Chapter 121: We Meet Again
Song Jiulai’s photo was from a company next door.
My cousin probably had some connections and managed to find an old photo.
“It was taken when their company went on a team-building trip. Take a look? Don’t tell me it’s your friend. If it really is your friend, don’t be too sad…”
As her cousin handed over the mobile phone, Chen Miaomiao’s heart skipped a beat when she saw the person on it.
Song Jiulai’s face was still very recognizable.
The girl in the photo was smiling, and she looked very familiar.
And Song Jiulai in the game was very good-looking.
But that was because her skin and figure in the game were in perfect condition.
In reality, it was somewhat inferior.
But her facial features hadn’t changed much.
Chen Miaomiao’s mind went blank at that moment.
The Sect Master in the game matched the person in reality?
And the name was exactly the same.
Chen Miaomiao’s voice trembled slightly: “Cousin, when did she pass away?”
Her cousin thought for a moment: “It was just over a month ago. What, you… really know her?”
Just over a month ago?
That was exactly when the game appeared…
Song Jiulai in reality had passed away, but a Song Jiulai appeared in the game.
And no one had managed to break through this mysterious game yet.
Chen Miaomiao seemed to realize she had discovered something beyond her comprehension.
“No,” Chen Miaomiao quickly calmed herself down. “I mistook her. My friend is still alive.”
“Oh… there are such strange coincidences with names in this world?” her cousin said. “Maybe it’s just a coincidence. It’s getting late, let’s go out for dinner.”
Chen Miaomiao nodded: “Okay.”
But she still found it hard to describe the shock she felt.
What was the connection between Song Jiulai in reality and Song Jiulai in the game?
Chen Miaomiao felt a bit confused.
She wanted to ask other players, but this was someone else’s privacy after all.
Especially since Song Jiulai in reality had already passed away.
Thinking of this, Chen Miaomiao quietly kept silent.
Song Jiulai was unaware that more and more rumors were spreading about her, but she wouldn’t have cared even if she knew, as they couldn’t directly come to Yunzhou Continent to find her!
Even if they were to transmigrate, they would still have to pass through the System’s threshold.
While Song Jiulai was still searching for better treasures in the Secret Realm, the players had made new progress.
After Han Tian and the others opened their shop in the Peach Blossom Sect, they immediately set off for the Netherworld Sect and Liuyun Sect without delay.
Wang’an County also began to undergo earth-shattering changes.
After finding the coal mine, they knew what to produce. Combined with the knowledge the players already possessed, building some infrastructure had basically no obstacles.
For example, cement roads.
In Yunzhou Continent, the stone slabs typically used for paving roads in cities were just ordinary minerals, and some extravagant places would use Spirit Ore.
But Wang’an County didn’t have the luxury for that.
Ordinary stone slabs were polished very smoothly by cultivators, but not every cultivator had the patience for it.
The reason for using cement was that this material was indeed hard.
It was much better than ordinary stone slabs.
And it was simple and easy to obtain.
The players had laid the foundation and even planned the entire area’s sewage system, following the plans for a large city.
The road was being built all the way to the neighboring Peach Blossom Sect.
As for the unsafe areas along the route, fearing attacks from Demonic Beasts.
It was even simpler: build post stations and inns first.
In reality, infrastructure was not important to Yunzhou at this time, as players could travel freely.
The reason they were so enthusiastic was that players discovered they could not only build infrastructure freely but also dismantle and redecorate unsatisfactory parts, just like in the game.
This greatly satisfied the preferences of some Life Players who enjoyed farming games.
Just like your road, if mortals dare not walk on it, it’s useless.
Life Players would only say: “Don’t worry about it!”
Those commoners were like the citizens in their hands.
Their goal was to let the common people live a convenient and good life!
They wanted to build a modern metropolis, and even if it couldn’t be modernized quickly, it should at least have its own style.
As soon as cement production began, workshops also needed to be built.
Some were very enthusiastic about these things, while others were not so much.
For example, some players who had nothing else to do had already begun to popularize the importance of books among mortals.
And they planned to build schools so that all children in Wang’an County could attend.
In Yunzhou Continent, as long as one stayed in one place, it was safe, and mortals lacked initiative.
Without any motivation to improve, they were not enthusiastic about schools. Although schools existed, most would only learn to recognize characters.
But what was the use of just recognizing characters?
The powerful martial force of the Cultivation World suppressed everything. Even if some mortals realized the injustice of the world, there were no channels for upward mobility.
However, forcing children to gather in one place to learn, and not just characters but a string of headache-inducing Arabic numerals, confused the mortals.
“My Dou’er has to go too? But he’s already eleven years old…”
“What’s wrong with being eleven? Is recognizing characters enough? Can he do arithmetic? Do you know how many square meters Wang’an County has now?”
“Sir, what does square meter mean…”
“…”
The issue of popularizing education was urgent.
Seeing the players enthusiastically treating this like a construction game, some players had to remind them: “This is a cultivation game, shouldn’t we focus on cultivation?”
“What cultivation, what not? I have a White Spiritual Root, don’t make things difficult for me, okay? I just don’t like seeing children who should be in school not going, just playing in the county town all day, it’s too lax, too unacceptable! Are the flowers of the motherland meant to be wasted like this?”
“Brother, you’re an office worker in real life, aren’t you? The kind who doesn’t get weekends off and works overtime?”
“…You know, that’s good. Don’t say it out loud.”
While the players were building at a rapid pace, Song Jiulai, on her end, stayed in the Secret Realm until the last two days and finally found a relatively valuable new Tier 4 Spirit Herb!
Besides the Black Gold Glazed Grass she found earlier, it was estimated that all the good items in the Secret Realm had already been plundered by other Sects.
Song Jiulai had encountered traces of battles along the way.
She wasn’t the only one fighting in the Secret Realm.
However, near the Spirit Herb she found this time, there was still a difficult-to-deal-with Tier 3 Demonic Beast lurking, which was a bit more troublesome than the Nine Nether Eating Spider.
Song Jiulai planned to wait until nightfall to make her move.
This was because the beast’s vision was poor at night.
Similarly, in another direction, a group of people was also heading this way.
The leading disciple of the Tai Xuan Sect looked at the distraught Yi Tianhe with cold eyes: “Yi Tianhe, when the Secret Realm ends, you will go back and receive your punishment. You and Lu Rufeng have caused such a huge mess this time, you won’t have any place among the Inner Disciples.”
Yi Tianhe trembled all over.
After escaping, she had luckily encountered disciples from her own sect, but because of the immense trouble she had caused, she now dared not think about the punishment she would receive after leaving the Secret Realm.
The Magic Treasure was lost by Lu Rufeng, but they were a unit.
The responsibility could not be shirked.
