【Keusta rest period·City of measurement】

"Keusta is asked to form a team! Come with a friend with healing skills! Four is missing one! Return to Keusta in five hours, hurry up!"

"There is a shortage of accounting positions in the Causta Doomsday City. Come to a friend who learns accounting! Just know how to fill in the entries! If you are not good at lending and distribution, please help me see. Add my number OKO982+++"

"Someone in the team took office as the fourth logistics captain of the Third Legion of the Free Camp. He urgently summoned a plant team to be responsible for fertile farmland. The task rewards can be divided. For details, private chat..."

"I am a second-level player in the spirit system. My teammate died in the battle of dawn. I am in urgent need of front-row teammates. Let's have a t!"

"t? Where is t? Sister, look at me..."

“…”

There are crowds of people in the abandoned large shopping mall.

Players use this place as a gathering place for temporary teaming among players, clue sharing, hiring mercenaries, mission outsourcing and other activities.

Looking around, the mall is full of players of different shapes. Since Keusta entered the rest period, all contestants returned to the Measurement City of 102 in the Catastrophe and enjoyed five hours of rest time, and players gathered here in a swarm.

Su Mingan entered the mall wearing a black robe, shocked by the scene in front of him.

——In a large shopping mall as high as 11th floor, players climb up and down like monkeys, some hang on the top of the elevator, dancing like electricity, and some climb along the railings. Some people run around like ADHD, as if cockroaches are growing on their bodies. Players can be seen crawling twistedly and wriggling darkly everywhere.

"—I want to fall in love! I want to find a npc lady to fall in love - I can't find a partner!

"A male player shouted, dancing wildly in the air while stepping on flying props.

"——Come on a teammate, a teammate! Please give me a teammate!" This is a female player who is hanging a gold hook on the 11th floor of the mall.

"—Does anyone want to go to the battlefield to see it? There is a tour guide here, and the battlefield in Dawn is one-hour tour! I am not responsible for being bombed to death!" A child shouted with a loudspeaker.

Looking at this scene, Su Mingan almost thought he had been admitted to a mental hospital.

But then I thought about it - the players' behavior has been wild and they are bored when they wait to form a team, so it is normal for them to climb up and down in the mall.

He even heard that some male players like to sway in front of NPCs and dance stripteases, which is quite normal.

Next to Su Mingan was Noel, who was also wearing a black robe. The two stood blankly at the entrance of the mall, a little out of place.

"In fact, there would be such a 'player gathering place' in the past dungeons," said Noel. "Like ordinary players, sometimes their teammates die midway, or some tasks are beyond their ability, and they will discuss rebuilding a team with others."

"So that's it..." Su Mingan said.

"They are too far away from you, so you don't know," said Noel.

Su Mingan looked at the scene like Monkey Garden, and suddenly felt that a crazy man like Tretia and Sibert were actually quite normal: "It's better to stay away..."

The two of them wanted to move forward, but suddenly a man with blue light flashing all over his body stopped them.

In the game system, players can choose whether to turn on the light effect of their equipment. This man's blue-level equipment is considered a very good level among players.

"The first time you are here? I am the agent Ruiwang here, from the [Character] Guild. You can ask me any needs you have," the man said.

[Character] Guild is not very famous, but Su Ming'an has heard of it. It is a guild that is positioned as a trading intermediary for players in the game dungeon. They help people exchange mission rewards, sell clues, become intelligence dealers, etc.

"Let's take a look," said Noel.

Ruiwang began to promote: "Two, I have two clues of blue-level side missions here, priced at 80 points equivalent, do you want it?"

Noel shook his head.

"Then... there is still a commander of the Third Unit of the Fourth Army of the Free Camp that is hard to buy. Do you want it?" King Rui caught a few more steps.

"Hmm?" Su Ming settled down: "Can the position of the group leader be sold?"

"We have players who have reached the high position of the Fourth Army and have the right to recommend the army. Think about it, although the Battle of Dawn has ended, it is only 49 years of disaster. In the 72 years of disaster, I don't know how much oil can be obtained. Are you interested?" King Rui pinched his fingers.

Su Mingan's steps stopped.

"Who... is selling such a team leader position?" His voice was very calm.

"This cannot be said. Anyway, you can take the position of commander. If you are not interested in this, we will have a lower-level captain position." King Rui said proudly: "Don't worry, the supervision system during the war is a mess, and no one in the free camp will find it."

"Oh." Su Mingan said.

He was already recalling the faces of the Fourth Army's high position.

By the way, I asked Su Lin to reconstruct the entire supervision system, what was he doing?

Ruiwang looked at the silent two people, thought for a moment, and said, "We also provide some additional services, such as helping you with tasks, or helping you get closer to some NPCs, etc."

"Close to npc?" Noel suddenly said, "Can you help me get close to Akto?"

"Which Akto?" King Rui didn't react. After a moment, he was startled: "Asar Akto? Su Mingan?"

"Yes." Noel said.

"This... you have asked me a big problem. You have to tell me why you want to see him." King Rui hesitated for a moment and actually nodded.

"I like him, I want to meet him." Noel smiled.

"Oh, this is the reason, yes." King Rui looked no surprise.

"I'm not the first to get close to Aktor from your tone?" Noel asked.

"Of course, you are the 89th one. We took all the 88 people to them, have meetings, military exercises, and passing by... we have met with Akto. Although we didn't even say anything, the task was already completed." Rui Wang said: "Are you sure? If you confirm, we will sign a transaction contract."

Su Mingan: “…88?”

"What about this brother, what do you need?" Rui Wang looked at Su Mingan who had not spoken.

"I'll go back and add the personal guards to 500," said Su Ming'an.

"Ah?" King Rui didn't understand what it meant: "Brother, you..."

Su Mingan had already pulled Noel away.

"These players are really powerful." Noel sighed: "I thought the defense around you was solid enough. I didn't expect that there were 88 people who could sneak in to see you. What exactly did this group of people come to the game dungeon for?"

"Look at the giant panda." Su Mingan said.

He registered the information post of "a heavy reward for Lu Shu" on the bulletin board of this mall, and the reward price was a piece of purple-level equipment. Purple-level equipment is still very expensive at this stage. As soon as this information was released, all the players who were still a monkey immediately came over.

Next, Su Mingan went to the core area and issued the order to "reward Lu Shu in the whole city", working on a two-pronged approach between NPC and players.

Before he was uncertain about the relationship between Lin Guang and Lu Shu, he would still try his best to find Lu Shu.

Afterwards, he and Noel went to the factory in the core area and recorded the weapon and equipment assembly line technology at the personal terminal for backup for Kaiwusta.

During the five-hour interval, he was busy until the time of return was approaching, and he came out of the factory and his body was covered with dust.

Noel kept watching him finish all this silently and suddenly said, "Did you feel relaxed?"

"What?" Su Mingan said.

"The shopping mall was quite interesting, you see those players are so happy." Noel said: "I sometimes go to join in the fun of players gathering places. There are often talent shows, guitar, dance, and chess competitions there... Many couples have formed a relationship there, and some small groups have also grown up from there, and since then they have become friends who live up to their lives... In fact, the world game is quite fun, not completely a bad game, and many people have found their own fun. It's just that they are too harsh on you, so you can't feel the fun."

"Fun..." Su Mingan said.

"I always wanted to tell you that games need to be played with a smile, but I can hardly see your smile," said Noel.

"The forum is now full of speculation and doubts about your authority, and the tests of the organizers after the Ninth World... Can you continue to laugh and play?" Su Mingan said.

When Su Mingan saw the barrage, the screen was filled with topics such as "Edward's death" and "Norgao's authority protection". You can imagine what kind of impact would be welcomed by the end of the Ninth World.

"Haha." Noel laughed.

He raised his head and said, "I don't care."

He blinked, ignored the crazy and surging barrage in the upper right corner, and repeated:

"I don't care."

Su Mingan looked up along Noel's gaze.

The sky of the City of Measuring is gray and white, unlike the blood-red sky fifty years ago, and you can vaguely see the flashing stars. They stand between the high-rise buildings in the core area, like two inconspicuous street lights.

After repeated spanning decades, Su Mingan always had the illusion of still dreaming, and even looking at the sky seemed to be illusory.

"Wow—"

The countdown was cleared and Keusta's brilliant white light gradually wrapped them up.

"The most important thing for a person is to learn to pick up and let go. If you find that you can't keep everything, it's better to learn to make decisive choices." Noel looked at the sky:

"You are not a god, Su Ming'an, making yourself happy is the most important thing. You can try to enjoy the happiness of ordinary players..."

...

【Keusta Catastrophe 59 years】

Su Mingan opened his eyes and it was pitch black. He touched the surroundings, which was a hard metal texture.

I looked at the time of the watch and it was only ten years ago, and it was fine.

He heard a vocal.

"—I hope you can hand over some of the survival resources, fur, straw, cotton, etc., or directly supply the 'source' to us and we produce it ourselves."

"Impossible, maintaining the dawn system requires a source."

"—Is that system more important than living people? They are all brothers! Do you want to watch them freeze to death? [One-Dimensional and Half] have been invaded to this level, and we have no way to retreat again! The most important thing is to save the people who are still alive at the moment!"

Before Su Mingan could determine his position, he heard quarrels coming from above, as if hundreds of people were facing each other on the ground.
To be continued...