Chapter 79 (1/2)

Chapter 79: Disappear If You Lose, Start If You Win

”Yue Qiang.” the one who spoke was Yin, and her tone was gentle, ”There are words on the bamboo scroll. Why don't you keep reading, okay?”

Yue Qiang calmed down slightly, but his desire to return home only grew stronger. The girl beside him did not offer him any consoling words. She had simply reminded him softly about the words on the bamboo scroll. This was actually the best comfort she could offer.

He knew, that the bamboo scroll would definitely tell him the way back home.

Lines of ink marks appeared on the bamboo scroll:

”If you wish to go home, then you must first end the game.”

”Once the game has ended, everything will be shattered, and the player of the game can return to the real world.”

”However, you are not yet the player of this game. This is because the game hasn't truly begun yet.”

”The game will truly begin when the blue progress bar hits 100%.”

”The game begin logo was a cutscene.”

”You probably still remember that during the first cutscene at 50% progress, you escaped Zhao Yan's killing blow by luck and did not die. Ten days later during the second cutscene – also the point where the progress bar hits 100% – you will be killed by Zhao Yan in a cutscene! The way you will die is… by having your head crushed. Once you die, your ident.i.ty as a quasi-player will be deprived, and everything related to you will disappear. It's a complete disappearance, and not just a simple death.”

”I know these, because the cutscenes were drawn by my own hands.”

”I am not… but I am at least an A.D. There are some tricks that I can rig. During the first cutscene, I secretly changed some things and saved you. As a result, I have turned into a corpse not long ago. Therefore, during the second cutscene, that is the cutscene where the progress bar reaches 100%, you must rely on yourself completely to live.”

”The cutscene… is definite. But it can also be changed! If you can kill Zhao Yan in the 100% progress bar cutscene, you will be able to live and become a true player!”

”This game will also officially begin when the progress bar reaches 100%!”

”Before I die, I drew a portrait of myself on an animal skin. I love this portrait a lot. By coincidence, this animal skin portrait had gotten outside. By coincidence, it fell into the trader Ai Qian's hands. Again by coincidence, it was seen by you. I feel like this was mysterious good luck protecting all of us. You have come here and obtained the gift we left for you. I believe that you can definitely alter the cutscene, obtain the qualifications to become a player in this game, and kill Zhao Yan!”

Yue Qiang clicked the little triangle repeatedly. Carefully, he read through the ink marks on the scroll word by word.

So he wasn't the player of the game yet. He hadn't acquired the qualifications to become a player. He would be killed by Zhao Yan in a cutscene during the latter cutscene. Therefore, if he wanted to live, if he wanted to go home, he would have to alter the cutscene and kill Zhao Yan.

The road home… was very far.

The bamboo scroll then talked about another method to go home.

”When the game ends, everything will be shattered, and the player can return to reality. This is confirmed to be one way to return to reality. Besides that, there may also be a better way: There is a book in the game that is ranked second of the top ten cla.s.sic literatures of the world, '…'. This book has no name. If you used this nameless book, then you will be able to return directly. However, there is a prerequisite to this, and that is you must survive until the game begins!”

Survive until the game begins… become a player…

”The cutscene shall begin ten days later. You must ready all of your preparations. I hope that the things I leave to you will be useful.”

”For this time, I have locked the blue progress at 95%. In reality, calculating by the many information I have left behind, the blue progress bar should have exceeded 100%. However, I have found a loophole and used it to suppress the blue progress bar's advance. Therefore, you can relax with the knowledge of these information and know that the progress will not reach 100% right away.

The last 5% of progress can be maintained for at most ten days. Ten days later, when the progress has reached 100%, the cutscene will unavoidably arrive. You make full preparations before that happens!”