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“Do you have anything focused on farming and running a business?” Molly stopped in her tracks.
“Uh, please wait while I check.” A staff member from the game company opened the manual. “Not at the moment. Please stay tuned...”
“It does now.” A boy appeared from nowhere, smiling brightly as he stepped between them.
“Who are you?” Molly asked, baffled.
“He’s our game’s... Let me check again.” The staff member bent over his notes. “He’s... a player companion in the game, file 000, a Federation special forces soldier, the Alliance’s greatest warrior. Preliminary investigation shows he’s also...”
The staff member couldn’t finish. A gun was pressed to his chest.
The safety was off, the trigger barely pulled. The gun’s owner had his back to him and faced Molly, sunlight filling his handsome eyes.
“I’m your farming partner, Cezar.”
The boy snapped his fingers. “And now, the game begins.”
You can’t interrupt it, you can’t quit, and you can’t leave me behind, okay?
“Wait, I haven’t agreed to this...” Molly hurried to protest.
But a flash of white light swept by, and the two of them vanished into it.
“Preliminary investigation shows he’s also a #bug# NPC whose abnormal behavior causes player deaths,” the staff member murmured, finishing his sentence.
“So, all I have to do is dodge a hail of bullets, nuclear strikes, particle collisions, interstellar pursuit... and get the Energy Stone back to clear the game?” Molly stood at the player spawn point.
“That’s right. Pretty simple, huh?” The boy smiled and nodded.
Damn it! “What part of that is simple? And what does any of it have to do with farming?” Molly shook him.
“Are you going to quit? Or are you going to leave me behind?” The boy’s expression darkened, his tone dangerous.
“I guess I have no choice,” Molly sighed. “Good thing I have Star Navigation.”
[Star Navigation at your service. Host, please join me as we travel through the skies, burrow underground, cross mountains, and ford rivers...]
Ah, we’ve arrived!
Molly looked up in delight. A flag fluttered in the distance, bearing the words “Inside Cezar’s Heart.”
Molly: Help!
“Navigation, what’s going on?” Molly shook it.
[Host, our analysis confirms this is the best route for you to clear the game~]
“Now that you’re here, you’re not leaving.” The boy, who had stayed by her side the whole way, held Molly back as she tried to turn around.
Moral: There was no road to begin with. The more people who walk it, the more it becomes a road.
