The bishop, after hearing this, could only walk out in dissatisfaction. The woman breathed a sigh of relief and turned her gaze to the portrait hanging on the wall. The man in the portrait had eyes filled with a sorrow for the world. In the David Sect, as long as one is under the guise of a priest, no one would interfere with her freedom.
"Praised be the Holy Father, I hope that our believers who enter the ’Military Road’ game can return unharmed." The woman knelt on the ground and prayed devoutly.
Nightfall engulfed Lin Yi and others analyzing the results, as well as the devoutly praying parishioners. The same nightfall also descended upon the "Military Road" system. After nightfall, the entire forest was shrouded in a white fog, with an unusually cold atmosphere surrounding it.
The calls of unnamed insects and the roars of beasts echoed continuously in the distance. Xia You, who couldn’t close her eyes for the entire night, felt fatigue constantly assaulting her.
Compared to the darkness of the previous three days, the current period of darkness seemed even more threatening. Xia You did not dare to walk around recklessly, nor could she rashly spend the night under the trees. After weighing her options, she chose to climb the nearby trees under the faint moonlight and spend the night in the trees. Her arms and knees, while climbing, rubbed against the trees and broke open several cuts.
When she climbed over two meters high, Xia You exhaled, trying not to look down, her hand desperately reaching for another branch. Instead of the touch of wood, she felt a slimy liquid and something squirming...
"Ah," Xia You let go, screaming as she tumbled down the trunk, her feet kicking off the bark in the chaos. She landed on her buttocks on the ground, her knees still covered with slime. Her hands made a popping sound, and liquid flowed out between her fingers.
As the popping sound rang out, the number at the end of her figure indicating military merit changed from 0 to 10.
Upon closer inspection, Xia You saw that her hand was covered in fresh red blood. Other than her fingertips, she felt no pain elsewhere. The pool of blood on the ground did not belong to her.
Under the moonlight, Xia You saw that beneath her palm was a dead leech. Just by its appearance, this leech was not the same as the leeches she had read about in books; it was the size of an adult’s arm, and its suction disc was the size of a soy sauce dish, large enough to swallow a person’s fist.
If it weren’t for the fact that she had climbed up the tree and then tumbled down in panic, Xia You could have been sucked dry by the tree leech hidden in the tree, turning into a mummified corpse.
The blood at her fingertips had stopped. The leech’s slime was a good hemostatic agent.
For the rest of the night, Xia You did not attempt to climb back up the tree. She was very clear that the place she was in now was completely different from the environment she used to live in, and this tree leech served as the best warning.
After her brain was in chaos for a while, Xia You gradually recovered, just like she had quickly adapted to the darkness before. She stood up, looking around at the shadows of the trees and the clear moonlight.
Xia You, who had never touched virtual gaming before, mumbled to herself, "I wonder if this ’Military Road’ game has a ’Help’ option like the WINDOWS system."
The chirping of insects continued joyously, after about the time it took to take three deep breaths.
A slightly hesitant voice: "How did a player enter this closed space?"
Xia You was overjoyed in her heart. Since "Military Road" could simulate such a realistic environment, it must also possess unknown high-level intelligence.
When Xia You entered this inexplicable "Military Road", what she had seen and heard could no longer be explained by normal logic.
Xia You’s prediction was not wrong; this game was equipped with "high-end intelligence" that exceeded known scientific levels.
The female voice rose, "Number 0, who allowed you to enter the Sub-God Space?" From the tone of the voice, this newly emerged female voice was between that of a girl and an adult woman, sharp in tone, probably seventeen or eighteen years old.
"My name is Xia You, not Number 0," for some reason, when Xia You heard this number, her temples throbbed with pain.
"In ’Military Road’, low-ranked soldiers like you are only distinguished by a number, unless you reach school level or higher military rank or have one hundred thousand Military Road Coins, (gagaga, I have to laugh at Qidian, humph, changing names costs so much money.) then you have the right to change your name," the female voice answered impatiently.
Arguing with a high-end intelligence with a volatile personality was not a good idea. After thinking for a while, Xia You resigned herself to this awkward designation.
"Call me whatever you want, alright, but please tell me what environment I’m in now, and how can I leave here?" Xia You asked a flurry of questions.
"I have no obligation to answer these questions, you must leave the Sub-God Space immediately," the female voice said with obvious displeasure, refusing to reply to Xia You’s questions.
"I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestion, the question is how do I leave here?" Xia You asked through gritted teeth, negotiating with the system was futile, she just wanted to leave this hellish place.
"You were forcibly sent into the ’Military Road’ system. The military set this operation with a time limit of two months, requiring 1000 points of military merit. Within these two months, you were supposed to stay in the newcomer’s trial ground like other players. If nothing went wrong, you would become a Private First Class. Yet you ended up here," the female voice ceased after explaining.
"According to you, where am I now? What is this space?" Xia You caught the implications in "the system woman’s" voice.
"The so-called space exists parallel to ’Military Road’. Due to a system flaw, you were separated from the other players and entered here. The continent you are currently on belongs to the Sub-God Space, about 70 million years from the prehistoric era of the real world."
The "high-end intelligence," after several attempts to remove Number 0 from this space and a string of curses, was forced to reveal this reality that both it and Number 0 had to accept.