18 Chapter 18 - Crisis of Faith (1/2)
Gu Fei rushed to his physical education class after he got offline.
Since P.E. lesson was held just twice a week, almost every athletics teacher would instruct a few classes in a row. Today just happened to be one of the busiest for Gu Fei, as he handled three successive classes in one afternoon.
Gu Fei was somewhat distracted at the moment. The people he had just met a while ago had very unique personalities, yet their online gaming skills were exceptional. While Gu Fei's kung fu skills were extraordinary, his gaming ability was truly lacking. Therefore, he felt that it might be inappropriate to display his kung fu skills fully when following such pinnacle experts.
While he pondered on this, the students had all arrived on the sports field and assembled themselves into waiting groups. Gu Fei quickly collected his thoughts and devoted his attention toward teaching the class curriculum. At this moment, he sighed in his heart, These students are so obedient unlike that obnoxious and arrogant Royal God Call!
Ah Fa respectfully came up beside Gu Fei as he was thinking this, ”Sir....”
”What's the matter?” Gu Fei asked.
”What's your level now?” Ah Fa quietly inquired. Gu Fei had forbidden Ah Fa from revealing the fact that he was playing Parallel World to anyone.
”Level 30,” Gu Fei answered.
”Holy sh*t!” Ah Fa blurted out in surprise.
”Is that how you're supposed to talk to your teacher?!” Gu Fei suddenly displayed a livid expression. He had not expected his class to have an ill-mannered and conceited student just like Royal God Call.
Ah Fa wore a wronged expression; he had accidentally treated his teacher as his buddy!
”Concentrate on your exercises! Stop constantly thinking about games. You're a student, so focus on your studies more. Got it?” Gu Fei lectured.
Ah Fa dispiritedly replied, ”Got it” before scuttling away.
Gu Fei calmly continued to instruct the students, providing the same lesson to each class throughout the afternoon. Teaching these classes felt boring compared to playing the VR game, even though he was also doing physical activities here. Naturally, it would be a different story altogether had Gu Fei been teaching the students kung fu. When the final class was about to end, Gu Fei attempted to introduce a small activity to the students, ”Is there any of you who wishes to learn a bit of kung fu from me?”
”Eh…” all the students were flabbergasted.
Looks like they're interested! Gu Fei's eyes shone. After countless attempts, had he finally piqued the students' interest? ”Ahem!” he cleared his throat. Just as he was about to give further instructions, all the students suddenly dispersed. He could hear from the distance someone shouting, ”BIG NEWS! SUPER HOT NEWS! TEACHER GU FEI MENTIONED HIS KUNG FU AGAIN!”
It looked like kung fu really was useless in real life; Gu Fei felt depressed.
Gu Fei went back into Parallel World after he finished work and had his dinner.
”We're all waiting for you! Same location,” Sword Demon immediately sent Gu Fei a message once he got online.
Gu Fei hurriedly made his way toward Ray's Bar from the log-off point. The log-off point actually referred to a safe zone. Given the huge number of players the game had, players were required to go offline in safe zones, so as to funnel them into a select few areas to speed up the process of archiving each player's data and to reduce the burden on the servers. While it was possible to forcefully log off in the other zones, the officials warned that they would not be responsible if the players lost the items gained, experience earned, or even their whole character data as a result.
A player posed a hypothetical query: ”What if some despicable players tie me up on the very top of a mountain or deep into a forest and prevent me from dying or returning to a safe zone? What should I do, then?”
[The system announcement: Our GMs would be on standby at your service.]
All the players cursed upon hearing this. Any veteran online gamers knew that the specialty of GMs was the fact that they were never online.
Gu Fei quickly made his way to Ray's Bar. Ray smiled as he pointed toward one of the rooms, ”They're waiting for you in there!”
”Thanks!” Gu Fei hurriedly entered the room.
The five people were seated inside, waiting for Gu Fei's grand arrival.
”Have you guys waited long?” Gu Fei sat down.
”Not really,” Young Master Han replied lightly, ”Just the whole afternoon.”
Gu Fei was dejected. This man was not only narcissistic, but sarcastic as well.
”Don't we have a mission to discuss? Let's begin!” Gu Fei said.
”We're already done with the discussion,” Young Master Han said, ”We're about to head out for the mission.”
”Oh….”
”We've already talked about what each of us will do. Your job for this mission is simple so we didn't wait for your input,” Brother Assist explained with a smile, displaying his friendliness once more, ”Young Master Han, you should tell Miles the gist, especially his task.”
Young Master Han nodded before he began explaining, ”This is a bounty mission. Our target is the Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto in Oolong Cave. This is the toughest mission I know of. I once helped a team of twenty-seven players to solve it; we lost twenty along the way, yet we still failed in the end. But those are just regular players. This team has few but elite members, making it much easier to coordinate with one another. You're not needed in the early part of the mission, so just follow behind us. Your debut will be when we engage Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto.”