“The rich will only become richer. I checked just now. Hiring a city guard is not cheap.”
“That 4-man squad should be getting ready to start the next step. Where’s the pitfall?”
“Who knows…… Oh right, Lao-Du, didn’t you say that the Abysswalker might be Fang JingXing? You can ask him.”
Lao-Du said: “I’m not certain.”
He gave a simple evaluation: “Fang JingXing is a child with a stomach full of schemes. He might not speak the truth.”
“You’re the grand and majestic Chairman of the Wandering Dreams esports league. He’s not even going to show you some respect?”
“That’s right, you can ask him. What if it’s him?”
“We’re occupied with families to feed, so where would we find the time to waste on hidden story quests?”
“That’s right. Go ask.”
The Chairman of the Wandering Dreams league, Du FeiZhou, nodded and sent Fang JingXing a message: You’re in Mercury Reflects Fate?
At this time, Fang JingXing just finished killing the first boss of a dungeon. Seeing the message, he was stunned briefly.
He didn’t conceal the truth: En. Chairman, you saw the trending search?
The other side replied very quickly: I’m also on this server.
Thoughts churning briefly, Fang JingXing asked: Really? Chairman, want to join a guild? Do you want to come to Indulge?
Du FeiZhou was not someone who likes to waste his breath.
He said directly: Made a guild with old friends. We want to play the hidden story quest, so I came to ask you about the pitfalls.
Fang JingXing knew it was most likely about this matter and didn’t reply for the moment.
He closed the chat box and indicated for the squad members to farm the small mobs. Pulling the Wardcaster to the back to slack off, he whispered: “I have a friend on this server who wants to play the hidden story quest. He came to ask me about the guide.”
Jiang Chen said: “Up to you.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “He’s a virtuous person. I’m certain he won’t tell anyone else.”
Jiang Chen nodded.
As such, Fang JingXing sent the guide to Du FeiZhou. At the same time, he didn’t forget to create a good impression for the Wardcaster: I asked my friend. He said no problem. Just don’t tell others for the time being.
Du FeiZhou thanked him and sent the guide in squad chat.
The group of old and retired professional gamers gathered together to look through it, clicking their tongues in amazement when they were done.
“Choose ‘do not help’ at first, who’d think to do that?”
“And to beat up the NPC as a gang, oh my god…….”
“So this is how you fight the lion king, with a summoning talisman.”
As part of the Wandering Dreams league, Du FeiZhou has never been able to escape the pit during these years, so naturally he’s fought the lion king before.
He recalled the terrain briefly and understood that according to Fang JingXing and his group’s current level range, at least two people were required to drag the lion king to the riverside. As such, he contacted Fang JingXing again: Who pulled the mob with you?
Fang JingXing replied: The Wardcaster.
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Du FeiZhou: Just him alone?
Fang JingXing: En, he’s an expert.
Du FeiZhou: A professional?
Fang JingXing: With past experiences.
Du FeiZhou understood.
With past experiences most likely meant having received training.
Pulling the lion king was a basic skill. These two people were indeed enough.
As soon as this thought flashed across his head, he recalled this server’s gossip and secretly thought to himself, has Fang JingXing finally made his decision?
Nevertheless, even though he thought this, he considered Fang JingXing’s personality and still ended up asking: How strong?
Fang JingXing: Secret [Smile]
Du FeiZhou understood.
Looks like that Wardcaster has quite the talent to make Fang JingXing want to sign him into his esports organization.
He didn’t ask anything else and went to play the quest with some friends.
The observers waited all the way until almost noon time when they finally saw the pitfall.
[Horn] Wine and Meat Pass Through the Intestines: Oh fuck, how are we suppose to beat this? [screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot][screenshot]
Ten images in total, the players were all shocked.
They opened them one by one and discovered that there was a certain pattern to the images. A long list followed by a short list. The long list was densely packed and the short list…… was all high ranking monsters of Wandering Dreams.
[Horn] Wine and Meat Pass Through the Intestines: Five pages total. I screenshotted both the front and back. Need to gather them all. You guys just take a look [bawling]
The entire server: “……”
Was this game meant to be played by humans?
Wouldn’t these take a fucking 1-2 months to find?
[Horn] Loquat and Tangerine: Hey umm…… I feel like Total Annihilation and them should have only killed a lion king, and it was just one list.
[Horn] Wine and Meat Pass Through the Intestines: I know, but we don’t know which step we took wrong [Mental Breakdown][Bawling]
The backbones of the seven large guilds wiped away sweat in unison.
“What did I say? Sure enough, there’s a pit!”
“Too terrifying. Just looking at these things is enough to make me go crazy.”
“That’s right, but how do we avoid that?”
All the members fell silent.
Some guild leaders went to look at the lists again. Really unable to stand it, they held a meeting, trying to decide if they should buy a second-handed guide from Aces on other servers, or to have a talk with Total Annihilation.
At this time, Jiang Chen has already logged off for his afternoon rest, completely unaware of how miserable the players were.
Even if he knew, he wouldn’t be affected anyways and continued to play dungeons and level up as usual. The day passed very quickly. In the afternoon of the next day, he opened the live stream application and almost got blinded by the gifts flying across the entire screen.
Fang JingXing made an announcement in advance, so fans have already been waiting for a long time. Seeing their male god appear finally, they instantly started to scream like crazy.
This was the first time Jiang Chen experienced Fang JingXing’s popularity so bluntly. He silently said to himself, This league Adonis title was indeed not just a boast.
According to his agreement last time, for logging off and leaving the stream in a hurry, Fang JingXing showed his face and said with a smile: “Finally leveled past 50. Stop searching for me ]already. Even if you find me, just keep it to yourself. Don’t tell others.”
After more than half a year, the fans finally saw their Adonis’ god-like attractiveness again and became even more excited.
“Husband husband husband!”
“I’m dead I’m dead I’m dead!”
“Ahhh husband, I love you!”
“Husband, can we not play games and just chat?!”
“It’s also fine if you insist on playing the game. Please use your original voice!”
“Right!”
“Right right right!”
Seeing them starting to spam the chat, Fang JingXing chuckled softly: “No can do.”
Jiang Chen felt like this chuckle was brushing teasingly right against his eardrums.
He rubbed his earlobe awkwardly and saw a certain guy put on his glasses and said: “Alright, enough face reveal. Time to start playing.”
Saying this, he ignored the crying and wailing fans and logged into the account. It wasn’t until he entered the game completely that he finally cut the live stream back on.
He had asked his assistant to level up this account. It was on the same server as his game organization’s newcomers. His friends list were all people from his game organization.
For the moment, he didn’t message them to make a squad, but instead went to Glimmering Lights River and pulled out a pair of shoes: “I heard the quest is activated like this. Today, let’s play and see.”
Pausing a second, he said with a smile: “Players usually sell unneeded gear to the shop. The person who first discovered this quest must be a genius. What do you guys think is the reason to make him throw shoes into the river in the first place?”
Jiang Chen: “……”
Not wanting to be part of the freebie group, Captain Jiang was just about to send some gifts when he silently withdrew his hands, not wanting to send them anymore.
There were all sorts of answers in chat.
Fang JingXing gave a cursory glance, smiled, and didn’t comment.
He summoned Ling Huai, heard her asking him for help, looked at the choices, and said with a smile: “This…… there can’t be a player with such a personality to choose ‘Do not help’, right?”
Observing coldly as a bystander, Jiang Chen saw him select ‘help’.
Ling Huai handed over the token extremely happily, then waved her hand, and dove into the water.
There was no summoning talisman.
Jiang Chen pondered for a moment.
So it looks like— If you choose help, defeating the lion king will be harder, but the blackening plotline later on might not be as hellish as it was for them, one smack, one person frozen.
Meanwhile if you choose do not help, defeating the lion king will be easier with the summoning talisman, but during the blackening plotline later on, if you can’t recall the method of stripping naked, you’ll be frozen for three days—
This path was only advantageous for under-leveled players, because after reaching max level, defeating the lion king with an 8-man squad can’t be all that difficult regardless; the summoning talisman will be pointless then.
Jiang Chen’s curiosity was dispelled. Watching Fang JingXing searching around in the Main City for the city guard, Jiang Chen was too lazy to listen to this guy’s babbling and returned to his game.
Xie ChengYan just happened to log in. As such, Jiang Chen went to clear dungeons with him, playing until it’s time to eat dinner. Afterwards, they continued to play until 9:30pm at night.
Feeling that they had a harmonious time together, Xie ChengYan decided to continue his efforts. Behaving like a good older brother, he said warmly: “Good night and sweet dreams. See you tomorrow.”
Jiang Chen took a glance at him: “I’m busy tomorrow morning.”
Xie ChengYan said: “No problem, I will wait for you to get online.”
Jiang Chen acknowledged him. Feeling like his nephew was pretty obedient today, he patted the other on the head before logging off.
Resting for the night, he woke up early the next morning and waited for Jiang ShiLan to pick him up. Getting into the car, he left the research institution.
In 30 years, the city has changed a lot.
He looked out the window quietly the entire trip to the West District cemetery. Getting out of the car with a mask on, he followed his three family members and walked to his mother’s grave.
Turning his head slightly, he saw his own grave next to his mother’s grave stone.
He was extremely popular back then. After receiving news of his death, his league friends, teammates, and fans will definitely come to pay homage to him. As such, Jiang KangLe got a tombstone for them.
However, time is the panacea that heals everything.
After 30 years, probably no one came to see him anymore.
Seeing his gaze, his big brother Jiang Hui said: “Do you still remember Du FeiZhou? He comes to see you every year.”
Jiang Chen was surprised at first, but then he understood.
Du FeiZhou was also from Wen City. Back then, they had a pretty good relationship. Perhaps when coming to sweep the grave for his own family, Du FeiZhou would also stop by along the way.
Of the people Jiang Chen knew in the past, most have gone to whereabouts unknown. On the contrary, Du FeiZhou had a very promising career and was now the Chairman of Wandering Dreams esports League.
Jiang Hui said: “Once you get out of the hospital, remember to invite him for a meal.”
Jiang Chen nodded. After sweeping the grave for his mother, he didn’t return to the research institution yet and instead went to his previous home, planning to eat a family lunch before leaving.
Jiang Hui said: “ChengYan is not coming back? He wouldn’t suddenly come over, right?”
Jiang ShiLan said: “No, he said he’s going to eat with JingXing for lunch.”
Jiang Hui relaxed and went to the kitchen personally to make his little brother a table full of dishes. As soon as they started placing the dishes onto the table, they heard the door suddenly open and a familiar person walked inside.
Xie ChengYan’s fingerprint has long been recorded into the lock of his grandfather’s house, so he didn’t need to knock at all. Entering directly, he said: “You guys just started eating? I came to grab some……”
He abruptly saw the person sitting on the sofa and the rest of his words came to a halting stop.
Jiang Chen: “……”
The three members of the Jiang family: “……”
Xie ChengYan’s expression was completely blank.
For a moment, the four people in the room didn’t speak either.
Two seconds later, Xie ChengYan turned his head stiffly and looked at the three elders.
The three elders looked back at him in unison.
Xie ChengYan pointed a shaky hand at Jiang Chen, even his mouth becoming tongue-tied: “Do you…do you guys… see… see that? My my my little uncle’s ghost foll…followed you guys b… ba…..back from the cemetery.”
Jiang Chen: “…….”
The three members of the Jiang family: “……”
Oh frick AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT WAS GOOD
Actor Xie, in front of a “ghost”: MOM HELP @?#!&$¥%, A GHOST!!?
Ghost Jiang: … Who said he was definitely not coming back?
Not only good, GOLD lol auto correct don’t downplay the praise for this masterpiece of a scenario.
I mean, that’s a pretty reasonable reaction considering the circumstances. He didn’t know that they’d had his little uncle frozen. Assuming “You guys resurrected my little uncle and didn’t tell me” is just as far fetched as assuming “My little uncle’s ghost followed you guys home after you visited his grave”. He just picked the wrong far-fetched assumption to make.
Will Jiang Chen’s identity finally be revealed? 😂
🤣🤣😂😂Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️
Boo! Hahahahaha … Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
why do I have a feeling Xiao Ji (Xiao = little, Ji = Jiang) is going to tease and torment Xie Chengyan after this about this incident? 😂😂😂
Also here’s a minor mistake: The Chairman of the Wandering Dreams league, Due FeiZhou –> Du FeiZhou…
Thx for the chapter btw ❤❤❤
ohh thank you! I go fix that
no problem its only a minor mistake, thx for the chapter btw!!
Ahh the kid will finally meet his uncle 😭 who is older but also younger than him LOL super excited for this reveal 😂
XCY is too funny,I like him most! He’s like a labrador puppy!!I wonder if they’ll say he’s their friend. 🤣
That chairman of Wandering Dreams is a friend of JC,so..JC is old.How will he say his age in the future?!