Chapter 345
With the 30,000 precious diamonds earned from the ten treasure mines that Yu Xunge had sold to L12857777, her total precious diamonds count had now surpassed 100,000, placing her at rank 9872 on the Sky Ladder leaderboard.
Yu Xunge didn’t waste any time and asked directly, “How do I leave?”
She wasn’t in a particular rush, but during the distribution of spoils, she noticed that L12857777’s status had changed again…
【L12857777 ？？？ Battery: 85%┃Learning Failed·Inflated┃Taboo: Hard Work┃Weakness: Battery Depletion】
Yu Xunge felt a chill run down her spine. Wait, she hadn’t done anything wrong, had she?!
It had only been half an hour since she had helped L12857777 earn 100,000precious diamonds…
L12857777’s eye screen flickered with garbled text, which persisted for quite a while. Suddenly, it reached out and grabbed the robe Yu Xunge was wearing, saying, “Can you not leave? Stay and be my friend?”
Yu Xunge couldn’t help but touch her cheek. Sure, she had a charm level of 10, but was she really that irresistible?
But soon, the garbled text on L12857777’s screen disappeared, and the pink robot paused for a moment before releasing its grip on Yu Xunge’s robe. “There was a glitch in the program. I said something outside of the protocol; don’t mind it.”
Yu Xunge looked at L12857777 in surprise, her lips moved, but in the end, she only managed to say, “...Oh.”
【Chapter 448: Divine Game:precious diamonds Miner 15】
Yu Xunge suppressed the urge to ask whether “outside the protocol” was good or bad. She pressed down her curiosity and calmed the ripples in her heart.
The moment she felt soft towards L12857777 seemed like an illusion, or perhaps just a wrong note played.
It was cruel, really. The reason she felt soft towards L12857777 was that, at that moment, it was pure and unblemished, like a sprouting seed by the roadside, like freshly fallen snow. But now, L12857777 resembled a withered tree that had gained sentience.
This made Yu Xunge quickly raise her guard.
She pulled the conversation back on track and asked, “How do I leave?”
L12857777 replied, “The dry well at the west corner of the market.”
Yu Xunge’s heart stirred. She fixed her gaze on L12857777, her tone still gentle, betraying no anger or joy. “Isn’t that the way to the smelting furnace?”
L12857777: “That’s the wellhead of the special commercial area 555~1222. This is the special commercial area 3333, and the exit here is that well.”
After saying this, it looked up into Yu Xunge’s eyes. “Will you trust me?”
Yu Xunge had already flown towards the west corner. She had her own tricks up her sleeve, and she had room for trial and error.
The Divine Game simply disliked players using time skills to manipulate rewards and punishments, as it was akin to cheating in a game, making it exceedingly dull.
However, the Divine Game wouldn’t restrict players from using time skills to carve out a path for survival on the battlefield.
Recalling how B8017913 had warned her that using time skills was also a form of deception, and not being able to grasp the limits of these robots or their permissions, she decided to answer truthfully, “I don’t trust anyone, but it’s fine. I have time skills; I can give it a try.”
L12857777 struggled to keep up with Yu Xunge, jogging behind her. It looked up at her as she flew low, “Really?”
Yu Xunge sighed inwardly. She couldn’t understand what she had done to make L12857777 start changing.
It was actually seeking validation for its emotions!
What a terrifying habit.
Yu Xunge didn’t look back at L12857777. While hurrying along, she prudently asked, “If the Inspector arrives, how can we escape the interrogation?”
L12857777 obediently replied, “Before the Inspector interrogates, you should submit 50% of the宝钻 on you.”
“Is that the case for all commercial areas when the Inspector shows up?”
“Yes!”
After dropping a quick “Thank you, L12857777. I’m in a hurry, so I’ll be off now. You head back,” Yu Xunge flew away.
L12857777 stopped moving, standing still as it quietly watched the rapidly departing Yu Xunge, its eye screen dimming like a phone entering sleep mode.
In an instant, the eye screen lit up with an orange glow, like a match struck in the darkness, illuminating the way.
It gazed at Yu Xunge, who was hovering in front of it, one leg dangling casually while the other was slightly bent, her light wings gently unfurling behind her. Her expression was filled with discomfort and frustration as she said, “I can fly you to the west corner of the market. Want to?”
L12857777: “Yes! I want to play!!”
Yu Xunge scooped up the robot and flew out.
“Can you make it back on your own?”
“Of course! Yu Xunge, did you come back just for me?”
“Sort of, but it’s not anything special since I didn’t give anything in return, not even time.”
Unconsciously, Yu Xunge adopted the same attitude she had with Tu Lan, offering her most genuine and brutally honest thoughts without any embellishment.
Her way of valuing a relationship was to avoid saying false, touching words that create cheap sentiment.
Even if it was just a brief encounter of less than an hour.
L12857777: “My calculations tell me you’ve invested emotions.”
Yu Xunge: “Maybe.”
In just two minutes of high-speed flight, Yu Xunge reached the dry well.
She set the pink robot down, hurriedly said “Goodbye,” and jumped down the well without looking back.
However, the moment she left, she immediately used the Shadow Body Spell and reappeared above the dry well.
She watched as L12857777 stood at the edge, looking down, its antennae happily swaying.
【L12857777 ？？？ Battery: 84%┃Missing·Happy?·Learning Failed┃Taboo: Hard Work┃Weakness: Battery Depletion】
Yu Xunge silently averted her gaze.
As expected, within seven or eight seconds, she saw Dong Hai Sha coldly fly over, kick L12857777 aside, and jump down the well.
Yu Xunge: “…”
How sneaky!!!
After waiting a moment, she flew down and pulled L12857777, who was lying on the ground, wondering what to do. “Why aren’t you getting up?”
L12857777: “Yu Xunge?!”
Yu Xunge: “Yeah… are you hurt?”
L12857777: “No. Did you come back to find me? Do you want to stay and be my friend?”
Yu Xunge: “No, I’m here to escape from an enemy. Are there any other exits here?”
L12857777, with its half-circular head that only had an eye screen and a mouth, displayed a look of disappointment. “It’s okay. I can help you switch. Which area do you want to go to?”
Yu Xunge didn’t hold back. “Area 11!”
L12857777 walked to the edge of the dry well and rearranged a few bricks. “Done.”
Yu Xunge jumped to the well’s mouth again. “This time I’m really leaving. Goodbye, L12857777. I’ll remember you.”
L12857777: “Me too.”
Yu Xunge felt the same experience as when she left the special commercial area 1211, only this time without Tu Lan by her side.
The moment she exited the tunnel, she received a game reward.
【Congratulations, player, for completing the task—Diamond Master】
【You invested in the L12857777 robot and helped it achieve 21 profitable ventures, ranking 253,587th in the historical leaderboard of this commercial area.】
【You have received a reward—randomly unlock three rules.】
Yu Xunge glanced at the three newly lit rules.
Game Rule 1: You must eliminate one mechanical race every 12 hours.
Game Rule 10: Prohibited from entering Area 19.
Game Rule 11: Prohibited from divining for the mechanical race.
After memorizing the three new rules, her attention returned to the leaderboard ranking.
The last time she had ranked high, she hadn’t sensed anything amiss, but this time was different.
253,587th.
That number was staggering. She remembered that Wu Ren Yue Huang had once said she had never played a repeated game.
So what did this leaderboard mean?
Did at least twenty thousand players come through here?
【Chapter 449: Divine Game:precious diamonds Miner 17】
Or was it that these games actually had another similar mode, with these markets constantly transforming into other maps, and those robots continuously changing forms?
Like those games and novels that recycle the same templates, but these game records were preserved?
As Yu Xunge pondered these mysteries, she once again repeated the mining process alone.
At this time, the battlefield chat channel began to fill with players complaining about the special scenarios they encountered.
The events in the special commercial area 1211 were no longer fresh, as six commercial areas had triggered special scenarios one after another.
【Inspector Arrival】, 【Tax Audit】, 【New Mining Regulations】…
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