Chapter 11 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Li Yao had freshened up, he looked up at the time. It was only 8am, still early for his 10am reunion.

The hover cars nowadays were extremely fast. Once he boarded the car, he would be able to reach Mingzhu Hotel in just ten minutes. Hence, Li Yao was not in a hurry, he went back online for a while.

He had trained with AdorkableTong for the entire day. In the end, his supplies for Explosive Sheep and Spike Traps were running low. He went back to the work station, paid the mentor the rental fee and began creating.

These items were must-haves, but too much of it would not benefit him as well. They required a lot of money to make. AdorkableTong and HundredFaceWitch had only seen the precision and high damage output of Li Yao’s Mech Hunter’s attack. Little did they know, it took Li Yao an entire day and an expenditure of gold coins to learn and make these items. Meanwhile, most players were now Level 3 on day four of the game, but their income was only four or five silver coins per day.

Initially, the mentor did not care much when Li Yao rented the work station. What caught his attention was the Explosive Sheep that Li Yao had created effortlessly. The mentor realized that Li Yao was not a newbie and he had yet to see him fail.

An hour later, Li Yao had created a few hundred Explosive Sheep.

“Not bad young lad, you’re a budding engineer. Next time when I’m not around you can still use the work station, just leave behind the rental fee,” said the mentor while Li Yao was getting ready to leave.

“Thanks a lot.” Li Yao nodded and went offline.

“Seems like I have to train at least two players who are interested in engineering. It is such a waste of time to create the items by myself.” After he had pondered for a moment, he changed into clean clothes and went out.

There were dedicated air lanes made for the hover buses. Since the bus frequency was quite high, Li Yao only waited two minutes for the next bus to arrive.

There was an advertisement screen for World of Ancient Gods suspended on top of the roof of the bus, Li Yao smiled. The game received full support from the government and the advertisements could be found literally everywhere.

It was hard to not notice the advertisements. Outside the window, skyscrapers had humongous screens that were advertising the game. Until the game had fully become the ‘Second World’, only then they would take down the advertisements.

Mingzhu Hotel was one of the most iconic buildings in Mingzhu Town. From afar, the building looked like an Azure Dragon taking off into the sky.

The building was made using new types of building materials and architectural structures made by China’s new generation of architects. The design was based off the Azure Dragon of the East.

“Li Yao, you’re finally here.”

When Li Yao arrived, he was greeted by a beautiful, capable-looking woman.

“It has been a while class president, you’ve grown prettier,” said Li Yao with a smile.

“Quit trying to sweet talk me, I have only grown older, not prettier,” laughed Wang Xiaolei as she led Li Yao into the hotel. “Let’s go in now, everyone is here, you’re the last one to arrive.”

“Sorry, I didn’t expect everyone to reach this early.” Li Yao’s cheeks had gotten slightly red. He was the last to reach even though he lived in town, he felt apologetic. “My bad.”

“It’s okay, it’s only 9:30am.” Wang Xiaolei and Li Yao got on the lift and pressed the 105th floor. Now that there were just the two of them in the lift, Xiaolei whispered to Li Yao. “Today it is Li Haitao’s treat. It’s hard for us to have a gathering, so try to keep a low profile and not get into trouble.”

“Relax, I know what I’m doing.” Li Yao understood Xiaolei’s concerns, he was clear on his intentions and thoughts. Li Haitao was his rival, and let’s not even talk about the four years of grudge he had held toward him. No matter how much he tried to keep a low profile, Haitao’s friends would not let him get away that easily. His past life was the perfect example of it.

When they first started university, they did not see eye to eye with each other. That was because Li Yao would not acknowledge him for having to rely on his dad to buy his way to make him the class president. On the other hand, Haitao despised Li Yao for being poor, even so Li Yao was still praised by many.

The real conflict began when both men had the same crush, Qin Fengyi, a graceful and outstanding woman.

It was said that Qin Fengyi had a mysterious background and identity. She was a noble, but was humble and polite to people around her. She was never arrogant. When she first attended university, she became the dream girl of every university student from every part of China.

When she became the top of the campus belle, no one could ever top her. By right that would make the other girls in the campus hate her, which was far from the truth. On the contrary, she was friendly with the girls around her and they even looked up to her.

Based on Li Yao’s standards, with Fengyi she would be the sky and he would be the mud. Although Li Yao was handsome, he was not the school hunk and was from an average family. Based on their identities, Fengyi could be said to be a sky phoenix whereas Li Yao was merely a chicken on the ground.

That saying was not satire by any means, it was the undeniable truth. As planets were aligned and destinies were created, the statuses of the people were equal in the eyes of the law. In reality, however, the situation was nowhere near as such.

Both Li Yao and Fengyi were from the same class. By right, the two of them would just be classmates and nothing more.

During the camping trip organized by the school, they had encountered problems with their equipment. Li Yao and Fengyi were assigned to the same group, and they ended up being trapped and lost in the forest.

Other students went panicking while the duo worked together to bring the students back to their assembly ground safely. Since the incident, they became close and got together a year later.

Li Haitao thought that he was the only guy fit and qualified to become Fengyi’s boyfriend. He could not stand watching his crush kissing and being passionate with his rival.

Since then, he started competing against Li Yao and thought of ways to set them both up and ruin their relationship. However, the couple were smart and intelligent. Their bond became tighter after each of Haitao’s pathetic attempts.

In their fourth year, Haitao had already given up hope. While he was in a high-class banquet with his dad, he saw Fengyi. She was beautiful, like a moon amongst the stars, and that was when he found out what her true identity was.

Then, he stirred up trouble in Fengyi’s family by bringing up Fengyi’s relationship with Li Yao. Li Yao then found out about Fengyi’s noble identity. What broke his heart even more was when he found out that her family had already planned an arranged marriage for her since she was a child.