Chapter 44: A New Discovery (2/2)
”Start of the unwinding game. The first level, water grass quantity two, low difficulty. Requirements: get free within three minutes, no reward for completion.”
Hearing that old voice suddenly by his ear froze Chen Mu, though his reaction passed quickly. Unwinding game? There are actually games in here? He quickly became interested.
But what he had heard most clearly was the final phrase, 'no reward for completion.'
He felt a little bit as though the phrase had some dark truth in it which was worth scrutinizing.
'no reward for completion . . . no reward for completion.'
His eyes suddenly lit up, as he broke through to something in his mind. If the game basically didn't have any rewards, then it definitely wouldn't have added-in that language. Since the phrase was there, there were then just two possibilities.
One was issues with the levels, where the level was too low to have any rewards. If that possibility was the right one, it would imply that he would have to raise the level of his play to be able to get a reward.
Another possibility was that the unwinding game was a game without rewards, and following that speculation, there should still be some kind of game with rewards there. Which is to say that there should be more than one type of game in the simple water world.
What could make Chen Mu more excited than to be saturated with explorations of the unknown? He looked at the clump of green water grass with bright eyes, looking like a hungry wolf staring at its prey.
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A middle-aged man was sitting at his desk in the office of the low-grade fantasy card club, looking pensively at the screen in front of him with his chin in his hand.
Knock knock knock. Someone at the door. Without lifting his head, this middle-aged man said, ”Come in.” and continued to stare at the screen in front of him.
A short haired woman holding a pile of materials in her hand pushed open the door and came in.
”Director, these are the materials you wanted. The statistical results haven't come out yet, but we were able to make a rough estimation that he reviewed one hundred and three requests for help, and responded to thirty-nine. Among those, thirty have already been validated, while we are temporarily unable to get information about the other nine. That is to say that he earned at least four hundred and two points today. That meets the conditions for entering the high-grade group.” She gave her report competently.
”Scoop up over for hundred points in one day?” the middle-aged man looked awed. ”Have you found out where he came from?”
”We know that his name is Chen Mu, from the profile. His age is probably in a range between sixteen and nineteen. We don't have any other information.” The short haired girl thought about it, and added something more, ”It just so happens that I admitted him today.”
”Oh.” The middle-aged man become suddenly interested, ”tell me about your sense of this person.
After thinking for a bit, the short-haired woman said, ”Very young, a little reserved, doesn't like to talk, and it must be his first time coming, since he was very unfamiliar with this place. I felt that he must be a techno-addict card master.”
”That's good! Very good! It's been a long while since a card master with such deep accomplishments with one-star fantasy cards has shown up. I think we should pay attention to cultivating him.” The middle-aged man's face showed a satisfied expression, and then after pondering a bit, said ”Send him an invitation. Invite him to participate in the next two-way meeting of the advanced group. Afterward, you'll be responsible to check him out.”
”Yes, sir!” the short-haired girl bowed in response.