Chapter 1143: Rich Bet (1/2)
The next day, around 7 in the morning, I was woken up by a bunch of knocking. When I opened the door, I saw Lin Yixin standing outside in a white sports attire and Chaos Moon in a blue sports attire. Stunned, I asked, ”What are you two doing?”
Lin Yixin stared at me while answering, ”Brush your teeth and wash your face. We’re going to jog around the city for a bit. Do you even remember the last time you exercised, huh?”
I shivered from head to toe. ”Jog around the entire Bagua City? Please don’t scare me…”
”It’s just a figure of speech, but there will be some exercising. We can’t be too lazy…”
”Fine!”
And so I and the girls went out of the hotel and stood on the streets for a moment. It was really cold today, but luckily both Chaos Moon and Lin Yixin were very cold-resistant. Speaking of cold resistance, I spotted a beautiful stranger wearing a black mini skirt just 200 meters away from us. There was spring snow last night, so the current temperature was around 10 degrees Celsius at most. Just how tough were the women of Bagua City?
I swung my fists for a bit and felt like I was overflowing with stamina. I couldn’t help but smile at this. ”I didn’t think I would be this strong when I play every day, hehe…”
It was probably because of the virus. In fact, it was the only explanation. It made no sense I remained fit despite remaining indoors all day otherwise.
Cheeks reddened because of the cold, Lin Yixin shook her head at my comment before saying, ”Come on. We’re going to run at least 2 km before we come back…”
”Yeah!”
……
20 minutes later, at a street corner.
”Ahhhhh… I can’t do it any longer!”
Chaos Moon was leaning against a wall, lolling her tongue and covered in sweat as she said, ”I’m so tired… I can’t run any longer!”
Lin Yixin was also leaning against a lamppost and lolling her tongue a little. ”Ah, it feels nice to sweat like this. Once we get back and take a bath, we can grind the S3 instance right away!”
”Oh, are you guys challenging S3 already? Who are your party members?”
”Me, Lu Chen, Sister Eve, Beiming and Sister Mingyue!”
Chaos Moon smiled. ”Wow, that’s five gods in one party! Yeah, there’s a good chance you guys will succeed, not to mention Lu Chen is outright broken, even against super bosses.”
”Yeah. Shall we go back now?”
”Sure!”
……
I logged into the game after I returned to the hotel and did my business.
Swhoosh!
I appeared at Ice River Canton Ruins. Not far away, the NPC Mona was commanding the NPCs to build the walls with the stones I and the Godkiller had collected for them. Since all the stones we had brought were top-notch, I bet the camp would be much harder to breach after they were complete.
Besides that, tall buildings that would serve were watchtowers or archer towers had been built inside the camp. Ice River Canton was in a weird spot where it bordered the China server, Japan server, India server and Korea server all at once, meaning that it could be attacked at any moment. It was probably why Princess Karinshan had stationed some of her troops here. It even looked like she was planning to develop this temporary camp into a much more permanent fortress. If that was true, it was wonderful news for all the unaffiliated players of Iron Skull Wilderness.
The girls hadn’t appeared yet, so I accepted and completed a quest that would put me exactly at 100 glory points. Finally, I could speak with the expert scammers that were the blacksmith, the item merchant and so on, repair my equipment and restock on supplies. Lin Yixin wasn’t unaffiliated, so she could just return to Sky City to repair her equipment and resupply. During this time, He Yi, Beiming Xue and Murong Mingyue all logged into the game.
We gathered at the edge of the camp. The S3 instance lay to the north of Ice River Canton and Purple Grape City. After Purple Grape City had fallen, the Japanese players’ growth had been suppressed to a point where no one even thought to challenge the S3 instance at all. Therefore, we could almost monopolize the entire instance to ourselves.
I didn’t summon the Ancient Divine Dragon as we traveled to the S3 instance. I simply enjoyed the walk with Lin Yixin to my right and He Yi to my left.
”Damn, I almost forgot something again…” I suddenly spoke up in realization.
Lin Yixin blinked. ”What is it?”
”It’s a pet egg that I was planning to give Eve…” I explained. ”Your ice dragon is super good, so you don’t need to change your pet yet. On the other hand, Eve’s pet is really weak at this stage of the game, so I was going to give her a pet egg I found at Frost Stained Canyon.”
Lin Yixin giggled and placed an arm across He Yi’s shoulder. ”You don’t need to explain yourself to me, especially explain a gift for Sister He Yi!”
Me: ”...”
”What is it?” He Yi tilted her head at me smilingly.
It took a while, but I was finally able to locate the pet egg in my bag and passed it to He Yi. ”Here. This is a boss pet with two forms. Its original form is a venomous snake king, and its second form is a human form with super high Attack and melee skills. It can even use skills like Barrier Break and Earth Shattering Slash!”
”Ohh, that’s amazing…” He Yi cheerfully accepted the pet egg. Light erupted from the egg after she dripped her blood and formed a contract with it. A moment later, a cute, cyan-colored snake about the length of a finger appeared in her palm. It looked incredibly cute, and it stared at He Yi with cute, round eyes while wagging its tail.
”Wow, it’s so cute!” Lin Yixin chirped.
Murong Mingyue nodded. ”Yes, it looks pretty good. I wonder how it’ll look when it becomes an adult though. I bet it’ll be long and thick…”
”Long and thick…” I barely stopped the corner of my mouth from twitching. ”Beiming, don’t ask me what she meant.”
Beiming Xue blushed. ”I already know the answer, so I won’t!”
Me: ”...”
……
It wasn’t long before we arrived at the entrance to the S3 instance on foot. As expected, there wasn’t a single person around the area at all. After we confirmed our party members and registered our party, we got ready to enter the instance.