Episode 29

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**Spiritual Powers in Another World** (异界中的灵力, *Yìjiè Zhōng de Línglì*) is the 29th episode of *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*.

## Description

Xiaohei reveals that his second task was to make a human friend he could trust and to reveal to them his elfin identity. Then, the next day he'll learn about his third task and will have to work on it with his friend. The following day, Shanxin appears to play All Living Creatures with everyone. They all connect to Xiaobai's console, including A-Gen and Xiaohei, much to Shanxin's surprise. The game starts, and they learn that they can pick any race between humans and animals, and that if you die in the game, your character is lost forever. When the game starts they appear in a big and beatiful forest which feels very real. Then, A-Gen reveals to Xiaohei that the game was made by elfins, and they can use their elfin powers in it.

## Plot

Xiaohei tells Xiaobai and A-Gen his second task: “Make a human friend you can trust and tell them your elfin identity. After the third day of July, open task 3. Work with your friend on task 3”. It seems like his job is already done, and that mean Xioahei can stay with Xiaobai for a little longer. Everyone is happy, but A-Gen wonders why they would ask Hei to work with humans, considering that Xiaobai is a ten-year-old primary school student. Xiaohei and Xiaobai answer that there seems to be no limit to the number of people who can help Xiaohei, so it’s okay. The third of July is the next day.

Although Xiaohei is talking to them in his human form, he’s still not able to become “fully” human and still has cat ears. A-Gen tells him to turn into a cat, then, because his ears will cause problems if other people sees them. Xiaobai suggests using a hat, but Xiaohei prefers turning into a cat. Xiaobai mentions that there were elfin form changers that could help him, but Xiaohei wants to learn how to do it on his own, to become better. Xiaobai tells him his cat-ears form is totally cute, and Hei laughs.

The following morning, Shanxin surprises Xiaobai by showing up at grandpa’s house really early. Xiaobai tells her that they’re still an hour away from the game starting, but Shanxin answers that they have to get in early. Besides, she went to the house to make it easier for them to synchronize. Each console allows for four players to connect, so they’ll use Xiaobai’s. Xiaobai suggest A-Gen should play, too, and he agrees, as he’s heard of the game before.

Shanxin is shocked to see that no one knows what the game is, or why people were expecting it, and she still doesn’t get how Xiaobai got a limited edition console to play it. Still, she hands everyone a receiver, which is the virtual reality headset that you put on to enter the game. Even Xiaohei grabs one, and it closes around his head. They connect the terminal to the internet and log into a room. Then, everyone lies down to protect their bodies while they play, and press a button on the left side of the receivers to start the game.

All Living Creatures starts: a voice welcomes them into the game and tells them to state their user name. Xiaobai chooses her real name. Then they have to choose a race among humans and many animals. The race you choose can’t be changed without deleting your character. Xiaobai sticks with being human. The following step is choosing whether you want to look like you do in real life, or to create a new persona. Xiaobai picks her own appearance. Lastly, the game asks if you want to change your clothes. Xiaobai says no.

After the character selection, Xiaobai is dropped in a dark room, which is the lobby, to start for the servers to officially open. Shanxin appears, and Xiaobai realizes she’s chosen to play as a little bird. Meanwhile, the game asks A-Gen if he wants to open up a subsidiary account, a special option based on his particular situation. A-Gen and Xiaohei appear in the lobby as well, and Shanxin is surprised that a cat could play as well. She thinks she’ll get Huangshou next time. Also, she’s disappointed everyone chose to play in their real form except for her. Shanxin explains that All Living Creatures is a virtual reality game which can perfectly trigger their senses to create realistic effects. However, no one knows what the game actually is or how it’ll play. Xiaobai is surprised at how real everything looks and feels.

Then, a guide appears before them. It’s called MT, and it explains the basics of the game: the game is a new open world, whose specific goals will be revealed as they play. The main rule they have to know about is that when a character dies, if it doesn’t receive Resurrection within 10 seconds, the character will be deleted permanently. Each person can only have one character, and when it dies, they’ll refresh to a new character after a 30 minute cooldown. They have to protect themselves like they were in the real world. Furthermore, the menu will be summoned by thinking about it. Only team members can see its interface. At 10 o clock the game will officially start.

Shanxin tells everyone to stay together once they enter, and that their menus can help them track each other’s location since they’ve entered together. She explains to them the basics of games: that they have an experience bar they can fill up to unlock abilities. Xiaohei tries to summon some Heixius, and is horrified to see that he can’t. Besides, the game has no servers, all the players play together. After that, the game officially starts…

Everyone wakes up in a lush forest, so vivid it seems real. They can see that it extends a large distance through a cliff. A group of boars pass them by, and then Xiaobai realizes she can’t understand Shanxin anymore. Using the game’s message function, she tells them that she’s lost the ability to speak since she’s a bird, which makes her pretty mad. Their menus only show three kilometers of map, which means they have to explore the map. A-Gen notices a man with an eye patch appearing nearby, but the man runs away when he sees them.

A-Gen asks Xiaohei if he can feel the presence of ling (spirits). Xiaohei checks, and is surprised to see he can. A-Gen tells him that he had read about the game on the elfin forums… and surprises Xiaohei by creating a block of ice. He’s able to use his elfin powers in the game. A-Gen reveals that the game was made by elfins.

## Features

### Characters

* A-Gen
* Xiaohei
* Xiaobai
* Bidiu
* Shanxin
* Huangshou (mentioned)
* MT (Debut)

### Items

* All Living Creatures limited-edition console

### Locations

* Grandpa's house
* All Living Creatures starting forest

### Abilities

* A-Gen's water manipulation (in-game)