C43 – Relatively Rational

As Mu Sichen’s injuries were very serious, returning to the real world with all his injuries would cause him to be suspected of being involved in some kind of illegal activity, and he might even be invited to the police station for tea.

 

 

Mu Sichen didn’t want that to happen, so he simply stayed in Tongzhi Town to recuperate.

 

 

He didn’t know if it was because the environment here was different, or because there was a system that helped. Mu Sichen’s injuries recovered very quickly, just a few hours of rest and recuperation, and the skin wounds had already healed and scarred, and the pain of the bone wounds had also reduced a lot.

 

According to this speed, in less than three days, Mu Sichen would be cured.

 

The time in the real world wouldn’t change, so Chi Lian and Cheng Xubo very righteously stayed, they also took over the work of the town’s civilisation construction.

 

There were a lot of empty houses in the town, and they helped Mu Sichen find a room with a large area and good lighting, so that Mu Sichen could sunbathe every day and recuperate.

 

 

Chi Lian was said to be a HR of a large company in the real world, and was very good at managing people. She quickly found out some capable people, formulated some simple rules, and let them divide into different areas, counting the population of the town and the total amount of food.

 

 

Cheng Xubo, on the other hand, found computers and network cables from a small building that looked like an office building, and followed the wires to the power plant that was still in operation.

 

The two reported their findings to Mu Sichen every day.

 

“This town is so strange,” Chi Lian said, “The age of the people here doesn’t match normal, for example, the man who manages the food under me is surprisingly 54 years old, but he only looks like he’s in his thirties. There are no old people or children, everyone looks between 15-55.”

 

 

Cheng Xubo: “The power plant is 20 years old, but the facilities inside are perfect, it’s as if they were maintained just a few days ago.”

 

Chi Lian: “Actually, the town is quite well staffed, and after I asked them one by one, I found that there are talents in all aspects, so the town is quite complete. Assign them to their respective positions and the town will run automatically.”

 

Cheng Xubo: “I found the original map of the town in my computer, the last time it was drawn was 20 years ago, and I’ve printed it out. We can currently move around about 2/3 of the area, the remaining 1/3 is still a mist, no matter how we go we will end up back where we were.”

 

Chi Lian: “The people here are pretty competent and used to have a pretty good system. It’s just that I don’t know what happened, it seems like one day 20 years ago, the town was hit with a pause button and everyone lost their motivation to live, becoming only able to live by begging the gods.”

 

 

Cheng Xubo: “The water and power plants are in our domain, though the network base stations are in the other 1/3 of the area. Also the energy in this world is a bit strange, the power plant isn’t any of the familiar ones like heat, water, wind and light, but there’s a pipeline injected into the ground, I don’t know what it’s pumping up to generate power, but I saw that there’s still a lot of reserves, the power generation meter shows that the underground energy can still be used for more than a thousand years.”

 

Chi Lian: “I asked them and they don’t remember what happened then. It’s just that suddenly one day they seemed to fall asleep, and when they woke up there was a long period of time when they were all jumbled up and seemed to be crying all the time. From the time they became conscious they knew that there was a great being in the town called the ‘Pupil of the Sky’ protecting them, and have lived at the behest of the great being ever since.”

 

Cheng Xubo: “All the facilities are quite perfect, there are enough residences and quite a few technicians, it feels like it won’t take long for them to get their lives back on track.”

 

 

In short, the townspeople didn’t seem to need them to do anything. Ever since Mu Sichen built the Half Domain, it was as if they all of a sudden woke up and knew what to do with their lives.

 

 

Mu Sichen, who had already recovered from his injuries, sighed in relief, “Then it looks as if all we need to do is seize the ‘Pillar’ and defeat the evil god? The rest of them will get by on their own?”

 

Cheng Xubo sat on the indoor sofa and said, “Yeah, these past few days have been exhausting. I got a headache just thinking about helping them build from scratch, but I didn’t realise that they could do just fine on their own.”

 

Chi Lian was also exhausted and said, “That’s right, we’re not useful at all. And these people are so strange, obviously when they were in the sanatorium before, they were still thinking of exchanging offerings for food from you. But when you built the Half Domain, they became positive.”

 

 

Mu Sichen said, “I think this was originally a very rich town with a well-functioning society. But it was about 20 years ago, suddenly there was a cataclysm, and the old people and children probably didn’t survive that cataclysm, and the people became dysfunctional after that.”

 

“Now we chased away the big-eye and awakened their selves again, so they’re back to normal?”

 

“I don’t know if they’re considered back to normal, people in their fifties look like they’re in their thirties, the paise button was pressed on their time, can time run normally after this?” Cheng Xubo said.

 

“I’m afraid it can’t.” Mu Sichen looked towards the window, pointed outside and said, “Have you guys found any problems in the past few days?”

 

“What problems?” Chi Lian asked, “Isn’t it fine? The sun is shining brightly.”

 

Mu Sichen told them, “I’ve been bored these past few days recuperating from my injuries, so I’ve been observing my surroundings. I discovered a lot of very strange things.”

 

 

“The sun here rises every day at 7:00 sharp and sets at 18:00 sharp at night, the time is not a minute too soon.”

 

 

 

“The temperature here is constant every hour, it’s 20C above zero at 0pm, then it goes up  by 1C every hour to 32C at 12 noon, then it goes down 1C every hour, and it’s just back down to 20C at 0pm.”

 

“In addition, this is the photo I took every day, at 9am yesterday and 9am today, the shape and position of the clouds didn’t change in the slightest.”

 

Chi Lian was shocked, “Oh my god, so the seasons really doesn’t change here? Will it rain? Will the crops still grow? The crops have already grown this period, I arranged for them to harvest and feed the poultry with orange stalks, and in another month we’ll have to prepare for the next batch of ploughing.”

 

Cheng Xubo’s expression also changed drastically, if the climate wouldn’t change, then everything they had promised would be empty talk.

 

However, Mu Sichen said, “I’m afraid it can.”

 

He opened his phone’s weather forecast app and pointed it out to the two of them, “These days’ temperature, sunrise and sunset times, wind direction and wind force, and air humidity, are exactly the same as on my phone, tomorrow’s weather forecast.”

 

 

Mu Sichen in the past few days had been careful with the use of his mobile phon, unless it had to be used, he kept it at power saving mode and a shutdown state, at this time the power was still 10%, it could barely be used.

 

 

The two of them had seen the weather forecast, and compared it to what Mu Sichen had recorded on his notebook over the past few days, and it was indeed exactly the same as the forecast on the app.

 

 

It was as if the weather here was copied and pasted from Mu Sichen’s mobile phone.

 

“What’s going on here?” It was a hot day, but Chi Lian only felt chills all over her body and couldn’t help but rub her arms.

 

 

Mu Sichen put on the golden glasses left behind by the Big Eye and looked at the sky, then took off the glasses and handed it to the two of them, “Perhaps it would be clearer if you look at it yourselves.”

 

“Isn’t this something left behind by the Big Eye? Will I go crazy wearing them? Will I grow four or five pairs of eyes?” Cheng Xubo asked.

 

“It shouldn’t.” Mu Sichen said.

 

After he got the glasses, the system gave Mu Sichen the prop profile.

 

[Multi-functional Glasses: Hidden star prop, the legacy of the “Pupil of the Sky”, inherited some of the abilities of the “Pupil of the Sky”, there are some unexpected abilities that need to be explored by the player. Since the power of the “Pupil of the Sky” has been divided up by the  One Pupil Moon” and the “Relatively Rational”, this prop has no energy but has a level, so if you want to use it, it needs to consume the player’s own energy. It is a passive prop, and using it will not consume san value, but if you see something you shouldn’t, you may go crazy.]

 

The introduction of the prop by the system was so many that he didn’t know which one to mock first.

 

Mu Sichen looked at the words “one-pupil moon”, and forced himself to hold back so as not to burst out laughing.

 

Shen Jiyue lied to him, causing them a lot of trouble, making him almost unknowingly become a believer of the evil god, and he swallowed half of the power of the big-eye.

 

 

According to reason, the “one pupil moon” compared to the “no pupil moon” was increased power, but it seemed to be a bit of a mess.

 

 

The system was also very good at choosing the name, Shen Jiyue had so many names, yet the system threw away the “Lord of the Night” and other seemingly very dignified names, only chose the “one-pupil moon”, as if the system was also using the opportunity to mock Shen Jiyue.

 

As for Qin Zu …

 

Mu Sichen also didn’t know how he changed from “absolutely rational” to “relatively rational”.

 

In any case, the golden glasses wouldn’t damage their spiritual value, but the energy consumed was quite frightening.

 

 

Putting them on would immediately deduct 2000 energy value, and then 1000 every hour, and at Chi Lian’s level, she would lose half of her energy value just by wearing the glasses.

 

The good thing was that they were not at wa-r at the moment, and the energy value would be restored over time, if they used it up, it would be automatically replenished in six hours, so they could have the luxury of using the hidden star prop once.

 

After Chi Lian understood the situation, she put on his glasses with peace of mind and took a look towards the sky, and froze.

 

“What’s wrong what’s wrong? See anything?” Cheng Xubo shook left and right behind her.

 

“Take a look for yourself.” Chi Lian removed his glasses with a pale face.

 

Cheng Xubo took off his own highly myopic glasses and put on the gold glasses, which he thought would be blurry, but who knew that the gold glasses automatically corrected his myopia, and he could see even more clearly than if he had worn glasses with the right prescription.

 

Cheng Xubo looked up and saw that the blue sky, white clouds, and the sun all disappeared from the sky, leaving only a transparent cover that shrouded the whole half of the town in it. And outside the hood, was a chaotic grey world, he had no idea what was outside.

 

The sunlight and white clouds were all illusions, everything was an illusion of the transparent hood.

 

“What’s going on here?” Cheng Xubo took off his glasses and asked with a dazed expression.

 

Mu Sichen said, “I think that transparent cover should be the domain, a protective shield held up by ‘pillars’. And outside the domain, what exactly is there, who knows anymore. Maybe someone knows, but we can’t afford to know that truth.”

 

 

Chi Lian said with some confusion, “The grey outside, is it the realm of the other towns, or something else? Are these evil gods the root cause of the people’s disaster, or did He actually protect the town from whatever He ……”

 

“Don’t think!” Mu Sichen took out his crossaxe and gently tapped Chi Lian’s forehead with the pickaxe.

 

 

Only then did Chi Lian gradually return to normal, she covered her head and said, “Strange, what did I just say? How come I don’t seem to remember what I just thought of?”

 

“Don’t think if you don’t remember.” Mu Sichen said.

 

For insurance purposes, he knocked Cheng Xubo, who heard these words, on the head as well.

 

 

Things outside the realm, Mu Sichen felt dizzy just thinking about them, the same situation as that day when he guessed that there were levels above Heavenly Star.

 

It wasn’t something they could understand.

 

Chi Lian shook her head, instinctively forgetting about the things outside the domain and focusing on the transparent cover, “If the domain is just a transparent cover, then why are we still seeing the sun?”

 

Mu Sichen pointed at himself, “I think it might be because of me.”

 

When the Big Eye took over the town of Tongzhi, there were countless eyes hanging in the sky during “daytime”, and all the light came from this one eye. When it was “night”, the sky was filled with fog, covering the eyes.

 

 

And after Mu Sichen took control of the Tongzhi Town, it became a very normal sunny white cloud.

 

 

“So if the weather forecast shows rain the next day when you come next time, it will rain in the town?” Cheng Xubo asked.

 

“Perhaps, we can try.” Mu Sichen said, “Maybe when my power becomes stronger, I can even control the weather remotely.”

 

“That’s amazing and nuanced,” Chi Lian said, “But at least we don’t have to worry about farming.”

 

With food secured, the town would slowly get back on track.

 

The three of them helped restore order to the town over the past few days, and when Mu Sichen’s injuries were almost healed, he was ready to go offline.

 

Chi Lian and Cheng Xubo had arranged quite a few tasks for the townspeople, enough for them to work for three to seven days, to avoid any further chaos of order after going offline.

 

After making sufficient preparations, the three of them went offline together.

 

Mu Sichen appeared on a chair by the lake in the park when he went online.

 

He maintained the same posture he had when he entered the game, holding his mobile phone in his hand.

 

The mobile phone displayed a time of 15:27 minutes.

 

This didn’t match the time he entered the game.

 

 

The first time he entered the game was at 15:02 minutes, and the time he returned to the real world was also at 15:02. They had 72 hours of rest time, and in order to unify the time they entered the game, the three of them entered the game together at 14:57 minutes, which was when they were five minutes away from the time limit.

 

Logically, the time after they left the game should also be 14:57 minutes.

 

At the moment, it was delayed by half an hour.

 

Why was this? Was it because they stayed in the game for three days? Or did they get half a domain and the time shifted? And what had happened in the real world in this half hour?

 

Mu Sichen couldn’t figure it out, and could only put this question down for the time being, waiting to discuss it with the other two afterwards.

 

He put away his phone that had reached the bottom of its battery and instinctively rummaged through his backpack. The octopus doll was indeed gone, and the pile of snacks had been eaten up by them in the past few days.

 

Backpack empty ……

 

No, it seemed that it wasn’t so empty.

 

Mu Sichen rummaged through it and brought up a pair of golden glasses from inside the backpack.

 

Since heavenly star level props couldn’t be included in the props bar, Mu Sichen had been putting the glasses in his backpack, but he didn’t expect this thing to follow him.

 

 

Putting his glasses aside, Mu Sichen rummaged through his backpack again and couldn’t find any items related to the octopus doll.

 

Disappointed, he picked up his bag and prepared to go back to the dormitory.

 

At this time, Mu Sichen felt that the eyes of the passing pedestrians looking at him seemed a bit strange.

 

Although they didn’t point, they kind of walked around.

 

Mu Sichen followed their line of sight, looked down, and saw that an entire arm of his left arm was covered with a large flower tattoo.

 

 

The tentacle tattoo that the little octopus had left behind to heal his broken bones was still imprinted on his arm.

 

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Ooohhh, tattoos 🔥