Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 419: Chapter 405: Explosive News (2nd Update)

Late at night, Yin Hui met Can Xin’s grandmother at the Jumping Nucleus stronghold, thanks to Can Xin’s introduction.

This player, with the appearance of an old lady donning a Li Hua with oranges, was the first elderly female player Yin Hui had encountered in the Spirit world.

Most players chose either beautifully or oddly crafted appearances while playing.

The flamboyant uncle characters were plentiful in the game, but this was Yin Hui’s first time meeting an old lady.

Next to her stood a plump Dragon Vein Sabertooth Tiger, so chubby that one might wonder if its special move could be something like a “Meatball Tank.”

Yin Hui had to bend down and turn his head just to see the four legs of the Sabertooth Tiger.

“Hello… I am Yin Hui… the accountant of Jumping Nucleus.”

Yin Hui stepped forward and shook hands with Li Hua with oranges. He was still unclear about the extent of Can Xin’s grandmother’s influence, but showing extra respect to the elderly was always a good thing.

As for his role in Jumping Nucleus, being in charge of the accounts didn’t seem problematic, now that the guild leader was away with the elite strategists on a plane, everyone in Jumping Nucleus was listening to him!

“Hello, hello, are you the big boss that little Xin mentioned, the one who could help me find some students?” Li Hua with oranges spoke with an energetic voice, not at all like that of a person over seventy.

“Help you find students?” Yin Hui was confused for a moment and glanced at Can Xin standing behind her, who also shook his head, equally baffled.

“Ah? Didn’t little Xin tell you?” She noticed their confusion, and Yin Hui had Little Feather bring a bunch of chairs over to sit down in the stronghold.

This elderly lady didn’t stand on ceremony and directly explained her demands to Yin Hui, and as one of the bystanders, Jiang Qiao roughly understood…what the detailed situation was.

The identity of this Professor might be more than just an academic; she was also an academician. Jiang Qiao listened for a long time and didn’t quite understand her field, which, from the names, seemed related to materials science, nuclear physics, and quantum mechanics–subjects that made Jiang Qiao’s head spin.

She had encountered some bottlenecks in the project she was researching, with great risks in the experiments and hard-to-extract materials… simply a lot of trouble.

She acquired a Spirit testing slot while visiting her grandson, Can Xin, in Mountain City, just as she was stuck on these bottlenecks.

She had never played any electronic games before, and this was her first VR game, but the world of Spirit, which blurred the line between virtual and real, captivated her. The main reason was that she was raising a cat there.

That would be Qiuqiu, the Dragon Vein Sabertooth Tiger. The old lady used to own an orange cat in reality that had died due to old age, so this Sabertooth Tiger became her emotional support.

However, as she mentioned wanting to replicate the experiment she was working on in Spirit, as well as studying some magical materials’ properties…

Any normal player would think this old lady was trying to deceive them. Even Jiang Qiao, the game designer, thought it was unfeasible, as Spirit couldn’t reproduce high-precision instruments from reality.

This wasn’t something a player with alchemical engineering skills could just create.

The technological system in Spirit was highly distorted. On one hand, Biland Island’s world was a medieval age with only magic. Once they reached the Dark Tide Island, the technological level seemed only about the 18th century, filled with pirates from a realm that could easily defeat the Breeders who were light years ahead of Blue Star.

In fact, her colleagues all thought she was joking-how could a game simulate high-precision experiments from reality? Even if it did simulate them, could the results from this virtual world be considered reliable?

But this old lady believed it had some referential value, and what made Jiang Qiao somewhat anxious was that she was also studying the ecology of Biland Island, the magical world, and had even achieved some results.

Unfortunately, these results couldn’t be published.

“So, who are the students you are referring to?”

Yin Hui chose to trust the old lady’s thoughts–just like Jiang Qiao’s biological father had done in the past. Jiang Qiao’s father had also been a student of this old professor. While her colleagues thought she was joking, Jiang Qiao’s dad was helping her find some players who could assist her in the game.

“I’m getting old, and tasks like monster fighting and leveling up are all done by Qiuqiu for me. Some specific materials also need to be collected from certain locations, and refining these materials requires some activities related to a life profession level. Little Xin bought a manor for me to use as a lab, but I can’t always trouble him for materials, so I want to find some talented students to help.”

When Li Hua spoke this sentence, Jiang Qiao noticed the huge shotgun lying beside her. From this purple-quality shotgun, Jiang Qiao could foresee the old lady’s ferocity when killing monsters.

But indeed, leveling up for a long time and searching for materials across the map required physical strength to sustain.

“Are you suggesting that you want me to introduce some high-school seniors who are playing ‘Spirit’ to join your school?” Yin Hui quickly understood the other party’s meaning.

Although Can Xin was the president of the Abyss Temple, since the Abyss Temple was a public institution, he couldn’t use its resources to help his own relatives. Yin Hui, however, didn’t mind. Yin Hui could summon a bunch of Nuclear Core players to let this old lady graduate instantly from various instances, and she could own god-tier equipment by just lying down.

Yin Hui could also singly handle the materials side of things.

But the problem was that the old lady wanted students, not fighters or substitutes.

“Yeah, if it’s too difficult, don’t force it,” she said.

“I do have some suitable candidates for now, but there’s another requirement,” Yin Hui said, glancing at Jiang Qiao, inquiring whether Jiang Qiao’s Wan Xiang might be possible…

Jiang Qiao didn’t respond verbally to Yin Hui but directly gestured an OK with his hand.

Yin Hui was somewhat surprised that Jiang Qiao agreed so swiftly, but he quickly focused on a somewhat tricky existing problem.

That was the social opinion impact of ‘Spirit.’

“It’s like this, our guild has a player named ‘Master of Insects,’” Yin Hui said.

“Master of Insects? I’ve heard my students mention him, and they’re trying to contact that kid… Is he a member of your guild?”

“You’re already in contact?”

Relief appeared on Yin Hui’s face. The social opinion on ‘Spirit’ hadn’t subsided much over time.

‘Spirit is a game that incites violence’–this narrative was still spreading in society. Some people directed all their fury against video games at ‘Spirit.’

But Yin Hui keenly sensed… there was a hidden hand trying to smear ‘Spirit.’ This tactic was foolish, and Yin Hui could guess who was behind it, but as foolish as it was… Yin Hui was tired of the recent TV interviews regarding this.

Yin Hui needed something to shut these people up, and ‘Master of Insects’ was a good way.

The experience of ‘Master of Insects’ was a major point these people used to attack ‘Spirit,’ and it was also the most convenient point for Yin Hui to block these people’s mouths.

“We’ll be visiting ‘Master of Insects’ soon to make contact, and it seems your people are planning the same. Shall we coordinate and go together?”

What Yin Hui meant by contact was actually to send ‘Master of Insects’ a property title, which ‘Master of Insects’ had failed to fill out the required information for within the designated time period.

Therefore, a bounty appeared on the ‘Spirit’ fund that didn’t offer any rewards; it was to make contact with ‘Master of Insects’ and have all the necessary property title information filled out and then to hand over the property title to the involved party.

Yin Hui had taken on this bounty, and he planned to send people to make contact with ‘Master of Insects.’ Now he was just waiting to head over together with the old lady.

“The college entrance exam is the day after tomorrow, right? Just perfect, tomorrow–I believe it’s tomorrow–I can have my students talk to you,” she said.

“Tomorrow, indeed a good moment. Then it’s decided,”

Yin Hui had some friends at the Uptown local TV station. From these friends, he learned that the Uptown local TV station was even planning to do some kind of special interview program with ‘Master of Insects,’ which, in Yin Hui’s opinion, was making a mountain out of a molehill.

But… since they were making such a fuss, Yin Hui might as well spice up their news a bit.