Chapter 28 Platinum Supermarket "I am number 1".
Shen Su was severely injured, with almost his entire body weight pressing down on Shi Yu. He could only exhale through his nose, not inhale. His teasing of Lin Fengbai just now seemed like a final burst of energy before death.
"Hang in there a little longer." Shi Yu was worried that Shen Su might not wake up if he fell asleep, so she reached out and patted Shen Su's face to encourage him, "We'll be out soon."
A few seconds later, Chen Su's complaining voice came from above. The voice was weak and powerless, but the breath on his forehead was warm, which reassured Shi Yu slightly. "I just touched your face while we were acting earlier, and you're going to retaliate for that? Why are you so vengeful..."
This makes it sound like Shi Yu is abusing him.
Shi Yu: "..."
Forget it, I won't bother arguing with someone who's half-dead.
The two felt dizzy and disoriented inside the portal. When they opened their eyes again, Shi Yu found that they had returned to the shore of Lotus Lake, the place where he and Shen Su had been pulled into the game before they met.
The blood on their bodies disappeared, the wounds were gone, the hospital gowns were replaced with their own clothes, and there was a cell phone in the pocket. Shi Yu took it out and checked the time.
March 17, 2019, 17:25
Time in reality and in the game are obviously not the same. They spent 12 days in the game, while only 3 days had passed since he met Shen Su in reality.
Shi Yu patted his pocket again and pulled out a black magnetic card. He habitually tapped the square protrusion in the middle, and the game panel popped up.
Why does the game system still exist even after they leave?
Shi Yu suddenly had a bad feeling.
A large amount of game settlement information popped up on the panel—
[Congratulations to the streamer for clearing the game dungeon: Xincheng Hospital]
[Congratulations to the streamer for completing the hidden side quest in the dungeon [The Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital]]
Congratulations to the streamer for completing the storyline [Twins]!
[You spent a total of 12 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes, and 43 seconds in the game instance "Xincheng Hospital," gaining a total of 268,357 followers, breaking the record for the highest follower growth in a single instance for a streamer. The peak viewership of your live stream reached 1,587,569, also breaking the record for the highest peak viewership of a streamer's live stream.]
In summary, you earned a total of 3356 in-game currency points in the "Xincheng Hospital" instance. These in-game currency points can be exchanged for the player's local currency at a 1:100 ratio.
A note was added at the very bottom:
Players are prohibited from disclosing any game-related information in their world in any form.
Shi Yu's heart sank.
They left the game instance, but their identity as streamers remains.
The game is not truly over.
Shi Yu clicked on his personal homepage in the bottom right corner:
Host's name: Shi Yu
Number of copies completed: 1
Streamer Level: 5
Followers: 268,357
Medal: [Peerless Beauty]
[Peerless Beauty] Badge Description: This badge is awarded to the player with the highest appearance rating across the entire server, as determined by the system. Only one badge is available.
Shi Yu: ……
The "My Livestream" interface, which I couldn't access before, is now accessible. Inside, there's a video titled "Xincheng Hospital," with a replay button next to it.
Shi Yu clicked on the playback, and then he saw a high-definition video featuring him. The video was edited, skipping over meaningless sleeping and spacing out segments, and adding slow-motion close-ups to the high-energy parts... It was even better edited than a movie post-production editor, very intelligent.
Shi Yu also noticed other features, just like in online games, with various leaderboards in the upper right corner of the panel, such as wealth leaderboards, popularity leaderboards, appearance leaderboards, annual, quarterly, and monthly leaderboards.
His hand trembled as he clicked on the beauty ranking list.
The top spot on the leaderboard was found to be held by him.
Shi Yu: ……
So this is the origin of the "Peerless Beauty" medal.
Immediately afterwards, Shi Yu noticed that the second-ranked person was Shen Su, and the third-ranked person was a streamer named Mu Zhuo.
By the way, Shen Su?
Shen Su, still looking severely injured, leaned against Shi Yu...
"Wake up?" Shi Yu didn't touch him, but called out to Chen Su. There was no response, but his breathing rate was obviously different from before. Shi Yu pushed him away and said, "Stop pretending."
Shen Su took two steps back and stood firmly, took a deep breath of fresh air, and then showed Shi Yu his two little tiger teeth: "Finally out! We can go to your house for braised noodles now. There's no time like the present, let's do it today?"
"Why don't you take a look first..." Because the game couldn't be leaked, Shi Yu waved the black magnetic card in his hand, and Shen Su's expression changed when he saw the magnetic card.
While Chen Su was looking at the game panel, Shi Yu searched his pockets but couldn't find the rag doll that Lin Feng had given him.
Can't I take items out of the game?
But didn't they bring out this black magnetic card too? Is it because the magnetic card is like a game launcher, different from other items?
Shi Yu noticed an icon in her inventory that looked exactly like a doll.
Item Name: [Lin Fengbai]
Item Description: One of the bosses from the "Xincheng Hospital" dungeon. It can be carried as a spirit pet. Tell me how you captured it?
Item function: To be cute.
Attack method: To be unlocked.
Spirit pet?
It really is like a large-scale online game.
Shi Yu double-clicked the [Lin Fengbai] icon as if playing an online game, and a warning popped up:
[Summoning spirit pets is not possible in this scenario]
If it can't be summoned in the real world, does it mean I have to go into a dungeon?
Then several messages popped up on the game panel, indicating that the game settlement had not yet ended.
Players Shi Yu and Chen Su are among the first players on the server to complete the hidden side quest "Upside-Down Xincheng Hospital" in the game's dungeon, unlock the storyline "Twins," and ultimately achieve the dungeon's hidden ending.
[The system will award special rewards to these two players... reward... sizzle...]
The system sputtered and crackled for a long time, like it was infected with a virus, before finally coldly displaying a few messages.
[Due to player actions, the Xincheng Hospital instance world has suffered irreversible damage. Therefore, rewards have been cancelled, and players Shi Yu and Shen Su have been punished.]
Shi Yu: "..."
[Punishment method: Deprive the player of one halftime break.]
[Please go to the game lobby immediately to select your next game. The game will start in one hour. If you have not selected a game, you will be randomly matched with another player.]
At the same time, a row of red text appeared in the upper left corner: Game entry countdown 59 minutes and 59 seconds.
Shi Yu finished reading it.
I've finished watching Shen Su.
Shi Yu asked, "Do you still want to come to my house for braised noodles?"
Shen Su waved his hand and said, "No, maybe next time, time is a bit tight."
Since game information cannot be leaked in the real world, Chen Su's statement "time is a bit tight" means that he was also deprived of his halftime break.
Shi Yu then asked, "How much time do you have left?"
Chen Su replied, "Less than an hour. How about you?"
"Same."
As Shi Yu spoke, he opened the game lobby, which contained hundreds of game instances, but many of them were not yet unlocked. The unlocking level of game instances was linked to the streamer's level. He was currently a level 5 streamer and had only unlocked six game instances.
As Shi Yu glanced at the six games, she asked Chen Su, "Do you prefer amusement parks, parks, supermarkets, movie theaters, schools, or haunted houses?"
He sent me a team invitation.
Shen Su readily agreed: "Let's go to the supermarket. They have lots of snacks there."
So both of them chose the game instance "Platinum Supermarket".
Before closing the game panel, Shi Yu glanced at the bottom right corner, then abruptly stopped his action.
His friend list now shows 5 friends. When he clicks on it, he sees Xia Wanwan, Liu Yang, Lin Yarong, and Cheng Jianshu.
After Xia Wanwan and her friends finished the game, those four people disappeared from his friend list. Now that he has left the dungeon and returned to the real world, they have reappeared in his friend list. Does this mean that friends only appear when they are in the same space?
Shi Yu scrolled down again and found that the group they had created, 【Xincheng Hospital Exploration Team】, was still there, and the group chat function seemed to be working.
Shi Yu tried sending a period in the group chat.
Xia Wanwan replied instantly.
Xia Wanwan: You guys are out?!
Xia Wanwan: You're finally out! I knew you'd come out safely!!!
Liu Yang: I saw the system message. Hidden ending unlocked. You two are awesome!
They cannot reveal the existence of the game to people in the real world, but their game panels are invisible to people in the real world, so they can talk about game-related things in the system's built-in friend chat function.
Shi Yu: System message?
Liu Yang: Yes, just a few minutes ago, the system issued a server-wide announcement the moment you cleared the level.
Liu Yang: Ugh, I thought everything would be fine after I finished the game, but I didn't expect the game panel to still be here. I have to log back into the game in a week. So annoying!
A week later?
He and Shen Su were punished by being deprived of their intermission time, so this week should be the rest time after clearing a dungeon.
Lin Yarong: It's good that you're safe. You've worked hard. Get some rest.
Cheng Jianshu: Go back and get some sleep.
Xia Wanwan: What's with the sleeping? Let's go out for hot pot! Let's eat as much as we can while we still can, who knows if we'll end up in a dungeon next time? We're at Hongxiang Hot Pot, come on over now!
Shi Yu: ……
Chen Su: Maybe next time, we're about to enter the game.
Xia Wanwan: ? ? ?
Liu Yang: ? ? ? ? ?
Liu Yang: No, don't you guys get any rest?
Chen Su: We love games.
Chen Su: Eager to enter the next round.
Shi Yu: ...
Liu Yang: …………
Afterwards, Shi Yu and Shen Su called their families and companies respectively to explain their "disappearance" over the past three days and to make arrangements for their work in the following days.
An hour passed quickly.
The game panel lights up automatically; the game is about to begin.
[Game Dungeon: Platinum Supermarket (Dungeon 3)]
[Game Time: 10 days]
[Game Background: Lu Boyue is a super-rich second-generation heir who started Boyue Supermarket as a hobby at a young age. The supermarket grew increasingly successful. This should have been a good thing, however, last week Lu Boyue's father passed away from a stroke, leaving a will stating, "If Boyue Supermarket goes bankrupt, my son Lu Boyue can inherit my entire estate." This means that as long as the supermarket doesn't go bankrupt, he cannot inherit the entire estate, which is worth billions! Manager Lu is now filled with regret, deep regret! He has tried many things to help the supermarket go bankrupt, but to no avail. Players are asked to help Manager Lu achieve this.]
[Clearance condition: Bankrupt Platinum Joy Supermarket within ten days.]
(Note: The game ends when the supermarket goes bankrupt; players can end it early. If the supermarket does not go bankrupt within ten days, the player will face a penalty.)
Enjoy the game!
Shi Yu read through all the game information.
Finally, let's look at the suffix of the game name in the first line.
His eyelids twitched.
That bad feeling came back to me.
The scene before her eyes began to blur. Before being teleported into the dungeon, Shi Yu asked, "I'm in dungeon three. What about you?"
In the distorted darkness, Chen Su's voice drifted down from above, carrying a nonchalant languor.
"Oh, I am number 1."
Shi Yu: "..."
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