Elder brother's garrison

"Yeah, we can't talk to each other. You don't believe me? Look." Bai Jiahei pouted and demonstrated by extending her hand to the blacksmith shop owner. "Boss, do you have a quest?"

"Young warrior, you've come at the right time. I happen to need someone's help with something. There's a rabbit infestation on the east side of the village. They're eating grass every day, seriously affecting the environment of our village. Here, take this weapon. Go kill a rabbit for me." The blacksmith shop owner held up a new sign and took out a small hammer, handing it to Bai Jiahei.

"……"noob.

"..." White plus black.

"Planning and secretly altering things is a common occurrence," Xiaobai patted Baijiahei on the shoulder.

He looked exhausted, both in white and black.

"Ah, I'll be going now. I still have things to do outside. Good luck here!" Xiaobai waved to Baijiahei.

"Ah! Wait! Boss, don't go!" Bai Jiahei quickly hugged Xiaobai's waist.

"Ah? What's wrong?"

"Boss, if you leave now, I'll definitely be targeted for revenge! I'll definitely be made to suffer! Please, please stay with me a little longer, just finish this quest, just finish this quest and let me level up a bit, please... sob sob..."

"...I'm really busy right now, my body might still be lying on the steps outside..."

"Just one task! Just one! Complete this task and let me level up, just be a little higher level than a small group of Little Reds! Boss, if you leave now, I'll be bullied to death, waaaaah..." Bai Jiahei refused to let go no matter what.

Xiao Bai sighed helplessly.

With such a strong will to survive, Xiaobai was actually a little embarrassed to refuse.

—Anyway, I should be able to take a nap in my own yard without any problem.

"Just one, I'll leave after I catch the rabbit."

"Yes!!" Bai Jiahei nodded quickly.

With Xiaobai by her side, Bai Jiahei finally grabbed the hammer the blacksmith had given her and headed straight out of the village with Xiaobai.

There are also many deep-sea Taihou outside Taihou Village. There are Taihou knights dressed in white armor and carrying greatswords, Taihou mages with magic wands, and Taihou hunters with several lapdogs and longbows, and so on.

They were all holding up signs with various messages asking to team up.

"Are those also adventurers?" Xiaobai asked.

"Yes, they're all at a higher level than me."

"Wow, that gear looks so cool."

"Yeah, they're really strong. I couldn't beat ten of the strongest ones right now."

Who's the best?

"Look." Bai Jiahei pointed to a deep-sea phoenix wearing a revealing bikini in the distance.

"...Uh...what is her profession?"

"The Templar Knight. The one who wields a greatsword and slashes people, high attack, high health, and can even regenerate health."

"The Templar Knights wear swimsuits??"

"She's not wearing it. That outfit is because she used fashion transformation to turn her armor into a swimsuit."

"……"noob.

This game is so realistic.

"Aren't you going to team up?" Xiaobai asked.

"I'm just catching a rabbit, I shouldn't need to team up, right? Besides, they think my level is too low and won't team up with me."

Baijiahei replied in this way.

A few minutes later, Bai Jiahei and Xiaobai arrived at their destination and saw the rabbit she wanted to catch.

On the crackling, burning grassland, a raging fire rises slowly, and the scorched earth emits a burnt aroma in the high temperature.

A huge, orange-red flame moved slowly across the scorched ground, leaving nothing but burnt earth in its wake.

At the edge of the scorched earth, a dozen or so small tombstones, symbols of adventurers' resurrection, lay scattered haphazardly on the scorched earth.

Within the flames, Xiaobai and Baijiahei could vaguely make out the shape of a rabbit.

The rabbit leaped, the flames trembled, and several fireballs were spat out, landing on the grassland and exploding instantly.

Rumble.

"..." Bai Jiahei clutched his chest.

Her heart was aching.

Bai Jiahei looked at Xiao Bai pitifully: "Boss...look..."

"Hahaha..." Xiaobai laughed, then nodded. "I understand. Okay, leave it to me."

This game seems to be quite hostile towards newbies.

Xiao Bai was in a hurry to get back, and after thinking for a while, he decided to just take action.

The next second, the sky above the burning flames was torn open, and a huge amount of seawater poured down, instantly engulfing the rabbit.

When cold water meets intense flames, the hissing heat spreads out like steam amidst a series of explosions.

The fire rabbit offered almost no resistance as it was repeatedly rubbed and pressed to the ground by Little White.

However, after Erlin teased Wuling (Nine) San Liu Jiuqun, he died.

"Oh my god!!!" On the sea, York, who had been asleep for a long time, suddenly jumped up.

York broke out in a cold sweat, staring wide-eyed at his surroundings in a daze.

Surrounded by the sea, on the water, sat a figure watching with delight his glory and his companions.

"York! You're awake!" Glory hugged York with delight. "We were so worried about you!"

"Ah... Glorious Sister..." York stared blankly at his hands, memories slowly returning to his mind. "Ah... I was sleeping just now..."

"Yeah, you're sleeping so soundly, I can't wake you up no matter what I do..."

“I also… had a dream…” York murmured.

"What did you dream about?"

“…” York thought for a moment, then frowned slightly. “I think I dreamt… I turned into a big rabbit…”

"A large rabbit that was on fire..."

Chapter 810 Awakening from a Dream in a Beauty's Arms

The icy floodwaters poured down from the sky, forming a thick waterfall that cascaded down onto the scorched earth, extinguishing the fire in an instant.

Xiao Bai maintained the artificial waterfall for a while longer, until the scattered floodwaters were about to submerge the grass in front of them and flowed towards him and Bai Jiahei with undiminished momentum, before Xiao Bai stopped.

The raging floodwaters gradually subsided and seeped into the soil at an extremely fast speed. In no time, Xiaobai's vision returned to what it had been before.

In the realm of the mind, this is Xiaobai's territory; whatever she says goes.

"Hahaha!!!" After Xiaobai made her move, Bai Jiahei danced with excitement. As soon as the floodwaters disappeared, she couldn't wait to run towards the rabbit.

Admittedly, Bai Jiahei, also a spiritual being, and seemingly having been a spiritual being for even longer than Xiaobai, is well aware of just how high Xiaobai's authority is in his spiritual world. In this space, there is nothing Xiaobai cannot do, only things she hasn't thought of. Not to mention simply conjuring a waterfall with a whoosh, if Xiaobai so desires, she could even create Mount Everest with a wave of her hand.

Bai Jiahei wasn't excited about Xiaobai's fighting power; she was excited that her hard work cutting down trees all night, enduring hardships she had never experienced before, and all her toil had finally paid off.

Although this reward seems to have nothing to do with her cutting down trees all night.

Bai Jiahei searched around for a while on the scorched earth softened by the flood, and finally spotted a small pile of shiny debris in a corner. His face lit up with joy, and he rushed to the pile, then pounced inside, sticking his rear end out and starting to rummage through it.

"Where did that rabbit go?" Xiaobai asked curiously as she came up behind Baijiahei.

"This is my first time fighting a monster too. If there's no corpse, it probably got wiped out." Bai Jiahei's voice came from the pile of treasures.

"Even this setting is so realistic..." Xiaobai was somewhat impressed by the Deep Sea Will's serious attitude in this regard. "But if you can't find the defeated rabbit, how will you prove that you've completed the mission?"

“There will always be some dropped items, right… like this and that… Ah, found it!” Bai Jiahei said, then paused, pulled herself out of the pile of treasures in front of her, and raised her hands high.

Xiao Bai looked over and saw that Bai Jiahei had a small card in his hand.

"With this, I can complete the mission!" Bai Jiahei looked at the card in his hand with gratitude, then carefully put it into his pocket.

"What is this card?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"Your ID card."

"Huh? ID card? Whose is it?"

"That rabbit spirit from earlier."

"...Uh, do rabbits have identities too?"

"These days, everyone has a government job, right?" Bai Jiahei shrugged and sighed with a rather shrewd expression. "The guy he was dealing with just now was an elite, so he had to at least maintain a respectable image. If an undocumented immigrant gets caught by the police, he'll be deported."

"...Where did you learn all this?"

"A beginner's tutorial, huh?" Bai Jiahei sighed. "I ran around most of the beginner village, doing errands for a dozen or so NPCs, before I could barely catch up on all the settings and knowledge."

Xiao Bai scratched the back of his head.

The Will of the Deep Sea seems to be taking this a little too seriously...

Just then, a rustling sound caught Xiaobai's attention again.

Bai Jiahei was squatting in front of the pile of treasures dropped by the rabbit spirit, grabbing handfuls from the left and right, frantically pulling them into his arms.

"Oh! It's a blue-quality longsword!"

"Lucky rabbit horn! It's a rare material!"

Wow! It's jewelry!

Bai Jiahei would occasionally shout with delight, then pick up one wondrous object after another and put it into his pocket.

While looting her spoils, Bai Jiahei suddenly remembered that Xiaobai was standing behind her. She quickly stood up from the ground, somewhat embarrassed, and moved back to Xiaobai's side, taking Xiaobai's hand and giving her a shy and obedient smile.

That expression was like an ordinary player seeing a whale (a player who spends a lot of money on in-game purchases) extending their leg—a subtle, eager look.

For some reason, Xiaobai felt that Baijiahei's smile at this moment seemed a little bit utilitarian.

"Thank you, boss~" Bai Jiahei said cutely to Xiaobai.

"It was nothing, anyway, you probably couldn't beat that little rabbit either." Xiaobai waved his hand. "Now your task is complete."

"Okay! It's done. I just need to turn in the quest when I get back!" Bai Jiahei nodded, then secretly glanced at the dropped items and let go of Xiaobai's hand. "Boss, wait for me a minute. I'll finish looting the corpse."

Bai Jiahei squatted back down into the pile of fallen items and quickly stuffed the materials into his pockets.

Xiao Bai stood there, watching the back of Bai Jiahei, who was excitedly humming a song while looting his spoils.

Although the game designer, Deep Sea Will, designed the game as if he had a grudge against the players, with its settings filled with endless malice towards them, even so, I still quite enjoyed playing it day and night.

This is the first time I've ever seen a player who obediently goes through the tedious and lengthy tutorial, listens carefully to the NPCs' long lines of dialogue, and diligently memorizes them.

From the moment she became conscious, she had lived alone in that dark, sunless water. Even if she occasionally managed to obtain some memories from ship girls who accidentally wandered in for amusement, her daily life must have been quite boring.

In comparison, playing the dung game designed for her by the Deep Sea Will is much more interesting than staying in that boring, desolate water.

After all, players might get addicted to the challenging levels, right? Even a complete novice can easily name a few Tirpitz games that are world-renowned for their high difficulty and maliciously designed maps, making tens of thousands of players willingly pay money to suffer.

Watching Bai Jiahei lift up one piece of equipment after another, smiling contentedly as he examined the attributes of the new gear, Xiao Bai felt a slight stirring within him.

It seems quite interesting.

Perhaps the will of the deep sea has found the right way to use the spiritual world.

As Xiaobai was thinking this, she suddenly felt her body lighten, and then she uncontrollably began to fade and blur. In the blink of an eye, Xiaobai was out of the spiritual world.

Bai Jiahei, who was squatting on the ground, was still humming a song. As she hummed, she scribbled on the materials, and her whole body began to sway from side to side.

"Oh my, there's even some rabbit meat that fell out. It smells delicious."

"It's a good civilization to be able to obtain materials without dissection."

"Hmm? It's actually an S-grade cooking ingredient! Rabbits are a treasure trove of resources! Boss! Shall we roast this and eat it later?"

"……boss?"

"……boss?"

Holding a large piece of meat, Bai Jiahei turned around and looked behind her. She stared blankly for a moment before realizing that there was no one behind her. Xiao Bai had disappeared at some point.

Bai Jiahei stood up, carrying the rabbit meat, and looked around. "The boss probably hasn't learned teleportation yet, has he gone back to the real world?"

"Never mind, the boss looks really busy anyway, I'll keep this meat for now." Bai Jiahei shrugged, stuffed a large piece of rabbit meat into his pocket, and then squatted back down in front of his spoils.