VCRMM: Chapter 171

Xu Fengqing’s investment and understanding of Starry Sky Age was no less than Xu Yuheng. He even knew more because of his identity.

After all, it was a project that took ten years to conceive using all his heart and property. How could he only blindly pour money into it?

He had hardly played any online games but he also knew that he couldn’t be at a regular birth point right now.

What’s more, he recalled the process when he just entered the game.

It seemed that in addition to naming and customizing his appearance, there was an important step missing?

Yes, it was the step of choosing his professional talent.

Xu Fengqing frowned but didn’t panic. He looked up and around him. His field of view was pitch black and he could only vaguely see that there seemed to be a wall around him.

He reached out and fumbled to touch the wall.

It didn’t seem to be a wall. It was hard with a sense of flexibility, as if…

Xu Fengqing pushed hard. Accompanied by a clicking sound, cracks appeared on the ‘wall’ in front of him, centered on his palm. Light penetrated through the cracks.

He squinted slightly and continued to exert force on his hand.

The shimmering cracks spread and more and more fine lines appeared. Finally, there was a soft bang and the ‘wall’ in front of him completely shattered and collapsed.

The sudden strong light made Xu Fengqing squint uncomfortably. After getting used to it, he pushed away the broken wall again and looked outside.

It seemed to be a dry and warm cave. Not far away, there were piles of shining gems. The bright light that had almost stabbed his eyes was being emitted from this hill-like pile of gems.

It also wasn’t a wall that surrounded him but…

An eggshell?

Xu Fengqing looked at the white object in front of him and was slightly stunned.

At this moment, the system notification sounded in his ears. At the same time, words appeared in the air in front of him.

[Welcome to Starry Sky Age.]

[You woke up from the seal and found that you have lost all your memories and only remembered your name—Yundan Fengqing (light clouds and gentle breeze)]

[After experiencing confusion and uneasiness, you have decided to retrieve your memories and find the person who sealed you here.]

[Then, Yundan Fengqing, go and embark on the unknown adventure that belongs to you!]

[Ding~ You have triggered the main mission ‘Who Am I?’]

[Description: Please look for the past and figure out who you are. Reward: Unknown.]

Xu Fengqing looked at the system notification carefully and frowned slightly. This was different from the game mechanics he had learned.

Didn’t the players descend to this world as braves from another world to save the NPCs and rebuild the empire?

Seal? Looking for memories?

He felt as if something had gone wrong.

At this time, the ‘egg’ where he was located, which had a broken hole, suddenly trembled.

Xu Fengqing hurriedly went out of the hole, turned around and looked at the white ‘egg’ emitting a slight silver-white light. Then it shattered into a small point of light and something fell out of the light.

He reached out and caught it. Then he found that it was actually a silver ring.

Xu Fengqing glanced at it and the information of the ring appeared.

[Silver White Couple Ring]

[Description: It seems to be one of a pair of rings. The origin is unknown.

Quality: Gold.

Effects: 1. After wearing it, you will automatically get a layer of armor and reduce elemental damage by 50%.

2. Bloodline activation: After activating the skill, the power contained in your bloodline will be activated for 30 minutes.

Durability: 100.

Status: Bound.

Owner: Yundan Fengqing]

Xu Fengqing raised an eyebrow. Sending him equipment at the beginning? It was also gold quality.

The equipment quality of Starry Sky Age was divided into eight levels: wood, iron, copper, silver, gold, epic, legend and myth. Gold quality was close to epic and it could be regarded as the highest level of equipment that ordinary players could get.

The other three higher qualities basically needed to be obtained through difficult missions.

Xu Fengqing recalled the information he had read before and felt that the current situation was even stranger.

Still, he wore the ring on his hand.

He just wanted to explore this birth point when more system notifications popped up.

[Ding~ Successfully triggered the ordinary mission-‘Missing Soldier’.]

[Description: On the Glass Sea Plains, there have been soldiers who have disappeared recently. Please go to the border of Roland’s Imperial City or Glass Sea City and look for the city guards to understand the situation. Rewards: A small amount of experience points, reputation and clues related to the Glass Sea Plains trial.]

[Ding~ Yushu Linfeng has requested to add you as a friend.]

[Accept][Reject]

Xu Fengqing closed the previous notification and clicked to accept the friend request. A voice request came directly.

“Brother, where are you?”

Xu Yuheng’s voice rang in his ears. “Why can’t I add you to the team?”

Xu Fengqing looked around. “I don’t know.”

“You aren’t really playing an account with a hidden race, are you? Is it a sea elf? Is your birth point at the bottom of the sea?” Xu Yuheng asked anxiously before sending him a forum post.

Xu Fengqing opened the post and glanced at it a few times. Then he shook his head and replied, “I’m not a merman.”

“What are you?”

“I don’t know yet.” Xu Fengqing’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Did you do something again?”

“I didn’t!”

Xu Yuheng instinctively denied it. He was really wronged. What did this matter have to do with him?

“The R&D center just called me and said that your character’s attributes are relatively strong and it was originally planned to be released in a year or two. Then they accidentally made a mistake and gave it to me…”

He asked cautiously again, “Big brother, do you want to unbind the account and create a new account? I can go and get you another game cabin.”

It was a hidden race with good attributes, but who knew where the birth point was? They couldn’t even form a team! He might as well change accounts.

Xu Fengqing’s thin lips pursed and his brow was deeply furrowed.

“No need,” he whispered.

Hearing this, Xu Yuheng suddenly thought he was about to abandon the game and quickly said, “Brother, don’t give up halfway. It is really fast. It will be ready soon! I will contact them now…”

“Forget it.”

Xu Fengqing interrupted him, expression a bit dark. “I’ll solve it myself.”

Then Xu Fengqing hung up the call.

He stood in place, rubbing the silver ring with his thumb while frowning deeply. His dark eyes looked around the cave that was his birth point.

Even he had to admit that Starry Sky Age had a powerful charm. At least for now, he actually wanted to explore it.

Xu Fengqing shook his head and suppressed this ridiculous idea.

This character should belong to a player and the plot should also be explored by future players. As a publisher, he couldn’t do things that upset the balance of the game.

If he did this, he would be giving his opponents a handle and it would also ruin the game.

He thought like this and was about to go offline to find someone from the R&D center and ask them to send someone over to unbind the game cabin and change to another one. As a result…

Bang—!

The cave wall was suddenly broken by something and rubble splashed everywhere. Xu Fengqing instinctively blocked it with his arm.

In the flying dust, he saw a giant beast several meters tall, like a small mountain, appear in front of him. Above his head, the splashing rubble caused damage values such as ‘-1’ and ‘-2.’

Xu Fengqing calmly retreated a few steps and hid behind a rock. He was about to continue going offline when he found that—

[You are in a combat state and can’t go offline.]

Looking at the system notification, Xu Fengqing couldn’t help gritting his teeth.

***

The original border of Roland, an underground cave.

“An interstellar beast has broken in!”

An ordinary warrior guarding the entrance of the cave shouted a warning. The long sword in his hand was already stabbing toward the giant snake that rushed in.

As the weather became warmer, the interstellar beasts became more active. When Her Highness Silin was present before, she could control the wind elements to cover their smell.

Then Her Highness went out to repair the base station for many days and didn’t return. The wind enchantment she set up had long become invalid and it was easier for hungry interstellar beasts to find them.

Now it was the third wave of interstellar beast attacks that they had resisted.

This ordinary warrior was brave but it was a pity that facing this two star giant snake, his long sword couldn’t break through the snakeskin at all. He was overturned in an instant.

When the giant snake opened its mouth and was about to swallow him, a metal dagger suddenly flew over and slammed into the giant snake’s eye.

The giant snake screamed in pain and rolled over at the entrance of the cave. But the dagger didn’t stop after it was inserted into its eye. It continued to penetrate until even the hilt of the sword pierced into the giant snake’s eye, leaving a deep, bloody hole.

Another ordinary warrior ran out of the hole and grabbed his companion who was thrown out, checking his injuries.

Fortunately, he didn’t die.

His Highness Xenos was here. As long as this person was still alive, he wouldn’t die.

In the past four years, the existence of His Highness Xenos had almost been their greatest guarantee for survival in this crisis-ridden wilderness.

At this time, the giant snake crashed to the ground.

The dagger inserted into its body broke out from the abdominal cavity, turning into a bearded man covered in blood.

“Lord James, are you okay?” The ordinary warrior asked.

James waved his hand and looked at the corpse of the giant snake, his face solemn.

Silin, Brady and Abner went out to perform the mission of repairing the base station and he was the only elementalist left behind. He was a metal warrior whose strength exceeded two and a half stars and was moving toward three stars.

Warriors could manipulate and change their bodies, but they couldn’t manipulate the elements to change the environment like spiritualists. Now that this giant snake had destroyed the entrance of the cave, the smell of blood would soon attract more interstellar beasts.

They would be in trouble next!

“Take him to His Highness to heal his injuries first. I will deal with this snake,” James said.

“We will obey!”

The warrior picked up his companion and walked deep into the passage.

Xenos was sitting in the passage, using the water element to make water. He heard the movement and his spiritual power extended over.

He was slightly relieved when he noticed that the battle had calmed down but he was also aware of James’s concerns.

After James disposed of the corpse of the giant snake, he would generate cold ice to block the entrance of the cave…

He thought of a solution and took back his spiritual power. Then he looked at the entrance of the passage and waited for the wounded warrior to be carried back to heal him.

However…

Boom—!

The underground cave shook like there was an earthquake. The walls and ceilings that had been reinforced by Abner collapsed one by one.

“Your Highness Xenos!”

The eager shouts of the warrior came from the mouth of the passage. He tried to drop his companion and run toward Xenos, but a huge rock fell from the ceiling and directly blocked the entrance of the passage.

Sitting in a wheelchair, Xenos could only watch as mountain drilling beasts emerged from the ceiling, walls and floor.

They were fighting.

Every spring, in addition to foraging, this was the season when interstellar beasts competed fiercely for mates.

It was just that when it came to finding prey, the matter of mating was generally left behind. For example… right now.

Xenos looked at the beasts who had stopped fighting and were staring at him. He could even see saliva dripping from their mouths.

He was the only one left in the cave…

The silver-haired man looked at them and then at his broken body. Suddenly, the corners of his mouth twitched and he laughed.

“Xiao Wu, I don’t seem to be able to wait for you…”

He murmured and his voice seemed somewhat relieved. Then he raised his remaining hand and a blue light flashed. A thick wall of ice rose up but—

The passage was blocked and the heart-piercing cries of the warriors were isolated outside.

Meanwhile, the mountain drilling beast closest to Xenos had already pounced on him.

Just as it was about to kill him, an ice thorn rose from the ground and stabbed right into the abdomen of the beast.

Roar!

Blood flowed everywhere and the beast hung on the ice thorn, wailing in pain.

The silver-haired man trapped in the wheelchair looked at its violent struggle and the smile on his face didn’t fade. It was just that his reddened purple eyes revealed a bit of suppressed madness.

In the face of the other mountain drilling beasts that took action and attacked him, he didn’t dodge and the smile on his face just widened.

“Die. Come to hell with me.”

As his demon-like whisper entered his ears, ice thorns rose from the ground and instantly stabbed several mountain drilling beasts.

They rolled on the ground and roared. The other interstellar beasts had their ferocity aroused and completely ignored their injuries. They continued to rush toward Xenos but were frozen by the ice and moved slowly.

Xenos stared at them in a deadly manner and released his magic power recklessly. As several mountain drilling beasts were killed by him, his face became paler and paler.

Finally, a mountain drilling beast made a counterattack before dying. It used all its strength to stab its sharp horn toward the ceiling!

The top of the cave, which was already precarious because of their battle, finally couldn’t support it and fell down.

Xenos closed his eyes and waited for death to come.

He had been waiting for this moment for a long time but suddenly heard…

Beep beep.

The clear notification of the communicator was heard.

Xenos was startled. In the light, he used his last magic power to generate an ice wall, barely supporting the collapsed ceiling.

Then with great difficulty, he picked up the communicator hanging around his chest.

Silin: [Imperial Brother, the base station is repaired! Can you receive my message?]

Looking at this text, Xenos laughed again.

He laughed and laughed until tears slipped from the corners of his eyes. It was like both joy and sorrow.

Boom—!

Not far away, another mountain drilling beast came out of the ground.

Seeing the miserable situation of its kindred, it let out a wail. Then a pair of green bean eyes fell on the only living creature in the battlefield. It was full of hatred as it cautiously approached.

Xenos glanced at it and paid no more attention.

The smile on his face dimmed as he looked fondly at the words on the communicator, gently writing his last words with his fingers.

[Silin, I am really proud of you and… live well.]

Seeing that the message was sent successfully, Xenos closed his eyes slightly. ‘Father, Mother, I can go to accompany you immediately…’

He faintly heard the sound of thumping footsteps. It seemed that a larger interstellar beast was coming.

However, that didn’t matter anymore.

His only remaining left hand held the dagger in his sleeve.

Before the mountain drilling beast killed him, he would deliver the final blow. He wouldn’t let this d*mned beast feel good even if he died!

The beast seemed to have finally determined his weakness and roared toward him.

Xenos stared at it coldly and gripped his dagger tighter.

Just as he focused on the weakness of the interstellar beast and was about to send out the death blow—

Bang!

A wall beside him suddenly collapsed and smashed directly on the mountain drilling beast.

At the same time, a huge black clawed foot stepped on it, directly crushing the mountain drilling beast into mud.

Xenos looked at the scene in front of him in a stunned manner. The sole of this foot were so close to him that he could see the texture of the skin on it as well as the sharp claws.

He gasped and his heart pounded with a strong sense of crisis, only to soon be relieved again.

What did it matter what type of interstellar beast this was? The ending was the same…

The moment this idea emerged, he saw a faint light being emitted from the interstellar beast in front of him whose whole body couldn’t be seen. Then it became smaller and smaller, and finally—

Leather boots landed on the ground and a man with black hair and black eyes appeared in front of him.

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