Chapter 113 Selena
"No, no, no."
Gouzi's head shook like a rattle-drum.
"What's wrong?"
"We have a mission to complete. Since it's a mission, there must be a time limit and a punishment. Knowing that guy's character, he treats human lives like dirt. If you don't complete the mission, you'll definitely die.
Where do you get so much time to play around here?
Besides, this is a fake universe, created artificially. Don't you know what the real moral plane is like now?
Even if you really had plenty of time, what's the point of spending hundreds or thousands of years here getting stronger? Once you get out, aren't you still a weakling?"
"Alright then. Huh? How long have we been talking? I feel like my legs are numb."
"About half a shichen, I guess." (approximately one hour)
"Didn't that will say it would issue the mission in ten minutes? Why hasn't it said anything for so long?"
Young Master Lei was puzzled. Could the system be malfunctioning?
"According to the plot setting, nothing happens until you finish chatting. You guys have been babbling on and on, how am I supposed to interrupt?"
The white-robed youth explained, seizing the opportunity.
"Oh, is that how it is? So if we keep chatting, you won't assign the mission?"
Young Master Lei's brain became "smart" again.
"If I don't assign the mission, how will you pass the test? If you don't pass the test, how will you get the inheritance? Do you think you're clever?"
When it came to intelligence, the white-robed youth admired everyone, except Wan Lei.
"Alright then, assign the mission."
"Okay, your mission is to rescue Selena within one day."
"Selena? Who's that? What does she look like? What's her status? What's her cultivation level? Is she a good person or a criminal...?
Ah!!!!"
This time, without waiting for them to finish chatting, as per the plot setting, Young Master Lei felt himself and Xiao Yu Gouzi beside him plummeting towards a planet at an extreme speed.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived on that planet.
This speed was something that Young Master Lei couldn't achieve even with all his strength, not even a ten-thousandth of it.
This was a desolate planet, surrounded by withered trees, decayed earth, and jagged rocks, filled with a sense of ruin.
Looking into the distance, there were over a dozen emaciated people exuding a gray aura, bending over and searching for something.
Further away, on the horizon, there seemed to be a city, with towering buildings, but it was difficult to see clearly.
"Sigh, I wonder what that immortal meant by arranging this mission. He didn't give us any information. But since it's a one-day mission, the distance shouldn't be too far. Maybe the person we're looking for is in that city."
Fang Xiaoyu frowned, surveying the surroundings.
"There are people over there, let's go ask them."
Young Master Lei pointed to the group of emaciated lower sinners.
"Okay."
The two flew towards them, but Fang Xiaoyu's speed was much slower than Wan Lei's. Clearly, in this world, a lower good person's combat power was far inferior to that of an upper sinner.
Wan Lei pulled Fang Xiaoyu along, and soon they flew to a spot not far from the lower sinners.
At this point, they could see clearly that these lower sinners were holding short-handled iron shovels, apparently digging for something.
When the lower sinners saw the two approaching, they immediately stopped working, threw their shovels aside, and knelt on the ground.
"Greetings, good person."
"Oh ho, they're kneeling to you. It seems a lower good person is more impressive than me, an upper sinner."
Wan Lei smiled and squeezed Fang Xiaoyu's little hand. Then, he pointed to a lower sinner in front of him.
"You, come here. What is this place? What are you doing here? Tell me everything."
"How dare you! When you see a good person, kneel down quickly!"
The lower sinner pointed to by Wan Lei raised his head and roared, then his face changed drastically.
"You... you're a middle sinner?!"
Wan Lei was slightly taken aback.
Clearly, this lower sinner had never seen an upper sinner before.
But it made sense. This was the territory of good people. Normally, when people's sins accumulated, turning them into middle sinners, they would be killed by the good people and used as nourishment for their merits. So upper sinners usually didn't appear here.
"Can't you understand what I'm saying? Do you want to force me to take action?"
He didn't bother explaining to the other party. Dealing with these kinds of people, it was better to be direct and brutal.
"I... I'll talk, I'll talk."
The lower sinner nodded repeatedly and prostrated on the ground.
"This is Hua Xin Star. It used to be the territory of a great good person. Hua Xin City, the capital, is behind us. We're here searching for sin ore, which is used by the good people to eliminate sin and increase their merit."
"Sin ore? What's that?"
"It's this, ah. Don't you know, my lord?"
The lower sinner tremblingly took out a dark green stone from the pocket of his tattered clothes.
The stone was small, only the size of a fingernail.
Wan Lei took the stone, and as his inner energy circulated, the sin energy within the stone immediately entered his body. The dark green stone then turned into a grayish-white, ordinary stone at a visible speed.
"It's like a spirit stone, then."
"My lord, this is a crystal naturally formed from the sin of heaven and earth..."
"Stop with the nonsense. Do you know someone named Selena?"
Upon hearing this, the dozen or so lower sinners looked at each other, all with puzzled expressions, and then shook their heads in unison.
Wan Lei frowned, waved his hand, and told them to disperse and continue their work.
Then, Wan Lei turned to speak to Fang Xiaoyu, not noticing that one of the lower sinners furthest away was running away quickly.
"What to do? These guys don't know anything. They're just the lowest of the low, almost like slaves. Hoping they know anything is harder than ascending to heaven."
"Yeah, if only there was a good person around. Good people probably know more."
"I have an idea."
Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, Young Master Lei's eyes lit up, and he raised his arm and shouted,
"Protagonist halo, grant me a good person!"
Fang Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, too lazy to pay attention to this guy who would act like a fool every time his brain short-circuited.
The white-robed youth's mouth twitched.
Damn it, can the protagonist halo be used like this? I've worn it for tens of thousands of years, how come I didn't know?
However, the next scene made the white-robed youth's eyes widen.
A good person exuding a pure aura, led by a lower sinner, walked over.
Honest to heavens and earth, neither Lei nor Yu, nor even the white-robed youth, had noticed that there was a good person nearby.
Who knew where this good person came from?
"Great good person, it's him, he might be a middle sinner! This is a great merit!"
The lower sinner bowed and scraped, with a flattering smile on his face.
The pure aura exuded by the good person was slightly denser than that of Fang Xiaoyu, but not by too much. He was probably a middle-ranked good person.