Zongman: Evolution Paradise

Rika's eyes also hesitated, because Shizuka Marikawa was hiding behind Jolyne. The blonde beauty looked guilty and avoided eye contact, which made Rika quickly realize that this was not an artificial being created using her friend's data, but the real Shizuka Marikawa, her mysteriously missing friend.

Jolyne: "Sirius?!"

Nanrika: "Shizuka Marikawa?!"

……

After a while, the four of them and their dog were sitting in a Snow Mud King shop.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward, though.

After getting to know her, he discovered that this Nanri was indeed from the Bedmaster City he had visited. Ciri Alice and the dog were also mutant zombies who had been threatened with corpses and died in the hospital. He never expected that the four of them would reunite here.

The slurping sound of slush continued as Nanri Kaori stuffed her mouth with fish and chips, staring at Shizuka Marikawa's guilty face, who dared not utter a sound, and finally gave a weary, carefree smile.

"Shizuka, you actually forgot about me when you left Tokoname City, didn't you?"

“Private Marseille!”

Shizuka Marikawa bowed her head and admitted her mistake.

"Not even a letter? Do you know how many years I've been looking for you?"

Unable to be carefree at all, Nanri Kaori chose to turn dark and use her gaze to take her best friend's life. She gritted her teeth, wanting to pour out her experiences over the years, but then looked at Jolyne, who was wearing a dragon robe next to her, and shut up with a sigh.

"Don't worry about me. Actually, it's okay if you pounce on Shizuka and spank her."

Jolyne was complaining on the side, and Shizuka Marikawa quickly covered her buttocks and puffed out her cheeks as she moved closer to Rika Minami. This made Rika Minami realize that Shizuka Marikawa and this person named Jolyne had a very close relationship, and it was not the kind of relationship she had guessed, where she was taken away by the company dog ​​and turned into a sex doll.

"Has Rika been looking for me for a long time?"

Shizuka Marikawa cutely stuck out her pink tongue, pondered her leisurely summer vacation-like life after leaving Tokoname City, and finally realized that Tokoname City was not far away in her memory. "But it has been less than two months since I left Tokoname City."

"Two months?"

Nanrika pinched Shizuka Marikawa's face, confirming that Jolyne's attitude was indeed casual, and said with a complicated expression amidst Shizuka Marikawa's cry of pain, "The zombie crisis that broke out in Tokoname City was four years ago in my memory."

"Four years?"

This caught Jolyne's attention.

主世界的时间每走1天，其他世界就会流逝24天，如果按照主世界确实走过两个月来计算，60×24÷365的答案确实是3.9年约等于四年没错。

However, less than two months had passed in the main world.

Since Jolyne became a player, she has spent most of her time in other worlds. The flow of time is the same everywhere except the main world, at least in Highschool of the Dead and Blessed Land. Ignoring these fragmented moments, only 3 + 14 + 7 = 24 days have passed in the main world since Jolyne became a player.

Even if it's fully replenished, it will only last for one month.

In other words, from Minami Rika's perspective, Shizuka Marikawa's disappearance should have been less than two years, but now Minami Rika says that Shizuka has been missing for four years.

This account doesn't make sense.

Where did the extra two years come from?

Chapter 442 Everything is Ready

"hiss."

He suddenly thought of Eagle Peak and High Ridge, his brows furrowed as he guessed a possibility: something existed that accelerated time in the main world without his knowledge. But was such a thing really possible?

One powerful figure after another emerges in the main world. Who could accelerate the time of the entire world?

Just as he was pondering this, Nanri Kaori finally couldn't help but ask, "What is your relationship with Shizuka?"

"Xu Lun is my husband."

"So the so-called request was fake? Was it just to send Alice and me here to check if we knew each other?" Shizuka Marikawa said with certainty. Having been separated from this airhead for so long, Rika Nan felt a little nostalgic when she heard this strange title again.

"No, the commission is real."

Jolyne shook off her worries, "Since it's someone I know, things will be much easier. I need a gunman to go to another world with me to complete the adventure."

"An adventure in another world?"

Being in a blessed land, Ye Du naturally accumulated a lot of information about the players. Nan Lixiang roughly understood what Jolyne meant. From Jolyne's words, she could tell that he only needed a gunman, and the reason for choosing her was simply because she was an "acquaintance." This revealed that Jolyne had a secret and was not an ordinary player.

However, now that he's sitting here as the Snow Mud King, he can't be ordinary.

Looking at her troublesome friend beside her, Nanri Kaori naturally agreed, but she had one more point to emphasize, "As you can see, I have companions. Can we bring them along on our adventure in another world?"

Ciri Alice chewed on her straw, her bright eyes waiting for an answer. A qualified mercenary team naturally couldn't just have one gunman. Ciri Alice's profession was hacker, and the little white dog at her feet was the team's heavy tank.

Jolyne: "Okay."

Because their previous interactions weren't very friendly, Jolyne didn't know how Cirilith felt about him now. However, he was more curious about how Cirilith had become like this.

He injected Ciri Alice with the virus and threw her into the Umbrella Corporation base, yet she didn't die and ended up in a blessed land like Nanri Kaori?

Looking back on it now, Jolyne is extremely grateful that he chose to throw a mutant zombie in instead of going to the Umbrella base himself. Otherwise, he might have been completely bewildered and bumped into Adam Hammer, who had been injected with the drug, behind the Umbrella gate.

Jolyne and Ciri Alice recognized this, and Minami Rika had also figured it out, "Is this the older brother with the road sign you mentioned before, Alice?"

"Yes."

Ciri Alice chimed in, "It's a pity I didn't die on the road to revenge."

What's with the big brother holding the road sign?

Jolyne complained: "Isn't it a good thing that I didn't die on the road to revenge? Although a tragic ending is more memorable, I prefer a happy ending."

So how did you manage to break free from the protection umbrella? Are there any problems you need to resolve?

"Actually, there's no trouble at all."

Nanri Kaori playfully stated, "Because Umbrella Corporation successfully developed Valkyrie Alice, not the Alice from Ciri Alice, but a beautiful woman with a Western face. Just like the workers who have been optimized out by the machine, the mass production of Valkyrie Alice has made us, the normal armed squads, unemployed."

Nan Lixiang sighed, "If I had known, I shouldn't have paid social security for those two years."

After a pause, Nanri Kaori and Ciri Alice began to recount what happened after Tokoname City. At that time, Jolyne and the other two were staying at Nanri Kaori's villa. Through these traces, Nanri Kaori deduced that Shizuka Marikawa had not died in the mouth of the zombies, but she could not find her. After that, her special operations unit began to reveal some of its relationship with the Umbrella Corporation. Not long after, she officially joined Umbrella and saw the new world.

Ciri Alice was discovered by Nanri Rika within the Umbrella Corporation. Since Jolyne did not perform any special modifications on her in the workshop, the Umbrella Corporation simply regarded Ciri Alice as a rare individual who had naturally evolved into a mutant zombie.

Based on what Nanri Rika said about "two special people coming to Tokoname City during that time," she guessed that Shizuka Marikawa might have been taken away by someone else. As for her life after arriving in Night City, it can be simply summarized as "working hard at the Umbrella Corporation to gain the power to become stronger," "falling into an unemployment crisis and exhausting her family's wealth to buy Ciri Alice," "the social security system refusing to refund the full amount," and "debuting as a Night City brand freelance mercenary because she had no job."

Unleashing her painful past, Nanri Kaori gritted her teeth and leaned closer to Shizuka Marikawa. Seeing that Shizuka's neck, as delicate as a peach blossom, was even more pink and tender than it had been four years ago, she couldn't help but feel a surge of resentment and darkness.

Shizuka, I was worried about you all night, and you actually forgot about me while living the life of a wife?

The two were indeed good friends; otherwise, Shizuka Marikawa wouldn't have known that Rika Minami had set up an armory in her villa, and Rika Minami wouldn't have searched for Shizuka Marikawa's whereabouts after she disappeared.

Shizuka Marikawa felt very guilty. She felt like she had just had a summer vacation. When she came to class and met her good deskmate, she was happy to chat about the fun things that happened during the summer vacation. However, her deskmate looked bitter and said, "I traveled to another world during the summer vacation and struggled to survive for four years before I came back."

"Rika, your good day has arrived." Shizuka Marikawa decided to make it up to her good friend. She turned to her husband and gave him a cute and coquettish look, and Jolyne took out the prepared final payment.

"This is the payment for the commission."

"No need to be so polite with acquaintances."

Despite saying "no need to be polite," Nanri Kaori had already honestly opened the box. She was adorably stunned when she saw the mechanical spirit root inside. Her fingers incredulously touched the eight sacred marks representing the work of a top-tier mechanic. Her dark side vanished, replaced by a boundless, heroic spirit. With a look, she conveyed to Shizuka Marikawa, "It's all thanks to my intimidating presence that you haven't been fooled by a man at your age..."

Shizuka Marikawa happily drank her slush, though she was incapable of making eye contact.

With such a naturally naive personality, Shizuka Marikawa is already 28 years old this year. She should thank Minami Rika for not having a daughter like Eri Kisaki during her university years. Because she was too worried about Shizuka Marikawa's personality, she scared off many suitors, leaving her most beautiful and innocent side until Jolyne appeared.

After accepting the payment, Nanri Xiang inexplicably felt a sense of mission, like a mother watching her daughter get married. "I'd like another serving of fish and chips."

I don't know if Snow Mud King is authentic or not, why would they sell this kind of British fast food?

Jolyne was feeding the dog nearby, and he noticed that Ciri Alice was still looking at him. He was considering whether he should also give Ciri Alice a commission fee.

Hmm... Kanoko's name is indeed useful.

Short-haired Neil didn't find anything wrong with Xu Lun's request for a mechanical spirit root, but when he asked for the fifth mechanical spirit root, Xu Lun still refused with a stiff expression, citing insufficient stock.

"Everything is ready."

Jolyne: "Then..."

Chapter 443 Heading to the Pirate World

With everything ready, it's time to start the game.

There was still plenty of fun in the City That Never Sleeps, but Jolyne was in too much trouble and didn't want to stay there waiting. After meeting with Nakano Satsuki, he led everyone directly to the Fairy Tale World.

The transformation of the human-faced dog was long over. The wolf-like features on her arms and calves disappeared, leaving only her blue-purple wolf ears and tail. Because the Wolf King had been mixed with a lot of things, which increased the weight of her body, she now had a beautiful curve that rivaled that of Shizuka Marikawa. She had even gained some understanding of that secret manual.

The technology of the mechanical spirit root is extremely powerful. After being installed, it can be said to have its own "system". Jolyne gave it to the human-faced dog, Nanri Kaoru, Matou Sakura and Haibara Ai respectively. It just so happens that even though Matou Sakura has started her trial, he still lacks a presentable gift.

People are in the kingdom, and time passes.

During this time, the Fairy Castle launched another attack, but Esdeath and her team terrified them.

A powerful fairy named Linglong, an important figure in the Fairy Castle, was instantly killed, her blood spilling across the kingdom's sky. Her alluring face turned into a disgusting gray moth, and her severed limbs, attempting to regenerate, were slashed by Anna's scythe of death.

"No, Linglong, don't die!"

Snowflakes are falling, and the north wind is howling.

Prince Amusement roared in grief and anger, "Do you know the enormity of your crimes?! I will never forgive this kingdom beneath your feet! The next time, all the fairies of the Fairy Castle will descend and raze this place to the ground!"

"...Stupid."

Medea lazily raised her hand, and a magical pillar shot out from the white tower, piercing through the kingdom. The remaining soldiers in the sky were instantly dissolved by the power to break all laws contained within it. Prince Youle and the magic dragon fell together, but just before their deaths, they were teleported back to the Magic Fairy Castle by the Magic Fairy Queen.

After several attempts, it became clear that as long as the Fairy Queen possessed teleportation abilities, it would be difficult for them to kill important figures in the Fairy Castle. Linglong's death seemed to indicate that the Fairy Queen herself had no intention of saving her.

"It's almost time."

Jolyne checked the countdown and said, "I entrust the affairs of the kingdom to you."

"no problem."

Medea blinked, placed her hand on Jolyne's chest, and brought it close to her lips. Her soft, violet-colored lips deformed in surprise, like jelly.

"The day the One Piece world ends will be the day we crush the Fairy Castle."

Jolyne bid her farewell.

Two months have passed, and the park's invitation has arrived as scheduled.

[Player Darwin is about to start the evolution game for you.]

[Congratulations in advance from the park!]

Welcome to this great evolution!

[Item detected - Job Certificate - Captain]

[Item detected - Designated Card]

[Designated Cards: Route, Demon, Pirate]

[This Trial World: Sea of ​​Demons]

[World travel completed]

[Identity placement completed]

[Task mode confirmed]

The weather was clear and sunny, and a salty, humid sea scent wafted through the air. Compared to the coastlines of the main world, which were not particularly special, this sea smell was far too strong.

In front of Jolyne was the ocean, and beside him stood a tall coconut tree with lemon juice growing on it.

Hmm... a coconut tree that grows lemon juice, the kind with the lemon juice still in its packaging.

The listener initiated the action, and Jolyne looked up at the cloudless sky, sensing that something was calling to him from outside this world.

"...So it really is a case of anyone who wants to come and go as they please?"

Jolyne's face twitched, and he declined the video invitations from these Outer Gods, fearing that if the Outer Gods of this world got angry, they would reveal their true selves offline.

Open the player's wristband to view the specific information.

[Trial World: Sea of ​​Demons]

[Identity Placement: Expandable...]

This is the Goa Kingdom in the East Sea.