093. It's Actually an Idle Py

  Li Aozi chuckled and guided them intle Town.

  The residents le Tow uneasy about these more than forty strangers who had been brought in, especially sihe pyers acted like curious kids, wanting to touch everythi anything that seemed edible, and sleep on ahey saw—of course, these behaviors quickly earhem beatings and scoldings from the locals, and the meddling pyers had no choice but to scurry back to Li Aozi.

  Only Li Aozi treated them well; he even invited his own people to the b. A mentor is indeed a mentor.

  For many, it was their first time seeing the outside world and its settlements, and they were particurly shocked.

  "Whoa, is this the outside world? It's the first time I've seen such a stunning se. The sky is red and bck, and you 't see a single sun."

  "How do they farm? In this id stormy pce, even st water must be a huge problem."

  "That's a nuclear reactor over there. Seems like there's still some hope."

  The pyers from the White Day Guild were more posed. They carefully observed the surrounding characters and occasionally switched to 'disguise mode,' actively iing with the residents le Town, and recorded whiPCs sold what, whiPCs triggered quests, what the NPew about the area, and their opinions on Li Aozi. They piled this information and published it on their internal el, creating an exclusive guide.

  "The actual ruler le Town is the warlord Aud. He appears to be a young boy, but iy, he's a mastermind with the memories of seven geions of his family. Triaown's slogan is 'Triangle Alliance,' and that's what you should shout when addressing a superior. Li Aozi is both a protector le Town and a force supported and ied in by the town itself. The retionship isn't plicated..."

  The White Day Guild had its own analysis team, and after colleg the avaible information and photos, they quickly deduced a lot of useful intel, which would help the White Day Guild further establish its foothold.

  What surprised their guild leader, Yan Wang, was that after some versations, it seemed like the people le Town respected Li Aozi even more than the warlord.

  If the warlord was the king tle Town, then Li Aozi ractically a legendary figure.

  Gradually, from the locals' mouths, the pyers began to learn the reason for Li Aozi's fame.

  "Abyss Humanitarian Annihition War," "Liberation of the Principality of Gunt," "Aerial Meat Grinder," "Direct Peion of Frost-Pted Airspace"—any one of these events alone would be major enough to make it into a game expansion.

  The most eous thing was that the st three achievements happened after the PV for 《Star Abyss》 was released. From the pyer's perspective, it was as if Li Aozi was a harmless guy one day, and the , he had turned into a Khorne champion who could easily deal with humans.

  These four renowned feats pletely solidified Li Aozi's supreme reputation. bined with his pale plexion and the fact that he helped the people of the outside world rid themselves of the Abyss Humanitarian disaster, in their eyes, not building a shrine for him would be unreasonable.

  "Looks like we uimated Li Aozi's power." Yan Wang said worriedly to his subordinates. "If he's this strong, does that meahreshold for transferring to 【Mutant】 is also really high?"

  "A high threshold just means 【Mutant】 is powerful." The pyers under him didn't seem to mind. "Anyway, we're in the closed beta, so lenty of ces. Rather thaating ter during the official release aing overtaken by others, we might as well take the plunge now."

  Yan Wang thought that made sense, but he still felt uneasy.

  《Star Abyss》 was unlike any ame they'd ever pyed; whether in terms of realism or pletion, everything was just too high-level.

  Not to mention other things, they could even take off their pants to cast water magic, or shove a on into ao apply a poison entment.

  Furthermore, Yin had discovered a particurly sneaky exploit: using the characteristic that pyers' bodies could be summoned as NPCs, after dying three times, the character would disappear. So, he would take out high-i loans, sell ans, and sell himself to death. A teammate would revive him, and he'd tinue selling. After using up the three resurre opportunities, he'd take the loan and an sale money and run, only to create a new character the day.

  Although the "selling-yourself-loan" strategy would result in losing a month's worth of game time, and the money earned would not be nearly enough to pensate for the losses, with character favorability, quest progress, and current level all reset, some pyers still found it worthwhile to try this rogue pystyle.

  Yan Wang's main stemmed from the leveling system of this game: pared to ames, the level progression in 《Star Abyss》 was incredibly slow. If you started practig martial arts with the same NPC, from the NPC's perspective, you might not even be able to learn as fast as they did.

  Looking at it this way, even if someone were a prodigy, whether they were a pyer or an NPC, starting training at 18 years old, it would probably take until they were nearly 30 to reach Li Aozi's level of strength, right?

  NPCs at Li Aozi's level would likely be proud and aloof. Would they even aowledge them?

  Especially since Li Aozi had ihem over so easily, the more Yan Wang thought about it, the more somethi off.

  'Could the 【Mutant】 css transfer have some sort of trap? Or maybe the css isn't as good as it seems?'

  If the game's developers had iionally desig to make them run through a series of long and frustrating quests, Yan Wang could accept that. But if the ditions for the 【Mutant】 transfer were too simple, then they'd o give it some serious thought.

  There wasn't much time left for Yan Wang to specute, as after walking a bit further, the pyers arrived at Li Aozi's boratory.

  The doors slowly opened, revealing an automated meical assembly line tinuously produg rge quantities of biochemical agents, iing them into biopools. The dizzying meical arms rapidly repeated as like grabbing, squeezing, pg, and transferring, while the air was filled with the smell of formaldehyde, ammonia, chlorine, and something burnt. The ing odered an instinctive revulsion, but after a while, oheir bodies adapted to the air, the pyers were surprised to discover a 'Nutrient Enrit' status on their panels.

  The vitality here was incredibly abundant.

  The pyers curiously touched everything, flipped through stuff, and Li Aozi just smiled, watg them bash their heads against the walls in an attempt to find hidden rooms.

  While they were having fun, the b's doors slowly closed, and at this point, Li Aozi no longer hid his iions and finally id his cards oable:

  "You all aren't from Azure Star, are you?"

  As soon as he said that, the pyer who was rummaging through drawers pushed them ba, the one flipping tables righted them, and the one prying open the safe obediently locked it back up. The pyers, one by one, looked nervously at Li Aozi, while the higher-ups of several guilds exged gnces.

  "What do we do?" South Pole Penguin, the leader of the 'Arctic O' Guild, looked fused and unsure how to react.

  "Did we just break the fourth wall?" Old Blind, the leader of the 'Murloc' Guild, never missed an opportunity to stir things up. Their guild was a hub of troublemakers aertainers, and the guild leader himself ur streamer. As he talked, he munched on pop, watg the show unfold.

  "See, I k wouldn't be that simple." Yan Wang crossed his arms with a 'I saw this ing' expression. "There's no such thing as a free lunch. Great, now we've been duped. The step is probably torture, f fessions out of us, dug all sorts of forbidden experiments on our bodies, figuring out the secrets of the pyers' bodies, and then Li Aozi will gasp in shock: 'Whoa, the Fourth Camity is terrifying! This one 't be allowed to live for long'—ha, cssic cultivation novel plot."

  Although everyone was joking about being duped, iy, as pyers, they were more excited than anyone else to see what would happen. This was just another cutse to watch, and they were waiting for Li Aozi to make his move.

  But after waiting for a long time, all Li Aozi did was sit there and start pying on his phone, pletely ign the pyers and leaving them to themselves.

  Wait, this isn't right?

  What happeo the scripted cutse?

  Damn it, is Stra pying us again?

  Though they could admire the beauty of Li Aozi from this close, bei hanging like this, uo i—damn, it was worse than having their eyes gouged out.

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