Chapter 1923: Chapter 1923: Seeking Immortals at the Yellow Springs (Conclusion)
The countdown continued, but the people present didn’t know what had just happened and could only watch as a chance was wasted.
[Key error, 1 attempt remaining...]
"What just happened?" Hu Shuo asked, his whole body in pain, questioning anxiously.
"I don’t know, there was no external intrusion, and no anomalies..." Ruan Liang concluded over there.
It was as if an invisible person had entered the key.
Hu Shuo suddenly thought of something and looked sharply at Chuzheng: "Miss Chuzheng, could there be... an unknown creature here!"
"No." Chuzheng’s tone was assured.
Hu Shuo glanced at Su Tiyue, who also shook her head, with both big shots here, there surely was nothing.
But what exactly happened just now?
"Master... your bracelet." Xing Qiao suddenly spoke: "You were standing next to the game cabin just now."
Chuzheng raised her hand to look at the bracelet on her wrist: "So what?"
Xing Qiao said: "You were the only one close to the game cabin just now, and when you moved, the input was interrupted." He also saw that the bracelet activated by itself.
Chuzheng said nothing.
"This seems to be a very old game bracelet, doesn’t it?"
"That’s not right, I’ve never seen this model."
"I think I’ve seen it... but it seems a bit different."
"Was it because of this bracelet just now? And how could a game bracelet auto-input a key?"
Speculations were circulating around the room.
Hu Shuo took the recording and watched, Chuzheng indeed stood very close, after releasing Xing Qiao, she moved closer to the game cabin because of them.
And at that moment, the game bracelet on her wrist lit up briefly, then quickly dimmed.
"Did it activate automatically just now?"
"I remember all the game bracelets activate the same way, that must have been the activation light just now."
"How did it activate on its own?" Without any action from Chuzheng, the game bracelet lit up on its own.
"Could it really be because of this bracelet?"
Everyone looked around at each other.
The room suddenly fell silent.
If there was no external intrusion and no invisible unknown creature, then Chuzheng was the only explanation.
Chuzheng rotated her wrist and suddenly stuck out her hand.
"Don’t!"
Hu Shuo tried to stop Chuzheng.
There was only one chance left, and they couldn’t afford to be reckless.
However, he was still one step too late; by the time he rushed over, Chuzheng had already placed her hand on the game cabin.
The bracelet clinked against the game cabin, making a crisp sound.
The sound reverberated in the pin-drop silence of the room.
Everyone, after a moment of stunned surprise, simultaneously turned their heads towards the screen.
[Inputting...]
The asterisks jumped at a rate of about one per second, remarkably slow.
At this moment, however, no one dared to speak. This was the last chance, if it failed, then it really would be over...
Under the tense gaze of everyone, the asterisks stopped jumping.
The next second...
[Key correct, welcome back to the Starship Fanxing.]
The image continued to move, and the previously blurry scene became clear.
Only then did Chuzheng realize that the buildings she had seen earlier were on a massive ship.
The scene changed, a digital interface appeared, and another input box popped up.
[Please enter the number...]
Chuzheng looked towards Hu Shuo and the others.
"What number?"
"Player number? Management number?"
"There’s no player number yet." Fanxing had no players yet, quickly ruling out the player number: "There are so many management numbers, how are we supposed to know which one? What if there’s only one chance to input it?"
Chuzheng seemed to think of something, uncomfortably glanced into the bracelet, remembering there was a string of numbers there.
"IXC0000001"
[Please enter the number...]
[**********]
[Number verification successful.]
[Starship Fanxing is at your service, wishing you a pleasant journey.]
The screen continued to push forward, finally freezing on a long corridor, with the words ’Time Corridor’ engraved on the left side.
From the screen, it seemed to be a first-person view.
It was only then that everyone seemed to come to their senses, their excitement uncontainable.
"We... we got in?"
"We really got in!!"
This is the screen players encounter first when entering the game. Once players establish their identity, they’ll pass through the Time Corridor and begin their journey.
The Starship Fanxing, meanwhile, acts like a game lobby, filled with functional buildings and rooms where players can roam within this city built on a ship.
"Just now, it seemed that what Miss Chuzheng entered wasn’t a management number."
"Management numbers aren’t that long."
"Right..."
"That number... it seems like a player number, but the letters at the front aren’t right."
"Miss Chuzheng, the number you entered... where did it come from?"
Chuzheng indifferently tapped the bracelet: "It was engraved."
"Bracelet identification code?"
"No, bracelet identification codes have always been a set type, not like this."
"Miss Chuzheng’s bracelet is very peculiar..."
The discussion inevitably quieted down.
After all, Chuzheng was present, and it wasn’t good to discuss openly in front of her.
They had spent so long cracking the key and only unlocked the first level, unaware there was a second level.
What’s more surprising was that the second level key was held by someone completely unrelated.
This person was invited by Hu Shuo, and given that Hu Shuo seemed to trust her, they had no choice but to pull Hu Shuo aside to ask.
Hu Shuo dared not mention anything about unknown creatures and could only mumble an answer.
"Miss Chuzheng, that..." Hu Shuo and the group had a lengthy discussion and finally came over rubbing his hands: "Could we ask you to do us a favor?"
Chuzheng was about to refuse when a glint flickered in her eyes, and the words ’no’ were swallowed back: "Let’s hear it first."
Hu Shuo never expected Chuzheng to be so agreeable today, and felt a tinge of surprise.
"Ahem... Miss Chuzheng, we’d like to invite you to enter the game..."
"The game?"
Hu Shuo pointed to the game cabin: "This one."
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Chuzheng didn’t know why the bracelet had been given to her, but she didn’t believe in coincidences.
Especially considering the various things she had been experiencing lately...
Were they truly unrelated?
So, Chuzheng agreed.
Lying in the game cabin, Chuzheng watched as the cabin door gradually closed, and the light dimmed.
After a moment of dizzying discomfort, Chuzheng opened her eyes and found herself standing in the Time Corridor she had seen earlier.
In front of Chuzheng was a panel displaying basic data about her body.
Chuzheng immediately noticed the number at the very top: IXC0000001
This code was one that Hu Shuo’s people had never seen before, not fitting the player code, nor the management code.
So what exactly is this code?
Chuzheng looked through the panel; the template was similar to a normal game, but there were still many blanks, presumably yet to be unlocked.
Chuzheng closed the panel, and remembering the knowledge Ruan Liang had quickly taught her, she clicked an icon at the top right.
[Please select the instance type...]
[Past, Present, Future, Fantasy]
There were four major types of instances, each divided into numerous labels.
Most were labels familiar from TV or novels.
There were also some peculiar labels, such as: Yin, Yang, Beidou, Six Extremes... completely inscrutable ones.
These labels were marked in red; when Chuzheng clicked them, nothing opened, likely indicating high-difficulty instances.
Chuzheng randomly clicked on a label she could access.
[Single-player OR Multiplayer]
Chuzheng was about to click single-player, but then remembered Ruan Liang’s nagging reminder and chose multiplayer.
[Please enter invitation code]
Hmm... Chuzheng’s fingers quickly keyed in a string of numbers on the virtual screen.
’SAXY009’
Ruan Liang and the others had management codes which needed to be used when entering the game, functioning the same as player codes.
So to play the game, there was no need to apply for one.
And there was no concern about the game being too easy due to using a management code; when you enter the game and choose a player identity, management features automatically turn off.
This code belonged to Xing Jue.
Player-invited players meant multiplayer gaming; she now needed to locate their esteemed CEO.
[Matching...]
Chuzheng watched these words for a full ten minutes, with no response yet.
Just when Chuzheng thought the match had failed, the lettering suddenly changed.
[Match successful.]
[Instance reset successful...]
[Time Corridor ready...]
[Entering instance...]
