401 Chapter 401 - Searching for a Way Ou (1/2)

”Professional gamer?” This question caused Eternal Dominion to toss a withering look at Gu Fei. Given how popular MMOs were nowadays, the number of professional gamers far outstripped that of martial practitioners, so how was it not possible for him to come into contact with them. This question that Gu Fei had posed was as good as an insult to his intelligence, so he did not answer him, merely continuing to stare at Gu Fei like he was an idiot for even asking the question.

When Gu Fei saw that Eternal Dominion glaring at him as if he had found a reason for revenge, he knew he had asked a foolish question, yet he laughed, ”I think you can become a professional gamer! It's a pretty reliable way for you to properly utilize your kung fu.”

”What? Are you encouraging me to be a crook?” There were many different types of professional gamers out there. Most would run themselves haggard, as busy as a bee, before selling the equipment to players who were filling the merchant role. These were all jobs that any average gamer could do, but anything that would require kung fu expertise would mean it required a show of force, and currently, the only job that someone like Eternal Dominion could fill into was only larceny.

Eternal Dominion might not be up to Gu Fei's standard when it came to kung fu, but he was not a noob like Gu Fei when it came to gaming.

”Of course not,” Gu Fei hurriedly corrected himself. If he did not explain himself, Eternal Dominion would most surely despise his lack of character for even suggesting it.

”Look,” Gu Fei patiently began to talk him through his thought process. ”The gaming industry is huge, there are plenty of ways to earn a living in here. Take those larcenists for example... no one takes kindly to their actions, or even existence. So thinking in reverse, robbing these larcenists would not only get rid of this evil plaguing the game, there might even be rewards to be gained from taking them out.”

”F*CK!” Eternal Dominion had thought Gu Fei had came up with some ingenious business plan and was patiently listening to his explanation. He instantly expressed his disdain once Gu Fei finished. ”Larcenists like them essentially have the entire gaming community as their potential target, a huge pool for them to pick and choose from. Conversely, my client pool would be limited. How am I gonna find so many cases of robbery to act on?”

”Of course there's sure to be some difficulty to this, how else could you earn anything from it if it was not so!” Gu Fei criticized him back.

”So why aren't you doing it?” Eternal Dominion retorted.

Gu Fei thought for a bit, but he had no choice but to hurt Eternal Dominion once more with his reply, ”Bro, I'm not short on cash here…”

Eternal Dominion was in tears. He was right! Gu Fei's Gu Family was hardly in the need of funds, and considering Gu Fei was the only one in his generation that was actually still practicing martial arts, he essentially had the entire family doting on him; why would he need money of any sort!?

”Bro, there's no way earning a living will be easy!” Gu Fei counselled Eternal Dominion.

”Mmm. I'll ask around and consider it,” Eternal Dominion said.

Gu Fei could tell from the tone Eternal Dominion had just used that he was not truly interested, so he tossed out yet another thought, ”What's more, those players that have been robbed will surely be upset about it. They might be willing to fork out money just to hire you to take care of those larcenists, right?”

Eternal Dominion thought that was not a bad idea when he heard it, yet the twinkle in his eyes quickly dimmed, ”That's rubbish. Of course those guys would love to take revenge, but the problem is that those sort of robbers will not usually reveal themselves so casually. Why would they not be aware that a host of their victims are looking to get even with them?”

”See, that's an entire market right there! Most people would not be able to find them, so if you are able to apprehend them, you would essentially monopolize the scene yourself, bro!” Gu Fei said.

Eternal Dominion was exasperated, ”If the others could not even locate them, how would I be able to? I'm just yet another gamer in this aspect, as well!”

”Buddy. You're one of the Five Unyielding Experts. Use that,” Gu Fei told him.

Eternal Dominion began to think further upon this. By this time, he finally felt somewhat moved to act on Gu Fei's suggestion.

”Come, let me introduce you to some people,” Gu Fei said.

”What people?”

”Powerful people! They are all powerful entities, comparable to me and… uh…. Your dad in the martial community,” Gu Fei said.

Eternal Dominion was in tears once more. Gu Fei had actually placed himself and his own father next to one another. But Eternal Dominion also understood why Gu Fei hesitated just now. Gu Fei had originally wanted to ”me and you”, but that was no longer a viable comparison! This was entirely because Eternal Dominion's name in the martial community was still barely known. The only one from Gu Family that had made a name for himself was his father, so Gu Fei had no choice but to adapt what he wanted to say.

Even though that was hardly courteous or humble, there was not any elders around them at the moment, there was no need to nitpick over such semantics since everybody here was of the same generation. Eternal Dominion wallowed in his sadness for a bit and did not say a thing about it. He followed Gu Fei as he asked, ”Powerful people? What powerful people?”

Obviously, the powerful people Gu Fei was talking about were those men in Young Master's Elite. Even though Gu Fei was most likely better than any of them in terms of PvP, they were the real deal when it came to matters pertaining to the game, be it knowledge or the network they had.

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This was also the first time Gu Fei had attempted to initiate a meeting like this. Those experts gave him face, meeting at the tavern as discussed. Everybody arrived separately, while Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion waited for them to trickle in.

Every one of them widened their eyes when they entered. All of them recognized Eternal Dominion, and knew that the two men even had a PvP match right in the streets yesterday. They were rather amused to find the two men now sitting together like this.

Gu Fei introduced Sword Demon, Young Master Han, Brother Assist, and War Without Wounds one by one to Eternal Dominion.

After hearing him reply ”I've heard so much about you!” to each of them, Gu Fei finally could not stand it as he asked, ”Have you really heard so much about them?” Gu Fei felt Eternal Dominion should be birds of the same feather, so there was no way he could have heard plenty about these MMOs experts.

Eternal Dominion immediately tossed him a disdainful look, ”I've never met them before, but having played this game for so long, how would I not be aware of these names?”