Xie ChengYan: Are you speaking honest words from your heart?
Fang JingXing: En.
Xie ChengYan looked at the picture and asked the assistant sincerely: “Does this look good?”
The assistant looked at him speechlessly.
Xie ChengYan understood his meaning and fell silent.
In other words, how messed up was JingXing’s aesthetics to even consider this to be alright?
No wonder he’s still single right now. Because he hasn’t encountered one that’s “pleasing to his eyes”.
Hold on a second, wait.
It’s he, whose thoughts have gone awry.
JingXing didn’t like his little uncle. He only wanted to recruit his little uncle into his gaming organization. JingXing was such an overprotective person, who has always treated people kindly. There’s no way he’d say anything unpleasant.
As such, Xie ChengYan sent another message in search of a sense of agreement: In any case, his appearance is really quite pitiful, don’t you agree?
Not only pitiful…… Fang JingXing thought on his side.
Xie ChengYan had no idea what it meant to him. Fang JingXing replied with another “En.”
Rubbing his face, Xie ChengYan thought to himself, finally the page turned.
After filming for an entire night, his HP was in the pits and his entire brain was numb and wooden.
Forcing himself to perk up, he reviewed the conversation once more in his head and felt it was adequate. With this photo reveal, if he treated his little uncle well in the future, JingXing would most likely not suspect them anymore.
He added, saying: Delete it after you see it. It’s another person’s private info after all.
At this time, Fang JingXing finally recovered slightly from his shock. Recalling that since the Wardcaster had volunteered to participate in the research institution’s project, Jiang ShiLan shouldn’t have casually given Xie ChengYan the picture. He asked: You asked for the picture?
Aware that he wasn’t in the best of state of mind, Xie ChengYan didn’t reply immediately.
He stared at this sentence and mulled over it repeatedly for a while. Then he replied with a somewhat cautious answer: No, she refused, but I know the password to her cloud storage and secretly found it on there. Please don’t mention this in front of her.
For the 3rd time, Fang JingXing replied to him with an ‘En’.
However, this time he added: Don’t sleep too late, good night.
Xie ChengYan: Good night.
He closed the chat box and let out a long exhale.
Reaching this point after an incidental slip of the tongue, good thing he managed to hold the fort. He patted the assistant on the shoulder: “Thanks.”
The little assistant had got a glimpse of Fang JingXing’s name just now. Not sure what kind of play these two were engaging in, he said exasperatedly: “Hurry up and return to your room to sleep.”
Escaping by the skin of his teeth. Xie ChengYan walked away with his head numb and tingling.
On the other side, Fang JingXing couldn’t help but take another glance at the photo.
He recalled a saying: Be careful with online dating. Approaching reality will generally result in flipping the car.
However, the Wardcaster seemed to have said he was very attractive. Perhaps he wasn’t like this in the past and only became like this after getting sick?
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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Fang JingXing drove his car over to pick him up. Picking up the flowers on the front passenger seat, he handed it over to the other with a smile: “Congratulations on discharging from the hospital.”
The Wardcaster reached out and accepted it. Even though his tone was somewhat disdainful, his voice was filled with a slight joy: “So ugly.”
The sight made Fang JingXing’s heart itch. He couldn’t help but confess his feelings.
The Wardcaster immediately returned the flowers to him: “Sorry, I have a boyfriend already.”
Stunned, Fang JingXing didn’t have a chance to ask who it was before seeing another car drive over and stop next to them.
A man came out of the car, his facial features distorted and the corners of his mouth slanted. As soon as he stepped forward, he hugged the Wardcaster and gave him a kiss.
Fang JingXing: “…….”
Captain Fang, who should have been at the bottom of the car instead, held the bundle of flowers and watched as these two got in the car hand in hand and left.
The light was bright outside of the windows.
Fang JingXing woke up from the chaotic dream and squeezed the bridge of his nose. He clicked open his phone to take another glance at the photo and then turned it off.
Eating breakfast silently, he went out to take a stroll. Wasting time until 8:30 am, he got online.
As soon as he logged in, he saw the Wardcaster beside him.
Jiang Chen had also just logged in. He greeted coolly: “Morning.”
Fang JingXing looked at his game character model and replied: “Morning.”
Today was the last day of the Mid-Autumn Festival break. The guild leaders decided to do their best to make some progress. As such, besides individuals who got up late and didn’t arrive yet, most were present.
After the Wardcaster logged off last night, they gathered until 12am before finally dispersing. Right now, they only needed a little bit more. The group labored for about two hours until all their members were present and they finally obtained all the medicinal ingredients. Then they handed the ingredients over to the Potion Master.
The Potion Master hastily treated the blood wolf.
The medicine was potent. After one dose, the blood wolf’s life was saved. However, he was still unconscious.
Yi Lin carefully moved closer to him, only daring to take position on one side, laying down next to him.
He has also used up plenty of energy. Leaning against the blood wolf, he very quickly fell into a deep sleep, mumbling and whimpering from his mouth: “Ge……”
Seeing this, the Potion Master sighed and told the heroes their story.
In the past, they were the same as her, both Untamed.
The two people traveled the lands, originally living a happy and exciting life. Unexpectedly, they ran into Radiant Moon members. At that time, Yue Hui was at the height of his power, searching for Untamed all over the land to control them with his magic curse. Naturally, he wouldn’t let them slip by.
“Yi Ling was captured by the Radiant Moon members and suffered a lot. Wen Yan rescued him.” The Potion Master pointed at the unconscious blood wolf and smiled bitterly: “However, because the Untamed can transform into animals, and had different scents from real animals, the Radiant Moon Members still found them. So Wen Yan used his own blood to cast a protection spell on Yi Lin. As long as he lived, Yi Lin’s scent would be concealed forever. Simultaneously, Yi Lin could never walk out of this forest and had no choice but to live together temporarily with the blood wolf clan.”
She said, “At that time, the Radiant Moon members were pursuing them. After Wen Yan finished casting the spell, he helped lure those people away from Yi Lin, never to return again henceforth. His whereabouts were unknown, until you guys brought him back today.”
She beseeched the players: “I can only heal their injuries, but I can’t undo the magic on them. Can you guys help out and investigate the method to break the curse?”
The quest log updated: Search for the method to break the curse.
The hidden story quest wouldn’t give the players the exact coordinates, only clues.
As such, they discussed briefly and went to the Radiant Moon Organization’s old lair again.
The old lair was built halfway up the mountain. Although it had already been abandoned, there were still some glimpses of its former glory.
There were several buildings here, as such, they divided into teams to search around and see if they could find anything useful.
Fang JingXing followed the Wardcaster as usual.
The two people walked for a while. Jiang Chen suddenly said: “You’re not very conversational today.”
Fang JingXing said calmly: “Really?”
Jiang Chen said: “Yes.”
He just didn’t like to reply. It’s not like he completely ignored people.
Even though he frequently disdained Fang JingXing, the other treated him well. He wasn’t completely indifferent. As such, it’s not like the disdain was genuine. If he really found the other annoying, he would have told Fang JingXing to get lost a long time ago.
Fang JingXing looked at him: “Maybe it’s because I slept late last night.”
Jiang Chen said: “Still haven’t woken up yet?”
Fang JingXing said: “No.”
He has always thought of himself as someone who didn’t care about looks, much less considered finding a romantic partner in the future who must be good looking.
Not to mention, the Wardcaster might just be sick. It’s not like it’s anything major…… it’s just…… This was his first time falling in love after all. Abruptly experiencing the shock of seeing the photo, he needed some time to recover.
Jiang Chen said “Oh” and stopped asking.
Fang JingXing followed him out of the room. They entered the room next door and discovered it was a study.
The two people searched, one rummaging through the bookcase and the other rummaging through the desk. Fang JingXing resisted briefly, but really couldn’t suppress the various emotions in his heart. As such, he picked a nonsensitive topic to ask: “When did you get sick?”
Jiang Chen said: “At the beginning of the year.” He woke up at the beginning of the year.
Fang JingXing said: “What did the doctor say?”
Jiang Chen said: “It’s treatable.”
Fang JingXing nodded and ended the topic, lest he touched a sore area.
Recalling how he had even asked the Wardcaster if the other dared to meet with him, now he felt like he shouldn’t have done that. However, this Wardcaster must have a very stable mental state. If it were someone else, they definitely wouldn’t have been so composed.
As he pondered, he pulled open the desk drawer and saw a burnt scroll. He tried to pick it up and discovered that he could move it.
Although this was a completely virtual environment, it was the same as the keyboard mode. Many things inside were decorative items for background purposes, unable to be moved. Otherwise, if players could pick up and play with anything and everything, the game would become so chaotic.
Usually items that could be moved had some kind of practical use.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen walked over to take a glance. He saw Fang JingXing slowly unfold the paper. It was a half-burnt drawing.
The drawing contained several people with words written on everyone’s body. Most looked pretty familiar.
Fang JingXing said: “It’s those NPCs.”
He had an extraordinary memory. Swiftly taking a glance, he pointed at one of them: “This one we’ve never seen before.”
At the same time, Wooden Shackles and the others found a list of members.
They looked up that person’s information by name. It clearly wrote which village he came from. Fang JingXing flipped through the list again and said: “These people belonged to the same squadron. They might be the ones who originally captured Yi Lin.”
That’s why the blood wolf bit them specifically.
If they were also the ones who placed the curse on Yi Lin, it’s very likely this lone survivor knew how to break the curse.
The 10-man squad rushed straight towards the village that was recorded on the list. Conversing with the NPCs, they learned that they needed to ask the village chief. As such, they went to the village chief’s home.
The village chief was a white-haired old man with wrinkles covering his face.
He sat in front of a chess board, holding a game piece in his hand, as if playing chess with himself. Seeing them enter the door, he looked up.
Jiang Chen conversed with him, inquiring if that Radiant Moon member was inside the village.
The village chief looked at him for quite a while and then grinned from ear to ear: “Oh, you… you guys came, came on a tour, to tour the place!”
Jiang Chen’s system gave an automatic reply: “No, we came to find someone.”
The village chief leaned forward and listened tentatively, smiling even more brilliantly: “That, that’s gre, great! You came, came to, to gi-gi-give us mo, money!”
The 10-man squad: “……”
Very nice, hearing impaired and a stutterer.
Jiang Chen said: “No, to find someone.”
The village chief said: “Ah? To wo……work?”
He said: “I….. I have, have, tasks!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a transparent speech box appeared.
Help the village chief fix the roof.
Yes, no.
Jiang Chen refused without even considering it.
The village chief returned to his seat regretfully and started to stare at the chessboard again.
Jiang Chen engaged in conversation with him again, pretty much repeating the same content as above. What’s different was that “fix the roof” became “sweep the bathroom”. Jiang Chen wasn’t too pleased and refused again.
The village chief shook his head, placed down a game piece, and continued to stare at the chessboard.
Wooden Shackles said: “Hey do you think…… he’d only tell us if we helped him do something?”
Jiang Chen nodded and conversed with the village chief for the third time. Letting the system answer automatically, he reached out, touched the game pieces, and discovered that he could pick them up.
Wooden Shackles and the others were startled: “Could it be that we have to play a game of chess with him?”
Jiang Chen glanced down and thought to himself, it’s just 'Five-in-a-row', what’s there to play?
Even though he thought this way, he still attempted to place down a game piece. Seeing the village chief not responding at all, he picked up a game piece and threw it, hitting the village chief right in the forehead.
Fang JingXing: “……”
Wooden Shackles and the others: “……”
I love the brutality 😂
Thank you for the chapter! 🫶
Lmao when JC found out about the picture xDD
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Sounds very much like a Jiang Chen move to me 😂
Jiang Chen used: out of temper rage!
Villager Chief: *BANG * the move was effective! -1 hp -1 hp -1 hp (sorry I don’t know how to do these 😂)
Thinking outside the box 🤔
Caught up on this! I like the additional settings beyond the esports (which… we still haven’t even gotten to, haha). I really wonder about that 7th volunteer, since it was repeatedly mentioned that the MC hasn’t seen his face. That must be important, right?
Another way to play the game… haha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Violence is the answer to everything 😂😂