58 Chapter 58 - Crossing the Oolong Mountain Range (1/2)

Gu Fei decided to consult the self-proclaimed Quest Expert, Xiaoyu, ”Do you know what kind of quest 'Eddie's Mission' is?”

”Every chain quest is unique. Obviously, I wouldn't know anything about yours, you dummy!” Xiaoyu said.

Gu Fei felt very aggrieved. Was there anything worse than being called a dummy by such a klutz?

”But I do know of a quest called 'The Kidnapped Eddie'. Not sure if yours and that are related, though,” Xiaoyu thought aloud.

”Tell me more about it,” Gu Fei requested.

”The wandering hero, Eddie, had been ambushed by the Mountain Bandits while passing through Oolong Mountain and was imprisoned by their Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto. Find a way to save him,” Xiaoyu recited.

”Oh? Have you accepted that quest before?” Gu Fei asked.

”Nope! I just heard about it in passing. No one has managed to finish it because nobody knows where Eddie is being kept!” Xiaoyu said.

”It's in Sooto's hut!” Gu Fei blurted out.

”How do you know that?” Xiaoyu questioned.

”The Eddie from my quest is the same Eddie that you just mentioned. Of course, I'll know where he'd been hidden,” Gu Fei reasoned.

”Oh! New info! I better write this down,” Xiaoyu dropped the sack in an instant and took out a little booklet with a quill pen from her dimensional pocket. Gu Fei moved closer and saw Xiaoyu write on the booklet: Eddie is in Sooto's hut.

”Uhh… Sooto's hut. Was Eddie inside his bedroom?” Xiaoyu suddenly turned around to ask Gu Fei this.

”That… Must be!” Gu Fei answered.

”Why did he keep Eddie in his bedroom?” Xiaoyu thought aloud, ”Were there some untold secrets between those two?”

”Oh, maybe,” Gu Fei said.

”Something like Brokeback Mountain?” Xiaoyu widened her eyes.

”Perhaps!”

”You think so, too?” Xiaoyu was visibly elated.

Gu Fei did not comment further, as he saw Xiaoyu conscientiously write down another line of sentence at the corner listing Eddie's information. He noticed that she ended it off with: He has an affair with Sooto.

”Alright! Let's carry on,” After writing all this, she put away the booklet and lifted the sack once more.

”What's in the sack?” Gu Fei patted it lightly.

”Food,” Xiaoyu replied.

”Food?” Gu Fei felt shocked.

”I don't know how long it'll take to get to Yeguang Village, so I brought some food in case I get hungry along the way,” Xiaoyu stated matter-of-factly.

Players would definitely feel hungry after staying in Parallel World for long periods of time, yet the hunger they felt in-game was actually them feeling hungry in reality. Naturally, one would have to consume actual nourishment – and not in-game food – in reality to satiate this hunger. All the in-game food only served the purpose of recovering HP and replenishing stamina while a player rested.

And even if the food would come in handy, there was no need to bring a whole sack of it! A whole sack of food… Gu Fei reckoned that the food supplies could last them through an expedition if they were careful with their food consumption. However, he was doubtful that this so-called Yeguang Village would require them to travel as far as twenty-five thousand miles.

”It's not just food! There's also water. Are you thirsty? Want to drink some?” Xiaoyu immediately followed up Gu Fei's query with an invitation, placing down the sack to retrieve some water for him.

”No thanks. I'm not thirsty,” Gu Fei hurriedly stopped her.

In a flash, the two had walked for an hour, and they pretty much exhausted every possible conversation topic out there. Conversing with Xiaoyu was actually difficult. For instance, Gu Fei had to give her three minutes to process a joke he had just told; in that time, he would have already forgotten the point of telling the joke. And when it was Xiaoyu's turn to tell a joke to Gu Fei, he could not find anything funny about it at all. This was because it would always go along this line: ”I have a friend. One day, he walked into a tree—HA HA HA HA HA….”

Xiaoyu would burst into peals of laughter before she even finished telling the joke. Gu Fei could only eke out a fake smile at this.

Nevertheless, no trip, no matter the distance, would be too tiring if a person was accompanied by someone. As long as there was someone to share the experience, foolish or not, it would be comforting enough.

Through their concerted effort, they finally got past the Oolong Mountain Range. Rolling plains, wildlands, hills, and forests were displayed before their eyes, much like what players of Yunduan City would expect to see when they left its borders. Gu Fei looked at the time and realized that it had taken them almost three hours to get through the Oolong Mountain Range. Of course, once he had realized that he was no longer being pursued by people from the city, he matched his pace with Xiaoyu's and no longer madly dashed forward.

But the sight of monsters ahead was what truly pleased Gu Fei. Young Master Han and the rest's plan for him was exactly this: escape into a place where there would be monsters but had few players roaming about. Gu Fei would then grind there for up to thirty hours and would only return to Yunduan City once he cleared off all the PK points.

Gu Fei had originally thought that there would be monsters along the Oolong Mountain Range, yet all he encountered were clouds of mist. Although he had the company of a lady through the foggy environment, she was someone who had claimed to be his 'brother'. Hence, there was not even a hint of romance in the air. Gu Fei truly felt that he had been done some injustice by making him cross the mountain path for three hours.

Gu Fei's hands were already itching for a fight. He rushed forward after taking out the Chinese broadsword and slashed deeply into the monster, killing it instantly. The monster was obviously low level, as it had been insta-killed by Gu Fei's attack without the additional fire attack proccing.

”This can't be right!” Gu Fei muttered to himself. Basic gaming logic dictated that the further players went from cities like Yunduan City, the better the grinding maps would be. And yet, he found himself in the opposite situation in an unknown distant place after spending three hours to pass through the Oolong Mountain Range... Could things GET any more depressing?!

”Why are the monsters over here so low level?!” Gu Fei complained to Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu did not hear Gu Fei's words as she was busy looking into the horizon while mumbling, ”Where is Yeguang Village?”

”Do you know?” Xiaoyu turned her head and asked Gu Fei.