Citing a heavy workload, Xianyu declined the victory banquet afterward and pulled UR back to the General's Residence.
Both fell silent without a word.
Xianyu knew that clearing a game was never easy.
Especially a game with such a vast setting and so much freedom for its NPCs. One careless move could spell game over for him and the Yaoqing.
But he had never imagined the NPCs could team up to stir up trouble!
And these were Aeons-high-level NPCs he couldn't kill at his current stage.
Xianyu had to hand it to them. These NPCs had way too much freedom.
He had no choice but to spare some attention for putting himself in their shoes and trying to treat UR and the NPCs as people.
Xianyu tried to recall anything unusual about his past interactions with UR, looking at them from Lan's perspective.
His widely acclaimed general had been harshly condemned by a Heliobus as an inhuman villainous boss.
Then Lan had turned around and seen his general saving a dying hamster. Upon noticing him, the general had promptly given him an item that granted him immortality.
Didn't that prove the Heliobus's point? He wasn't treating people as people at all. He was treating Lan like a hamster.
Xianyu: "..."
Back then, the hamster really had reminded him of Lan. He had been afraid his UR would suddenly drop dead like a pet.
Looking at it from Lan's perspective, he really did seem like a villainous boss...
Xianyu felt numb.
Grinding away at the game day and night wasn't enough. Now he had to spare attention for the NPCs' feelings too...
If it was UR, though, he was willing to put himself in his shoes.
So, what else had Lan seen besides the Neutron Annihilation technology? What was Erudition trying