Underworld Player Chapter 78 - Life's Hard Disk

Bai Zhi stared at the bus as it rapidly departed the station where he stood. He bowed his head in silence for a moment, then turned and walked into a nearby public toilet.

In the same way a certain Trash Boss* could never truly die, Bai Zhi felt like he would never truly get on the bus he wanted... as if he had been hit by Gold Experience Requiem**.

Yesterday, instead of getting on the bus to the orphanage like he had planned, he had gotten on a bus to the Underworld instead, but even after surviving all that, he couldn't catch a break. He had intended to make it to the orphanage today, but right after he bought a new ticket and was about to board the bus, up popped a notification from the System about a new Mandatory Quest.

Considering the panic that his sudden disappearance from the bus might cause, Bai Zhi solemnly decided to turn around and tear up the ticket he had just bought, dumping the pieces into the trash.

If only he had known about the upcoming Mandatory Quest! There was a world of difference between Players who joined large organizations and those who worked alone, not least because organizations offered their members resources and backup not afforded to lone wolves. Nevertheless, there were pros and cons to each side, and neither could be said to be definitively the wrong choice.

Bai Zhi had been prepared for the Concerning Department to come looking for him ever since the supernatural incident at his school, and to that end, he had even prepared the speech he would use to turn them away, but ever since that Wu Hua guy gifted him with one million yuan, nobody else from the Department had shown up, even after a long time...

Players may have been a small percentage of the population, but there were certainly a lot of them, and from what Bai Zhi had seen the last time they abducted a neutral creep before his eyes, they seemed to have done it plenty of times before.

Thus, it was hard for lone wolves to survive when the major organizations held all the resources, but perhaps that was exactly why the

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