Destiny Mission of game ‘Star Ring’
Chapter 371 - 371 371 Return Trip

371: Chapter 371 Return Trip 371: Chapter 371 Return Trip Su Mo looked at Lin Zinuo’s serene smile and felt his gloomy mood lighten considerably; he waved his hand.

“Goodbye.”

And so, Su Mo followed the crowd into the train station.

Lin Zinuo stood outside, watching Su Mo’s receding figure, and murmured despondently to herself with her head down.

“He’s still as heartless as ever, doesn’t even bother to turn around and glance at me, but this is the real him…”

…..

A moment later, Su Mo boarded the high-speed train for his return journey, where the number of passengers was extraordinarily high.

Su Mo found his seat by the window and sat down, leaning his head against the window, looking out.

More and more people were getting on, and the carriage became more lively and noisy.

The train slowly started moving.

Su Mo closed his eyes to rest, as waiting in the tea restaurant all night had indeed worn him out.

But for some reason, he just couldn’t sleep.

He felt inexplicably sentimental, with fragments of past memories intermittently flashing through his mind.

Su Mo remembered the first time he was struck by her beauty in the elevator, the time he fell into the sea in the game.

Although he had passed out, he was not completely unconscious.

Subconsciously, he saw Qian Chengxue rushing towards him, rescuing him.

While he was being saved, she quietly watched him from not far away.

Then the memory shifted.

Su Mo felt as though he had returned to the Sea Breeze Island Base, piloting a Mecha, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

As he instinctively reached out to her, the memory shattered once more.

New memories surfaced.

Su Mo saw himself sitting with Qian Chengxue, looking up at the starry sky in Lin Hai, where the stars filled the expanse.

Then the memory broke again.

The next second, Su Mo saw himself and Qian Chengxue climbing through the base’s ducts, that rippling touch.

And in the central control room, when he was faced with the artificial intelligence, Engrossed, preparing to meet his death stoically.

Qian Chengxue rushing in with her Mecha at the end, and during the ultimate destruction, she collided with the metal barriers, unwilling to leave alone.

Su Mo’s heart ached slightly.

The Star Ring World was almost indistinguishable from the real world; it was just too realistic.

It made it hard to discern reality from illusion, but upon reflection, what was the difference between reality and fantasy?

In such a realistic world, the choices made were indeed the truest reflection of one’s heart.

It was a pity that in the end, she still didn’t come.

Maybe she was just too busy.

Or maybe, he was just deluding himself.

“Sigh~”

….

At that moment, a few young men and women sitting in the row in front of Su Mo complained irritably.

“Chen Tian is almost ruined because of you!”

“Exactly, are you trying to sell us out or what?”

….

“You can’t say that, Wu Lei.

We’ve grown up playing together since childhood, how could I ever sell you out?

How was I supposed to know Supervisor Zhang would be so ruthless?

My salary is gone, too; I’m a victim as well!”

Chen Tian also felt like crying without tears.

“Enough, stop talking about the salary.

We signed that damn contract and almost ended up selling ourselves to them.”

“Oh man~ It’s such bad luck, to hustle and bustle out there, only to not make any money and end up being threatened.”

…

“Heh heh, that’s not necessarily the case.”

Wu Lei suddenly smiled mysteriously and said.

“How come it’s not for sure?

We’d all starve to death once we get back.”

Chen Tian said with a sigh.

“Good thing I had the foresight.

Check out what this is.”

Wu Lei said as he picked up his phone, opened his personal Star Ring page, where three gold points were conspicuously displayed.

“Gold points!

How did you get these?”

Chen Tian and the others were stunned.

“Heh, I had noticed something was off with the Giant Guild long ago, so I kept a little trick up my sleeve.

During the defense battle, I deliberately took apart the motherboards of the mechas and heavy weapons, removed all the gold circuits, and melted them down into gold points.”

“Oh!

So it was you who messed things up.

We were wondering why our weapons wouldn’t work!

You really screwed us over.”

“What do you mean screwed you over?

Even if those weapons worked, we still would have died in the end.

And look, after we died, those bastards’ attitudes changed 180 degrees immediately.

Not only did they refuse to pay us, but they also wanted us to pay an outrageous penalty for breaching the contract.

Thankfully we died and got away early, otherwise we’d have been sold out and still working our asses off for them.”

“Makes sense!”

“Alright, forget about that.

The price of gold points is ridiculously high lately, and these will be just enough to convert into cash for our startup capital when we get back.”

“Nice one, Wu Lei, you’re the smart one.”

…..

The voices of the few men grew louder and louder, and Su Mo slowly opened his eyes, his expression somewhat indifferent as he looked at the several people sitting in front of him.

He was woken up by the noise, and moreover, at a time when he didn’t want to be awake.

But these guys seemed somewhat familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.

At that moment, Chen Tian and the others turned their heads and just happened to see Su Mo with his eyes open, looking very surprised.

“Brother, what a coincidence, you’re heading home too?”

Hearing Chen Tian say this, Su Mo immediately remembered that these were the same guys he had encountered on his way to Imperial City.

Their involvement with the unreliable Giant Guild and getting duped wasn’t surprising at all.

He replied indifferently, “Yeah.”

“Don’t tell me you got scammed like us and just managed to escape too.

Let me tell you, those guilds have no professional ethics at all, they just exploit us honest folks…”

Chen Tian kept on ranting.

Su Mo leaned against the window, having no interest in chatting, and hardly responded to Chen Tian.

Seeing that Su Mo wasn’t paying him any attention, Chen Tian awkwardly turned his head back.

Looking out the window, Su Mo estimated that it wouldn’t be long before they reached Demon City.

Having nothing better to do, Su Mo remember the discussion about gold points led by Chen Tian’s group.

So he took out his phone and opened his own account to see his gold and silver points, which were still quietly lying in his account, unaffected by his death.

Then Su Mo subconsciously opened the trading platform for a glance to check the price of gold points.

To his surprise, the trading price of gold points on the platform had soared to 5000 per point, and all the gold points listed at 5000 had been bought up.

Now on the entire trading platform, only gold points priced at 9999 and those with random prices were left.

Not only the gold points fluctuated but also the price of silver points had skyrocketed as well.

At that moment, silver points had also reached a historical high, soaring to 500 per point.

“The price is so high?”

Su Mo was secretly shocked and quickly browsed through the trading posts on the forum.

As a result, he saw tons of posts looking to buy gold and silver points.

“5000 ready to buy gold points instantly, 500 for silver points, willing to negotiate price for large quantities…”

“5500 for gold points…”

“6000, honest purchase of gold points…”

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