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Chapter 731: Chapter 626 Xu Shuo: Sell If You Can

In the past, Xu Shuo’s spiritual power could completely crush those extraneous emotions.

But today, his frantic script-reading behavior had tired his spiritual sense, giving those long-dormant emotions an opportunity to become active.

Though the difference between a Second Level Script and a First Level Script wasn’t huge, there were still distinctions. For starters, Mutant Scripts began to appear more frequently, and staying in the subspace of mutant elements was particularly draining on spiritual power.

Xu Shuo had previously run through more than a dozen First Level Scripts without feeling as exhausted as he did today.

This person simply claimed not to be reckless, but in reality, he was still taking risks.

And when he also began to speak recklessly, he was actually preparing to take off.

Los stood by the bed, feeling the young man’s fluctuating emotions. When he noticed that Xu Shuo’s spiritual sense had awakened and was quite active, he put away the cactus that was absorbing excess emotions with an odd expression.

It seemed that his help was unnecessary; the man was already digesting those abnormal emotions on his own.

“Don’t tell him I’ve been here,” Los said to the black cat at the bedside.

“…”

The bride remained silent, just staring at him.

After looking at her for a moment, Los furrowed his brow, “Forget it.”

As his words fell, a golden-red light instantly entered the black cat’s forehead. Before the bride could react, the cat curled up, closed its eyes, and fell into a dormant state.

There was no point in having expectations of others; rather than betting they would stay silent under threat, it was better to ensure they had no chance to speak at all.

After doing all this, Los left as silently as he had arrived, as if he had never been there.

Heiyu District office building.

Los emerged from the toilet stall, still holding the small cactus. The emotions inside had all been absorbed, so the succulent appeared much more normal in color.

Then he returned to his workstation and casually placed the cactus beside the computer.

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At four-thirty in the afternoon.

Xu Shuo finally awoke.

After resting, he felt his mental state had greatly improved. His mind felt ethereal and he was refreshed!

Only, the nightmares he had were a bit much.

And they were so vivid it was as if he was playing in a dream space, except he was acutely aware that he was dreaming.

Xu Shuo reflected on the dreams, pensive.

The subjects of his dreams were all characters from the Script World, and they were all characters for whom he had obtained Character Cards.

Characters for whom he had not received Character Cards did not even get the chance to appear as bystanders in his dreams.

It was this particular feature that made Xu Shuo feel the dreams were unusual—after all, why would he dream so precisely of these characters for no reason?

And to be so lucid within the dream.

Actually, it wasn’t quite that lucid…

It was like a lucid dream always has a revelation process.

At first, Xu Shuo didn’t realize he was dreaming, and his thoughts were blurry. He only knew he was Doctor Chen Chu, walking in a hospital, even though he didn’t understand why he was there.

But dreams are always so inexplicably strange.

Until Luo Kun’s face suddenly appeared, startling Xu Shuo into regaining some consciousness.

Late,

r the perspective shifted to Zhang Shou. When he saw the girl’s face in the photo, Xu Shuo’s consciousness became clearer, and he began to realize that he might be dreaming.

Then he encountered Qiuzi, and then the Acting Village Chief.

In the company of the village chief, Xu Shuo’s consciousness began to clear up, like a revelation, informing him that this was a dream world.

Thus, fully awakened and without the Player’s Handbook, Xu Shuo relied on the chaotic nature of dreams, holding the “Hunt Moment” axe, and enthusiastically set about chasing the dancer who had once chased him!

He really did have a lot of fun playing in his dream.

The Capital Commandant even got chased by Doctor Kong all over again.

Perhaps Xu Shuo was lucid at the time, but maybe he wasn’t completely clear-headed.

Because if he really had his wits about him, he should have first thought about why he was dreaming of these things, rather than setting out to chase and kill that group of people one by one.

So, now the dream had ended.

As Xu Shuo’s thoughts returned to the real world, he began to ponder why he had those dreams.

—Could it be the Character Cards were used too much?

He indeed heard on the forum that some Character Cards might influence the player’s own thoughts to a certain extent while being used, but generally, this influence would fade once away from the Character Cards.

So after some thought, Xu Shuo felt it might be because he played too many Second Level Scripts today and used the Character Cards too many times, which could have affected him a bit.

At this moment, the bride who had been sleeping at the head of the bed also woke up.

Seeing Xu Shuo awake, the Black Cat got up, stretched, walked over, jumped onto his lap, and flicked its tail.

“Meow meow meow meow meow?”

“Much better,” Xu Shuo responded, petting the soft back of the Black Cat.

“Meow~” The bride seemed relieved.

She relaxed and laid down softly on the young man’s legs, comfortably closing her eyes, seemingly having no recollection of the previous encounter with Los.

Xu Shuo stroked the cat while still pondering over the Character Cards.

The bride and he had a Soul Contract, so when Xu Shuo was mentally exhausted, the bride would also sense it and stay by his side to rest.

Thinking this, Xu Shuo suddenly paused.

Could it be that the influence of those Character Cards today was because his spiritual power was extremely fatigued?

Because the fatigue from manual labor and the fatigue from staying awake for three days and nights are two different states.

When he battled using spiritual power in the Script World, it was like manual labor, but the spiritual power his body consumed continuously entering Subspace was akin to sleepless nights.

—These two different states, why does it seem like there’s a pitfall?

As he thought this, Xu Shuo opened the Player’s Handbook.

He initially wanted to consult Hong Rao, but then he remembered that she seemed very busy lately. So, he scrolled through his message list, trying to find a useful contact to exploit.

Eventually, between Luo Kai and Themis, Xu Shuo unhesitatingly chose Themis.

It had been a while since Themis said he was going back to his hometown for a rebuild; Xu Shuo wasn’t sure how well the guy was doing or if the “line of defense” of this world could still be saved.

But Themis appeared to seldom initiate contact with anyone.

So he was technically the first person Xu Shuo actively reached out to for communication.

Xu Shuo: [Have you finished dealing with your stuff? I have some questions to ask you.]

The message was sent, but there was no response for a while.

Thus, Xu Shuo edited his questions and left a direct message, so that the next time he got a reply, it would probably also bring the answer.

After a moment’s thought, Xu Shuo also detailed the “Abyss Demon” incident from the alley last time in a message, sold out Los alongside it, then his sister, and finally a redhead woman whose name was still unknown.

Having done all that, Xu Shuo stretched and got out of bed.

The issue of the Character Cards could be mulled over slowly; he wasn’t planning on entering any scripts for a while anyway.

But this body was already very hungry.

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