Chapter 152: Staking All of Humanity

Afterwards, life didn't become carefree and leisurely. In order to kill another you, the Management Bureau devoted all of humanity's power to attach a module to Yu Xiaomo. Originally, your role was merely to help Yu Xiaomo upgrade her module, and the task of configuring the module was fully handed over to the Management Bureau's Strategy Team to investigate, which had nothing to do with you.

You had already been living an early retirement life, but one day Yu Xiaomo suddenly came to you, angry and puffing, and without explanation dragged you to the Management Bureau. Upon inquiry, you learned that the Strategy Team and Yu Xiaomo disagreed in ideology; some Strategy Team members, seeing that Yu Xiaomo looked young and was a loli, relied on their seniority to try to suppress her, and were instantly killed by a single magical pouch from Liu Delie.

"This old thing just repeats the same few lines over and over! Either he says it's for my own good, or he says it's for all of humanity—how could someone like him become the leader of the Strategy Team!" Yu Xiaomo angrily said to you, and when she got angry she looked like she was being coquettish....

Thus, after Bai Zhou learned of this, he was first surprised that Yu Xiaomo had a good temper, then felt helpless about the actions of his subordinates, and finally, embarrassed, he asked you to return personally to configure the module for Yu Xiaomo.

Don't think that because you usually crush strategies using the game panel, your extraordinary gaming talent still exists; configuring modules is naturally a piece of cake for you.

The frequency of Nightmare invasions has become ever more frequent; nowadays, the number of players has decreased by a full one-fifth, and the number of remaining humans turned into blanks cannot even be counted, to the point that even top players like Bai Zhou are so busy they don't have time to touch the ground.

Days passed one by one, with new modules constantly being sent to the Management Bureau, and under your configuration Yu Xiaomo's panel gradually took on your shape.... No, it should be said that it became the shape of a stat monster.

The more powerful the module's effect, the greater the restrictions it brings, yet you can easily find the right path for Yu Xiaomo among countless combinations that even an AI cannot compute, and your talent astonishes everyone once again.

Only Yu Xiaomo knows that this is the Zhang Jie she knows—Zhang Jie who is outstanding no matter when.

Days passed one by one, deep winter has arrived, and the day of the crusade against the Nightmare King draws ever closer....

Snow began to fall in the Real World, and in Dream Online, to match reality, it also cooperatively started snowing.

Yu Xiaomo, having found Zhang Jie, at this moment he was savoring, like an old man, a tea leaf named 'Future' in the Dream Realm.

Watching this scene, Yu Xiaomo finally felt the sense of disjunction between the Dream World and the real world.

Zhang Jie in the real world is already dead, but he lives on in the dream.

Whenever she thinks of this, Yu Xiaomo cannot help but let her mind wander.

Although the Dream Realm has merged with the real world, the Dream Realm remains merely a dream; it is a virtual world.

As for the Zhang Jie here, is he illusory or real?

Yu Xiaomo doesn't know, but she knows that the Zhang Jie in the Dream Realm is indeed real.

Meanwhile, the other Zhang Jie hadn't noticed Yu Xiaomo's arrival; instead, he looked constipated as he gazed at the tea before him.

'How the hell does this so-called Future tea taste like drinking horse urine?'

'It's bitter and astringent—could it be that my future is like this?'

'Cut the crap!'

Yu Xiaomo walked up to Zhang Jie's side and waved her small hand in front of his face.

"What's wrong with you?"

Zhang Jie made a pained expression, smacking his lips, then poured another cup of 'Future' and handed it to the loli in front of him.

"Try it; they say you can taste the flavor of the future."

"Really or fake?"

Yu Xiaomo took the tea with a curious expression, carefully sipping a mouthful; her delicate little face scrunched up as if she had eaten a lemon, with a trickle of saliva dripping from the corner of her mouth.

"Ugh...."

"What the hell is this crap.... It's like chewing on a dry lemon...."

"No way? Let me try yours?"

Zhang Jie, puzzled, casually took the tea from Yu Xiaomo's hand and took another sip of her tea, his face again showing the expression of someone who had drunk horse urine.

Just as bitter and astringent as before—it seems this really isn't a deceptive product claiming random flavors.

Yu Xiaomo continued to drool sourly, constantly sucking at her mouth, looking at the adorable scene.

"Hurry, hurry, drink something else to suppress it."

After a moment, Yu Xiaomo finally recovered, then hugged the fragrant milk tea in front of her and took a sip.

"In a couple of days we'll have to go strategize again, Jie Ge, are you nervous?"

"What do I have to be nervous about? It's you who should be nervous."

"Now you're the main force; I'm just here to pick up the final kill."

Zhang Jie casually ruffled the loli's head; she narrowed her eyes, her little face turning slightly red.

Seeing her like that, Zhang Jie felt a surge of satisfaction.

'This little devil loli has finally been honest—great!'

However long Zhang Jie stroked, Yu Xiaomo's eyes narrowed for that same duration, and her heart also secretly pondered.

'The feeling of being honest is really nice.'

'Why was I so arrogant before?!'

Yu Xiaomo secretly regretted; putting it that way, she hadn't missed out on much of her daily life with Zhang Jie.

"Jie Ge."

"What?"

"You say, about my wager...."

"I'll win, right?"

Zhang Jie stared blankly, recalling the wager he had made not long ago with Yu Xiaomo, smiling as he ruffled her head twice.

"He will win."

A few days later, before the teleportation point of the Ultimate Game, Yu Xiaomo and the others had already finished their preparations.

But this time, there were several fewer people present.

Now, adding Zhang Jie, the total number of top players is only nine.

Originally there were fourteen, but due to the acceleration of Nightmare invasions and the failure of the subjugation mission, they lost another five top players, three of those big brothers even being transformed into Nightmares.

As for this battle strategy, the remaining top players' tasks are very simple.

That is, to protect Zhang Jie and, when the time is right, assist Zhang Jie in delivering the final blow.

This tactic was proposed by Yu Xiaomo, and Bai Zhou overruled all opposition, thus settling the matter.

Yu Xiaomo's words made it clear that she had become the team's main force; to a certain extent, she was even stronger than the former Zhang Jie.

"I never imagined that one day I, too, could become the side being protected."

Zhang Jie glanced around, feeling a touch of emotion.

"Then let's set off!"

"Betting everything humanity has!"

"Set off!"