Lu Ning quietly returned to Zhiyuan's home. There was no one in the house, and she was used to this situation.
Since she had rested enough time when she returned, she was not sleepy now. She was going to the hospital before, but Du Xieyi told her that the soul damage organization would reimburse the treatment this time, but she had to wait until the documents were approved tomorrow, so She came back early.
There was nothing left in the pantry, only some noodles. Lu Ning decided not to eat these soupy and watery things, so she simply changed into a black jacket and walked out, heading straight to the night market street in the distribution center.
The third-level tourists have begun to learn to enjoy life. Lu Ning often visits Rosicrucian and has heard and seen many people. In fact, there will be tourists in every class who touch their own limits. There are quite a few tourists, but only a few can keep moving forward. After experiencing life and death and often losing their memories, many people will give up on the past when they reach the point where they can, and start living a second life in a distribution center.
In the third level, some people have the strength to enjoy life, so a night market like this appears.
Most of them are still set up in distribution centers, but there are also some small shops with stalls. There are always people who feel that the perfect food, handicrafts and other things made in the distribution center lack a little sparkle. Lu Ning walked to a barbecue stall where many people gathered. The stall owner was a strong man in an apron, and there were two twins next to him. One sister is responsible for packaging the items ordered by the customers and delivering them to the stall owners, while the other is responsible for loading the dishes and collecting the bills. Lu Ning glanced at the price list. The most expensive one was only 5 points per pack. Of course, it was very profitable because the raw materials in the distribution center were extremely cheap.
"Hello, would you like to order?" One of the twins asked Lu Ning with a sweet smile.
"Hmm..." Lu Ning pondered for a moment, ordered all but a few that she really didn't want to eat, then received a number plate and walked to the table.
The stall's business was booming, and now people even had to share tables. Lu Ning looked around and chose a woman who was playing with her mobile phone.
"Can you please sit here?" She walked over and asked.
"No one is around, sit down." The woman waved her hand. When Lu Ning sat down, she glanced at the number plate she placed on the table. It was 47, four digits ahead of her.
"Thanks."
Not long after we sat down, the other party's number was called. After leaving, he quickly came back with a full plate and two bottles of beer.
Probably seeing Lu Ning's somewhat surprised look, the woman took out two paper cups from the box in the middle of the table: "Drink something?"
"No, I don't drink, thank you." Lu Ning quickly shook her head, "You look like a regular visitor here."
"I can't say it. I just have to come here to eat and drink every time I come back or before setting off. The food at the distribution center is too high-end. You can't taste the taste of the roadside barbecue stall with a glass cup, right?"
The woman poured herself a glass of wine, then picked up a meat skewer: "First time?"
"This is my first time visiting a night market."
"Then your life must be very busy." The woman drank the wine in one sip and then let out a satisfied sigh.
Lu Ning looked around. The night market was indeed very lively. She didn't even know that there were so many people in the third-level distribution center. The relaxation and joy on people's faces were also very different from the atmosphere elsewhere.
"No matter how shitty life is, people will learn to enjoy themselves in hardship. What they are always holding back is either to rush forward or to kill themselves. The rest are us guys." The woman started to feel a little agitated as soon as she had a drink. He raised his face and pointed at the passers-by on the street with the finished steel drill, "It's actually pretty good, isn't it? If you run too fast, you won't even be able to see the scenery you pass... hiccup."
"Yes." Lu Ning agreed.
Soon it was her turn to take the number, and Lu Ning brought back a whole plate. The woman smiled when she saw it: "It's your first time here, you're pretty good at it. Click them all...hehe."
"What? What's wrong?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. Barbecue is all about eating whatever you like. Cheers..."
Lu Ning bought a drink and clinked the glasses with her. The woman continued to bite the meat skewers, picked up her phone and glanced at it: "What the hell..."
"problem occurs?"
"It's nothing. The bus back from my friend's scene has arrived, and the guy hasn't sent me a message yet." The woman threw her phone aside, "Just wait."
"Then just wait." Lu Ning also nodded.
The night gradually became darker, and the two occasionally chatted in a few words, but the woman named Liu Yunqing still didn't wait for the call.
"Lu Ning..."
The two exchanged names, and Liu Yunqing was already half drunk. Now he was holding his head with one hand, squinting his eyes and holding his mobile phone with the other hand.
"...Everyone is mortal, right?"
"yes."
"Then our second life will end sooner or later, right? Is there any difference between going back and not going back?"
"I don't know, I just feel like if I don't go back, I have no purpose."
"Goal? It's easy to handle. Become the leader of an organization, or become the strongest fifth level, or even overthrow this distribution center..."
"It's either unrealistic or uninteresting." Lu Ning said, "You are already at the third level, so you should have experienced the death of many people. This is just a temporary emotional release, right?"
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine. It's just that after the guy is gone, I'm the only one left among the people who came up together." Liu Yunqing used a steel drill to pull up a vegetable leaf that fell on the plate, "Yes. , I made some new friends, but I am the only one who still remembers the experience of licking the edge of a knife to survive while dying..."
"If you are too sentimental, you will not live long."
Lu Ning raised her head and found that one of the sisters came to clear the plates from the neighboring table.
"Is this a rule of thumb?" Liu Yunqing filled the wine glass, "Speaking of which, you also watched the number of people coming to have barbecue from four to one. This kind of thing should be very common, right?"
"There are also regular customers who have never been here again," she replied. "People die every day in the distribution center, and people are added every day. Who knows when it will be our turn? If you keep thinking about this, you won't have time to think about your true self. Things that are needed.”
"What do you need, Xiaomei?"
"Accompany Uncle Hai to open the barbecue to the fifth level." Xiaomei smiled slyly, "We don't have much ambition, so we can only try to live a less tiring life. As for the return scene, it is not an issue we have to consider. Upgrading to the fifth level Let’s talk about it later.”
"The income you earn from selling barbecue is enough for you to continue to advance." Liu Yunqing curled his lips.
"Strength is the most important thing. Facts have proved that only those who survive are truly strong. Regardless of luck, force or wisdom, only those who are alive deserve to eat barbecue." Xiaomei wiped the table clean, "You also have to enter the next one The scene is over, don’t let the death of others shake you.”
"learn……"
After Liu Yunqing said this, he lay on the table and began to fall asleep.
Lu Ning did not disturb her. After eating his own things, he got up and left. He continued to wander along the night market for a while and bought some decorations. Even if these things are upgraded, they can be transferred to the distribution center for free. Anyway, they are bought for fun. Yes, she doesn't care about the money either.
Liu Yunqing's experience is not surprising. She has seen many people who have lost everything. Like Xuan Zitong, she is slowly learning to be independent without Fan Hao; like Shu Xingruo, she is learning to step out of her own shadow after Su Zhilan's death.
But everyone is still running forward, even if they still don’t know the way forward, they have to run forward. Life gradually adds more burdens, and there is no way to stop.
She turned back and looked at the dimly lit night market. This place was just an antidote for those who kept running to try to forget their fatigue, temporarily.
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Two days later, when Lu Ning was holding a notebook to carefully sort out the impact of this injury on his memory, Ning Yeyi came back.
Every time Ning Yeyi returns, there will be subtle changes in her temperament. So far, the frequency of Ning Yeyi's scenes has been almost the same as Lu Ning's. This time, Lu Ning felt that Ning Yeyi had a little more special feeling. .
"Is there something on my face?"
Seeing Lu Ning's expression, Ning Yeyi couldn't help but raise her hand and touch her face, muttering softly.
"You're back? No, it just feels like you've changed a lot every time you've been to a scene."
"After all, I think you have changed a lot this time." Ning Yeyi breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair. "As expected, people have the most inaccurate perception of themselves."
"Have I changed?"
"How do I put it? A feeling of indifference, as if I have witnessed the birth or death of some huge existence, and as if I have mastered something similar to life and death." Ning Yeyi described it.
Lu Ning thought about it carefully and nodded.
"So have I changed anything?" Ning Yeyi asked again.
This is actually hard to say, especially since Lu Ning is not very good at such purely sensory descriptions.
"It feels like...you are clearer."
"Pfft, what kind of adjective is this, clear?"
"For example, you seem to be putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Most of it has been put together now, and the overall pattern can be basically seen... It's like this. It's hard for me to explain clearly!"
Ning Yeyi scratched his head: "I still don't understand these weird metaphors. By the way, Lu Ning, do you feel that you have reached your peak in this scene?"
"It's not even close. I encountered a bunch of monsters."
"Ah... forget it. Let me tell you the truth, Lu Ning, I'm a little tired of it." Ning Yeyi said in a low voice, "Although the third level is indeed very colorful, it doesn't give me the taste. The scene. The content is very fulfilling, and the difficulty of the tasks is enough to challenge me, but that’s not what I want.”
"Do you want to upgrade?"
"Yes, I want to prepare to upgrade. It is said that the fourth-level scenes will be tailor-made for tourists. Maybe you will encounter satisfactory scenes there. Lu Ning, honestly, do you want to upgrade?"
Lu Ning recalled it.
The completely abnormal Four Seasons Garden is full of all kinds of deliberate efforts. The lost magic book allowed her to feel the charm of magical civilization, and the Phantom Star Syndrome that just ended is full of the vastness of star fantasy.
But these three scenarios still have certain limitations, very obvious limitations.
The limited tip of the iceberg.
Even after reaching the third level, there is still no scene where one can freely explore the entire world. Movement in the Four Seasons Garden is completely restricted within the garden, and the magic book scenes cannot leave the Evar Gallery. Although the phantom galaxy of Phantom Star Syndrome is wider in comparison, under sub-light speed flight conditions, a galaxy still appears to be very small.
"Freedom."
"That's more or less what I mean." Ning Yeyi nodded, "Lu Ning, although single-line games and vast free exploration have their own advantages, personally I still like the latter."
"If you must try this, you can. Maybe the promotion test is something similar." Lu Ning nodded, "So you have made up your mind?"
"Yes, I will start preparations now. I expect to upgrade in about a month. What about you?"
"I'm with you." Lu Ning said decisively, "You helped me a lot when I was upgrading. Now it's my turn to help you."
"Then be prepared. There are no restrictions on upgrading to the third level, and it won't just be a survival scenario. Lu Ning, it may not be a good idea to go with familiar people, because we may even be in a confrontation scenario. Become an enemy.”
"It's not my style to give up because of this probability." Lu Ning smiled, "And confrontation in the distribution center is never the only solution. The worst is to give up midway. The best thing about leveling up is that you have the opportunity to quit."
"Thank you for allowing me to be willful." Ning Yeyi also laughed.
Lu Ning doesn't need to think too much about this matter. At most, he needs to report it to Rosicrucian.
"Ascending Order?"
Yan Rong was a little surprised when he was taking a break from daily training in the training room.
"Not now, maybe in a month."
"You're going too fast! Level 4 is not such an easy place to live. Even I don't have a bottom now." Yan Rong picked up a cup of sports drink and adjusted the difficulty of his training cabin on the panel, "Listen to Lu Ning, No matter what kind of powerful character you are, you need some time to grow, and most people's advice at level 4 is to jump to level 5 as soon as possible, so the growth here at level 3 is very important. You and I upgraded together. , you haven’t spent much time improving yourself!”
"I train every day..."
"I know you train hard, but the problem is that the time is too short! Your level of force is not worth mentioning, do you understand?"
"But in the scene, you usually need to obtain strength or weapons before starting the battle. The tourists' strength actually doesn't have much effect, right? At most, it's just the difference in familiarity and speed."
Yan Rong's eyes widened: "You really don't understand what the military tourists rely on to survive until now."
"Well……"
"Listen to Lu Ning, it is true that the strength of the tourists is not worth mentioning, but the scene itself rarely appears the type of scene called 'BOSS RUSH'. No matter how difficult the scene is, a time period will be reserved, just like the brave man To deal with the Demon King, you will not go directly to the Demon King City to fight the Demon King, but start from the Novice Village. The best part of the force tourists is to snowball at a high speed in this early stage, and the excellent ones can even make the combat effectiveness increase faster than the combat effectiveness of the scene."
"I know this. The force type can kill weak enemies in the early stage and obtain more intelligence, weapons and even strength. But I also know very well that I cannot train to that point. Blindly imitating others will not make me better. good."
