Chapter 590: Persuasion via Empathy (2/2)
I smiled. ”Your party must’ve been bullied a lot because of this.”
”Yeah!” Cute Little Naughty nodded strongly as she replied in an aggrieved tone, ”We’ve all been camped several times in the game, and the worst one was Flower Room camping our bodies for a whole day and night at a Bear Canyon at Sky Forest. Almost all of us lost at least five levels that day, it was terrible…”
I agreed. ”Yeah, campers are the worst. I had experienced that myself, and I was so angry that I honed my skills everyday. Today, I’m the one who camps their bodies…”
”Hehe…” Cute Little Naughty finally broke into a smile. ”Is that true? You’re a legendary CGL Hall of Famer though.”
”Not only that, I’ve dropped all the way down to Level 0 before. CGL Hall of Famers are human too, you know. But despite the setback, I was able to level myself up again. After all, the strongest person in the world is the one who keeps getting back up no matter how many times they are beaten, am I right?”
”Yeah.” Cute Little Naughty agreed with a smile before saying in a regretful tone, ”It’s too bad I don’t have your talent, Brother Broken Halberd. I was always the slow one. It’s why I always do my best to protect my friends. I always fail though. Ahhh. If only I was strong, I could save my friends instead of watching them get camped from afar...”
I inhaled deeply. ”I understand your feelings.”
Then, I changed my tone. ”If I say I can give you a chance to become strong enough to protect your friends, will you accept it, Naughty?”
”Mn, of course!”
After that long talk, we had finally gotten down to business. I said in a very serious tone, ”On behalf of all the executives of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, I would like to extend a guild invitation to you and your friends. Trust me, Naughty, my judgment of people is never wrong. Once you’ve joined us, I promise you will become one of the best assassins in all of China. When that day comes, you will have more than enough strength to protect your friends…”
Cute Little Naughty exclaimed in shock, ”Am I hearing this right? Are you inviting me to join Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, Brother Broken Halberd?”
”Mn. Do you accept?”
”I…”
Hesitation, hope, worry. I could clearly see a mix of emotions fleeting across Naughty’s face through the interface. She murmured, ”Please allow me to discuss this with my friends first.”
”Okay.”
Cute Little Naughty cut off the connection for a moment. Less than two minutes later, she called me back and said helplessly, ”I’m sorry, big bro Cyan Hill and big bro Coming Wind both refuse to join your guild. They say they’ll never join you for as long as Freezing Point is in your guild…”
I felt a bit deflated. ”What about you, Naughty? Will you join us?”
”I…”
Cute Little Naughty was hesitating when her expression changed all of a sudden. I saw her looking in a certain direction before whispering to me, ”Oh no, I can’t talk to you anymore, Brother Broken Halberd. Someone just killed Cyan Hill… it’s Flower Room! Oh no, we’re going to get camped again, and there are so many people…”
”Tell me your coordinates now!”
”Dragonbone Mountain Range (12874, 0929). Are you coming, Brother Broken Halberd?”
”Yeah, just hang on until I arrive!”
”Oh…”
……
I turned off the communicator and turned to Lin Yixin. ”Yiyi, Cute Little Naughty and her party just got attacked by Flower Room. I need to help them!”
”Oh oh, are you trying to play the hero and win the princess’s heart?”
”What the fuck, I’m just trying to recruit her to the guild, okay?” I sighed. “I want this assassin so bad…”
Lin Yixin smiled sweetly. ”Okay, okay. I’ll come with you. I have nothing to do right now, and there’s no point fighting these mobs on my own. Did you know that this idiot Li Le leaves a love letter in my mailbox everyday? After a while, he got so lazy that he started printing the letters instead of writing them! Have you ever seen such a shameless bastard in your life? Let’s beat him up together, okay?”
”Sure. That is shameless…”
”Yeah, yeah!”
……
We gave up the low-health Corrosive Worms we were fighting, swept the battlefield for a bit and left immediately. After the Ice Fox cleared out a group of Corrosive Worms with Ice Rain, we successfully broke out of the valley and ran toward the coordinates Cute Little Naughty had left me.
A large party appeared in front of us in less than five minutes. They all belonged to Flower Room, and their levels were very high. However, I didn’t recognize anyone in the party. They were players of Flower Room’s first subguild, and their levels ranged between 128 and 135. There were about 80 of them, and Cute Little Naughty’s party was forced back into a corner of the map.
A body was lying flat on the ground. It was Cute Little Naughty’s big brother, the elf warrior named Cyan Hill.
A Level 129 Flower Room assassin was sitting on top of Cyan Hill’s body eating bread. He abruptly spat a mouthful of saliva and bread crumbs on the elf warrior’s face before chuckling, ”How dare these trash come this far to grind. Don’t break formation, and make sure you kill that Cute Little Naughty, brothers. Young Master Le wants to have a go at her, hahahaha…”