Fang JingXing recovered for quite a while on the balcony.
He attempted to convince himself that he was overthinking it. Getting revived after decades of cryofreeze— This was really too mystical. There has yet to be a successful case so far. Perhaps what his friend found was only the groundless accusations of a failed project, which had absolutely nothing to do with the Wardcaster.
It’s even possible that this wasn’t even one of the research institution’s projects. After all, the family member of the deceased only mentioned a few words about human cryofreeze. He didn’t even bring up his own little brother’s name. What if he was watching some kind of news and brought it up on a whim?
Meanwhile, the reason he would connect this to Jiang Chen was most likely related to Xie ChengYan’s strange behavior and the fake photo that led his thoughts astray, which kept making him subconsciously associate the Wardcaster with Xie ChengYan.
However, the more he wanted to deny it, the more past details flooded his mind.
For example, when the Wardcaster saw him for the first time, the reason for being his fan was “healthy and tenacious”. For example, when he pretended to be a cute newbie back then, he inexplicably won favor using Jiang Chen’s autograph. And for example, the Wardcaster once said that when he played Wandering Dreams, Fang JingXing wasn’t even born yet, asking him to call him Uncle in the future.
Oh right, and that level 70 ultimate attack, Volatile Storm.
This was the Wardcaster’s “first time” playing Wandering Dreams. During that incident, he had just leveled up to 70 not long ago.
They had accompanied each other all day long, yet he has never seen the Wardcaster do any related practice. However, upon encountering the newcomers of the gaming organizations, the Wardcaster ended up achieving such an explosive result, as if he knew the skill by heart already, and has done it countless times before.
—It’s for your own good.
—If a person more attractive than you, more talented than you, and younger than you is standing in front of you. I’m afraid you’d feel inferior.
A certain conversation from the past suddenly smacked him in the head.
Fang JingXing took a deep breath and searched for Jiang Chen’s photo.
The internet held memories. Even after 30 years, Jiang Chen’s photos could be found online.
Although the photo was a bit blurry compared to current standards, it’s enough to see clearly.
The young man’s expression was indifferent, his countenance sharp and imposing. The beauty mark beneath the corner of his eye seemed like fire, a breathtaking sight.
Fang JingXing’s heart skipped a beat violently. He immediately closed the image.
This was practically the opposite extreme of yesterday’s photo, equally shocking and impactful, and also surpassing his expectations.
Yet he wasn’t afraid to look closely at yesterday’s photo. The one today, on the other hand, he practically didn’t dare to take a second glance. This was because he was afraid the more he looked at it, the higher his expectations. It’s better for people to have lower expectations, in case it’s a genuine misunderstanding. Not to mention, it’s really not good to have such fantastical thoughts towards ‘the deceased’.
But Captain Jiang’s appearance was too attractive. Even after closing the image, it still lingered in his mind, unable to dissipate.
Fang JingXing spent an even longer time to calm down, until the bachelor AI came upstairs to call him to eat. Finally, he regained his composure slightly, went downstairs to the dining room, and ate dinner extremely slowly. Returning to his room and picking up the glasses, he entered the game.
Even the world chat was talking about the hidden story quest.
Mercury Reflects Fate possessed an automatic ability to climb the trending searches, especially since it’s been quiet for over 10 plus days not long ago. At this time, it seemed to have been accumulating a big one. As soon as today’s incident occurred, it instantly became a popular search topic again.
Even Wandering Dreams’ official account sent a post specifically regarding this nature defying “two days” of time. Jokingly, they said that the entire development team was so shocked by the Aces that they uniformly requested time off to go home and rest.
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The forums were even rowdier.
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However, very quickly, the players of Mercury Reflects Fate and certain individuals familiar with the matter showed up to expose the truth, saying that Total Annihilation was the squad leader; the Abysswalker usually listened to him, and not to mention, seemed to hold deep emotions towards the other.
Fang JingXing’s fans deeply felt that their male god wasn’t like that, so they immediately appeared to refute the matter. Influencing the momentum of discussion, even now no results came from the discussions.
In comparison, the 7 large guilds’ members had no such disputes over this.
They waited patiently for their guild leaders to return with success and surrounded them respectively, wanting to ask them how they felt.
The guild leaders actually came out feeling quite accomplished.
However, after recalling the Wardcaster’s unexpected maneuver in the village, and the Abysswalker’s arrangements during that last stage, their initial 80% confidence in themselves dropped to 50%. Outwardly, however, they still maintained a guild leader’s prestige: “Pretty good.”
The members said: “Then can we fight for first clear in the future as well?”
The guild leaders said: “Can give it a try.”
The members were very excited: “Guild leader, you’re amazing!”
The guild leaders accepted the rainbow praise with stoicism and composure, thinking to themselves, good thing hidden story quests and hidden dungeons weren’t that easy to discover. They prayed sincerely for that moment to come a little later so they could avoid embarrassing themselves. As such, they changed the topic, saying they wanted to form squads to play dungeons or clear the bounty board or fight in the PK arena.
The backbones of the guild didn’t budge. They inquired if the Aces were selling the two Divine Weapons that dropped today, wanting the guild leaders to help contact the Aces. They wanted to make a purchase.
The guild leaders said: “I will help you guys ask, but just be prepared, it will be hard.”
Everyone knew that the two Aces each obtained a Divine Weapon from the last hidden story quest. This time, the two that dropped coincidentally weren’t ones they could use. Naturally, they could be sold.
But first of all, the people of Indulge were already at the front of the line. 2nd, the guild leaders also wanted to buy them. Last, all those rich whales in the server weren’t lacking in wealth either. There were too many competitors, so it’s hard to say whose hands the weapons would land in.
The guild leaders looked at their friend list and discovered that the Wardcaster has not logged in yet. On the contrary, the Abysswalker has been online this entire time. However, they weren’t sure if he was afk, so they just sent a message.
As soon as Fang JingXing returned, he found himself flooded by all sorts of messages.
He ignored them for the time being. After noticing the Wardcaster’s absence, he finally deigned to spare them a few glances and sent a horn.
[Horn] Abyss: Don’t ask me. I can’t make the decision. Up to him [Smile]
Seeing him speak up, everyone appeared.
[World] The Person in the Mirror: Then when is he coming back?
[World] Life and Death Together: The days are crawling like years, such torment.
[World] Hamster Ball: Ace, will you publicize the condition for activating the story quest this time? [Hopeful]
[World] Koi Ryukyu: Definitely, many people know it already.
[World] Wooden Shackles: The Forest of Dawn wilderness area. Go into the deepest part and kill 30 blood wolves to activate.
[World] A Thousand Year Old Meaning: Oho!
[World] A Bowl of Braised Noodles: Forthright!
[World] Tofu Leftover: I just knew it. The first clear is already gone, so there’s no need to hide it anymore.
[World] The Person in the Mirror: Right now I’m only concerned when the Ace is coming back. It’s already past the time when he normally logs in. Don’t tell me he has disappeared again after clearing the hidden story quest?
The crowd was alarmed. Seeing this, Fang JingXing felt his eyelids twitch as well. Recalling how the Wardcaster vanished without any warning last time, he thought to himself, this really was quite unpredictable.
However, before people started expressing their opinions, a message appeared.
[World] Total Annihilation: No.
Fang JingXing didn’t even look at the messages flooding the chat channel wildly. Turning around abruptly, he saw a familiar figure.
Jiang Chen stood where he logged off. After he sent the message, he walked over.
Watching him, Fang JingXing felt his heart beating abnormally for a moment.
Jiang Chen ate dinner late and then walked the ducklings for a bit. Therefore, he arrived slightly late.
Reading through the various messages, he asked: “There’s a long bow amongst the Divine Weapons, right?”
Fang JingXing composed himself: “Yes.”
Jiang Chen said: “Help me give it to Du FeiZhou……”
Saying this, he paused and corrected himself: “Send it to Chairman Du.”
In the past, Fang JingXing wouldn’t have paid any attention to this kind of detail.
Because privately, many kids would call the Chairman by his actual name. This wasn’t exactly rare. However, he had a guilty conscience today, so everything sounded strange to him. He asked: “Because he helped?”
Jiang Chen replied with an ‘En’.
Fang JingXing said: “What if he doesn’t accept?”
Jiang Chen was very calm and composed: “You tell him, if he doesn’t accept, it won’t even be fun crushing them in the future so I won’t be PKing with them anymore.”
Fang JingXing couldn’t help but inquire further: “What if he still doesn’t accept after I say that?”
Jiang Chen said: “That probably won’t happen.”
It’s not like Du FeiZhou was an awkward kind of person.
It’s just a Divine Weapon. When Du FeiZhou played competitively, what kind of Divine Weapon did he not play with? So there’s no reason for him to wrangle seriously.
Fang JingXing examined this somewhat confident and unequivocal tone and did his best to suppress the thoughts in his head. Finally, he stopped asking questions.
Jiang Chen said: “You can make arrangements for the other weapon.”
Fang JingXing said: “Okay.”
As such, Jiang Chen walked next to the lake to idle, preparing to write a guide.
He was just about to pick up the pen when he recalled how considerate Fang JingXing always was and asked: “Did you write the guide?”
Fang JingXing said: “Already finished it. I will send it to you?”
Jiang Chen was very pleased: “No need. You can just keep it.”
The Aces of the 9 servers only wanted to wait and see at first. However, with the appearance of this deranged ‘two days’, they instantly lost the will to struggle and hastily ran over to buy the guide.
After the two Aces finished their business transactions in front of Indulge’s gates, they divided the profits and then sent red pouches to the squad members, thus once again bringing the hidden story quest to a successful completion.
Fang JingXing stood next to him, accompanying him, neither moving nor speaking.
Jiang Chen said proactively: “Let’s clear a dungeon?”
Fang JingXing said: “How many people?”
Jiang Chen said: “Doesn’t matter.”
After he finished the hidden story quest, he leveled up once. Right now, however, he wasn’t even level 87, but planned to reach max level in one sitting tonight.
In Wandering Dreams, max level was the true beginning of this game. He could clear the Bounty Board and fight in the PK Arena, and even arrange for a PK match with Fang JingXing.
Fang JingXing said: “Okay, I’ll go call people.”
Five minutes later, the dungeoneering squad gathered and headed energetically to a level 90 10-man dungeon.
Most of the members were max level with the exception of two people. One was Jiang Chen, the other was Indulge’s guild leader, Savant Initiate.
After Savant Initiate established the guild initially, he never logged in afterwards, staying frozen at level 35 the entire time. It was after the Wardcaster lost contact that he came online. Playing on and off until now, he just happened to be level 86 as well.
When the Indulge members heard the Aces wanted to play a dungeon, they brought their guild leader along as well, wanting these two people to reach max level as fast as possible.
Savant Initiate was the same as Love Escapist, also playing the human race.
The difference was that Love Escapist was an Exorcist while Savant Initiate was a Puppeteer.
Thank you for the chapter! 🫶
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Thank you 😎❤️
oh ho, wonder what is up with this guy
Photo K.O. Hahahaha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
Ooh, a puppeteer sounds interesting!
I tried reading the MTL version of this novel because I can’t wait anymore a few days ago, but my brain burned trying to understand the context. It’s really hard to change from luxury to frugality, lol.
I appreciate the MTL’ers efforts to translate these novels, but if you really started reading a well-translated novels then switch to MTL, you will have the urge to cry.