Chapter 986 Worth the Wait: "The Isolated Island"
When Yu Xunge obtained it from the Diamond Miner game, she only had a little over 150 days left. Who knew that she would be away for five months just to participate in the game?
She was prepared for heartbreak before she brought out the promise to Snow Town, but when she saw the snow in the promise completely melt, she was still devastated.
She's had this habit before when playing games: the more valuable the item, the less she'd want to use it, saving it until she quits the game...
Yu Xunge picked up the cup, intending to place it in the most conspicuous place as a lesson, but she discovered that besides the twig, there was something else inside.
She turned the cup upside down, then lifted it up, and a twig and a deep blue rhombus-shaped crystal rolled out. She asked, "What is this?"
B8017913 glanced at it, let out a "Huh?" and immediately turned off the game console. After examining the grain of rice for a while, it said, "Whoa, Y128 won't let us off the hook. It's actually smuggling itself in!"
Before Yu Xunge could ask further, it explained in detail: "Although when we are abandoned, the gods will destroy the marks left by the gods on the chips, this also means that we have lost the possibility of connecting to other carriers for a long time."
"When we link to other carriers, the powerful energy released by the chip will corrode that carrier. This is why Dinghai had to send new mechs every three days during the previous war for me to replace them."
"But this crystal can be transformed into an energy filter layer. In other words, with it, I can link to a carrier for a long time and no longer be limited to the form of a chip."
"Y128 is probably planning to escape the God's Game, and has even prepared the necessary equipment to change its carrier."
Yu Xunge asked, "How rare is this?"
B8017913: "This is only found in that god's laboratory."
Yu Xunge immediately said, "Then you should use it quickly, lest we be asked to return it."
B8017913 thought so too. It immediately swallowed the crystal, then fell straight down as if the power had been cut off. In the blink of an eye, it returned to the shape of a small Rubik's Cube and floated in the air. The doll ring toss landed on the table.
It now has a status of "[Cracking...]" followed by a two-day countdown. Yu Xunge pulled open his platinum robe and put the small Rubik's Cube into the small pocket inside his combat suit.
Tulan suddenly put down the game console, looked at her, and asked, "You seem to suddenly not afraid of it betraying you anymore."
Yu Xunge calmly replied, "I branded it with the Zaijiu mark. This is Zaijiu's authority, which can only be used on pets that I have contracted. If it tries to betray me, it will be forced offline and put into hibernation by Zaijiu. This is part of the contract. It will know when it sees the contract. I have not hidden anything from it."
Tu Lan opened her mouth as if to say something, but Yu Xunge interrupted her first: "I'm willing to start trying to trust it, that's all I can do."
She stood up, patted the dragon's head, and said gently, "You've traveled such a long and arduous journey. If it could arrive so easily, wouldn't that be too unfair to you?"
Although she didn't set up any methods when she made a contract with Tulan, it was because she didn't have enough methods at the time, not because she didn't want to.
What she didn't tell Tulan was that if B8017913 proposed to forgo the contract and instead maintain this free employer-employee relationship, she wouldn't disagree. By setting B8017913 free, she meant that she was genuinely willing to give it freedom.
But if she comes back from the game today and finds that B8017913 has disappeared, she will definitely find it and kill it, because she cannot help but suspect that B8017913's presence in the battle at Zaijiu was just an act.
These thoughts and ideas were convoluted and dark, and she didn't want to talk to Tulando about them.
She patted Xiaolong's head and then left; she really had too many things to do.
The little dragon, who shrunk to play games, sat blankly at the alchemy workshop's control panel.
It was a strange moment, as if she had returned to the moment when she and Yu Xunge signed the vow of no regrets.
The difference is that now she has become an observer, watching Yu Xunge's coldness hidden beneath his gentleness.
It has nothing to do with any wounds or the past; this suspicion and wariness have long been a part of her personality, something she can't change, and she probably never thought of changing it.
Imperfections that can heal slowly over time are not imperfections at all.
A notification popped up on the game console that she could claim today's event gift pack.
After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly pulled out the cat head and returned to Dragon Island, rushing straight to the edge of the cloud sea to find Li Zhou.
She stood before Li Zhou, her eyes shining as if they held a magical power, and she recounted the story almost incoherently.
He repeated the words Yu Xunge said before he left.
She gestured wildly, spreading her arms wide, and concluded, "It's not cheap at all, you understand? Li Zhou! What I got wasn't something I could get by spending a little time by her side; it's incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, incredibly precious!!"
Are you sure she completely trusts you?
"...Anyway...there's definitely a little bit! It's okay, this is a good start, and good things are worth waiting for."
Having not seen her own dragon cub for a long time, the Holy Grail and Bei Sui, who rarely took the initiative to fly over to find her, landed at the same time.
He had heard that name on the way here, and now seeing Tulan's pathetic state, Holy Grail frowned and said, "Is it another drinking and singing session? What did she give you to make you so happy?"
Tulan covered his chest with a serious expression and solemnly said, "Love!"
Holy Grail: ...
Bei Sui couldn't bear to scold the boy who almost died outside, so he sighed and said, "You should play with Li Zhou less in the future."
The Holy Grail: "...Hmm." When a child is in a frenzy, it's best to go along with her.
Li Zhou stared wide-eyed at the Holy Grail and Bei Sui in disbelief: "..." Is there no justice in this world?!
...
Yu Xunge arrived outside the alchemy workshop and waved to summon [Cat's Ideal].
That one afternoon was enough for her to sort out many thoughts.
As he gripped the rudder, the boundless map reappeared in Yu Xunge's mind.
In fact, after leaving the "card swapping" game, she tried to return to Astrana during the time she was lost in thought, but she couldn't find the place.
Is that place fake? Absolutely not.
Otherwise, the Sun and the Ashes could not have descended to carry wine; otherwise, there could not have been a dock in Astranaar on the river of time; otherwise, the gods' comments would not have specifically addressed the postman's affairs.
All of this proves that Astrana is real.
But why isn't it there?
Yu Xunge focused her attention on the areas that had been highlighted on the map; these were all places she had visited before.
The map also shows lines that flash and change position like rivers, which should be the river of time.
Many worlds have been illuminated: [Ze Lan], [Diamond], [Naughty], [Wheat Mang]...
The game maps for Diamond Miner and Outrageous Restaurant are actually real places, but there's no amusement park. Is it because those are game areas temporarily created by the gods?
As Yu Xunge pondered, he compared the worlds he had visited with the highlights on the map one by one, eliminating them one by one until only one world remained.
——【Isolated Island】.
Yu Xunge had never heard of this world name before, but precisely because of this, this world called the Isolated Island is very likely Astrana.
However, when she tried to use [Absolute Freedom] to teleport to this world, she failed.
The lanterns beside it flickered merrily, as if mocking the ship's rudder.
The explanation of "the cat's ideal" came to Yu Xunge's mind.
"This world is protected by a barrier erected by the gods, preventing any other world or item from sensing it and establishing a connection with it."
"If I were any lower, I wouldn't be able to sense this world."
"The only way you can get to this world is through the docks of the River of Time. That's the only legitimate entrance, and even those docks were only recently opened."
In short, we can't cross the border illegally.
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