“I must have seen it wrong,” Chichu Chun muttered to herself, lowering her head.

“There’s no way You would appear at this time; it just doesn’t make sense.”

Xu Xiaoyou was about to remind her when dark red hair rushed into her arms, hugging her tightly as if afraid she’d suddenly disappear, pushing her back a few steps as well.

“You, why didn’t you tell me you were back?” Chichu Chun seemed to think of many aggrieved things, her eyes slightly red, and she silently sniffled, a weak crying tone in her voice.

“I thought you weren’t coming back anymore.”

Not wanting the girl to see her in such a vulnerable state, Chichu Chun buried her head deeper into Xu Xiaoyou.

“I’ve been so bored at school these days, with no one to talk to. Why did you leave so hastily last time, without even a proper goodbye…”

Xu Xiaoyou didn’t expect such a big reaction from her: “Ahem, Rice Wine, there are people around.”

Hearing this, Chichu Chun jumped up like a zombie stepping on a potato landmine.

Her fur stood on end, glancing around nervously; noticing those ambiguous, peculiar, and smiling glances, the Little Witch became angry out of shame, glaring back furiously, driving away all the onlookers.

Chichu Chun coughed a few times, her expression modest and fragile: “Anyway, you appeared at just the right time.”

“Please don’t speak in such a coy tone, thank you,” Xu Xiaoyou said.

“Tsk,” Chichu Chun clicked her tongue, “I thought you liked this type.”

Xu Xiaoyou raised an eyebrow, not understanding the meaning behind the girl’s words. Before she could figure it out, Chichu Chun forcibly grabbed her hand and led her towards the school gate.

Noticing the puzzled looks from the bystanders, Chichu Chun leaned close to Xu Xiaoyou and whispered like she was telling a secret: “Are you really the ‘Dark Gold Rose’?”

Obviously, the girl had also heard about what happened on the Star of Art, seeing the two dazzling figures at the center of the world stage.

“Aren’t you also the Young Master?” Xu Xiaoyou said perfunctorily.

“How can that be the same!” Chichu Chun’s eyebrows almost stood upright. “That was a Cleaner at the Light Prism Tier, and I am just a Young Master of Chichu Heaven. There’s no way they can be equated.”

“Didn’t you seem quite confident when you said it back then?” Xu Xiaoyou said with a blank face.

Chichu Chun lowered her head in shame, but upon reconsideration, she couldn’t let herself be so cowardly; she snorted and raised her head again, looking indifferent and nonchalant.

“I was confident, so what!”

“Barefoot fears no shoe-wearer?”

Exiting the school gate, the two walked along a pebble path, following the wind’s path.

They arrived at a secluded grove, where the mountain spring tinkled gently, the trees rustled, insects and birds chirped nearby, scattered sunlight fell through gaps in the forest leaves, swirling down with the autumn leaves, creating light and shadow on the grass by the creek, with smooth, glossy pebbles spread across the bottom of the stream.

The girl carried her shoes with open arms and walked barefoot on the smooth pebbles, her slender ankles soaking in the cool creek, water droplets jumping on her white calves, like a deer crossing the stream, carefully balancing herself.

The girl’s bell-like laughter echoed in the air, Xu Xiaoyou stood on the bank observing, amber-colored deep pool water waves were calm.

Surrounded by mountains and forests, looking into the distance, gentle white clouds stacked between the undulating mountains, touching the calm sky, autumn leaves forest covering the mountain ranges with layers rising and falling, like a golden wave of wheat, swaying with the wind, creating waves of golden ripples.

The natural and fresh breeze blew into her heart, dispelling much of the heaviness accumulated in her heart in recent days.

She sat on the grass, reflecting the blue sky in her eyes, closed them, emptied her mind, calming down internally.

The girl who was wading in the water came in front of her at some point, scooping up clear creek water and sprinkling it towards her, smiling triumphantly.

Xu Xiaoyou raised her hand and larger splashes rose from the stream, white water swirled and expanded, and before Chichu Chun could run far, she was tripped by the splash, falling into the stream, soaking wet.

“Unfair, I won’t play anymore, it’s not fair at all!” Chichu Chun protested, clenching her fist in the water, covering her butt.

Tired from the commotion, Chichu Chun sat next to Xu Xiaoyou, secretly observing the girl’s expression, finally making up her mind to ask:

“Is she important to you…”

“Are you interested in participating in a large-scale professional gaming tournament?”

The timely wind blew, lifting the fallen autumn leaves on the ground, passing by the girl’s eyes, she lowered her head: “You go first.”

Chichu Chun was quite curious about what the large-scale professional gaming tournament mentioned by the other party was all about.

Reality was peaceful and calm, while in another virtual world, the dark sea surface had already erupted into a storm.

Not long ago, Manchester, the patriarch of the Oasis Order Court, passed away. He was the elder founding member of Oasis and the largest shareholder of the ‘Nighttime Dreams’ company. Only yesterday, his last will was revealed to the public.

…

In the Mint Green Leaf bar, Xu Xiaoyou drew the last circle on the blackboard, adjusting her round glasses, and said: “That’s it.”

Chichu Chun’s eyes lit up, she slapped the table, looking very excited: “What, what!”

“Winning the champion of the 11th season of the Oasis League Professional Tournament grants you the entire inheritance of Old Master Manchester, including the rights to Oasis’s ‘All-Knowing Mode’? Really?”

For Chichu Chun, hundreds of billions of assets were just numbers, but the rights to the Oasis’s ‘All-Knowing Mode’ were crucial. Possessing the All-Knowing mode would allow one to fly freely in Oasis, do whatever one wanted, and experience everything imaginable. One could achieve ‘something for nothing!’

The Oasis project was proposed fifty years ago, established thirty years ago, and became widely known merely thirteen years ago. Upon its debut, it thundered across the world, captivating global investors and major families, as the concept of the virtual universe was far advanced for its time.

And until today, the powers of Nighttime Dreams had changed many times, with different high-level executives through ruthless power struggles. However, this corner remained untouchable because the old man firmly held the rights to the Oasis’s ‘All-Knowing Mode’ from the beginning.

The world’s core technology held supreme authority.

No one knew how the old man tightly grasped the ‘All-Knowing Mode’ rights. Like a sword wielder, as the initial developer, he adored this land he poured most of his life into. To prevent this dreamland from being tainted by outsiders, he tightly held this sharp blade, unyielding to threats or greed, protecting his territory until life was nearly gone, only then did the grip on the blade slightly waver.

“Yes.” Xu Xiaoyou’s eyes were calm.

“The old man’s words shocked the world, and even slightly reputable forces were organizing their family members to prepare for the tournament, registering Oasis passports, and starting accounts. Even some life players switched careers to become combat players upon hearing this.

“It’s said that to accommodate this sudden influx into the server, with countless players from all over the world, Oasis prematurely opened the Fourth Tier Main City ‘Saint Sehill’ and cleared all the city’s NPCs, just to house this massive player base.”

“So, we’re going to form a five-person team and charge into the professional league to win the championship!” Chichu Chun’s voice was excited.

“Yes.”

“Where are our team members then, You, you must have found them by now?”

Xu Xiaoyou pointed at the excited red-haired girl and then herself.

“Currently, it’s just you and me, and I’m thinking of convincing one other person.”

Chichu Chun: “???”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep