Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-Pierce, Proofreader-adjective
[Participant No. C0919, welcome.]
The door he had just entered closed as soon as he turned around. He couldn’t even see a crack.
Instead, a panel-like touch screen emerged.
This tight, elevator-like space was indeed quite small. Anyone would feel congested inside if more than one person was standing within. If someone was claustrophobic, they would feel out of breath as soon as the door was shut.
[Please select the room you want to go to.]
A gentle and soft feminine voice filled the narrow space.
Her voice sounded natural. He couldn’t detect any errors in the tone or sentence structure. Ji Dong had the impression that a lovely big sister was whispering close to his ear.
Two options appeared on the panel before him at the same moment. [My Room] was on the left, while [Other Rooms] was on the right.
Ji Dong chose the option on the left.
[Connecting Rose 0199 for you.]
The female voice replied.
Based on what he observed, Ji Dong concluded that he should be ascending along the pillar.
However, the “elevator” ran smoothly. He concentrated on feeling it and felt only a slight vibration. He was not sure whether he was being transported or not.
By the time he counted to fifty-six in his heart, the door suddenly opened.
[You have arrived at your room.]
The gentle female voice said.
Ji Dong was utterly taken aback by what he saw in front of him. His thoughts went blank for a while, and he merely stepped out of the elevator by reflex.
Because this room was so spacious and beautiful.
When they were standing outside and looking up from below, Ji Dong envisioned the rooms to be like pigeon cages. He believed they were about the same as a single room at the Express Hotel, and one bed might take up half of the room’s capacity.
However, when Ji Dong stepped inside, he realised that the area was at least ninety square feet in size.
The arrangement in the room was identical to those model rooms from a high-end furniture store. The light grey combination cabinet divided the living room and sleeping quarters. There was an open kitchen on the corner of the living room. In the bedroom, there was a glass door next to the closet that led to the bathroom.
Ji Dong walked around his room. It felt more surreal than ever.
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He was stunned for a few seconds. For a moment, he thought he had traversed again.
Or was it just a long dream, and the real him was sleeping in the dormitory of the training center and dreaming of having a vacation in a luxury hotel on the Island of Saipan?
But soon, Ji Dong saw a touch-screen control panel on the windowsill. Words were flashing on it: Summer Beach.
He reached out and tapped on the panel.
The beach and aquatic scenery outside dimmed like a closed computer screen. In just a second, it lit up again and had become a cliff with turbulent waves.
“All right.”
Ji Dong pouted apathetically, “It’s a holographic image.”
He gave up fiddling with the hologram panel and began to check the things inside his den.
There were ten pairs of brand-new shoes in the shoe cabinet. It ranged from sports shoes to high-top Martin boots; there were numerous novels in the bookcase, all of which were reasoning and suspense novels that Ji Dong occasionally read. It matched his reading preferences.
In the kitchen, there was a big refrigerator that was tall enough to be the height of one person. It was stocked with his favorite sports drinks and biscuits, crispy rice and seaweed rolls, and other foods that he loved to snack on.
A touch screen was also located beside the kitchen counter. When Ji Dong’s finger made contact with it, a menu interface similar to that of a fast-food restaurant displayed a long list of cuisines categorized by region. Ji Dong swiped carelessly before selecting “sour soup beef noodle” and pressed confirm.
A minute later, all that could be heard was a “Ding Dong.” The door from the machine in the middle of the cabinet that he mistook for a microwave oven propped open. It revealed a bowl of boiling sour soup beef noodles within.
“So it is like this!”
Ji Dong was startled.
If Ji Dong had known that he didn’t have to spend money on food, he wouldn’t have picked such a mundane home-cooked lunch just now. It would be great if he could try something new, like escargot or caviar with goose liver!
However, Captain Dong was known for never wasting food. He was served with tasty beef noodles. Of course, he would eat it while it was still hot.
So he sat down at the table and enjoyed an early dinner.
The taste of beef noodles was better than Ji Dong expected
He wasn’t hungry, but the sour soup was delicious. The meat was tender and full of flavor, and the rice noodles were chewy. He couldn’t stop himself from devouring a whole dish of beef noodles with his nonstop chopstick movement.
After his meal, Ji Dong returned the empty bowl to the machine and hit the “recycling” button. The machine’s bottom plate slipped away quietly. The empty bowl made its way down the conveyor belt and into the back channel. He had no idea which dimension it fell into.
After he filled his stomach, Ji Dong continued to check the room.
When he opened the closet, he discovered around 30 sets of brand-new clothes hanging in the cabinet. Close-fitting garments and pajamas were neatly placed in the little drawers next to him. He randomly selected two pieces and checked them. They were all the same size as him.
——Fuck, this planning is far too meticulous!
Ji Dong felt that the [Peach Blossom Spring] was so powerful that it even equipped each participant with a full set of daily necessities.
He immediately removed his hoodie and tomato scrambled egg colored short-sleeved sportswear that he had been wearing at the [City of Ashes]. He grabbed a set of pajamas from the cabinet, put them on, and collapsed on the two-and-a-half-metre-wide bed.
He didn’t know what material the mattress was made of. It was like a water bed. It was very elastic, soft, and comfortable. He couldn’t wait to roll on it.
If he hadn’t come to the [Peach Blossom Spring], with the subsidies of the national youth team and the little game bonus, he would have struggled all the way into retirement and wouldn’t be able to afford such a large and grandiose house in China’s big cities.
But when he realized that the cost of momentarily living in a decent room such as this was the ambiguous struggle between life and death that occurred once a month, the bliss brought by the comfortable bed completely vanished.
Ji Dong raged, pulled his hair into a bird’s nest, and yelled into the air, “Hey XiaoBai!”
[At your service.]
The voice of AI XiaoBai came out from thin air.
He hung upside-down from the ceiling, like an exquisite bat, and dangled over Ji Dong’s head.
Ji Dong: “Ah ah ah!”
He rolled over and sat up. He almost fell out of the bed. “Can’t you show up in a normal way?”
AI XiaoBai leaped… Or, more precisely, floated to the ground, and revealed a classic 16-tooth business smile.
[May I ask what you need?]
Ji Dong, “Can you tell me, where is the communication device in this room?”
He thought for a while and added, “The one that can find someone else’s room number.”
[Please come this way.]
AI XiaoBai stooped down and made a “please” gesture, leading Ji Dong to the desk in the corner of the living room,
[To open the communication terminal, simply draw your finger on this panel placed on the table’s edge.]
Following his instructions, Ji Dong quickly turned on the communication device in the room and quickly found out how to use it.
“Well, you can disappear.”
He ruthlessly ordered AI to leave.
For him, AI XiaoBai’s essence was similar to Siri of Apple, with a human shape. If he pestered him whenever he interacted with others, Ji Xiao’niao would feel very uncomfortable.
AI XiaoBai obediently disappeared.
Ji Dong pulled out the chair on his desk, sat upright in front of the communication terminal, and opened the search interface.
He wanted to directly search for the person he had been thinking about for a long time, but somehow he hesitated for a second before he entered his name.
——I’m not familiar with how this works. So… Let’s try it with someone else first.
Ji Dong became a Ji Ostrich. And with an Ah Q spirit, entered the words ‘Zhao Zhui’ in the search box.
The screen flashed and Zhao Zhui’s name and room number popped up.
——Well, that man didn’t deceive us.
Ji Dong transferred Zhao Zhui’s contact information into his watch and erased the information on the terminal.
——All right.
He took a deep breath and subconsciously straightened his back.
Then he reopened the search box, entered ‘Ren Jianmo’ word by word, and solemnly pressed the confirmation key.
—————–
Ren Jianmo woke up in a small room in the ‘Colosseum’. When he opened his eyes, he saw that his AI was a black cat. He opened his mouth and said to him:
[Player No. A0551, welcome back.]
At this time, he knew that he had guessed correctly.
He was different from Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen. He had been here before.
Unlike the newcomers, he didn’t spend much time with the black cat, but settled the points directly and left the ‘Colosseum’.
Of course, Ren Jianmo didn’t pay attention to the headhunters waiting outside the ‘Colosseum’ but went straight back to his place.
He was too familiar with everything in the [Peach Blossom Spring]. It was like he was returning to a place where he had lived for a long time. He didn’t need anyone’s guidance and knew how to go back to his room.
Ren Jianmo couldn’t remember anything about his past. However, he neither felt panicked nor fearful.
This feeling was exactly the same as when he just opened his eyes in the [City of Ashes].
Just like a veteran player who had been immersed in the game for many years, he had long been familiar with the playing methods of various games. When he opened a new game, he could quickly figure out the routines and master its skills like a seasoned gamer. While others were being tortured by novice tutorials, he already began slaughtering the monsters, made killings in the battlefield, and ranked number 1 on the rankings.
Ren Jianmo was aware that his grasp of this [World] was not based on memory, but rather on an intuition imprinted in his cells.
Furthermore, he possessed some remarkable powers that enabled him to deal with any situation in this not-so-difficult “world”.
As a result, he was never in need of company.
It used to be true, and it still was.
hahhaha I think he’ll be wanting the company of a certain someone in the future XD
Thank you for the chapter!
Mn waiting for them to meet again+1
…wonder if he’ll get a notification that someone searched his name? Thanks for the chapter!