Chapter 16 End of the Track
"I used Evolution Coins to open the hotel. You two can stay here if you want. There are plenty of rooms." Anson Lu paused and said:
"Well, it's fine if you want to live in the city. It's none of my business anyway."
It took Maruyama Jun a while to react, and he quickly said, "We'll stay, we'll stay."
Iwata Minoru also nodded and said softly:
"Maruyama, he seems like a different person. He's surprisingly easy to talk to."
"Idiot, that's what we call being down-to-earth." Maruyama Jun walked towards Anson Lu and said to Iwata, "It would be great if I could add him as my friend. Then I can queue up in the same dungeon with him and it will be convenient for me to curry his favor."
Iwata Minoru followed Maruyama Jun and hesitated for half a second before asking: "Maruyama, will he really give us the friend position?"
"Maybe. Then we'll make a profit. I guess we won't have the chance to add more in the future."
"Yeah, that's right."
Minoru Iwata felt safe when he thought that he would be able to queue up in the same challenge dungeon with Anson Deer in the future.
Most importantly, if Anson Deer chooses a player-confrontation dungeon, they can also use the information brought by "friends" to avoid running into Anson Deer.
Otherwise, they would probably be involved in a 'fish fry' and beaten up unilaterally by Anson Deer.
"Are you both Japanese?"
Anson Lu looked at the two people's Japanese school uniforms. The uniforms also had the school emblem of Tokyo Private High School 'Nishi Yamato Gakuen' on them. The one or two Japanese kanji in it were easy to recognize.
"Yes, yes." Maruyama Jun nodded, "We are unlucky. We didn't know there were so many monsters here."
"Oh, I..."
Anson Lu was halfway through his speech when he was interrupted by Minoru Iwata.
"Um, can I add you as my friend?!"
Iwata Minoru's clear eyes were fixed on Anson's face, and his voice was very sincere, like an elementary school student asking his teacher to answer a question.
Maruyama Jun was stunned for a moment, and cursed in a low voice:
"Idiot, why are you in such a hurry?!"
Originally, he was planning to get close to Anson Lu and then ask for friend status, but he didn't expect that Iwata Minoru would be so straightforward and completely brainless.
Really a top-notch teammate!
"Sure." Anson Lu called up his friends panel and asked without thinking, "What's your name?"
"Iwata Minoru!" Iwata Minoru was ecstatic.
Anson Lu sent him a friend request and said with a smile:
"Okay, I'll add you. I'll take care of you if anything happens."
"I..." Maruyama Jun was stunned and said quickly, "I want your friend too!"
He really didn't expect Anson Deer to be so easy to get along with.
Whether it was the Anson Deer in the video of Shangshi High School or the Anson Deer who was killing people in the commercial street, they seemed to have nothing to do with the Anson Deer in front of him.
"It's no big deal." Anson Lu was puzzled and asked casually, "Uh... do you Japanese like to use honorifics so much? You're here."
Through the translation system, he heard that both Maruyama Jun and Iwata Minoru were speaking Chinese.
Similarly, these two people are from Japan, so it is natural for them to hear Anson Lu speaking Japanese.
Anson Lu was really curious about whether his words would be translated into Japanese by the system, and whether it would sound like the colonel in the anti-Japanese drama, something like "Yoshi yoshi, dead, dead, dead".
"It's not a common honorific. Hehe, I want your friend too." Maruyama Jun changed his words and said with a wry smile.
He glanced at Anson Lu's name from Minoru Iwata's friend list, and then sent Anson Lu a friend request very quickly, showing off his hand speed that he had practiced for many years in League of Legends.
"You also know that time passes faster in games."
Anson Lu agreed to the other party's application on the pop-up panel and said slowly:
"One hour is equivalent to three hours in the outside world, so my permission to open the hotel for one night is actually equivalent to opening it for three hours, because three hours will be until tomorrow morning. Remember not to oversleep, or you will be forced out of the hotel by the system."
"We know."
"Then I'm going to sleep. Good night, everyone."
Anson Lu said, and walked towards the unsealed hotel without thinking much.
Pushing open the door of the hotel, he turned his head slightly and glanced at a crow perched on a telephone pole out of the corner of his eye.
The crow had been sitting there since the fight just now.
Anson's deer noticed it from a bird's-eye view.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but the crow's blood-red eyes seemed to be staring at him.
Just a crow...
Anson Lu didn't think much about it. He retracted his gaze and pushed the door open. At this time, Maruyama Jun suddenly shouted and asked:
"Well, I have something to ask you!"
"Oh my god..." Anson Deer was frightened and rolled his eyes. He turned around and asked, "What? Couldn't I ask it just now?"
"When I encountered those monsters, I couldn't move at all. Just thinking back to the previous scenes, I felt like I was about to suffocate..." Maruyama Jun gritted his teeth and asked in a trembling voice:
"I want to know, how do you manage to stay so calm in battle?"
How did he stay so calm... Anson Lu thought for a second, scratched his cheek, and said a little embarrassedly:
"Just luck. It will be the same if you practice more tomorrow night. Good night."
After Anson Lu finished speaking, he walked straight into the elevator under the gaze of the two people.
The elevator door slowly closed, as if separating him from the outside world.
Press the elevator panel and select the highest floor "5th Floor".
He took a deep breath, and the whole world became quiet, with only the buzzing sound of the elevator rising in his ears.
The environment in the elevator was a bit stuffy, but fortunately they reached the fifth floor very quickly. Anson Lu randomly selected a room, turned the doorknob, closed the door, and didn't even bother to turn on the light. He just collapsed on the bed.
He said, "System, alarm, set it for three hours."
[Alarm set, good night, Mr. Player]
"Why are you so calm..."
Anson Deer shoved his head into the pillow and murmured tiredly.
Yes, how come I am so calm...
Forget it, what's there to think about? Just let it go...
He slowly closed his heavy eyelids, stopping his thoughts from wandering.
I experienced so many things today. First, there was the chess game in the classroom, then the fights in the dungeon, and countless faces distorted by fear seemed to float slowly before my eyes.
Anson Lu actually didn't know why his psychological quality was so good.
Come to think of it, maybe it’s because…
After his parents died when he was ten years old, he always felt that life was unreal and he seemed to be floating outside of this world.
That night when I knelt down in front of the ward, cried until my voice was hoarse, and yelled until my internal organs felt like they were about to be torn apart.
Anson Deer had a dream.
In his dream, he was walking on a rusty railway track with no end in sight.
To the left of the track are rice fields stretching to the end of the world.
The straw swayed in the wind, and it was especially peaceful at sunset. Folk songs could be heard in the empty and quiet fields. Those were the songs his mother often sang to put him to sleep.
The setting sun continuously lengthens the shadows of the rice fields, casting them onto the train tracks, extending to the other end of the world.
To the right of the track is the silent, lightless deep sea.
The cold sea waves hit the track, soaking his bare ankles, as if a pair of broken and cold arms were dragging him into the deep sea.
The young Anson Deer cried until he was tired and had lost all his energy in his dream.
He wandered between rice fields and the deep sea.
The warmth of the rice fields was too unreal. If he stayed a little longer in the golden sea of rice, all the rice straws would become as sharp as knives and constantly pierce his scarred body.
Immersed in the deep sea, the tide would always push him to the other side, making him roll back into the fake rice field like a puppet with its strings cut.
Both memories and reality were constantly tormenting his spirit.
Anson Deer gradually began to not care about anything and just walked forward step by step along the track.
It doesn't matter to him whether he is surrounded by golden rice fields or drowned in the deep sea.
Even if the path he is walking on seems to have no end in sight, he can still keep going.
From that day on, he was like a bystander in life and found it difficult to truly integrate into this world.
His uncle even thought about hiring a psychologist for him. The death of parents is enough to cause an adult to have a mental breakdown, not to mention that Anson Lu is just a child.
But what made his uncle unbelievable was that Anson Deer quickly became cheerful after his parents' death, and seemed to be moving in a good direction.
He was originally very quiet.
Staying in the room, locking the door, and playing chess with himself was the favorite thing for young Anson Deer.
But in order to avoid being ostracized, causing trouble to his relatives, being seen as having post-traumatic stress disorder, and undergoing a bunch of unnecessary psychological tests, he can easily pretend to be a cheerful and heartless person.
I got used to it as I kept acting.
He has no friends, or perhaps no real friends, because he has never taken anyone to heart. People who are cold on the outside but warm on the inside may be able to find good friends, but people who are warm on the outside but cold on the inside find it difficult.
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