Chase Game

【Chosen One Ling Miaomiao, are you sure you want to exit the game?】

Ling Miaomiao looked back at the mountaintop, which was already some distance away, where two small black dots appeared.

Luckily, she couldn't see her face clearly, otherwise it would have turned into a family reunion.

The girl looked away and instead looked at her left and right hands.

She held a white jade bracelet in her left hand and a bag of jewelry in her right, looking at it from left to right.

After thinking for a moment, Ling Miaomiao gently placed the white jade bracelet into the hanging basket.

"If you take this away, your mission will have failed. Fine, I'll just leave it here. Whether you can get it or not depends on your skills."

She then picked up the bag of jewelry, her joy evident in her eyes:

"Hehe, this bag of good stuff is mine!"

[Chosen One, you have confirmed your exit from the game. We look forward to your next visit.]

Beyond the back mountain lies a vast ocean.

When Ling Yi and Yuan Xiangqing arrived, the hot air balloon had already drifted quite far away.

"There was no one in the hanging basket."

"It might be lying down; we need to figure out a way to get it back first."

Both of them felt that the situation was a bit tricky.

"Do you have any skill items that you can use?"

Ling Yi was the first to ask a question.

Yuan Xiangqing frowned, seemingly reluctant to speak, and only vaguely said:

"It's too far; I can only move it back a short distance."

Upon hearing this, Ling Yi felt there was hope; having a solution was better than having no solution at all.

"Just bring it back, I'll handle the distance."

Yuan Xiangqing looked at Ling Yi in surprise. Could he have some kind of space-related skill?

Unfortunately, she guessed wrong. Ling Yi had already marked the hot air balloon in her field of vision with a "karma" label.

However, Yuan Xiangqing couldn't see it.

"You can begin."

Seeing Ling Yi's indifferent gaze, Yuan Xiangqing involuntarily activated her hunter-exclusive skill, [Shattered Mirror].

One of the effects is called "Reunion After a Broken Mirror".

This has something in common with Ling Yi's "One More Time," both of which symbolize "restoration" and "starting over."

But "One more time" refers to a rewind of the entire game and everything.

Yuan Xiangqing's "Reunion After a Broken Mirror" is a restoration of the state of a single object over time.

The limiting factor is not the distance she mentioned, but rather the degree of fragmentation of the object.

The more broken the object, the more effective her restoration will be.

For example, she can restore a letter that has turned to ashes to its state two days ago.

The hot air balloon is not damaged, at most it has some wear and tear, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of her skill, making it far from enough to bring the hot air balloon back.

But there's also Ling Yi.

The hot air balloon gradually slowed down until it came to a stop.

Then it started flying back against the wind.

At this moment, Ling Yi also activated his skill.

When the hot air balloon exceeded the critical point of the skill effect that Yuan Xiangqing had predicted, but was still turning back, she was surprised and at the same time pondered Ling Yi's methods.

She originally thought it was a spatial skill that could create a passage to greatly shorten the distance.

But now it seems that the distance and speed have not changed.

Did he extend the duration of my skill?

Yuan Xiangqing made random guesses, but unfortunately, she was wrong all of them.

Ling Yi used "cause and effect".

He used the skill—[Instant Karma, Result, Good].

The sea of ​​suffering is boundless, but turning back is the shore.

The hot air balloon turning back was the "cause," and landing on land was the "good result" that Ling Yi gave it.

The hot air balloon slowly drifted back to the starting point.

When Yuan Xiangqing, holding the white jade bracelet, and Ling Yi, carrying Liya, emerged from the hanging basket, Meng Dong and Zhang Qiang also came up at that moment.

At this moment, Lia is the original Lia, but she is unconscious and can only be carried out by him.

He wasn't trying to be a hero and save the damsel in distress; rather, he wanted to increase his "good karma."

Is a storyline that rescues a comatose girl from a dangerous situation considered good?

If that doesn't count, then let's put it another way.

Is catching a despicable thief considered a good deed?

Zhang Qiang kept making faces at him, so he couldn't help but kick him a couple of times.

It's a pity that "evil karma" wasn't added.

News of the four famous detectives catching the thief and recovering the white jade bracelet quickly spread throughout the palace.

When the four of them re-entered the main hall, the hourglass had been removed, and there were more people on both sides, including the queen and her children.

"Your Majesty, we have completed the task you assigned and successfully recovered the stolen 'White Jade Bracelet' for you."

And I brought back for you the thief 'Leah' and her accomplice 'Gritton'.

Ling Yi spoke as a representative.

Rogers stepped forward, took the white jade bracelet, and presented it to his mother.

The Queen quickly took it, carefully compared it, and found that it was indeed the white jade bracelet that had been stolen from her. She excitedly nodded to King Orr.

King Orl smiled with satisfaction and said to the four princes:

"Well done, detectives! I will reward you with treasure!"

However, before that, we must first deal with the despicable thief.

King Orr slammed his fist on the throne with a cold expression, then looked at the Queen and said to her:

"Your Majesty, these two are yours to deal with."

The queen looked at the bound Leah, not with anger as one might expect, but with sadness.

She said:

"Lia, you lost your father at the age of two and your mother at the age of three. I took you in. Although we are called mistress and servant, I have treated you well, yet you have done such a thing..."

Ling Yi wasn't interested in their melodramatic story, so he didn't listen; he was only concerned with his own "karma pool."

[Received goodwill from King Orl, Queen Orl, Rogers..., Good Deeds +5 (maximum 5 for this game)]

[Received malicious intent from Leah and Grytton, negative karma +2 (maximum 5 for this game)]

Oh?

So this is how the karmic pool grows, not from an objective perspective, but by looking at whether someone did good or bad deeds.

Instead, it takes the NPC's subjective perspective as the standard for judgment, using the NPC's view of his behavior.

That makes things much simpler.

When one person does something, there will always be one side who is satisfied and the other side who is not.

The Queen's "reminiscences" finally came to an end, and she pronounced the punishment on Leah and Grytton.

Their past relationship was wiped clean, and the two were thrown into the dungeon to have their sentences reduced depending on their behavior.

The two cried and begged for mercy, but no one present was moved.

After the dust had settled, King Orr finally pronounced his verdict:

"Now, renowned detectives of the Eastern Continent, I will reward you for your outstanding performance!"

When the gold bars and strings of jewels were brought to the table, all three people except Yuan Xiangqing gasped in astonishment.

Ling Yi and Zhang Qiang exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

They were so excited because this reward was different from the game system's reward; it was considered an extra gift from an NPC and could be taken out of the game.

No wonder the association is so stingy with attendance fees; it turns out you can earn extra money in dungeons!