Chapter 16 Blood Rain World

　　Pang Ze looked at Xu Jingming. "Before entering the Blood Rain World, you need to make some preparations. The first is to learn the universal language of the universe, and the second is to carefully study the intelligence data of the Blood Rain World. After all, the cost of failure after entering is too high."

　　Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

　　The smallest price for failure is 100,000 cosmic coins. The longer you operate inside, the less you can afford to fail. For example, if you accumulate thousands of gold coins and are killed and robbed, then all your accumulation will be in vain, and the network of relationships you have worked hard to build will also be gone. After all, paying again means becoming another person, and everything has to start all over again.

　　"Is seven days enough?" Pang Ze asked.

　　"Enough," Xu Jingming nodded.

　　"Good, let's meet at 9 p.m. in seven days," Pang Ze nodded. "I'll take you to pick up the task then."

　　"Thank you, Mr. Pang." Xu Jingming was still very grateful. The other party didn't charge any fees and was giving him advice.

　　Pang Ze nodded and left. He naturally had his own affairs.

　　Xu Jingming looked at the materials about the Blood Rain World in his hand and studied them carefully, reading them through after a long time.

　　"According to the description in the materials, entering the Blood Rain World is for three purposes: to temper the mind and combat skills, to experience different worlds, and to seek opportunities in mysterious places." After reading it, Xu Jingming put it aside for the time being and began to learn the universal language of the universe.

　　Although it is possible to use 'simultaneous translation' to automatically translate one's Chinese into the universal language of the universe.

　　But entering the virtual world and hearing everyone else speaking the universal language! Only you are relying on 'translation,' and the shape of your mouth and your voice don't match. The cosmic citizens might not care and would only secretly mock you. But the original residents of the Blood Rain World would become suspicious...

　　Why is the language this person is speaking completely different from the shape of their mouth?

　　"The memory of a cosmic life is really strong." Xu Jingming first memorized the universal language of the universe, "Reading ten lines at a glance, never forgetting!"

　　If a complete planetary life is a significant improvement over its pre-evolution brain, then becoming a cosmic life is a qualitative change!

　　Xu Jingming glanced at it and instantly memorized hundreds of universal cosmic characters! He kept flipping through them, memorizing more than ten thousand characters in just a quarter of an hour.

　　"Remembering this many universal cosmic characters is enough."

　　"Next, I need to become familiar with the sentences." Xu Jingming watched the universal cosmic language teaching videos, learning at super speed.

　　Three hours later, Xu Jingming's universal cosmic language was very fluent.

　　"According to the system's judgment, my universal cosmic language is already very close to the level of my native language. In the future, practicing for another hour every day to consolidate it will be enough." Xu Jingming stopped his language learning, "I'll go try the life evolution world of the virtual world network and see what the difference is compared to Blue Star."

　　……

　　Morning.

　　Xu Jingming accompanied his pregnant wife for a walk.

　　"How is the virtual world network?" Li Miaomiao asked curiously.

　　"Our Blue Star's virtual world is mainly a 'Life Evolution' game world," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "But the universe's virtual world network has countless virtual worlds with all kinds of uses. Among them, there is also a 'Life Evolution' game world, but it has many more functions. The virtual experts are more intelligent, and the experts from various cosmic civilizations participating in the battles are even more difficult to deal with. I won three consecutive victories at first, but later it was a mixed bag of wins and losses."

　　"A mixed bag of wins and losses?" Li Miaomiao was surprised. "The number one expert on our Blue Star ran into a brick wall?"

　　"I played a total of 22 matches yesterday, which were very enjoyable. The win rate was about 55%." Xu Jingming was very happy. "In the past, I was really sitting in a well and looking at the sky. Now I understand... in the vast universe, I am just an ordinary cosmic citizen."

　　Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming. "Jingming, you are not ordinary! You just entered the virtual world network and have been practicing the evolution method for less than a year! After ten or twenty years, you will be much, much stronger than them."

　　Xu Jingming was slightly stunned.

　　The previous 22 matches had knocked out Xu Jingming's arrogance. After all, those in the game world were all cosmic citizens! There were many who were more proficient in cold weapon skills than Xu Jingming in the entire Hunter Cosmic Sector! The planetary life transcendent-level moves that he was once proud of were very common in the stellar life stage.

　　But Li Miaomiao's words also gave Xu Jingming more confidence.

　　Yes, I've only been practicing the evolution method for less than a year!

　　"I will work hard to make myself good enough in the entire Hunter Cosmic Sector," Xu Jingming said with a smile, because of the time delay, he almost only encountered cosmic citizens from the Hunter Cosmic Sector in the virtual world network.

　　Only for special reasons would cosmic citizens from different cosmic sectors contact each other.

　　With the time delay, chatting would also be very awkward! After saying a sentence, it would take a while for the other party to reply.

　　"Yes, I believe in you." Li Miaomiao continued to walk with Xu Jingming.

　　******

　　Seven days later, at 9 p.m., in the virtual world network.

　　Xu Jingming and Pang Ze met again.

　　"How is your spearmanship training going now? Have the five ultimate moves from your planetary life all reached the transcendent level?" Pang Ze asked with a smile.

　　"They've all reached it."

　　Xu Jingming nodded. "I am now comprehending the stellar life stage content of the upper篇 (pian, section) of *Hua Guang* (Transformation of Light), and I have also gained some understanding." After discovering that he was progressing the fastest in the 'Water Style' lineage, Xu Jingming is now spending the most energy on this path.

　　"I never doubt your talent," Pang Ze praised. "Let's go, I'll take you to the group responsible for the intermediary first."

　　As he spoke, Pang Ze opened a virtual world.

　　"Let's go."

　　Swoosh! Swoosh!

　　Two streams of light flew into this virtual world at the same time.

　　After entering, they saw dense streams of light descending.

　　"This is the largest intermediary group in the entire Hunter Cosmic Sector—the Myriad Realms Group." Pang Ze and Xu Jingming also landed on the crystal clear ground. Pang Ze said, "They do almost every intermediary business you can think of. They also have businesses in other cosmic sectors, and their credibility is beyond doubt."

　　Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

　　"For example, if you want to find a task in the Blood Rain World." Pang Ze gently tapped the interface floating beside him, and tasks from the Blood Rain World appeared.

　　There were dense tasks, a large number of them.

　　"How much is your combat power boost now?" Pang Ze asked.

　　"Over 600%," Xu Jingming said. After the five ultimate moves were broken through and he comprehended the stellar life stage content, his combat power boost did indeed break through.

　　"Very good."

　　Pang Ze nodded with a smile. After filtering, many tasks began to disappear.

　　"The task period should not exceed three months."

　　"The employment fee should be greater than 500,000."

　　"The task requirements..."

　　Pang Ze added one restriction after another, and the number of tasks continued to decrease, finally leaving only nine tasks.

　　Pang Ze opened them one by one to check, and also said to Xu Jingming, "In the future, you can choose tasks like this yourself. Of course... as your agent, it's best to discuss with me before making important decisions, and I'll also give you some suggestions."

　　Xu Jingming nodded.

　　"Take a look, how are these three tasks?" Pang Ze pulled out three task requirements. "I think they are all pretty good."

　　Xu Jingming glanced at them and chose the one with the highest fee.

　　"It's this one," Xu Jingming said.

　　"You can click here to choose to accept the task," Pang Ze said.

　　Xu Jingming clicked lightly.

　　A man in a purple robe appeared. He looked at Xu Jingming with a smile, "Welcome to become a client of our Myriad Realms Group. Xu Jingming, please first create an alias. All future business will use this alias."

　　"Sometimes it's not appropriate to use your real name for intermediary tasks," Pang Ze said from the side.

　　"An alias is just a code name. It can be letters, numbers, or symbols," the purple-robed man said.

　　"Then call me 'Jing'," Xu Jingming said.

　　The purple-robed man nodded slightly. "The employment fee for this task is 600,000 cosmic coins. Please pay 50% in advance, and then pay the balance after the task is completed. Please be on time at 10:09 a.m. at 100 meters outside the East Gate of Lan Yue Cheng (Orchid Moon City) in the Blood Rain World. A contact person will appear then. The appearance of the contact person is..." A female phantom appeared beside him.

　　Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

　　"Walk close to her and say the word 'Jing'. In the next three months, you must ensure that you are online for at least twelve hours every day! You have only two tasks: protection and killing," the purple-robed man said. "Your image will also be informed to the employer! Do you need to change your appearance?"

　　Pang Ze shook his head slightly from the side. Xu Jingming then said, "No need."

　　"Do you need to change the meeting time?" the purple-robed man asked.

　　"Just 10:09 a.m." Xu Jingming nodded.

　　……

　　Soon, Xu Jingming and Pang Ze left the Myriad Realms Group world. At the same time, the 300,000 cosmic coins paid in advance had been received.

　　"You don't have any reputation in the entire universe. There's no need to change your appearance for things that can be made public. After all, it's just taking on a task, there's nothing to hide," Pang Ze said. "And constantly hiding your identity will also affect your mind to some extent."

　　Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

　　"Of course, it is still necessary to hide your identity for some things that are not suitable for public disclosure," Pang Ze said. "In the virtual world network, everyone can easily change their appearance."

　　"Understood," Xu Jingming nodded.

　　"I'll give you one last piece of advice." Pang Ze looked at Xu Jingming, "When going to a new place, first understand the operating rules of the new place, follow the rules, and integrate into it! Learn to go with the flow! When you are weak, going against the trend will only lead to you being crushed by the general trend."

　　Xu Jingming nodded. "I understand, thank you, Mr. Pang."

　　"We'll meet again when your mission is over," Pang Ze smiled slightly and disappeared.

　　Only then did Xu Jingming select 'Blood Rain World' from countless virtual worlds, and with a gentle tap of payment, 100,000 cosmic coins were deducted, and his account was immediately reduced from 1.3 million cosmic coins to 1.2 million.

　　"Enter!"

　　Xu Jingming immediately threw himself into the Blood Rain World.