Chapter 132: Throwing away the shield and raising the sword, the child's ambition rises to the sky and breaks the sun
"Christmas sleigh, come back."
Anson Deer looked up at the sky and gave the order.
Two reindeer stepped into the air, dragging a scarlet sled and galloping over. Soon they stopped on the rooftop of a tall building, waiting for Anson's reindeer to get on the sled.
"It takes half an hour for Bone Hedgehog to be used after it dies, and the same goes for Shadow of Dust." Anson Deer sat on the sled and said, "Although it is convenient to use, it is at best a one-time chess piece."
In the end, I still haven’t found a main species that can replace the floating fish in the tank…
The 13 seconds it takes to form is too long for me...
At this time, the reward settlement sound rang continuously in his ears.
[In this battle, you killed a total of 212 monsters. ]
[The rewards for killing the monster "Giant Frog Cavalry" and the monster "Griffin Cavalry" are the same, so you get a total of 63,600 experience points and 31,800 evolution coins. ]
[Your level has been raised to Lv18. ]
[Your level has been raised to Lv19. ]
[Your current level: Lv19 (8100/34,000 experience points)]
[Your current balance: 55,300 Evolution Coins]
"In cooperative dungeons, as long as you have all the monster resources in your hands, you can level up really quickly..." Anson Lu said, "You can save the money first, and then upgrade to the third-level Old Time Chess Player, and then use it to draw high-level chess packs."
The Christmas sleigh carrying Anson deer gallops across the winter sky.
The floating island was turbulent, as if the number of monsters killed was about to reach the required number. The Boss above the floating city was about to wake up, and the giant squid in the sea was getting closer and closer to the Rainbow Bridge...
Yu Mingdao is 39 years old this year.
Before the evolution game began, he was a university professor, but he had no sense of belonging to this career. In his own words, he was just a product rushed out of the social system.
In the first half of my life, I studied hard and worked hard to meet my parents' expectations.
In the middle, people rush around to get a stable job, and after getting a stable job, they work hard for a motorhome.
After buying the RV, parents urged them to get married, and after getting married, parents urged them to have children;
Finally, the wife became pregnant.
Everyone was congratulating him, but he just adjusted his glasses blankly and smiled at his wife.
After his children were born, Yu Mingdao shifted the focus of his life from his parents to his children. He began to seek a stable future for his children and planned to give them the best education.
However, he never turned the center of his life to himself, even for a second.
It wasn’t until he was 39 that Yu Mingdao seemed to realize that he had always been living to cater to the needs of his family and to gain recognition from society.
It's like... a cow.
He seemed to have succeeded, and everyone around him envied him - he had a stable and high-paying job, a respectable social status, and a happy family with a beautiful wife and lovely children.
Everything, everything.
But he seemed to have never truly lived, because he never knew what he wanted - adults taught him from a young age to abandon his dreams, study hard, and find a job that could make money. After working, they also told him to quickly find a suitable relationship.
Others kept putting pressure on him, but he moved forward like a cow, without any self-awareness.
Study, work, buy a car and a house, get married, have children……
Two thirds of my life has passed like this.
Is the purpose of the child's existence to take over his mechanical life? In the next few decades, this child will repeat the same process and grow old meaninglessly?
Yu Mingdao couldn't find the answer.
"You will find your dream in the future, find something you really like to do, and work hard to make a living from it." He whispered to the newborn child in a tired voice:
"And I will fully support you. As your father, this is all I can do for you."
The baby smiled at him.
A complicated smile also appeared on Yu Mingdao's face.
No matter what, he is only 39 years old and everything has just begun. He can slowly find the meaning of life and the ideals that he once abandoned.
But then the evolution game begins.
In the year when his child was born.
His wife died in the first round of copies, and the child was left unattended and sent to an orphanage.
After returning from the Hokkaido copy, Yu Mingdao, who was on a business trip, failed to obtain a travel voucher. He could not leave this strange city and could not return to his home.
He could only try to contact people he knew and ask them to go to the orphanage to help look after his children.
"How can I get the travel voucher?"
Yu Mingdao eagerly searched for such information on the Internet, and thousands of results popped up, but most people said that such rare items were in the hands of sequence players, and ordinary players had no chance of getting them.
Yes, travel coupons are very rare.
Sometimes in a round of dungeon, only one travel scroll will be spawned, and that travel scroll belongs to the dungeon MVP.
Outside of the dungeons, all travel coupons are almost monopolized by the state officials. The travel coupons in the hands of civilian players are recovered according to the law for use by the law enforcement team and the core players of the national team.
This is understandable, because there are so many fallen cities in the world, and sequence players need to use travel scrolls to go to those cities during the holidays and annihilate the colonial monsters.
In addition, Yu Mingdao also applied for a "travel voucher" from the official.
But he was met with a cold rebuff.
The official provided a lot of photos and said that his children were well protected in the orphanage and that travel coupons were precious resources and should never be wasted on such trivial matters.
Yu Mingdao was extremely furious, but powerless to resist.
In the following period of time, he tried to apply to join the law enforcement team and China's national team, but was rejected without exception. The reason for the rejection was simple: he was an ordinary player, not a sequence player.
He hated himself for not being a sequence player, for being born mediocre, and for not being able to look down on the world with a cold face like the boy he met in Hokkaido.
However, he had obviously already accepted his mediocrity and incompetence and had given up struggling.
Now he...
I just want to see my family.
That child is his only family...
The holiday time between the first and second rounds of dungeons was difficult to endure.
In order to get a travel coupon, Yu Mingdao made sufficient preparations and secretly vowed in his heart that he would surpass all players in the second round of dungeons, get MVP-level performance, and get the travel coupon as a system reward.
However, after entering the second round of copies, and even the third round of copies, he was still powerless.
Yu Mingdao tried his best, risked his life, and did his best like a mad dog, but he could only watch those so-called "sequence players" win the MVP in an unstoppable manner.
They are so relaxed and so powerful.
It’s as if... the world is their plaything, their playground, and ordinary players are the audience of these geniuses, and are only worthy of being audiences.
In such an era, the most humble and powerless thing is to become an ordinary person.
Yu Mingdao deeply realized this.
The saddest thing is that all his past efforts were ruined in this ridiculous game.
Now, he just wanted to leave this unfamiliar city and go back to see his children.
Even this cannot be done.
Until the end, Yu Mingdao let go of all his pride and reserve. During the holiday time after the third round of dungeons, he opened Anson Lu's friend panel in despair.
This is the only sequence player he knows.
In the second and third rounds of dungeons, Yu Mingdao encountered five sequence players, namely "Pope of Mad Bell", "Eagle of Transcendence", "Feast of Mad Snake", "Ashes Circus" and "Spear of Burning Soul" respectively.
The first four are from the law enforcement team, and the last one is directly under the Chinese national team.
Among them, only the "Mad Bell Pope" Lorenzo was willing to listen to Yu Mingdao's request, but when Lorenzo was about to say something, he was stopped by the "Mad Snake Banquet" Cardusa beside him.
"Lorenzo, doing this is against official rules. Travel coupons are rare items and must be distributed uniformly by the authorities. You are the captain of the law enforcement team and must set an example. If this matter gets out..." Cardusa whispered.
Lorenzo hesitated for two seconds, looked at Yu Mingdao meaningfully, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, then walked away silently.
Apart from this, none of the other sequence players paid any attention to Yu Mingdao.
Whether it was the law enforcement team or the national team, after learning that Yu Mingdao was just an ordinary professional player, they all found an excuse and politely rejected his friend request.
How could he dare to ask for a travel voucher when he couldn't even get his friend's request approved?
After all these experiences, Yu Mingdao actually had no hope, but this was his last chance to see the child before entering the fourth round of dungeons.
He had to try, even if it meant losing face and continuing to be trampled on and humiliated.
Yu Mingdao was silent for a long time, and in a slightly hoarse voice, he sent a voice message to Anson Lu:
"Anson Deer, I...I want to borrow a travel voucher from you. I want to go back and see my child."
"I know I'm just an ordinary player and can't give you anything in return. After all, you're number one in the world and you have everything you need. But since we're from the same hometown... can you please help me this time? I beg you."
There was a long period of dead silence.
There was no response.
Anson Lu is a very busy man. He is ranked first in the world in terms of strength and is a famous former chess player. This name carries the hope of all mankind and has unparalleled popularity around the world.
Those players ranked at the bottom of the top 100 refused to pay attention to him, so how could Anson Lu pay attention to him?
Basically, Sequence Players only play with Sequence Players. Even if they get together with ordinary players, it is just to enjoy the pleasure of standing out from the crowd, that's all...
Yu Mingdao was clearly aware of these facts, but when he thought of the child waiting for him in the orphanage, he would still stare stupidly at the blank chat panel, waiting for the boy's reply.
This is his only hope.
About half a day later, a voice message came.
"Okay, uncle, I remember you. We are from the same hometown. Why are you being so polite?" Anson Lu said, "Wait, how do players trade remotely? I haven't used this function yet... Let me study it first."
Yu Mingdao listened to Anson Lu's voice message and stood there for a long time without reacting.
[Player 'Anson Deer' initiates a trade request with you. The trade item provided by the other party is: "a travel voucher"; the trade item requested by the other party is: none. ]
Yu Mingdao stretched out his fingers tremblingly. He didn't expect that the thing he had dreamed of for the past month could be obtained so easily.
[You have accepted the transaction application and obtained a travel voucher. ]
"Next time, just speak directly about such trivial matters. Remember that stinky gambler named 'Ritsuki Urushihara'? I don't know how he managed to collect a bunch of travel coupons. It was so cruel. I would think it would be too light if he was dragged off and shot by the Japanese authorities a hundred times."
When Anson Lu said this, a contemptuous female voice suddenly came from the other side of the line.
"Are you an idiot, telling someone like that?!"
Anson Lu replied with contempt: "Come on, Asuka-san, this is someone else? Don't be so mean, this is my fellow villager, we Shangshi people are very simple and honest!"
"Ha, Chunpu? You mean Xiong Haodong?"
"Brother Dong is a rare species in Shangshi. We cannot generalize. Not everyone is as insidious as Brother Dong!" Anson Lu took the time to say to Yu Mingdao in a low voice while bickering with the female voice:
"I have some family matters to attend to. I'm going to hang up now. Uncle, please don't report us to the authorities for illegally collecting travel coupons. Reporting is useless, though. Bye."
After Anson Lu's voice fell, there was only a long period of dead silence in Yu Mingdao's ears.
What was extremely precious to him, might just be something that this young man could casually give to others... Yu Mingdao felt a little emotional, but he felt more grateful in his heart.
He opened the space in his luggage and stared at the travel coupon with a dull look. After being in a daze for a long time, his eyes suddenly became moist and red.
He can go home...
You can go see your children...
"Thank you." Yu Mingdao typed, "I will never forget today. I said I was borrowing it, not asking you for it. If I can get a travel voucher in the future, I will definitely return it to you."
There was no response from the friend panel.
The afternoon of January 17th, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan.
This is Tokyo's most famous cherry blossom viewing spot, and it is also a place mentioned in Mr. Lu Xun's work "Mr. Fujino". It is winter now, and the park cannot see the blooming cherry blossoms like crimson clouds that Mr. Lu Xun described, but it still has its own unique flavor.
The winter snow was falling lightly, and the ground in the park was almost frozen. However, above the freezing ground, there were a few pure white cherry trees blooming. They stood lonely in the ice and snow, and their snow-covered branches swayed gently, scattering light-colored petals.
Yu Mingdao was wearing a robe, holding a rune book in his left hand and a staff in his right hand, and he stood in the middle of the park with a serious expression.
Now, he has changed his job to "Elemental Mage", and is the most outstanding among the ordinary players in this copy. Naturally, he should serve as the core of the team.
"Here they come! Murlocs riding giant frogs, and cavalrymen riding griffins!" someone shouted.
Yu Mingdao took a deep breath and said very quickly:
"I see. Prepare to fight back. Follow the tactics we've rehearsed. Paladin protects the players in the back row. Berserker and Magic Swordsman rush to the front. Shadow Wing and Black Hand watch the situation and harvest the battlefield!"
As his command came down, the warrior players protected Yu Mingdao behind them. The three players who changed their profession to "Berserker" were dressed in heavy armor, holding huge swords, and rushed forward with a layer of blood-red light.
The player who changed from a priest to a "Paladin" protected Yu Mingdao behind him - the Paladin's skills could provide the back-row players with a powerful shield to protect their safety.
"What is that?" Yu Mingdao frowned. He saw the giant frogs ridden by the murlocs suddenly stop and open their bloody mouths towards the group of players gathered in the park.
He realized something was wrong and quickly yelled, "Be careful, those giant frogs are spitting out saliva, it seems to be an AoE skill!"
“Crash——”
The next second, more than thirty giant frogs spewed out mucus in unison. The highly corrosive mucus was like an enhanced acid rain, falling down with overwhelming force.
"Paladin, quickly release the group barrier!" Yu Mingdao commanded.
The two Paladin players beside him raised the scepters in their left hands and the hammers in their right hands, and released their class skills - [Light of the Holy Hammer] without any delay.
"call--!!!"
In an instant, dazzling golden light spread out from the hammer, forming a circular barrier that covered all players within a five-meter radius of him.
"No, it seems unstoppable..." Yu Mingdao narrowed his eyes and made a judgment in his heart.
Under the attack of the poisonous slime, the sacred barrier was shattered in just two seconds. Yu Mingdao raised his staff without hesitation and released the elemental mage's job skill - [Water Falls].
A violent torrent of water suddenly appeared, forming a turbulent waterfall in the air. The waterfall created by the elemental mage took over the position of the Light of the Holy Hammer, defending all the back-row players from the giant frog's slime.
After three seconds, the mucus attack finally stopped.
Not a single cherry tree stood upright. The dark purple mucus greedily devoured every petal and corroded the tree trunks.
“Fortunately we managed to hold it…” Yu Mingdao breathed a sigh of relief and looked around with a serious expression.
At this moment, except for the back-row professions protected by the Paladin, the warriors rushing forward and the assassins hovering outside were all sprayed with the poisonous slime rain.
Under the bombardment of this venom, even if the warrior players raised their shields to block it, their bodies would inevitably be hit by the venom - the horrible liquid corroded every inch of their skin, and in a moment some people's arms were already exposed to bones!
Not to mention assassin players.
Their defense and health points were already weaker than those of the warriors. Under the bombardment of this seamless mucus, the assassins collapsed directly to the ground, with their muscles all over their bodies cramping violently.
A mixture of blood and venom flowed out from the wounds in their bodies.
“Aa ...
The tragic howls echoed throughout Ueno Park.
“Damn it!”
Yu Mingdao's pupils contracted and he gritted his teeth.
He had never imagined that the monsters that spawned on the third day of this dungeon would become so much stronger - the frogs ridden by those murlocs spit out mucus as soon as they met, creating a range bombardment that almost covered half of the park!
At this time, the murloc cavalry stepped over the corpses of the warriors and assassins, and the griffin cavalry came from the sky.
They formed a siege offensive and rushed towards the remaining players in the center of the park!
The monsters were so massive that they looked like a dark ocean sweeping over.
Soon, as this murderous tide recedes, Ueno Park will be left with nothing but corpses, and no player will survive, including Yu Mingdao himself.
"It's over..."
The two paladins in front trembled and retreated, shouting hoarsely: "Captain, our front row can't hold on any longer!"
"Don't panic, it's all over if you panic!"
Although Yu Mingdao felt desperate, he still gave orders in the voice channel: "Paladin, Night Hunter, Mage, Gunner, use your skills on the Griffin Cavalry pointing at the sky and try to stop them..."
At this moment, his voice stopped abruptly.
Suddenly, countless thin lines divided the land of Ueno Park into chessboards, and the tide poured out from the chessboard, gently lapping at everyone's feet.
The players around were stunned and looked around tremblingly. No one could make sense of the current situation.
At this moment, the warrior players who still had a breath left, without exception, chose to abandon their shields, picked up the swords or axes in their hands, rushed forward with blood all over their bodies, and roared like lions.
They were hysterical and unstoppable. They threw away their shields and picked up their swords, roaring like lions, with their innocent ambitions as high as the clouds and the sun.
“Bang!!!!”
But at this moment, a huge lighthouse fell from the sky with violent force, and slammed heavily between the warriors and the monster army, blocking the battlefield between the two sides.
This lighthouse seemed to be blocking these soldiers from moving forward.
Yu Mingdao's heart trembled. He stared at the lighthouse in amazement, "Could this be..."
"My fellow countryman, please ask those soldiers to retreat." A familiar voice came.
Yu Mingdao turned his head dully and looked towards the source of the sound.
Anson Lu came to Yu Mingdao's side at some point. He patted Yu Mingdao's shoulder casually, walked slowly past Yu Mingdao, raised his light brown eyes, and looked at the army of monsters in front of him.
Yu Mingdao swallowed a mouthful of water and wanted to speak, but no words came out. His throat was dry and hoarse as if something was blocking it.
He stared at Anson Deer's back, was silent for a long time, smiled hoarsely and said:
"haven't seen you for a long time."
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