Spoiler (BL) Infinite Game by SISIMO - QT, "Game" system, not counterattack

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  1. sleepingjay

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    - Starting with action immediately! (I love SISIMO) Demons/evil sects (MTL: magic door) are laying siege to an ancient Chinese border city. The people of the city are worried that if this border town fails, other towns behind are unprepared and will fall.

    - Suddenly someone shouts “What’s there to fear about the demon/evil sects!” Five horses come rushing. One of them is a young man wearing white – Chu Gongzi (I forgot what this meant. Young Master?) – and riding a black horse.

    - The rest are one tall and strong young man, and three beautiful girls.

    - Once at the city walls, the rest stops but Chu Gongzi rides into the enemies with his weapon (MTL: a long and heavy flagpole – guandao? Polearm?)

    - Two of the girls take out huge bows (longbows?) and assist him. One shot fired six arrows in an instant. Even though the two girls are petite, the force when they pull and release the bows are ridiculously powerful and strong.

    - The other girl, with a cold face, also rushes into the battle with a long sword.

    - The last one, the young man stands on the wall and releases a strange yellow powder
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    - Ding Dong! Complete Main mission rescue the Tian Yi Union, destroy the evil sects. System rewards honor points and asks Shi Chu (MC) to choose whether to return now or 3 days later

    - SC is relieved that the task is finished. Fortunately, there was still a resistance force led by the righteous force against the evil sects, so the task wasn't too difficult. This time the mission lasted for 8 years. The main mission and side quests both gave a lot of honor points rewards.

    - After so many crossings, his tasks have been getting harder and harder, and upgrading his title too. His honor title is still stuck at “White Knights”(?), he hasn’t been able to go up to “Wulin League Lord”

    - Returning back to the real world, he picked up his mobile phone and looked at the game. The number next to his avatar had changed – it’s 10, he’s levelled up.

    - But in this so-called “game”, the levels have no use anyway.

    - But when he clicked on his character icon, he saw something that had never been shown before – a list of players. There’s no ID, only the game number and honor title.

    - Only six players are still bright out of 100. The rest are grayed out. SC himself knows how dangerous this “game” is. Most of the gray names are stuck at beginner titles.

    - The game congratulates SC on unlocking new features. He can now use the team mechanism! The next worlds will now be random worlds, and no longer just martial arts worlds.

    - SC goes to the redemption page to exchange his points for weapons, medicine, skills, etc.

    - Then he leaves the woods he’s in to go back to the dormitory

    - His roommates chat with him casually. He’s been gone for 8 years, but in this world it was only 8 hours. His friends all think he just went off to class/part-time work.

    - SC looks out the window and sees a guy, Zhang Zong Rui. Handsome, tall, strong eyebrows, etc etc. SC thinks that if he’s more like that guy, maybe the tasks would be easier to do.

    - ZZR is SC’s ex. They were boyfriends since school, for 4 years. For ZZR, it was only 2 years since they broke up in high school, but for SC it’s been almost dozens of hundred years.

    - SC wishes he could stay in this peaceful campus life. Especially since if he dies in those worlds, he’d die in the real world, disappearing without a trace.

    - SC goes swimming at the campus pool. The girls sigh over him lol. Apparently happens every time. SC is thin and looks slender because he’s very tall (180cm), but once he takes off his clothes, his beauty value goes way up, yada yada

    - There’s a guy beside the pool painting with an easel, girls surrounding him. Fu Xi. He’s from the neighbouring top art college. Not only is his background rich and famous in the artistic community, but even his own paintings can sell for a lot. His appearance is like a prince.

    - FX has been coming to the pool every time SC swims, for over a year. FX wants SC as his model.

    - When SC comes out of the pool, he ignores FX and goes to change. His mobile phone has a notification from the game – the countdown to the next world is 21 days, shorter than the usual 1 month.

    - Going back to the dorm, he passes by the basketball court. ZZR just did a slam dunk to the cheers of the audience. SC just smiles – he cherishes this quiet campus life and doesn’t have the energy to be bothered about the broken love.

    - SC tells his roommate (who went with him to the pool) to invite everyone to hotpot, and leaves. He doesn’t notice ZZR looking at him from afar.
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    Welp. This is going to be a pretty detailed spoiler i guess. because i have zero self-control
     
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    FFAx27 Seeking Enlightenment

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    - The countdown approaches. SC exchanges honor points for a knife skill (“Wind Jade Knife”)

    - He’s very realistic. All the skills and weapons he bought are more towards a close-combat/knives (MTL: close-knit path of the fist-handed finger) because they’re cheaper, efficient, and suitable for hiding. If he doesn’t have an obvious weapon, people are less likely to be wary of him and he has better chances of escape.

    - The swordsman is cool but too dangerous, so he gave up on it from the start. Also, in case the next world is really not martial arts, the knife skill he bought would be less conspicuous.

    - Just when he’s about to cross to that world, the game notifies him that another player will be entering the same world, does he want to form a team?

    - SC is about to refuse. After crossing so often, he doesn’t trust easily. Even if the other person’s title is “White Robe Priest”, which sounds like he's in the same righteous/justice/good camp like him (SC)

    - However, the other person already accepted. SC worries that if he rejects now, what if the other person makes trouble for him in this world? He reluctantly accepts.

    - He’s transported to the mission world. It’s a normal, modern world. SC is in a mall. He finds his mobile phone is still with him – weird, because it always disappeared in the martial arts world he went to before.

    - But his contact list is empty except one – his party member. He calls and is shocked… because a familiar person walked into his sight, holding up a phone to his ear. His party member is ZZR, SC’s ex-bf.

    - They awkwardly sit in a cinema for a long time. They chose the cinema to avoid awkwardness but obviously didn’t work lol. The silence and stilted convo continued until they started talking about the mission. However, they don’t know what the task is. It’s the first time the task hasn’t been released immediately after entering the world.

    - When they go out and walk around the mall, they see a TV on display. The news is in real-time: a comet might hit the earth. They suspect the radiation from the comet after hitting the earth might be the problem related to the task, so they find a place with good sky view to observe.

    - They go through the mall to a connected skyscraper. SC easily breaks the metal lock to the roof. ZZR is shook HAHAHA

    - The comet arrives. There’s a sudden solar eclipse, and black and red “meteors” falling down like rain. There’s sounds of thunder and something like rain? A drop of “rain” fall on the roof they’re on and melts the slab of concrete, forming a hole.

    - Looking closer, the meteors aren’t meteors at all. They’re monsters, black and dark red, 2m tall, scales, no eyes, suckers on their limbs like lizards, etc.

    - Suddenly the mobile phone shakes. The game tells him to choose summon partners.

    - These partners option is only open when he’s in a mission world. They’re not really NPCs, but rather “crossers” forced to traverse when he summons them. They're people from worlds he has been to.

    - One time, MC bought an expensive Master as a partner, the guy wasn’t happy being forced to transmigrate and blew himself up (to return back to his world) so it was a waste of points :blobrofl: The system has some restrictions placed on the summoned partners, but they’re still not completely obedient to the players, so SC has to choose carefully to avoid getting a pig teammate.

    - The game also warns that players can’t have emotional relations with the summoned partners, so all this time SC has only ever summoned 7 female and 1 male. Because it’s impossible for him to bend again to become straight hahaha.

    - Limit of summons is 4 per world

    - SC and ZZR discuss their abilities. SC is martial arts stream, while ZZR is Western fantasy stream. MC is combat-oriented with high attack value (DPS). ML, despite his title "White Robe Priest", is a combat priest. He can still heal general injuries, but he can’t do anything about fatal injuries. But one of his summons is a pure light priest.

    - The task is released. Time limit: 3 years, Task: Save the world.

    - No other details HAHAHA. ML and MC: …………………….. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    (I choked on my Boba too honestly. But from laughter hahahaha.)

    - SC chooses his summons. 2 lively teenage twin girls, feathers in their hair accessories, simple clothes. They’re nomads (MTL: from Central Plains).
    Name: Zhen Jia, Shu LouSha (idk why their names are different, maybe they don't use family names?)

    - SC chose them because… packaging = 30% discount

    - Although their characters are a bit worrisome when SC was in their world (white lotus sadistic villains), but after summoning they’re super loyal to SC.

    - Next one is a woman slightly older than the girls, calm and frosty face, white dress. In her world she was very famous as a strong but beautiful warrior. Also, during the dangerous plot, she was the one most courageous to fight against the enemies while her brother ditched their family. She’s also the strongest of his summons. And most expensive.
    Name: Cheng Qiu Yan

    - Last one is more mediocre-looking, simple clothing, but looks very gentle and reliable. Almost 30-years old. She specialises in hidden weapons and secret/assassin techniques (MTL: side-by-side techniques :blobneutral:). Also very experienced in the Jianghu, reliable for living in the wild, thoughtful.
    Name: Fang Yuyue

    - On ZZR’s side, he has 1 woman, 2 men, 1 little boy.

    - In order: Iris, the light priest. Arthur, ice-fire elemental magician, very short-tempered. Kay, a half-elf, good with bows, some proficiency with wood and wind magic, affinity with nature. Lance, the Church’s fighting angel, not a real person but a weapon made to deal with the Mage Association, good at magic.

    - The summons are all shocked at the new world. Athur says WTH in English lol. ZZR scolds him, and Arthur changes to Mandarin and complains that he was pulled when he was studying a new spell. Apparently ZZR has summoned them very often and taught them Mandarin as a code language. (SC is grateful. His English grades sucked.)

    - One of the alien monsters land on their roof. Some terrified civilians run up from the mall to avoid the monsters downstairs. The monster immediately runs towards these people.

    - SC runs to try and defend them, but he has no large weapons. SLS throws him her giant axe.

    - SC manages to stop the monster, but couldn’t even scratch it. The monster is thrown back but lands easily. But now it’s irritated and screams.

    - The people SC saved…. Are idiots. They calmed down after seeing SC stopping the monster and one started TAKING A VIDEO WITH HIS MOBILE PHONE. ZZR gets angry and tells them to run off quickly and not waste SC’s efforts.

    - Suddenly another monster comes up to the roof from the previous hole made by the strange rain.
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    - Another monster appear at the back of the civilians, biting onto a woman. These people finally panic again, but the escape is blocked by the alien. They all try to rush out of the narrow rooftop door instead, trampling each other.

    - CQY cuts off the wall next to the door so everyone isn’t trapped.

    - SC’s axe has broken into 2 pieces, though the alien can’t catch him. They’re in a stalemate

    - Kay notices something, so ZZR looks over the roof and sees a bunch of aliens climbing on the building’s walls. ZZR realises that the scream the first alien gave just now was a cry for help – these aliens have wisdom!

    - While SC’s summons fight the other aliens on the roof, Arthur forms an ice bridge to the next building to let the civilians escape.

    - When the climbing aliens reach the roof, most of the people has escaped, except two people (one man, one woman) haven't and don't seem to want to escape. The bridge crumbles and disappear.

    - SC is struggling with the alien with only the axe handle, which is also broken in half. He hasn’t been able to injure it at all. The alien opens its mouth to eat him, but SC takes the chance to slam the broken handle into its mouth. The alien twitches a few times, so SC holds the alien up like a piece of skewered meat. The alien dies.

    - SC yells that the weakness is the mouth. ZZR: “…….” Not only the alien opens its mouth only when trying to eat, but also how many people are even fast enough to take that opening??? Plus, inside the mouth there are still flower-like things that protect the vulnerable part!

    - The summons have backpacks like the players (although only 3 grids instead of players' 6 grids). So, the twin girls… have a whole set of giant axes. They take out more axes and rush to fight the aliens.

    - Since the ice bridge is broken, they retreat into the mall instead. Kay shoots an arrow into the mouth of another alien. Lance is also using magic, his hands glowing.

    - When everyone’s inside, they go to the lift since the stairs are blocked by aliens. SC is the last one to get inside, he even grabbed a mop handle to kill one more alien

    - ZZR asks the two civilians that stayed behind why they didn’t go with the rest. The man (Lin Xiyuan) says it seemed safer to go with them, especially since they didn’t seem like bad people (their group didn’t hesitate to save them after all).

    - The other, a woman, is Zhang Huihui. These two were having a blind date lunch when this happened.

    - ZZR chooses the 4th floor to get normal clothes for their group. However the lift loses power and starts falling down. Arthur uses ice magic to stabilise the lift. They’re stopped midway between floors. SLS uses her axe to pry open the lift doors.

    - The man (LXY) is almost bitten by an alien while looking out of the opening, but he was pulled back by SC. ZJ kills the alien through the opened mouth.

    - The woman (ZHH) recognises the floor as 5th floor.

    - They go out, SC tells the two to stay inside first since it’s safer. Suddenly LXY asks them to give him the alien body. He’s a researcher on mutated creatures and has never seen this kind of sample. SC and ZZR realises that he may be a key figure for their mission.

    - ZHH scolds him, saying there’s so many of these aliens on the road. Is he going to drag this one all the way back to the institute? But then she says, “But it’s ok to take blood samples first,” and takes out two test tubes from her bag. :blobrofl: She’s a forensic doctor.

    - They go out. The whole floor is empty. On the 4th floor, there’s nobody either, because the aliens eat the humans whole, including even their clothes. But their belongings like bags etc are strewn all over.

    - While the summons change clothes, SC helps ZHH collect the blood sample. Unfortunately, the alien is very stiff and hard after death, including even the mouth. When SC uses internal force, it directly breaks the alien corpse, as if it’s made of stone.

    - LXY is injured, but ZZR doesn’t dare to heal him because they’re still not sure what’s going on. If the government shows up to control the situation, they’ll be in trouble if they’re too showy. So ZHH gives him first-aid instead.

    - All of the summons pick simple clothes that are easy to move in, except Arthur who wanted a fancy complicated one. ZZR coldly tells him that it’s a woman’s dress :blobsweat_2:.

    - They’re contemplating how to get out when ZHH asks FYY to accompany her to the restroom. FYY still has her gentle smile on but is confused, what’s a washroom/restroom? Is it literally to… wash her hands? But SC gives her the go-ahead so she goes.

    - ZHH finds survivors. Three terrified women who had been hiding in the toilet. They see that there are other survivors, even many women and “middle-school children” younger than them (the twins, whose hair have been re-styled to look more normal by SC’s other summons) and relaxes.

    - The group decides to go to the underground parking lot through the lift chute. The civilian women are scared, but FYY continues to be a chick magnet and soothes them haha

    - While the twins, ZHH and LXY have climbed down the lift rope, the women are still hesitating, even asking if maybe they can go up to the rooftop and wait for rescue helicopters. The aliens from the rooftop suddenly drop down from potholes in the roof. SC rushes them to go.

    - He grabs the tallest woman and jumps down the chute. FYY and CQY also grabs a woman each and follow.

    - ZZR is the last to go – he raises a sceptre that suddenly appeared in his hand and blasts the floor(?) and knocked down the entrance to the lift on this level.

    - In the underground parking lot, there are very little alien left. Most of them went to upper floors, where there are more prey – showing they have wisdom.

    - SC keeps using mops to kill aliens xD

    - They find ZHH’s car, but it’s small. SC picks up a fallen car key and get another, bigger car. Besides ZHH, only one of the rescued girls can drive, though she’s only got her license for a month.

    - ZHH’s car: ZHH, LXY, twin sisters (SLS, ZJ), Iris, Lance

    - Other car: 3 women, Arthur front seat, everyone else

    - ZZR tell the girl not to drive with lights. SC uses special skill to tell the twins to tell ZHH to not turn on the lights either, but Iris speaks first. Obviously ZZR and his summons also has communications skill.

    - One of the girls keep whining to send them back to their university, but the other two are silent and doesn’t agree with her. She asks SC to drop them off at the university. It must be on the way to their destination right? SC and ZZ decide to stop first and figure out directions to LXY’s institute, etc.

    - After discussing, there’s suddenly a police car, blaring sirens (like idiots, considering the aliens don't have eyes and use hearing). The whining girl want to run to the police. One of her friends hold her back because what if they’re not actually police? (smart girl)

    - SC immediately tells everyone to get in and escape. An alien drops on the police, but doesn’t discover them since they hadn’t turned on the lights. The siren also covers up any sound they make.

    - They drive to the suburbs (where the institute is) from the city centre (the mall). The girls recognise that the road they’re on is near to their university.

    - ZHH’s car suddenly stops. She ran out of oil. The other car also stops. Because ZHH drove like crazy, and the girl following her isn’t as skilled, the car she’s driving kept bumping/crashing into stuff and is now broken.

    - LXY suggests they go to the university, he has a colleague working there, and it’s dangerous walking at night. The smart girl also invites them to go with them to the university. It’s a big and important place, so the government forces might be there.

    - But ZHH refuses. SC gives the girls some of FYY’s daggers, then they walk off, leaving the girls near the campus.
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    I updated the character list btw
     
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    - Because the way to the institute is too remote and quiet, as they walk through the woods ZHH started chatting with LXY.

    - She doesn’t know that SC is actually chatting with his summons through their skill.

    - The summons are asking him all kinds of questions about this new world. The twins are asking about interesting things like cars, skyscrapers, etc. Meanwhile FYY and CQY are focused on the university the girls talked about, and the schooling system in this world, and how women can also enroll.

    - SC thinks that ZZR is also probably chatting like this with his summons.

    - SC thinks back to when he first found this “mobile game” system. He was 17. He almost didn’t survive the 3-months trial game. The next one was 3 years, then 5, then 8, etc. Because of his fear of the game, his temper became worse and worse. They quarreled, hurt e/o, and broke up.

    - When they reach the barbed wire gate around the institute, LXY notices that the entrance is a bit weird. ZZ says there are aliens there, so they jump over the barbed wires.

    - The group split. SC and Kay stay behind outside to clean up after the aliens + take a sample for LXY, while the rest goes on to the building.

    - ZZR lends SC a sceptre. Arthur recognises it from his world – it’s a famous weapon blessed by the moon goddess. ZZR doesn’t use it often because it’s too flashy.

    - Meanwhile, the researchers in the underground buildings of the institute are observing the outside using cameras. They’re horrified to see people who can run rampant against these aliens. The institute has security guards with guns, but after one of them died, the head researcher immediately shut off all exits. They follow the cameras and see a tiny teenage girl (one of the twins) chasing and then punching an alien, who gets yeeted into the air.

    - They continue watching until someone says that LXY is back! The head researcher (Professor Hu) complains about him going out today of all days. Even a fairy-like girl is not worth it! Then he turns around and sees LXY standing next to the girl he’s complaining about lmao.

    - ZZR and the rest comes in with a dead alien, offering it to the institute as a sample. The professors are immediately excited and ask if they can bring in a live sample. (…:facepalm:) LXY reassures ZZR that they’ve worked with worse creatures and have the means to hold them.

    - Meanwhile, SC has cleaned up all the aliens outside. Even though they’ve only managed to eat one human, strangely there are quite a lot in this area. Turns out these aliens even eat trees once they’re hungry enough!

    - SC uses special equipment from the institute to catch a live alien.

    - SC tries to give back the sceptre ZZR lent him, but ZZR refuses. SC is a bit annoyed because they're not so close he can easily accept ZZR's things.

    - The institute people are super happy with their help and prepare a large meal for their group. They only have pre-frozen meat since the institute is so remote, but their warehouse contain enough supplies for months. Their vegetables are fresh because some of the workers who stay there got bored and planted vegetables, so their supply come from their planting. Although the fields outside are ruined by aliens, they still have greenhouses.

    - SC and ZZR exchange resources. Protective enchanted items from ZZR, martial arts skills from SC. But they can only exchange basic items they bought from the game store, not high-level ones. E.g. the sceptre ZZR lent SC. It’s a high-level magic weapon for a combat priest, but in SC’s hands it can only be a wear-resistant javelin.

    - Although SC can give the martial art skill-books, they still have to learn it themselves. SC can easily learn the high-level skills he bought before the game because of his high internal force, but others may have problems, since they need to cultivate their internal force.

    - They decide to investigate the outside world. Only CQY and Iris is left behind in the institute. Iris because they don’t want to expose her healing ability, and CQY because she’s strong enough to counter any sudden danger.

    - They don’t use a car. They’re much faster without the two civilians (LXY, ZHH). If there’s no ZZR, they could move even faster hahaha

    - They drop by the university. It’s too quiet. For such a large target, how could there be no aliens? There are no traces of mess like there was in the mall i.e. dropped belongings. There are potholes from the aliens though. They feel like they’re being watched, but can’t find anyone.

    - They go the gym/stadium. In the sports storage room, they find brand-new javelins. SC immediately returns ZZR’s spear lol. He takes the pile for himself, and some others. When he offers to Lance, the little boy refuses and holds up his hand, purple thunder spears appearing in a flash. SC.: .. ok

    - When they want to go out, there’s an alien blocking the door. Many more (hundreds) behind it in the gym.

    - SLS laughs and destroys the storage room wall with her stone hammer.

    - SC feels cold. These aliens not only have basic intelligence, but also wise enough to use strategies and may have some knowledge of humans – they emptied out the campus to bait people, using this university as their base to wait for their prey to come.
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    i now have 70 pages written down in my computer.... what did i commit myself to..... :blobdizzy:
     
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  7. Shizun

    Shizun 《Jack of all trades》《Artist/Author》《Dao of BLedia》

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    to spoil us rotten <3 ty for the spoilers. Finally someone found a bl novel that describes very closely to what ive been looking for months.
     
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    - SC believes there must be survivors here, but there’s no way they can hold on for long.

    - More worryingly, their mission has a time limit of 3 years. Besides the tutorial mission, the mission’s difficulty relates directly to the time limit (3, 5 or 8 years). The shorter it is, the more difficult. If they don’t finish the task in time, they are deducted by 4000 points, and if they don’t have enough points they’re erased.

    - Arthur is pissed off at being surrounded – it reminds him of being surrounded by the Church. He shoots off a flame spell and destroys the roof.

    - Lance grows white wings and grab ZZR, flying up. Kay uses wind magic to bring himself and Arthur up. The rest uses martial arts light work (qing gong).

    - However, there are two aliens waiting for them on the roof. Lance avoids them, and ZZR uses a halo control spell to constrict them until everyone gets out safely. The aliens break out of the spell and scream to summon help.

    - FYY and SLS uses the javelin to kill the aliens. SLS complains that the javelin is too light – she’s used to her giant axe, which is hundreds of kg. FYY is fine since she’s used to light weapons and has great accuracy, though her piercing force isn’t as strong.

    - They start killing the aliens below. Arthur puts ice on the wall, so that the aliens can’t use suction (lizard limbs) to climb easily. Lance kills aliens with his thunder spears, ZZR and Kay are using bows. ZZR’s bow uses light magic for strings and arrows, so he has endless amount of arrows.

    - Suddenly, they find that there are two cars parked at the university gate. More survivors had arrived without them realising. The aliens obviously know which group is easier prey.

    - They abandon the aliens they’re fighting and rush to the gate. SC and FYY reaches first, but it’s too late. The new arrivals had already been eaten.

    - Meanwhile, there are survivors in the campus. A boy peeking through a telescope sees them flying and freaks out over them having abilities.

    - There are 4 boys. Their dormitory is very out of the way, in a corner, with only a small window and no balcony. But this saved their lives. They blocked the door with furniture and managed to survive.

    - They argued about whether to contact the “group of masters/experts” the boy with telescope saw, and argued about abilities etc. One of them felt weird: he was scratched by an alien, but it healed over quickly. Maybe he had an ability?

    - At this time, SC received bad news from CQY. Prof Hu tested the alien gene – it’s very aggressive and active. Anyone injured by them are highly likely to be infected!

    - They won’t look like the aliens, but those infected will have the infected cells spreading cancerously – until they become as distorted and hungry as the aliens.

    - LXY was infected and tried to eat ZHH’s arm. The Prof locked him up. He still has his consciousness. He keeps pleading to let him out, that he will not commit anything else. He was just… hungry, and directly ate ZHH’s arm.

    - SC wonders if he’s really still human. It’s very different from his normal personality – he’d been very gentle and academic before. Prof Hu says his blood shows he’s still human, but they can’t test further to see if he’s really infected.

    - Iris is also telling ZZR the same thing. SC and ZZR both have ugly looks – this mission in this new version of the game has upped the difficulty.

    - A government helicopter flies over the campus. They haven’t given up on saving the university.

    - SC’s group continues walking around to search for survivors. They find a dagger they gave the girls last night in some bushes.

    - FYY sees a sign saying “Medical school” and wonders about it. SC explains that here, they have a school dedicated to train doctors, though different from the type of doctors they know. Arthur is confused by what doctors are. In his world, they only have Church pastors (me: that's what we call a monopoly).

    - ZZR suggests that the medical school must have a basement and they should check it out. SC remembers that ZZR is a medical student.

    - Four aliens ambush them once they enter, but they solve them easily. ZZR lights up the way with a light ball. The basement smells terrible – formalin. The basement is the morgue. The entrance is locked.

    - SC hears a vague cry from inside. The cry came from a girl who saw her best friend chewing on the corpses in the morgue. The friend insists nothing’s wrong…. She's completely normal, there's no need to worry -- she’s just very, very hungry.

    - There are a lot of people in the dark basement. They turn the flashlight around, finally see what the girl is eating and panics.

    - ZZR tells them anyone infected will start to eat ravenously, just like the aliens. They love living things – humans, trees, animals, etc. The more life it has, the more they like it.

    - The survivors are suspicious of their identity, but then a girl calls out to them. It’s one of the girls from last night (the smart one). She assures the survivors that SC and co. are trustworthy.

    - SC escort the survivors out, while ZZR stays to deal with the infected (5 people). Arthur follows SC for easier communication (and because he hates the smell). FYY stays with ZZR.

    - The infected girl wanted to follow them out, but was stopped by Kay.

    - ZZR dealing with the infected. They act "normal", i.e. getting curious and asking questions about his abilities. They keep insisting they’re not like the aliens.

    - FYY is surprised to see ZZR’s ruthlessness. He’d always seemed approachable, reliable and even-tempered. It’s surprising to see how cold and calm he is, and there’s no doubt he wouldn’t hesitate even to kill another human being.

    - ZZR’s look reminds FYY of SC… because at that time (in another mission), the mission was too difficult, so he also had that expression.

    - The infected girl says that she’s just hungry… her best friend smelt too delicious, so she ran to eat the cadavers. But it tastes like wax, not delicious at all…

    - They still have sobriety, they know exactly what they’re eating. But they’re too hungry and has no morals anymore. Eating something delicious makes them want to eat even more, like a drug addiction.

    - ZZR suddenly calls out the infected man who hasn't spoken and looks the weakest. The rest of them only ate cadavers, but this guy had eaten a living human. ZZR can smell the fresh blood on him.

    - ZZR actually doesn’t have a more sensitive nose – he’s just sensitive to blood, especially fresh blood. One of the worlds he went to had evil lichs, corrupted church, indifferent mages. He’d often wake at night to the rich bloody smell.

    - ZZR kills him with a light blade. With his sceptre, graceful movements, and noble temperament, he truly looks like a god, cold and ruthless, easily taking away people’s lives. (I took the description directly because it was too good to pass)

    - He leads the rest out, intending to bring them to the institute. SC’s group catches up with him when they’re outside the campus. The other survivors have been sent to the helicopter people, who are now searching for more survivors. They have special air-guns (???) and wear metal armor (??). Anyway, even if they’re caught they shouldn’t be eaten too quickly, the aliens can't eat metal as quickly as they eat flesh.

    - SC can’t help but ask ZZR: do you have enough 4000 points for penalty? ZZR asks if he’s worried about him. The penalty is obliteration after all. Snippet of SC’s response:

    Shi Chu looked at him and suddenly remembered the years that could be called the most carefree time.​

    They had been childhood friends. They had been like brothers for more than a decade, even before they were lovers.​

    “Yes,” he said softly.​
     
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    I'm going to do the rest of the arc in one go so these will be in spoilers.
    And suddenly it’s TWO YEARS LATER. Even though I know author likes time-skips I was caught off-guard.

    - The institute has changed. It’s a lot more lively now, with researchers coming and going. They are all pale, since they haven’t gone out at all to see the sunlight. Not just them, but most survivors have moved underground, away from bright sun and fresh air.

    - SC is greeted by the researchers when he comes back to the institute. He’s bringing something to Prof Hu. Prof Hu has been studying vaccines for the alien virus. The previous vaccine only worked temporarily.

    - Human ability to fight is really strong – in two years, the situation, though not good, is basically stable. The above ground is dominated by the aliens and those infected. The infected are relatively safe – most don’t eat normal humans. However, they attack each other and eat other infected humans, animals, and plants.

    - Normal humans have been exiled from above ground. However, they've completely adapted to life underground and there's quite a lot of hope for recovery. SC thinks humans are quite strong. Perhaps if it was a normal zombie apocalypse they would find a solution even quicker.

    - The biggest problem was the detection of the infected human. Taking blood has no use, since it only shows up like a normal human’s. But a few months ago, a research institute in US found a reagent that can react to the abnormal cells and shared it with the whole world. It’s still expensive to make, so it’s not used widely.

    - SC meets ZZR at Prof Hu’s lab. The prof is too concentrated to notice them – he’s also hard of hearing now, so his hearing is very weak. ZHH greets them. Her whole left arm is hidden with a glove, because it’s too horrible to look at, even for herself. Fortunately, the infected themselves can’t infect others. ZHH was kept under observation for two months after LXY attacked her.

    - Throughout the two years, ZZR and SC often split up to help the government get resources etc from areas infested with high density of aliens. The aliens are slow to reproduce, so as the humans have been killing them, they haven’t increased. But they’re not reduced by much either. Considering how much and how quickly they eat, if they’re not solved soon, they will end up eating everything on earth clean.

    - Also, nobody developed abilities in this world (much to the disappointment of people who’ve seen ZZR, SC and co.)

    - SC brought new discoveries to Prof Hu. SC shows him a video. The aliens are now changing shape… becoming more and more “human”-looking.

    - Prof Hu realises something – he checks the alien cells he’s studying. The ones that have other organisms’ cells mixed in have all changed, becoming more and more like those organisms.

    - These aliens will change shape to become whatever they eat. So, not only do they eat humans, eventually they will also become “humans”!

    - ZZR mentions that he was attacked by a “dead tree” today, only to realise that it was actually an alien in the shape of a tree. Sooner or later, not just humans. Even grass, trees, birds, etc will be aliens. This whole world will be filled with them, and nobody will be able to tell.

    - Someone suddenly shouted, breaking the cold atmosphere: “Professor! The new vaccine worked! The test is successful!”

    - Then with a pop, the lights in the whole institute go out.

    Can you believe that was literally just one chapter? So much info dump. Also author is cruel, what a rollercoaster and cliffhanger (i went from moved by the whole "humans are strong" to getting chills from "aliens will replace humans" to happy about the vaccine to shocked by the blackout).

    - n the darkness, SC closes his eyes. He hears ZHH pulling Prof Hu to the next room, and ZZR standing at the door to prevent people from entering the lab. When he opens his eyes, he sees easily as if it’s not dark all. When he checks the room next door, ZHH and Prof Hu are gone.

    - He says to ZZR: “Your guess is correct.” (me: OMG WHAT’S HAPPENING? ZHH IS A TRAITOR??)

    - They apparently already expected something like this. FYY is following after someone to the above ground (probably ZHH and the Prof?). Lance and Kay are keeping an eye on the vaccine. ZZR has been careful to make sure those two stayed the most harmless-looking, weak and approachable. They’ve been staying by the vaccine the whole time it was studied.

    - FYY tells them the whereabouts of the professor. He really was taken. As one of the only people who know the formula for the vaccine, the reason they took him is obvious. From the east exit, there’s a car driving off.

    - ZZR drives them to follow after the car. He and SC finally learned to drive lol. They still suck, but their reaction speed is fast enough so there hasn’t been any major incidents (me: I mean, it’s not like there are a lot of cars around, which is the main trouble with driving in the first place)

    - The twins, Arthur, and Iris are on the car with them. FYY and CQY are following the kidnappers’ car. They drive into a city. It looks like a normal city, if a bit ruined, with humans coming and going. But looking deeper, the place is full of tension, and there are no children or elderly. Only strong men and very few women are walking around.

    This is a deformed earth society. Everyone is normal, but there is madness inside.
    (me: How is MTL so nice-sounding..)​

    - They finally arrive at a rich villa area. The twins guard the outside to prevent anyone from escaping. The rest enter the house.

    - When the group opens the door, they’re surrounded by guns. Arthur smiles mockingly at the guns. Most of the time they work alone, and even when with the government, they don’t show all their fighting skills, especially not when all of them are together. Hence even ZHH, who saw them on that first day, don’t really know their true power. So they don’t know how useless guns are against them.

    - ZHH is standing on the stairs, smiling at them. She’s changed into a red dress, looking flirtatious, rather than the dignified look she usually has.

    - The next part is…. Ok. Wow. Umm. Girl needs some reality shoved into her brain.

    - ZZR and SC asks why she’s doing this. Hasn’t Prof Hu been very good to her? Even when LXY went missing, he never blamed her and treated her well.

    - ZHH says that she’d never hurt the Prof. She just wants him to reunite with her and her partner. A slender, gentle-looking man in glasses come down the stairs and hold her intimately, a very beautiful couple. (If you don’t remember, say hello again to LXY, the guy who ate ZHH’s arm, girl what is wrong with you)

    - I’ll just translate the rest to convey the “oooooooooook” mood of our protagonists lol:
    Shi Chu: “…”​

    He really felt that his three views were broken!​

    Zhang Zongrui blinked. “Zhang HuiHui, you’re not infected.”​

    “Yes,” she replied. “I am not infected.”​

    “Then why?”​

    Zhang HuiHui showed a sweet smile and said softly: “I am very thankful to this disaster, because I can make the person I like to like me.”​

    Shi Chu: “…”​

    Zhang Zongrui: “…”​

    Lying trough*, this sentence has too much information ah!

    *A curse (from what I got from reading bunch of other MTLs). Usually used when something unbelievable/too overkill/ridiculous happens.​

    - Before she can say/brag anymore, SC has choked her. CQY had killed everyone with the guns in an instant. (I think ZZR has LXY? He's so unimportant he's not mentioned until several paragraphs later)

    - Poison gas was released throughout the house. Two people walk down from the stairs. A Mayor Li and Professor Wu.

    - HAHAHA the mayor guy is like, “You should know who I am….” because he's some bigshot politician, but them being crossers, have no clue.

    - The mayor guy continues to brag about the toxin, and how they won’t be able to move or use their skills. The professor confirms that it’s been five minutes since they spread the poison gas, it should take effect soon.

    - ZHH begs the mayor to save her.

    - SC just smiles and tells them that, too bad, poisons can’t affect him. Meanwhile Iris uses Purification spell. The mayor steps back in fear at seeing her use of “abilities”, but FYY is already at his back with a knife to his nape.
    (FYY is so cool... and, uh, pretty brutal)
    Her threat: “Don’t move. You best believe that I can accurately insert the dagger from here and puncture it into your mouth. Oh yes, you will not die for a while, you will only feel severe pain, and will even be able to see the sharp tip of the dagger if you peer down.”​

    - Arthur encircles everyone in a blazing fire dragon, trapping them.

    - The mayor is raving madly. He believes it’s survival of the fittest. Normal humans can only huddle underground, while infected humans can enjoy all the resources they want above ground. It’s not an infection, but an evolution! It’s natural for the weak to be eliminated!

    - SC breaks his hopes by telling him about how the aliens are changing shape into humans. It’s an ecological invasion, and once they’ve devoured everything on Earth, they’ll just leave to find a new target.

    - They ask where Prof Hu is, and LXY bursts out saying they’re too late, he’ll be infected already. Suddenly the twins appear, with a dead alien. They'd saved the prof from being eaten by the alien.

    - LXY denies, “Prof Hu is like my own father, I would never do that to him! It promised not to eat him! It would only infect him!”

    - SC just looks at him like he’s deluded (me: SAME) and mocks him “Hey, this kid really believed it, it’s really so stupid and innocent.”

    - Aww, SLS asks Arthur if they can try barbecueing the dead alien with the fire dragon. Arthur scoffs that it’s too disgusting, the dragon doesn’t want to eat it. (They look like they’re much closer to e/o than two years ago.)

    - The mayor says they (the infected) have already infiltrated the normal humans. Also, they’ve been able to communicate with the aliens for 6 months. The leader of their organisation can communicate with the aliens. As long as the aliens are on their side, they can win!

    - FYY threaten the mayor into giving up what their leader looks like. He doesn’t know who the leader is, he's only seen him 3 times. He looks very ordinary. But he has two scars on his face (like symmetrical lines) going from top of his head, over the eyes, to his mouth – claimed to be battle scars from the aliens. His mouth is always covered by the collar of the long jacket he always wear, even during hot weather. It's a bit weird; sometimes it looks like there's something else under that collar. Also, his speech and accent is like a foreigner.

    *For reference since I never described them, the aliens have insect-like heads without eyes. Most of the head area is taken up by a large mouthpiece (yes, its MTL is not mouth but mouthpiece - I guess because it's macabre-looking). Actually, there might be two mouthpieces, I'm actually not too sure anymore.

    - SC and ZZR’s moods sink. The description – it should be an alien, disguised as an infected human. They’re running out of time.

    - After the rescue of Prof Hu, they leave the base. Some of the group remain to protect the vaccine and clean up the infected humans that infiltrated the base, according to the list provided by the mayor.

    - They go to the leader of the soldiers, General Liu. They’ve been cooperating with the soldiers very often.

    - After the general learn the news of the alien human, with a heavy heart he makes a decision. They will contact all other countries and... those soldiers will have to be sacrificed. Their original plan wasn’t like this. Those soldiers should have a better ending… but they’ve run out of time.

    - Iris is very familiar with the place – she’s the one that has been helping the soldiers the most. Also, the soldiers are all practicing martial arts taught to them by SC and ZJ.

    - It’s not only Chinese soldiers, but also soldiers from all over the world. After all, to solve the global problem, they need everyone to be able to fight the aliens.

    - In half a year, these forces were supposed to hunt down the aliens, supported by a magical potion Arthur developed. But now they can only use the backup plan.

    - General Liu goes to ask Dr Hansen for his opinion.

    - A lot of contemplation about martial arts etc etc (I'm too lazy to properly summarize) as SC is practicing his martial arts. ZZR comes in with news from Dr Hansen. The thing they want to use isn’t perfect, it will have serious side effects.

    - ZZR asks SC not to do it. SC insists to. ZZR yells at him that he’s still so stubborn, just like before!
    Zhang Zongrui frowned. “Your stubborn temper, how has it not changed!”​

    Shi Chu is bewildered.​

    His temper… Yes, Zhang ZongRui knew his temper since long ago, but this kind of complicated tone and emotion –​

    For the two of them, it’s too close.​

    “In this case, I can’t go back*,” Zhang Zongrui said gently.​

    He was not a good person, he used to do whatever he wanted. Just because he had a “Holy” title, doesn't mean he is a good person. He has seen too many evils from the Holy Church. After all, even in the novels, the Holy Church also plays a negative role.​

    No matter what, he has to stay with him.​

    Just like when they were young, in the stormy weather, they only have each other.

    *Not too sure about this. This is pretty much just edited MTL, I didn't properly check it with the dictionary.​

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    - ZZR has sent away all his summons on other things, so he’s the only one going. SC intends to go alone, but his summons all would go with him. They’ve been through thick and thin and their bond is too close – it’s because this kind of relationship is too confusing, that he never dared to summon those good-looking male summons.

    - The summons chat a bit. Although it’s still painful, even if they die here, they won’t really die. They’ll just return to their world and the player can only summon them again by buying them again from the store.

    - They, SC and the soldiers are lying in tents. These soldiers are all elites who’ve been nourished by internal force cultivation, magical potions, power of light, etc. All over the world, similar scenes are occurring. They’re all volunteers.

    - A medicine is infused slowly into their bodies through a drip. These medicines are harmful, but thanks to Iris, they can’t feel the pain in their bodies.

    - ZZR’s blood had been changed in another world, he’s not afraid of this toxin.

    - General Liu visits SC and scolds him for being so stubborn. He’d already taken SC off the volunteer list.

    - In the past 2 years, they’ve managed to build spaceships that can take out a large amount of people. The technology had already been there, and now that every country has a common enemy, they've poured all resources together and build a large-scale spaceship. However, it’s not like the spaceships can be tested, so it's quite dangerous.

    - The original plan was to get survivors off to the Moon, and maybe Mars if it’s really impossible to recover the Earth.

    - Each volunteer has a GPS watch thing and they’re tasked to bait the aliens to a predetermined spot..

    - As dawn rises, SC detects movement – the aliens are coming!

    - The medicine they’re infused with was an accidental discovery. If a human takes it, it makes the aliens go crazy after them. The aliens won't be able to resist going after them. The drug will also increase the physical limits of the person, but at the cost of their vitality.

    - Armed with special alloy lances and air guns, they will now face not just dozens – but droves and droves of crazy, starving aliens hunting them.

    - SC’s task area is an alien gathering hotspot, around 1800 aliens. He attracted most of them to the building, while two others are getting the strays.

    - The aliens follow him into a building and when they almost catch him, a specially-made cage locks down on them.

    - SC goes to the next location indicated by the GPS watch – a green dot had turned red, indicating that another group of soldiers had been annihilated.

    - After the 3rd wave of aliens, SC contacts General Liu. It’s been almost 2 hrs and 76% of aliens have been caught.

    - They need at least 95% to ensure success. The aliens have human intelligence after all – if not for the drugs, they wouldn’t even be baited. This kind of tactic wouldn’t work the 2nd time.

    - After catching another set of aliens, SC feels his contract with FYY break. She was probably physically tired, considering her martial arts is weaker than the rest. SC closes his eyes. “Sister Fang, you will stay in the world you belong to, take a rest.” He knows FYY is not afraid of trouble and is loyal, but it doesn’t mean she wasn’t exhausted by this kind of life.

    - General Liu excitedly tells SC that they’ve reached 98%.

    - SC walks back to the meeting point and waits silently. ZZR appears, and SC is relieved.

    - However, out of hundreds of soldiers, only 11 people made it back, including the two of them.

    - They’re almost finished, only one step left, which depends on the “Academy of Sciences” people

    - But, ZZR finds out from Lance and Kay that the heads of those people are infected humans. The summons stopped them from doing anything, but Iris is already rushing over to assist.

    - General Liu contacted the other countries. True enough, they’re having problems with the original launch points.

    - Aliens may be terrible, but the human heart is the most terrible thing. Those who can feed on the same kind – they’re only a shape draped in human skin.

    - ZZR tells them that Arthur is ready to hunt down the remaining 2%.

    - They figured out from General Liu’s expressions that some higher-ups want to keep some aliens for research purposes. ZZR and SC warn against it. (but i think they let it go? idk)

    - The human-looking alien leader of infected humans had been taken out by Kay, and they haven’t found any other alien humans. There shouldn’t be a problem.

    - The spacecrafts finally takes the aliens out, and a mushroom cloud blooms on earth (I guess they used nuclear?)

    - Mission completed! Rewarded 5000 points. The so-called “Save the world” mission only needed humanity to stand in obvious victory. ZZR and SC go back together to their world.

    - Meanwhile, some time later in that world…. Dun dun dun:
    In the dark alley, a tall man in a black down jacket walked, swaying like a drunk.​

    From a nightclub, a few young men and women spill out into the empty street with their eyes open and burning. The tall man suddenly stopped them and looked up, revealing a pair of muddy eyes, and two wounds on his face that were not healed. Mouth hidden in the collar of the down jacket such that only the edge of something can be seen, he said in a strange and blunt tone –​

    "Want to know what is the ultimate enjoyment in the world?”​

    And THAT'S IT for arc 1. Stay tuned for some real world shenanigans and then arc 2.
     
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    Kailyria20 Perpetually distracted

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    This looks interesting...kinda reminds me of some of those stories of being pulled into a game to survive but it seems more like SAO since you can die for real instead of like log horizon which the penalty of death is a random memory of their life in the real world, but i wonder how they got into the game in the first place...was it a random download to play then gets suck in or something?
     
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    Shizun 《Jack of all trades》《Artist/Author》《Dao of BLedia》

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    ty <3 Omfg the last one doesnt sound very good..... as for the time skip.... im conflicted....
     
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    - Back in real world, SC tries to avoid ZZR. In the mission world, he can treat ZZR as the closest comrade with silent, tacit understanding because he can forget that they were lovers, but in the real world he really can’t.

    - ZZR catches up to him and invites him to watch the school’s basketball match. SC is silent, not accepting, which discourages ZZR. SC’s roommate appear out of nowhere and whisk SC off. Once out of ZZR’s sight, he asks why SC is talking to the campus male idol (school grass). SC is surprised that ZZR is so famous.

    - The roommate snitch to SC’s other roommates that he was acting familiar with ZZR. They gossip about ZZR. One of them is bitter about ZZR being admired by his girlfriend and warns everyone to stay away from ZZR, lest he snatch their girlfriends. SC, thinking about his and ZZR’s orientation, is awkwardly silent.

    - On his bed, SC checks the game on his phone. Another player is grayed out – only 5 left. He checks the game shop, hesitates over rebuying FYY, but ends up not.



    - The countdown to next world is 51 days. ZZR messages SC. ZZR's countdown is 59 days. ZZR makes an offer; he tells SC that he asked the game auto-customer service: A player X can accompany another player Y on player Y’s mission, but only as a summons. ZZR offers himself to be SC’s summons.

    - SC hesitates and doesn’t reply. It’s not that he doesn’t realise ZZR’s intentions, but he can’t forget how much they hurt each other before, much less become friends or lovers.

    - Both of them were so close because they had difficult background. ZZR’s parents divorced and had their own families, so he was left to a gambling grandfather. The only one that took care of him was the grandmother. After his grandmother died, the parents hired a nanny to take care of him.

    - SC was adopted as a child. His adoptive parents were good, but they died in an accident when he was 14. The grandparents didn’t want to take someone else’s child in, so he was sent to orphanage/foster care. Because of his age, he was never adopted, so he had to live off of government subsidies and worked when he was old enough.

    - SC and ZZR were neighbours, so every time things got tough they would cuddle together on the bed, and comfort and support each other. But because they were so close, when fighting they could and did poke the deepest wounds of each other.

    - When the basketball match is going on, SC goes swimming. There’s only him at the pool because everyone went to see the match. Suddenly he notices a girl drowning in the pool. He and the lifeguard save her, but when getting her belongings, SC notices a sketchbook with sketches of himself in the bag!

    - Flipping through it, every single page is of him. The book is signed by FX (artist guy from the beginning who wanted him to model). Suddenly FX appears, looking angry and asking for his book back.

    - ZZR also appears. So there’s like, the sporty, just-finished-a-match, sweaty and masculine, handsome ZZR and a cool, princely FX, with SC caught in the middle.

    - SC escapes to the shower room, and those two follow him. Thankfully, when he’s out only ZZR is left. ZZR asks how he knew FX, asks about him swimming, etc but hesitates and never mentioned the match SC didn’t go to. Instead he asks if SC is free tomorrow, but SC rejects saying he has plans.

    - SC really does have plans. The next day he takes a bus to a remote area. On the ride, a thief tries to steal from him, but SC CUT OFF TWO OF HIS FINGERS HOLY FUCK

    - So the remote village/town SC arrives at is related to this world’s Jianghu (martial arts) community? (Or something? I didn’t really get it, but they’re shady lol). He’s selling the jade and ivory fan he has. Some selling to a grouchy old man happens. SC gets good money for those game items; he's been selling these for a while.

    - SC goes back to campus only to find everyone he passes by looking weirdly at him. At the dorm, his roommates reveal that the girl he saved blew up on the school forum. Someone told her to thank SC for saving her life, but she blew up angrily: Why should I?! I love Fu Xi so much, only to find that Fu Xi is in love with him! Thank him?! In the next life!

    - SC gets a call from FX. FX apologises for the trouble caused and asks to meet SC tonight. SC is quiet for a bit, then his roommate calls him, saying someone is at the door looking for him.

    - It’s ZZR. SC is exasperated – he just wants a quiet campus life, not getting involved with this messy love triangle! (MTL: love vortex)

    - SC rejects FX. If they don’t feed the rumor, it’ll die on its own. What if they meet and new rumours come out? SC isn’t going to do that.

    - ZZR asks SC if he thinks there’s problems with their cooperation? SC is relieved that he’s asking about business stuff, and replies, no, they’re quite good.

    - ZZR explains that if players join as a summon, the same rule for death applies. If they die in the mission, they won’t really die in their world.

    - SC finally accepts to cooperate to be summons for e/o. ZZR teases, was SC worried for his safety?

    - Before leaving, ZZR gives SC cream puffs from the bakery. It’s SC’s favourite food. He hasn’t been buying them as often because he gets teased by his roommates for liking girly food (me: ………) but he’s always liked sweet stuff since he was young. That never changed.

    - As expected, the rumors about SC and FX die down. SC was originally pretty invisible anyway, and they never meet up with e/o, so there’s no materials.

    - SC joins the swimming competition. There’s a lot of people watching it, but not because of SC. There’s a famous senior who’s a national athlete. His body is muscular and nice to look at, yadda yadda

    - In the competition, SC makes sure to keep pace and not overtake the senior, which is just enough to keep 2nd place and enter the finals.

    - Without his knowledge, he actually stole the spotlight from the senior. His body’s muscles aren’t obvious, but because he practices martial arts his muscles are more beautiful to look at in motion (or something). Anyway, the audience goes gaga over him.

    - Photos of him are spread on the school forum. He becomes the new male god of the campus. His old rumor with FX also resurfaces (although now everyone’s like: No wonder FX likes him… I’d be gay too)

    - Meanwhile SC the new “male god” goes on his life, playing video games with his roommates, looking like a mess with hair uncombed, wearing shorts and tank top, and a chocolate bar sticking out of his mouth. His roommate who saw the new rumors is speechless looking at this “male god”, but has to admit that even messy like this SC doesn’t even look bad (this roommate & me: give me your powers SC)

    - SC only realises that something’s going on when he keeps getting love letters day after day.

    - One of the roommates got an invitation from the school flower (female idol) to invite his whole dorm to eat out with her and her friends on Saturday. He’s pumped for the chance to get a girlfriend, but the other roommates shoot down his hopes by telling him that the girls obviously just want SC lol

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    Next world:

    - Before entering, the game notifies SC that another player, “child of the forest”, will be in the same mission world. SC sends a team request to the player.

    - The new world is full of giant plants and trees. SC also sees giant birds, and is relieved thinking that the new teammate, “child of the forest” would probably be useful here.

    - The teammate turns out to be a petite girl who looks a bit like a foreigner, named Xia Lin.

    - XL explains that in the previous world she was teammates with the player who died recently. He was sexist and after finding out that she’s a woman, refused to team up with her. Unfortunately, after teaming up the task difficulty will rise. They failed the task. The guy didn’t have enough points for the penalty while XL did, so the guy got obliterated.

    - XL offers to sign a “friendship contract” with SC (it’s from the game shop) to ensure they don’t betray e/o (penalty 5000 points if they betray). SC agrees.

    - SC explains that he also teamed up with another player (ZZR) before, and ZZR will be joining him as a summons.

    - XL mentions that this world is strange – the giant plants surrounding them are actually lawn grass. The mud mountains around them, if sized down, are probably normal mounds of mud.

    - Maybe they’re in a world of giants? But no, SC then sees a normal metropolitan city with high-rise buildings from afar. They run to it for almost an hour before arriving. The people and clothing look like a normal modern city.

    - A man approaches them in a car and asks if they want to enter? What’s a young couple like them doing out there, it’s quite dangerous? He gives them a lift towards the city centre, although he apparently “can’t go into the city centre”, so he’s dropping them on a street near it.

    - At the street, they see the decorative “trees” planted around the area is a bit weird. The trunks are wide and the height is more than 10m, but XL identifies them as sage – they should be 10-20cm small grass.

    - As they discuss their summons, they get the mission task: Find Wuling (武陵, martial/military/warlike; hill/mound/mausoleum); three years time limit.

    - They have no clue if Wuling is a person, place, mausoleum, etc.
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    I'll update the character list with Fu Xi and Xia Lin.
     
  14. Kleep

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    Somehow your reaction made me laugh so hard!! Thanks for the spoiler update :)
     
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    I didn't read the before sentences and thought SC freaking cut off HIS OWN FINGERS :blob_coughblood:
     
  16. Shizun

    Shizun 《Jack of all trades》《Artist/Author》《Dao of BLedia》

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    I read abit ahead. Its slow paced abit at the beginning of arc2
     
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    - Since it’s a searching mission, SC decides not to summon CQY who's only combat-oriented. Besides ZZR, he chooses the twins again. The twins are good with this kind of natural wilderness. Also, in their original world they are controlled/tortured by a terrible master, so SC wants them to get out for a bit.

    - The last summon is Gong SunYu, SC’s only male summon. He’s a renowned medical and herbal master in his world, great at observation and tracking, but his only weakness is that he’s too soft-hearted.

    - XL’s summons: Daisy – a tree demon that looks like a wrinkled old (50-60) lady.

    - A gray gyrfalcon – a giant bird who swallowed a snow mountain goddess’s soul/something and gained human intelligence, very expensive to buy, strong combat powers. (There’s no actual name mentioned, just what this bird is traditionally called in China; Hai Dong Qing; sea, eastern, green)

    - Ackerman – green elf, a tall young man.

    - Lilith – cat demon, master of illusions, looks like cute long-haired cat.

    - The twins keep laughing at GSY who’s acting like a deer under headlights. The twins are prepared and already changed into modern clothing, same with XL’s humanoid summons. SC also prepared clothing for GSY though.

    - They find an internet café. It’s completely free to enter, nobody is manning it. They find that though satellites exist, humans haven’t been able to go into space. They figure out that it’s not that the whole world is gigantic, it’s that the humans are too small.

    - Because humans are too small, even though technology is advanced there’s still a lot of uncharted territory on Earth. Humans can’t even cross oceans, because everything – wind, waves, marine animals – are too big. They can only have basic contact with other places across the ocean. Adventurers who travel the world are considered legends.

    - Even rain and snow can be fatal, and a big wind can blow people.

    - However, the resources are very abundant. Almost every country uses renewable energy sources like rain, wind and solar because those are already enough. Even if they use fossil fuels etc it wouldn’t do much harm to the earth. So, besides the threat of nature, there’s no news of poverty, war, mass hunger etc.

    - They contemplate that 3 years is too short – the distances are all magnified so traveling will take much longer.

    - The twins get hungry and ask for food. They go to a diner. Some food discussion as they try to figure out what the meat, rice, etc are made of, since the normal sources are all gigantic. SC looks up the rice while XL looks up the meat. XL says not to worry, the source is completely healthy and high in protein. (but doesn’t actually name the source hmmmmmm are these bug-meat lol)

    - While eating, they heard two people arguing. One’s a military man and one’s in a suit.

    - Then rain starts falling. The waiter calmly closes the shop and points them to the emergency passage. Everyone on the street also disappeared. The raindrops are all like cannon balls, even the glass of the window seems like it’ll shatter.

    - During evacuation, the military man dropped a paper. It’s an application form for the “Dongjin plan”, for the development of the country and scientific research.

    - It’s an obvious clue from the game, so they decide to investigate this Dongjin plan.
    - Going through the emergency exit leads them to an underground city. It looks similar to the city above, and people and cars go through their life just like before despite the emergency evacuation.

    - ZZR notes that it’s year 3012 here, but the technology is almost the same level as their world. Probably developing was too difficult (me: tbh idk how they even manage with the difficulty of transporting resources?? Rubber? Mining??)

    - Even a rabbit getting curious and exploring a human city can be a “monster siege” here.

    - They look up the Dongjin plan and decide to go to apply for it. It’s a land reclamation expedition.

    - When waiting for the bus, two girls saw XL holding Lilith and exclaimed over her “toy cat”! they’d never seen such a realistic simulation before!

    - SC suddenly realised a big problem – how could there be pet cats here! They’re all too big. Thankfully Lilith is using illusions to pretend to be a toy/bag. But it’s weird – the diner they went to had a “No Pets Allowed” sign. What could be pets here? Ants???

    - Thankfully the girls had to take a different bus.

    - Reaching the destination, there’s only 10 people left and they’re all applicants. SC’s group gets mocked by them because they either look like young girls, old lady, or literary uncle (GSY haha – SC gave him casual sportswear and he still has his long hair in a ponytail)

    - They fill out a form and then go to the test. ZZR notes that it’s fine to show their abilities. There are some, though not many, cases of abilities before. But they still need to be low-key because it’s not common.

    - All of them show off having super strength. Daisy pretends to be their master/grandmaster/shifu/teacher and admits they all don’t have any ID, etc because they lived hidden in the wild before.

    - They all test properly and expose a bit of their ability, e.g. ZZR shows his light abilities but not his healing.

    - What surprises the higher-ups is that they really don’t have any ID, as if they appeared out of nowhere. The boss (tall, calm man – I’m just gonna call him boss) gets people to bring the group to him. Behind this man is a map with an uncharted island in the corner, marked “Wuling”.

    - The island is on the expedition route, but even its edges are marked fuzzily. It’s written, “Wuling: origin of mankind, unknown.”

    - There’s no actual proof of Wuling’s existence, and even many people have forgotten about it and regarded it as pure fiction. Even the boss has no clue why the map they got has this Wuling written there.

    - The boss is worried. In 30 years, they’ve only managed to expand a very short distance. The mortality rate at the borders is also climbing up, since animals that regard human as prey are often attacking the border.

    - This time the expedition plan to explore new areas.

    - Meanwhile SC’s group is happily settling in their very nice accommodations. The girls share a room and XL teaches the twins about makeup. They eat a meal. It’s all strange food again, though obviously very well-made for this world.

    - ZZR goes to answer the summons because he’s the only one that knows modern world and isn’t a player (so no penalty for death).

    - The secretary asks ZZR to not agitate the boss because he’s not in very good health. When ZZR sees the boss, he’s astonished. It’s one of the people with abilities that he searched up – the martial arts/kung fu master that became a national general.

    - But it’s weird, when ZZR practiced the martial arts given by SC, he felt himself becoming more healthy as his body was purified. How could this guy who’s only 40 years old be unhealthy?

    - The boss name is Yan Qing Xiang. YQX tries to get info about their basic info (birth, address, etc) from ZZR but ZZR can’t give him any, obviously.

    - After finishing, YQX tells a young officer (Ding Hong, also the military guy who dropped the application form in the diner) to keep an eye on them.
    - They set off. There’s 900 soldiers, 50 researchers, 150 volunteers. Not a lot of people. For those giant animals, it’s probably like ants and they wouldn’t even be interested in them.

    - They are in a car/van/vehicle with some other volunteers. Because there are different days for the application test, and the TV broadcast didn’t really show their powers (it was too violent), these volunteers don’t really believe they have “powers” and look at them derisively.

    - After some time, they make camp to set this spot as a temporary base. Everyone gathers and DH (who’s the military leader) opens the map. SC and XL sees the Wuling marked on the map, confirming that they’re in the right direction.

    - The expedition divides into 7 routes. SC’s 8 people go with DH’s 76 soldiers, plus 3 other volunteers (Zhou FengRui, Wang Hao, Yin Meng). The other groups all have 100+ people.

    - They can’t use the cars anymore because of the bumpy road and tall grasses, so they have to walk.

    - The guns used by people here are laser guns, which are lighter and easier to replenish energy. Also, it’s good for killing a target without disturbing the rest of the environment (which is great for the squishy humans)

    - Their equipment detects danger up ahead, so Daisy gets DH to let SC and XL to scout ahead. YM notices that those two are hidden experts/masters from the way they move.

    - SC finds that the danger is a deer – almost 200m long! The deer sees but ignores them because they’re too small.

    - As a “child of the forest”, XL can speak to the deer, but that doesn’t mean the deer would speak with her. The gap is too big.

    - SC and XL decides to retreat. Suddenly, XL says that her gyrfalcon (which had been scouting the world independently) has retreated back to its own world because it was too frightened. Despite being a fierce beast, it was still terrified of this world. One can see how terrible the world is.

    - They go back and tell DH about the deer. SC asks to borrow another volunteer’s weapon. It’s a stick/spear weapon with ~10 parts that can be spliced together. The guy can only use up to 3 parts, which is about 2m long altogether. If all 10 parts are used, then the power would be even stronger but it’d be impossible to use it!

    - He’s speechless when SC and GSY easily assembles the full length and SC swings it around expertly. SC says it really is a bit hard to use and takes down a few parts.

    - SC gets ready to attack and orders his summons (except ZZR) to assist. They all have tacit understanding, and ZZR can only stand silently at the side. ZZR feels a bit jealous/complicated because before, they’d always had a tacit understanding with e/o and never accidentally crowded out e/o like this even if they had other friends.
    ZZR being jealous lol:
    From a long time ago, he (ZZR) was no longer the only one around him (SC).

    - SC and the twins climb up the deer and to its neck. Its hair is as tall as them!

    - The killing is so bloody lol. Literally. SC’s spear is too fragile/short and they couldn’t kill the deer immediately. So, SC hangs on the deer for a while to knife it a few more times and gets soaked in the blood gushing out from the deer. He almost drowns. Also, the internal force required to pierce the deer almost burst his meridians.

    - The deer dies. SC only exhausted his internal force but has no bad injuries. The twins are worse off; one has a broken arm from trying to not fall off from the deer. GSY catches up and fives them a Dan pill to recover.

    - The rest catches up and ZZR stops caring about hiding and heals them.

    - Some discussion about the deer i.e. they get to keep profits from selling it, how expensive it is, what if the blood attracts carnivores, etc

    - While SC is cleaning himself (of the deer blood clots, eww) at a pond (a puddle), ZZR asks to get back together with SC. But then he tells SC not to reply now. “I’m afraid that you will refuse me, and then you’ll be very sad if you refuse me, so don’t answer me yet.”
    SC: … Shameless!​

    - More soldiers come by plane to help deal with the deer and transport it back.

    - They make camp for the night. Not sleeping, but guarding against nocturnal animals. ZZR and XL both stop hiding their powers. ZZR uses his light bow, while XL is sneakier; she grows blood vines etc to entrap and kill.

    - At dawn, the 8 people sleep separately from the soldiers. Daisy turns into a giant tree (sapling in this world) with tree houses (pretty much a modern apartment) in it, which they can sleep in. Lilith covers them with an illusion and then sleep on the tree.

    - She was like: Hey, you really can’t find another cat like her who’s proficient in illusions~!
    Asdfghkll Lilith isn’t even a cat! She’s a forest banshee!! But even she’s already forgotten that she isn’t really a cat because she's stayed in this form for too long :blobsweat_2:
     
  18. sleepingjay

    sleepingjay Well-Known Member

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    It was all calm and innocent with love triangles, SC chilling out with friends, girls peeking at SC on the bus, and then he just. cuts off the thief's fingers. It took me a moment to sink in that SC really did that in the real world.

    :blobrofl:

    thanks all for reading~ please read more of SISIMO's stuff, there's all sorts of interesting plots/settings. maybe translate them too hehe :blobpeek:
     
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  19. Shizun

    Shizun 《Jack of all trades》《Artist/Author》《Dao of BLedia》

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    2nd Arc actually surprised me..... I wished a bit more of apocalypse feels survivals