Poverty makes me capable of anything.

If you're not even at the Star Domain level, what are you bragging about? If you're already out of commission, what are you still bragging about?

"..."

Aren't grandmasters powerful?

That unknown entity was a bit bewildering.

"You'd better stay inside quietly. Goodbye."

The unknown entity was instantly enraged: "Do you know the consequences of angering me?"

"..."

An Ran was silent for a moment: "Do you know the consequences of angering me?"

(#｀ Pan?)

"What a foolish human! Once I'm out, I'll make you wish you were dead! No, before that, my followers will punish you!"

"Nonsense!" An Ran chuckled. "If I were a little stupid, I would have actually been fooled by you."

"I guessed you were some kind of big boss in a certain version, but you couldn't possibly appear before version 2.0 because the players aren't that strong. Who the hell do you think you are? I'm the final boss of version 2.0, trash! And what about your followers? If your followers really knew what was going on here, they'd have to wait for others to come in and let you out. Come on, tell me who your followers are, and when I get stronger, I'll turn them all into experience points!"

┌(.Д.)┐

Shocked, he leaned back tactically.

The unknown entity was completely baffled.

It had never seen such an arrogant and cunning human.

More importantly, it couldn't understand what the human was saying at all.

Version? 2.0? Player? Final Boss?

What the hell is all this stuff?

Unknown question mark.

The two sides parted on bad terms.

Because An Ran directly hit its sore spot, and the analysis was reasonable, it was trapped and unable to do anything. It exhausted all its strength to learn programming and implanted a virus into Tan Tang's body, but it was all for naught.

Damn (I don't know what language this is)!

"Anran, Anran." Ella tugged at Anran's sleeve.

An Ran, who seemed to be in a daze, finally came to her senses.

“This AI seems to be broken, so let’s just turn it off,” An Ran said.

Ella had real control over a portion of the dungeon, so she could easily find Tantang's main computer location.

After some effort, Tan Tang's power was temporarily turned off.

This is also to avoid any unexpected situations; we won't touch her again until her safety level is raised.

The moment Tan Tang was shut down, An Ran realized that she had completed another hidden story mission.

【Three hidden engravings】.

500 million experience points.

Choosing not to open the Dark Engraving, oh my, so that box was called the Dark Engraving. An Ran finally understood. Moreover, there were two more like this. If all three were opened and sealed, the unknown creatures would emerge from the void.

This is probably to increase engagement with the game's storyline.

In the normal setting, Anran and Ella wouldn't be able to come here. Either the player or the Sand Scouts would come. If the Sand Scouts come, it would be part of the normal game storyline, and if the player comes, it would increase the player's participation in the story.

In other words, Ella's arrival caused a conflict with Tantang's core mechanics, otherwise it wouldn't have been exposed.

……

In Edland's tavern.

There were three people sitting at one table, and several other men were sitting at another table on the other side.

The tavern was temporarily booked by the advance team of Bureau 217.

Therefore, the originally rough atmosphere suddenly became dull.

Just 20 minutes ago, Gino contacted headquarters and relayed the situation to Minister Gary.

As expected, it broke out.

It's understandable, but Gary was still very angry, the kind that you can't coax, and he was furious!

He'd really had enough.

You stranger, I'll fuck your grandpas!

Even setting aside his defeat in Baplo, he was driven crazy by the players who were so focused on completing the mission that they didn't care about anything else.

The allure of the spaceship was so great that even the players guarding the gate were distracted.

Look at the difference! Others are giving away spaceships, you're giving away air.

If there had been a mechanism for rebellion, they would have immediately turned around and joined the opposing camp.

Gary realized he had underestimated the players. He hadn't rested for two days. Although the base hadn't been destroyed, the pressure was mounting. Calling for backup was useless. When Baplo's bad news came, he completely snapped.

After venting my frustrations, I can finally relax for a while.

“Contact Visa,” Gary said.

Contact completed.

After a long silence in the tavern, Qin Shuiyan, who had been drinking alone, finally spoke.

He immediately expressed his gratitude.

"If it weren't for you, I would have died by that sandworm's blade. I owe you my life."

The large glass made a thud when it was tapped on the table.

Heloise placed her hands in front of her nose, her delicate little fingers slightly raised, her vision reflecting the bottles of wine in the glass shop window.

"It's just on the way, it's not as exaggerated as you say."

“Actually, let’s go a bit further.” Meng Lan fiddled with a spider, a bio-mechanical device. “If you hadn’t taken out those drones and turrets, we might not have made it back. Those turrets weren’t the worst of it, but those drones were quite technologically advanced. If we weren’t careful, one drone could have wiped us all out.”

Heloise didn't say anything.

"Sigh." Qin Shuiyan sighed, "I don't know if I'm being too pessimistic or what, but I feel like revenge is getting further and further away from me."

"To avenge our fallen comrades?" Heloise asked tentatively.

"That's partly true, but the main problem is still my own."

"???" Heloise looked puzzled.

Meng Lan explained, "Actually, all of us old members of Bureau 217 have a deep-seated hatred for the pirates in the North, and that's why we came together."

what?

And so, the story began, almost unintentionally.

There should be a background music song here that's even more tragic than the last.

Chapter 15 Hero (Player), Don't Be Arrogant

Her father was murdered, her mother was arrested, and her younger brother had his right hand chopped off, yet this woman remained obsessed...

Let's stop here.

Although Night of the Stars is also an open-world game with a high degree of freedom, Qin Shuiyan, as an NPC, still plays her role very dutifully.

He was neither addicted to playing cards, nor to picking up trash, fishing, or walking birds.

She abandoned those fun but ultimately pointless recreational activities and embarked on a path of relentlessly becoming stronger.

On the other hand, Meng Lan's situation wasn't much better. She was an orphan from a young age, but was adopted by an old mechanic. The old mechanic adopted many children, providing them with food and shelter, and teaching them mechanical skills.

Meng Lan knew the old mechanic wasn't genuinely kind; he just needed assistants who met his requirements. When angry, the old mechanic would also scold and beat the child; he didn't care whether the child truly liked mechanical technology.

But none of that matters. Meng Lan doesn't want to delve any deeper into what the old mechanic is up to. The fact that she survived and is standing here is all thanks to the old mechanic's genuine kindness.

Therefore, after all of this was destroyed by the pirates' brutality, Meng Lan and her few surviving companions embarked on a path of revenge.

She still remembered why the pirates wanted to kill the old mechanic.

"We lost to Boswell because the quality of the weapons you maintained was substandard!"

“These weapons have been overused for a long time. I’ve said before that it would be best to replace them with a new batch…”

"Enough with the nonsense! Still trying to make excuses for your poor skills? There's no point in keeping trash like you around. Just die!"

"boom--"

The gunshot was frozen at the moment of separation.

Meng Lan then hid in the basement and escaped death.

The atmosphere is very oppressive; at this moment, we should play a song like "Confession/Secret" to set the mood.

"Me?" Heloise was a little stunned.

If Qin Shuiyan and Meng Lan's lives are a tragedy, then her life is a complete tragedy.

She lived the way many people imagined, but not the way she imagined herself.

So, now, there's a sense of rebirth to some extent.

laugh.

It should be a true rebirth, since even the body is brand new.

As she drank her sorrows away, Qin Shuiyan was somewhat taken aback when she saw a faint smile appear on Heloise's face after her unpleasant outpouring.

"The person who gave you a new life must be a very gentle man," she asked.

“No, that’s not it.” Heloise shook her head. “In fact, it’s the complete opposite of what you imagine.”

There wasn't even anything touching about it.

Completely the opposite?