Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

No, that's not right.

There are many nobles; the saintess shouldn't be so fixated on the aloof Tina.

Unless she had ulterior motives for approaching Tina.

Or she knows something.

"Does the royal family get involved in the church's power struggles?" Vanshaw then asked.

“I don’t know about that,” the head maid shook her head and said, “Things like that are beyond my understanding.”

Upon hearing this, Fan Xiao did not press the matter further.

It wouldn't be good if people misunderstood that I had feelings for the saintess and started asking me all sorts of questions.

"From the current perspective, apart from her somewhat strange motives, there seems to be nothing wrong with Saintess as a partner."

Fan Xiao thought to himself.

On the other side, Nori's dissatisfaction disappeared after Vanshaw stopped asking questions about the church.

As her ally, it's not right for him to be obsessed with beauty.

She acknowledged that the saint was a great beauty, but they had a much higher status and goals, and couldn't be so foolish as to get caught up in worldly affairs.

To avoid Van Chau bringing up the topic again, Nori changed the subject: "By the way, Earl, have you seen the flower fields in Roman City? They're very beautiful..."

She started talking about travel and food.

Time slipped away slowly amidst these casual conversations.

……

Partition 010.

Station A1.

Lu Baizhi glanced at the train ticket in her hand, and a strong sense of anticipation rose in her heart.

I finally got the ticket to the 001 partition.

Fan Xiao has been gone for more than ten days. I wonder how he has been doing during this time?

Just then, a slightly cold voice rang out beside her: "Gardenia, you should tone down the spring-like look on your face a little. It's too conspicuous and a bit embarrassing."

"..."

Lu Baizhi paused in looking at the train ticket, and subconsciously touched her cheek.

After confirming that her cheeks were no longer burning, she took out a mirror from her storage space and looked at herself.

Then she realized she had been tricked.

Lu Baizhi immediately showed a dissatisfied expression and angrily rebuked the person next to her: "Sister, what spring... spring feeling?! You're being too rude!"

"hehe."

Lu Xining gave a lukewarm laugh.

"No, it's not that obvious, is it...?" Lu Baizhi asked suspiciously. "I just... I just haven't seen him in a long time, so I was a little looking forward to it..."

"A long time? It's only been a little over ten days. We're going to participate in a dungeon. Put away your romantic thoughts and don't get the priorities wrong."

Lu Xining reminded her, "Besides, Zone 001 is so big, even if we go there, we might not run into them..."

Looking at her younger sister's innocent face, she swallowed back the rest of her words.

Okay, she admits that with her sister with her, the chances of running into Fan Xiao are still quite high.

Luck is such an unreasonable power.

“In short,” Lu Xining said, “don’t have too high expectations, focus on the dungeon, or it will be dangerous.”

"That's not necessarily true, sister."

Lu Baizhi objected, saying, "Coincidences happen all the time. How can you be so sure we won't encounter one?"

"Maybe when the train arrives at the station, we'll go inside and find Fan Xiao sitting in one of the seats."

Chapter 224 Little girl, I advise you not to cause trouble.

"Attention all players, this train is about to arrive at station G08-010-A1. Players who wish to disembark should prepare in advance."

The announcement from the time-travel train began.

Fan Xiao, who was chatting with Nori and the other two, glanced out the window, looking slightly surprised.

I never expected that this train would pass through my hometown...

He quickly recovered.

The Time Train will travel between various stations in different zones, picking up and dropping off players entering and leaving the instance.

Passing by the A1 station in the 010 section is normal and nothing to be surprised about.

"What is wrong, Earl?"

Nori noticed Vanshaw's undisguised unease and asked him a question.

"We'll be at my house soon," Fan Xiao said with a smile.

"Are you from Division 010?" Nori asked curiously. "What about Sister Tina? Is she too?"

“No,” Vanshaw said, “she’s from somewhere else.”

"Other places...other districts? Aren't you distant relatives?"

Nori gave a strange look: "Not in the same zone... and there are distant relatives in different zones?"

"Your Highness, there's nothing strange about this."

The head maid explained, "The G08 node incorporates partitions from the ninth dimension, not just partition 001, but other partitions that can also be migrated to."

"It's likely that Miss Tina's elders were immigrants who left from District 010 and then settled down elsewhere."

"Yeah...that's right."

Tina nodded.

This explanation makes sense.

Of course, neither of them knew that the 010 division had only recently been involved in the evolution game, otherwise they wouldn't have had this understanding.

Fan Xiao didn't specifically explain this point, which seemed to imply that he had tacitly agreed with the head maid's answer.

If possible, he actually wanted to hide his origins.

In the long run, hiding one's identity is necessary to some extent.

To avoid getting into trouble outside in the future and having people chase you back to your hometown... that wouldn't be good.

Of course, with his kind and easygoing personality, the probability of him causing trouble is very small.

The reason he didn't choose to hide it was because of its origin... it simply couldn't be hidden!

Unless he voluntarily breaks his deal with the saintess and gives up the batch of fantasy materials.

Otherwise, when the goods are being transported, it would be immediately clear where they came from.

You can't just give me a fake address, can you?

Anyone with the resources can find out his background information with just a little investigation.

Therefore, hiding his origins is meaningless to him now.

However, as pointless as it may seem, Fan Xiao didn't want to bring up the topic.

He then changed the subject, saying, "Speaking of which, how are the partition numbers arranged? Based on the order in which they were involved in the evolution game?"

"The numbering... I don't know the specific arrangement rules, but it's definitely not based on chronological order."

The head maid replied, "The flow of time is different in each segment; without a unified representation of time, how can we distinguish the order?"

“Some partitions have been involved in the evolution game for over a decade, but their numbers are quite low, while others have only been involved for a year, but their numbers are quite high… This situation is not uncommon.”

"Is this so..."

Fan Xiao thought for a moment and put forward an interesting conjecture: "Perhaps the numbering is based on the order of time, and the standard adopts the timeline of the game company."

"However, some worlds may have encountered some problems and were abandoned by the evolution game, and their numbers were revoked and given to newly added world partitions."

“A very interesting conjecture, Earl.”

Nori agreed, "Maybe that's really the case. But... what exactly went wrong that led to the evolution game abandoning them? Even their number was taken away?"

"Only the game company knows this."

Fan Xiao speculated in a malicious direction: "Perhaps all of humanity has turned into monsters, or perhaps the world has been destroyed for some reason."

"Hmm... I have a feeling that if I think about it too deeply, it will be very dark."

"Isn't Your Highness a member of the darkness? Don't you like it?"

"Hmph...who said I don't like it? I'm just a little tired right now and don't want to think about it."

Nori stubbornly insisted.

Fan Xiao didn't expose her for slapping her; he just smiled and then looked out the window.

The car was slowing down, and the scenery outside was passing by at an increasingly slower pace.

A short while later, the train arrived at the station and came to a stop.

The broadcast started again.

Players inside the carriage got up and got off one after another; there were quite a few of them.

The 010 section is a newly added section, and currently has a limited number of instances, so it can't provide many tickets.

Most of the players who got off the bus were probably returning players from other instances within the same region.

There were quite a few players boarding from outside, and people were coming and going.

The number of players in the 010 section has clearly increased compared to before.

Suddenly, out of the corner of Fan Xiao's eye, he caught sight of two familiar figures.

He turned his gaze and saw Lu Xining and Lu Baizhi enter his carriage from the platform.

The two sisters were dressed very plainly, with unremarkable color combinations. They even seemed to have deliberately worn makeup to reduce the sophistication of their looks, making them appear less eye-catching than before.

It's still very pretty, though.

Wanting to conceal her looks, but not completely... girls' minds are truly complicated.

Lu Baizhi's simple attire did not conceal her perfect figure, and many people in the carriage glanced at her.

Lu Baizhi looked back at those gazes.

Soon, she saw Fan Xiao, her eyes lit up, and her expression became slightly excited.

I actually ran into her...!?

She was just joking with her sister.

What a coincidence!

While inwardly marveling at Lady Luck's favor towards her, Lu Baizhi adjusted her mood, restrained her emotions and expressions, and maintained her ladylike composure.

However, just as she was about to approach Fan Xiao to say hello, Lu Xining suddenly stopped her.

"Sister...?" Lu Baizhi asked in confusion.

"We'll go find him at our next stop, and then pretend to be a player from another region who knows him."

Lu Xining said calmly.

Compared to her younger sister, her expression was much calmer, her clear eyes like a deep lake, without any ripples.

It's not that she's emotionally detached; that's all in the past.

She's just good at pretending.

"Player from another region... I understand."

Lu Baizhi immediately realized what was happening.