So what did this mean?
Even Jiang Chen, who had caused such a commotion after the server launch, was only at #14 in rank at the moment. The spots before him were all occupied by live streamers and rich people. Especially the front most positions were all extremely popular streamers with a large number of fans.
So this was a live streamer, here to do some fishing.
He closed the popularity board and said: “Not considering it.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams sounded even more crestfallen: “Ai, I just knew it.”
He turned to leave. After taking two steps, he couldn’t help but return and ask: “Then… then can I stand on the side and watch you? I promise I won’t bother you. If you still find it annoying, I can hide myself so you won’t be able to see me. It’s not like I have anywhere else to go anyways.”
Afraid of bursting out in laughter, he hastily turned off his in-game mic and clicked his tongue, saying: “Even I feel touched by those words.”
He glanced at the chat screen being bombarded by comments, he said with a smile: “What do you think? With just a few sentences, I figured out his relationship with those two people. The first dog-blood drama of this server finally has some answers.”
He initiated the next round of votes and said: “Place your bets, see how long it’ll take for me to win him over, or how long it’ll take for me to flip the car…… No, I can’t even flip it at this moment. From that question on how I got my hand on orange gear, I already know that he’s temporarily unaware of my identity. This Ace really doesn’t pay a lot of attention to anyone else, huh.”
In the game, Jiang Chen listened impatiently. He was just about to expose the other’s identity when his nephew walked up behind him.
Xie ChengYan naturally knew this person and quickly switched his voice to the squad channel. At the same time, he sent a private message to his little uncle to tell him to switch as well. He provided an introduction.
This live streamer has a lot of fans, but he wasn’t a great person, very good at creating hype and drama. He definitely saw that they’ve been very popular lately, wanted to freeload this wave of enthusiasm, and came for the sake of the special live stream theatrics. In the past, when he saw JingXing live streaming and playing with Xie ChengYan at the same time, he even ran over to the PvP arena specifically to freeload from their publicity.
Xie ChengYan said: “The reason he came to Mercury Reflects Fate is also because he heard during the beta that JingXing was going to come here, so he followed over. I’ve always felt annoyed by him. Did he say something to you?”
Jiang Chen said: “He said he wants to become a couple with me.”
Xie ChengYan exploded: “Like he’s worthy!”
Seeing them not speaking, Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams knew that they had switched channels and asked: “Are you guys discussing how to sentence me?”
Xie ChengYan switched back to the public channel and said: “No, I’m asking him what’s going on.”
Then he switched back swiftly: “Not good, I want to teach him a lesson.”
Jiang Chen said: “How do you want to punish him?”
Before Xie ChengYan could reply. Five more people came over next to them.
The person in the front looked at the Wardcaster and said politely: “Total Annihilation, can I PK a round with you?”
Jiang Chen briefly examined their class configurations and speculated that most likely, they were newcomers from gaming organizations.
This time the newcomers were not as arrogant as the two people in the afternoon. At least, they reached level 70 as well.
He said coldly: “Why is it PK again? Are you guys part of the same group?”
The person in the front didn’t understand and was stunned. He hastily shook his head: “No, no we’re not together.”
Jiang Chen said: “You guys all want to PK with me?”
The newcomer nodded: “Is that okay?”
Jiang Chen said: “I don’t want to fight.”
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Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams interjected from the side: “The Ace doesn’t want to fight. Don’t force someone to do things they don’t want to. If you want to fight, you can fight with me.”
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After speaking all that nonsense, Jiang Chen was just waiting for these words from him. Jiang Chen said: “Can you do it?”
Asking a man if he can do it or not, the answer was without doubt.
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams said: “I can, just watch!”
Jiang Chen said: “Alright, I believe you.”
He turned towards the newcomers and instructed: “You guys fight with him. If you can beat him, I will consider fighting with you guys.”
The newcomers were all very obedient and nodded their heads in unison, sending out a Demon clan Swordsman as well.
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams felt very confident at this sight.
He was two levels higher than the other and also had orange gear. This fight was nothing but a piece of cake to him, so he pulled out his sword and said: “Come.”
Jiang Chen led his nephew to sit down on the grass. He watched as the newcomer utilized a round of sharp combos immediately after stepping up to knock out 30% of the other’s HP, then followed the momentum of victory to beat the other to the ground and crush him, instantly deciding the outcome of the battle.
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams had a blank expression on his face as he laid on the ground, not knowing what happened.
Jiang Chen walked over to build steps to help him out of the awkward situation: “Did I make you nervous watching from the side?”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams stood up: “Perhaps so. I was so focused on how to show off for you.”
Jiang Chen said: “No need to think too much during PK. Try another one.” He pointed a finger: “That one.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams followed the direction of his finger and looked. Discovering that it was a squishy, he said: “Okay.”
Jiang Chen encouraged him seriously: “Don’t think too much, do your best.”
After he finished speaking, he sat back down and watched the squishy kite Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams for 7-8 minutes, dragging him and whittling him down slowly to death. Then he instructed: “Switch to another one.”
The next newcomer stepped forth without a word and sent a PK invitation.
In front of all of those fans, Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams naturally couldn’t back down in fear. Bracing himself, he pressed accept.
The newcomer charged at him and also pressed him to the ground for a round of beating.
Xie ChengYan was practically laughing hysterically inside the squad channel. He deeply felt that his little uncle was too brilliant and said: “He deserves it. Who told him to come and make a sport of you. Finally he got his retribution!”
Before Jiang Chen opened his mouth, he heard a familiar chuckle in the channel: “What are you guys talking about?”
The two people froze at the same time.
Xie ChengYan instantly felt covered in cold sweats.
The reason they never used the squad channel while farming mobs was precisely because Fang JingXing was afk inside it. They were only using it now because they had encountered someone annoying. Fortunately, he didn’t forget himself and call Jiang Chen by the wrong address. Otherwise, they would be done.
Jiang Chen said: “How come you’re back?”
Fang JingXing said: “Live streaming is boring so I came over to take a look.”
On his side, his hidden story quest has already progressed to finding medicinal ingredients for the little gremlin Oracle.
The fans were all commenting that there’s a pit here. He said with a smile: “I have inner channels that tell me how to avoid it, but in order to check out how long it will take to clear this quest normally, I’ll just play along.”
Actually, it’s also because he didn’t know what he should do during the live stream, so he was using the search for medicinal ingredients to waste time.
His squad was filled with people from the game organization. On their way to find the materials, he clicked ‘follow’, took off the glasses and afked temporarily, then switched to the other set of equipment to log into this account.
As a result, as soon as he switched into the squad channel, he heard Xie ChangYan laughing loudly.
He asked: “Where are you guys?”
Xie ChengYan said: “At Twilight Grasslands. Come quick. There’s a good show to watch!”
While they conversed, Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams ate dirt once again.
He laid on the ground momentarily, unmoving and said: “I feel like something is not right, friends. Every one of them is extraordinarily strong.”
He was also somewhat skilled and could be considered an advanced player. Who would have thought he’d be crushed to this degree.
He analyzed whimsically, saying: “The Ace said that people keep asking to PK him lately. Do those people have something planned for him? For example, wanting to torment him until he deletes his account or something related to that? Oh fuck, you guys hurry up and come protect us!”
Saying this, he stood up, picked a squishy, and got ready to stall for time.
After wasting 5 minutes, about 20-30 players rushed over like a flood and surrounded them.
Jiang Chen: “……”
Xie ChengYan: “……”
Unable to win, so you called for help?
The newcomers were completely dumbfounded, not understanding how they had poked a hornet’s nest.
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams was the only one not stunned.
He quickly ended the PK, ran in front of the Ace amidst the chaos, and tried to drag him away. Xie ChengYan was stunned briefly, then got up to give chase, but players blocked his path. It took him quite a while to squeeze his way out.
Jiang Chen originally wanted to see what he had planned. Seeing the guy bring him to the teleportation array, he freed himself: “Wait for Qing Yan.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams said solemnly: “Have you been harassed unceasingly lately?”
Jiang Chen said: “You can say that. Did those people come a second ago because you called for them?”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams said: “En, I begged people from my guild to come and help. I feel like someone wants to plot against you.”
He reached out, wanting to take a hold of the other’s shoulder: “Don’t worry, I’ll help you investiga……”
Eyelid twitching, Jiang Chen subconsciously wanted to smack the hand away.
At this time, a hand suddenly reached out from behind him and grabbed the wrist of Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams.
Fang JingXing had just exited the teleportation array when he saw them immediately after looking up.
Seeing a certain person’s ID, the smile on the corners of his mouth deepened instantly. He aptly blocked this death-seeking paw and said warmly: “Speak properly, don’t be all touchy-feely.”
He looked at the other and feigned perfectly: “Hey, aren’t you that live streamer? I heard last year, you caused a fan to get an abortion.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams denied it immediately: “Who said that, don’t spread rumors!”
Fang JingXing said: “I heard one of my live stream friends say it. They also said that you used money to suppress this matter.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams said: “He’s slandering me!”
Fang JingXing said: “He also said that it’s impossible to conceal this matter fully. If you want to investigate it, you can still find it.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams felt his scalp turn numb as he sneered verbally: “Creating some so-called evidence just to pour dirty water on me? Keep dreaming!”
Seeing that he was about to flip the car, he said to the Wardcaster: “I’m sorry, Ace, I tricked you. I am a live streamer, but I really do think there’s an issue with what happened today. Wait for me to investigate it clearly and I’ll let you know.”
He didn’t want to stay even one second longer in case more news about him gets exposed, so he left in a hurry.
Seeing this, Fang JingXing felt satisfied and looked towards the Wardcaster: “Someone like him has no bottom-line. For the sake of special live stream theatrics, he’s willing to play anything. He didn’t do anything to you, did he?”
Jiang Chen said: “No.”
The two people walked next to the lake and waited for Xie ChengYan to come over.
After hearing a general gist of what happened, Fang JingXing felt that he had worried too much. According to this kid’s personality, he definitely wouldn’t end up on the wrong side of the stick.
He asked: “Where are those newcomers?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Beaten by a group of fans and died.”
Fang JingXing smiled. Seeing that they were fine, he afked next to the lake and went to live stream again.
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams left this wilderness area and found an excuse to stop live streaming. Investigating Abyss slightly, he heard it might be Fang JingXing and jumped in fright: “What?”
“Impossible.” Another friend said: “Fang JingXing is live streaming right now.”
Harvesting Souls in Your Dreams went to take a look and discovered that sure enough, he was live streaming. Then he switched back in the game and saw Abyss was still online. As such, he knew that it wasn’t Fang JingXing and thought to himself, good thing it wasn’t, he definitely wouldn’t have let him off.
The despised Captain Fang gathered medicinal ingredients with squadmates for half a day before finally reaching the required amount. He headed off to the next area.
Concerned about the Wardcaster, he couldn’t help but afk once again and return.
As soon as he returned, he heard the ‘boom boom’ sounds of several explosions.
He saw on the magnificent Twilight Grasslands, Xie ChengYan and the Wardcaster were standing side by side nearby next to the lake, surrounded by a circle of fireworks, which shot into the air one by one and exploded brilliantly.
Xie ChengYan had seen someone else set off fireworks and recalled that when his little uncle returned to Wandering Dreams, there was no celebration at all. As such, he wanted to make up for the welcoming ceremony. Feeling like it was not enough, he then bought a few bags of fireflies and released them next to the lake.
The starry sky, the fireworks, and fireflies.
The entire scene was extremely beautiful aesthetically.
Fang JingXing: “…….”
Fang JingXing has excellent timing this chapter. Always there to save his Wardcaster from a situation that’s taking a turn towards romantic.
Xie Chengyang ah, you don’t know the significance of these fireworks 🤣🤣
The fireworks and fireflies are so nice, hmmm, so nice…enough to set fire 🔥 in someone’s jelly heart, hmmm, …. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great timing~
Thank you for the chapter.
ahhhhh the bright fireworks… ChengYan… do you know what type of scene your creating? I can sense a player of the server just randomly coming by and seeing this, you know what’s the headline tomorrow? “the first dog blood of the server has ended with a random assassin butting in through the wardcaster and abyss couple and the wardcaster was taken away!!!” I bet you something similar will make it to the headline next chap xD
Thx for the chapter btw<3