Cube Boat chose Homeland Island as the rest point this time. The slogan of Homeland Island was ‘the closest thing to the ‘Peach Blossom Spring.’’
The land here was fertile and water was abundant. The carefully refined black land was so fertile that it could squeeze out juice. Going fishing in the sea often led to a good yield. They could also find a place in the central ranch and raise a side animal or ride a horse to herd cattle and sheep.
Fishing and farming were all indispensable. Many players who accumulated points early on liked to concentrate on Homeland Island, buying a piece of land and exchanging agricultural products for life points. It was just that agricultural and animal husbandry products were cheap. Most players didn’t have any business acumen and there was no way to read the saved file and start over.
So far, there had been more than 100 players who collapsed. The original accumulated points had returned to zero. They were so poor they had to sell their land to recover and obediently went back to playing instances.
Still, Homeland Island was always the warm Homeland Island. Nothing would change this. The fruit custard here was the freshest. It came to the table right after being picked from the branches. Strawberries and lychees were hollowed out and squeezed into them was the simplest condensed milk. Then it was frozen in the freezer for a few hours and became a delicious, fresh dessert with a sweet mist.
There was one dessert and two flavors, so they had three of each flavor. At this time, Nan Zhou and Nanji Star were facing off in front of the dessert plate. Nanji Star excitedly slammed down his paw next to the lychee. ‘I want to eat this.’
Nan Zhou wasn’t very happy and bargained with him. “I like to eat it.”
Nanji Star thought about it before reluctantly moving his paw to the strawberry. Nan Zhou pondered on it for a moment. “I like to eat that too.”
Nanji Star was angry. He hugged the lychee custard and his two back legs moved. He jumped into the tissue box so that only his head was exposed from the box. In front of Nan Zhou, he protested and bit the edge of the lychee.
Nanji Star was proud. “Ji.”
Nan Zhou, “……”
Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang both laughed. Li Yinhang rubbed Nanji Star’s head while Jiang Fang touched Nan Zhou’s head.
Both sides were soothed.
Nan Zhou took a wooden spoon and carefully ate the strawberry custard. His concentration was like it was the only dessert left in the world.
An apple-faced female NPC wearing a headscarf gently touched Nan Zhou’s wrist. She handed him a tissue and pointed to his lips with red cheeks. There was smeared white condensed milk. Before Nan Zhou could reach out his hand, Jiang Fang gently raised a hand and wiped it off for him with a thumb. Immediately, he took the tissue from the apple-faced girl’s hand and wiped his fingers before telling her politely, “Thank you.”
The apple-faced girl wanted to spend some time with Nan Zhou but the bell at the dessert shop door rang and new guests entered. She had to smile shyly at Nan Zhou before running back to the counter.
Li Yinhang felt like she had seen this scene before. She smiled and said, “It seems that many NPCs like you.”
Of course, there were also those who hated Nan Zhou. For example, the colorful rabbit and steel rabbit. NPCs always responded flatly to players so their love or hatred for Nan Zhou seemed particularly extreme.
Nan Zhou bit a strawberry and thought seriously about whether to continue eating the strawberries or lychees. He didn’t even notice whether the NPC was a male or female. At Li Yinhang’s reminder, he looked up. He whispered back, “Really?”
Li Yinhang still had a minimum of curiosity. She wanted Nan Zhou to talk more, preferably about himself. She knew that Nan Zhou probably didn’t regard her as a friend but Li Yinhang one-sidedly wanted to be his friend. For example, she wanted to ask why Nan Zhou’s waist could be so thin when he liked sweets so much.
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The owner of this home-style dessert store was the apple-faced girl. Her setting was to open her dream store, pulling along the strong girl who grew up with her as her younger sister. As the apple-faced girl was entertaining guests, her 5 or 6 year old sister, who wasn’t as tall as the table, woke up.
She ran out of the bedroom. After seeing so many people, her chronic manic characteristic kicked in and she ran all over the place like a rabbit. The apple-faced girl had to chase after her, calling her name and trying to catch her.
The little girl was running near Nan Zhou when her short legs accidentally stumbled over the legs of a table. She was about to fall down but ended up hovering in the air at an angle of 45 degrees. Nan Zhou had stuck out his hand and caught the little girl’s collar firmly.
The slightly sweaty apple-faced girl stood beside Nan Zhou and apologized. “S-Sorry, I gave you trouble.”
Nan Zhou looked at the defiant little girl. “It’s fine. My little sister was also naughty before… she hurt me.”
The apple-faced girl humbly asked, “How did you teach her?”
Nan Zhou answered plainly, “Later she died.”
The apple-faced girl, “……”
The little girl, “…..”
The scared little girl obediently held her older sister’s clothes and left. As she left, she kept looking back. She couldn’t understand why someone with such a good-looking face had a bad mouth. Nan Zhou also looked at her and saw another childish face.
At first, Nan Zhou didn’t know he was a false character. He only knew that the world he was in was deformed and weird. Therefore, he was like a sensitive animal born in a dangerous environment. He was especially precocious and lonely. Perhaps it was because his parents and sister couldn’t communicate but he didn’t like dealing with people from a young age.
The small town was densely populated with houses and the roofs almost connected. As a child, Nan Zhou liked to step on the edge of the roof and use the whole town as his tool for jumping. Once he was tired from jumping, he sat down on the roof of his house and quietly thought about his own affairs for a while. He crouched on the roof like a cat.
Nan Zhou had discovered his ability much earlier than in the comic. At the age of 4, he slept with a storybook under his pillow and his brain was filled with many characters he didn’t know very well.
The next day, he tried to change it to a dictionary under his pillow. After a short night, he understood the meaning of these characters. Unfortunately, there weren’t many books he could find at the time. They were only the basic enlightenment textbooks originally placed on his bookshelf.
Little Nan Zhou explored all over Never Town but couldn’t find a place that sold books. So where did his parents’ books come from?
He had known for a long time that Never Town was a closed off place. He had run around and found the invisible wall surrounding Never Town. He had walked around the town and couldn’t find a single way out. Moreover, he knew about the existence of the light demons even earlier than the time set in the comics. He was very scared for a while.
Then his fear ended on a day of ‘extreme sunlight.’ That day, a light demon came to his window. He held a sharpened pencil and waited under the window, summoning his courage to protect his family.
Then he suddenly felt a very strange sense of control. It was as if there was a hand in the darkness manipulating him. It dragged him into the closet abruptly, pressing down on his head and not allowing him to move. It wasn’t just that. It also forced him to tremble with fear.
In the past, Nan Zhou had always felt a strange sense of violation in his daily life. This was the first time he clearly experienced the feeling of being manipulated by a certain force to follow the plot.
Next, he walked uncontrollably through the plot he had tried a long time ago.
He warned his parents, friends and sister about the existence of monsters. He tried to call the police. He tried to escape the town with his sister.
He had already expected the final result. He couldn’t get out of Never Town at all. Therefore, he wasn’t too disappointed. The manipulation over Nan Zhou’s muscles and bones was released when he put his hand on that wall. He was like a puppet that finally got rid of the shackles. He gained the right to move around freely.
Nan Zhou politely knocked on the invisible air wall.
Knock knock knock.
He whispered to the outside, “Hello, is there anyone?”
Can anyone hear me?
I am here.
No one responded as expected.
He rode his bicycle and took his sister back to Never Town. He used his pocket money to buy her an ice cream. The food in Never Town had no taste. It was all the taste of paper. Nan Zhou had grown up eating paper and found it tasteless. This meant he didn’t have much interest in food. He looked at the little girl eating ignorantly in front of him and thought, ‘What is her name?’
She had no name. Nan Zhou only knew that she was his little sister. This was his sister who suddenly appeared in his house and never grew up.
The character ‘Nan Zhou’ was born on the first day that the cartoonist picked up his pen. The author had given him the special setting of ‘being aware of his own differences’. This meant that for any further development that wasn’t a definite design by the author, it was impossible for Nan Zhou to be completely controlled.
Nan Zhou was a child with his own soul who was accidentally trapped in a comic. The author couldn’t draw all of Nan Zhou’s life. That would only turn into a boring and long-running comic. Thus, he just picked the highlights and presented them to the readers.
Nan Zhou couldn’t forcefully change the settings that the author wrote clearly. However, in places that the author didn’t write, Nan Zhou took a completely different path. If there was any similarity between Nan Zhou and the character ‘Nan Zhou’, it was that he wanted to be less lonely. He wanted to protect his family.
The day of his 9th birthday coincided with an extreme day of sunlight. He quietly stepped onto the sunny street, sat on the side of the street and stretched out his well-developed arms and legs. Like a well-behaved kitten, he waited for the inevitable fate to fall upon him.
He didn’t know how long it took before a blur of light appeared in front of him. He didn’t know where it came from but a light demon bit him.
In this way, he successfully realized the transformation. This was the ‘gift’ he gave to himself and his family.
He actually changed a full 10 years earlier than ‘Nan Zhou’ in the comic. Since then, Nan Zhou had far more power and speed than normal people. He didn’t know the setting of the comic or the price that might be paid for killing the same kind. He went hunting ferociously and attacked any light demon that dared to hunt his family.
After trying it a few times, he found that he hated biting. Thus, he chose to twist the light demon’s neck. There was a clicking sound. It was simply neat and smooth.
The setting of the light demon was that they found it abhorrent to co-exist with the same kind. However, they had the basic characteristics of creatures. They believed in the law of the jungle where the strong ate the weak. They had a strong crisis awareness.
Under the fierce and conscious attacks and cleansing of Nan Zhou, the light demons in Never Town gradually felt awe toward this young man who always sat on the roof in a daze. They even started to quietly please him. For example, putting a few unconscious townspeople on his doorstep.
Several living people were lined up at his door. This scene was spectacular for a while. The population created by the author actually developed a bizarre ‘leader worship.’
Once Nan Zhou discovered that the setting could be modified in a subtle way, he came up with other ideas. He wondered what exactly the light demons needed in order for the human body to be full. Was there any other way apart from biting people?
During this period, Nan Zhou was still manipulated by the necessary plot of the comic. As an ordinary person, he did a few things to deal with the light demons. The light demons also wondered about it. How could they dare attack the fierce, young and cold-hearted boss?
However, there was no other way. They were controlled by some type of force and suddenly went crazy. They had to try and kill the boss. This made Nan Zhou deal with them according to the plot. The light demons who didn’t know the truth thought that he was clearing away the subordinates who dared to challenge his authority.
He was like a wolf biting the rebels who wanted to storm the wolf king’s throne. This caused them to admire and fear him even more.
When Nan Zhou was 10 years old, he suddenly seemed to be manipulated. He placed a textbook under his pillow and slept all night. The next day, he was guided by the strange force and walked to a corner of the town. The thing that appeared in front of him was a building he hadn’t seen before.
Nan Zhou thought, ‘Where did this come from?’
He entered the building marked ‘Xinhua Bookstore.’ Looking around at the circle of books, Nan Zhou thought it was good. They sent him books.
Nan Zhou consulted the books that the author provided to him and used the chemistry laboratory that the author was finally willing to draw after he entered junior high school to look for ingredients in the rough way he usually mixed pigments. He found a few light demons to use as experiments to see what they needed in order to fill their endless appetite.
In any case, he had enough time.
In the end, a fluorocarbon emulsion that could be used as a blood substitute was created under his hands. After Nan Zhou controlled their food, all the light demons in Never Town fully surrendered and obeyed him.
At that time, Nan Zhou didn’t know that his own ending had long been set. He had ensured the safety of his family so he started trying something else. He wanted to make himself less lonely. He wanted to develop a relationship that would satisfy him. He tried to make a meal and eat with his false family.
However, his family’s setting was that his father and mother took turns being in charge of cooking. This meant the dishes he cooked were ignored by everyone. The paper-like meals with no taste could only be eaten slowly by himself.
He tried to talk to his family. He tried to keep a picture diary to record the difference between his life and what it used to be.
He didn’t want much as long as it wasn’t fear of the same kind. He wanted a hug that was warm, meaningful and purposeful.
So, the moment when he was cooking for his family with a bit of hope only to end up being bitten by his sister was the loneliest moment of his 19 years of life. He might’ve never really understood his ‘family.’ He might be destined to live alone forever.
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…I want to hug Nan Zhou T^T
Thanks for the chapter
…I am crying- baby come here I’ll hug you for as long as you want!
And Yinhang, Nan Zhou is a different kind of being- while I eat two sweets and gain a pound he can eat thousands and still maintain a slim waist-
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you so much for translating! <3
How cruel (
Thank you very much for the sad translation
thanks for the chapter <3
I-this is so sad😭😭😭
screams THE NPCS!! REACTING OUTSIDE OF EXPECTATION WITH HIM!!! WOSKFLDHSONFLS
now what caused the divide in reaction? 🤔🤔🤔 And….lmao dothey change their opinion after meeting him??
Wowowowow so thrilled with all these developments!!
Thank you so much for the chapters!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤💖💖💖💖💖💖
Thats cruel
Mano que cruel, que vida terrível, sinceramente foi mil vezes pior do que eu esperava eu nem sei oque eu esperava, mas definitivamente não era isso, coitado ele só queria um amigo e as pessoas ainda enganaram ele e mataram ele Talvez o desejo dele seja não ser mais solitário? Maybe his wish is not to be lonely anymore?
Pq essa caralha não ta dando o espaço nas linhas dessa vez eu tenho certeza que eu coloquei
Nan Zhou baby 🥺😭😭😭😭😭
My eyes wont stop tearing up 😭
This story just keeps hitting us with feels repeatedly god…
My eyes wont stop tearing up 😭
This story just keeps hitting us with feels repeatedly god…
poor Nan Zhou…
😢😢😭 I’m sobbing, This is so sad.