Chapter 40

[System Linked]

[Welcome to Last Shelter Online: Closed Beta Test Version]

[Remaining time: 24 hours]

Hiro was back above Liberty’s bedroom when he logged in to the game. He didn’t wear any clothes to cover his body.

When his eyes returned to functioning properly, Hiro was surprised by what he was seeing.

“Libe?”

Liberty was still asleep without changing her position in the slightest. However, what made Hiro suddenly worried was that he was starting to feel the difference in her body temperature.

Her body had turned very hot as if the girl had a fever.

Hiro immediately stood up and equipped his costum back before finally deciding to find a way to make the girl wake up from her long sleep together with lowering her body’s temp..

He took a cloth that was near Liberty’s bed and wet it with water that could come out normally like in the real world from a water faucet located in the kitchen room of Liberty’s house.

Very gently, Hiro touched the girl’s skin using a cloth that had been dampened in an attempt to wake her up, but to no avail. The girl remained motionless.

“What happened?” He once again touched her skin, and her body’s temp was very hot. He was sure that her body’s temp now was around 38 or 39 degree celcius.

Panicked, Hiro decided to contact Jacob who might be able to help him in a way that worked in the virtual world.

“Hello, Jacob, can you find a doctor or something in this world?”

“What happened!?”

“Liberty got a fever. I couldn’t even wake her up.”

“Your girlfriend got fever? Oh my goodness, alright, I will bring a doctor to check her. I’ll be right there soon. But first, send me Liberty’s home address.”

It was very easy to share the address in the virtual world. Hiro just shared the coordinate location of where he stayed now.

Hiro sat beside Liberty and corrected the girl’s sleeping position so that she wouldn’t sleep tilted her head. If she did so, she would wake up in horrible pain on her neck.

He hoped Liberty would wake up soon.

Once again, Hiro compressed Liberty’s forehead using cold tap water. He didn’t know what to do to wake her up. So he was trying to lower her body’s temp by the normal way like people did in the real world.

From her HP bar, the girl looked fine and had no particular effect. Even her health points were still full.

Hiro was getting more and more nervous, not to mention that the CBT version of the game will close soon and he hadn’t even had time to officially ask Liberty on a date.

And finally, after waiting, Jacob came with a female NPC who kept smiling, NPC Doctor.

Hiro didn’t know that NPCs like that existed.

When he let the NPC doctor examine Liberty’s body, the result was… nothing.

“She’s fine, Player Liberty was just asleep.”

The answer then left after Jacob paid the NPC some LSC.

“What happened?” Jacob was confused by what happened to Liberty.

It was clear that the girl’s body felt very hot but the NPC doctor could not detect the illness that the girl was experiencing.

Hiro realized that something was wrong with that.

Did Liberty fever come from the original world so that the NPC doctor couldn’t detect the disease?

Hiro could only assume, but his assumption didn’t wake Liberty up.

And he didn’t want to burden Jacob’s mind if he told him that the doctor was just an NPC who might be programmed on a limited basis. Unlike real doctors in the real world.

After waiting for more than an hour in silence, Jacob finally left and Hiro returned alone.

He was still waiting while looking at Liberty who never woke up from her sleep. Her fever didn’t go down, as if she was severely ill.

An hour passed.

Two hours passed.

Hiro just spent his time restlessly while he continued to look at the clock in his HUD system. Counting down until the beta test version of the game was completely over and will be replaced with the official version.

He didn’t know how to tell Liberty to play on the same server as him, to at least keep in touch and he could get to know her further.

‘Just why does it happen now? Should I trust that [1000] file?’ Hiro talked to himself.

But suddenly a broadcast notification appeared to inform all CBT players.

Ding!

[The auction for selling the minor cities in the LSO game will be started in 15 minutes]

[Everyone can still buy the ticket to join the auction]

[Current participants is 4500]

Hiro had almost forgotten his plan to buy a regular plot if only the notification hadn’t reminded him.

His mind was in turmoil because it was filled with various strange information at once.

‘50,000LSC to buy a ticket, huh? I won’t be able to buy it for now.’

[Balance 14,570 LSC]

Hiro had prepared enough LSC to buy a regular plot and he already knew which plot area to buy.

“About the server…”

‘Should I choose that server?’

Ding!

[The auction will be broadcasted live]

[Watch the auction LIVE in HUD System]

[Watch the auction LIVE at the Beginner Town square]

Hiro had already decided to head to the Marketplace before the shop closed. He will buy the regular plot he was after.

He had to hurry and move fast because he didn’t want to leave Liberty too long.

As he passed through the town square area, several people seemed to have already gathered there and were looking at a giant translucent screen showing the live streaming of the mini-cities auction for the game.

Several people seemed to be enjoying the spectacle.

“I will buy two cities.”

“I’ll buy a lot.”

“I will put my name on the name of the city I bought.”

“I have prepared 50 million USD for this auction.”

Hiro only frowned at the rich players’ conversation.

After checking their identities one by one, Hiro realized that he was the only one on a different social level compared to other players who got the CBT version.

Although initially, he was very distrustful of the information contained in the [1000] file, as time went on, he also felt that the file contained only the truth.

Meanwhile, Hiro glanced back at the screen and the camera was showing the auction ticket owners.

Those who came to the auction were people in expensive clothes who were required to cover their faces with a mask of various animal shapes that also looked expensive, made of real animal skins.

Hiro continued walking until he arrived in front of the [Marketplace] building and went inside.

Even though the big auction was about to take place, [Marketplace] was still functioning and selling regular plots as usual.

Nyx had appeared to welcome Hiro and immediately took him to the regular plot selection room which was still available for sale.

Hiro was relieved after seeing that plot area number W2801 in the western Beginner Town area was still available.

The plot area has 19 empty plots and 1 plot was used for a hidden NPC that could be marked as a Resurrection Point so that those who got killed while grinding in that area will be resurrected at that NPC point, without the need to return to the town square.

[You are choosing to buy regular plot area number W2801]

[This number is currently available for all servers]

[Please choose the server that you want to buy]

Hiro took a deep breath, “North America.”