Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 285

Chapter 285: Chapter 276 I Won’t Be Fooled Again! Chapter 285: Chapter 276 I Won’t Be Fooled Again! At 7 P.M. sharp.

Mo Shigui gazed from afar at the players celebrating on New World Plaza.

He had underestimated the seriousness the game planners had placed on this one-day tour of Fureya, as the game called Spirit seemed to be trying its best to replicate the experience players had of wandering through a shopping district in reality.

Players could take their own Fureya shopping for clothes, eat some snacks, fish, watch movies, and such.

The movie theater in New World Plaza actually worked within Spirit, although the movies shown were already available online.

But all of this was enough to amuse and delight the country girls who had only ever spent time inside Revivers’ Cathedral or in treehouses for a long while.

“Guild Master, Guild Master, why haven’t you taken your own Fureya out for fun yet?” Fluffy Rabbit approached Mo Shigui with a cotton candy and her own Fureya, who had already changed into a new outfit.

Mo Shigui sat motionless in New World Plaza like a meditating monk ever since the teleportation gate opened, keeping a vigilant eye on every movement in the plaza.

His Fureya, as expected, hadn’t yet had the chance to visit this world for fun.

“Every night at 8 P.M. all the monsters in the Inner World vanish, and they reappear at 8 A.M. the next day. I will observe for a day first,” he said.

Mo Shigui was very cautious, unlike those in the guild who didn’t care about the Oblivion Legion’s arrival or even yearned for it… just so they could loot more Special Equipment and then buy houses and cars to settle in the Inner World with their Fureya.

He was truly terrified of the thought of casually strolling with his Fureya when suddenly a prompt for an Abyssal Hunt might appear.

Mo Shigui was too old… so old that he couldn’t bear such shocks. He didn’t play the game to experience the pain of having a loved one in danger.

Perhaps if he were five or six years younger, Mo Shigui would roam the world with his Fureya like the younger members of the guild, but now Mo Shigui only wanted to ensure everything was safe before bringing his own Fureya into the Inner World.

“You… actually… could… buy an estate… in the world, Guild Master Mo,” Jiang Qiao’s voice suddenly chimed in beside Mo Shigui.

“What’s wrong with you, Guild Master Mo?” Mo Shigui scrutinized Jiang Qiao, who was covered head to toe in strangely assorted shopping bags.

This scene, reminiscent of shopping with a girlfriend in reality, was supposed to be impossible in the game, given the existence of in-game backpacks.

“I’ve been accompanying our guild’s Chang Qing Missy shopping. Her backpack has always been full, and now mine is as well,” Jiang Qiao explained dejectedly, settling down beside Mo Shigui with the large and small bags in hand, having logged directly into the Spirit by soul.

That meant Jiang Qiao could feel the weariness of the game character and the limits of the character’s strength.

The strength of a Summoner was just a tiny bit better than that of a regular person.

“Without a Fureya, that would be quite a detestable act in our guild,” Mo Shigui remarked while glancing at Xia Shan in the distance, who was purchasing snacks.

Jumping Nucleus was known for having very few female members, but Jiang Qiao’s guild, The Nameless, although having only five members, boasted two beautiful girls, both confirmed by voice verification not to be traps.

Xia Shan had been living at the Jumping Nucleus base recently. Though her presence had diminished somewhat, she had now become a master mechanic, and the Jumping Nucleus’s crystal mine, abundant with mother crystals, was managed by her and her mining mechanical module.

Many male gamers who thought themselves charming would look at Xia Shan working busily and approach her with a question…

‘Are you there? Want to date online? I’m your bodhisattva.’
But Xia Shan’s responses were usually, ‘Sorry, I’m into AI romance.’
Jiang Qiao was now blatantly wandering around with two girls in the core area of the game, and if it weren’t for Miss Fureya’s hatred drawing attention, it could have ended badly.

“I’m just a tool,” said Jiang Qiao to Mo Shigui, without any intention of probing.

He was simply playing for enjoyment, and he had spent the whole day accompanying Xia Shan to look at… houses in the virtual world.

“Chairman! Chairman! I told you there’s no need to rush, I’m still impressive! This estate by the Huangpu River is only three thousand Gold Coins! In the real world, this house would cost at least ten million to purchase, with a hundred thousand per square meter!”

Xia Shan suddenly shouted at Jiang Qiao from a distance; property prices in the virtual world are indeed very cheap.

In the real world, buying a house in the city’s Bund district starts at ten million, and it’s common to see properties that are over two hundred thousand per square meter, but here, it can be as much as ten thousand Gold Coins or as little as three thousand, which is dirt cheap.

“Just use the guild welfare fund, stop asking me!” Jiang Qiao yelled back to Xia Shan from afar.

Conversations between Jiang Qiao and Xia Shan weren’t frequent, even less so than getting extra milk in your coffee without an upcharge. Xia Shan saw Jiang Qiao as a kind of… dependable senior, so whenever there was a new system in the game, she would seek his opinion right away.

“If you hadn’t updated, Chairman, wouldn’t you also have not brought your Fureya to participate in this celebration in the virtual world?” Mo Shigui glanced at the space beside Jiang Qiao.

There was no sign of Fureya beside Jiang Qiao; this time, he had learned his lesson thoroughly.

After being tormented by the game’s cruel designers six times in a row, he had gotten wise and would never again let his Fureya undertake any risky behavior.

Even if the chances were one in a hundred, he would not allow his Fureya to take the risk!

So, after wiping out the first wave of the Obliteration Legion’s invasion, bringing his Fureya shopping in the virtual world was the right choice.

Since the Obliteration Legion’s equipment was the most valuable Special Equipment in the entire game, Mo Shigui couldn’t believe that the game’s sadistic designers would release such an important world boss only to follow it up with another new one immediately.

“Well… my thoughts are the same as yours, Chairman Mo,” Jiang Qiao wanted to say that his Fureya had been lured away with a no-extra-charge milk top-up.

But at this moment, Hai Lan suddenly appeared before Jiang Qiao, and without needing her to speak, he knew she was there to remind him… the elite force of the Obliteration Legion would soon descend upon the virtual world.

This elite force was very small in number, so Jiang Qiao couldn’t track them down on the star map, but as soon as they got close to the Blue Sea, Hai Lan could sense them immediately.

Jiang Qiao placed all the large and small items he had been carrying on the ground and looked up at the cracking traces in the sky.

Most gamers hadn’t noticed the crack in the sky, but Jiang Qiao spotted it right away. The fissure rapidly spread until a small part of the sky shattered like a mirror.

“Everyone send your Fureyas back to the base! The Abyss Hunt has begun!” The moment Mo Shigui heard the sound of splintering… he immediately shouted to the guild members, many of whom were still immersed in the ambiance of dating their Fureyas.