The air was filled with steam, making it a little difficult to breathe. Everything looked hazy like being in the bathroom during winter. The warm rain had tapered off, leaving only a hair-fine drizzle wafting through the white fog, and this made everyone uncomfortable as their half-dried clothes clung onto their bodies.
Under such a peculiar "hot bath"-like weather, everything seemed like it would take double the effort to complete. It created an atmosphere where everyone couldn’t help feeling a little lethargic. This was the reason why Li Zhijun was lazing around like a sloth, doing nothing.
"Are you going to come with me?" Hei Zeji, standing not far from him, shouted. Hei Zeji’s body was surprisingly dry.
"Come on… Let me rest for a while more…" Li Zhijun showed his listless face, "Besides, being wet is super uncomfortable…" Li Zhijun had always hated rain. Without the same abilities as his companion, Li Zhijun had no choice but to squint his eyes as he suffered the torture of each raindrop. There was no sign of his usual poise; instead, he looked like a wet little dog. He scanned the area in his sorry state. "Why don’t we look for a place to hide from this rain?"
"There is currently only one activated Pocket Dimension nearby. Do you want to enter?" Hei Zeji asked as he lifted a brow, expressing some tolerance toward Li Zhijun.
Li Zhijun’s eyes immediately brightened. "What sort of Pocket Dimension is it?"
"It’s a game-type Pocket Dimension. I’ll wait for you at the entrance."
Li Zhijun’s face instantly reverted to its previous listless expression. Entering a game-type Pocket Dimension meant walking into a trap directly. He would have to clear every stage with those unlucky people who were currently in it before he could come out… Even having a high combative advantage, did not mean much in such a Pocket Dimension.
He pulled himself up, sighing in despair. He took out a single small lens from nowhere and peered through it with one eye into the white fog just some distance away. "Huh? It is an open-air game-type Pocket Dimension. The host of this Pocket Dimension must be a cheapskate… Oh, it looks quite interesting. It seems like they’re celebrating the New Year… Huh?"
He put down the lens in his hand and turned to look at Hei Zeji saying, "Your same species is in there."
His bad-tempered companion retorted with throbbing veins, "Don’t use a term like ‘same species’!" Pausing for a moment, Hei Zeji eyes drifted afar. "Isn’t that woman too unlucky? She actually got drawn into two Pocket Dimensions in such a short time…"
Even though both were discussing about Lin Sanjiu who was trapped not far from them, they didn’t show any intention to go over to help. Li Zhijun kept the lens properly and started walking in the opposite direction of the Pocket Dimension. Just then, he commented lazily, "Anyway, it must be difficult for you, Growth types."
"Huh?" He Zeji answered curtly, sounding surprised.
"Each of you has such Potential Growth Value, but you are all weaklings during the initial phase. Those abilities are really useless… That woman, what was her ability? Umm, storing items into cards, right?"
Hei Zeji wanted to refute what he said, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that Lin Sanjiu’s card ability could only be used as a glorified backpack.
"I heard a rumor that many Growth types don’t survive past three worlds because they are too weak at the start…" Li Zhijun looked over at Hei Zeji inquisitively, "Is it true?"
"Yes," the man answered even though he was clearly offended.
"What was your first ability?" Li Zhijun edged closer to Hei Zeji as his eyes sparkled with interest. "Aren’t there quite a few Growth-types in some of those high-level worlds? How did they survive? And, how did you survive?"
"If I answer you, will you stop being so annoying?"
Li Zhijun smiled happily and nodded.
"Basically, all of the powerful Growth-types survive their initial phase with the help of things." As if recalling something from his past, Hei Zeji threw a glance at the Pocket Dimension which was getting further and further away from them. "For Growth-types, their first ability usually has little combat value, so they have to rely on Special Items or companions to survive. If we look at it from another perspective, they need luck."
He lowered his head and looked at his left hand. There was a deep cross-shaped scar on his muscular forearm. "But at that time, I had neither of those."
"Huh? Then, how did you survive?" Li Zhijun was astonished, "I remembered that the world you were originally from was a—"
"It was an A-level world," Hei Zeji finished Li Zhijun’s sentence as if he knew what his companion wanted to say. He continued, "While trying to survive, I gradually gained some insights about killing."
Li Zhijun stopped walking. "Ah Ji, what were you before the New World descended."
"A normal high school student," after saying that, Hei Zeji ignored the startled expression behind him and continued walking straight ahead.
"Hey, wait up!" Li Zhijun shouted and quickly chased up to him. Very quickly, they both disappeared into the fog...
Lin Sanjiu did not know this, but she was actually considered quite lucky. At that moment, Lin Sanjiu stared at the wooden chest in front of her, she was stunned, and her mouth was wide open.
Even though she knew that Special Items from the New World were quite unusual, the things she saw were too…
Individual Prize 1: That spring, when the cherry blossoms fell, your sweet laughter melted my world.
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