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July 5th, 3100, Huaxia National Capital City, noon, scorching sun.
Yun Feng shook his sweat-drenched hair, complaining with a glance at the scorching sun above. By now, he had been standing under this sweltering sun for over an hour. Looking ahead at the distribution platform getting closer and closer, he let out a comforting sigh, muttering softly: "Alas, if it weren't for my stubborn little sister, I wouldn't be suffering like this even in eight lifetimes. Men with sisters are truly pitiful."
Today is already the thirtieth day of the "Divine Moon" game equipment distribution, and the number of people receiving game equipment is naturally far less than in the first half month. However, when Yunfeng arrived, that long queue still scared him to the point where he almost turned around and ran away. In the end, he gritted his teeth and stood at the back of the queue, moving forward step by step in agony.
After the signing of the "Hundred-Year Armistice Convention", international disputes will be resolved through wars in virtual game worlds. However, there are countless virtual games around the world, and to ensure fairness, the "Convention" is revised every ten years, with only the specified virtual game world being changed. This means that within these ten years, if a dispute must be resolved through war, it can only be fought in the designated game world. This inevitably leads to the virtual games specified by the "Convention" becoming popular worldwide, and even countries encouraging citizens to participate, investing heavily in cultivating players' skills and top-level players. Except for a few small countries that are detached from worldly disputes, most countries do this. Over time, those small virtual games gradually exit, and later on, all other virtual games disappear except for the designated ones, because humans only need one "second world".
The newly revised "Convention" specifies the virtual game world, which is about to open in two days, as "Shén Yuè". As a result, promotions for "Shén Yuè" have filled every corner of the world. The Huá Xià government has also been heavily promoting it over the past month. Just like every other designated virtual game, all "Shén Yuè" gaming devices are being given away for free. To receive one, you only need to bring a DNA sample (such as hair or skin) and the device will be bound to your DNA, allowing only you to use it.
"Shén Yuè" is so called because the official explanation is: "The world map of 'Shén Yuè' is a nearly standard crescent shape, players from the East will arrive in the eastern part of the crescent, and players from the West will arrive in the western part of the crescent. It was named 'Shén Yuè' due to its beautiful shape."
Scorching sunlight tested Yunfeng's nearly depleted patience, his hand grasping a strand of his sister's hair, gritting his teeth as he marched forward with the group. Occasionally, he would turn his head to glance at the long procession behind him in search of psychological comfort. As the eldest son of the second-largest conglomerate in Huaxia, he was accustomed to achieving his goals with mere words, but this was truly his first time enduring such a prolonged stay under the scorching sun since childhood.
5……4……3……
Finally, there were only three people left in front of him. Yunfeng let out a small sigh of relief and glanced at the receptionist, who was sweating profusely but still had a professional smile on her face. He muttered under his breath: "Not bad looking, but compared to my sister, she's just trash."
He took a glance, then lost interest and looked away, but his head suddenly jerked back, his eyes fixed, his mouth agape, as he involuntarily exclaimed: "What a cute girl!"
What he saw was a girl with a pure and beautiful face, like an angel. He believed that anyone who saw her would be surprised and conquered by her exquisite and almost illusory face. She looked as if she were already fifteen or sixteen years old, holding an ice cream cone as white as her skin and eating it sweetly, with a faint smile at the corner of her mouth that made people's hearts melt. Her eyes, which blinked occasionally, shone like crystals - he was sure that he had never seen such pure eyes in his life.
The scene in front of her eyes was so beautiful that it seemed a bit unreal, Yunfeng's gaze was stunned for a moment... She was like an elf who walked out of a painting, her purity and beauty didn't belong to this world, because the dirty air of this world would only tarnish her.
The person behind him gave him a gentle push, and Yun Feng finally woke up from his daze. He quickly took a small step forward, and now only two people were left in front of him. Yun Feng shook his head again, looking at the girl... It was only then that he noticed that the girl was sitting in a wheelchair.
What a beautiful girl! When she grows up, maybe even Meng Xin can't compare to her. Hmm... a wheelchair? Is this girl ill or disabled?
Wait...
That pale and abnormal complexion...
I'm sorry!!
Yun Feng's pupils contracted slightly... He was certain that the girl had contracted the most terrifying terminal illness - Iseloka.
"Alas, is it that the heavens are fair or cruel... to have given her a face that can topple cities, yet to take away her life so soon." Yunfeng sighed softly to himself, withdrawing his sympathetic gaze, unable to bear looking at the girl whose life was destined to wither away prematurely, then glanced at the person pushing the girl forward.
At the moment he saw that person's face clearly, Yunfeng was shocked as if struck by thunder and stood there in a daze.
That was a young man who looked like he was in his early twenties, with a tall and lean body, a clear-cut face, and an aura of elegance that seemed to emanate from him. He pushed the wheelchair forward, walking slowly and steadily, careful not to startle the girl in front of him. As if sensing Yunfeng's gaze, his face suddenly turned around, and in that instant, Yunfeng saw a pair of eyes as cold as icy stars. Under his gaze, Yunfeng felt as though his own eyes had been lightly pierced by a sharp sword.
The man's gaze stayed on him for only an instant, then withdrew and fell back onto the girl in front of him. His eyes suddenly became extremely gentle... That was the gaze of looking at the most important person in his life.
This person... this gaze... he... he is...
"Brother, ice cream." The girl turned around, holding up the half-eaten ice cream in her hand and putting it to the man's lips. The man smiled slightly, lowered his head slightly, and gently took a small bite of the part where the girl had left her lip print. The girl smiled innocently, pulled back the ice cream, and then lightly bit the same spot where the man had bitten before.
Yun Feng's heart skipped a beat, and he almost couldn't help but rush over. Although the number of people infected with Isloka had decreased significantly since the vaccine was developed, and transmission had been largely controlled, even if one had been vaccinated, it wasn't 100% safe. That girl clearly had Isloka, didn't he fear being infected?... Isloka was transmitted through various bodily fluids, including saliva, this was common knowledge that even children knew!
"Brother, let's hurry back home, okay? It's so hot outside, I'm afraid the clothes you just washed for me will get dirty again with sweat."
"Okay, fine."
The silhouettes and voices of the two people grew farther and farther away from Yun Feng, whose eyes followed them in the direction they went. What he was looking at wasn't that delicate, excessive girl, but rather that man.
Are they siblings?
No! What am I thinking?!
Yun Feng forcefully knocked his own head, and when he lifted it up again, the man was already in his original position, then pushed the wheelchair and disappeared around the street corner.
It's all over...
Only one person was left in front of him, and his hour-long struggle was finally about to pay off. He shook the hot sweat from his head, and Yun Feng's anxious mouth twitched, but he gritted his teeth and ran out of the crowd, chasing after the direction where the man had disappeared.
"Is this guy crazy?" The fat man who had been lining up behind him glared at his back and muttered. Having suffered so much hardship, he was finally about to get to the front of the line, but then he just ran off like that. What's wrong with him?
Ran to the corner, finally saw the man's back again, Yunfeng let out a sigh of relief, but thinking of his sharp and strange gaze before, he didn't dare to follow too closely, instead, he hung far behind, carefully watching his back move forward.
After more than ten minutes, the man pushed the girl into a high-end villa area. Yunfeng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled again... How could someone of his level be short of money?
Still not daring to get too close, Yunfeng did not enter the neighborhood. He waited until the two figures disappeared from view before rushing to the security room of the neighborhood and politely asked: "Sir, which villa does that brother and sister live in? I want to get to know that little girl, hehe..." After finishing speaking, Yunfeng also pretended to be embarrassed and smiled.
The old man looked at him with a knowing glance, then shook his head and said: "They live in No. 12, but I advise you to give up on that girl. Alas, the girl is indeed beautiful, but her fate is too bitter. Her father was a doctor who specialized in treating patients with Isoloka disease, often standing by the river, where he would inevitably get his shoes wet. A few years ago, her father finally contracted the disease, but at the time, neither he nor his family knew it. By the time they discovered it, the girl's mother and she herself had also been infected... Two years ago, her parents passed away one after another, leaving only the two siblings behind. The two siblings moved here after their parents' death, perhaps because their father left a large inheritance before he died. Well, in short, if you want to live for two more years, don't have any ideas about that girl. No one dares to approach the 12th villa where she lives, and even the families living in nearby villas have moved away and dare not return. Once infected with this disease, it's certain death! It's really pitiful for the girl's brother, who has been taking care of his sister with Isoloka disease without leaving her side, but surprisingly, he hasn't been infected yet."
The old man sighed continuously, apparently sympathizing with the girl's fate.
It was indeed Isloka... Yunfeng nodded and shouted "Thanks, grandpa!" before hastily running away under the old man's strange gaze.
