Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

"...This is because I have to follow your story, so - are you interfering..." Yu Man suddenly spoke, and it was unclear who he was talking to.

Serenade glanced at Yu Man, as if knowing what she was mumbling, and then continued to focus on the magnificence of the gems.

Her obsession made Yu Man realize something: "Aren't you just an ordinary little girl? Why do you like gems so much?"

“I never said I wasn’t…”

"Too."

They smiled at each other, dispelling the slight loneliness brought by these relics.

Serenade carefully put them all away, but took out the only remaining crystal of authenticity and placed it in the palm of his hand.

"Xiao Man, if I use it... I can even regain my former appearance?"

"It's not that simple. This is just a trigger. Maintaining that form requires magical power."

Yu Man has done this kind of thing before, so he knows everything.

Moreover, she was a consummate magician and knew the principles behind it more or less before using it.

"I see."

Yu Man added, "And without any equipment, the things we wore when we cleared the level, even if we took out one single item, would be enough to destroy all the players in the world right now... Those things can't be summoned."

"Ah."

"What's wrong?" Yu Man suddenly felt a ferocious sharpness emanating from this ordinary being. These swordsmen's temperaments were truly extraordinary, even sharpening their own souls and transforming their auras...

Serenade looked at Yu Man and slowly spoke——

"Then-it's time to talk about the clearance plan."

"You tell me."

Serenade held up three fingers. "Of the Three Secrets, I can't figure out how to solve the one with Time, but I have ideas for the others. In short, I plan to kill them all."

"...Huh?" Yu Man asked hurriedly, "The other one has a grudge against you. I've heard you mention it several times, but 'lie'..."

"Lies are not our friends." Serenade was extremely serious.

"Isn't she your girlfriend?" Yu Man tried to ask.

Serenade looked frustrated, but still shook his head: "It's complicated... very complicated."

"You have so many girlfriends too?"

"Also? No, no, no... That's not what I meant... When I say complicated, I don't mean emotionally disturbed... Wait, also? In short, she became the "Three Secrets" and used the divine power to perpetuate herself simply because of my failure. Therefore, I want to kill her divine power."

"...It sounds like...it's for her own good? I don't know the specific story though."

"But in order to erase her divine authority and eliminate the need for her to lie, I must first kill the other 'Three Secrets'... that liar, that damned thing, that monster..."

Without giving Yu Man a chance to ask questions, Xiao Ye Qu stared at her seriously and repeated -

"Our first step is to kill the 'Three Secrets'. If you feel that's inappropriate, I can go alone."

“…No, I just don’t quite understand why.”

"Xiao Man, do you know about the millennial ceremony of the Church of Time?"

Yu Man nodded—of course she knew.

The big-tailed blacksmith, with whom she had a close relationship, had previously received an order from the Vatican to craft a ritual vessel made from branches of the World Tree Ice, for use in the Millennium Ceremony. Furthermore, she, Old Fire, and even Serenade had received invitations to participate in that event.

But Yu Man was not quite sure what the sacrifice was about.

She did not choose the "three secretaries" route at first and had no interest in this area.

No—maybe it was lost in one of the abandoned manuscripts, otherwise it wouldn’t be so complicated with “time”…

"Three thousand years ago, those who believed in the World Tree of Time... held a founding ceremony, and from this, another of the Three Secrets was born."

"……Well."

"Two thousand years ago—then the word 'lie' was born."

so long?

What about a thousand years ago?

"I didn't know this a thousand years ago, but I know this year—as you can imagine, a game administrator of the "Three Secrets" level will be born."

Yu Man wasn't too surprised, she was just curious about the logic behind it... and was unusually serious about it.

The PVE players' desires were stirring, but their thoughts were carried out subconsciously.

She had fought the "Cathedral of Time" dungeon solo last week and had even established a small connection with the final hidden boss, "The Dead." But at the time, she was completely unaware of all this, and hadn't uncovered even the slightest clue... It was strange.

"Xiao Man, be prepared to be enemies of both lies and time."

"No, what the hell is this supposed to be? Fighting against 'lies' might work, but fighting against Bird Old Five?! Damn it, that's Bird Old Five..." Yu Man cursed subconsciously, but felt that it didn't really count as a curse... The old world was really complicated.

After thinking for a moment, Yu Man opened the guild list.

The number of people online...are all here.

“@Bird Old Five.”

Yu Man simply started typing. Rather than working behind closed doors with Senior Cat and getting involved in some inexplicable incident, it would be better to ask one of the parties involved directly. Although this might be an act of treason, it was still an act of treason. It had already been done a long time ago.

However, Bird Laowu did not move.

Yu Man continued typing: "Niao Laowu, I have 400 million US dollars and nowhere to spend it, look..."

"..."

There is still no movement in the guild channel. Is it really online or just pretending to be online?

Yu Man pondered for a moment, and based on his understanding of her—and his entire life so far...

At times like this——this is how it should be.

"I'm planning to use $400 million to establish a special film award to support great art that is destined to be great, infinitely beautiful, yet also destined to be too highbrow for most to appreciate. Perhaps poets who practice for art, not for fame or fortune, would be interested?"

Not long after this message was sent out——

There's movement.

"Yu Man—as you know, there are only two kinds of people in this world. Ordinary people... and poets. Ordinary people are bound to be attracted to poets, while poets are willing to please ordinary people. I will give you a special thank you at the end of the film."

It's a private chat.

On the surface, a noble poet would certainly not openly accept temptation.

But if it’s not public…if the steps are suitable—it’s not impossible.

"Bird Old Five, I have a question."

"The movie thing is over, and I feel good." "Time" answered directly.

"Fuck, so fast? When can you show me? It's worthy of being called 'Time'... Wait, that's not what I'm asking, Bird Old Five. I want to talk to you about the 'Church of Time' and the Millennium Ceremony."

Time remained silent for about two minutes before answering.

"Yu Man, you mean... the job fairs that are held regularly to recruit administrators to do the hard labor and share everyone's work? What's wrong with that?"

"what."

Yu Man thought deeply for a long time, but still couldn't make up his mind.

Serenade plans to cut down those "three secrets"... but does he need to discuss these things with "Time"?

But Yu Man was wrong.

"Time" is a transcendent being - a "reader" climbing beyond the world, a person looking down from beyond the cycle.

So, for her - if there is something she is curious about, she can just flip through the page.

"I see. Cat Six is ​​still fuming... I wish you all the best. It has nothing to do with me anyway. And... if you want to become my enemy, I'll run away anyway—unless... you're like at the end of last week, but that's another matter."

The lament about "time" is over, but for this "reader", it is just an insignificant matter.

She had more important things to focus on: "Well, my lovely heroine - that... that film award thing you were talking about?"

……

ps

(Don't worry, it's Thursday.

Also, I deleted all the comments in the book review section that said I was a pigeon.

This week's recommendation is quite important, lest the Hedgehog Cat readers mistake me for a pigeon, so I'd like to say I'm very sorry. Well, not really, I'm sorry, because I feel like I haven't been a pigeon recently, and it's no longer true, so I don't feel any guilt.

And Hedgehog Cat's sensitive vocabulary is really amazing, I can learn new mysterious keyboard content every day.)

279 How many days will there be before night?

While Yu Man was chatting with "Time", Serenade was not idle.

After getting the owner's permission, the "fate changer" took her to visit the warehouse.

Because Yu Man was generous and magnanimous, and there were too many things piled up in the warehouse with no place to use them, and she was a newbie who had just stepped into the old world, so she came to pick and choose to see if there was anything useful.

But after just touching the tip of the iceberg, Serenade frowned.

"...How many dungeons have they completed? How many things have they done? Why is it like a small mountain?"

For players, there is a convenient and concise item list function.

But one page is not enough, two pages are not enough. Hundreds of pages of complicated classifications are accumulated here, which shows the richness of Yu Man’s inventory.

"During my playthrough, even the mid- to late-game guilds didn't have such an exaggerated inventory...it's a bit shocking."

The "fate changer" hardly dared to speak or respond to these people who had passed the test.

But as far as she knew, Xiaolu and the others did live in the copy.

Especially after finding Liu Tong Qi Hua as teammates and having a good healer.

In addition, 70 also worked very hard when he joined, just to quickly train that rich girl.

Most of the things that could be used were taken away on the spot.

So the remaining copies of the products were piled up here, thinking that they might be used in the future, so they just piled them up. The result was the meaningless continuous expansion of the warehouse until today...

"...There aren't many low-level items. As for the sword, the one I have now is enough for now... Armor and materials—"

"How about it, is there anything you like? Senior Cat."

Yu Man's greeting came from behind.

As luck would have it, Serenade picked up a strange object and held it in her hand: "What's going on with this spine? It feels like a human..."

"Oh, that's from the Necromancer. We killed a Necromancer back then, and this thing seems to be a special material... but it's too low-level, and we have no place to use it."

"I just felt the length was perfect for a cane."

Besides, it felt like I had picked up a beautiful, straight stick on the mountain, and holding it in my hand felt very proud. Although, it was indeed a complete human spine.

After much thought, Serenade put it back.

She always had to adapt to being a human being instead of figuring out how to continue using crutches.

"Get some consumables."

"Where's the equipment? We have a lot of unused tier 8 gear here. We even have a few tier 9 gear, but they often have to switch gears when they're doing dungeons, so I guess we can't give it to you."

After listening to Yu Man’s introduction, Serenade shook his head.

I was just secretly happy in my heart, and I also experienced the feeling of being led and supported by someone...

It’s okay, Xiaoman—it will be my turn to lead you from now on…

Keeping these words firmly in mind, Serenade decided to accept his companion's kindness: "Then I will take it without hesitation."

"That's fine. You'll be producing a lot of stuff in the future anyway, so just throw it in there when the time comes. We at Snake Restaurant are a shared property."

"...I see. Then I don't feel guilty anymore."

Serenade actually likes this feeling. If it were put in other games, this would be a typical small group of girls.

But fortunately, the leaders were Yu Man and the wealthy Xiaolu.

Otherwise, there would definitely be at least 100,000 rules within this kind of small group of girls, and they would be criticized for everything they did, which would gradually accumulate conflicts and lead to the formation of cliques and factions... As a class monitor since childhood, and after three years of intensive gaming life, Serenade was very familiar with this.