Chapter 10 (2/2)
Indignant, he opened his interface, wanting to add another mark to Ji Meng's numerous crimes.
However, just as his page loaded, he was buried in an avalanche of notifications.
His last post, during the period when he was completely unaware, had been shared over hundreds of thousands of times.
Even the random photos he took to complete the task objectives had acc.u.mulated a five-digit number of shares and comments.
Ling Xiaolu was stunned for a moment, and he selected one of them.
Top Comment #1: What sort of relations.h.i.+p do you have with Adonis Li Zheng?!! [Photo of Li Zheng hugging him on the stone pillar]
Top Comment #2: What sort of relations.h.i.+p do you have with Hubby Ji Meng?!! [Photo of him hugging Ji Meng on top of the dragon]
Top Comment #3: Who exactly are you??!
Ling Xiaolu was relieved. Fortunately I can still answer one of the above questions.
… No, wait, exactly where did all these people appear from?!
He scrolled through his notifications history, and realised that after his post was shared by someone called Sinking Doghead with 5 million fans, things went out of control.
This is too insulting to my intelligence! There's only slightly more than a million players in this game!
With Sinking Doghead sharing his post, the players online all rushed to Ling Xiaolu's page, leaving comments announcing their presence.
They included Li Zheng's fans, Ji Meng's fans, Dou Kou's fans, various onlookers who were unclear of the situation… Everyone wanted to see who exactly it was that had made Ji Meng abandon the fight with Dou Kou and instead started fighting with Li Zheng.
”What should I do?” Ling Xiaolu asked Ling Long.
Ling Long accessed his page, and after murmuring to himself, he spoke. ”… Bro, why don't we start a livestream and earn some money?”
Ling Xiaolu glared at him for at least ten seconds, then smiled evilly.
Five minutes later, a player walking by happened to glance in their direction. Exaggeratedly, he shouted, ”Ah! You're here!”
Ling Xiaolu reflexively denied it. ”I'm not!”
The person was taken aback. He looked and looked a few times, confirming that he was not hallucinating. ”You clearly are here!”
Dejected, Ling Xiaolu covered his eyes. I've unfortunately contracted stupidity, how do I cure it?
”Don't go!” The player pinched his own ear. ”I've found the person who was with Crown Prince Ji! Quick, call the clan leader over!”
”Clan leader? Who is that?”
The player was incredulous when he heard Ling Xiaolu's question. ”I'm from Clan Ri-DOU-culing You. You don't know who the clan leader of Ri-Dou-Culing You is?”
Ling Xiaolu saw the clan name and emblem on his head, and felt that he had seen the same image somewhere before.
Seeing the blankness on Ling Xiaolu's face, that person was even more astonished. ”Is this your first day playing this game?”
”Yup.”
”…” The player choked. ”Just wait! Our clan leader will arrive very quickly!”
The teleportation ability of the benefactors worked very quickly. Although Ling Xiaolu was unwilling to admit it, he did recognise the person who came.
Dou Kou did not come alone. He even brought with him a dozen lackeys, so as to prevent the situation where he was trapped by the crowd in the morning from happening again.
Well practiced, the lackeys cleared the nearby area to prevent onlookers from announcing Dou Kou's location again.
Only Ling Xiaolu was left. Surrounded by the group that stood there like an iron barrel, he trembled as he faced the gold name.
”Clan Leader, it's him, right?” The lackey who had first found Ling Xiaolu asked. ”However, I suspect this person isn't too smart.”
Ling Xiaolu, ”?”
Dou Kou asked as well, ”Why do you say that?”
”I said that he was here, then he said he wasn't, but he clearly was! Also, when I discovered him, he had his sleeves rolled up and he was beating up that little pet of his! While hitting him, he was even saying, 'Who's your bro? Who are you calling bro?'”
Ling Xiaolu, ”…”
Ling Long, ”…”
As the lackey described what he saw, he was also acting it out. His performance was true to life, but too bad Dou Kou did not pay attention to what he was saying.
Dou Kou studied Ling Xiaolu from head to toe. He had changed his gear. When he saw him in the morning, he was not dressed like this.
”Little friend, where's Ji Meng?”
”He's offline.”
Ling Xiaolu's mood had actually improved a little, but when he heard this name, his anger rushed back in. Furious, he started complaining about Ji Meng's wicked deed.
”He stole my money and went offline!”
Dou Kou, ”…”
He glanced at his lackey who had just said that Ling Xiaolu was not too smart, and thought that his opinion seemed to be correct.
”Then when would he come back online?” Dou Kou's tone was gentler towards the disabled.
”I don't know, I'm also not familiar with him.”
”Clan Leader, he's lying to you! Look!” The lackey showed his screen. ”Look at their distance in the photo, look how close they are ! Crown Prince Ji even brought him along to do instances!”
Dou Kou pinched the corner of the screen. He shook his hand, and another card appeared between his fingers.
Ling Xiaolu was dumbfounded. Was he a magician?
Dou Kou tossed the cards into Ling Xiaolu's hands. Ling Xiaolu turned it over, and it was the photo he had taken the smear Ji Meng's reputation.
”What is this? You can even print things on the spot now?” Ling Xiaolu was about to kneel to the greatness of Xinshan.
”I advise you to tell the truth,” Dou Kou waved his hand, motioning at his lackey to close the screen. ”Ji Meng owes me something too.”
”What does he owe you?”
”A battle.”
”Oh…” Ling Xiaolu recalled it. ”You should just directly say that he owes you a million dollars then. But I feel that you shouldn't hold any hope for this money.”
”Why?”
”Think about it, he even stole my money. Three full instances, after adding them up, there should be at least 3000 dollars…”
When Ling Xiaolu spoke about this upsetting matter, he once again vented his anger on his little pet, jabbing away at its tummy. The little wind pterosaur could not bear the hara.s.sment, and flew up into midair.
Dou Kou listened to his nonsense for a little while, and his patience gradually faded away.
”I'm not looking for him because of money.”
”Oh.”
”This little bit of money is nothing to me.”
”Oh.”
Dou Kou wanted to continue speaking, but he felt that no matter what he said, Ling Xiaolu would just give him a perfunctory ”oh”.
”Are you thinking that I'm bragging?”
”Oh… No, I'm not. You're someone who can offer a five million dollars reward!”
Ling Xiaolu was very sincere in his praise, but in Dou Kou's ears, it sounded very evidently like mockery.
After all, his five million dollars reward had been challenged publicly by Ji Meng today, and that was also the source of their unfinished battle.
”You really think that I'm not able to offer more than what he did? As long as I want it, I can even buy over Xinshan.”
”How boastful. Why, you have a mine?”
”How did you know that?”
Ling Xiaolu, ”…”
Silently, he added a note to his game log: When mouthing off to people, never speak casually to the benefactors in this game!
Dou Kou raised his chin slightly. ”I have mines on eleven planets. The material Xinshan uses to manufacture the collars and the rings are all supplied by my company. Have you heard of the chain stores Dou Dafu
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