Chapter 16

translator: henyee translations editor: henyee translations

bed 1 misunderstood what lao yao meant at that time. he thought that the reason why lao yao was so strong was because he had some game secrets and needed to keep them. therefore, he chose to cooperate with lao yao.

although he might have the intention of currying favor with lao yao by doing this, it had to be admitted that lao yao really owed him a favor.

lao yao smiled and said to bed 1, “let’s add each other as friends. if there’s anything i can help with, just say it!”

this group of university students were overjoyed. it was not easy to have an expert as their backer. hence, they hurriedly added lao yao as a friend.

after that, the assassin in bed 2 mustered up his courage and said to lao yao, “brother lao yao, can you show us the weapon you’re using now? your attack is so high, so your weapon shouldn’t be inferior to that blue dagger, right?”

lao yao immediately broke into laughter and showed them the beginner’s daggers with an attack of 1 to 2. he said, “if you want them, i can say that i’m giving them to you. however, you have to wait until i have a new weapon to change to!”

when number 2 and the others saw this, they were instantly dumbfounded. this dagger was given to them when they were born. their attack power was extremely trashy. even number 2 was holding a white-grade dagger that he had obtained from a newbie mission. its attack was 4 to 5, which was even higher than lao yao’s!

at this moment, they finally understood that lao yao’s strength had far exceeded their imagination.

with a bitter smile, bed 1 said to lao yao, “brother lao yao, i won’t say anything else. you are an expert, a true expert!”

lao yao did not refute him. he patted his shoulder and said, “alright, the boss has been killed too. hurry up and level up. i won’t join your team anymore!”

bed 1 nodded and said, “alright, brother lao yao, can i ask you for a favor?”

“go ahead!” lao yao nodded.

“when we reach level 9 in the game, we will receive a quest to leave the novice village,” bed 1 explained. “it’s said that it’s a little difficult. if we can’t pass it, can we ask you for help?”

“quest to leave the novice village?” lao yao asked curiously, “how did you know? you’re only level 7 now!”

bed 1 looked at lao yao in surprise and said, “according to the forum, some of the faster leveling players have already reached level 9. they received a mission but couldn’t think of a way to complete it. they posted it on the forum. don’t you read the forum?”

“well… i’ve never been on the forum before!” lao yao scratched his head awkwardly.

“…” bed 1 was a little speechless. were all experts like this?

at this moment, a system notification came from lao yao’s helmet, informing him that he had used up all his game time today. hence, lao yao said to them, “i’m going offline. as for the mission you mentioned, just contact me when the time comes. i’ll try to see if i can help you pass it.”

seeing that lao yao had agreed, they were naturally overjoyed. they said goodbye to lao yao and watched as he went offline before they continued to level up.

after going offline, lao yao lay on the bed and did not take off his helmet. he carefully recalled the feeling of critical hits during the boss battle. then, he helplessly realized that he had unknowingly started to become addicted to this game.

shaking his head in amusement, lao yao connected his helmet to the internet and planned to take a look at the game forum.

currently, the official forum was in an uproar. a large number of posts were made, but they were quickly drowned out by other posts. lao yao casually clicked on a few posts. after reading some players complaining about the difficulty of leveling up, and that the requirement for experience was too high, and equipment was difficult to fight, and so on, lao yao focused his attention on the few posts that were pinned at the top.

here, lao yao saw the level 9 quest that bed 1 mentioned. the post was made by a level 9 player with a full exp bar. it was quite popular, so it was pinned at the top.

in the post, the player explained the process of the quest in detail. this quest was received from the village chief. it required at most three people to complete a newbie dungeon. the first part was relatively simple, but the final boss was quite disgusting. when its hp was reduced by half, it would summon a wave of small monsters, but it would escape and hide at the side to recover its hp.

this was the difficulty of the dungeon. there were not many people in a party of three. once they were surrounded by the summoned monsters, they would not be able to split up to fight the boss. even if they cleared the monsters, the boss’ hp would recover. when the boss’ hp was reduced to half, it would repeat the previous actions.

the player described the boss as disgusting as a fly. in the early stages, most players’ equipment could not keep up. such a boss made people feel that there was no solution. the player analyzed that unless a powerful dps focused firepower to kill the boss, there was no way to clear this quest.

under this post, countless players posted replies. some tried to analyze tactics, while others posted for fun. in any case, it was the same as when the forum first appeared decades ago. there were all kinds of comments. it was very lively.

lao yao closed the post. after looking at the mission process, he roughly calculated. if it was him, it would not be difficult to complete this mission. when the time came, he might have to help bed 1 and the others.

then, lao yao saw another post that was pinned at the top. the name of this post was “the novice village’s number one divine artifact appears in the world!”

lao yao was shocked by the title of this post and hurriedly clicked on it. he realized that the post was made five minutes ago. in such a short period of time, it had actually reached more than 400,000 clicks!

however, when he saw the picture posted by the owner of the thread, lao yao was instantly amused. wasn’t this the blue dagger that he had just obtained?

this was indeed the case. lao yao clearly remembered the attributes of the “sharp wolf fang” dagger. it seemed like a certain player who had cooperated with lao yao to fight the boss had sent a screenshot.

after reading the entire article, lao yao couldn’t help but admire it. things were really as bed 1 had said. the owner of this post only proudly boasted that he had witnessed the birth of the blue weapon and said that lao yao was a mysterious expert. as for the powerful critical hit rate of lao yao, he didn’t mention it.

indeed! humans’ thoughts were really unpredictable! lao yao was sure that if he had left with all his equipment back then, the poster’s tone would not be smug. instead, it would be jealous or angry…

the popularity of the post was no less than that of the level 9 mission. countless people questioned it.

“it can’t be true, right? can blue equipment drop in the novice village?”

“fake picture! appraisal complete!”

“previous poster, f*ck off! you’re always talking about fake picture! do you know what fake picture is?”

“if this weapon is real, how much can it be sold for?”

“at least 2,000! although it’s only a level 10 weapon, it’s a one-handed dagger, and it even adds attack power! it’s definitely worth this price!”

“f*ck! what 2,000?! let me tell you, that’s the starting price! if you ask me, it’s at least 5,000! there’s no bargaining! you have to think about the importance of this weapon! if you have such a weapon in the early stages, how many dungeons can you successfully clear? this is the lifeblood of the subsequent equipment!”

“i’ll pay a lot of money for the weapon in the picture! name your price! add my qq…”

lao yao finally experienced it this time. he really did not expect that the value of the dagger in his hand would actually exceed his imagination. what was wrong with the rich people in this world nowadays? they were willing to spend so much money for equipment in a game?

although lao yao lived in a luxurious villa worth 30 million yuan and was also the landlord, he was not really a rich person at the end of the day. he still did not understand the psychology of rich people.

what was money? money was nothing! using a bunch of nothing to exchange for the majesty in the game and the worship of countless people was definitely worth it in the eyes of the rich.

the environment they were in was different, so their values were naturally different…

lao yao sighed and shook his head. he closed the forum, got up, took off his helmet, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, intending to stretch his muscles and bones. however, he saw the girls from silver maple leaf studio in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. they were wearing bath towels and their hair was wet. they walked towards the villa from the pool.

the hazy light of the night reflected a gentle light on their delicate skins. they were twelve sexy goddesses who had come out of the bath!

lao yao just stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and watched in a daze. it was only when the goddesses walked into the villa and he could not see them that he thumped his chest and stomped his feet, crying out that he had miscalculated.

what the f*ck! they actually went swimming while i was playing games?! i actually missed such a good opportunity to peep?!

that night, lao yao couldn’t sleep. he tossed and turned on the bed. the scene of his battle with the wolf king and the blue wolf fang dagger flashed through his mind, but the beautiful scene of the girls coming out of the bath also flashed through his mind.

he kept thinking about one question. did he win or lose?