Confusing and Baffling

[You have been forcibly disconnected, please choose whether to reconnect.]

"Yes."

[Reconnection starting...]

[Connection complete, reading character information]

[Welcome back, Lawful Good Mo, loading into Innocent World, good night.]

When Mo Tan came to his senses, he found that he hadn't been refreshed by the system in some random wilderness, but was lying on a clean, soft bed, surrounded by a faint fragrance.

Of course, it wasn't that he had strayed into the boudoir of some young lady waiting to be married. Although such clichéd scenes still frequently appeared in novels, animations, and a large number of film and television works, stubbornly exuding the stench of lowering intelligence, at least in Innocent World and Quadruple Split (crossed out) they wouldn't happen... Please rest assured.

"Looks like this isn't the battlefield from before." Mo Tan sat up, looked around the room, and muttered, "It really does just disconnect like that, huh? Luckily no one noticed at the time, or who knows what the consequences would have been..."

The thing is, not long ago, after Mo Tan and Shuangye reached a certain agreement in the public space, he instantly logged off before she could react, and then put in a lot of effort to forcibly switch his personality, logging in as the Hei Fan character as quickly as possible.

After all, although he was ninety percent sure that he wouldn't arouse Shuangye's suspicion again, he didn't want to take any extra risks. If Shuangye still had doubts after their interaction, and then immediately logged into the game to find that Hei Fan wasn't there, it might still keep her on guard...

So Mo Tan planned to return to the camp as soon as possible, and if he received a message from Shuangye, he would reply immediately, which would probably completely reassure her.

In this game, players can't see whether their friends are online. To know if someone is playing, you have to either see them in person or confirm by sending a message.

But this time, Mo Tan was a little too worried. After receiving the friend request from the character 'Tan Mo', Shuangye had completely dispelled her previous suspicions, thinking that she was just overthinking things, and had already focused her attention on that 'CK' who had just logged in, and hadn't logged in again since.

Mo Tan's statement that 'he was attracted by a large amount of false information that suddenly appeared on the network, and then investigated it slightly' had no logical loopholes, and successfully made Shuangye feel that the subsequent series of events had nothing to do with the priest she knew in the game.

At least for a short time, the initiative was definitely in his hands.

Of course, whatever Shuangye thought didn't matter...

Everyone understands the principle that one wrong step leads to many wrong steps.

Then Mo Tan returned to the military camp, made a few simple confirmations, and sent a message to Shuangye, mainly complaining that charging magic crystal lamps was boring, and sharing some insights about magic and faith perception. After confirming that she really wasn't online, he greeted Ned and the others and left the camp, planning to go to the church to see what skills he could learn.

As a result, on the way... he had an episode.

Thus, disconnection...

Re-logging into the game, Lawful Good Mo made a shining appearance~

That's probably the whole process from before.

Of course, for Mo Tan (at this moment), it was a good thing, because he was very concerned about what happened to the Sylph Caravan and the Voltilong Mercenary Group who were acting as guards.

But the first half of that sentence can be said to be nonsense, because no matter which personality Mo Tan logs into the game with, the character that matches his current personality will undoubtedly be the one he wants to play the most.

So, neurotics have more fun~~

"Since I can appear here, then it proves that this must be 'reasonable', at least I don't have to worry about danger for the time being." Mo Tan didn't leave immediately, but sat on the bed with his chin in his hand, thinking. After all, two days had passed. If those companions he had fought with before had met with misfortune, then rushing over in those few minutes wouldn't help. If everyone's situation was already safe, there was no need to rush.

As mentioned before, despite being upright, kind, and highly responsible, the Lawful Good Mo Tan wasn't the type to be rigid and not use his brain. Personality doesn't affect intelligence, so he wasn't in a hurry to act, and even thought that maybe the answer would appear in front of him soon...

Mo Tan was thinking about something else at the moment.

Something important from any perspective.

He was too weak!

The 'he' here doesn't refer to the current Lawful Good Mo, but to Mo Tan himself, no matter which character...

Not to mention compared to those NPCs, even among the players, Mo Tan was relatively weak. It wasn't that he played poorly or had limited talent, on the contrary, each character represented by each personality had great potential, but...

He had too little time!

Other people play one character from 7 PM to 7 AM, a total of 24 hours of game time (no mistake, the ratio of reality to the game is 1:2), while Mo Tan only has an average of less than a third of that. This has a huge impact on him, whether he's doing quests or leveling up, and there's no need to give examples.

The Lawful Good Mo character hasn't even logged in for more than a dozen chapters... cough cough, he hasn't logged in all day yesterday, and this is just the beginning. As players' total game time increases, this disadvantage will soon increase geometrically, eventually falling into a vicious cycle.

Okay, even if Innocent World is different from other games, the extreme uncertainty may make the consequences not so serious, but it will still have a great negative impact on Mo Tan.

And Mo Tan's multiple personality disorder isn't an active skill, but a passive effect, so it also means...

"There's no solution." Mo Tan sighed, shaking his head and muttering, "At least there's no solution for now."

At this moment, he wasn't regretting this unequal treatment, but simply hoping that he could have the power to help others. In the same battle, the role that an ordinary cannon fodder and a max-level hero could play is as different as heaven and earth.

Whether it's a Death Knight who believes in Chun Ge and can give both enemies and allies full buffs and resurrect them on the spot, or an old man with a white beard who can teleport away with his friends if he can't beat them, they're both more reliable than an SCV that can only do welding, right?

Regardless of the world view, high-tech tasks such as damage and salvation require hard power as a backing.

And Mo Tan's current strength is probably not as good as an SCV, at least they have welding!

However, although the bug of having multiple characters combined with Mo Tan's illness has many drawbacks, it's not without its benefits, such as...

Bang!!

The sudden, forceful opening of the door interrupted his thoughts. A red-faced, burly dwarf rushed in and gave Mo Tan a bear hug without saying a word.

"Ugh! Mag... Mag!" Mo Tan felt the air in his chest being squeezed out instantly, and struggled with a red face and thick neck, "Easy! I'm... going to die!"

The smiling, bearded dwarf warrior in front of him was none other than Mag, the squad leader of the Voltilong Mercenary Group. Who else could it be but Ironfist.

"Haha~" Seeming to realize that he was really a bit too excited, Mag quickly let go and laughed, "Those green-skinned little people said you were awake, but I didn't quite believe it. I didn't expect it to be true!"

Mo Tan was a little dazed and asked, "Awake? So I've been... unconscious?"

"Yeah, unconscious for almost two days." Mag nodded, sat down on the edge of Mo Tan's bed, and spread his hands, "We were all pretty worried about you. Our mercenary group has been guarding your room during this time, but it turned out that the Sylphs told everyone that you were awake. Tsk tsk, they wouldn't have installed a magic circle in the house for peeping, would they? I have to ask them later, I've wanted to see Ironhammer girl take a bath for a long time!"

Well, judging by the name, she's a dwarf lass with considerable fighting power. For the sake of his own mental health, Mo Tan decided not to read too deeply into Mag's earlier words, in order to protect his worldview.

"You're overthinking it, beardy."

A sharp voice came from nearby. Mo Tan and Mag turned their heads blankly, and discovered that the potted plant that had been placed in front of the bed was actually moving. The plant, whose name he didn't know, had pulled arm-like limbs out of the soil, propped itself on the edge of the pot, and was struggling to pull itself out. After a while, it finally managed to get the part of itself below its 'waist' out of the dirt.

Mo Tan figured this little guy was probably a Wood Sprite, but its image was completely different from the 'little green man' Mag had described. At best, it looked like a walking chive...

"Please keep your amazement to yourself, I already have a boyfriend." The chive... the Wood Sprite shook its leaves at the somewhat dazed Mo Tan, then transformed into a miniature female resembling a head teacher in a haze of green light (seriously, what kind of look is that?), and said disdainfully to Mag, "The only reason I knew he was awake so quickly is because I've been watching him the whole time. Okay, mission accomplished, you guys chat."

With that, she twisted her snake-like, barrel-shaped waist and left...

So graceful, so charming.

"Don't question your aesthetic sense." Mag rolled his eyes, and whispered to Mo Tan, "I swear, even among Wood Sprites, that guy could be considered extremely ugly..."

The latter blinked, and didn't express any opinion on this, just smiled and said, "It's good that everyone's okay, but to be honest, I'm completely lost right now..."

There was absolutely nothing wrong with that statement. Putting everything else aside, Mag's earlier statement that he had been 'unconscious for nearly two days' filled Mo Tan's head with questions, because logically speaking, whether a player logs in or out, the manifestation should be a discreet flash of white light, click, the person appears~ or disappears~

Mo Tan had never heard of the character's body remaining in the game after logging out...

Although the official explanation of the details of players logging out was vague, simply glossing over it with a phrase like 'under relatively reasonable circumstances', the fact that a character could be unconscious in the game for almost two days after logging out was a bit too fantastical!

If he didn't get to the bottom of this, it would definitely give Mo Tan the creeps!

Think about it, the character in the game could be said to be the player themselves, right? It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it another self, and then, after you log out, your other body remains in this world full of orcs~ ogres~ lizardfolk~ magic~ alchemy~ in short, a particularly fantastical and chaotic world.

Anyone would break out in a cold sweat!

"Thanks to you~" Mag patted Mo Tan's shoulder, "Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to reach this place safely without any casualties. The Voltilong Mercenary Group owes you one~"

"Thanks to me?" Mo Tan scratched his head, and asked doubtfully, "I just shouted for everyone to break through at the time, even if I hadn't said anything, you professionals would have made the same choice, right?"

He didn't believe that the mercenaries and Wood Sprites were all idiots who would continue to ignore the small path of flames at the time, which could be said to be everyone's only way out.

At best, he was just a little quicker to react...

"Did you forget what happened after that?" Mag stared at Mo Tan for a long time before muttering, "Could it be some kind of side effect? After all, no one knows what you did at the time..."

Mo Tan asked, "What did I do at the time?"

Mag smiled at him, casually pulled out a small wine skin from somewhere on his body, took a big gulp, smacked his lips, and recalled, "What did you do? Well, we had just barely gathered together, formed a formation, and were about to break through when you suddenly roared, and then countless Sand Goblins and Mud Fishmen all fell to the ground... some were spitting blood, some were dying, and some were unconscious, and none of them got back up. Then after a while, you fell too, and we brought you here."

Mo Tan spent about five seconds organizing Mag's words in his mind, then spread his hands to indicate that the other party hadn't gotten to the point at all: "Can you be a little more specific?"

Then this somewhat simple-minded dwarf warrior happily agreed, and then rambled on to him for more than half an hour with gestures...

Finally, Mo Tan summarized the content himself as follows:

After he finished shouting, everyone began to prepare to break through, and at this time he had actually disconnected.

But his in-game self didn't turn into white light and disappear, but suddenly stood there blankly, and no one could get a response from him when they called him. Meanwhile, the large number of ambushers had begun to reorganize, seemingly intending to launch the next round of attacks.

At this time, 'he' suddenly roared to the sky, and a second later, the surrounding Sand Goblins and Mud Fishmen suddenly began to fall in swathes like wheat being harvested. The elusive archer didn't fire even a single arrow, and the imminent crisis was so bizarrely resolved...

And he, who should theoretically have been the instigator, also fell down, falling into a coma.

The members of the mercenary group could hardly understand this phenomenon at all. In the end, an old Wood Sprite who didn't know how many years he had lived squeezed over, stood there and looked at Mo Tan for a long time before coming to a vague conclusion: this kid must have activated some very forbidden ability, and paid a great price to directly kill a large number of enemies.

Then he fainted because of overdraft, consumption, price, backlash, or some other reason that no one knew.

Mag managed to talk about this for half an hour!

And Mo Tan, who was originally confused, became even more confused after listening...

Chapter 17: The End

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