Chapter 49 Evolution Mall

It’s noon on December 21st.

Anson Lu accompanied the principal to eat some baked rice cakes outside the school, and also inquired about the situation in Shangshi City.

The streets that were usually crowded with people were now much less crowded. Although citizens now knew the person called 'Anson Deer', not many people knew what he looked like. After all, the system only reported his name.

With his superior hearing as a top player, Anson Lu recorded every little discussion on the street.

"Have you heard that Chicago and Los Angeles in the United States and Rochester in the United Kingdom have all been declared occupied in the past two days. They have been completely destroyed by those monsters..."

"Don't say that. If it weren't for our good luck, Shangshi City would have fallen by now."

"Is that Japanese girl a dragon or a human?"

"I don't know, at least that Japanese girl saved our Shangshi City, otherwise we would all be dead now."

"Speaking of which, what profession did Old Li's son choose? I heard that archers are the most popular now because they can protect themselves. Although I don't understand this, but..."

"Just shut up, his son has already..."

Anson Lu's mood was a little complicated. The Shangshi City was not like this before. People were in panic. Everyone was pale and haggard, as if they would collapse in the next second.

The cemetery is crowded with people, but the tombstones are just empty shells with names on them. The land beneath the tombstones does not house the souls of the deceased.

Some people don’t even know where their family members, relatives, lovers, and friends are buried. Did they die under the Big Ben in London, or in Mount Fuji in Japan, or drown in the icy sea of ​​Siberia, or even freeze to death on the glaciers of Antarctica?

In the rice cake shop, under the warm lighting, Anson Lu and the principal sat opposite each other.

The waiter brought a plate of hot rice cakes and fried chicken with sauce, which was the delicious junk food that Anson Lu was familiar with.

Anson Lu put on his gloves and joked, "Haha, it would be great if the fried chicken shop could accept payment with Evolution Coins, so that you wouldn't have to treat them."

"The store owner isn't a player, so what's the point of Evolution Coins..." The principal took a sip of water, "You can find a store owned by a player and give him 5 Evolution Coins. He will definitely book the entire store for you to eat to your heart's content."

"Come on, which player would want to open a store after returning from a dungeon?"

"That's not necessarily the case."

"Come to think of it, old principal, why didn't anyone from the government come to see me?" Anson Lu dipped the roasted rice cake into the sauce and said, "Logically, they should have come to see me when I just got back."

"You don't have to worry about these. Just study outside of school and go into the dungeon when you need to." The principal picked up a cigarette.

"Don't worry about it?" Anson Lu took a bite of the rice cake and said in surprise: "Oh my god, principal, are you so awesome? You are so powerful that you can even stop the government officials?"

"Just listen to me." The principal looked at Anson Deer with deep eyes, "Also, remember to trust your intuition, it can help you go further."

"intuition?"

The principal dusted off his cigarette ashes and said calmly, "Yes, if you encounter special occasions in the future, you must trust and stick to your own judgment."

“Wouldn’t that be too arrogant?”

"This is your unique talent. Just like in a chess game, you can always make the most correct choice."

"Okay, old principal, if you say yes, then yes."

Anson Deer shrugged and continued to gnaw on the rice cake.

Although he appeared calm on the surface, in fact there was a ripple of emotion in his heart.

He didn't expect that the principal had such power. Logically speaking, now that there are no hot weapons, special sequence players are the strongest combat force in the hands of the country. There is no way the upper echelons would just leave Anson Deer alone.

Seeing Anson Lu's perfunctory response, the principal just smiled and said nothing more. After eating the rice cake, the two separated, and Anson Lu went straight back to the small apartment he rented near the school.

Anson Lu used the key to open the apartment, washed up and returned to the room, looking out the window out of the corner of his eye.

Geese flew by in the crimson sunset, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the surrounding streets and alleys warm and cozy. Children were chasing and playing as usual, and their laughter was particularly pleasant at dusk, as if they were unaware that the end of the world was approaching.

He closed the curtains, lay down on the bed and turned on his cell phone.

My uncle and aunt are on business trips in other provinces, and they are probably trapped in other cities now, so they can only send messages to ask about Anson Lu's safety.

Anson Lu scanned their messages, replied to them one by one, and then turned off his phone.

It’s strange to say, although humans are trapped by invisible walls and cannot leave the city, all communication signals can still be transmitted in and out, so the use of the Internet is not affected.

Turning on the TV, a piece of news was playing on the TV - [Los Angeles, USA, has been declared occupied. The US government is recruiting special sequence players from all over the world, using evolution coins as a bounty, and begging them to use the 'travel coupons' to go to Los Angeles to eliminate monsters.]

Anson Lu just heard the principal say on the way that outside the copy time, killing monsters will not gain experience points and evolution coins.

Therefore, these fallen cities are in a miserable state. Basically, no player will specifically use a travel scroll to fly over there and unconditionally help fight monsters. However, since the US government offers a reward of evolution coins, there is a high probability that some players will appreciate it.

"I just got my day off, you can't ask me to fly over and save the world again..."

Anson Deer turned off the TV, put his hands behind his head, and whispered the instructions.

"Evolution Coin Store."

Suddenly, a dark blue panel popped up, with nearly forty kinds of merchandise displayed on the first page.

He took a quick glance and found that the items for sale in the mall included:

——Weapons used by the five major professions, additional skill cards that can be learned by the five major professions, one-time skill cards that can be used by any profession, blood recovery items similar to "Nano Quick-acting Healing Spray", etc.

Of course, the categories of these products are disorganized because they have not been screened.

Anson Lu was not interested in any of these. He entered the filter condition "Former Chess Player" in the filter interface, and the mall began to filter. In the end, only one page of search results was displayed.

There are only three kinds of goods on this page, namely - [Low-level Extraordinary Chess Pack], [Low-level Chess Board Draw], and [A Random Chess Crafting Scroll].

"What is a crafting scroll?"

The first two were easy to understand, and Anson Deer pointed directly to the introduction of the last product.

[Product name: A chess type creation scroll]

[Product price: 1000 Evolution Coins]

[Product Introduction: After purchase, you will get a random crafting scroll, which will record the crafting method of a specific chess type. Gather the materials + crafting scroll to create the entity of the chess type. ]

[Product Notes: There is no upper or lower limit to the quality of the crafting coupons you draw.]

"Oh." Anson Lu closed the introduction, "In other words, this is also drawing chess pieces, but after drawing, you still have to collect materials to build it yourself, but I don't have so many materials, so I'll just use whatever is available."

Seeking follow-up reading and monthly tickets——

(End of this chapter)