<h4>Chapter 96: yer Rules</h4>
<strong><u>GOR Chapter 96: yer Rules</u></strong>
“Maybe, although it is only a maybe, there is one possibility. Our previous assumption was wrong.
“First impressions are the moststing. Thus, I had never tried to think of it from another perspective, of whether Miao Yan was a yer.
“Now that I think back on it… there were indeed several points of suspicion.
“When I first met her, I came to the opinion that this woman should be a very intelligent one. However, when we were in Epang Pce, she did not know about the famed historical figure, Bai Qi. It appeared as though she knew nothing at all about the history of the Qin Dynasty, just like someone with no knowledge of anything – she does not even know about Epang Pce! She also did not know about the 12 bronze men statues! That knowledge of history is something that even high school students would have!
“That was inplete contrast with her previous disy of collectedness and intelligence.”
“Maybe it is because she is a British citizen. That is why she never studied about these historical matters,” Qiao Qiao pointed at the information within her hand.
“There is such a possibility. However, the most important factor is that she does not recognize me!
“Trust me, I have this feeling that she is not just pretending to not know me. Instead… she actually does not recognize me!
“I have experienced this once before. In my first 72 Demons instance dungeon, the yers with whom I have had contact with while inside the game was restored to their identities as passengers of the airne after the instance dungeon ended. All of them could no longer recognize me!”
Chen Xiaolian sighed. “There is only one thing that does not make sense.”
“What is it?’
“The Mausoluem of Qin Shi Huang’s instance dungeon has rules. Awakened ones were supposed to enter before yers. It was only after I had encountered Miao Yan within the instance dungeon that the system prompt came, informing me that yers had arrived. Thus… from a timing perspective, this is not right.”
Chen Xiaolian suddenly got up. “Let us go! Go back!”
“Go back?”
“To find Lun Tai and Bei Tai. I have some questions to ask of them!”
…
Inside the room, Lun Tai, Bei Tai, Roddy and Xia Xiaolei were preparing to move out. Unexpectedly, they saw Chen Xiaolian opening the doors, leading Qiao Qiao and Soo Soo inside.
“Why did youe back?” Roddy whistled. “We were deliberately dawdling around to give you time to be alone.”
Chen Xiaolian’s face was solemn. “Now is not the time to joke around. Roddy, I have something important to discuss with you all.” He turned to Lun Tai and Bei Tai. “Lun Tai, Bei Tai, please be seated. I have some questions that I need to ask of you two veterans.”
Lun Tai and Bei Tai turned to look at each other before nodding.
Everyone was then seated on the sofa within the living room.
“Before this, I have been overlooking this one question. It became the blind spot of my thought process. However, I encountered an incident today which reminded me of it,” Chen Xiaolian took a deep breath. He then gazed back and forth between Lun Tai and Bei Tai. Finally, his gaze rested upon Lun Tai. “My question pertains to the yers.”
Lun Tai nodded his head. “En, what is it that you do not understand?”
“Their identity,” Chen Xiaolian frowned. “Perhaps what I know is too one-sided, too little. What I know is that yers enter our world through a method known as ‘arrival’. Aparison to it would be a ‘walk-in’ <sup>[1]</a></sup>.
“The several billions of ordinary people within this world bes something akin to ‘reserved ounts’. Once a yer enters this world, that yer will arrive and walk-in. The yer takes over that ordinary person. This action is also the equivalent of activating an ount.
“I need to know, is my understanding of the situation wrong?”
Lun Tai thought about it. “Theoretically speaking, there is nothing wrong.”
“Then,es the question,” Chen Xiaolian smiled. “Using walk-in arrival, a yer enters our world. Then, every time that yer arrives and walk-in, will it be on the same ordinary person? Or would it be a different person?
“Take Da Vinci as an example. Every time he arrives in this world, would he be using the same body?
“If it is not the same body, and each arrival would result in a different body, how do they guarantee their outer appearance? Even more so, their gender.
“Could it be that Da Vinci would arrive as a fat man once, then as a skinny person the next? From a man into a woman?
“I am a little confused.”
Lun Taiughed and kneaded his temples. He let out a bitter smile. “It seems I too have been careless. I thought that even though you are a rookie, you should know about thesemon matters. Unexpectedly, your rookie-ness is of that level… Guild Leader, I am not being sarcastic towards you. It is just that I am quite surprised.”
Chen Xiaolian raised an eyebrow and smiled. “I really do not know. Moreover, I had neglected this question earlier. Thus, I wanted to clear it up through you.”
“All right,” Lun Tai replied in a serious manner. “Awakened ones have constantly been confronting yers. Thus, we have always been on the lookout for news and information regarding the yers, which we will then analyse.
“Overall, there are three types of yers.”
Chen Xiaolian’s face became tense!
Lun Tai continued:
“The first type of yers could probably be considered as temporary yers. These are the ‘temporary ounts’ resembling ‘first experience yers’. They have the lowest level amongst the yers.
“Every time these yers enter a game, they will arrive and walk-in to a random ordinary person. Then, they will participate in an instance dungeon.
“Simply put, before an instance dungeon opens, the system will automatically direct its attention onto the ordinary people near the instance dungeon’s vicinity. Then, when the instance dungeon begins… Bang! yers arrive and walk-in urs.
“After the instance dungeon ends, the yers leave the bodies. These bodies will then be refreshed and sent back to go on with their ordinary lives.
“The result of this is that the same yer could possibly end up using a different human shell each time the yer enters an instance dungeon.
“Perhaps when they enter an instance dungeon in Japan, they will use an ordinary Japanese person as a human shell.
“When they go to the United States, they will temporarily use a Caucasian person as a human shell.
“If you recognize these low level yers, you will discover that every time they enter an instance dungeon, their appearance would be different. Perhaps thest time you saw him, he was a Chinese person, next time, he bes a ck person or a Caucasian person. At any rate, they are all random.
“However, these types of yers are considered low-end yers in the yer circle. Regardless of their battle prowess or their level, they are all of the lower levels.
“The second type of yers is known as Mid ss yers.
“These yers are of a higher gradepared to the Low ss yers. Additionally, they have more privileges as well.
“Like Low ss yers, they too will be assigned a temporary human shell by the system whenever the instance dungeon is opened. But, after their arrival, these type of yers can modify the appearance of their own human shell – they have their own unique looks and special settings for their external body appearance.
“After they arrive, it no longer mattered if their human shell was originally tall or short, fat or thin. Once they arrive, that human shell will automatically assume the pre-set appearance determined by the yers.
“For example, a yer may set his external appearance to look like Daniel Wu. Thus, the appearance of the human shell that he uses after arrival does not matter. The human shell’s external looks will automatically be modified to look like Daniel Wu after the yer arrives – even if the human shell’s original appearance is that of Eric Tsang. <sup>[2]</a></sup>”
Hearing that, Roddy smacked his mouth. “Interesting. This feature is quite good. Who does not want their external appearance to look wise and valiant?”
“Naturally,” Lun Taiughed. “Even when we are ying games, when we are setting the image for our character, we would hope to make it look good. But…
“ording to our conjectures, to acquire this privilege to set their image, the yer must pay a corresponding amount of price. Perhaps it is the money of their world, perhaps it is points… at any rate, I do not know what it is.
“As such, this type of yers is more powerful than Low ss yers. These yers are at a higher level.
“However, once the instance dungeon ends or if the yer is killed, then the human shell that the yer was using would be refreshed back to his or her original appearance once they return to this world. Then, the human shell would continue on with their ordinary lives.”
Chen Xiaolian nodded. “And the third?”
“The third type of yers is known as High ss yers,” Lun Tai’s face turned grim.
He took a deep breath and slowly continued. “This third type of yers is the most critical enemies of us, Awakened ones! They are also the one enemy that pose the biggest threat to us all!
“These yers have super strength, abundance of resources and all of them generally have very high levels. They are exceptionally hard to deal with.
“These yers all have a personal ‘Exclusive ount’ within our world.
“That is to say, there will be one ordinary person within our world who bes that yer’s exclusive human shell! This human shell is one whose appearance follows the yer’s personal preference and is reserved for that yer alone. Other yers cannot arrive and walk-in to that exclusive human shell.
“High ss yers will arrive into their own exclusive human shell before entering the game to start their adventure.
“This exclusive human shell is simr to that obtained from customized settings. It is something the system made in order to satisfy the demands of certain High ss yers. They are made specifically to meet the requests of the yers. Their external appearance, identity, body size and many other aspects of the ‘Exclusive ount’ will all be customized ordingly.”
Chen Xiaolian’s face changed.
Naturally, he was reminded of Miao Yan!
Lun Tai continued with even more shocking news.
“The first and second types of yers, Low ss yers and Mid ss yers have a restriction on them. They are only able to arrive in our world when an instance dungeon opens and they will move toplete the game quests. They will not be able to enter our world at normal times.
“However, things are different for High ss yers!
“The reason for that difference is because High ss yers have their own Exclusive ount.
“You can consider it as them having a permanent and exclusive identity within our world.
“There has been an increasing amount of information, which allowed us to specte and validate that these High ss yers can enter our world even though it is not the time for them to enter an instance dungeon game!
“In other words, they may walk-in and arrive at any given moment!
“Usually, their Exclusive ount will be simr to an NPC, no different from the rest. However, once the yer wishes to, as long as they are ready, then they would be able to enter our world at any time. And that is done by arriving into their own Exclusive ount.”
“Why? What benefits are there in doing so?” Roddy was puzzled.
“It is not necessarily about what benefits it could bring,” Chen Xiaolian shook his head. “By doing so, the yers will be able to acquire a higher sense of experience and assimtion. When you y a game, surely you do not want it to only be about killings. If you can experience more about this virtual world in detail when entering it, you will feel a higher level of reyability.”
“That is right,” Lun Tai smiled bitterly. “These High ss yers can enter our world at any given time and experience life and all the finer aspects within our world.
“This type of yers is very dangerous as they have an even higher understanding of our world. When fighting against us native residents within the game, they will be smarter and more cunning. They will understand more about our human weaknesses.
“Naturally, there are exceptions, although only a small handful.
“There are a small number of these High ss yers who delved too deep to experience our world and developed certain feelings for this world.
“I had once heard about a High ss yer who fell in love with a female Awakened. This is likely to be a case of him spending too much time in this world. In the end, he invested too much of his own emotions into our world.”
A High ss yer who fell in love with a female Awakened…
Is he talking about Newton? <sup>[3]</a></sup>
Chen Xiaolian frowned.
However… listening to Lun Tai’s description of these High ss yers who have Exclusive ounts…
It is sounding more and more like Miao Yan eh.
However, there is still one question I cannot put my thumb on.
Even if Miao Yan is a yer, the system prompt had stated that yers had yet to enter the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. So then, how did Miao Yan enter earlier than the designated time?
This does not make sense.
“The third type of yer is extremely rare. If we are to make aparison, then they are the big spenders in a game. They are high-end levelled existences equivalent to Great Gods.
“However, there is a certain notion amongst Awakened ones and also a faction dedicated to that notion. They are more extreme and radical than the rest.
“These Awakened ones believe that to make it easier to deal with these High ss yers, they can utilize this loophole.
“That is to say, if they were to encounter a High ss yer they cannot beat in the game, they could wait until the instance dungeon concludes and return to this world. Then, find the yer’s ‘Exclusive ount’ in this world and kill it!
“Exterminate the opponent’s ‘Exclusive ount’ and bar them from arriving.”
“Is that approach possible?” Chen Xiaolian frowned. “Too na?ve. How could it be possible to get rid of a high-end yer so easily?”
“People who are extreme and radical will always have their own strange ideas. It is not something thatmon people can understand,” Lun Tai shrugged. “Personally, I have nothing to say about these types of people. So far, the organization that believes in this notion could not seem toe up with any results. It seems that the system will protect these ‘Exclusive ounts’. Even if you do manage to kill an Exclusive ount, the system could simply refresh out a new Exclusive ount who looks exactly the same.
“Yet for some unknown reason, those extreme radical madmen could go on tirelessly, searching and attempting to kill the Exclusive ounts within this world. Perhaps… they are doing it out of spite.
“I have had no contact with this radical organization. So, I do not understand this type of Awakened ones.”
Chen Xiaolian was silent for a moment. After pondering for a while, he asked the most important question.
“It is said that once an Awakened dies, he will be refreshed back as an ordinary person with his memories as an Awakened erased. Then, that person will continue with his life as an ordinary NPC. Then…
“Consider Da Vinci who died in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang’s instance dungeon. What happens to him after that? Will his ount be dead? Will he no longer appear? Or… will he create a new human shell to enter the instance dungeon again?”
Lun Tai suddenly turned silent!
His face turned exceptionally odd.
Then, he slowly uttered one sentence…
1 A walk-in is a new-age concept of a person whose original soul has departed his or her body and has been reced with a new soul, either temporarily or permanently. [Source: Wiki].?</a>
2 Daniel Wu and Eric Tsang are both rather famous actors in Hong Kong. One of them is tall and young while the other is short, fat and old.?</a>
3 Newton, the Deputy Guild Leader of Wind sher Guild was first introduced in Chapter 11. His love affair with an Awakened was mentioned in .?</a>