Spirit Realm
"Boss, I know what's going on with Zhan Xingce!"
After going online, Paopao's expression was still in disbelief, "Spirit Medium and Zhan Xingce are indeed two people, but they are conjoined twins!"
An Rou was in Feng Pharmacy, so shocked that she didn't even bother to look at the freshly made physical strength potion.
"Siamese twins???"
"Yes, they are conjoined twins, a boy and a girl, and they haven't been separated."
"How do you know?"
It’s not that An Rou doesn’t believe it, it’s just... too far-fetched.
Zhan Xingce and the psychic had the same ID and the same level. According to her previous guess, one of them must be the other's clone.
After all, clone skills were common in games. The clone skills they possessed were simply more advanced.
But Paopao said... they are conjoined twins?
"Uh..." Paopao paused, "I saw it on my brother's computer. There's a diagnosis in the psychic's profile."
"Your brother is the president of the Longyan Guild. How could he store such important secrets in his computer and even let you know the password?"
"Of course he wouldn't tell me. Who knew he'd set the password to my parents' death anniversary...
"Oh, it's not important! Boss, what's important is the psychic and Zhan Xingce. They have the same DNA, but two brains, so the system opened the same account for them, but gave them two game characters..."
An Rou tried hard to digest it and roughly understood the logic.
Soul Song creatively uses DNA to create game accounts, so each person can only have one account.
It is a holographic game of connected neurons. The conjoined twins have two complete brains, so they are given two game characters in the same account.
Judging from the fact that both of their IDs were [Medium], they had a master-slave relationship, with the Medium being the master. However, Zhan Xingce was likely to share the Medium's level.
Speculating forward, the reason why the psychic was able to rise to become the number one player in the spiritual realm was also because of Zhan Xingce.
Two people can act separately, using double the time and strength to complete tasks, and quickly upgrade their levels.
"Golden High Player Exhibition Star Strategy" is just a deceptive name and does not exist in the player list.
An Rouqing couldn't help but imagine their game cabin.
A pair of opposite-sex twins lie back to back in a game cabin filled with neural sensors. The picture has a kind of terrifying and thrilling aesthetic feeling.
“I am truly a Buddha.”
Paopao said, "I originally thought there were only a few highly ranked Super Gods in the entire Spirit Realm, but I didn't expect two fourth-place finishers to appear at once. If Lao Zhang had revealed even the slightest flaw last night, it would have been the end of him!"
Seeing that An Rou didn't respond, he encouraged her, "Boss, why don't we leave at night? That brother and sister...sister and brother...in short, those two seem a bit scary.
"Don't twins always have a telepathic connection? Not to mention conjoined twins. They must have incredible chemistry. One plus one might even equal four..."
A small bottle was held up to him.
An Rou shook the clear liquid in the bottle and asked, "Let's see what it is."
"...Have you really made a physical strength potion?" Paopao opened his mouth wide.
Yesterday during the day, An Rou asked Tian De to lead the flower farmers to transplant the rootless flowers to the farm, and the flower stems are growing well.
Last night, An Rou placed the Wind Pharmacy she had looted on the farm, prompting a flurry of flower growers and farm residents to join in the fray, successfully boosting the NPC pharmacist's favorability.
Even though the pharmacist NPC has the ability to make potions, his treatment is not much better than that of flower farmers. He goes hungry one day and has never eaten many common foods that farm residents eat.
The players and NPC management of the Spirit Realm are very shrewd.
A low-level potion cost 10 gold coins, enough to replenish the pharmacist's physical strength after a busy day. In other words, where can you find livestock that only cost 10 gold coins a day?
So, apart from having a better working environment and being dressed more like a decent person, pharmacists are actually locked up in the pharmacy like donkeys grinding a mill, and their situation is even worse than that of flower farmers.
In less than two hours, we became one of our own.
An Rou asked Bao Fu to carry the farm on his back again and fly to the highest point of Fengyu Temple's airspace, trying to keep as much distance as possible from Fengyu Temple.
The potion-making process was too complicated for An Rou to understand, nor was she too lazy to do so. In short, under these circumstances, the pharmacist successfully created a stamina potion using the rootless flowers harvested from the farm.
Paopao took it and tasted it, and indeed felt that his physical strength had increased by 10 points.
"But no matter how high Brother Baofu flies, it's still Fengyu Temple's airspace... Oh, or rather, even if he flies out of Fengyu Temple, it doesn't mean he can make potions after leaving the Spirit Realm..."
An Rou asked calmly, "Do you regret it?"
The plan discussed yesterday was to first seize the Wind Pharmacy and see if the farm could produce stamina potions before deciding whether to continue with the next action.
Paopao scratched his head and muttered softly, "...No. What's the point of me regretting it?"
Once the boss makes up his mind, even ten thousand oxen can’t change it.
Paopao stopped trying to persuade him and looked at the pharmacist in the pharmacy.
He was a skinny old man with a goatee, wearing a light gray gown and a gray square hat.
It looks very similar to the impression of ancient Chinese medicine.
Paopao grinned: "This... doctor, what is your name?"
An Rou laughed and called Paopao out.
"Don't call me that, I'm just Pharmacist Feng. I asked around, and it's not just him, all the pharmacists at Feng Pharmacy have that name... No, all the pharmacists at Feng Pharmacy look the same as him.
"I was originally curious about how such a weak NPC could master so many item-making techniques. It seems the game's design was very crude in this regard, directly designing a tool-type NPC to produce specific items."
Paopao understood: "Just like the traders on the black market island? Oh, the NPCs in other official stores seem to be similar.
"When I first entered the game, I only had one gray weapon. My luck was bad, and I died again. I wanted to go to the pawnshop in Cold Weapon City and buy a red weapon... the one I started with. But I didn't have enough money.
"In order to get a discount, I tried many ways to improve the pawnshop owner's favorability, but his favorability towards me remained at 50%, which was extremely ruthless."
An Rou: "Your Hawkeye slingshot? How did you buy it?"
"I ran into Brother Qin. He was also in the pawnshop and couldn't bear to see it, so he lent me some money."
An Rou thought for a while before remembering this person.
Gold player Qin Wudi, the first high-level player to be eaten up by the sudden wealth.
"In order to pay back the money, I hung out with Brother Qin. He took good care of me." Paopao felt a little disappointed.
An Rou glanced at him and asked, "Are you sure he's taking care of you not because he knows your identity?"
"Ah? No way..."
An Rou sighed, "A novice player knows too much about the game, especially at a macro level. Anyone would be curious. Run, Qin Wudi has already guessed your identity."
Compared with An Rou, Qin Wudi is naturally an experienced gaming veteran.
It only took An Rou more than a month to find out Paopao's identity, and Qin Wudi would be even faster.
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The seminar on "The Fifth Copy Generation Method" was interrupted by a temporary attendee.
The other party did not connect to the holographic projector, but participated in the meeting via voice connection.
Shi Xizheng asked the technical team to leave first, leaving behind four guild presidents.
The previous discussion lasted a whole day and night, with only a three-hour break in between, and everyone was very tired.
"Xingce, you attended the meeting temporarily, did you find any clues?"
Zhan Xingce's voice came from the communicator: "Yes, in a moment. Yong'an Farm is at Fengyu Temple."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone stood up.
Shi Xizheng: "Did the Second Association send you to inform them?"
Zhan Xingce didn't answer, but instead said, "The Second Headquarters will fully cooperate."
Shi Xizheng understood, it seemed that the old man didn't know about this.
"Xingce, thank you for your cooperation." His thanks were brief but full of sincerity.
Shi Xizheng turned to look at the other guild leaders: "The joint team will leave for the Spirit Realm immediately. The meeting is adjourned."
One holographic projector after another went out.
Shi Xizheng was the only one left in the conference room. He signaled his secretary to close the door. A moment later, the holographic image of President Ouli reappeared.
"President Lu..."
Shi Xizheng didn't have the patience to beat around the bush with him anymore, so he cut in straight away: "If you want to join forces to locate the location, President Ou Li can hand over the clues you have."
President Ouli chuckled.
"He came to me alone with his back to the other families. Could it be that President Lu also knows the clues I have?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Don't you know? Never mind, it's not important."
The agreement for Ouli to join the joint group has been signed. As a national-level agreement, the possibility of reneging is very small.
After all, no country wants to escalate tense diplomatic relations.
President Ouli gave Shi Xizheng enough respect and put away his smile.
"President Lu should still remember the T21 mission, right? There were actually clues to this Gal Guild conspiracy a while ago. The person who discovered the clue was Qin Wudi, a Gold Master in our guild.
"According to his account, he and a group of players he had gathered all died on a small farm on the eastern outskirts of Zhongsu Town."
Shi Xizheng: "Yong'an?"
Guild Master Ouli shook his head. "Qin Wudi didn't know the name of the farm at the time. The clue I have isn't T21, nor is it the farm. It's about a guest he summoned—"
"President Lu should be familiar with the ID 'Paopao'."
Shi Xizheng was of course familiar with it.
In Long Yan's countless replays, this player named "Paopao" has been regarded as a mysterious high-level player who is pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
He and An Rou are most likely the initiators of the entire Yong'an mission.
Shi Xi remained calm and waited quietly for what would happen next.
However, President Ouli's next words left him dumbfounded, and all the color instantly faded from his tired face.
"Qin Wudi explained that Paopao's real offline identity is most likely a young man from China named Shi Xi Ming."
Holographic Command Center, President's Office.
Shi Xizheng pulled off his glasses and threw them hard to the ground.
Seeing this, the secretary hurried in. Shi Xi was getting angry for the first time in his life: "Get out!"
He picked up the phone and his eyes suddenly froze on the lunch box next to the landline.
This insulated lunch box has been on his desk for who knows how many days.
Shi Xizheng suddenly put down the microphone and opened the lunch box.
The secretary had already cleaned it up, and both compartments were empty.
He shook it a few times. At first there was no sound, but as he shook it harder and harder, there was a sudden thud from the bottom of the lunch box.
Shi Xi was using all his strength to smash the lunch box to the ground.
The outer shell was shattered into pieces, and the thermal insulation liner rolled out a long way with a bang.
On the ground, there was a stack of scattered tissues and a mobile phone.
Shi Xi was calling out the secretary's name loudly.
The secretary pushed the door open and saw her boss pointing at his cell phone, opening and closing his mouth several times before making any sound.
"Why is there no security check? How can electronic devices be allowed in?!"
Seeing the remains of the lunch box, the secretary quickly understood.
The president's younger brother avoided the detector with disdain and said, "My brother has mysophobia. This thing has checked so many people. Is it dirty?"
I just searched her body briefly and let her in.
"President, it's my fault."
"No…it's not your fault."
Shi Xizheng calmed down. "Please notify Wei Gang and ask the Dragon Breath Group to send a small team. No, try to mobilize as many people as possible."
While explaining, he picked up the phone on the ground and gave it a rough inspection.
After many days, my phone ran out of battery.
"Send it to the technical team. I want to know all the information in this phone."
The secretary took the phone and left.
Shi Xi was dialing a number he knew by heart, but no one answered.
Instead, he called home.
"Master Zheng?"
"Where's Shi Ximing?" Before his aunt could answer, Shi Xizheng added, "I know he's playing games. Tell me the truth, where is he?"
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"The violent ghost magic can just counter the chaotic star formation. Tonight, we will grab the raw materials and pharmacies for the remaining three potions.
"But going to six places in one night might be a bit tight. Paopao, can you help me evaluate whether to send two more employees, or..."
The person next to him fell straight to the ground.
An Rou was startled and quickly squatted down to check.
The face of the rich man appeared beside me.
Paopao's breathing was even, as if he were sound asleep. Baofu said he didn't smell any fragrance of soul in him.
Offline status.
An Rou frowned.
Last time, back in Zhongsu Town, Paopao also suddenly went offline while chatting. Today... was the second time.
"Baobao, send him back to his room first."
It's good that it's not a sudden death. It means that the person is fine.
Once he handles the emergency, he'll be online soon.
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It was still this damn arena, and it was still this damn male staff member who unplugged the power of his holographic cabin for the second time.
I feel like running around and eating people.
But this time, the male waiter didn't want to argue with him and said in a hurried tone: "Go away, we don't want any trouble in our store!"
"What's the trouble? I'm Luxurious..."
"A group of special police officers rushed into the store and asked for Shi Ximing by name!"
The male staff member looked at him with complicated eyes, mixed with a hint of jealousy.
"I don't care what you've done, you need to get out of here right now. Fire escape out the back door!"
For some reason, Xiaozhen at the front desk deleted Shi Ximing's lease contract immediately.
Otherwise, he wouldn't care about this guy's life or death, he would just watch Shi Ximing being taken away by the police and just watch the fun.
Paopao understood as soon as he heard the word "special police".
The truth was revealed, it must be that the cell phone he hid in the lunch box was discovered!
He didn't even bother to put on his shoes, he just grabbed his clothes and ran away.
There are too many electronic devices in the holographic arena, and the fire ladder is set up outside the building.
Paopao ran out the door under the guidance of the male staff.
The staff was very smart. They chased and mopped the floor with a mop, wiping off the residual neural sensor on the floor.
After running to the arena building, Paopao saw the vehicle in front through the narrow gap between the buildings.
Sure enough, there was the holographic command center logo on the car.
This is a big disaster.
He didn't have time to think about it, so he ran away barefoot while putting on his clothes.
When he calmed down a little, Paopao found himself in a second-hand equipment store.
His subconscious mind helped him make many judgments.
I can’t go back home, I can’t go to school, and the stadiums or hotels require my real name, so it’s not suitable for hiding.
If he wants to continue playing games, new game cabins require the purchaser to register, but some second-hand stores do not require this, as long as the money is enough.
The shop owner looked him over and said with a smile, "Is your gaming pod broken? Are you working on an important mission? Which one do you want? The price is negotiable."
Paopao: "I want the best, money is not a problem."
Ten minutes later, a small truck drove out of the second-hand store and headed towards the western suburbs.
The delivery driver glanced at the destination on the navigation system and asked, "There are a lot of places selling holographic cabins in West City. Why did you come all the way to East City?"
"Your boss said he has the best goods."
Paopao said something perfunctorily and stared at his phone.
The phone screen was always on, and my brother's calls never stopped.
He rubbed his thumb on the power button for a moment and chose to turn off the phone. Then, while the driver wasn't paying attention, he threw it out the window.
He knew very well how much authority the holographic command center had.
Even if the phone is turned off, it may still be located and tracked using some cutting-edge technology.
The cell phone was crushed into pieces by the car behind.
Paopao looked away from the rearview mirror and closed his eyes.
"Master, please hurry up."
There were a lot of cars during the day, and no matter how hard we hurried, it still took us nearly three hours on the road.
He glanced at the gas station he had visited at night not long ago. The gas station attendant was not the same one as before, so he must be working the night shift.
"Go around here and go to the back door."
…
"Just stop here. Please help me unload the cargo."
…
"How much is the cart? Sell it to me."
He spent a full five thousand yuan to buy a cart that cost no more than two thousand yuan.
The driver sighed that it was really profitable to play games and tried to help enthusiastically, but was rejected by Paopao.
"My family doesn't like outsiders coming in. I'll call someone to help me. You can go back."
The driver was happy to save effort and drove away.
Paopao waited until the truck disappeared before he grabbed the handle of the cart.
He had read the manual and knew the game pod was very heavy, weighing a whopping 300 kilograms. He had also had the secondhand shop owner pre-fill it with holographic sensor, making it even heavier.
Even if the cart has a power-assisted design, it is still very difficult for one person to pull it.
I ran and pooped for a full half hour before I finally reached my destination.
He wiped the sweat from his stinging eyes and his gaze fell on the sign by the door.
Qingshan Farm.
Like the main door, the back door was also sealed.
The place where his boss' life was ended was the only place he could think of to hide.
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"Run away? How could he run away?! His phone was dead, there's no way he was eavesdropping!"
"Xi Zheng, don't worry. We weren't eavesdropping. The arena staff have already confessed. They were worried about getting in trouble and closing down, so they secretly notified your brother. They've already been arrested."
"What's the point of catching them, Shi Ximing, I want Shi Ximing!"
"Xi Zheng..."
"I know what you're going to say. The responsibility is mine. Bring him back and I'll personally interrogate him. I'll naturally report to the higher-ups and accept the punishment."
"But……"
"Old Wei, help me once, just this once. He... he is my brother after all, and he is involved in Shenqi! For both public and private reasons, I must pull him out of this vortex. What happened to my parents must never happen to him again, absolutely not!"
"Alright. I'll send more people, and you... the joint team has already left for the Spirit Realm. You focus on the mission and continue to command. If your brother comes online, you can find him in the game, right?"
"Okay, you're right. I'll listen to you."
Shi Xi was holding the microphone, his knuckles turning white. "Thanks, Lao Wei."
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Just like in the morning, Paopao went online in the afternoon and still found Anrou in Feng Pharmacy.
He approached, looking through the open door at the figure inside.
The boss picked up the transparent stamina potions one by one, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.
He hadn't seen the boss show this expression for a long time. He was like a little squirrel, happily counting his stored food.
"What are you doing there? Come in."
The boss's words drifted into my ears.
Paopao came to his senses, scratched his head and walked in.
An Rou looked at him: "Have you finished dealing with the family affairs?"
"Um."
Paopao waited for a moment and explained, "Auntie came over and told me that my brother was looking for me. It took him a long time to deal with me."
Whether it is "find" or "catch", the difference of one word makes a world of difference.
An Rou: "Your brother won't work overtime anymore?"
Before Paopao could answer, she twirled the stamina potion in her hand and began to ponder, "Does that mean Long Yan hasn't confirmed we're hiding in the Spirit Realm? That's good news, a double blessing."
She threw the stamina potion to Paopao: "Here's your prize."
Paopao couldn't help but laugh: "Boss is too stingy, only giving me a low-level potion."
An Rou tapped his forehead.
"Is this an ordinary potion? This is a potion produced and made on our farm. How can it compare to those ordinary things out there?
"Don't worry, once the production lines for the four medicines are assembled and mass production begins, you will definitely get your 10% dividend."
Paopao no longer cares about money.
First of all, all the gold coins in the account have been exchanged, totaling 60 to 70 million. At this number, it is just a number.
Secondly, Yong'an has long been more than just a job or a game to him.
Paopao uncorked the bottle, took a sip, and nodded vigorously. "The homemade ones are indeed delicious and sweeter. Boss, let's take over all the pharmacies tonight. I can work overtime all night!"
"Hey, no need to go home and punch in?"
"Hasn't this already been done?"
"That's great." An Rou nodded. "It just so happens that Si Ji has taken a day off today, so there's no one to repair the house we moved from Fengyu Temple. I'll do my best to help you out before it gets dark."
"Okay. Did Siji take a leave? I said I didn't see him this morning."
"Well, he came online a while before dawn and said his daughter was sick and wanted him to stay with her for a day."
It was naturally difficult for An Rou to refuse this kind of sick leave.
She even envied Siji's daughter a little, because she had a father who worked hard outside to support the family and only had eyes for his daughter.
Of course, she has it now.
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When the joint team arrived at Lingyu Railway Station, it was already dark.
Lingyu did not send more people, only a female player to wait.
The group was full of high-level players, half of them knew her, and the other half quickly guessed her identity - the number one player in the Spirit Realm and a psychic.
She looked around with a smile: "With so many people here... which handsome guy is the team leader?"
A dark-skinned player walked to the front: "Me. Long time no see, psychic."
"Gus, you're here too." The psychic put away his smile. "I heard about the orchid incident. My condolences."
Gus's current ranking was fifth, just one spot behind the psychic. After searching through Cold Soldier City and Ghost Island, the only person ranked higher than him was Chu Mo.
Even Shi Xizheng had no reason to object to him being the leader of the joint group.
When the orchid cannon happened, he was doing an SS-level mission outside and was not on Ghost Island.
Gus obviously didn't want to talk about this. He turned and looked at the huge teleportation array in the square and said, "The Fengyuguan teleportation array is broken. How are we going to get through the Chaos Star Array?"
The psychic put on a smile again: "Where's the thing I asked for? Did you bring it?"
Gus raised his arms.
His clothes were very different from others.
While others would like to cover themselves up from head to toe, leaving not an inch of skin exposed, he wore a simple brown sleeveless vest with his arms exposed, without even wearing string gloves.
There are two flowery lines tattooed on his arms.
As he raised his right arm, the flower tattoo came to life, crawled into his hand, and turned into a pistol.
The gun fired a flash bomb, lighting up half the square.
Five thermal boats came rushing over.
"Ghost Island Secret Treasure Style, the flying speed is comparable to that of a master."
"Compared to the speed of Lingyu Wanshan, it's still a bit slow."
The psychic's comments were blunt, and then he smiled, "But once you've mastered the rules of the Chaos Star Formation, it's barely enough."
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