Wanjie Game Hall, I sent Kiana to Silent Hill

"Wouldn't it be unfair to that old man if you helped me like this?"

The girl put her hands on her hips and asked Wang Xuanqiao in a slightly hesitant tone.

"It would be unfair if I didn't help you," Wang Xuanqiao replied. "After all, I just sent a request to Fu Hua, asking her to do something along the way. Besides, this is your first time playing this game, and you don't know much about its functions. As a veteran player of this game, I have to guide you no matter what."

The girl suddenly fell silent.

She shifted her gaze around, and as her head turned, her body also swayed unconsciously. This look was a bit like those girls who had something on their mind and needed to pretend to look around to diffuse and then converge their thoughts.

After a moment, the girl suddenly asked Wang Xuanqiao a question.

"What do you think of me?"

After she finished speaking, the girl seemed to realize something and quickly added, "What I mean is, although I'm down and out now, I'm still a Herrscher after all. And a Herrscher of consciousness, too. I'm incredibly powerful and very difficult to deal with!"

"That old guy has been keeping me locked up for so long, I understand. We are enemies after all, and it's perfectly normal to lock them up until they die! I was already prepared to spend the rest of my life in that prison, but I didn't expect her to suddenly come to the prison to look for me..."

"Honestly, if the old woman could set me free, I'd be quite tempted. Who wants to stay in jail forever when they can be free? But when I think about how I've been locked up for so long for nothing, I get so angry. And she's still looking at me like a prisoner. What did I do wrong?! It's not like I wanted to go to Honkai on my own!"

The girl became visibly excited as she talked about the things that touched her.

She couldn't help but wave her arms, as if she wanted to express emotions that words couldn't express through her body.

After venting her anger, the girl let out a long breath and calmed down a little.

"So... who am I now?" She looked at Wang Xuanqiao again. "I didn't even have my own appearance to begin with, and now I've been forced to take on that old man's appearance. I feel like I'm constantly being manipulated by others, as if all the major events I've experienced were choices made for me by others, not my own will!"

Wang Xuanqiao was also looking at the girl.

He touched his chin and felt that the child's current situation was indeed a bit delicate.

——The author has something to say——

After all, Xiao Shi here has not experienced the baptism of Fu Hua's thousand-year memory, and his circumstances are different, so many gaps in his personality need to be filled again.

But it doesn't matter. The Xiao Shi that readers are familiar with is not actually a personality that is entirely based on Fu Hua's memories. Ming Shao is also trying hard to remove the influence of Fu Hua in the original work to describe a "pure version" of Xiao Shi. The result may not be exactly the same as readers' understanding, so readers can understand.

After all, different people will definitely have different interpretations of this kind of thing, it's just a matter of more or less. Of course, if book friends have their own ideas, they are welcome to put them forward and we can discuss them together.

And I would like to mention that if you want to collect pictures, you can join the book group. Some pictures are indeed quite large, and I am afraid that they will be blocked if I send them to cwm. For example, the JK Nashida cover that I wanted to change was rejected twice by the fledgling reviewer of cwm 233

The book group number is still the same, and it only accepts readers of this book.

Volume 238: : Will we win? We will win.

After the girl finished expressing her frustrations, it was Wang Xuanqiao's turn to respond.

Meanwhile, Fu Hua had already entered the mountainous region in the center of the island. The ecosystem, far richer than the coastline, welcomed her with a vengeance. The forested area was filled with flying ants and ants as big as arms, while the rocky terrain was crawling with centipedes longer than a human body and scorpions larger than dogs.

These prehistoric insects were actually quite good, as they were easy to escape. The truly deadly creatures in the mountains were the occasional saber-toothed tigers, as big as motorcycles, and the Argentinian giant eagles that soared high in the sky. If you encountered one of these, it was life or death, no exceptions.

Even with Fu Hua's experience in battle, she barely escaped being eaten by monsters while dragging her ordinary, in-game body. Fortunately, the ecosystem itself was subject to conflict, like saber-toothed tigers being preyed upon by giant eagles. Otherwise, Fu Hua wouldn't have dared to survive if they were collectively targeted.

However, what surprised Fu Hua was that this experience, which was clearly full of death and thrills, gave her a long-lost sense of familiarity.

Fu Hua recalled that familiar feeling and realized that it was the feeling of surviving the end of the world by chance, walking out of the hibernation capsule with friends and starting to rebuild civilization on the wild land.

At that time, everywhere was indeed full of wildness. Although it was definitely not as wild as the Ark, the flavor was the same.

The only difference is that back then, I was a powerful fusion warrior who could reshape order with my strength, but now I am just an ordinary human, struggling to survive among these prehistoric creatures that are obsessed with the sun.

Feeling unexpectedly good?

Fu Hua realized that she missed this feeling a little bit - there was no need to worry about the so-called future, ambitions, ideals or missions, because all her energy had to be focused on staying alive.

Only at times like this could Fu Hua slightly feel that she was indeed trying hard to live.

Fu Hua found a shady spot on the hillside and sat down to rest for a while. She found that her animal skin clothes were already tattered after the continuous fighting. Fortunately, no one here would pay attention to the so-called spring light.

After Fu Hua confirmed that there were no enemies around, she took off all her clothes and patched them up, then examined the almost overweight loot she was carrying.

It seemed like they should first tame some creatures as helpers. Fu Hua thought about it and decided to slow down their exploration and establish a temporary base in the mountainous area to gain a foothold.

After making up her mind, she couldn't help but glance in the direction of the camp, wanting to see if she could determine the approximate distance between the two places by sight, as one of the considerations for planning the new base.

Hmm... I wonder how the Herrscher of Knowledge is progressing? Fu Hua suddenly remembered this.

What happened to the Herrscher of Consciousness? Let's rewind time from Fu Hua's thrilling adventure—to the time when Wang Xuanqiao answered the girl.

"The answer to this question cannot be given to you by others."

Wang Xuanqiao put down his hand that was holding his chin and said to the girl.

"Indeed, it seems as if you've been influenced by others in some important choices. However, you can't ignore the role of your own will in it. For example, the Honkai forced you to go to the battlefield, but you resisted this fate and survived that battle."

"Then there's the matter of giving you Fu Hua's appearance. Honestly, no one is born with the ability to decide what they will look like. Even beings with the ability to transform into countless forms have their own face deep down."

At this point, Wang Xuanqiao suddenly recalled a civilization he had encountered in the Samsara Dimension. That civilization had developed impressive plastic surgery technology, allowing its people to customize their appearance.

But the result of this practice is... that differences in appearance have almost disappeared. At least 990 out of a thousand people have the same face, and these people occasionally follow the trend with plastic surgery. For example, if someone tries to be different, they will soon be followed by many more people.

This civilization was quite tricky for Wang Xuanqiao, because his mission at the time was to find an alien civilization that was skilled in transformation and disguise and destroy it. However, this civilization made the task even more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

Of course, the most terrifying thing is that after staying in that world for a while, Wang Xuanqiao discovered that someone had started to make his face look like him, so that one day when he went out, he found that the streets were full of "himself"...

"In short, appearance doesn't really matter, as long as you're not hideously ugly. Even if you look like Fu Hua now, as long as your own will is prominent enough, it won't be Fu Hua's appearance anymore, but yours."

The girl immediately nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"That's right, that's how it should be!" she said. "After hearing what you said, I feel like my thoughts have become much clearer. I really don't need others to judge who I am. As long as everything I do is what I think and what I want, that's enough!"

The girl became proud after she finished speaking. Although she had the same appearance as Fu Hua, at this moment, one could tell at a glance that they were two completely different people.

However, before she could feel proud for long, the girl suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Alas, but I'm actually still imprisoned in that prison." She touched her hair and said to Wang Xuanqiao hesitantly, "Well...if I beat that old thing this time, could you talk to her and let me out?"

"It's not impossible," Wang Xuanqiao nodded in reply. "But the decision on this matter isn't mine. Ultimately, you have to prove to her that you can be free."

"Tsk, why is it like this..." The girl scratched her head, her expression becoming a little distressed. "But I remember your words were very important, right? If you were the one who spoke, the old man would definitely listen to you, right?"

"If you were letting me out because of my face, I definitely wouldn't let you leave the arcade." Wang Xuanqiao shrugged at the girl. "Although it's certainly better than staying in Yu Duchen, after all, you can play any game you want, but that's definitely not the freedom you want."

"Oh, alright." The girl sighed, giving in, a rare sign of surrender. "I'll find a way to prove myself! But I don't believe that old man can judge impartially, so you have to be the judge in the end!"

"That's no problem. I guarantee fairness," Wang Xuanqiao said with a smile. "Also, I'll stay with you until I'm sure you've mastered the game. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions."

"Alright! Just for what you said, I will definitely defeat that old man!"

The girl suddenly burst out with an extremely powerful force and ran directly towards the sea.

Both sides were working hard, and as if time was afraid that these two similar yet different people would get tired, it unconsciously began to weaken the daylight, replacing the stars and the night sky on the sky, reminding them that it was time to rest.

After a long soak in the sea, the girl shivered as she made her way ashore, following Wang Xuanqiao, who had also made several trips to the sea, back to the camp. The temperature plummeted in the dark night. While the temperature difference wasn't too great at the seaside, the wind was chilly, making it easy for a "drowned rat" to catch a cold.

After returning to the camp, Wang Xuanqiao immediately lit a bonfire and asked the girl to stay there to dry her body and clothes.

The girl also took this opportunity to count her gains from the sea. Although she couldn't go to the open sea with her current level and equipment, she could still obtain marine resources by slaughtering trilobites on the near-shore continental shelf, and she had gained quite a bit.

"That old man will definitely not be able to catch up with me now, right?" The girl couldn't help but smile happily.

The 'old thing' she was thinking of was currently holding a torch in the darkness, watching over the scorpion that was being tamed.

Fu Hua finally decided to tame the scorpions with neurotoxins first. With the help of the tamed scorpions, she would be able to capture the surrounding prehistoric animals more quickly. By then, when she had developed to a certain scale, the safety of the mountain stronghold would no longer be a problem.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Fu Hua had no worries about the outcome of this competition.

The person who will win will definitely be herself. Fu Hua believed this, unless the store manager wanted to favor the Herrscher of Knowledge, but that was absolutely impossible.

Image: "'Old Stuff'", Location: "Images/1732471403-100412545-112377351.jpg"

——The author has something to say——

Thanks to book friends [Demon Eater], [Xiao Ji Stewed Mushrooms 100], and [A Boatman] for casting 3 monthly tickets. Thank you very much for your support!

Volume 239: : Fu Hua's Way to Victory

The land beneath the survivors' feet isn't actually a physical planet, but a massive ecological starship. Therefore, the nights on the Ark are actually much darker, with pitch darkness being the norm. Unless there's a resource warehouse airdropped nearby, torches are the only way to illuminate the area.

The girl originally wanted to go into the sea in the dark, but when she saw that it was pitch black outside the camp and she couldn't see anything, it was like a monster with its mouth quietly opened, so she had to give up the urge to go out.

"I really shouldn't do anything at night. That old guy... shouldn't bully me like this, right?" The girl muttered softly while staying alone in the camp.

As for where Wang Xuanqiao went, he was, of course, out picking up airdrops with a torch. After nightfall, the resource drop silos, emitting a variety of lights, became particularly conspicuous. It was a perfect time to take the dog there and make a fortune.

Although they have not yet tamed the dire wolf, the small velociraptor can be considered a kind of dog.

The girl originally wanted to go with them, but Wang Xuanqiao said that picking up airdrops, which depends on luck, would affect the fairness of the competition. Therefore, he refused the girl's permission to go with him and asked her to rest well in the camp and think about tomorrow's plan.

In this way, the three of them began to live out their daily pioneering life on the Ark. Fu Hua, with the giant scorpion as the core, quickly built a team of giant scorpions and saber-toothed tigers, and even captured an Argentinian giant eagle.

Unfortunately, there is no saddle to ensure safe riding of the giant eagle, otherwise Fu Hua would be the first player on the Ark to fly into the sky.

With the help of this team with strong martial virtues, she successfully found a mine in the mountains, and began to hunt here to increase her level so that she could build a sturdy stone building as a mountain stronghold.

The Herrscher of Consciousness hunted trilobites for three days straight before finally getting bored and starting to try something else. She set her sights on the deep sea, thinking about taming some powerful marine creatures to join her in her explorations.

So, the girl worked hard to save up a bunch of resources to build herself a raft, and began her journey to "dominate the ocean."

Now Wang Xuanqiao was sure that he didn't need to accompany her all the time, so he officially began to take on the responsibilities of refereeing this competition.

Although the girl was obviously a little surprised and hesitant about Wang Xuanqiao letting her be "independent", she still patted her chest and said that she would definitely win this victory.

After freeing himself from the mission of assisting the young girl, Wang Xuanqiao set about improving the camp's technological capabilities. He recorded the resources produced by Fu Hua and the Herrscher of Knowledge and quickly invested them in development.

From craftsmen's tables and smelting furnaces to machine tools and generators, while the camp still looked like a wooden structure from the outside, the interior was completely renovated. Wang Xuanqiao crafted ironware and armor, gunpowder, and simple firearms, bringing the camp's technological level to modern standards.

Combined with the high-quality blueprints he picked up from the airdrop, Wang Xuanqiao felt that he might be able to expand into more dangerous areas, such as going to the snowfield area to get a few good-quality dire wolves and train a wolf pack here in the camp.

Once the dire wolves in the Ark form a group, they can basically walk sideways on land. Perhaps only elite Tyrannosaurus or Giganotosaurus can fight against them.

But when it comes to cost, the Dire Wolf is still the most cost-effective of the three. The Dire Wolf can be ridden and controlled without even a saddle, and while it lacks the protection provided by a saddle, that little bit of protection is completely unnecessary when hunting in a pack.

After the three of them worked hard for a while, Fu Hua finally found the salt mine she wanted in the cave where she had been struggling for many days.

Strictly speaking, there shouldn't be salt mines in such a place. After all, inland salt mines are resources that were created after a long period of crustal movement, which carried the ancient ocean inland. However, the sea on the Ark is not a salty sea, and the Ark is not a planet, so it is hard to say whether there is any crustal movement.

Fu Hua had considered these issues, but Ark was, after all, a game, so imagination was perhaps even more important. Wang Xuanqiao didn't deny the feasibility of this plan, so Fu Hua naturally decided to give it a try.

After Fu Hua mined a considerable amount of salt, he rode on a saber-toothed tiger and left the mine.

Wang Xuanqiao was currently in the mountain stronghold she had built, preparing to count the resources to see if it was possible to make the Giant Eagle Saddle.

With the Giant Eagle harness, capturing dire wolves in the snowy ecosystem is much easier. Under the control of the survivor, the Argentinian Eagle can use its claws to capture creatures the size of dire wolves and saber-toothed tigers, directly avoiding the risk of direct confrontation with wolves in the snow.

Wang Xuanqiao turned around and saw Fu Hua, clad in iron armor, walking in with heavy steps. As for why her steps were so heavy? Of course, it was because she was carrying a large amount of ore.

"I got back pretty early today." Wang Xuanqiao was counting materials at the craftsman's table. As the iron ore supply became increasingly sufficient, demand for advancement materials like crystal, obsidian, and polymers began to surge.

"Well, I found a salt mine, so I came back first." Fu Hua replied as she walked towards the storage cabinet. She stuffed everything she had collected into it, and then took out one or two pieces of salt ore.

"Found it?" Wang Xuanqiao immediately came over, took a piece of salt ore from Fu Hua's hand, and then resisted the urge to lick it first to taste the saltiness.

It wasn't that he was trying to be weird, it was just that the cooking system in Ark was a bit like alchemy. Many of the recipes in the game required very strange things, after all, no one had ever seen curry with anesthetics.

If you don't know, you might think it's some shady place. They put drugs in the food to make people unconscious, and then make a smelly noise.

"I'll try to refine it now. If it's really table salt, this competition is over." Fu Hua walked to the stone mortar with the salt ore, sat down on the ground and began to try to crush it.

"Are you so confident?" Wang Xuanqiao couldn't help but ask, seeing that Fu Hua didn't even bother to ask about the Herrscher of Knowledge's recent situation, "Aren't you going to confirm her achievements first?"

"From the equipment the store manager has recently supplied, I can infer that she's providing the camp with supplies like chitin, pearls, and fuel. In addition, she should also be adding some auxiliary creatures."

While grinding the salt ore, Fu Hua discussed her speculation with Wang Xuanqiao.

"However, such a boring and repetitive activity would definitely become a torture for her personality. She would probably be unable to maintain a stable supply and would come up with other ideas, such as... finding a more powerful way to defeat me."

She really guessed it all...

Wang Xuanqiao couldn't help but applaud Fu Hua.

"She's now starting to challenge the ocean. She built a raft and then started piling structures on top of it. She said she wanted to build a powerful ocean-going ship so everyone could go fishing and shark hunting together."

Not sure if it was because her guess was confirmed, or because she imagined the girl's childish remarks, but Fu Hua, who was tinkering with the salt mine, couldn't help but slightly raise the corner of her mouth.

"She...is definitely not a bad kid."

Fu Hua's expression suddenly became a little melancholic. She was a Herrscher, completely different from Kiana, Mei Raiden, and Bronya. Yet, she didn't become a demon like in the pre-civilization era. Instead, she looked like an ordinary child.

"Have you thought about what to do with her after you win?" Wang Xuanqiao asked, leaning against the closet.