To keep things simple, the development team basically didn’t consider this move. After getting hit, the village chief didn’t respond at all and was still happily stuttering, welcoming them to bring money to him.
As such, Jiang Chen threw another piece at him.
After throwing all of the pieces on the chessboard, he touched the cup. Discovering that it couldn’t be moved, he switched to trying the chessboard itself. This time, it could be moved, as such, he picked it up.
Once the chessboard left the table, they saw that underneath the chessboard, the village chief had placed a hand there, which held an extremely sharp knife.
The village chief: “……”
The 10-man squad: “…….”
The village chief’s words came to an abrupt stop.
Eyes meeting, Jiang Chen picked up the chessboard and got ready to smash it in his face.
The village chief instantly shouted loudly. Instead of attacking them, however, he put away the knife, pushed them aside and ran outside, stammering: “Some-some-someone come!”
The residents of the small village immediately surrounded them. There were at least 30 people in total.
The 10-man squad: “……”
With a trembling hand, the village chief pointed at Jiang Chen: “Thro-thro-throw them ou-out!”
The villagers were very obedient and headed towards the players.
The 10-man squad instantly activated PK mode to fight back. After throwing out a few hits and discovering it was no use, then seeing how great their opponents were in numbers, the squad immediately turned and ran.
Fang JingXing ran forward next to him, saying: “Separate them.”
Jiang Chen acknowledged softly. When they ran to a small intersection ahead, they separated one left and one right.
Wooden Shackles and the others also separated into two squads and ran after the two Aces respectively, getting prepared to split up the team behind them. However, after running a few steps, they turned their heads to look and saw the 30 some people ignore Fang JingXing as if he were invisible, and charge straight after Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen’s 5-man squad: “……”
Fang JingXing couldn’t help but laugh, saying: “You lure them away. Deep Love, follow for healing. Everyone else, let’s disperse to search the houses.”
After receiving the order, the group started to implement it swiftly.
Jiang Chen and Deep Love and Longevity were in charge of luring the villagers to run around in circles. Fang JingXing and the others were in charge of searching.
Five minutes later, Fang JingXing made a discovery rummaging through the village chief’s house. He said in the squad chat: “I found a record-ball.”
The record-ball looked like a palm-size crystal ball.
It was a NPC prop that only appeared in story quests. As a tool to record memories, it’s used specifically for players to watch the story.
That Radiant Moon member came from this village originally.
After the organization was overturned, the village chief definitely would know if he escaped back here or not. This record-ball clearly had some kind of clue.
Deep Love and Longevity said hastily: “I want to watch. I love watching the story plot.”
Fang JingXing said: “How is it going with you guys over there?”
Deep Love and Longevity said: “Very safe. You guys can come over.”
As such, the 8 people from the squad went to meet up with them.
They saw that these two people had climbed onto the roof at some point in time. A crowd of villagers was surrounding the area below, attempting to climb up to capture them.
The Wardcaster sat cross legged on the roof, one hand propped up his chin. With a gentle flick of his other hand, he flicked the ladder propped up by the villagers sideways. With a bang, it slid to the ground.
Shouting clamorously, the villagers picked up the ladder and placed it against the edge of the roof again.
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 village chief said: “You you you come come…….come down!”
Jiang Chen said: “Nope.”
He sneered: “You guys are too stupid to hold onto the ladder properly, who’s to blame for that?”
Wooden Shackles and the others felt very impressed at this sight. After observing for a while, they asked: “But how are we supposed to get up there?”
Fang JingXing gazed at the person on the roof and couldn’t help but laugh.
He walked around the house and saw a place in the back that had footholds, so he led the others to climb upwards.
As soon as he stood stead, he saw Deep Love and Longevity gazing unblinkingly at the Wardcaster while scooting closer: “Ace, I really love people like you. Are you looking for someone?”
Jiang Chen said: “Not looking, get lost.”
“Nooo, you’re single and I’m single. Not looking for a partner during the prime of your youth is such a huge waste,” Deep Love and Longevity did his best to promote himself: “How about I send you my photo? I’m really quite handsome, the kind that can be taken out on display. You won’t lose out here.”
Jiang Chen was unmoved: “You really think you are as handsome as me?”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Hearing this, Deep Love and Longevity was very excited and hastily scrambled up the offered steps: “I am! If you don’t believe it, we can exchange photos and compare!”
Jiang Chen said: “No need to compare with me. You’ve seen Fang JingXing’s face, right? He’s not even as handsome as me. You can compare with him first. If you can’t win against him, then there’s no need to come and pollute my eyes.”
Fang JingXing: “…….”
Deep Love and Longevity was even more excited: “Really?!”
Jiang Chen said: “Really.”
Deep Love and Longevity said: “I don’t believe it. Let me look at your photo!”
Fang JingXing walked over to interrupt them: “I didn’t even see it yet, how can he give it to you?”
Deep Love and Longevity subconsciously wanted to say “They weren’t the same”.
This was because previously when he played dungeons with the two Aces, he didn’t see any sparks between the two of them. The Abysswalker didn’t want to date, but he did. So how could it be the same?
But thinking about it again, he hasn’t played together with the two Aces after that, so he couldn’t help but take a glance at the Abysswalker. His heart drummed slightly out of nervousness. He couldn’t figure out this Ace’s thoughts right now, so he tactfully shut his mouth.
Wooden Shackles and the others also arrived next to them, and opened the record-ball.
They saw a group of people chasing an Untamed man.
From this angle, he could be seen carrying a blood wolf in his arms. It should be Wen Yan and Yi Lin.
After chasing them into the forest, they lost track of each other. They searched for quite a while with no results.
Immediately afterwards, the screen flashed and the scene changed. That Untamed man stood in front of them and killed one of their companions. He threw away the corpse and looked over coldly: “The number of times you guys hit him, I will return it back a hundred, a thousand fold.”
The Radiant Moon members yelled: “Who is he to you?”
Wen Yan said: “I’m his big brother.”
This was how Wen Yan’s path to revenge began.
He hunted down the Radiant Moon squadron, wanting to kill everyone who’s harmed Yi Lin before. However, those people were all middle-ranked figures. There were countless henchmen blocking in front of them. Killing them was easier said than done.
Simultaneously, the Radiant Moon members didn’t want to let him get away either. If he showed any intent to avoid the heat temporarily, they’d pursue him back relentlessly. The two parties reached a stalemate just like this, which dragged on until the boss Yue Hui got involved.
Yue Hui was very strong. Wen Yan gained more and more injuries. Finally, he was captured by them and the transformation curse was casted on him.
However, he was really too headstrong and resolute. The transformation curse only worked partially.
He maintained a half man, half wolf state, still refusing to surrender.
Yue Hui found the sight amusing: “Is your little brother this important to you?”
Wen Yan said: “I’m his big brother.”
Yue Hui laughed boisterously: “I like you. I’m going to cast a curse on you personally. You will be my pet from now on.”
Engulfed by the big boss’s curse, the other half of Wen Yan’s body transformed into a wolf.
Yue Hui said happily: “You will gradually lose your awareness, only listening to my command henceforth.”
He looked at his spoil of war and asked: “Who is that wolf to you, do you still remember?”
The light in Wen Yan’s eyes faded gradually as he said hoarsely: “That’s…… the light of my life.”
Startled briefly, Yue Hui laughed heartily: “So it’s like that. So it’s like that!”
The next second, the henchmen ran inside in panic, saying that the righteous heroes of the land were besieging the mountain.
After that, the righteous heroes annihilated the Radiant Moon Organization. No one paid any attention to the whereabouts of one blood wolf. Wen Yan completely lost his awareness, but still remembered to seek revenge for Yi Lin, so he went to bite those NPCs.
The image on the screen switched again. The NPC that Fang JingXing and the group wanted to find said to the other NPCs: “That wolf is crazy. Sooner or later, we will be bitten to death by it! I need to leave here. Don’t blame me. The relic is mine.”
The image changed for the third time. It was the village chief’s home.
He stood inside the room, touching his wrinkle covered face: “Now he won’t be able to find me. From now on, I am the village chief here.”
Wooden Shackles and the others were shocked: “Oh fuck, so he’s the village chief. No wonder he was hiding a knife under the chessboard!”
Deep Love and Longevity was also shocked, blood boiling: “Oh fuck, brotherly incest? The development team is bold!”
The corners of the guild leaders’ mouths twitched. They glanced at this scumbag from Indulge and said: “They’re definitely not blood-related. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been able to pass inspections. What are you thinking?“
Deep Love and Longevity said: “I like it either way!”
He looked at the Wardcaster: “Ace, just look at how wonderful love is!”
Jiang Chen ignored him and recalled the storyline just now. Then he glanced at the village chief jumping around below. Pretty much at the same time as Fang JingXing, he said: “It’s the necklace.”
Wooden Shackles said: “Ah?”
Fang JingXing said: “The previous times he appeared, he didn’t wear a necklace. Only the last time, when he turned into the village chief, he wore it. Considering the relic he mentioned previously, it’s probably that necklace.”
Wooden Shackles said: “Should we pull it off?”
Fang JingXing nodded and jumped off the rooftop. He reached the village chief and yanked down his necklace.
Stiffening abruptly, the village chief snatched it back and turned around immediately to run: “Scatter scatter scatter!”
The villagers didn’t understand, but seeing that the village chief didn’t care anymore, they all left.
Jiang Chen finally decided to come down. He asked Fang JingXing in the squad chat: “Why didn’t you dodge just now?”
As Fang JingXing chased after the village chief, he said: “Couldn’t dodge away. It was probably snatched back compulsorily.”
Jiang Chen said: “Where did he go?”
Fang JingXing said: “Back home.”
The remaining 9 people went back to the village chief’s home again.
This time, the village chief didn’t pretend to be deaf or stutter. He answered everything they asked. Learning that they came to find a method to break the curse, he placed his blood into a small bottle and handed it to them: “I was the one who casted the curse back then. My blood can break the curse.”
Jiang Chen reached out and accepted the item.
The village chief begged them in tears: “I had nothing to do with this village chief’s death. I only took his identity. During these days as the village chief, I got up earlier than the chickens everyday and worried my head off over them, never committing any crimes or atrocities. Not to mention, I had to pretend to stutter. Can you guys please not expose me?”
Jiang Chen’s system continued to answer automatically over here: “Okay.”
The village chief: “Thank you, you’re really good people.”
Jiang Chen said: “Don’t do any more bad things in the future.”
The village chief: “En, I won’t do it anymore.”
Jiang Chen: “Then we’ll be leaving.”
The village chief: “Okay, take care.”
The quest log updated: Search for the method to break the curse. (Completed)
Jiang Chen put away the small bottle. Seeing that the system had finished the automatic conversation, he grabbed the village chief’s necklace, gave a hard yank, and ran off immediately.
Fang JingXing: “……”
Wooden Shackles and the others: “……”
The village chief went crazy and hastily chased after him.
Jiang Chen dragged him to a place where there were a lot of people and threw the necklace onto the roof.
The villagers looked over in unison and saw that without the relic for cover, the village chief gradually turned back to his original appearance. First, they were shocked, then immediately afterwards, they were furious. Working together, they captured him and invited over the village priest to execute him on the spot.
The priest handed Jiang Chen a box and said gratefully: “If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have even known that he had replaced the village chief. This is our village’s souvenir. Hope you will like it.”
Wooden Shackles and the others were instantly excited. They moved closer in unison, wanting to see what it was.
They saw the Ace open the box. Inside was a pendant, which had no attributes. There was a line written clearly in the information column: QingRu Village’s souvenir, for decoration.
Jiang Chen: “…..”
Wooden Shackles and the others: “……”
So it really was just a souvenir?
They looked at the Ace and said: “At least it’s pretty.”
“That’s right, normal people might have left immediately here, not even considering giving that a yank.”
“This thing here is limited edition.”
Fang JingXing held back his laughter: “Wear it and see?”
Jiang Chen didn’t wear it. He placed it in his inventory, realized it was time, and logged off to eat.
The remaining people also left one by one, waiting to continue questing in the afternoon. Fang JingXing took off the glasses and enjoyed the silence for a while. Still feeling like the Wardcaster was too amusing, he opened the photo again, wanting to take another look.
At this time, he suddenly discovered a slight curve in the door frame in the back. As such, he zoomed in to take a closer look and verified that he didn’t see wrong. It’s a sign of photoshopping.
Fang JingXing: “……”
Xie ChengYan, you’ve gotten bold.
Bahahaha he found out!
Thank you for the chapter! 🫶🫶
Assistant needs sacking 😂
Skill update time…🤣
The village chief was executed just like that? 😭
laughing my fvcking @ss off in Xiao Ji’s “never let them know your next move” 😂 😂 😂
Seriously crazy play. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh I nearly forgot since no one has mentioned it yet I knew my gaydar was never wrong and there was something sussy between those “brothers” thank god the quest existed to help them feel so bad for those 2 😭🤧🥺🥹🫶
Thank you for the chapter <3
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On the roof, flicking the ladder…soooo crazy. Thanks for the update 🤣🤣🤣❤️