Starry Sky Railway: Starting with a furious outburst at Aha

"You think you can beat me instantly? You think you can kill me instantly?" The flamboyantly dressed man arrogantly displayed the cards in his hand.

Four cards, just enough to make a bomb.

"If you can beat me with seventeen cards today, I'll... eat this table right now!" he said, pointing to the card table in front of him.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the player to his left threw out a bomb, followed by a giant plane, and all seventeen cards flew out in the blink of an eye.

"Hey, what?!" The man glanced at the deck of cards in surprise, then pointed to his fellow player's hand and said, "Don't you still have one card left?"

"Come on, Ah Huan, you have to accept the consequences of your bet." The card player casually tossed the card that had suddenly appeared in his hand back into the deck.

Clearly, the man named Ahuan had done similar things many times before.

"Sure enough, it's not fun once you get used to it." Ah Huan shrugged, tossed the card table into the air with one hand, and then his mouth suddenly grew dozens of times larger, swallowing it whole.

“I’m amazed every time I see it,” my card player exclaimed. “Honestly, I don’t know how you did it, but I think you would be perfect for joining a drifting circus, so you wouldn’t be in debt every day.”

"Burp!!" Ah Huan let out a loud burp and said disdainfully, "Those guys? Humph, I won't sacrifice myself to please others."

"As for the debt, hehe, I'll just go to the company headquarters and steal some credits when I have time."

As he spoke, Ah Huan walked out of the tavern.

"Brother Huan!" The tavern owner rushed over. "Including the table from earlier, you already owe us 30 million credits. When are you going to...?"

As the saying goes, owing someone a little money makes you a grandson, but owing too much makes you a grandpa. Clearly, Ah Huan is now the great-grandfather of the tavern, to the point that the owner has to smile and fawn over him.

“Well…” Ah Huan rubbed his chin and suggested, “How about we use some kind of item to pay for it? What do you want? Just name it, and I can get you even the original Kripper bitter tea seeds.”

He looked unusually serious when he said this.

"Are you... serious?" Some onlookers' faces twisted in disbelief. "Who would want that thing?"

“The company needs dogs, I’ve sold so many, how could I not know?” Ah Huan said. “Besides, I’ve already said that I am the first messenger under Huan Yu! If you doubt me, do you doubt Huan Yu’s blessing?”

"Don't dare."

After hesitating for a while, the tavern owner finally managed to squeeze out a few words: "How about... we use credits instead?"

"Sigh, no taste," Ah Huan waved his hand and opened the tavern door. "I'll give you the credits next time I come."

"Are you done playing? When will you come again?" the card player asked reluctantly.

“It’s hard to say.”

"Where are you going, Huan-ge?"

“Educating kids,” Ah Huan said, pulling out a cigarette, lighting it, taking a puff, and sighing, “I’ve noticed that kid is a bit too polite to people. It’s a bad habit that needs to be corrected.”

With that, the burning cigarette fell to the ground, and Ah Huan's figure disappeared.

......

Zhou Yuan remained silent for a long time before slowly saying, "You mean, you increased your power in reality by fighting monsters in the simulated universe?"

“Yes.” Xing nodded.

"Then why...why is my power decreasing?" Zhou Yuan carefully recalled the hundreds of years he had spent in the simulated universe.

Adhering to the mentality of "not seeking merit, but avoiding mistakes," I hardly ever cursed anyone. The few times I did, I cursed Aha's divine gold operation in my heart, wondering how it could deduct so much of my power?

Why?

Zhou Yuan suddenly remembered the bizarre things he had done with Ahagan over the past few centuries, and immediately felt relieved.

He indulged in eating, drinking, gambling, prostitution, and smoking; he cheated, swindled, and stole. Except for being stopped from prostitution by the club owner because he was too old, Ah Ha took Zhou Yuan to experience the other things several times.

These things don't seem to fit the public's definition of beauty.

Zhou Yuan had a very deep impression of that failure, because he and Aha were blasted out.

"What kind of club requires you to be ten thousand years old to be considered an adult? Are you running this for old men?" Aha's disguised body was only three thousand years old, which was nothing more than a little kid compared to the club's requirements.

He was getting impatient: "I insist on going in and taking a look."

He transformed into an old man with white hair, went in alone, and left Zhou Yuan outside the club for a whole year.

Later, He was stripped naked and thrown out.

He didn't tell Zhou Yuan anything about what happened inside, but mysteriously said, "You'll know when you come of age."

"Unfortunately, I didn't live to adulthood."

"Wait! Why would I think that??" Zhou Yuan shook his head in horror, trying to shake off this absurd memory.

"Could he have been assimilated by Him? What an idiot!"

Zhou Yuan had many ways to increase his power, so he decisively gave up the idea of ​​entering the simulated universe again.

Since I can't improve myself from this, I can only place my hopes on my teammates.

Zhou Yuan smiled at Xing: "Do you really enjoy killing monsters?"

"Of course, the more the better!" Xing clenched her fist.

“Great! That’s perfect!” Zhou Yuan turned to the Black Tower and suggested, “Could we release a DLC about a global locust plague in the simulated universe?”

“That’s exactly what I was thinking.” Black Tower looked up with a smug look. “The Twilight War is too far removed from the present, and there isn’t enough data available. My next research direction is the universe during the period of the Universal Locust Plague.”

"I will let you know once I have finished my research."

"Then... shall we go now?" Zhou Yuan asked.

“Wait a minute, Star Core brat, come here to register. You come too,” Black Tower said, pointing to the touchscreen next to him. “Next time you want to enter the office, just scan your face. You don’t need to ‘knock’ anymore. That thing is very expensive. To be honest, I think it’s a loss even if it costs 20 million.”

"Okay, okay." Zhou Yuan nodded repeatedly.

"It's alright, you can go now."

After the two finished all the formalities, the puppet in the Black Tower stopped moving, seemingly going offline to attend to other things.

Xing glanced around, then raised an eyebrow at Zhou Yuan:

"Any ideas?"

"What?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"What do you think about moving this black tower? She has many dolls on the space station, so she definitely won't notice this one."

"Isn't this stealing?"

“What do you mean by stealing? This was picked up, okay? Look, even Black Tower didn’t object.” Xing said, pinching the cheek of the Black Tower doll.

"Okay...it's a real doll." Her hands began to wander unconsciously over Black Tower's body, pinching his arm and tapping his head.

"I haven't logged off yet." Suddenly, the Black Tower, which was standing still, spoke, startling Xing.

"I'm testing you! Black Tower, you're not playing by the rules!" Xing scratched his head awkwardly, changing the subject, "Um... speaking of which, would you be interested in coming to the Starry Sky Train?"