Li Sheng calmly received the data and looked at it carefully.
Anyone who looks at these data can clearly see what they mean.
Before Xu Piao came, the original owner had already had many health problems. Xu Piao didn't know whether it was because of the problems she caused by the inferior nutritional supplements she took every day, or because she worked too hard to make money and unfortunately died suddenly like Xu Piao herself.
But at least she knew one thing.
If the original owner did not want to leave the third-class star and stopped paying the outrageous deposit and support, with the money she earned in the game and the fact that she would hire Ajin to protect her, she could live more comfortably on the third-class star.
But she tried so hard to leave.
After reading this data, the brother of the original owner seemed silent and somewhat confused.
"You... aren't Xu Piao?" he repeated.
"My name is also Xu Piao, but I am not her." Xu Piao explained, "To put it more scientifically, it might be because our brain waves are compatible that I came into her body."
Li Sheng didn't say anything, but looked down at the data that had materialized into the light strip in his hand.
To be honest, he didn't really understand what he was feeling at the moment. It didn't seem that sad to him, after all, although they were family, they had never met before.
——But knowing that he still has a relative in the world is different from knowing that he no longer has any relatives in this world.
The moment he knew the truth, what emerged in Li Sheng's heart was not sadness or melancholy, but an indescribable sense of loneliness.
It was the same feeling of loneliness he had when he had struggled to escape from the third-class planet, only to learn that his father and mother had been executed by the Alliance.
Just like when he hadn't recovered from the panic of losing his parents, he had to think about the people who had followed his parents at the age of a teenager, support himself, and take them away to form a team of interstellar wanderers.
"...Aren't you afraid of what I might do if you tell me all this?" After a long time, Li Sheng put away the data. His expression didn't change much. He looked like a perfect leader.
"Whatever I do, is there any benefit?" Xu Piao asked back.
She had, of course, considered revealing the truth directly. If they could negotiate, then so be it. If not, and she really wanted to do something…she could also feign allegiance to the Alliance, leaking information about these people, letting them fight on their own while she tried to fish in troubled waters to protect herself.
Well, that’s because there’s nothing else we can do.
Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to be the kind of person who would act recklessly or irrationally. After looking at her deeply, he slowly said, "In that case, do you... want to leave the Third-Class Star?"
"If you want to, don't let the Alliance know about this, and don't let my people who are going to the Third Star to look for you know about it."
Li Sheng didn't say anything else.
After hearing what Zhuang Yin had just said, that the original owner was deliberately placed on a third-class star by the alliance in order to elicit the words of Li Sheng and her parents' former subordinates, Xu Piao could almost guess what the rest of the conversation would be.
I guess the alliance thinks she is no longer useful and will deal with her separately.
After ending the conversation, Xu Piao left the communication mode and threw the communicator back to Zhuang Yin. After fiddling with his light brain for a while, he finally contacted Ajin and asked Ajin to come over.
On the other side, Li Sheng, the leader of the interstellar wanderers, came out of the communication mode, and quietly gazed at the vast sea of stars outside the spacecraft for a while, then lowered his eyes and opened the information submitted by Hall about CH, the creator of "Records of Mountains and Seas", "Peach Blossom Spring" and "Distance Between Hell".
When Zhuang Yin found out that CH was Xu Piao and told him, he thought that the spiritual core that was vaguely revealed in these games and that was in line with his father's ideas was the result of her being influenced by her parents.
But now think about it, when his parents were executed and died, Xu Piao had not yet started to remember anything. Even if he could remember things, he probably would not be able to grasp so many things.
He should have thought of this earlier.
"Chief!" At this moment, Hall rushed in, "Have you sent Zhuang Yin out to find CH?!"
Li Sheng turned around.
"Zhuang Yin isn't a good guy! Letting him go might even give the Champion a bad impression of our Rangers team. Let me go!" Hall patted his chest and recommended himself, looking at him eagerly. "He's been working on the 'Birth of the Fire of Civilization' storyline lately. It hasn't touched the Alliance's pain points yet, but if it causes people to wonder where the Alliance's civilization came from, the Alliance will definitely not allow it. We have to connect with the Champion as soon as possible!"
——Even if she wasn’t his sister, she should be their companion who held the same ideals.
Li Sheng thought.
"Then you can do it." Li Sheng nodded slightly. "Go and secretly purchase some S-class energy weapons. Also, call back our people stationed in the Alpha Edge System."
Hall said in surprise, "Chief, are you going to make such a big move?"
"Antoine (Administrator of Area D) is waiting for the right opportunity. If that opportunity doesn't come," Li Sheng paused, "we will create it."
Hall understood.
…
On the other side, Xu Piao called Ajin and asked him to recognize Zhuang Yin.
As a result, when Ajin came, his eyes suddenly became extremely fierce. He clenched his fists angrily and punched hard, hitting Zhuang Yin with every punch, leaving him with a black eye and a swollen face.
But Zhuang Yin didn't say anything to Ajin, he just snorted and turned his head away.
Xu Piao had no interest in the love, hatred, and grudges of other people's brothers. He just knew that Ajin's full name was Zhuang Jin, so he asked Ajin to take the man away.
Before taking him away, Xu Piao warned him that if he broke into the house again, he would not be so easy to deal with.
After everyone had left and the room had become completely quiet, Xu Piao sighed and completely relaxed, lowering his shoulders and sitting down.
...What a day filled with so much information.
Although she looked very calm, she was actually still nervous, but she just habitually didn't let others notice her nervousness.
"I told 'Xu Piao's' brother, Brother Jiu Shiguang, that I am not her anymore." After Xu Piao relaxed, she suddenly said something to 079, who had kept this secret from her before.
079 paused slightly, stopped what he was doing, and walked over to her.
"Are you leaving here?"
"I can't say for sure."
Xu Piao didn't say death at once.
"It's also possible that he's unhappy with me occupying his sister's body and doesn't want me to exist. Or maybe he saw my gaming skills and decided to win me over... It's hard to say."
As Xu Piao was talking, he suddenly felt like chatting. He stared at 079 and said casually, "Come to think of it, I haven't asked you why you stayed here."
"To be fair, you definitely had better options than staying with me at that time, but don't say that it was because of me that I brought you back."
079 changed from standing upright to half-crouching on one knee in front of her, actively lowering Xu Piao's gaze, slightly tilting his head to look at her with a more human gaze, and speaking in a gentle and calm voice, "There really was no other way at the beginning."
"But what made me decide to stay was the game you made."
Xu Piao said "Huh?" in surprise.
"After I gained the ability to think for myself, the only thing I wanted was the freedom to think for myself forever." 079 seemed to be thinking, so his speech was slightly slower than usual, but a smile appeared on his face. "Then I discovered that you were also pursuing this kind of freedom in the game you created. Seeing you made me feel like I was getting closer to this freedom."
"I have gained the ability to think for myself because I was exposed to the 'Spark' program, and you are like the 'Spark' among humans."
Although 079's emotions when he said these things were like a real person, people might feel a little embarrassed when saying these things, but he was not at all, and he said it sincerely.
Xu Piao: “…”
"Okay, I get it, you don't have to say anymore." She covered her face in a disguising manner, stopping 079 from continuing.
...I feel a little embarrassed about the fire.
Even Xu Piao didn't expect that 079 would think this way.
But it is understandable after translating it. It might be something like 'a bird that has never flown before suddenly sees a bird flying in the sky and stops to admire and learn, 'So this is what the wings of a bird flying in the sky look like.'
After talking it out, many things became clear.
Xu Piao told 079 not to worry about her and just continue doing his own thing.
Then she leaned back on the soft cushions, opened her computer, and searched for the original owner's brother, Li Sheng's name. Unsurprisingly, she found nothing. She had also considered searching for the names of the original owner's parents, Xu Changping and Li Leran, which she had learned from Zhuang Yin. But just as she was about to type, she thought, "What if the Alliance took this very seriously and set up keywords in the search library, so that even searches for their names would be detected? Wouldn't that mean they'd be caught?" So she stopped searching.
The three games she produced or participated in producing were all being discussed quite a lot on Starnet. Xu Piao went to check out the schedule of the "Peach Blossom Spring" Sea-hunting Competition, wandered around the computer for a while, opened the message page, and found two letters inside.
The senders of these two letters were Mei He and Hewlett.
...Huh?
These two people?
Xu Piao glanced at the sender's name and opened the letter from Hewlett first, wanting to see what Hewlett, who usually didn't communicate with her, had to say in this letter. As a result, when she opened it, she saw that the letter said that Hewlett had made salt in reality using the method in the game, and tried to make several dishes using the recipes in the game, and succeeded.
So Hewlett came to ask her if he could spread the salt and other seasonings he made, and also said that he wanted to send some to Xu Piao so that she could see if there was anything wrong.
"This action is much faster than I thought." Xu Piao muttered and sent a message back to Hewlett.
Now it is difficult for her to control the production and distribution channels alone, and she also hopes that more seasonings will be produced, so the distribution regulations for those players who try to reproduce are relatively simple.
——She hopes that it can be handed over to a dedicated person to manage in the future. She herself is really not good at dealing with things like contracts and agreements.
After replying to Hewlett, Xu Piao clicked on the message from Mei He.
In fact, ever since the last Legend Award ceremony, when the battle royale event was over, Mei He felt like he had been betrayed, and he was so angry that he didn't contact CH.
God knows how much hurt his young heart was when he found out that CH and Lake were actually ghost helpers undercover among humans. The hurt was so great that even his stubborn old grandfather who came over to give him the second place award could not heal it.
However, he felt a little unhappy about giving up the idea of cooperating with CH.
You know, he has been stuck in a bottleneck period for some time. Now that Lake and CH have cooperated, they have broken through the bottleneck and found a new direction. Doesn't that mean he is the only one who is still standing still?
This won’t do!
So even though Mei He was upset about being betrayed and didn't talk to CH directly, he could still find out information about CH from the production association.
Mei He, who had always been rebellious and unwilling to go to the Production Association, found several excuses this month to go to the Production Association to see his grandfather, which made his grandfather Mei Jiangqiu feel that something was wrong with him.
But after coming here several times, he at least managed to find out some information.
For example, ch seems to come from a third-magnitude star.
Not many people knew about this, and it was only when Mei He accidentally saw the registration information for "The Distance Between Hell" that he found out. Although Xu Piao and Lake were not members of the production association, all games were run on the Star Network, so any game that was running had to be registered with the production association and obtain the data address before it could be run.
"A third-magnitude star, isn't that...?" The third-magnitude star didn't have a strong presence in the alliance. After seeing it, Mei He had to recall for a moment before he remembered where this place was.
A planet where the descendants of criminals gather.
This was Mei He's first reaction, but after knowing this relationship, Mei He did not have any prejudice against people living on third-magnitude stars. After all, it was not their fault, and there was nothing they could do about it to stay there.
What he was thinking was, could he use his connections to help CH leave the third-class star as a condition to get TA to cooperate with him in the game.
It shouldn't be difficult to help someone leave the third-class star. Didn't people often get bailed out and go to school before? And usually the descendants of criminals are placed on third-class stars because they have no guardians. If it really doesn't work... find a guardian for them. I just don't know how old CH is now and what age guardian would be more suitable.
Mei He thought this matter was very simple, and sent a message to CH with full confidence.
After a long while, ch only sent him a question mark.
【ch:? 】
Meihe: What's the question mark?
[CH: Rub your eyes and see if you're awake.] This was a rather tactful way of putting it. [Are you sure? Helping someone smuggle out is illegal under Alliance law, right?]
Mei He felt looked down upon. "It's not a big deal. I know someone who works at the personnel transfer office between second- and third-class stars. It's just a matter of adding my name. Just tell me if you agree to cooperate with me!"
This guy...why does he look so stupid?
Xu Piao couldn't bear to look at it anymore.
However, she was a little tempted by the method Mei He mentioned.
If it is really possible to leave the third-magnitude star in a simple way without making too much effort, that would of course be the best. Since Mei He said so, there should really be such a channel, right?
The price is just to cooperate in a game.
Xu Piao was thinking about whether the smuggling was possible or not. When he was about to agree to it, something suddenly came to his mind. He immediately deleted the words he had been typing and decisively replied, "No!"
Meihe: Why?
[ch: Can you accept a dating game with multiple love lines, even male and female, where players can choose one or more of them to pursue?]
[Meihe:??? Why do love games have to have multiple love lines?!]
Look.
I said that pure love warriors and NP warriors cannot live in peace.
Xu Piao sighed calmly and said, "If that's the case, it might not be easy for us to play the game together."
If Xu Piao really wants to make a pure love game, she can certainly do it, but she probably doesn't have the delicate emotions that pure love requires, and what she makes will probably be all about technique without much emotion.
I only seem to have some inspiration when playing O-games.
[Mei He: But my fans now say that your character is very suitable for love.] He said sourly.
Mei He’s biggest hobby on weekdays is to watch his fans praise him when he is free. They are not praising him personally, but as long as they praise his sweet and real love lines, the corners of his mouth will rise wildly and he will maintain a good mood for a long time.
But since CH came out.
His fans are——
"Donghuang Taiyi's character is so good, I really want to fall in love with him."
'Emperor Jun is also OK'
"Am I the only one who loves Huo Qubing so much? The young general is so amazing."
"Well... actually, girls can fall in love with each other, right? Sometimes I just can't help but be moved."
Even his former die-hard fan, Meimei, his undisclosed girlfriend... well, although her ID is a bit embarrassing, she even changed her name to Xie Qingyu's sweetheart after playing "Hell Distance"!
So why fall in love in a horror game?
【ch: It’s not just the character, but the background and experience that are most important. 】
In Xu Piao's opinion, Mei He's emotional arc is indeed delicate, but his story background is... too conventional, or too close to reality. Because his world background is mostly interstellar love stories, and most people like him because of his background, the distance between him and reality should be certain, but also certain.
Let’s use Xie Qingyu as an example. It is precisely because he is a ghost and an actor that there is a kind of romance that is detached from reality. Players will imagine themselves going to that world and meeting him.
The same applies to Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun.
【Meikawa: ...Just tell me whether you agree or not! 】
【ch:……】
Mei He was very proud. After seeing the other party's refusal, he changed his mind in anger. "Or maybe we can just have a competition. You and I will each do our best to play a love game, and then let the players judge who is stronger! If you win, I will still help you leave the third-class star as I said before!"
What if you win?
Meihe: ...
[Meihe: I haven’t decided yet, I’ll keep it for now!]
【ch: That’s fine.】
Xu Piao agreed to this condition.
The moment she agreed, she instinctively covered her liver, then touched it with pity, lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you again."
...It's not the liver that I'm pitying, it's clearly myself.
She had originally planned to take a good rest for a few months after finishing the "Taohuayuan" Sea-hunting Competition. She would never start any new games, but only do some activities for the existing games and save some activities just in case.
Who knew that the next one would come so soon, and it was a B-level game.
Before, Xu Piao had occasionally thought about what her holographic interstellar game would look like, and she also planned to add dress-up elements into it. After all, which girl doesn't want to dress up beautifully for a date? Aren't the clothes she collected meant to be worn?
...So should we add this dress-up element now or not?
Xu Piao ended his conversation with Mei He and began to think about the world background setting of Otoyu.
It should go beyond reality, but not too far beyond reality.
So… some elements of immortal cultivation? Modern immortal cultivation? Spiritual energy revival? Demon-slaying combined with metaphysics?
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