No Man's Land (10)
After hearing Jinjin's words, Linzhi didn't ask any more questions and quickly returned to the desert along the same route.
The moment she walked out the door.
The ruins behind him suddenly disappeared, just as suddenly as they appeared out of thin air.
[Huh... That was a close call. I almost got tricked by the higher-dimensional game consciousness.]
Hearing Jin Jin's long sigh, Lin Zhi subconsciously asked:
"What happened?"
Jin Jin gritted his teeth and explained:
[Master, you don’t know that this so-called national job transfer game is actually created by a high-dimensional gaming consciousness for its own entertainment.
Release monsters to mutate local humans and animals, and provide opportunities for some people under the guise of "awakening".
In fact, it is all for its own entertainment.
The purpose is to better watch players fighting each other, fighting monsters, fighting for some props and equipment...
After all, if humans are too weak, this game cannot continue.
Too strong, and meaningless.
Therefore, it also set up star-level secret realms, copies, and harsh environments that may appear at any time, such as the quicksand that the owner encountered before.
There is also a special secret realm that you will be forced to teleport into.
Every once in a while, players from around the world will be invited to compete, and some humans will be eliminated.
Jin Jin took a breath and continued:
[Master, your appearance has caused this game to gradually slip out of its control.
In addition to the existence of me and this Heavenly Dao, it has never succeeded.
It was because of a moment of carelessness that the Heavenly Dao's clone, the Super Golden Finger System, was bound to me, and then I was bound to you, my master.
It makes you, the master, the biggest bug in the game it created.
So it has been trying to quietly remove this BUG of yours, Master. 】
The Sunstone is very special. Even the higher-dimensional game consciousness didn't realize it was the stone it was looking for.
[They claim the energy crystal is in the ruins, but it's all lies, their purpose is to trick the owner into going inside.]
[If you, Master, hadn't come out when the ruins disappeared just now, we would have disappeared along with them.]
"It's actually like this..." Lin Zhi was shocked.
"What kind of high-dimensional gaming consciousness has such great power?"
She actually didn't understand a bit.
Isn’t Jinjin her spirit animal?
Although he had no previous memories, he could guess from the words of the Demon Devourer that he must be a powerful being. As his companion spirit beast, Jinjin should also be very powerful.
And this side of the Heavenly Dao, can't all of them combined defeat a single consciousness?
It's not a true disappearance like death; it can be understood as being in a certain space. However, unlike a safe house, that space can only be controlled by a higher-dimensional gaming consciousness.
That is to say, once we are trapped, we can never return to this world without its permission.】Jin Jin explained.
Unless the master recovers his divine power...
Jin Jin didn't say the last sentence. Now is not the right time.
"Can it hear the conversation between you and me?"
Linzhi suddenly remembered the game system's experience broadcast and material acquisition prompt sound.
In a sense, it and the Golden Finger System both suddenly appeared in her mind.
[It can't hear, and can only monitor a portion of the scene. For example, if you successfully kill a monster, it will see it. It can't monitor normal life.]
[And I'm different from that system. I'm the master's spirit beast, so we can communicate seamlessly. The Super Golden Finger system is also able to communicate because I'm the intermediary. But the game system is different; it's just a defective product among defective ones.]
[To put it simply, Master, you can understand that you and I are communicating with each other through our souls, and the game system is only the spiritual aspect.]
"Besides, Master, your own mental strength is exceptionally strong. Not to mention a small, broken game system, even a high-dimensional game consciousness itself wouldn't be able to truly penetrate your spiritual sea, and could even be directly counterattacked."
The mental strength values on the attributes are displayed because this broken game system cannot detect them.
[I vaguely revealed my identity to it last time, but it mistakenly thought that I was an intelligent being from a higher plane, one plane level higher than it.
Simply put, it thinks we have a backer, so when it sees you instantly kill the monsters in its game, it can only turn a blind eye.
[Although I don't dare to interfere openly, I can still do it secretly, like today.]
[It bets that I can't detect it.]
After all, even if it was discovered, it wouldn't lose anything. At worst, it could just find another opportunity to take action later.
"But I have a safe house here. Even if it summons a level 99 monster, I'm not afraid."
Linzhi was a little confused.
The last full-level experience card was given by the high-dimensional game consciousness. It should know its own cards.
Jin Jin replied: [So this time the ruins are not meant to kill you, Master, but to trap you.]
[As long as you, my master, disappear from this world, no one will be able to interfere with its game anymore.]
[It just missed one thing. It didn't expect that it would be such a coincidence that the Sunstone was the "energy crystal" it was looking for.]
Speaking of this, Lin Zhi also remembered what he saw when he entered the door, and asked worriedly: "I saw that stone disappear just now. Could it have been taken away by the high-dimensional game consciousness?"
"Master, don't worry," Jin Jin said proudly. "After the door was opened, I put it away."
The Super Golden Finger System is the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao. The moment the Sun Stone appeared, it detected the special energy fluctuations inside it, so it was able to put the stone away in the first place.
[As for the energy crystal, it's useless to us, so we can just destroy it.]
"Wouldn't it be a pity to destroy it directly?"
Linzhi hadn't recovered his memory and had little experience, so he just felt reluctant to leave.
Jin Jin thought for a moment and said with a smile: "It does have some effect on this Tian Dao. It can speed up his recovery and help us eliminate the high-dimensional game consciousness sooner."
As for the previous transaction with the high-dimensional game consciousness...
whee.
Jin Jin laughed inwardly.
I thought to myself that I had only promised to help it "find the energy crystal", and I did help it look for it, and I found it.
But it never mentioned from the beginning to the end who this energy crystal belonged to, right?
Therefore, the way of heaven given to this world is also reasonable.
It won't even trigger a trading ban.
After all, a conscious being is a conscious being. How can it understand the art of writing?
[Master, I'm going to contact Tiandao. I'll be disconnected for a while. The Super Golden Finger System will help you during this time.]
"good."
…
Linzhi came out not long after entering the Sand River ruins.
It's still early now.
But Linzhi had no intention of continuing on his journey, so he simply went into the safe house to rest.
She didn't know if it was because she had consumed too much mental energy, or because she had received too much information at once, but she felt very sleepy.
Before closing her eyes to sleep, Linzhi vaguely felt that she seemed to have forgotten something.
But I couldn’t remember it all of a sudden.
"What did you forget?"
Linzhi frowned.
"Forget it, I'll think about it after I wake up."
…
When Linzhi woke up, it was already noon on the third day.
After spending 2,000 gold coins on a simple lunch, Linzhi finally remembered what he had forgotten.
She forgot about Da Hu...
It was starved for more than two days!
He quickly released the tiger from the storage space and started feeding it.
As soon as Dahu came out, he looked at Linzhi with grievance.
The more I look at it, the more I feel that Nyingchi is like a piece of delicious fresh meat...
(No, this is the master, I can’t eat it...)
I’m so hungry, so hungry, so hungry!
Da Hu shook his head violently, trying to expel Lin Zhi from his mind.
"I'm sorry, Da Hu, I forgot you need to eat too."
Dahu (droopy face): cat-like grievance.jpg
Without Linzhi's consent, he couldn't leave the storage space.
It's not like undead slaves can live well without eating.
but.
A gleam of light flashed in Da Hu's eyes, and he suddenly had a good idea.
(Master, please give all the beast meat to Dahu for safekeeping.)
(Da Hu promises he won’t finish it all at once.)
Afraid that Linzhi would not agree, Dahu deliberately made his body smaller and used cute tactics.
Linzhi thought about it and thought that maybe one day something happened or for some other reason she would forget about Dahu again.
Its diet was indeed a problem, so I agreed.
Like Dahuang, Dahu, as an awakened creature, has his own inventory just like human players.
Linzhi gave the dozen or so pieces of animal meat left over from last time to Dahu, and bought thirty barrels from the trading mall for it to store.
If you drink three buckets a day, this will be enough for half a month.
Renew it after a while.
But what she didn't expect was.
In just one afternoon, Da Hu's inventory was empty.
(Master~)
Dahu started acting like a spoiled child again.
It was so hungry that it ate them all without realizing it.
I really didn’t mean it!
"Who are you? Are you a glutton or a reincarnated ghost?"
Linzhi didn’t really want to talk about Dahu, but was mainly worried about its health.
The tiger jumped into Linzhi's arms and spread out his belly: (Master, I am really hungry...)
Linzhi touched the big tiger that had turned into a little tiger, looked down at its flat and soft belly that was deliberately exposed, and looked puzzled.
Even if it grows in size to eat, a bucket of meat the size of a kitchen, nearly 50 buckets combined, is 10 times the maximum size of the tiger!
Where did all that meat go?!
Linzhi thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, and when he asked Dahu, he still didn't know the answer.
She said helplessly, "Is it really okay to eat so much?"
Although Da Hu is an awakened creature, he cannot be treated according to common sense.
But you can't eat that much, right?
Just like Linzhi himself, he can only eat two bowls of rice and a few side dishes at most. If he eats too much at once, his stomach will still feel uncomfortable.
What about the missing meat?
Da Hu waved his paw and replied proudly: (It’s okay, Da Hu even thinks he can eat ten more buckets!)
Linzhi: ...
It's numb.
After carefully confirming that Dahu was in good health, Linzhi let it go.
Fortunately, she has plenty of gold coins now. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't be able to support a glutton like Dahu.
After spending another 1 million gold coins to buy twenty barrels of animal meat as big as a kitchen to feed the tiger, Dahu was finally full.
Linzhi had to set out again to kill monsters, find materials and sell them for gold coins.
She had originally thought that this trip would be easy, and she would only complete the mission in the uninhabited area and leave after finishing it.
But if Da Hu continues to eat like this, unless he can earn tens of millions of gold coins a day without eating or drinking, there will always be a day when he will be broke.
Well, there is still a long way to go.
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