Chapter 93: Looks Above All Else (Part 1)
Bai Cha roughly tidied up the house and then entered the game.
Entering the game from reality, the return of her power instantly swept away her fatigue.
Her steps became light, and her body and mind felt joyful.
But a deeper sense of vigilance arose in her heart.
She didn’t think of herself as a very self-disciplined person. Over time, she would definitely get lost in this power.
But could she refuse?
As long as the game didn’t end, she couldn’t refuse.
Looking at the buildings constructed in the game town, besides the major guilds, the rest were all residential buildings.
There were also rental houses available on the game panel. As long as she spent points, she could live there, with different conditions and different point costs.
During the first instance, she didn’t understand why anyone would live here, but now she understood.
There was also a commercial street here, with places to eat.
This was already a small city.
And in this city, they were all the same—game players with common topics.
Instead of not being able to confide in anyone in reality.
Not to mention someone like her who had gained power but still had nothing upon returning to reality.
She had merely gained power, but what about some other people?
There were no laws here. Although the game didn’t allow players to kill each other directly, there was never a need to do it personally to kill someone.
It was even possible to completely force the other person to kill themselves.
That feeling of being high above, manipulating everything in the palm of one’s hand, was absolutely impossible to have back in reality.
Besides this, they not only had power here but also points. Points could buy many things, but spending a lot of time in the game would cause problems with their jobs in reality.
It was very likely that they had no money in reality but had it in the game.
So… this game really understood people’s hearts.
Wang Xuming hadn’t accepted her friend request yet, indicating that he hadn’t returned.
Bai Cha strolled around the town and found a bench to sit down.
It had to be said that the town as a whole had the flavor of a secluded paradise.
Although the styles weren’t uniform.
But that wasn’t her purpose for coming in.
The connection between reality and the game deepened her sense of crisis.
If she had thought entering the game initially was quite interesting, being targeted by the evil god and discovering the close connection between reality and the game made her no longer as carefree as before.
If it was just her alone, dying was dying, disappearing was disappearing, and that would have been fine.
However, all the signs now seemed to indicate that her family was also in constant danger.
And perhaps even her friends.
Her parents had passed away, and her aunt’s family was the most important to her among her relatives.
So she needed to get stronger quickly.
Entering an instance every seven days was good, but it wasn’t enough.
She found customer service in the backend and consulted them.
[Player Bai Cha D3]: “If I enter the game before I enter the next scheduled instance, will I enter the instance I’m about to enter or a new instance?”
[Game Customer Service]: “Hello, dear player—”
[Game Customer Service]: “Dear, you will enter a new instance and it won’t affect your upcoming instance—”
[Player Bai Cha D3]: “Then this new instance, will there still be dream hints? Are they random?”
[Game Customer Service]: “Yes, dear, we will randomly assign you to an instance based on your level—”
[Player Bai Cha D3]: “The rewards and such won’t be affected, right?”
[Game Customer Service]: “No, dear, the more you grind, the more you get. Get stronger sooner, keep going! If you need to grind instances, you can click the link below to directly match you with an instance.”
The game encouraged players to enter more instances.
Then what happens after getting stronger?
Bai Cha glanced at the leaderboard.
The leaderboard only showed the top one thousand players.
She was naturally not among them.
The first-ranked player was called Shen Qingchen, S8.
Not S9.
If you searched for level-related information on the forum, you would also find a lot of speculation about being able to completely clear the game after S9.
However, these were all just guesses, and there was no proof that anyone would leave the game after S9.
None of the people on the leaderboard discussed anything on the forum.
Bai Cha closed the panel and opened the link that the customer service had just sent.
She didn’t know what the future held. But since she didn’t know anything, she might as well do it. It was better than just worrying uselessly.
[Enter the game early? You will be matched with the closest instance of a similar level.]
「Yes」[No]
Bai Cha clicked Yes.
[Matching you now…]
[Match successful. You have been connected to D6 instance “Looks Above All Else.” Teleporting you now…]
Bai Cha’s figure swayed and disappeared from the game town.
Occasionally, passersby who saw it wouldn’t find it strange.
That’s how the people in the town were. Sometimes people would leave to do quests, and whether they would come back was unknown.
[Welcome to D6 instance “Looks Above All Else”! In this world where looks matter, as long as you have a beautiful face, you can have everything!]
[Number of players in this instance: 26.]
[The goal of this instance is a target-based clear. All players only need to accumulate a wealth of one hundred million to clear the game.]
[Game duration: 30 days. Those who fail to clear within 30 days will remain in the game forever.]
[Gentle reminder: In this game, everyone must be careful not to lose their face. Shameless people will not have a good end——]
[Ghost Domain app wishes you a happy life!]
As the game’s prompts gradually ended, Bai Cha looked around.
She seemed to be in a plastic surgery hospital. Because there was a large title at the front desk.
[Beauty is Innocent Plastic Surgery Hospital]
There was also a line of small print under the title.
[But ugliness is the original sin. Wishing every customer a beautiful face]
Bai Cha also had a mirror in her hand.
Everyone here seemed to carry a mirror with them.
There were quite a few people, probably thirty or forty, sitting here.
Those who were looking around like her were players. Including her, there were exactly 26 players, so the remaining dozen or so were the original inhabitants.
As for why she was so certain, it was simple.
Only the 26 of them looked normal.
The faces of the remaining dozen or so were already hideous.
Some had faces that were so thin and sharp they looked like mosquitoes, and their eyes had probably undergone canthoplasty, lower eyelid surgery, and double eyelid surgery. In short, they were terrifyingly large.
Others had noses that were as pointed and prominent as Pinocchio’s and were still narcissistically admiring themselves in the mirror.
Some people’s bodies were already skin and bones, their waists truly thin, able to be grasped with one hand, like a funnel, yet they were still anxiously discussing with the people next to them how to get even thinner.
This place… was quite frightening.
While everyone was subtly observing each other, she heard someone beside her suddenly exclaim “fuck,” almost dropping the mirror in their hand.
No other reason than being scared by their own reflection.
“Damn it, why am I so ugly?” It was a male player. In fact, he didn’t look ugly at all. He looked very normal, even a bit handsome, better-looking than the average person.
He didn’t look very old, probably around twenty-one or twenty-two.
He was shocked and wanted to look at his face in the mirror again, touching his face up and down.
Bai Cha was right next to him and leaned over to take a look.
In the mirror, the originally somewhat thin male body had become at least five hundred pounds, his handsome features twisted like a monster, his eyes as small as mung beans, his nose like Voldemort’s, and the dimples on his cheeks looked like fleshy tumors.
When the boy saw her looking over, he immediately asked, “Do I look the same as this in your eyes?”
Bai Cha shook her head and picked up the mirror to look at herself.
The boy next to her also looked.
“Fuck!”
