Mikelson's vision went dark, and he immediately switched to the Players' perspective, wanting to see what exactly had happened!
"Ah~ Yes, yes, yes! This is the map I envisioned. How could getting the key to pass be so easy! Take the stairs? No stairs, just jump your way through!"
Tai Dao Xia, who couldn't manifest his beloved monsters as Bosses, had completely blackened. With an evil expression, he planned out the castle map.
"And there must be misleading clues. You think the key is below, but it's actually above. The elevator ceiling must have spikes; if you don't go down, they'll stab you to death!"
"There must be traps here! And here too!"
"Also, this main gate can only be opened from the other side!"
......
Looking at the Players' eerie smiles, Mikelson felt an inexplicable chill. He could only pray that Epsilon's adventurers wouldn't leave with psychological trauma from this castle.
"But what about the Boss guarding the pass?" Xiao De still felt a bit unsatisfied after circling the miniature map in his hand.
"Let's just use 【Megan】 for now! We don't have enough funds, so this will have to do!"
Yangde Ge responded, placing a small loli into the coffin where the key was stored.
"Yangde Ge, where did you get a loli from?"
"Data downloaded from the internet, haven't you heard of it? An e~vil~ loli!" Yangde Ge said, shaking his head and humming.
Xiao De hadn't heard of it, but that didn't stop him from thinking it was cool, so he started swaying along.
Mikelson, inside the tree core, covered his face as he watched the Players. He believed they absolutely wouldn't die, because they were all so lively...
After watching the Players' daily routine, Mikelson completely relaxed. He found an electronic tablet from the database imported by the Players.
Then he hugged his cat and lay back on the rocking chair. Usually, at this time, the small sapling should be sleeping.
But Mikelson wouldn't. This was the perfect age to get up and have fun!
Through the channel for summoning Players, Mikelson successfully connected to the Blue Star's network. Looking at the colorful videos on the screen, he couldn't help but shed tears.
Was he missing the days on Blue Star?
Of course not. It was just that Mikelson hadn't expected his leisurely time of raising a cat and vacationing to be achieved under such circumstances.
......
Unlike the Players' happiness and Mikelson's leisure, the "Crimson Flame Adventurer Guild" was filled with gloom and despair.
"Kansas! For bringing your young son, you've caused such great losses to the guild. Shouldn't you... show some sincerity?"
In the Guild Master's office, the Guild Master, Saines, a robust man, stood by the window, looking at the night outside, his tone very displeased.
Kansas Pulman, who was Xiao Pulman's father, was an elegant noble man with impeccably styled blonde hair. At this moment, his expression was calm as he slowly sipped the tea in his cup.
"Saines, it's not your place to question me. Don't forget who is providing you with funds. I haven't even brought up the fright Xiao Pulman suffered, and you have the nerve to speak..."
"You! ......"
Saines was speechless. He turned around and looked at Kansas with an extremely complex gaze, unable to tell what it contained.
He was a Level 5 adventurer, yet he still dared not confront the Level 4 Kansas directly. This was the influence of family background. He couldn't leave the Pulman family right now.
"Saines, think carefully. The guild isn't yours. Changing a Guild Master is just a word from me."
Kansas put down his teacup and stood up to straighten his clothes. "Alright, I still have many things to do. You think about it carefully."
Looking at Kansas's departing back, Saines' heart was filled with resentment.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly roared, "Get Black in here!"
Black, the warrior who led the team, had been waiting at the door for a long time. He timidly stepped into the Guild Master's office. What awaited him was the Guild Master's wrath!
"Why! You can't even do such a small thing! Why don't you go move bricks at the dock! I think you..."
Listening to the roaring voice that echoed throughout the guild, all the members were as silent as cicadas in winter, no one daring to step forward to dissuade or disturb him.
......
The farce at the Adventurer Guild had nothing to do with Mikelson, but the Players, who had worked hard all night, should log off.
"No way? It's already four in the morning! I still have to go to work tomorrow!" Xiao De glanced at the time, horrified to realize that he had been in the game for nearly 7 hours.
Yangde Ge, however, said indifferently, "It's just an all-nighter, totally normal! At worst, just take a day off tomorrow!"
"But I'm the boss! Opening the store every day is the only thing I can do for the company!" Xiao De looked utterly devastated, completely unaware of how impactful his words were!
"Logged off, logged off! How can there be such a shameless person in the world!" Yuān Shēn's face was filled with pain.
The others were much the same.
Wang Dana recalled his near-bankrupt streaming career, and his face was even more filled with grief and indignation. "I'm logging off too. I hope a certain big boss can make it to work at 8 AM tomorrow!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh ~ In a few sounds, only Yangde Ge and Xiao De remained. The two looked at each other, completely unable to understand what was wrong with the other three.
"What happened?" Yangde Ge looked bewildered.
"I don't know!" Xiao De looked doubly bewildered.
"Forget it ~ Xiao De. You have an early start, you should rest quickly!"
Xiao De nodded, "OK, then I'm off. What about you?"
"Don't worry about me!"
With another whoosh, on the verdant Thunder Cliff, only Yangde Ge remained.
Feeling a moment of peace, Yangde Ge's actions suddenly began to mutate. One moment he was rolling around on the grass, the next he was mimicking a maggot, burrowing everywhere.
It was truly a sight that made one's vision go dark.
......
Blue Star, Jin City, in a residential building along the river.
The virtual pod suddenly opened, and a large amount of life-sustaining gas diffused into the air, the mist creating a dreamlike, ethereal scene.
A girl's slender arm suddenly reached out from the virtual pod, then she propped herself up to sit.
"Huh? After playing for so long, my head isn't dizzy at all?"
The girl turned her head around, truly feeling no dizziness whatsoever. In fact, her brain was unusually clear.
Normally, no matter how realistic a virtual game was, after playing for a long time, a condition called "reality dissociation" would appear. Moreover, this symptom was particularly noticeable in helmet Players.
Someone once played continuously for 24 hours, mistook reality for the game, and directly fell to their death from a tall building.
Although virtual pods could avoid nearly 70% of the impact, playing for so long, it was impossible for there to be no reaction at all!
The girl climbed out of the virtual pod, stretching her arms and legs, moving her body. She was only wearing two small pieces of clothing, but she didn't care about it at all.
Instead, the game Abyss had piqued her full interest.
