This is not an MMO game copy

"Hahahahaha."

The bastards in the same dormitory laughed at the same time.

"Gone, gone—"

After that, several 'brothers' and 'sons' walked out of the dormitory arm in arm, and closed the door behind them.

As the dormitory door closed and the voices of the roommates talking and laughing gradually faded away, Xia Yan sat on the bed with a look of regret on his face.

In his memory, he had just traveled back to the end of the first semester of his last year of college more than half a month ago due to a change in the world line. Then, the system of the MMO game he played before the time travel, for some reason, lost control of the copy function and threw him to Chengxiao Mountain on the planet Solaris in the world view of Mingchao, a second-rate player.

In order to come back, he spent more than half a month preparing for the battle, and finally managed to pass the "copy" world at the risk of his life.

Afterwards, he returned to the dormitory and found that he had not "disappeared" for half a month, and the time in the "copy" world was different from the real world. He had been in the "copy" for so long, but he might not have been away from reality for long. In the end, he was so weak and exhausted that he fainted on his bed.

When I woke up again, it was already the afternoon of the next day. Several of my roommates who were going out for fun on the weekend

The livestock also happened to come back at this time.

For Xia Yan, this was his first "classmate reunion" after graduation, and he almost didn't recognize them. But for his roommates who had been his "brothers" and "sons" more than once, they had gone out together just the day before yesterday, leaving him, the "big brother", to look after the dormitory. When they came back and saw how weak he looked, they immediately jokingly asked him if he had gone out to take off his clothes.

Xia Yan had no choice but to use his illness as an excuse to get away with it.

Naturally, these guys had no doubts and agreed to ask for leave for him after getting up early this morning. They also informed the head teacher that he would be absent from classes for the next few days.

At least this is a good thing for him.

Apart from taking the time to review the textbooks and notes, which contained subject contents that he had basically forgotten after graduation, he also meditated and regulated his breathing to recover from his injuries.

After all, even if he could meditate and regulate his breathing in the MMO game he played before crossing over, and his health and mana bars would be restored quickly after leaving the battle, the system did not give him a "digital" body, so he obviously could not enjoy this convenience.

The good news is that he can see a health bar and a blue bar, and can roughly estimate how much time he needs to heal based on the color filling ratio of the two bars.

not to mention……

After confirming that those fakes would not return halfway through class, Xia Yan pulled the bed curtains and sat cross-legged on the bed. However, he did not rush to circulate his internal energy for recuperation. Instead, he tried his best to concentrate, squeezed out a part of his limited magic power, and injected it into a certain sound skeleton recorded on the magic weapon page.

【The Sound of Wandering Butterflies】

call.

Along with the infusion of magic power, a mayfly with butterfly wings, as big as a cat, appeared in front of Xia Yan. It flapped its wings and hovered while shooting a green fluorescent light at him.

Bathed in this green fluorescent light, Xia Yan showed a comfortable expression on his face. He felt that his weak body had barely recovered some strength, and the pain in his body was relieved a little. He quickly closed his eyes and seized the time to start circulating Tai Chi Qi to restore his magic power and heal his injuries.

The Wandering Butterfly, one of the Light Wave-level Afterimages, can shoot out a green healing beam to restore a small amount of health to the linked target. Although the healing effect is not strong under normal circumstances, it is better than nothing.

Of course, the Yougedie was not the light-wave-level sound fragment he obtained in Chengxiao Mountain, and there was no Yougedie remnant in Chengxiao Mountain.

As for why there are wandering butterflies...

To be honest, Xia Yan was not very clear about it either, just as he still didn't understand why the weekly rewards for clearing the Chronological Realm were not skill upgrade materials, weapon materials, advanced energy cores for upgrading weapon levels, advanced microphones for upgrading sound corpses, and shells.

Instead, it turned into a pile of sound debris.

Among them are the Raging Wave class, the Giant Wave class and the Light Wave class, but none of them are the remnants that appear in Chengxiao Mountain.

Even the [No Return Sound of Falsehood] in the Raging Tide level spans versions and time. It should not appear before or after the Chengxiao Mountain plot when he enters the "copy", but during the Dark Coast plot.

But Xia Yan didn't have time to think about why. He had already left the post-apocalyptic world of Solaris and had no plans to go back in the future. It was more important to recover from his injuries as soon as possible.

At least we have to get rid of this dire situation before the system's copy function gets out of control again at some unknown time.

(PS: The promised fourth update, more than 10,000 words, is now completed - the next volume is the Broken Cup War, well, it’s an old show that was promised. Not many people on Maoke are writing about the Broken Cup War now)

Second Dungeon: 23. Trivia After Returning (Update 1)

Xia Yan knew that he was seriously injured in the battle.

I also missed the best time to heal.

Perhaps the system, based on the standards of the original novel, had instilled in him a solid enough foundation of the Shangqing realm of Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao cultivation, preventing him from developing any underlying illness or injuries.

But the injuries on his body probably won't heal in a short period of time.

What happened next was just as Xia Yan had expected. After a week, the two poles, one green and one blue, that he could see in front of him still had not been filled again.

The former has only recovered one-tenth.

The latter is slightly better, recovering about 30%.

At this rate, it would take him at least nine weeks, or more than two months, to recover to a fully 'healthy' state.

Even the magic power would take more than half a month to recover to its full strength.

This is undoubtedly bad news for Xia Yan.

And the bad news doesn't end there.

After taking a week's sick leave, he obviously couldn't skip classes anymore, even though in his memory, he had experienced an unexplained change in the world line, and traveled back to the first half of his last year of university with a golden finger.

But in this new world, to his roommates, his class teacher, the head teacher, his grade director, as well as his family and friends, he is just a normal college student.

In the past, after leaving school and entering society, Xia Yan missed his campus life more than once.

But now that he has returned to campus life, he is feeling a headache.

Out of the simple idea of ​​keeping a low profile and being cautious, Xia Yan did not want others to know about his "change".

Fortunately, he was not a fool who did not know the seriousness of the matter. After taking a week's sick leave, he pretended to be fine and took his textbooks and went to class with a few of his roommates. However, he only pretended to listen to the class seriously, and secretly he was still concentrating on practicing qigong and regulating his breathing to recuperate.

As for your studies in this new world online?

posed (o_ _)ノ.

Fortunately, for a long time afterwards, his system did not cause any more trouble. In particular, the obviously out-of-control dungeon team matching function fell into a 'shut down' state after he returned to reality.

Xia Yan would pay attention to the interface of the dungeon team matching function every day, but every time he could only see a bunch of unrecognizable garbled characters displayed on the dungeon team matching function box, including the location of the [Start Matching] button.

But out of consideration for the worst, he did not think that the previously out-of-control dungeon team matching function of the MMO system on his body was now completely damaged and could no longer be started.

The more likely possibility is that a suitable 'copy' world has not been retrieved yet.

After all, the 'copy' he had entered earlier wasn't a copy of the MMO game he had played before crossing over, but a second-level world.

——God knows why this system that is obviously derived from an MMO game would use a second-game story world as a 'copy'.

Moreover, Xia Yan had a bad premonition based on his experience in online literature before crossing over, and combined with the fact that in this new world line, the ninth art works in the original world line had disappeared.

"Could it be that everything has become 'real'?!"

As we all know, for second-time gamers who live long enough, the worldview in the plot will inevitably begin to overlap, leading to a leapfrog inflation of combat power and the upper limit of the worldview. For example, a disaster that originally only occurred on the surface of a mere planet will start to rise in prestige because of the expansion of the worldview, and then involve things such as: high-dimensional observers, subspace demons, parallel worlds, star gods, and other weird things.

"..."

Xia Yan felt that as a cultivator from an MMO game, he was nothing compared to all the messy things that came out of this expansion and stacking box.

Therefore, in addition to taking the time to heal his wounds, he also had to plan ahead and think about how to deal with possible troubles in the future.

First of all, he was now exhausted and injured, and the flying sword he had worked so hard to refine according to local conditions was damaged in the battle. Even if he relied on the experience accumulated in the battle, as well as the cultivation and mastery of the skills instilled by the system, he was definitely stronger than himself before entering the "copy" and gaining power through the change of the world line, but he was definitely not as good as when he had the flying sword in his hand.

Having a flying sword, or a handy magic weapon, or not, really makes a world of difference to a cultivator like him who prefers the classical cultivation system.

Secondly, the real world is not the planet Solaris where almost everything has spirits, so it is unlikely that there are spiritual materials that can be used to refine flying swords.

Even if there is one, he can't find it at the moment. Even if he finds it by chance, it is unlikely that he will have enough time to refine a low-end side-door flying sword in his current situation.

Without the flying sword, his strength would be greatly reduced, and he would be unable to use various sword techniques and spells.

It can be said that his situation is not good. Unless the system's out-of-control dungeon team matching function does not cause trouble within the next year or so, he will have enough time to heal his wounds and try to refine a flying sword again.

In the end, Xia Yan had to give up the idea of ​​re-refining the flying sword and pin his hopes on other "magic weapons" for the solution.

Those are the sound corpses.

Not the light wave level and the huge wave level.

And the sound corpses obtained by clearing the "copy" are beyond the giant wave level.

For example: You can obtain the [Horn Sound Remains] only after defeating that dragon.

The voice of the Lord of the Year, even if it is a 'non-plot fake', is definitely not weak.

What's more, ['Jiao' Shenghai] is originally a summoning type Shenghai. Even if the dragon summoned by Shenghai is not as good as the real one, as long as he has the same power as that of the dragon, he will surpass his previous self.

If he fought again under the same conditions, Xia Yan would not be sure of winning and would not be able to defeat the dragon a second time.

But this also means that the mana required to activate ['Jiao' Shenghai] to summon the dragon will be very great. Given his current predicament, he may not be able to support ['Jiao' Shenghai'] to summon the dragon for a long time.

Moreover, in the real world, he summoned a dragon that was thirty to forty meters long...

...For various reasons, Xia Yan had to put the ['Horn' Sound Corpse] aside for the time being, waiting for his injuries to be healed or his mana to be fully restored before finding a chance to test it. Then he turned his attention to the other two Raging Wave-level 'magic weapons' that were given to him as rewards for clearing the 'copy', which were created by the system in an unknown way.

There is no need to think too much about the [Sigh of the Eagle], because as a transformation-type sound skeleton, the transformed form is not much smaller than the dragon, and it will undoubtedly be quite conspicuous in the city. Instead of running to the wilderness to try, it is better to hurry up and heal the wound.

Therefore, Xia Yan could only hope for the remaining voice called [The Fallacy of No Return], or the magic weapon.

(PS:... Why do you think I will stick to the original story when writing about Broken Cups... It’s not like you haven’t seen the two Broken Cup Wars I wrote in Countdown, both of which were changed beyond recognition o(╥﹏╥)o... Is it really because of the two previous T-successes that my trust has declined orz... Even if the performance of this one is terrible, I have to finish it. If I get T-successed again, I won’t dare to write novels anymore...)

Second Dungeon: 24. Job Change: Cyber ​​Hacker (Update 2)

The fallacy of no return.

This is the Raging Tide-class afterimage that only appears in the Dark Coast plot of the previous "copy" world. It was created by the core AI of the supercomputer Thetis system located underground in the Dark Coast after it went out of control due to certain problems. In order to target the protagonist who was substituted by the player, it served as the boss of the final defense program.

This supercomputer, Thetis System, is somewhat similar to the Moon Crystal Autonomous Algorithm (Mooncell) in F/E, but its scale is far less exaggerated. In the game plot of Mingchao, it is a supercomputer unique to the Black Coast, also known as the Civilization Simulation Sandbox, used to combat and warn of disasters, as well as to deduce the continuation of civilization.

Then, as an intelligent AI, it went out of control as expected and created the "Fallacy of No Return" which looked like a very handsome mecha Gundam, but was eventually beaten up by the protagonist who was in the player's place.

The Thetis system in the plot can monitor the entire planet and generate an alien space in its interior that is no different from reality through data. Even if the out-of-control core AI cannot exert its full functions due to various reasons, the "Fallacy of No Return" constructed as the final defense program also has a variety of powerful combat modules.

For example: teleporting in a manner similar to traveling through a wormhole;

Attacks like swinging the sledgehammer and stomping your feet generate energy fields;

Anti-gravity flight after entering the second stage;

Shoot energy beams from the palms of summoned additional floating robotic arms;

Summon a row of wormholes out of thin air, emitting energy beams from them, or "meteorites" composed of energy force fields.

Use the summoned floating mechanical arms to hammer the ground, strike hard, or launch a series of punches...

The sound corpses Xia Yan obtained were always plot-oriented.

If the complete [No Return Fallacy] can be summoned, the combat power that this Mecha Gundam can exert will definitely not be weak even if it is not in the main field of the Thetis system space. As a Raging Tide-class afterimage, it is at least often capable of combat at the level of anti-army or anti-city.

So, after another week, I saw that the system's out-of-control dungeon matching function was still in the 'off' state, and my mana was recovering and had recovered to about 60%.

Xia Yan, whose injuries had healed a lot, immediately reduced his recovery time and found an opportunity to go out alone this weekend. He found a hotel in another urban area far away from the school and booked an hourly room. He then devoted himself to the research of [The Sound of No Return].

As he focused his attention, he stared at the image on the magic weapon page on the game interface that only he could see, and transferred his magic power along the mysterious 'connection'.

Soon, a humanoid mecha with a silver-white body and neon-colored data streams flowing through the gaps and edges of the armor on its torso appeared in his consciousness. There were also two energy streamers behind it that were also filled with neon-colored data streams, and a giant power hammer in one hand.

Image: "Mecha", Location: "Images/1735820347-100424595-112514967.jpg"

But just as Xia Yan tried to concentrate his mind, using his own magic power as a trigger, he used his thoughts to "call" the mecha reflected in his consciousness.

Suddenly, he felt a huge "resistance" blocking his mind.

It seems that it is impossible to easily summon [The Fallacy of No Return] as an afterimage in the outside world as using the Sound Corpse to summon light wave and huge wave-level afterimages.

It's just that this is not a limitation, but the consumption of the Raging Wave-class Sound Shelter is much more than Xia Yan expected.

With 60% of the magic power of the Qing realm cultivation, Xia Yan is able to easily summon multiple giant wave-level afterimages through the giant wave-level sound corpse magic weapon, and maintain their appearance and fighting for a long time.

However, the same consumption fell into the [Fallacy of No Return] and was unable to completely activate the entirety of the Sound Remains. The "resistance" was that the mana invested was not enough to allow the residual image to appear in its complete form.

After a quick estimate, Xia Yan realized that even if he had recovered about 60% of his mana, it would still be a huge burden for him to fully manifest [The Fallacy of No Return]. So he simply gave up the idea of ​​summoning the entire humanoid mecha to the outside world all at once, and instead began to carefully comprehend it with his mind.

After a while.

"Hmm, it seems like it could be the same as the scaled-down version in the game..."

While muttering to himself, Xia Yan once again focused his mind and injected his magic power, trying to make the sound skeleton appear.

Immediately, ripples appeared in the air, and two huge mechanical arms covered in silver-white armor appeared in the room.

"...This really looks like a Stand user."

Xia Yan blinked his eyes and transmitted a thought through the air with his magic power as the bond. The two silver-white mechanical arms suspended in the air immediately made a clenched fist gesture without any delay, giving him the feeling of just asking someone to write a few pages of paper.

"Ok?"