They watched helplessly as Grumpy Little Rabbit suddenly disappeared, exposing the ten man team in mid-air. They were all stunned.
Lin Mu was also a bit sluggish.
The anti-addiction system for minors was a problem he hadn’t considered before setting off!
“Oh s*it, little rabbit is actually a minor! This is a bit of a pitfall,” someone said in the team channel.
“How long does it take to prevent addiction?”
Lin Mu quickly calmed down and asked.
“Once every two hours, with an interval of eight hours,” a team member who learned about it said.
In other words, if they were online for two consecutive hours then they would have to enter the anti-addiction mode and could only continue playing after eight hours.
By this calculation, the maximum time the child could be online was four hours a day.
Without Grumpy Little Rabbit, they wouldn’t be able to complete the mission. Then when would they be able to reach the land of the sea elves?
“So what should we do now? Can anyone contact Little Rabbit in real life?”
They discussed it in the team channel.
“It is useless even if we get in touch with him in real life. If he can’t log in, everything will be in vain.”
“Are we just going to wait here?”
One of the wind elementalists took out a bottle of blue medicine and drank it to replenish his rapidly depleting magic power.
“Clear the monsters first.”
He glanced at the interstellar beasts flying in the distance and quickly entered combat mode.
Without Rabbit’s cloaking halo, they were targets flying in the air. They were constantly spotted by passing flying beasts.
Fortunately, the players were now at a higher level. Their health wasn’t as good as that of NPCs but their attacks weren’t weak.
After all, they were the top 10 players and had very high requirements for their own strength. It wasn’t just their level. Their equipment and weapons were basically complete.
During the last beast wave, they were considered to be the group of players who benefited the most.
In addition to level and equipment, the most important thing was their combat awareness.
They were all top level players. A holographic game might be different from keyboard mobile games, but the combat habits and awareness they developed in their early years were still very useful.
There was no need for Lin Mu to command at all. They cooperated to fight the interstellar beasts.
It took them around ten minutes to clear out several monsters nearby. There were no casualties and they only lost some health.
The tricky thing was that there were interstellar beasts that smelled blood from a distance and were heading towards them.
“What should we do now? Keep fighting?”
Wang Yang asked as he drank the blood medicine.
If they left, Grumpy Little Rabbit would fall into the sea as soon as he came online because he had no flying skills. They would be separated.
But if they continued to stay here, they would face more and more flying interstellar beasts besieging them.
It was because their fight would definitely create noise and the smell of blood. For example, on the sea surface below, the corpses of several interstellar beasts had fallen down and attracted sea beasts to eat them.
Now the sea surface there was dyed red.
These sea beasts that shared food would also attract interstellar beasts to come and hunt them.
In short, it was dangerous to continue staying here.
Lin Mu frowned deeply. It was impossible to avoid it by going offline.
After they went offline, their characters would stay for ten minutes and only disappear when the time was up. During those ten minutes, anything could happen.
This was the charm and headache of a game with 99.9% realism.
Just as he was about to give the order to defend to the death, a faint blue halo appeared again and covered everyone.
Lin Mu was stunned and looked toward the center of the crowd.
The young man, who had just disappeared, reappeared again with a leaf in his hand. The necklace hanging around his neck emitted a faint blue light.
“F*k, weren’t you affected by the anti-addiction?”
Wang Yang couldn’t help speaking loudly. His voice also attracted the attention of several others.
Everyone was a bit shocked when they saw Grumpy Little Rabbit appear again. Could it be that a bug finally appeared in Starry Sky Age?
The boy scratched his head awkwardly when he suddenly became the focus of everyone. He said, “I’m sorry. I was affected by the anti-addiction method and caused you trouble.”
“So how did you get back so soon?”
Qing Yan couldn’t help being curious. “Isn’t it said that it would take eight hours?”
“Oh, I did the test.”
Grumpy Little Rabbit explained with a relaxed look. “I can continue playing after I finish the test paper.”
The player who had explained it earlier felt unwell when faced with the questioning looks from others.
“It is true that doing the test paper can remove the anti-addiction feature, but isn’t it said that you need to get 90 points on a test paper to pass? In addition, the questions are all real test questions from previous years, so they aren’t easy!”
Everyone’s eyes shifted to Grumpy Little Rabbit again.
The boy blinked and said hesitantly, “Not really… it isn’t hard… maybe I am more familiar with it because I have done it so many times. There are also more multiple choice questions…”
“How many points did you get in the test just now?” Qing Yan asked.
“98?”
Everyone couldn’t help gasping when they heard this.
They looked at each other and then gave him a thumbs up.
“Awesome!”
”A top student!”
”Genius!”
Even the team members who felt that the boy had led them into a trap before couldn’t help admiring him and no longer had any opinions on him.
[What the, what type of mediocre little exam genius is this?]
[The anti-addiction questions are very difficult! There might be only 20 questions, but it is incredible to finish them in 10 minutes! I worship the master.]
[Can God Rabbit make a guide to answering questions? This minor who is warned against addiction every day is crying.]
One team member started a live broadcast and their mission attracted a lot of attention. Combine it with this dramatic scene and the popularity continued to rise.
The live broadcast room was quickly flooded with comments asking for strategies on how to answer the questions.
The team member told Grumpy Little Rabbit about this.
The boy blushed again.
He scratched his head and said, “Sorry, I don’t have time to make a strategy right now.”
Then he looked at Qing Yan again. “Sister Qing Yan, I forgot to tell you in advance just now. I’m sorry. Nothing happened to everyone, right?”
“It has been less than 15 minutes. What can happen?”
Qing Yan waved her hand in a nonchalant manner. Then she looked at Lin Mu. “Old Lin, Little Rabbit is back so let’s go quickly. He will have to do the anti-addiction test in two hours.”
Everyone finally reacted.
Yes, Little Rabbit would encounter the anti-addiction feature after being online for two hours. But if he could pass the test every time, the situation would be much better.
“Go, let’s go first!”
Lin Mu gave the order quickly.
Thus, this team of 11 people headed again in the direction pointed by Little Rabbit.
Having lost their target, the flying interstellar beasts changed direction and rushed toward the sea surface. They fought the sea beasts and the area of blood spread gradually and expanded.
However, in the eyes of the players, there was only a golden holy light there so it looked quite beautiful.
“Little Rabbit, tell me when there are ten minutes left until the anti-addiction feature.”
At this time, Lin Mu spoke.
“Okay.” Grumpy Little Rabbit nodded quickly. “I will try to answer the questions as quickly as possible and come back early.”
Lin Mu hummed. Then he asked, “Do you still have to go to school?”
“Oh, it’s okay. I’m on leave.”
Lin Mu didn’t say anything else. The group flew over the sea. Every two hours or so, they would stop and wait for Grumpy Little Rabbit to finish the questions before continuing on their way.
At first, there was a gambling game in the barrage of comments in the live stream room, betting on how many times Grumpy Little Rabbit would fail the anti-addiction system.
However, the boy broke their expectations time and time again. In the end, everyone became numb and the team members no longer had any worries or concerns.
Later, the bet became how many minutes it would take Grumpy Little Rabbit to come out. They also played a game of estimating the score.
In any case, players could always find fun on their own.
Finally, after flying for around 20 days, the 11 person team stopped somewhere above the sea.
Grumpy Little Rabbit’s perception of the Tree of Life became increasingly clear. The green arrow in front of him no longer shifted but pointed directly at his feet.
This journey hadn’t been easy.
On the way, they also encountered a storm. Fortunately, they successfully went offline before the storm approached and waited until the wind was calm before going back online.
If it was an ordinary elementalist, they definitely wouldn’t be able to bear flying over the sea for such a long time without any place to stay.
But the players were different. They could relax their tense nerves by going offline and taking a rest. There were other entertainment methods in real life that could help them relieve their emotions.
Most importantly, they had faction warehouses and system malls.
The entire Escher Star was the territory of the Roland Empire. This meant that players could use the faction warehouse unhindered no matter where they were on Escher Star.
Before, Grumpy Little Rabbit could use it but he rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with NPCs and tasks. Thus, his reputation wasn’t enough. Now the situation was different.
The boy munched on a chocolate bar he bought from the mall and pointed to the sea below. “The land of the sea elves is right below. We have to enter the water.”
After more than three weeks of experience, Grumpy Little Rabbit’s mentality had changed dramatically.
He never thought this journey would be so easy!
Some team members complained that flying all the time was too boring, but he was the only one who knew how blissful such boredom was.
Compared to his previous two months of drifting on the seabed, this trip was like being in heaven.
He was now familiar with these ten brothers and sisters and was no longer as shy as before.
“How long will it be until your anti-addiction feature?” Lin Mu asked him.
Grumpy Little Rabbit looked at it and replied, “20 minutes left.”
“Then wait a bit longer until you finish the test paper.”
Lin Mu said, “Everyone, rest here and check if there is anything missing. The situation under the sea is much more complicated than in the sky. We have to be careful.”
The team of eleven people stayed in mid-air, protected by equipment that concealed their aura. This meant they didn’t have to worry too much.
At this time, Lin Mu took out a piece of bread from his backpack and gently threw it into the sea.
“Roar!”
Suddenly, a huge sea beast jumped out of the originally calm sea, bit the bread in one bite and fell back into the sea.
Even though they were far away in the air, they could still smell the stench coming from the sea beast’s mouth when it jumped up and opened its mouth.
The team members, who had been excited because they could finally go into the water, now looked solemn.
It was too dangerous in this sea!
Underwater, around ten of thousands of meters deep on the seabed, a big tree was quietly immersed in the sea water and emitting a faint blue light.
Beneath its canopy, 20 or 30 merfolk gathered together. They looked out beyond the protection of the Tree of Life with sorrow and despair.
They saw sea beasts densely distributed around them, as if waiting for the moment when the Tree of Life lost its power.
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