It’s been ages since the Oracle saw his own portrait. Looking at his former image and feeling sorry for himself for quite a while, he fully narrated the process of how this dissatisfied gremlin had courted disaster step by step.
Probably also feeling unreliable, he comforted them with his voice, which had been damaged through taking drugs this one time in the past: “Don’t judge me by my appearance. My divination skills are still very impressive.”
Avian Ruler, very bluntly: “I don’t believe you.”
5cum: “Believe him or not, there’s no other choice. The old man gatekeeper clearly assigned the Oracle.”
Gou Cheng: “I suspect there’s some kind of dirty exchange between them.”
This Majesty is the Most Beautiful: “Oh… could he be the old man’s intimate friend?”
“I don’t know if they’re intimate friends or not,” Fang JingXing examined the Oracle’s countenance and said: “But according to this story quest’s style, I’m guessing that for him to divinate for us, the prerequisite condition might be to help him heal his injuries.”
Avian Ruler and the others all looked at him in unison: “…….What did you say?”
Fang JingXing said: “He presented all these injuries on his body; there has to be a reason.”
Avian Ruler was just about to struggle and argue slightly when he saw the Oracle finally putting down the portrait reluctantly. The group instantly held their breaths nervously. They heard the Oracle say in his hoarse and raspy voice: “I can divinate and help you guys find the person that you want, however, I have a condition.”
Avian Ruler and the others remained silent.
Jiang Chen glanced up.
The Oracle said: “I want to restore my previous looks. Right now, my legs are an inconvenience, so it’s not suitable for me to make a long journey. You guys help me find all the ingredients I need for the medicine and I’ll help you guys divinate.”
Avian Ruler and the other said ‘oh’ and felt it wasn’t so bad.
When doing story quests, the missions very often involved helping the NPCs find things. A hidden story quest was a bit more troublesome at best. This was nothing.
On Jiang Chen’s side, the system provided an automatic answer: “Okay, what ingredients?”
The Oracle laughed delightedly and pulled out a piece of paper from the drawer, handing it to them.
The group took it to take a look and discovered that it was a densely packed list of words. There were at least a dozen kinds of drug ingredients. The further down they were listed, the harder they were to find. They’d probably have to travel most of the map.
Still delighted, the Oracle reminded them: “There’s one on the back as well. It’s the most important one. Don’t forget it.”
Hearing this, the group turned the page and saw a row of chicken-scratches: The tooth of a red-striped lion king.
This became the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Avian Ruler‘s rationality snapped with a ‘pa’ and he barked at the Fortune Telling using the same words his father often used on him: “Who the hell do you fucking think you are?”
Jiang Chen was also a bit disgusted by such a long winding list, but didn’t have too much feeling towards the last one. In the past 30 years, countless things have been added to the game. Even though he read through some materials before the official server launch, the focus of his attention was on unfamiliar classes, the PvP arena, the bounty board, as well as a few dungeons. It was impossible to look through all of the newly added monsters.
He asked: “Is this one very hard?”
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Avian Ruler and the others looked at him in surprise: “Ace, you’ve never played Wandering Dreams before?”
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During the beta, Fang JingXing already figured out that he might have not played before and explained, saying: “The red-striped lion king is the most powerful open-world monster.”
Avian Ruler added: “And it’s a max level mob!”
Gou Cheng: “Red-striped lions are actually not hard to defeat, but their lion king is really extremely difficult to kill.”
This Majesty is the Most Beautiful: “Normally, people form squads to kill it. One person cannot defeat it.”
5cum: “Actually, it can still be defeated. In one of his live streams, Captain Fang killed it solo.”
Avian Ruler and the others spoke simultaneously: “Do you think we’re Fang JingXing?!”
Love Escapist glanced at his good friend and agreed with a smile: “That’s right, do you think we’re Fang JingXing?”
Gou Cheng: “Right now, we only have one level 40, while the others are all 30+. The lion king is at a max level of 90. Every one of us needs to be at the same skill level as Fang JingXing to have even a sliver of hope in killing it.”
He looked at the Ace: “Let’s put it this way. He’s not an open-world boss, but he enjoys the prestige of a world boss. Every time a server launches, the system will make an announcement for the first clear.”
Thinking briefly and feeling like this wasn’t enough explanation, he asked: “Ace, do you know about Wandering Dream’s bounty board?”
Jiang Chen nodded.
The bounty board was in the game before. Although many things have been added over the years, he was no stranger to it.
Gou Cheng said: “The Lion King’s difficulty is the same as soloing a 5 star on the bounty Board.”
Jiang Chen said: “Oh.”
Explaining it like that, he had a general idea in mind.
Hearing that indifferent and casual ‘oh’, Gou Cheng didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. He had already explained everything clearly. This Ace has never played Wandering Dream, has never fought the lion king, so no matter how they describe it, there was no use. Let him fight it once and he’ll know to fear its power.
He could only say: “In any case, we can’t defeat this lion king at our current stage. A few of the other ingredients are also quite difficult because they also drop from full level mobs. Let’s gather everything we can find first.”
Jiang Chen looked at that list once again and silently repeated to himself, don’t kill, killing is bad, before accepting it.
Seeing him accept it, the Oracle laughed delightedly again, even happier. Extending a finger out leisurely, he pointed: “These are the ingredients needed for one of my injuries.”
The 7-man squad: “…….”
The Oracle pulled out a second piece of paper from the drawer, which had another pile of words on it. He said with a smile: “These are the ingredients needed for another one of……”
Before waiting to hear the rest, Jiang Chen walked over with a cold face and gave him a kick. Unfortunately, the NPC this time couldn’t be moved with a kick. The Oracle wasn’t affected at all and continued to speak using his broken gong-like voice: “my injuries.”
He held out his hand, waiting for them to accept it. Instantly, Avian Ruler and the others gained unsightly expressions on their faces. How many fucking injuries did this asshole talk about just now? If every injury was a list, do they have to search until the end of the world?!
Fang JingXing pondered for a moment: “I feel like……”
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Chen activated PK mode directly. A warding talisman flew over sharply and the Oracle’s wrinkled face instantly spewed blood.
Avian Ruler and the others were shocked: “Oh fuck!”
Inside the game, some NPCs couldn’t be hit. No matter how you attacked them, their bodies would remain unscathed. Other NPCs could be hit, for example, the guards defending the Main City. If players initiated an attack on them, they would immediately counterattack. NPCs have large HP bars and high attack. Hitting them was basically an unfavorable task, which also gave no reward.
Since the NPC before them could bleed, it meant he’d definitely hit back. Sure enough, the Oracle sat stunned with his face covered in blood for two seconds before jumping up with a slap on the table, screaming: “You’re going down!”
With precision, Jiang Chen threw his warding talisman right into the other’s mouth. The Oracle only took half a step before he spat out a mouthful of blood, making him look even more tragic.
Avian Ruler and the others watched flabbergasted, eyes wide open and jaws slack.
Fang JingXing also activated PK mode and threw a dark curse over. The Oracle started to emit black smoke all over his body.
Avian Ruler and the others let out another ‘Oh fuck’. Watching the Oracle charge at them, they finally returned to their senses and activated PK mode as well, getting ready to lay down as corpses together.
Unexpectedly, after fighting for 5 minutes, the Oracle collapsed to the ground with an ‘ouch’. Then he climbed up sobbingly, returned to his chair shakily, and curled up there, putting away the 2nd piece of paper: “Okay okay, one list is enough.”
Avian Ruler and the others: “? ? ?”
Oh fuck, you can play like this?
They fell silent for a moment. Without waiting for instructions from the Ace, they charged over, dragged the Oracle to the ground, and started to beat him up once again. However, there was no use this time. Despite the wailing and screaming, the Oracle refused to yield. He said desperately: “There’s nothing to discuss. If you guys aren’t willing, then get lost. I won’t help you find the person you want anymore!”
Avian Ruler and the others put down their weapons regretfully and looked towards the two Aces: “This is all?”
Fang JingXing said: “En, didn’t he say at the start that he wanted to recover his looks? This should be his bottom line. This list will probably fix his face.”
As such, the 7-man squad left the wooden house.
Gou Cheng and the others slowly reflected on what happened and couldn’t help but shower the Ace with words of admiration and praise.
This hidden story quest was really one level harder than the last. The last NPC could be moved with a kick, which gave the players a certain hint that normal methods shouldn’t be used to solve the story quest. Even though the NPC this time couldn’t be moved by kicking, they could still try activating PK mode. Why didn’t they think of that!
As expected of the Ace who discovered the hidden story quest!
5cum: “I finally understand why the one in the Beta is still not cleared after 20 days of playing it!”
This Majesty is the most beautiful: “Too inflexible and conventional.”
Gou Cheng: “Unable to adapt.”
Avian Ruler didn’t quite get the key point here. He only felt that these two people were really awesome and echoed: “Yes yes yes!”
Chuckling, Love Escapist didn’t interrupt. He opened the quest log to check the list.
Hearing them praising endlessly, Jiang Chen said calmly: “No, I just wanted to hit him.”
Actually, he only had a vague guess. As soon as Fang JingXing spoke, he knew they were thinking along the same line. However, this only accounted for a small part of the reason. The main reason was that he just wanted to kill. The Oracle had reap disaster onto himself like that, yet wanted them to fix things up for him. His attitude was also too despicable. Jiang Chen had to beat him up to feel satisfied.
As he walked towards the teleportation array, he looked at the list and felt that he could find people to collect them. This account was connected to his old dad’s credit card, which contained his money.
Gaming competitions gave relatively low monetary rewards. Live streaming was more, about a few million. In these 30 years, money begot money, so there was even more. After hearing that he had connected this credit card to the game, his old dad transferred him 500k as well. Right now it was only collecting some materials, nothing expensive, so he could definitely afford it.
As soon as this thought formed in his head, he saw a horn appear in the chat channel.
Love Escapist had picked out everything they could collect at this stage and was asking to purchase them at a high price from the entire server. He said with a smile: “Let’s go. Time to think of a plan to obtain the remaining materials.”
The guild members were used to his style of conduct and followed him obediently. Seeing this, Jiang Chen didn’t argue and walked into the teleport array.
The remaining few materials were all pretty hard to acquire. They played an entire afternoon and only obtained one. Jiang Chen logged off precisely according to his schedule and returned at 7pm at night. Seeing that during this time, they had killed another max level mob under the leadership of Fang JingXing and obtained a new material, he was instantly pleased.
Fetch quests were boring and uninteresting. As such, they spent some time in between playing dungeons to recalibrate their mood.
Three days later, the only item they haven’t obtained yet was the red-striped lion king’s tooth.
Avian Ruler said: “There’s really no hope here. We can only level up.”
Fang JingXing studied the map and looked towards the Wardcaster: “Let me take a look at your summoning talisman.”
Jiang Chen said: “There’s no usage restriction written in the description.”
Hearing him say this, Fang JingXing knew that he also had the same idea. With a smile, he said to Avian Ruler and the others: “Actually, we can give it a try.”
Avian Ruler and the others had no confidence at all: “How can we fight that?”
Fang JingXing said: “I’ll explain when I come back. There’s something I need to do, so I’m getting off. Talk to you guys at night.”
He AFKed and went offline. Heading straight to the airport, he picked up the Movie King Xie, who had returned from work. The two people did not eat outside, but rather, returned to the Xie residence. Xie ChengYan led him to his bedroom, picked up the glasses on the bedside table, and asked: “What kind of symbols are they?”
Fang JingXing said: “There are numbers, letters, traditional Japanese, and punctuation marks.”
Just hearing this gave Xie ChengYan a headache. Scanning his iris and unlocking the equipment, he handed it to Fang JingXing so he could look himself.
Fang JingXing accepted the equipment and put it on. After entering, the first thing he saw was Xie ChengYan’s default login, the assassin account. He backed out into the main page and rummaged through the records. Very quickly, he found the beta icon and opened it hastily. A row of information greeted him.
{xu-5cc靉の！, Wardcaster, level 53.
He took off the glasses and looked at Xie ChengYan, who was waiting for the result.
His eyes were bright: “It’s him.”
Ahh they confirmed!! Will the little movie star find out thats his uncle who is possibly younger than him 😂😂
Thank you for the chapter!! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ
I am generally kinda confused on how the cryo freeze works, so to summarize it up Cheng’er did not age mentally or physically inside of the capsule but outside of the capsule 30 years have passed and he is now 49 years old, but not mentally or physically… btw what was the age expectancy for that era again?
Found him! Hahaha… Thanks for the updates 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣