DEG - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Irrelevant?
The one with the biggest reaction was the intuitively sharp Star Beast.
The moment that soybean-sized wisp of fog appeared on Jiang Xun's fingertip, it tucked its tail between its legs and whimpered, running behind Berry Milkshake.
"What is that?" Berry Milkshake couldn't hide her panic, pinning her hopes on the more experienced I Heal Your Whole Family.
I Heal Your Whole Family shook her head.
This kind of deterrence, this terrifying feeling.
She had only seen it once before.
From that beautiful Regent who could intimidate everyone with just a view of her back.
Just one glance.
Cold sweat broke out.
Her intuition told her to run away quickly.
It was clearly a character in a game, yet it could intimidate a player. It was truly too strange.
She was almost certain that Jiang Xun was definitely not an ordinary NPC.
The players weren't the only ones frightened by this intimidation.
Wei Jin pinned his hopes on the protective shield over his head.
He thought to himself that it was forged from rare metals, with a hardness comparable to a mecha's. No Ability could penetrate it.
As for the man playing the hero saving the damsel, Yan Xi, he staggered back a few steps. The moment that black fog appeared, it was as if he had seen some unbelievable nightmare.
His lips moved slightly, almost speaking that name.
But his heart still resisted the thought.
That Ability.
How could it be possible?
This one was so small, just like a soybean. It only resembled the other one in color.
He forced himself to calm down as cold sweat dripped, but in the next second, he saw Jiang Xun lightly press the ball of black fog onto Wei Jin's head.
Yan Xi knew how much Wei Jin cherished his life. The metals he chose for his protective shield were all materials that could be used on mechas.
Coupled with years of nurturing it with his metal-type Ability, one could say he had truly made himself a tortoise shell.
But now.
Right before his eyes.
The soybean-sized black fog gently touched that thing.
The metal disintegrated. The black fog fell through the small, soybean-sized hole, disappearing to who knows where.
Wei Jin was no longer breathing.
Berry Milkshake could see that Wei Jin's health bar had dropped to zero.
She swallowed and hid beside I Heal Your Whole Family.
Jiang Xun leaped off the tortoise shell, landing lightly without a sound. With a slight movement of her fingertip, she summoned the ball of black fog back to her finger.
The moment Jiang Xun left, Wei Jin seemed to lose all support and collapsed to the ground with a clatter.
Even the metal encasing his body, having lost the support of the metal-type Ability, slowly retracted and returned to its original state.
This was enough for Yan Xi to see the state of Wei Jin's corpse clearly.
A small, soybean-sized hole in his temple.
The moment Wei Jin hit the ground, blood finally flowed out from there.
Trickling, and strangely eerie.
"An- Annihilation!!" Yan Xi shrieked, collapsing to the ground.
He watched helplessly as Jiang Xun slowly walked toward him.
Her black hair was a bit long, tied back simply. Her gray eyes held a casual indifference.
Killing him seemed like killing an ant to her.
"I saved you! I don't mean to kill you!!" He seemed to have noticed the righteous air about Jiang Xun, or perhaps he remembered her current identity: a good student with excellent grades, training her Ability, hoping to get into a good university.
A good student should have an excellent sense of morality and compassion, right?
He attempted to evoke these things.
"A self-directed rescue, was it?" This cowardly appearance made Jiang Xun lose interest in killing him.
Or rather, keeping this person alive would be more beneficial for the mission's progress.
She glanced at the players.
Even if she were to let Yan Xi go, she wouldn't let him off so easily.
She pressed the gun to Yan Xi's forehead and sneered.
"Aren't you a gang? You've done all sorts of bad things, and now you want to talk reason?"
This reminded Yan Xi.
"I can't die, I'm very useful! I'm Yu Yuan's mortal enemy. If I die, Yu Yuan will be the sole power in the gang, and you won't have an easy time either."
"You have a Gacha Ability. This thing you drew is truly powerful. Don't you want to maintain it properly? I can give you money to help you maintain it."
Jiang Xun clicked her tongue. "You make it sound nice."
She looked at the players. "Do you think I should believe him?"
I Heal Your Whole Family had already figured out the situation.
No wonder the NPC had two Abilities.
It turned out to be drawn from a Gacha Ability.
And it even required money to maintain...
I Heal Your Whole Family could clearly see the fragile situation.
Yan Xi's pleading gaze fell upon I Heal Your Whole Family, as if waiting for her to make a decision.
I Heal Your Whole Family said, "Give her the money!"
She said to Yan Xi.
As long as Yan Xi paid, she could buy mana potions and restore Jiang Xun's health and mana bars.
With power in her hands, Jiang Xun wouldn't kill him, nor would she be counter-killed by Yan Xi.
What a great deal!
I Heal Your Whole Family explained the deal.
Under the threat of Jiang Xun's Ability, Yan Xi transferred a large sum of ransom money to I Heal Your Whole Family.
I Heal Your Whole Family restored Jiang Xun's mana again.
But she tried many times, and the mana bar was always just a little bit short of being full.
Could it be because she was continuously maintaining the Gacha Ability?
I Heal Your Whole Family thought she had found the truth.
Jiang Xun nodded in satisfaction.
She retracted her Ability.
Yan Xi was faintly furious, but he fiercely suppressed the hatred in his eyes.
He lowered his eyelids, who knows what venomous plot he was concocting, then turned his head and said respectfully to Jiang Xun, "We accidentally damaged your current house..."
"For today, please condescend to rest in my territory."
The two players also entered Yan Xi's "territory."
It was right next to the slums, but it was a prosperous villa district, so close that the players found it absurd.
The quest given by Jiang Xun had been updated.
【Start by exploring this mansion and find the secrets of this gang.】
No one dared to openly give the players a hard time; after all, this group of unkillable "Fourth Calamity" really held a grudge.
But the players, who had been playing the game for a long time, still chose to log off.
Yan Xi saw all this from the surveillance monitors and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
He also saw Jiang Xun in her room through the monitors.
To this day, he still thought Jiang Xun had gotten dog-shit lucky and drawn a particularly terrifying Ability.
With the players gone and no one to give her buffs, she wouldn't be that hard to deal with.
So he watched as Jiang Xun walked into the room and looked around.
It was quite luxurious, but it was a far cry from the Eldest Miss's home.
Still, it was acceptable for the Eldest Miss to condescend to stay.
Luo Nanqiu's card appeared in Jiang Xun's hand again.
The Eldest Miss was now lying on her own bed.
She rolled back and forth, occasionally punching the bed.
Clearly, she was still angry.
But since she's so busy being angry, she probably won't take it out on the "her" outside, right?
Jiang Xun flicked the card helplessly.
She could sense that, under the mode of this Gacha Ability, as long as the Eldest Miss wanted to come out, she could.
As expected, the people outside were all ants, unworthy of the Eldest Miss's attention.
Jiang Xun helplessly placed the card on the pillow.
Then she crushed a few surveillance cameras in the corners and lay lazily on the bed.
She hadn't rested for a very, very long time.
Before she died, plus this one day in the game.
Reason told her to learn more about the current state of this world.
But she was truly too tired.
So she didn't get a macroscopic understanding of the game's background at all, only looking at this planet on a micro level.
She even narrowed the scope down to this slum.
She confirmed that this was the early stage of the game, or rather, that this was just a small place with no powerful ability users at all.
The strongest were only around level sixty, and they were basically self-taught, without training from a famous military academy. Even famous mercenaries weren't willing to settle in this small place.
No, but for such a realistic, backwater interstellar planet with no particularly special elements, who on earth is playing this game?
Jiang Xun suppressed her doubts and lay down on the bed, relieved, deciding to think about complicated matters tomorrow.
She patted the card beside her.
"Good night... Nanqiu."
"Don't be angry anymore. Have a good dream."
Unfortunately, Jiang Xun herself did not have a good dream.
She dreamed of the scene before her death, dreamed of that towering Insect Mother.
With just one glance, Jiang Xun knew Its rank.
God Rank and still in Its growth phase.
Its insect attendants were gestating.
If It were allowed to develop, It could annihilate the entire galaxy.
At that time, Jiang Xun was already the strongest combat-type ability user in the galaxy.
The number of people who wanted to recruit her or eliminate her was countless.
When she received this mission, she sensed something strange.
After all, the mission briefing was vague, and she was only permitted to go alone.
But what of it? She would deal with whatever came her way.
Jiang Xun didn't believe there was anyone in this world who could fight better than her.
She just hadn't expected her mission target to be an Insect Mother on the verge of maturity.
If Its insect attendants successfully hatched.
They could devour the entire galaxy.
And that Insect Mother was also strange. Upon discovering her, It actually gave up on having Its worker ants surround and hunt her to offer her as food.
Instead, It hunted her personally.
She was locked in a bitter struggle with the Insect Mother and its swarm.
In the end, as the Insect Mother gnawed on half of her body, she annihilated the divine core that contained all of the Insect Mother's energy.
Mutual destruction. It wasn't a very good ending, but it was the best possible one.
So what was she regretting?
Perhaps she regretted betraying Nanqiu's trust.
Nanqiu had never wanted her to go to the military academy.
And in the end, her disguise couldn't fool Nanqiu either.
But she could clearly fool everyone else.
Countless people went to persuade Luo Nanqiu like a flowing stream, just as countless people came to persuade her, telling her not to be too rash, not to be too stubborn.
"Isn't it good to choose the path the Eldest Miss has paved for you? It's stable, and you're guaranteed to achieve success and fame."
Jiang Xun occasionally overheard the words used to persuade Luo Nanqiu.
Appealing to reason, moving with emotion.
It was nothing more than her Ability being too powerful, and that not joining the military would be a waste of her talent.
They said their bond was deep, but people will endlessly romanticize the path not taken. If Nanqiu interfered with her life now, what if her future didn't turn out as she wished? Wouldn't she have regrets? Wouldn't she hate her?
Her disguise instructor was actually hired by Luo Nanqiu.
She was also persuading her, "I know your purpose in making Jiang Xun learn disguise. You think it's the hardest thing for her to master. You're making things difficult for her.
But now she has perfectly completed all the tasks, proving her determination to join the military."
"Nanqiu, she is an eagle soaring in the sky, not a songbird you can keep caged forever."
"You can't hold her back."
The Eldest Miss wouldn't hold her back.
It was just that the destined, long-term separation was difficult for Luo Nanqiu to accept.
Jiang Xun sometimes felt she was despicable for despicably breaking their promise.
"Nanqiu, my Ability is terrifying. It will be very difficult for anyone to kill me in the future."
"And I've learned how to disguise myself now. My survival skills are also very strong."
"I'm very safe."
"I will always protect myself."
...
"I know." Luo Nanqiu placed the teacup on the table, her fair, slender fingertips trembling slightly.
The handle of the porcelain cup shattered, falling onto the tabletop with a crisp sound.
The eighteen-year-old Luo Nanqiu tried hard to maintain her etiquette, wanting to use her body language to show that she didn't care that much.
But her burning, violet eyes told a completely different story.
She seemed to have accepted the situation.
"The Luo Family can't infiltrate the military, so I won't be able to help you with anything in the future."
"No matter what happens to you in the future, I won't get involved. It has nothing to do with me!!"
...
Irrelevant?
It had better be.
Otherwise, she was dead.
What would Nanqiu do?
In the darkness of the night, a rustling sound occurred in the room. A pair of cold hands pressed down on the resplendent golden card.
He wanted to take it.
But at the same time, a pair of slender, pale white hands pressed down on the other side.
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