Chapter 54 Never Alone

7 years ago, Djupivogur, Iceland.

"Teacher, am I drawing well?" The girl turned her head, her snow-white hair swaying slightly.

"It is difficult for people who cannot feel emotions and empathize with others to draw good paintings. Whether it is excited emotions or suppressed emotions, they can stimulate creativity." The teacher looked at the drawing board and said after a long silence:

“You have talent, but your pen is not endowed with any emotion, so the height you can reach is limited, and you will eventually stop at a certain point. Give up, you are not suitable for painting.”

"I see," she said.

The girl left school, opened the door of her home, and looked expressionlessly at her mother who was sleeping on the floor due to alcoholism.

"You are all I have, Yuri. Father abandoned us, that bastard..."

"You are all I have. Can you understand me?"

"I'm really in pain."

The mother's face was ferocious, with deep eye sockets. She suddenly grabbed the girl's school uniform collar.

"I... don't understand."

The girl replied.

"Why can't you understand... You are always indifferent to everything and always have this expression. Why do you have such a cold look? Are you really my daughter?" the mother roared.

The wine bottle hit the ground and broke into pieces.

"I'm sorry, Mom," the girl said.

"You are an emotionless monster. You are not my daughter at all..." the mother wailed.

"I'm sorry, Mom, I'm a monster." The girl's eyes were numb.

"You can do it alone, right?" the mother asked wearily. "Can you survive, Yuri?"

"It's OK to be alone."

"That's good."

The mother hung the rope from the ceiling.

"I don't understand..." The girl opened her mouth slightly.

The mother twisted the rope into a circle and tied it up.

"I don't understand..." The girl lowered her head.

The mother put her neck into the loop.

"I'm not alone..." The girl covered her ears.

Mother kicked the chair away from under her feet.

"I'm not alone..." The girl lowered her eyes.

My mother's face turned red and her scary blood vessels were visible on her neck.

"I'm not alone. I can be alone."

The mother gave up resistance and gradually lost her intuition.

"Understanding... is really difficult."

Sirens, loud sirens, annoying sirens.

Footsteps.

The sound of hurried footsteps.

The girl opened the door.

The police shouted noisily: "He's not dead yet, he can still be saved, hurry up!"

The policeman cast a surprised look at the girl.

"Why is this child...she has no expression on her face even though her mother hanged herself in front of her?"

"It's really deformed..."

"Could it be related to her?"

"No, this is a clear failed suicide."

"But no matter what, this child is so strange. Why is her hair white?"

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December 24, 2025.

Early morning, Central Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[The second round of dungeons will begin at noon, and there is 4 hours of preparation time. All players are requested to prepare before then and purchase the required items in the Evolution Coin Store. ]

The system prompt sounded in the ears of the white-haired girl.

Yuri slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was the familiar ceiling.

She had another nightmare, the same nightmare as always.

She brushed her snow-white hair behind her ears and glanced out the window with her clear eyes. The sky was covered with a pure pink and purple morning light. Looking out, she could see Reykjavik's famous Pearl Tower.

The appearance of the Pearl Building is like a transparent crystal ball. This huge sphere is embedded in the center of the Icelandic capital. It is brightly lit and colorful at night.

Yuri recalled a person's face in his mind.

It was also early in the morning, at a ski resort in Hokkaido. The young man walked slowly towards her through the snow and fog. His dark brown eyes made people feel gentle yet mysterious.

"Mom..." Yuri lowered his eyes and said softly, "I made a friend."

"It's right here, the stone statue of the queen."

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded, and Yuri even wondered if he was hallucinating.

She raised her head in a daze, and looked at the uninvited guest in front of her with her clear eyes.

A young man wearing a black hoodie and a hood fell from the back of a noble stone statue.

"This is amazing. It actually went through the window without breaking it at all."

The boy dusted himself off and seemed to be whispering to the stone statue.

"I say, no wonder I couldn't see your movement trajectory clearly when you used 'Hundred Man Kill'. It turns out you really teleported, jumping from the first floor to the ward on the third floor in an instant."

Statue of the Queen?

Teleport?

Yuri stood there in a daze.

Even though her mind was as clear and rational as hers, for a moment she couldn't help but think that she was still asleep and was hallucinating.

“By the way, Queen Statue, you should go back to the chess library first, otherwise if we see you, my identity will be exposed.” said the boy in the hoodie.

As his voice fell, the stone statue disappeared in an instant.

Yuri and him were the only ones left in the room.

"Oh, what a coincidence." The boy in the hoodie raised his frozen right hand, "I was just thinking of taking a walk, but I didn't expect to run into you."

A familiar dialogue.

Yuri remembered having a similar conversation with the person in front of her at a ski resort in Hokkaido, and her brain slowly recovered from the short circuit.

"Walking in Shangshi City, and being able to walk here..." Yuri put his hand on his chin and said in a cold voice, "This is not a walk, it can be considered 'sleepwalking'."

She answered the same thing again, just as she did then.

"It seems so." The boy said calmly, "Shangshi City is a bit far from the capital of Iceland."

This person...

What the hell are you talking about...

Yuri stared at the boy's face hidden by the shadow of his hood.

Anson Lu slowly lifted his hood, revealing a red face from the cold and a pair of dark brown eyes. "I'm here to add you as a friend and give you a travel voucher."

"Travel coupon?" Yuri was puzzled.

"Here you go." Anson Lu exhaled a breath of white air and sent a transaction panel to Yuri, "Here you go, a ticket to the new world."

Even if he didn't have any friends, players could still trade face to face, so he wasn't in a hurry to add friends.

[The player Anson Lu has initiated a trade with you. The item he is asking for: None. The condition he offers: A travel voucher.]

Yuri looked at the trading panel and asked in confusion: "...What?"

"You can leave Iceland and those stupid new world tickets here. The simple and warm city of Shangshi welcomes you." Anson Lu leaned against the wall, his hands in his coat pockets, his voice distorted with coldness:

"Oh my god, Iceland is so cold... How can it be colder than Hokkaido?"

Yuri said softly, "I don't understand."

Anson Lu scratched his cheek, sighed and said, "Didn't you say that I'm your friend? If I'm a friend, I'll come to play with you and help you get rid of those weird uncles who treat you as a tool."

"Why?"

"Your mother has died in a copy a few days ago, and the copy was taken in New York, USA." Anson Lu threw a mobile phone in his pocket to Yuri.

Yuri stretched out his slender hand and took the phone.

She looked at the screen of her mobile phone, which was an authoritative death list published worldwide. Her mother's name was on the list.

"Irena..."

Yuri's hands froze in place, and she whispered a string of names, a string of names that were both familiar and unfamiliar...

"I know that your mother sold you to the Icelandic government seven years ago as research material." Anson Deer stared straight at Yuri with his dark brown eyes.

He said in an extremely calm voice:

"She was an absolute scumbag, so she deserved to die. There is no need for you to stay here because of her and continue to work for those rotten politicians. That's all I know."

My thoughts are so messy that they seem about to explode.

Head. It was swollen and painful, and it felt like it was about to burst.

The Icelandic girl lowered her eyes, her snow-white hair covering her eyes.

She opened her mouth slightly, unable to utter a single word. Her eyes, as cold as the aurora, were blank at this moment.

"What should I do?"

"Live the life you deserve in the limited time you have." Anson Lu said, "I will form a union in the future, and everyone will be weird. This way, you will have more than just me as a friend."

"friend……"

"Yes, my friend."

Anson Deer said slowly: "Although there are only me and Crow now, we will slowly find other people in the future. At least staying among us is better than you lying on the hospital bed all the time."

Under the cover of morning light, Yuri's emotionless eyes seemed to show confusion for the first time.

“They’ll come looking for me,” she said, “and then you’ll be in trouble.”

There is no way the Icelandic government would let go of the few special sequence players.

Especially her, she knows how much she is valued by the country.

"Don't worry, I'm the world's number one player, now and in the future." Anson Lu wiped his hand across his neck and said nonchalantly:

"If they come one by one, I'll crush them one by one. It's not a big problem."

He said it easily, as if he was joking with an old friend, but he seemed very serious.

Seeing that Yuri didn't respond, Anson Deer coughed and added:

"Well, although my current global combat power ranking is only No. 11, it does not affect my ability to become No. 1 sooner or later."

"You're really weird."

"Everyone is weird, including that Urushihara Ritsu, who is simply the weirdest of the weird." Anson Lu narrowed his eyes and complained:

"You know what? The night before yesterday, that idiot suddenly called me on video. When I answered the phone, I found that he was standing on the railing of the Tokyo Bay Bridge. It was so outrageous that I almost spilled the water..."

His voice stopped abruptly because Yuri's words interrupted him abruptly.

"I'll go with you."

Her voice was clear and without a trace of emotion, but seemed very firm.

Anson Lu was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "Okay, then use the travel scroll to Shangshi City, enter the dungeon in Shangshi, and you will return to my hometown instead of the capital of Iceland."

"What about you?"

Anson Deer took a deep breath, black lines appeared on his forehead, and he cursed:

"My travel voucher is about to expire. I will automatically go back in a few minutes. The time limit for transmission is 24 hours. I was lost in Reykjavik for a full fucking 22 hours. It's all because of the map that idiot Crow gave me..."

Halfway through his speech, he disappeared from the spot.

The travel voucher can only take a player to the destination for 24 hours. When the time limit is reached, it will automatically return to the original city, so Anson Lu has been expelled back to Shangshi City by the system.

Yuri was silent for a moment, she tilted her head slightly, a hint of amusement in her voice.

"Are you an idiot?"

She clicked the "Confirm" option on the transaction panel that was about to disappear.

[Through the transaction, you have obtained a travel voucher from the player Anson Deer. ]

A burst of hurried footsteps was heard from outside the ward, as if someone had noticed the movement inside.

"Use the travel coupon..." The Icelandic girl paused and said tentatively: "China, Shangshi City."

[The travel voucher has been used to go to the city - Huaxia Country, Shangshi City. ]

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