Different Deep-Sea Hunters

According to her, she appeared earlier than expected, and these things shouldn't have been told to Bai Ye so soon.

It was only by chance that she was able to use the artificial intelligence copied by Bai Ye as a carrier to appear here ahead of time.

This proves that the so-called future is not predetermined, and it also confirms what Luna said: the future is created by humankind.

After learning the truth about the game and the system, Bai Ye's game system panel underwent some changes, and some information that had been hidden in the past could finally be seen clearly.

For example, so-called innate spells are actually the Authority of Qi, which explains why they have nothing to do with Originium Arts, but are more like a kind of power.

Of course, in terms of status, this thing should be of a higher level than the powers wielded by Great Beast.

Unfortunately, Bai Ye is too weak and his level is not high enough, otherwise he could be killing indiscriminately right now.

Although he learned a lot, not much had actually changed for Bai Ye. The system still worked, and the NPC templates were normal. If there was any change, it was probably that he was more motivated...

Bai Ye was worried that if he suddenly appeared in another world, he would be discovered by the people of his original world. After all, although he was also autistic and socially anxious on his original Earth and had zero social interaction in real life, there was still a file in the Federation's central database.

Bai Ye is so famous in the game that his face has been used to make merchandise and figurines. With such high popularity, anyone who knows him can definitely recognize him.

Now Bai Ye knows that such worries were completely unnecessary.

Because Luna was Bai Ye's backer, she directly deleted Bai Ye's data from Earth and blocked the memories of all related people.

(Just now we were saying we shouldn't manipulate minds or block memories! Bastards!)

Aside from being etched into Earth's planetary memory, Bai Ye was like a non-existent person; he was completely thrown into Terra.

Only after the dimensional fusion ends will those people remember him again.

"That's convenient. Could it be that I was chosen because... I'm an orphan, and I'm also introverted and socially awkward, with little contact with people? Luna is really good at shirking her responsibilities..."

Bai Ye mocked himself.

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In a world where immortals and martial arts coexist, Qiao Mu can be resurrected repeatedly.

Each time he is killed, he is resurrected at the cost of increasing age, but his martial arts skills also become more profound with age.

The older one gets, the stronger one becomes. The more heroic one's death, the stronger one will be upon resurrection.

So he started to court death in all sorts of ways, going wherever there was danger.

The enemy was horrified to discover that just after they had dealt with the smaller ones, an older one had appeared, and the cycle seemed endless.

A legend of an immortal family that no one dared to mess with began to circulate in the world.

"The Qiao family is full of loyal martyrs, with generations of martyrs. Every generation hates evil, values righteousness over life, and dares to be the first in the world!"

"His son died on the battlefield, and his father, with a full head of white hair, continued to go to the battlefield. How admirable and admirable!"

"In the past, the Qiao family died protecting me from bullets; today, I cannot stand idly by and watch his elderly father suffer in his later years."

"A descendant of the Qiao family brazenly stormed the palace to assassinate the tyrannical emperor, but failed and died? The tyrannical emperor is foolish! The reclusive, thousand-year-old monster of the Qiao family is about to be born!"

"The holy immortals and Buddhas have returned? But why do even those immortals and gods call the elders of the Qiao family 'Ancestors'? How many ancestors does the Qiao family have, and where did they come from?"

After countless deaths, Qiao Mu suddenly looked back and realized that he had died as the common ancestor of the human race, tens of millions of years old, with power as deep as the ocean.

Chapter Sixteen: Different Abyssal Hunter

Bai Ye stood atop the command tower, letting the cold wind blow through him to calm himself down before returning to his residence in the Core City.

When he got to his doorstep, he remembered that there seemed to be a nun waiting for him.

It seems that a low sanity level really does affect memory, and the brain doesn't work very well either.

Bai Ye returned to the hangar and found the Specter that had been left there.

"Looks like you're alright, congratulations."

Specter's eyes lit up the moment she saw Bai Ye, but she quickly concealed her emotions and spoke to Bai Ye in the same tone as usual.

"Although a lot has happened... there really isn't a problem." Bai Ye didn't notice the girl's subtle movements as he entered the aircraft and poured himself a cup of coffee.

To be honest, he usually doesn't like such bitter drinks, but he doesn't care about that now. Bai Ye just wants to find a way to calm himself down.

Upon opening his game system panel, Bai Ye felt somewhat ashamed and regretful.

Before receiving Luna's invitation, he had been battling wits with thin air, even developing a strong sense of crisis. Therefore, Bai Ye invested all the experience points he had accumulated into leveling up his personal account.

At the time, this choice seemed correct. Converting all accumulated resources into actual combat power before the major battle was indeed feasible. However, in hindsight, nothing had happened; there was no enemy, and the things Bai Ye had worried about did not occur.

This made his previous actions seem quite awkward.

In Bai Ye's original plan, these experiences were far more important for learning skills than for enhancing attributes, and would also be more beneficial for his own improvement.

Moreover, leveling up a character can be done anytime, but learning skills is different. If you come across an opportunity to learn a skill but don't have enough experience points, it can be very frustrating.

Being held back by experience points is a very basic mistake for a veteran Players like Bai Ye; if word got out, he'd probably be laughed at to death by his old friends at the "The Revelry Tea Party."

Oh, in this timeline, Bai Ye hasn't joined the tea party yet; in those people's eyes, Bai Ye is just an NPC—never mind then...

However, it's still a pity to have all this experience. In Luna's words, the essence of "experience points" is the origin of the world, a kind of almost omnipotent energy, and also the main substance that constitutes the world and dimensions.

This energy only leaks out when a dimension is on the verge of collapse, making it extremely precious even in the endless Star Sea. Therefore, it can be used to enhance strength and master skills without any side effects.

Because Bai Ye has a physical body, while Players only have virtual bodies, the amount of experience points required for Bai Ye to level up and strengthen is terrifying. Initially, Luna used a so-called NPC template to cover up this problem.

Simply put, boosting Players's performance is like inflating a balloon, while Bai Ye's approach is like filling a balloon with water. Although they may look similar in size, there is a fundamental difference between them.

Although Luna really wanted to fill up Bai Ye all at once and let him directly control the Wind Authority, the floodgates weren't on her side. She currently only had partial administrative authority over the world; upgrading the game was essentially patching the world with new data.

Luna must go through a series of steps (quests, trades) to gain experience points from the world, which are then distributed to Bai Ye and other Players through the game system.

So, packaging the whole world as a game actually makes a pretty good impression. At least, before the transmigration, Bai Ye never felt that anything was wrong.

Or rather, he didn't even consider that possibility.

Humans have played far too many fully immersive games... At first, some people joked that the game world was actually a real world. But in the end, it was all revealed to be just a joke and a gimmick.

The closest Luna ever came to the truth was a small test she conducted herself, trying to explore the possibility of preserving human souls in a virtual world to avoid an apocalyptic crisis. That experiment may have been the prototype for the current game, Arknights Online.

As for the experimental results, Luna didn't tell Bai Ye. But it's obvious that it probably failed; otherwise, she wouldn't have needed to pursue an even more outrageous "dimensional fusion" plan.

This is a more risky and all-or-nothing gamble, because Luna only has one chance, and even after reading the script, she cannot guarantee that other unexpected events will not occur.

"Call--"

While studying the revamped game system, Bai Ye took a sip of coffee and let out a long sigh.

Although he suddenly bore the heavy responsibility of saving the world, Bai Ye did not feel too much pressure. He was never fighting alone.

Unlike when he was a lone wolf Players in the past, now his experience points are not all earned by himself; every single one comes from other Players that Bai Ye doesn't know.

Unbeknownst to the Players, they contributed a large amount of Lungmen Dollar and experience points to Bai Ye. It can be said that Bai Ye's progress was propelled forward by countless hands.

He has become so powerful because he has never been able to do without the Players. Just as Luna cannot exist independently of humans, Bai Ye cannot completely exist without the Players either.

Moreover, he has many friends in Terra. Ever since Bai Ye helped the Reunion Movement capture Chernobog's Core City and established the largest Players capital city there, he had essentially sealed the outcome.

At the same time, he also gained the capital to sit at the card table.

Bai Ye did a pretty good job, so Luna, who had read the script, wasn't flustered at all. Otherwise, would she still be as calm as she is now?

"I'm fine now."

Bai Ye downed his coffee in one gulp, then frowned.

"What's wrong?" Specter, who had been keeping a close eye on Bai Ye's situation, asked.

Bai Ye shook his head. "It's really tough."

"That's funny. You were drinking the whole time and didn't seem to feel anything, so why are you complaining at the very end?"

"...Because I was thinking about something just now, I didn't pay attention to these things." Bai Ye clicked his tongue and took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket.

Specter thought for a moment, then picked up a piece of paper and tore it open in front of Bai Ye.

"Guess what I want to say right now?"

Laurentina winked at Bai Ye and asked playfully.

Bai Ye thought for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly, "You mean that as long as you are strong enough, you can tear apart difficulties and enemies like tearing a sheet of paper?"

Bai Ye felt that this idea seemed to fit the style of Abyssal Hunter.

"Well, it's not exactly wrong, but this way of putting it is inexplicably infuriating. Tsk—you, how did you become like Skadi? Did she leave you with her stubbornness?" Specter rolled her eyes. The guy in front of her was just like the other three hunters.

"Perhaps the first Abyssal Hunter you encountered was Skadi, which led to some misunderstandings about us Abyssal Hunter ..." Specter sighed, then explained, "I just wanted to tell you not to overthink it."

"You always overthink things. Sometimes things aren't that complicated. Survival is simply about taking everything that's in your way in two, it's that simple."

"..." Bai Ye stood there, stunned, staring at Specter without saying a word.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm wondering why there are such big differences between deep- Abyssal Hunter... Skadi could never say something like that," Bai Ye couldn't help but sigh.

Specter smiled, shook her head, and rolled her eyes. "You'll have to ask her captain about that."

"Aren't you and her captain the same captain?" Bai Ye asked, voicing a question that had been bothering him for a long time.

Before his transmigration, he didn't know much about Sargos, and his understanding of the Abyssal Hunter was only superficial. In fact, most of the information he knew came from Dr. Kal'tsit and the experimental data he had seized.

In the past, he would have been qualified to call himself a boat scholar based on this alone.

Aside from that, only the Firstborn could offer him some insights into the deep sea. However, the Firstborn's information is usually obscure and difficult to understand, and requires sanity points to analyze, making it not particularly useful for Bai Ye.

"You're really strange, you land dweller. You know nothing about our situation, yet you dared to come so close?" Specter smoothed a strand of hair behind his ear and said to Bai Ye as they walked.

"There are four squadrons of Abyssal Hunter. I belong to the second squadron, whose captain is Gladiia. Skadi is in the third squadron, whose captain is Ulpian."

As he spoke, Specter sighed softly, "I can't remember exactly what happened. The last time the Abyssal Hunter went out was when four squadrons went out together to hunt down the Firstborn."

Specter reached out and grabbed Bai Ye's arm.

When the girl's fingertips touched his skin, Bai Ye felt his right arm begin to heat up slightly, while Specter recoiled as if he had been electrocuted.

The Firstborn, activated by Seaborn's bloodline, began to vibrate, and a heart-pounding sound came from Bai Ye's arm.

Bai Ye reached out and pressed down on his right arm. Silver chains appeared out of thin air, crossed and wrapped around Bai Ye's right arm, and then locked.

The crisp clanging of the chains sounded like Wind Chime in the evening breeze. The silver chains tightly bound Bai Ye's right arm, but Bai Ye felt no discomfort, as if the chains did not exist.

Bai Ye knew without asking that this must also be Luna's doing. Luna had been protecting Bai Ye through the game system. Perhaps she was powerless against the real world outside, but how could she let the Firstborn thing that had invaded Bai Ye's body and mind go unchecked?

"Our people are dying all the time. The hunters' corpses are being torn apart by the Seaborn, and the Terrorfish are swarming around the bodies... I don't know what happened after that. I got separated from my teammates, and when I woke up, I was already being held captive by those stinking dead."

Specter gently pressed his forehead and temples; it wasn't a pleasant memory.

In fact, she had been living in agony until she was rescued from the Abyssal Church's dungeon laboratory by Bai Ye, Skadi, and the old woman Kal'tsit.

The split personality that emerged from Specter- protection. The dark side is borne by this confused and muddled personality, while the main personality is protected from falling into a fate of madness.

"We've arrived."

Just then, Bai Ye and Specter arrived in front of his residence, and Bai Ye timely interrupted Specter's reminiscence.

"Is this your home? Your taste is truly appalling..."

Specter forced a smile, his face pale, but he stubbornly raised his head, looking down on Bai Ye's aesthetic sense as usual.

"Forehead..."

Although Laurentina's statement was somewhat unpleasant, it was the one point that Bai Ye could not refute.

His aesthetic sense had become ingrained, perhaps because he had been Players for too long, Bai Ye had a special fondness for places like safe houses.

So when Bai Ye brought Specter into her residence, the nun was completely stunned.

"This place... is even worse than Rhodes Island! You live here?"

Specter paced back and forth in the dwelling, staring wide-eyed, somewhat incredulous.

Bai Ye's residence is a detached small building. The first floor is a shop, but it has long since lost its practical function. Bai Ye no longer personally teaches skills or sells items to Players. Usually, only Players with extremely high affinity with him can obtain rare items and skills from him.

The second floor houses Bai Ye's workshops, laboratories, and library.