"Ah, now that it had come to this, he might as well make do and play."
Looking at the nearly one thousand unallocated points, Chu Ke decided not to spend them for now.
After all, as long as he did not spend them, they were no different from not having them.
"Ah, I'm a legit player. If those people cheating in certain GO games had even one ten-thousandth of my integrity, it would be great." Chu Ke sighed.
Just now, Chu Ke had asked his original body about it. The way this cheat engine determined points for killing enemies was actually pretty ridiculous.
That was, it awarded points according to the life level of the creature killed.
There was nothing wrong with that. It fit the experience reward mechanics in games quite well.
But the problem lay in the code below that: Chu Ke's original body had forgotten to specify a minimum life-level range.
In other words, if killing a level-one slime counted as earning exactly one point, then anything weaker than that slime was also included in the "rewardable range."
That was how Chu Ke had stabbed an anthill with a single sword and gained an enormous number of points comparable to defeating a Demon Dragon.
Of course, changing the code was impossible. There was no need for it.
So Chu Ke maintained this state and set off on his adventure once more.
"Let me see." Chu Ke took out a map.
What he lacked now was not fighting technique, but magic-type skills, especially detection-oriented ones.
The next city marked on the map, East Flower Capital, was the nearest major city and also the last city before Lake of Truth.
It was also a transportation hub connecting several major city-states. There should be a Magic Guild there that could teach the magic Chu Ke needed.
Steve: How are things over there, @V?
V: Pretty awesome. David and I are wanted by Arasaka now. We only just escaped Night City.
V: Jackie and Lucy are traveling with us now.
Steve: Wanted? What's so awesome about that? Why don't you change your name to M?
V: Ah, you wouldn't understand. David and I are basically playing a hack-and-slash musou game right now.
V: As long as we avoid Arasaka's main forces, the small patrol squads are nothing but fodder. We can knock down a whole crowd with one punch.
Steve: What about Chu Ge? Didn't he go to your world?
V: He played around for two days and then bailed. Ask him yourself now.
V: @Chu Ke.
Chu Ke: Me? I'm in the Cosmic Sea right now.
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Steve: What kind of place is that?
Chu Ke: You can think of it as a huge box. See those little spheres inside? Each one is a different "world," containing infinitely many multiverses.
Steve: Damn, I'm still building city walls here.
V: Building an electronic Great Wall, serving cyber corvée labor.
Steve: Wake up. You've already transmigrated. This is reality.
In the image, Steve's little city had undergone earth-shaking changes. The bustling streets had been replaced with concrete instead of dirt and sand, while the wooden low-rise buildings at the side had turned into modern structures dozens of meters tall. Countless chimneys in the distance billowed thick smoke, and rows of patrol trains equipped with cannons raced along the towering city walls.
V: Where the fuck is this?
V: Didn't this place used to have that county cadre recreation club aesthetic? How long had it even been? Why had it already undergone an Industrial Revolution?
Steve: Ah, mainly because Chu Ge gave me permission to access some mods. I can go to a place called the Authority Temple now to look for mods.
Steve: That place is fucking huge, and monsters are everywhere. After looking for ages, I only found mods like Tinker's Construct, Create, and Immersive Engineering, plus some support mods for chains and stuff.
Steve: I originally wanted to find Avaritia and Equivalent Exchange. If I actually found them, I'd really be invincible.
V looked at Steve's messages, fell silent for a moment, and suddenly felt that his own cheat was no longer appealing.
V: I'm feeling a little uncomfortable. I'm out.
Steve: There are drawbacks, though. I accidentally downloaded some weird monster difficulty mods before, and now the area outside the city walls is full of monsters with utterly ridiculous stats and mechanics.
V: Feeling better now. Thanks.
Steve: Fuck off.
Chu Ke: Oh? Got time to catch a few for me to see? I'm pretty curious.
Steve: Sure. Let me prepare for a while first.
Chu Ke: Oh, right, where's Kaneki Ken? Why haven't I seen him speak?
Steve: Oh, his plot has completely gone off the rails now. He's probably busy. Chu Ge, scroll up through the chat logs and you'll know.
Steve: Chat log link
Chu Ke clicked it. After reading through it, he roughly understood Kaneki Ken's current situation.
After obtaining the seeds Chu Ke had gifted him, which could produce RC cells, Kaneki Ken came clean with Anteiku and began promoting the plant.
Then the Washuu Clan discovered them, and now V Organization and the CCG of the Washuu Clan were hunting them down.
During their escape, Anteiku officially changed its name to New World and took in ghouls who shared their ideals.
Anyway, it was quite exciting. Chu Ke decided he would go take a look when he had time.
Just as everyone was chatting happily, the Multiverse Chat Group suddenly let out a "ding."
[Time Hero] joined the Multiverse Chat Group. The group member requirement has been met. Function unlocked: "Rescue Mode"
V: Oh? A newcomer joined.
Steve: This is the first time since Chu Ge. Last time, Chu Ge came in all fresh-faced with a [Beyond the Standard] tag over his head. It scared the hell out of me.
V: What were you scared about? I'm the group owner. I was the one who nearly got scared to death.
V: Oh, this newcomer's level is decent. He's already level four the moment he joined.
V: Group status minus one.
The newcomer who had joined this time seemed rather cautious and did not say anything.
Chu Ke: Welcome, newcomer. Wait a second?
Chu Ke: Time Hero? Your class is Time Manipulator, one of the five great Heroes of east, west, south, north, and center—the Southern Hero?
Steve: How did you know? Did you secretly sneak over there?
Steve: That's kind of creepy, bro.
V: Indeed. This must be condemned.
Chu Ke: Get lost. I don't have that kind of fetish, okay?
Chu Ke: It's because I got hit by a truck in V's world before, remember?
V: I think I get it.
Time Hero: Hello? Are you also a Hero who was summoned here?
Only those who had personally experienced transmigration knew how it worked, so Time Hero believed part of what Chu Ke said and began speaking in the group.
Chu Ke: Not me. It was just one of my clones.
Chu Ke: At the time, I felt like something was summoning me, so I casually threw a clone in.
Steve: Transmigrated into a Hero? What a cliché story.
Steve: But with Chu Ge around, it should be no big deal. A mere Demon King should be easy to handle, right?
Steve: Speaking of classes, though, what's Chu Ge's class?
Chu Ke: Ah, my class.
Chu Ke: It's Demon King.
Steve: ?
V: ?
Time Hero: ?
Steve: I take back what I said. Humanity is doomed. Just wait for death. Struggling will probably hurt less.
V: Understandable. Rest in peace.
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