelter, because once you have hope and expectation, the difficult and sad days It's just unbearable"

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man stared at Mei Feng suddenly and said, "However, this time, we can only wait."

Mei Feng raised his head and glanced at the other party when he heard this. Although the man didn't answer his question directly, he had already explained his current situation.

Hiding teeth and claws, waiting for a turning point.

call-!
However, Mei Feng was relieved, at least for the time being, he didn't have to worry about "unemployed" being recalled to reveal his secrets.

"You just said that you can move forward on your own. It sounds like you have a clear plan for the future? Would you mind telling me about your goal? To make a fortune or to get ahead?" The middle-aged man said with interest. The common desire of teenagers.

Mei Feng, who lowered his head and ate his face, couldn't help but startled when he heard the words. Even counting the more than 20 years of being bedridden in his previous life, it was the first time he was seriously asked about his "goals and life plans". He immediately returned to normal and said very naturally:
"I want a 'free' life."

"A free life?"

Hearing the words, the man took another look at Mei Feng. It seemed that he met the son of an old friend who came to join him from the satellite city next to Jiangcheng for the first time tonight. There is something called "nature knows no awe".

He smiled, shook his head and said, "In this day and age, the hardships and the price of freedom are much more than getting rich and getting ahead."

After all, the middle-aged man had finished eating the noodles, raised the bowl and drank the last sip of soup, put down the bowl and picked up the dark black bowler hat on the corner of the table.

"Thank you Captain Guo, let's go."

The middle-aged man waved his hand,

The younger brothers outside the door all dispersed after hearing the words.

At this moment, the last reddish afterglow slanting from the sky crossed the top of the "sky-reaching wall" and passed over the factory chimneys emitting black smoke and the dirty Dirty and dilapidated apartment buildings, streets full of sewage, people walking hurriedly with their heads bowed, and this restaurant in the lower city shrouded in bright red twilight.

Gradually, the sky was covered by a layer of dark gray-blue night.

The criss-crossing streets inside the city are lit up with dots of lights on both sides, extending like a vein from the upper river city to the lower river city separated by a river, from magnificent to gloomy. It extends to the end of the border river city inside the wall.

Under the dim light outside the restaurant.

The figure of the middle-aged man was elongated. He raised his hand and put on the dark black bowler hat. The lowered brim of the hat covered the man's deep eyebrows. Standing in the place where the light and shadow intersected, he waved to Mei Feng.

"Go home and tell Ranran and Aunt Thirteen.

It's getting dark, don't wander around. "

His voice drifted in the night, he turned his head and got into the car of the Public Security Bureau, and disappeared at the end of the road leading to Shangjiang City under the watchful eyes of the roadside boys and pedestrians.

Downtown, Ninth Street.

After returning to the residence, Mei Feng took a shower, came out and glanced at the empty living room, shrugging his shoulders involuntarily.

He has already brought the sentence that the middle-aged man I ran into tonight asked him to bring, but the "cousin" who is only one year older than him is obviously not a guy who waits for himself at this age-especially after awakening Yuan He became even more restless after becoming an extraordinary person and successfully taking office as Yuan Jianshi was admitted to the Ivy Academy in the upper city.

Gee!

A formally inaugural elemental power user.

Mei Feng licked his lips enviously.

He glanced at the sky under the night outside the window, and a large piece of pale green faint light, like the moonlight, sprinkled from the top of his head to the world-this is not some will-o'-the-wisp in the new world, but a kind of "origin force". The extraordinary power of "is also the "flame of hope" for human beings to fight against those indescribable and strange beasts in the gray fog.

Uh. Although the actual situation is retreating steadily, most of the land has been lost for thousands of years. It was not until 150 years ago that the barrier of light was built and humans hid in the barrier of light.

But there is a good saying.

The hymn of man is the hymn of courage,
The greatness of man is the greatness of courage.

Just the front.

Then follow the "network cable" to kill you!

Mei Feng couldn't help looking at the bracelet on her right wrist that glowed with a faint metallic light. The bracelet has an extremely complicated structure inside, and the signal components connected by two hair-like fine metal wires are attached to the human skin—this It is an identification device that every citizen of the Assia Federation in the Light Barrier can receive free of charge when they reach the age of ten.

It is also a necessary equipment for landing in "Yuanjing".

You know, if ordinary people want to become an official Yuanli user, for example, his cousin became an official first-order Yuanjian swordsman, they must log in to the "Yuanjing" and practice the Gathering Yuan breathing method with the skeleton in the gray fog Feedback to the main body, improve the main body's [Yuan Li value] to reach the first-level standard, and only after mastering professional skills with talent and understanding can you officially take up the job.

Some people here may ask, since the gray fog can condense energy, why not just smuggle through the barrier of light and go outside in the gray fog to practice the breathing method of gathering energy, isn't the efficiency greatly improved?

It is no genius who asks this question.

It is the desperadoes.

Smuggling to the world of gray mist, even if you surpass the seventh level, you will be eroded by the gray fog, lose control and fall into alienation until you die.

In other words, gray mist and Yuanli are like sea water and salt, and [Yuanjing] is the way of refining.Only by logging in to [Yuan Jing], can one safely and stably absorb Yuan power from the weird gray fog outside the barrier to achieve self-improvement.
Recalling all kinds of things about this world that this body has mastered, Mei Feng couldn't help but feel emotional.

——In history, the person who established the "fluid network" through the gray fog and developed the [Yuanjing] with the Asshai Federation 150 years ago is simply a genius. This can be said to be for all humans in the "post-escape era" in the barrier It is an epoch-making revolution.

Shaking his head, Mei Feng, who was lying on the sofa, stopped thinking about it and immediately opened the [Yuanjing] login bracelet.

[Welcome to Yuanjing, start scanning]

【Citizen Federal Number 284132344】

【Name: Mei Feng】

【Sex: Male】

【Age: 18】

[Citizenship Level: Level [-]]

[Assets: account balance: 991.21, total liabilities: 88700, 3998 should be repaid in this period, the latest repayment date is October 10, it will be automatically deducted from the bound personal account when it is due, and interest will be calculated if it is overdue]

[Yuanjing Code Name: The Man Like the Wind]

[The current physical condition is in line with the normal value, and the cardiopulmonary function is stable. It is recommended to log in in the default sleep mode and activate the emergency exit security protection]

【confirm】

【login countdown】

[ten, nine, eight, seven]

The soft female voice synthesized by the system rang in her ears, and with the countdown, Mei Feng only felt that her consciousness was gradually blurring.

【One】

It buzzed in my mind all of a sudden!

The picture in the field of vision was shattered inch by inch like a mirror, and then pieced together like an image reversed.

His consciousness is still awake.

But all the scenes in front of him have undergone earth-shaking changes. The room and the living room have turned into phantoms, and he is lying in a box similar to a space capsule. In front of him is a mirror. A very dark-haired young man.

Mei Feng clicked his tongue lightly in his heart!
Seven or eight points are so handsome, if it is a perfect replica, it will be fine.

But we have to keep a low profile, right?
In Yuanjing, the gender and biological age cannot be changed, and the appearance cannot be adjusted up or down by more than 50%. You will need to purchase additional equipment for Yiku, but [Growing Equipment] can be powered by loading the Yuan Core, and the combat power does not depend much on your own Yuan Power, so you don’t need to spend time soaking in the Yuan Realm every day to absorb Yuan Power .

Mei Feng raised his hand and clenched his fist, feeling that he was in this complete prosthetic body called "Yi Hai". Even though he had entered many dimensions, the feeling of being as flexible as using his arms and fingers still made him feel a little It is magical, and it gives him a sense of reality that is far better than those living man-made humans seen in a play called [Western World] in his previous life, catching up with the big Smurf Avatar.

Hmm. It’s just that Temiao’s is too expensive.

Mei Feng is now carrying a small loan of [-] yuan, which is not a mortgage, but the former owner of this body, that cheating man who manipulated the free corpse provided by the government for the first time to die suddenly in Yuanjing, and purchased the paid corpse for the second time. The "interest-free installment loan" provided by the government and the Ma family consortium.

Of course, there will be no interest-free overdue.

This directly caused Mei Feng's current salary to evaporate directly into the card, and he had to move bricks in Yuanjing every month to barely maintain the "balance of income and expenditure".

It's so fucked!
Shaking his head, Mei Feng pushed open the lid of the [Skeleton Room] and walked out of the warehouse.

The moonlight above the head is exceptionally bright, and what comes into view is a gray fog camp transformed from an abandoned town. This is one of the few safe havens for adventurers in Yuanjing in the world of gray fog——Federal citizens manipulated skeletons to log in and go offline at the camp , gathering, trading, issuing employment tasks, etc. can also safely and quickly mail the items obtained by the adventure back to the barrier.

See, hear and feel!
Everything is so clear and real, as if this is a real world.

In fact.
This is indeed a real world!
The world of gray mist outside the "Bright Barrier"!

At this time,

Without warning!
There was a slight flicker in the night above Mei Feng's eyes, and a huge information bar appeared.

Rows of green text slowly formed in the void, and the same mechanical female voice as when I just logged in to [Yuanjing] came from my ears.

[Congratulations to "Single Shadow" for completing all the exploration of the forbidden area [B-23-Paradise Lost] in the middle-danger zone of the dark zone. This area will return to normal after 097 days of isolation and observation, and will no longer be included in the restricted area at that time.]

The announcement was repeated three times in a row.

Obviously, Mei Feng is not the only one who can see this huge flashing bulletin board.

In the blink of an eye, the noisy voices of people around disappeared, and then a burst of heated discussions erupted.

"Damn it! Who's so hung up on 'Paradise Lost'?"

"Tsk tsk, I remember that the forbidden area sent away a lot of people."

"It's so sour! It's a B-level forbidden area. Maybe there are forbidden objects."

"Don't be sour. Shan Renying is one of the top ten rookies. If he really gets a B-level forbidden item, he might move up the ranking."

"."

This scene did not bring too many surprises to Mei Feng. When he logged in [Yuanjing] for the first time more than a month ago, he was indeed a little stunned. Now he has regarded this as similar to the "full server announcement" in the previous game. kind of stuff.

It has nothing to do with him anyway.

He has more important things.
The land of no light.

The edge of Camp 57 in low-risk Area 02.

Whoops!

The sharp wind howl suddenly sounded, and the shrill screams came and went one after another in the strange and turbulent gray fog.

Accompanied by the last slap in the face, "die"!
In the next instant, a monster with an oval body, about half the height of a human being, and a dark green-covered monster with a tuft of brown-red hair on its head flew upside down from the gray mist, hit the ground with a bang, and rolled. for a few laps.

In the faint gray mist, a figure with a cold face, Yuan Tingyue stood upright with a stick.

Time does not know how long has passed.

next second.

laugh-!
People passing by from the camp nearby laughed.

"Look! That bullying king is here again."

"Is this what you mean by 'Chuchu killer'?"

"What is he doing? Concave shape?"

"He seems to think he's handsome."

"I'm dying of laughter, this guy has killed the Qiuqiu people here for a month."

"How much is Qiuqiu's wool worth? This guy is either stupid or crazy."

"It may also be pure timidity, hahaha."

"."

Mei Feng listened to the undisguised discussions around her, but her expression didn't change at all. The corner of her mouth smiled "evilly", but a subtle floating battle message appeared in the corner of her eyes.

[You killed a 0-level Qiuqiu man, and gained experience +1]

Gan!
Dog system, give me rough. Come on!
What Mei Feng calls is naturally not the basic setting in "Yuan Jing", in fact "Yuan Jing" does not have this function.

With a slight thought, a character attribute panel was directly displayed in the depths of his mind in a very bizarre way.

【Grey mist assistant】

【Name: Mei Feng】

【Race: Human】

[Inherent Talent: Double Split]

[Panel Talent: Scouting, Eye of Breaking Barriers]

[Level: Lv9 (4396/5000)]

【Essence value: 356 (can be obtained by upgrading)】

[Current title: Level [-] citizen of the Yaxia Federal Government (standard consumables)]

【Personal attributes】

[Agility: 9]

[Physical: 7]

【Wisdom: 7】

【Spirit: 7】

【Will: 4】

[Special attribute. Luck: 1]

[Banned Sequence Ability: None]

[Knowledge and skills: Yaxia Federation language (proficient), mechanical maintenance (beginner), car technology (beginner), ninth set of federal poly-element breathing technique (beginner), cooking (beginner)]

[Affinity of elemental force attributes: wind, fire, water, earth, thunder, light and darkness. (0)]

[Free attribute points: 0 (currently each upgrade rewards two free attribute points)]

[Saved experience value: 0]

[Optimization point: 0 (obtainable by completing tasks)]

[Skill Point: 0 (acquired by completing missions)]

[Special Reward Items: None (obtainable after completing the mission)

[Xiaozhu Ruiping: With all due respect, you only account for the first two of the four characters of quack killing]

Mei Feng glanced at his level experience.

Lv9(4396)
According to the law of experience value that has hardly changed in the past month, he only needs to kill 604 more Qiuqiu people to rise to Lv10, and his heart is full of motivation!
what?
You asked Mei Feng why he didn't go farther outside the camp, take risks in the thicker gray fog or practice [Energy Gathering Breathing Technique]?
Not to mention the high cost of each [Yiku] in the Assia Federation, and the lost parts after death in the gray mist, just the spiritual protection cooling time of the Yiku that cannot log in to Yuanjing again for a month after death makes it impossible for the Yike to re-enter Yuanjing once again. The loss of unnatural death is significant.

These dangers add up.

Mei Feng wasn't crazy.

Why take the risk?
Is it safe to venture out and eat low-fi here?

And get experience.

That's right, Mei Feng discovered it by accident the first time she logged into [Yuan Jing].
Accompanied by his soul transmigration into this world of gray mist, there is actually the modifier "Little Assistant of Gray Fog", a small survival game similar to "Famine" that he played lying on the bed in his previous life.

It is different from other transcendents who have awakened their energy.

Others ventured farther away from the camp in the thicker gray fog, some to kill higher-level weird beasts to obtain precious materials and the energy source [yuan core] necessary for metagenerators, and some for the sake of the predecessors in the great retreat. The secret skills such as high-level sword shapes and spells left behind, or the strange forbidden places and forbidden objects accompanied by huge dangers and huge rewards
Of course, there is the most important point, the denser the gray fog in the area outside the barrier, the more energy that can be absorbed by the energy gathering breathing technique for the body inside the barrier, so almost all the members of the Asshai Federation who have reached the age of ten The one-year-old citizens will leave the safe zone on the edge of the camp soon after entering Yuanjing.

exploration and adventure,
The eternal theme of the gray fog world for more than 100 years.

Because for humans in this era, Yuanjing only provides a platform without any redundant auxiliary functions.

This is a "real and weird" gray fog world, and it is a protracted exploration and counterattack of the "homeless people" struggling in this once lost homeland!
But for Mei Feng, who has [Grey Mist Assistant] in this world of soul wear, Yuanjing is more like a large-scale simulation game-killing monsters can gain experience, gaining experience can level up, upgrading can improve Fixed element force value and provide two additional free attribute points
Of course, he can also choose to take risks like others, jump repeatedly between life and death, and accept the brutal beatings of the world of gray fog. Perhaps the extreme environment may also promote his rapid growth.

But not robust enough.

So Mei Feng chose to give up this option.

Mei Feng, who suffered from myasthenia gravis in her previous life and was unable to move all over her body, lay on the ceiling at night and played Go with herself for more than 20 years, understood the importance of stability.

Only occasionally in some cases, what he understands as "stable" deviates "a little" from ordinary people.

But at least now Mei Feng raised his head and looked at the increasingly thick gray fog with a visibility of less than 50 meters in the distance of the camp. It was like a thick veil covering the world outside the barrier. There seemed to be countless hidden places beyond the reach of vision. An indescribably strange beast.

He suddenly took a deep breath, and turned on the active skill [Eye of Breaking Barriers] among the two talents on the panel.

In an instant, ordinary newcomers only have a field of vision that is only 50 meters away in this gray fog, which suddenly expands ten times, and it jumps to 500 meters. Putting it in a small survival game is equivalent to opening ten fields of vision to the surroundings in an instant .

At this moment, Mei Feng could even see the silhouettes of those adventurers who had just laughed at him a few hundred meters away. As they went deeper into the gray fog, their visibility became less and less, and their faces were filled with nervous expressions of fear, as if they were afraid of jumping somewhere. An indescribable primordial beast pounced on it
Alas, I really envy these people's exciting and thrilling trip to the gray fog.

not like him.
Monotonous and boring.
Mei Feng shook his head, turned around, and waved the big stick again towards the head of a Qiuqiu man not far away.

[You killed a 0-level Qiuqiu man, experience value +1]

Give yourself a small goal first, kill 10 to rise to Lv[-].

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