Chapter 51
Luo Jia Bai snapped awake in an instant.
“So it was a dream…”
“Thank goodness it was just a dream.” He took off his glasses to wipe his sweat, leaned against the wall, and slowly stood up, starting to recall.
“After the Instance ended, Zhu Yue wanted to thank me and offered double the Points equivalent to a Life-Saving Item. When we traded with our Wristbands, I think I accidentally touched her bell. The bell should be where she stores her Evil Spirit Ability, so I briefly fell into a dream state.”
Lu Li’s gaze dropped, glancing at his arm, and he let out an “Oh.”
“I sent you a message, but you didn’t reply. So as soon as the vacation ended, I came to find you.”
Lu Li was still fiddling with the Evil Spirit Bracelet, sighing, “After the Bracelet upgrade, it’s really convenient. Not only does it give your location directly, but it also has a lot more functions.”
Lu Li cleared the D Grade Instance, and the settlement gave him four times the Points, plus the salary Bosi provided.
His account balance skyrocketed; now he had over three hundred thousand Points.
Many locked functions were now available, including:
Access to Heavenly Ranking (updated daily at midnight)
Enable Bullet Comments in the Live Stream Room (spoilers and puzzle-solving guidance comments are blocked for Players)
Player Forum (can only view discussion posts for Instances below current clearance level)
Apply for Instance Vacation (duration determined by Instance difficulty, calculated in hours, maximum vacation is 24 hours)
Lu Li discovered that the Evil Spirit Bracelet also had a vacation function, but it gave Players a breather between two connected Instances, allowing them to return to the Game Night room and sleep well without the trouble of Evil Spirits seeking trades.
It was fundamentally different from Bosi taking him out for a trip.
To return to a closed Instance’s internal world and enter the living world again-probably only the Underworld King could do that.
Lu Li thought happily, the Necromancer Game is really stingy, but Bosi is such a generous and good boss.
This job is worth it.
Points, vacation time.
Just these rewards made him even more motivated!
His body was soaked in cold sweat from the nightmare, and Luo Jia Bai still felt a bit chilly as he stood up. He exchanged for a new roll of bandages and replaced the old ones, exposing the scars covering his arms to the air.
Lu Li considerately turned away, looking at the other Players around them.
Just like the lobby of the first Instance.
It was crowded here too, people everywhere, the walls radiating strong light, making every Player’s excited expression especially clear.
Lu Li spotted a strange person from afar.
Her outfit was no different from other Players-just the Initial Outfit.
But she had a long White Cloth wrapped over her eyes.
The cloth was tied at the back of her head, falling smoothly down.
At the end of the cloth, a Black Bird perched on her shoulder, spreading one wing and using its sharp beak to groom its feathers.
After finishing its feathers, the Black Bird began to quietly and carefully groom the girl’s hair.
The person and the bird seemed to form a barrier; no other Players approached them.
Lu Li was puzzled.
Is she a new Player?
How can she bring a pet in?
But if her eyes are covered and she can’t see, how does she survive in a Game Instance where you constantly need to find new Items and clues?
Luo Jia Bai had finished changing his bandages. He looked at Lu Li’s deliberately averted back, feeling a warm current inside, and couldn’t help but ask, “No need to avoid it, you’ve seen it several times already. Don’t you have anything you want to ask?”
Lu Li withdrew his gaze, looked at Luo Jia Bai, and said seriously, “Painful things aren’t worth bringing up again and again.”
“When you want to talk, I’ll naturally listen.”
Luo Jia Bai’s lips parted slightly. This time, he wanted to speak on his own initiative.
He placed his hand in front of Lu Li, a gentle, heartwarming white orb of light glowing in his palm. After gathering his thoughts, he said:
“This is the manifestation of a Healing Ability. Before the Game, I came from a post-apocalyptic Zombie world.”
“Zombie.” Lu Li had never heard this term before. He opened his Wristband and browsed the Points Shop, finally finding a similarly named word under the fruit subcategory in the Food and Drink section.
He asked, “Is it a type of fruit, like mulberries?”
Luo Jia Bai, who had suddenly become a fruit farmer, was pulled out of his pain. He pushed up his glasses and denied, “No! Zombies eat people! They’re not fruit.”
“When a person is attacked by a Zombie, they mutate and are assimilated into a Zombie in a short time, which is basically equivalent to dying. Healing Abilities are quite rare in this world. My Ability was overused for certain reasons, even to the point where my flesh was cut off, and eventually, I lost my Ability.”
“After entering the Necromancer Game, I never expected this Ability to recover and help me clear Instances. I thought I had lost it forever. But at the end of the last Instance, it suddenly came back.”
The light in Luo Jia Bai’s palm drew the attention of the surrounding Players.
He immediately closed his hand and put away his Ability. “But I can clear Instances with my own strength. I don’t count on this Ability that comes and goes.”
“Lu Li, if it were you, wouldn’t you also think that having an Ability far beyond what you can handle isn’t necessarily a good thing, but rather a bad thing?”
Luo Jia Bai said this to Lu Li.
He was direct enough, hoping Lu Li would understand.
In the Necromancer Game, the Evil God grants the power of infinite resurrection, but it can also be taken away in an instant.
Lu Li seemed to understand, but not fully. He said, “I haven’t found the upper limit of what I can handle yet.”
“That’s not what I meant…” Luo Jia Bai was stumped by Lu Li’s nonchalant strongman’s answer, and suddenly remembered something.
“Wait, we’re all in the Necromancer Game now. Even on vacation, we just go back to our rooms to sleep. We can’t return to the real world. Where did you go traveling?”
Thinking of the vacation, Lu Li relaxed. “I went traveling to a very beautiful place.”
“I have a job now. It’s a reward.”
Luo Jia Bai: “?”
Last time, I praised you for not going to school or work, so you wouldn’t get PUA’d by a boss. How did you even find a job in the Necromancer Game?
Luo Jia Bai was baffled. “Where are you working? Who are you working for?”
Lu Li looked away. “Bullet Comments are on. I’ll check the Bullet Comments first.”
“You jerk, you’re changing the subject again! Next time, if you don’t want me to ask, don’t say things in such a show-off way to tease me! I’m really easy to get PUA’d!”
The Bullet Comments in the Live Stream Room became excited when they saw Lu Li looking over.
[Finally! Bullet Comments are on!! My efforts in tipping so much Spirit Money weren’t in vain!! Move aside, it’s obvious the Streamer is here for me!]
[Friends who have switched to a normal schedule, let’s take a group photo. In this Live Stream Room, I’ve actually developed the bad habit of watching streams during the day and resting at night!!]
[Wow, the Streamer is so close to me!! Any random screenshot of this face could be a wallpaper. I’m going to faint. Last time, I paid a high price for a ten-shot set of the Streamer crying. From now on, I’ll take every frame myself!]
[You can clear a D Grade Instance with your eyes closed. What’s there to brag about? Have you ghosts never had anything good? Don’t you know there are other powerful Players in this Instance now!]
Not far away, two male Players stood together, their sinister gazes openly fixed on Lu Li.
The man on the right touched his ordinary round Wristband, then greedily eyed the uniquely shaped, luxurious snake-shaped Wristband on Lu Li’s wrist, and muttered,
“Is it him? He drew the Evil God and was even proven by the Necromancer Game not to be cheating, with that damned, ugly announcement pinned to the top of our Live Stream Room for 24 hours. He stole all our traffic!”
“So arrogant-really an eyesore.”