Chapter 69 – A Meter of Sunshine
This chapter was sponsored by William Wang, Sebastian Hagelin and Stefan Karlson!
TL: Thanks to all the detectives who have found the errors within the chapters! 1/2
Whoosh!
A golden hexagon starts to glow, shining radiantly on Lin Wan Er’s snow-white face. She anxiously stood looking at the emerging Tigerman within the hexagram. Slowly, the Tigerman stood up, he had tough leather armor, bulging muscles and a ferocious face. As soon as he was summoned, he knelt down on one knee next to Lin Wan Er.
The players around us all gave shocked glances at the Tigerman because none of them have ever seen half-beast half-human pets. Even though the intelligence of this Tigerman isn’t too high, his strength is incredible, his tenacity is decent and his defense is high, a perfectly balanced pet.
Lin Wan Er happily stood next to her new pet. As the wind blew, her cloak started to drift in the wind, revealing a pair of long and slender legs. Stepping on a pair of leather boots, her beauty attracts the stares that were meant for her pet.
I turn around and quickly give the 81% Tigerman to Dong Cheng Yue. Little did I know that Cheng Yue would immediately call out her pet too and the result was that there were two of the same pet standing there, creating a huge disturbance!
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“You guys should leave Ba Huang City, before more people notice you guys…” I lean on the City Wall and remind them.
Lin Wan Er nods. “Yue Er, lets go back and get the levels of our Tigermen up to par. How are you going to add your stat points?”
“My pet’s excellence is quite low and I need a defensive pet so I’ll add 4 points to Strength and 6 points to Endurance. That way, my pet’s defense won’t be too different from yours. Right?”
Lin Wan Er lightly smiles, “Then I’ll go 6 Strength and 4 Endurance, keeping a high defense and not sacrificing too much attack.”
“Okay, the owners of 100% Excellence pets are really shameful…”
“You! Let’s go!”
“Okay!”
The two beauties turn around and smile at me, “Li Xiao Yao, it’s getting late so me and Yue Er are going back to Fan Shu City and level our Tigermen to level 15. So in about an hour can you come to our dorm since we need to go out?”
“Go where?”
“We want to go the Mall to buy some things, like clothes…”
“Wan Er, isn’t your card locked so you can’t spend any money?”
“That’s because I can’t use it to buy in game gold, I can use it to buy clothes…”
“Ohh…Okay. I’ll be waiting for you under your dorm. Are we going to eat dinner first?”
“We’ll eat dinner in the mall!”
“Alright!”
…..
According to my employment contract, I need to follow Lin Wan Er wherever she goes. So, I’m definitely not going to get the chance level tonight. All I can do is accompany the two to the mall, but its not too bad, staying in the game all the time is taking a toll on me.
The Xihu District’s Mall is near Wen Yi Xi street and I’ve been there before but Wan Er obviously is more familiar with the place than me; her Audi TT quickly flashes through the city. Dong Cheng Yue is sitting in the back, “The Tigerman’s growth is really good. My level 15 Tigerman already has about 400 defense, if I get him to level 40 he’ll have about 1000 defense…”
I turn around, “Take it slowly. Don’t add so many points into defense, you might not be able break the defense of heavy-armor players or monsters if you keep adding points into defense.”
“Yeahhh, I’ll be careful. Wait, Xiao Yao, why aren’t you driving and making your employer drive?”
I stiffen.
Lin Wan Er, focused on the road, smiles, “His IQ is too low to drive…”
I curl my hands, “From now on, I’ll be the one to drive…”
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30 minutes later, at the cafeteria in third floor of the mall.
A bowl of spicy Kabobs is in front of me. With my chopsticks, I hold up a Needle Mushroom and ask, “This meal is being paid for by Wan Er, right?”
“Yup”
“Owner, we want another 10 Beef Kabobs!”
“You!”
Spicy Kabobs with sweet yogurt; a god-like pairing, it heals souls!
After finishing the meal, Wan Er and Cheng Yue bought some clothes. Afterwards, we went to the fourth floor. Cheng Yue clamored about watching a movie. But there weren’t many new films and the girls had already watched Transformers 5 so in the end we randomly picked a movie called < >.
Since it was a love themed movie, in the theater, there are many couples already there. Dong Cheng Yue and Wan Er both got a huge bucket of popcorn and sat next to me. Dong Cheng Yue was quite familiar with me and easily starts to talk with me, she even started leaning on me! Lin Wan Er was a bit more reserved. Twirling her hair, she says, “Li Xiao Yao, where are you training your level, where you got the gold-tiered wrist guard?”
I think about it for a moment, “Professional Quest!”
“Oh? Who’s your profession’s instructor?”
“Sorry, I can’t tell you. I might get killed by those bounty hunters…”
“YOU….”
Lin Wan Er stomps her foot in anger. She’s quite cute when she gets angry and the guys next to us, waiting to enter the theater, started looking at their own girlfriends. In comparison, Wan Er was a lot better than the lot of them combined and as a result, I attracted a lot of aggro.
One is fine but two? Who is this guy!
Even though I knew that this would happen, I couldn’t have done anything about it. This is probably the Legendary Lying Gun where the two girls beside me are actually just my friends. If not for the air conditioned bed, I wouldn’t even be here right now…
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After a short while, the movie started playing. The start of the movie was about a couple meeting and after another 100 minutes, the ending of the movie finally came. The male MC was sitting in a cave by himself, waiting to die. At that point, he saw a meter of sunshine coming from the cave’s entrance and was entranced by it. Because of it, he walked out of his cave and suicided by jumping off a cliff. And then… then the movie explained the origin of the meter of sunshine…
Beside me, Dong Cheng Yue starts to wipe away tears…
When the lights finally came back on in the theater, I see Lin Wan Er’s are also red but she quickly put on her sunglasses. She asks, “Li Xiao Yao, what do you think of the movie?”
I pause, “I don’t have any thoughts!”
“Do you believe in the meter of sunshine love? For each other, they were willing to give up their lives! Do you want to have a girlfriend like that?”
“Hmph, life in the modern age is very tough, everyone is busy trying to make money. Who has the time to talk about love? There’s still evil and the flag of justice hasn’t been lifted! I don’t have time to think about love!”
“Is it because there aren’t any girls that like you?”
I clench my teeth, how did she know?
Dong Cheng Yue is giggling, “It’s already past 10, lets go back, before the school closes.”
“Yup!”
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This time, I drove the car. When we reached the school, the school gates were just about to close. With my foot on the gas, we did a 100 meter sprint and narrowly entered the school. The guards that were in charge of closing the gate look at our car with hate.
After sending the two girls back to their dorm, while walking on the paths in the school, I dialed Shen Bing’s number –
“Hello, Li Xiao Yao!”
“Yup, sister Shen Bing, are there any special situations, especially about Lightning Hands?”
“Nope, how are you? Yesterday, nothing happened right?”
“Uhh…” I thought for a moment before continuing, “Last night, I went to No Returns Bar and broke the arms of Wen Tai. Looks like Wen Tai kept the thing down low and hasn’t said anything about it yet.”
“Oh, it’s probably like that. He probably wouldn’t intentional destroy his reputation by saying that someone defeated him. Oh, are you alright?”
“At that kind of level, its impossible for him to hurt me. Oh right, Shen Bing, our custom line needs to have some more security or else someone might eavesdrop.”
“Mm, I got it. I already secured the line before calling you for the first time. Don’t worry!”
“Good, is there anything else? Leader Wang hasn’t contacted me recently.”
“There’s nothing, just relax and guard Lin Wan Er! Oh right, Lin Wan Er…is she as beautiful as they say she is?”
“Umm, I don’t know…”
“Looks like she’s pretty; to be able to make Li Xiao Yao stutter, she isn’t simple. Alright, I won’t tease you but you should be careful. We’re quite close to Lin Tian Nan so that Wan Er is safe.”
“Got it…”
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Ending the call, I realize that I’ve already been on the job for an entire week. But during the entire time, there hasn’t been anything big but I still feel some danger; the real danger hasn’t come yet but when it does come, I need to be ready.
Back in my room, I sit in front of my desk. Randomly looking through the recent material from class, I feel like I could die from boredom. What Four Treasures, Old Saying, I can’t understand any of it. So, I open < >’s official website and look at Ba Huang City. At the top is a red post —
[Sticky] Vanguard vs. Prague, Ba Huang City’s King’s fight is near?
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The general contents within the post was that for the past few days, Vanguard and Prague players have been fighting a lot, to the point where there were two 100 player parties battling. The two guilds are both top 10 in the entire Chinese sever and because there’s only 1 first place in Ba Huang, sooner or later they will have a huge fight.
I sip on my cup of tea, smiling. If they want to fight, then fight! It doesn’t matter to me but hopefully Yue Qing Qian and Yue Wei Liang aren’t involved in the fights, all I care about within the two guilds are those two girls.
There were also a lot of random events in Ba Huang City. For example, someone found a level 50 Boss but when a couple hundred players went to kill it, they got annihilated. Someone also found level 7 herbs but within the entire