Chapter 304 Gift
From the outside, this service center is just a single-story building with an area of less than 80 square meters.
It was a pitch-black square box with only a small door and not even a window.
But I didn't expect that after I walked in, passed through the reception hall in front, and turned around a few times, I suddenly found myself in a Chinese courtyard in the style of Suzhou gardens.
Wen Nan was led into the pavilion while observing the environment of the courtyard.
Although the scenery here looks very realistic, it should be some kind of illusion.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the NPC leading the way beside me explain with a smile: "This is just a projection, not a real scene. Mr. Ye Jiu, try to walk along the gravel road under your feet. If you walk crookedly, you will easily bump into the wall."
Wen Nan glanced at the narrow path under his feet and asked, "Why don't you use real scenery?"
The NPC smiled and replied, "No players usually come into this service center. Besides me, there is only one other NPC who comes in and out. The room is usually a closed building like the reception hall outside. It was the agent. He came here more than half an hour ago because he wanted to distribute gift packages to you. He thought our place was too cramped and crowded, and not transparent enough, so he temporarily set up this scene."
...More than half an hour ago?
That would be exactly the level 36 high-risk target mentioned in Gu Jinxing's [Crisis Forecast].
Thinking of this, Wen Nan looked at the people in the pavilion.
The man sat at the table with his back to Wen Nan, making tea.
The NPC rushed to the pavilion and said to the other party, "Mr. Ye Jiu is here, Mr. Agent."
The agent turned around and saw Wen Nan. He immediately smiled and pointed to the empty seat in front of him, "Mr. Ye, I've heard a lot about you. Please take a seat."
The NPC said goodbye and left. Wen Nan walked into the pavilion, sat down opposite the other party, and looked the agent over.
The man was wearing a new Chinese-style long gown with the slanting front buttons meticulously fastened to the throat. In his chest pocket hung a jade pendant that faintly shone with golden light.
The man looked to be about 37 or 38 years old, with a retro 3:7 hairstyle. He looked like a younger and lower-profile version of Tony Leung Chiu-wai, but his temperament was more outstanding.
When Wen Nan was sizing him up, the agent also sizing him up calmly. When the tea was ready, he handed a cup to Wen Nan and said with a smile, "Mr. Ye, you are the first player here to get the [Silver Star]. I didn't expect you to be so young. I'm really impressed."
Wen Nan thought that for a game that focused on daily love, his age was clearly considered old.
However, Wen Nan did not refute it. He remembered that his charm value was maxed out, and it seemed that he would deliberately adjust his appearance in the game hall to something that the main members here would like.
He hasn't turned into a muscular man like Ronnie, which means that the agent on the other side doesn't like the look of a muscular man. But, perhaps, he has a natural liking for young people, so the appearance of Wen Nan seen by the other party has also become younger?
Just as he was thinking, the man opposite picked up the teacup, took a sip, then smiled casually and pointed at Wen Nan's palm, asking: "I heard that Mr. Ye has controlled a very remarkable person?"
Wen Nan closed his palms and did not answer the other party's question. He just smiled and asked, "Heard it? Mr. Agent, where did you hear it from?"
The person on the other side laughed, "It has long been spread among the top leaders of the six major guilds. It is not a secret at all."
"The top leaders of the six major guilds?" Wen Nan asked again, "Are you one of them?"
The person opposite him still smiled, nodded, and confessed: "Yes."
Seeing the other party's frankness, Wen Nan simply asked: "[Feng Shui Huan] Guild, what is the current president?"
The curve of the other person's lips deepened, "You are very smart."
Wen Nan smiled and said, "I heard that the president of the Feng Shui Huan Guild is very good at planning. It turns out that he is the agent of the main god of this game? As an agent, he can get a lot of inside information from the main god, right?"
The person on the other side shook his head. "Is it because he is an agent that he has no plan left out, or is it because he has no plan left out that he is qualified to be an agent? I think Mr. Ye should figure it out first before asking questions."
"Really?" Wen Nan tilted his head slightly and looked at the other person, his eyes falling on the jade pendant on the other person's chest that was shining with golden light.
"Ah, it's almost time." The man opposite put down his teacup and stood up. "I think we should do the important things first."
After saying that, the agent raised his hand and took out a gift box as big as a tissue box from the void. He held it in both hands and respectfully presented it to Wen Nan. "Congratulations, Mr. Ye, for becoming the first player in this world to receive the [Silver Star] medal. Here is the gift package given to you by the game system. Please accept it."
Wen Nan reached out to take the gift box and was about to open it, but he saw the agent opposite him step back in panic, and only stopped when he retreated outside the pavilion.
Wen Nan paused as he was opening the gift box. "No, brother, there's no bomb in this surprise gift box, is there?"
The man standing outside the pavilion laughed and shook his head when he heard this, "Mr. Ye, you are joking."
Wen Nan pinched the lid of the gift box again and opened it, and saw a white, round cylindrical object lying inside.
Wen Nan is very familiar with this thing.
“…Fiji Cup?!”
Could it be that the gift box that comes with the [Silver Star] is also specially matched according to his player characteristics, just like the prize pool and the skill points he draws?
But his little brother's schedule in this world is very full. He is either riding horses or trading cryptocurrencies all day long. Even if this kind of thing is given to him, he can't use it.
When Wen Nan looked at the man outside the pavilion with a questioning look, the other man also looked back at Wen Nan with a twitching eye. "Haha, Mr. Ye, you have a rich imagination."
Wen Nan raised his hand, reached into the gift box, grasped the thing in his hand, lifted it up, looked at the bottom, and became more and more certain.
"There's no mistake. I'm sure I'm not mistaken. This is definitely the Fiji Cup... Hey!"
Wen Nan was halfway through his words when the cylinder in his hand suddenly began to vibrate violently and almost slipped out of his hand.
Wen Nan hurriedly hugged it with both hands. When his index finger touched the wall of the cup at the same time, a bright light suddenly burst out from the cup, which forced Wen Nan to close his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he was standing in the void.
At first glance, this place looks very much like the test space of the Scepter's Sheath, but upon closer inspection, it is somewhat different - the test space of the Scepter's Sheath is like a deep pool of water, while here, it is like a black cloud. Wen Nan's feet are now shrouded in smoke.
In the pitch dark ahead, a voice that was difficult to tell whether male or female came from: "Ye Jiu, you are finally here?"
Wen Nan was slightly startled, "Do you know me?"
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"You've been waiting for so long, why are you still hiding in the dark? Why don't you come out and see me?"
There was a long silence on the other side.
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It was so long that when Wen Nan was about to open his mouth to provoke him again, a figure slowly walked out from the dark haze.
It was a slightly thin figure, wearing a cloak with a hood covering the face, so it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, and even more difficult to see his appearance.
Wen Nan's eyes narrowed, "You're not... my gift, are you?"
"Humph," the other party snorted coldly, as if he had heard a joke that was not very funny, "I think this is your first time coming in, so please forgive your recklessness and ignorance."
...My God? "You are... the main god of the game?"
Wen Nan narrowed his eyes, disbelief written all over his face.
No way, who is so godly that put himself in the Fiji Cup? Is he crazy?
"How dare you!" the person on the other side shouted angrily, "Don't insult this god!"
This scolding seemed to penetrate directly into Wen Nan's head, making his subconscious mind want to kneel down to the other party.
But Wen Nan finally held back, and just supported his knees with his hands, panting twice, "I have a bad temper..."
The Lord God suppressed his anger and explained reluctantly: "What you see now is the illusion of this God. The props in the gift box you took are the containers for the illusion of this God."
"So... my gift bag is this illusion of yours?"
The Lord God sneered with sarcasm, "Your gift is a problem."
"...a question?"
"From now on, you can ask me a question, and I will answer any question you ask."
Wen Nan cursed in his heart in dissatisfaction.
Coming again?
Ask another question? Before entering this game world, he was tricked by a so-called question. Now he got a gift package and asked him to ask a question again? The Lord God heard Wen Nan's thoughts again and asked in confusion: "Did someone promise you a question?"
"Are you asking me now or am I asking you?" Wen Nan asked, thinking to himself, "This won't count as a question, right?"
"Humph," the Lord God sneered, "Of course not. You can start asking questions now."
Fortunately, fortunately, this illusion is at least not as bad as the one before entering the game.
Wen Nan patted his chest, feeling thankful for this.
The Lord God shook his cloak, and through the gap, he could see the other party's ethereal body like black smoke, "Hurry up! Don't waste my precious time."
Wen Nan thought, isn’t this just an illusion in a Fiji cup? Isn’t it specially used for him to ask questions? How can it be a waste of time?
"If you continue to insult me in your head, I have the right to take back this question."
"Okay, okay, I don't want to think about it anymore." Wen Nan stood up and waved his hands helplessly.
"Don't dawdle!" the Lord God urged again.
Wen Nan suppressed the cynical look on his face, looked straight at the empty face under the cloak, and asked: "Is the person I'm looking for in this world?"
(End of this chapter)
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