VCRMM: Chapter 200

Xu Fengqing looked at the young man’s smile, and the feeling of returning to ten years ago hit his heart again.

He was silent. Just as he was about to say something else, the communicator on the young man’s wrist rang.

Xu Sili lowered his head and glanced at the message sent by his second brother.

Second Brother: [Xiao Li, something has happened!]

Second Brother: [What you said before about the beast wave is true. It broke out in advance!]

Xu Sili felt warm in his heart. He quickly replied to the news and reported that he was safe. He hadn’t informed his second brother about his oldest brother being rescued, but his second brother already knew.

Sure enough, Xu Yuheng quickly replied to him.

Second Brother: [I have already contacted him. Now I am online to help you solve the problem of the beast wave.]

Second Brother: [Where are you now? When will you be back? I didn’t find you in the palace.]

Xu Sili: [I’m outside. Our oldest brother is also on the spaceship.]

Second Brother: [Okay. You can ask our oldest brother. We have already discussed it.]

Xu Sili blinked and looked up at Xu Fengqing. He was just about to say something, but he couldn’t help pausing when he saw Chamo listening with interest.

“Chamo, take Asheng to rest first.”

He said, “She probably won’t wake up for a while. We will talk about the forest elves later.”

Chamo knew that the next content probably wasn’t convenient for him to listen to. He was curious about what they would say, but he nodded in understanding.

Once Chamo left, Xu Fengqing sat down on the sofa across from him.

He raised his head to look at Xu Sili. Then when he saw Si Sheng sitting next to Xu Sili, he suddenly froze.

Si Sheng keenly sensed the change in his emotions.

He hesitated for a moment. Before he could chase people away, he stood up and said with a gentle smile, “I’ll guard the door while you and your oldest brother talk.”

Xu Sili watched him disappear in place. Then he looked at his oldest brother’s unhappy eyes, and couldn’t help touching his nose.

“Si Sheng is pretty good…” He whispered.

Xu Fengqing looked at him. He didn’t really want to talk about this topic, but the moment he saw Si Sheng, he would think of those fan photos of Snow and Si Sheng.

But…

He still asked, “Do you like him?”

Xu Sili hadn’t expected his brother to suddenly ask him such a question. The tips of his ears became hot. He soon raised his head again, stared directly into the man’s eyes and said, “Yes, Big Brother.”

“I like him and I want to be with him?”

“Why?”

Xu Fengqing looked at him with an extremely serious expression. “Is it because he is the only one in this world who knows who you are?”

Xu Fengqing still remembered what Xu Sili cried and said before he went offline.

Xu Sili was startled.

Si Sheng, who was standing outside in the corridor, couldn’t help freezing. This time, Ah Li didn’t want to or he forgot to set up the soundproof enchantment. Therefore, Si Sheng clearly heard the conversation in the room.

He felt his heart trembling slightly.

Was it because he was the only one who knew who the real Ah Li was, so Ah Li liked him and chose to be with him?

Si Sheng raised his head slightly and looked at the sky outside the window in the corridor. Then the corners of his lips twitched.

What did it matter? As long as Ah Li wanted to be with him, everything else didn’t matter…

“No.” He heard the young man’s voice coming from inside the room.

“What I like is Si Sheng, the person.”

“I know what you want to say. You think it is the suspension bridge effect that made me fall in love with him, but I know very well that this isn’t the case.”

“Maybe the suspension bridge effect made our relationship closer, but before it became like this, I liked him when I was still Xu Sili.”

Si Sheng was stunned. He felt the trembling of his voice turn into another rhythm.

Ah Li just said… love.

The gloomy smile on his face disappeared in an instant. Si Sheng seemed to be swimming in sunshine or soaking in a honey pot. His whole body exuded a sweet breath.

In the room, Xu Fengqing looked at the man quietly.

He didn’t show much emotion due to this confession. He just said, “So you want to say that in the past, you fell in love with a virtual character?”

Xu Sili paused before defending it.

“By then, he already had self-awareness… He remembered everything I said to him and everything I did for him. Besides, it isn’t like there are no people obsessed with virtual characters in this world…”

His voice became lower and lower as he spoke.

In fact, he didn’t realize it at the time. He brought Si Sheng to Starry Sky Age just because he wanted to see if they could meet in the holographic game before he died.

If he couldn’t see Si Sheng, let Si Sheng assist Snow so that they could continue to exist in the game…

However, this topic wasn’t very good to say in front of his oldest brother.

Due to his willful decision, his family gave everything to give birth to this game, which he hadn’t expected in the beginning…

Xu Sili felt guilty when he thought about the information he saw in the Future Forum.

“I’m sorry.”

He lowered his head and said apologetically again.

Xu Fengqing stared at him for a long time. Then he sighed softly and reached out a hand to touch the top of his head, just as he did when Xu Sili was a child.

“Just do what you want.”

“…Xiao Li.”

Xu Sili raised his head abruptly. His eyes turned red all of a sudden. “Big Brother, you…”

Do you believe me?

Xu Fengqing looked at him helplessly. He took out a white cloth from his pocket and gently helped wipe away the tears at the corners of Xu Sili’s eyes. “You are so old but you still cry easily.”

Xu Sili sniffed.

He said, “You just called me by my nickname.”

“Yes.” Xu Fengqing nodded.

He looked at the young man in front of him with red eyes and couldn’t help smiling.

In fact, what was there to doubt?

The game team couldn’t even control the simplest game process. How could he expect them to produce a person with exactly the same personality as the prototype?

In any case, Xu Fengqing didn’t believe it now.

“If you want to be with Si Sheng, I won’t care about it,” he said. “But I don’t like him. So let him try not to appear in front of me.”

Xu Sili obediently took the handkerchief, but couldn’t help saying, “But Si Sheng is really good…”

“Whether he is good or not doesn’t affect my opinion of him,” Xu Fengqing said. “Let’s continue discussing the beast wave.”

Si Sheng, who was standing outside and listening carefully. “……”

His oldest brother had said so. Xu Sili couldn’t do anything. He could only wait and slowly change his brother’s perception of things like this in the future.

However, he still said seriously.

“Big Brother, thank you for not treating him as an NPC.”

His oldest brother might’ve said that Si Sheng was a virtual character, but based on his words, he clearly regarded Si Sheng as a real person.

Xu Fengqing paused. Then he looked up at the wall behind the young man as if he saw someone.

The moment Xu Sili looked back curiously, Xu Fengqing retracted his gaze and said softly, “It is probably because…”

“This world is too real.”

Xu Sili looked at him and nodded.

Indeed, this world was like a real world. There were many things that couldn’t be explained by simple data.

But if it wasn’t a game, how did the players get here? What about the game system?

He couldn’t figure it out, so he put it aside for the time being.

The two brothers got together to discuss it. Soon, Xu Fengqing went offline again.

Xu Sili stretched out, feeling more relaxed than before. He was about to go out to share this joy with Si Sheng, but the next moment, the man’s figure appeared in front of him.

“Sheng…”

Before he could finish speaking, the man bent down, held his face in his hands, lowered his head and kissed him.

The kiss was warm and gentle. By the time Xu Sili’s mind returned, he was already pressed on the sofa. His hands were raised above his head.

He gasped softly. Seeing Si Sheng’s crazy appearance, he guessed that this person probably heard his confession just now. Xu Sili wasn’t ashamed. He just smiled and scolded, “Aren’t you afraid that my older brother will come back again?”

Si Sheng froze when he heard this. He stopped moving his hands and looked back with some caution. Then he retracted his gaze with nervousness.

“Big Brother, he hates me,” he said in a slightly low voice.

Xu Sili couldn’t help laughing.

Seeing this pitiful appearance, he leaned forward and pecked Si Sheng on the lips.

“But I like you.”

Then he leaned toward Si Sheng’s ear and said with a bit of temptation, “When we go back to the palace tonight, do you want to take a bath together?”

Si Sheng’s gray-blue eyes lit up slightly as if stars were scattered inside. He looked at the young man greedily and whispered, “I can’t ask for it.”

The original border of Roland.

The leaders of the major brave mercenary groups were rarely gathered together. The light of the teleportation circle kept lighting up. The scattered players gathered toward this side.

In the end, the number of people gathered was about 10,000.

“Sister Yan, everyone who we can call is here,” a key member of the team told Qing Yan.

10,000. It was less than one-tenth.

However, there was nothing she could do about it. It was still daytime and many people weren’t online, unlike full-time players like them, who were in the game 24 hours a day.

Qing Yan nodded and thanked him for the hard work. Then she said in the team channel, “Lin Mu isn’t here, so I will be the commander of this battle. Does anyone have any objections?”

Now in the game, the two more powerful player forces were the two mercenary groups led by Qing Yan and Lin Mu. They were also players who were born in Imperial City.

Xu Sili had tried his best to maintain the balance, but the closed beta players who were born in Imperial City, especially the first closed beta players, had accumulated greater advantages than other players. This allowed Qing Yan and Lin Mu to rise rapidly.

IF Lin Mu was here today, there would be someone who could compete with Qing Yan. Now that he was gone, no one dared to have any objections.

Qing Yan said, “It is different from the past. It doesn’t matter how everyone fights in peacetime, but today, I hope that everyone can really unite. This battle concerns the interests of each and every one of us!”

Her words were acknowledged by everyone.

“Very well. Now follow my orders!”

According to the video of Lan Xiaoyin, some people had already calculated that at the current speed of the beast wave, they still had half a day to prepare.

They had to hurry and build the strongest fortress possible!

As Qing Yan issued orders one after another, the more than 10,000 players acted quickly like gears in a machine.

A war song played in the team channel.

This made everyone involved feel very excited. They couldn’t wait to fight a battle straight away.

Under Qing Yan’s command, thousands of earth elementalists cast spells at the same time. This caused the originally flat land to sink downwards, forming a deep trench dozens of meters wide and nearly ten meters deep.

Immediately afterward, thanks to the help of the wind elementalists, the metal elementalists fell smoothly to the bottom of the deep trench.

They placed their hands on the ground. Sharp steel bars rose up from the ground, filling the deep trenches and shining with a cold light in the sun.

Soon, another group climbed down. They dug at the ground with shovels, busily burying something.

After coming out of the deep trench, they could see that 20 or 30 meters away, another deep trench had formed. The players were doing the same thing underneath.

This would be the first and second line of defense against the beast wave.

Then the players withdrew from the deep ditch. The ground started to rise upward again. The side facing the interstellar beasts was at a 90 degree angle, while the other side was a gentle slope.

The molecular structure of this high wall was exchanged in the faction warehouse and it was stronger than the hardest steel.

There were passages in the middle for people to pass through. they could attack the enemies in front through the holes in the wall.

The moment these three lines of defense were completed, it was already noon the next day. From a distance, the dust raised by running animals could be seen. They covered the sky and sun and came in a menacing manner.

Players watching this scene could clearly hear the sound of the people around them gulping.

There were too many…

His Majesty Snow wasn’t here. Could they really resist?

At this moment, good news came.

“Sister Qing Yan, look at the faction warehouse! Now you can use your contribution points from the City of the Braces mission for equipment!” Someone reported to the group leader.

Qing Yan hurriedly opened the faction warehouse to check.

In the past, the faction warehouse could only use reputation to exchange for things and it could only be exchanged after reaching 100 reputation points. Now the server opening time was too short. The reputation of many newcomers simply wasn’t enough.

Now it could be replaced by contribution!

Not only could they change their equipment, but they could also exchange for health and mana medicine. This was simply a timely blessing for them!

“Quick. Everyone, exchange it for invisible armor. It is best to equip a laser gun. In addition, the health and mana potions should be full!”

Qing Yan ordered.

Contribution was more valuable than reputation and could be exchanged for many things, but a lot of people were a bit hesitant.

After all, contributions could be exchanged for land!

Qing Yan frowned. “Now isn’t the time to be stingy with contribution. Once the City of Braves is lost, all our previous efforts will be in vain.”

“At that time, what is the use of guarding these contributions?”

Once she finished speaking, she took the lead in exchanging a batch of materials with most of her contribution. She distributed it for free to players who didn’t have enough contribution.

Qing Yan’s move played a very good role in taking the lead. The players soon discovered that… after using their contribution points, their ranking didn’t decrease!

This undoubtedly gave them confidence and allowed them to no longer be timid when exchanging equipment and materials.

Players were distributed to their respective positions.

There were 30,000 to 40,000 more players online today than yesterday. They were all players who heard about the monsters attacking the city today, and specifically asked for leave to come and participate in the event.

Their city might not have been built but the land belonged to them. The mission of the City of the Braves clearly stated that the city would be as big as the area of land they had cleared.

They had to hold it without giving an inch!

The elementalists on the high wall used their lens in shooting mode to clearly capture the first wave of beasts that hit.

They saw that the two deep trenches, which were three to four kilometers long, were covered with dense vines. Even when looking closer, it was hard to tell that there was actually something else at the bottom.

Finally, as the players watched nervously and excitedly, the first interstellar beasts stepped on these vines.

Boom!

The vines couldn’t bear the weight of the interstellar beasts and broke one after another.

Just as the players originally designed, the interstellar beasts rolled down the deep ditch one after another like dumplings.

The sound of metal piercing flesh was accompanied by the screams of beasts. Patches of bright red damage numbers emerged from the deep trench. It was so dense that it was impossible to see the specific values.

“Ahhh, I’ve leveled up!”

A metal type player who had placed the steel bars jumped up happily. His body kept lighting up with glimmers of light representing the level up.

This was just the beginning. The interstellar beasts behind them were still pouring in. The interstellar beasts saw that something was wrong and tried to stop their limbs, but they were still knocked into the trench by the latecomers.

In the end, these interstellar beasts actually filled the deep trench that was more than ten meters deep and tens of meters wide!

Seeing that the interstellar beasts in the rear were about to rush over the corpses of their companions, Qing Yan issued a new order at the right time.

Boom boom boom!

Explosions rang out one after another in the deep trench. The interstellar beasts that were still struggling between the steel bars were suddenly turned into flesh and blood, creating a red rain.

This scene was beautified by the holy light, making it look so beautiful that many players were mesmerized by the sight.

One of the players was even dancing with joy.

It was because he was the maker of these bombs. He was the first to configure gunpowder in Starry Sky Age and successfully made a remotely controlled bomb!

Roar!

At this time, a humanoid interstellar beast was finally the first to pass through the first deep trench explosion. Its body was inevitably stained.

It looked extremely agitated. It had red eyes and roared at the players arrogantly, as if wanting to eat them alive. As a result…

The moment it stepped on the ground, it realized something was wrong. However, it was too late.

Its feet slipped and it fell on its butt. It slid all the way to the second deep ditch, Except for the screams and red damage numbers, it never appeared again.

Proofreader: Purichan