In the inn room at the新手村 (Xin Shou Cun - Newbie Village).
The blonde girl slowly woke up.
"You're awake, how do you feel?"
Seeing the blonde girl wake up, Ye Ling immediately leaned over to the bedside and asked with concern.
"M-Mister, spare me! I don't have any treasures on me!"
When the blonde girl saw Ye Ling approach, she remembered the scene of Ye Ling easily killing the one-eyed giant. Fear immediately appeared on her face, and she cowered in the corner.
"Am I that scary?" Ye Ling looked at the blonde girl's terrified expression with surprise. "I saved your life, didn't I?"
However, the blonde girl's eyes only held fear as she looked at Ye Ling, her entire body trembling uncontrollably. She seemed unable to communicate friendly with Ye Ling.
"Kid, this game world is a bit strange..."
At this moment, Mie Shi Ling Huo, who had gone out to scout, flew back from outside the inn window and said to Ye Ling, "I just ventured into the woods outside the village plains and found many adventurers hiding there. They all dare not enter the village."
"Oh?"
Hearing Mie Shi Ling Huo's words, Ye Ling's interest was immediately piqued. "Isn't this village dangerous? And the monsters outside won't enter the village, so why are they afraid to come in?"
Mie Shi Ling Huo shook his head. "I don't know about that... Those guys' bodies are virtual. I don't know if they are real people or artificial intelligence, and I can't search their souls."
"It seems this game isn't as simple as I thought..." Ye Ling murmured, and then his gaze fell back on the frightened blonde girl.
After he saved the girl from the one-eyed giant, the other villagers avoided him. When he brought the blonde girl to the inn, the innkeeper even abandoned the inn and fled.
Now, the blonde girl was his only breakthrough.
To find the Primal Wisdom King, he at least needed to understand the most basic things about this world.
The blonde girl felt Ye Ling's gaze, trembled all over, her eyes darting around evasively, not daring to meet Ye Ling's eyes.
Ye Ling no longer pretended to be a good person. He spoke to the blonde girl in a rather gloomy voice, "If you don't want to die, answer whatever I ask, and don't hide anything, understand?"
"U-Understood," the blonde girl nodded in panic, her face pale.
"Very well, what is your name?"
"Davise."
"What are you afraid of me for?"
"M-Mister, please don't joke with this humble girl. For a supreme being like you, the monsters on the continent are no longer enough to meet your leveling needs. Don't you all level up by plundering our experience?"
Hearing Davise's words, Ye Ling's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he asked, "Why are those people hiding outside the village afraid to enter?"
"They are the abandoned ones, adventurers not blessed by the gods. Villages and towns are protected by gods. If they enter the village, they will be stripped of their power and lives by the gods."
"How does one become an abandoned one?"
"The god of each village issues limited-time missions to every adventurer periodically. If a mission is not completed, they will be abandoned by the god and expelled from the village."
Davise answered Ye Ling's questions without reservation, but her own doubts grew.
A powerful expert like Ye Ling, even if not a god, was at least a messenger serving the gods, not a mortal. How could he not know such basic things?
Ye Ling wouldn't tell Davise that he had invaded from the outside. He asked Davise some more basic questions and gained a systematic understanding of this virtual world.
On this vast continent, there were hundreds of countries, each with its own main god. Under each main god, there were many gods of high, middle, and low ranks.
The higher the god's rank, the larger the scale of the city they protected. The village where Ye Ling was currently located was only protected by a lower-ranking god.
Of course, gods had different strengths. Besides divine power, lower-ranking gods were only slightly stronger than ordinary adventurers. The guardian deity of this village was even weaker than the one-eyed giant that Ye Ling had reflected and killed.
This was also why the villagers were afraid of Ye Ling after seeing the strength he displayed.
For a high-level expert like Ye Ling, even if he massacred the entire village, the god protecting it would likely not dare to utter a word.
After listening to Davise's introduction to the world, Mie Shi Ling Huo said to Ye Ling, "Kid... this continent has hundreds of countries, each with a main god. In such a vast world, how can we find the Primal Wisdom King?"
Ye Ling was not too worried about this. He smiled and said, "It's fine. We'll capture the main god of this country first and ask him for information. The main god should know more than this little girl."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Davise's eyelids rolled back, and she fainted again.
Capturing a main god for questioning... this was the most terrifying thing she had ever heard in her life!
Mie Shi Ling Huo glanced at the fainted Davise again, sighed slightly, and asked Ye Ling, "This girl has fainted again, what should we do with her?"
"She's just an ordinary person. It won't do her any good to follow us. Let's leave her here."
Mie Shi Ling Huo chuckled, "I think this little girl is quite pitiful, and she's quite good-looking. Why don't you take her as a maid? You already have quite a few girls around you, you won't be lacking one more."
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Ye Ling impatiently put Mie Shi Ling Huo back into his wrist. Just as he was about to leave the room, Primal Underworld King flew in from outside the inn window in a hurry, "Ye Ling, look outside quickly, something seems to have happened!"
"Something happened?"
Seeing Primal Underworld King's nervous appearance, Ye Ling couldn't help but be startled. He walked to the window and looked out. He saw a crack in the sky above the village, and a group of robots they had seen outside flew out from it.
"System detected cheating behavior. Initiating virus cleaning."
The group of robots emitted cold voices, and beams of light shot from their eyes, sweeping across the village.
Wherever the strong light passed, any person or object illuminated was digitized and instantly evaporated!
"Holy crap... this is brutal?"
Ye Ling saw the strong light about to sweep towards the inn and realized that he might be in trouble if he was hit. He immediately took Davise and teleported outside the village.
The moment Ye Ling took Davise away, the entire village was digitized, and all people and objects disappeared into thin air.
The robots in the air did not detect Ye Ling and reconstructed the exact same village in place. All the villagers returned to their original positions.
However, the difference was that some of the people referred to as adventurers by the villagers did not reappear after being illuminated and disappearing.
"It seems that most of the villagers are just NPCs. Those disappeared adventurers are the real people... After those adventurers were eliminated by the robots, their real-world bodies should have died, right?"
Ye Ling murmured, and then he thought of the nutrient pods in the center of the universe. That place... people died all the time, and their bodies were discarded.
This game has no resurrection option.
"Seeing how the robots acted without hesitation... the 'players' in this game are consumables to the Primal Wisdom King. This virtual world... is indeed not that simple!"