Chapter 29

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The two girls went home on their own after leaving the institute. They returned to their own homes.

White Milk posted about the nightmare she had today on her personal social media site when she arrived home.

“It’s too scary. I can’t believe such a terrifying thing would happen when I slept in the game ‘World’.”

Very soon, someone commented on the post, “Milk, what kind of dream did you have?”

“I was sleeping in the game. I dreamed of myself falling into a blue ocean. I kept dying over and over again. Do you know how terrible that felt? I hate World Game Co.!”

“Couldn’t you log out?”

“I wanted to, but I couldn’t get the logout button to show. I’ve reported to the local institute. They’ll investigate the game company and give me a reasonable explanation,” White Milk replied to her post.

Soon, Miss White’s friends—those who knew her—commented below to comfort her.

Some players sent private messages to White Milk for more details.

After all, not being able to log out of a virtual reality game was just too unreal—it sounded fake. In reality, no companies could bypass the AI’s monitoring. 

White Milk was still a little pissed when she received some good friends’ and players’ private messages. She would feel horrible if she did not release the anger that she was feeling.

She happened to be able to seize the opportunity to release the blue she felt inside onto those curious friends and netizens. She recounted the terrifying event that happened in the dream over and over again.

When she told the story, she criticized World Game Co. as well. She suspected that the company was on an anti-human path now. She asked them not to play the game, as well as to be careful.

Some people played the game ‘World’ out of curiosity after hearing her story. It was a newly launched game; not many people were playing it.

Presently, the VR game market on Orange Planet had been stagnant. It was difficult for the new game to be successful. After all, the OG games had been coming up with new things for the past tens of years in regards to the content. The tens of years of content could not be compared to new games. The competition was just too much.

Naturally, some people did not believe her. They thought Miss White had made that up for attention. 

A portion of friends and family believed her, whereby they had no plans of playing the game ‘World’.

However, some friends and family thought she had played too much, which had fried her brain. It was impossible that there was no logout button.

White Milk only posted that in her circle, so not many people knew about it. The game ‘World’ was not impacted, so it was still running sturdily.

Meanwhile, a researcher from Omnic City Institute had entered the game at the moment. He was ready to test the scary dream the two girls had talked about during the day when they had been sleeping in the game.

Researcher Li Shen opened his eyes. He was at the start point of Rooking Village.

He did not do the rookie mission, nor did he sleep. Instead, he ran to the Rookie Village’s suburbs to watch a bunch of players attacking a dog-headed tribe.

The people from their institute had noticed the battle at the Rookie Village’s suburbs earlier. The dog-headed tribe was fighting the players for a whole day.

The people from the game company were questioned. Why would the little monsters from a mountain village close to the Rookie Village have such powerful combat ability? Their combat ability was almost the standard of Level 20 to Level 30.

Worse, the two dog-headed people responsible for healing seemed to not require regeneration. They did not stop healing their partners, causing the players to have failed to defeat them.

The dog-headed people were a little tired now, as they had failed to kill all of the adventurers after fighting for so long. They were eager to retreat to the Dog-headed People Mountain Village.

However, the players did not want to let them go. They did not care if their levels dropped, whereby they fought the dog-headed people with the upper hand of having many players.

The dog-headed people had extremely powerful healing abilities, while their levels were much higher than Rookie Village. However, the players believed that as soon as the top teams leveled up, they would destroy all these arrogant dog-headed people sooner or later.

“Something is very wrong with this bunch of dog-headed people.” Researcher Li Shen watched for a little bit, standing far away.

The people from the game company attempted to amend these dog-headed people’s body data. The reason being they became powerful out of nowhere, possessing abilities that they should not have.

According to the game company’s engineers, the dog-headed people’s data had been amended, so the data on the backend had reverted to normal. However, the dog-headed people in the game world were still so powerful, and they did not seem to be weakened at all.

Therefore, the people from the institute began monitoring those dog-headed people. They investigated their operation code in real-time. However, the engineers could not find odd codes, as if whatever happened in-game was not the same game that was running on the server.

It was not something Li Shen should care about. He was currently testing if there would be a scary reincarnation dream issue in the game ‘World’ when the players slept. It would be serious if there was really no logout button.

He returned to the tiny house that came with Rookie Village and pressed on the deep sleep button as he laid on the bed.

“Setting three hours of deep sleep.”

A line of words appeared and disappeared slowly.

As the words disappeared, the researcher closed his eyes. His consciousness was going out, and he seemed to hear ocean waves in his ears.

‘That’s strange. Where did this ocean water noise come from?’

A doubtful thought flashed by Li Shen’s mind. As he opened his eyes, he saw an endless, blue ocean.

The waves were washing over vigorously. There would be a big one coming over occasionally.

‘Blue ocean water, deep sleep…’ Li Shen came to a realization immediately. ‘This might possibly be the reincarnation dream that Miss White talked about!’

Ocean water splashed the researcher’s face, and he was washed into the ocean by the impact.

However, he did not panic. He swam to bring his body to the ocean surface to breathe.

Compared to the two female players, he could swim. He had swum in oceans in other games, so this tiny difficulty was nothing to him.

“Logout button, Logout button. System, system. Where did the system go?” Li Shen attempted to get the system menu out as he floated.

However, the gaming pod’s system didn’t seem to be listening to Li Shen’s brainwaves. The system menu did not pop up, so he could not log out of the game.

At that moment, Li Shen felt something off.

There was no logout interface when he was in deep sleep in the VR game. It would mean that he would have to float on the ocean until the machine woke him up.

At that moment, a big shark beneath the water swam over.

“Ahh!”

It was the first time for the researcher to experience the pain of being swallowed.

Inhumane pain took over his entire body—it was intense! Such pain had surpassed the limit of the VR game’s bodily sensation setting.

At the bottom of the ocean, a gigantic whale opened its eyes. It swam slowly to the surface and was ready to catch the troubled player.