Chapter 5 Scene 5 Could this be a nightmare? Why haven’t I woken up yet…
"W-What's wrong with your name?"
"Oh, I just did something. Is this yours?" The "temporarily banned" in front of Yuan Yang tilted his head after hearing his words, took out a piece of paper from his backpack and handed it to him.
There were obvious tears on the edge of the paper, and it looked like there was nothing on it.
Yuan Yang carefully traced the faint handwriting on the paper with his fingers, and it was indeed the mandarin duck pattern that he was very familiar with.
"I thought you should have recognized me?" Yuan Yang put the note away and motioned the man to follow him.
"Yes." "Temporarily Banned" paced behind him with his hands behind his back. "Just asking, do you mind?"
“…”
“…”
"Hey, why aren't you talking?" "Temporarily Blocked" ran to his side. "If you don't have anything to say, I'm leaving."
“I, ah…”
[Ding Dong——]
The system prompt sounded in the minds of both of them at the same time.
[Congratulations to both players for successfully unlocking the Friends feature! Successfully unlocked the achievement "First Communication" (achievement requirement: communicate with another non-friend player three times)!]
[Immediately entering the friend system tutorial, would you like to skip it?]
The two of them answered "yes" in perfect unison.
For someone like Yuan Yang, whose daily life consists of eating, sleeping, and playing games...
Maybe there are other reasons. In short, he has always been able to get started with any game quickly, so he skips this kind of novice tutorial most of the time.
Yuan Yang looked at the person next to him who was probably tinkering with the new system, and frowned unconsciously. His already wrinkled face became even more distorted.
"What's wrong with you? You don't look well." "Temporarily Banned" looked at him with concern.
Yuan Yang shook his head: "It's okay."
[Ding Dong——]
[You have received a friend request from 'has been temporarily banned' (search method: precise search)!]
[Please process in time! Otherwise, the friend request will be automatically rejected according to your settings after 24 hours!]
Yuan Yang opened the friend interface, quickly approved the application of "temporarily banned" and set a note.
"...question mark?" The doll-like figure with the yellow-green "Tang Liu?" on her head looked at the interface in the void unhappily. "Can you change your note? Actually, my game nickname is pretty good."
The doll in front of him said this, but suddenly frowned, as if in pain.
Oh no, I forgot to hide my notes from my friends.
Yuan Yang scratched his head and obediently deleted the note.
The two of them chatted for a while, talking irrelevantly and at the same time.
Because Yuan Yang was always thinking about other things, she had obviously lost her patience by the end of the conversation with "has been temporarily banned". She left a message saying "take care of yourself, I'll contact you later" and quietly slipped away.
It was not until the yellow-green light and the sound of wheat ears entered his brain that Yuan Yang finally came to his senses. He was the only one left in the entire game hall.
"I'm still too slow..." Yuan Yang stood there and muttered to himself dejectedly.
"Player! Don't be discouraged!" A familiar voice echoed in my mind. "You still have me! You can talk to me!"
“…”
"Player?"
"Player!"
"Player, please don't be silent."
"Player... Player..."
"……don't want."
"Why? Players, we are truly powerful! If you need any help, please let me know! I'd love to help you!"
"I already said no! If it weren't for you, he wouldn't have left me, and I don't need it, I don't need it..."
"Okay, then call me if you need anything." The elf's voice gradually became quieter and finally disappeared.
^
He Yuezhe was walking on the ridge of the field.
This was already the morning of her third day in this gaming world, and her life in the previous two days could be described as completely dull and uneventful.
Apart from Yuan Yang, she had never seen any other players.
The chat box between the two people was still at 1 a.m. the next day, and the content was about the so-called "real world".
He Yuezhe spent the entire first night searching the house, and she finally figured out a way to return to the "real world".
However, judging from the reactions of the previous system and the fake system, even if he returned there, he would most likely still be in the game world.
She observed that this entrance and exit seemed to be open at all times.
So, in order not to disturb the rest of her only good friend Yuan Yang, He Yuezhe originally planned to go to that place the next morning after a good night's sleep and contact him.
But who would have thought that Yuan Yang suddenly sent her a message at midnight, asking her if she was asleep.
[Chat with "4399 Game Master"]
"What's wrong?"
——"Has been temporarily banned"/Sent at 00:01:23 on January 1st.
"Nothing. Why aren't you sleeping?"
——“4399 Game Master”/Delivered at 00:01:56 on January 1.
"You woke me up :)."
——"Has been temporarily banned"/Sent at 00:02:14 on January 1.
There was no reply from the chat box.
Anyway, he was awake now, and Yuan Yang didn't seem to be asleep either. He Yuezhe planned to take advantage of the dark night and strong wind to run back to the "real world" to take a look.
^
You said to "has been temporarily banned": [Sorry.] [Send]
delete.
You said to "has been temporarily banned": [Sorry to bother you.] "Send"
delete.
You said to "has been temporarily banned": [I... typing...] "Submit"
——A friend who has been “temporarily blocked” is calling you! Do you want to answer the call?
......yes.
"Hey, hey—zila—hey, can you hear me?"
In his mind and ears, Yuan Yang listened to the familiar voice echoing in the small jade house, and suddenly shuddered.
"I can hear it," he sat up from the bed, "a lot of electric noise..."
"You - sizzle - is the signal very bad?" The person on the other end of the voice seemed to be busy with something. Apart from the intermittent sound of electricity, there was also the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
There is no sound of ears of wheat.
"You..." Yuan Yang shivered and wrapped the quilt around himself.
[Ding Dong——]
[Congratulations on successfully achieving the achievement "So Fragile!" (Achievement Condition: Trigger any disease in the game)!]
[Oh my! I feel dizzy! I must have a cold! I can't get better without medicine, right?]
Yuan Yang:......
"Hello? Are you—sizzling—talking?" The other end fell silent.
Yuan Yang stacked all the system prompts together and sniffed: "I mean, where are you?"
"Me? You—sizzle—I'm in reality."
Ah, is that realistic?
really.
"You're stuck." Yuan Yang was almost knocked down by the crackling sound of the electricity and the dizziness forced by the system.
He stopped operating the interface and instead supported himself on the bed with his hands, barely supporting his heavy body.
"Oh my! My health has gotten so bad! It's only getting worse if I don't take medicine! If I don't go to the hospital with my fever, I'll probably get seriously injured!" The system's voice swirled around like a whirlpool.
"No, no—sizzle—what about now? Is it still stuck?"
After a burst of intense electric current sound passed, the background sound of the two people's conversation turned into a quiet sound of wind.
“It’s not stuck anymore.”
"So that's how it is. It seems..."
"Your voice is so soft."
"Huh? It's okay. If you didn't hear me, I can tell you slowly when we meet later."
"Ah...thank you..."
"Are you tired? If you can hold on, I want to try again."
"I can......"
…
…
…
"Hello? Are you asleep?"
He Yuezhe shuttled back and forth between the "real world" and the game world several times, and she clearly felt that the person on the other end of the phone was becoming increasingly listless.
By now, he had probably fallen asleep, and his rapid and chaotic breathing kept coming into He Yuezhe's ears.
She finally ended the hour-long call.
He Yuezhe closed the "door" leading to the "real world", lay back on the soft bed and began to daydream.
Alas, I don’t know how long it will take for this unreliable system to come back, and how long it will take for my aimless life to end?
As for this game, after seeing it today, it has become so interesting again, so I might as well reluctantly play with them.
^
The ears of wheat beside the ridges swayed gently in the wind, and the first rays of sunlight on the third day finally appeared in the middle of the mountains and at the end of the horizon.
The crowing of roosters rang out from all directions, and the farmers began a new day of work.
"Good morning, 'has been temporarily banned'." He Yuezhe heard someone calling him from behind.
She turned and trotted over. It was a smartly dressed woman: "Good morning, Granny Chen."
The house of the woman she called "Grandma Chen" was right next to where she was born, so the two of them met often in the past few days and gradually became familiar with each other.
As for why she was called mother-in-law, it was actually the woman's own request after she became familiar with her.
Although the woman is young, in terms of seniority, she is already the mother-in-law of several children.
However, there was a famine in the country a few years ago, and the children either died or were lost. The only one who survived responded to the call of the country, and until now, no one knows where he is.
She also said that she felt He Yuezhe was a good child the first time she met her, and if the surviving child was still alive, the two of them might have become good friends.
"Grandma made some breakfast. Take some and eat." Grandma Chen stretched out her hand from behind her back. "Grandma heard that something big is happening today. You should go too, right?"
He Yuezhe took it with a smile and did not refuse: "Thank you, Granny Chen!"
"Oh, ha ha ha, grandma likes your straightforward personality. You can tell grandma if you want to eat anything in the future. Grandma is free recently."
Granny Chen also laughed: "Ah, good child, don't starve yourself. Go and do your work, Granny won't bother you anymore."
After saying that, Granny Chen walked back to her small, somewhat dilapidated thatched house, looking back every few steps.
[Ding Dong——]
[World Announcement: The Novice Period will officially end at 3:00 PM today! Instances around the world will soon be available! Please head to the lobby (111, 111) for the "Bounty Missions" to be announced at 3:00 PM!]
[There is no limit on the number of people who can clear the dungeon, and there is no limit on the number of people in the team!]
[The difficulty of the dungeon increases with the number of players. Please be careful when forming a team! Once you sign a contract, you cannot go back on your word!]
He Yuezhe weighed the backpack on his back which was almost weightless.
She also walked slowly, looking back every few steps. The ears of wheat on both sides of the ridges were thin, but they still made a deep sound.
Walking past the creaking thatched huts on both sides, He Yuezhe said a final hello to Grandma Chen who was sitting by the window and glancing at him carefully, then simply clicked on the blue coordinates in the world announcement.
[Do you want to go to the game lobby immediately (this will not consume any attempts)?]
"yes."
^
"Player, if you don't go to the hospital, you're going to get seriously burned."
Yuan Yang, with dark circles under his eyes, glanced at the elf flying in the air with its arms folded across its chest, but ignored it and continued with what he was doing.
"Player! Why are you ignoring me again!" The elf was obviously very impatient with his attitude.
"Cough cough--?" Although Yuan Yang had drunk a lot of water, his throat was still burning and he couldn't speak.
He was just about to ask the elf to stop bothering him, but the words he said turned into a series of coughs that hurt his lungs.
"......All right."
The elf probably understood what he meant, and stopped making any sound and fell asleep in a daze.
It was in a trance and saw Yuan Yang finally finished the work at hand and fell backwards on the jade bed with a "thump". Tsk tsk, it thought that his head would probably get a big bump again.
When Yuan Yang woke up again, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon of the third day.
It was the elf calling him, otherwise he would have slept forever.
"Player, the current time is 14:30:21 on January 3rd. You should get up!!!"
[Do you want to be automatically transferred to the game lobby?]
Yuan Yang was in a daze when he heard the words "Game Hall" and thought that the only friend in the list invited him to join the team.
He vaguely remembered that the first step in the joining process was to teleport to the captain's location, so he quickly tapped the [Yes] button.
After a flash of blinding light, Yuan Yang was suddenly transported from his bed to a strange...
Wait, why am I still lying down?
Yuan Yang was startled and opened his eyes suddenly. He found that he seemed to be held by someone!
What came into view was the snow-white ceiling of the game hall, a doll with a concerned expression, and a sunflower that looked very angry...?
Hmm…it must have been a nightmare.
Um......
"Um?"
"Is this a nightmare? Why aren't you waking up yet?"
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