Fate Trading System – Chapter 277

Plan A

Divine Vestige 3

Player’s possessions and achievements still existed and could be used, but the player could no longer see them, and their own understanding regarding them would gradually blur.

That super bug, the Creator God, couldn’t mess up all the code either, otherwise this constructed world would be in grave danger.

Su Xin looked at the empty space before her; those things should all have been hidden.

Lord Fourteen, are you sure I can still use my previous things?

【Yes, please wait a moment, Host. This one¹ has already taken over the data management for your section. That bug won’t know. Any mobilization can be executed by this one, please do not worry.】

Okay.

This identity was quite good; at least she possessed quite a few things.

Lang Xuanxuan was a relatively gentle and resilient person, so when achieving milestones, she chose Saintess and Elf King. She failed many, many times, but her patience was very good, and in the end, she successfully conquered them.

Actually, the main reason was that these two xiaojiejie² characters looked rather pretty.

If Su Xin were to start from the novice village and try to defeat the Creator God, three centuries might not be enough.

“Hi, what would you like?”

The attendant stood before Su Xin. She was a blonde woman with slightly full lips, and her smile was dazzling.

“Some wine and food, thank you.”

“Right, I think you need them. You know, it’s so d#mn³ cold outside this place at night. You need to warm up. Just a moment.”

The woman squeezed into the crowd, and Su Xin’s gaze fell on the table in front of her.

The one just now was an NPC. Lang Xuanxuan had been to this place once before and had interacted with this NPC.

This NPC only had three lines.

“Hi, what can I get for you?”

Option A, Option B, Option C.

“This d#mn weather.”

“You won’t regret coming here~”

The current situation was very clear: the NPC had come alive.

Su Xin looked around; no one had NPC or player names above their heads.

This is really bad. Lord Fourteen, do you have a way?

【Of course, please wait a moment.】

Su Xin blinked, and the people before her became distinct. Some were NPCs, some were players. The players’ names weren’t blue but gray, which should represent the Lost Ones⁴.

Lord Fourteen, thank you so much!

【You’re welcome. Assisting you to the best of this one’s ability is what this one ought to do.】

The food arrived quickly. The attendant, like a cheerful fish, skillfully dived back into the sea of people.

The food tasted alright. Due to her body’s sense of taste, Su Xin didn’t find it unsuitable or unpalatable.

Lang Xuanxuan was a Huaguo⁵ person, but her in-game appearance matched a Western fantasy setting. Her hair was a beautiful platinum blonde, and her pair of turquoise eyes, like jade holding a faint glow, were very captivating. Her facial features were made more defined, bearing only a twenty to thirty percent resemblance to her original appearance.

“Hey, how’s it taste?”

A man sat down opposite Su Xin. He looked strong and powerful, with a ruggedly handsome appearance.

When Su Xin lifted her veil, many people noticed her.

Su Xin’s gaze drifted over the man’s head, saw the black name indicating an NPC, and she lowered her eyes, uninterested, her expression somewhat cold and arrogant.

“I haven’t seen you here before. First time?”

The man remained enthusiastic.

“Mm.”

Su Xin took a bite of bread and responded.

“Are you also here looking for treasure?”

Su Xin neither nodded nor shook her head, her resistant posture quite obvious.

Someone else lifted the curtain and walked in, immediately capturing Su Xin’s attention.

The one who entered was a player, with a blue name above their head, not grayed out. This meant it was still a self-aware player!

“Hey, over here.”

Su Xin gestured towards that person. The man looked at her, somewhat confused, but since the place was almost full, he sat down there.

“If there’s nothing else, I think you can leave now.”

Su Xin tilted her chin at the NPC. The man stood up, his face dark, looking rather displeased.

“Hello.”

Su Xin saw the game ID above the man’s head: Sha Ying⁶.

“Hello.”

Sha Ying scratched his head, still looking like he hadn’t understood what was going on.

“Are you a player?”

Sha Ying looked at everyone, deflating when he realized he couldn’t see any game IDs.

“I am.”

“That’s great! Do you know what happened? I was originally running a dungeon, planning to get something, but suddenly the control panel vanished. I couldn’t contact the GM either. Without a map, I couldn’t get out. It was just… I finally managed to get out after wandering around for ages. Something that was just a click on the map, I motherf#cking spent ages walking out of! My backpack is gone too, I don’t know where all my stored stuff went, can’t see any IDs… It’s like I’ve seen a ghost!”

Sha Ying was full of complaints. Having finally seen someone and met a player, he had to vent about his experiences.

“Because the data has mutated. Listen to me…”

Su Xin had Lord Fourteen help her switch the chat channel from 【Nearby】 to 【Private】, ensuring only Sha Ying could hear her speak.

Su Xin explained the whole cause and effect of the matter, leaving Sha Ying dumbfounded.

“Huh? Holy sh#t!? Huh? Holy sh#t!?”

Sha Ying was a martial artist, over 1.8 meters tall and powerfully built. In reality, he was also a rough-and-ready guy⁷, addicted to games. He never expected to encounter something like this.

“Everything’s a mess now. If we want to get out, to return to the real world, we have to kill the Creator God.”

“Sis, I think this goal is a bit difficult.”

Gods, holy sh#t! Sha Ying had never even seen the hem of a Main God’s⁸ robe. He thought they were all NPCs and had nothing to do with him. He had no faith, didn’t bother trying to complete achievements, and just liked to f#ck around⁹.

“How are we supposed to fight? Look, I have nothing now. Can’t access the equipment in my backpack, don’t know who’s an NPC, who’s a player, who’s a Lost One…”

“I know.”

Su Xin didn’t plan to fight alone. She needed partners, many, many partners.

NPCs couldn’t kill players; only players could kill players.

If a player was killed by an NPC, they would respawn randomly without losing levels or experience. So, Su Xin didn’t have to worry about her partners being blasted to death by NPCs at crucial moments when recruiting them.

“You just can’t see your control panel, that’s all, but it’s still there. I haven’t figured out how to help you all access it yet, but there will always be a way. I don’t believe this broken data can defy the heavens.”

Anyway, by hugging Lord Fourteen’s thigh¹⁰, Su Xin felt very stable and not at all flustered¹¹.

“Oh, oh, oh.”

Sha Ying actually still hadn’t recovered from the huge change.

“The game’s main creators are also inside now. I think they’ll have a way.”

“But how do we find them?”

“That’s a problem.”

Su Xin wanted to find Lang Ning and Lang Ning’s companions, but she had only just arrived.

“Didn’t you say before that this place would gradually devour players’ consciousness? What if… what if I forget too?”

Sha Ying looked towards the crowd. He didn’t know who among them were players and who were NPCs because they all looked like living human beings.

Sha Ying looked at the tavern owner chatting happily with a customer. He was a middle-aged man with a big belly and a slightly bald head. He had been here before, and that NPC clearly only had a few fixed lines, but looking at the owner now, it was obvious this wasn’t something an NPC could display.

The game hadn’t merged with reality but was using another method to seal this place off into a separate reality.

“Good question. You’ll have to ask yourself that. According to basic preliminary investigation, people with stronger willpower are less likely to get lost. You’re doing pretty well.”

But as time went on, those true memories would slowly be worn away.

Su Xin’s first step in her plan: reach the Elf Forest.

Although there were seven Main Gods—Human God, Elf God, Dwarf God, Orc God, Merman God, God of Light, and Demon God—there were also differences in their hierarchy.

Above all the gods were the God of Light and the Demon God; these two had the most followers and the strongest power.

If she were to target the gods first, Su Xin would choose an easier one to deal with.

Gods were also NPCs. As long as one overthrew them, one could possess equivalent power. However, what was unusual was that once a god disappeared, they would not reappear, meaning only one person could obtain this power, not many.

A god’s disappearance didn’t mean their fall, as long as their divine spark¹² still existed.

This was just a game world that limited the NPCs’ intelligence—at least, their displayed intelligence.

Although Su Xin could still use the control panel, the map function was disabled. She couldn’t teleport to another place with a simple click. This was rather troublesome because the map showed that her current location was quite far from the Elf Forest, but she had to go; it was the only way for now.

Su Xin had one more advantage: she could still see the game system. If anyone succeeded in slaying a Main God, the system would definitely report it, and she would know.

“I’m leaving this place. Are you coming with me?”

“Of course.”

Sha Ying nodded.

There was a reason Su Xin had approached Sha Ying proactively. She could see what items the player had in his backpack—it was practically a cheat tool.

There was an item in Sha Ying’s backpack with very good attributes, something Su Xin would definitely need later.

Killing someone and looting their goods was something Su Xin was capable of, but she wasn’t planning to be that devoid of conscience yet. Saving one person if she could save one—how great it was to save the world! Becoming partners for mutual benefit was much better than directly eliminating them.

Su Xin’s conscience was still intact. Anyway, she was here to save everyone.

“Do you have the ability to protect yourself now?”

“I’m a martial artist, of course! Protecting you would be more than enough. I learned all my skills myself.”

There were two ways to release skills: one was to learn them yourself and operate them manually, and the other was to activate them by tapping on the control panel.

The first method was more troublesome; the second was considered the game’s proper mode, or so most people thought. But now that the panel was gone, those people naturally couldn’t release their skills.

Sha Ying was rather special. He had chosen to be a martial artist and liked to learn skills and fight on his own, so he wasn’t timid at all.

He felt so f#cking awesome¹³.

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