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After Luo said this, the room was quiet and silent. The only thing that could be heard was the stutter in Xiao Lan’s breathing and Luo’s pretend breathing that hadn’t changed in tempo.
Their breaths intertwined, as if they would fuse together.
Luo’s face was extremely close to Xiao Lan, his practically flawless features filling Xiao Lan’s entire line of sight. He could easily see his own reflection in Luo’s light gold irises —
His eyes were wide and his expression frozen; he looked thoroughly dumbfounded.
No, this couldn’t continue further!
Alarm bells erupted in Xiao Lan’s mind. An instinct for danger told him that if this continued, something might happen that would overturn his understanding of things.
He reached out and pushed at Luo’s shoulder to create some distance between them.
Then, he cut a slightly sorry figure as he rolled out from the crack and ran to his bedroom with quick steps.
“I- I- I feel really tired from fighting in the training grounds for so long ah I now really want to sleep so I won’t chat anymore byebye —” After saying all that without a single pause, Xiao Lan scuttled straight into his room and shut the door behind him.
“Hu… hu… hu…” Xiao Lan leaned against the door; it felt like he had escaped the tiger’s den.
He hadn’t even taken a single clean breath when Luo’s unhurried voice came from the other side of the door. “Need me to help give you a massage, sir?”
“No no no… no need…” Xiao Lan trembled and hastily replied.
“Then, permit me to say goodnight in advance.” Luo’s tone was still the same as ever, and there wasn’t a difference to be heard.
“Good- goodnight…” Xiao Lan instinctively replied.
Strange, what happened to him today? There had clearly been situations where he and Luo had leaned in even closer to each other in the instances ah. Hadn’t he seen Luo’s face for many months already? Why did it feel different today?
Unable to find the answers after pondering for so long, Xiao Lan simply summed up the reason as — the aftereffects of listening to Qi Ning’s story.
After all, Qi Ning’s story contained most of the Buddhist saying of life’s seven sufferings, “birth, aging, illness, death, parting with what we love, meeting what we love, unattained aims”, and was even a love story.
It seemed that he should listen to fewer stories and fight more ba.
Fighting was good, fighting was beneficial for the body, mind, and health; fighting allowed one to live a long, long life.
Xiao Lan lay limp in bed, his mind in a tremendous mess. He felt that today’s coffee was too strong; he might have insomnia tonight.
On the other side of the door.
Looking at the closed door not far away, Luo still had an elegant and appropriate smile on his lips, but his eyes flickered gold with indecipherable meaning.
He turned off the room’s ceiling lights and sat back down on the sofa.
Luo softly murmured in a volume only he could hear, “You can run as much as you like, sir… But you’ll always have a part of me in your life.”
In the dark room, the pitch-black hunter with gold eyes waited patiently to see when the prey that had long entered his net realised the truth, that he was unable to escape.
“I wish you sweet dreams, sir.”
The next morning, after Xiao Lan got out of bed and gave Luo an embarrassed and polite greeting, he rushed straight out of the room and dashed to the training grounds.
Xiao Lan stood rather dazedly at the entrance of the training grounds. The training grounds still looked as busy as ever, the players hurrying in and out with solemn faces.
He quickly chose a training room and directly went in and began to train like mad.
The opponent this time was an assassin.
He was dressed in black with his face covered and he was holding a short dagger. His attacks were nimble and each move swiftly and ruthlessly attacked Xiao Lan’s vital parts. If Xiao Lan was even the slightest bit inattentive, he would instantly die under that knife.
This sort of fight required Xiao Lan’s full attention to respond; just nice, it didn’t leave him any room to think about other things.
During the highly intense fight, Xiao Lan stepped on the edge between life and death again and again, his nerves strained to the extreme as injuries of all sizes kept appearing on his body.
At the same time, he was also becoming increasingly familiar with 【Dalit’s Bone】 in his hands. During the fight, his body felt incredibly free and swift, and the conflicted emotions in his heart also dissipated.
With a swing of his bone blade, he cut the other person’s throat.
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At the same time, the other party’s short dagger sank into Xiao Lan’s chest.
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The skill which he thought had gone on strike had given him a new item. This was truly worthy of celebration.
But what was this thing? Why did the name carry an air of ridicule?
Xiao Lan looked at the item that had appeared:
【Name: Lottery ticket only an idiot would show (High grade item, already bound)】
【Ability: Scratch the lottery ticket and participate in the lottery】
【Description: “Ever since I participated in the lottery, I lost my house, my car, and even my savings. This is simply a scam!” — said by an anon who once participated in a lottery】
Based on this description alone, what normal person would fucking want to open this thing ah…
But when he read this description, Xiao Lan suddenly had a bold idea. Since this looked like the more this thing extorted, the more broke he would be, then didn’t that mean he could use this thing to gain poverty value?!
He was already this broke; what kind of swindler could shake him?
When poverty reached the tipping point, courage would arise in the heart. Xiao Lan reached out and scratched open this lottery ticket.
“Idiot, you have been scammed out of 10 million.”
“Beep — detected player Xiao Lan has no house.”
“Beep — detected player Xiao Lan has no car.”
“Beep — detected player Xiao Lan has no savings.”
“Beep — detected player Xiao Lan has no valuable items.”
“…” The system seemed to sink into silence. This sort of player who was so broke that it couldn’t hurt him was truly rare.
After a short silence, the system notification continued:
“Poverty value increased by 10 million. This is one small step for poverty, but a huge step for Xiao Lan.”
“Obtained intelligence reduction buff. The game NPC’s evaluation of your intelligence is lowered by 20%. This will take effect the next time the player enters a game, and will continue for the entire round.”
Xiao Lan: “…”
Although he had obtained poverty value, what was up with this feeling of being completely and fancily sneered at?
Fuck! This trash game would get fucked sooner or later.
Forget it. In any case, this intelligence reduction buff was the NPC’s evaluation of him and didn’t reduce his own ability to think. At worst, they would just think of him as someone whose brain didn’t function well; it wasn’t like he would genuinely become stupid.
For a poverty value of 10 million, it wasn’t unacceptable.
With the addition of 10 million in poverty value, Xiao Lan felt his body become a little stronger. He should continue combat training so that he could get used to his current strength more quickly.
After fighting for so long, Xiao Lan walked out of the training room to drink some water and rest a little.
Holding an energy drink, he drank slowly as he sat in the rest area outside the training room.
At that moment, someone called out to Xiao Lan from the side.
“Are you also an intermediate player?” The voice was clear and bright, with the perfect amount of politeness.
Xiao Lan turned his head to look. This was a man who was tall and well-proportioned, and who was dressed in a white tailored, fitting shirt. He looked extremely handsome and had a temperament that was a little like an advertising model. He smiled candidly as he called out to Xiao Lan.
He looked like someone who could easily charm people.
At that moment, his body movements looked very relaxed, and there were no signs that he was about to attack.
Xiao Lan nodded at him. “Hello. Is there something you need?”
That man smiled and said, “Hello, I’m Zhou Guangkai and I recently advanced to the intermediate level, so I want to find a player for combat practice. In the end, I just happened to see you, so I took the liberty of stepping forward and disturbing you.”
Xiao Lan felt that practising with a player was pretty good too; he had never really fought a player. As such, he nodded in agreement. “I’m Xiao Lan. Let’s fight a round in a moment.”
Seeing Xiao Lan agree, Zhou Guangkai seized the opportunity to approach Xiao Lan and chat with him. “How does it feel after reaching the intermediate level? Hopefully, this doesn’t make me seem like a joke; I was so flustered for a good while.”
Xiao Lan thought about it. “It’s fine ba. Compared with the beginner level, it’s a little more dangerous.”
Zhou Guangkai’s gaze was slightly admiring. “You’re really powerful. Have you always been on your own?”
Xiao Lan: “Not really. I have a teammate. When I’m with him, I’m usually more scared than hurt.”
Zhou Guangkai’s face was filled with astonishment. “More scared than hurt? Ah, could it be that you’ve been injured before ah?!”
Xiao Lan nodded.
Slight dissatisfaction flashed in Zhou Guangkai’s eyes. “Shouldn’t your teammate be protecting you well? How can that happen?”
After saying that, he seemed to have realised that he was acting too familiar with a stranger, then added, “Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying that your teammate is bad. I just think that treating you like this is very unfair. You deserve better protection.”
There was the subtle sense of trying to incite disharmony in his tone.
Xiao Lan didn’t care. “It’s fine ah. In any case, we won the fight.”
The words Zhou Guangkai wanted to say were shoved back in. “…”
“Uh… yes ah, winning is fine. You’re really amazing.” After a moment, Zhou Guangkai put on his smile again. “I really feel sorry about you needing to face such threats alone. It would be great if I could protect you.”
Xiao Lan gave him an ineffable look. Why was this guy so weird?
What use was it to protect him?
It wasn’t that Xiao Lan was boasting, but with the added support of 【Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】 and 【Dalit’s Bone】, there probably really weren’t many intermediate players who could beat him.
Plus, this person didn’t have Luo’s aloof and ascetic temperament, nor Luo’s grace and sense of propriety.
Ah, pei, why did his thoughts wander to Luo again? Hurry up and stop.
Zhou Guangkai softened his tone. “Don’t think too much. I just purely admire you a lot and I want to be friends with you. I also don’t know whether I’m qualified to do so. If your teammate minds, then forget it; I don’t want to make things difficult for you.”
His eyes were sincere, like he was genuinely feeling considerate for Xiao Lan from the bottom of his heart.
“We’ll talk after the fight. Come ba.” Xiao Lan completely didn’t think about the meticulous and tactfully concealed implication in the other party’s words and got up to walk to the training room.
To him, this was just an opponent who had sent himself to his door. He was fresh and currently still very energetic.
As for whether he would still have energy later, that remained to be seen.
Zhou Guangkai: “…”
Why was there a faint sense of foreboding…
Xiao Lan took the lead as he walked into the training room, and Zhou Guangkai followed closely behind.
Zhou Guangkai stood in the room, his posture tall and straight, and extremely pleasing to the eye. He gave Xiao Lan a gentle smile. “Come, let’s go all out and fight ba.”
Xiao Lan felt a burst of delight in his heart and his eyes even shone a little brighter. “Really?”
What was with that expression? The ominous feeling in Zhou Guangkai’s heart intensified, but he still steadied himself and maintained his graceful smile. “Of course. Only when you use all your strength can it be considered a fight, right?”
In the wake of his words, a circle of water rippled around Zhou Guangkai. It seemed that this was his fighting style. The waves slowly raised him up and formed something like a pair of wings on his back, giving him a sense of purity and holiness.
He spoke naturally, and paired with his elegant appearance and present posture, he was full of charm.
Unfortunately, his opponent was a true-blue, human-shaped, automated wooden club.
He saw a white rod appear in Xiao Lan’s hands out of nowhere; the rod looked completely ordinary with no decorations at all, and seemed like an extremely common item.
Zhou Guangkai quietly sighed in relief. It seemed that Xiao Lan didn’t plan to greet him with a high grade item.
Like this, he could probably still save face… ba?!!!!
Before the thought fully formed in his mind, he saw Xiao Lan dash towards him at a stupefying speed, the white rod in his hands leaving only a white afterimage in the air.
Zhou Guangkai hastily manoeuvred the waves to form a shield in front of him to block Xiao Lan’s attack.
Bang —
The water shield lasted no more than half a second before it was shattered into vapour by Xiao Lan’s strength.
Xiao Lan didn’t stop moving, and 【Dalit’s Bone】 struck Zhou Guangkai’s body with no holds barred.
Alarmed, Zhou Guangkai hastily bent over, barely escaping under Xiao Lan’s baton with the help of the waves under his feet.
Bang —
There was another sound.
When Zhou Guangkai turned his head to look, he saw that the pillar behind where he had been standing had shattered with Xiao Lan’s single swing, and was felled like a clay figurine.
What monstrous strength was this?! Zhou Guangkai was astonished inwardly.
But he soon didn’t have time to be astonished about anything, because Xiao Lan had raised the rod and was rushing at him once more.
Zhou Guangkai was just about to dodge again.
However, just that split second of distraction had already caused him to miss the best chance to dodge. Just as he leaned away, Xiao Lan’s rod had already forcefully landed on his body —
And sent him flying straight out.
Bang —
Like a baseball that had been hit, Zhou Guangkai flew a good number of meters before he finally crashed heavily into the wall on the other side of the room.
His body slid limply down the wall. The instant he was hit, it was as if Zhou Guangkai saw the distant starry skies and glimpsed the origin of the universe and the mystery of life’s creation.
Did this guy train in The Tagou Club Method…?
Zhou Guangkai lay on the floor and felt like his limbs had been disconnected from his brain. How stupid was he to want to swap pointers with Xiao Lan? Couldn’t they chat? Couldn’t they have a meal together?
In the future, he wouldn’t need to use his dashing appearance again during a fight.
Zhou Guangkai turned his head to look at Xiao Lan, anticipating the look of regret on the other’s face. He would then use this chance to have a closer relationship with him. In the end, he saw a sight that terrified him—
Unexpectedly, Xiao Lan was running towards him, the rod in his hand raised once more.
Fuck! Don’t you have any sympathy at all?!!!
At that moment, Zhou Guangkai vividly experienced what was called ‘A swing of my club might make you die’.
“Stop stop stop — I surrender, I surrender!!” Zhou Guangkai hastily said. He was afraid that if he was a little slower to speak, he would genuinely be beaten into a pulp.
Xiao Lan drew back his weapon a little regretfully. Honestly, he was still holding back and hadn’t switched the weapon to its blade form yet, otherwise he would have sliced Zhou Guangkai in two. He had even withdrawn Dalit’s Flame.
He looked at Zhou Guangkai. This guy’s physique was so weak; he didn’t seem to be a close combat fighter.
Ai, not satisfied ah.
Zhou Guangkai looked at Xiao Lan’s regretful expression and was about to throw up blood. Big brother, what are you feeling regretful about?! Regretful that you didn’t have the chance to beat me to death?
After that, Xiao Lan waved at Zhou Guangkai. “I’m very happy to have met you. Let’s fight again if we have a chance next time. See you.”
With that, he turned and walked towards the exit of the training room.
Zhou Guangkai tried his best to squeeze out a light smile. “See you. You’re… really amazing ah. I really… admire you. Can you teach me?”
Xiao Lan summed up his experience: “If you’re bad, go train.”
After Xiao Lan’s figure vanished, Zhou Guangkai, who was lying down on the ground, finally couldn’t hold back from spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Who wants to see you again ah! Not seeing again! Don’t want to see you ever again!!
Also, what was ‘if you’re bad, go train’? Are you mocking me?!!
He indignantly took out a communication item, and when the call was picked up on the other hand, he complained tearfully, “Boss!! This guy is a fucking beast!!! He can’t be provoked at all!! Fuck!! Looks like the type that’ll be single his whole life!!!
“I’ve suffered a serious work-related injury! I wish to apply for medical treatment for the heart!!!
“Ptu —” With combined grief and indignation, Zhou Guangkai spat out another mouthful of blood and directly passed out.
The Lunhui boss who didn’t even have time to say a single sentence: “…”
Look at how his family’s little brother was beaten up. This face full of blood was so tragic.
lololol~
Weird, why does this chapter show up as Ch1 – First Entry? It should be Ch96?
Ohh it’s fixed now. Wonder what happened
Its a cache thing and should automatically fix itself after a while.😅
oh, okay then. Thanks for the explanation! 🙂
Lol 😂😂
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
thanks for the chapter! ♡
i noticed that ” 为了1000w贫穷值，感觉也不是不可以接受。 ” was still in there.
No he is not a single
He is just a frog being cooked in warm water
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Lololol, want to create disharmony in their relationship? Dream on!
Thank you for your great translation! 💕
lol? Wanting to honey-trap our dense-straight-as-a-rod-MC? Little guy, don’t you show yourself in front of Luo, at least do it after leaving your will and numbering your bones….
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*dense-bent-as-a-right-angle-MC
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Why a right angle QAQ I came here to escape geometry yet its following me like death does to a human. Q-Q
I can’t escape the torment of math too!!! QAQ
Xiao Lan should just train with Luo, ah. That will also help their tacit understanding, ne.
Thank you so much for translating! <3
Yup. Once Luo know about this Zhou guy, he is dead meat 😆
Thank you for the update ☺️
Thanks for the chapter! ^^)❤
Luo…chillax a little…
Thanks for the chapter~
I knew he was related to this guy somehow. That’s what you get for trying to come between my babies
Trying to saw discord between Luo and XL? Dream on guys. And you weak chicken are proposing to protect XL? Dream on even more lololol
Erm.. was the boss of Lunhui the one who stole the How to Draw book from Luo?
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Thanks for the chapter! <3
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Thank you for the chapter ❤️
I kinda feel sorry for the Lunhui boss. His schemes are too crafty for our familys’ sir.
Yup the only one who can manage Xiao Lan is Luo~
I was wondering what kind person had been sent to our Babies door, it turn out that the idiots from Luinhui had sent themselves to the door to be beaten like dogs!! LoL ┐(´д`)┌
I actually thought it was the boss who came to meet him. He did say in his last appearance that he wanted to meet him in person 🤔
I know that he was sus haha