Online Game: Unrivaled Gods

"Brother Bu! Hurry up, come with me! I have something to show you!" Ugly Girl grabbed Sun Rui's hand, her face full of excitement, completely unaware that Sun Rui was examining her little hand.

Sun Rui didn't reply, but pretended to be angry and said, "You little rascal, have you been practicing secretly again? Didn't I tell you that you're still young and don't need to work so hard? I said that last time."

"No! No, no, no! Only by practicing can we protect Father, Mother and Brother." After hearing Sun Rui's words, Ugly Girl raised her head like a rattle drum, waving her little hands, showing great energy.

Sun Rui gave a wry smile, holding the ugly girl in his arms. He thought about how five months ago, this girl was adopted by his parents as their goddaughter, and her personality gradually became more cheerful, although she was sometimes disobedient.

“…Protect me?” Sun Rui scratched his head and said, “Ugly girl, you see, although you are very powerful, you are still too young and it is not suitable for you. It is not good for your health to be like this now.”

“Brother Bu, that’s not right. Aren’t you the same age as me?” Ugly Girl was unhappy when Sun Rui said she was younger and retorted verbally.

"Um... well, look, Brother Bu's already grown up. Besides, I'm in the army, so I have to train." Sun Rui explained somewhat awkwardly after hearing Chou Ya's rebuttal. "Hehehe, Chou Ya, didn't you ask me to watch things? As for strength, you're already very good! You don't need to train so hard, so you should pay attention to balancing work and rest! Chou Ya, don't you think it would be better to spend more time with Mom and Dad, right? The situation is still quite stable now, so it's okay to be more relaxed, it's fine." Based on his experience of taking care of his younger sister when he was a child, Sun Rui knew he couldn't completely refute her at this point, otherwise the child would never stop. When he first discovered Chou Ya's talent, he thought about training her, but after the first bandit suppression, seeing the fragility of life made Sun Rui realize that he was a player, and it wouldn't matter if he died, but it would be very dangerous for Chou Ya and the others. So he didn't let Chou Ya go on missions anymore. After spending several months together, Sun Rui also recalled his younger sister's childhood through Chou Ya, and slowly he didn't want Chou Ya to suffer.

"Yes, yes, let's go to my room." Seeing that Sun Rui no longer objected to her training, Ugly Girl didn't say anything more, and happily let Sun Rui carry her to her room.

Sun Rui smiled and said nothing, then carried Ugly Girl into her room. He was really looking forward to Ugly Girl's gift.

"How long has it been since I received a gift?"

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It is now August of 173 AD, and the autumn air is crisp and cool.

At dawn, as night and day were merging, Tianjian Mountain, shrouded in thick fog, was still fast asleep. Apart from the occasional animal appearing in the forest, quickly disappearing into silence, nothing else was visible.

Nineteen figures appeared at the foot of Tianjian Mountain; they were Sun Rui and his companions.

"I'm back after ten months." Sun Rui looked at the map in his hand, while Huang Ai and the other eighteen people behind him also had solemn expressions.

Tianjian Mountain was the place where Sun Rui suppressed bandits ten months ago, and it was also the place where Huang Ai and eighteen others lost their parents. For them, it was a place they would remember for a lifetime.

"Let's go see if we can find the people we need in the refugee camp." Sun Rui is not the same person he was ten months ago. He is quite confident in wiping out the refugee camp this time. Before coming, he specifically went to the forum to check out some information about the refugee camp.

Refugee camps are jokingly called monster gathering places by players. Most refugees have little combat power and are humanoid experience babies, posing no danger. A refugee camp usually has one hundred to several hundred refugees who cannot gather together. The refugees' stats are similar to those of a level 1 player, making them one of the weakest types of monsters.

At first, Sun Rui was puzzled because no one seemed uncomfortable about killing refugees. Later, after seeing some videos recorded by other players, he realized that ordinary players killing refugees didn't produce any bloodstains; instead, there were bursts of white light, which was much less stimulating to the senses.

The refugee camp that Sun Rui was tasked with eliminating was located a bit far from the foot of the mountain, but not too far. After walking for a short time, you could see a few tattered tents set up behind the woods, which was what constituted a refugee camp.

Sun Rui and the other nineteen people strolled leisurely to the vicinity of the refugee camp. A musty smell wafted over them. The refugee camp appeared dark and damp under the shade of the trees. When they stepped on the ground, water would splash out and make a hissing sound.

Unlike bandits, refugees will attack you if they see you on the mountain, while refugees will cower and watch if you don't attack them first. This is also known as a passive monster among players. Players have also conducted experiments. If you show any intention to offer money, food, or attack, the entire refugee camp will swarm over and fight you to the death.

"Young Master, let's go inside and take a look. We can't see anything from the outside," Gao Cai, standing behind Sun Rui, said casually, looking at the surroundings.

"Hmm..." Sun Rui frowned and grunted, feeling that something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. "Let's go in and take a look." Sun Rui said, taking the lead into the refugee camp, thinking to himself, "It must be my imagination. There shouldn't be any danger in the refugee camp." Sun Rui checked his own attributes and those of the eighteen other people, estimating that there shouldn't be any problems.

As Sun Rui and his group of nineteen entered, refugees appeared in the scattered tents around them. The refugees looked pale and emaciated. Looking at the pale and emaciated refugees around him, Sun Rui breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems I was overthinking it." With that thought, Sun Rui relaxed.

Although the refugees around them came out of the tent, they were all timid and dared not get too close to Sun Rui and his group, obviously afraid of the weapons in their hands.

"Young Master, it seems these refugees are not very capable of fighting. Should we really choose from here?"

"That's right, young master, how long will it take us to train them to be fully formed after we've chosen them?"

Huang Ai, Gao Cai, and the others started talking amongst themselves behind Sun Rui, completely ignoring the refugees around them.

"Whoosh..." Just as Huang Ai, Gao Cai, and the others were discussing, a sharp arrow shot out from deep within the tent, heading straight for Huang Ai's face.

"Damn..." Sun Rui reacted instantly with his dynamic vision through his double pupils the moment the arrow flew towards him, and blocked it with his hand. Seeing that the arrow had been blocked, Huang Ai and the others, who had been standing there in a daze, immediately sprang into action, surrounding Sun Rui in the center to guard against the surrounding area.

With a "whoosh," arrows flew out from the surrounding tents, heading towards Huang Ai and the others.

"Tu!" Huang Ai and his eighteen men formed a small square formation, brandishing their spears. One arrow after another was fired, and any occasional oversights were dealt with by Sun Rui, who stood in the center.

The clanging of spears and arrows echoed across the empty refugee camp grounds. Sun Rui felt pain in his left palm, holding the black iron spear in one hand, his breathing somewhat disordered. Arrows rained down on him, giving him no time to pull them out.

"The arrows should be almost used up. A refugee camp shouldn't have many arrows." Although his breathing was a little erratic, Sun Rui wasn't too panicked.

As Sun Rui had predicted, the number of arrows flying from the tent gradually decreased until they disappeared completely.

A round of applause came from one of the tents. Sun Rui looked in the direction of the applause and saw a man walk out. He looked to be about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, dressed in white with a headscarf tied on his head. He looked like a scholar and was completely different from the other refugees. He was very fair-skinned.

"Impressive, impressive. You young men are the ones the court sent to offer amnesty or to kill us, right? You're quite skilled. You survived my ambush. No wonder you dared to come with only a few of you. You're truly skilled and daring."

"System notification: Player Lu Bu has evaded the ambush of the scholar, and the low-level confusion has been dispelled."

As the system notification sounded, Sun Rui felt his mind clear and finally realized that something was wrong. What he felt was strange was that the refugee camp was too quiet. A camp made up of refugees, yet no one was around.

"This is the power of scholars, truly an intellectual suppression." Sun Rui was no stranger to this situation. Scholars and military generals are two different systems. Military generals hone their skills through physical training, while scholars cultivate their minds through reading astronomy, geography, and military strategy. Without the assistance of their own strategists or scholars, military generals are easily mentally suppressed by scholars, leading to misjudgments. Of course, it's not that military generals are powerless against the mental suppression of scholars. A military general with rich experience in the army and high leadership stats may not be suppressed. In the past ten months of the game, Sun Rui had accompanied the army on missions, all planned by the strategists of Jiuyuan City to exert mental suppression on the enemy and reduce friendly losses.

"You are a learned scholar, how come you are here?" Sun Rui looked at the refugees who were continuously appearing around him, and did not make any rash moves, fearing that this scholar might have a hidden plan. As Sun Rui spoke, he performed a simple bandage on himself.

“It seems this young man is the leader.” The refugee scholar cupped his hands to Sun Rui, staring intently at him, and said slowly, “We all come from Shuofang County. Our village was plundered by the Xianbei people, and the government did nothing. We had no choice but to be recommended by them because I had studied for a few years.”