Chapter 121 Even if it only gives me a glimmer of hope, it is enough
January 11, at dusk, in the teachers’ dormitory in Shangshi City.
As the sun sets, the afterglow is like an arrow, shining through the thousands of gaps in the lattice windows, slanting into the dormitory, bringing a bit of the breath of sunset burning clouds.
Anson Lu suddenly thought of something and said:
"Speaking of which, Asuka, what are the things in your mall?"
"What?" Asuka Uesugi said casually.
"The mall sells exclusive items. There must be one in every special sequence, right?" Anson Lu looked at her.
"Oh, the ones they sell are all passive skills, the kind that increase attributes or regeneration."
"You can become stronger just by stacking attributes without thinking?" Anson Lu blurted out, "How convenient, it's worthy of being a sequence for idiots."
Asuka Uesugi's voice turned cold. "Say it again, who is the idiot?"
"Hey, this sequence of old chess players is too stupid. Even a fool can be the world's number one." After Anson Lu finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Chu Qimo, "Teacher Chu, what do you sell in your mall?"
"A series of data to strengthen Dark Sky."
Chu Qimo wiped the dark sky with a cloth and said calmly: "Also, my attributes are bound to the dark sky. If its attributes are improved, I will also get certain feedback."
"That's great. This sequence gives you a weapon at the beginning, and you can use it in the later stages." Anson Lu envied, "Unlike me, I don't have any weapons or equipment."
Uesugi Asuka looked away and said in confusion:
"We are all chess players. Aren't chess pieces your equipment and weapons?"
"That makes sense, but I always feel like something is missing. I feel very insecure." Anson Lu pouted.
Urushihara Ritsu turned the pages of the book with his slender fingers and said in a calm voice:
"Lord Lu, you should ask your enemies if they can feel safe against your army of pawns. Complaining about these issues is too much."
Anson Lu looked at Urushihara Ritsu and asked calmly:
"Speaking of which, Crow, what else do you have in your mall?"
"I told you, it's a secret." Urushihara Ritsu smiled.
"Get lost!" Anson Lu looked at Yuri, "What about you, Icelandic girl, what exclusive products do you have in your store?"
"Skill."
"Skill?"
"I bought it as soon as I saved up enough money." Yuri said calmly, "It's very expensive, about 30,000 evolution coins."
More than 30,000 evolution coins?
That's true. The evolution coins saved from the first three rounds of dungeons are about this number. No wonder her skills haven't changed much.
"No wonder." Anson Lu seemed to be thinking about something. "I noticed that your playing style in the first three rounds of dungeons has not changed, and you didn't buy any equipment. I almost thought that I was the only one who could buy serial products."
"What equipment do sequence players need? Are ordinary professions the only ones who need it?" Asuka Uesugi held her chin and flipped through the new weekly Shonen Jump comics, saying with disdain:
"Also, the key is that the defensive equipment in the mall is terrible. The best one only adds 200 health points! And it has the weight-bearing attribute, which is completely useless!"
"200 health points is quite high, isn't it?" Anson looked at Asuka with disdain, his face showing - "Can you please stop showing off your understanding, penguin!".
"Come on, those players in the law enforcement team didn't bring any equipment." Uesugi Asuka turned her head and said contemptuously:
"Moreover, they have the support of the Evolution Foundation. The Foundation's understanding of the game is at least at the forefront. Doesn't this mean that equipment is completely useless to sequence players?"
Urushihara Ritsu said quietly, "That's not the case. Equipment made from rare materials is still useful."
"Huh?" Anson Lu was stunned. "No, this game can also create equipment?"
"Mr. Lu, if you can't craft it, what do you think the purpose of collecting materials is for ordinary players? Simply selling them for evolution coins? That's too monotonous."
"How do we build it?"
Anson Deer called out the mall panel, but couldn't find the option to craft equipment.
"In the top 1,000 cities in the global rankings, a forge will be open during holidays for crafting equipment. Ordinary players use materials to craft equipment there," said Crow.
Anson Deer scratched his cheek and said disappointedly:
"Oh, it's one of the top 1,000 cities in the world. No wonder it's not on the list."
At this moment, he already wanted to say goodbye to Shangshi City in his heart, but as a city to stay in during the holidays, as long as the principal stayed here, Shangshi was the safest place.
If you really want to craft equipment, you can use a travel coupon to fly to a big city, but you will probably have to wait in line for a long time.
"However." Urushihara Ritsu paused and said, "It is indeed as Ms. Uesugi said, Sequence players have very low demand for equipment, and ordinary professional players only need equipment to make up for the deficiency."
"More defensive gear is a good thing." Anson Lu shrugged. "Just think about it, when we fight against the law enforcement team, we either kill them instantly or get killed instantly by them. If we had defensive gear, it would be different."
"At least in the early stages of the game, the impact of defensive equipment is not very great, and those who are destined to be killed will still be killed instantly." Chu Qimo wiped the dark sky, put the sword into the sword bag, and said slowly:
"Not only that, wearing protective gear will slow down my movements. Things change rapidly in battle, and what I need more is the explosive speed to deal with dangerous situations, so I gave up the protective gear."
"I see. Teacher Chu, that's a good idea."
Anson Lu gave a thumbs up and completely gave up the idea of buying defensive equipment - he had no money anyway.
"It's just my personal opinion." Chu Qimo replied calmly.
"By the way, everyone should be at level 2 now." Anson Lu asked again, "Have your sequence skills changed? Did someone secretly take off without telling their teammates?"
After Anson Lu finished speaking, he stared at Uesugi Asuka with an expressionless face.
"Of course." Asuka Uesugi paused, "But I won't tell you."
Anson Deer turned his head and looked at Yuri silently.
"Please." Yuri said, "Next time."
Anson Lu turned his head and glanced at Urushihara Ritsu without expectation.
"This is also a secret." Urushihara Ritsu put his finger in front of his lips.
Anson Lu turned around and looked at Teacher Chu as if he was struggling to survive.
Chu Qimo put on his sword bag and introduced slowly:
"After upgrading to the second stage, the three states of Dark Sky, 'Dagger', 'Long Sword', and 'Great Sword', each gained an additional skill. In other words, I now have a total of six sequence skills."
"Oh, that sounds awesome!" Anson Lu nodded in awe.
"I'm going to practice swordplay. See you all."
Chu Qimo lowered his eyelids, stood up, and walked out of the dormitory with his sword bag on his back.
Anson Lu waved at his back, "Bye, Teacher Chu~"
"So pitiful! Finally you meet someone you can bully?" Asuka Uesugi asked, covering her mouth.
Anson Deer said seriously:
"I hope that our Hell Lighthouse can have more people like Mr. Chu. Do you hear me, Chu Rixiang, Chu Yuanlu, Chu Rui? Then we can just change the name of the union to 'The Truman Show'!"
".absurd."
".idiot."
".Fool."
Anson Lu narrowed his eyes, "Who wants to be with a bunch of heartless guys like you? I'd better go and play with Xiaomei."
Uesugi Asuka said unhappily, "Don't call Yuliu 'Xiaomei' anymore, or he'll really bite you."
"I'm number one in the world, you can call me whatever you want, for example."
Anson Lu was playing with his phone and said casually: "Cry, Bao, Long."
"Huh? Who are you talking about?"
"Goodbye."
Anson Lu closed the dormitory door and ran away decisively.
As he walked towards the rooftop, he used the panel to send a message to Yuliu.
【Anson Deer: Where are you? 】
[Julius: Chicago, I have a pub to manage, so I won't be living in Shangshi anymore.]
[Anson Lu: Oh, shall I go drink with you? ]
[Julius: Do you still drink? ]
[Anson Deer: I can’t, but my chess species can. The Queen’s statue likes to drink a lot.]
[Juliu: You can come over. I’ve sent you the address.]
[Anson Lu: I'll go over when I have time. ]
Anson Lu turned off the panel, leaned on the railing of the rooftop, looked into the distance, and felt the wind blowing across his cheeks.
"When will this kind of life end?"
He murmured, "I guess everyone is bored. After defeating the World Boss in half a year, there won't be another World Boss. Does that mean the Evolution Game will have to last forever?"
The game system did not mention whether the evolution game would come to an end after defeating the white dragon that descended on Tokyo in June, or whether it would continue.
The crimson sunset covered the sky, and the setting sun was about to sink below the horizon.
At this time, a bird flew over the high towers in the city center, spreading its wings and soaring high until it hit an invisible wall and fell powerlessly to the ground.
"Gah!"
The alien kangaroo rushed out of the chess field without hesitation.
With nimble hands and feet, it quickly pulled out the chimeric mechanical wing from its extra-dimensional pocket, loaded it onto its shoulder, and then shot it straight at the falling bird at a terrifying speed.
"Officer Kangaroo, you are truly an ambassador for animal protection." Anson Deer held his chin and stared at the kangaroo's back quietly.
He didn't even call the kangaroo out, it rushed out on its own, and by sheer luck it pulled out its mechanical wings, otherwise it would have had to watch the bird fall to the ground.
“Bang!”
The kangaroo equipped with mechanical wings was incredibly fast. It rushed towards the bird like a blue aurora and caught its body with its hands.
At this time, the use time of the mechanical wings has expired.
10 seconds time limit.
It’s just so lame, kangaroo police officers never pay technology fees.
At this moment, the kangaroo was holding the bird and was about to drop it to the ground from a high altitude.
Anson Deer looked at this scene and said calmly: "King Protector, recall the alien kangaroo."
As the voice fell, the alien kangaroo "whoosh" appeared beside him. It spread its arms and lowered its eyelids in pity: the little bird was still dying, and its wings were spasming violently.
Anson Deer looked up at the sky, casually took out the only remaining bottle of "Nano Fast-Acting Medical Spray" from his pocket, and threw it to the alien kangaroo without even looking at it.
"Catch it."
"Gah!"
The alien kangaroo took the bottle of spray, nodded gratefully, and used the spray to treat the bird's injuries - its wounds healed quickly and it was able to fly back into the sky.
Officer Kangaroo's serious eyes were gleaming with the afterglow.
[Alien Kangaroo's favorability towards you: 45 points → 85 points]
"Kangaroo," Anson Deer turned his head and squinted at the alien kangaroo, "I'll say it one last time. You are not allowed to leave the chess room without my permission."
"Gah!"
Officer Kangaroo saluted and disappeared from the spot.
Anson Deer stared at the flying bird for a long time, then opened his friend list and clicked into the chat panel with Lorenzo.
[Anson Deer: Pope, please help me. I will owe you a favor.]
【Lorenzo: What do you need? 】
[Anson Lu: I need you to ask Gu Qiu to help me hack out all the files about "Anchache Syndrome" in Iceland's official database.]
【Lorenzo:.You're doing this for that Icelandic girl?】
【Anson Deer: Yes, for her. 】
After Anson Lu finished typing, he stared at the chat panel quietly. Lorenzo's message did not pop up yet.
The young man's eyes moved. The setting sun then sank below the horizon, taking away the light that was scattered on the earth. In the distance, tiny fires from thousands of homes lit up, and in the dark night, it looked like a large, brightly lit ship.
Twenty minutes later, just as Anson Lu was about to close the panel, a message popped up.
【Lorenzo: I watched it, and her experience is indeed very sad. 】
【Lorenzo: However, as always, this document must not be released to the public. We cannot allow the majority of people to fall into turmoil because of one person. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to you betraying my trust, and our cooperation would end here.】
【Lorenzo: And there won’t be a next time. 】
As the last sentence fell, Lorenzo handed over a densely packed document with the official seal of Iceland in the upper right corner of the rough document.
Anson Lu raised the corners of his mouth slightly and moved his fingers.
[Anson Deer: Well, it will not be announced. ]
After Anson Lu finished typing, he opened the document. His dark brown eyes moved as he looked at the photos on the document.
The white-haired girl is sitting on the bed in the ward, looking out the window.
She was reading in the ward with her eyelids drooped and her clear eyes focused intently on the words in the book.
The way she was watching TV in the hospital room, the TV screen was showing the latest Nintendo game advertisements, with characters like Pokémon, Mario, and Zelda fighting fiercely on TV.
As she drank water in the ward, her snow-white hair fell in front of her eyes, covering her forehead.
Capital dragged her onto the stage, she was wearing a plain white dress and was treated as a 'hyperthymesia genius'.
The officials dragged her onto the operating table, where she was wrapped in bandages and treated as a 'research specimen'.
Her eyes were so indifferent from beginning to end, and there was never any different expression on her face.
From the beginning to the end of the document, she spent every day in a similar environment, either in a narrow ward or on various stages, facing the spotlight and the camera, with pale cheeks, indifferent expression, and cold voice.
Day after day, year after year, in the same ward, the snow fell countless times, the branches outside the window broke and grew again, the leaves fell and grew again, the girl grew up slowly in this narrow room, her snow-white hair grew longer and longer, hanging from her shoulders and touching her waist, the books she read piled up more and more, filling up several bookshelves in the corner of the room.
Then, she met you in Hokkaido.
Just because you casually said "Let's be friends", she treats you as her only friend, as if you are irreplaceable.
It's so ironic.
“Is it so cold at night in Shangshi?”
Anson Lu's eyes were obscured by his jet-black hair. He exhaled a light breath of white air and unconsciously wrapped his scarf tightly with his hands.
There is still no clue that Anchache syndrome can be cured from this official document.
It's just mentioned on paper - after the first two children with Anchache syndrome died, their parents kept quiet about it.
No matter what means of negotiation were used, no substantial clues were provided - they seemed to be hiding something, but the Icelandic officials could not force the truth out, so they gave up and shifted their target to Yuri.
This may be a breakthrough.
The parents of the first two patients seemed to have some clues, and one of them was still alive, living in the Icelandic port village of Djupivogur.
"Use the travel scroll, destination, Dhupivogur." Anson Lu said.
At this time, Asuka Uesugi pushed open the iron gate, walked into the rooftop, opened her lips slightly, and was about to say something to Anson Lu, but Anson Lu's back had already disappeared and blended into the dim night.
"Where are the people?"
She put one hand on her hip, looking confused.
Djupivogur, East Iceland at night.
This pier village is located in a remote area with few pedestrians and a small population. Tourists traveling to Iceland will not choose such a sparsely populated place. However, the scenery is very clean, and just walking in it makes people feel comfortable, like an oil painting.
The ice surface of the village reflects the aurora in the sky. The interweaving of green and blue is so beautiful that it is breathtaking.
With his hands in his coat pockets, Anson Lu strolled through the village shrouded in a faint halo of light. He looked around, a little curious about where the Icelandic girl spent her childhood.
According to the address information in the document, he quickly found the door.
This is a small wooden house with a fresh and unique shape. The architectural style of Djupivogur is generally like this, simple and clean, giving people a refreshing feeling.
The door was ajar.
In this wooden house, there is a lonely man who is boiling milk, and a faint milky aroma wafts out.
The man looked much older than the photo on the file.
But Anson Lu recognized that this was the person he was looking for.
Khaki was the first documented case of Anchase syndrome and died nine years ago; the man was Khaki's father, named Jeff, who was 49 years old.
"Boom!"
Anson Deer knocked on the door twice gently.
“Dongdong.”
The man put down the pot and walked over quickly.
"What's the matter?" Jeff's hand was on the edge of the door, with a strange expression on his face - at this hour, it was not an ordinary thing for a Chinese to come to visit.
Anson Deer looked into Jeff's eyes and said sincerely:
"Mr. Jeff, I want to ask you something about your daughter."
“Bang!”
The thump of the door closing interrupted his words.
Jeff's door closed quickly and heavily.
Anson Deer's face twitched slightly, and light flashed in his eyes.
It was obvious that he could easily tear this man to pieces and force the information he wanted out of him, but he simply suppressed his violent temper and took a deep breath of cold air.
He leaned against the door and whispered:
"Mr. Jeff, I know you feel very heavy-hearted, and maybe you don't want to hear these things again in your life."
"But do you know Yuri? Like your daughter, she also suffers from Anchache syndrome. I just want to know if I have a chance to save her."
"Even if it just gives me a little hope, it's enough."
"Please."
The door opened.
Jeff stared at Anson's cheek silently, his hand on the door, as if motioning him to come into the house.
"Thank you." Anson Deer said softly.
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(End of this chapter)
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