VCRMM: Chapter 240

Late at night, everything was silent.

The door to the bedroom was originally closed, but there was suddenly a squeaking sound. It was as if someone was pushing it from behind.

Si Sheng sat up on the bed and stared at the door. He didn’t move because with his ability, he already knew who was pushing open the door.

He waited quietly.

Soon, the door opened a crack with the last soft sound. The tall figure of the silver-haired young man appeared behind the door.

He walked into the bedroom and closed the door behind him.

In the darkness, he moved lightly and approached slowly.

Si Sheng looked at his figure, Adam’s apple moving slightly. The painful and fearful emotions in his heart seemed to be soothed by his proximity.

“Ah Li…”

He couldn’t help calling out softly.

Xu Sili came to his bedside. He knew that this man must not be asleep yet. Even if he was asleep, he must’ve noticed when Xu Sili made such a big noise.

“Do you know that you are wrong?”

Xu Sili looked down, expression still as frosty as ever. He showed indifference and alienation under the cold moonlight.

However, Si Sheng wasn’t deceived by his appearance.

After all, Xu Sili said he wanted to punish Si Sheng but in this silent night, he took the initiative to come to his room.

Si Sheng slowly moved to the edge of the bed, reached out an arm to wrap around his waist, buried his face in the young man’s arms and said in a low voice, “I am repenting for the mistakes I have made.”

Xu Sili felt his body tremble. His lips curled up as he finally hugged back while running Si Sheng’s golden hair with his other hand.

“Now that you know you were wrong, treat me better in the future.”

He could guess why Si Sheng was guilty and blamed himself. This was why Xu Sili didn’t want him to see the future forum.

This guy was so smart. He liked to think wildly and then torture himself.

He also didn’t know what happened in the timeline of the future forum that prevented him from being reborn before the first closed beta of the game.

He only thought it was because he didn’t get a chance to be reborn. Meanwhile, Si Sheng… probably felt that Si Sheng killed him, right?

In that situation, he would’ve indeed died in the hands of Si Sheng if he didn’t have the singing skill to activate ‘Binding’.

But was Si Sheng wrong?

His methods might be a bit extreme, but he was indeed fulfilling his mission to protect Roland.

Si Sheng took his hand, placed his cheek against Xu Sili’s palm and rubbed against it lovingly. “Didn’t you say you wanted to punish me? Why…?”

Xu Sili rolled his eyes.

“I said that you aren’t allowed to go to my bed. I didn’t say I couldn’t go to your bed.”

Si Sheng couldn’t help laughing, but didn’t remind the young man that his previous sentence meant sleeping in separate rooms.

“Why? You don’t want to see me?” Xu Sili raised an eyebrow.

“Do you think it is possible?”

“Hmph, I don’t know who packed up his things and came over here as soon as he came back?”

Si Sheng looked up at him and touched his cheek. “I just feel that I really need to accept punishment and remember the sins I have committed.”

Xu Sili frowned.

Sin? Was it so serious?

“Then I order you to stop thinking about these things.” He held the man’s face, bent down and pressed against his forehead.

The eyes of the two people stared at each other.

“Si Sheng, you are the most important person to me in this world. I hope you are happy when you are with me.”

“Let the past go. We have a long, long future.”

“We can build Roland together, wait until the time is right and leave for interstellar adventures. After we are tired, we can find a habitable planet to live in seclusion and grow old together.”

“The future is still long. So many wonderful things are waiting for us. Why waste time on things that have been left in the past and can no longer happen again?”

The young man’s voice was gentle and clear. In the silent night, it had the power to penetrate people’s hearts and hit the depths of their souls.

Si Sheng listened to these words and seemed to see an infinitely bright future in front of his eyes.

Let’s… grow old together?

This simple sentence sounded so touching.

“Ah Li, you disappeared in another timeline…” Si Sheng stared at him. “From the moment I learned this information, I fell into fear. It is the fear of almost killing you by mistake.”

“But I won’t be afraid any longer because I can’t lose you again… I will always stay by your side. Even if you one day get tired of me, I won’t leave.”

Xu Sili rubbed the tip of his nose and chuckled. “Why are you speaking so pitifully? If I get tired of you, would I stay up in the middle of the night and come over to tease you?”

Si Sheng’s lips curled up as he whispered, “Yes, I understand.”

Xu Sili saw the man’s slight smile and the deep affection in the gray-blue eyes that made him almost indulge in them. Finally, he couldn’t help lowering his head to kiss Si Sheng.

The two of them hugged each other.

The kiss was gentle and passionate. It seemed no different from the past, but seemed a bit more profound. It was as if tonight, their hearts were closer to each other…

There had been a lot of discussion about elemental cannons on the Starry Sky Forum lately.

There were still a lot of teams taking on this mission. After all, they could learn the elemental cannon blueprints for free. The officials also provided materials for them to practice. If they completed the task, they would receive a reward of 100,000 Escher coins!

They had to pay for the materials if they failed the mission, but who would play the game expecting to fail?

The number of teams that successfully registered had exceeded 9,000. Based on the minimum of 50 teammates, around half the players had signed up for this mission.

But when they really started to learn how to make it, they realized… this thing is really difficult!

The blueprint in the first stage was just to make some parts, but for novices like them, the scrap rate was too high!

In order to improve efficiency and overcome this problem, players no longer cared about anything else. They posted on the forum to discuss strategies.

They didn’t believe it. Hundreds of thousands of people were working together to study it and there were many fans helping out. Could it be that they still couldn’t complete this small task?

Then an ID called ‘Xingzhi’ entered the views of the players.

Someone took the blueprints of the parts to the weapons store to build them and was almost mercilessly kicked out by the NPC. But it turned out that the only player in the weapons store stopped it.

The player called ‘Xingzhi’ was naturally Yin Xing, who worked as an apprentice in the weapons store.

During this time, he was still studying in the weapons store. The weapons master, Abel, really liked him and taught him as an apprentice. His own weapons master level had also reached the beginner level.

Unlike a pharmacist, the weapons master was a very difficult profession that required high physical fitness. Even now, Yin Xing still had to practice with iron for two hours every day.

It wasn’t known if it was his illusion, he found that even though he stayed in the game 24 hours a day and only went offline for routine check-ups and taking medicine, his real body seemed a bit stronger than before.

After he was paralyzed in a car accident, he had been lying in bed and he couldn’t exercise even if he wanted to.

The moment he realized this fact, he was no longer vague and lazy when striking iron in the game.

It might just be his psychological effect, but people in the abyss would struggle to seize it whenever he saw a bit of hope.

It was also due to this hard work that he gained the favor of Master Abel.

In fact, Yin Xing was an architectural designer. In the early stage of the game, he originally wanted to engage in construction but he ended up becoming a weapons master by accident. Even he hadn’t expected it.

Recently, Su Mo came to him to build weapons so he also met Chi Yu, a famous architect in the game.

After the two of them had a simple exchange, Chi Yu would come to sit with him every time and chat with him. Yin Xing didn’t waste what he had learned in architecture.

In short, Yin Xing felt it was incredible every time he thought about his experiences during this period.

Regarding the production of the elemental cannons, he was interested in the blueprint taken out by the player and had it left behind.

Then the parts that stumped countless players were built easily with a 90% success rate.

From this perspective, the skills of weapon masters and alchemists had something in common. In the end, Master Abel gave him an affirmative answer.

Due to the extremely high success rate of building parts, he entered the players’ field of view.

Since then, people came to him every day to buy parts. However, Yin Xing had his own training mission and usually only accepted the first 50 players.

He didn’t agree even if others offered him a high price to build it.

After all, the Yin family was one of the partners of Starry Sky Age and he wasn’t short of money at all.

Everyone sighed with regret. Many people simply entered the weapons store to learn blacksmithing. They prepared to become a weapon master’s apprentice and then build elemental cannons.

Even Xu Sili didn’t expect that the elemental cannon was obviously an alchemical product, but it accidentally made the profession of weapon master popular.

However, the path for players to become weapon masters wasn’t smooth sailing. Striking iron for a month was the biggest obstacle, but for the sake of the elemental cannon blueprint, everyone could only fight.

The production of the elemental cannon was in full swing. On this day, a new post appeared that instantly aroused everyone’s nerves.

“Extra extra, the underwater breathing potion will be released soon! We might be marching into the ocean!”

Looking at this title, it was hard for the players who loved adventures to not get excited.

[Underwater breathing potion? Is it real or fake?]

[It is more real than real gold! I am one of the pharmacists responsible for the production. We have obtained the formula and need to complete the task within a month, or it might be recycled.]

[Can the formula still be recycled after learning it?]

[After all, this is a game. Maybe there is a function to make the players forget?]

[Upload the formula to the forum.]

[No, it can’t be uploaded.]

[No photos, no truth.]

[You can believe it or not. I will continue to make the medicine.]

After the dialogue on the first few forum replies, the poster disappeared, leaving the players to discuss the matter of the underwater breathing potion.

Glass Sea City, somewhere on the beach.

A corpse that looked like a boy washed up on the coast. The strange thing was that his lower body turned out to be a fishtail with scales!

After the corpse washed up on the coast, a small interstellar beast flew down from the sky. Just as it was about to have a meal, it saw the dead boy suddenly opening his eyes.

“F*k! I finally died while ashore!”

Proofreader: Purichan