"Ruohe, just listen to mom and hand over the number... Now mom's former colleagues and leaders have come to tell me that mom is really having a hard time..."

In a room with boarded windows, a woman with long black hair lowered her head.

She sat alone in the room without any light, her bangs vaguely covering her eyes because she was not in the mood to trim them.

She lowered her head with a very gloomy expression. She was spinning an ice-white pistol in one hand, and the gun glowed with a faint cold light on her fingertips.

"What, I beg you, Mom also knows that you have teamed up with the first player, but he no longer teams up with you. With a number, the United Group and the Guwu Family have promised a large amount of points. As long as

If you tell me, we can live a good life at the end of the year..."

The screen of the mobile phone was on, becoming the only light source in the dark room.

Turning on the speakerphone, my mother's voice came through very clearly, echoing in the dim room.

"Crack."

She put down the pistol and stared at the lit screen, her eyes becoming a little cloudy.

"How, how...are you listening? Hello?" came the mother's anxious voice from over there.

Yu Ruohe stared at the screen, her tongue was stiff and her throat was sore.

"I am listening."

She said three short words, but they sounded like a sharp and short scream.

After forcing the words out of her throat, she felt a chill running down her spine, and her whole body was soaked in a sticky feeling.

"Ruohe, mom is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the facts at all. Mom has seen the world forum and knows about your situation with the number one player, but after all, she teamed up with Lu Shu, who is at the top of the list. Even if she saves

It's time for you to pay it off. Just tell him his number, exchange some points for our family, and then stay in peace and contentment until the game is over, okay?" Over there, the mother was still talking earnestly.

: "It's not a bad thing for someone to organize to find the number one player. It's just a number. Maybe he doesn't care at all?"

"Mom." Yu Ruohe said, "The only people who know his serial number are me and Lu Shu. If the serial number is leaked, the first person he will suspect is me."

"What." The mother was still persuading: "This God's Space is so big, and there are so many copies of the game. If you report the number, he won't be able to find you. Instead of watching you end up going to those dangerous places alone.

If you are taking a risk, you might as well tell the number right now... Why don't we have a good reunion as a family? You are the eldest, but you want to be associated with such a controversial person..."

"Mom, after the World Game starts, Zhai Xing is no longer the same Zhai Xing as before." Yu Ruohe said: "Everything has been disrupted and rearranged. Those organizations and alliances are actually meaningless. Personal

Our strength has far surpassed that of the group, and we can no longer look at the world from the previous point of view. If I offend Su Mingan, then even if the game is over, we will not be easy."

"..." There was a brief silence over there.

Then, Yu Ruohe heard a faint sound of footsteps, and then the phone seemed to be taken over by another person.

"What."

There was a somewhat stern voice from that side, it was her father.

"Listen to your mother and respond to the organization's call." Father said, his attitude still the same as before, trying to make her give in with an aggravated tone.

This made her want to laugh a little - this attitude has been controlling her for nearly twenty-five years. After the death of her SWAT boyfriend, he also ordered her to quickly find a safe civil servant boyfriend to get married in such a general commanding tone.

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In the past, she would be obedient, abandon her original idea of ​​investigating the case with her boyfriend, and find a white-collar job peacefully. She would squeeze into the subway every day, order takeout, and live a nine-nine-six life, with a stable and meager salary.

salary.

But now, Zhai Xing is no longer in the same world as before. The accounting and watchmaking skills she was proud of have no effect here. Instead, it is the gun skills she learned from her boyfriend on a whim that allowed her to survive.

Father... actually still has the concepts of the older generation. Could it be that the changes in the world still haven't made him understand?

Even if we really get through a year, all human beings reach the required points, and everyone survives, the rule of determining status by points means that everything in the past will be reshuffled. There will never be that kind of group that rules the world.

Situations happen, even if they have many people like Edward under their command.

In the face of absolute strength, betrayal will become easy. If the United Group supports Edward like that, sooner or later they will be stabbed in the back by people like Edward.

In her opinion, the United Group is just an organization where a group of players with a relatively long-term vision gather to squeeze points from the bottom players. It is not at all the United Group on Zhai Planet that aims to safeguard the interests of all mankind.

Not everyone can have the will and thoughts of a soldier. The number of villains, in the face of quantitative value, is far greater than that of great people.

"Father, I think you can understand." Yu Ruohe did not give in. She spoke to the phone with a sharp tone: "Su Mingan's value is far higher than those organizations."

"--nonsense!"

Her father's stern words suddenly burst through the screen, like thunder, making her body tremble.

"People are members of a collective, and no one can be separated from society." The father's tone was extremely cold: "A person like him is indeed very powerful, but he is just an arrogant child, an independent person. He only does things blindly.

Specialization and isolation will never go far. In one year, there are dozens of dungeon worlds. Once he fails once, his strength will be completely wiped out. How can it be as safe and stable as those trained by the group...

, it will be good for everyone if you are obedient and report the number."

Yu Ruohe's eyelids were drooped. She seemed to feel that a sad and thick barrier gradually separated her from her parents, and she couldn't figure it out.

In the past, this barrier was not obvious. At most, it was just a generation gap between two generations. But now, the gap has become wider and wider, and all ideological conflicts have been infinitely magnified.

She already had nothing to say.

"Ruohe, don't you know the latest news?" The mother's words also came, and she spoke earnestly: "The Iris of Yu State failed in the fifth world dungeon - this has just been the fifth dungeon...

Anyway, there is still a long time to come. It is completely irrational for you to put all your treasure on a child who has just grown up and expect him to win all the time. Mom knows that because of your contact with him in the first world, you trust him very much.

——But didn’t you see what was said on the forum? Everyone said that you wanted to support him, thinking that you were selfish and incompetent. But my mother knows that our daughter is not such a person at all..."

Yu Ruohe clenched her fists tightly and blinked her eyes, feeling that there were sporadic glimmers of water inside.

"Mom is speaking harshly, but it is of no benefit to us to have a relationship with this kind of person... He is indeed very powerful, but we are just ordinary people..." Mother sighed: "He is the number one player,

He's not that petty and won't blame you. Tell me your number and listen to mom, okay?"

Several sounds of inhaling and exhaling sounded, which seemed muffled through the screen. When Yu Ruohe heard it, he knew that his father had started smoking again.

She is the daughter of an older mother. Her parents are now nearly sixty, and her father has always been a smoker, which caused her lungs to get damaged. The couple ran to the hospital again and again, and the house was always filled with smoke.

At this time, my mother would always cry looking at the calendar. She said that they were so old. If they passed away early and did not see Yu Ruohe get married, she really didn't know what she would do if she was left alone in the world.

In order to take care of his daughter for a while, his father, a long-time smoker, finally gave up smoking and forced himself to exercise every day, which made his physical condition slightly better.

Then, the world game begins.

My parents, who were approaching their twilight years, suddenly became radiant and youthful returned.

My father regained his strong health and started smoking again.

My father always said that it would be great if those high-dimensional creatures had no bad intentions and could make him several decades younger.

My father said that it would be better if Old Wang, the host who played chess with him, and Old Mrs. Li, both of whom played chess with him, could be selected together and become young together.

The father also said that if his daughter could find someone he likes during this year, come out of the shadows, find a good family to marry, and give birth to little grandchildren for him to hold, then he would be able to rest in peace even if he died now.

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Yu Ruohe was also very happy. She specially bought a small foreign-style house with a garden for her two elders in the main god space. The family enjoyed a life that they had never had before on Zhai Star. They no longer had to live in a cramped square house.

They worry about food and money, but they can grow flowers and grass as much as they want, and live the life of a wealthy person that they could not envy before - for them, this is a happy experience that they have never had before.

She originally thought that she was right. If she sticks to Su Ming'an and hugs her thighs tightly, she will have a smooth journey and gain a lot of points. Even if she is disliked by him, she can still care about him because she is extremely lucky to have known him from the beginning.

people.

But now, everyone is telling her that she is wrong.

Even if there is no one around him anymore, she should not be the one who stays by his side, because of stability, because of safety... because of her parents.

She should betray his trust, then hide in the main god's space, and witness his failure in peace.

She should be seen by everyone - a No. 1 player who is separated from the group has no value.

She should give up the number,

She should delete this first friend and disappear from his life.

She should step forward, hold out her hands,

——Then push this person into a deeper abyss.

She listened to the sound of breathing on the other side of the screen, and then stared at the coffee on the table.

There was a whirlpool with violent fluctuations, as if there was a black hole that was dragging people down, exuding a sense of hysteria and despair.

She saw her own reflection in it.

As if she was trapped in this white porcelain cup, the swirling coffee surface rippled, pulling her in and drowning her.

"Ruohe, it's not that I'm overthinking it. In fact, we have to believe in the power of the joint group. Maybe the joint group is really to cooperate with the number one player? Don't think too much, just tell the number...

…”

"I see."

Yu Ruohe suddenly spoke up.

"...What, how?" came the mother's ecstatic voice: "You agreed?"

"...I know." Yu Ruohe repeated, her tone short and her words interspersed with her increasingly heavy breathing. She stared at the coffee cup and suddenly raised the corners of her mouth with a half-smile.

"I see."
To be continued...