Chapter 55: Only I Have My Own Law Chapter 55: Prosperous Rose

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

Female players have always been the backbone of online games.

If a game has visuals, gameplay, or female players, it's called an "online game"; if it has two, it's called a "good online game"; if it has all three, it's called a "masterpiece." As for those with none of them, their names don't matter.

Chen Yi's focus wasn't on female players; instead, he looked at his little sister strangely and said, "A female player, do you really need to come running to tell me?"

"I think you should know," Chen Rongxi said, slowly stepping back.

Chen Yi thought for a moment, then understood, saying, "Did you say something to her in my name?"

"A little..." Chen Rongxi stuck out her tongue and said, "She wants you to do some kind of test, saying she wants to join a team, but I haven't agreed yet."

After saying that, she ran away quickly, like a rabbit that had just seen spicy rabbit heads.

Chen Yi couldn't help but shake his head; his own little sister, pampered since childhood, was truly too free and undisciplined.

He didn't know that this was remarkably similar to the eldest brother's evaluation of the second brother.

After contacting the French branch of Xinyou and confirming the time for further negotiations, Chen Yi naturally turned on his computer and logged into Magic Knight.

The game character "Volcano" ran desperately across the Big Map.

Just like all game players, whenever bored, unhappy, happy, things going well, things not going well, having nothing to do, or being too busy, Chen Yi wanted to enter the game, slaughter everything in all directions, and thus relieve all sorts of negative or positive emotions.

Of course, in an age of unrefined skills, those who wanted to slaughter everything in all directions would often be slaughtered themselves. But young people's forgetfulness surpasses that of the elderly; as long as they win one battle, they can constantly recall and reorganize, thus filling normal games.

Memories of failure must be forgotten early on.

A patch of yellowish bright light flashed out from the sealed bedroom. A Level 3 Agility Scroll's brand logo was imprinted on Chen Yi's Tiger's Mouth.

"Volcano" was instantly invigorated, and even his walking became more ethereal.

It wasn't that Chen Yi's game skills had improved; it was that his reaction speed had increased, allowing him to quickly correct mistaken steps.

A hand speed of 300 gave him plenty of leeway to design special routes for Volcano, such as walking a standard zigzag step, a less standard arc, or even twisting his buttocks, playing hopscotch among the grass and stone crevices.

Players on the third or fourth layer who recognized the move would keep their distance, while those who didn't would glance twice; seeing they couldn't catch the opportunity at all, they would naturally understand and retreat.

The most miserable were the reckless melee players; without a word, they charged straight up, and after two or three rounds, they couldn't even speak in time, only able to turn into a white light and die, leaving a melancholy cloud in the sky, carrying a faint pink breath, as if a black whirlwind with double pigtails, showing the weariness of being abandoned by Brother Song.

The mark "Volcano Kill Streak 20 People!" soon floated across the fourth layer.

Chen Yi was playing to his heart's content, and dialogue boxes kept popping up in his message box.

At the same time, someone spoke in the public channel:

"Volcano, whose alt are you?"

Chen Yi, who was killing with great interest, shot two consecutive Magic Arrows while typing: "Nobody's."

"Fire God?"

"Peach Immortal?"

People kept asking various names.

Chen Yi knew they were all celebrities on the forum, some even being legendary experts; although he had often heard of them, he never thought he would one day be listed alongside them.

There were also some who were purely sending greetings, a few who invited him to join a team or guild, and finally mostly insulting roars.

Chen Yi was too lazy to pay attention and ignored them all.

He didn't know that a greeting message from "Prosperous Rose" was also hidden among the masses.

Originally affectionate greetings turned into questions, unanswerable questions turned into angry questions. After waiting two hours, Liu Xinyu, who was in another part of the City, finally fiercely unplugged her headphones and threw them far away.

She had used precious 10 hours, teaming up and chatting with this Volcano, just to invite him to participate in a new test, but now at the final step, contact was first paused, then he came online and ignored her.

The assistant beside her tiptoed to pick up the headphones and softly advised: "Miss, why not let me wait for him, and call you when I get a response?"

"No, I want to see what he's thinking." Liu Xinyu was very confident; even if she didn't reveal her appearance, she could still make men dizzy with infatuation.

After finishing her words, "Prosperous Rose" on the screen moved toward the Big Map.

First layer, second layer, passed through unscathed.

Third layer, fourth layer, very easy.

Fifth layer, sixth layer, scoffed at.

Seventh layer, eighth layer, began to lag.

Although Liu Xinyu's professional training was different from online games, the nature was similar, and in terms of difficulty and intensity it even surpassed them, but on the Big Map of a total of ten layers, the eighth layer was already her limit.

No matter how fast her hand speed was, it had to be effectively utilized in the game; at this point, facing characters who were often twenty levels higher than her, Liu Xinyu's unfamiliarity with the game's shortcomings began to constantly expose itself.

Compared to Chen Yi, whose hand speed exceeded 350 after increasing by 90%, her left-right hand coordination was somewhat inferior.

On the other hand, no matter how you said it, Chen Yi was a veteran who had played the game for several months, and had understood almost all basic knowledge, while she was only slightly better than a newcomer, equivalent to a tried-on department store coat, so her results were naturally not as good.

Finally, shortly after entering the ninth layer, "Prosperous Rose" was ambushed by an assassin and honorably died in battle.

Being slain by a fake assassin made Liu Xinyu far more than just angry.

She forcibly suppressed her anger to check the friend list, only to discover that "Volcano" had already entered the tenth layer at the center of the Big Map.

Here, both experience and drop rate were several times that of the ninth layer. Even if one person didn't kill, as long as they could survive, two hours would have the effect of a day on the eighth layer; if they could take advantage of the chaos to slaughter and achieve some results, various attributes would skyrocket like a 42-day zombie computer. But as a control measure, if a character died in the tenth layer, unlike the previous layers where they would fall to the next layer, they would be directly resurrected on the first layer.

If not for curiosity about Chen Yi's performance in the Pattern Game, Liu Xinyu would never have played Magic Knight at all, even if it was currently the hottest online game.

However, the brief game had made her understand that although the tenth layer was not a forbidden place for her, wanting to stay long was absolutely not easy; unless she underwent targeted training for hundreds of hours, she couldn't be as relaxed as on the fifth or sixth layers.

She was naturally unwilling to waste hundreds of hours here; she was already somewhat irritable now.

Apparently seeing her dilemma, the assistant softly said: "The range of the tenth layer of the Magic Knight Big Map is very small; those who can stay inside for one hour are almost all professional-level; he should be coming out soon."

This little assistant was also a beauty, with a goose-egg face and big eyes, possessing quite an exotic Asian charm. Although her twin peaks couldn't compare to Liu Xinyu's, they were still upright and full, matching her slender waist that could be encircled with one hand, having a unique flavor.

Unfortunately, Liu Xinyu was not someone who appreciated beauties; she simply ordered: "Go find a few professional players, prepare to accompany me into the tenth layer."

She liked to keep opportunities in her own hands. Besides, the Ninth Layer wasn't that easy to stay in either.

"Prosperous Rose" was still advancing stubbornly, still stopping at the Ninth Layer. Compared to players who practiced over ten hours a day, Liu Xinyu, who still counted as a newbie, was completely outmatched, but this only made her even more curious about Chen Yi.

A student approaching the College Entrance Examination obviously had nothing to do with professional gamers. Then, under the same amateur conditions, what gave him a game level so much higher than hers?

Could it be that the coordination ability he showed that day wasn't his limit after all?

Liu Xinyu suspected it so deeply that her whole person sank into thought.

By the time the assistant settled everything and returned, she saw Liu Xinyu resting most of her exposed chest on the table, covering it with both hands, concentrating in thought...

Chen Yi was still fighting hard in the game.

After the first Scroll's 30-minute effect disappeared, he began wandering around the boundary between the Ninth and Tenth Layers.

When encountering a strong enemy, he would quickly tear open a Scroll, then stay in the Tenth Layer until the effect wore off, otherwise retreat to the Ninth Layer for a brief rest — few people on the entire Floating Mountain Platform could treat the Big Map's Ninth Layer as a Rest Area.

The Tenth Layer's area was very small; from one side to the other, you could almost make out figures. In this situation, aside from some obstacles buying time, avoiding battle was impossible.

Chen Yi also had no more worries; his bag was packed with Scrolls, he'd tear one open and use it whenever, kill several tens of people then retreat, playing like this for half an afternoon, the surroundings quickly cleared out.

Surprisingly, no one came to challenge him anymore.

Everyone worked hard to reach the Tenth Layer; ultimately it was for experience and drops — no one was willing to do something as foolish as dying for nothing.

When the Hundred-Man Slaying golden characters "Player Volcano Kill Streak 100!" lit up, even the dullest player knew how to choose.

Chen Yi swaggered around a small corner of the Tenth Layer; newcomers from the Ninth Layer would enter here from time to time, perfectly usable as after-dinner dessert.

Several figures flashed past ahead.

Chen Yi stared a moment, then hid "Volcano" even more sneakily behind a small tree branch, his left hand resting lightly on the keyboard, just waiting for the other party to get close.

Four people, slight difficulty, but killing one should be doable.

He estimated thus, already placing his target on the last assassin.

Low health, thin skin, and exposed out in the open — if not her, who to kill?

10 seconds later.

Four Magic Arrows in a row flashed out from the dark corner.

"Player Prosperous Rose killed by you, gain experience..."

Chen Yi habitually fled first, while blinking his eyes thinking: What a familiar name.

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