"I'm telling you... stop playing, it's time to eat..."
Ye Li stood up, his lower body wrapped in a towel, and the threads from it spread out, weaving themselves into a casual outfit.
"Did you hear me..."
Barbara slapped at Skye's hands still clutching her neck, "C'mon... c'mon..."
"Wou..."
Skye didn't actually choke her, releasing Barbara and flipping off her body.
"Perfect timing, Li, I have something to talk to you about... I almost forgot."
Skye grabbed a big white pillow from the bed and hugged it to her chest, saying.
"The holographic game you mentioned is now ready for internal testing."
"However, it currently only has a temporary code name. What should we name the game?"
"Also, the recruitment for new staff for game operations is open. You should check it out~"
"Hm... that thing, huh. Tch... I've got some other things I want to do lately..." Ye Li thought for a moment and said.
"Let's call the game 'Ready Player One'.
"The internal test helmets and simulation pods will be temporarily available to players with certain financial means and game experts..."
"As for the review of the game operation staff, it is indeed important. I'll make time to look into it..."
After finishing this matter.
He turned to Skye and asked, "By the way, Skye, would you like to meet some Inhumans?"
Skye: "Huh?"
…..
A few days later.
Oʻahu, Hawaii.
In the dense forest, fine raindrops continued to fall.
Snap!
A pair of brown leather shoes stepped into the muddy water.
The camera pulled up.
It was a pair of beautifully curved, long and slender legs, with a well-shaped, attractive bottom, all wrapped in tight blue jeans.
The girl's legs and hips were just the right shape, perfectly complementing her figure, making her a sight to behold.
However, the team of gunmen chasing her would not stop to admire her figure.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
The girl was running with long strides, desperately stepping through the muddy water.
She ran to a twisted vine tree.
She leaned against the tree to rest a bit and carefully looked back to see if anyone had caught up.
The girl's face was charming, with a few small silver earrings hanging from her red, tender earlobes.
She wore high-waisted, tight denim jeans with a denim jacket over it, and a red soft hoodie inside, the hood of which hung loosely on her delicate shoulders...
What stood out the most was———
Beneath the strand of light golden hair wet from the rain, she had a pair of vivid cat eyes, with orange and a black vertical stripe...
(Don't get it wrong, it's not Felicia.)
…..
Seeing that the pursuers hadn't caught up yet.
The girl curled her pale hand like a cat and wiped her pale pink lips, then lowered her head to catch her breath...
"Ha... ha..."
"Ha..."
"Ha... ha... ah!!"
The girl suddenly screamed!
Because.
Behind the vine tree.
A man wearing a black raincoat appeared.
Under the raincoat's hood.
You could see his ugly, all-green skin.
The green-skinned man comforted the girl, "You're safe now."
"Who are you?" the girl asked.
"My name is Triton."
Triton, the green-skinned man, explained, "I've been looking for you, you're one of us."
"Who are we?"
"The Inhumans."
"What?"
Triton: "We don't fully understand why this happened... But you've come into contact with the Terrigen Crystal, that makes you one of us."
Cat-eyed girl: "I've turned into a monster...!"
"No."
Triton denied, "If I told you there's a place where everyone is like you, all Inhumans... It's called Attilan, and I can take you there..."
He was saying this.
The cat-eyed girl looked in the direction of the approaching sound, "I hear them..."
Her vision was different from ordinary people's.
In her cat eyes, all objects had a golden-yellow outline, and she seemed able to detect sounds from farther away with this ability.
…..
"Run!"
Triton quickly took her and ran!
Tat tat tat tat!!
As soon as they left the spot, a burst of automatic rifle bullets swept through the area.
After that, it was a desperate flight.
…..
It seemed like they were too panicked.
At a fork in their escape path, the cat-eyed girl and Triton went in different directions...
"No, no, no!" The experienced Triton quickly stopped her!
But.
It was already too late...
Bang!!
"Ah! ———!"
With the sound of a gunshot.
The cat-eyed girl's body stopped in an instant, and the gust of wind lifted her shirt, revealing her soft, milk-white abdomen with a faint hint of a toned waistline...
The next moment.
She.....
The vibrant, beautiful girl stiffened and collapsed to the ground, lying motionless in the puddle of rain...
She passed away in an instant, like a beautiful flower that only blooms for a moment.
Tap tap tap...
In the moment before her death.
It seemed like she heard the soldiers with guns running past her, saying one thing—
"Don't mind her! The target is him!!"
"So... I'm just a bait that no one cares about..."
With this thought, the cat-eyed girl's consciousness gradually faded away...
…..
Triton wanted to go back and save the girl, but the hail of bullets forced him to retreat.
And she didn't seem to be breathing anymore...
After hesitating for less than a second.
Triton decisively chose to run on his own...
…..
Soon after the soldiers chased Triton and ran far away.
Next to the cat-eyed girl.
Two figures appeared.
"Oh~ It seems like we're a little late."
Ye Li crouched down and picked up the girl's lifeless body.
It seemed he had never thought he'd be picking up a body like this...
Ah... although this "picking up"... is literally picking up a body...
[Should I bring her back to life... or implant a chip in her head and use her... ]
While he was thinking, Skye, wearing a Snake Talisman necklace, tugged at him, "Li... Is she one of my Inhuman people?... Please save her first..."
…..
'She's already starting to cool down, and you want me to save her...
'You really have too much faith in magic...]'
Ye Li silently complained.
Luckily, he had the Horse Talisman on him, so he could actually save her...
…..
"I'll give it a try..."
Ye Li cradled the cat-eyed girl's delicate body, reaching into her wound...
This action caused the girl's body to tremble reflexively...
After a few touches.
He precisely found the bright yellow bullet and took it out.
Normally, gunshot wounds wouldn't be handled like this... Otherwise, you'd end up killing someone... Ye Li, relying on his sigils, was able to handle it so casually.
With the power of the Horse Talisman activated, the cat-eyed girl's wound healed quickly,
And she slowly woke up.
"Mm..."
Her blurry eyes opened, and the first thing she saw was Ye Li's handsome face...
"Mr. God...?"
The girl thought she was seeing the divine god of the heavens and, in a daze, reached out to touch his face.
"So handsome..."
Slap~
Ye Li gently caught her hand and placed the extracted bullet into her palm.
"You're not dead yet, miss...
"Keep this as a memento."
"What?"
The cat-eyed girl opened her palm and found a bloody bullet...
"Ah!"
The girl was instantly shocked awake, almost tossing the bullet away in reflex.
The bullet made her remember the terrifying death experience from earlier...
…..
Ye Li shifted her focus to relieve her fear, asking, "Miss... what's your name?"
"Rachael Rosalind Charlotte..."
After Rachael said her name, she looked around in confusion and said, "I remember... I clearly died, so why am I still here...?"
She then lowered her head and felt her body, finding that the wound had turned into smooth, tender skin like a baby's...
But the lingering pain...
Told her that it wasn't a hallucination...
"What's going on?..."
"How else could it be?"
Ye Li openly admitted.
"Of course, I saved you, Miss Charlotte."
"You saved me...?"
Rachael seemed to not fully believe that he had the ability to bring her back to life...
"Watch closely."
Ye Li's fingernail tip covered with a faint, almost invisible golden glow, and he made a small cut on her forearm.
A small bead of blood oozed from the cut, but with a sweep of his hand, both the wound and the blood vanished...
"How magical!"
Rachael exclaimed in surprise, "Are you also one of the Inhumans that Triton mentioned? ...Where did he go now?"
"Triton?"
Ye Li recognized the name, it seemed like he was a royal member of the Inhumans.
The Super Spider Sense only told him that Inhumans would appear here, but didn't provide any specifics...
…..
"I'm not an Inhuman, and I don't know anything about Triton."
Ye Li helped Rachael up and asked, "What do you know about the Inhumans? Can you tell us?"
"I..."
Rachael nervously scratched her cheek and said awkwardly.
"Actually, I just heard Triton mention... the Inhumans, somewhere called Attilan... I don't know much else..."
"Right now, I don't even know where I'm supposed to go... If you can find Triton, maybe you can ask him..."
"Is that so..."
Ye Li didn't expect Rachael to be so naïve; it seemed like she was a newly transformed Inhuman...
Seeing his expression.
The cat-eyed girl thought he looked a bit disappointed.
So.
She bit her lip, suddenly stood on tiptoe, and wrapped her arms around his neck...