Chapter 116 - Tickets, Plans, Changes (6th update, first 4000 extra)

Chapter 116: Chapter 87: Tickets, Plans, Changes (6th update, first 4000 extra)D8B3, this was exactly the area where Xu Shu was now.

The reason Xu Shu still remembered the guy who nicknamed himself "Pure Sword Heart" was because of a deceased friend, Lu Bingwei, known for his hacking skills.

Previously, in a baiting post made by Lu Bingwei under the nickname "Tyrant Spear," Pure Sword Heart had also appeared.

At that time, Xu Shu was just a level 6 newbie.

Trapped in Black Widow Prison, surrounded by monsters, he had no idea how to escape.

Pure Sword Heart had replied under Lu Bingwei’s post, saying that the ruins needed a strong damage dealer.

Xu Shu had tried to add him back then, hoping to invite him to help.

Of course, he was told that he didn’t have permission.

"Can’t believe he’s still here after all these days. Seems like there’s really not many people in the wasteland."

Hesitating for a moment, Xu Shu clicked into the post.

The post was made five days ago.

It only had a pitiful four comments.

Out of them, only one was from a living person, and it consisted of just three short sentences:

Qi Xin (Second Order Assassin): "Is it full? I have a nun companion, can we join together?"

Pure Sword Heart: "Don’t want a healer."

Qi Xin: "Heavenly Defiance."

— That’s it.

The other three comments were all posted by Pure Sword Heart himself.

First day: "Is anybody here? Bumping."

Second day: "Anyone coming? Bumping."

Just now: "The ticket is about to expire, anyone, please, I’m begging, even a healer will do!"

"Oh, desperate."

Xu Shu nodded.

Since a healer was also fine, then his warrior could definitely make it.

Originally, he just saw that he was nearby and wanted to casually chat to extract some information.

Now, he had even more of an excuse.

So, Xu Shu clicked on ’Pure Sword Heart.’

After a while, there was no response.

Not passing through? Or not seen?

Xu Shu touched his chin and gradually felt sleepy, getting ready to sleep.

But at that moment, a notification popped up in the lower left corner: Pure Sword Heart has accepted your friend request.

In the private messaging channel, friend list +1

"Yay."

Feeling wide awake again, he immediately sent a message to his first online buddy.

Gu Pan, First-tier Warrior: "Hey brother, can I join?"

Pure Sword Heart: "Brother, I remember you. You are Iron Armor Barbarian Bull, a genius on the Qingyun List, impressive!"

Gu Pan: "Thanks for the praise."

I wish you hadn’t mentioned that nickname!

Pure Sword Heart: "Brother, you are only First Rank, are you sure you want to come? This is a Second-tier Ruins, just to be clear, my team has no healers, two assassins, one sentry, and one prisoner."

Tsk, why again with sentries and prisoners...

At first sight, Xu Shu instinctively had some aversion to people of those professions.

Gu Pan: "No problem, I can handle it. But I have a question, what is this ’ticket’ you mentioned?"

Pure Sword Heart: "...Are you kidding me? An illiterate who never went to school?"

Gu Pan: "Newbie here, I am just a newbie, big guy, please give me a clue?"

"Pff, what the hell?"

Xu Shu flipped over.

Really, this had made him laugh out of anger.

Are all of you transcendent beings on the network so straightforward?

So what in the world is this ticket?

Xu Shu frowned, calmed down, and thought about it. According to what Pure Sword Heart said, even a First Rank newbie, as long as they "went to school," should know what a ticket is.

So, Gu Pan must know!

At that moment, Xu Shu was no longer sleepy.

He immediately got up, walked to the next chamber, and knocked at the door.

"You weren’t asleep, right? I’m coming in."

"Ah? Wait a minute..."

However, Gu Pan was still a step too late with her response.

Xu Shu pushed the door and entered, seeing Gu Pan crouching by the bed, covered with a blanket, rustling around, doing something unclear.

"What are you doing crouching by the bed? Not wearing clothes?" Xu Shu asked suspiciously.

"No, I am dressed! It’s none of your business. What do you need? I was about to sleep," Gu Pan stood up and kicked something under the bed.

Xu Shu felt puzzled and furrowed his brows as he stepped forward.

"Ah, don’t come over. Let’s go outside and talk," Gu Pan suddenly became anxious, acting like she didn’t want him to see.

But the more she tried to stop him, the more forceful Xu Shu became, pulling her aside: "Show me, what is it!"

At this point, he got annoyed.

Was Gu Pan harboring some bad intentions against him again?

This woman, truly ungrateful! After saving her repeatedly, she still didn’t appreciate it. If she continues like this, she couldn’t blame him for being ruthless!

Swipe!

The blanket bundled on the side was suddenly flipped by Xu Shu, revealing a small wet patch under the bed.

Xu Shu was startled.

Because what entered his sight was a soup bowl.

And the air was filled with a faint, strange fragrance, like gardenia flowers. How should he put it, it couldn’t be said to be completely fragrant, it seemed a bit odd, a sweet smell?

"I..." Gu Pan saw this scene, and immediately, a cry of sorrow echoed in her heart.

It’s over, this is too embarrassing. I was just trying to relieve myself, why are you...

Sigh, it’s all because I couldn’t hold it in! It seems I’ve gotten used to using this soup bowl!

No, it’s all because this basement doesn’t even have a place to pee!

She was still thinking about how to face Xu Shu next, how to explain to him, so that she wouldn’t completely socially die.

At that moment, Xu Shu took the initiative to speak, very sincerely, saying to her, "So you were missing your parents, secretly crying, huh?"

"...? Yeah." Gu Pan hurriedly nodded her head, saying with a choked voice, "I was thinking of my, mom and dad."

Xu Shu nodded and said, "Oh, I’m sorry about that just now."

"It’s alright~" Gu Pan completely relaxed her heart.

"Then what about the dying message you previously asked me to find your mother Gu Yue Ming? Aren’t your parents dead?"

Xu Shu asked again, previously he hadn’t noticed, could this guy be lying again?

Gu Pan didn’t pause at all, "Gu Yue Ming is my aunt. My parents died when I was young, and she raised me."

She answered so quickly, it didn’t seem like a lie, and besides, it wasn’t an important matter, few people would lie about their parents being dead.

Xu Shu didn’t ask further, instead he inquired, "I have a question, what does entering the ruins with a ticket mean? I just asked someone about it, but he refused me."

Gu Pan nodded, explaining, "A ticket to the ruins is a type of incense burner, a consumable item. Lighting it grants you the protection of Lie Zhenzi, allowing you to enter the ruins in reverse.

"You know, after those ruins descend, only monsters can come out from inside, humans from outside are unable to enter in reverse."

"Only by relying on Lie Zhenzi can one enter, depending on the quality of the incense burner, it can protect from a few to a dozen people."

"Once the incense burns out, those who entered will be expelled by the ruins, and the price of this thing depends on its quality. The cheap ones are a few million, and the expensive ones can cost tens to hundreds of millions, and different incense burners also determine the rank of the ruins one can enter."

She felt guilty this time, fearing if she stayed longer, the smell of urine would be discovered by Xu Shu.

Thus, she spoke very quickly this time, not holding back at all, perfectly fulfilling the role of a "teacher."

Listening to her detailed explanation, Xu Shu finally understood.

So entering the ruins needs such a high cost, truly fitting for a world of the Transcendents.

Fortunately, it seemed that only one incense burner was needed for a whole team to enter, not too bad.

"Anything else? If not, I need to sleep now, so sleepy..."

Gu Pan feigned a yawn.

"Alright, then you sleep, prepare to head back to the city early tomorrow." Xu Shu, having gotten the news, walked away satisfied.

Seeing him returning to his own room, Gu Pan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She hurriedly closed the door, then walked to the bed, pulled out the soup bowl, and crouched down.

The soup bowl played a wonderful music: Drip-drip-drip-dah-dah~

"Damn, I was about to burst... huu~~~"

Strangely, Gu Pan discovered that recently, for some unknown reason, even her urination seemed very clean.

No, not just clean, it could even be described as "pure."

Really.

It was somewhat embarrassing to admit, but she really found that her urine didn’t smell at all, it even had a hint of fragrance.

It seemed, ever since that time she urinated for a whole day in the Wasteland and nearly collapsed from exhaustion, could it be connected with the esoteric scripture he practiced?

"That guy, the Esoteric Buddhism he believes in, is very mysterious, don’t know where he found such an opportunity..."

"Wait a second."

Gu Pan suddenly widened her eyes.

"What did he just say? Chatting with someone?"

"Hiss, he’s already reached level twelve?!"

Gu Pan swallowed nervously.

Terrifying.

This guy had become a Transcendent just a few days ago.

Compared to those folks in the city, at this time, they probably hadn’t even recovered from the pain of the Containment Seal, still in the damn greenhouse "drinking milk."

And Xu Shu, he had already reached level twelve.

"Gulp! Indeed, he is the real genius." Gu Pan closed her eyes.

But on second thought, she felt Xu Shu was quite pitiable.

He had no resources, no medical team, and had to face dangers daily, killing monsters, hunting Erosion Crystals on his own.

What others took for granted, he had to risk his life fighting monsters alone.

Though he talked trash, he was someone who would risk his life to save the Wasteland Wanderers.

How many Transcendents could do that? Isn’t everyone else high and mighty, seeing ordinary people as vassals?

But Xu Shu...

He really, I’m crying to death...

"Honest man" Xu Shu tinkered until midnight but still couldn’t find "Feifei Global Can Fly."

He gave up, deciding to add some friends instead.

However, among the replies to past posts on the forum, after finding many nice nicknames and sending dozens of friend requests, all were met with silence.

"Damn it, usually jumping around like they’re in heat, calling me ’bro’ all over, how come when I’m looking for them, they’re nowhere to be seen? Where the hell did they all go?"

In the forum, the witches of the Mother Goddess Sect and the Starry Church nuns had disappeared overnight like his own mother.

"Damn it, let’s sleep!"

Xu Shu unhappily turned off the upgraded network.

He was sleeping in the basement.

So naturally, he didn’t know that tonight the moon was especially round, getting rounder and rounder, as if about to drip water.

Tonight, the stars were brilliantly beautiful like the sea, vast and mysterious, with rhythms undulating.

The stars and the bright moon competed for radiance, unwilling to yield the night sky to each other.

Nevertheless, Xu Shu had a decent night’s sleep.

The basement was very quiet, as if he could faintly hear the soft breathing noises from Gu Pan next door, even and soothing, inducing sleep.

Though, even so, Xu Shu still didn’t dare to sleep too deeply, the slightest noise could wake him.

Lightly sleeping until dawn, his biological clock automatically set to six in the morning.

He couldn’t see it, but it was certain, the sun would rise as usual.

Xu Shu’s eyes brightened as he opened the Tai Chu Scroll.

Gazing at the heartwarming light, he finally relaxed his tense facial features a bit.