At Ye Tian's home, both of them had rather solemn expressions. The previous Changes were simply too unbelievable, especially for Ye Tian.
"Ten seconds left on the countdown." Ye Tian's voice was tense, his hands gripping his knees tightly.
"Perhaps this is a good thing for you!" Ling Yi comforted her.
Ye Tian didn't speak, because the ten-second countdown ended quickly.
Ling Yi has now sealed his power and can't sense anything.
Logically speaking, obtaining a cheat ability should be a good thing, and Ye Tian's expression should be happy. However, Ye Tian's expression kept Changes: shock, disbelief, fear, panic... but there was no joy on his face.
After a long while, Ye Tian turned to Ling Yi and slowly began to explain.
This world was created by a high-dimensional civilization; it's a game Login World specifically designed for their players.
"It's like the login screen of a game, and everyone in this world is like an account in that game."
"When players are not logged in, we live our own lives. Once a player logs in, we are forcibly taken over their bodies and sent into various game worlds to play!"
"The person who died earlier was a player, and the Light Ball I picked up is the Player System, but..."
"But what?" Ling Yi asked.
"However, for some reason, the system I found can no longer connect to the main server; it's now a standalone version. The Mission System, game database, System Shop, and documentation are all missing, and..."
"Furthermore, because it lost contact with the Main System, it assumed the Main System had been destroyed and automatically generated an independent Player System!"
Ling Yi thought for a moment and asked three questions, "Are you sure that player really died, and didn't just quit the game?"
Ye Tian nodded. "Death, whether a player dies in the game or in the Login World, is a true death."
Then it's no longer a simple game.
"Can players take everything they obtain in game instances out of the game world?" Ling Yi asked again!
"Yes!"
"Game instances, are they the worlds of movies, TV series, anime, or the like?"
"Yes!"
Ling Yi scoffed disdainfully. Wasn't this just using the guise of a game to Plunder across Myriad Worlds?
Having experienced so many worlds, Ling Yi was all too familiar with this kind of plot. It was almost identical to the setting of the Reincarnation Space, just the same thing in a different guise.
In this way, Ling Yi roughly understood the basic rules of this world.
The Protagonist, Ye Tian, will inevitably become the player's adversary and their Hunter. His system will also be denied the existence of the Main System. Therefore, he is not only the enemy of all players, but also the Main System's target for elimination!
Under this setup, Ye Tian needs to meet several conditions to survive.
First, his system is capable of evolving, and in the future it will have the power to destroy or at least directly confront the Main System.
Secondly, the Main System has loopholes in its oversight of the login interface and cannot achieve real-time monitoring, which allows the Protagonist Ye Tian time to grow.
Third, and most importantly, Ye Tian should have a special identity, not just a simple player account. His single-player system can create Subsystem, meaning there are players belonging to his system.
"What are your plans?" Ling Yi asked again.
"I don't know." Ye Tian's face was very unpleasant.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Tian added, "But we should do something."
"Our world has a name, its number is R-19999. If we consider our world as a game server, this number is very likely the server's number."
Ye Tian frowned as he made his summary.
"The game instances open randomly, and the timing is not fixed, which is somewhat inconsistent with the settings of Unification game. Perhaps, this is not a simple game."
"Like you just asked, it's a bit absurd that players in the game can actually die."
"I'll find out what's going on after I enter a game instance."
Ling Yi nodded approvingly; this was a Protagonist with brains.
"Just let me know if you need any help."
"Thank you. I might need some equipment—melee weapons, firearms, and armor."
"The others are simple, but firearms are a bit more troublesome. I'll try my best to find a solution."
"Thanks!"
"No need to be so polite. Perhaps the future of this world rests entirely on your shoulders. I can't help you much, I can only offer assistance."
Ye Tian then looked up at Ling Yi and asked, "You... you must be quite something too."
Ling Yi was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Why do you ask that?"
"When that Data Wall swept across, West City was reset, including the environment and everyone else's memories. I wasn't reset because I obtained the Player System, but you weren't reset either..."
Ling Yi laughed heartily and gave Ye Tian a thumbs up, "It's quite rare that you can still keep a calm mind and observe Subtlety in the face of something like this."
"I also have a cheat ability, and I always have, but mine leans towards killing Plunder."
"I've always been reluctant and afraid to use my cheat codes, but now, I think I know how to use them."
"Killing players, maybe that's the right way to use my cheat code."
The Passive Plunder Aura is an aura that Ling Yi activated a long time ago, but he hasn't used it much, mainly because he's had too few opportunities to use it.
Of course, you can't say that to Ye Tian.
"I wonder if the Data Wall has detected us two... viruses. To the Player System, we might just be viruses."
"But since they didn't issue a purge order against us, there's a chance," Ye Tian analyzed.
"We'll talk about everything after the next game instance opens. Analyzing it now will only cause more trouble."
"Good!"
The two rested separately. Ling Yi didn't know if Ye Tian had fallen asleep, but he was choosing to activate a new halo.
The level cap in this world is very high, and Ling Yi isn't sure if this game server R-19999 is a new server or an old one.
The Passive Plunder Aura alone is probably not enough.
Ling Yi searched for a long time and finally found a rather bizarre halo.
Passive Shop Aura lv1 (0/10w): Automatically retrieves the current world and generates a shop list. As long as you have money, you can buy anything from a vast universe to a tiny screw. Anything of value West City be sold to the shop for shop coins. The ratio of gold coins to Ancient Country Currency is 1:100. At this level, it is limited to technology-related items.
This system might be more suitable for Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, as it better showcases their Money Power.
However, Ling Yi is also a rich second-generation in this world, so exchanging for several million gold coins in the early stages is not a problem.
Ling Yi only needs to use this aura to provide him with Combat in the early stages.
Opening the store list, Ling Yi quickly found some familiar product names.
Iron Man's Mark Series Armor, the miniature robots in Superpower Hero 6, the various powerful weapons in Men in Black, the Hoi-Poi Capsule from the Dragon Balls World...
As Ling Yi had guessed, this world contained various movie worlds, TV series worlds, anime worlds, and possibly even novel worlds.
Ling Yi exchanged all the money in his bank card for in-game currency.
220,000 gold coins... That means Ling Yi has 22 million in his bank account.
After searching for products within this price range, Ling Yi quickly made her choices.
The Mark 50 Iron Man Armor, also known as Iron Man's nanotech armor or the Bleeding Edge Armor, costs 150,000 gold coins.
This price seems a bit too low. In Ling Yi's opinion, the cost of the Mark 50 should be at least over 100 million, which is more than a million in gold coins.
Ling Yi couldn't understand why it could be purchased for only 150,000 gold coins.
Perhaps the Mark 50 armor has become so abundant in this world that it has lost its value?
Ling Yi didn't keep the remaining gold coins. He bought two more beam guns from the Men in Black, each costing 30,000. With the remaining 10,000, Ling Yi directly bought a bunch of firearms and a Hoi-Poi Capsule.
Only a pistol and three magazines were left behind, which were prepared for Ye Tian; the rest were put into the Hoi-Poi Capsule.
As for why he didn't give Ye Tian a better weapon, Ling Yi said, "Who reveals all their cards from the very beginning?"
Moreover, Ye Tian is the Child of Karmic Luck of this world, the Protagonist. Even if Ling Yi doesn't help him, he can still develop his own path.
The next morning, Ye Tian was still surprised when he saw the pistol and magazine that Ling Yi handed him.
This is Ancient Country; obtaining something like this is no easy feat, which made Ye Tian extremely grateful to Ling Yi.
At least with this thing, he felt more confident.
"Are you still going to school?" Ye Tian asked.
"Of course, who knows when the game dungeons will appear? Everything will remain the same."
Ye Tian was somewhat averse to going to school. He was a nobody at school, had no friends, was disliked by the teachers, and was occasionally Taunt and bullied by some classmates...
"You're my friend, Ling Yi. Anyone who dares to bully you in the future is disrespecting me."
Ye Tian scratched his head and said helplessly, "Alright!"
Ling Yi stopped staying at Ye Tian's house the next day, as it felt a bit awkward for two men to "live together".
Having traveled through so many worlds, this is the first time he's ever been a rich kid.
Ling Yi didn't know how other rich kids lived, but his experience wasn't very good.
That evening, Ling Yi received a phone call from the original owner of this world's "father," who immediately launched into a tirade, demanding to know why he hadn't come home the previous night and rambling on and on about his reasons, which made Ling Yi extremely irritable.
"How many times have I told you? Don't associate with shady people. Your future path is a completely different parallel line from those ordinary people; it will never intersect with theirs."
"And tell me, what did you do with all that money you used this time?"
"Isn't that money under my control?" Ling Yi asked, somewhat impatiently.
"That's money Laozi gave you. Don't Laozi have the right to consult you?"
"No!"
"What did you say?" came the roar from the other end of the phone. "You think you're all that now? If you're so capable, then don't use Laozi money, don't live in Laozi house, and don't Laozi the sports car I bought you."
"Seriously, that was long-winded. Goodbye, and I've blocked you."
Ling Yi was truly amazed by these parents with such warped values; he simply couldn't understand the idea of defining ordinary people as "neither fish nor fowl."
I don't know how the original owner endured it; this feeling was extremely terrible.