Chapter 542 - 210: Provoking a Three-Way Battle, Straight to the Moistest Center

If it weren’t for Brother Fei... I probably would have died during the first inheritance of game abilities...

「East of Ye City,」

On the surface of the sea thousands of kilometers away, two delicate young women stood before the Shield of the Pacific Ocean’s special region, gazing at the largest Shield on Blue Star.

Li Xiaohong, who had already bound herself to Shen Fei as her master, used her Succubus bloodline’s ability to clearly sense his location. She glanced at 0 beside her and thought for a moment, remembering her agreement with 0 about taking odd and even days. Now that 0 had also bound herself to a master, Li Xiaohong decided she wanted to improve their relationship. She took the initiative to tell 0 about how she and Shen Fei had met.

She explained that she had known Shen Fei before the apocalypse, all thanks to Shen Yue. After the apocalypse arrived, if Shen Fei hadn’t cleared the monsters from the Qing City Institute of Technology, she would have certainly died in the first wave. Without Shen Fei, Li Xiaohong knew she would already be dead. Therefore, binding herself to him as her master was something she felt no pressure about at all.

As for me...

Beside her, after hearing Li Xiaohong’s story, 0 couldn’t help but reflect on her own history with Shen Fei. After some consideration, she realized that if she hadn’t met Shen Fei—if it weren’t for him—she might never have inherited the "Ethereum Robot" bloodline.

The only reason she had chosen the non-human, robotic bloodline was because she had entered a special region and encountered a great danger right when the Version 4.6 update allowed her to choose one. This had forced her to choose the "Ethereum Robot" bloodline, which could immediately enhance her Ethereum Editor abilities.

The reason she had entered that special region in the first place was because of Shen Fei’s "Invincible" performance in the Great Chaos Secret Realm much earlier. She had inherited memories from the Secret Realm, which compelled her to enter a special region to investigate the related intelligence. Therefore, if it weren’t for Shen Fei, 0 might still be leading her "team" of doppelgangers, like I and II, hiding behind the scenes. Her appearance before everyone, and her choice to bind herself to Shen Fei as his master, were all caused by him.

Of course, 0 also knew in her heart that if Shen Fei had been unwilling to become her master just now, she would have rather died than bind herself to anyone else.

Because Shen Fei was the most special one.

There was the time she disguised herself as V and "dated" him. There were the weeks she spent entering special regions, using her free time to interrogate her own heart. That was why she had bound herself to Shen Fei as her master. If it hadn’t been him, 0 would never have bound herself to anyone.

SPLASH.

SPLASH.

SPLASH.

Standing outside the Shield of the Pacific Ocean’s special region, the two young women waited for Shen Fei to get further away, chattering on and involuntarily pouring out their hearts to one another. They both knew that the other had also bound herself to a master. The two of them were now tied to Shen Fei, for better or for worse. Faced with this new reality, they started to understand each other better. The scene was surprisingly harmonious.

"Okay!"

"Brother Fei just teleported two more times!"

"It looks like he’s heading straight for the very center..."

「Half an hour later,」

Li Xiaohong, able to sense Shen Fei’s position through her Succubus bloodline, relayed his location to 0.

"Good!" 0 nodded without a second thought. "Let’s go, then! We’ll go on ahead and bypass that region to the west!"

Hearing Li Xiaohong’s positioning data, she waved her hand and unleashed her [Ethereum Editor] technique, which had just been powered up a hundredfold from another round of ability inheritance.

Then, under Li Xiaohong’s watchful gaze, a multicolored Teleportation Gate opened directly beneath their feet. The special region of the Pacific Ocean, with its defenses that were impregnable to others, was easily and quickly breached by 0’s Ethereum Transmission technique.

SWOOSH!

After exchanging a glance, the two of them stepped onto the Ethereum Teleportation Gate and crossed inside the Shield.

WHOOSH.

WHOOSH.

With two flashes of bright light, they bypassed the small island in the western Pacific’s special region where she and Tang San had been captured. Without a word, 0 teleported them toward the very center of the Pacific Ocean, the location Li Xiaohong had sensed.

Although she had once again obtained immense power during the fifth inheritance of game abilities, she still chose to be cautious. Furthermore, aside from the [Scamming Waist Cutter] she had given to Shen Fei, the two Divine Artifacts she had left had also unexpectedly granted her something new during the previous ability inheritance.

However, to avoid unnecessary trouble, 0 still bypassed the island where she had been captured, even though her Combat Power had increased by hundreds or even thousands of times. If she hadn’t bound herself to a master, if she were all alone, and if she didn’t have to follow and assist Shen Fei—not to mention the mandatory countdown mission that activated after binding to him—0 might have gone to challenge the Intelligent NPC who had captured her and Tang San after her power multiplied so dramatically.

But right now, she had a mission. The mission required her to head straight for Shen Fei.

Moreover, to avoid having Shen Fei drive her and Xiaohong away, the two of them had to be careful and complete their "tracking" and "assisting" without him finding out.