Online Cultivator
Death Penalty

"Good morning brother."

"Morning."

"I had breakfast with me," he said, putting a bowl of soup on a table that could be adjusted on the bed.

"Yu Rou, can I ask for your help?" Yuan asked him as he was fed like a patient in the hospital.

"What's that?"

"I want to hear some fairy tales tonight." His words left him dumbfounded, who did not expect such a request.

"Why fairy tales?" He asked in a worried tone, afraid that the illness would finally mess with his mind.

"I made friends in the game, and he happens to be a young NPC. I promised her that I would tell her more tales" she explained.

"You're telling a story to an NPC? Sister.... What are you doing, really?" Yu Rou sighed, thinking about how ridiculous he was.

“Do not let the fact that they are NPCs fool you into thinking that they are not worth your time. They move, think, react, and talk like real players. You will not know if they are Real Players or not unless you ask them.

"Yes, yeah. Don't do anything weird to her, okay?"

"A...Weirdo? Why would I do something so weird?" ask Yuan.

"Didn't you hear? There were many perverts who were killed for touching NPCs inappropriately. The punishment for death is very harsh in this game from what I heard."

"A pervert touching an NPC? Can you do that in this game?" Yuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. What a deep game!

"ah! You're thinking of doing something perverted, right!? Don't think about it, brother! I forbid you to do that as your sister!"

"It only works if you're older, right?" She smiles.

“Then...I will then stop looking after you! Hmph!”

"Aciii... Do you think your brother is some kind of pervert who likes to touch NPCs? Unlike some people, I have morals, you know." He sighed, and continued to speak, "By the way, what is this death sentence, and what happens if you die?" He was more interested in it than the pervert in the game.

"According to those who had died, some became unable to cultivate after death while some even lost their cultivation base completely, requiring them to restart from scratch."

Yuan pondered. "So you basically have to start over... It was really hard for a game."

"In addition, some people have already tried buying a new console to get started, but guess what? They still appear in games with the same characters!"

"So we're limited to one character no matter what?" Yuan was unable to understand the motives of the game makers for creating such a system; it was almost as if they wanted humans to live in another world with a life as realistic as possible.

"Ah, sister, it's time I go to school. I'll take some fairy tales on the way home" he said before leaving.

"Thank you."

—

"He's not here ..." Yuan looked around to look for a small figure, but Xiao Hua could not be found. "I think he's home."

He decided to sit down and cultivate to wait for her. Seconds turn into minutes, and minutes turn into hours. Until nightfall, Yuan sat there like a stone statue, cultivating and not realizing that time had passed so quickly.

10.000/10.000

10.005/20.000

20.000/20.000

20.005/40.000

40.000/40.000

80.000/80.000

148.550/160.000

Yuan did not stop cultivating until it was time for dinner. "We couldn't play today, but it's okay. At least I'll prepare a story for the next meeting." He stared at the night sky for a moment before logging off.

—

After feeding Yuan and cleaning it, Yu Rou began to recite fairy tales for her like a mother would tell her son before going to bed, but her voice was still too childish to sound like a real mother.

"How's my narrative going?" he asked in a naughty tone.

"That sucks ..."

"What—Good! You can read it yourself next time!"

"ah! Sorry, Yu Rou. I'm just kidding." Yuan hurriedly corrected himself, "Your voice is so melodious that I thought you were really a fairy!"

Yu Rou blushed. "It's embarrassing to read this childish story out loud, you know?" he said later, "I'll remember this debt of yours to me!"

"Yes yeah, I'll even give you my life, so get me some more fairy tales, okay?"

"..."

"Yu Rou?" He called out to her after not receiving an answer.

"Brother, please don't say such a thing again," Yu Rou said with a serious expression on her face, her voice somewhat sad.

Yuan quickly realized that he had messed up. "I'm sorry." she apologized immediately.

"As long as you understand ..." Yu Rou left her side to close the lights, "Brother, it's late, you should sleep now."

"Un. Good night."

"Good night, brother."

—

Inside her room, Yu Rou scoured the internet on her phone for some time before going to bed as usual.

"This Yuan player is very mysterious and confusing. In just two days since this game was launched, he was able to become the first Player to obtain a Divine-rank skill and complete a Hidden Quest. Is he human?"

Despite not being able to play the game due to school and Yuan, he would still keep up with the latest information about the game so that when the time came to play, he would not feel too lost. “In the meantime, my brother toyed with the young NPC.” he smiled bitterly thinking that.

"Wow, the reward has already risen to five million!" His eyes widened looking at the effort and money that others were willing to spend just to find this one player.

"So much fame .. how envious ..." she turned off the phone and closed her eyes. "Sister as well. used to flicker the lights under the floodlights.." his sigh before slowly falling asleep.