Chapter Nineteen: Settlement!

After successfully evacuating, Chen Lai suddenly felt much heavier.

The effects of the “Heaven and Curse Binding” and Fushiguro Toji’s spirit summoning were so powerful that Chen Lai once thought he was omnipotent. Now, having reverted from a superhuman to an ordinary person, it was natural for him to feel somewhat downhearted.

However, losing power was regrettable, but earning money to repay loans was something to be truly happy about.

After all, no matter how strong the virtual world was, it was still fake; real money was real.

[Evacuation Successful]

[Loot Settlement as follows: Hanami Cursed Spirit Orb (Rare), Dugon Cursed Spirit Orb (Rare), Nanami Kento’s Tie (Common)...]

[Unique Loot: Prison Gate Boundary (Unique) (Opens Gate)]

[Total Value: 77,658,000 Yuan]

[Would you like to choose the unique loot and retain the talent?]

A whole settlement screen floated out of the whirlpool, settling before Chen Lai. Beside it, the red equipment Prison Gate Boundary and a huge pile of cursed spirit orbs lay heaped among small corals where fish swam.

The deep-sea scene’s settlement was not bad.

Chen Lai stroked his chin. Everything was easy to understand; earning nearly eighty million in one go was normal. But what did it mean to “choose the unique loot and retain the talent”?

Not understanding this, he wanted to check the forum, but found that the settlement interface blocked access.

He wanted to keep the loot and leave the great whirlpool but discovered he could not exit without dealing with the loot first.

“What’s this? Forcing me to make a choice?”

Chen Lai was speechless. He should have browsed the forum longer. Now, he could only face the coral and fish and make his decision.

“Keep it, keep it, though I don’t know what this thing is for.”

At the moment he chose to keep it, the vast amount of loot in the small coral vanished into thin air, all flowing into the red item Prison Gate Boundary. The Prison Gate Boundary opened, releasing Satoru Gojo.

More precisely, it wasn’t Gojo himself but the “Six Eyes”!

The glassy, exquisite Six Eyes swept through the air, then suddenly squeezed into Chen Lai’s eye sockets. He felt a sharp pain in his eyes, and when he opened them again, the whole world was different!

The details on the coral were revealed in exquisite clarity; if he wished, he could even see through them, directly looking at the fish behind.

Normally, one cannot see behind their own head, but now Chen Lai had no blind spots at all, as if he were observing himself from a god’s perspective.

[Six Eyes: An ocular power appearing once in centuries in the world of sorcery, the “only” source of power in the sorcery realm. Players who inherit this talent...]

Chen Lai caught a glimpse of the explanation flashing before him, especially the last line about players inheriting this talent—

What happens then? What’s next?

But the information ignored him, appearing and disappearing on its own; Chen Lai had no idea what else was written.

“Forget it, didn’t see it anyway. I still have plenty of loot, so it’s fine…”

Chen Lai turned to look at the coral. Activating the Six Eyes’ penetrating ability, he instantly saw through the surface, revealing an empty interior.

“Damn it, where’s my money?”

Chen Lai panicked, stepping forward to touch it, only to find all the loot gone except for one item—the tie of Nanami Kento.

Loot worth nearly eighty million was now down to eight thousand yuan. How could he not panic? He owed a huge debt, which this haul could have wiped out in one stroke, and now only eight thousand remained!

Chen Lai felt the sky collapse. What kind of nonsense was this? If he had known, he wouldn’t have kept that talent but sold everything straight away.

“Hey, you’re still here? Achoo~”

Suddenly, a man dressed in a black short-sleeve shirt and white pants squeezed out from the huge coral. He pointed at Chen Lai with one finger and covered his mouth with the left hand, sneezing.

Chen Lai was dumbfounded—how did Fushiguro Toji follow him here?

Fushiguro Toji was also surprised. After sneezing, he noticed the “Six Eyes” in Chen Lai’s gaze. That power belonged to Satoru Gojo. Could there really be a second pair in the world?

The next second, Fushiguro Toji teleported beside Chen Lai, touched his shoulder, and his expression grew even stranger.

“Kid, the secret you carry intrigues me. Forget this strange underwater world for now—you have both Heaven and Curse Binding and Six Eyes simultaneously. That’s never happened before.”

“Moreover, this isn’t necessarily a good thing. The Six Eyes require cursed energy to function at their best, but Heaven and Curse Binding won’t let you have cursed energy… I can’t quite figure it out.”

“I have Heaven and Curse Binding too?” Chen Lai grew more amazed.

“Of course. Otherwise, the pressure underwater would have crushed an ordinary person long ago!” Fushiguro Toji sneered.

Chen Lai was speechless. He didn’t understand the situation at all, but given how things stood, he decided to sell Nanami Kento’s tie first!

He clicked “Sell,” and the tie was immediately reclaimed by the Deep Sea Company, depositing 8,000 yuan into his account.

The dream of getting rich overnight vanished; his debts remained unpayable, and now he bore both the Six Eyes and Heaven and Curse Binding—two powers in conflict!

“I want to exit the game,” Chen Lai said expressionlessly.

[Logging out from the great whirlpool]

The next moment, before Fushiguro Toji’s astonished eyes, Chen Lai vanished from the underwater world.

Everything faded away, then sharpened into focus. Chen Lai surfaced, seeing a pair of black women’s flats and the cramped room’s decorations before him.

His original mother stood there, her face full of grief and anger.

“Playing that ‘Deep Sea Game’ again! Day after day, after graduation, you don’t look for a job, only play games!”

“Can playing games earn money? Besides changing the color of your eyes, what else do games bring you?”

“You once promised solemnly never to play again, said you’d go out and find work. So what happened?”

Chen Lai’s mother, Chen Fang, had a hard life, raising a child who only knew loans and gaming, dreaming of becoming a professional money-maker—her hardship was immense.

Hearing his mother’s scolding, Chen Lai said nothing. He climbed out of the [Deep Sea Fish Tank], intending to dry himself and dress, but found he was only slightly damp, not wet at all.

He quickly dressed and found Chen Fang had already gone to the kitchen for food. Resigned, he rushed to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

In the reflection, his eyes were noticeably different—the brown irises had turned a pale blue, faintly resembling the former Six Eyes.

“Damn it, could this ‘talent inheritance’ mean I inherited it into the real world?”

Chen Lai considered a possibility both unexpected and reasonable.

It was supposed to be just a realistic game, yet the power came true in reality?

“If that’s the case…”

“That would be great.”

Chen Lai touched the pale blue, glassy eyes in the mirror, a faint smile appearing on his face.

If he could inherit the game’s powers in the real world, what was there to fear about debt?

Those who have power always surpass those who just have money. Debt? That’s something I earned with my own skill!