Chapter 1 Game Connecting Reality

The game connects to reality.

If something happens in the game, reality will suffer as well.

Jing Yan understood this, which was why he was so terrified at this moment.

"Calm down!"

Fang Yue shouted, but Jing Yan couldn't listen at all.

"Ye, Brother Ye! Am I going to die? Am I going to die? Right, right, the system, the system! I want to see my personal stats!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Yan suddenly seemed to see something, and he froze, then slowly looked up at Fang Yue, and said blankly, "I, I've been hit with a guizu (curse)! Brother Ye, I've been hit! Save me!"

As he spoke, Jing Yan crawled to Fang Yue's side, grabbing at Fang Yue's clothes with both hands, moving around in a panic.

With a dark face, Fang Yue slapped him on the face, knocking him to the ground, with a -1 damage notification appearing above his head.

"Ye, Brother Ye?!"

Jing Yan fell to the ground, covering his face, staring blankly at Fang Yue.

"Calm down! It's just a guizu (curse), I still have one on my head, do you see anything happening to me? First, tell me what you did after cleaning up the remains of the red-eyed monster fish? Tell me everything clearly, and by the way, I'll have someone call everyone over to figure out how to solve your problem."

"Oh... oh, oh!"

Covering his slightly red and swollen face, Jing Yan finally calmed down a bit.

Trembling, he told Fang Yue about cleaning up the red-eyed monster fish and returning to his room to rest.

But after listening carefully, Fang Yue realized that he hadn't encountered anything at all, and he hadn't even felt any changes on his face. Everything had been completed silently.

This made Fang Yue a little confused. When everyone else arrived, they found that everyone else was fine, only Jing Yan had been hit.

"It seems to be a continuation of what happened during the day."

Qing Chen pretended to push up his nonexistent glasses.

"What's that?" Fang Yue asked suspiciously.

"It makes me look knowledgeable."

"..."

Since it was a continuation of the daytime events, it was a continuation of Jing Yan being eaten by the red-eyed monster fish and then having his heart copied.

"What's going on with him?"

"The thing from daytime? Are you referring to the red-eyed monster fish?"

"Lord Ye, will something happen to us too? We also fought the red-eyed monster fish..."

The crowd was a little flustered, whispering among themselves, but Tian Ruichi silenced them with a look.

Fang Yue quickly explained the situation, and the crowd calmed down a bit.

Since there were no doctors on the ship, solving Jing Yan's guizu (curse) problem naturally fell to Qing Chen.

Letting the others disperse first, Fang Yue had Tian Ruichi stay behind.

"Brother Ye, do you have any instructions?"

Tian Ruichi asked, and Lin Ling also looked at him strangely.

The ones left on the scene were their core five-member group, so they must be discussing something important.

Fang Yue glanced at Qing Chen, who was still examining Jing Yan's body, and slowly said, "Elder Duo has a problem."

Elder Duo has a problem?

As soon as the words fell, the expressions of the people present changed.

If Elder Duo had a problem, that meant the ship had a problem, and they were all on this Cold River Giant Ship, which meant their lives were in Elder Duo's hands.

"What do you mean?" Tian Ruichi asked in a deep voice.

Taking the waterway was his master's idea, but he was the one who handled the actual operations.

Now that Elder Duo had a problem, that meant he had a problem.

"Don't be nervous, I trust you, which is why I'm openly letting you stay here to discuss this issue."

As he said this, Fang Yue carefully observed Tian Ruichi's reaction. All of Tian Ruichi's reactions seemed logical and showed no signs of abnormality or tension.

Based on what he had learned about Tian Ruichi over the past few days, Tian Ruichi shouldn't be lying.

Fang Yue glanced at Qing Chen again, and just at that moment, Qing Chen also looked at him and nodded slightly.

Lin Ling couldn't hold back her temper at this time and asked, "Xiao Ye, what's going on? What's wrong with Elder Duo? Does it have anything to do with the red-eyed monster fish this morning? What's going on?"

"Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly. During the day, Qing Chen drew a simple nautical chart based on the available information, and then he discovered... we've deviated from the course."

"Deviated from the course?"

The crowd exchanged glances.

"Where will we end up?" Tian Ruichi asked.

"The entrance to the Lie Huo Sect (Blazing Fire Sect). You can ask Qing Chen about the details later. I can't understand that nautical chart."

"...Could you guys be mistaken? Master wouldn't harm me. He told me to take the waterway, and Elder Duo was the one who arranged it..." Tian Ruichi was a little uneasy, pacing back and forth.

However, in Fang Yue's view, a master who had even turned his own disciple into a sword spirit wasn't very trustworthy.

"The problem now is that the course has been diverted, and even if we arrive at the Lie Huo Sect (Blazing Fire Sect) safely, it will take us many days to reach the capital by land. Not to mention, who knows what's waiting for us at the Lie Huo Sect (Blazing Fire Sect)."

"So what are you going to do?" Lin Ling cut to the chase, not caring about those things.

"Find a way to make Elder Duo one of us, or... put Elder Duo to sleep and take control of the Cold River Giant Ship ourselves!"

Elder Duo's consciousness was attached to the helm, but that didn't mean Elder Duo was the Cold River Giant Ship. Those were two different concepts.

In theory, as long as they put Elder Duo to sleep, they could control the direction. Relatively speaking... they would also need to use manpower to control the oars to propel the ship.

"...I'll go talk to Elder Duo." Tian Ruichi still didn't quite believe the deviation, and left with an uncertain expression.

Fang Yue shouted at his back, "Remember, don't startle him. If you can't reach an agreement, come back and we'll discuss how to deal with Elder Duo."

"Understood."

Tian Ruichi was already far away, and his voice came back from the deck.

"Xiao Ye, why is your backup plan just to put Elder Duo to sleep? With your strength, you should be able to kill Elder Duo!" After experiencing so many things, Lin Ling had become more ruthless.

However... Fang Yue looked at Lin Ling with a strange expression.

How strong do you think I am?

That was Elder Duo, controlling an entire ship! If the ship was destroyed and people died, what would be the point of me winning? Would I just wait to sink to the bottom of the Cold River with them?

"Brother Ye, there's a situation! Come over here!"

Just then, Qing Chen suddenly said from behind.

Fang Yue and Lin Ling hurried over, and after taking a closer look, their expressions changed drastically.

They saw a crack slowly splitting open on Jing Yan's forehead, and the kind of red eyes that the red-eyed monster fish had were hidden in the crack!

"Ye, Brother Ye, save me! Qing Chen, save me!!"

Jing Yan panicked. Under Qing Chen's instructions, Fang Yue and Lin Ling held him down, preventing him from moving around.

"Qing Chen, can you save him? What's going on with him?"

"Eyes." Qing Chen said with a complicated expression, "Under the surface of his skin, in the gaps between the flesh, there are dense clusters of these blood-colored eyes, and they're rapidly dividing and multiplying like cancer cells. Before long, his body will be burst open by these eyes, turning into a corpse, probably similar to the crack on his forehead.

His whole body will crack open, and more eyes will pour out.

All of this is consistent with my previous research... Those blood-colored monster fish were originally just common fish in the game, but they were parasitically infected by the environment."

"Parasitic infection? By what?" Fang Yue was stunned and blurted out.

He saw Qing Chen coldly utter two words.

"Cold River!"