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The slender shoot quickly grew taller and thicker, and soon a large bud formed at its tip. The teardrop-shaped part, shimmering with pure white light, emitted a pearly glow from within. Then the entire bud opened with a soft sound, and particles of light danced in the air.

"So here's the question: what are the benefits of Jin Ke La?" Suolin looked at the scene before him, which resembled a fast-forwarded biology lesson, and suddenly remarked, "Seriously, is it inappropriate for a proper chemistry major like me to be here praising Jin Ke La..."

[Don't fight! Don't fight! What are the benefits of Golden Fertilizer? Whoever answers correctly gets it!]

[Does not leak, does not evaporate, absorbs nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium from 3,000 meters below]

……

“Take it down, it’s yours,” Sorin said with a smile, looking at the miraculous flower. Silica carefully reached out her hand, and when she touched the thread-like stem, it shattered like ice, leaving only the flower in her hand. She held her breath, and after lightly tapping the surface with her finger, a name window silently popped up.

The Flower of the Soul

【consumables】

[T, Sacrifice Soul Flower: Generates three points of mana of any color (crossed out) to resurrect a familiar that still possesses a Heart Item]

"With this, Pina can be resurrected, right?"

"Yes, you just need to sprinkle the dew stored in the flowers onto the heart item. However, I suggest you do this after returning to town, because there's a battle coming up soon."

After answering this question, Sorin drew his katana again and pointed it at the bushes on the side, his voice carrying a hint of mockery.

"Hey friends, who's coming to kill me? It's broad daylight, the world is bright and clear, how come there isn't a single bad guy here?"

"Looking for bad guys, huh?" You Na suddenly replied from behind Suo Lin. Her tone... how to describe it? If Teacher Yu ever turned into a woman, he'd probably speak like that. Thanks to Suo Lin's ability to communicate with the outside world, he and You Na sometimes entertained themselves by listening to Guo Degang's crosstalk performances in the evenings, so You Na had learned a few lines.

Of course, Solin wasn't suddenly about to start a comedy routine. He figured that after this sting operation, those yellow-named members of the Titan's Hand guild would finally make their move. However, he didn't have any enemy detection skills and couldn't see where those yellow-named members were hiding nearby, so he could only make a sound to bluff them first.

Yuna understood what Suolin meant. She calmly activated her target acquisition skill and then said, "There's a girl ahead. Could she be a bad person? I'll follow her."

"Stop, stop, stop, Mr. Shigemura, you're playing the straight man and I'm playing the comedian today, okay? Don't rush to steal the lines. Hey, there really is a girl up ahead. Could she be a bad person? I'll follow her."

"...Little Ivy, what are Mr. Solin and Miss Yuna talking about?" Silica couldn't help but ask in a low voice. But Ivy looked confused and shook her head, indicating that she didn't understand either.

The two of them talked back and forth for a while, and finally the person hiding in the shadows couldn't hold back any longer. With a whoosh, he popped out of the bushes, just like Garen.

"Well, you really weren't kidding me, Shigemura-sensei, you really are a girl." Solin took out his folding fan again, with the words "Dragon Fate Connection Point" written on it in eleven large characters. He looked at the fiery red-haired female gunner in front of him. "Hey, this girl looks familiar. Let's go up and say hello."

"Miss Rosalia... why are you here..."

Rosalia was also confused at this moment. She did follow Sorin and his group to the Hill of Memories to steal the items, but Sorin and Yu's lines were just... indescribable.

"You actually managed to see through my invisibility, your target acquisition skills are really high. Was I too careless?" She forcibly suppressed her urge to complain and said seriously. Only then did she turn her gaze to Silica and Ivyxin, and smiled with one corner of her mouth raised.

"Judging from your expression, you must have successfully obtained the [Soul Flower]. Congratulations, Silica," she said. "Then, hurry up and hand over that flower."

“…What…what are you saying…” Silica replied in a panic, then saw Sorin walk straight up to Rosalia and gently wave his folding fan twice.

“Goodness, he really is a bad guy. We didn’t wait for nothing. We can try to jump over now.” He still maintained Teacher Guo’s tone in the first half of his sentence, but suddenly became serious in the second half. “Am I right? Miss Rosalia, the guild leader of the Criminals Guild [Hand of Titans].

"What? But... Miss Rosalia is a green player..."

"Let me explain. The Criminals Guild is a mix of green and orange players. The green players are responsible for picking targets on the street and infiltrating the group, and then luring the group to the ambush location. Moreover, this player distribution has another function, which is that in a critical moment, they can clean up the entire guild's reputation in a single day."

After Sorin finished explaining, Silica looked at Rosalia with disbelief and astonishment in her eyes.

"So... your purpose in joining that team these past two weeks was..."

“You’re right. I was assessing that team’s strength, while also hoping they’d become easy prey. I was originally planning to pull off a big heist today, but the prey I’m most looking forward to… is still you, Miss Silica.” Rosalia said with great enthusiasm, then turned her gaze to Sorin. “But, swordsman, you know all this, yet you’re so nonchalant, spending time with that child. Are you an idiot? Or… were you seduced by her body?”

However, she didn't expect that the atmosphere would turn icy cold after she said those words. Sorin took two more steps forward and then drew her katana.

"Actually, I've been looking for you too, Miss Rosalia. I was hoping to see what else you had to say..."

"China values ​​respecting teachers and elders. You insulted my teacher's granddaughter... Can I take that as you courting death?"

155. Don't laugh yet... No laughing allowed! (Bonus Chapter 39/75)

Just as a fight seemed imminent, the bushes behind Rosalia suddenly trembled, and a bunch of Garen players emerged with a whoosh. Sorin glanced at them—wow, ten more. Nine of these guys were criminal players with orange names, with only one exception: a flamboyant leader. These were all flamboyantly dressed male players covered in silver jewelry and secondary equipment, their faces bearing malicious smiles as they cast disgusting, sticky glances at the three women behind Sorin.

Silica sensed something was wrong as soon as she saw the situation. Although the three of them, including Sorin, seemed to be very capable fighters, there were eleven of them in total, so she started to think about running away.

“Mr. Solin, there are too many of them. If we don’t escape…” she whispered, huddled under Solin’s Senate uniform jacket. But then someone suddenly appeared, pointing at Solin’s attire and the kaleidoscope on his back, and muttered to himself:

"That outfit, the strange box on his back... the odd mask on his face... [The Slaughterer]?"

His face turned pale, and he stumbled back several steps in a panic. Then he whispered to Rosalia, "Miss Rosalia, no, this is terrible... This guy... it's that killer! The demon who will kill without hesitation if the name isn't a certain color! We're going to die... we're going to die!"

Upon hearing the man's words, the other members' expressions froze and then suddenly filled with fear. Silica was equally astonished; she stared blankly at Sorin, her face also showing a hint of fear.

She vaguely felt that Solin should be a very powerful player, and she had heard him say before that he came down from the front line to complete a mission. However, this resounding title, the former Thousand Swordsman, the current Slaughterer... she had never thought in this direction.

Rosalia wanted to say a few more words to show off, but while she was arguing, Ivyxin had somehow circled around from mid-air behind them, hovering in mid-air holding a double-pointed spear, a formidable figure who could hold off ten thousand men.

“Well, you don’t really need to be so scared. After all, the guild leader you tricked on the 38th floor didn’t ask me to kill you to avenge him. He just wanted us to send you orange-named players to Black Iron Palace prison to pick up soap.” Solin’s tone softened a bit. At least there were two children here, and he didn’t want to kill anyone. “You know what they mean by ‘confess and you’ll be treated leniently, resist and you’ll be punished severely’? Confess and you’ll be rotten in jail, resist and you’ll be punished severely… well, you might as well go to heaven.”

Rosalia thought for a moment, then steeled herself and uttered the line that countless villains had said to Sorin.

"Surround them! I refuse to believe that one capable fighter can defeat ten of us!"

After saying that, she pointed the tip of her gun at Solin and then tried to take Ivyxin hostage behind her. However, Ivyxin knocked her to the ground in one move. As an AI, she didn't have many complicated concepts and wanted to finish Rosalia off right away.

"Ivy, stop!" Solin quickly stopped them, "Take them alive!"

His concerns were twofold. First, Yuna and Silica probably weren't used to seeing such deadly scenes. Second, he was currently live-streaming, and if he really wanted to deal with them all, he would have to shut down the live stream first.

Upon hearing Solin's shout, Ivyxin immediately stopped and conjured a rope that appeared to be made of energy, binding Rosalia. Seeing Ivyxin's fighting prowess, the remaining punks had no choice but to pin their hopes on defeating Solin, who stood in their way.

"I'm out, I'm back, hit me if you dare!" Solin changed his lines again, transforming into Fang Tangjing, bouncing around taunting him. The players seemed to be roared at by Axe King, swarming forward in an instant, chaotic flashes of sword light around Solin, but he didn't even blink.

Silica looked at Sorin with concern, but from her perspective, Sorin's health bar barely changed. To be precise, it would quickly recover to full after each reduction, as if he had never been harmed.

"When you're done playing, go pick up some soap at the Black Iron Palace. My armor is maxed out and fully enhanced. If you can bring me down to half health, I'll stream myself masturbating upside down." Solin joked like this, and as if those orange-named players heard his plea, they produced an expensive consumable from somewhere and threw it at Solin.

"This is my last item! Guild Master Rosalia!"

Solin realized that the spherical object in mid-air looked like a bomb from who-knows-where. It exploded instantly in front of Solin, leaving him covered in soot and his health dropping to 49%. Although his health recovered to 51% in the next second, some mischievous viewers managed to capture the moment.

We're about to see real live streams again, real handstands, and real airplanes!

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"Don't laugh yet... no laughing!" Sorin said angrily. "Corridor location! Target: Black Iron Palace!"

He'd panicked for a moment; if someone else created something like that, he'd probably be dead instantly. So, for the first time in such a non-critical moment, he activated his Mind Acceleration skill and used a Corridor Crystal to throw all the people on the ground into the Black Iron Palace. Now, the Black Iron Palace was a mix of red-named players and them—it was bound to be quite a spectacle.

The farce was over. Rosalia asked a question in vain, only to receive a cold reply from Sorin. She didn't think Sorin was joking at this moment; after all, the title of "Slaughterer" was... far too resounding.

Silence returned to the surroundings. The chirping of birds and the sound of flowing water filled the spring grassland. The hustle and bustle of a few minutes ago seemed to have never existed, and the surroundings returned to their usual peaceful and sunny state.

"Sorry, I ended up using you as bait to lure people in, but I hope you don't mind." Sorin turned to Silica and said somewhat apologetically, "Now it's fine, call Pina back."

"Are you... leaving, Mr. Solin?" Silica looked at Ivyxin, who had somehow put away her double-pointed spear and was lying on the ground, with a hint of reluctance, and then asked.

"Yes, we have our own lives too. But if you'd like, you can come visit Xiao Aiweixin anytime, okay?"

Chapter 156, The Crossroads (Part 1) (Bonus Chapter 40/75)

Looking at the construction scene before him, Suolin suddenly thought of two sentences. One was, "Anyone who seeks reality in a virtual world must have something wrong with their head," and the other was, "Rome wasn't built in a day, but the Red Army's forward positions could be built in a minute. This is a manifestation of the superiority of socialism over feudalism."

Edwin gave him three different material gathering tasks. After all three materials were collected, construction of Stormwind officially began. Currently, the Stormwind project is halfway complete, and only three minutes have passed since he delivered the last batch of building materials.

"Let me tell you, actually, among the three factions in RA3, this construction method is the weakest. The Russians are just relying on their strong units." Sorin was still explaining, because he estimated that the next part of the story would be coming soon. "So when I played PVP, I really liked using Japan. Their units are flexible and they expand quickly. The only drawback is that they don't have dogs. And Tengu can't beat MiGs in air combat."

So, just how many classic games has the streamer played?

It's quite normal for Teacher Mo, born in 97, to play many older games.

[Daily effort to become a Little Angel 1/1]

[Daily Rush for Girls 1/1]

[Daily Ink Washing Teacher 1/1]

"I don't even know how to describe you guys right now. You bunch of single dogs fantasizing about my wife and my daughter is one thing, but I treat you guys like brothers, and you fucking want to sleep with me?" Solin was speechless as he watched the three more comments appear. He thought for a moment and then focused his explanation on the quest itself, "So, we see that Stormwind is almost finished building, and next we'll probably enter the part we've all been waiting for, which is..."

He had just finished speaking when he saw the construction of Stormwind City suddenly stop, and then a noisy commotion arose in the streets.

"The 49th floor! The largest frontline fortress on the 49th floor, Stormwind Fortress, has collapsed! That bastard Lord Varian, who squandered his wealth on gambling and whoring, racked up a debt of 350 million, and ran off with his mistress! We had no choice but to use the remaining stone and timber as payment! Timber and stone that originally cost 100-200 kol per ton, are now only 30 kol! Only 30 kol! That bastard Lord Varian! You're not human! We've worked hard for you for half a year, and you haven't paid us! Give me back my hard-earned money! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

What the hell is this Jiangnan Leather Factory?

Why does this game use all sorts of ridiculous memes?

"What's with these lines that feel so déjà vu?" Thorin wondered, but then he noticed something interesting: Edwin, the project manager and leader of the Stonemasons' Brotherhood, wasn't in the procession. He decided to stay on the sidelines and watch the spectacle unfold. Soon, the city guards arrived, and a heated argument ensued.

"Who gave you permission to cause trouble in Stormwind?" the city guard leader stopped the procession and asked loudly.

"Go to hell! Without our work, your Stormwind wouldn't even exist!" a slightly weak but determined voice retorted from the group. "We don't want to cause trouble! Then pay us our wages!"

The city guards were unaware of the situation; they were merely following orders from the nobles to suppress the large procession taking place within the city. However, after hearing the stonemasons' explanation, they too were unsure of what to do.

"Um...brother, can I ask you where Edwin is right now?" Sorin quietly led Ivy and Yuna along a side path to the back of the group, and randomly asked an NPC stonemason, "And what's this...?"

"Elder Edwin is negotiating with the dog city lord. We're here to give him some justice. That's all." The stonemason turned around with a hint of anger, but when he saw it was the Thorin family of three, his expression softened considerably. "Mr. Thorin, I know you've already helped us a lot, but could you please help Mr. Edwin now? I'm afraid something might happen to him in the city lord's mansion. Please."

As soon as he finished speaking, a notification suddenly appeared in front of Thorin: [You have completed the mission objective: Wait for Edwin VanCleef and his team to complete the construction of Stormwind City.]

[Mission Objective Updated: Proceed to the City Lord's Mansion]

He wanted to ask something more, but the stonemason had already walked far away with the group, and the sound of their slogans still echoed in the air for a long time.

"To put it simply, Yuna, this story has two relatively common endings and one more hidden ending," Sorin said to Yuna on the way to the city lord's mansion. "Now that we have Ivyxin, the hidden ending that was originally impossible can actually be achieved."

“Of course I have to see the hidden ending. And since you said that, I bet you haven’t seen it either, Sorin.” Yuna replied without hesitation. “Speaking of which, Ivy is really amazing.”

“If we keep going up with Ivy, we can complete the game at a rate of one floor per day. That’s how good she is right now.” Solin’s words were full of pride and doting. “I just don’t want my precious eldest daughter to be too tired.”

Yuna looked at Ivy, who was still curled up asleep in Solin's arms, and shook her head helplessly. She had recently noticed that Solin's doting fatherhood was getting worse, especially after Silica appeared. Solin was even more afraid that his eldest daughter would be kidnapped at any time.

“But speaking of which… why would an AI need to sleep for so long?” Yuna thought carefully and suddenly realized something important. “Sorin, haven’t you ever wondered about this?”

"Regarding this... one possible explanation is that this is a data world, and as a real being living in this world, Ivyxin naturally has needs in all aspects, from eating to sleeping. Another is... I suspect they are using Ivyxin's core program to do something else, thus increasing her computational burden."

After thinking for a long time, Suolin came to these two possible conclusions and continued: