In the world of the game ZERO.

In the pitch-black forest, everything around is dull gray-black, except for one tall and strange tree that is completely white, which is very different.

Under the tree, a tall and thin young man dressed in a mage robe sat casually on the ground.

He lowered his gaze and stared at the direction of his fingers. His hands were slender and white, the fingertips were flying, and they were incredibly dexterous. In his hands, a black weed that was full of Hessians was woven.

With his movements, the weeds are rapidly taking shape.

After a while, the originally ordinary weeds turned into a delicate little black snake.

It curled its body and stuck its head out, and it looked alive, like a real living thing if you didn't study the details carefully.

The young man with drooping eyes raised his head. He smiled slightly towards the opposite side, with a feeling like a spring breeze.

"Assen, here." Xiao Zhi handed the little black snake he had just woven to the person sitting opposite.

A well-jointed hand took the snake that Xiao Zhi handed over. His movements were very light, as if he was caring for some precious gift.

The man called "Asen" has platinum silver hair and eyes of the same color. His facial features are deep and handsome, and his skin is somewhat inhumanly pale. At first glance, the man looked a little indifferent, but this indifference was broken up by the careful movements of his hands.

Asen turned his eyes to Xiao Zhi: "This is the five hundred and ninety-ninth snake you gave me."

Xiao Zhi was a little surprised: "Is there so much?"

Assen said seriously: "Yes, I have kept every one of them well."

Xiao Zhi smiled with frowning eyes: "Then I'll get you the six hundredth one tomorrow."

"Okay." Hearing this, Asen smiled. Although it was only a shallow smile, it made him look a little more lively.

Xiao Zhi glanced at the time and realized that it was already late.

"It's time for me to go to bed," he said.

Asen looked at him: "Why when you sleep, no matter what happens, you can't wake up at all?"

Of course it's because I'm offline, Xiao Zhi thought to himself.

In ZERO, after the player goes offline, the body will stay in place, and it will disappear back to the resurrection point if it is not online for more than three days.

But Xiao Zhi was not satisfied with this ordinary answer, he said with a serious face: "Tell you a secret, in fact, I am the chosen one. When I sleep, my soul is busy saving another world."

Asen: "..."

He thought about it for a few seconds and came to the conclusion—

been fooled.

Xiao Zhi smiled and waved to Asen: "Lu Xun once said - 'Good night'."

"Good night." Asen also imitated Xiao Zhi's movements and waved.

In the next second, Xiao Zhi closed his eyes and fell down, as if he had died on the spot.

But if you look closely, his breathing is still there and his face is still rosy, but Assen knows that during this period of time, no matter what happens, the other party will not wake up from his deep sleep.

Asen asked softly, "Who is Lu Xun..."

Xiao Zhi who was offline naturally wouldn't give him an answer.

The silver-haired youth just sat beside the sleeping man, waiting silently for him to open his eyes again.

The surroundings fell into silence, and the indifference that had been dispelled by the smile spread inch by inch on him.

After getting off the assembly line, Xiao Zhi took a shower and lay comfortably on his soft big bed, and soon fell asleep.

ZERO is a holographic game that was born out of nowhere. It was developed by Noah Pei, who is known as the greatest genius in human history. The whole world is completely calculated by the master brain without human manipulation.

The Dazemenia continent where the game is located is developing just like the real world. Races and landforms are formed autonomously, and each NPC is an independent artificial intelligence, regarded as a living world.

In this world, players are just one of the races on the continent. If you are not careful, you will easily suffer a big loss in the hands of NPCs, and you will be trapped so much that you don't even have big pants left.

Although it is a bit cumbersome to need helmets and sensors on the device, the two points of holography and free world have already attracted countless players, fascinated them and swarmed them frantically.

Of course Xiao Zhi is no exception. He is very enthusiastic about ZERO recently, and it is during his vacation, so he is online almost except when he is sleeping.

When it was time to get up, Xiao Zhi's biological clock automatically woke him up.

He rolled over on the bed, only to feel something hard and cold tap his ass.

Xiao Zhi dazedly stretched out his hand and grabbed the thing, and when he took a look in front of him, he was a little confused: "Stone?"

Why are there stones on his bed?

The drowsiness faded instantly, Xiao Zhi looked around and found himself in a dark forest, looking a little strange and a little familiar.

Judging by the surrounding plants, it looks like a Hessian here.

Except for Hessian, there is no such plant in reality, not to mention the white tree next to him when he went offline.

But it is a little different from the Hessian he is familiar with. The trees around him are too high and dense, making the environment more gloomy. It should be called Hessian PLUS.

Xiao Zhi looked at himself and found that he was also wearing the same mage robe that he was wearing before going offline. It was produced by the Xiyue Clan and was very fire-resistant. As a mage whose hobby is throwing fireballs, he loves this robe very much.

He ripped off a black weed on the ground.

The fingers felt a soft and moist touch, and even the slight thorn behind the blade of grass was clear. This feeling, compared to when operating with sensors, the Hessian now is more like a real world.

While thinking about it, Xiao Zhi knitted the weeds in his hand.

This is a small action when he is thinking, and he must be playing with something in his hand.

All clues point to one thing - he's in the game.

Moreover, Xiao Zhi felt that his thinking was clear now, which meant that he was not dreaming after playing too many games.

Xiao Zhi called up the game interface according to the original operating habits, but found that the entire interface was gray, and all functions except skills and backpacks could not be used, of course, including offline.

In addition, Xiao Zhi noticed that the style of the interface had changed, a style he was not familiar with.

Combining with the Hessian PLUS he had seen before, Xiao Zhi had a bold guess that the game he was currently in might not be the previous version.

Xiao Zhi thought of Asen who said goodbye to him before going offline.

Although Asen is an NPC, he is his friend, and the two often meet under the tree. But now, there is no one else around Xiao Zhi except himself.

He looked at the little snake he had just woven in his hand.

In the past, when used the sensor to operate, there was always a slight discomfort, but now there is no stagnation. This little snake is much more delicate than before.

It's a pity that Assen is not here, there is no way to give it to him.

Putting the little snake woven in his hand under the tree, Xiao Zhi decided to leave this place first and go to the neighborhood to inquire about the news.

He remembered that not far away was a town where adventurers gathered.

The border between Hesse and Chiba.

Uta Town is the closest town to Hesse. Hesse is rich in all kinds of rare materials, but it is also a place where beasts and undead are haunted. The danger is very high, and the mortality rate of adventurers is high.

There are wood spirits from Chiba Kingdom, as well as other races and players who come to take risks, and occasionally there are undead from Hessen.

Relying on his previous knowledge of Hessen, Xiao Zhi avoided all kinds of dangerous creatures all the way, and came to the town without any risk.

Wuta Town is as cluttered and full of vitality as before. Compared with before, the site here has become larger, and there are more people coming and going, but the overall feeling is still the same as before.

Xiao Zhi walked through the surrounding stalls, where players and NPCs were mixed, and they were all selling all kinds of Hessian expedition specialties.

Suddenly Xiao Zhi's breathing stopped.

He saw that Guluguo, originally worth 5 gold shells, was actually priced at 50 at a booth!

Before he had time to sigh that the black-hearted vendor wanted it, he immediately discovered that the Guluguo on the nearby stalls also had numbers like 49 and 51.

Not only that, but almost everything he is familiar with has at least 10 times the price, and even higher is not uncommon.

"Could it be...inflation?!" Xiao Zhi never imagined that even in the game, inflation cannot be avoided. Is it necessary for the world of ZERO to be so real!

I don't know how many years of inflation has accumulated, so that a guy who was still rich instantly faced the abyss of poverty.

At this moment, someone in the crowd ahead exclaimed.

Xiao Zhi followed the voice and found that it was a booth that specialized in appraising ores. An old wood spirit man in the appraiser's uniform had just finished appraising a piece of ore.

After the ore has been identified, it has become golden and radiant, exuding the dazzling light of "I am very expensive" and "Common people, don't come to defile me".

"This is Yao Gold Mine! Isn't it all out of print?!"

"It is said that the elders of the family have collected ores for many years, and suddenly they remembered to identify them."

"If this thing is auctioned, it will be in heaven!"

"I'm so sour..."

"Why doesn't my grandfather have a hoarding addiction..."

The person who commissioned the appraisal looked flushed, obviously very satisfied with the result of the appraisal.

He bowed to the wood spirit appraiser: "Mr. Huo Lun's appraisal technique is too surprising."

Mr. Huo Lun said indifferently: "No, the quality of the ores that require identification skills above the master's level is top-notch."

Hearing this, Xiao Zhi, who was on the edge of poverty, couldn't help but look at his backpack interface, and his eyes finally fell on an inconspicuous small grid.

It was one of the things that Asen had given him before as radish and cabbage.

The appearance of this stone is unremarkable, except for "???" in the item description, there is only one line "Appraisal Requirements: Appraisal Technique above the Grandmaster Level".

Because Asen often gave Xiao Zhi strange gifts, sometimes stones, sometimes leaves, and bones that he didn't know what they were, there were a lot of such things piled up in his backpack.

On the other hand, Xiao Zhi was a cub who was keen on fighting. He had no interest in appraisal techniques, and he was not short of money before. He had never appraised any of these things.

But it was different now. Xiao Zhi didn't know how long the current situation would last. To survive on this continent, money was essential.

Imagining the scene of all these things turning golden, Xiao Zhi felt that his little heart was beating a little faster, could it be that... the opportunity to get rich overnight is just around the corner?

Xiao Zhi turned his attention to the calm Mr. Huo Lun, thinking that maybe he could ask the other party to identify a few minerals in the future to solve his current economic crisis.

Suddenly, he felt a strange atmosphere.

The eyes of the people around him have been drifting towards him. Not one or two, but nearly half of the people nearby. They secretly looked at Xiao Zhi's face, and from time to time whispered to the people nearby, and then more and more stares.

Not right.

Xiao Zhi immediately restrained his thoughts about getting rich overnight, moved his footsteps slightly, and walked slowly in another direction.

Along with his movements, many of those who were watching him also moved quietly, and there were many who wanted to follow him.

Xiao Zhi didn't understand why these guys followed him, but they were obviously not sent by community organizations. With so many people, if he was really besieged, it would be difficult to escape.

As a chopping cub, how to get out of the siege is definitely a required course.

Xiao Zhi's footsteps strayed, and he instantly entered a small alley, and those who followed him followed without hesitation.

In the narrow and crooked alley, Xiao Zhi's figure was erratic, always pulling away when they almost caught up, only allowing them to catch a little flap of clothes. Just like teasing a cat, make the followers in the back more and more anxious.

Finally, there is a dead end ahead.

Everyone rushed over with confidence, but found that the front was empty, how could there be Xiao Zhi's shadow?

"What about people?"

"Did we go wrong?"

"Impossible, I saw his back running over."

"Look carefully."

"Not here..."

"I'm not here either..."

"Oh, it's gone, the chance to make a fortune is gone again..."

After the crowd dispersed, Xiao Zhi, who was hiding on the roof of another alley, breathed a sigh of relief.

He also vaguely heard the conversations of those people, what does "getting rich" mean? Could it be that a group of traffickers are going to pack him up and sell him? Is it dangerous to look handsome now?

Xiao Zhi retracted his gaze, rolled over and jumped off the roof, and just landed on the ground and met a face.

So handsome, so familiar...

It was a portrait posted on the wall. Judging from the fineness of the paper, it seemed that it had been hanging for quite some time.

The facial features of the young man in the portrait are exquisite and three-dimensional. There is a tear mole under the right eye. There seems to be a bit of a smile between his eyebrows and eyes. He looks gentle and amiable. guy.

Isn't this his own face!

But the question is, why are there three big characters "Wanted Order" on the top of his head?The bounty is still as high as 100 million gold shells?

Xiao Zhi, who likes to mention the wanted order: "What?"

Although I pk, eat melons, and talk nonsense, I am a good player.