Lux’s brain raced: “Where did this person pop out from?
Could it be a new creature added in a new version after I died?
No, this character model is way too detailed; it doesn’t look pixelated at all—”
“Stop standing there.
You’re down to one heart and you’re still not running?
Aren’t you afraid of dying?”
The girl spoke, her tone laced with excitement.
Her eyes shone as she watched the group of monsters, showing no intention of running; instead, she looked eager to jump into the fray.
Lux snapped back to reality and glanced down at her health bar—a single heart was flickering frantically at the edge of the screen.
Two points of health; one touch and she’d be done for.
“Wait, who—who are you?
How did you get here?” Lux stared blankly at the girl in front of her, feeling completely bewildered.
“Me?
I just walked through that portal in the Luofu, how else would I get in?” The girl said, swinging her sword to knock back a Wither Skeleton that had rushed up.
The stone sword felt light in her hands, and every block was perfectly timed.
“That’s not right?
Isn’t this my world?
I didn’t even open a LAN connection, did I?” Lux was completely confused.
In the distance, a Blaze began charging up a fireball, and a Ghast opened its mouth in the sky.
Gritting her teeth, Lux reached out, grabbed the girl by the arm, and turned to run out of the Nether fortress.
“Hey, hey, what are you pulling me for?
Let go, I want to see how the combat system in this game works.” The girl was forced to run along, trying to break free from Lux’s grip, but Lux held on tight.
“See what?
You’ve only got a crummy stone sword!
A Wither Skeleton would kill you in two hits!
Where there’s life, there’s hope—just run!” Lux shouted without looking back as she ran, her wooden sandals clicking “clack, clack, clack” against the Nether bricks.
“How could I possibly die?
Do you know who I am?” The girl struggled indignantly, only to find that Lux was surprisingly strong and she couldn’t easily break free.
“I don’t know you, so how would I know who you are?” Lux replied irritably.
“Hmph, just watch.”
With a look of disdain, a translucent virtual screen appeared out of thin air in front of the girl.
Her fingers tapped rapidly across it—it looked like she was typing code, or perhaps adjusting something.
Nothing happened.
“What the heck?
Why is it showing ‘Error Command: No Permission’?”
“Duh, this is my world.
How could you possibly use cheats?” Lux was already almost at the fortress entrance by now, the dark red walls of the Nether fortress receding further and further behind them.
“Then grant me permission!
I’ll carry you to victory.”
“If I knew how to enable cheats, would I need you to carry me?”
The two finally ran out of the Nether fortress area, putting a safe distance between themselves and the group of monsters.
Looking back, the fortress had shrunk into a small, dark purple outline, and the sounds of the Ghast had become distant and muffled.
Lux let go of the girl’s arm, braced her hands on her knees, and panted heavily.
Her tail drooped, her ears flattened against her scalp, and she looked like a completely exhausted fox.
She panted for a good while before pulling a few steaks from her inventory, taking a bite of one, and handing another to the girl.
“Want some?”
The girl took it, examined it from all angles, and took a bite.
“Hm?
Not bad.” She took another bite.
“This game has a food system too?”
“Yes,” Lux said between chews.
“When your hunger bar is full, you regenerate health slowly.” She pointed to her health bar, which had already begun to slowly recover.
The girl stared curiously at the health bar floating above Lux’s head, visible only to her, deep in thought.
“Looks pretty interesting.
An open-world pixel game?
It’s been a while since I played this genre.”
After saying that, like a child seeing something novel, she squatted down, harvested a block of Netherrack on the left, dug up a Crimson Fungus on the right, and examined them in her hands.
“The openness is quite high.”
Lux tugged on her sleeve and said irritably, “You still haven’t told me how you actually got here.
I clearly concealed it, so how did you find the portal?”
The girl paused, tossed the Crimson Fungus aside, and brushed the dust off her hands.
“Fine, I’ll tell you.”
She cleared her throat, crossed her arms, and began to speak.
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The spaceship’s engines emitted a low hum, and outside the window was an endless sea of stars.
Silver Wolf had her fair, delicate feet propped up on the console, her whole body sunken into the chair, clutching a game console as light and shadow flickered on the screen.
It was another crushing victory; the five opponents had been killed twelve times by her alone and had already started going AFK.
“Boring.”
Silver Wolf tossed the console aside and glanced at the communication interface—Kafka’s avatar was lit up, indicating an active call.
“Kafka, how are things on your end?” Silver Wolf said into the microphone.
Kafka’s voice came from the other end, unhurried and composed as always.
“Everything is going according to the script.
The Astral Express has arrived at the Luofu, but you still need to help them open the gates.”
“Got it, got it.” Silver Wolf waved her hand.
“I’ll open them for them right now.”
Silver Wolf put down the console and sat up straight.
A translucent keyboard appeared out of thin air in front of her, with blue glowing keys suspended in the air.
She placed her hands on it and began to type code.
The Xianzhou’s information defense system was even weaker than Silver Wolf had imagined; it was full of holes like a sieve.
Silver Wolf found a backdoor at random and infiltrated it with ease.
“Let me see… Heh, the Xianzhou’s information defense is just too trash.
I infiltrated it so quickly; it’s not even as good as the IPC’s.”
Silver Wolf complained while typing, her fingers dancing across the light-keys as lines of code flowed across the screen.
Then she saw something.
An area that had been modified.
It was very similar to her Aether Editing.
“Huh?” Silver Wolf stopped her fingers, tilting her head as she looked at that segment of data.
“Is there a colleague here?
Why is there a modified area here?
Let me see.”
“Babe, don’t just focus on playing; finish the real business first.” Kafka’s voice came through the call, tinged with a hint of helplessness.
“Fine, fine, I’m opening it for them.” Silver Wolf impatiently typed a few lines of code, opening the gates for the Astral Express to enter the Luofu.
“And, how many times do I have to say it, don’t call me ‘babe.’ It sounds too mushy.”
“Alright, babe.
I’m off to finish the script.
Goodbye.”