When entering the hidden instance, there was no familiar information for Xu Yintang. There were no difficulty level indicators or completion conditions.
Upon clicking the confirmation, he and Shi Yuebai appeared directly in an office. Of course, both of them were fully clothed now.
It had been a while since Xu Yintang last saw Wang Laowu, and upon seeing that shrewd and slightly plump face again, Xu Yintang felt a bit unfamiliar. However, Wang Laowu didn’t feel the same. He happily greeted the two and said, “These are my best two, what do you think? Are you satisfied?”
Seated on the sofa was a middle-aged woman with slightly dark skin, appearing to be in her thirties or forties. The moment she laid eyes on Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai, her eyes lit up, showing a glint of excitement.
However, she didn’t hastily respond to Wang Laowu’s greeting. Instead, after carefully sizing up the two for several rounds, she made a forced smile and said, with a hint of criticism, “The models are not bad, but they’re a bit old.”
This was an attempt to negotiate the price.
Wang Laowu, with a clever turn of words, smiled and said, “Oh, I’ll have to argue with you about that. In their twenties, it’s the prime time!”
“Besides, just look at this appearance, this figure. They haven’t lost their fragrance of youth yet. Let me tell you the truth, if it weren’t for your sincerity, I wouldn’t easily introduce these two to you.”
Xu Yintang smiled and scratched Shi Yuebai’s palm with his fingertips, soothing his emotions and preventing a tragic gaming accident before the mission even started.
Wang Laowu’s bargaining tone didn’t make Xu Yintang angry. Instead, it reminded him of a TV series recommended by Xiao Qing, where the brothel Madam used a similar approach to sell the girls to customers, praising their beauty, gentleness, and talent.
Due to the high degree of overlap with the scene, the more Xu Yintang looked, the more he wanted to laugh. With a slight lift of his lips, the end of his eyes inevitably carried a few traces of lingering charm. Trying to pick on a few more points and negotiate the price, the customer, seeing Xu Yintang’s expression, was stunned. Any harsh words at the tip of her tongue couldn’t be uttered.
Wang Laowu secretly gave a thumbs-up to Xu Yintang and took the opportunity to negotiate the price with the customer. He then enthusiastically escorted the potential client out. Turning back with a fierce expression, he shouted, “Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? I’m just trying to get you more money! I won’t even take a commission!”
His words sounded more like that of a brothel Madam. Xu Yintang thought so and directly responded, “Nothing, I just feel like you were acting like a Madam.”
Wang Laowu wouldn’t mistake one Madam for another. With a glare at Xu Yintang, he retorted, “Madam my ass! If I’m a Madam, then what does that make you, my good daughters?”
“Is there a difference? You just got us a good price, didn’t you?” Shi Yuebai answered without looking at Wang Laowu, busy pouring tea for Xu Yintang and himself. They sat down on the sofa without waiting for Wang Laowu’s invitation.
Wang Laowu, observing Shi Yuebai’s expression, snorted, pinched his throat, and, adopting the style of a brothel Madam, said, “Oh my! You, little ancestor! Have you taken gunpowder? Your temper is so fierce. From your sulky little face, one would think I’ve wronged you!”
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Xu Yintang, holding the teacup, took a sip and stifled his laughter. Tearing open a packet of biscuits, he handed one to Shi Yuebai and gently lowered the corners of his mouth to calm him down. It avoided a gaming accident where the NPC would be beaten before the mission even began.
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“Ah, with the price in place, changing the plan temporarily is not a problem,” Wang Laowu rubbed his fingers. “I didn’t lie to you. This time, it’s a big deal.”
He extended five fingers to indicate the price. “This amount will be settled on a daily basis. If it weren’t for that person saying they wanted someone young and good-looking, your qualifications wouldn’t have been enough.”
“5,000?” Xu Yintang asked.
“Far off… 50,000!” Wang Laowu smacked his lips. “Includes meals, accommodation, and reimbursement for travel expenses. The first two days’ wages have been transferred as a deposit. Check for yourselves; has the 2 million already been credited?”
5,000 per hour, forty-eight hours over two days would be 2 million and 400,000. Deducting the 400,000 was Wang Laowu’s commission.
He only took this 400,000 as a deposit, and the subsequent final payment and how long they can work is entirely up to Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai.
Xu Yintang glanced at his phone and saw that besides the newly arrived 2 million, there was also another 2 million from the commission of the previous task and the profit split from Boss Zhao.
He remembered that when they cleared the Ascension Tomb, he gained 200,000 employment points.
Given that the game points and commission income ratio is one to ten, as long as the mission difficulty doesn’t exceed B, it’s a profitable deal.
“But as you know, business that comes looking for me isn’t easy. The more the client pays, the faster you die.” Wang Laowu handed over the prepared mission information to Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai, speaking seriously, “Read it here, figure out what to do, and after you leave…”
“Do your best, leave the rest to fate.”
…
The women hiring Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai come from a place called “Jiaocun,” a seaside village. This village is located in a remote southeast region, with a reputation for being inconvenient in terms of transportation, and almost no information can be found about it on the Internet. It seems like an ordinary small fishing village.
But according to the mission information Wang Laowu gave them, Jiaocun is extremely famous within the less scientific circles. The village claims that their ancestors came from Penglai, a fairy mountain on the sea and that they are descendants of immortals.
These descendants of immortals don’t possess extraordinary abilities like flying or escaping. They only have excellent alchemy and pharmaceutical skills.
Among the drugs they produce, others may be fine, but the most famous is the elixir they can refine only once every ten years. Each elixir has miraculous effect of prolonging life and curing all kinds of diseases.
No one knows how these elixirs are refined, but it is widely known that only the people of Jiaocun can produce such elixirs. Even if outsiders obtain the formula, the result is only poison.
After hundreds of years of hidden struggles over the ownership of the elixirs, Jiaocun successfully established a stable and special position in the industry.
From then on, every ten years, the celebration ceremony for elixir refinement (combined with a competitive auction) became exceptionally lively. Those who did not have enough capital could not even enter the gate of Jiao Village. A signboard was randomly smashed on the street. At least he’s a billionaire.
And this time’s job for Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai is to provide services for the highly ranked guests who come from afar during the celebration ceremony— not to misunderstand, it’s legitimate services.
After all, except for the official ceremony and auction held for a short half-day at the end, the five-day celebration involves entertaining guests with various performances. Among them, the two of them, specifically named, are the most popular “immortal blessing ritual” performers.
This ritual, borrowing the title “Immortal Blessing Ritual,” is said to ward off evil, avoid disasters, bring prosperity, concentrate the spirit, and strengthen the body.
In short, whether it has any actual effects or not is up to personal belief, but experiencing it in a room filled with a pleasant fragrance, listening to melodious and soothing music, watching an elegant and graceful dance, and then being blessed by two handsome “immortals” in an atmosphere with swirling smoke and mystical ambiance, even if you know that all these people are performers, you can’t help but have a strange illusion of transcendence, feeling refreshed and renewed.
Incidentally, they unknowingly paid a high and absurd price for the “protective amulets” during the celebration.
Some individuals, driven by their desires, might even purchase a dozen or twenty, hoping to receive special treatment with a one-on-one “immortal” blessing.
Yes, after playing the role of a fake god and selling allure in the previous mission, Xu Yintang once again received the script for playing a fake god and selling allure. He is responsible for appearing ethereal alongside Shi Yuebai in the final dance performance, touching people’s heads while promoting the purchase of protective amulets from unsuspecting victims.
For the employers from Jiaocun, merely seeing the ID photos provided by Wang Laowu was already more than satisfactory regarding Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai’s appearance and temperament. However, to ensure the success of the entire scamming ceremony, they insisted that the two actors arrive three days in advance for on-the-job training.
Naturally, their wages would be calculated according to the agreed-upon price. Even if Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai arrived in the afternoon on the first day, they would still be paid a full day’s commission.
At this point, Jiaocun was already filled with a festive atmosphere. People were bustling around, decorating with lights and colors. Temporary workers hired from nearby villages were following orders, busy with preparations.
Third Flora, arrived a step ahead of her mother, skillfully and cautiously flying over the entire village. By the time Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai were still several kilometers away, she had already gathered information about the village’s architecture, terrain, and population distribution. She could even share gossip about the village head’s extramarital affair with an unknown woman.
“…Third Flora, don’t look at that.”
Xu Yintang made a firm decision that it was time to prioritize the sexual education of the cubs when they returned from this mission. He couldn’t let his own little ones witness such scenes, relying on explicit content for enlightenment.
Those things were easy to find unpleasant after seeing them too often. He had to admit that he had done such scenes with Shi Yuebai too often and he had to stop showing such bad impressions. He recalled the naked and dirty things he had seen when he was a child. The scene of fleshy bodies stacked together, squirming and moaning, he still felt very unpleasant remembering it.
Third Flora cleverly didn’t pretend to be an innocent child in front of her mother. The butterfly flapped its wings and stopped by her mother’s side, gently reminding her of her distinctive form. She shifted her mother’s attention to the jumping and pretending-to-be-knowledgeable Second Treasure, diverting the focus away from the potentially awkward topic.
Second Treasure’s understanding of sticking closely was truly limited to sticking closely. Third Flora strongly suspected whether it had ever considered the possibility that the vixen might also kiss their mothers.
Little Darling is not mentioned, in its concept, there might not be much difference between males and females.
Third Flora is different from her two brothers, as a collective will of a huge and complex butterfly population, the butterflies themselves have a full range of genders and sexual orientations. Without his mother worrying, Third Flora had already completed the entire process from enlightenment to proficiency early on.
But with Third Flora’s shrewdness, she wouldn’t show off her knowledge of things she shouldn’t know in front of her mother.
Appropriate ignorance is an excellent weapon to prevent the vixen from approaching his mother.
“Mother and the vixen kissed, does that mean Third Flora will have a new little brother?”
“If there is a new little brother, does that mean Third Flora won’t be able to act spoiled with her mother anymore?”
How naive and innocent Third Flora’s questions were, meant how much advantage the vixen could take of her innocence under the guise of child protection.
Shi Yuebai generously didn’t mind the safety distance forcibly imposed between him and Xu Yintang by the butterflies, watching Xu Yintang explain to Third Flora with a headache that two men kissing wouldn’t produce children, his smile was gentle and his eyes were soft enough to melt.
He didn’t say anything.
But his expression seemed to imply that he would be willing to be the children’s father.
Whether it’s these few or the next one.
Awwwww so cute!!! Thank you for the updates!🥰🧡🧡🧡
Shi Yuebai willing to be a stepfather to mama Xu’s cubs ( we all know that he’d like to make a few if you know what I mean 👀) since we all know their biological father is a bit stingy👀, but that comment though about third flora going from enlightenment to proficiency had me chocking (I’m not gonna lie my mind went places┐(´ー｀)┌) ←← ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ (●_●)
Like your name 🤣
LoL thanks 😅🤣
Shi Yuebai 🤧🤧
Shi Yuebai isn’t the stepfather, he’s the father that stepped up!!! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
(・o・) Oooo I like definitely like that
Third Flora, so sneaky cute… mother doesn’t know I’ve/we’ve done that and so much more… innocent expression/s full of delicate shock… Wha? Sex? Huh? No clue, blink, blink, blink… Thanks for the update 🤣🤣🤣🦋❤️
Hehehehehehe☺️☺️
New family member will be soon?
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