[Ahhhhhhhhhh, don’t use emotional attacks on me!!!]

[Wuwuwuwuwu, I’m crying so hard!!!]

[Ye Yuhan-jiejie is so sad, Zhuang Mu-xiaogege is so sad, Doctor Yu is so sad, and the Mermaid Town Mayor is also so sad!!!]

[Who gets it? They did so many bad things, but I’m really crying.]

[It’s mainly because of the cub, right? Mermaid Town has never had a situation of earning the audience’s tears. This is the first time ever. The cub awakened their kindness, so the audience is willing to be moved by this bit of their kindness.]

[An old man and a young child, sitting side-by-side at the bow of the boat to watch the sunrise, I’m really heartbroken.]

[Mayor-yeye is so pitiful, he’s all alone now. Sigh, honestly, it would have been better if he had died with everyone else.]

 [Okay, stop, anyway, the instance will refresh, and it’ll be back to the Mermaid Town Mayor who makes people chop up mermaids with knives [smile].]

[Okay, I’m okay now, thanks.]

Amidst the audience’s howls, the Mermaid Town instance came to a perfect end.

–

The Mermaid Town instance ended, and the system began the final settlement. The settlement results were displayed on the public screen.

[Instance: Mermaid Town]

[Number of Players Who Cleared: 7]

[Difficulty Rating: C]

[Ranking…

First Place: Gu Lin

Instance Exploration Rate: 98%

Injury Index: 0.01% (After the player turned into a little mermaid, he fell off the sofa by himself, and accidentally scraped his palm a little bit)

Overall Rating: S

Second Place: Pei Luoxue

Instance Exploration Rate: 90%

Injury Index: 0%

Overall Rating: A

Third Place: Lin Xingchi

Instance Exploration Rate: 90%

Injury Index: 10%

Overall Rating: A]

Only the rankings were displayed on the public screen, and only the top three were announced. Other details could only be seen by the players themselves.

–

Gu Lin’s livestream interface was settling his account.

[Player: Gu Lin]

[Rank: 1st Place]

[Points: 2,165,000 (1,000,000 for first place, 1,000,000 from audience views converted 1:1, 30,000 for clue points, 135,000 from audience gifts)]

[Items Obtained: Pearl formed from mermaid tears, Fedora Hat, Scooter. [Click to view details]]

[Cards Obtained: 3. [Click to view details]]

Gu Lin let out an “Eh” and used his little hand to click on “view details.”

[Item: Pearl Formed from Mermaid Tears

Function: Creating Illusions (Mermaid sacrifice can make illusions real), Soul Exchange (Soul swap or dual-soul unity)

Note: Consumable item. Creating illusions 1 time, soul exchange 1 time. Please use with caution.]

[Item: Fedora Hat

 Function: Invisibility (Wearing it on the head allows for invisibility for ten minutes. No limit on uses, but the next use requires an interval of more than one hour. Please use reasonably.)

Note: An invisibility hat actively gifted to you by the Mermaid Town Mayor. This hat has a history of over a hundred years and is the first time it has been owned by a player. It carries the Mermaid Town Mayor’s heartfelt love for his grandson~]

[Item: Scooter

Function: Ride

Note: A scooter actively gifted to you by the mermaid xiaogege Zhuang Mu. It can automatically adjust its size and speed according to the player’s height and weight~]

Seeing the scooter, Gu Lin’s eyes instantly lit up.

Cub also has a scooter!

The system introductions were all translated, so Gu Lin, who couldn’t read, could automatically understand them.

Gu Lin then clicked on the details of the three cards.

On the first card, the photo of the mermaid town mayor was lit up.

The mermaid town mayor was wearing a fedora, his old face full of bark-like wrinkles, and he had a proud expression.

[Card 1: Mermaid Town Mayor]

[Age: Unknown]

[Description: Mermaid Town Mayor, Instance BOSS.]

On the second card, the photo of Yu Youmian was lit up.

This photo had two images. One was the doctor image, in a white coat, wearing white gloves, with gold-rimmed glasses on his face, serious, cold, and meticulous.

The second was the mermaid image, with long pale blue hair, handsome beyond compare, a sapphire blue fishtail, and a few scales on his cheek.

[Card 2: Yu Youmian]

[Age: 32]

[Description: Mermaid Doctor, all artificial fish were created by him. The only real mermaid in Mermaid Town, the most beautiful mermaid, Instance BOSS.]

On the third card, the photo of Zhuang Mu was lit up. Zhuang Mu was riding a scooter, with a light golden fishtail, light golden waist-length hair, and two thin braids on each side of his temples. A gentle smile was on his beautiful and delicate face.

[Card 3: Zhuang Mu]

[Age: 17]

[Description: Artificial fish, a perfect mermaid transformed using the serum of a real mermaid. The second most beautiful mermaid in Mermaid Town, the personal assistant of the mermaid doctor Yu Youmian, the source of serum for the split-leg mermaids.]

Having gained a lot, after Gu Lin finished reviewing, 9527 helped him put them into the system backpack.

Gu Lin: [What are these cards for?]

9527: [Collect all the instance cards, and maybe you can summon a dragon?]

Gu Lin was surprised: [Wow! Cub has never seen a dragon!]

9527: …

9527 was just being playful. He quickly corrected his attitude: [Actually, they’re just souvenirs from NPCs who have a good impression of the players. If the little streamer misses them, you can take out the photos and look at them.]

Gu Lin clenched his little fist: [Mm-hmm, cub will always miss Mayor-yeye, Doctor-shushu, and Zhuang Mu-gege!]

Master of Equal Treatment Cub was determined to mention everyone, never neglecting anyone.

–

After exiting the Mermaid Town instance, the seven players arrived at the game’s virtual lobby, but they did not return to the real world.

Lin Xingchi had a gentle smile on his lips, holding Gu Lin.

Gu Lin was wearing his Ultraman backpack, holding a lollipop in his little hand, eating it, curiously looking left and right.

Su Qiao walked beside the two of them.

There were many people in the game lobby. As soon as they came out of the instance, eyes immediately shifted to them.

The baby-carrying trio instantly became the focus of the crowd.

To be precise, eyes were all on this little dumpling.

Gu Lin became famous in one battle, becoming incredibly popular throughout the entire game.

On the game forum, posts about the Mermaid Town instance had gone on for dozens of pages, with high popularity. And Gu Lin’s single hot post had gone on for over a hundred pages.

Everyone was discussing this human cub.

Who would have thought that a cub less than two years old could actually suppress other players and bravely win first place?

This little body wasn’t even enough to fill the gaps between an NPC’s teeth.

Gu Lin’s series of amazing words and actions in the game also made people sigh.

From the moment he entered the game and wanted to eat yuyu, this little cub had been constantly refreshing everyone’s understanding.

Now that he was out of the game, good heavens, he was still eating, still being held, not walking himself. Calling him a lazy and gluttonous little piglet was not wronging him at all!

They really wanted to interview the other players. Were they ashamed, embarrassed, to be inferior to even a little piglet!

There was also a post pinned on the homepage of the game forum, with the title—What is it like to be humiliated and defeated by a child less than two years old?

They might as well just mention the names of the other players directly.

Having witnessed Gu Lin yanking Scarface and kicking Scarface, many people recognized Gu Lin’s strength.

But more people believed that Gu Lin’s ability to get first place in the Mermaid Town instance was more due to luck.

The instance BOSS, the Mermaid Town Mayor, the old man liked lively and cute grandsons, and this little cub was indeed round-headed and cute. It was easy to understand why the Mermaid Town Mayor would be extra tolerant of Gu Lin.

But other instances might not be so lucky.

Everyone was sizing up Gu Lin.

The other players were also forced to accept being watched, while also subtly sizing up others.

The players were surprised to find that not only were there no children in the Mermaid Town instance, but there were also no children in the game lobby.

Could it be that Gu Lin was the only child in the entire game?!

What was the principle behind this?

Was this reasonable?

If the game had an age limit, Gu Lin wouldn’t have been pulled into the game. If there was no age limit, why was there only one little player?

Strange.

The players were all puzzled.

Not long after exiting the game, the Double-Cap Big Shot gave Gu Lin the 50% of the points he had promised. Then, without even saying goodbye, he turned and left, no one knew where he went.

Except for Gu Lin, who was young and didn’t understand, the other players couldn’t help but sigh.

At the last moment, if it weren’t for the Double-Cap Big Shot, they wouldn’t have been able to clear the instance and survive, but they didn’t even have time to thank him.

Was the Big Shot’s name Pei Luoxue?

They wondered if they would have the chance to meet again.

Gu Lin looked at the departing back of the Double-Cap Big Shot, puzzled: “Where is Hat-gege going?”

Others: “…”

Hat-gege?

Don’t be too ridiculous.

All the players had promised to give Gu Lin 50% of their points. No one reneged, and they immediately gave him the points.

Gu Lin instantly gained another 125,000 points, more than half of which came from the Double-Cap Big Shot. The other players combined only had 30,000.

These points included clue points, audience views, and rewards.

The first place could get a million points, the second place only one hundred thousand, and the third place fifty thousand. The difference was very large.

Not long after the Double-Cap Big Shot left, a man and a woman approached the players.

Both were very young, looking around twenty-five years old, with somewhat similar features. Their faces were filled with an unnatural enthusiasm.

“Congratulations on clearing the instance. We are from the Starry Sky Guild. My name is Wu Jin, and this is my sister, Wu Lan. Are you interested in joining our guild?”

The man named Wu Jin got straight to the point, not beating around the bush: “I’m afraid you’re all new to the game and don’t know about our guild. Our Starry Sky Guild is the largest guild in the entire game, with good benefits and high treatment.”

“Most importantly, we only charge a 20% membership fee, which is 5% lower than the Deep Sea Guild…”

Players: “…”

20% was considered low?

Hearing that the two were from the Starry Sky Guild, everyone noticed that the clothes they were wearing were blue with dots, like the starry sky, and there was a very unique star pattern on the collar.

Song Ran was a second-time player. He had learned about guilds before, but felt that they were too exploitative and not friendly to newcomers, so he hadn’t joined.

Of course, before, he was too weak to join.

The Deep Sea Guild and the Starry Sky Guild were the two major guilds in the game. On the surface, the two guilds kept to themselves, but in reality, they were constantly fighting openly and secretly.

Under the two major guilds, there were many small guilds.

Those seeking support could join, but the guilds only looked at individual ability. If your individual ability wasn’t outstanding, joining a guild meant being at the bottom of the food chain, being exploited. And for those with some ability, joining was even less worthwhile, very likely becoming a stepping stone for the Big Shot-level players.

The guild’s purpose was the same as the game’s: survival of the fittest, human life was like grass.

After Wu Jin and Wu Lan arrived, several other people wanted to come over. It looked like they were from other guilds, but when they recognized that Wu Jin and Wu Lan were wearing the clothes of the Starry Sky Guild, they all dispelled the idea of coming over to snatch people.

If even the Starry Sky Guild couldn’t recruit them, the Deep Sea Guild might have a slight hope, but other guilds shouldn’t even think about it.

After listening to Wu Jin’s introduction, Li Nan and Xia Xue hesitated and decided to join.

After the Mermaid Town instance, they realized that it was difficult to clear instances with their own strength alone. Logically, they shouldn’t have been able to clear the Mermaid Town instance.

This time they were lucky, the players who participated in the game together were very friendly, and they completely laid down and won, but they wouldn’t have such good luck in the future.

Seeing that only Li Nan and Xia Xue joined, and the other players were completely unmoved, Wu Jin and Wu Lan’s expressions stiffened.

The two weakest joining the guild were meaningless!

Seeing the two’s slightly disdainful expressions, Li Nan and Xia Xue’s expressions became a little awkward.

Wu Jin: “If this little dumpling joins, we are willing to open up special privileges. The others can join directly without review.”

“…” Damn it, after all this grand talk, it turned out they were just here for this little cub, and the others were just an afterthought.

Wu Lan had been looking at the little dumpling being held, her eyes filled with eagerness.

When she was watching the livestream, she had become a fan of this little dumpling, and was also a loyal auntie.

She knew that Gu Lin loved to eat the most, and smiled: “Little baby, there are many delicious and fun things in the guild. Even if you don’t join, you can come to our guild to eat for free, oh.”

Gu Lin’s little tummy was already growling. Hearing this jiejie say she would take him to eat, although he really wanted to go, he remembered that there was something more important.

Gu Lin shook his head, eating a lollipop, and said in a soft, tender voice: “Thank you, jiejie, but cub has to go home to chi fanfan. Otherwise, gege won’t be able to find cub, and cub will definitely get a beating.”

And he also had to give the little pearl to gege!

“…” Wu Lan was stunned for a moment, then her heart melted at being called “jiejie” by Gu Lin.

She was 25 this year, and Gu Lin actually called her jiejie!

After entering the game, the time in the real world was almost stagnant. The Mermaid Town instance had lasted three days, but in the real world, only about three minutes had passed.

At this time, 9527 remembered to explain to Gu Lin: [Little streamer, in the real world, it’s nighttime. Three days in the game is only three minutes in the real world. When you go back, you can only shuijiao. ]

Gu Lin: …

Gu Lin blinked his big eyes and said, [Then cub won’t get a beating?]

9527: [Yes, little streamer.]

Hearing that he wouldn’t get a beating, Gu Lin was happy, and immediately changed his mind: “Then jiejie, cub doesn’t need to go home, let’s go chi fanfan!”

Everyone: “…”

How could this change so quickly?