Edited by Jules
Xiao Lan looked at Luo. “Are you alright? I entered another Endymion just now. That place was full of fog and there were no NPCs onboard, but I couldn’t contact you both inside that place and after I left.”
Luo spread his arms to indicate he was fine. “I experienced roughly the same thing, but what I entered was an empty area that only had white fog. My luck was pretty bad and I just happened to run up against a certain petty guy’s surveillance. He nearly found me, so I had to waste a bit of time before I could leave.”
He spoke very casually, but it was clear how dangerous it had been.
If the Master discovered him, he, who had yet to recover, might be torn into pieces once more. It was hard to say if he would be able to meet Xiao Lan again after that; there was even a possibility that the people he had encountered, including Xiao Lan, would all be disposed of.
Xiao Lan pointed upwards and quietly asked, “How did he find you?”
Luo thought about it. “He probably vaguely detected my increasing recovery. After all, our energy comes from the same place. He has always been very cautious, so he’ll probably first dispatch some contract players to investigate further.
“To be safe, I probably can’t use my powers anymore after this. It’ll bring you danger if I’m discovered. My apologies.” He looked at Xiao Lan’s injury and sounded a little regretful.
Xiao Lan waved his hand. “It’s fine, just a scratch. It won’t affect me moving about.”
Suddenly, there was a tremendous sound above their heads, as if a giant creature was ramming against the boat.
The entire Endymion ship shuddered for a second, and even the ground under their feet trembled.
Xiao Lan lifted his head. What was up there?
Given the Endymion’s size, what sort of power would be able to cause such movements?
Xiao Lan mouthed to Luo: Contract player?
Luo shook his head, indicating that he wasn’t sure either.
Right at that moment, someone leapt down from the staircase nearby.
Flax-coloured short hair and a trendy style — it was Wen Zhixian.
He was covered in a lot of blood, and his clothes were damaged, but the expression of danger on his face had disappeared, and he looked much more relaxed.
Although Wen Zhixian looked relaxed, from that appearance and pace, he looked like he was running.
Xiao Lan couldn’t help thinking, why was it that every time he bumped into this guy, he was in the middle of fleeing?
Wen Zhixian also saw Xiao Lan. He waved at him and ran over to them. “Hi~ We meet again, Xiao Lanlan.”
Luo was a little on the alert. “Xiao Lanlan?”
Who was this? Why did he suddenly pop up and was even acting so intimately with sir? What in the world happened when he was offline?
Wen Zhixian also noticed there was an extra person. “This is?”
“He’s Fei Luo, my teammate,” Xiao Lan said, then introduced Wen Zhixian to Luo.
Wen Zhixian also waved at Luo. “Hello, Xiao Luoluo.”
Luo: “…Nice to meet you.”
This name was strange, but… since it was the same as sir’s, forget it.
Xiao Lan gave Wen Zhixian a complicated look. “Were you running? Are you being hunted again?”
Wen Zhixian quickly shook his head to declare his innocence. “No, no, no, I’ve already completed my objective and cleanly dealt with that Bang guy, but there seems to be a bit of a mishap up above.”
Xiao Lan was skeptical. “Mishap?”
Wen Zhixian continued, “That’s right, there’s a strange guy attacking players up there. Ah Cheng is thinking of a way to lure him away.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Xiao Lan asked, “The sort of crazy who likes to kill people in instances?”
Wen Zhixian shook his head. “Doesn’t seem so. He’s too strong.
“At that time, I was in a deadlock with a troublesome old guy. In the end, he swung from the back and cracked that guy’s head open. If I hadn’t slipped away quickly and didn’t have Ah Cheng’s help, my head would probably have exploded too.
“Later there was a small boss blocking the way, but he also disposed of him in seconds.
“This combat power is too strong. Aside from those top-level advanced players in Wushe, there’s only contract players left. But why would a contract player come here? Could it be a bug?”
Xiao Lan shot a look at Luo.
Luo’s expression was gloomy.
Luo had just slipped away, when a contract player was unexpectedly quick to arrive. It looked like the Master really was very cautious when it came to news of the Insurgent.
At the same time, however, Xiao Lan had some doubts. “Why would a contract player attack other people?”
Wen Zhixian said, “He probably has some mission ba. Maybe the mission is something related to the players present.”
Feng Cheng added, “Most of the time, the way certain contract players deal with problems is pretty crude — if they don’t know who’s causing the problem, they’ll just dispose of everyone who might be the possible cause.”
Xiao Lan was stunned. “This is just too crude! Aren’t they human too?”
Wen Zhixian shrugged. “They ah… Players who agree to the contract always feel that they’re a cut above everyone else. There’s a group of them who are so extreme that they even think that they already aren’t beings of the same dimension as humans. So in their eyes, players, NPCs, or other creatures are probably no different.”
Xiao Lan’s heart sank.
The Master gave contract players even more power than normal players, which made them proud about their identities as contract players.
So much so that contract players would reject their previous identities as regular players.
Like this, not only could the Master safely win over this portion of stronger fighters, he could even separate them from other regular players in terms of their standpoints, causing them to become his sheepdogs and thereby making it even easier to help him uphold order in the Advent World.
Xiao Lan asked, “Will he kill everyone in the game?”
Wen Zhixian nodded. “He will. Something like this happened before. My dad came across it once, and only escaped by using an item.”
He then asked Xiao Lan, “Have you guys finished your main missions? If so, hurry up and leave ba; the side tasks definitely aren’t as important as your lives.”
As they ran, rumbles would occasionally ring out from the upper part of the ship; it seemed to be the sounds of battle.
The rumbling gradually grew louder, and seemed to be headed downward.
Everyone’s faces turned grave.
They ran to a viewing deck and began to contact their respective organisations.
Xiao Lan took out the bracelet used to contact his organisation and pressed the call button.
“Oh~ sweetheart ah…” A sticky sweet voice came from the other end; they probably hadn’t seen who was contacting them.
“…It’s… SB001.” Xiao Lan said his codename with great difficulty.
“Hm? SB001?! You’re still alive ah…” The other person seemed a little surprised. “I just received information that Father Michael’s background doesn’t seem that simple, and might even be a bit bizarre. We all thought you were dead for sure and we were just about to recruit someone new hahaha.”
Xiao Lan was speechless. “…”
You guys only received the news after Father Michael was dead for a while. Sure enough, the information channels for a trash organisation were shit.
Moreover, what the heck was with a new recruitment ah? Can a trash organisation like you really succeed in recruiting people?!
Xiao Lan took a deep breath. “The task is already complete. Something has happened on the ship and it probably can’t dock through normal means. Come pick me up ba.”
“…” The other side paused for a while, before stipulating, “A fee will be charged.”
Xiao Lan asked, “How much?”
“Um, let me calculate… 157,281.5 yuan.” The other side busted out a number.
This quoted price unexpectedly was precise to even fifty cents. This truly displayed the stingy nature of this poor unregistered organisation.
Xiao Lan said frankly, “…No problem.”
Would a man who swore to stand at the peak of poverty be scared of a measly poverty value of a few hundred thousand?
This much wouldn’t even last a single minute in his hands.
“Alright then, wait about half an hour and we’ll arrive. Our boat is very easy to recognise; you’ll be able to spot it in a glance,” the other said.
“Hold on,” Xiao Lan hurriedly said, “can’t you guys be quicker??!”
Half an hour was enough for his head to be cracked open a thousand times.
“Uh… that… SB001, you also know that the organisation’s finances are rather tight. Recently, the speedboat was seized because it was bought illegally, so, just… B- but, don’t worry, we definitely won’t abandon such outstanding personnel like you…” The voice on the other side grew smaller.
“I wish you pleasant work!” The other side quick-wittedly closed the topic.
Xiao Lan: “…”
There was a sense of deja vu, like he had joined a shady workshop. Moreover, because this penniless unregistered organisation truly had too many flaws, it conversely made one not even know where to begin.
He turned to look at Luo. “What about your side?”
Luo’s organisation seemed to be a typical, reliable one; it should be better than that unregistered organisation ba.
Luo took out his contact device and pressed the call button.
However, there was no response for a long time. When he dialled them a third time, the call couldn’t even connect.
Luo looked at the contact device in his hands. “Seems like the organisation is sacrificing me.”
Xiao Lan: “…”
Luo explained, “After all, this involves the world’s number one arms dealer. If any traces are left behind, it might implicate the organisation. It’s likely that they simply never planned on letting me return at all; even if the Endymion manages to dock smoothly, I will likely just be greeted with an assassination. If a player wants to clear the game after obtaining this identity, they probably still have to find another way themselves.”
A big organisation sure was cruel.
Some people were able to brightly and beautifully act as the rich and powerful on the surface, but in reality, even their boss betrayed them.
Xiao Lan suddenly felt the warmth of the unregistered organisation.
Although it was poor and stingy and wouldn’t even reimburse him, at least it didn’t abandon their own employees.
Or course, it might be that they couldn’t recruit anyone new, so they had no choice but to come to the rescue…
On the other side, Wen Zhixian finished contacting his organisation.
Very quickly, his support arrived. A helicopter stopped nearby and a rope ladder was thrown down for Wen Zhixian to climb up.
It looked both professional and classy.
Wen Zhixian let Feng Cheng go up first, while he himself passed Xiao Lan a small card that looked very suspicious.
It was the kind that was slid under the door when living at a hotel, where it had anyone from XX married woman, to XX student, to XX OL.
The kind that could lead you to experience police uncle’s tea-making skills.
Confused, Xiao Lan took it, then realised that it was an item called 【Big brother, want to come play?】
It just looked like a small card, but was in fact a contact item. It was a wonder with a different approach but same outcome as Wu Ting’s 【Appointment ma】.
Wen Zhixian smiled. “Stay in touch.”
Xiao Lan nodded.
Wen Zhixian turned and jumped hard
onto the rope ladder. “See you, Xiao Lanlan, Xiao Luoluo. Good luck~”
Xiao Lan also waved farewell to him.
At that moment, there were already several players who had contacted their organisations.
Aside from helicopters, various motorboats, speedboats, and even submarines approached the Endymion.
A few players directly relied on their outstanding constitution to simply open a window and leap down into the ocean and swim over.
Xiao Lan found a clock nearby and checked; from the half an hour given, only five minutes had passed so far.
Why was the support from other organisations so fast?!
Fuck, an illegitimate organisation truly wasn’t reliable…
The rumbles of battle were getting closer to their location, and they could even occasionally see the ship breaking, with fragments flying everywhere. Moreover, the vibrations were getting more intense.
So much so that they could even vaguely hear the sounds of the players fighting.
Xiao Lan frowned. “We can’t stay here any longer. We have to run a little further away.”
As the number of remaining players dwindled, the risk of playing hide and seek with the contract player grew.
The two left the viewing platform and continued forward.
They headed for the bottom of the ship.
The noise created by the contract player behind them didn’t stop and the vibrations of the ship grew stronger, so much so that it felt like the Endymion was about to fall apart.
Upon reaching a certain section, Xiao Lan realised that water was starting to pour into the hold of the ship. Who knew what battle had taken place here to create several cracks and holes in the ship.
Currently, a large volume of seawater was gushing in. It had already covered their insteps, and was still constantly increasing.
Xiao Lan suddenly had an idea. “How about we act out a Titanic scene?”
Luo: “You jump, I jump?”
Why was sir this carefree while they were running for their lives? However, it wasn’t like he couldn’t play along…
Xiao Lan shook his head. “No, I mean, let’s sink the ship.”
The Endymion was also considered the bosses’ lair. Although tearing apart bits here and there wouldn’t bother any of the bosses, what if they simply collapsed the lair? Would it gain them poverty value?
Moreover… Looking at their situation now, honestly, the Endymion wasn’t far from sinking anyway. Why not help out a little?
Luo: “…”
He kept up his smile with great difficulty. “Alright, sir.”
Sure enough, he shouldn’t have any unrealistic expectations of sir’s romantic cells.
thanks for the chapter
sinking a ship together is very romantic what do you mean Luo!
Thanks for the chapter uwu there is a sentence kept in the original language and in a part there is a kanji I guess? Idk if it is good to tell it in the comments
Thanks for the chapter. (It seems like some parts might’ve been accidentally left untranslated.)
and what do you mean LuoLuo? Clearly the most romantic part of Titanic was the ship sinking.
omg but why is it so true????
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Poverty before anything else
There’s nothing more romantic than sinking a ship together
Thanks for the chapter!
The passwords not working it is baobaomei right I either can’t find it or put it in wrong
I got it I had to use the password for all novels
thanks for the chapter <3
»“Um, let me calculate… 157,281.5 yuan.” The other side…« Yuan + above that is the text in Chinese left
»Ot course, it might be that they couldn’t recruit…« Of course
»Luo in Chinese: “YoujumpIjump ?”« Also left in the text.
Haha… good luck surviving the remaining 20-25 minutes :’D
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
Wdym Xiao LuoLuo? It’s very romantic
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
No no .. sink the ship, then swim together.. romantic ba ~