Chapter 90 – 89: “You little brat, today I really want to see what kind of stuff you’re made of!!“Phew!”

Feeling somewhat unfulfilled, Sword Without End sat atop his sword, constantly flipping through forums from various regions, checking out other players’ comments about him.

When he had just sent the Rose Planet to Jiaye.

The system reminded him that since he was sending flowers from a distance during the global live broadcast, they would splice his and Jiaye’s images together, and he could freely choose how much of the screen Jiaye would occupy.

The default was to have each take up half of the screen.

Thus, he directly moved Jiaye out of the screen, since he had a choice, why bother asking how much of the screen the girl should occupy.

Obviously, his solo performance was better.

“So handsome…”

“Is there really such a thing as immortals in this world?”

“I’m still poking Minotaur Monsters with a spear, how come someone’s started to split the sky with a sword, I thought we were all alike.”

Sword Without End kept browsing through various regions’ forums, nodding in pleasure and silently liking every praise-filled post.

“Such a poser, I can’t stand it anymore, that arrogant, presumptuous, slick demeanor of his is so uncomfortable to watch, I don’t know why you all praise him so much.”

“Truly powerful people are stable, with Sword Without End’s impetuous look, do you really think he could be some kind of boss?”

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Sword Without End looked at this post on the forum, expressionless, and turned his gaze towards the city IP to which the forum belonged.

Black Trench City forum.

He silently clicked on the avatar of the person who made the post and flipped through their history of posts.

“Annoyed to death, walking to the company every day takes ten minutes.”

Below it was a location tag for the company.

Quietly opening the map, he located the office building in Black Trench City and kept zooming in, beginning to check the surrounding communities to see which one would take about a ten-minute walk to the company.

“I recommend you try Liu’s buns, they’re really delicious, I eat them every day.”

Right, there are roughly three routes that take ten minutes by foot, only one of which passes by Liu’s bun shop, that is, in the Changxin Community.

“I’m never living on the top floor again, it leaks whenever it rains, so annoying.”

Right, a top floor in Changxin Community.

“Guys, how do you like my hairstyle today?”

And a selfie.

Ten minutes later.

Sword Without End, with an expressionless face, rode his Three-Foot Qingfeng and shot off into the distance.

…

After an unknown amount of time,

a voice filled with towering rage, resounded over the skies of Black Trench City!

“Meet your doom swiftly!”

“You little brat, I’ll see what kind of stable stuff you’re made of today!!”

“Your daddy is coming for you!!!”

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“This old coot.”

Tuberculosis Rabbit spread his hands helplessly and sighed, “I don’t know why, but this old thing, who’s at an age to settle down, still plays so hard.”

“Dropping 100,000 Points just to show off in front of global players.”

“What’s the point.”

At this point, Jiaye was first on the Charm leaderboard, while Chen Yi naturally sat at the top of the Guardian leaderboard.

As for Zhou Ping, who had originally declared his intention to fight for the top spot, he had entirely ceased to make a move.

No one knew if he simply didn’t have enough Points.

In any case, all had gone quiet.

Chen Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and, standing still without speaking, was sliding through the limited-time shop, silently memorizing the Props he planned to buy later on.

Then he glanced at the customer service system that had already appeared on the bottom right corner.

It seemed that the customer service staff were already on duty.

They were quite fast.

He casually opened the customer service feedback and left a message.

“The shopping mall lacks a shopping cart function, which is extremely inconvenient.”

With a shopping cart function, he could add all the Props he wanted to buy to the cart, and when the Points were credited later on, he could buy everything in one go.

Instead of like now, having to silently memorize the Props he wanted.

But as for whether he would receive any Points later,

he was somewhat anxious.

A one-in-ten-million chance doesn’t mean that you’ll definitely hit it once out of ten million tries; it could also be that you wouldn’t hit it even after ten billion tries.

From this perspective,

domestically produced web games are actually quite conscientious.

At least if a domestically produced web game announces a one-in-ten-million chance, it means that when you reach the ten millionth time, they will definitely give you a minimum guarantee.

At least you won’t be left hanging for the ten-million-and-first time, of course, before you reach ten million tries, don’t even dream of winning anything.

“Huh?”

Chen Yi suddenly furrowed his brows and looked at the panel that had just popped up in front of him.

“Ding, it has been detected that a sufficient number of players now possess the ’Wilderness Pass’, and the Wilderness map will officially open on June 2nd at 09:00 AM.”

“At that time, players holding the Wilderness Pass may bring a maximum of one companion into the Wilderness to start reclaiming.”

“This map is a large-scale map.”

“Please prepare for reclaiming.”

“Wilderness Pass?”

He nodded thoughtfully, having obtained the Wilderness Pass a long time ago but never having had the chance to use it.

He had originally thought it would be like the Sands of Time, where only after someone had started to reclaim the Sands of Time, would subsequent players holding the Sands of Time Pass be permitted to enter the map.

But this Wilderness Pass,

it turned out that only players holding the pass are qualified to start reclaiming?

Chen Yi shook his head and didn’t think further, without any concrete information, there was no way he could make any preliminary preparations.

All he knew for now was that it was a large-scale map, and presumably, there wouldn’t be a small number of players involved in reclaiming it.

There was a brief introduction on the Wilderness Pass.

“Wilderness, that’s a place where even a saint can’t help but fall.”

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But there’s not much to glean from this introduction.

It sounds like the wilderness must be a pretty dangerous place, especially if even a saint can fall there.

It’s only just before noon on June 1st.

All of that is tomorrow morning’s problem; there’s no point in thinking about it now.

9 hours later.

All the players had completed their tasks.

In total, they had earned 300,000 Points.

Out of which, 100,000 Points were spent to gift Jiaye a Rose Planet, and the remaining 100,000 Points were all thrown into the exclusive store purchases, 200,000 Points were just enough to buy everything they wanted from the event store, and the other 100,000 Points were just enough to buy all the props needed by both him and Tuberculosis Rabbit. It was just perfect.

…

“Phew!”

Inside a hotpot restaurant, Tuberculosis Rabbit shoved a scalding piece of lamb freshly scooped from the pot into his mouth, with the steam carrying the fragrant aroma hitting the back of his throat.

“Huff, huff!!”

Tuberculosis Rabbit kept panting, blowing air from his mouth until the heat from the lamb slice in his mouth subsided slightly before chewing it a few times and swallowing it, savoring the lingering taste of lamb in his mouth before contentedly reaching out his chopsticks again for another slice of lamb floating at the bottom of the clear soup pot.

“Yi, you should try this. It’s really delicious.”

“So satisfying, so satisfying, it’s really too satisfying.”

“I haven’t eaten so delightfully in a long time.”

Ever since food began to be sold in personal panels, many restaurants had opened for business.

After all, personal panels only offer dry food; no problem if you want to buy steamed buns, rice, or eggs—even lamb is available.

But if you think about buying a hot plate of fried rice with eggs, that’s just nonsense.

With a stable source of food ingredients, many restaurants in Yancheng had opened for business.

Currently, the pricing is quite chaotic, with no reasonable pricing system in place.

But there is generally a rough price range.

For simple meals like fried rice with eggs or rice with toppings, a serving is roughly between 4-8 Points.

The price of a bowl of noodles is also between 3-5 Points.

As for a big meal like hotpot, that’s over 100 Points per meal.

It’s definitely expensive.

Even the cheapest simple meal is beyond the means of many players.

The solution is simple.

If you can’t afford it, don’t eat it.

In the store, 1 Point can buy 10 steamed buns that can fill you up; a bag of such steamed buns can last for two or three days. You can’t expect me to lower the price because you can’t afford it, right?

If you don’t even have 1 Point, then you’ll have to figure out a way yourself.

“Hm, I’ve almost spent all of my 200,000 Guardian Points.”

“Apart from your character action, I also bought a few character actions for myself.”

“I also acquired several vehicle trails and… I snatched up most of the limited Wing Exchange Coupons from the store.”

Chen Yi picked up a piece of lamb with his chopsticks and swished it through his sesame sauce dipping dish before putting it into his mouth, satisfied, he also took a deep breath, “Refreshing!”

It had been nearly two months since they last had hotpot.

This time was truly gratifying.

“By the way, Jiaye, what did you buy with all those Charm Points?”

He looked up curiously and turned to Jiaye who sat across the table and asked.

He had 200,000 Guardian Points.

Jiaye had even more, a whopping 300,000 Charm Points.

“That…I,”

After hesitating for a moment and pausing, Jiaye finally spoke, “There was nothing in the Rose Guardian Exclusive Shop that could enhance combat power, so I bought two character actions as well.”

“They’re unique character actions from a global exclusive event.”

“Geared towards females.”

“And they seem to be couple’s character actions, quite like the two you bought, Yi.”

“Really?”

Surprise flickered in Chen Yi’s eyes as he looked at his personal panel’s character action introduction information and, after carefully reading through it, found indeed a line of fine print.

Then he smiled satisfactorily and nodded his head.

“Well, that’s indeed nice. Next time we’ll have the chance, we’ll try out what the effects are like.”

“Who knows, there might even be some interactive effects.”

Character actions have cooldown times.

Basically, most character actions have cooldown times ranging from 1 hour to 48 hours.

Some character actions even come with a usage limit, like the most expensive character action he had purchased this time—it was limited to three uses.

Just then—

The owner of the hotpot restaurant came over to them, bowing respectfully and speaking in a low voice, “Good evening, Yi.”

“Our Little Fatty Sheep Hotpot Restaurant is honored to have Yi visit on our grand opening day.”

“All expenditures of Yi at our shop today will be on the house.”

“We’ve recently added a new service since the reopening.”

“I wonder if Yi would honor us by trying it out?”

“What service?”

Chen Yi picked up another piece of lamb, dipped it in the spicy chili oil next to him and put it in his mouth. After swallowing, he turned to look at the approaching owner.

“Let’s hear it.”

Then he tapped the cigarette box on the edge, popping out a cigarette with only half of it sticking out of the box, and passed the box to the owner.

“Here, have one.”

“Ah, thank you so much, Yi. You’re too kind.”

The owner, bowing with respectful hands, took the cigarette out of the box and then turned to signal outside with a clap of his hands.

“Didn’t you hear Yi’s order? Hurry up and get in here.”

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PS: There are two additional chapters, and the plot is being revised.

I’ll release three chapters first, and after dinner, I’ll finish editing the remaining two and then publish them. There will be a bonus update this afternoon, and probably another one in the evening as well.

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