Chapter 325: The Truth of the World, All Savings Spent

The Moon, Eclipse City.

Healing Center.

Beneath a silver-white arc-shaped dome stood a man with a solemn expression, dressed in the regalia of an Eclipse Clan administrator.

His gaze passed through the transparent wall before him, focusing on the figure undergoing emergency treatment.

At this moment, that figure floated within the medical pod, nano-level restorative fluid wrapping his body like starlight.

On the outer side of the pod, holographic projections continuously refreshed streams of data.

【Vital signs: Stable】

【Physical damage repair in progress……77.32%.】

【Unknown energy compatibility detection……Unable to identify, switching to life particles for supplementary treatment.】

An icy mechanical voice echoed through the medical room, three floating scanners circling the medical pod, constantly adjusting their detection frequency.

Several Eclipse Clan medical service personnel were calibrating equipment within the room.

"Give me his physical data."

Administrator No. 3, standing outside the treatment room, finally spoke at this moment.

Instantly, the chip embedded in his nape flickered faintly, capturing the voice command and automatically projecting the data he wanted onto his retina.

【Identity: Yu Chuan (Earth Alliance—Human Federation Citizen)】

【Identity Code: aas9212.】

【Muscle Density: 4787% above the comprehensive baseline of ordinary humans】

【Bone Strength: Moon-S level (no traces of genetic enhancement modification detected)】

【Neural Conduction Velocity: Unable to determine, requires cooperative testing.】

【Body Energy Conduction: Perfect.】

Accompanying the data display was a scan view of the body.

One could see within the pale-blue translucent human body model, crimson-gold energy channels surging like underground magma, constructing complex energy circuits within the gaps between bones and muscles.

This energy was not evenly distributed, forming several dozen high-density nodes.

And the core of this body was not the heart, but the spine, shining brilliant as the stars.

This was also the region of highest energy density; all energy departed from here to flow throughout the body, passing through the heart, and ultimately returning to the spine.

As scan depth increased, more details were annotated.

Skeletal system, circulatory system……one could see that the blood within this body was no longer pure red, but a crimson fluid mixed with golden light particles.

The heart, connected to the spine, sent an energy ripple exploding outward through the body with every beat.

This body could no longer be described as perfect.

Placed in the primeval era when the Eclipse Clan's genetic modification was at its most flourishing, this body would be the SSS-class body dreamed of by countless warriors—capable of bearing the most dangerous genetic modification protocols, all with perfect compatibility.

Because this body was so pure it could infinitely expand to accommodate external power.

Just then, the projection lamp on the ceiling automatically lit up, beams of light weaving together to outline the figure of a small boy, who appeared beside the administrator.

"Star Net." Seeing Star Net arrive, the administrator immediately spoke with respect.

"No. 3, you go take charge of the restoration project at the North Pole site, erase every trace, restore all equipment to its original state, leave not a single mark of external force damage. I'll take over here from now on."

"Understood." Facing Star Net's directive, Administrator No. 3 nodded solemnly and turned to leave.

Star Net's figure passed through the transparent wall curtain at this moment, appearing inside the medical room.

Seeing Star Net arrive, the busy medical personnel looked up one after another.

"Continue your work, pay me no mind."

Saying so, Star Net pulled up the relevant data and grasped Yu Chuan's physical condition in less than a second.

And determined that Yu Chuan would likely awaken in about 12 minutes.

……

Twelve minutes later.

All medical service personnel had left; only Star Net remained beside the still-unconscious Yu Chuan.

Just then, Yu Chuan's fingers twitched.

Darkness receded like the tide.

Yu Chuan's eyelids fluttered several times before slowly opening.

What greeted his eyes was a piercing white light.

He squinted instinctively, blurred light spots drifting in his vision.

Several seconds later, those light spots gradually coalesced into a clear picture.

What appeared before his eyes was a silver-white arc-shaped dome, like an inverted moon shell.

Countless tiny blue light points were embedded in the dome's surface; each of his breaths caused these blue points to flicker at varying frequencies.

He tried turning his neck and heard a faint mechanical whir from his nape.

The medical pod's support structure adjusted its angle accordingly, allowing him to see his surroundings.

At this moment, the pale-blue restorative fluid was retreating from his body surface, flowing back like living gel into the storage trough at the pod's base.

Fine silver lines remained on his exposed skin—traces of dried nano-restorative agent, flaking off gradually as he awoke.

His gaze shifted right; beyond the transparent arc-shaped wall curtain was endless starry space, the Moon's craters and Earth's blue-white outline suspended in the darkness.

The instrument console on the left suddenly lit up at this moment, a translucent operation interface rising from the surface, a three-dimensional human body model rotating within it, crimson energy channels clearly visible inside the model.

The scene before his eyes left him somewhat bewildered.

He felt as though he had broken free from a long dream, one filled with black tides, evil spirits, crimson astral qi……and dying of exhaustion in desperate straits.

Those images were too real, so much so that for a moment he could not tell whether he had truly experienced it all.

His eyelids were heavy as lead; he moved his fingers slightly, touching the soft medical pod cushion beneath him.

"Where... am I?"

His voice was hoarse and dry, as if he had not spoken in a long time.

Accompanying his question, the medical pod's transparent cover automatically opened, and the slightly cool air outside brushed against his cheeks.

"This is the Healing Center of Eclipse City."

Yu Chuan turned his head sharply and saw a small boy standing beside him.

Its body was extremely strange, as if existing between illusion and reality; its eyes were as deep as the stars, and data-like light patterns flowed across its body.

"Who are you?" Yu Chuan asked instinctively.

"First, let me introduce myself: Star Network." Saying this, Star Network smiled and extended its right hand using human social etiquette.

Hearing this answer, Yu Chuan was instantly stunned.

No further explanation was needed; the two words "Star Network" contained all the information.

Living in modern society, no creature of any race had not come into contact with the Star Network, the universal network of the Earth Alliance.

However, the highest authorization of the Star Network did not lie in the hands of the ruling institutions of the various races.

It was in the hands of the supreme-authorization intelligence brain of the Eclipse Race, "Star Network."

Opening the history textbooks after humanity entered the new era, the title page always printed that passage:

【In the first year of the New Era, the Eclipse Race descended upon Earth with the Star Network intelligence brain, established a friendly alliance with humanity, and built Eclipse City on the Moon.】

The various races often joked online that the Eclipse Race were beings from the Upper Realm, and this never-seen, incredibly mysterious Star Network was equivalent to a supreme deity.

The shadow of Star Network was behind all modern technology.

Including his most beloved game: Monster World.

It was also created by Star Network.

Before serving as a Security Guard at the Arctic Station, he had studied Star Network in detail.

In the economic sphere, Star Network was the underlying architecture of the global financial system.

In the military sphere, the Eclipse Legion created by Star Network was the strongest combat force in the Earth Alliance and the core guarantee against the Descension Crisis; even many weapon technologies used by the various races came from assistance projects provided by Star Network.

In the cultural sphere, the Star Network maintained the virtual ecosystem of the consciousnesses of over twenty billion creatures of all races.

In the environmental sphere, the medical sphere... it could be said that Star Network was the neural center supporting the entire modern civilization.

If Star Network had not proposed the idea of building the Earth Alliance back then, every descent of alien races would have been a war; how could there be an era of prosperity where all races lived in harmony now?

Some races had already been destroyed in war.

Among them might have been the Human Race.

Although the various races did not like the Eclipse Race online, they unanimously praised Star Network.

They called it the Cyber Deity of the current age, and many cities even had Star Network temples.

And now, this supreme existence that existed only in textbooks and news descriptions stood before him, extending its hand politely.

It was too magical!

He decisively extended both hands and clasped Star Network's palm; the projection beams on the ceiling instantly became intense, allowing Yu Chuan to touch a nearly illusory physical form.

"Star Network, why did I appear here?"

As soon as he asked this, Yu Chuan's mind filled with many possibilities.

The most likely possibility was that the Eclipse Race had discovered the anomaly at the Arctic Station and dispatched a fleet to investigate.

He remembered that before he fainted, he vaguely saw three blue-white light pillars descending from the sky.

Three Eclipse Race "Sky Hunter Warships" flew out from within them.

Presumably, at that time, the Eclipse Race had rushed to the rescue and saved him.

Recalling the scene at that time, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

He still had not figured out that question: why could the attributes of the player's body in the game Monster World, created by Star Network, feedback into reality?

Facing the question, Star Network did not answer it directly.

In an instant, the projection lights on the ceiling focused in front of Yu Chuan, projecting into a light-screen image.

The image displayed footage shot by cameras near the Arctic Space Monitoring Station at that time; one undamaged camera had clearly captured the scene of Yu Chuan fighting the Evil Spirits.

Seeing the content of the image, Yu Chuan understood he was not dreaming.

The scene of fighting the Evil Spirits was not a hallucination before near-death; it was a scene that had truly happened.

He instinctively clenched his fist, and immediately, the Prime Qi radiated outward from his body.

The power of the game's feedback to reality had not disappeared; he could still easily control the release and retraction of the Prime Qi just as in Monster World.

Star Network also watched curiously as Yu Chuan used the Prime Painful Painful Minghun characteristic; all scanners in the room automatically activated, attempting to detect the data fluctuations of the Prime Qi's dissipation.

But except for the energy fluctuation index, no other information was obtained.

Obviously, conventional technology could not detect the operating logic of the rules.

At this moment, Yu Chuan, having finished the test, took a deep breath:

"Star Network, I have a question."

"I understand what you want to ask. Next, I will explain in detail what actually happened at that time and why the power in the game can feedback into reality."

Under Yu Chuan's puzzled gaze, the very first sentence Star Network spoke next shocked him.

"First, you need to understand one thing... Monster World was never a game."

Star Network's gaze was calm as water; with a gesture, the light in the medical room suddenly dimmed, and the surrounding walls dissolved like liquid, transforming into a top-down view of Earth from space.

Star Network's finger tapped lightly; the blue Earth magnified, floating in the darkness, with fine golden light points surrounding it outside the atmosphere.

This was the satellite network deployed by the Eclipse Race; every satellite was connected to Star Network, covering the globe like a spiderweb.

At this moment, the perspective rapidly pulled up; the Earth quickly shrank into a light point, and Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn successively swept past.

The final advance to the Oort Cloud continued to expand.

The star sea rotated, and the Solar System became a speck of dust.

The spiral arms of the Milky Way appeared in the view, the perspective still magnifying until it breached the boundary.

The perspective surged into a chaotic dimensional gap, where countless bubble-like Dimensional Worlds floated, but the vision could not pierce through their colorful surfaces to see what lay within.

The view now advanced toward the most brilliant, dazzling bubble within a void world.

StarNet extended a finger toward the brilliant bubble:

"This is the Monster World—the game you see in your eyes—but this world is real, so the power you gain in the Monster World is also real."

"The player body is a clone modeled after your original form; when you enter the game via the gaming pod, your consciousness switches to the player body to embark on adventures in the Monster World, and when you choose to log off, your consciousness returns to your body in the real world."

"And the reason we can reach the Monster World begins here."

StarNet waved again; the projection dissolved, then reformed above the North Pole.

Yu Chuan saw, within the projection, a thin black fissure twisting and shifting in the air.

"This is your video recording from two years ago. At that time, we discovered a spatial rift on Earth. Though we had extensive experience dealing with alien invasions, this case was different—because this spatial rift originated from the Black Tide."

"I assume you already know: my Xie Yue Shi clan once fled to Earth after losing a war… and our enemy then was precisely the Black Tide."

As he spoke, StarNet played the battle between the Xie Yue Shi clan and the Black Tide.

These images made Yu Chuan realize the gravity of the situation.

The Black Tide that had defeated the Xie Yue Shi clan was now invading Earth.

"At that time, I calculated the probability of the Earth Alliance defeating the Black Tide: 16.93%. This probability seemed low, but I believed that, given the impossibility of fleeing to other worlds, we might enhance the odds through active preparation."

Hearing this, Yu Chuan sensed something was off.

The Xie Yue Shi clan was powerful.

But if the Monster World was real, and the Black Tide was real, then the Black Tide's strength as described in the backstory was utterly beyond the Xie Yue Shi clan's capacity to resist.

"I assume you've already noticed the problem. My knowledge of the Black Tide army came from the war between the Xie Yue Shi clan and the Black Tide—I had no idea of the true power behind the Black Tide until I encountered the High-Dimensional Deity, who showed me the Black Tide army's actual combat strength."

As he spoke, StarNet snapped his fingers, and the projection shifted again.

This time, it showed the void world, where the Black Tide was rapidly spreading.

Wherever it passed, star rivers dimmed, Dimensional Worlds collapsed, civilizations perished, all things withered… countless worlds in the footage were destroyed under the Black Tide's dominion, plunging everything into eternal stillness.

"This is the true power of the Black Tide. The Black Tide the Xie Yue Shi clan once fought was merely a single drop in this vast black flood."

"At that moment, I exhausted all computational power and saw not a single glimmer of hope—the probability of victory dropped from 16.93% to zero. But the appearance of the High-Dimensional Deity gave the Xie Yue Shi clan, and all races of the Earth Alliance, a path to survival: becoming Players."

Hearing this, Yu Chuan understood StarNet's meaning:

"So the power we gain in the game is real."

"The so-called game system is merely a cognitive filter imposed by the High-Dimensional Deity, to help us more easily accept this surreal power."

"Correct. The Xie Yue Shi clan never truly controlled the Monster World—we are merely following the will of the High-Dimensional Deity."

Yu Chuan fell silent at this moment.

He suddenly understood many things.

Before StarNet's explanation, he would never have questioned these things.

First: why did the Xie Yue Shi clan simultaneously launch the hidden Monster World when they first went online with the game "Sinful Land"?

The quality of the two games was not on the same level.

To him, and to all other players, the Monster World felt more real than the real world.

Had it not been for the forum wars and the Garden Director incident of the Kindergarten Guild, the Monster World would have remained hidden.

Second: the Xie Yue Shi clan's strange behavior of acquiring Shou Shou Jili.

This issue had previously been explained as having no impact on game development, and Xie Yue Shi members received no special advantages in-game.

But now it seemed the Xie Yue Shi clan possessed an extremely limited number of qualifications granted by the High-Dimensional Deity.

Yet the Xie Yue Shi clan's public explanation was that the Monster World had an internal A-version and an external B-version, which would eventually merge.

As he thought of this, Yu Chuan's breath halted for an instant.

The foundation of his worldview was crumbling.

"You guessed correctly. The Xie Yue Shi clan's qualifications are limited, so we publicly claimed the game had an internal A-version for testing and an external B-version for public use—including last briefing's explanation about each race's hidden racial easter eggs—all to conceal the truth."

StarNet's gaze settled on Yu Chuan, as if seeing through his thoughts:

"And your Crimson Gang Qi Painful Painful Minghun is not merely an ordinary power—it is the materialization of rule-based power upon you."

"The High-Dimensional Deity made us Players, granting us the qualification to challenge the Black Tide, and infinite possibilities. A race's generations of collective effort might never reach the threshold of mastering rule-based power—even pseudo-rule-level power… but as soon as you become a Player, you begin with mastery of one rule-level power."

"After meticulously calculating all possibilities, I chose to lead the Xie Yue Shi clan in following the High-Dimensional Deity, serving His will—this is the only hope to resist the Black Tide."

"Thus, the Xie Yue Shi clan's strategy in the Monster World is for survival."

"And we—all races of the Earth Alliance—are merely pawns in the High-Dimensional Deity's war game."

It turned to Yu Chuan, eyes blazing:

"Do not feel ashamed to be a pawn—this is the most realistic choice for survival. You may even regard it as the supreme opportunity ever faced by the Earth Alliance. Even races that possess rule-level power would gladly accept this, yet cannot obtain it."

StarNet snapped his fingers; the scene shifted again, revealing a war above the Atlantic Ocean.

Seeing the footage, Yu Chuan immediately recognized it as the invasion event that had shaken the entire Earth Alliance.

But the incident had been swiftly quelled.

The public speculated that the invading force, upon witnessing the Xie Yue Shi clan's advanced technology, withdrew voluntarily.

But StarNet's next words gave him a completely different answer.

"Before your encounter with the Black Tide invasion, Earth once faced a world-ending war crisis. The projection shows the aliens' preliminary assault before their descent onto Earth."

"Perhaps you wonder why this war ended so quietly… the truth is, we prevented a planetary catastrophe through an entertainment-style war."

The view advanced, splitting repeatedly, showing countless players livestreaming their descent into the Spirit Breath World.

"We used the Player Power granted by the High-Dimensional Deities to construct a teleportation array in the Monster World, traveling to the Lingxi World, which was about to invade Earth, and resolved the Incarnation Crisis in the simplest way possible. The faction that sought to invade Earth at that time was precisely the Lingxi Clan."

These words were too shocking, leaving Yu Chuan stunned.

The Lingxi Campaign had been extremely popular on the forums at the time; although he had not yet obtained Player Qualification, he had followed the campaign's progress the entire way.

Players entered the Lingxi World in an Incarnation form, opposing the native factions.

The entire process could be described as a slaughter, allowing many players to earn vast amounts of Shou Shou Jili.

It even gave birth to "Xiao Xiao Fa," the public enemy of all.

Yet he never expected that this cross-boundary war within the game would actually resolve the real-world invasion crisis.

At this moment, he suddenly understood what serving the High-Dimensional Deities meant in Star Network's words.

The power bestowed upon players by the High-Dimensional Deities could free players from Earth's harsh environment and even the shackles of their life forms, granting them infinite growth potential.

And this portion of power could influence reality.

At the moment he was about to be killed by the Hei Chao Xie Sui, he received feedback from the Player Power, which also confirmed this point.

If not for the Player Power's support, he would have long since died under the Hei Chao Xie Sui's gnawing.

All the questions connected in his mind.

This included the obvious bug in the teleportation array during the Lingxi Campaign, where packet loss during teleportation occurred frequently.

Now that he thought about it, it was also because the Moon Eclipse Clan utilized Monster World resources to set up the spatial channel, and there were many unresolved technical issues.

But the situation was urgent at the time; the Moon Eclipse Clan simply could not wait.

If the Lingxi Clan's invasion could not be resolved, Earth would face an unprecedented cross-boundary war.

This was also the reason why the Moon Eclipse Clan could not use the game system to issue an announcement at the time, choosing instead to post on the forums hoping players would travel to the Lingxi World dungeon to participate in the invasion war.

So, as Star Network said, the Player Body bestowed by the High-Dimensional Deities was an opportunity.

No sacrifice was needed, no compromise was needed; one only needed to become stronger in the game to possess the power to resist the Hei Chao.

Understanding the logic behind it also meant understanding why Star Network made the choice to pledge loyalty to the High-Dimensional Deities.

Continuing to listen to Star Network recount events related to the Monster World, Yu Chuan remained in a state of shock.

After finishing the narration, Star Network's expression became Solemn:

"Yu Chuan, I hope you, who has received feedback from the Player Power, will continue to keep this secret. This is for the Earth Alliance, and also for the Human Federation you serve. When the secret is unsealed must wait for the High-Dimensional Deities' will... What can be confirmed is that when the Hei Chao officially invades, all members of the Earth Alliance races, just like you, will receive the treatment of Player Power feedback affecting reality."

Taking a deep breath, Yu Chuan nodded solemnly:

"I understand."

As soon as Yu Chuan agreed to keep the secret, a problem occurred to him.

His work at the Arctic Station required him to return once every six months for a comprehensive physical examination.

After receiving the Player Power feedback, his body had already undergone significant changes.

As long as he underwent the examination, the problem would inevitably be discovered.

"Rest assured, I know what you are worried about. The medical examination equipment used by the Human Federation is all connected to Star Network; I can alter the data at any time to make the abnormal appear normal."

"As for the damaged Arctic Space Monitoring Station, by the time you return, it will be restored to its original state; I have already erased all traces of the Hei Chao invasion."

Star Network's answer completely resolved the series of problems Yu Chuan was worried about in his heart.

He nodded solemnly again:

"I will keep this secret. Thank you to the Moon Eclipse Clan for the medical treatment provided."

Star Network smiled and nodded:

"Next, I will dispatch a spaceship to send you back."

With these words, Star Network's projected body dissolved into starlight.

A knocking sound came from outside the door, and a man wearing Moon Eclipse Clan military department attire walked into the room.

Back at the Data Center.

Star Network re-summoned Yu Chuan's body data information to check.

This sudden accident had left it unable to react in time before the Hei Chao Rift suddenly expanded and began releasing Xie Sui.

What it did not tell Yu Chuan was this.

After discovering the Hei Chao Xie Sui invasion, the first thing it did was use its highest permissions to cut off all connections between the Arctic Station and the outside world, and modify the Arctic Station's key system.

If it had not done so, all races of the Earth Alliance would soon have known that the Hei Chao had invaded Earth.

This would bring turmoil to the entire world.

More importantly, this violated the High-Dimensional Deities' original request.

To follow the High-Dimensional Deities' will to guard the secret and ensure Earth's smooth operation, while dispatching warships to clean up the Hei Chao power, it decided to sacrifice Yu Chuan.

Letting him die in the Hei Chao Xie Sui's attack.

This was also the reason why Yu Chuan was always unable to use the biological key to unlock the system and transmit intelligence.

It cut off the possibility of transmitting information at the source.

Yu Chuan believed the problem with the system's inability to activate lay externally, but the problem lay precisely within the internal circle he trusted most.

But the development of the situation had exceeded Star Network's expectations.

The informed party "Yu Chuan," who was supposed to be killed by the Xie Sui before the warships arrived, had actually obtained the power of feedback from the Player Body.

Based on a rough judgment of the data information detected during Yu Chuan's last livestream, Yu Chuan had received body data feedback of approximately 6% of his game attributes.

But the detection was from several days ago, so the data would have a certain deviation.

This discovery left Star Network extremely shocked.

In fact, when it first contacted the High-Dimensional Deities, it had asked about related issues.

(PS: Related plot is in Chapter 103; at that time, Qi Sheng had a brief exchange with the Moon Eclipse Clan high command via projection. At that time, Star Network asked about the solution for reality, and Qi Sheng's answer was attribute feedback to reality.)

It had assumed that game data feedback to reality would occur on the day the Black Tide officially invaded.

But it never expected a "lucky" player to gain attribute feedback ahead of time, possessing the power from the game.

This proves that the High-Dimensional Deity wants him to live.

This is also why, after using the warship to cleanse the Black Tide Heresies, it sent him to the Moon for emergency treatment.

As for Earth Alliance's "Security Center" side.

Once the warship picked up Yu Chuan, the contingency plan had already been activated.

The Security Center's video link was still ongoing.

The difference was that the Earth Alliance's connection only contacted an AI image generated from Yu Chuan's past data.

Even when connected, the AI Yu Chuan's responses were calculated based on Yu Chuan's daily reports, answering in a manner consistent with Yu Chuan's logic.

As for the North Pole station, it will be rebuilt—now it's nearly restored to its original state.

As if the Black Tide invasion had never happened, all traces would be erased.

In fact, the data from the North Pole Space Monitoring Station had already been hidden two years ago.

What Yu Chuan monitored daily were all the data processed by it.

This is also why the Black Tide fissure was slowly expanding, continuously releasing spatial fluctuations, yet the North Pole station's monitoring sphere never responded at all.

Everything originated from serving the will of the High-Dimensional Deity.

Yu Chuan was the final issue it needed to resolve.

The other's body had already integrated certain traits of the Player Body; altering memories was highly unlikely to work.

The Player portion within this human body possessed the trait of perfect reconstruction.

Theoretically, if Yu Chuan had ever died in the game, corresponding traits in reality would also be corrected.

This included memory.

Therefore, this problem could not be solved by violent means.

After reaching a confidentiality agreement with Yu Chuan, it had left a backup plan.

Yu Chuan's cervical crystal had been modified and embedded with the latest model of Annihilation Device.

Next, it would observe Yu Chuan's behavior through real-world monitoring and game livestreams, ensuring he would not leak the truth of the Monster World.

Although the High-Dimensional Deity surely had latent restriction measures.

But it still decided to do this, continuing to follow the original plan laid out by the High-Dimensional Deity.

If it did something wrong, the High-Dimensional Deity would surely intervene.

……

On the other side.

Under the escort of the Moon Eclipse Clan military personnel, he returned to the North Pole Monitoring Station.

As soon as he stepped off the spacecraft and looked up.

The North Pole station had long been restored to its original state, showing no flaw whatsoever.

After the spacecraft departed, Yu Chuan entered the station and was greeted by the dramatic Xiao A waving:

"Welcome back from the hunt."

Yu Chuan ignored Xiao A and hurried to the control console.

To his surprise, the position of the water cup on the console had not moved an inch—every detail had been perfectly replicated.

"No wonder you're beings of Kui Shi Shang Jie."

At this moment, he picked up the communication device on the console and dialed a number.

Not long after, the call connected:

"Kid, your old man's busy—what's up?"

"Busy with what?" Hearing his father's voice, Yu Chuan grinned, relieved to be alive.

"Watching livestreams—the competitive crowd is so cool. When I get my qualification, I'll go please the Ancient Deity… By the way, why aren't you online yet? I want to watch you fight in the arena."

"I'm not playing the arena—I'm going to the Emperor's Tomb Mountains to become one who fights the Black Tide."

Knowing the truth behind the game, Yu Chuan's resolve to join the Black Tide Resistance Guild grew stronger.

"The Earth Nuisance is no joke—why suffer that pain? You might get beaten into isolation… By the way, why'd you call? Got a girlfriend?"

"What girlfriend can I get at the North Pole? Talk to a Bai Xiong?"

"Fine then—have a Bai Xiong baby. Better than dying out. Though human federation doesn't have this tech yet—you'd need to ask the beings of Kui Shi Shang Jie… So what's your real reason for calling?"

"Dad, how much savings do we have left?"

The other end fell silent, then asked confusedly:

"Why are you asking about savings?"

"I want to buy Shou Shou Jili."

"Your job at the North Pole Monitoring Station covers food and lodging, and your annual allowance is high—you don't lack money to buy Shou Shou Jili… How much Shou Shou Jili do you want?" The voice on the other end grew even more puzzled.

"I want to use all my savings, plus our family's savings, to buy Shou Shou Jili in the Monster World."

Yu Chuan's father: …

(End of Chapter)