202: Chapter 202 The Vanishing God Point

Vanished?

The main god points that were about to be in hand, they vanished?

Chen Mo was momentarily dumbfounded.

Of course, he wasn't nitpicking about not receiving the service fee that should have been collected for Tang Yao's Resurrection.

Rather, the entire operational process of converting fantasy points into main god points was a rule evolved by the Main God Space itself. If one were to view the Main God Space as a world—which, in fact, it truly was—then this process was equivalent to the laws of this world. Even Chen Mo had to abide by it; otherwise, violating it would likely result in unimaginable backlash.

Yet, this process, which was as inviolable as a law of nature, had actually been silently broken by the two fantasy points Tang Yao used for her Resurrection?

What was going on?

Could the game have a bug?

But that was unlikely!

Fantasy Jianghu wasn't just a game in the simple sense; it operated based on the rules with the Main God Space as its Foundation. So, could there be an error in the operation of the Main God Space?

That was even more impossible!

Since becoming an Apprentice Main God, Chen Mo's brain speed had increased significantly, and various conjectures flashed through his mind. But the more he thought, the more confused he became; he simply couldn't find a single reason to explain the current situation.

He had no choice but to calm down and carefully observe every detail here, as well as the battle between Hu Gualing, Tang Yao, and Xiao Niao against that Mutated White Wild Boar that had appeared out of nowhere. As he observed, he suddenly noticed something special: an object resembling a black seat in the center of the hall where the Mutated White Wild Boar was located.

That object was quite large, not inferior in size to the standing Mutated White Wild Boar. It was entirely black, emitting a faint glow, and seemed to be made of stone like obsidian. As for what exactly it was, Chen Mo couldn't tell; it looked a bit like a stone step and a bit like a personal seat for this Mutated White Wild Boar. He didn't know what it was, but Chen Mo vaguely felt that it was a bit eerie, and perhaps the disappearance of the fantasy points was related to it.

With this thought in mind, Chen Mo focused a large portion of his attention on this mysterious black stone. When Hu Gualing's character died and was Resurrected, he finally discovered a clue!

After Hu Gualing's character died, in the vision of Xiao Niao and Tang Yao, they only saw Hu Gualing's character's health bar empty out, the body fall, and then, after a flash of white light, he was Resurrected with full health and stood back up.

However, in Chen Mo's view, he could see something different. He saw that the moment Hu Gualing's character died, the Soul energy composing the body instantly shattered into countless tiny fragments. Seeing this scene, Chen Mo's pupils involuntarily contracted sharply.

It wasn't that this scene was abnormal; in fact, this phenomenon occurred whenever a character died in Fantasy Jianghu. Once a character died, the Soul energy composing the body would dissipate. Of course, it usually just scattered around and would reassemble before it had time to drift further, because the player would promptly use the Resurrection function. In the player's eyes, it was just a simple flash of white light as the character was Resurrected.

Of course, there were exceptions when players didn't Resurrect in time. For example, when Hu Gualing first entered the game, he foolishly provoked Miao Cuihua and was easily killed by her. He had wanted to Resurrect in time, but as a newcomer to the game, he was penniless and couldn't even afford a single revival coin. He could only watch helplessly as the world before his eyes turned grey and white, then gradually lost all imagery, becoming a space that contained nothing but grey. He had to wait bitterly until his online time was sufficient for the game System to automatically issue fantasy points as an online reward, and only then could Hu Gualing afford a revival coin to successfully Resurrect...

During this time spent waiting for Resurrection, if the Soul energy composing Hu Gualing's character's body hadn't been interfered with, it would have drifted off to who knows where. But fortunately, the Main God Space had its own operating rules. After a period of time, it would absorb the dissipated, mindless, pure Soul energy. Chen Mo didn't even need to worry about it; it would simply be deposited into his pocket in the form of main god points.

Therefore, Chen Mo had seen the scene of a player dying and being Resurrected several times and was used to it, so he hadn't taken it to heart.

But what made Hu Gualing's death this time different from the past was that after his character died and turned into Soul fragments, they didn't scatter around. Instead, it was as if they were blown by the wind—no, or rather, as if they were being sucked away by a vacuum cleaner! They drifted in one direction. And that direction was exactly that eerie stone block, suspected to be made of obsidian!

Seeing this scene, Chen Mo's heart tightened. As he watched, he saw all the Soul fragments being sucked over and merging into the obsidian without any obstruction!

'The reason the Soul value didn't enter the Main God Space is because it was sucked away by this stone!?'

Chen Mo's scalp tingled. In the Fantasy Jianghu game he had created with his own hands, this was the first time he felt the fear of facing something unknown. What on earth was this stone? How could even he not see through it?

Suppressing the panic in his heart, Chen Mo, in his true form within the Main God Space, projected this footage in front of Xiao Wan.

After the three players entered the 'cave', even Xiao Wan couldn't see where they had gone. However, as the companion auxiliary System of the Main God Space, it hadn't sensed anything that could threaten the Main God Space. So, unlike Chen Mo, who sat beside it looking nervous and too preoccupied to even eat his barbecue, it appeared somewhat carefree. Seeing Chen Mo sitting there motionless as if stunned, it turned its head, extended its round hand with only two fingers, took the unfinished skewer of grilled chives from Chen Mo's hand, and sniffed it in front of its nose. ["It smells pretty good."] Unfortunately, as an intelligent auxiliary, it couldn't eat these things. Xiao Wan swallowed its non-existent saliva, stuffed the grilled chives back into Chen Mo's hand, and just as it was feeling bored, it saw Chen Mo project the image from inside the cave.

Xiao Wan's eyes lit up: ["What place is this?"] Just after saying this, it seemed to notice something, and its round, curious eyes involuntarily narrowed.

"Do you know what place this is?" Chen Mo noticed the change in Xiao Wan's expression.

Xiao Wan hurriedly shook its head: ["I don't know, I don't know. If Master doesn't know, how could Xiao Wan possibly know?"]

"Is that so?"

Chen Mo was a bit doubtful. Could he have seen it wrong just now? Or was it because Xiao Wan was in robot form, so the meanings behind some of its facial expressions were different from those of humans, and he had misunderstood?

Chen Mo asked unwillingly: "Search your database and see if you can find any clues."

["Understood, Master."] Xiao Wan nodded, and blue data streams buzzed and flashed in its eyes. After a while, it said: ["Report, Master, all accessible data within the permissions has been scanned, and no matching data was found."]

"Nothing?"

Chen Mo furrowed his brows, and the doubt and worry of facing the unknown shrouded his heart...