Cherish your life, young man

The moment Jeff walked out of the small room and closed the door, he dropped his 'injured person' act.

His injuries were mostly healed!

'It is always better to be cautious, after all, I have too little information.'

After taking two steps, Jeff subconsciously stopped.

'Seems like Coby didn't lie about this part at least.'

He found that the sky above his head was actually made of earth!

Jeff couldn't see the whole picture of the 'realm' he was in, but it was as vast as a continent, and the distance between the ground and the 'sky' was about 2 or 3 kilometers.

Aside from the walls of earth at the ends of the realm, the only thing connecting the 'sky' and 'ground', was a huge earthen pillar at the center of the realm, which seemed to be supporting the 'sky'.

The light illuminating the place was actually coming from the top of the pillar!

Jeff had never seen anything like this, so he was very shocked and stood there in a daze for while.

Only when he realized that he was attracting people's attention, did he suppress his shock and quickly moved away from that spot.

As he walked around, Jeff saw a lot of people dressed in clothes similar to his' everywhere, and most were injured.

Bandaged arms, bruised eyes, walking with the aid of crutches etc.

Jeff shook his head with some sympathy, and tried to blend into the environment to avoid attracting any unwanted attention.

'Oh yeah, the system window was flashing earlier, I should check what that was about.'

He had come out of the house with the intention of immediately checking his status window, but he was so shocked by the state of the world that he had forgotten.

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Key word/phrase: Protection

Derived skills:

-Self sacrifice: when you put yourself in danger for the sake of other people, your attributes increase 4 times faster, and your healing speed increases.

Derived artifact: -

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'A skill?'

'So this is really some kind of simulation game?'

Just as he was lost in thought, he heard someone shouting his current body's name.

"Hey! Coby!"

"What are you doing out of bed?!"

When he looked over, he saw a bare chested young man jogging over towards him.

"You shouldn't be walking around with such serious injuries!"

Cough!——

Cough!——

Seeing that he was recognized, Jeff had no choice but to start acting as an injured person.

"Tony is about to die from hunger, but he can't move yet, even though I know I shouldn't move, I have to help him get food."

The young man who was ready to scold Jeff for being reckless and not caring about his health was stunned, then he looked at Jeff as if he was just meeting him for the first time.

'Since when has this kid started caring about other people?'

At that moment, Jeff felt the feeling of vague warmth enter his body again.

'Didn't I already get the XP for this task?'

Jeff was fully healed in a second, and his body started to become stronger.

'Could it be that you not only get XP from acting in accordance to your keyword, but can also get XP when other people acknowledge you for it?'

"Still, couldn't you ask someone else to do it for you? What if your injuries get worse?"

Jeff pushed his thoughts aside in order to deal with his current situation first.

He didn't know why, but ever since he had come to this world, he felt like his thinking became clearer and faster than it was on earth, so he was able to easily come up with an excuse to deal with this bare chested guy.

"You know the current situation of the sect, most people are injured, and those who aren't are worrying about their own problems."

"It is better for me not to bother other people with my problems."

When he heard this, the young man's mood instantly dipped.

"Yeah…"

He seemed to remember something, anger could clearly be seen on his face, as he spoke through grit teeth.

"These people, especially the young master, don't treat us as human beings!"

"I have seen people treating dogs and pigs better than these people treat us!"

"Just because…"

Seeing that he was about to go off on a rant, Jeff immediately cut him off with a self righteous tone.

"Don't say such things about the young master!"

The bare chested man was visibly taken aback and he looked at Jeff weirdly as if to say:

"What do you mean 'Don't say such things about the young master!'? Shouldn't you be angrier than me? After all you were the one who was just injured this morning!"

Although he didn't say it, Jeff easily understood his meaning.

"The young master doesn't really want to do this to us, this is all for the competition in a few months!"

"It is necessary to practice more during this time."

"If he wins something in that competition, the whole sect will benefit including us!'

"I don't want to ever hear you say things that could potentially ruin the reputation of the sect!"

After saying so, Jeff's eyes widened involuntarily.

He felt the biggest burst of energy he had ever felt in his life, the warmth entered his body and he could feel his body becoming more toned and stronger.

His bones and muscles seemed to become denser, his heart became so powerful that he could feel his heartbeat slowing down in real time, and he just felt stronger overall.

The increase in energy was at least ten times greater than what he felt after he fed Tony his blood!

'Is this the difference between protecting a sect and protecting a single individual?'

Jeff's eyes lit up as he felt that he had found the key to increasing his strength.

The young man frowned slightly as he looked at Jeff, for some reason, he felt that his friend had completely turned into someone else.

After thinking so, some things that he had previously neglected started to become conspicuous to him!

Jeff's manner of speech and accent were slightly different from the way Coby spoke!

Even though the body was the same, the way he walked and stood were different!

Most importantly, Coby used to absolutely hate the sect disciples that bullied them servants, and he hated the sect, so how could he speak up for them now?

Ted wasn't a superstitious young man, he didn't believe in ghosts, but what is happening right now gave him chills.

He swallowed involuntarily and was about to run away to call for help when Jeff hooked his neck and continued to speak to him.

"Look, umm.."

Jeff remembered that he didn't know the young man's name and changed his way of speech.

"Bro, I'm doing this for your sake! What would happen if the young master knew that you were bad mouthing him?"

"I didn't…"

Ted panicked and tried to defend himself, but Jeff cut him off.

"It doesn't matter what I think, the only thing that matters is what the young master thinks!"

"If someone where to accidentally tip off the young master about the slander you directed at him, tsk tsk."

At this point, Ted's forehead was drenched in sweat.

When Jeff hooked his neck, he realized that this person was not injured!

On top of that, he was actually threatening him!

Ted thought of how cruelly those sect disciples treat them servants on weekdays, when he thought if how much more cruelly he would be treated for insulting the young master, he felt terrified.

"I… I… I understand!"

"Do you? Do you really? Because I don't think you do."

As he said so, Jeff exerted some strength Ted's shoulder.

Feeling the pressure, Ted tried to mobilize his inner energy to shake off Jeff.

To his dismay, he couldn't even move him!

What scared him the most was the fact that Jeff wasn't even using any inner energy!

'Such ridiculously strong strength!'

Just as he gave up and was waiting to fall into the cold embrace of death, the pressure was suddenly lifted.

Jeff patted his face twice with a smile on his face.

"You should cherish your life, young man!"

He narrowed his eyes at him in a threatening way, before walking away at a leisurely pace.

Only Ted was left there, fearful and confused.

'Lets just hope that I don't get found out.'

Jeff thought to himself as he continued to wonder around, lost in thought.

'Considering all the information I have, should I act under the premise that I am in some kind of realistic simulation game?'

'If I analyze my situation according to that premise, then I should have possessed 2 people, right?'

'The first being the soul who came into the simulation field and entered Coby's body, the second being Coby.'

'In that case, the person who took over Tony's body should have, or at least had, some malicious intentions towards me.'

'Him following a person until they took over a body before he took over a body, cannot be for a good cause.'

'He must have not expected that the person he took over was too seriously injured, for him to do anything before I recover.'

'Or was he counting on his keyword to recover faster than me?'

'Considering how on edge he was, he definitely treats me as an enemy rather than a partner.'

Jeff rubbed his chin as he was lost in thought.

'Either way, I have to find a way to increase my strength quickly, only in this way can everything be under my control.'

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Ranking: 5,001/ 6,953

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After opening up his status window and looking at it again. Jeff found that the number of competitors was rapidly declining.

'In this short amount of time, around three thousand people were actually eliminated?'

'Are they eliminating each other?'

Seeing this, Jeff increased his guard against Tony.

The thought of eliminating Tony crossed his mind, but considering that this simulation was so realistic, he couldn't harden his heart to do it.