Su Mo saw Lin Zinuo’s peaceful smile, and his gloomy mood improved a lot. He waved his hand.

"Goodbye."

Then Su Mo followed the crowd into the station.

Lin Zinuo stood outside, watching Su Mo’s figure gradually receding into the distance. She lowered her head and muttered to herself in disappointment.

"He's as heartless as ever, not even bothering to turn around and look at me. But that's the real him..."

.....

A moment later, Su Mo boarded the high-speed train back. There were a lot of passengers on the return journey.

Su Mo found his window seat, leaned his head against the window, and looked outside.

More and more people got on the train, and the carriage became more lively and noisy.

The train slowly pulled away.

Su Mo closed his eyes to rest. Waiting all night at the tea restaurant had made him quite tired.

But for some reason, Su Mo couldn't fall asleep.

He felt inexplicably sad, and fragments of past memories flashed through his mind intermittently.

Su Mo remembered the first stunning glimpse he had in the elevator. When he fell into the sea in the game, he was unconscious, but he hadn't completely lost his will.

He subconsciously saw Qian Chengxue running towards him, saving him.

While he was being rescued, she stood not far away, quietly watching him.

Then the memory scene changed. Su Mo felt as if he had returned to the Sea Breeze Island base, piloting a mecha and fighting alongside her.

He subconsciously reached out to her, but the memory shattered again.

New memories flooded in. Su Mo saw himself and Qian Chengxue sitting together, looking up at the starry sky in the forest, filled with countless stars.

Then the memory shattered again. The next second, Su Mo saw himself and Qian Chengxue climbing in the base's pipelines, the subtle touch.

And in the central control room, when he was desperately facing the artificial intelligence · Quanshen alone, preparing to face death calmly.

Qian Chengxue piloted a mecha and rushed in, and when it was finally destroyed, she disregarded her own safety and slammed into the metal barrier, unwilling to leave alone.

Su Mo's heart ached slightly.

In fact, Star Ring World was almost no different from the real world. It was just too real.

It blurred the line between reality and illusion. But what was the difference between reality and illusion? In such a real world, wouldn't everything you did be the most genuine choice of your heart?

It was a pity that she didn't come after all.

Maybe she was too busy.

Or maybe, he was just being presumptuous.

"Sigh~"

.......

At this moment, several young men and women sitting in front of Su Mo complained angrily.

"Chen Tian is almost screwed by you!"

"That's right, are you trying to sell us off?"

....

"Wu Lei, you can't say that. We've been playing together since we were kids. How could I sell you out? How would I know that Manager Zhang is a man-eater who doesn't spit out bones. My salary is gone too. I'm a victim too!"

Chen Tian was also on the verge of tears.

"Alright, stop talking about salary. We signed that crappy contract and almost had to sell ourselves to them."

"Ugh~ It's just too unlucky. We worked so hard, but not only didn't we earn any money, we were also threatened."

……

"Hehe, that's not necessarily true."

Wu Lei suddenly said with a mysterious smile.

"What do you mean not necessarily true? We're going to starve to death when we get back."

Chen Tian said with a sigh.

"Luckily, I had the foresight. Take a look at what this is."

As Wu Lei spoke, he picked up his phone, opened his personal Star Ring page, which showed three gold points.

"Gold points! How do you have those?"

Chen Tian and the others were stunned.

"Hehe, I sensed that the Giant Guild was fishy a long time ago, so I left myself an out. During the defense battle, I secretly dismantled the motherboards of those mechas and heavy weapons, and pried off all the gold circuits on them and melted them into gold points."

"Oh! So you were the one who did it. We were wondering why the weapons weren't working properly! You screwed us over."

"What do you mean screwed you over? Even if those weapons worked, we would have died anyway. Besides, after we died, those bastards immediately did a 180-degree turn. Not only did they not pay us, they wanted us to pay exorbitant breach of contract fees. Luckily, we died and bailed early, otherwise we would have been sold and still working hard for them."

"That makes sense!"

"Alright, don't worry about that stuff. Recently, gold points are selling for sky high prices. These can be exchanged for cash to be our start-up capital when we get back."

"That's generous. You're the smart one, Wu Lei."

.....

The voices of the group grew louder and louder. Su Mo slowly opened his eyes, looking at the group in front of him with a cold expression.

He had been woken up, and in a state where he didn't want to wake up.

But these guys looked a little familiar, like he had seen them somewhere before.

At this moment, Chen Tian and the others turned their heads and happened to see Su Mo opening his eyes, looking very surprised.

"Brother, what a coincidence, you're going home too."

Hearing Chen Tian say this, Su Mo immediately remembered that these guys were the ones he had met when he went to the Imperial City. That Giant Guild wasn't reliable to begin with, so it wasn't surprising that they were scammed.

He said faintly, "Yeah."

"Brother, you wouldn't have been scammed and just escaped like us, right? Let me tell you, those guilds have absolutely no professional ethics. They just scam us honest people..."

Chen Tian kept complaining.

Su Mo leaned against the window, not in the mood to chat at all, and didn't answer Chen Tian much.

Seeing that Su Mo ignored him, Chen Tian turned his head back awkwardly.

Su Mo looked at the scenery outside the window. He estimated that he would arrive in the Magic City soon.

With nothing to do, Su Mo remembered that Chen Tian and his group were discussing gold points. So he picked up his phone and opened his account to see if the gold points and silver points inside were still quietly lying in the account, not affected in any way by his death.

At this time, Su Mo subconsciously opened the trading platform to take a look at the price of gold points.

As a result, he was shocked by what he saw.

On the entire trading platform, the transaction price of gold points had soared to 5,000 per point, and all the gold points marked with 5,000 on the platform had been swept away.

Now, only gold points marked with 9,999 and ridiculously high prices remained on the entire trading platform.

In addition to the fluctuation of gold points, the price of silver points had also risen equally. At this time, silver points had also reached a new historical high of 500 per point.

"The price is so high?"

Su Mo was also secretly surprised. He quickly browsed the trading posts on the forum.

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

"5,000 to instantly buy gold points, 500 to instantly buy silver points, how much you have I'll take, quantity negotiable...."

"5,500 to buy gold points..."

"6,000 to sincerely buy gold points..."

......