Contracts signed by major powers were extremely strict. The Village Chief's sorcery could be passed on to his blood descendants and disciples, which was already exceptionally lenient.
With that, the Village Chief did not give Yun Xi a chance to refuse. He immediately dumped all the supplies from the basket onto the wooden table, then hurried away, afraid she would refuse again.
Yun Xi thought it over and did not chase after him.
Compared with the value of the Storage Bag, the other supplies truly amounted to nothing. But after losing so much food, the Village Chief would probably have to go to Qinglan Town to purchase supplies ahead of schedule, right?
However, the closed beta lasted only ten days. If the Village Chief went to Qinglan Town while she was offline, wouldn't she be unable to go with him?
Considering this, Yun Xi put away the supplies covering the table and went to ask the Village Chief again.
"Oh, that? You don't need to worry. It concerns arrangements from above. As for going to Qinglan Town, I won't change my mind..."
That statement contained quite a lot of information. Had the "people above" arranged these newly descended adventurers?
Seeing the Village Chief's somewhat obscure gaze, Yun Xi understood and did not ask further.
The few days of closed beta passed in a flash. By squeezing practice into every available moment, Yun Xi had finally learned... one-third of Light Control Technique.
At this rate, she should be able to master it completely before the next closed beta.
She had successfully changed classes to both "Chef" and "Apothecary," and had recorded as many publicly available recipes and medicinal formulas from Blue Star as possible.
As for the "Talisman Master" and "Painter" classes in Yun Xi's plans, she had not rushed to change classes. Blue Star had no related "talisman manuals" or "painting manuals," and these two classes were rather special.
The "Talisman Master" class was fairly common. Put simply, it involved drawing down sorcery one already knew, allowing it to be "stored."
If special paper, brushes, and ink were used on top of that, the effect would be further enhanced.
It was said that high-level Talisman Masters could draw sorcery they did not know. As long as they could draw the corresponding Sorcery Patterns, even if their sorcerer talent was too low to learn high-level sorcery, they could still reproduce it through talisman drawing.
The Painter class, however, was somewhat more difficult to enter than the Talisman Master class.
In theory, a Painter could draw anything. As long as one had enough spiritual energy to support it and sufficiently advanced painting skills, creating something from nothing was not impossible.
At the current stage, aside from recording Blue Star's recipes and medicinal formulas, Yun Xi devoted most of her energy to sorcery.
The development of Sub-professions would have to wait for a while longer. Once she reached a somewhat larger main city and had access to all the corresponding resources, she would begin formal research and study.
As the first closed beta ended, the internet was once again swept by a moderate wave of excitement.
The reason was simple: the loginers discovered that none of them could enter Godfall Continent again, so they naturally wanted to learn about the situations of the other loginers.
The authorities' monitoring of the internet was already far more rigorous than before. Once anyone posted related remarks, there was a ninety-percent chance someone would knock on their door to investigate the situation.
Yun Xi had no intention of coming forward voluntarily. Still, it was easy to imagine that even if one never appeared online, many traces would be left behind during the period one disappeared from the game.
The leave record at school alone was impossible to erase.
Even though she had requested leave in advance, as long as she failed to appear for those ten days, she would attract attention.
Compared with the other students who had disappeared in full view of everyone, Yun Xi was still relatively inconspicuous.
Of course, she had never intended to deliberately conceal anything. She would simply let things take their natural course.
Yun Xi just had not expected her exposure to come so quickly. On the second day after logging out of Godfall Continent, someone knocked on her door.
After a few simple questions, Yun Xi learned that it had all started with the reminder she had posted on her personal social media account one hour before the game officially opened.
Yun Xi did not deny it, nor was there any need to.
"Miss Yun, why did you post that message back then? Had you learned the relevant information in advance?"
"I saw the game note about 'entering with one's true body,' and felt that it was unusual. It also said that the game would open after midnight, so I used that bit of free time to post the note shown by the game."
"I see. Then could you briefly describe what happened after you entered the game?"
"After I entered the game, I landed in a small village. The Village Chief was a good person and took great care of me. I logged in almost every day these past few days because I was curious about the game."
"All right, Miss Yun. We've learned your basic information. We need to record your game ID, identity card number, and telephone number so that we can continue contacting you.
"Please rest assured. Your ID information will be kept strictly confidential and will not be leaked.
"If anything happens to you afterward, such as encountering danger or anything else, you can contact us at any time."
The two officials investigating Yun Xi were both young women around twenty-five or twenty-six years old.
One of them was even an official player of Godfall Continent. She added Yun Xi as a friend on the spot and said that if anything happened, Yun Xi could contact her through the friend system or Weipao.
Godfall Continent's game system had no such thing as a nickname. Everyone used their real names by default.
After adding someone as a friend, one could immediately see the other person's ID, name, avatar, and game level. Nothing else could be viewed.
The official standing before her was named Chen Nana, and her game level was 0.
When she saw Yun Xi's game level, however, her pupils suddenly contracted.
During those ten days of logging into Godfall Continent, no one understood more clearly than she did how difficult it was to gain experience by killing monsters.
When she first entered Godfall Continent, she had chosen to register an account, thereby obtaining official-player status. Her starting location had been a village of moderate size.
Coincidentally, just after she was born, the village was attacked en masse by strange monsters. She had personally witnessed how easily those monsters killed the villagers.
Many imposing warriors had died beneath attacks from the lowest-level strange monsters.
If she had not been immune to all damage during the three-day novice protection period, she probably would not have been standing here today.
It was difficult to imagine how Yun Xi had raised her level.
A trace of solemnity appeared in her eyes as she looked at Yun Xi, but she said nothing more. After politely bidding Yun Xi farewell, she pulled her partner away in a hurry.
After sending the two of them off, Yun Xi thought for a moment, then returned to school to apply for a leave of absence.
Who would have thought that plans could never keep up with changes? Only after arriving at school did Yun Xi discover that she could not even get a place in line.
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