My main world refreshes weekly.

How did I beat the game...?

"Perhaps it's because I have a special talent?" Chen Ci honestly replied, "That's what the ghost bride said."

"The ghost bride?" This was the second time Jiang Wanxin had heard this name. "The BOSS?"

Chen Ci nodded.

Jiang Wanxin: "..."

The boss praised his exceptional talent?

In which aspect?

Jiang Wanxin couldn't say exactly what happened in the instance, but she could roughly guess that a fierce battle must have taken place between Chen Ci and the Ghost Bride, with Chen Ci emerging as the ultimate winner. From a victory or defeat perspective, Chen Ci was indeed exceptionally talented.

To enter the Tenth of the Week dungeon, players must possess an item. The survival rate of less than 10% in the newbie dungeon is calculated based on this, and players are assumed to use this item. However, Chen Ci's words were useless… not only useless, but he didn't even know he possessed such an item, which gave Jiang Wanxin a second shock.

Her eyes reflected Chen Ci's face, whether he was feigning ignorance or genuinely naive, and she realized that this little guy seemed to have more potential than she had imagined.

Shocked, Jiang Wanxin also felt a lingering fear.

When Chen Ci first mentioned that he was a newbie, she assumed that Chen Ci knew some of the game rules and didn't specifically mention that item. If Chen Ci died in the dungeon because he lacked the help of this item, she would feel extremely guilty.

Fortunately, Chen Ci survived.

This also gave her a more accurate understanding of Chen Ci's talent, and she was determined to keep this little guy in the club! At the same time, Jiang Wanxin deeply reflected on herself; as the guide, her work tonight was a failure, and she almost harmed Chen Ci.

Jiang Wanxin reorganized her thoughts, treating the handsome young man in front of her as a complete novice, and began guiding him through the speech from scratch.

"Before you qualify to enter Ten, your memories and cognition should be confused... I mean, you won't realize that your cognition is flawed."

"So, when did you first realize that something was wrong with this world?" Jiang Wanxin asked.

Chen Ci thought for a moment: "About a week ago?"

"It can't be a week, it can only be six or five days," Jiang Wanxin said. "Otherwise, you should have come over last week on the 10th."

"That should be six days," Chen Ci said.

"Okay." Jiang Wanxin continued, "Then think carefully, six days ago, did you receive any special gifts, or find any strange things that you've been carrying with you ever since?"

Chen Ci immediately recalled that when he returned to his dormitory on Monday night, the dormitory supervisor said that someone had left him something. It was a pink gift bag containing a love letter and a small box, inside which was a ring.

I've forgotten the content of the love letter, but I remember it wasn't signed, and I didn't leave any information like my major or class.

He had received so many love letters since childhood that he was long desensitized to them. He glanced at them and threw them into a drawer, but kept the ring with him at all times. Chen Ci thought that since the other party had written a love letter, she would definitely want to know his reaction. If she came to ask, he could return the ring at any time. This ring was also the only "new" thing he had.

According to Jiang Wanxin, the ring was actually a game prop?

Only by possessing items and becoming a player can one retain their knowledge and memories, unaffected by changes in the world line.

Is there another player at his school who likes him?

who can that be?

Dozens of girls' faces flashed through Chen Ci's mind, and his hand subconsciously reached into his pocket.

"Don't take it out," Jiang Wanxin said. "You can see it for yourself when you get home."

She took a sip of champagne, changed the subject, and said with a smile, "Alright, now I can answer your question. There should be a world timeline reward on your dungeon completion page, right?"

"They said it would be distributed in the real world after the integration, but they didn't say when," Chen Ci said.

"Next Wednesday," Jiang Wanxin said.

Argument: "Is it always Wednesday?"

"Of course not," Jiang Wanxin said. "It's just that the rewards for the October 10th dungeon worldline will appear next Wednesday. If you think of October 8th as next Monday, you'll understand."

The eighth day of the week corresponds to the following Monday, the ninth day of the week corresponds to the following Tuesday, and the tenth day of the week is naturally the following Wednesday.

Chen Ci was taken aback: "There's an eighth day of the week?"

"It's not just the eighth day of the week, little brother." Jiang Wanxin's eyes crinkled into a smile. She always felt happy as a guide, explaining the game to new players. Everyone loves to teach, especially when Chen Ci's words appealed to her, which added a touch of anticipation to her teaching. She explained to Chen Ci in a gentle voice:

"Your personal panel has a sequence number. The last three digits are a number, and the first three digits, CCA, represent the region—China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 10 is your access level, which means you can access the 'Tenth of the Week' event. We usually call this Sequence 10."

"Once you upgrade to Sequence 9, you can enter the 'September 1st' week, and the world line rewards will be distributed on Tuesdays."

Jiang Wanxin paused, then added, "You should be aware that worldline rewards are often not delivered directly to you; you have to find them yourself. The higher the worldline sequence you merge with, the more troublesome it is to find them. This is the meaning of 'risk reward'."

"But you don't need to worry for now. The world line rewards for Sequence 10 usually appear in the form of delivery or scavenging, which is not much different from being given out directly. Generally, no one will try to steal them."

Jiang Wanxin emphasized the word "rob," and Chen Ci's eyes widened in response: "You can rob me?"

"That's the significance of Mingcheng Club's existence," Jiang Wanxin said with a meaningful smile. "If you feel you can't get the reward, you can pay us to help you."

"We can't guarantee we'll complete the mission, but we'll definitely do our best. To date, our club has a 95% positive feedback rate, far surpassing 'Zodiac' and 'Asylum'... So, how about joining us?"

Chen Ci caught a whiff of "strife" from the faint rose perfume on Jiang Wanxin's body. This was what Jiang Wanxin wanted to express: every circle has its own open and covert struggles and intrigues. This is true in ordinary society, and it is also true among players.

To Jiang Wanxin's surprise, Chen Ci not only didn't hesitate or show any fear or trepidation, but instead exclaimed excitedly, "That's it! That's it! The martial arts world is all about fighting and killing; that's what makes it interesting!"

Jiang Wanxin: "..."

"And another thing," Chen Ci said excitedly, "you just mentioned that the sequence corresponds to time permissions, and also to world lines... Sequence 8 certainly isn't the highest level, right?"

"There should be Sequence 7, Sequence 6... and even Sequence 1 above, corresponding to last weekend, last Saturday, and last Monday respectively. If I choose to merge the world lines in the above sequences, will the rewards be delivered to reality as soon as I leave the dungeon?"

"...I guess so." This is actually a very dangerous premise. Jiang Wanxin carefully chose her words. "Sequence 7 is a watershed moment. Beyond that, the timeline may merge with an even more ancient past, causing the progress of civilization in the real world to deviate."

"Each copy... or rather each timeline represents a parallel world."

Jiang Wanxin gave a simple example to illustrate its seriousness: "If you enter a historical instance during World War II, obtain core research data on nuclear weapons, and select it as a risky reward for world line fusion, and this data happens to fall into the hands of a key figure in China during World War II, then history will be rewritten, and the current world order will change drastically overnight."

"China may become the United States, and the United States may become China."

"Similarly, if we replaced the nuclear weapons research data with something else, such as a practical cultivation technique or a spiritual energy detection report, then in reality we might not be developing technology, but cultivating immortality."

This game allows players to merging timelines to alter existing history and thus change the entire real world, which is why it's called a "real-world programming game."

Jiang Wanxin said all this in the hope that Chen Ci would realize the meaning of the word "player." There's a saying, "With great power comes great responsibility..."

"I understand!" Chen Ci suddenly said, "According to this logic, the impact of merging world lines on reality largely depends on which historical period the risk reward was distributed to. In other words, as long as the time point is controlled, the scope of influence can be controlled, allowing multiple different world lines to coexist in the real world."

"This is fantastic!"

Chen Ci was so excited he almost jumped up: "Then I want four parts cultivation, three parts cyberpunk, two parts the bizarre, and one part the Kingdom of Women!"

Jiang Wanxin: "???"

……