My portable gaming girlfriend

Bahuanglong raised its claws and was about to slap Anorv down, only to hear several screams and echoes in the air, followed by a faint blue flame shooting from the sky to Bahuanglong's body. The sudden violent impact caught Ba Huanglong off guard, and his huge and hard head was smashed into pieces of rocks.

This blue attack is very familiar, from another thug bone dragon I have seen in Anorv. It has been dormant under the cliff, just waiting for this dark battle.

Sakura's smaller body was thrown beside Anorv. The woman looked here with a puzzled expression.

"Anomalous data flow detected, trying to obtain source information."

There seemed to be tens of millions of white stars passing by in her eyes, but when she looked closely, they were all numbers strings of 0 and 1.

"Failed, unable to obtain its source information, record this event, truncate..."

As soon as the voice fell to my eyes, it was pitch black, and then the tranquility of the mountains and rivers was restored.

"senior……?"

The light through the forest hit Ye Yin's hair, and he was looking at me worriedly.

"Sakura...Sakura was brought to the dungeon world of the Eight Wild Dragons by Anorv, we have to find her quickly, or else...!"

What the hell is going on over there? Once the battle between Anorv and Yahuanglong is over, what kind of danger will Sakura face? ?

"Senior...! Don't panic, what happened?"

"The woman who calls herself Anorv seems to be an AI that can absorb abnormal NPCs and summon them...!"

"Why is she targeting Sakura?"

"No, but maybe it's because she's targeting... malicious AI."

"Ah... but Sakura...?"

Ye Yin was taken aback, indeed he had never seen Sakura lose control of her emotions.

"Sakura's mood becomes unstable occasionally... Anorv happened to see that change. She included Sakura as a target. We tried our best to escape, but she didn't forget that Sakura was her target!"

"There is such an AI...? Senior, did you use that 'plug-in' to see these situations?"

"That's right, but now the 'plug-in' has no effect on Sakura, so I have no way of knowing what's going on with Sakura."

I calmed down a bit——

"Then we need to contact the game administrator, and let him send us over there quickly!"

Ye Yin didn't show any fear because of Sakura's 'maliciousness', but worried about Sakura's safety first.

I am a little moved. Although he doesn't look like a boy, it doesn't stop me from deciding to treat him as a 'brother'.

Ye Yin tried to contact the game administrator, while I contacted Shen Qing, but saw many messages she had already sent——

[Shen Qing: Since just now... are you...? 】

Why is the message so unclear? I played a few more, but it kept coming and going.

what happened?

[Me: Shen Qing? Can you listen to what you said, I just saw Sakura's situation with the plug-in given by the programmer...]

[Shen Qing: ... Sakura, are you okay? 】

There were still weird gaps, and it was clear I wasn't able to fully hear her responses and questions.

Is it a bug caused by downtime maintenance that is blocking our communication?

[Me: She was taken to the copy of the Eight Wild Dragons, but now the cheat has also been disabled by Anorv, I don’t know her situation. Fortunately, Bahuanglong is also an awakened AI and is Anorv's target at the same time. Their battle will continue for a while. 】

[Shen Qing: ...one bad news and two good news. ...Stop the server...'Administrator',...don't quit the game, it's very likely.... 】

Is there too much missing information? Only by maximizing my brain power can I roughly understand what Shen Qing said. It probably means that the game is closed, she can't contact the 'administrator', let's not quit the game or something bad will happen.

[Shen Qing: Good news... There are no other players here..., programmers.... 】

[Me: What's wrong with 'Programmer'? 】

[Shen Qing: ... Helper. 】

[Me: The programmer sent a helper? 】

[Shen Qing: Yes. 】

[Me: Why didn't he contact us. 】

[Shen Qing: ... Where are you? 】

Although I didn't hear it clearly, I guess the 'programmer' probably won't contact us for the time being.

I had the impression that the guy was an all-powerful hacker, and I never thought he would encounter difficulties.

【Me: Our location can’t be found on the map. In short, we fell into a valley. Let’s find a way out. 】

[Shen Qing: ... go to... assemble. 】

[Me: Wait, where are we going to gather? 】

[Shen Qing: ... Day Camp. 】

No response to whatever I say, communication has been severely disrupted.

I contacted the 'programmer' and there was no response, so I had to leave a message for him about the discovery of the 'plug-in'.

The 'big camp' that Shen Qing mentioned was the station chosen by the army after they landed on the island for the first time. It is equivalent to the main city in the game. It is a place where players gather, and there are merchants who provide equipment and supplies.

But I can't locate my location on the map, is this also caused by the suspension of the game?

I called up the map, which was supposed to show the topography of the surrounding area, but now it showed a large map of the entire island. As for the arrow that symbolizes our location, I couldn't find it anyway.

Obviously, the map has been switched to a mode covering the entire Penglai Island, but I am not in any place on the map.

Have we really fallen into a 'Lost Land'?

"Senior Shi! I... I tried to contact the game administrator... No one responded, but I... saw this notification..."

Sure enough, as Shen Qing said, as for the 'notice'—

Ye Yin pushed me a notification from the game operator that was published just now.

【Release time: 2065-08-2123:59:55】

[Release content: "Legend of Mountains and Seas" will be fully shut down for maintenance at 00:05 on August 22. The estimated maintenance time is 5 hours. The operator apologizes for the inconvenience caused by this move...]

Now the external time is 00:07, which means that the game has been maintained since 2 minutes ago in the real world?

All players will be forced to go offline during game maintenance, the strange thing is... why are we still online?

The real time suspension time is 5 hours, which is equivalent to 20 hours in the game. Shen Qing is right, there will be no players in the game during this time, and no one will hinder us.

After all, every second of every night to find Sakura, her danger will increase by one point.

"Ye Yin, first of all this operation is very dangerous, if you have any concerns, leave the game."

First of all, I have to make it clear with Ye Yin. Seriously speaking, I don't want Ye Yin to leave the game at this time. No one knows whether he can log back in before the server opens after leaving the game now, and Ye Yin is indispensable as an important combat force.

However, I can't let my friends take risks for me and Sakura.

"Senior Shi, are you sure?"

Ye Yin was thoughtful.

"That's right, it's not your responsibility to take the risk, and I won't blame you."

"But... Sakura is my friend and teammate, and I will save her with you."

"This is very dangerous!"

"Senior Shi, although it's a bit boastful to say this, but my strength can help you..."

"Thank you! I will repay you well in the future!"

I grabbed Ye Yin's shoulder, he was determined to do so, which means that I didn't regard him as a brother in vain!

"Senior Shi, let's get down to business first..."

"Yes... Let's go to the 'Daying' first, and Shen Qing will wait for us there."

"No problem, but... Our road may not be easy... Let's climb that rock together and have a look."

Ye Yin's words made me confused, what did he find? I followed him up a tall flat-topped rock and looked around.

"This is--?"

The valley was surrounded by high cliffs on all sides, and was cut and scattered by many irregular walls of light that I saw when I fell. As far as the eye can see, only the rocks in the north are slightly lower and the slope is slightly gentler, which seems to be our only hope of getting out of this predicament.

"Although there is hope to go all the way to the north, the roads to the north and east are blocked by light walls, and now we can only detour from the west."

"Senior Shi... that's all I can do."

We walked clockwise around a huge monument in front of us, looking for a way out of the valley, but we didn't expect to encounter a monster that we had never paid attention to in the past.

The most widespread dangerous animal on the island, the spinosaurus, is standing in front of us.

Still three spiny dragons.

This monster has a single horn on its head and a sharp tail. Its body is only two meters long but it moves very flexibly. It is the first monster that novices face in this game.

It is of course nothing in front of us who have faced advanced monsters like the 'Jackal Beast' - if we have weapons and equipment.

The broken equipment we took off has been stuffed into the backpack space, and it is just a waste until a repairman is found.

The weapon in my hand was lost when I fell, and now there is no way to contact the game administrator to retrieve it.

So in the face of the three low-level monsters 'thorn dragon', we can't fight against it for a while. But after a little thought, it seems that there is no way at all.

"what to do?"

Ye Yin asked me in a low voice.

"It may take a long time to continue to detour, let's fight them!"

"But we have no weapons."

"We make our own weapons."

Ye Yin immediately nodded in agreement very tacitly. I suddenly realized that many times he actually thought of the answer long ago, but for some reason he was unwilling to bring it up. What is it that makes him so lacking in self-confidence, perhaps the shadow left by his past?

"Hey, use the wood you picked up to polish it into a spear? But the attack power of this weapon is very low, and it is not sharp enough. Can you defeat them?"

"You forgot, the first low-level task you received when you first entered the game was to beat it with sticks."

"Eh? That's right... But at that time, it seemed that there was no need to deal with three 'thorn dragons', as long as one was defeated."

"There are two of us, it's just a three-headed dragon, no problem."

"I hope so……"

We two climbed trees like savages to get rough wood. First use a stone to cut a thick branch out of a gap, and then "bump" it down with brute force.

It took a lot of time to detour and make two 'melee weapons', and Shen Qing had already urged it countless times in the group chat. If I knew this was the case, the next time I stalked, I would ask the 'programmer' to make me a 'cheat' that can be used in battle. Even if it is not an attack type, but a 1-minute invincible cheat like in "Snow Eagle", it will do.

As for the little guy in front of us, looking around ignorantly, but he doesn't know what kind of fate will be in the way of us...

The main attack method of the "Spinosaurus" is to strike forward with the horns on the head, stab backward with the tip of the tail, and roll sideways to hit people.

Fortunately, it is a novice level monster. Even if the wooden stick I hold has almost no attack power, I will not be defeated.

And Ye Yin is worthy of being a player who is good at melee combat, and he has held back two 'thorn dragons' by himself.

The monster's weakness is its head, aiming at its head will double the damage. Of course, Ye Yin and I are now defenseless, and we will be seriously injured if we are hit by it twice, so we must be more careful.

When I finally killed the 'thorn dragon' in front of me with a sap, Ye Yin had already accidentally killed the one on his side.

We work together to defeat the remaining one, so that the monster blocking the way is considered to be taken care of by us.

We actually wasted ten minutes on such a monster. Afterwards, we walked a short distance without any danger, but...

"Senior Shi... Have you noticed that we have been here before?"

"Illusion, right? This is not a horror game, how could it be possible to meet a ghost hitting the wall?"

"But this place doesn't exist on the map...it's really weird."

That's right.

I looked at the surrounding scenery, indeed the shape of the rock and the location of the growth seemed familiar, could it be...

"The production team used the same terrain to save time...? You see, we are closer to the distant hillside than before."

Using the trees as a reference to compare the size of a certain cliff at the destination, we can still observe that we are closer to the destination.

"It seems to explain it this way... Hey, I'm really not calm enough, and I'm not as smart as Senior..."

Ye Yin began to deny himself again, I have to say something.

"Don't say that, you can beat more than 800 people in the 'Scramble Arena', absolutely don't think that you are weak."

"That's all luck..."

"But in the past few days, we have all seen your fighting ability, and the weapon made of the only material was also given to you, which shows that everyone recognizes you."

"actually……"

Ye Yin hesitated to speak.

"What do you want to say, just say it!"

I patted him heavily on the shoulder, which stimulated his emotions, and raised my voice to answer me——

"Okay...! That's... If I'm always being humbled by others because of women's clothing, and I'm given 'upper points', will everyone look down on me?"

The so-called 'upper score' refers to the improvement of the ranking in the 'Chaotic Arena'.

It's impossible for me to say that I don't have a problem with people who rely on their appearance to get care, although cute appearances can sometimes do whatever they want.

In the "virtual world", users can freely set their appearance, from face to body. There are two ways to set it up: fabricate a 'false appearance' from head to toe, and use your own 'real appearance' in reality. This is like the two types of people who use real avatars and virtual avatars in social networks in the early 21st century.

Users who use the real appearance first need to upload a "scanned photo" of the whole body. Of course, this is not the final step. Users can still beautify the uploaded appearance. The direction of beautification is mainly skin smoothing, whitening and acne removal.

For the sake of encouraging social interaction, the operator will add a medal of "real appearance" to users who have never undergone "weight loss and thin face" beautification.

What's interesting is that at least half of the users have the label of "true appearance". This is probably due to the advanced beautification function and everyone letting go of themselves.

Of course, Ye Yin also uploaded his 'real appearance' as a virtual world image, but he was still dressed in women's clothing in the virtual world. That's why a large group of people mistakenly thought he was a 'true appearance' medal after seeing him. Girls' reason...

"You don't think that your ranking depends entirely on others, do you?"

"Eh? Say, maybe... No, that's not the truth..."

"Not at all! In my opinion, your skills are worthy of your ranking!"

"How is it possible...do you really think so...?"

"Just now, I have seen the details of your battle - not only is your reaction quick, you turn around to attack the next moment you pass by the monster several times, but you can also accurately grasp the monster's attack distance, always stuck at the maximum Attack distance... you can hit two with a wooden stick, don't you think this kind of ability is not enough?"

"That's just because...coincidentally..."

"Don't underestimate yourself, excessive self-effacing is not a good thing."

"sorry--"

"Don't be so polite! Why say sorry casually..."

But Ye Yin didn't answer immediately, he was silent for a while, and then spoke suddenly.

"I just can't believe myself. After all, I have never been praised in this regard since I was a child."