It Turned Out This Wasn't a Single-Player Game (Bonus Chapter for Book Friend Ai Zhe Shu) (Revised)

The lawless gale carried the earthy stench of mud, rolling wantonly across the land like a ferocious beast that had just broken free from its cage.

The sky was gloomy. Clusters of black clouds rapidly gathered, and distant flashes of lightning and peals of thunder had already begun.

A torrential rain was on its way.

In waist-high wild grass, a figure raced forward at full speed. Every so often, he crouched low, then abruptly changed direction. In the dim daylight, he resembled a hunter chasing prey—or prey fleeing a hunter.

"Crack!"

A thunderclap exploded across the heavens, and the entire world instantly turned white.

Yet even in the rain and mist, the figure continued forward at full speed, as though he had no fear of losing his way.

When another bolt of lightning tore through the sky, a wall more than three meters high suddenly appeared within the vast white curtain of rain. By the lightning's glow, one could vaguely make out a sizable town. The town was completely surrounded by walls, and even in such a storm, guards in straw rain capes still patrolled back and forth atop them, never daring to relax.

Yet even such tight security failed to stop the figure from infiltrating. He seemed able to see through every gap in the guards' patrols and every blind spot between their lines of sight.

Within mere seconds, the figure sprinted and vaulted across a five-meter-wide moat, then sprang onto the wall like a nimble fox. With a soundless roll, he had already reached the inside of the town wall.

From there, fortune seemed to favor him. He avoided one patrolling guard after another and finally slipped over the wall of a very ordinary little courtyard.

Thunder rumbled, and rain drummed down. The owner of the courtyard had