CH 66.2

Li Cancan watched from the sidelines. The leaves overhead swayed and sunlight spilled down through the gaps The dappled light and shadows fell on Bai Lixin’s soft hair like a layer of angelic holy light on the youth.

The young man’s handsome face was shrouded in light and shadow, and his hair was gilded with golden light.

The three were momentarily stunned by the beauty.

Behind them were the sounds of the players practising hard. Despite the unknown dangers in the copy, their mood was distinctly peaceful at the moment.

They knew from the first time they met Bai Lixin that the other side possessed a power, not those powerful moves that turned overturned but a calmness and free-spiritedness.

Whenever they were anxious, Bai Lixin’s calmness always infected them.

Li Cancan fell deep in thought.

At the beginning of the warm-up test, she hadn’t even figured out the situation, thinking that they were caught up in some evil organisation’s game.

It was also quite stupid to think that the old man was a human.

It was only when she actually got to the trial copy that she fully realised the reality.

It was a despair filled horror thriller that could not be explained by common sense.

When she was so terrified that she wanted to sacrifice herself, it was Bai Lixin’s words that saved her.

Bai Lixin’s gestures and words always remained with her, and they became her courage. She could not be like Bai Lixin, but she had always imitated him, consciously or unconsciously.

When things became hard, she would wonder what Bai Lixin would have done.

This imitation and substitution helped her get through her copy with astonishing excellence, and she was even called the “golden thighs” by the rest of her teammates.

When her teammate was frightened to the point of madness, she used what Bai Lixin had said to her and said it to that person.

Before she knew it, Bai Lixin had infected her, and she infected the others.

She believed that she was not the only one like that.

Liang Xi was the same, and there must have been others like her in the other teammates Bai Lixin had met.

Bai Lixin was just one person, but he was like a powerful storm that rolled up into a hurricane wherever he went.

The escape game was changing quietly.

This change may be small now, but one can become ten, and ten can become a hundred.

One day, quantitative change will produce qualitative change, and there will surely be an unexpected harvest then.

She worshipped Bai Lixin, but that worship was only the worship of a belief, not the worship of a woman for a man. Her worship was pure, and it was unadulterated by feelings between men and women.

Just as Li Cancan was staring at Bai Lixin in a trance, Bai Lixin had already turned to the last page and closed the book slowly.

Xia Chi snapped out of his muddled state and his cheeks were flushed.

Bai Lixin looked at the three and asked a question, “Do you all have this book?”

The three nodded in unison, “Yes, the teacher gave them out.”

Li Cancan pointed to the grass behind her, “Our magic books are back there.”

Bai Lixin: “Have you guys read the foreword?”

Liang Xi: “I took a general glance at it, I feel like the foreword was useless, so I guess, it’s just a macro introduction.”

“I also flipped through the book and read it. But it is strange that some of the more difficult spells had short incantations while the lower spells in the front had long incantations. I’ve watched some films and anime, doesn’t the longer the chant mean the more powerful the magic? The magic in this copy is so strange, I wonder if it’s written wrong.”

“I do think it’s quite useful,” Bai Lixin placed his palm on the exquisite and ancient magic book, his palm feeling the rough texture from the gold engraved cover, “I got to know the logic of this world’s magic after reading the foreword.”

Li Cancan was greatly confused, listening to Bai Lixin’s words was like a junior high school student listening to a lecture by a doctoral professor. She heard the words but did not understand a single word.

Xia Chi and Liang Xi were also confused.

Bai Lixin laughed lightly: “Every world has its own logic of operation, there will not be an illogical existence. The spells in this world are like the dual use of chemical equations and mathematical formulas in Bluestar.”

“Simple magic can be done with just a stack of bytes. For example, if ‘ai’ means ‘water’ and ‘I’ stands for ‘condesation’, then ‘aii’ is a ‘water ball’ when water is condensed. ”

Seeing the group’s dazed expressions, Bai Lixin continued, “But this is the simplest magic, and it can only summon a small ball of water. It consumes the least amount of magic, and all magicians can master this. It’s like ‘1+ 1=2’ . Simple and precise.”

“So if it’s summoning waterfalls? Then think of ‘aii’ as a number and use the knowledge of mathematics to increase it by tens of thousands to create a huge waterfall.”

“But that would also mean excessive consumption of magic power.”

The three who were confused a moment ago finally understood.

“So some spells look short, but they actually contain more advanced calculation formulas that consume more magic power than those spells that look long?” Having just gone through the college entrance exams, Xia Chi retrived the knowledge buried his brain, “For example, the elementary student’s continuos addition where six eights are added together. It looks long but it doesn’t carry as much weight as 6×8.”

“Wow,” Xia Chi looked over at Bai Lixin in admiration, “So that’s how it is! Brother, you’re so good, you just flipping through the book and became enlightened. I really want to pick your brain to see how it really is.”

He exaggeratedly imitated Bai Lixin’s movements as he quickly flipped through the book, “Brother, you just flipped through the book like this, did you really read it?”

Bai Lixin pondered for two seconds, “I read books quite fast.”

Actually, I could have been faster but I was afraid of scaring you guys.

I was already being low key, wasn’t I?

“God,” Xia Chi was so envious that he was about to shed tears, “If I had your brain, I wouldn’t have had to study every day in the early hours of the morning for my entrance exams.”

Liang Xi slapped her thigh, “In other words, this low level magic book can be described as a combination of elementary school maths and elementary school foreign language?”

At Bai Lixin’s explanations, it suddenly didn’t seem so hard.

Bai Lixin: “You could say that. So this book isn’t that difficult, but we shall come to the advanced mathematics and chemistry when we get to the intermediate and advanced magic books.”

“But no matter how hard it is, it follows a certain logic.”

“And I’ve also found that some of the magic incantations in the front is the same as the easy incantations in the back. If you can’t memorize the long one, you can just memorize the short one.” Bai Lixin stood up from the grass, “I’ll circle the few key points that need to be memorised later, and you can just focus on memorising those when the time comes.”

“However, this is opportunistic so this method might be limited to beginner magic. As far as I can surmise, advanced magic will have a mix of many different formulas so there will be no opportunities to be found, but just this low level magic should be enough for you to handle this copy.”

The three people looked at each other.

Their wisdom still lingered in being able to learn a few spells from this one book while Bai Lixin was already aiming for advanced magic?!

What was Bai Lixin talking about?

Just low level?

Bai Lixin, please don’t overestimate us! Low level is already our limit!

Xia Chi: “Brother, how much magic do you know from reading through the spell book?”

Bai Lixin thought for a few seconds and answered seriously, “If there are no surprises, I should know them all.”

Xia Chi, Li Cancan, and Liang Xi: “……”

Fuck!

Is this the rift between a great god and an ordinary player?

There was talk that Bai Lixin has a plug in, nonsense, the existence of God Xin is a plug in.

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In the live broadcast room

[…… help, I can’t believe I’m learning mathematics and chemistry in the magic copy! God Xin yyds! I also think I can do it after listening to his words.]

[Wow! Magic! Which girl hasn’t dreamt of having magic. I also want to enter this copy to try magic. I’d take a fairy wand and turn my dress into a princess dress.]

[Sisters, who hasn’t had a dream of being a princess when they’re little?]

[Wake up, don’t forget who’s in the copy now. It’s God Xin, the copy terminator. You still want to play magic in this copy? I doubt this copy will be open again.]

[Uh. You are right. It feels like this copy has reached the end of its life. Why do I suddenly feel distressed for this copy?]

[Audience reactions to other players entering horror copies: Wow, the monsters are scary! Players are so pitiful. Do you best players!

Audience reaction when God Xin enters the horror copy: This is fun. This monster is so pathetic, this boss is so miserable, this copy is going extinct, silence.]

[I’m laughing to death, the pop-ups upstairs are too real.]

[Tomorrow is yet to come but I’ve already seen the end to Wen Ziqing. Speaking of which, the San Sea Guild doesn’t have bad people, so who recruited this one? With this kind of character, apart from a good-looking face, what other advantages are there? 】

[The face isn’t great either, right? Hands down, top faces like God Xin’s and the big boss have raised my understanding of face value.]

[The Sand Sea Guild solemnly declares: Wen Ziqing has been dismissed from the guild, and is no longer a member of the Sand Sea Guild.]

[Yo, it turns out that people from the Sand sea Guild are also watching the live broadcast. He had already been dismissed? The Sand sea Guild is very efficient.]

[I got my confidence back. I’ll go clear a copy after this live stream. I’ve been complacent for a long time after saving some points.]

[Me too!]

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The training at the practice ground ended with the setting of the sun.

The lead skeleton mage gathered all the players together, including Bai Lixin’s group which had been separated from the rest.

Because the sky was already dark, Xia Chi’s wounds were not visible. The bloodied ragged trouser legs covered the place, and it looked like he was still wounded.

Under the darkening sky, the flames in the skeleton’s eyes were brighter, and the plaster-white skeleton looked even paler and colder.

“Children,” the skeleton mage spoke, “we undead do not need food, but you are different. We have prepared a sumptuous meal to welcome you. The food is now read so come with me.”

The skeleton mage looked very patient, “You have travelled a long way to get here and I know how hard you have worked. We hunted and prepared venison and rabbit, and beef. We have also prepared a lot of pasta and precious fruits and vegetables for you.”

When the the skeleton mage said this, several players covered their stomachs.

Practicing magic was physically demanding, and because they had been practicing seriously, they didn’t feel it. But now that they were relaxed, hunger immediately came over them.

The people in Bai Lixin’s group had been sitting in the corner and hadn’t done so much magic training, so they didn’t feel much.

The hungry players were escorted by the skeleton mages to a luxurious dining hall with a strong exotic décor.

A ten-metre long table was piled high with plates of food.

The word “luxurious feast” could be used to describe it.

Everyone was screaming at the rich and tantalising smell of the food as they walked along the corridor but the skeleton teachers walked very slowly and it took a full ten minutes to walk one corridor.

On entering the dining hall, everyone’s eyes were only staring at the food and only one word was echoing in their brains.

Eat! Eat! Eat!

The only reason the drooling players didn’t pounce on the food like hungry wolves as soon as they entered was because of the NPC besides them.

The skeleton mage was quick in his efficiency this time. He only said, “Children, think of this as your own home. Go and enjoy the food to your heart’s content!”