[Gu Yue Fang Yuan: Young friend Zhang Heng, we've completed our mission and returned from the instance world. Are you free to meet?]
My name was Zhang Heng.
Zhang as in Zhang Heng, Heng as in Zhang Heng.
I was thirty-three years old and a Reincarnator.
By sheer luck, I'd met a team of veterans during my beginner mission and completed it practically lying down.
Not only that, those kindhearted veterans had guided my cultivation and helped strengthen both my soul and body, along with those of another newcomer.
With over a month until my next mission, I had plenty of time to rest.
After returning to Reincarnation Space, I'd used the Reincarnation Friends feature on the Reincarnator Online Service Platform to add that other newcomer. For the past few days, we'd been investigating and gathering information in Reincarnation Space between our daily training sessions.
A few days ago, Chu Lingyun had invited me to join her.
"I'd like to invite you to form a team with me," Chu Lingyun said, bringing along comrades from her own world.
During our time in the Journey to the West World, we'd fought together in training many times, slaying demons and even a Demon Immortal. We'd built a measure of trust and an understanding of each other.
I didn't know anyone else here, so teaming up with someone familiar really did seem like a good choice.
Reincarnation Space had an excellent mission-matching system. Generally speaking, missions assigned to newly formed teams wouldn't be too difficult.
Everything had been going so well. So why? Why had it come to this?
"Lingyun, what do you think of this style of dress?"
"Crystal King Peak Shampoo. Twenty Reincarnation Points for shampoo—that's a luxury."
"So our area only formed recently. No wonder most people there are newcomers