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

A bottle of water was handed to me.

"Thanks……"

Just as the scarred man was about to take it, he suddenly froze, a chill running down his spine.

His jaw began to chatter, and he stiffly looked up—four pale, swollen faces, as if they had been soaked in water, suddenly came into his view.

All four faces wore eerie smiles.

Four pairs of eyes were fixed on him.

His eyes were filled with malice.

"what--!!"

The scarred man couldn't help but scream in agony.

The next second, four hands reached out and grabbed his neck tightly.

He felt he couldn't breathe, so he struggled and launched a fierce attack with his props, but to no avail.

Gradually, he sensed death approaching.

Then his consciousness went black, and he fell completely silent.

……

The underground space, next to the light strip room.

Fan Xiao glanced at the three brain-dead corpses lying on the ground, and was very satisfied with Yan Keke's new ability.

Because the illusions he created could control his five senses, the scarred man and his two henchmen were almost completely manipulated by him.

The three experienced the same terrifying experience in the separate "illusion worlds" and escaped to the ground before the crisis fully arrived.

However, the escape was just a fabricated experience.

In reality, the three people's vision, hearing, touch... including the slight feeling of weightlessness when riding the elevator, were all controlled by the illusion he created, and they kept spinning in place.

It was as if I had fallen into a maze.

Well... from their subjective experience before they died, it really wasn't much different from encountering a ghost.

Only Fan Xiao knew all of this.

The thin man next to Fan Xiao was completely unaware of what was happening "outside".

In the thin man's mind, the scarred man and his two henchmen all left after finishing their conversation with them.

Fan Xiao did not dispel the illusion; he could not see the three corpses lying on the ground.

"I'm sorry," the thin man said apologetically to Fan Xiao, "I've dragged you into this."

He explained, “My companion was also wearing a black coat and a khaki undershirt. You… you’re a bit unlucky, you’ve run into trouble. They probably mistook you for one of my companions.”

“It’s alright,” Fan Xiao laughed, “I have a way to escape.”

"……you sure?"

The thin man pointed to the bands of light around him and said, "These are highly concentrated energy walls. Not only can they defend against physical damage, but the energy fields they emit can even block some spacetime teleportation."

"Oh?" Fan Xiao asked curiously, "Can you stop the ticket from being transmitted?"

“That won’t work,” the skinny man said. “Ticket teleportation is a top-level teleportation; it can’t be blocked. By the way… are you a player too?”

“Yes, an E-level player.” Fan Xiao nodded. “Let’s get acquainted. My name is Fan Jian.”

"...Brother, your name..."

The skinny man didn't know what to say, so he could only comment, "Quite unique."

He quickly stopped paying attention to such trivial matters and introduced himself: "My name is Luo Guan, and I am also an E-level player. I just became a player not long ago."

"Hmm. Is this thing widely used?"

Fan Xiao pointed to the strip of light and said, "I've only ever seen this at train stations before."

“Of course it’s not common!” Luo Guan said, “This technology isn’t for civilian use. The fact that an energy barrier would appear here… indicates that some powerful figures from Roman City are secretly supporting this underground boxing ring!”

"Is this an underground boxing ring?" Fan Xiao asked curiously.

"Yes, I only found out this information a few days ago."

Luo Guan gritted his teeth and said, "Just like that beast with the scar on his face said, this is a place where some powerful and wealthy people vent their perverted lusts."

“Those guys are no longer satisfied with normal things; they've taken to watching battles between evolved beings, and not normal battles at that.”

“They will capture people from other areas and either turn them into monsters or make them one of the three types of players.”

"Then watch the evolved humans fight the monsters that failed to evolve, watch the bloody battles where cannibalistic players devour human players... I've heard that some guys even enjoy watching the cruel scenes of weak female players with animal ears being ravaged and torn apart, just like watching animals for pleasure."

"Hmm...it is a bit perverted, but it also seems quite normal."

Fan Xiao commented.

"Normal...?" Luo Guan was stunned. "How is this normal?"

"Didn't a similar phenomenon exist before the evolution game existed?"

Fan Xiao said calmly, "The more money you have and the higher your status, the easier it is to realize your wishes."

"The more ordinary wishes are fulfilled and the more happiness is enjoyed, the higher the threshold for happiness becomes, and the more difficult it is to satisfy desires."

"At this point, hey... we need some fresh excitement... Hmm? Why are you looking at me like that? I'm just making a reasonable deduction and analysis."

"……All right."

Luo Guan felt that this brother Fan Jian in front of him was unexpectedly a bit scary.

Fan Xiao then asked, "You've investigated this far, haven't you reported it to the game government?"

"I tried it, it didn't work."

Luo Guan shook his head and said, "Moreover, the fact that even I was able to investigate this so thoroughly is enough to prove that these people never intended to conceal this matter at all."

“Many people must have discovered and reported this before, but… the fact that this underground boxing ring still exists is enough to show that the game government can’t be trusted.”

"At least... the game government here won't serve us outsiders without identities."

"Perhaps they encountered resistance from the powerful and influential," Fan Xiao asked. "Your sister was arrested?"

“She went missing three days ago,” Luo Guan nodded. “It’s not just my sister who went missing; there are others too. What they have in common is that they are all undocumented residents from other areas whose identities have expired or who have no identity at all.”

At this point, the resentment in his eyes intensified: "This kind of thing has happened frequently before!"

"We have investigated more than 100 people who have gone missing."

Do you have any information?

"Uh... I do have some, but what do you need the information for?"

Despite his confusion, Luo Guan took out his phone, opened a file, and handed it to Fan Xiao.

Fan Xiao took it and carefully looked through it.

The information above is very detailed, including not only photos of the missing person but also the specific time of disappearance.

Many people have been confirmed dead, mostly young people.

After reading it, he returned the phone to Luo Guan and said, "Let's leave here first."

"You mean leaving with a train ticket?"

Luo Guan hesitated for a moment: "I only have one ticket. If I don't go to the dungeon after using it, the ticket will be invalid, and the interval between participating in the dungeon will be halved. If I don't have a new ticket, I might be teleported into a high-risk dungeon."

He wasn't worried about danger.

I'm just afraid that if I die like this, what will happen to my sister?

Fan Xiao noticed his hesitation and suddenly said, "Actually, I'm an assassin who does it for fun."

"what?"

Luo Guan was taken aback.

“Give me some money,” Fan Xiao said earnestly, “and I’ll take care of the rest for you.”

"...Even if you're not joking, I can't afford to pay for handling this kind of incident."

Luo Guan shook his head, looking somewhat pessimistic.

“I don’t need much,” Fan Xiao said with a smile, “One game coin is enough.”

*Snap*—He snapped his fingers.

The illusion that had been obscuring Luo Guan's senses dissipated the next second.

Luo Guan discovered that he and "Brother Fan Jian" had arrived outside the room with the light.

He looked surprised: "This is... a high-level teleportation that can ignore the interference of energy fields?"

"You may think so."

"I'm starting to believe you. You're not an E-rank player, are you?"

"This lie is easy to spot, or... do you really think there's someone with such a bizarre name as 'Fan Jian'?"

"……All right."

Luo Guan took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then asked with a mix of nervousness and anticipation, "What should we do next?"

"Give me the money first. Trainee assassins don't accept credit."

"what……?"

"1 game coin".

"Are you serious...?"

Although he couldn't understand it, Luo Guan still took out a physical game coin and handed it to Fan Xiao.

After accepting the money, Fan Xiao smiled and said, "You can leave now and wait for the results."

"Don't you need my help?"

"Tell me, how can you help?"

"……I see."

Luo Guan left the underground space and took the elevator to the ground.

The moment his feet touched the ground, he glanced around, his eyes momentarily glazed over, and then he murmured in surprise, "I escaped all by myself? I... I'm actually that amazing?"

Chapter 246 Fear

As the owner of the underground boxing ring in Wayne Street, Dud did not have any noble birth.

Like most out-of-towners who were forced to move to this neighborhood due to financial hardship, he came here for the same reason.

Yes, he is also from another district.

From section 004 before the major riots.

Not long after he arrived in Roman City, his brother, a D-rank player, went to a dungeon and never returned.

As expected, he probably died in the dungeon.

As an ordinary person, he lost his support and had not yet fully adapted to the language, so he was soon forced to move to the cheap Wayne neighborhood.

In order to make a living, he had no choice but to persuade his sister, and in a semi-coercive manner, she abandoned her face and dignity and started working in the sex trade like other poor girls.

Perhaps it was good luck, but although he and his sister suffered a lot in the process, their business grew bigger and bigger.

He had more and more girls under his wing, earned more and more money, and his life got better and better.

He finally had the money to renew his and his sister's status as full citizens of District 001.

They also had the money to move out of Wayne and into the more bustling main city.

He did just that, and planned to quit his life of crime, get a proper job, and get his life back on track.

Perhaps out of a sense of guilt, he began to take meticulous care of his younger sister.

However, fate played a cruel trick on us.

His sister suffered from chronic illnesses due to her past experiences, and shortly after their good days began, she died in a hospital bed from the torment of her illnesses.