Chapter 213 "Mr. Lu, you can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep."
[Entering the settlement phase of the seventh round of the dungeon - "Hot Air Balloon and Airship Tour". 】
[Instance completion score: 90 points (comprehensive evaluation score of four investigation tasks).]
[Based on the total score, all players who participated in the dungeon will receive a general reward - 120,000 experience points, 50,000 evolution coins, and 5 chances to win a prize in the advanced mall. ]
[Your level has been raised to Lv33. ]
[Your level has been raised to Lv34 (6,000/72,000 experience points).]
"Not bad, a standard copy to level up to five levels." Anson Lu was very satisfied. He was originally worried that the experience given by the copy would not meet the standard, but he did not expect that it would be made up in the final settlement.
He remembered that he was level 29 when he entered the dungeon, and he was exactly level 34 after finishing the dungeon. He was still at the top of the world ranking list. Only Lorenzo and his gang could compete with him.
[The overall MVP of this round of dungeons is Anson Lu (former chess player).]
[The MVP of this round of dungeon is Anson Lu (former chess player).]
[The MVP of this round of investigation is Jiang Yijie (Emerald Mask).]
"I didn't get three consecutive MVPs..." Anson Lu curled his lips, "It's a pity. The next round of dungeons is quite important."
Only by getting three MVPs can you get the right to choose one of three in the copy selection stage.
The following is the eighth round of dungeons. If the dungeon that comes out is as difficult as the "Tokyo dungeon", Anson Lu thinks the result is quite uncertain.
After all, even he had to work very hard to clear that dungeon, not to mention the sacrifices of many players - if he had not been there, Cosimo, Kamishiro Ruri, and Juliu might have all died on the island above Tokyo.
"No matter what, the next round of dungeons can be played in a team." Anson Lu thought, "It's not easy to avoid cooperative challenge dungeons... Is it really a good time to enter a cooperative dungeon now?"
It's not just because of the reputation of the Hell Beacon. If most sequence players avoid cooperative challenge copies, the city's fall rate will rise sharply and the number of dead players will increase exponentially.
[This instance does not have an audience, so the citizen evaluation phase has been skipped. ]
[The settlement phase has ended. Return to Liukan Town in ten seconds.]
[The eighth round of dungeons will begin on March 15th. I wish you a happy holiday, Mr. Anson Deer. ]
"You should also have a good vacation and torture me less when you come back." Anson Lu sighed.
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes went dark and his figure disappeared.
Anson Deer opened his eyes and his body was sitting on the bed.
Moving my eyes, my gaze passed through the window covered with a layer of snow fog, and what came into view was still the deserted and desolate Norwegian town. The fir trees stubbornly stretched their branches upwards in the wind and snow, and the light and warm sunlight sprinkled down.
"No, wait, why is there sunlight?" Anson Deer was surprised when he discovered the blind spot.
He realized belatedly that, logically, only the town square could receive sunlight, because the mirror reflection device arranged on the top of the mountain could only reflect the square. To expand the range, more funds would be needed - the company that built the device in Liukan Town obviously could not invest more money and energy in this thankless project.
Well, there is only one reason why the sunlight can be seen, and that is that the time has moved on to after March. Due to the latitude, Liukan Town can receive sunlight to a certain extent after March every year, and the light will not be blocked by the mountains like before.
Anson Deer stared at the small town shrouded in a faint halo and was lost in thought for a moment.
Soon, they will join China's national team, and then they will move from Liukan Town to Beijing, the capital of China.
Suddenly, a gray-black crow flew in from the white forest. It stretched out its beak and pecked at the window gently, as if signaling Anson's deer to "open the door."
Anson Lu pretended not to see it and lowered his head to play with his mobile phone.
“Boom.”
“Boom.”
“Boom.”
The bird's beak was still tapping on the window.
Anson Deer opened a game of Minesweeper.
The bird's beak pecked harder.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Anson Deer started another round of Minesweeper.
This time, there were suddenly nearly five crows outside the window. They were like a professional excavator team, menacingly putting their beaks close to the window, ready to start working at any time.
"Are you fucking sick? I just came out of the dungeon, and I felt like something bad was going to happen the moment I saw you." Anson Lu sighed and opened the window very reluctantly.
Six crows turned into black feathers and fell away with a "whoosh". In their place, Urushihara Ritsu, wearing a black sweater, sat on the windowsill with the black leather Bible in his hand.
Anson Lu was no longer surprised by his dressing habits. He was always dressed in black or gray - Urushihara Ritsu usually wore either a black and gray tuxedo or a black and gray sweater.
Apart from this, it is rare to see him wearing other clothes, as if he only has two sets of clothes in his closet, which is in line with Anson Lu's imagination of a Neon second-year student.
"Lujun, I found a new member." said Urushihara Ritsu.
New member? Anson Lu raised his eyebrows and asked casually:
"Who? You kidnapped another one?"
"William Victor is a player from the UK. He is a lone wolf and has not joined any official team or any player group."
"Sequence player?"
"Of course, Lu Jun, if you are not a Sequence Player, you are not qualified to join our guild."
"What's his sequence called?"
"Black Sand Abyss."
"Oh, I think I've seen him on the battle power rankings. He's ranked pretty high, around 30th."
"Indeed, his sequence is very interesting, but..." Crow paused here.
"But what?" Anson asked.
"He hasn't explicitly said he wants to join our union, but he has promised that if we are short of staff in the future, I can invite him again."
Urushihara Ritsu lowered his eyes and flipped through the Bible.
"It doesn't matter. We are not short of people now anyway." Anson Lu said, "By the way, I have reached a cooperation agreement with the captain of the Chinese national team."
“What kind of cooperation?”
Urushihara Ritsu raised his eyebrows, raised his deep eyes, and stared straight at Anson Lu.
"After another two or three rounds of dungeons, we will join the Chinese national team." Anson Lu didn't even bother to look up, his eyes fixed on the phone, his tone unquestionable.
"...I see." Urushihara Ritsu pondered, "This is a good decision. If we don't join the national team now, it will be very difficult for us to gain the recognition of the people again, let alone cooperate with the law enforcement team openly."
Anson Deer knew that Crow would never compromise if it was not necessary - this gambler with somewhat antisocial tendencies was very sensitive to the word "government" and his attitude was very extreme.
The main thing they must take into account is that the closer they get to the World Boss Battle, the more turbulent the environment in major cities will become due to the influence of the people. If at this time there still exists an organization of unknown origin and unclear right and wrong - Hell Lighthouse, then there is no doubt that sooner or later they will become a mess and point all their spearheads at the players of Hell Lighthouse.
Joining the official team and relying on the power of the official team to whitewash a series of previous events is undoubtedly the best choice in the current environment. So, since you need to choose between the law enforcement team and the national team, of course the national team is more reliable.
After all, Anson Lu had already established a very good relationship with the national team before.
"Really? Then I'll have to trouble the law enforcement team to put evolution coins in my pocket. Otherwise, I don't know how to put together the salvation chess set and the Ragnarok chess set..." Anson Lu rubbed the Tianming acupoint.
Once he establishes cooperation with the law enforcement team again, he will be able to enjoy a privilege that the principal has never had - direct assistance from officials of various countries. This will be much easier than Ansen Lu and the principal going out to burn, kill and loot.
Even though their growth trajectories are very different and the methods they use to increase their strength are different, the strength bottlenecks they can reach in the end are mostly similar.
Moreover, he has a bunch of friends. In this timeline, due to his series of operations, Lorenzo, Cosimo, Julius, Jiang Yiji, and Urushihara Ritsu are all still alive.
In the face of the common enemy of mankind, they will inevitably become a community with a shared future. Although they belong to different forces and have their own grievances, this group of outstanding people will be connected together in the future.
And Anson Deer is one of the buttons.
He was sure that he had advantages that Ansenlu and the principal did not have.
Therefore, he is determined to win this world boss battle.
"Anyway, Lu Jun, what's the situation in this copy?" Urushihara Ritsu's slender fingers flipped the pages of the book.
"The situation is good, or rather, extremely good." Anson Deer said calmly: "Crow, do you know the 'sequence copy'?"
"I heard that in this round of dungeons, there are sequence players who have triggered 'sequence dungeons'. So, it seems that you, Lu Jun, have also entered the 'sequence dungeon' of the old chess player?"
"Yes."
"From the look on your face, it looks like the harvest was good."
"I got a scroll for crafting a red tide-level chess piece. This chess piece is quite important to me in the short term, but I still lack some materials..."
Urushihara Ritsu interrupted him and asked in a teasing tone: "Lu Jun, what materials do you need this time?"
"You still understand, my crow-headed military advisor."
"The Crow-Headed Military Advisor sounds a bit harsh, not as good as the Dog-Headed Military Advisor."
"All the same." Anson Lu opened the bag panel, took a quick look, and read out the names of the required materials: "Uh... twenty meteor fragments and twenty fantasy stars. They are all legendary materials."
"Legendary level..." Urushihara Ritsu laughed jokingly, "It might be difficult to find. I'll see if it's available on the market. If not, I'll look for it in the underground market."
"I'll leave it to you. I won't worry about your work." Anson Lu said.
With Crow around, he really doesn't have to worry about not being able to find materials. Secondly, he can go down and find Lorenzo and Jiang Yiji. This powerful network of relationships covers almost the entire world.
Even if other players haven't gotten this kind of material yet, they might get it after a round of dungeons.
"Then I'll go first."
"Wait a moment."
"What's wrong, Deer-kun?"
Anson Deer looked away, scratched his cheek and asked, "What has Yuri been doing these past two days?"
“Painting.”
"Drawing?" Anson Lu was surprised.
He had heard Yuri mention this before. When she was a child, her teacher said that she didn't have the ability to feel emotions and that she was not suitable for painting, so she stopped.
“Her painting skills are very interesting. You can see that she has very little practice and her technique is still very rusty, but it is backed by extremely outstanding talent. It is very spiritual and the degree of completion is pleasing to the eye.”
After a pause, Crow added: "Well, even among some famous painters I know, it is worthy of praise."
He stared at Anson Deer with a playful look in his eyes, as if to say - Mr. Deer, since you want to hear me praise your girlfriend so much, I won't be stingy with my words.
As expected of a young master picked up by a noble... Anson Lu thought that before Urushihara Ritsu voluntarily went to prison, he must have lived an extremely upper-class life in Japan or the United States, so he knew many famous painters.
When it comes to the word "talent", this gambler who admires the strong always speaks the truth.
Therefore, Anson Lu was certain that Yuri did have some talent in painting, but he had not been able to display this talent due to his "lack of emotions" and the advice of others.
Otherwise, maybe her sequence would be - "Snow Country Painter" instead of "Snow Country Traveler".
Anson Lu felt light-hearted and happy. He didn't know why he was so happy. Maybe it was because the Icelandic girl took up painting again just because of his words.
"I have to say, you have really changed a lot compared to when I first met you, Lujun." Urushihara Ritsu suddenly said.
"You haven't changed at all, Raven."
“I think my personality was formed many years ago.”
Urushihara Ritsu raised his head, looked at the winter sky, and said calmly:
"That cowardly self of mine had died in the slums of 2018 along with that painter. At that time, I looked at the mirror and painted a crow, hoping that his soul in heaven could rest in peace."
Anson Deer also knew that Crow still cared about the painter - the "poor but extremely talented" painter in his words, who died in a shabby house in the slums of Japan.
"As for you, Lu Jun, at first I was worried that you would go to extremes and fall into mediocrity, but it turns out that my worries were unnecessary. Even now, you still have the qualities that make me surrender to you."
"Heh... Heh, your Chuunibyou remains the same, and you keep doing one awkward thing after another."
"Of course, it's not just you. Miss Yuri has also changed a lot. You have regained your humanity and she has regained her emotions, but I can't make any comments about her." Urushihara Ritsu paused and said lightly:
"You are the only person she truly trusts and the only person she is close to. Similarly, you are the only person who can truly hurt her. It can be said that she is almost completely dependent on you, and has lost some of her original characteristics."
"It doesn't matter. I hope she can rely on me. Of course, I will also take corresponding responsibilities," said Anson Lu.
"Won't it feel heavy?"
"Rather than feeling heavy, it feels safe."
"Even so, you can't get too deep into it. Both the 'heaviness' and the 'sense of security' will disappear immediately." A crow flew out from Urushihara Ritsu's fingertips. He teased the crow and said nonchalantly:
"Human nature is such that the most painful thing is not having never had it, but having it and then losing it. Fragile things always have a unique beauty, like snow and glass."
"Don't be so superstitious."
"I've made it very clear, but you can't wake up someone who's pretending to be asleep."
"It doesn't matter. After the battle is over in three months, she will stand by my side... Well, maybe by then her Chinese level will surpass mine. Using hypermemory to memorize a dictionary is really amazing."
"It's okay to have a good vision, but it's wrong to get too deep into it and lose sight of the current situation."
"So what do you want to say?"
"I've said so much, but I just want to say... Lu Jun, no matter what, you must be mentally prepared. As the strongest fighter in the human race, if you lose control at the most critical moment, then there is no doubt that this world will end in ruins, and you will embark on the same path as the principal, standing in front of the tombstone of mankind and regretting it."
The probability of sequence players losing control of their minds is much higher than that of ordinary people. So far, many sequence players have gone berserk, and incidents similar to the "New York Giant Ape" continue to occur around the world.
After seeing Ansen Lu's performance, Ansen Lu knew very well what would happen if he also lost control.
Innocent people will be targeted and die like weeds.
The deaths were meaningless, and cities were reduced to chessboards for venting anger, just to highlight the tyranny of the strong in the sequence and the tyranny of the tyrant on the chessboard.
If things develop in this direction, he will eventually be doomed, and will embark on the old path that seems like fate, moving alone towards the world-destroying snow dragon.
"This is the last level... To use the Chinese saying, you reap what you sow, and it's all your own fault."
Urushihara Ritsu looked away and said nonchalantly, "If you never open your heart, you won't be hurt. Of course, you won't get the emotional bond. Everything is relative."
"Crow, I'm not as weak as you think. Stop nagging me like an old woman..."
Anson Deer exhaled a breath of warm air into his frozen palms, his eyes as calm as a pool of brown lake water.
He said calmly, "I will take responsibility, but I will never be like the principal, who recklessly vented his anger and took it out on others."
"Lu Jun, it's a good thing to have this confidence. Then..." Urushihara Ritsu's command flew from his fingertips, and the crow's shadow disappeared into the white snow. "Let's stop chatting here."
As the last word fell, his figure disintegrated into heavy crow feathers and disappeared.
"It's freezing cold..." Anson Lu closed the window and shivered, "You didn't even bother to close the window before you left. As expected, the quality of Japanese gamblers needs to be improved."
After saying that, he took out an exquisitely wrapped gift box from his bag - this was something he bought in the northern town of "Christmas Legend Island". He bought two gifts at the time, one for Anweier as a way to comfort her.
As for the other one, of course it was reserved for the Icelandic girl.
Anson Lu lowered his eyelids, the tip of his nose was red from the cold, he stared quietly at the gift box in his hand, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Well... no matter what, let's have a good vacation first."
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