Chapter 1 The Frigid Land of the North
"This batch of goods will be shipped to 'Steel City' to participate in this year's Northern Auction..."
"I hope it will be sold at a good price so we can survive this year's Cold Wave."
The rustling communication sound came from Su An's ear, disturbing his consciousness.
Who is speaking? !
Obviously I am the only person in the house, where did the strange voice come from... Su An felt amiss and hurriedly opened his eyelids.
His vision was blurred at first, then covered with a dim yellow, and then a faint light source was shining from the front.
——That is the lantern hanging on the iron cage.
Under the dim light, Su An saw a single-sized iron cage, which cut him off from the outside world. There was hay spreading under his body. The biting night wind passed through the iron cage and whispered on him, making Su An shiver.
Clip-clop, clip-clop......
The rhythmic sound of horse's hoofs came from the front, accompanied by the shaking of the iron cage.
Su An saw this and realized that there was probably a horse or other animals in front of him that was dragging the iron cage.
With some curiosity, Su An looked ahead.
On the snowy field shrouded in the night, he was faintly able to see a dark horse-like creature running in the snowy night.
Looking closely, on the ribs on both sides of the dark creatures, a row of eyes grew unexpectedly. They were brownish-yellow, shaking slightly under the light. If ordinary people witnessed this scene, they would probably scream in fear.
But as a hardcore player in "Eternal Night", Su An didn't panic. With just a glance, he recognized that they were 'Snow Nightmares', which was the most common transportation tool in the Frigid Land of the North.
But then, Su An realized a serious problem——
The Frigid Land of the North...
Isn't this the northernmost area in the main world of the "Eternal Night" game?
"Eternal Night" was a new-generation virtual game developed and operated by the company: Apocalypse. Since its release, it has been at the top of the game list. Such a hot global game naturally had a large number of professional players.
For example, Su An was one of them.
Su An was a veteran player who had joined the game since its first release. After the game opened the currency exchange gold bank, he relied on "Eternal Night" to make a living. Everyone in the game circle called him "Pro An". From this, it could be seen that his strength was well-recognized… Not only that, Su An was also a core member of the "Twilight Domain" related strategy team, and was also one of the few high-level knights in the Huaxia Server who had the hope of becoming a demigod.
Even though he was used to seeing many strange things at the first half of his life, Su An could not help feeling astonished at the strange scene at this moment——
"Am I in the land of Eternal Night World?"
Su An scratched his head. Obviously, in his memory, he drank a few bottles of wine and went to bed without lying in the game cabin.
One more thing, if he really sneaked into the world of Eternal Night, according to his personal account, Su An, as a high-level knight and a top powerhouse related to the 'Twilight Domain', should not be trapped...
No, my situation is not right!
With some confusion, Su An looked at his body.
Under the dirty gray trench coat, his thin and delicate body wore the same gray vest. Below were straight-legged trousers. Due to the skinny legs, the night wind blew up the trousers like a 'balloon' on the body of a small child.
The power that once filled his body was gone, only a real sense of weakness surged...
Most importantly, through the light, Su An found that his skin had become pale, tender and delicate, no longer the previous wheatish color.
This body was not Su An's game character!
Did I log in to the wrong account? No...impossible!
Su An denied the idea.
In the technologically advanced interstellar generation, as a universal game that took into account the social field, the image in "Eternal Night" depended on the real appearance; there was no function of adjusting the appearance. In addition, each citizen was bound to a game account, and there was no possibility of logging into the wrong account.
Therefore....
Combining the above clues, there seemed to be only one answer——
"Did I transmigrate into this world..."
"And become the aboriginal people in the Eternal Night World, right?!"
Su An muttered to himself. As a web novel lover, he immediately figured out what happened. He often wondered how nice it would be if he got transmigrated into another world.
However, when it really happened, Su An’s first reaction was not ecstatic, he just felt empty in his heart, as if something was missing——
"Sure enough, online novels are deceptive."
"This kind of thing is not as delightful as I imagined... "
"At least I didn’t become a woman..."
Only until Su An could no longer withstand the cold did he finally recover and realize his personal situation.
"There are many other iron cages. Is this a slave caravan?"
"What is my identity? Why am I being locked up in an iron cage..."
This thought was like a key that triggered something in his mind. Suddenly, an unfamiliar memory popped up in his mind, causing Su An to hold his head in pain, his mouth slightly opened, making a low groan like a beast struggling.
After a while, Su An returned to his normal state, and after reopening his eyes, he was no longer confused..
"So the name of this body is Sulman."
"The absconded descendant of the Stuart family..."
At this moment, he inherited the memory of the original owner.
The name of Su An’s current body was Sulman Stuart..
The Stuart family was a well-known family in the cold north. It was once a sect force that believed in the 'Lord of the Silver Moon'- Mercury Libra.
Important believers under their command made offerings to them every year. In return, the Stuart family gained some power. They had their seats in the House of Representatives in Angry Shark Harbor, the largest port in the northern cold region, a prosperous city.
As the old saying goes, power and struggle are companions, when people gain power, they are often involved in struggle.
The Stuart family was also involved in a 'Game of Thrones'.
Unfortunately, Mercury Libra, who originally stood behind the family, lost too much in that struggle, and the sect's high-level leaders took the initiative to exit with failure to stop the loss.
It was simply a classic case of 'The ministers are fighting to death, but the king surrenders first?
Due to the failure of the struggle, someone needed to stand up and take the blame. Therefore, the Stuart family became the victim. At the final sentencing, they were framed as the mole of other sects who had instigated Mercury Libra, and the mastermind behind the whole conflict. Su An felt that this was a test of the intelligence of everyone who witnessed the trial. Of course, in the adult world, people only looked at the result.
Mercury Libra gave up the entire Stuart in exchange for the opponent's compromise.
——This was a backstab from an ally.
Fortunately, the Count patriarch of the entire Stuart family retained the careful thinking as a noble tradition. Long before the situation went downhill, he took the initiative to send away his descendants, including his collateral children.
Sulman Stuart was one of the absconding descendants.
This was the background of the original body.
The sects conflict incident that took place in Angry Shark Harbor was so influential that it affected almost half of the Frigid Land of the North.
As a hardcore player who joined the server since its first release, Su An had gone through all the events of the all expansions. Therefore, when he accepted the memory of the original owner, he was able to figure out the point in time he was at.
"The Angry Shark Harbor Incident..."
"It seems to be the storyline that took place in the Frigid Land of the North in the first chapter of the game."
"...I was actually reborn at the beginning of the game?!"
Su An felt a chill. The beginning of the game was regarded as hell for newcomers.
Whether it was a professional veteran transferred from other games or a new player, all of them struggled to get through the beginning of the storyline.
Everyone was battered by the difficult plot, complaining that the game company didn’t give them enough skill points.
According to the statistics on the official forum, among the "dark history" voted by all players, the first game chapter [Northern Prelude] was their eternal nightmare.
Because of this, hardcore players who could open up wasteland plots were respected by everyone as wasteland pioneers, and Su An was one of them.
Therefore, Su An was quite familiar with this version of the game.
But.....
Even if Su An had an important status comparable to that of Kirito, there was one thing that could be changed, that was, the players had limited influence on the world of Eternal Night, because of the important plot characters and their level of strength was too high.
In each version, the individual strength of the important characters in the plot was far superior to all players…
The most obvious example would be:
Before Su An came to this world, the members of the forefront strategy team and the most powerful player in the world who could almost touch the threshold of the 'demi-god' level looked very powerful, but in the eternal night period where the black abyss erupted and the ancient seal was lifted, they were like cannon fodders. Even if the later expansion of the Eternal Night improved a lot, they were still not able to have much influence in the game.
There was also a joke on the official forum, and it was that the players of this game would always be the audience of the story.
Thinking of this, Su An couldn't help but feel anxious. He turned around with his back to the lantern and whispered softly into the darkness——
"Apocalypse Mastermind? I am your dear paying user, mastermind are you still there..."
There was no response, only the cold wind in the snowy night.
Su An took a deep breath, suppressing anxiousness in his heart.
"This is bad..."
Su An inexplicably had a hunch, a very bad hunch.
In the world of Eternal Night, no other players would come...
"Does this count as a game just for myself...?"
After making fun of his current condition, Su An cheered up again——
"No matter what, I have to get out of this cage first..."
Su An looked up again and looked at the world outside the iron cage.
Many iron cage wagons like the one he was in formed a long ling in the snowy field, moving steadily in the night.
Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, Su An organized the memory of the original owner.
From memory, he knew that the original owner was not caught by Stuart’s enemies. On the contrary, his identity was hidden very well. He got into an ordinary caravan early and became a low-level member of the caravan.
However, this ordinary caravan unfortunately encountered the bandits on the snowy field, and it was the elite bandits with black flags. Therefore, of course, the whole caravan did not have much resistance.
Including the usual guards hired by the caravan leader, they were easily killed by those bandits like pigs.
It only took three minutes for the entire caravan from detecting the enemy to surrendering.
The original owner was very unlucky, and became a prisoner.
He really has bad luck...
Su An sighed, and immediately thought of the threat he was facing again--
Those bandits were not good people. The reason why they kept everyone's lives was to do a slave trade. At the North Auction in Steel City, they would be converted into reliable gold to enrich their pockets.
Before the 'Cold Wave' arrived, it was a normal choice for everyone in the North to make money to make sure they could survive the hard times!
In other words, it was like the instinct of winter bears storing grain. It was a habit that was carved into their bones.
This beginning is really difficult.
"It doesn’t want to give me a chance to comeback..."
Su An knew very well that with his current body, it was impossible to break the iron cage without having extraordinary power.
Once he was sent to Steel City, he would greet his destiny of being sold, and judging from the original owner's rather good looks, the chance of him being sold was very high. No to mention that sometimes, the fate of pretty boys was much worse than girls...
What to do...
Just as Su An was distressed, and at a moment when he couldn't do anything, suddenly, he felt that something was burning hot on his waist. As he touched it, he found a book of animal skins from his leather bag.
This book was not thick, but it felt unexpectedly heavy, the animal skin was old, and it had a faint sense of age.
Su An was startled slightly. He recognized the origin of the book-it was one of the few things that the original owner took away from the pile of relics left by his mother when he left the family. At the same time, it was also something that his mother valued very much when she was alive.
When he escaped, all he took with him was the animal skin book, a silver-grey dagger, and a secret map for contacting family members.
But the entire caravan was searched by the bandits before they were held in the cages.
That exquisite silver-grey dagger naturally became the trophies of the bandits, and the little money left was also stolen. Only the animal skin book was mistaken as tattered garbage because of its poor appearance, so he was able to keep it.
This is...
Su An's heart moved, when he was holding a simple book and carefully studying under the lantern, the ancient book suddenly changed. The pale yellow cover resembling human skin on it trembled slightly, and a gap was torn out from the center. Looking carefully, there was bright red flesh and blood squirming in it. After a few breaths, the flesh and blood condensed into a pair of dark eyes.
The ink-colored eyes turned slightly, and in the next second, it locked Su An. At the bottom of the crack in the cover, a raw, hoarse, and demagogic voice came to Su An's ears in a gentle vibration
"It seems you are in trouble, the descendant of the Stuart family..."
"Do you need my help?"
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