Chapter 119
Ye Bai was both surprised and curious upon hearing this. She had anticipated that some players would end up in prison, but she never expected it to happen so soon. Bai Ye Town had just lifted its state of alert, with new security booths popping up everywhere, and the previous deterrent of energy crossbows still looming over them. Hadn’t these interstellar agents always been cautious? Who was bold enough to act so recklessly now?
Ye Bai immediately stood up from her desk and headed toward the prison. “Let’s go check it out. Tell me exactly what happened.”
“Yes! Here’s the situation…”
As they walked, Blaze filled Ye Bai in on the details.
The whole incident occurred at a high-end ranch in their territory, and it unfolded quite suddenly.
Currently, the high-end ranch was divided into two parts: one was the Kudu Ranch, where a special talent named Qin worked, known for her affinity with animals. When wild kudus first entered the ranch, they needed to be tamed, and with Qin’s presence, the taming process was significantly accelerated. The other part was the Black Gold Sheep Ranch, staffed by two ordinary herders.
One of the herders at the Black Gold Sheep Ranch twisted his ankle and sent his companion to the herbal shop to fetch some medicine. While waiting, he spotted a player passing by and asked for help in feeding two Black Gold Sheep.
This was clearly a temporary task. However, while feeding the sheep, the player couldn’t resist the temptation of the unique wool color and secretly plucked a handful.
The Black Gold Sheep were newly raised, and it was far too early for shearing. The player’s action was akin to pulling feathers, causing the sheep to bleat in protest, which caught the attention of the herder who had issued the task. He immediately shouted for someone to catch the thief.
In an instant, three crossbowmen from a nearby security booth rushed out and arrested the player on charges of theft.
Goodness! Ye Bai had always been the one to fleece others; she never thought that one day someone would dare to fleece her!
Due to the relocation of the high-end ranch, Ye Bai had forgotten to update the alert zone from the previous wooden fence position.
It was quite absurd that she had altered the settings. By the time Ye Bai and Blaze arrived at the prison, they were already heading toward the stairs leading underground.
A prison should look like a prison. Externally, it appeared to be a spacious single-story building, but the first floor was merely the area where prison staff operated. The real cells were in the dark, underground.
Although the player was imprisoned, being in a game meant it wasn’t the grim experience of real incarceration. Instead, she was curiously looking around.
When Ye Bai reached the cell, the female player inside spotted her and excitedly approached the iron gate to greet her.
“Lord Bai Ye!”
Not only was the player excited, but Ye Bai herself was also curious and peered inside. “What’s it like in there?”
Inside the iron gate were three black walls, illuminated only by the torches outside. The only two items in the cell were a toilet and a pile of hay that could serve as a bed, which the player wouldn’t need.
“It’s quite a novel experience. Would you like to come in and sit for a bit?” the female player invited.
Ye Bai replied, “...No, that’s alright.”
After entering a completely new scene, the interstellar agent named Xi Bei took a screenshot without missing a beat. She had just logged off once to share some intel with her civilization, and the three days of her prison time would not count while offline.
Xi Bei likely understood that Ye Bai wouldn’t release her, so she didn’t ask to be let out.
Ye Bai, curious, observed for a moment before preparing to leave. “Well, I’ll be on my way. Enjoy your time in prison.”
She could now focus on her class change. With this player’s experience as a cautionary tale, it would surely serve as a warning to others.
“Wait a moment!” Xi Bei called out, her mind racing—
Although Bai Ye Town had opened up, the lord had always been quite mysterious, rarely interacting with players. Only a select few had the fortune to meet this enigmatic figure.
With the recent battle against the three-headed Griffin boss, Bai Ye’s reputation had surged again, and discussions about her on the star network were at an all-time high.
To unexpectedly meet Bai Ye in a prison cell and discover that the legendary figure was quite approachable… Xi Bei’s mind raced with thoughts, and she made an unexpected request to Bai Ye:
“Um, could I take a photo with you?”
A photo?
Ye Bai paused, surprised. “How would we take a photo?”
In the multiverse, it should only be possible to capture screenshots from a player’s perspective.
“I have a way,” Xi Bei replied, and before Ye Bai could react, she removed one of her own eyes.
Ye Bai: “...!”
After the initial shock, Ye Bai quickly remembered that this was a relatively obscure second-tier talent called [Limb Regeneration]. The effect allowed a player to physically lose a limb and then regenerate it by consuming health, energy, and stamina.
This player’s real-world racial talent was evidently similar.
Seeing that Ye Bai didn’t refuse, Xi Bei stood at the iron gate with one eye open and the other closed, holding up the detached eye like a camera. “Please look here.”
Through the iron gate, Xi Bei became the first player in the multiverse to take a photo with Bai Ye.
As she was leaving, Ye Bai asked, “Which civilization do you belong to?”
Xi Bei paused slightly, then answered without hesitation, “Dan Di Civilization.”
She had requested a photo with Bai Ye, and that picture would only hold value if made public.
“Goodbye,” Ye Bai nodded in farewell, noting the name.
After Ye Bai left, Xi Bei excitedly logged off with the photo and immediately contacted her superior.
Meanwhile, Ye Bai returned to her office and logged off right away.
In the star network, Ye Bai found the Dan Di Civilization in the vast cosmic currency market and cross-referenced the information. By confirming the racial traits similar to [Limb Regeneration], she identified Xi Bei as the player she had encountered in the prison. She then spent ten thousand star coins to purchase Dan Di Civilization’s currency, ‘Luo Yuan.’
She had thought she might have to wait a while longer, but as soon as she switched back to the cosmic news, she saw a hot new headline.
[Dan Di Civilization Meets Bai Ye in a Friendly Encounter and Takes a Photo]
Ye Bai quickly switched back to the currency market, only to see that the five hundred thousand Luo Yuan she had just purchased was skyrocketing in value against the star coin at an astonishing rate…
Ye Bai: New financial strategy unlocked.
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This news of the ‘friendly encounter’ came with game screenshots, and this particular screenshot was no ordinary one; it was clearly a conscious ‘photo.’
Considering the racial characteristics of the Dan Di Civilization, other civilizations could easily imagine how this photo was taken.
Although the scene was dim and the background subtle, the Dan Di player and Bai Ye were separated by an iron window… but wasn’t it a meeting? Wasn’t it a photo?
In the past, Bai Ye had always been captured from a third-person perspective, and there had been no evidence of her interacting with that civilization in the game. This time, the Dan Di Civilization took the lead, causing quite a stir in the Star Alliance and quickly climbing to the top of the hottest cosmic news.
The ensuing speculations allowed the Dan Di Civilization to bask in Bai Ye’s glow, gaining significant political attention and causing their entire civilization’s currency exchange rate to soar.
If it were any other civilization, such an exaggerated effect wouldn’t be expected. However, Bai Ye Town had just completed its upgrade, showcasing Ye Bai’s formidable personal strength, along with a batch of blue rare-grade [Nightwalker Cloaks] and [Swift Boots], which demonstrated the technological prowess of Bai Ye Town far ahead of all player territories.
Not to mention the strategic weapon that was the energy crossbow; many civilizations were not only attempting to replicate it in reality but also trying to recreate it in the multiverse.
However, all these attempts ended in failure. The forging and crafting technology in the multiverse was too primitive for interstellar players, making it difficult to find talents capable of replication. Even if such talents existed, they ultimately couldn’t succeed without blueprints.
Through numerous failed experiments, interstellar scholars could almost confirm that only equipment produced in relevant production buildings using blueprints, just like NPCs, could possess attributes; otherwise, they would merely be ordinary, attribute-less decorations.
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