The King of Black Fog

Rotating his upper body to look around, it was boundless, at the edge of the view, the airport floor and ceiling merged into one.

Looking up, the ceiling, raised to an unknown height, was lined with rows of large lights.

On the south side was a floor-to-ceiling glass wall, beyond which was the parking area, where hundreds of giant airplane beasts crouched on the runway.

The entire airport was so empty and intimidating that one suspected that a mere cough would trigger a huge echo, thus catching the attention of the "giant beast airplanes" outside the glass.

Those airplane beasts would then rise, watching them from outside the floor-to-ceiling window like a microcosm in a glass tank.

"Let's go." Chang'e spoke, "They say because there are too many people, we need to exchange some boarding passes."

At a service counter that looked like a pool, they exchanged six boarding passes with the plane tickets Chang'e held.

After handing over the boarding passes, the official player inside the service counter flashed an absolutely perfect smile at Li Changzhou, saying:

"Hello, welcome to this flight. Your 'No Taboos' has disappeared. Please do not wander or move around, otherwise, corresponding fees will be charged, and appropriate penalties will be imposed."

"Can 'No Taboos' take other flights too?"

The official female player with six eyes smiled brightly, as if she were a two-dimensional anime character about to say 'I, ah, like Changzhou-kun the most.'

"Sorry, this is a prohibited matter~"

She even placed a finger on her cheek.

"Brother?" Li Qianxia's face blocked between Li Changzhou and the six-eyed official female player.

"This person is kind of annoying." Li Changzhou said.

"What are you doing?" Li Qianxia asked curiously, "Staring at someone like that, and after she even acted cute for you, you say she's annoying? That's very rude."

"Hmm?" Li Changzhou glanced around, Yang Qinglan and the others were looking at him in confusion.

While transmitting the previous conversation to them, he speculated, "Every official player has some sort of game administrator-level instinct, maybe that's her privilege."

The group was somewhat surprised.

The occurrences before them, they didn't even notice, the scene casually shown by the value game was enough to make the players behave.

The six of them left the service desk and sat face-to-face on a row of benches in front of the floor-to-ceiling window—a little carrot sat on it, and the chair automatically adjusted to a fitting size.

All around was silent and devoid of people, only them, as if they were sitting around a fire at the bottom of the sea.

Yang Qinglan whispered to Chang'e, imparting some experience as a player.

Li Qianxia half-kneeled on the seat, looking around into the distance, she suddenly tugged on Li Changzhou's sleeve.

Li Changzhou followed her gaze, and the others also looked over, it was another group of players, resembling a bunch of alien creatures, not from Earth.

The other party also looked at them.

In the vast waiting hall, two groups of people quietly stared at each other for two seconds.

"They seem to be all at Heavenly Immortal level!" Li Qianxia sat upright, whispering.

A bit surprised, but not unusual, since the plane tickets were prepared for these people.

Yang Qinglan glanced over and then withdrew her gaze, continuing to whisper to Chang'e.

"Players for the Wild A-01 flight, please prepare to board."

Turquoise Pool glanced at the boarding pass in hand, stood up: "It's our turn."

"But where do we board?" Li Qianxia stood up as well, looking around—she had been searching just now.

In front of the bench where the six of them were seated, the glass wall suddenly stretched outward, as if an invisible finger poked a hole on the surface of the wall.

The glass wall extended into a glass walkway.

Amidst the thunderous roar, a plane taxied out of its parking position, slowly aligning its cabin door with the glass walkway.

Another official player checked the tickets for the six, and after the inspection, they walked through the glass walkway inside, as if entering the body of a beast.

The cabin was quite simple, divided into two classes.

One was the regular cabin, where players had only semi-enclosed cubicles; the other was paying for a private room, which had everything and absolute secrecy besides.

"Brother, get a room!" Li Qianxia waved a hand, signaling Li Changzhou to spend money.

Where would Li Changzhou get the money? He used it all to buy "Rooting."

"The entire plane is ours, why get a room? Just sit in the hall!"

In consideration of Chang'e, they chose an ancient-style cubicle, just as they settled in, the plane immediately detached from the glass walkway.

This flight had only them.

The plane raced down the runway, fully focused, then shot upward abruptly, forcefully pulling itself away from the magnetic Earth, full of strength.

In mid-air, the plane shuddered slightly.

The group held onto the armrests tightly, like ordinary passengers on a common plane.

"Please rest assured, the plane is breaking free from the binds of time, piercing through the barriers of space. To save costs, there will be occasional slight tremors, all of which are normal phenomena."

"If passengers feel uncomfortable, they may purchase an 'upgrade cabin' service from the flight attendants."

Everyone silently listened to this segment, thinking there would be some important information, but it turned out to be an advertisement.

Yang Qinglan seemed to have finished speaking, finally saying: "There is no harsher learning environment than the value game. Experience here may only reinforce errors repeatedly—

"Experience sometimes not only doesn't make you smoother, it might even bring blind confidence, leading yourself to death.

"So, take what I say as suggestions, don't take them completely seriously."

Chang'e nodded: "Even if I wanted to take it seriously, it's hard. I always just do what feels right."

"That's for the best." Yang Qinglan smiled slightly, twenty years old, married, exuding a gentle and charming aura of a young married woman, and the youthful breath of a girl.

The plane continued to shake.