The bounty tasks required proof so killing the target wasn’t enough to finish it. Normally, players had to loot the corpse and bring back a token.
Seeing the Swordsman lying on the ground, the surrounding players even tried to head over there to take selfies with him. Jiang Chen stepped forward irately and stopped them, bending down to loot the corpse.
The taskbar completed. He watched as the Swordsman climbed up lazily and returned to the Wardcaster’s side: “I got crushed.”
The Wardcaster also got up, glanced at him, and said in a cold and indifferent voice: “Noob.”
Startled, Jiang Chen stood frozen in place and watched as their figures gradually vanished.
Fang JingXing stood at a nearby spot and heard these words extremely clearly. Feeling like it was Jiang Chen’s voice, he raised an eyebrow instantly.
The surrounding players also froze.
“Wow, there’s actually an animation.”
“What’s going on? Why do I feel like they’re somewhat shippable.”
“They have a joint name, is there some kind of story behind this?”
“Could it be another hidden story quest?”
“Oh my god, I love these little stories inside Wandering Dreams. I have to go investigate!”
Listening to the surrounding discussions, Fang JingXing reached Jiang Chen’s side.
He wasn’t sure of Jiang Chen’s current mood, but if he put himself in the other’s shoes— If his friend had commemorated himself like this inside the game, he probably wouldn’t be too composed either.
Jiang Chen remained quiet for a while and then looked towards Fang JingXing: “Let’s go.”
Fang JingXing: “Do you still want to watch the fireworks?”
Jiang Chen pondered for 2 seconds: “Let’s watch.”
After saying this, he also bought fireworks and squatted down to ignite them.
Celebrating the fact that even though he was 30 years late, he still came to fulfill his promise.
Fang JingXing said: “Are you okay?”
Jiang Chen said: “What could be wrong?”
Fang JingXing couldn’t figure out the authenticity of these words and teased: “But I stood there for half a day…yet you didn’t smell anything?”
Jiang Chen said: “What?”
Fang JingXing said: “The smell of vinegar on me.”
Jiang Chen: “…….”
He pointed at the firework on the ground: “Want me to shoot you?”
Fang JingXing pleaded for mercy with a smile: “No need Ace, please spare me.”
As they spoke, the 5 streamers of Indulge walked over.
In the same guild and also at such close proximity, they were coerced into satisfying the fans’ wishes to hear the Aces speak. They stepped forth to offer their congratulations: “Congratulations, Aces.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “No need to be so polite.”
The five steamers glanced at him and then looked towards the Wardcaster: “Ace, do you have any thoughts regarding what happened?”
Jiang Chen said: “Nope.”
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The five thought, nice, speaking one word still counts as speaking.
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His topic turned immediately: “You guys didn’t record us, right? We’re just normal players and don’t want to be on camera.”
The 5 live streamers: “……”
Stop playing around already, your disguise has fallen completely this time, alright?
Looking at this asshole, who has forgotten his bros now that he has a wife, they turned around and left.
Fang JingXing accompanied Jiang Chen to finish lighting up the fireworks and then returned to the city to hand in their task.
The players hastily followed. They saw them hand over the token to the NPC in charge of the Bounty Board. Immediately afterwards, another row lit up in the uppermost section of the 2-man Bounty Board. It contained three task levels. The colors still followed the rules below. Every level was completely different.
“I’ve been enlightened. So these are the Tier 10 tasks.”
“It already looks so high-end and classy, part of the once-in-a-lifetime series of events.”
“Oh fuck, you guys, just look at the rewards, quick!”
“Ohh damn……I’m so jealous I’m drooling.”
“Mortals like us can only gaze upwards from afar……”
“Question, will the two Aces continue to fight their way upwards?”
Gu Wen, White Dragonbone, and the rest also wanted to ask this question.
Because it was only a little over 8pm. It wasn’t time for Total Annihilation to log off yet.
Fang JingXing looked at the person beside him: “Do you still want to play? Or perhaps we can clear the other tasks in Tier 9?”
Jiang Chen said: “Don’t want to.”
Fang JingXing said: “Then old customs?”
Jiang Chen nodded and walked towards the PK Arena with him.
Some of the observing crowd watched them leave. Some went to play something else. Some accepted the Tier 10 tasks, planning to take pictures with the NPCs. There were also a few who followed the two to strike up conversations, but Fang JingXing intercepted them easily.
The remaining were people like Gu Wen and White Dragonbone, who liked to PK. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the Aces and seeing that they were going to the PK Arena, they shamelessly headed over as well, wanting the Aces to give them some pointers.
Fang JingXing asked Jiang Chen for his opinion.
Jiang Chen didn’t care. Bringing these people along and creating a private instance, he sat on the ground and indicated for Fang JingXing to fight.
Fang JingXing said: “……You’re only going to sit there and watch?”
Jiang Chen said: “I’ll cheer for you.”
Fang JingXing said: “Not enough.”
Jiang Chen wasn’t sure what he was going to say next. Just in case, he took a leaf out of Savant Initiate’s book and said: “Restrain yourself.”
Exasperated but good tempered, Fang JingXing played a match with each of these people. Seeing they still wanted to fight, he said: “Come back after 9:30pm. Give us some time to spend a two person world together.”
Hearing this, the group hastily and tactfully bid farewell. Then the two guild leaders amongst them stood at the door looking at each other.
White Dragonbone said: “Am I about to win my wager?”
Gu Wen, who was hoping he’d forget about it, failed to achieve his wish. Not wanting to say a single world, he led his guild members to compete in team battles.
In the instance behind them, Fang JingXing walked to Jiang Chen. Seeing that sure enough, he didn’t have any plans to get up, Fang JingXing sat down opposite of the other and asked: “How about we take a stroll around the Chairman’s place?”
Jiang Chen said: “Don’t want to.”
Fang JingXing knew he had misgivings and pondered briefly: “But aren’t you Chen Hui Lan Le’s fan?”
Jiang Chen looked at him.
Fang JingXing helped analyze for him: “You learned your skills from him and are familiar with his playing style. If you were able to tell that the black Wardcaster is Chen Hui Lan Le, it’s completely reasonable for you to find your way over there to ask about it.”
Considering this briefly, Jiang Chen was successfully persuaded.
As such, the two went to the town where Old But Vigorous was located.
None of the oldies were playing dungeons right now. Hearing the guard at the door saying someone was here, they went to take a look. Discovering it was actually their group favorite, they happily brought him inside, wanting to pat him on his head.
Jiang Chen hastily backed up a step before they rebelled and reminded them coldly: “Hands.”
The group regrettably controlled their paternal love and lectured: “Don’t be so heartless, careful you won’t find a girlfriend in the future.”
Thoughts occupying his head, plus not wanting to have his identity suspected, inexplicably Jiang Chen replied with: “I’m not interested in girls.”
Fang JingXing instantly froze and then said immediately afterwards: “En, you have me.”
Jiang Chen: “…….”
The Old But Vigorous crowd: “…….Oh?”
Jiang Chen silently looked at the person next to him.
Fang JingXing squeezed his hand with a smile and indicated for him to calm down. Then he voluntarily brought up the black Wardcaster and said: “We feel like the style was pretty similar to him, so we came over to ask you elders.”
The Old But Vigorous crowd: “Not similar, that NPC was modeled after him.”
“Back then, we were the ones who tested it personally. We even clipped his voice specifically from a saved chat history.”
“After you finished the task, did you hear it?”
Fang JingXing said: “We heard. It was just one word.”
The group laughed, saying: “One word was enough. That was precisely his personality.”
Fang JingXing laughed and said to himself, how true.
He remembered when Jiang Chen teamed up with him for the first time and he was slacking off, not doing much, Jiang Chen had called him a noob before.
He asked: “Did you seniors work together to design this?”
“No, it’s another friend.”
As such, the group told them stories about the past and said with a smile: “He has already been promoted to Vice-CEO. Impressive right?”
Jiang Chen was somewhat surprised.
After he woke up, he searched for people back then on the internet. However, because he could only remember their IDs at most and didn’t know their real name at all, researching was very hard. Most people’s whereabouts were basically unknown. Only Du FeiZhou was rather famous and became the Chairman of the Wandering Dreams League.
Learning that the guy was living the good life, Fang JingXing knew that now, Jiang Chen can feel assured. He said with a smile: “Impressive.”
Glancing around with the corner of his eyes, he saw Du FeiZhou standing on the other side of the courtyard and asked: “Chairman, what are you doing?”
The group turned their heads and looked: “Haven’t moved for quite a while, he might be afk.”
As soon as they finished speaking, Du FeiZhou moved.
He finished watching the video several times and pulled out the PK video with Total Annihilation last time. He discovered that several times when the other evaded— rather than saying he had quick reflexes, might as well say he had predicted ahead of time and acted accordingly.
Du FeiZhou felt somewhat incredulous, wanting to return to the game to ask Fang JingXing some questions.
Looking up at this time, he immediately saw these two and stepped forward to ask: “How come you guys have the time to come here?”
The guild members: “They were able to tell that the black Wardcaster is Chen Hui Lan Le and came to verify it.”
Du FeiZhou gave a faint ‘en’ and sat down on the ground with them: “Finished talking?”
The guild members: “Just finished.”
Du FeiZhou looked at the Wardcaster across from him: “What else do you want to know?”
Jiang Chen pondered for a few seconds and felt like it wasn’t appropriate to ask anything else.
Fang JingXing didn’t have as many misgivings however. Taking advantage of the fact that they know his identity, he conversed without any pressure at all: “I’ve heard of people mentioning Chen Hui Lan Le before, but didn’t have any concrete impression. After exchanging blows with him today, he sure is strong.”
The Old But Vigorous members said: “I know right? You guys did a 2v2. If it were a team fight and he had the support of his teammates, he’s even more terrifying.”
Fang JingXing stuck the target right at the center: “Are there any of his teammates amongst you seniors?”
The Old and Vigorous members said: “Of course.”
They pointed at the person with the ID BeiBei Is The Cutest: “He is.”
Fang JingXing said: “Just this one? What about the others?”
Jiang Chen’s heart skipped a beat as he listened earnestly.
BeiBei Is The Cutest said: “Busy feeding their families.”
The other people added: “Just look at our guild members’ information. Actually a lot of them created accounts, but don’t come online very much. There are several who are still not max level even now.”
Fang JingXing pretended to be curious: “Which ones?”
BeiBei Is The Cutest started to recite the old teammates’ IDs for them.
Jiang Chen listened quietly and felt that was enough for today.
Du FeiZhou looked at him: “I watched the video of your bounty hunt. Your style is very similar to that of Chen Hui Lan Le.”
Jiang Chen was very calm. After all, normal people wouldn’t think that a person can resurrect from the dead.
He said: “I learned from him.”
Du FeiZhou said: “Your tempo is also similar.”
Jiang Chen said: “En, my learning ability is strong.”
Du FeiZhou nodded, not saying anything else.
Fang JingXing glanced at the Chairman and inconspicuously changed the topic. Chatting with them until it was almost time for Jiang Chen to log off, they finally bid farewell and left.
Du FeiZhou sent them out the door. Gazing at the back view of the Wardcaster, he couldn’t help but afk and watch the video once again, dazing off for a moment.
When he came back from his thoughts, he discovered that he had unconsciously started searching for news about resurrection from the dead. Several headlines appeared.
—Shocking! A 3 year old girl has memories from her last life!
—A foreign little boy claims he was burned to death in his past life. Is there really reincarnation in this world?
—Some people remember their previous life’s lover. See who is your lover?
“……” The Chairman of the Wandering Dreams League, Du FeiZhou, felt he had gone a bit insane and silently closed the internet.
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