Chapter 150

Chapter 150: Chapter 148: "Regular ArmySu Ming’an opened his eyes and saw the white daisies in front of the bed.

The little Lolita in the elaborate dress was sitting quietly in front of the chair, her hair showered in the warm orange light of the overhead lamp.

"You’re awake,"

she said, slowly rising to her feet and curtsying to him.

Perhaps because Su Ming’an’s complexion indeed didn’t look as good as before, her brow furrowed slightly, and then she approached slowly, lifting the hem of her dress.

Her hand gently covered the back of his, and then, a gentle energy passed into him.

"You don’t look very well," she said softly, "...but, don’t worry, I will help adjust you to the best condition so that you can welcome your coming of age ceremony, the grandest in the whole world."

Su Ming’an did not speak.

Hui Shuhang did not say much either, seeming accustomed to his silence. After tucking the blanket neatly around him, she lowered her head and slowly left.

After she left, Su Ming’an got out of bed.

The healing effect of Hui Shuhang was indeed very good; he felt that many of the sequelae from death had been alleviated.

Before, due to a key NPC suddenly dying, he immediately chose to roll back to avoid fixing the key save point.

He realized that the Ruler’s active skills should be reserved for more important persons, or at least not used at the start of the game—game mechanics wouldn’t give him a dead-end start, and excessively high favorability with certain NPCs might lead to some crises happening earlier.

He did not choose to directly increase his favorability with Hui Shuhang but began to explore the room first.

...Qin Wang?

Upon seeing this system prompt, Su Ming’an suddenly knew what his identity was called this time.

He suddenly heard the system notification, and then a panel gradually appeared in front of him:

[Current role-played character (Qin Wang·Last Scion of a Fallen House)

Potential of identity: Very high

Current strength of identity: Very low

Status: Alive

Special skills: (Not activated), (Not activated), Reconnaissance, Re

Even by taking the girl’s hand, in a disrespectful manner that might anger her.

Even if Favorability decreased, it didn’t matter to him, as he didn’t have the patience to coax an increase in Favorability in the short term.

Then, he was somewhat surprised to see the girl in front of him blush profusely, turn her head slowly, her eyes shimmering with delighted twinkling stars:

"You, what are you doing..."

She whispered, yet her grip on his hand tightened, taking control as if unwilling to let go.

Su Ming’an heard the system prompt:

Was his popularity increasing rather than decreasing?

Su Ming’an hadn’t expected the character he was playing to be this popular.

The other party must be an NPC, no doubt about it.

The live comments started to go wild, with a crowd screaming for him to seize the opportunity to "take down" and "quickly proceed with the strategy", but Su Ming’an promptly let go of her hand.

He definitely didn’t want to start a student-teacher affair at this critical point in the game, especially considering such a minor increase in survival rate indicated that this person wasn’t of much use.

He glanced at the girl with flushed cheeks, turned his face away, and walked past her.

"Let’s head to the lab first," he remembered the girl just mentioned the term.

Unsure where the lab was, he stopped as soon as he stepped outside, intending to let Xu Anna lead the way.

At that moment, just as he walked out the door—he saw the Lolita Lolli standing in the corner of the corridor.

Half of the little Lolita’s face was bathed in the light of the corridor, while the other half was shrouded in shadow. When her calm gaze shifted towards him, he saw her expressionless face.

She walked over with graceful steps.

"You look much better," she said respectfully, "Are you heading to the lab? Let me take you."

As she spoke, she assertively stepped between him and Xu Anna.

Su Ming’an looked back at Xu Anna, who silently followed behind with her Record Slab in arms.

"I apologize, but Your Majesty’s coming-of-age ceremony is in ten days, and His Majesty has ordered me to protect you throughout. During this period, we cannot allow any suspicious individuals to approach you."

He heard Hui Shuhang’s extremely faint voice as she leaned close, maintaining a defensive posture towards Xu Anna.

But his heart remained unruffled, he even felt a tinge of amusement.

Hui Shuhang, with fifty points of favorability, now had no impact on him.

And last cycle’s Hui Shuhang, who had one hundred points of favorability... the very first thing she would do was to betray him, turning herself into that "suspicious individual."

He remembered the scenario from the last cycle, while fleeing with her, when her body in mid-air shattered like paper, piece by piece. Before rewinding the destruction, he had seen a white shadow on golden white buildings. It was that shadow that delivered the devastating strike.

...Someone did not want him to leave this place.

He pondered as he followed Hui Shuhang downstairs. Upon reaching a plaza via a floating platform resembling an elevator, he saw squads of patrol guards.

Among the rows, some looked curiously in his direction, seeming to be quite conspicuous.

...These were probably players mingling among the NPCs.

Su Ming’an continued walking, when he suddenly noticed someone carrying a chair, resembling an attendant, staying unusually close as if deliberately wanting to stay near him.

Just as he glanced over at that person, they burst forth suddenly, his hands conjuring blinding lightning, thrusting towards him!

...This was a player.

Perhaps a player who had undertaken an assassination mission, targeting the character Su Ming’an was playing.

And in that same instant, several guards from the nearby guard squad, as if having coordinated their timing, erupted forth, various beams of energy converging towards him!

Su Ming’an watched the scene unfold, unmoved.

"Ignorant," the elegantly striding little Lolita said, a cold light flickering in her eyes.

The next moment, the player who had suddenly lunged at him was repelled back by an invisible force, as if sprung.

The few hidden among the guards were also instantaneously lifted by that invisible strength and thrown out forcefully, ceasing to breathe the moment they hit the ground.

"Bang! Bang! Bang—"

Like scattered pebbles, they crashed against the nearby wall, their health points dropping to zero in an instant.

Su Ming’an knew that the combat capability of Hui Shuhang, the little Lolita, was quite high at present, and under her protection, such direct attacks were essentially useless against him.

He looked at these players who died a worthless death and felt nothing but pity for this group.

...Without any plan, without any preparation, merely receiving a task similar to "assassinate," they agreed on a time to launch a joint attack... Their deaths were meaningless, not even earning them any points.

These players, hot-headed enough to enter the fray, should at least learn from their predecessors.

Some people have the courage but lack proper guidance.

Su Ming’an watched as the bodies of these players were cleared away when suddenly he heard a system prompt:

[Server 2837 Instance Faction Rankings:

1. Su Ming’an: 32 Points (Regular Army)

2. Armani: 14 Points (Revolutionary Army)

3. Kirk: 10 Points (Revolutionary Army)

4. Gaiyel: 10 Points (Revolutionary Army)

5. Lv Shu: 8 Points (Revolutionary Army)

6. Owen: 8 Points (Regular Army)

7. Anita: 2 Points (Revolutionary Army)

8. Mizushima Haru: 2 Points (Regular Army)

9. Picker: 0 Points (Regular Army)

10. Milton: 0 Points (Regular Army)

...Faction rankings?

Su Ming’an suddenly realized—his identity might not be entirely useless.

Although the survival rate was extremely low, the game mechanics would not specifically target him, assigning others comfortable identities that facilitated easy clearance, and leaving him with a bad one, full of dead ends.

A high mortality rate implied that he was in the vortex of power, and also at the center of the entire instance.

Hui Shuhang’s intervention had added 32 contribution points for Su Ming’an—this proved that even if he did not take action personally, as long as someone directly connected to him did, it would still help him earn contribution points.