《This Game Isn’t Normal》


 Chapter 1: The Beginning

    Alexthrew himself onto the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. His heart felt heavy with a suffocating pain. He had just been dumped. They had been in a serious relationship for six months, and he had thought it would last forever, but it had ended without a trace.


    He had been dumped, and the other person had broken up with him very suddenly, takingAlexby surprise. He tried to win her back, putting aside his pride and going down on his knees, but the other person''s attitude was very firm, leaving no chance of reconciliation.


    The reason given was that they had grown apart while they were together, and that was the end of it. They owed each other nothing, and they were both better off.


    Better off? The other person might be better off, butAlexjust felt miserable.


    It was now the third day since he broke up with her, and he still felt depressed and suffocated.


    He had truly loved her, but in this world, the more you love, the more you lose.


    There is a saying circulating on the internet: "There is a type of guy who doesn''t smoke, doesn''t drink, isn''t unfaithful, doesn''t go clubbing, has a good temper, always replies to messages immediately, and is even willing to give everything up for a girl, regardless of the consequences. I used to think that this type of guy should be very popular with girls, but I have only just realized that this type of guy is the most unloved."


    Alexnever imagined that this sentence would come true for him.


    Alex, male, 27 years old, 173 cm tall, quite good-looking, graduated from an ordinary undergraduate university inZenia, full-time writer, monthly income 10,000.


    Because his work is different from other traditional jobs, and he has more freedom in terms of time and space,Alexdid not choose to stay in the big city, but returned to the small county where he was born ¨CRiverdale.


    Before,Alexwas the type of person who preferred to stay at home. As long as he had a computer and a mobile phone, if there was nothing to do, he would spend his time alone creating, reading novels, watching movies, playing games, and staying at home without ever going out.


    Until about a year ago, perhaps because of his growing age, or perhaps due to the pressure from his parents and relatives, he suddenly realized that he gradually had the idea of finding a partner.


    And so began his nightmare.


    From childhood to adulthood, he had a blank slate when it came to relationships. He was a typical straight man who didn''t know how to chat with girls, get along with them, or what they liked. He had no idea what their personalities were like either. In the year that followed, apart from being rejected and making a fool of himself, he had achieved nothing.


    And this recent breakup can be said to have dealtAlexanother heavy blow.


    Alexjust lay there on the bed, doing nothing, and soon it was dusk in the afternoon.


    ¡°Son, come down to eat,¡°Alex''sfather''s voice called from downstairs.


    ¡°Coming,¡±Alexanswered.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    After lying on the bed for another five minutes,Alexslowly got up and walked down the stairs to the second floor.


    His family owned a small building inRiverdale, with four floors and 50 square meters per floor. It wasn''t spacious, but it was enough for the family to live in.


    It was built 20 years ago whenAlex''sfather was young. At that time, you could buy land and build this kind of whole building. Now that the policies inZeniahave changed, if you want to buy a house, you can only buy the kind of commercial housing developed by real estate developers.


    At the dinner table,Alex''smother looked at her son with some concern.


    ¡°Son, just let it go. What''s done is done. That girl has no ability, a bad temper, and is so arrogant. To be honest, I don''t even look down on her. If you miss this kind of girl, you''ve missed her, there''s nothing to be sorry about.¡±


    ¡°Yes, your mother is right, just let it go,¡° the father chimed in.


    ¡°I know, I''ve let it go, I''m not sad,¡±Alexsaid with a smile, his face relaxed.


    Of course, he was just pretending. In front of his parents,Alexalways put on an expression of confidence and optimism, he didn''t want his parents to worry too much about him.


    How could one forget and let go of a relationship that they had truly invested in?


    His rational mind told him that he should forget everything that had happened and pick himself up again, but the truth was that he still couldn''t help thinking about the girl who had given him such pain, and then he couldn''t help feeling miserable.


    After dinner, as usual,Alexaccompanied his father for a walk. His father''s blood pressure was high because he loved to drink, and half a year ago,Alexstarted to take his father for a walk along the river after dinner if he was not doing anything.


    Walking along the riverside of the small town,Alex''sfather gently patted his son''s shoulder: ¡°Son, you don''t have to pretend in front of your father anymore. I know you''re sad inside. Just let it go. Your mother was right. This kind of woman really isn''t worth it. Our family''s situation isn''t bad, and neither are you. You''ll definitely be able to find someone better in the future.¡±


    ¡°Dad, I know,¡±Alexnodded. ¡°I just need a little time. In time, everything will be fine.¡±


    Alex''sfather nodded and said no more.


    After returning home,Alexlay back on the bed again. After half an hour, he slowly sat up and picked up the phone that was lying next to him.


    The most effective way to get over a relationship is to find something to do and distract yourself, so that you don''t have time to think too much.


    Time is also the best healing agent. As long as enough time passes, no matter how strong the emotions are, they will fade away.


    Alexhas three ways of killing time: watching movies, reading novels, and playing games.


    After watching a movie for a while, he still couldn''t get into it. Watching the people in the movie laugh and smile,Alexjust felt like they were from a different world, and there was no emotional resonance.


    After turning off the movie, he read the novel again. In this novel he was reading, the male protagonist was omnipotent, loved by everyone, charming everyone he met, and attracted countless beautiful women.Alexused to read it with relish, but now it seemed that the gap between the novel and reality was even more distracting.


    The gap between the novel and reality was really too big.


    Forget it, I''m not going to read it anymore. I''d better play some games.


    Alexhadn''t played games for months. The reason was that she didn''t like him playing games.


    For her sake, he could compromise and change himself, but she had never made any compromises or changes for him.


    Now that he thought about it, it was really laughable.


    He had thought that by doing so, he might be able to move her, but now he thought about it, he could only move himself by doing so.


    There were still a lot of games in the mobile game mall, with a dizzying variety of games, numbering at least tens of thousands.


    Among them, stand-alone games only account for a very small part, and the vast majority are online games.


    As for games,Alexdoesn''t have a particular favorite genre. Whether he is reading novels or watching movies, or playing games, he is an omnivorous creature.


    As soon as he opened the app store app that came with the phone, a top recommendation on the homepage caughtAlex''seye.


    ''Want to understand the true meaning of life? Want to live a wonderful life? TheWorld of Spiritswelcomes you to join! ''

 Chapter 2: The World of Spirits

    Along with the promotional text, there was also a promotional illustration.


    The illustration depicted a large city nestled among mountains, with magnificent buildings and black tiles on the roofs, full of the style of ancient Zenia. The sky was like blood with the setting sun, and a man with fluttering clothes was riding a crane and soaring above the nine heavens, in the style of a proper immortal.


    ¡°Want to understand the true meaning of life? Want to live a wonderful life?¡± Alex muttered these words, but there was no fluctuation in his heart.


    In addition to being an author, he is also an old bookworm with more than 10 years of reading experience. Isn''t the promotional text in this industry just borrowing the words of the founder of the infinite stream novel school?


    I do want to understand the true meaning of life and live a wonderful life. Show me, but don''t let me down.


    As he thought about this, Alex extended a finger and casually tapped the screen.


    Alex was still quite interested in games of the fairy-tale genre. Every man who has read a fairy-tale novel has a fairy-tale dream in his heart, dreaming of being able to slay demons, fly through the sky, catch stars and the moon, live forever, and laugh at the mortals.


    However, this is ultimately just an unattainable dream.


    Most of the fairy-tale mobile games on the market have crude graphics, and the game modes are almost all carved out of the same mold, with no innovation. The recharge port is placed in the most conspicuous position on the phone screen, shining with light and color!


    The meaning is clear: if you want to become powerful, just recharge!


    As long as you recharge enough, VIP 15 is not a dream, and equipment, wings, mounts, and gems are all not a dream! You can definitely dazzle the titanium alloy eyes of those idiot players!


    Alex has seen too many of these mobile games with fairy-tale themes.


    Therefore, although he is quite interested in fairy-tale games, Alex doesn''t really have high expectations for this game called ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    He just desperately wants to change his current situation and find something to pass the time.


    As Alex''s finger pointed at the screen, the question ¡°Download this game?¡± appeared. Yes.


    Downloading the game for you...


    The download interface appeared, and the game was being downloaded at a speed of 5MB/S.


    Alex looked at the size of the game, a full 3.15G!


    Generally, xianxia mobile games are only 200-300M in size, so this was the first time Alex had seen a mobile game of this size.


    3.15 gigabytes of game data is relatively common in PC games, but in mobile games, this is considered a major production. This made Alex''s heart secretly feel a hint of anticipation for this ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    After waiting patiently for a moment, the game finally finished downloading.


    ¡°Game download complete.¡±


    ¡°Game installation complete.¡±


    ¡°Do you want to run it now? Yes, No.¡±


    Alex clicked on the ¡°Yes¡± option.


    The game was launched, and after the screen went dark for three seconds, a line of golden text appeared on the dark screen.


    ¡°The World of Spirits will officially open at 9 pm, so please be patient.¡±


    Below is a countdown, 11 minutes and 39 seconds.


    It''s only 11 minutes, not 11 days, so just wait.


    Switch to your browser and search for ¡°World of Spirits¡±. What comes up is a novel that has been left unfinished for a long time, with only seven chapters.


    As a professional author, Alex is disgusted by this kind of unfinished author and unfinished novel.


    I said, big brother, don''t you know how difficult it is to come up with a title for a new book these days? If you write a few hundred thousand words, it''s fine to take up a good title, but if you get carried away and write a chapter or a few chapters that take up a title, it''s just like taking up the toilet seat and not pooping.


    Apart from this eunuch novel, Alex also found some random stuff, but there was not a single piece of news about the game ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    This shouldn''t be the case, right? After all, it is a game that occupies the recommended position on the app homepage, and it doesn''t even have this much heat?


    The 11 minutes passed quickly.


    The countdown on the black screen finally cleared to zero.


    A line of big, gold letters appeared: ¡°Welcome to the World of Spirits!¡±If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The screen went dark, but soon some light appeared again.


    It was very dark, and he could only vaguely make out some nearby scenery.


    A prompt popped up: ¡°Please align your face with the front camera of the phone.¡±


    Alex did as he was told and aligned his face with the phone''s lens.


    He was curious. He had played so many games, and none of them had required this when the game was ¡®initialized¡¯.


    Prompt: ¡°Character information collection is complete. In the future, when you log in to the World of Spirits, you will be able to do so without an account or password.¡±


    Before Alex could react, another prompt popped up: ¡®Please enter your in-game name.¡±


    ¡°Alex.¡±


    Alex typed in his in-game name very fluently. The name ¡°Alex¡± was similar to his real name, and he had always used it when playing games.


    After clicking to confirm, no other prompts popped up.


    The world in the game was a little dark, so Alex tried sliding his finger across the screen a few times. As his finger slid across the screen, the night scene displayed on the screen smoothly changed along with his finger.


    This was actually a first-person 3D game!


    If you look closely, you will notice that the screen is rendered in a realistic style, very detailed and three-dimensional, without any sense of roughness. In terms of graphics alone, it is definitely among the top-notch mobile games Alex has ever played!


    Not to mention anything else, just the graphics of this game are quite satisfying.


    At least Alex is very satisfied with it.


    Alex immediately perked up, braced himself, and began to adapt to the game.


    For an experienced gamer like Alex, it doesn''t take long to get used to a new game.


    Soon, Alex had mastered the basic controls.


    This really is a first-person 3D game.


    At this point, the environment in the game, like reality, is at night.


    A full moon hangs high in the sky, spreading its bright light across the land.


    The surrounding vegetation is lush, and from it you can hear the clear chirping of insects and the slight rustling of leaves in the evening breeze.


    In front of you is a winding country path that winds into the distance.


    In the distance, you can faintly see glimmers of light, the lights of thousands of homes.


    Obviously, in that direction there is a small human settlement, probably a village.


    Following this forest path, I should be able to go to that village in the distance, right? Alex thought to himself.


    Under his control, his character began to walk step by step along this narrow forest path.


    The screen image began to shake, and at the same time, Alex could hear the distinct sound of footsteps as his character walked.


    Everything seemed so real.


    As the character walked, lifting his feet and swinging his arms, Alex saw that his character was not only unarmed, but also barefoot, with no shoes on his feet.


    Walking step by step along this path, it took almost 20 minutes before Alex got close to the place that was glowing with a little light.


    This was indeed a village, and at the entrance of the village stood an old stone tablet.


    The words ¡°Peace Village¡± were engraved in red paint on the stone tablet.


    The moonlight in the game was very bright, so Alex could see the three characters on the old stone tablet very clearly.


    Peace Village, Alex''s previous guess was not wrong, this is indeed a village.


    Alex controlled the character and continued to walk forward.


    A paragraph of text flowed across the top of the screen:


    ¡°Successfully entered Peace Village, character attribute interface opened.¡±


    After the text had passed, Alex noticed that at the bottom right of his phone screen, where there had been nothing before, there was now a small icon ¨C character attributes.


    Alex casually clicked on the icon, and suddenly a translucent interface popped up.


    On the left side of the interface was a 3D character model that could be rotated left and right. The character model looked lifelike and had a very realistic feel.


    It was a young man with empty hands, bare feet, and wearing only a pair of grey underpants. The young man was generally thin, and his face was almost exactly the same as Alex''s...exactly the same!


    Alex couldn''t help but be shocked. He couldn''t believe it, and rubbed his eyes with his hands, moving closer and continuing to look at the screen of his phone.


    This was not an illusion; this face was indeed exactly the same as his...exactly the same!


    Why was this happening?


    Alex was first shocked, but soon he felt relieved.


    He remembered that before entering the game, the game had asked him to align his face with the front camera of the phone, and later there was a prompt saying ¡°character information collected¡±.


    Obviously, his appearance had been collected by the game.


    When the game created the character, it created a character for him based on his real appearance.


    After figuring this out, the shock in Alex''s heart turned into wonder.


    This is incredible...


    Is this some kind of black technology?


    This is much more interesting than face-smoothing.


    Have games come this far?


    On the left is a 3D character model of the character that looks exactly like Alex, and on the right are some of the character''s most basic data:


    Name: Alex


    Gender: Male


    Race: Human


    Title: None


    Strength: Average


    Attributes: Constitution 67, Strength 68, Dexterity 74


    Skills: None


    Bloodline: None


    Note: Constitution affects physical fitness, endurance, and resistance to negative states. Strength affects destructive power, explosive power, and instantaneous explosive power. Agility affects speed and reaction speed.


    These stats are pretty normal, and compared to similar games, there''s nothing special about them.


    Alex wasn''t in a hurry to enter Peace Village, so he quit the game and clicked on the app store app that came with his phone.


    He was curious to find out which game company had designed this game.


    The game company behind a game with such exquisite graphics and a lot of black technology is definitely not some unknown small company, it must be a big company.


    Unfortunately, the game interface of ¡°World of Spirits¡± is really simple, and even when starting up, there is no information or logo from any game company.


    So Alex wanted to look for some information about the game ¡°World of Spirits¡± in the app store app.


    After opening the app store app, ¡°World of Spirits¡± was still on the homepage as a top recommendation.


    Alex tried clicking on the promotional image of ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    A prompt popped up: ¡°You have successfully downloaded the game, no need to download it again.¡±


    No matter how Alex tried, he could not enter the game area of ¡®World of Spirits¡¯.


    When Alex tried the other games at the top, he could access their game areas by clicking on the promotional icons at the top. In the game areas, he could see a series of information about the games, such as their sizes, version information, game company names, screenshots, game packages, and game reviews.


    However, this was not possible for World of Spirits.


    Alex tried a different method. In the app store app, he tried searching for the words ¡°World of Spirits¡±. To his surprise, he was unable to search for the existence of ¡°World of Spirits¡±!


    A game that is on the homepage but not searchable in the app store app? What''s going on? Is there a bug?


    There must be a bug.


    Although this is rare, it is not unusual for this to happen, so there is no need to panic.


    Alex exited the app store app with some regret, opened the browser that came with his phone, and searched the internet for information about ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    The reason why he couldn''t find any information about the World of Spirits before was because it hadn''t been launched yet.


    Now, perhaps he could find some information about it online.

 Chapter 3: Peace Village

    Chapter 3: Peace Village


    As Alex had expected, some information about the World of Spirits did appear online.


    There was even a forum dedicated to the game World of Spirits.


    Many players were amazed at the exquisite graphics of World of Spirits.


    After creating a character, the character''s appearance, height, and body type were strikingly


    similar to the real-life player, which also sparked widespread discussion among players.


    Some players find this interesting. They think that the fact that the character looks exactly


    like themselves allows the player to feel like they are the one venturing out into the game


    world and becoming stronger, and that it is full of empathy!


    However, some players don''t think so.


    They think that this function of the game is indeed quite interesting, but can the game


    company be a little more humane and give players more options?


    What about players who like to play male characters as female and female characters as


    male?


    What about players who like to pinch their faces?


    What about those who like to pursue beauty?


    Life is already so difficult, so don''t we players even have the right to make ourselves


    beautiful and handsome in virtual games?


    The two sides with different opinions just started a heated discussion on the game-exclusive


    forum of the ''World of Spirits''. At first, it was okay, and both sides were relatively


    restrained, but then the players sort of ''discussed'' the real fire. The discussion turned into a


    war of words, with neither side giving way, and the atmosphere was full of hostility.


    Alex watched with interest.


    He did not choose to get involved, but instead became a bystander.


    Before he knew it, the night had deepened.


    The verbal battle continued, but it was only a few unproductive swear words. Alex, who


    was getting a little sleepy, could not help but yawn.


    Forget it, go to sleep.


    He turned off his phone, lay down on the bed, and covered himself with the quilt.


    He realized that after his attention was diverted, he really didn''t miss her that much.


    Tonight, he might be able to get a good night''s sleep, and he wouldn''t be suffering from


    insomnia like he had the past few days.


    In this way, Alex fell asleep without realizing it.


    He is an online author, which is a relatively free occupation. He had just finished writing his


    last novel not long ago, and he had planned to take a break and use that time to go to her


    city to find her. However, before he could go, he was already broken up.


    The next day, just after 6 o''clock, he woke up. He couldn''t sleep, and he still felt depressed,


    uncomfortable, and empty.


    If you really love someone, it''s not that easy to forget them.


    Sitting on the bed, lost in thought for a while, Alex picked up the mobile phone he had


    thrown on the side of the bed, then held out his finger and tapped on the icon for "World of


    Spirits".


    The game started instantly and very smoothly.


    The world in the game, just like the real world, had become daytime, with the sky just


    beginning to lighten.


    His character was sitting at the entrance to the village of Peace Village, and in front of him was a


    pile of campfires that had not yet completely gone out.


    Alex remembered that before, his character was standing, and there was no campfire in


    front of him.


    Alex manipulated his character to stand up, walked around the campfire, and continued


    walking along the path at the edge of the village.


    Alex rotated the screen and surveyed the surroundings.


    The village was surrounded by a one-meter-high wooden fence, and there were still several


    watchtowers inside the fence. These watchtowers were manned by strong villagers wearing


    gray clothes.


    Looking through the wooden fence, Alex could see that this was a very ordinary village.


    It was not large, and the sides of the village''s stone slab road were dotted with houses with


    green tile mud walls.


    Alex could even faintly hear the sounds of some chickens crowing and dogs barking.


    Alex manipulated his character and arrived at the village gate.


    Before he could make a move, the gate creaked open.


    This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.An old man wearing grey clothes, with a thin body and grey hair, appeared in front of Alex. He looked to be in his 60s or 70s.


    The old man looked at Alex with some pity and said, ¡°I am the village head of Peace Village. You can call me John. Young man, it is not easy to escape here. Come in.¡±


    Next to the old man stood a burly man who was a head taller than the old man. The burly man said, ¡°Young man, last night you stood outside the village like a fool, as if you had lost


    your soul. You couldn''t be woken up no matter how hard we called out to you. If it wasn''t for


    the village head''s mercy, and if he hadn''t built a bonfire in front of you to keep you warm, you


    would have frozen to death last night.¡±


    This must be the NPC in the village, and the identity the game has assigned to him is that of


    a poor man who fled here and is now reduced to wearing only his underwear.


    Alex wanted to communicate with them, but no matter how many times he tapped the


    screen, he couldn''t find a place to enter text or voice.


    So Alex followed John and the strong man into the village.


    After that, Alex spent about an hour familiarizing himself with the game.


    He discovered that in order to communicate with these NPCs, there is no need to look for a


    place to input text or speech at all. You just need to speak into the screen, and they can hear


    you.


    He discovered that unlike other games, where the NPCs only say the same few things over


    and over again, these NPCs in the Peace Village can answer whatever you say.


    Could this be a new generation of intelligent NPCs?


    In addition to this, Alex also figured out the general situation of the Peace Village.


    The Peace Village is a small village with more than 300 households and a population of


    more than 1,000. The Peace Village is located in the middle of the village. The previous one


    was located next to the village, a middle-aged strong man who was a head taller than the


    village, called Mike, is the captain of the Peace Village patrol team.


    Mike is a martial artist, a martial artist with nine stages of post-birth.


    In addition to the captain Mike, the patrol team of the Peace Village has more than 20


    people, all of whom are martial artists. Among them, the strongest is the captain Mike,


    who has reached the post-martial level 9.


    As the only armed force in the Peace Village, this patrol team is usually responsible for


    maintaining the peace and security of the village, as well as expelling and hunting those


    beasts and ferocious beasts that dare to approach the village. If they encounter attacks by


    bandits and robbers, they also have to take responsibility for defending the village.


    ¡°It seems that in this game, if you want to ''transfer'' from an ordinary person to a martial


    artist, you have to work hard with this patrol team in the peaceful village.¡±


    ¡°The post-nine-dan, post-martial-artist should be the innate martial artist, and this should be


    a world of martial arts and immortal cultivation,¡± Alex thought to himself.


    He also discovered that he was not the only new player to arrive in this peaceful village.


    In the past hour, he had already encountered several players in the village just like him.


    There were no special markings on either the villagers or the players, but it was actually


    quite easy to tell who was a player and who was an NPC villager.


    At least it was easy to tell right now, just by looking.


    Because these new players were just like Alex, they were all barefoot and barehanded,


    wearing only simple grey pants.


    The NPC villagers, although simple, could at least afford to wear clothes and pants, and they


    had shoes too.


    Alex felt a little disappointed that the players he met were all male, and there were no


    female players.


    If there were female players, they would have some ''equipment'' other than underpants to


    protect their vital parts like their chests, right?


    In the next few days, apart from eating, sleeping, and walking with his father along the river


    after dinner, Alex devoted all his time to the game called ''World of Spirits''.


    Alex was so absorbed in the game that his father, Alex''s father, and mother, Alex''s mother, saw it


    all. Although they were worried, they didn''t say much about it.

 Chapter 4: The Bulls Strength Technique

    On the first day he entered Peace Village, Alex spent his time getting to know the environment. He explored the entire village, chatting with all the villagers he encountered and all the players he encountered.


    The World of Spirits was a bit different from other games.


    In other games, although the NPCs don''t talk much, they usually give the player small tasks to do, like delivering letters, gathering medicine, looking for cats and dogs, and so on. After completing these small tasks, the player not only gains experience for leveling up, but also gets some money and items like weapons and armor.


    These NPC villagers in the peaceful village are really just ordinary villagers. Players who chat with them and fail to receive a quest can just let it go. Even if they do receive a quest and work hard to complete it, running back happily, all they get in return is the two words ¡°thank you,¡± and that''s about it.


    Fortunately, Alex did not gain nothing. During the chat with John, he successfully gained the latter''s favor, and John gave him a gray old suit and a pair of somewhat worn-out straw sandals.


    Although the clothes and shoes were not new, they were very clean and tidy.


    According to John, these were his son''s clothes. His son moved to the county seat with his daughter-in-law a few years ago, and these old clothes were left behind.


    After repeatedly thanking John, he put the clothes on the character and put the straw sandals on his feet. He immediately felt much more comfortable.


    Having grown up in a civilized society, he was not used to running around naked and felt secure when he was wearing clothes.


    Alex became the first player in the village of Peace Village to wear clothes, which made the other players envious.


    These players followed suit, hoping to use their smooth tongues to get clothes from the NPC John and the others. As a result, all of these players, without exception, failed.


    One grumpy player even tried to rob it by force.


    As a result, he met a tragic end. He was chased over by members of the patrol and his head was smashed with a club. His corpse was dragged out of the village, and the bloody trail that stretched out of the village looked shocking, even through the screen, Alex felt creepy.


    The villagers here are really... they have a fierce folkway, and they will kill at the slightest disagreement.


    After this incident, no other players had the idea of robbing by force.


    One after another, new players arrived in Peace Village and joined it.


    It was clear that this Peace Village was the legendary newbie village for players.


    On the afternoon of the first day, Alex and several other players joined forces and found Mike, the patrol captain of Peace Village. They wanted to learn from Mike how to break through from ordinary people and become martial artists.


    Mike consulted with John in the past, and after some deliberation, Mike came back and said, ¡°I do have an acquired skill that can enable ordinary people to break through and become martial artists, called the ¡®Bull''s Strength Technique¡¯, but you all don¡¯t have enough strength yet, and are not qualified to practice my acquired skill.¡±


    A line of text floated past the top of the screen like running water.


    Prompt: ¡°The ¡®Bull''s Strength Technique¡¯ is a power-based post-natal skill. The training requirements are: a strength attribute of 100 points or above.¡±


    Prompt: ¡±The three attributes of physique, strength, and agility can all be improved through some basic training. The training methods are...¡±


    If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.After such a long time, the game''s system prompts finally appeared for the second time.


    Alex clicked on his character attributes screen. His strength attribute was only 68 points, which was a long way from the 100-point strength attribute requirement of the ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡±.


    ¡°Looks like I''ll have to use those training methods the system just prompted me about to increase my strength,¡± Alex thought to himself.


    The ¡®World of Spirits¡¯ was very realistic. The player¡¯s character would not only get hungry and thirsty in it, but also need to defecate.


    After a long day of struggling, more text flowed across the screen.


    Prompt: ¡°You are thirsty, you need to drink water.¡±


    Prompt: ¡®You are hungry, you need to eat.¡±


    Prompt: ¡®Character hunger and thirst levels are now activated. When you reach a certain level of hunger or thirst, your condition will worsen. If this continues, you will die.¡±


    As these words floated across the top of Alex''s screen, a faint grey outline appeared around it.


    ''I''m hungry and thirsty. Where should I go to find food? ¡¯ Alex was a little worried.


    He had to know that his game character was now penniless and had no one to turn to here, so where was he going to find food?


    It was clear that the other players also had this concern.


    Fortunately, their worries did not last long. John pitied these poor people who had fled here, and specially cooked a big pot of rice in an open space in the village to entertain them.


    Each player was given a bowl of steaming, grey, mushy food. Alex zoomed in on the screen ten times to enlarge the contents of the porcelain bowl, but he could not tell what the mushy food was.


    But it doesn''t matter, as long as it fills his stomach, he''s not picky.


    To be precise, his in-game character is not picky. After all, it''s just a game. Even if they were to serve him a whole table of Manchu Han Imperial Feast in the game, he wouldn''t be able to taste anything through the screen.


    The in-game character, perhaps very hungry, eats quickly and with relish, making slurping sounds.


    There was only one bowl of food, but there was plenty of water.


    After eating the bowl of food and drinking several mouthfuls of water with a wooden spoon, the game character let out a long satisfied sigh.


    That night, the players spent in the open space of this village. John pitied them as homeless people and lit a large campfire in the open space. The temperature of the campfire could dispel the cold of the night, and sleeping close to the campfire would keep you warm.


    The bright moon shone down, and Alex counted that, as of now, including him, there were a total of 17 players in the village of peace.


    Among them, 16 were male players and only one was a female player.


    As expected, the female player was treated much better than the male players. Not only did she have a pair of trousers, but also a grey short-sleeved shirt.


    However, this female player was quite plain in appearance and had an average figure. The male players, including Alex, only gave her a few curious looks before averting their gaze.


    By the burning campfire, some players had ¡®fallen asleep¡¯, while others had gathered together and started chatting.


    Alex also joined in the conversation.


    He had always been easygoing and had a good temper. He could generally get along with people of all ages and both genders and never made people feel uncomfortable.


    The only person with whom he has nothing to talk about and who always cuts the conversation short is probably his ex-girlfriend.


    Why is that so?


    He has been struggling with this question for a long time.

 Chapter 5: Strength Training and the Game Forum

    Alex immediately lost interest in talking when he thought about his ex-girlfriend.


    He quit the game and lay on the bed.


    He couldn''t help but start thinking about her again, and wondered how she was doing...


    WeChat had been deleted by both of them, and he had no way of knowing what was going on with her.


    His phone had nothing left except for a few of her photos and her shipping address.


    No, there''s still the phone number, he still knows her phone number.


    It''s just that Alex no longer wants to contact her. Although he really wants to contact her, he will bury this urge deep down in his heart.


    He no longer has the right identity to get close to her.


    She told me when we broke up that she was a little tired and didn''t want to fall in love with anyone anymore, not with anyone...


    Still can''t forget her...


    After having given your heart, it is not easy to forget someone.


    I still remember when I was in college, a friend of mine in my dormitory broke up with his girlfriend. Late at night, he yelled that he wanted to go downstairs to buy some wine to drink. But the dormitory gate was closed, so there was no way out. He then rushed to the water tap and poured a bellyful of cold water into his stomach, and then lay on the bed sighing and lamenting all night.


    He also wrote his ex-girlfriend''s name on the walls and wardrobes of the dormitory, muttering and sighing as he wrote.


    At that time, everyone in the dormitory was laughing at this guy, and Alex was the same.


    If you''re heartbroken, just be heartbroken. What''s the big deal? You don''t need to act like this. You''re not acting like a man at all!


    What a womanly attitude, so pathetic!


    A real man doesn''t need a wife!


    For this reason, they laughed at the guy for a long time.


    He still remembers this incident to this day.


    This is the difference between a bystander and the person involved.


    Without having experienced it, you can never understand how it feels.


    Now that he thinks about it, Alex can understand the guy''s feelings back then.


    His current state may be slightly better.


    He is just silently suffering alone in his heart, and there is not much unusual about it.


    From the perspective of outsiders, he was still the same person, and there had not been much change compared to before.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit.


    Alex tried not to think about her, but instead focused on thinking about the game. Before he knew it, Alex fell asleep like this.


    Another new day had arrived.


    It was still early in the morning, and Alex woke up at about 6 o''clock.


    He still felt a little chest tightness, but compared to yesterday, the degree had slightly eased.


    As expected, distraction and time are the best healing agents.


    Alex logged into the game ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    Young people in modern society are basically night owls, and not many people can get up this early like Alex.


    In fact, Alex was also a member of the night owls in the past, but after a breakup, he lost interest in many things, and staying up late was one of them.


    Looking around, he saw that the players were lying all over the place next to the extinguished campfire. Alex was the first one to wake up.


    Those dozen players, wearing only their underwear, were now hugging their chests with their arms around their waists, huddled on the ground, looking like shrimp.


    Alex didn''t try to wake them up. These were just the roles of the players, and he couldn''t wake them up even if he wanted to.


    While manipulating the character to leave the place, Alex wondered how he was going to train the character''s strength.


    The system had already reminded him that only those with a strength value of 100 were eligible to learn the acquired skill ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡± from Mike, the village patrol captain.


    Alex is a serious and persistent person.


    Since he has already decided to play this game, he will play it seriously.


    Even if he is playing this game, it is just a means to distract him from his broken heart and to take his mind off it.


    The methods of strength training are actually very simple and not difficult.


    For example, push-ups, squats, and weightlifting can all build a person''s strength.


    In a secluded corner of the village, Alex began to control his character and perform sets of push-ups, squats, and weightlifting.


    Push-ups and squats don''t require any props, but weightlifting does, and fortunately, it''s not hard to find the right kind of weight. Alex just needed to find a heavy stone nearby.


    Controlling the character to perform this set of strength training is actually very simple. Alex only needs to stretch out a finger and click on a small icon on the phone screen.


    The character in the game was doing push-ups one after the other, breathing heavily and sweating profusely, while Alex only needed to place the phone in front of him and click on the small icon on the screen every few seconds.


    It was easy, but the process was a bit boring and tedious.


    It would have been nice to have a training hang-up system. It was surprising that such an advanced game didn''t have a training hang-up system.


    While clicking the screen every few seconds, Alex opened his computer and used the search engine to search for ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    As a qualified player, it is very necessary to learn to search the Internet for information and strategies related to the game.


    On the Internet, the official website of the game ¡°World of Spirits¡± is like air, and it has never appeared.


    Instead, the exclusive forum for ¡°World of Spirits¡± is even more lively than it was at the beginning.


    The number of posts in this exclusive forum is about to break 10,000.


    The flame war over the character''s appearance was still going strong, but Alex was too lazy to click on it.


    He looked at the other posts.


    ¡°What an amazing game! The game map is so big, you can''t see the edge at a glance. My character is already completely lost in the forest outside the village. Is this really just a 3G game?¡±


    ¡°I''m in Southwood Village. Anyone else here?¡±


    ¡°This game is so hard, not to mention the main quest, there''s not even a side quest, it''s a pain in the ass.¡±


    ¡°This is bullshit, this ¡®Falcon''s Flight Technique¡¯ actually requires 100 points of agility to practice, and I only have 71 initial agility points. My character has been doing agility training for over an hour, my hands are sore, and I''ve only gained 1 agility point. This is too much of a rip-off.¡±


    ¡°I''m going to ask weakly: I''m in Northmoor Village. Would any young men from the same village be willing to take me under their wing?¡±


    ¡°Where''s the recharge channel? Why isn''t there a recharge channel? I want to recharge! I want to get stronger!¡±


    ...


    Alex clicked on the screen of his phone every few seconds while browsing the game forum of ¡°World of Spirits¡± on his computer.


    He discovered that the game ¡°World of Spirits¡± was still quite popular, and there were still many players attracted to it.

 Chapter 6: Attribute Point Increase

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    By browsing the game''s exclusive forum, Alex really did gather some information about the game.


    For example, in the world of ¡°World of Spirits¡±, there are many novice villages like the Peace Village, but as far as is known, there are only three types of acquired skills that can be learned in these novice villages.


    They are the physical type ¡°Turtle''s Resilience¡±, the power type ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡±, and the agility type ¡°Falcon''s Flight Technique¡±.


    Only one type of acquired skill can exist in each Novice Village.


    Of course, the information is limited, so it is not impossible that there are hidden Novice Villages and hidden acquired skills in the game ¡°World of Spirits¡±.


    For example, there is an invisible air wall outside the Novice Village.


    A helpful player, after arriving at the Novice Village, did not choose to stay in the village, but took an unusual route and left the Novice Village on foot, wanting to explore the world outside the village.


    As a result, after hiking for several hours in the mountains outside the village, an invisible air wall blocked his path. His character could see the grass and trees ahead, but could not take another step forward, and the same was true in other directions.


    It is speculated that this is because the game is still in beta, and only these novice villages have been opened. The world outside the novice villages has not yet been opened.


    Brother, you are lucky. You have not encountered any danger after walking this far. I was thinking the same thing as you. However, as soon as I left the village, I was bitten to death by a calf-sized wolf before I had walked for half an hour.


    Someone on the forum has also announced what happens after a game character dies.


    When a character dies, the system will prompt: ¡°You have died. You are banned from logging in to the World of Spirits for 1 day. After 1 day, you will be reborn near a random village. Everything the character possesses, including strength and bloodline, will be cleared, and personal items will drop at the death location.¡±


    This is the penalty for death in the game ¡°World of Spirits¡±. It is indeed a heavy punishment.


    However, some players have analyzed the game and found a loophole in the rules.


    Before the character''s strength grows, they have nothing to lose.


    Players can take advantage of this to choose the type of acquired skill they like.


    For example, if a player likes the agile ¡°Falcon''s Flight Technique¡±, but the village he was born in has the ¡°Turtle''s Resilience¡±, then he can attack the villager NPC in this way to die quickly, and then be reborn, and he may be born in a village with the ¡°Falcon''s Flight Technique¡±.


    This method is a bit troublesome, but it is not a bad option.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.


    The only thing that makes people feel a bit fucked up is that after the character dies, they are banned from logging into the game for 1 day, and the character can only be reborn after 1 day, which is a bit of a waste of time.


    Time passed quickly while browsing the forum, and before he knew it, an hour had passed.


    At this time, Alex¡¯s phone vibrated gently.


    Alex took his eyes off the computer and looked at the phone screen.


    He noticed that a line of text prompts was flowing like water across the top of the screen.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you worked hard to build up your strength, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Alex hurriedly opened the character¡¯s attribute panel, and sure enough, the character¡¯s strength had increased by one point, reaching 69 points.


    Just as the guy on the forum said, it takes more than an hour of tapping the screen to increase one''s attribute value by one point...


    Alex didn''t resent this.


    It''s good to make progress after working hard, even if it''s slow. At least he can clearly feel that he is making progress.


    It''s not like falling in love, where there''s no progress bar to show what''s going on. A woman''s heart is a bottomless sea, and everything has to be guessed, especially for someone like him with no emotional experience, sometimes he really doesn''t know how he''ll die.


    Alex let out a bitter laugh, and continued to browse the forum while continuing to tap the small icons on the screen of his phone, controlling his character to continue a series of strength training.


    After tapping for about another hour, the phone vibrated slightly, and the system prompt appeared again:


    The prompt: ¡°Because you have been working hard to build up your strength, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    After two hours of strength training, the character''s strength attribute had increased to 70 points.


    Half an hour later, the phone vibrated gently, and another line of system prompts appeared:


    The prompt: "Because you have been working hard to build up your strength, your physical fitness has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Alex was a little surprised. He was building up his strength, so why had his physical fitness increased as well?


    Upon thinking about it, it made sense. After all, a person''s constitution and strength are not isolated from each other, but complement each other.


    The game''s treatment of this detail is still very appropriate, and Alex praised it in his heart.


    At the current pace, he estimated that it would only take him 2 days, or at most 3 days, to increase his strength attribute to 100 points, reaching the standard for learning the acquired skill ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡±.


    It''s unbelievable that it takes two or three days to learn the simplest and lowest-level post-acquired skill in this game, the ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡±.


    In this era of fast-food games, 999-level fast food games can be found everywhere. In this era, a game that can already reach level 3 in three days at this initial stage can no longer be described as rare.


    Everyone is busy these days, and games are supposed to be a way to relieve stress after work. Who has the time or patience to waste so much time on a game that isn''t that important?


    Of course, that''s just for everyone else.


    Alex, for one, was playing the game to kill time.


    In fact, he had an unspoken expectation for this kind of slow-paced game.


    However, it didn''t take long before a faint grey outline appeared around the screen of the phone.


    Prompt: ¡°You are thirsty now and need to drink water.¡±


    Prompt: ¡±You are hungry now and need to eat.¡±


    It''s not even 9 o''clock in the morning, is it? Is the character already thirsty? Already hungry?


    This is too fast, isn''t it?


    Alex suddenly realized that intense physical training requires a lot of food to support it.


    This game is different from others in that it has a ''hunger and thirst level'' setting.


    It seems that he still took it for granted.


    In theory, in a maximum of three days, he could prompt the character''s strength attribute to 100 points, reaching the standard for learning the acquired skill ¡°Bull''s Strength Technique¡±.


    But this is only the ideal state.


    If the character''s hunger and fatigue levels are also taken into account, 3 days? It is estimated that in 10 days, he may not be able to increase the character''s strength attribute to 100 points.

 Chapter 7: What if I Get Hungry?

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    It''s okay, 10 days is 10 days. I''m single now, I don''t have to live for anyone, I can afford to spend this little time.


    Alex had reserved one month for himself. One month should be enough for him to get over it. By then, he would be ready to write his new book, say goodbye to the past, and start a new journey.


    Thirst is a relatively easy problem to solve. There are more than ten wells in the village, and not far outside the village there is a clear stream. It is relatively easy to get water.


    Relying on his memories of Peace Village over the past two days, Alex went to a public well and used the wooden bucket next to it to draw water. After some manipulation, he brought up a bucket of clean water from the well, and then controlled the character to go up and guzzle some, and the thirst quickly subsided.


    The problem of food is not so easy to solve.


    At this time, most of the hardworking villagers have already gone out to work, and those who are left behind are basically the elderly and children.


    Alex tried to contact these elderly people who stayed behind, wanting to beg some food from them to quench his hunger. As a result, after saying all the nice things he could, and with his throat smoking, these elderly people just looked at him indifferently, with an expression of indifference.


    Not everyone in the Peace Village is like John, who feels pity for the refugees. Most people in the village, especially the elderly, are actually quite wary of these sudden strangers, and even hostile.


    Especially after several players caused trouble in the village and were expelled or killed by the village patrol, the villagers'' guard against the players has become even stronger.


    They feel that these outsiders are all unstable factors, and that their presence will be a scourge that will affect the peace and stability of the Peace Village.


    After repeatedly asking several elderly people for directions, Alex received nothing but cold stares.


    He went around the front door of the John family, which was locked and unoccupied.


    He then went to look at the extinguished bonfire in the village.


    Most of the player characters were still ¡°lying dead¡±, and only a small number of players had risen.


    Among the players who had risen, a few, like him before, were doing simple strength training and were sweating all over.


    Some were just wandering around the village, not knowing what they wanted to do.


    Prompt: ¡°You are very hungry now and need to eat.¡±


    This system prompt will appear every few minutes.


    The character also experiences corresponding symptoms, with his stomach rumbling, his walk unsteady, and even his walking speed slowing down a bit.


    Forget it, since I can''t find food in the village, I''ll go look outside the village.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    Alex controls the character and passes through the village gate, leaving Peace Village.


    Outside Peace Village, there are fields, vegetable gardens, and orchards.


    Looking around, you can see many people working in them.


    These are all the villagers of Peace Village.


    They work from sunrise to sunset. These farmlands, vegetable gardens, and orchards are their source of food and their lives.


    When Alex walked past them, these villagers would temporarily put down their work and coldly stare at Alex.


    The look in their eyes was like they were guarding against a thief.


    Under this kind of gaze, Alex wisely kept his mouth shut and didn''t ask for food.


    After this experience, he no longer had any good feelings towards these villagers in the Peace Village.


    He wanted to take advantage of their inattentiveness to go to the orchard and steal some fruit or vegetables to satisfy his hunger.


    After all, this was just a game, and he would not have any mental burden.


    The problem was that no matter where he went, there would be different villagers following him from a short distance away, leaving him no choice.


    Forget it, if I can''t find food here, I''ll go look further away.


    If that doesn''t work, just wait until nightfall. At nightfall, the kind-hearted John will arrange a communal meal for the players.


    The farther away, the closer to the mountains and forests. In the mountains and forests, apart from wild beasts and ferocious beasts, there should also be wild fruits and other things that can be used to quench hunger, Alex thought to himself.


    After Alex stumbled into the mountains and forests, the villagers stopped following him.


    Alex began to search for food in the mountains.


    Previously, through the forum, he learned that there would be wild beasts, and even ferocious beasts, in the mountains outside the village. Novice players are not strong and unarmed, and are simply no match for these wild beasts and ferocious beasts. Therefore, Alex is very cautious and dares only to grope in the outermost forest, not daring to go too deep into the mountains.


    Tip: ¡°You are hungry and need to eat.¡±


    Ignoring this tip, Alex continued to search for his food.


    After ten minutes, he found a kind of berry, red and very similar to a cherry.


    Should this wild fruit be edible?


    Alex controlled his character and picked off a wild fruit and ate it.


    He was very cautious and only ate one wild fruit, not the whole bunch in front of him.


    Naturally, Alex could not taste the wild fruit through the screen, nor could he even smell it.


    He began to wait, and he was prepared to wait for 20 minutes. If there was no problem, he would eat the remaining wild fruit.


    As it turned out, it was less than 10 minutes before the character began to vomit, tears and snot flowing together, and even yellow bile was vomited out.


    Because the character''s eyes were blurred by the tears, Alex''s phone screen also became blurred.


    There was no doubt that the wild fruit was poisonous.


    Alex sighed inwardly. Thinking about it now, he realized that he had been negligent. This was only the outskirts of the forest, very close to the village. If such a large bunch of wild fruit was edible, it was estimated that it would have been picked by the villagers long ago, and it would not have survived until now.


    It took the character a full 20 minutes of struggling before the situation improved, and Alex''s phone screen once again became clear.


    Alex controlled his character and continued walking forward with a weak pace.


    The character walked even more slowly than before, and from time to time it would stop without being controlled, gasping weakly for a few breaths.


    With a resolute heart, Alex controlled his character and ventured slightly deeper into the mountains.


    It was obviously impossible to find wild fruits and other food at the outer edge of the mountains. Even if there was any here, it would have been plundered by the villagers.


    If you want to find food, you have to go deeper.


    After another ten minutes, Alex found a palm-sized mushroom under a bush.


    The mushroom was greyish-yellow in color, not bright at all and completely inconspicuous.


    Alex began to rack his brains, recalling some common knowledge about mushrooms.


    As far as he knew, mushrooms with bright colors were basically poisonous.


    As for mushrooms that are not very bright in color, some of them are edible, but some are also highly toxic.


    So, is the mushroom in front of him an edible mushroom or a poisonous one?


    He has a serious lack of knowledge about surviving in the wild, so he simply cannot tell.


    This is too difficult.

 Chapter 8: Ethan and Emma

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    Looking at the palm-sized mushroom on the screen, which was not brightly colored, Alex was caught in a dilemma.


    Prompt: ¡°You are very hungry and need to eat.¡±


    The system''s prompt tone has changed from once every few minutes to once every minute.


    It''s all the fault of the poisonous red wild fruit. Although the red wild fruit failed to poison Alex''s character, it also drained half of his health, leaving him weaker and hungrier.


    In his current state, if he doesn''t eat in the meantime, Alex''s character is unlikely to survive until the communal meal at night.


    Just as Alex''s character stood hesitatingly in front of this mushroom, a female voice sounded behind him: ¡°This mushroom is poisonous, you can''t eat it.¡±


    Alex used his finger to rotate the screen, manipulating his character to look behind him.


    He discovered that not far behind him stood a girl who looked to be eleven or twelve years old.


    The girl was wearing patched grey clothes that didn''t fit well. Her skin was a little dark, she was skinny and small, but her eyes were big and distinct in black and white.


    Seeing Alex''s character turn around and look at her, she pointed at the palm-sized grey-yellow mushroom and said seriously, ¡°Doctor Liam said that this mushroom is called a snake-swallowing mushroom. If you eat it, you will get a lot of red bumps on your body and you will die.¡±


    ¡°Emma.¡± A young boy, also wearing a patched grey cloth, ran out from behind a large tree nearby.


    He pulled the girl behind him and then looked at Alex warily.


    The young boy was about 15 or 16 years old. He held the little girl with one hand while clutching a short, black blade in the other.


    Alex was also watching him. His character was actually very weak, and he was barely able to stand.


    After the two men stared at each other for a while, the young man slowly backed away while holding the girl, still keeping a vigilant watch on Alex.


    ¡°Hurry up and go!¡± After backing up a few meters, he shouted, pulling the little girl and turning to go.


    ¡°Wait...¡± Alex couldn''t help but speak up at this time: ¡®I''m going to starve to death. Can you two kind people give me something to eat?¡±


    The character on the screen also spoke up, but his voice was hoarse and weak.


    Alex was treating a dead horse as a live horse.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    When the girl heard this, she couldn''t help but stop.


    ¡°Hurry up and go, ignore him,¡¯ the young man said lowly, trying to pull the girl away from here.


    This time, however, the girl broke free from the boy''s grasp. ¡°Brother, he looks so pitiful. Let''s help him, okay?¡±


    Without waiting for the boy to say anything, the girl trotted up to Alex and took out a cloth bag from her body. From the bag, she took out a dark, flat, bread-like object and handed it to Alex.


    ¡°Thank you,¡± Alex took the food and thanked her.


    After thanking her, he manipulated his character and stuffed the food into his character''s mouth, chewing it up in large bites.


    ¡°Emma, this is your lunch ration, and you just gave it to him?¡± The young man also returned.


    ¡°Brother, he''s really pitiful,¡± the girl said.


    ¡°Hey,¡± the young man sighed helplessly, glaring fiercely at Alex, who was still munching away, but not doing anything.


    He didn''t want to take back the food his sister had given away.


    ¡°You''ve given him the food, Emma, can we go now?¡± the young man said again.


    ¡°Mm,¡± the girl nodded lightly.


    The young man looked at Alex with some disgust, then took his sister by the hand and prepared to leave.


    ¡°Wait...¡± Alex spoke again, and because he was still chewing, his voice was a little indistinct.


    ¡°Outsider, what is it now?¡± The young man turned around, his face showing both vigilance and disgust.


    The girl, on the other hand, looked at Alex with big, black and white eyes, a little curious.


    ¡°Well, kind sirs, I still don''t know your names.¡± Alex spoke while rapidly spinning ideas in his head.


    Upon hearing this, the young man''s face eased a little.


    The girl opened her big black and white eyes and said, ¡°My name is Emma, my brother is Ethan, big brother, what''s your name?¡±


    ¡°My name is Alex,¡± Alex said.


    ¡°Little Emma, let''s go,¡± Ethan, the young man, wanted to pull his sister Emma away again.


    This time, Alex did not say anything to ¡®persuade¡¯ them to stay.


    After eating a piece of bread, the annoying system prompt finally disappeared.


    Alex didn''t want to stay in the forest anymore.


    There were indeed wild fruits, mushrooms and other things in the forest, but he was not able to tell if these things were poisonous or not. Eating them was really just a matter of luck.


    What Alex disliked most was taking chances, so in that case, he might as well go back and stay put.


    Ethan and Emma, a brother and sister, are supposed to be villagers from Peace Village.


    Having lived here since childhood, they can tell whether the wild fruits and mushrooms here are poisonous or not...


    Ethan, like the other villagers, is disgusted and repulsed by players like me, and it''s not easy to get in touch with him. However, his younger sister, Emma, doesn''t seem to dislike me... Thinking about this, Alex''s face showed a thoughtful expression.


    After I go back, I can ask John about the situation of these two siblings.


    Alex thought to himself.


    After returning to Peace Village, John''s house was still locked.


    After playing the game for a few hours and feeling a bit tired, Alex ''placed'' his character in an abandoned empty house and then lay down on the bed and took a nap.


    When Alex woke up, it was already noon.


    After having lunch with his parents, Alex logged into the game again.


    After entering the game, Alex controlled his character and went to take a look at the extinguished campfire.


    He found that half of the players were still ''zombie-like'' near the extinguished campfire.


    These player characters may never wake up again.


    Because, these players have probably abandoned their characters.


    This situation is very common even in other games.


    In this day and age, there are just too many games to keep track of.


    Players have a lot of choices.


    No game is suitable for everyone.


    When a new game comes out, as long as the publicity is done properly, players will flock to it, but most players are only interested for a short period of time.


    A few days or even a dozen days after the game is launched, most players will lose interest.


    Those who remain are the loyal players of the game.

 Chapter 9: Not a Burden

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    For a game like ¡°World of Spirits¡± that is not at all user-friendly and has an upgrade speed slower than a snail¡¯s pace, if it weren''t for the exquisite graphics, the huge map that is beyond the reach of other games, and the intelligent NPCs, it is estimated that after a day, the number of players would be less than 10%.


    Even with these things to support it, Alex estimates that in a month at most, the players in the ¡°World of Spirits¡± will have all but disappeared.


    There are definitely people who can persevere in the game, but there should be very few.


    In this era of fast food games, everyone is very busy, and a game with a pace as slow as a snail is destined to have no chance of survival.


    So many advanced black technologies have been combined to create such a failed game. I wonder which NC school the game planner for ¡°World of Spirits¡± graduated from, and he has ruined such a good hand.


    If it were a more normal game planner, or even if he let Alex, an amateur, take on the role of game planner, with the help of so many black technologies, he would also be confident that he could create an epoch-making hit game!


    When he thought about this, Alex in front of the phone screen couldn''t help but shake his head.


    It''s actually useless for him to think about these things. These are all matters for the game company. He is just an ordinary player. Even if the game company goes bankrupt due to mismanagement, it''s none of his business.


    He plays games to kill time.


    Even if the game company goes bankrupt due to mismanagement, he will not lose much. He can just switch to another game.


    After all, he has no intention of paying to upgrade his account.


    Besides, even if he wanted to, there is no way to recharge in this game for the time being.


    This is very suspicious...


    When he thought about this, Alex couldn''t help but frown slightly.


    Could it be that this ¡°World of Spirits¡± is just a test server? Is the test server incomplete, and is it just a ¡°venue¡± used by the game company to test some game data? Is that why it seems so inhumane? Is that why there is no recharge channel?


    That''s not right either. If the game hasn''t been completed and is still in the testing phase, it can simply recruit a small number of elite players to conduct closed beta testing, and there''s no need to make such a big fuss and carry out large-scale publicity like this.


    Alex was at a loss for words.


    Forget it, just play the game. Why think so much?


    That day, one after another, some new players wearing only a pair of grey underpants arrived in Peace Village.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.


    That''s how the game goes, people come and go, and a new generation replaces the old.


    They are all destined to be transient, so Alex has no interest in talking to these new players.


    As dusk approached in the afternoon, Alex once again controlled his character and performed some simple strength training.


    After tapping the screen for about an hour,


    the prompt appeared: ¡°Because you worked hard and seriously to build strength, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Alex''s character now had 71 points of strength.


    After this prompt, Alex tells his character to stop strength training, finds a flat stone in the corner of the village, and sits down.


    Not long after, the prompt appears: ¡°You are hungry now and need to eat.¡±


    His character is hungry again.


    So be it, I don''t have any other ideas, so I can only wait for the big pot of rice for dinner tonight.


    His parents downstairs are already calling him to eat.


    Alex quits the game and goes downstairs to have dinner with his parents.


    After dinner, Alex accompanies his father for a walk along the riverbank, as usual.


    After returning from the walk, Alex logs back into the game.


    It is completely dark in the game world, and the campfire in the village square has been rekindled with fresh firewood.


    The large iron pot was steaming, cooking the big pot of rice.


    Almost 20 players gathered around the campfire, half-naked, like refugees waiting for soup in a period drama.


    As for the characters that had already ''died'', they were thrown far into the corner to save space.


    Alex was again given a steaming, dark, mushy-looking food in a porcelain bowl.


    This time, Alex did not bore himself by enlarging it tenfold and examining it in detail, but instead directly manipulated his character and buried his face in it and began to eat.


    After finishing the bowl of food, the annoying sound of hunger finally stopped.


    John was directing several villagers, telling them to take down the iron pot and add new firewood to the bonfire to prepare for the players¡¯ overnight stay.


    Alex approached to ask John about Ethan and Emma.


    Before Alex could get close, a burly villager stood in his way.


    This villager¡¯s face was both vigilant and contemptuous. Can a refugee like you just approach the village headmaster at will?


    ¡°Let him come over,¡± John said, seeing that it was Alex who had come over.


    Only then did this villager reluctantly make way for Alex.


    Alex walked up to John and asked about the siblings Ethan and Emma.


    ¡°This pair of siblings are also unfortunate people.¡± John sighed and said, ¡±About six years ago, their parents were working in the fields when they were suddenly bitten to death by a ferocious beast that came out of nowhere. After that, Ethan brought his younger sister Emma with him and they have been living together ever since. Alex, why are you asking about them?¡±


    John knew Alex''s name.


    Alex said, ¡°I met them in the forest outside the village. I was starving, and Emma was kind enough to give me a piece of bread to fill my stomach.¡±


    ¡°I see,¡± John sighed again, saying, ¡°Ethan, after his parents were bitten to death by the beast, determined to become a martial artist and kill all the beasts outside the village to avenge his parents. However, it is not so easy to become a martial artist. What is needed is persistent physical exercise, and a lot of food. He is at an age when his body is growing, and he also needs to take care of his younger sister. The output of their family¡¯s land is simply not enough for them to eat. So he takes his younger sister with him to forage for food in the mountains and forests outside the village, picking wild fruits and hunting small animals to supplement the consumption of food. This child is persistent. According to Captain Mike, this child still has great hope of becoming a martial artist after he comes of age.¡±


    Alex was a little puzzled: ¡°Why did Ethan bring his younger sister with him when foraging for food in the mountains outside the village? Wasn''t he afraid that his younger sister would be in danger if she followed him?¡±


    John shook his head and smiled: ¡±Don''t underestimate this little girl Emma. This little girl has an almost instinctive sense of danger, and she is also very careful, much more so than her brother Ethan. With her, she can find more wild fruits and small animals. She is not a burden.¡±


    ¡°I see.¡± Alex gave a thoughtful expression.

 Chapter 10: Working with the Siblings

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    The next day, by the extinguished campfire, Alex was again the first man up.


    After more than an hour of strength training in a secluded place, his phone vibrated gently.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you worked hard and seriously, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Alex¡¯s character¡¯s strength increased from 71 points to 72 points.


    After about half an hour of continued training, his phone vibrated again.


    The prompt said, ¡°Because you have been working hard to build your strength, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Alex stopped training. He was not going to continue training. From yesterday''s experience, if he continued training, in another hour, his character would experience hunger.


    He must not repeat yesterday''s mistake, and he must conserve his energy for other things.


    He controls his character to go to a public well, draw up a bucket of water, let his character drink all at once, draw up a few more buckets of water, and let his character wash himself.


    After doing all this, Alex controls his character and leaves the village.


    According to the village elder, Ethan and Emma¡¯s fields should be in this direction.


    Following this direction, Alex soon found the two siblings in a crop field.


    The two siblings were busy in the crop field, catching insects and weeding the vegetables in the field.


    Alex couldn''t help but let out a sigh of relief in his heart. It seems that his assessment was correct. It was still early, and the brother and sister were still busy with farm work, and had not yet entered the mountains.


    Alex¡¯s approach attracted the attention of the brother and sister.


    ¡°Outsider, what are you doing here?¡± Ethan straightened up and looked at Alex with a face full of vigilance.


    Emma, on the other hand, was staring at Alex with big black and white eyes.


    Some villagers not far away also paused in their work and glanced over.


    If Alex dared to do anything to harm the brother and sister, they would take action against the outsider, expel him or even kill him.


    Yesterday, a few more outsiders who had fled from trouble had caused trouble in the village, and a village child had been seriously injured by an outsider and had not survived, dying.


    Although the outsider who attacked the child was killed on the spot by a member of the village patrol, this incident made the villagers of the Peace Village even more disgusted and vigilant towards these outsiders who had fled.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Alex stopped about two meters away from the crop field.


    He thought about the wording in his heart and said, ¡°I came here this time to specially thank you both.¡±


    ¡°You already thanked us yesterday, you can go now,¡± Ethan, the young man, said coldly.


    Alex did not move, but stood where he was and continued, ¡°Ethan, don''t be in such a hurry to send me away. I think there could be a collaboration between us.¡±


    ¡°Collaboration?¡± Ethan was taken aback at first, then laughed out loud, ¡®I don''t think there is anything between us that we can collaborate on.¡±


    ¡°There is,¡¯ Alex said, ¡±I can follow you into the mountains, and you and I can work together to hunt wild animals.¡±


    Ethan laughed and said, ¡°I can hunt wild beasts without you.¡±


    ¡°It''s different,¡± Alex had already thought of a good response. He said, ¡°You are indeed capable of hunting wild beasts, but you can only hunt small ones. It will be different with me joining in. If we cooperate, we can hunt some large wild beasts.¡±


    Ethan finally stopped laughing when he heard this, and instead, he looked thoughtful.


    Alex continued to strike while the iron was hot: ¡°The meat on a large beast is several or even ten times more than that on a small one. It would be difficult for you to hunt one alone, but with me, it would be different. The probability of success would definitely increase...¡±


    As it turned out, as a young man of the new era, Alex was well-informed and knowledgeable, and it wasn''t difficult to fool a young country boy.


    Under Alex''s smooth tongue, in the end, after some consideration, the young boy Ethan reluctantly agreed to cooperate with Alex.


    Half an hour later, Ethan had organized his equipment and, with his younger sister Emma and Alex, entered the forest outside the village.


    Ethan was holding a short black blade in his hand. It was a short black iron blade, about 20 cm long, with a dark black body and a sharp edge that glinted with a cold metallic light.


    Alex was assigned a bone spear polished from the leg bone of a ferocious beast. The bone spear was about 70 cm long, and on top of that, he was carrying a crude wooden shield on his back.


    The bone spike and wooden shield were left behind after Ethan''s grandfather died. It was said that when he was alive, he was a warrior in the village patrol.


    However, Ethan never met his grandfather because he died before he was born, dying in a battle between the village and bandits.


    The short black blade in Ethan''s hand was also a relic of his grandfather.


    This character background is really well-written, Alex thought to himself with emotion.


    As for the girl Emma, she was carrying food and water on her back. She walked in the middle, Alex in front of her, and her brother Ethan behind her.


    Although they had reached a cooperation, the young boy Ethan was still very defensive.


    He insisted that Alex walk in front, and Alex had no choice but to do as he was told.


    In order not to alert the wild animals in the forest, the three walked very quietly while traveling through the forest, rarely spoke to each other, and only spoke in a very low voice when they did converse.


    After walking around in the forest for about half an hour, Alex had completely lost his way in the mountains and forests.


    It was the girl behind him, Emma, who was softly guiding him.


    During this time, this attentive girl also picked some wild fruits in the forest, which were shared among the three.


    These wild fruits more or less also replenished some energy for Alex''s role.


    ¡°That horned sheep should be active in this vicinity,¡° the girl Emma whispered as she stopped and scanned the surroundings.


    Three days ago, the siblings Ethan and Emma found traces of a horned sheep in this vicinity, but as they were not sure if they could kill the horned sheep, they did not want to alert it.


    ¡°Found it.¡± After about 10 minutes, the girl Emma led Ethan and Alex to the horned sheep.


    Alex looked through the screen and found that it was indeed a goat, a goat with gray fur, the size of a calf, and two sharp black horns growing on its head.


    This was the first time Alex had seen such a large goat.


    At this time, the horned goat was grazing and did not notice the three people approaching it.


    ¡°Wait, I''ll attack it first to attract its attention, and you, Alex, will intercept it when it runs away,¡± Ethan said in a low voice as he tightened the black short blade in his hand.


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 Chapter 11: Hunting the Horned Goat

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    ¡°Okay,¡± Alex said.


    In front of the phone screen, he took a deep breath and sat up straight.


    He had only played shooting games in 3D, such as Dig for Survival, and his skills were only average, barely escaping the category of being completely clueless.


    This was the first time he had held a melee weapon and fought a beast.


    If this Horned Goat wanted to escape, which direction would it escape from? And what would its speed be?


    He didn¡¯t know if he could keep up with its movements.


    If he couldn¡¯t intercept it and let the goat escape, would he be very embarrassed?


    It''s fine to be embarrassed, but what he''s afraid of is that his poor performance will make the Ethan siblings look down on him and think he''s useless, and they won''t cooperate with him again, which would be even more embarrassing.


    At this moment, Alex in front of the phone screen couldn¡¯t help but daydream.


    Why does it feel a bit tense? Alex hasn¡¯t felt this way when playing games for a long time.


    It''s starting!


    After whispering a few words to Alex, Ethan took his short, black knife in his left hand, bent his back, and, hidden by the shrubs and grass in front of him, quietly approached the Horned Goat.


    Alex in front of the screen hurriedly dismissed all distractions and manipulated the character to follow about one meter behind Ethan.


    Rustling... rustling...


    Even though he had deliberately slowed his pace, Ethan''s feet still made a slight rustling sound as he stepped on the humus layer of the ground and his body scraped against the surrounding grass and leaves as he walked.


    This sound could not be eliminated, but it would become much quieter if he slowed down as much as possible.


    The three of them were previously about 20 meters away from the Horned Goat.


    It took Ethan a full five minutes to close the distance to just three meters, which was slower than a tortoise''s pace.


    From this, it can be seen that although Ethan is still young, he is actually an experienced hunter.


    Moreover, he must also be very agile, otherwise he would not have been able to hunt the young beast.


    You must know that because of their small size, small animals are generally much more agile than large beasts, and their speed is not much inferior to that of large beasts either. It is not an easy task to hunt small animals.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    Ethan only hunts small animals and not large beasts. What he lacks is not agility, but strength.


    After all, he is still underage and does not yet have the ability to directly confront large beasts.


    Ssshh... Ethan moved forward again, taking a small step.


    Less than 3 meters away, the goat, the size of a calf, was eating grass with its head buried. Suddenly, it lifted its head, and its ears began to twitch.


    It seemed to have sensed something, stopped eating grass, looked up, and looked around, looking a little uneasy.


    Ethan immediately held his breath and did not move.


    Alex also held his breath.


    Emma, on the other hand, stayed 20 meters away and did not follow.


    After waiting patiently for about a minute, the Horned Goat finally calmed down again, lowered its head, and continued to nibble on the grass stems and leaves on the ground.


    Alex originally thought that Ethan would continue to move forward, but in the end, Ethan did not move forward again, but squatted there, motionless, looking very patient.


    Until the Horned Goat had eaten all the grass and leaves in front of it, moved its hooves, and was about to move to a new place, Ethan, who was crouching in front of Alex, suddenly made a move!


    He suddenly sprang up and, with astonishing speed, pounced on the Horned Goat.


    Due to the viewing angle, Alex could only see Ethan''s back.


    He also hurriedly manipulated the character to stand up.


    Then he heard the Horned Goat''s terrified screams.


    As it screamed, the goat, in a frenzy, took the sharp horn on its head and rammed it at Ethan.


    Ethan deftly avoided it.


    Failing to score a hit, the goat turned around and tried to escape.


    At this time, Alex finally saw clearly through the screen that one of the goat''s eyes had been blinded by the stab, and blood was flowing profusely, leaving it with only one eye.


    The goat was running in the direction where Alex was located.


    ¡°Stop it!¡± Ethan shouted.


    The goat was moving too fast. Alex had just enough time to control his character and raise the wooden shield in his hand.


    With a loud bang, the enormous impact force acted on the wooden shield and then on the character''s body.


    Under the impact of this tremendous force, Alex''s character let out a scream and was knocked several meters away.


    The goat also stumbled back a couple of steps.


    He had been knocked a little dizzy by the impact.


    Ethan took advantage of the situation and pounced on him, plunging the short black blade he was holding into the goat''s good eye, right up to the hilt.


    The stab had already injured the goat''s brain.


    The brain-damaged goat stiffened in place for half a second, then seemed to have all its strength drained from it, and it fell to the ground with a plop, dead and silent.


    There was no health bar floating above the goat''s head the whole time.


    This sudden battle, which ended so abruptly, was not like a battle in a game, but more like hunting in the real world.


    The whole process lasted less than 5 seconds.


    After the battle ended, Alex''s character collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain, and couldn¡¯t get up for half a day.


    ¡°Brother Alex, are you okay?¡± Emma came running over, trying to help Alex up, but she was so small and thin that she was unable to do so.


    ¡°I''m fine, I''m not going to die,¡± Alex said calmly in front of the screen. His in-game character had been knocked around quite a bit, but he himself was fine.


    However, when his in-game character repeated these words, it was in a dying, weak tone.


    At this time, Ethan also came over. He checked Alex''s character''s body and let out a breath, saying, ¡°The ribs are not broken. Emma, don¡¯t worry, he¡¯s fine. He should be fine after a few days of rest.¡±


    Alex''s character lay on the ground resting.


    Ethan was holding a bamboo tube used to hold clean water and carefully feeding Alex''s character water to drink.


    Ethan was not far away, disposing of the goat¡¯s corpse.


    He used leaves to clean up the blood from the goat¡¯s eyes and the bloodstains on the ground, and then buried the bloodstained leaves in the soil.


    Wild animals, especially carnivores, have an extremely keen sense of blood.


    Ethan did this to prevent the goat¡¯s blood from attracting some of the surrounding carnivorous animals.


    While disposing of the goat corpse, Ethan said, ¡°Alex, you did well this time. If you hadn¡¯t intercepted it, I might not have been able to kill the goat.¡±


    Ethan''s voice had become much softer than before when he spoke.


    After about half a quarter of an hour, Alex was finally able to stand up with difficulty.

 Chapter 12: Crazy “Training� Mode

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    The three of them began the journey back.


    Ethan dragged the carcass of the Horned Goat in front of him. The goat was the size of a calf, and Ethan, who was only half grown, obviously didn¡¯t have enough strength. Even though he had made a simple dragging tool out of tree branches, he still struggled to drag it.


    Emma helped to drag it along, but she was skinny and small, and didn¡¯t have much strength, so her little face was covered in sweat.


    The two siblings were in high spirits.


    This Horned Goat, as long as it is dragged back to the village, is enough for the two of them... no, it is enough for the three of them to eat for ten days or half a month.


    This is the biggest prey Ethan has hunted in all these years.


    After all, they are underage children who grew up in the village.


    The two siblings are still relatively simple-minded, and they did not have the idea of secretly killing Alex, the ¡°sick person,¡± and eating the food alone.


    On the way back, the pace slowed significantly due to the burden of the prey.


    Alex, who was carrying the bone awl and wooden shield on his back, was still unsteady at first and had to take a few weak breaths after every few steps.


    However, as time passed, his condition gradually improved.


    He stopped panting and no longer stumbled when walking.


    After noticing this change in Alex, Ethan looked back and looked at Alex in amazement, ¡°How did you recover so quickly?¡±


    Alex was stunned.


    Quickly? How did he not feel it? It was just a bump, and it took more than half an hour to slowly recover, and this is called quick? This speed of recovery is simply outrageous.


    If you get hit, you have to rest for a few days to recover, as Ethan said, then you really can¡¯t play the game.


    This is the difference in thinking between players and NPCs.


    For NPCs, this is their world, the place where they live from birth to death.


    But for players, no matter how real it is, it is just a game.


    After another quarter of an hour, Alex''s character had fully recovered.


    Alex controlled his character to go forward and help, helping Ethan drag the prey together, replacing the skinny, small, and sweaty Emma.


    Emma is a very sensible girl. After Alex replaced her, she took the bone awl and wooden shield from Alex and put them on her own back to reduce Alex''s burden.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    The speed of the return journey suddenly increased a lot.


    Even so, it was close to noon when the three of them returned to Peace Village with their prey.


    Immediately, curious villagers and some players gathered around, some curious, some envious.


    ¡°Ethan, this Horned Goat is so big, it must weigh 200 catties. Did you hunt it?¡± a villager asked.


    ¡°Of course,¡± Ethan said, looking up with a proud expression on his face. At his age, he had the strongest sense of self-esteem and liked to compete.


    ¡°I¡¯m saying, Ethan, a goat this big, you and your sister can¡¯t finish eating it in one sitting, and it would be a shame if it spoiled,¡± a village woman said.


    ¡°I can dry it and make jerky,¡± Ethan said.


    Although she was still young, she was very capable, and drying meat was a very simple task for her.


    ¡°Ethan, my family hasn¡¯t eaten meat in a long time. How about this: I¡¯ll give you 5 catties of grain for 1 catty of goat meat. What do you think?¡± A villager suggested.


    ¡°I want to trade too. My family hasn¡¯t eaten meat in a long time,¡± another villager said.


    Ethan gave a rather tempted expression, and he couldn¡¯t help but turn his head to look at his younger sister, and then at Alex, to seek their opinions.


    Emma nodded slightly to indicate that she had no objections.


    Alex thought about it for a moment, and also manipulated his character to nod slightly.


    All he needed was food, and as for whether the food was meat or vegetarian, he didn¡¯t care, as long as he could eat his fill.


    As for the taste? How could he taste anything through the screen?


    In this way, as soon as the goat was brought into the village, most of its meat was exchanged for grain.


    With this harvest, Alex''s food problem in the short term was solved.


    He no longer had to rely on the pot of rice at night to barely sustain life.


    He could finally focus on his cultivation.


    In the following period of time, Alex activated the crazy ¡°training¡± mode, manipulating the character to do strength training, clicking the screen every few seconds with his fingers.


    After clicking for more than an hour, the character would get a 1-point increase in strength, and occasionally a 1-point bonus in stamina.


    If the character got hungry, it would eat the dried food it carried with it, and if it got thirsty, it would drink well water.


    This process was extremely boring for most players, but Alex didn¡¯t mind it. His original intention in playing this game was to kill time.


    As long as playing this game could make him temporarily forget about her and stop thinking about her, his goal would be achieved.


    While clicking the screen intermittently, Alex opened the computer and browsed the game''s exclusive forum, World of Spirits.


    Sure enough, as he expected, a bunch of players in the forum were complaining about the various settings in the game.


    It was fine that leveling up was difficult, but there was even such a ridiculous setting as ¡°hunger and thirst.¡±


    If you go hungry and pick the fruits and vegetables in the fields outside the village, you will be warned by the NPC villagers, and even expelled. If you resist slightly, you may even be killed on the spot!


    If you go out into the wild to find food to satisfy your hunger, 7 or 8 out of 10 of the wild fruits are poisonous. If you encounter a small animal, it will run away before you can start chasing it.


    If you encounter a large beast, you won¡¯t be able to run away, so just wait to die.


    Damn it, where is the fun in this game? This game is clearly designed to toy with the players, isn¡¯t it?


    Life is already so difficult, and now I have to be toyed with by this game.


    I quit!


    Disappointment far exceeded expectations, and many players chose to quit.


    After all, not everyone is like Alex now, with both the time and patience.


    In this way, the two days quickly passed.


    New players would still arrive in Peace Village.


    There will also be veteran players ¡°lying dead¡± by the extinguished campfire or in some corner of the village.


    Alex noticed that the ¡°bodies¡± of the first few players who ¡°lay dead¡± had disappeared.


    It was literally as if they had evaporated into thin air.


    Alex guessed that after players ¡°lay dead¡± for a period of time, they would die due to their high ¡°hunger and thirst¡± values, combined with other factors.


    Once the player''s character dies, his character will completely disappear from this world, just like ¡°deleting the account.¡±

 Chapter 13: Meeting

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    One generation replaces the old with the new. Unconsciously, Alex had entered Peace Village, and not a single one of the players he knew when he first arrived could be seen anymore.


    It had only been a few days.


    Many of the new players would even mistake him for an NPC villager. After all, the vast majority of new players were only wearing underpants, and it was not common to see players wearing clothes and straw sandals on their feet.


    Especially after Alex had established a good relationship with the siblings Ethan and Emma, when it came time to spend the night, he no longer slept by the campfire, but in his own small room in the residence of the siblings Ethan and Emma.


    This is the advantage of having a good relationship with the NPC villagers.


    Even the other villagers'' looks at Alex had become a little softer.


    It was completely dark by the end of the day, and Alex stopped his character''s strength training and rubbed his sore fingers.


    Clicking the screen every few seconds for a long time was also a bit tiring.


    He clicked on the character''s attribute interface:


    Name: Alex


    Gender: Male


    Race: Human


    Title: None


    Strength: Average


    Attributes: Constitution 83, Strength 97, Dexterity 77


    Skills: None


    Bloodline: None


    Compared to a few days ago, when he first entered the game, Alex''s strength attributes have improved significantly, his constitution has also improved more significantly, and even his agility has increased by 3 points during the training process.


    The improvement in attributes is obvious, and this is the result of Alex''s efforts over the past few days.


    Practicing the acquired skill Bull''s Strength Technique requires 100 points of strength attributes.


    If nothing goes wrong, Alex will be able to increase the character¡¯s strength attribute to 100 points tomorrow.


    I''m actually looking forward to it.


    After all, for this game, Alex has spent these past few days playing it, apart from eating, sleeping, and going for walks with his father.


    He has put a lot of effort into this game, and only those who put in the effort can expect results.


    When he was controlling the character to do strength training these past few days, he spent a lot of time browsing the game forums on the computer.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    So far, he hasn''t seen any player who has gathered 100 points of attribute value, studied the posthumous technique, and been promoted to martial artist.


    Could it be that he will become the first player-martial artist in this game?


    At the thought, Alex''s heart became even more excited.


    He secretly made up his mind that after dinner and a walk with his father, he would log in to the game and continue to fight, striving to become the first martial artist among the players.


    I can''t let someone else get there first.


    Alex''s long-dormant competitive spirit had been awakened without him knowing.


    In the many game novels he had read, the player who was the first to achieve a certain accomplishment could receive a generous reward. He wondered if the game World of Spirits had such a setting...


    At that moment, his father Mr. Alex''s voice came from downstairs, ¡°Son, the food is ready, come down and get ready to eat.¡±


    ¡°Coming,¡± Alex answered.


    After dinner, Alex, as usual, went for a walk with his father.


    His walking route with his father was fixed. After leaving home, they walked along the riverbank, passed Riverdale First Bridge, went to the other side of the river, continued along the riverbank, reached the construction site of Riverdale Third Bridge where there was no road, and then returned the way they came. The whole process took about one hour and ten minutes.


    When they left the house, it was already completely dark, and the street lamps along the river were all lit up. The night view of Riverdale was still very good. Alex enjoyed the night view of the Riverdale riverside while chatting with his father.


    After passing the first bridge and heading to the other side of the river, Alex suddenly stopped in his tracks, his whole body frozen in place, his eyes staring straight ahead.


    In the crowd, there was a young woman about 1.6 meters tall with student-style hair, wearing delicate makeup and a dress, walking towards him with a Bichon Frise dog.


    The woman was not very pretty, but at the moment Alex saw her, his mind went blank.


    It¡¯s her... shouldn''t she be in Shashi right now? Why is she in Riverdale?


    This woman, dressed in exquisite clothes and with a sophisticated appearance, is the source of Alex''s pain these days, his ''ex-girlfriend'' Shi Piao.


    Alex just stood there in a daze, not even noticing that his father had already walked away.


    The woman also noticed Alex at this time. There was no expression on her face, and after giving him a glance, she lowered her eyes again, led her pug dog by the leash, and continued walking, passing Alex by.


    It was as if she had just seen a stranger.


    It wasn¡¯t until Shi Piao had walked away that Alex came back to his senses. After hesitating for a few seconds in place, he took a few steps and then started running to catch up with his father.


    ¡°What just happened?¡± his father asked casually.


    His father, Mr. Alex, had never met Shi Piao before. Shi Piao was the sister of a friend of Alex''s brother-in-law, and it was his brother-in-law who had introduced them.


    Because Shi Piao worked in Shashi and rarely returned to Riverdale County, Alex''s father and mother had never met her. Even Alex, the person involved, had met her only a handful of times.


    ¡°Nothing,¡± Alex shook his head and casually mumbled.


    Next, Alex looked preoccupied and said nothing.


    He had tried hard to forget her these past few days, and thought he had almost done so. But the moment he saw her, all his memories of her flooded back.


    Six months ago, they first met...


    Two months later, on May 20, he confessed his love to her, and she agreed to become his girlfriend...


    Although they only met a few times, they kept in touch on WeChat, and he would say goodnight to her every night...


    This was one of the few ways Alex, a straight guy, expressed his love.


    Until that day, she suddenly broke up with him in a cold and determined manner.


    And then... there was no then.


    Alex took a deep breath, suppressed the dull feeling in his chest, took out his phone, entered the phone number of Shi Piao that he had written down, and started editing the text in the SMS interface.


    However, after just a few characters, Alex deleted the edited text and exited the message.


    What was the point of sending a message now?


    Apart from making him look even more humble, what was the point?


    Alex, there was no need to be humble again.


    There is a saying that goes:


    You can love someone to the ground.


    But no one will like you in the dust.

 Chapter 14: A Clean Break!

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    Alex took a deep breath and put the phone back in his pocket.


    The whole time, Mr. Alex was walking slowly a few meters away, just silently watching his son.


    ¡°Dad, let''s keep walking,¡± Alex forced a smile on his face.


    ¡°Okay,¡± Mr. Alex nodded.


    Next, both men looked very silent and neither spoke.


    After reaching the end, they began to return.


    ¡°Dad, why don''t you go back first? I want to walk alone,¡± Alex suddenly said.


    ¡°Okay,¡± Mr. Alex didn¡¯t ask any more questions, just nodded.


    Alex sat on a stone bench by the river, watching his father''s back become smaller and smaller, gradually getting farther and farther away.


    The stone bench was a little cold at night.


    After sitting on the stone bench for a while and watching the night scene by the river, Alex got up, walked slowly along the river alone, and set off on the way back.


    At night by the river, there were people walking alone like him, others sitting on the riverbank playing with their phones, and there were also young couples leaning on each other, whispering to each other and full of intimacy.


    None of this had anything to do with him, Alex.


    After passing Riverdale First Bridge and turning right, by the street lamp, Alex inadvertently noticed the familiar figure.


    Although he only saw her profile, Alex recognized her immediately.


    It was her...


    She hadn''t left yet, and she was holding the Bichon Frise dog on a leash, chatting with a woman dressed in the same fashionable style.


    The woman she was chatting with must be her best friend...


    After she crossed the bridge, she didn''t choose to leave, but stayed in such a conspicuous location by the roadside. Was she waiting for someone?


    Alex took a step and wanted to walk over.


    However, as soon as he took a step, he retracted his foot.


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    It definitely wasn''t for me.


    What good would it do if he went over to meet her, other than to embarrass himself?


    Alex took a step back, retreating to the shadow of the building by the bridge, before standing still.


    Shi Piao was still holding the Bichon Frise dog by the leash, chatting with the fashionable-dressed woman, the two of them laughing and chatting.


    It seemed that they had talked about something interesting, and they were both laughing happily.


    Yes, very happy.


    Standing in the shadow of a building that was not illuminated by the street lamp, Alex was very quiet, just quietly watching this scene.


    The way Shi Piao laughed made him feel a little strange.


    Because in the few times that Shi Piao had spent with him, she had always acted reserved, and could even be described as aloof, just like an arrogant white swan.


    Alex himself was a little confused as to why he was hiding here watching her.


    Perhaps he simply wanted to know who Shi Piao was waiting for.


    He didn''t have to wait long, as a Mercedes-Benz pulled up not far from the streetlamp.


    The door opened and a young man walked over to Shi Piao and Alex by the streetlamp.


    Alex saw the man''s profile.


    The man was about 25 or 26 years old, and although his height and appearance were average, his hairstyle and clothes were fashionable. Unlike Alex, who liked to stay at home, he didn''t pay much attention to his hair or clothes.


    Alex had once brought gifts and gone to Shi Piao''s house with his brother-in-law, and he knew all of Shi Piao''s family.


    This man was a stranger; he had never seen him before and he was definitely not a member of her family.


    After the man came up to Shi Piao and the two of them, he naturally put his arm around Shi Piao''s shoulders and walked towards the car that was starting up, holding Shi Piao close to him.


    Shi Piao did not resist the young man''s actions in the slightest, but instead appeared to be very obedient. She still had a smile on her face and was whispering something to the young man, her expression intimate. It was a completely different attitude from the aloof manner in which she had treated Alex.


    The scene of this young man and woman snuggling up to each other, laughing and talking as they walked towards the car, might seem very sweet to onlookers, but as Alex watched, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.


    The man sat back in the driver''s seat, Shi Piao took the Bichon Frise dog by the leash and sat in the passenger seat, while the woman, who was also dressed fashionably, sat in the back of the car.


    The car quickly started up and began to move.


    Alex walked out from the shadows of the building and looked at the license plate on the back of the car.


    Lin AXXXX.


    Lin A, the license plate of Shashi.


    The car began to accelerate and, in the night, quickly disappeared from Alex''s view.


    I understand, I understand it all...


    Alex stood in place, took a deep breath, looked up at the dark sky, and his face looked a little numb.


    If he hadn''t run into her today, he would still be in the dark, wouldn''t he?


    When they broke up, she said... She''s a little tired now, and doesn''t want to fall in love with anyone, not anyone.


    Haha... not anyone...


    It''s only been a few days since they broke up, and already he''s bringing her new love interest back to Riverdale to scope out the place.


    No, just looking at the two of them being so intimate, I''m afraid they''ve known each other for quite some time, haven''t they?


    It''s a shame that he''s been sad and suffering for her these past few days.


    Is it worth it for the sake of a woman like her?


    In the end, he was just too stupid and naive.


    Under the orange streetlamp, Alex stood silently for a while, then took out his phone and deleted every trace of her that remained on it, without missing a thing.


    At that moment, the world became completely quiet.

 Chapter 15: Strength Value, 100 Points!

    The light on the first floor was on. Alex used the key to open the door and found his father sitting on a stool waiting for him.


    ¡°Just now... was that Shi Piao?¡± Mr. Alex asked.


    Although he had never met Shi Piao in person, he had seen some photos in Shi Piao''s WeChat Moments.


    The photos in WeChat Moments are generally beautified and carefully edited, and there is still a difference from the person himself, so at that time Mr. Alex did not recognize Shi Piao at first.


    However, he is not stupid. After seeing his son''s various unusual reactions today, he guessed what was going on.


    ¡°Hmm,¡± Alex nodded.


    His previous actions were really obvious, and even if he wanted to hide this, he couldn''t.


    ¡°Have you made up with her?¡± Mr. Alex asked again.


    His son''s life and marriage had always been a matter of concern to him.


    ¡°No,¡± Alex shook his head, ¡°Dad, don''t mention her again. She and I are no longer related.¡±


    Mr. Alex was taken aback, but then he squeezed out a smile and said, ¡°It''s good to let go. A man should be able to both take responsibility and let go.¡±


    Alex returned to the third floor where he was staying, sat down in a chair, and stared out the window at the night view of the city.


    All his hopes were gone...


    There was no longer any possibility between him and her, it was completely over.


    There was pain, but more of a sense of relief.


    Now that he thought about it, the difficulty and pain of being heartbroken was just him torturing himself, and it had no meaning other than making him decadent and sink.


    In this world, apart from parents, who else will really care about him and care about him?


    Those vows she made were just her acting, but he foolishly took them seriously.


    Now in this materialistic age, it is no longer the same as when his parents were young. Sincerity is really worthless.


    He dare not hope for love anymore, and he doesn''t want to get involved.


    Alex just sat on the chair for a few minutes.


    Then, he opened his phone and clicked on the World of Spirits icon to enter the World of Spirits game.


    The world in the game was also at night.


    There was no moon in the game world tonight, and the sky was very dark, just like Alex''s mood right now.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.


    Alex controlled the character to get up from the simple bed, then opened the door and entered the equally simple courtyard.


    The courtyard belongs to Ethan''s family, and Alex has been living in an empty room in Ethan''s house ever since he started working with the Yang siblings and got on well with them.


    The villagers go to bed early, and usually rest soon after dark, and the Yang siblings are no exception.


    In order not to disturb the siblings'' rest, Alex gently opened the courtyard door and walked out quietly.


    It was quiet outside, with only a few scattered lights.


    Having lived in Peace Village for several days, Alex was already familiar with the terrain. He went in the dark to the place where he had previously done his strength training and began to do it.


    It was very secluded here, and not to mention at night, even during the day, almost no one would come here.


    Alex was prepared to stay up late doing strength training, and he was determined to increase his character''s strength value to 100 points tonight!


    He can''t continue to be so decadent and sink any lower.


    He has already resolved his relationship problems.


    So, it''s time to resolve the game issue.


    After all, the game is just for leisure, just an additive to people''s lives. He can''t rely on it to change his destiny.


    As a man, his career comes first.


    He doesn''t want to continue sinking lower in this game world, and it''s time to choose to leave.


    Then he will seek inspiration and gather information to prepare for the publication of his new book.


    Becoming a martial artist is his last obsession in the game of World of Spirits.


    He wants to become a martial artist as soon as possible to get rid of this obsession.


    As for what he will do after becoming a martial artist, he has already made up his mind.


    If he is going to leave, he will do so decisively and without any hesitation.


    After leaving, he will never return.


    Two hours later, at 11:07 p.m., the phone vibrated slightly.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you have been diligently training, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    The character''s strength has increased by 1 point, from 97 to 98.


    It is correct that it took Alex 2 hours to increase his strength by 1 point.


    As the character''s strength value gets closer and closer to 100, the time it takes to increase it by one point also becomes longer and longer.


    It started at one hour, then one and a half hours, and now it''s two hours.


    Alex still clicks the screen every few seconds to control the character in the game world and do strength training.


    While doing the character''s strength training, Alex browses the game''s exclusive forum on the computer.


    It is now 11:26.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you have been training so hard, your fitness level has increased by 1 point.¡±


    Time flies, and it is now 11:57 p.m.


    Prompt: ¡°You are very hungry and need to eat.¡±


    Alex is prepared for this, and pauses his training. He manipulates the character to take out a piece of jerky from his body and puts it in the character''s mouth, chewing it.


    He then took out a bamboo tube containing clean water and opened the lid.


    The character chewed the jerky while drinking the water.


    After eating and drinking, he continued his strength training.


    At 1:25 a.m., the phone vibrated slightly.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you worked hard at strength training, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    The character''s strength value increased by 1 point, from 98 to 99.


    Just one more point, just one more point, and his strength attribute will be raised to 100 points.


    After staying up until the early morning, Alex''s eyes had a layer of bloodshot.


    1:57 a.m.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you have been working hard to build up your body, your constitution has increased by 1 point.¡±


    The character''s constitution has increased by 1 point, but this is no longer important.


    The bloodshot eyes of Alex became more and more numerous, and he became more and more sleepy.


    2:51 a.m.


    Prompt: ¡°You are very hungry now and need to eat.¡±


    Alex took out some food and water again, ate and drank, and after he was full, continued with his strength training.


    Finally, at 3:58 a.m., Alex''s phone vibrated gently again.


    Prompt: ¡°Because you worked hard and seriously to build up your strength, your strength has increased by 1 point.¡±


    The character¡¯s strength value finally reached¡­ 100 points.


    Alex rubbed his bloodshot eyes and let out a relieved smile.


    Then he logged out of the game, shut down the computer, threw his phone next to his pillow, and fell asleep.


    He was really tired.

 Chapter 16: Doubts

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    At this hour, he didn¡¯t bother going out to buy breakfast, but instead made himself a bucket of instant noodles.


    While the noodles were soaking, Alex turned on his phone and entered the game.


    Then, he searched the village for the whereabouts of patrol captain Mike.


    Patrol Captain Mike can pass on his post-natal martial arts, the Bull''s Strength Technique, to Alex. Only by practicing post-natal martial arts can he transform from an ordinary person into a martial artist.


    Normally, as the captain of the village patrol, Mike is always stationed in the village and rarely goes out.


    But today, Alex searched the entire village but could not find any trace of him.


    The village head is also not in.


    After fruitless searching, Alex could only ask a villager who was responsible for guarding the village gate.


    This villager didn¡¯t look kindly upon Alex, an outsider, but still answered his question.


    ¡°This morning, a ferocious beast, the Hanging-Eyed Tiger, was seen near the village. For the safety of the village, the captain has already taken a dozen warriors to hunt this Hanging-Eyed Tiger.¡±


    ¡°When will Captain Mike be back?¡± Alex asked.


    The villager said coldly, ¡°It depends on luck. If we''re lucky and can hunt the tiger early, we''ll be back sooner. If we''re unlucky, it''ll be normal for him to be back in a few days.¡±


    Hunting a ferocious beast is no joke. It''s not only dangerous, but also time-consuming.


    ¡°Okay,¡± Alex sighed inwardly.


    It seems that he will have to wait a bit longer if he wants to become a martial artist.


    His parents ran a small shop in the county town of Riverdale, and they needed to look after the business, so they couldn''t stay at home all the time.


    After eating the instant noodles, Alex lay on the bed, resting his hands behind his head, looking at the ceiling. He felt a little bit depressed.


    Although he had completely let go of the relationship, he still felt depressed and a little lost.


    After staying at home for a long time, he felt like he was going to mold. It was better to go out for some fresh air.


    Alex got up, changed his clothes, went downstairs, started the car, and drove away from the county.


    Alex had always been an introvert. Over the years of writing novels, he had made some good friends online, but in this county, he really didn''t have any good friends to hang out with.


    He drove to his hometown.


    His hometown was in a remote mountain village in Riverdale County. Although it was remote, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and the scenery was quite pleasant.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Thanks to the good policies of the Zenia government, even in such a remote small village, a cement road through the village was built in recent years, allowing Alex to drive directly to his hometown.


    In this era, young people can''t stand being in the village, and they all go to work in big cities, leaving only the elderly and children behind.


    During the year, there are very few people to be seen in the countryside, except during the Chinese New Year.


    Therefore, as Alex drove along the newly built concrete road, he saw many newly built buildings on both sides, but few people.


    After parking the car, Alex walked up the hill along the path.


    It was not a high mountain, but the scenery was pleasant. Sitting on the grass at the top of the mountain, looking down, there were wave-like terraced fields, and looking into the distance, there were rolling green mountains.


    Whenever he is upset, unable to calm down, or when he is creating and running out of ideas, Alex will come to the top of this mountain, feel the mountain breeze, and admire the view before him. Before he knows it, his heart will calm down.


    Nature is truly magical in this way.


    This time was no different.


    Standing at the top of the mountain, looking into the distance, letting the wind, which had grown colder, blow on his body and face, Alex''s heart gradually calmed down, and he no longer felt as agitated as before.


    The only fly in the ointment was that it was too remote. Although it was far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, there was the minor problem of poor mobile phone reception.


    Sometimes the phone would get one or two bars of signal, and sometimes it would be unable to find a signal at all.


    After standing for a while, Alex felt that the mountain breeze was making him a little cold.


    It was already autumn, and the mountain breeze already carried a hint of coolness.


    Alex sat down under a big tree at the top of the mountain, where the wind was sheltered and he would not be so cold.


    After sitting down, Alex took out his mobile phone.


    Young people nowadays cannot live without their mobile phones; they want to check their phones when they are not doing anything.


    He opened his phone and glanced at the signal at the top.


    His luck wasn''t good; the phone showed no signal.


    No signal is no signal, but even if you''re lucky and get one or two bars, it''s not really that meaningful. Even opening a webpage with the phone''s own browser takes forever, and it''s even more wishful thinking to watch videos or play games online on your phone.


    What''s there to do with a phone? It seems like there''s nothing to do when there''s no signal.


    Alex took his phone and pointed it forward, taking a few random landscape photos.


    He didn''t take any of himself, as girls usually have the habit of taking a few random selfies, while men generally don''t.


    After taking the photos, Alex casually swiped the phone around the menu interface.


    When he saw the icon for World of Spirits, he subconsciously clicked on it.


    It was really subconscious, a subconscious action he had developed over the past few days.


    By the time Alex''s mind reacted, the game World of Spirits had already opened.


    The game opened very smoothly, without any lag.


    Alex''s character was still in Peace Village. Not far away was the village gate, where the Peace Village villager was still guarding the gate dutifully.


    This is not a dead signal, so why can I still log in to the game?


    Alex couldn''t believe it and rubbed his eyes hard with his hands. When he looked at the screen again, it was still displaying the original image.


    ¡°Hello?¡± Alex tried to call out to the villager guarding the village gate.


    ¡°What?¡± The villager looked over at him.


    ¡°Nothing,¡± Alex said hastily.


    The villager looked at him a few more times before turning his head away and not looking at him again.


    Something''s not right... You can play games without an internet connection? This isn''t a stand-alone game.


    Alex sensed that something was wrong.


    Did the signal suddenly come on just now?


    Alex exited the game and looked at the mobile phone signal bar. At this time, the mobile phone signal bar displayed that there was still no signal.


    Alex turned off the mobile phone''s wireless data and thought about it some more. He simply turned on the phone''s flight mode and disconnected all contact between the phone and the outside world.


    After doing all this, he clicked on the icon for World of Spirits and tried to open the game again.


    The game opened very smoothly, without any lag.


    His character appeared on the phone screen, not far from him was the gate of Peace Village.


    The villager responsible for guarding the gate seemed to have been standing for a long time, so he rubbed his back with his hands and leaned against the wooden fence next to him.

 Chapter 17: Isn’t It Amazing?

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    Soon after, a player wearing only a pair of grey underpants slowly walked past Alex, passed through the village gate, and left the village.


    Alex''s eyelid twitched again.


    The phone was already on flight mode, cutting off any contact with the outside world, and yet the game was still running normally and smoothly.


    This game was abnormal, really abnormal.


    Alex frowned, and some issues that he had previously ignored suddenly came to mind.


    Peace Village alone is already this big. The village, the crops outside the village, and the mountains and forests outside the village, combined, already cover an area that far exceeds the total area of many mobile game worlds. Moreover, what makes up these things is not just a collection of textures. They can all be touched and destroyed. And this is just Peace Village. In the World of Spirits, there are many novice villages like Peace Village. Is this really just a game that is only 3G in size?


    And the villagers in the village, are they really just as simple as the intelligent NPCs he previously thought?


    Intelligent NPCs, can they be this intelligent?


    And each one is so intelligent?


    The two siblings Ethan and Emma, with whom he has had the most contact, give him the feeling that they are no different from real people. Even the most advanced intelligent robots in the world cannot be this intelligent, right?


    He doesn¡¯t know if future science will be able to achieve this, but current science is definitely unable to do so!


    Since none of this can be explained by science, then...


    Alex''s eyelids twitched a few times.


    Could it be that some kind of mysterious power has descended upon the world, giving birth to this game?


    Or perhaps this so-called World of Spirits is not just a virtual game world, but a real world?


    Or perhaps it was an alien civilization that was far more advanced than human civilization that, for some reason, created this game on Earth?


    For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through Alex''s mind.


    This is an era of information explosion. On the internet, there are countless novels about time travel, rebirth, mythological invasions, and spiritual recovery.


    As a bookworm for over ten years and a creator of internet literature who is partial to this genre, has Alex never seen a pig run even if he has never eaten pork?


    He has even fantasized more than once that if he could be like the protagonists in the novels, reborn, time traveling, or living in an era of mythological invasion and spiritual recovery, that would be great.


    However, as a sane adult, he knows full well that novels are ultimately just novels, and the worlds in them all come from the fantasies of the novelists.


    These are all false, and cannot be taken as real. If you take the world in a novel seriously, then you are truly a fool.


    This world is cold, and there is no way that any supernatural power could exist. This is the perception of almost everyone in this world, and Alex previously believed the same.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    But now, an incredible scene that cannot be explained by science has appeared right in front of Alex, constantly impacting Alex''s perception of the world over the years.


    After all, Alex is not an ordinary person. Having read countless fantasy novels, his ability to accept such unusual things is much stronger than that of an ordinary person.


    He quickly came out of his shock and confusion.


    He fell into deep thought.


    Instead of fear, he even felt a sense of excitement and anticipation.


    If what he suspected was true, and this World of Spirits was actually a real world, or a game designed by an alien civilization that was far more advanced than human civilization, then...


    Alex''s heart was burning with excitement. He had no time to admire the beautiful scenery of the mountains anymore, so he got up, ran all the way down the mountain, started the car, and drove all the way to the county seat.


    While driving, his excitement slowly cooled down, and Alex thought of more things.


    Just from the signal alone, he could not be completely sure of some of his earlier guesses, and he would have to try some other things.


    For example, could his character in the game be manipulated by other people?


    In normal games, anyone can control a character after logging in.


    If his character in the game can be controlled by others, it means nothing.


    But if his character cannot be controlled by others, it can undoubtedly prove once again that this game is extraordinary!


    Alex drove to the small shop run by his parents and stopped in front of the shop.


    ¡°Dad, come help me with a favor,¡± Alex shouted to his father in the shop as soon as he got out of the car.


    ¡°What is it?¡± Alex''s father walked out of the shop a little puzzled.


    ¡°Let''s talk inside,¡± Alex pulled his father into his own shop, and didn''t let go until they entered the back room.


    The back room was where the goods were stacked, and no outsiders would come in.


    The puzzled look on his father''s face deepened. His son''s behavior today was a bit abnormal.


    ¡°Help me play this game.¡± Alex took out his mobile phone and logged in to the World of Spirits. After logging in successfully, Alex handed the phone to his father.


    ¡°What are you doing? I don''t play games.¡± Alex''s father glanced at the screen of Alex''s mobile phone and shook his head. He was in his fifties and had no interest in these gadgets that young people like.


    ¡°Dad, you don''t need to play for long, you just need to try it, and that''s important to me!¡± Alex said with a sincere face.


    ¡°Important?¡± Mr. Alex was a little puzzled. It''s just a game, what could be so important about it? He always felt that his son was acting strange today, a little abnormal. Could it be because he had been heartbroken and suffered some kind of shock? If that was the case, then it would be trouble.


    Thinking about this, his heart sank, and he began to resent his son-in-law a little.


    You introduce someone so unreliable, can''t you introduce your brother-in-law to someone more reliable?


    ¡°Yes, it''s very important,¡± Alex nodded vigorously, with a serious expression on his face.


    Mr. Alex sighed inwardly. His son must have been under some kind of stress. In this situation, he couldn''t continue to irritate him, so he had to go along with him.


    ¡°Okay, you don''t need to play for long, right? Give me your phone, I''ll play for you. By the way, how do you play this game?¡±


    ¡°This is walking, this is turning direction, and this is...¡± Alex explained the simplest controls to his father and demonstrated them on the spot before handing the phone to him.


    Mr. Alex took the phone and tried to operate it according to what Alex had just taught him.


    ¡°Huh, why isn''t there any response? Could it be that it''s frozen?¡± Mr. Alex tried to control the character, but no matter how he swiped the screen, the character in the game world didn''t react at all, motionless, just like it was really frozen.


    Alex stood next to him and tried to reach out and swipe the screen of the phone.


    The game character immediately turned around and looked away, and the screen image also rotated 180 degrees.


    Alex moved his finger away, and Mr. Alex continued to try.


    The character on the screen remained motionless as before, as if it had frozen.


    Alex then pointed the phone''s front camera at his own face and asked Mr. Alex to continue trying to control the character.


    The character on the screen remained motionless, without any reaction.


    ¡°Hey, how come this is happening? You can turn the screen, but why isn''t it responding?¡± Mr. Alex''s face was full of surprise.


    Although he never played games and had never understood the game World of Spirits, he also sensed that something was unusual.


    Alex took the phone from his father''s hands and said with a smile, ¡°Dad, this game comes with a lock screen mode. Once this mode is turned on, only the owner of the account can play the game. Even if someone else gets the phone, they won''t be able to control the character in the game. I think it''s pretty interesting, so I came to you to try it out. Isn''t it amazing?¡±

 Chapter 18: A Life-Changing Opportunity

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    Alex casually made up a lie.


    He didn''t want to tell his parents the secret about the game just yet.


    ¡°I see,¡± said Alex''s father after listening to Alex''s explanation. He didn''t think much of it and just nodded.


    ¡°Mom, you try it too?¡± Alex called his mother, Mrs. Alex, over.


    ¡°I don''t know how to play games...¡±


    ¡°Just try it once. You just need to tap the screen a few times with your finger, it''s very simple.¡±


    ¡°Okay...¡±


    It turned out that his mother was also unable to control his character, and she couldn''t make his character move at all in the game.


    One minute later.


    ¡°Dad, Mom, I''m leaving now.¡±


    ¡°Wait.¡± Alex was stopped by his father, who patted him on the shoulder and said with deep meaning, ¡°Son, don''t be discouraged. The fact that you and that girl didn''t work out just means that the girl has no taste and you two are not suited for each other. It doesn''t mean anything. Meet more people in the future, and you''ll always meet the right one. Your mother met an acquaintance this morning. Her niece graduated from university, is three years younger than you, 1.6 meters tall, quite pretty, and has no boyfriend yet. She works in Shashi. If the girl is willing, when you get WeChat, add her and chat with her.¡±


    The old couple are very concerned about their son''s marriage.


    No sooner had their son ended a failed relationship than the old couple started looking for his next girlfriend.


    Their son is already an adult, but he has not yet married and started a family. The old couple have sighed and sighed about this many times, and they have also grown quite a bit grey from worrying.


    If their son was a fool or physically handicapped, they would have accepted their fate.


    The problem is that in their eyes, their son is quite outstanding, good-looking, capable, and has a good personality. His monthly income of tens of thousands of yuan is not low, not to mention in a small county like Riverdale, but even in a provincial capital like Shashi.


    In terms of family background, theirs is not good, but not bad either. They have a house and a car, and they are considered a well-off family.


    Such a good child in every way, but he can''t even find a wife, and keeps running into problems with marriage. The old couple sometimes think about it, and they themselves find it incredible.


    What''s going on in this era?


    Alex couldn''t help but smile bitterly when he heard this.


    He said, ¡°Dad, let''s not do it. I''m a little tired. For now, I want to be alone and find inspiration for my new book. Let''s talk about finding a partner later, okay?¡±


    When he said this, Alex revealed a tired expression.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    The previous failed relationship had left him mentally and physically exhausted, and it would take time to recover. He had no intention of getting involved in love for the time being.


    Moreover, Shashi...


    It¡¯s Shashi again... Another long-distance relationship...


    During the previous failed relationship, he had deeply experienced just how unreliable long-distance relationships were.


    Even though this girl, who is three years younger than him, is not in a long-distance relationship with him, he has no desire to get in touch with her right now.


    All of his attention is focused on the game World of Spirits.


    Alex has a vague intuition that this game is likely to change his life.


    And right now, there are very few players who really value this game.


    This is his opportunity!


    Mr. Alex opened his mouth, but ultimately sighed and said, ¡°Okay, then you should get some rest and try to recover as soon as possible.¡±


    ¡°Mm-hmm,¡± Alex nodded.


    After returning home, Alex quickly thought to himself as he walked upstairs.


    The game had no lock screen mode, and that was just a lie he made up.


    He asked his father to do this experiment just to verify something.


    The experiment proved that no one but him could control his character through his phone.


    Judging whether he was actually controlling the character should not be done through the phone''s front camera.


    His phone is an old model from two years ago, and it doesn''t have a fingerprint scanner on the screen. It only has a traditional fingerprint recognition module, and he has only entered the fingerprints of two fingers. However, when he controls the character, no matter which finger he uses, he can control the character normally. Even if he doesn''t use the palm of his hand, but only the knuckles or even the back of his hand, he can still control the character without any problems.


    This simply cannot be explained by current science.


    This is undoubtedly another proof of the extraordinary nature of the game World of Spirits.


    It also strengthened Alex''s deep-seated belief.


    The game World of Spirits is extraordinary.


    This is his opportunity.


    If he can seize this opportunity, his life will likely be changed forever!


    Before he reached the third floor, Alex took out his phone and logged into the game.


    The situation in the game had not changed at all from before.


    ¡°Brother Li, haven''t Captain Mike and the others returned yet?¡± Alex shouted at the Peace Village villager leaning against the village gate.


    ¡°Not yet. You''ve been here the whole time. You''re not blind, are you? Can''t you see for yourself?¡± The villager rolled his eyes impatiently.


    He didn''t know that the one who had been here the whole time was only Alex''s character. Alex himself had just logged into the game.


    Alex could only laugh dryly.


    Before he knew the wonders of this game, he never wanted to provoke these villagers from Peace Village.


    Now, he would never do it.


    In order not to waste time, Alex began strength training for his character not far from the gate of Peace Village.


    Although his character''s strength has reached 100 points, Alex feels that this 100 points is only the minimum threshold for practicing the acquired skill Bull''s Strength Technique. This value can still be increased through strength training.


    The Peace Village villager, whom Alex calls Brother Li, looked at Alex in surprise.


    It is not often that you see such a hardworking outsider.


    He was only slightly surprised, and then turned his head and stopped looking at Alex.


    Does this outsider really think that it is that easy to become a martial artist?


    Which martial artist has not relied on years of honing and training their body to break through and become a martial artist?


    If it were really that easy to become a martial artist, there would not be only a mere 20-odd martial artists in the entire Peace Village, which has more than 300 households and a population of more than 1,000.


    To become a martial artist, one needs talent, hard work, and sufficient food.


    He never thought that Alex, who looked a bit weak and frail, would have anything to do with martial artists.


    If he knew that Alex''s strength attribute had reached 100 points, and that he was already considered a quasi-martial artist, only lacking a post-natal achievement to become a true martial artist, his jaw would probably drop in shock!


    It has to be said that Alex''s luck is still pretty good.


    After returning home, in the game world, he only waited for less than half an hour before he faintly heard the noise of chaos from outside.


    He hurriedly stopped his character''s strength training and looked through the gaps in the fence towards the outside of the village.


    He saw in the distance a group of more than ten people carrying a huge beast along a village path towards this side of the village.

 Chapter 19: Control

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    ¡°They¡¯re back, Captain Mike and the others are back!¡±


    ¡°The ferocious beast, the Hanging-Eyed Tiger, has been killed by Captain Mike and the others!¡±


    A villager shouted, his words full of joy.


    They were truly happy about it.


    The beast was smarter than the wild animals and also very vengeful. It was fortunate that Captain Mike and his group of warriors killed it. If they had not killed it and it had escaped, the ferocious beast, the Hanging-Eyed Tiger, would have most likely hidden in the deep forest, waiting to attack the villagers who entered the mountains, and it might even have returned to attack the villagers working in the fields.


    Fortunately, everything went well, and this scourge was successfully eliminated by Captain Mike and his men.


    At the shouts of these villagers, many villagers put down their work and converged towards Captain Mike and his men.


    The elderly people who stayed in the village also brought their children out of the village to go watch the excitement.


    This was a ferocious beast, which was rarely seen, and some younger children were even seeing the corpse of a ferocious beast for the first time.


    Alex also followed behind these elderly people and children and walked out of the village.


    When some of the elderly saw Alex, they hurriedly pulled their own children to their sides to protect them, and watched Alex with a vigilant expression.


    Previously, there had been a precedent of outsiders killing children, which made every family with children in the village feel vulnerable.


    As a result, no family dared to let their children go out alone for a while.


    I don''t know what the village was thinking, but they actually let these damned outsiders into the village, and Captain Mike didn''t even stop them...


    Facing the wary stares of the village elders, Alex could only shake his head and smile wryly.


    What happened was committed by other players, and all the players in Peace Village were implicated.


    Speaking of players, there don''t seem to be many left in Peace Village now.


    The vast majority of players who entered this game just wanted to try something new, and they had no intention of playing for a long time.


    Not to mention them, even Alex, last night, was also planning to give up this game and return to reality after becoming a martial artist.


    However, some experiences today made him truly realize the extraordinary nature of the World of Spirits, which changed his previous thoughts. He made up his mind to continue playing this game and wanted to seize this opportunity that might change his life.


    As the distance closed, Alex finally saw the true appearance of this ferocious beast, the Hanging-Eyed Tiger.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.


    This fierce beast, the Hanging-Eyed Tiger, was carried by four strong villagers. It was the size of an adult water buffalo and was obviously much larger than an ordinary tiger. Its speckled fur was covered in blood, and its fatal wound was a through-and-through injury on its neck.


    As for its appearance, apart from its large size, its teeth and claws were sharper, but it was not much different from an ordinary tiger.


    In this way, the tiger was carried into the village, surrounded by more than 200 onlookers from the village and a few players.


    Mike, the patrol captain, was walking at the front, beaming with joy, while John, who was standing next to him, also had a smile on his face.


    Alex wanted to go up to patrol captain Mike and say a few words, but in this situation, he was a little reluctant to approach.


    After all, if he went up to Mike at this time and asked for the Aftermath Skill, it would be a big letdown for Mike and the others.


    Considering that this so-called game world was likely a real world, Alex temporarily suppressed this urge.


    Just wait a bit longer...


    He waited for several hours, not in a hurry.


    Half an hour later, patrol captain Mike walked out of the crowd.


    He was covered in blood, and although he was still rosy-cheeked, he could not hide the exhaustion on his face. He was going to go back and wash up, and then get a good night''s sleep.


    As for what to do with the ferocious beast that had been carried back, he didn''t need to worry about it, his subordinates would take care of it, and the benefits that would come to him would not be small.


    After waiting for a long time, Alex, who had finally waited for his chance, hurriedly manipulated his character and trotted after him.


    After staying away from the crowd, Alex shouted, ¡°Captain Mike, please wait.¡±


    Mike, who was walking in front, stopped when he heard this. He turned around and looked at Alex: ¡°Young man, what do you want with me?¡±


    Patrol Captain Mike''s attitude towards these ¡°outsiders¡± like Alex could not be said to be good, but it was not bad either.


    ¡°It¡¯s like this, my strength has reached the standard, and I should be able to practice Captain Mike''s Bull''s Strength Technique,¡± Alex said, weighing his words.


    He wondered if the patrol captain Mike would make things difficult for him in this matter.


    ¡°You say your strength has reached the standard?¡± Mike''s expression suddenly became indifferent.


    Without waiting for Alex to speak again, Mike''s figure swayed, like a gust of wind, and he came to Alex''s side.


    He stopped when he was only half a meter away from Alex''s character, his eyes bright and sharp as a blade, as if glowing, as he stared at Alex''s character.


    Even through the screen of the phone, Alex couldn''t help but hold his breath, and even his heartbeat skipped a few beats.


    This gaze is really fierce.


    Alex has never seen such a fierce gaze before.


    After a few seconds, Mike''s eyes returned to normal, and he took a step back, his expression indifferent, ¡°Not bad, your strength has indeed reached the standard, you can practice the post-natal skill, the Bull''s Strength Technique.¡±


    When he said this, Mike looked like a cold robot, his expression indifferent, and his words contained no emotion.


    This was completely different from his previous self.


    It seemed as if he had been controlled by some kind of force, and had become a completely different person.


    Alex couldn''t help but jump at the thought.


    Who exactly was controlling Patrol Captain Mike''s thoughts and emotions?


    Did it belong to the power of the rules of the game?


    It should belong to the power of the rules of the game...


    John should also have been controlled by the power of the rules of the game, which is why he was so kind as to shelter the players and provide them with a communal pot of rice and a campfire to keep them warm at night...


    Alex thought to himself.


    ¡°Follow me. The secret manual to the Bull''s Strength Technique is in my residence. You can study it there, and after you have memorized it, you can return it to me,¡± said Mike with a blank expression and an indifferent tone.


    ¡°Okay, Captain Mike,¡± Alex said hurriedly.


    He wondered how he should study the secret manual. Did he need to memorize it word for word? If so, he would have a headache.


    If it were before, Alex definitely would not have had such a thought.


    In games, the characters can learn secret manuals just by tapping their hands. Studying them? No way.


    Even if a player has a bad taste in their mouth and really wants to study a secret manual, the game company''s planners don''t have the ability to write one.


    However, the world of World of Spirits is different. It is very likely a world that actually exists.


    In a real game world, what is the experience of practicing a martial art? Alex has never experienced it before.

 Chapter 20: Hidden Attributes, Root Bone

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    Mike''s house was much larger than that of the average villager, second only to the village head.


    His courtyard was even slightly larger than the village head''s.


    In the courtyard were piles of firewood, hay, and other things, as well as some props for building strength, such as stone locks.


    ¡°Woof!¡± As soon as the yard was opened, a large, half-human-sized yellow-haired dog in the yard barked furiously at Alex, a stranger.


    ¡°Hu Zi!¡± Mike shouted in a low voice.


    The big yellow dog was very understanding, and immediately stopped barking, just staring at Alex.


    ¡°Come in, I''ll get you the secret manual,¡± Mike said indifferently.


    ¡°Oh, okay,¡± Alex agreed, and followed him into the yard.


    Mike walked directly towards the house, while Alex stayed in the courtyard, turning the screen and surveying the courtyard in front of him.


    Eventually, his gaze settled on the stone locks in the courtyard that were used to build strength.


    Alex controlled the character and walked over.


    The smallest stone locks looked very thick, and Alex estimated that they should weigh no less than 50 kilograms.


    The larger ones could already be described as stone stumps, and their weight was probably no less than 200 kilograms.


    Next to them were reinforced versions of the stone locks ¨C iron locks.


    The iron locks of the same size were several times heavier than the stone locks.


    ''My previous strength was 68 points, which was completely average. My current strength is 100 points, which is a significant improvement. I wonder if I can lift this iron lock?''


    Alex was a little curious. He manipulated the character to go over and hold the smallest iron shackle, trying to lift it.


    As a result, under Alex''s control, the character gnashed his teeth and exerted his best effort, but it only managed to lift the iron shackle slightly off the ground.


    It''s too heavy. If it were the Alex at the beginning, with only 68 points of strength, he probably couldn''t even make the shackle leave the ground.


    ¡°This shackle weighs 500 catties, and it''s difficult for an ordinary person to lift it. If you break through and become a martial artist and explode your true strength, you can barely do it.¡± Mike''s voice came from behind, still indifferent and devoid of any emotion.


    Alex put down the shackle in his hand and looked behind him.


    ¡°This is the secret manual of the Bull''s Strength Technique. You can study it in the courtyard. After you''re done, remember to return it to me.¡± Mike handed Alex an old-looking thread-bound book with a blue cover.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Alex quickly took it.


    The moment he took the secret manual, a line of text floated past like running water on the screen of his phone.


    Prompt: ¡°You are studying the Bull''s Strength Technique...¡±


    Prompt: ¡°According to your bone structure, it will take you 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 36 seconds to study the Bull''s Strength Technique. Please be patient.¡±


    After these two prompts disappeared, Alex didn''t need to control the character; the character sat cross-legged, holding the Bull''s Strength Technique in his hands and began to flip through it.


    A countdown appeared in the center of the screen, counting down the time as 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 36 seconds.


    At the bottom of the countdown, there is an option to ''interrupt'', and as long as you click on this option, the character can break away from the state of ''studying''.


    Since his character is studying the secret manual, Alex naturally won''t bother to interrupt him.


    He gently placed the phone on the table, and to prevent it from running out of power, he even plugged it in with the charging cable.


    After doing so, he sat in his chair and fell into thought.


    The situation was a little different from what he had expected.


    He had thought that this post-acquired skill would require him to memorize it himself, but in the end, just like any other game, he could not see a single word in the secret manual.


    He could master this Bull''s Strength Technique without doing anything.


    This made him feel relieved in his heart, but also slightly disappointed.


    No, there was still some difference with other games.


    In other games, once a character obtains a secret manual, they can learn it instantly with a single tap.


    In the world of World of Spirits, it''s different. The character will go through a process of studying the manual. It takes 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 36 seconds to study the most basic manual, Bull''s Strength Technique.


    Alex''s eyebrows shot up, and he suddenly thought of a detail.


    He remembered that the system prompt said that based on his root bone, the time it would take him to study the Bull''s Strength Technique was 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 36 seconds.


    Root bone is not in the character attribute interface, and this is the first time he has heard the term ¡°root bone¡± in the World of Spirits.


    Could it be a hidden attribute of the character?


    By root bone, I think it should refer to the character''s enlightenment and cultivation aptitude, right?


    He also wondered if his character''s root bone was considered good or bad among players.


    After all, no one was there to compare with him.


    His character was currently studying the Bull''s Strength Technique and could not be disturbed, so Alex was a bit idle for the time being.


    He turned on the computer and entered the exclusive game forum of World of Spirits.


    After the initial two days of ¡°frenzy¡±, the exclusive game forum for World of Spirits quickly cooled down again.


    At its peak, the number of posts on the World of Spirits game forum could easily exceed 10,000 per day.


    Now, there are only a few hundred new posts each day, and the popularity has dropped by more than ten times compared to before.


    Alex began to habitually browse these posts, which was an important way for him to obtain information about World of Spirits.


    After scanning the first page of the forum, most of the posts were complaints about the game being too difficult, the game company being inhumane, and some were just for the sake of it. As for the few dry posts with some substance, Alex had already browsed them yesterday.


    So far, Alex had not seen anyone post that they had gathered 100 attribute points.


    This gave him a slight sigh of relief.


    But that''s normal. After all, it''s not easy to gather 100 attribute points in such a short time.


    Fortunately, Alex had found a partner in Ethan and Emma, and the three of them had successfully hunted a young Horned Goat with a horn the size of a calf on their first expedition into the mountains, thus gathering enough food for the character to build up his strength.


    If not for this, he reckoned that he would have had to endure even more hardship for a few more days before he could gather enough attribute points.


    He should be considered a special case.


    There aren¡¯t many other players who are as lucky as him, who work hard enough and are patient enough.


    However, he shouldn''t be overconfident and underestimate the heroes of the world.


    After all, there are many capable, determined and patient people in the world, and what they lack is often just a chance.


    He has the ability to perceive the unusualness of the game World of Spirits.


    Other players may also be able to perceive it!