Jiang Chen felt like he had bet his lifetime of luck on living and now there was nothing left.
Yesterday, he didn’t plan to get the little newbie any gear, yet everything that dropped basically belonged to the other, not even a single piece was for himself.
Today, he wanted to get the little newbie some good equipment, yet what dropped were some miscellaneous stuff and Abysswalker gear that weren’t even as good as the ones the guy was wearing.
The official server wasn’t like the Beta server. The dungeons could only be played once a day, not any time you wanted.
Leading the little newbie, Captain Jiang went through and defeated all of the 5-man level 15 dungeons. After leveling up, he then slaughtered all of the level 20 dungeons. In the end, carrying a pile of garbage, he stood at the entrance of a dungeon and fell silent for a moment before saying coldly: “It’s fine. We’ll beat it again tomorrow.”
Letting out a breath of relief internally and also wanting to laugh slightly, Fang JingXing said obediently: “Okay.”
Jiang Chen said: “I’m getting offline at 11:30am. Do you want to beat anything else?”
Fang JingXing glanced at the time and noticed that there was still half an hour left.
He said: “Nothing temporarily. Let’s take a stroll or do some fishing?”
Jiang Chen said: “Okay.”
So the two people left the city and walked towards the outskirts.
There’s a river outside of each of the Demon Realm’s three cities. These three rivers were all branches of the same river that converged and flowed windingly to the public area outside.
Fang JingXing and Jiang Chen chatted as they walked, reaching the riverside very quickly. Fang JingXing hesitated briefly and asked: “Ge, how old are you?”
Jiang Chen said subconsciously: “18.”
Immediately afterwards, he recollected himself: “No wait, 19. My birthday this year has passed.”
It’s only at that time, he was inside the sterile ward so he didn’t get to eat cake. Next year he should be able to eat it.
Fang JingXing finally gained another clue and didn’t dare to ask anything else.
Although he had made a pretty good impression in front of the Wardcaster right now and could use the opportunity to steal some information, if he really did it, it would be even harder to pacify the other in the future. As such, he could only ask some insignificant stuff.
Despite knowing the answer, he still inquired: “Is that right? I think your voice is very pleasant. Is it your own or are you using the game’s?”
Jiang Chen said: “The game.”
Fang JingXing immediately followed the direction of the topic: “What’s the voice number? I want to switch mine. All of my friends say that the voice I selected does not fit the Abysswalker very well.”
Jiang Chen gave him a glance. The Abysswalker was wearing a black magic robe with a dark pattern. His hair was somewhat long and his face was pale-white and ice cold. There’s also a faint red magic symbol on his forehead. He was going the sinister, ice-cold and arrogant route, which was indeed not very compatible with a teen’s voice.
He said: “Doesn’t matter, as long as you like it.”
Fang JingXing didn’t like it.
If he still used a milky voice when he flipped the car or confessed the truth, wouldn’t he be flashing the evidence of his crime obnoxiously right in front of the other’s face? Therefore, it must be changed. Verbally, he said he’ll think about it. However, internally he had already made up his mind to change it as soon as the other got offline, slowly paving the way to his confession.
Jiang Cheng didn’t know his little plot. Finding a huge rock next to the river, he brought the other over.
The two people were just about to sit down when another player came over, seemingly with the same purpose as them. This rock was big enough to accommodate three people with no problem. Jiang Chen ignored them. Unexpectedly, the other person spoke up with disdain: “It’s you?”
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Jiang Chen looked towards this Swordsman: “Are you talking to me?”
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The Swordsman said coldly: “Finally remembered? Then do you remember that you stole three of my mobs?”
“Not ‘you’, it’s ‘you guys’.” Jiang Chen corrected him: “It’s 11 mobs.”
The Swordsman: “…….”
Fang JingXing: “…….”
Fang JingXing recalled the scene he saw yesterday and for a moment, he didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. He thought to himself, so the person being chased was him.
En, it had to be him. Who else would gather such a steady wave of hatred on the first day. He’s really both cold and infuriating. However, judging from this kid’s temper, it must have been others who provoked him first.
The Swordsman laughed out of anger: “You sound quite proud of yourself?”
Jiang Cheng: “Fair enough.” He said: “The kill-steal guy got his kill stolen, if you’re displeased either steal it back or PK.”
The Swordsman naturally knew that the chance of kill-stealing mobs at server launch washigh, so there’s no reason to make a big fuss out of this.
It’s just, was it truly as simple as stealing back what got stolen? This Wardcaster had not only stolen the mobs, but also used them like an ATM machine. It was really too despicable. All eight of them had seared him into memory.
He said: “You better not provoke us again in the future, otherwise you’ll get what’s coming.”
Not wanting to sit together with them, he turned and left, huffing: “Ze, what bad luck.”
Very magnanimous, Jiang Chen did not argue with him and sat down on the ground, pulling out his fishing gear.
Fang JingXing sat down as well and asked curiously: “What’s happened?”
Jiang Chen gave a simple explanation of yesterday’s experience and said: “The usual grudges, not anything important.”
Hearing this, Fang JingXing wanted to laugh. He took out his fishing gear and also casted it.
The items obtained from fishing can be good or bad. The good items caught from fishing can be rare materials. The bad stuff was simply garbage.
Players can AFK and leave it up to the system or they can fish online themselves. In the VR version, you can feel the vibrations of the fishing rod when you’re fishing. If you don’t pull it up in time, the item will disappear.
As the two talked, Jiang Chen’s fishing rod suddenly moved.
He lifted the rod swiftly. Discovering that it was a bronze coin, he put it away and continued to fish.
Fang JingXing also caught something on his side. It was a bag of money. After opening it, there were five silver coins inside. He put it away, casted the line again, and saw the person next to him listing the fishing rod again.
Jiang Chen pulled it closer to check. It was a worn-out shoe. He subconsciously wanted to throw it back, but on second thought, afraid of fishing it out again, he placed it on the huge rock.
Fang JingXing suppressed his laughter and asked: “When are you coming online in the afternoon?”
Jiang Chen said: “2 or 2:30pm”
Fang JingXing remembered it, raised the rod and saw that he had fished up a treasure chest.
Treasure chests also contained good and bad items, but rare materials can always be obtained through opening the chests. Jiang Chen couldn’t help but look over. He saw the other open it for 10 gold coins, which wasn’t bad. Then he looked at his own rod, discovered that he had fished up another bronze coin, and instantly felt that fishing wasn’t a good idea.
Good thing, they were only fishing for half an hour.
Jiang Chen sat there silently and fished up a pile of garbage. Seeing the little newbie fishing up 5 treasure chests intermittently, he kind of didn’t want to play anymore. Noticing the fishing pole moving again, he raised it in annoyance and saw a bright red chest— He finally fished up a treasure box as well.
Fang JingXing had been suffering quite a while from suppressing his laughter. Seeing this, he hastily congratulated the other.
Captain Jiang calmly and gracefully gave an ‘En’ and placed the treasure chest on his leg. Opening it to take a look, he saw another worn-out shoe.
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Fang JingXing really couldn’t hold back. Ruining his previous achievement, he laughed out loud.
Jiang Chen expressionlessly threw inside the worn-out shoe on the rock, making a pair. Closing the cover of the chest, he was about to toss it back into the water. At this time, he saw the Swordsman about 50 meters away from the corner of his eyes and carried the chest over, yelling: “Hey.”
The Swordsman maintained the fishing pose without even raising his head.
Jiang Chen said: “I’m your daddy.”
The Swordsman continued to ignore him.
As such, Jiang Chen determined the other was AFK.
He refused to admit it was his own fault and blamed the Swordsman for cursing him with that ‘what bad luck’ before leaving. Therefore, he threw the chest into the water in front of the Swordsman and returned this ‘bad luck’ back to him.
Fang JingXing laughed again and felt this kid’s vindictive style was quite his taste. Of course, if this ‘vindictive’ trait was not used on him in the future, that’d be even better.
Jiang Chen walked back leisurely and wasted time until 11:30 am, then immediately put away the fishing rod and went offline. During lunch, he ate an extra bowl of rice. After lunch break, he returned energetic and vigorous. Forgetting the aggravation of the morning, he took the little newbie to do missions and kill bosses so they could enter a level 25 dungeon at night.
Interacting harmoniously with him for an entire day, Fang JingXing had a feeling like that really wasn’t done so easily. Seeing the other was about to reach the entrance of a level 25 dungeon, he said: “I read a guide. The boss might randomly cause confusion to players. Should we get a cleric?”
The dungeons in Wandering Dreams weren’t meant to be randomly soloed by players. The higher the level, the higher the difficulty, requiring a squad and teamwork.
During these three months when Jiang Chen waited for the server to launch, he had done his research to catch up. Naturally, he knew this setting as well. His Wardcaster has a skill to nullify conditions, but the skill had a cooldown. Most likely, this wasn’t enough. If they found a cleric, the cleric could also provide them some HP during the confusion.
He thought briefly: “Actually, we can give it a try and see.”
Fang JingXing didn’t plan to let him try. Just in case, they couldn’t beat it; it’s not like he could reveal his true strength, he’d have no choice but to watch helplessly as the other died. This would be another debt to add.
He persuaded: “This dungeon can only be fought once. It’s better that we find a cleric or wait until my friends come over. We can tackle it together with them.”
Jiang Chen said: “When will your friends arrive?”
Fang JingXing said: “11pm the earliest.”
Because they were streamers and needed to live stream at night.
Jiang Chen said: “No can do. I’m getting offline at 9:30pm.”
Fang JingXing raised an eyebrow.
This kid seemed to have gone offline at the same time yesterday as well. Was this his daily routine or was there some other reason?
He said: “Then we can shout for a cleric in the local channel.”
As such, Jiang Chen sent a message and then suddenly remembered one thing and looked towards him: “When do you sleep normally?”
Fang JingXing said: “Around 12am.”
Jiang Chen said: “Yesterday as well?”
Fang JingXing nodded: “Ge, don’t worry. I don’t stay up overnight.”
Jiang Chen wasn’t concerned about this. Instead he asked: “Did you finish doing your homework?”
Fang JingXing was caught completely off guard: “—Ah?”
He abruptly remembered that he was 16 right now and said: “I finished, I finished them Friday so I can play these two days.”
Jiang Chen lectured: “Sleep earlier today. You still have class tomorrow.”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Man, did he dig his grave, why did he have to say he was 16? He needed to ‘go to class’ all next week.
While they spoke, three players walked over.
Amongst them, the cleric said: “The three of us are in a group. Seeing you guys just happen to lack three people and our skill level is pretty good, want to squad up?”
Jiang Chen said: “yes.”
Saying this, he dragged those three into squad.
The three new members’ information instantly appeared in the squad channel. The original two people glanced at it in unison.
Cleric, ID: Love’s One.
Warrior, ID: Love’s Two.
Assassin, ID: Love’s Three.
Jiang Chen: “?”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Fang JingXing contacted several huge fans immediately.
These fans knew that he didn’t switch servers. If it were them, he could remind them to keep their mouths shut.
The huge fans were utterly befuddled and replied, it’s not, it should be normal fans. Who let him post something like Love’s Five, waiting for you online.
Fang JingXing closed the communications app and fell silent.
He might as well have let the Wardcaster try a moment ago.
Captain Fang thought internally, at least that’d be better than getting into a flying death contraption right now.
I am going to squat here faithfully to see Jiang Yi’s reaction to Fang JingXing revealing himself(~‾▿‾)~
Jiang Chen* who is Jiang Yi?😭 Is it the PDR? Must be- I am mixing up names🥲
ALSO, ALMOST FORGOT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARDWORK! LOVE YA!(ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ ﾐ ┻━┻
PRD* not PDR omg how many typos did I make hides in a rabbit hole
I hate that swordsman with a passion! 😤😤 He stole kills first, and now has the audacity to hold grudges??
Waiting for the day Fang JingXing flip the car
Thanks for the chapter
wuuuuu… before I was just someone reading a bunch of already translated novels, but now I suddenly understand the pain of waiting for the next translated chapter to come out… QAQ
Lighting a candle for future Jingxing when finally flips the car over🕯️
Thanks for the chapter btw~
Fans are so sweet
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