Chapter 5 (2/2)
Watching him, Ling Long was speechless. One made the enemy unable to get close to him, the other allowed him to run away quickly. It completely fitted the behaviour of a pet who did not want to be a pet.
Ling Xiaolu obtained two skill books. Placing the books between his hands, he clapped them together. The books turned into light and gradually vanished, and at the same time, he received two system notifications.
【System】You have mastered the new skills [Ice Arrow] and [Dig], please check the skills panel for more information.
【System】You have earned an achievement: Mastering 1 skill. A reward will be available after 5 achievements.
”What's the shortcut for the skills panel?”
”You need to draw a seal like this.”
Ling Long demonstrated it to him with its four-fingered claw. As its shape was different, and it was tiny as well, Ling Xiaolu was unable to see it clearly. Ling Long had to pull out a diagram for newbies and showed it to him.
The gesture to summon the skills panel was pretty cool. The thumb and the first two fingers would be straight, and the last two fingers bent. Putting it together, it looked like a gesture a ninja would make.
The skills panel was arranged according to the seven pet cla.s.ses. Currently only the spirit cla.s.s and the plant cla.s.s had icons below it.
”The skills in the game can be activated with an action or a word, or you can combine both together as well. You can create the requirements for activating each skill yourself. The activation is very interesting. For example, you can use a spellcasting action for the ice arrow, or just say ”pew pew pew” to activate it. You can also do the spellcasting action as you shout ”pew pew pew”, and this combination method is more commonly seen.”
”…” Ling Xiaolu said, ”But the third method sounds the most chuuni.”
”This is because there are many skills in the game. There's the physical attacks, magic attacks, and the support skills. Many players like to cla.s.sify them like this, for example, chopping your hand down + a 'heh' activates a whirlwind, chopping your hand down + a 'hah' activates flames, chopping your hand down + a roar activates a series of basic attacks; or a spellcasting gesture + a 'dot' activates an ice arrow, a spellcasting gesture + a 'line' activates an ice dragon, and a spellcasting gesture + a ”wave” activates an ice rain. Like this, it'll be much easier to remember them.”
”Isn't it easier if I just use the names of the skills to activate them?”
”I would strongly suggest that you don't do that. If not, during a PK, your opponent only has to listen to you and know what's your next move. Hence, please try to make the activation a bit more abstract.” Ling Long could not help saying, ”Actually, as a GM, I've seen too many extremely creative players. There's a player who chanted a verse of the Heart Sutra to activate a skill, and there are even players who know martial arts who would activate their skills with a martial arts movement. Their activations are very smooth and marvelous. If you have a chance, you must go take a look.”
”You can even do it like that? Then let me think…”
Ling Xiaolu set the activation methods for the two skills he just learnt. Pointing two fingers together with a ”don't come over” would activate the ice arrow, and doing a backwards somersault on the spot with a ”I'm going” would activate dig.
Ling Long was a little worried. ”A backwards somersault, isn't that a little too difficult?”
”Is it?”
Ling Xiaolu had grown up learning breakdancing and parkour. For him, actions like this were only small tricks. He tested the skills on the spot, and each time he activated a skill, a new icon would refresh in the centre of the virtual interface. Accompanying it was also cool lighting and powerful sound effects, and Ling Xiaolu looked as though a martial arts expert had taken over his body.
”Impressive, impressive!” Ling Long was starry-eyed, ”I really couldn't tell that you're actually an expert. I'm filled with antic.i.p.ation about your future.”
After learning the two skills, Ling Xiaolu was now completely broke.
”Is there any way to earn money?”
”For newbies, if you want to earn money, you have to work hard and accept missions. When each mission is completed, you'll be able to get money for it. You can also sell the items you collect when you're doing the mission to the player-owned shops. You can save quite a bit of money by acc.u.mulating it this way.”
”Then is there any way of earning money faster?”
”That's even easier. You just have to go outside now and look for a place with the most people, then shout 'I'm a human pet'. Then you'll be able to get a lot of money instantly, and you wouldn't have to do anything, just play the game however you like.”
Ling Xiaolu: 凸=_=凸
The region chat that Ling Xiaolu had minimised to its smallest size flashed. He opened it, and realised that someone had sent an announcement in it. Such announcements required a sum of money, and the more channels the announcement was sent to, the bigger the fee.
【Local】【Announcement】Dou Kou: A 5 million coins reward when you provide me the coordinates of a pink name in a private message. If the information is incorrect, there'll be no reward and you'll be blacklisted.
Five million!
Ling Xiaolu hastily opened his inventory and counted twice, confirming that all his a.s.sets added up to less than 500 coins.
”Quick, look! I'm actually worth 5 million!”
Ling Long was very disdainful about it. ”What is 5 million? Just wait and see.”
As expected, a new announcement appeared very quickly below that one.
【Local】【Announcement】Ji Meng: 10 million for coordinates, 20 million if you can give me the username.
Twenty million! Holy f.u.c.k!
Ling Xiaolu was about to scream.
”This Papa's username is very familiar!”
Ling Long, … What happened to your ambition?
”No, everyone's used to calling the one above Papa Kou, and the one below, most people would call him Hubby.” Ling Long was afraid he would address them wrongly, so it kindly gave him an explanation.
To no surprise, the pa.s.sionate players had already set an example and shown it to Ling Xiaolu.
【Local】Hei Zai: Hubby is aggressive!
【Local】Ink Feathers: Hubby you're awesome!
【Local】Baa Baa: Changing your support over so quickly, be careful that your father would disown you.
【Local】Ink Feather: So what? With a husband, I don't want my father anymore!
【Local】Ah Miao: You even dare to flirt with the Ji fellow, aren't you afraid that your account would be locked?
【Local】Rare Rice: Newbie here begging for an explanation, don't tell me it's the Ji I'm thinking about?
【Local】DDVP: The one above said something vulgar →_→1
【Local】Rare Rice: … *faint*, that's not what I meant!”
Ling Xiaolu was greatly enlightened. ”No wonder everyone calls him hubby and not daddy. Papa Ji really sounds too awful.”2
Ling Long, … I really want to laugh but I cannot behave presumptuously.
”But they said that the account would be locked, what's wrong with this surname?”
”Do you really not know, or are you pretending?”
”Isn't this just his username?”
”No, no, it's his real name.”
Using his real name in a game, this fellow is really too simple-minded.
”I really don't know, why don't you give me a lesson?”
”Have you heard of the president of Xinshan?”
”I don't know him.”
”Ji Taihuan.”
”… Don't tell me Ji Meng is your crown prince?”
”No, he's the president's nephew. However, as President Ji does not have any son, many people in the game still refers to Ji Meng as Crown Prince Ji.” Ling Long added in a quiet voice, ”This is a secret nickname, don't ever say it to his face.”
Ling Xiaolu, ”…”
Ling Xiaolu gained an understanding of this relations.h.i.+p. ”So just now when he said his ring was given to him by his uncle, it was actually given by your boss? Why didn't you mention such an important information just now?”
”The surname Ji is quite rare. I thought that most people would realise it. At least, people who play this game would have heard about it before.”
”Then I'm really sorry. In the past, I've been buried in my studies, and have never paid attention to the matter of the surname of Xinshan's president.”
”It's fine. At least now you've even had such a close interaction with the Ji family, right?”
”Can I choose not to interact?” Ling Xiaolu asked. ”Then just now, the customer service girl even lied to him. You guys even dare to deceive the president's nephew.”
”Our company puts the interests of the customers above everything. All players are equal, and no biasness exists.”
”So his money isn't given to him by the programmers?”
”Tampering with data would violate the contract of the game. Even the president's own daughter is not allowed to do so. All his ingame currency is gained through proper channels.”
”But the money to buy the ingame currency is obtained from the players.”
”You're correct. But players spend the money willingly, and he also gained the money properly, there's no ground for blame here.”
”Will he go to the technical department and try to dig for information?” Ling Xiaolu was still very worried.
”If he was going to dig for information, he would have done it long ago. There wouldn't be a need to look for the GM to report a bug. You don't have to worry about this, he's not the only family member of the higher ups playing this game. Everyone is very self-aware and observes the regulations, if not, the players would have long revolted.”
”That's good.” Ling Xiaolu walked out, about to study that mission Ling Long was talking about.
Exiting the door of Pet-X, he saw Ji Meng in front of him. Ji Meng seemed to noticed him at the same time.
”It's you!”
Ji Meng immediately headed towards Ling Xiaolu upon seeing him. Ling Xiaolu panicked, and pointed at him with two fingers.
”Don't come over!”
An ice arrow shot out, and below Ji Meng appeared a frozen effect, slowing him down.
Ji Meng completely did not expect that someone would dare attack him directly. He looked down and was furious, ”You dare slow my speed?”
Why would Ling Xiaolu even care about what he was saying? And so, Ling Xiaolu did a backflip on the spot.
”I'm going!”
Ji Meng watched him vanish right in front of his eyes, leaving only a skill visual effect of a cloud of dust behind him.
The effect of a grade one ice arrow only lasted for one and a half seconds. Ji Meng rushed over and looked around, but failed to catch even a glimpse of Ling Xiaolu's shadow.
This was already the second time that Ling Xiaolu had ran away right in front of him. In a rage, Ji Meng pulled out the greatsword on his back and swung it heavily, raising his own cloud of dust.
”d.a.m.n you! Just wait and see!”
Author's note: Both the top and bottom are children about to enter university, and so their speech and behaviour tend to be more immature. This is the youngest main CP (and the most chuuni one) that I've ever written.
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