After discovering that he couldn’t go offline in a combat state, Xu Fengqing’s eyes quickly roamed the cave and looked for a way to escape.
At this moment, he had completely forgotten that as a player, he could resurrect if he died. Still, even if he remembered, he probably wouldn’t do it.
Sitting still had never been his style.
Bang—bang—bang—
The mountain-like beast moved in the cave and the huge soles of its feet bombarded the ground, making Xu Fengqing feel like the mountain was shaking.
This was supposed to be an interstellar beast and it looked like an ancient dinosaur. The two beast eyes turned and scanned the cave, as if looking for something.
Xu Fengqing glanced at it and a few lines of words appeared in the air, marking the information of this interstellar beast.
[Monitor Lizard]
[Level: Lv 39
Danger: Deadly (run away if you don’t want to be its rations).]
Xu Fengqing looked solemn. Level 39 was close to a four star strength. At the current stage when the player’s level was still limited to level 30, it was crazy to defeat the monster by himself.
Not to mention, Xu Fengqing was still an account that was level 0.
He decisively gave up on the idea of resistance. He looked beyond the monitor lizard at the big hole behind it that had just been smashed by it.
He narrowed his eyes. As the monitor lizard’s gaze looked away, Xu Fengqing quickly ran and rushed toward the entrance of the cave.
This account was really strong. He felt that he had never run so quickly and it was very easy to run.
When passing by the pile of gems, he somehow couldn’t resist reaching out and quickly putting some gems into his backpack before continuing to run.
As he ran, the monitor lizard caught sight of his figure and roared to chase him. Unfortunately, its huge body was inevitably clumsy in the cave.
By the time it successfully turned around and rushed into the passage, Xu Fengqing had already run quite a large distance.
Xu Fengqing ran inside the passage dug by the monitor lizard. The passage had several twists and turns and many forks. It wasn’t stable. From time to time, stones fell on him so that he couldn’t get out of the combat state.
He pursed his lips and his gaze wandered around the dark passage.
He didn’t know what his identity was but he could still see clearly in the absence of light.
It was a novel experience.
Being chased by a giant, dinosaur-like beast in an unknown cave was something that rarely appeared in Xu Fengqing’s dreams in the past 30 years of his life.
He felt his heart beating wildly. His adrenaline was rushing but his mind calmly and quickly analyzed the situation, using all known means to escape the crisis…
There was some unexpected comfort in this thrill.
This holographic game was indeed full of endless charm. It was no wonder that Ah Heng was addicted to it.
He ran and ran and the roar behind him grew smaller and smaller. The monitor lizard seemed to have turned down another fork in the road.
Before Xu Fengqing could sigh with relief, his heart suddenly tensed and a strong sense of crisis made him stop and hurriedly retreat.
Bang!
Rubble flew and the passage in front of him had a hole smashed in it. A monitor lizard came out, looked in his direction and roared to chase him. He didn’t know if it was the same one from just now.
Xu Fengqing turned his head and ran, but he was too close to the monitor lizard. It would soon catch up with him at this speed.
What could he do…
At a critical moment, he thought of the silver-white ring on his thumb. The moment he gritted his teeth, he activated the bloodline activation skill.
As a silvery-white light lit up the ring, Xu Fengqing felt his body start to heat up. Then his vision gradually rose and his body became more powerful.
This change didn’t stop even when he was eye level with the monitor lizard. He directly rose six or seven meters high and was half a body higher than the monitor lizard.
[Bloodline activation 50%.]
[Your level has broken through to level 40, +1,000% of all attributes. The duration is 30 minutes.]
Xu Fengqing couldn’t see the full picture of his body but that didn’t matter at this moment.
Feeling the power in his body, an urge came to his heart. He stood still and turned to face the monitor lizard. He opened his mouth and roared at it.
The majestic and powerful roar was deafening. Accompanied by the roar was a coercion that was enough to make the soul tremble.
The originally imposing monitor lizard was instantly stunned.
It wanted to stop and escape the coercion that made its heart tremble. However, the momentum of the impact couldn’t be contained and it slid directly toward him.
Xu Fengqing stretched out his claws that contained sharp nails and slashed toward the monitor lizard. The bright red damage value emerged above the monitor lizard’s head along with the blood.
-12,845.
-26,887.
-29,468.
-48,004 critical hit!
Numbers kept popping up.
Xu Fengqing used the power of the bloodline activation to directly tear this monitor lizard beast apart.
Obviously, in this state, he was only one level higher than the monitor lizard but the monitor lizard in his hands had no way to fight back.
This feeling… too cool!
[You have killed a ‘Lv 39 monitor lizard’ and gained +20,000 experience points. Note: Experience from leap frogging levels isn’t counted in special conditions.]
Then there was a barrage of level up reminders.
Xu Fengqing glanced at his personal panel. He had directly broken through from level 0 to level 10.
If this account was put into the game in one or two years, it wouldn’t be too strong to gain so many levels in a short period of time and have the strength to compete with a level 39 elite monster.
However, now was the first day of the open beta.
Even if Xu Fengqing no longer understood this game, he knew how much this account would affect the balance of the game at present.
He sighed in his heart and knew that this account had to be returned.
Xu Fengqing shook his head. He was just thinking of going offline to find the R&D center but…
Bang!
Another monitor lizard broke into his field of view, presumably attracted by the smell of blood.
Xu Fengqing frowned. He looked at the status bar in the upper right corner. There was still a bit of time before the bloodline activation state was lifted. He posed to fight and as a result…
Bang—bang—bang—
More monitor lizards appeared in the passage and the number reached the point of making him feel numb.
Xu Fengqing looked at them before decisively turning around and running.
Now his body had become bigger and he ran much faster, so he wasn’t worried about being caught by them.
The only trouble was that these big guys weren’t satisfied with the corpses of the same kind and continued to chase him, biting at his back. This made Xu Fengqing not dare to relax.
Who knew that there would be a dead end ahead when running?!
Using this huge body, Xu Fengqing directly raised his foot and kicked out. There was a boom and the stone wall collapsed like paper.
The back turned out to be hollow!
Xu Fengqing stepped over and found something wrong.
Behind the stone wall seemed to be a cave. The air was filled with the smell of blood and a chill, as if it had just experienced a battle.
He looked around warily but there seemed to be no danger. At this time, small words appeared in the air again.
[The bloodline activation effect has ended. The countdown of the cooldown: 7 days.]
The symbol of seven days was indented on the status bar and the countdown began.
Xu Fengqing also felt the passing of power in his body. No, it should be converging into the depths of his body, somewhere he couldn’t explore.
His body started to shrink and his field of view decreased.
Finally, his feet slowly landed on the ground and… he met a pair of beautiful purple eyes.
Their eyes met.
Xu Fengqing never expected that there would be a person here.
The silver-haired man sat in a severely damaged wheelchair. His body was scarred and broken and the despair in his purple eyes hadn’t faded. He was caught off guard and gave people a strange shock.
“Cough cough, cough cough…”
The man coughed twice in pain. This voice finally brought Xu Fengqing back to his senses.
He saw the man’s miserable appearance and the traces left in this cave. He couldn’t help feeling surprised.
“You…”
The moment he spoke, the man with a pale face coughed and closed his eyes, fainting weakly in the wheelchair.
Xu Fengqing hurriedly stepped forward and tested his breathing. The man was still alive but his breath was weak, like a candle in the wind.
He frowned. At this moment, the solid ice supporting the ceiling of the cave made a cracking sound. It was estimated that it would completely break in less than a few seconds.
There were also the footsteps of reptiles from the passage behind him.
Xu Fengqing finally didn’t abandon the strange NPC in front of him. He bent down to carry him and ran toward the hole made by the mountain drilling beast.
The moment he ran into the passage, there was a loud bang and the ceiling finally fell completely…
Roland’s Imperial City.
Xu Sili opened the rare race panel that had just been activated. He looked at the icons on it and couldn’t help touching his chin.
He saw three icons drawn on the previously blank panel.
Two of them were side by side and looked very similar apart from the different colors. They were namely the sea elves and forest elves. Then the last one below them was—
A dark dragon.
The sea elves referred to the merfolk and the forest elves should be the land elves, in other words, an elven bloodline like Asheng. But… what was a dark dragon?
This name didn’t sound good.
He tried to click on the icon. Unexpectedly, a new page popped up after clicking it.
[Dark Demon Dragon Clan]
[Attribute: Dark.
Description: Brutal by nature, bloodthirsty, likes everything shiny and is a very powerful creature.
Chief: Not appointed.
The current population of the race: 1.
Rarity: Endangered.
Danger: Unknown.]
Looking at the column in the current population, Xu Sili couldn’t help being stunned. There was only one left?
This was really an endangered species.
He just didn’t know where the dark demon dragon was… it shouldn’t be near Roland’s five main cities, right?
Brutal and bloodthirsty by nature… if it actively harmed Roland’s people then he could only kill it.
There was only one left and it felt like a pity to kill it.
Xu Sili looked carefully at the introduction again. Then he closed the interface and continued to look at the sea elves and forest elves.
The situation of these two races was better. The number of sea elves was more than 30 while the number of forest elves was close to 100.
The chief also wasn’t appointed.
It stood to reason that these two races were quite numerous and there should be a chief… could it be because they hadn’t fully submitted to Roland?
Now the entire Escher Star belonged to the Roland Empire. As long as it was a race on Escher Star, it theoretically belonged to the Roland faction.
This was why the branches of the rare races appeared on the faction panel.
However, due to historical reasons, these races didn’t recognize the Roland Empire and didn’t accept Roland’s rule. This could be seen from Chamo’s initial attitude toward him.
This was probably the reason that he could only see so little information and couldn’t manage them directly.
Xu Sili analyzed his answer.
But then again, Chamo and September were rare ancient beasts. Why didn’t the shadow leopard and silver wolf clans appear on his panel?
Xu Sili frowned. Did something happen that he didn’t know? Just now, the system prompted that the conditions had been met and today was the day when the open beta began…
He turned on the communicator and directly found his second brother. He first asked him to come to the palace to meet before asking if there was any new gameplay in the game.
After a while, Xu Yuheng replied to him.
Seeing that some players had obtained rare accounts and were playing hidden races, Xu Sili couldn’t help secretly thinking that it was like this.
The game group was quite thoughtful and even developed a gameplay that hid races. But…
Wasn’t the sea too cruel for merfolk players right now? Xu Sili still vividly remembered the scene of fighting the four-legged beast in Glass Sea City last time.
The shore was so dangerous, let alone the sea.
However, if there were players involved in this matter, then Chamo might not have such a hard time finding his sea elf friends.
The players had an undead body. Even if they encountered sea beasts and were killed, they wouldn’t really die.
Xu Sili suddenly became interested.
Little Sea Song made him quite fond of merfolk. Since it was part of Roland’s territory, the ocean had to be recovered.
He could give the sea elves a hand while they hadn’t perished. Once the sea was recovered in the future, he could let the ocean elves manage it.
The moment he thought of doing it, Xu Sili quickly contacted Mr Bazel and asked him if he could make a potion that would allow people to breathe underwater.
The moment the message was sent, a small robot suddenly appeared.
He flashed his pair of electronic eyes and said eagerly, “Brother, I just received a strange distress signal!”
“What signal?”
“It is like… it seems to have been passed back by my doppelganger.”
“Doppelganger?” Xu Sili frowned.
“Yes. The last time we left Escher, didn’t we find a signal that someone connected to our spaceship? I secretly sent a doppelganger program over.”
Xiao Wu explained. “In the latter part, I lost contact. I originally thought I couldn’t find it but I just received the signal again!”
The moment he said this, Xu Sili remembered it.
When leaving Escher, Xiao Wu seemed to have found that the enemy was tracking them. He drove the spaceship around in a large circle before entering the safe passage again.
He hadn’t expected this little guy to be so smart and to actually send over a clone to investigate the situation. He also didn’t tell Xu Sili in a hurry before the situation was clear.
Xu Sili sighed at the growth of the little robot before asking, “What type of distress signal is it?”
If it was an enemy, why ask him for help? This was a bit weird.
“The signal is weak. I could only receive one set of coordinates. And…” Xiao Wu paused slightly.
“What else?”
The moment he spoke, he heard a familiar female voice coming from the communicator and was directly shocked on the spot.
“Little Snow, it’s me, Silin. Can you hear me?”
The voice was tinged with excitement and tears. “We aren’t dead… Imperial Brother and I didn’t die… Snow…”
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