Star Trace Gate

In a flash, it was already the fourth day since Ren Ye and Xu Qingzhao started learning, and there were only less than two days left before the final game of "Defying the Heavens and Changing Fate".

During this period, Old Man Yang took the two of them to visit almost all the mission locations and gambling places. They completed a lot of tasks, but still did not get any information about Old Liu.

Ren Ye was panicked at this situation, and even began to wonder if Lao Liu hadn't been able to hold on and had died...

But soon, this idea was overturned by him. In terms of resilience, psychological endurance, and self-regulation, Lao Liu is like a weed in the field; the abalone merchant in the small pink house is not afraid of rain and rain, nor is he afraid of all kinds of ravages. His main feature is his strength.

This is the strong mentality that Lao Liu has been given by life at the bottom of society, and he has been living like this for the past few decades.

Going to jail, fleeing from place to place, living under someone else's roof, exchanging your body and freedom for a few bucks...

Therefore, in Ren Ye's heart, Lao Liu is a person with strong survival ability. You can see this from his performance when he was the "political commissar" in Qingliang Prefecture.

Li Yan, Tang Feng, who has his own opinions? But at the critical moment, Lao Liu actually educated them, and succeeded...

It has to be said that life is the best teacher.

Secondly, Ren Ye had also been secretly inquiring these days. He had not heard from the player that Lao Liu and the little girl had appeared again, or that someone had been killed by law enforcers at the mission site.

When players are on business trips, their range of activities is extremely large. If someone gets into a fight with law enforcers or other people, everyone will at least be able to sense it and hear the news.

But there was no such news, which meant that... Old Liu and the little girl simply disappeared and were probably still alive.

Safe house, room 102.

Ren Ye sat on the ground, his back against the wall, his head tilted back, not saying a word.

Beside him, Old Man Yang muttered in a low voice: "Two thousand, four thousand, eight thousand, ten thousand, six hundred, twenty-two thousand...minus yesterday's two thousand accommodation fee...hehe."

Ren Ye listened to him muttering and was slightly stunned: "Master, what are you calculating?"

Old Man Yang looked around when he heard this. Seeing that everyone was still asleep and no one was paying attention to him, he whispered back, "Calculate the Star Sources earned during this period."

"Haha, you are also short of energy?" Ren Ye grinned: "Are you anxious to improve yourself?"

"No, no." Old Man Yang waved his hand: "I'm in a hurry to change the currency... the people's currency!"

"?!"

Ren was also slightly stunned: "What do you mean? You want to exchange the star source for real currency?"

"Yes." Old Man Yang grinned, "I have saved nearly 40,000 yuan, and I can exchange a lot of currency when I go out. Damn it, if I didn't have to pay 2,000 yuan for accommodation every day, I could exchange more."

When Ren Ye heard this, he felt incredible.

For any player, Star Source is the most important resource. It is not only a currency recognized by players, but also a key bargaining chip to improve their own abilities. It is used in stage tasks, collection of precious items, transactions with door spirits and door eyes, etc.

In addition, the star source can be absorbed by oneself at critical moments to replenish part of the star source power for combat endurance. Although this is very luxurious and most of the star source will be wasted during absorption, it can save lives at critical moments.

In this way, players will hardly use most of their star resources to exchange for real currency. At most, they will take some "change" to improve their quality of life in the real world, and the rest will be spent on themselves.

Take Li Yan for example. He practices both physical and magical skills. Not only does he have abnormal mental strength, but his body is also ridiculously strong. However, to follow this path, one would have to spend too many source energy, which most people simply cannot afford.

Therefore, Ren Ye was very surprised and looked at the old man in confusion: "No, uncle. You have exchanged all the star sources for coins, so how can you improve yourself?"

"Haha, I'm different from you guys." Old man Yang shook his head very soberly: "For me, Star Gate is like a lucky win. I won't treat it as a long-term career... How old am I? My talent is not strong, and it's very dangerous inside the Star Gate. Every time I come in, it's like going to a battlefield! I have a family and a career, I can't afford to fight. My heart can't take it either...!"

"Then you return it?"

"In the real world, I'm a skilled worker, working as a workshop director in a factory. The profits were good in the past, enough to support my family, but the economy has been bad in recent years, and the factory is also in a bad state." Old man Yang chuckled and said, "My eldest son has been working for four years and is getting married. After my youngest son graduated, he stayed away from home and didn't want to come back. As a parent, you have to make arrangements for all of this, right? Damn, I've been busy all my life, but in the end I found out... the little money I saved is not enough for anything. Dowry, buying a house, decorating... hosting a wedding banquet... everything requires money. Don't you think it's annoying?"

Ren was speechless and just nodded slowly.

"I came into the Star Gate just to get some source to exchange for coins." Old Man Yang bared his teeth and said, "Once I have enough money, I will not come in again. This is not suitable for me... Do you understand?"

"Understand."

Ren also turned his head to look at him and gave him a thumbs up: "All fathers are great."

"I am great in front of my children, but insignificant in front of life." Old man Yang waved his hand with a slightly complacent expression.

"The last level, where you have to defy fate and change your destiny, aren't you going to take the stage?" Ren Ye asked.

"No, no. The gambling mechanism in this star gate is meaningless to low-level players like us." Old Man Yang advised: "Look... many people in this room are doing two-day missions, then go to the gambling venue to play once, and finally come back with nothing! What's the point? Getting rich overnight is a minority, with a very small probability! Ordinary people should be down-to-earth."

"That's right." Ren nodded slowly, "Master, your playing style is very steady."

"Haha." Old man Yang smiled cheerfully and said nothing more.

"Hoo~!"

Ren also let out a long breath, leaned against the wall, closed his eyes and rested: "Uncle, I will run a trip by myself today."

"Row!"

Old man Yang didn't even ask why, he just replied straightforwardly.

These past few days, Ren Ye had dragged him around the map. He had already seen that the other party seemed to be looking for something, but he didn't ask too many questions or inquire about anything. He just did his own thing.

……

On the fourth day, night activities began.

Ren also met Xu Qingzhao in the small park.

"What are you going to do today?" Xu Qingzhao asked.

Ren also blinked his eyes: "No more running around! If Lao Liu is still alive, I must find him tonight."

"Ok!"

"I analyzed Lao Liu's mind. Look, if he has a relatively safe residence now, what would he be most anxious about?" Ren Ye frowned slightly, revealing a wise look: "There are two possibilities. The first is to lie down completely, wait until the mission is over, and then be teleported out. This is the safest, but... But from what I know about Lao Liu, he is not such a person. The second is to think about fighting again, accumulating as much as possible, and finally participating in changing the fate. But the current situation is that this place has been controlled by Wang Dong's group. If he shows up easily, he will be discovered. So if he wants to complete the mission, he can only choose an area with few people, save time, and complete one unexpectedly."

"That makes sense." Xu Qingzhao agreed.

"So, we can't run around anymore, it's easy to miss him." Ren Ye said, "I'm going to wait for him in a relatively remote place tonight. Also, I plan to time it and wait until almost dawn."

"Yes." Xu Qingzhao nodded: "Then go ahead and do it. We can separate. You give me a place to wait for him, and I will go and wait for him too."

"Aren't you going to do the mission anymore?" Ren Ye asked.

"I...I am not good at working." Xu Qingzhao was very reluctant to work: "Running around, I can't make much money, it's boring."

In the past few days, Xu Qingzhao has figured out that the rewards for the tasks here are not attractive to her at all, and there is a high probability that the items in the luck box will be garbage, and if things go wrong, all her work will be in vain.

For her level, most of the rewards in this star gate are useless, and the star source she gets is very little.

To put it bluntly, she doesn't want to carry bricks anymore. It's too tiring.

"...Then you go to the Southeast Road and wait for him." Ren Ye thought for a moment and asked, "Can you do that?"

"Of course you can." Xu Qingzhao blinked his round eyes, and a hint of intriguing expression appeared on his fat face: "But can I go... to the garden?"

"Where is the Temple Forest?" Ren Ye asked.

"Yes, that's right."

"Why do we have to go there?" Ren was puzzled.

"I have my own ideas." Xu Qingzhao replied indifferently.

"Okay." Ren nodded, "Then you can go to the Temple Forest."

"it is good."

"Be sure to be safe."

"it is good."

After the two finished their discussion, they went to the toilet separately.

……

About half an hour later.

In a barber shop next to the temple forest, the fat black man wearing Hanfu asked a clerk in an elegant manner: "...I want to...make a more special bun."

"? Oh!" The clerk looked at her: "How special do you want it to be?!"

“It’s just different.”

"Okay, I understand."

"Can you have a woman help me?" Xu Qingzhao looked at the male teacher Tony with resistance: "... Men, go away."

"Yes, yes, please sit down!"

Fifteen minutes later, a female Tony teacher looked at Xu Qingzhao and asked, "Are you sure you want this retro explosive hairstyle?"

"Can!"

Xu Qingzhao nodded excitedly, and at the same time used his perception to pay attention to the surrounding situation to see if Lao Liu would appear.

……

The other end.

Ren Ye waited in an abandoned unfinished building until after two in the morning.

Just when he was about to give up, a slight sound of footsteps was heard.

A sneaky figure walked up...

Under the moonlight, Ren Ye suddenly became excited: "Baoer! Is that you?"

The figure froze: "Brother, have you ever heard of the secret in the little garden?"

"Fuck!"

"Fuck!"