VCRMM: Chapter 180 Part 1

Xu Fengqing glanced at the caller ID.

It was Mr Wang.

He thought about it for a moment and probably understood what this person was calling for. He didn’t answer but he sent a message telling the old man to call him later.

At this time, Xenos noticed his movements. Xenos withdrew his hand and looked at him.

“Are you awake?”

He spoke in the Roland language.

There was the system’s instant translator so there was no obstacle to communication between the two of them.

Xu Fengqing nodded and held him away slightly. This way, Xenos could lean on the tree trunk while he got up and moved his stiff limbs.

He maintained the same posture for one night. It wasn’t very comfortable, even if his sense of realism was turned down.

Xenos’ unhealed body suddenly moved from the warm and soft embrace to the cold and rough bark. He instinctively shivered.

He stretched out his only remaining left hand and tugged at the coat that slipped down to his lower abdomen. Then he looked up. His pair of lilac eyes carefully observed the black-haired man in front of him.

His appearance was handsome but was also vaguely familiar to Xenos. Xenos just couldn’t remember where he had seen it.

He shook his head secretly.

Maybe he misremembered…

Xenos looked at the man’s short black hair. A giant black paw appeared in his mind, stepping on a two-star mountain drilling beast into meat paste.

Then while he was desperately waiting for death, the owner of the giant paw became the man in front of him.

The prototype was a beast and he could transform into a human form… Xenos’ eyes flashed slightly.

Could the person in front of him be a legendary ancient beast?

Now there were probably ancient beasts on Escher Star. It was possible to come and go freely in the old jungle full of interstellar beasts.

At this time, the man crouched down in front of him again.

Black eyes glanced at him. Then he grabbed the coat covering Xenos and shook it slightly.

Xenos watched his movements quietly. He felt a bit cold but this coat didn’t belong to him. It was natural for the man to take it back…

He suddenly froze.

The man unfolded the coat again. Then he grabbed Xenos’ shoulders, pulled him away from the tree trunk and draped the coat behind him. Then Xenos was gently pushed back into place.

The coat wasn’t thick but it was naturally more comfortable than leaning directly against the tree trunk.

Xenos looked at him with surprise, not expecting him to notice such a detail.

However, the man’s movements still didn’t stop. He carefully helped arrange Xenos’ collar and tied the sleeve of his coat in front of him to prevent it from slipping.

It was only then that he said, “The conditions are limited. Make do with this first.”

His voice was low and powerful, but he actually spoke the pure Roland language. This surprised Xenos a bit.

This mysterious ancient beast man… was also of Roland origin?

“Ah, thank you.”

Xenos was stunned. Some time passed before his mind returned and he said, “You…”

Xenos wanted to ask him questions but this man didn’t give him the chance.

“How are you feeling?” He asked while his palm reached out for Xenos’ forehead.

“It seems there is still a bit of a fever.”

The man frowned and raised the right hand that had just been healed by Xenos. He asked, “Do you have a way to treat yourself?”

Xenos shook his head. “Only trauma can be treated.”

Water healing had a powerful repair effect on the body. In addition to trauma, it could also repair damaged internal organs, but it had little effect on other diseases.

Xu Fengqing was a bit disappointed when he heard this. He nodded and said, “Thank you for just now.”

This referred to the treatment of his finger.

Xenos hurriedly said, “No, thank you for saving me. I…”

“You’re welcome.”

Xu Fengqing was in a bit of a hurry, so he didn’t rush to say too much to Xenos.

After all, he wasn’t a player who wanted to gain a mission from Xenos. He saved Xenos and took care of him out of sympathy for a victim and his own moral insistence.

He turned around and started cooking porridge over a fire.

Soon, flames appeared.

The blazing flames dispelled the coldness in the tree hole in the early morning. There was a melting warmth.

Xenos slowly exhaled, feeling a lot more comfortable in his body.

He stared at the busy man. He saw the man’s neat movements and cold facial lines and knew that this person didn’t want to speak. Therefore, Xenos wisely closed his mouth.

The man took clean water out of nowhere, washed a handful of Black Valley and threw it into a bowl-shaped leaf. He added water and placed it on the rack of stones to cook.

After doing all of this, he looked at Xenos again.

Xenos thought he would finally be able to talk. Then he heard this person say, “I’ll leave in a while. It will be around ten minutes. Pay attention to yourself.”

He was so resolute that Xenos could only nod.

This man should have the dark attribute. He watched the man pull a shadow out of the corner, prop up a ‘tent’ and block everything in the outside world, including…

Sunlight.

Xenos couldn’t help his heart thumping. His face turned pale in an instant.

Fortunately, there was still the light of the flames in the tree hole. This way, this small space didn’t fall into complete darkness.

Xenos felt the depression in his heart but finally didn’t say anything. Once the man said goodbye to him, he nodded slightly and watched the man’s figure disappear in place.

He wasn’t very surprised. After all, this was an ‘ancient beast.’ It wasn’t surprising for him to have any magical abilities.

The tree hole was completely quiet. There was only the sound of firewood burning. The originally small space seemed a bit empty after there was one less person.

It was just like his heart at this moment.

After four years of being underground, he should be accustomed to the darkness. But after seeing the light, he couldn’t bear it any longer.

Xenos took a deep breath, endured it and extended his spiritual power again. At the very least, he could continue to see the scene outside through his spiritual power.

Even if it was only a range of ten meters.

Silin…

He didn’t know how she was doing now?

After thinking of something, Xenos raised his hand and touched his chest. However, he felt nothing. He had lost his communicator.

He lowered his hand in disappointment.

Since the base station had been repaired and messages could be sent, Silin and the others should be rescued soon, right? Xiao Wu had real skills…

He just hoped that Silin, that girl, didn’t do anything stupid…

Xenos couldn’t help frowning, his eyes full of worry.

“Dad, Mom.”

Xu Fengqing left the game cabin and quickly washed up. Then he walked out of the room to find Father and Mother Xu, who were still eating breakfast.

Seeing him come out, Mother Xu quickly gave him a bowl of porridge and said to him in a talkative manner, “Eat more. I see that you have been busy and lost weight in recent months.”

“You two brothers are really the same. It isn’t easy to have a meal together when you are free. Meanwhile, Xiao Heng is busy again.”

Xu Fengqing didn’t think much about it and just soothed her. “Starry Sky Age has just started the open beta in the past two days and he will be a bit busy. It will be fine after this time.”

“I hope so.”

Mother Xu gave him some buns and fried dough sticks. Then she asked, “When can your father and I enter the game? I really want to see Xiao Li.”

Xu Fengqing couldn’t help pausing after seeing her earnest and fragile eyes.

After Xiao Li’s plane crash, his father had a heart attack while his mother’s mental state became unstable. They couldn’t bear the stimulation.

Xu Fengqing put down his bowl and chopsticks. His originally deep and cold tone slightly softened.

He said softly, “You wait a little longer. The R&D center is already stepping up the testing. I know you miss Xiao Li, but your body is more important. You need to be cautious.”

“You say that every time…”

Mother Xu said with disappointment, “Okay, okay. I’ve already been waiting ten years. It isn’t too late.”

“I’m going to talk to Zhao Zhao and Chen Chen. My little babies are so caring.”

She left the dining room. Soon, the sound of her talking to her grandchildren came from the other side of the living room.

Eight years ago, Xu Fengqing divorced his ex-wife. Their twin children, Xu Zhaowang and Xu Chenxi, had been living with the two families in turn, changing every six months.

In the past six months, they had been with their mother and only came occasionally on weekends.

Xu Fengqing pursed his lips and picked up the bowl and chopsticks again.

He heard Father Xu say, “Your mother is like this. Don’t take it to heart. You have already done a good job.”

Xu Fengqing nodded.

He had long passed the age of being hurt by words. He thought about how there was still a person in danger waiting for him in the game and hurriedly finished his meal. He returned to his room again.

Ten minutes had passed but he couldn’t enter the game yet.

Xu Fengqing lay down in the game cabin and finally called Old Wang back. The old man was really looking for him about the matter of the game cabin.

“Old Wang, it will take some time for me to return the game cabin to you,” Xu Fengqing said bluntly.

“I listened to Xiao Xu. You have logged in and bound your account, right?” Old Wang asked.

“Yes, I’m sorry.”

“You don’t need to say that. The person who should be sorry is me. There was a mistake on our side. You didn’t do anything wrong in this matter. It is just that since there is a problem, we have to find a way to solve it. You should’ve experienced the power of this account. According to the original plan, it should’ve been activated in a year or two…”

Xu Fengqing was about to say something, but now he just listened to Old Wang.

“It is a very special account. It is different from the braves setting of ordinary players. It has an independent main plotline and skill system, which is deeply involved with the game itself.”

“So it isn’t allowed to be deleted or restarted.”

Ordinary players could delete the account because they were ‘outsiders’ to Starry Sky Age. An ‘outsider’ who no longer appeared wouldn’t have much of an impact on the game.

But the dark dragon was different.

Unbinding was equivalent to killing the dark dragon. It was considered a real death in the game. Once someone replaced it and it ‘respawned’, it would be regarded as a bug by the main brain and cleared.

Proofreader: Purichan