Ning Buwen stopped at the door of the mental hospital, not knowing whether he should go in.
He had lived so long without ever feeling scared. But now, even taking a small step forward made Ning Buwen feel nervous.
The most annoying thing is that I don’t even know what I’m so nervous about unless I ask myself.
Isn't it just knowing Cheng Yuxue's special personal ability? It's not a big deal. Didn't he know my own abilities too? But even so, Ning Buwen still felt a little guilty, feeling like a shameful peeping Tom who knew a secret that he shouldn't know.
This feeling has been lingering in Ning Buwen's mind, making him feel a little uneasy.
Perhaps, he should not have rejected Han Xinbo and the others' invitation to dinner, but should have had a great time all night long, so that he would not have time to think about other things.
"Buwen, what are you doing standing there like an idiot?" A security guard saw Ning Buwen standing there like an idiot on the surveillance camera and shouted.
"No, nothing." Ning Bu Wen came back to his senses, as if he had found a life-saving straw, and trotted straight towards the security office.
"You go to dungeons too frequently." Xiao Qi from the security team couldn't help but look at Ning Buwen and said, "With your current level, you can rest for a year or two and no one will say anything to you. You go to dungeons at least twice a month, do you really have to work so hard?"
The security guards also went there on time, unlike Ning Buwen, who couldn't sit still at all and went to the dungeon again after only a few days of rest. You don't have to be so eager to be reborn.
"It's just that I feel a little bored in reality." Ning Buwen took out an apple from the space and threw it to Xiao Qi, "Brother Xiao Qi, you must have gone through many dungeons to become so strong now."
"Hey, you're just mocking me when you say that." Xiao Qi took the apple given by Ning Buwen and took a big bite. His mouth was full, and it was hard for him to speak clearly. "I'm not as strong as you. How long have you been in Pandora? You've already made a triple jump to become an exploration member of the advanced team. What you've done in half a year is equivalent to what others have done in three years."
Ning Buwen laughed, "I'm not that powerful."
Brother Xiaoqi glared at him without saying anything. He opened his laptop, jumped to a certain page, and pushed it directly in front of Ning Buwen for him to read.
What appeared in front of Ning Bu Wen was naturally Pandora's player forum.
There were about twenty posts on the first page of the entire forum, fifteen of which were about Ning Buwen. Ning Buwen clicked on a post that had already been scrolled through seven or eight pages, and saw all kinds of candid photos of himself appearing on it.
Subject: Shocking! Ning Buwen, who was ranked third on the newcomer list, has moved up one place and is now second!
The author: My god, Ning Buwen is too strong. Didn't a big guy who ranked in the top 30 of the newcomer list explode before? If you want to ensure that your ranking does not fall back when you are in the top few dozen, you must at least ensure that the level of the tasks you pass is not lower than B, and the evaluation you get is not lower than B+? This is only the top 30. The tasks that the top 10 have to go through must at least be A at the minimum, and the evaluation must also be A. If you don't have double A, you will be squeezed out.
1l: Press the paw and bet you can turn ten pages.
2l: Why not ask what the Chosen One is? I feel like I am witnessing the birth of a legend.
3l: I silently shed tears as I looked at the C rating I just received. I have been showing off to my friends for several days that I got double C. I cannot understand those who got double B and double A.
4l: My brother is from the Fourth Legion. According to his reliable information, if the top five players want to move up the rankings, they must have higher dungeon ratings than the previous player for at least three consecutive dungeons. If they want to surpass the previous player in one dungeon, they must have at least S+A. For the top three, the conservative estimate is double S.
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233l: Many people are battling double S. What does that mean? Embarrassing, we can't even touch the edge of this level of difficulty. If we must compare, even if we take all our belongings to an S-level copy, our survival time is probably counted in hours (days is too much of an honor to me).
234l: No, my survival time should be measured in minutes.
235l: I'm probably measured in seconds.
236l: Tsk, you noobs, if I had known that I was going to enter an S-level dungeon, I would have immediately borrowed money from a loan shark to buy an escape card. I would rather be in huge debt for the rest of my life.
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567l: The topic has gone off track again. There is no need to argue whether it is better to be an ordinary person or a gamer, right? This is really a matter of opinion. It is really difficult to return to the life of an ordinary person after being a gamer. My physique is that of an angel, a superhuman, and I can fly, you know? Now I can't imagine what it feels like to walk on my own two feet again. After getting used to those fresh fruits and food, I can no longer stand the days of taking nutritional supplements.
568l: +1. Unless my life is at stake, I still want to be a player. Of course, I also have some talent and luck. For example, my friend broke his right hand after going to a novice dungeon. Although his hand has been reattached, he never wants to enter Pandora again.
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Ning Bu Wen read all the posts in this thread with great interest. There wasn't much information about him, and most of them inevitably went off topic.
There is no way around this.
Ning Buyun has no time for private entertainment activities, nor does he make many friends. Even when entering dungeons, he only goes with people from the legion. He has no chance to contact the outside world, so naturally there is no news of him in the outside world.
"I didn't notice that I moved up one spot on the newcomer list." Ning Buwen smiled, "I completely forgot about it."
"The current No. 1 on the Rookie Ranking is going through his tenth instance, and he's about to step down." Xiao Qi finished eating the apple, wiped his hands and said, "But he's only been No. 1 for less than half a month. He was No. 2 before that, and he got to No. 1 after the previous No. 1 quit. In terms of strength and ability, you should be No. 1 now without a doubt."
Don't you even look at who is standing behind you
Legion No. 2 and Cheng Yuxue, any one of them is enough to scare people to death.
"The ranking on the Rookie List is indeed useful." Ning Buwen thought for a moment and said, "In the last dungeon, I got an S+ rating. Because of the bonus from the Rookie List ranking, I opened two S-level prop cards in a row. This is the first time I have such a high-level card."
Ning Buwen opened two S-level prop cards, one called Devil's Breath, which can summon a hell demon within a limited time. The demon will be at his disposal within ten minutes and do anything for him without paying a price. And such a powerful demon, ten minutes is enough to destroy a city with a population of one million.
When Ning Buwen played this card, Zhang Ziwen was also stunned. He obviously did not expect Ning Buwen to be able to play such a powerful card
However, Ning Buwen knew that this should also be due to the bonus factor of the Ring of Time.
The other card is called Infinite Fruit Plate, which Ning Buwen specifically requested from the customer service. He wanted a powerful food survival card, and in the end he got this one.
There can be fifty different fruits on the fruit plate at one time. After taking away the fruits, new ones will appear continuously.
After Ning Bu Wen got the card, he directly posted it on the exchange and opened a fruit online store in the logistics department of the legion. After paying some share and fees, he just waited to get paid.
In this era, there are very few fresh fruits that can be grown, and the yield of fruits grown with artificial soil and air is as rare as gold. Therefore, after Ning Buwen opened a fruit shop where the price of fruits is only 30% of the market price, it is almost conceivable that the business will be booming.
With it, I no longer have to worry about the annual debt of 100 million.
Just a prop card allowed Ning Buwen to make the leap from poverty to wealth, and he now has enough money to buy other prop cards.
After returning from the complex dungeon, Ning Buwen knew that he had to clean up the item cards in his hand. The low-level ones were no longer useful and had to be used to buy more useful things.
His fruit shop was doing very well, so he could use it as collateral to borrow 50 million from the Legion Bank, and then the profit from the fruit shop would be used to offset his debt. But no matter what, Ning Buwen no longer had to worry about money.
It was not until he opened a fruit shop that he realized that almost all of those powerful players owned similar businesses.
Such as grocery stores, toy stores, candy stores, clothing stores, and even some entertainment industries, etc.
Senior players themselves are the main suppliers, and then hire ordinary people as subordinates to sell resources. The money obtained is used to exchange for purchasing prop cards or other things.
It can be said that every senior player is an entire capital industry chain.
The reason why the apocalypse can maintain such a peaceful life is precisely because of the countless high-level players. Even if a few people die when going to the dungeon, the prop cards are still there and can still be collected as public property.
Therefore, the living standards of the people in Pandora are still improving visibly. The more high-level players appear in the future, the better their living standards will be.
However, there are only a few high-level S cards like this one that can instantly change the tone of an industry.
For example, players who are well-known in the global Pandora rankings may lose their lives or get trapped in a dungeon, so why would they choose this kind of prop card? And those who want to benefit mankind, such as the leaders of the 49 legions, are too busy with their own affairs to do anything about it, let alone the time and energy to do this.
Fruits and the like are not necessities. Nutritional supplements are enough to meet people's survival needs. And they are available, they are just expensive.
This is the special ecology that has been formed after society has been adjusted repeatedly after the appearance of Pandora.
There were many players who opened fruit shops like Ning Buwen, but there were only a handful of them who had S-level food cards like him. Even for high-level players, it was rare for them to get S-level ratings, and even rarer for them to get S-level item cards. How could they ask customer service for more food cards
Therefore, as soon as Ning Buwen opened his fruit shop, the Legion Bank immediately made a very high assessment of the value of the prop card he used. If Ning Buwen was willing to sell this card, he could at least cash out several hundred million in cash.
However, Ning Buwen did not think that he would not live long, so he refused to cash out and prepared to live a steady life.
"I know everyone is cheering that they will be able to afford fruits in the future." Xiao Qi was also very happy. "But you are really kind to choose this kind of food card. For high-level players like us, we can have whatever we want. An S-level prop card may save our lives. You are wasting an opportunity to benefit society. You should know that S-level prop cards are in short supply and cannot be bought. Only a few high-level players can rent and exchange them."
"It's just that I don't need it anymore." Ning Buwen didn't think there was anything wrong, "Besides, I'm not contributing selflessly, I still need money."
"But this one time is enough." Xiao Qi looked at Ning Bu Wen earnestly and said, "Although it's shameless to say this, we can't let ordinary people live too well, you know?"
Ning Bu Wen was silent for a while and nodded.
Of course he understood what Xiao Qi meant.
To put it bluntly, almost everything ordinary people have is brought out of Pandora by Pandora players. Only when they see the difference between themselves and the players will more people enter Pandora to have a better life. If their lives can already be no different from the end of the world, then they naturally won't want to risk their lives to enter the game again, and Pandora players will also begin to question whether their efforts are worth it
Pandora's game cannot be handled by a few or dozens of people. It requires constant evolution and elimination, so it needs a steady stream of people entering.
Therefore, even though it is easy for players to obtain the Exit Card, the Legion still strictly controls its circulation.
Trying to protect everyone in such a world is a joke.
Being able to ensure the survival of the vast majority of people is already a great merit.
"Is this experience?" Ning Bu Wen looked at Xiao Qi and asked.
"I guess so." Xiao Qi glanced at Ning Buwen and said, "You know that, too? But this is also a tacit fact among high-level players. The main reason is that you have only experienced a complex dungeon now, and you haven't met the players left over from the previous era."
"You met?"
"Yes, there are more than one." Xiao Qi nodded. "For example, in some high-difficulty dungeons, the flow of time is very slow, and you will meet players from the last era, or more than a dozen eras ago. Some of them may become similar to NPCs, but they are also easy to recognize. When you meet them, you can know their lives and social forms. They are living history. When you meet them, you can use the prop card to record your conversation with them and give it to the people in the research institute. They will analyze and summarize it, and then prevent us from going down the wrong path."
Like the reincarnation era described by Xiaoqi, it did exist.
In that era, players and ordinary people were divided into two extremes, allowing professionally trained players to obtain resources, while ordinary people maintained their daily lives, and there was not much change in quality. The consequence of this was that more and more people were unwilling to become players, no matter how much publicity was given. When ordinary people believed that it was the players' responsibility to capture Pandora, the contradictions would naturally become greater and greater.
Pandora is destined not to be something that only a few people can participate in. It requires the continuous survival of the fittest among the entire human race on Earth.
In the end, that era inevitably came to an end.
"The specific method of resetting Pandora may only be known by the King." Xiao Qi sighed, "But it is true that many generations have taken the wrong path. If our generation also fails, the next generation or the next generation may really be the only players in the world. However, we are also trying to avoid unnecessary sacrifices."
It's better not to ask and remain silent.
"I've already said a lot." Xiao Qi blinked, "The king is waiting for you. If you have any questions, just ask him."
“… Cheng Yuxue asked you to chat with me here?” Ning Buwen frowned.
Xiao Qi nodded somewhat embarrassedly.
"I can't help it. The king said that you may need to do some psychological preparation before meeting him, in order to protect your young heart. Well, this is not what I said, it was the king who said it."
"I understand." Ning Buwen was not actually that angry. He also felt strange that Xiaoqi suddenly said so much to him.
Xiaoqi is not Xiaowu, why did he suddenly become so talkative
"Go ahead, don't keep the king waiting anxiously." Xiao Qi put on a flattering face.
Ning Buwen just chuckled and left.
Xiaoqi felt that he was a little wronged.
He was just following the king's orders, why should he laugh at him? If you have the guts, just laugh at the king.
When Ning Buwen pushed the door open and went in, Cheng Yuxue was plucking flower petals.
The demon plant lowered its head and allowed Cheng Yuxue to pluck its petals one by one without any resistance.
Seeing Cheng Yuxue again, Ning Buwen felt quite complicated.
Although I have seen him before, that was Cheng Yuxue when he was young after all.
Moreover, after guessing Cheng Yuxue's ability, Ning Buwen couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.
As soon as the feeling of pity arises, I know that I am finished without even asking.
How could he actually feel pity for Cheng Yuxue
He must have been infected with madness.
What on earth was so pitiful about Cheng Yuxue? He lived like a dictator, and no one dared to resist him.
But even though Ning Buwen tried his best to brainwash himself, his feeling of pity did not diminish at all, but became stronger and stronger.
When Ning Buwen was in Las Vegas, he once had a bet with an internationally renowned socialite. After losing the bet, the woman promised to tell Ning Buwen her secret of being invincible with men. She said that when it comes to love, stupid women will only keep throwing money at things and make endless contributions; while smart women will use their emotions to make the other party feel her kindness and remember her kindness; and the smartest ones will pretend to be pitiful.
Love that arises from pity is the fastest way to develop love.
Ever since she realized this, no matter how many things she did to hurt others, those people would think that she had no choice, and would love her more and more, and would not even mind her blatant use of them.
Because that's human nature.
They will protect any creature they feel is pitiful and cute, regardless of whether the creature is stronger or weaker than them.
"Little God of Gamblers, you are still young, so you can't understand it yet. If someone like you really falls in love with someone one day, then you must not feel sorry for her. When you feel sorry for her even though you know she is doing well, you will never be able to get out of it."
"Sorry, I may not be interested in women."
"Women are like this. If you ever feel pity for a man, you will be hopeless." The socialite retorted bluntly.
Now is the time for Ning Buwen to reap the rewards of the flag he set.
Ning Buwen looked at Cheng Yuxue in front of him and pinched himself.
Can't he be rescued again
"What are you doing?" Ning Bu Wen tried to divert his emotions and asked.
"I want to see whether it has an odd or even number of petals?" Cheng Yuxue replied calmly.
Forgive him for not really understanding what Cheng Yuxue was up to, "Why do I need to know? What does it matter if I know?"
"I heard there is a kind of divination." Cheng Yuxue took a few steps towards Ning Buwen. Ning Buwen could clearly see his reflection in his eyes.
"If it's an odd number, it proves that you like me, and if it's an even number, it proves that you like me very much." Cheng Yuxue smiled slightly, "It is said that the more precious the flowers are, the better. I thought about it, and it just so happens that I have flowers in my room with a lot of petals, so I might as well use them and give it a try."
Is there anyone who believes in such childish things
Besides, what is the difference between these two options
"Why did you suddenly start doing this?" Ning Buwen was very curious, "Are you still unsure?"
"Because I found that I have forgotten a lot of things." Cheng Yuxue pointed to his head, "I saw my past self in your Ring of Time, but I have no memory of it. Maybe I did see you once, and your soul was hidden under the skin of a flight attendant, but I still can't remember it."
"It's normal for you to forget some things." Ning Buwen subconsciously comforted him, "Remembering everything is not a good thing."
He has experienced this so many times, and the copy of Train Eighteen is an existence that confuses the concept of time. It is natural that his memory is confused, and it can even be said to be a kind of protection.
For someone like Cheng Yuxue, it is enough to remember a few things, and he can let the rest be as he pleases. This way, life will be easier and simpler.
Cheng Yuxue can also live a good life.
Although he is living a good life now, Ning Buwen suddenly feels that he can live even better.
I'm done.
I'm just thinking, not only am I blind now, but my brain is broken? This guy is so bad, but I still feel sorry for him and can't help but want to be nice to him. Does that mean I'm broken too
"Maybe." Cheng Yuxue looked at Ning Buwen and said, "You're improving faster than I thought. Maybe when you become more and more powerful, I'll know why you like me?"
"Wait." Ning Buwen interrupted him, "Didn't you say you like me?"
"I'm sure you were the first to say that." Cheng Yuxue said seriously, "There are three more petals on it."
Ning Buwen looked at the petals that were almost bald and saw that there were indeed three petals. "Any problem?"
"Before you came, the number I counted was an odd number, so with your three pieces it's an even number."
"So you like me very much."
The author has something to say: I would rather not ask: Are there any other options
Cheng Yuxue: No more.
Author: No, I dare not.
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23333, in fact, it is based on facts that pitiful people are easy to be liked, especially in the two-dimensional world. Many of the characters that everyone likes basically meet the definition of "beautiful, strong and miserable". Many of the "whitewashing" that everyone sees also go this way. Of course, the three-dimensional world is still a little different~
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