7 years ago, Iceland, Dupivogur.

"Teacher, am I good at drawing?" The girl turned her head, her snow-white hair swaying slightly.

"It is difficult for people who cannot perceive emotions and empathize with others to draw good paintings, and whether they are excitable or depressed, they are all things that can stimulate creativity." The teacher looked at the drawing board, and after a long silence, said:

"You have talent, but your pen is not endowed with any emotion, so there is a limit to the height you can reach, and you will eventually stop at a point, give up, you are not suitable for painting."

"I see." She said.

The girl left school, opened the door of the house, and looked at her mother, who was slumped on the floor due to alcoholism, with a blank face.

"All I have is you, Yuri, father he abandoned us, that bastard ....."

"I only have you, can you understand me?"

"I'm really miserable."

The mother's face was hideous, her eye sockets were deeply sunken, and she suddenly grabbed the girl's school uniform collar.

"I ..... I don't understand. ”

The girl replied.

"Why can't you understand...... You will always be indifferent, you will always have this expression, why do you put on such indifferent eyes, are you really my daughter? Mother roared.

The bottle smashed to the ground and shattered.

"I'm sorry, Mom." The girl said.

"You're an emotionless monster, you weren't born to me at all.," the mother howled.

"I'm sorry, Mom, I'm a monster." The girl's eyes were numb.

"Can you be alone?" Mother asked wearily, "Can you live, Yuri?" ”

"One person can do it too."

"That's good."

The mother hung the rope from the ceiling.

"I don't understand," the girl opened her mouth slightly.

The mother twisted the rope in a loop and tied it up.

"I don't understand....." the girl lowered her head.

The mother puts her neck in the rope loop.

"I'm not alone......" The girl covered her ears.

The mother kicked off the chair at her feet.

"I'm not alone......... girl lowered her eyes.

The mother's face was flushed, and the horrible veins were exposed on her neck.

"I'm not lonely, I can be alone.............."

The mother gave up resistance and gradually lost her intuition.

"Understand, really, it's so difficult."

Sirens, loud sirens, annoying sirens.

Footsteps.

The sound of hurried footsteps.

The girl opened the door.

The police made a noisy voice: "It's not dead, it can still be rescued, hurry up!" ”

The policeman cast a surprised look at the girl.

"Why does this kid ..... Mother hanged herself in front of her, and she was all expressionless? ”

"What a deformed ....."

"Could it have something to do with her?"

"No, it's a clear suicide attempt."

"But anyway, this child is too strange, how can her hair be white?"

..........

..........

December 24, 2025.

Early morning, Reykjavik, Iceland, Central Hospital.

[The second round of dungeons will start at noon, and there is still 4 hours to prepare, so please be ready to purchase the required items in the Evolution Coin Shop.] 】

The system prompt sounded in the ears of the white-haired girl.

Yuri slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him, there was a familiar ceiling.

She had nightmares again, nightmares as always.

She brushed her snow-white hair behind her ears, her clear eyes glanced out the window, and the sky was shrouded in a pure pink-purple morning light, and she could see Reykjavík's famous Pearl Tower.

The Pearl Tower resembles a crystal ball, a huge sphere embedded in the heart of Iceland's capital and illuminated at night.

Yuri's mind recalls a person's face.

It was also early in the morning, at the ski resorts of Hokkaido, and the boy walked slowly towards her through the snow and fog, his dark brown eyes feeling gentle, but not mysterious.

"Mom...."Yuri lowered his eyes and whispered, "I've made a friend." ”

"This is it, the Queen's Statue."

Immediately after, a familiar voice sounded, and even Yuri wondered if he was hallucinating.

She looked up in a daze and looked at the uninvited guest in front of her.

A teenager in a black hoodie and hood fell from the back of a noble and elegant stone statue.

"This is too good, I actually really put the window through, and the window was not broken at all."

The boy patted the dust off his body, as if he was whispering to the stone statue:

"I said, no wonder when you used the 'Hundred People Chop', I couldn't see the trajectory of your movement at all, it turned out that it was really an instantaneous movement, jumping from the first floor to the ward on the third floor......"

The Queen's Statue?

Teleportation?

Yuri stayed where he was.

Her mind is as clear and rational as her, and for a while she will inevitably think that she has not woken up and seen a hallucination.

The hoodie boy said, "By the way, you should go back to the chess library first, otherwise I will be seen and my identity will be exposed." ”

His voice fell, and the statue vanished.

In the room, only Yuri and him were left.

"Yo, what a coincidence." The hoodie boy raised his frozen right hand, "I was thinking about taking a walk, but I didn't expect to run into you." ”

Déjà vu dialogue.

Yuri remembers having such a conversation with the person in front of her at the ski resort in Hokkaido, and her brain slowly recovers from the short circuit.

"Take a walk in Shangshi City, you can get here.," Yuri said in a cold voice with his hand on his chin.

"It's not a walk, it's already a 'sleepwalk.'"

She replied the same thing again, the same as then.

"Seems like so." The boy said lightly, "The city of Upper Stone is a bit far away from the capital of Iceland. ”

This person.....

What the hell is this nonsense......

Yuri stared at the boy's face in the shadow of the hood.

Anson Lu slowly lifted his hood, revealing a face that was red from the cold, and a pair of dark brown eyes, "I'm here to add your friend, and by the way, I'll give you a travel roll." ”

"Travel rolls?" Yuri was puzzled.

"Here you go." Anson Deer exhaled a white breath and handed Yuri a trading panel, "Take it, tickets to the New World." ”

Even if he doesn't have friends, players can trade in person, so he didn't rush to add friends.

[Player Anson Deer initiates a trading panel with you, and the item he asks for: None, and the condition he gives: a travel ticket. 】

Yuri looked at the trading panel and asked puzzledly, "What?" ”

"A ticket to a new world that will allow you to leave Iceland and those silly people, and the simple and warm city of Shangshi welcomes you." Anson Lu leaned his back against the wall, his hands in his coat pockets, and his voice was so cold that it was distorted:

"I'm going, Iceland, it's cold.... How can it be colder than Hokkaido? ”

Yuri whispered, "I don't understand. ”

Anson Lu scratched his cheeks, sighed lightly and said, "Didn't you say that I am your friend, if I am a friend, I will come to you to play, and by the way, I will help you get rid of those strange uncles who use you as a tool." ”

"Why?"

"Your mother is dead, in a copy a few days ago, and the copy was conducted in New York, USA." Anson Deer threw the handheld machine in his pocket to Yuri.

Yuri stretched out his slender white hand and caught the phone.

She looked at the screen of her phone, which was an authoritative global death list, with her mother's name on it.

“Irena......”

Yuri's hands froze in place, and she whispered a string of names, familiar and unfamiliar.....

"I know that your mother sold you to the Icelandic government seven years ago as research material." Anson Lu's dark brown eyes stared straight at Yuri, and he said in a calm voice:

"She's a real scumbag, so she's dead, she deserves to die, there's no need for you to stay here anymore and continue to do things for those rancid politicians, that's what I know."

Thoughts.

It's messy and it feels like it's about to explode.

Brain.

It was so swollen that it was about to tear apart.

The Icelandic girl lowered her eyes, strands of snow-white hair obscuring her eyes.

She couldn't even say a word, her pupils as clear as the aurora were at a loss at this moment.

"What should I do?"

"For a limited amount of time, live the life you deserve." Anson Lu said, "I will form a union in the future, and everyone will be weird, so that you will be more than just my friend." ”

"Friend...."

"Yes, friend." Anson Deer said slowly:

"Although it's just me and Raven now, we'll slowly find someone else in the future, and at least stay among us, it's better than you staying in a hospital bed all the time."

Under the shroud of the morning light, Yuri's emotionless eyes seemed to appear confused for the first time.

"They're going to come to me," she said, "and then you're going to be in trouble." ”

The Icelandic government can't just let go of a few special sequence players.

Especially her, she knows how much she is valued by the state.

"An-la-a-la, I'm the number one player in the world, and I am and will be ..... in the future" Anson Lu wiped his neck with his hand and said nonchalantly:

"They come with one, I'll break one, it's not a big problem."

He spoke lightly, as if he were joking with an old friend, but he seemed to be serious.

Seeing that Yuri didn't react, Anson Lu coughed and added to himself:

"Well, although my global combat power ranking is only NO.11 now, it doesn't affect my buddy who will become number one sooner or later."

"You're really weird." Yuri said.

"Everyone is very strange, including that Uruhara law, who is simply a strange coffee among weird coffees." Anson Lu complained:

"You know, that idiot suddenly made a video call to me the night before yesterday, and as soon as I answered the phone, I found that this thing was actually standing on the railing of the Tokyo Bay Bridge, it was so outrageous that I almost got home, and I almost ...... the water"

His voice stopped abruptly as Yuri interrupted him abruptly by a remark.

"I'll go with you."

Her voice was clear, without a hint of emotion, but it seemed very firm.

Anson Lu was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "Okay, then use the travel scroll to go to Shangshi City, enter the copy on Shangshi, and you will return to my hometown in the future, not the capital of Iceland." ”

"What about you?"

Anson Lu took a deep breath, black lines appeared on his forehead, and he scolded and said:

"My travel voucher is about to expire, and I'll automatically go back in a few minutes, and the teleportation time limit is 24 hours, and I've been lost in Reykjavik for a fucking 22 hours, and I blame the crow for the ...... map given by that idiot"

Halfway through his speech, his figure had vanished in place.

The travel ticket can only take a player to the destination for 24 hours, and when the deadline is reached, it will automatically return to the original city, so Anson Deer has been expelled back to Shangshi City by the system.

Yuri was stunned for a moment, she tilted her head slightly, and there was a hint of amusement in her voice:

"Are you an idiot?"

She clicked [Confirm] on the disappearing trading panel.

[By trading, you have obtained a travel voucher from the player Anson Deer.] 】

From outside the ward, there was a rush of footsteps, as if someone had noticed the movement inside.

"Use the travel roll," the Icelandic girl paused and said tentatively, "Upper Stone City." ”

[I have used the travel volume to go to the city - Huaxia Country, Shangshi City.] 】