Was this the actual person, or someone from the research institution using his account?
According to the Wardcaster’s personality, if he gave the account to someone else to use, he’d definitely give a few words explaining the situation and their relationship to him.
Fang JingXing analyzed swiftly in his head and felt contacting the other directly shouldn’t be a problem. As such, he clicked the other’s ID and sent a friend request with the comment: Hello, I’m Fang JingXing.
The fans perked up in unison and waited for their Adonis to converse with this Ace.
Jiang Chen was in a bad mood right at this moment.
Not long after he returned in the evening, Gu Wen found him. After hearing that Gu Wen wanted to go to Bone Burial Mountain, he asked: “Are you going to search for the bird?”
Gu Wen explained: “I watched the Wandering Dream’s official interview regarding the hidden story quests and dungeons.”
He didn’t waste his breath and sent the video to him.
Jiang Chen skimmed through it.
The interview was cut specifically, the content being the development team describing different methods to initiate hidden events.
Some could only be completed in VR mode, some require inferences and speculations from the main story quest or character background. There were some rare ones that were made as realistic as possible. They programmed voice recognition and transmission for NPCs. As long as you shout certain words on a specific map, the quest will unlock.
The codewords also followed logic and reason. Just pay close attention and you’ll discover it.
However, because it’s voice activated, if players accidentally said the designated codewords while chatting carelessly, they’d receive an unexpected yet delightful surprise.
Jiang Chen understood.
The Burial Bone Mountain was isolated and deserted, devoid of birds and fish, yet the sound of a bird could be heard. If they weren’t the ones who missed something, this did indeed fit the voice activation logic.
He asked: “You want to give it a try?”
Gu Wen said: “We should.”
Jiang Chen said: “Why not ask people from your guild?”
Gu Wen answered very frankly: “The main reason is I want to PK with you and collect a multiplayer bounty. The 2nd reason is squading up with you guys to play hidden story quests has a high possibility of clearance.”
Saying this, he paused: “When is Abyss logging in?”
Jiang Chen glanced at him: “Let’s go.”
Gu Wen wasn’t a meddlesome person so he didn’t ask anymore and went with him to Bone Burial Mountain.
As the two people searched the mountains, they shouted words like gold canary, the Young Miss’ name, the mysterious barren desert, Huiyin Manor… Any phrase related to the dungeon, they tried once, but to no avail.
The two people stood on top of the mountain, looking at each other.
“……” Gu Wen said: “Perhaps I guessed wrong.”
Thinking how he’s making the same mistake a second time, Jiang Chen resisted the urge to activate PK mode and kept his silence.
Gu Wen: “PK?”
Jiang Chen: “No.”
Gu Wen: “Bounty Board?”
Jiang Chen: “Not interested.”
Gu Wen: “Then what do you want to do?”
Jiang Chen: “Want some quiet.”
It’s rare for Gu Wen to see the Ace so speechless. For a second, he felt a bit like laughing.
He resisted and quietly removed himself from the squad and left, leaving the Ace alone.
Jiang Chen walked to the cliff nearby and looked at the scenery below.
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He felt a strange kind of irritation in his heart.
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He walked next to the cliff some more, planning to feel the breeze and get some air.
Fang JingXing’s friend request arrived right at this time.
Jiang Chen looked at the attached message and thought, even if Fang JingXing switched accounts, it’s impossible for him to send something like this. So he assumed it was a scam and instantly snapped back.
A few seconds later, Fang JingXing saw the system message on the other side.
The player, Total Annihilation, declined your friend request.
The reason: Oh, I’m your daddy.
Fang JingXing: “……”
Fans: “…….”
Fang JingXing said to himself, well damn, it’s most likely him in person.
He wasn’t sure if Jiang Chen could play again or if he could only play this one last day. Instantly, he became restless.
But he had already promised to squad up with friends to play the PK Arena and had already started the live stream; it’s not like he could go back on his word. Taking a glance at the constantly scrolling comments, he feigned pressing private chat and said: “The Ace doesn’t accept private messages from strangers. He doesn’t want to interact with me, I can’t do anything about it either.”
The fan naturally won’t take this.
“What do you mean there’s nothing you can do, you can go find him!”
“Explain it some more, hurry! Go!”
“I don’t care, today you finally came to Mercury Reflects Fate. I want to hear the Ace talk!”
“That’s right, let us see the Ace. Husband, you’re the best [flying kiss]”
“There’s nothing my male god can’t do!”
Fang JingXing said: “Let’s see in a bit.”
He met his friends in the PK arena and indicated for them to first play a few rounds; that he didn’t eat enough for dinner and needed to find something to eat.
Then he entered the spectator stand and found a place to sit: “You guys watch first. I will come back immediately after I finish eating.”
The fans naturally had no objections and told him to eat his fill.
As such, Fang JingXing muted his mic, took off his glasses and afked. Pulling out his other set of equipment, he logged into Abyss’ account.
Simultaneously, Jiang Chen received a private message from a certain person’s fan.
Back then, he had added Love’s 123, but basically didn’t chat with them much. Now one of them was contacting him directly.
[PM] Love’s one: Ace, “This is a side account” is really Captain Fang!
[PM] Love’s one: He is live streaming and bought a new account to come to Mercury Reflects Fate to play the PK Arena with Xiao-Tian and the others.
[PM] Love’s one: If you don’t believe me, you can check the live stream [pitiful]
Ok fine.
Jiang Chen threw back an ‘En’ and turned around to walk down the mountain. Listening to the never-ending bird chirps, he got annoyed and said: “Stop chirping!”
The sound came to an abrupt stop.
Immediately afterwards, faint apparition of a gold canary flew over and stopped on his shoulder, looking at him timidly: “…… Chirp.”
Jiang Chen: “……”
A familiar golden announcement instantly spread throughout the server: Congratulations Total Annihilation for discovering the hidden story quest [Flourishing Blossoms]!
Jiang Chen: “……”
Gu Wen, who was about to reach the foot of the mountain: “……”
Fang JingXing, who had just switched accounts: “…….”
The entire server: “? ? ?”
[World] So Hard to Pick a Name: Here he comes, here he comes, here he comes again with the hidden story quest!
[World] Anti-Inflammatories: Quiet for such a long time, here I thought he had renounced his ways.
[World] Book Collection: The shortest server-wide announcement in history, this time there’s only one person.
[World] The Person in the Mirror: Ace, are you interested in squading up?
[World] Negative One Meter: Ace, look at us~ We can act cute, sing, dance, and tell stories, anything you want [Waves handkerchief]
[World] Life and Death Together: Anything they can do, we can do as well.
[World] Tears Are Worthless: Trying to win him over? I’m coming as well. Ace, can you please consider me?
[World] Gossip Consumer: Oho~ The Ace has been playing the Bounty Board and the PK Arena everyday lately. Here I thought he considered the hidden story quest and hidden dungeons to be too easy and boring.
At this time, Love Escapist also logged online. Seeing the announcement, he was stunned briefly. Glancing around and seeing the Abysswalker that suddenly appeared in the courtyard, he walked forward to say: “Didn’t you say that your family’s little cutie is not logging in anymore?”
Fang JingXing said: “I’m not sure either.”
Saying this, he contacted Jiang Chen, asking him for his location. Learning that it was Bone Burial Mountain, he rushed over and saw Gu Wen standing there still.
The two people abandoned Gu Wen with the excuse of ‘have something to discuss’ and walked to the side, practically opening their mouths at the same time.
Fang JingXing said: “Weren’t you not coming online anymore?”
Jiang Chen said: “Aren’t you live streaming?”
Fang JingXing raised an eyebrow: “You know?”
Jian Chen said: “Just found out. Your fan PM’d me.”
Fang JingXing understood and explained briefly that he was completing his required streaming hours. Once again asking the question that he was concerned with, Fang JingXing learned that there’s been a change to the plans on Jiang Chen’s side, so he can still play some more. Fang JingXing instantly felt his entire day of depression suddenly alleviated. With a smile, he said: “I saw the birthday present and like it very much, thank you.”
Jiang Chen replied with an ‘en’.
Fang JingXing said: “I need to live stream tonight. Do you want to play together with us?”
Jiang Chen said: “No.”
As such, Fang JingXing examined the bird on his shoulder: “The Young Miss’ story quest?”
Jiang Chen said: “Possibly.”
Fang JingXing said: “What’s the first mission?”
Jiang Chen said: “Still haven’t converse with it yet.”
Fang JingXing said: “Squad up for a second.”
Jiang Chen said: “You’re not live streaming?”
Fang JingXing: “No rush, I’ll play with you for a while before leaving.”
Jiang Chen felt his eyelids twitch faintly: “I’m not playing the story quest today. Going to play the PK Arena with Gu Wen.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Going with the bird on you?”
Jiang Chen imagined it for a moment and felt the scene was too beautiful, so he added Fang JingXing and Gu Wen into a squad and conversed with the gold canary.
The gold canary flapped its wings and flew into the air. After flying a distance, it turned back and looked at them. As such, the three people followed it all the way and reached a withered tree. They watched as the apparition flew into the soil beneath the tree.
Fang JingXing dug for a moment and dug out the stone statue of a gold canary.
There were a few small words on the base of the stone statue, which said: Bell’s Sculpture Shop.
The mission updated simultaneously: Find Bell.
Alright.
The hidden story quest’s usual style, searching for someone.
Fang JingXing glanced at the time and handed the stone statue over to Jiang Chen: “I have to leave.”
Jiang Chen said: “Goodbye.”
In a good mood, Fang JingXing couldn’t hold back from touching his head. Then he headed directly back to the city to switch accounts.
Jiang Chen watched as his figure vanished and turned around to look at Gu Wen, saying he’s going to play in the PK Arena.
Gu Wen naturally had no objections and walked down the mountain with him. Recalling the atmosphere of how they had abandoned him to talk about stuff just now, for some reason, he felt it was somewhat weird and asked: “Nothing happened between you guys, right?”
Jiang Chen asked back: “You like to gossip as well?”
Gu Wen fell silent.
He doesn’t gossip. It’s just that he had wagered Total Annihilation and Qing Yan would get together back then, so if he lost, he’d have to run around naked.
He said: “Just asking casually.”
Jiang Chen said: “Nothing happened.”
Not long after saying these two words, he received a certain person’s harassment.
Fang JingXing switched back to the side account. Seeing his friends just starting a new round, he peacefully sat in the spectator stand and observed. Seeing the fans once again mentioning Total Annihilation, he couldn’t help but send another friend request, writing: Ace, I really am Fang JingXing.
Jiang Chen didn’t know what he’s trying to do, but accepted this time.
Fang JingXing ignored the fan’s cheers and greeted the other proactively with a smile.
[PM] This is a Side Account: Ace, hello.
[PM] Total Annihilation: Need something?
[PM] This is a Side Account: I’ve heard of your esteem for quite a while and came specifically to meet you. Ace, do you want to play at the PK Arena?
[PM] Total Annihilation: What Tier are you?
[PM] This is a Side Account: Tier 2
[PM] Total Annihilation: Hah.
Fang JingXing: “…….”
The fans lost it laughing, waiting to watch their male god make a fool of himself.
Fang JingXing also laughed out loud and replied happily.
[PM] This is a Side Account: How about you carry me, Ace.
[PM] Total Annihilation: I refuse.
[PM] This is a Side Account: How about I go spectate you playing in the PK Arena then and cheer you on?
[PM] Total Annihilation: No need.
[PM] This is a Side Account: Need.
[PM] Total Annihilation: ?
Taking advantage of the fact that he was live streaming and can take everything as a joke, Fang JingXing smoothly smuggled in some private intentions.
[PM] This is a Side Account: Because I like you.
Whelp that’s one way to make him either malfunction or throw something at you… or both 🤷🏼♀️
+1
In this way… he already confirmed his feelings to MC ^^
Is he going to get blocked again?
I love this novel so much that I don’t want to wait until Monday for the next chapter… 😭😭
Anyway, Fang JingXing, are you sure it’s ok for you to be saying that you like him while livestreaming….?
I made a face in the middle of the car 💀 Shoot your shot Fang Jingxing ☝️
Thanks for the translation 🤣❤️🤣❤️
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Yo, he really didn’t hesitate 🤣🤣 Jiang Chen either going to block that side account of his or just straight up going offline 😭😭😭 But I do want to see JC flirt back tho 😉 let Fang JingXing be the one who’s flustered 🤣🤣