Loyalty!

Loyalty!

Smack—!

The sound of a slap mixed with the thunder rolling across the night sky. The Stubbled Man lay motionless on the ground, his head knocked crooked.

Chu Huai Xu looked at him coldly, wanting to see whether the Information Scan function could still be used.

In "Borrowed Sword," players had access to the Information Scan function, which allowed them to check some basic information about NPCs.

Of course, the information available depended on both the user's permissions and the target's level of authority.

For example, if an NPC's Character Level was much higher than yours, or if they had a special identity, or were connected to some mysterious major event, then all your Information Scan would display was three question marks.

In terms of the cultivation system in "Borrowed Sword," the player's Information Scan was essentially an enhanced version of spiritual sense.

The difference was that spiritual sense could only detect one's cultivation realm, Magic Artifacts, Cultivation Method attributes, and so on, while Information Scan could reveal a wider range of basic information.

However, Chu Huai Xu's Information Scan function had not even been granted access yet.

"What the hell?" He sank into even deeper confusion.

If he could obtain some information about the other party, he could at least figure out his current situation, understand the circumstances he was in, and analyze why they had come after him and wanted to throw him into the Heavenly Prison.

Besides that, there was one even more important point—Dao Sect!

Why did he say I was trying to infiltrate the Dao Sect? Chu Huai Xu wondered.

The setting of "Borrowed Sword" was a world called the Xuanhuang Realm.

The Xuanhuang Realm was divided into the four great continents of East, West, South, and North.

For certain special reasons, the North Continent and South Continent had already fallen during the previous age of great calamity and become forbidden zones.

From the Map, Chu Huai Xu could see that he was currently in the Eastern Continent.

And the Dao Sect was one of the Four Great Sects of the Eastern Continent.

Everyone who managed to join the Dao Sect was a prodigy of the Eastern Continent.

Among the many players, very few were able to become disciples of the Dao Sect.

Once they succeeded, it was essentially the same as taking off from the ground. Their upper limit for future development would be far higher.

That meant you could treat gaming as a job in real life and earn quite a lot of money each month through "Borrowed Sword."

By now, Chu Huai Xu had basically determined that he had transmigrated into "Borrowed Sword," and even the timeline had changed.

That made the Dao Sect the most important matter of all!

After the Information Scan failed, he raised his hand and slapped the Stubbled Man again.

I should have kept him alive first. I could have killed him after questioning him.

"Useless piece of trash!"

"Reflect on it properly. Why were you so easy to kill?"

To Chu Huai Xu, the Stubbled Man really was far too weak.

The reason Chu Huai Xu ranked second on the female players' Must-Eat Companion List was obviously that he had particularly outstanding qualities.

Looks, strength, voice, emotional support, and so on—he was well-rounded in every aspect.

Therefore, although he almost never accepted companioning orders from male players, he still ranked forty-ninth on the male players' Must-Eat Companion List. Could you believe that?

Yes, neither of those two lists restricted gender. They did not enforce an overly rigid gender filter.

Add in the ridiculous nature of those idiotic players and the behavior of the countless "contacts," and it was easy to imagine what the final rankings would look like.

Of course, when he teamed up with male players, his main duty was carrying them to victory. He absolutely would not provide any extra-hour services.

Speaking of which, like most games, "Borrowed Sword" had a Character Customization Feature.

Simply put, after purchasing an account and creating a character, you had one chance to freely alter your appearance.

If you wanted to customize your face afterward, you had to pay an exorbitant fee, comparable to plastic surgery in real life.

And, believe it or not, there really were people with something wrong in their heads who took out plastic-surgery loans to alter their game characters.

For high-quality companions like Chu Huai Xu, who ranked on the Must-Eat Companion List, activating the Character Customization Feature involved a full-body scan. It perfectly replicated everything about them in reality, ensuring that they were identical online and offline, with no possibility of fraud.

Companions of this sort would be marked by the companioning platform and receive official platform certification.

Basically, everyone who made it onto the Must-Eat Companion List was this type of person.

It was worth mentioning that this kind of full-body scan did not consume one of the Character Customization Feature's uses.

Chu Huai Xu was the standard fox-type handsome man, with a slightly foxlike face.

If the anime "Scenes from an Ordinary Life" were ever adapted into live action, he could probably audition for the role of the Fox Scholar.

He was certainly not as sinister as the one in the anime, but as a male model in a game, he was definitely good at acting.

How could an excellent face possibly be incapable of acting?

As for why he had been able to kill the Stubbled Man so easily, there were two main reasons.

First, the physical qualities of newly created game characters in "Borrowed Sword" were slightly higher than those of ordinary mortals.

That was why he had joked with the Stubbled Man that he was a student with athletic talents.

Second, and more importantly, it was bodily control!

For a normal person, control over their own body was certainly not perfect.

For example, if you swung your arm while thinking of stopping it at the nine-o'clock position, it would be difficult to halt it at exactly the right place.

But in "Borrowed Sword," this was possible.

Of course, even with superb bodily control, you still needed to adapt to it in order to understand where your limits lay.

As a veteran player who had created countless accounts, Chu Huai Xu was more familiar with this than anyone.

That was precisely why he had been able to dodge the Stubbled Man's slashes repeatedly and kill him as easily as slaughtering a dog.

But the problem now was that he was simply too strong.

"There's really too little useful information I can obtain." Chu Huai Xu lifted the edge of his umbrella and looked toward the rainy night sky.

At this moment, he could not even access his own identity information. That function was restricted as well.

With an opening that so obviously comes with an early main quest, the character definitely has an identity and a past, he thought.

However, Chu Huai Xu currently knew nothing about anything.

Fortunately, although he had transmigrated, some of the player functions remained. At least he had a bit of a Golden finger.

The next second, the System prompt sound rang in his ears: "Ding! The Mission System is about to unlock its permissions!"

Chu Huai Xu instantly lit up with delight.

"Excellent, excellent. Heaven is blessing your model brother."

On a small hillside beside the Dense Forest, two men in Black Robes and masks were silently observing everything that had just happened.

The man standing on the left wore a golden mask, while the one on the right wore a silver mask.

Just moments ago, the Silver Mask Man could not help exclaiming, "He killed him that easily? This newcomer sent by the organization has incredible bodily control!"

The Golden Mask Man also clicked his tongue in amazement and sighed, "His Art Path talent is probably quite high."

"My lord, someone this talented should be sent to the border of my Moon Kingdom. Although he's a Pseudo-Spirit Fetus, he's absolutely a superb candidate for Body Tempering. After several years of honing himself at the border, his achievements will probably be considerable," the Silver Mask Man said.

The Golden Mask Man nodded slightly. "Sending him to the Outer Sect of the Dao Sect in the Mirror Kingdom as a menial servant is indeed somewhat wasteful."

The two masked men both came from the Moon Kingdom's spy organization and had been lying low in the Mirror Kingdom for many years.

The organization had no name—or rather, its name was simply the organization.

The two of them were already seasoned undercover agents, jointly responsible for receiving newcomers.

Over the past two years, they had complained often, feeling that the organization had been sending nothing but hopeless cases lately.

Yet when a genuinely promising candidate appeared, they could not help feeling somewhat regretful.

At present, their reception work was actually complete.

According to the organization's tradition, the reception work they referred to did not mean making contact with the newcomers.

"Reception" meant, in the first sense, "as long as I know I've received him, that's enough," while "guidance" meant "guide him into learning a proper lesson."

The Stubbled Man, who had already met his end, was a member of the Mirror Kingdom's Patrol Office.

It was these two masked men who had used various methods to inform the Patrol Office of the young newcomer's identity, which had led to the pursuit just now.

Their purpose was to make the newcomers suffer a setback right from the beginning. Only by leaving them completely unaware of how they had been exposed could they make them more cautious.

Keep a low profile! Keep a low profile! And keep an even lower profile!

But what they had not expected was that this kid was truly skilled. He had completed a solo kill so easily.

Clean! Crisp! Decisive! Ruthless!

He had not forgotten to show off before and after making his move, either.

Not long afterward, the masked men observing everything from the shadows saw the two smacks Chu Huai Xu sent flying.

The Stubbled Man's corpse had even been slapped swollen.

The two masked men instantly stared at each other.

No way! With that temper and that disposition, is he really suited for undercover work?

"The person the organization sent this time is a little... unique, huh?" the Golden Mask Man said.

The Silver Mask Man nodded. "My lord, I really think he should be sent to the border!"

The Golden Mask Man raised a hand and said solemnly, "Forget it. Since the organization arranged it this way, it must have its own reasons. We only need to do our own jobs properly."

"Yes!" The Silver Mask Man lowered his head and accepted the order.

No matter how outrageous the organization's actions were, the two of them obeyed without question.

Everything they had experienced since childhood had long since molded them into exactly what the organization needed.

The two of them believed that this young man with the slightly foxlike face had grown up the same way.

As long as he had gone through that experience, as long as he possessed those unforgettable memories, then the three of us shared three common points:

Loyalty! Loyalty! And loyalty!