Instantly, the chat exploded.
[World] Gou Cheng: ! ! !
[World] Negative One Meter: ! ! !
[World] Life and Death Together: Oh fuck?
[World] Love Takes Precedent: Oh fuck!
[World] Qing Yan: [Fireworks][Fireworks][Fireworks]
[World] Seeking God for Life and Soul: Is there something wrong with my memories or what? Isn’t a 10-man dungeon playable only once a day?
[World] Book Collection: That’s right. Why do I feel like I suddenly transmigrated a day?
[World] So Hard to Pick a Name: You didn’t transmigrate. Those 8 people are still here [screenshot]
[World] Cyan: Ever since learning two squishies were tanking the boss, I immediately thought they’d disband after a few minutes.
[World] Gossip Consumer: Me too……
[World] For the Isle: Don’t tell me, the two Aces didn’t come out all this time because they’ve been fighting the boss?
[World] Extremely Flat: [Astonished][Astonished][Astonished]
Inside the dungeon, after the two Aces whittled down the boss, they jumped off the stone pillar. Losing a bit of HP from fall damage, they stopped in front of the corpse.
Jiang Chen naturally didn’t loot the corpse. Very self-aware, Fang JingXing stepped forward to loot the corpse, receiving a pile of stuff.
Especially since it’s first clear, the reward was doubled.
The two people looked. One orange gear, one rare material, two pieces of gear from the unique dungeon set, as well as money and other items. For a dungeon, the reward was quite generous.
Jiang Chen examined the unique dungeon set and felt it actually looked pretty good. He picked up one of them and said: “I want this.”
Fang JingXing took a glance and discovered it was the chest piece for physical classes. He asked: “For ChengYan?”
Jiang Chen nodded.
He has seen Xie ChengYan’s fashion style. His nephew should like this color. He planned to slowly gather an entire set for his nephew. The gear dropped from the hidden dungeon had much better attributes than normal dungeons.
Fang JingXing asked very sincerely: “Tell the truth, what do you like about him?”
Jiang Chen said: “Everything.”
He stored away the gear: “Let’s go.”
Fang JingXing looked at him, picked up the items, and followed him out of the dungeon.
The entrance was already filled with people.
The 8 people from the squad greeted them, saying excitedly: “Ace, amazing!”
Those people from the large guilds, who played the hidden dungeon previously, followed suit immediately: “Too fucking amazing!”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Let’s find a place to distribute the items.”
The large guild leaders waved their hands in unison: “No need. You guys killed it. There’s no need to share.”
Finally, they were able to see that these two Aces were truly strong.
Originally, they wanted to utilize the hidden dungeon to cultivate relationships through trials and tribulations, for example, working together towards a common goal, sharing ambition and passion as friends, fighting alongside each other in battle, etc. It’s best if even recalling the memories was enough to make one’s blood boil, and a squad could be formed successfully to tackle the hidden story quest.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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The Aces were the first ones to set off the fireworks. The Aces were the first ones to kill the mob. And the Aces were the ones who killed the boss. In fact, they even have to ask the Aces about the boss mechanics to avoid getting abused and tormented to death in the future.
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The 8 people looked briefly, somewhat envious. They secretly said to themselves, as expected of first clear rewards.
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Seeing them determined to not distribute the items, Fang JingXing didn’t bring this matter up again.
The group left the dungeon. As they walked, they listened to the Aces narrate their experiences. Finally, they realized the truth behind the ‘sitting on your lap’ thing.
Suppressing his curiosity over who’s top and who’s bottom, The Person in the Mirror asked: “Doesn’t this count as taking advantage of a bug and glitching the system? Wandering Dreams won’t take the reward back, will they?”
Fang JingXing said confidently: “They won’t.”
Inside Wandering Dreams, the fire was the same as flowers and grass, all decorative objects. Touching them won’t result in a loss of HP.
That’s why it’s not considered a bug in the dungeon. The developer team just never imagined players would be able to create a path. Their own fault, naturally, couldn’t be blamed on the players.
At most, the game will fix it for the future and prevent players from doing this again.
But no matter, they had already gained a general idea of the boss’s attack frequency and enrage mechanics. They knew how to fight it.
Saying this, he shared the video as well and sent it in the squad channel.
The 8 people watched and felt a bit bad for the boss.
He should have been the one tormenting players within an inch of their lives, an existence that’s the topic of heated discussions in the forum, but after ending up in the hands of these two Aces, this was his end. To even laugh menacingly at a stone pillar, they all felt pity for him.
The Person in the Mirror knelt down directly, deeply feeling that these two Aces weren’t normal.
While he was racking his brains pondering how to get the two Aces to agree to squading up with them to play the hidden story quest, he saw some people coming towards them, all members of Indulge.
Seeing his nephew, Jiang Chen handed over the dungeon gear: “Going to get an entire set for you later.”
Xie ChengYan felt like he must have saved the galaxy in his last life. Accepting it and putting it away, he hugged his little uncle.
The 8 people in the squad: Oh!
Fang JingXing: “Leave the squad. Let’s go clear a dungeon.”
Jiang Chen left the original team and formed a squad with Indulge. Waving at the guild leaders as a farewell, he left without looking back.
The 8 people watched them leaving.
The Person in the Mirror: “Those two are definitely double-headed arrows. Abyss is a single-headed arrow!”
Xing TianCheng: “En.”
Wooden Shackles: “Don’t make blind guesses.”
The Person in the Mirror: “I trust my instincts. Want to bet?”
Meteor Ironwood: “What are we betting on?”
The Person in the Mirror thought briefly: “Bet either (1)those two are together or (2)Abyss explodes and steals Total Annihilation / breaks off relations with them. I pick 1.”
Wooden Shackles said: “You have no time limit here.”
The Person in the Mirror said: “Why do we need a time limit? We want the result.”
He said: “How thrilling is this? Using our current knowledge to bet on the future development, hands off after you make your wager, no take backs. The losers must run a lap around the Main City naked. Do you dare?”
White Dragonbone said: “Only running around naked?”
The Person in the Mirror said: “What else do you want?”
White Dragonbone said: “Add one more condition. The losers must let the winners roll and dispatch them on errands for 10 days. I pick 2.”
Xing TianCheng followed his guild member: “1.”
Since two guild leaders have entered the fray, the remaining people also made their bet. Then they wrote up the wager and saved it as screenshots.
The three people, who held their future fates in hand, went to play some dungeons as usual, then returned to the guild’s lake to afk together.
Fang JingXing watched the Wardcaster leave and turned to his childhood friend: “Shouldn’t you be careful?”
Xie ChengYan said flabbergasted: “Be careful of what?”
Fang JingXing considered his words for a moment: “He said he’s your fan and is playing with you everyday right now, treating you very well in addition. Taking everything for granted like this, aren’t you afraid of crossing the line?”
That’s my little uncle, crossing what line?
Understanding that his good friend was worried his little uncle might get hurt from being unable to receive his love in the future, Xie ChengYan patted him on the shoulder: “I know what I’m doing. It won’t happen.”
Fang JingXing said: “Are you sure?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Of course.”
“Then why are you always hugging him?” Fang JingXing said: “I suspect you guys have already met in person a while ago.”
“……” Xie ChengYan said: “No, I just feel bad for him.”
Fang JingXing didn’t comment: “Want to eat lunch together?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Not today. I’m meeting friends from the entertainment circle.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Such a coincidence?”
Xie ChengYan wasn’t lying this time and said: “Really. It’s my friend’s birthday, so I’ll be playing until night before returning home.”
As such, Fang JingXing didn’t ask anymore and bid him farewell.
The forums exploded once again over the hidden dungeon’s first clear.
The Aces of the other 9 servers all felt nuts.
To clear a hidden story quest smoothly, they could at least pretend that the two Aces were quite ingenuous.
But this was a hidden dungeon. They were still in the ‘exploration’ stage, yet these guys had already reached the boss and killed him. It’s rumored that only the two of them fought the boss also. What kind of nation-wide joke was this?
The other players thought it was impossible as well.
Two squishies tanking a boss, it’s not like they were Gods reincarnated. How could that be possible?
As such, they left comments on the official game website, wanting an explanation.
The crowd waited an entire afternoon and received an official statement.
After checking Mercury Reflects Fate’s records, the developer team instantly swallowed a mouthful of blood. Feeling like the players weren’t to blame, they had no choice but to accept it. As such, they made a statement using all sorts of official phrasing. In short, the two had acquired this first clear by whittling down the boss slowly, there was no problem.
All the players: “……”
Amazing!
This time, they were convinced wholeheartedly!
The Aces of the 9 servers couldn’t figure out the method they had used. After recognizing the truth clearly that Mercury Reflects Fate had two abnormal monsters, they accepted that mere mortals couldn’t compete with them and forcibly put a rest to their desire for victory.
The two Aces in the midst of this whirlwind had long since gotten used to strong gales and large waves. They lived their life very calmly, leveling unshaken by the circumstances.
When Xie ChengYan finally leveled up to 80, it just happened to be a new week. It was possible to play the hidden dungeon once again. As such, they led the Movie King and members of Indulge to clear the dungeon.
The glitch for killing the boss has already been patched. However, with the two Aces in command and controlling the field, the process was more taunting than dangerous.
After killing the boss, Movie King Xie even examined the stone pillar that had been adjusted and finally understood how they passed the experience. He said in awe: “Impressive.”
Jiang Chen replied with an ‘en’: “Come distribute the items.”
As he said this, he felt his elbow getting poked. Taking off his glasses and looking around, he saw some strangers inside his room. As such, he returned to the game and gave his squadmates a heads up before logging off on the spot.
Amongst the group that entered, there was team leader Chen and some people from the cyrofreeze team. The remaining three were people that Jiang Chen never saw before. As such, he waited quietly for them to explain their reason for coming.
Team leader Chen provided an introduction for him: “This is the newly arrived Team leader Qin.”
He fell silent for a moment and said: “Team leader Qin is here to take over the cryofreeze project. From now on, we will both manage the cryofreeze experiment together.”
Jiang Chen understood.
Since there was already a successful case like him, the higher-ups probably didn’t want to give up so easily. Team leader Chen’s application to halt the project did not get approved.
Team leader Qin took a few steps forward and said warmly: “Hello, we need to re-examine data on your physical health.”
Naturally, Jiang Chen cooperated. He got up and went outside.
After collecting data from a variety of tests, Team leader Qin looked at his report and frowned slightly: “Hm… there’s a tiny issue.”
Jiang Chen said: “What issue?”
Team leader Qin said: “A trivial matter, you don’t need to worry. I will discuss it with them, but just in case, it’s best for you to stay inside the sterile ward for the next few days.”
Jiang Chen speculated if the cancer relapsed again and said: “Can I play games?”
Team leader Qin said apologetically: “Not at the moment.”
Jiang Chen nodded, complied with their arrangement, and went to the sterile ward.
After he left, Team leader Qin indicated for his trusted aide to close the door. His expression fell immediately afterwards: “Ludicrous!”
The aide was also very indignant: “Such a major project like the cryofreeze experiment, there’s barely any time to conceal it and they just let him play games online! What if he says something, the damage that it can create!”
“Team leader, did you see? He even has a cellphone! Old Chen and the others are really too careless!”
Team leader Qin said: “Take away his cellphone for me. Tell him to stay inside.”
The aide acknowledged him, opened the door, and left.
Fang JingXing waited all the way until night time, but still didn’t see the Wardcaster log in. As such, he sent a message, which, like casting a stone into the vast ocean, received no response.
The next day, he got up bright and early, but still didn’t see a response. Unable to resist, he called over. After a while, the other side hung up automatically, no one answered.
He instantly furrowed his brows.
Did something…… happen to the Wardcaster?
Dude, he’s a human and he signed a contract, wtfym
F*ck! What kind of things are those people?! So rude!!! A blatant disregard of humans needs and rights, I really hope the Jiang family intervenes. And these people are allowed to do projects involving living beings? Unbelievable!
Thank you for the chapter.
Does this Qin guy not understand who he’s working with? I can’t imagine Jiang Chen’s family is going to be too happy when they find out what’s going on. And given that bunch of them work in the medical field and are well respected to boot, they will find out.
As much as i look forward to the novel’s drama, the violent reaction in the comment section is fun as well 😂
It’s not our fault he has loose brain cell and is missing all of his working ones 🤷
Bro, I knew I didn’t have a good feeling about him but acting like that right after leaving the ward???? Where is the fvcking human right here? He signed a contract and you’re gonna respect his boundary if something slips it’s an accident, you’re making it sound like he’s an inanimate test object used for research!!!
I just let out the biggest “excuse me” ever, because EXCUSE ME?
I’m not surprised given how flippantly and readily they unfroze the other ‘experiment’ subjects, but it still pisses me off. This Qin bastard and his dumbass aide deserve whatever’s coming to them
Naturally, they assigned a less humane leader after the last one proposed temporarily pausing until further scientific development. How dare he try to keep the other subjects from preventable deaths and the researchers from trauma?