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

“Keep this money,” he said. “There will be many expenses in the new place, and it will come in handy sooner or later. Don’t worry about your money being conspicuous and attracting attention. I have already instructed the people in charge here, so you don’t need to worry about your safety.”

"This... won't do..."

"If you refuse, then forget it. This money is part of the bounty for defeating the Demon Queen."

Fan Xiao reminded them, "I took the lion's share and only left a small portion for you. Perhaps your elders were among those who contributed this money in the first place... Anyway, take it and use it."

After a moment of silence, the village chief asked, "Are you... leaving this place?"

Fan Xiao's actions gave him a bad feeling.

It was as if he was making his final arrangements.

Fan Xiao looked back at the village chief and keenly noticed a hint of fear in the man's eyes.

Perhaps they are worried about the future.

Having just left Baicun and arrived in a new place, they were probably filled with confusion and needed a spiritual support to alleviate their worries and fears about the new environment and new life. The person who rescued them naturally became the one who needed and relied on.

As time goes by and they get used to Lach City, when they look back at the present... perhaps all that will remain in their hearts is a sense of regret.

Time changes everything, and it also helps people adapt to everything.

Fan Xiao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll be staying here for a long time. However... I need to go to various places to participate in the newly created dungeons and find dungeon items. I probably won't be able to return to Lah City for a while, so I need to make some arrangements in advance, such as this money."

At this point, he sighed and said, "In the eyes of the people of Lach City... or rather, in the eyes of the people of Division 011, defeating the Ghost Queen is a great feat. It seems that the city's governor is quite fond of me for this reason and has offered me a recruitment offer that I can hardly refuse... Hmm, maybe I will stay here and develop... Well, who knows what the future holds now?"

Fan Xiao shook his head and said to the village chief, "Don't worry, I'm a very polite person. When I decide to leave, I will definitely say goodbye to you formally."

"Then I'll thank you on behalf of everyone."

The village chief's tone relaxed a bit, and after exchanging a few words, he left with a bag of game coins.

It will probably be a long time before he realizes that what Fan Xiao meant by a formal farewell was just what he just said.

……

The seventh day after the Battle of Lach.

Fan Xiao, with Lu Baizhi in tow, left the resettlement area and prepared to embark on their journey home.

Lu Baizhi quietly stopped the prop's disguise function and restored her original appearance—her explanation for this was that when she looked in the mirror in the morning, she saw a stranger in the mirror, her heart skipped a beat, and she felt a sense of shock as if she had encountered a supernatural event... In short, she felt both psychological and physical discomfort, so she had to change back.

Fan Xiao saw through her true intentions—the young girl was about to use some flirting tricks again.

It seems her sister taught her a lot.

Just like now...

"Ugh... my shoulders are so sore."

After regaining her figure, Lu Baizhi raised her hand and made a gesture of gently rubbing her shoulders—this movement caused her clothes to sway slightly. She said with a hint of distress, "It feels so heavy in the front. Um... Fan Xiao, could... could you help me rub my shoulders? I can't really reach them myself."

"..."

Fan Xiao glanced at the girl and said, "The bigger the breasts, the bigger the body; the bigger the body, the bigger the frame; the bigger the frame, the less flesh; the less flesh, the smaller the body; the smaller the body, the smaller the breasts; therefore, the bigger the breasts, the smaller the chest."

"???"

Lu Baizhi looked down at her chest, her face blank.

What do you mean?

She was a little confused and even stopped what she was doing.

Chapter 578 Returning home in glory

Fan Xiao pulled Lu Baizhi to his side, looked into her eyes and said, "Shoulder massage only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. To address the root cause, we need to target the source. So... Baizhi, what do you think is the source of your shoulder pain?"

"Yes Yes……"

Is it really okay to ask such a question directly...? Lu Baizhi hesitated, unsure how to answer.

Fan Xiao's unconventional behavior disrupted her rhythm, leaving her unsure of how to proceed.

Seeing that the girl was hesitant, Fan Xiao answered for her, "The source... is two rabbits."

"..."

"Shoulder massage treats the symptoms, while petting your genitals treats the root cause. Which would you choose?"

Fan Xiao raised his hands: "I think treating only the symptoms isn't healthy. Let's address the root cause directly, that would be better. Come on, Zhi Zi, come closer."

"..."

"Zhizi, take off your shirt."

"Well...I..."

Lu Baizhi instinctively wanted to escape from this place and find a hole to crawl into.

But Fan Xiao suddenly grabbed her shoulders with both hands, stopping her from retreating.

"Um...I...I'm not ready yet..."

Lu Baizhi's cheeks were flushed, and her breath was warm.

The excessive shame had already caused some physical reactions in her... not inappropriate reactions for children, but rather reactions such as nervous tension and burning cheeks.

Seeing her like this, Fan Xiao released her shoulders, reached out and tugged at her cheek hard, and earnestly lectured her: "Don't be like that saintess from Roman City, who is both useless and loves to play. I think you should just stay true to yourself, Zhi Zi. Don't listen to your sister's bad advice. I feel like she's leading you astray."

"Fan Xiao...it hurts..."

Lu Baizhi said in a muffled voice.

It didn't actually hurt much; she was just taking advantage of the situation to act cute.

Fan Xiao loosened his grip slightly and said, "Now that you know it hurts, remember what I said. Just be yourself from now on, and don't be like your sister."

"Your sister is a genuine, shameless succubus! You could never learn that..." he added in his mind.

To be fair, a pure young girl displaying her allure in an awkward and naive way... has quite a unique charm.

"But……"

Fan Xiao's proactive and intimate touches gradually emboldened Lu Baizhi.

She raised her hands and covered the backs of Fan Xiao's hands as he kneaded her cheeks.

She remained in that position, trying to compose herself, and said, "But Fan Xiao, you... you don't take the initiative... I'll start to doubt my own charm."

She paused, then stammered, "Um...actually, I'm not...not as good as you think. I...I have a bad side too. You can be...bad to me, it's okay..."

After saying this, her cheeks turned bright red, and her eyes darted away, unable to look Fan Xiao in the eye.

Fan Xiao fell silent, as if he was pondering something.

Lu Baizhi received no response and was somewhat puzzled. She had to suppress her embarrassment and meet Fan Xiao's gaze again, asking, "Fan Xiao? Um... what's wrong?"

"Hmm... I'm examining myself." Fan Xiao said thoughtfully, "It's true, just like you said, Zhi Zi, I'm lacking initiative."

The main problem is that your sister is too proactive, which makes me feel very passive. I've almost forgotten what it feels like to be proactive... Of course, he only dared to say this to himself.

After all, his emotional intelligence is quite normal.

He wasn't lying here—he was indeed examining himself.

Faced with Zhi Zi's various attempts to be friendly, he seemed... to be far too lacking in the appropriate response.

Relationships require mutual effort. If only one side gives and the other remains indifferent, even the warmest heart will cool down.

Lu Baizhi has pursued him for so long without giving up, which must be because she genuinely likes him. He can't take advantage of her feelings and continue to do things his own way.

Old habits are hard to change, but eventually they have to be changed.

Now that the relationship is established...

"We're in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship now, so we really need to change our way of interacting."

Fan Xiao stopped pinching Lu Baizhi's cheek, took her fair hand, played with it for a few moments, and then intertwined their fingers: "Let's go, we'll go to West Asia City first. That city has already connected with one of the time-space stations."

"Um……"

Lu Baizhi felt the warmth from her hand and suddenly felt incredibly sweet. Even her instinctive shyness lessened considerably, and she became bolder. She took the initiative to increase the strength of her grip on Fan Xiao's hand and even swayed her arm slightly as she walked, causing Fan Xiao's hand to sway along with hers.

At that moment, the two of them looked like a couple strolling hand in hand... No! How can you say "looks like"? They are a couple!

"Fan Xiao, once we get to the station, do we need to use our tickets to go back?"

As she was shaking, Lu Baizhi suddenly remembered that her player level was different from Fan Xiao's, and quickly asked a question.

Fan Xiao is currently a B-level player, while she is a C-level player; they cannot go to the same instance using train tickets.

If you're just using a train ticket to get around... you don't actually need to travel all the way back. Just leave node G02 and arrive at node G03... and Fan Xiao should be able to communicate with Fairy Tale Town and return directly.

"No, there is one more thing we need to do before we return."

Fan Xiao cautioned, "We need to get the money we lent out back. 40 billion is no small sum; we can't be too generous."

"Those four A-level players who escaped, they probably won't... give us our money back, right?"

Lu Baizhi guessed, "If they were scared, they would have transferred the money long ago. Today is the last day of the deadline, so they probably don't need to push themselves to the limit and wait until today to pay. I think that's unlikely."

"Gardenia, have you forgotten about the difference in the flow of time?"

Fan Xiao explained, “For us players, there is no such thing as ‘blind spot’. Tracking items are in the same partition, making it easier to lock onto the target. If they are clever enough to stay in partition 011 and think that the most dangerous place is the safest place, the consequences could be disastrous.”

“Even if they had ten times the courage, they wouldn’t dare to stay here any longer. And as long as the zones are staggered, there will be a time difference, more or less. Don’t be fooled by the fact that we’ve reached the last day of the deadline here; over there… maybe only three or four days have passed.”

"The flow of time..." Lu Baizhi asked in a strange tone, "If their time is different from ours, then... is setting a one-week repayment deadline meaningless?"

"What a simple and lovely idea."

Fan Xiao said with a sigh, "The time limit I set wasn't for them. I estimated that it would take us about a week to recover from our injuries, so I set a one-week time limit."

"If we weren't injured... ha, why would we need a time limit? We would have just charged in on the spot."

"For example, right now, there are still more than ten hours before the deadline actually ends, but... we've already recovered from our injuries, so why should we obediently wait for more than ten hours?"

Lu Baizhi: "..."

"When dealing with bad people, there's no need to follow so many rules. They might not necessarily follow the rules with us."

When it came to his "girlfriend," Fan Xiao abandoned all pretense and said directly, "The initiative is in our hands, so we can do whatever we want."

"Don't worry about whether they've reached seven days or not, and don't worry about whether we've reached seven days or not."

"Tell bad people you're trustworthy? There's absolutely no need for that."

"..."

Lu Baizhi had always felt that Fan Xiao was very different from ordinary people, and now... after he stopped pretending, her feeling became even stronger.

Of course, she didn't dislike Fan Xiao like that.

On the contrary... she found it quite exciting.

Working with Fan Xiao seems to allow me to do many things that I've never done before... or rather, things I've hesitated to do.

"Then... let's go."

She also made debt collection her goal, saying, "I haven't tried looking for people across districts before, I don't know if it will work?"

"Don't worry, this is a small matter for you."

Fan Xiao smiled easily.

Lu Baizhi's luck has been lingering for 12 days, which may seem like a small amount, but it's a permanent luck skill. With its continuous passive effect, the things it can do are naturally quite extraordinary.

Because "small lucky events" can be stacked together to form "big lucky events".

Take buying lottery tickets as an example. Lu Baizhi may not win the ultimate jackpot, but she can win small prizes multiple times. When the small prizes accumulate, they will eventually reach the amount of the ultimate jackpot. She can do something that she couldn't do with the luck of 12 days, but it will take a long time.

Of course, this skill is not invincible.

There's nothing that can be done when the lottery prize pool only contains the ultimate jackpot.

Or smaller rewards might not be able to accumulate – for example, even if a player develops a bunch of D-level talents, they might not be able to merge them together to form an A-level talent.

This is Lu Baizhi's limitation. Perhaps she can obtain many good things through luck, but if she relies solely on luck, she will never get the best things.

After the two finished talking, Lu Baizhi took out the magic flying carpet again.

The flying carpet carried the two of them to West Asia City at an extremely fast speed.

Throughout the journey, Lu Baizhi never let go of Fan Xiao's hand.