Chapter 147 A New Adventure Begins~ This journey is more complicated than I imagined…
This time travel was much faster than expected. Sang Zhitao only rested at the base for less than five days before directly traveling to the new world on the night of the fifth day.
"Chirp!" Sang Zhitao felt the sudden weightlessness and was so frightened that she quickly opened her eyes and reflexively flapped her wings.
Once she had regained her balance, she realized that she was sleeping in a large bird's nest that looked like it was made of jewels.
"It's even prettier than the one Anko gave us from the Orc World!" She jumped around in the bird's nest for a while, overjoyed.
Leaving the orc world was too sudden. After returning to the base, with the Black Emperor's permission, she explained the follow-up matters to Anke through the trading gate.
The first thing she did was withdraw from the competition, which made Anke very disappointed. However, the Crown Princess recommended another very talented orc to her, which finally comforted her sadness at losing her shadow.
The second matter concerns the copyright of the songs with lyrics. With the help of people from the base, Sang Zhitao bought the copyright from the copyright holder on Earth and then brought the copyrighted songs to the Orc World.
The orc world offers many rare medicinal herbs that have been lost on Earth. If it weren't for the pollution issue, Sang Zhitao might have discovered that the orc world possessed such resources long ago.
Unfortunately, after missing out, she only discovered the advantages of the orc world when she chatted with the Black Emperor by chance.
Thus, one party provided entertainment, and the other provided medicinal herbs and seeds, and a very peaceful transaction was temporarily reached.
All those thoughts and intentions seem fleeting to outsiders.
When she came to her senses, she found two young heads popping out from outside her nest.
"Brother, are you sure this is a phoenix cub?" The girl looked to be only eleven or twelve years old. She was wearing a set of soft armor made of men's leather, and her hair was tied in a high ponytail, but a pink crown that didn't match the style of her clothes was pinned to the ponytail.
The man she called "brother" was a man in his twenties with red hair standing on end like a sea urchin. He had a pink, diamond-studded headband tied around his forehead, carried a large knife on his back, and wore simple cloth clothes.
He stared intently at Sang Zhitao in the bird's nest, lowering his voice: "The information I stole is accurate, don't worry."
"What do we do now? Force a binding directly?" The girl's face was full of eagerness.
The man raised his hand and pressed her head down, patting it gently: "Although I don't mind your recklessness, don't be stupid, dear sister. This is a mythical beast."
"Then what do you suggest we do?" His sister gently brushed his hand away, rolled her eyes at him, and asked in a low voice.
The man sighed softly and took a few steps back: "Go ahead and think it over."
The two slowly climbed down the tree. Sang Zhitao opened her beady eyes, slowly jumped to the edge of the bird's nest, and glanced down.
This is an extremely tall sycamore tree, seven or eight meters taller than the surrounding sycamore trees, truly standing out from the crowd.
She realized that the two people under the tree were the original male and female protagonists of the book—Douzi and Douge.
This is a world where technology is extremely unbalanced, the gaming industry is highly developed, and everyone's life is closely related to games.
They grow up as NPCs in The Sims games, are taught and guided by so-called players, receive primary education in children's games, take exams in educational games to learn more knowledge, and then enter different games to live and earn a living.
In the year 346 of the Star Calendar, a game called "Dragon and Phoenix" was born. The new game meant new opportunities, and it also meant that countries could redistribute wealth and power within the game, gaining more opportunities and reputation for their own nations.
In just one year, the power of each country in the game has matured, and some countries can no longer suppress the flames of war between them. For a time, the game entered its first upgrade, and the national war gameplay was launched.
That year, a brother and sister entered the game. In just a few months, the brother, Dou Ge, became the number one swordsman on the combat power ranking, while the sister, Dou Zi, became the number one useless pet on the pet ranking.
One is a smiling tiger, the other is a natural devil. Their inherently playful nature leads them to constantly accept missions while using information gaps to cause trouble among various national forces. They are hunted down by major gangs and ultimately earn the most famous title on the "Dragon and Phoenix" continent: "Disliked by a Hundred Million People".
"Strange..." Sang Zhitao scratched herself with her wings, "Why am I not the main character again?"
She frowned, thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out. However, this wasn't the first time she hadn't become the protagonist; she had already experienced it once in the world of giants.
At that time, the world consciousness of the Titans told her that this situation should be due to the fact that her clone, which she forcibly inserted into the timeline, had developed self-awareness.
However, Sang Zhitao wasn't too worried, since her current identity was Douzi's pet mythical beast, the Phoenix, and also the pet that Douzi referred to as "a useless person raised by a pet."
"This should be the plot of their eighth day in the game. Brother Dou stole information from the Beautiful Gang and came to intercept them," Sang Zhitao murmured softly.
In this world, nations compete for talent by using open-world games to prove their national strength, with the Xiong Kingdom, Li Kingdom, and Xia Kingdom being the most powerful.
Among them, the modern aesthetics of the Xiong Kingdom are the best in the world, so their modern-style games always have the most artistic art style.
The Kingdom of Li possesses the strongest military force, so their games are mostly about war and heroism. However, they have recently been criticized for focusing too much on so-called equality and freedom, causing their games to lose their art style and playability.
Xia is the oldest country, existing since the birth of its home planet, with a history of over ten thousand years. Its games are also known for their rich cultural heritage and unique art style. However, its culture is so distinctive that people from other countries often feel a lack of immersion when playing.
"Dragon and Phoenix" is the first large-scale game launched by Xia Kingdom after five years of silence. Its completely free gameplay and realistic division of power attracted attention from the very beginning.
After briefly recalling the original book, Sang Zhitao jumped to the edge of the bird's nest and looked down at the brother and sister who were discussing something.
Recalling the various methods the two used in the original book, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but shudder: "How about... we just sign a contract directly..."
Just as the brother and sister had finished their discussion and were about to stand up to prepare the equipment, Sang Zhitao narrowed her eyes and jumped down.
"Watch out!" Dou Ge quickly pulled his sister back two steps.
As Sang Zhitao fell, seeing that the two of them had dodged and she was about to fall to the ground and be smashed into a pancake, she squinted her eyes, flapped her tiny wings, and twisted her non-existent waist with all her might, turning her falling trajectory directly toward the brother and sister.
"Brother!" Douzi couldn't help but call out as the small yellow bomb-like thing flew towards him.
Dou Ge is not yet the future number one swordsman in the world, and his agility has not been maxed out. He could only watch helplessly as the yellow bombs hurtled towards his sister, and could only turn around with his eyes wide open in despair while holding his sister.
"So annoying!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but snort, flapped her wings quickly, flew directly over Dou Ge's head, and seized the opportunity to fall directly into the siblings' arms.
"Phoenix cub!" Douzi exclaimed in surprise as she stared blankly at the creamy yellow fluffy ball that had fallen into her arms.
Upon hearing this, Dou Ge quickly looked down at his sister and saw the little thing in her arms.
He released his grip on his sister, his brow furrowed: "Why did you get down?"
Douzi stared blankly at Sang Zhitao: "A newbie gift package from heaven?"
"You're not a newbie anymore; newbies only have seven days to sign in," Bean couldn't help but complain. "But does that even count?"
Douzi hugged Sang Zhitao nonchalantly: "Who cares? Once she's in my arms, she's my baby."
As he spoke, Douzi was about to sign a contract with Sang Zhitao.
A glint flashed in Sang Zhitao's eyes. Seizing the opportunity, she jumped up and pecked Douzi between the eyebrows, a drop of blood falling into her mouth.
She didn't want to sign a master-servant contract with Douzi and be controlled by him, as described in the original book. Although Douzi treated her quite well, she would never allow her soul to be controlled by others. She would rather die than be unfree.
This time, she took the initiative and directly signed a reverse master-servant contract, making Bean her servant.
"You don't mind, do you? You'll be my servant?" Sang Zhitao's voice rang in Douzi's ears.
Douzi was startled when she heard the delicate child's voice.
After all, before this, in their ears, Sang Zhitao's voice was only a series of chirping sounds in various tones.
"What's wrong, Douzi?" Douge's wary eyes swept over Sang Zhitao.
Douzi shook her head repeatedly: "No, it's because she signed a contract with me."
"They signed it just like that?" Brother Dou was somewhat incredulous, after all, these were only two divine beasts on the Dragon and Phoenix Continent.
“Yes, but she is the master and I am the servant.” Douzi pursed her lips and looked at her brother with some worry.
Dou Ge thought for a moment, staring intently at Sang Zhi Tao's petite figure for a long time: "Can we exchange them?"
Sang Zhitao and Dou Dou showed a look of disgust in their eyes.
Douzi shook his head.
"Never mind, it's just a cub, it shouldn't be able to hurt you." Brother Dou scratched his head helplessly before sighing, "After all, it's a divine beast, so this is fine, right?"
"What do we do now?" Douzi carefully held the mulberry peach and looked at Brother Dou.
Dou Ge's lips curled into a smug smile: "Run, hide, until we become so powerful that they can't afford to mess with us."
"Aren't we going to look for the dragon?" Douzi looked at Sang Zhitao with some difficulty. "I still want my brother to find the dragon."
Dou Ge affectionately patted the top of her head: "Our luck isn't that outrageous. I'm not useless either. I only looked for the mythical beast in the hope of protecting you."
Hearing her brother say this, Douzi stopped talking, picked up the mulberry peach, and prepared to leave with her brother.
Sang Zhitao flew directly from her hand and landed on Dou Ge's head.
"Wow! A phoenix!" Douzi couldn't help but exclaim.
Dou Ge was startled by her actions and couldn't help but reach out to touch her head, but she pecked him a few times, causing him to pull his hand back in pain.
"Fine, let her be." Dou Ge sighed helplessly, accepting Sang Zhi Tao's act of using his head as a bird's nest, before patting his sister's head to comfort her.
Seeing this, Douzi didn't say anything more, but looked longingly at the top of her brother's head several times.
She really wanted a phoenix to perch on her head...
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