Four Split Personalities

Are you an idiot?

Facing Autumn Moon’s gaze as though she was looking at a fool, Motan found himself at a loss for words. After all, according to conventional wisdom, his serious contemplation of the existence of Future People, God’s Envoys, or Superpower Users did make him seem a bit idiotic. And it was apparent that the leader Autumn Moon had a touch of that adolescent fantasy phase, but the thing is she could distinguish between fantasy and reality, a rational adolescent fantasy, so she didn’t take those things she came up with seriously...

As such, Motan, who had become a bit oversensitive due to Pomegranate’s earlier comment about "marginal people," now felt quite embarrassed.

"Forget it, it’s no big deal."

Autumn Moon waved her hand, clearly not making a big deal out of her recent snide remark, then suddenly started blinking her large eyes as she looked Motan up and down. Finally, she clapped her hands together excitedly: "You’re a player, right?"

Motan, of course, didn’t mind her kindly changing the topic from ’whether he’s an idiot’ and quickly took the chance to move on: "Yeah, I am."

Wang Badan by his side showed no surprise, just lazily lifted his eyelids and then tucked his head back in to catch up on sleep. As a Blood Covenant partner who was in tune with Motan’s mind, it had learned of his Otherworlder identity in the months they had spent together, as well as the countless ’players’ other than Motan and Ji Xiaoge. By now, Wang Badan’s understanding of the term "Otherworlder" had surpassed Xia Lian’s, and even Shu, who once spent a lot of time investigating players, was not far behind. That’s why Wang Badan naturally became Motan’s second ’cover’ after Ji Xiaoge. Whenever Motan needed to log off and it wasn’t suitable for his character to disappear in a flash of white light from The Realm of Innocence, it was usually Wang Badan who watched over him. Even if due to some special circumstance he needed to ’disappear from human world’ for a while, Wang Badan would come up with a plausible excuse for him.

However, the excuses when Ji Xiaoge was still around were usually like ’I saw Mor go to the market for a walk this morning,’ or ’Oh, I just split up with Mor; he seemed to say he was going somewhere to maintain his weapon.’ But when it came to covering up the same ’offline status’ fact, out of Wang Badan’s mouth it would probably turn into something vulgar like ’Big bro went to visit the whorehouse.’

At first, this often shocked Jadka, Ya Ya, and the others. But as time went on, everyone knew Wang Badan was talking nonsense, and gradually they didn’t take it seriously anymore.

"Bro, look, they all know I’m talking nonsense now, so even if you truly go to a whorehouse, you most likely won’t face any trouble."

That’s how Wang Badan often sought credit from Motan, and then got hit for it.

But as mentioned before, Jadka wasn’t dumb, and although Ya Ya was relatively naive, there was no real issue with her intelligence. These two partners, who had been with Motan for half a year, couldn’t possibly remain clueless until now. They just tacitly chose not to spell it out.

And Motan also planned to find an opportunity to tell everyone that he’s a player. After all, the setting of the game itself is quite fantastical, and since professions such as Magician and Summoner can summon demons or aberrant beasts from realms like the Shadow World or other dimensions, the concept of ’Otherworlders’ wouldn’t be too hard for the Natives of the Innocent Continent to accept. It would certainly be easier than getting modern people to accept the notion of Future People or Superpower Users. Moreover, due to the increasing number of players, and since the system did not block NPCs from acknowledging this, Motan believed that it wouldn’t take long for the concept of ’Otherworlders’ to become well-known. Especially considering that there are quite a few people, like Autumn Moon, who have never deliberately concealed their player identities.

It’s just that he hasn’t yet found the right opportunity to talk to Jadka, Ya Ya, and the others about this, which is why it’s been delayed until now.

But to get back to the point...

Although Wang Badan’s reaction was lacklustre, the other members of the delighted group... more precisely, Smith and Pomegranate, were taken aback. The former had his suspicions, but they were just that—suspicions, whereas the latter had no idea at all that Motan was a player.

As for the petite girl wearing a triangular hat and cloaked in a black cloak, Ming Shen, she remained as quiet as before, without a flicker of emotion.

Neat lilac short hair, bright but expressionless amber eyes, an impassive face, a delicate and modest appearance, and a stature even smaller than Autumn Moon’s - this young lady looked like an intricately crafted doll. If not for her unfocused eyes occasionally blinking, it would be hard for someone to believe she was a living person.

Only she remained unmoved when Autumn Moon incisively deduced Motan was a player, completely opposite to Pomegranate, who was clearly startled.

However, the other three members of the lively group had long become accustomed to Ming Shen’s calmness, and even Smith, who was typically quick with his sarcastic remarks, didn’t take the chance to say anything. Instead, he turned his gaze to Autumn Moon: "How did you guess?"

"It’s quite simple."

Autumn Moon shrugged and spread her hands: "First of all, when we talked about schools and homework earlier, only he and one of the ogre’s heads didn’t look curious and maintained a normal expression. Secondly, when I asked about the setting earlier, Mor didn’t at all give me the impression of an NPC."