Chapter 241: You Want to Do It the Hard Way
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
“Did you send the notice?” With his back to the main gate, Liu San waved a piece of paper in his hand. On the paper was a picture of a weird-looking sword with four strange symbols on the body; the original symbols were blurred in the witnesses’ minds, so someone substituted them with some runes.
“Yes!” A black-clothed cultivator said, “Xue Si’er needs money, and so do the guys including Ghost Hand Du Gan. I think that guy will pay after this incident.”
“Okay. Then, we’ll go there again tomorrow.” Liu San studied the picture in his hand.
“Boss Liu, this picture is…”
“It’s delivered from the upper people,” Liu San said, “They say that if we can find the sword on the picture or just provide a clue, we will receive bountiful rewards!”
“Is this sword a treasure?”
“What treasure?!” Liu San said with a snort, “You stay out of this; if you anger the big boss, he will toss you into the elixir furnace to make a blood elixir pill!”
…
Meanwhile, a middle-aged man who was wearing a big black cloak stroked his goatee and asked, “Where’s Li Huangquan?”
“He… died!” the bald cultivators said in a shaky voice.
“What?!” The black-cloaked middle-aged man stared at the bald cultivator with cold eyes like a horrifying demon beast that was sizing up its food. “What happened?”
Immediately, the bald cultivator reported the whole incident to him in detail.
“Hehe… Hahahaha!” The middle-aged man laughed hysterically. “How long has it been? It has been so long since anyone dared to act so overbearing in front of me, Iron Heart Demon! Now, I will give you a chance to redeem yourself! Go and find out for me where this kid’s force is!”
…
Fortunately, Huang Shan and the other two men found some animals such as wild wolves and goats, that they could kill easily, and sold the meat for money.
Although they couldn’t rob others, there were no people in the area robbing them. If they lived here peacefully, they would get high experience points. In this way, they could live on and accept their fates.
At the beginning of the game, their cultivation strengths increased very fast. However, after these incidents, the speed began to slow down. Still, the growth in their cultivation strengths was still fast for Huang Shan and his peers.
While they played the game in peace, the other people from the Huang Family were in trouble!
About 40 people surrounded six members of the Huang Family outside of the entrance of the village, and the remaining members of the family didn’t dare to show themselves!
“Brother Huang! Our people are being kept outside and can’t level up!” Iron Rock Daoist looked frustrated and bitter. “How come there are so many of them?”
“They said that they are the city guards of a place named Jiuhua City…”
“Where is Jiuhua City?” The three guys looked at each other in bafflement. “I’ve never heard of it before!”
“There’s no such place in the Morning Star Sea Realm!” Now, they remembered the shop owner once mentioning that he had another shop. “Where is the other shop located?”
– On the other side –
“Deputy Commander Gong, they said that they are from the Huang Family of a place called the Morning Star Sea Realm.” An officer leaned over and whispered, “It’s said that there are lots of grand cultivators in that place. Will this cause us trouble?”
“What trouble can this cause us?” Remembering that he lost his backpack full of chicken meat and deer meat when he was killed, Gong He’s body shivered in rage, and his gloomy face looked as cold as ice while he yelled, “I dare the people of the Huang Family to crawl out of the computers and kill me! Do they have that power? Kill them all for me!”
“Ahh!” Screams sounded!
“Can we get more people?!” Iron Rock Daoist who had been killing monsters and leveling up in this different map said with a dark expression, “What Jiuhua City?! What city guards?! It’s a remote place that we’ve never heard of before! How dare they mess with us? They are seeking their deaths by messing with us!”
“But all the people of my Huang Family who came with us are here…” Huang Shan said helplessly while opening his palms, “Unless we leave the city and return to the headquarters of my family to get more people… but it’s a long journey; it doesn’t solve the problem that we are having now!”
“What shall we do?”
“Brother Huang! Shall we go… and get Brother Tao?” Zha Gu asked, “Isn’t he your friend?”
“What friend? He’s just a business associate,” Huang Shan said, “It shouldn’t be a problem to ask him to find more people, but…”
He glanced around the shop and thought, How can I reveal this good place to others?
“Forget it. The shop is open, and I guess there will be more customers coming here anyways.” Huang Shan used the fireball spell on a wolf and said, “We must get as many benefits as we can while only a few people know about this place.”
“Ugh… The time is up?” Huang Shan heard the reminder in his ears, and he was confused.
He suddenly remembered the words on the small blackboard that said one could only play for six hours per day.
He had been wondering how this shop could continue since it dared to limit the play time with such a bad service attitude, but now…
Huang Shan asked, “Sir, can you let us play some more?”
Fang Qi replied, “No!”
Huang Shan stated, “We’ll pay double the price!”
Fang Qi replied, “No, even if you pay ten times the fees!”
Huang Shan added, “Sir, I’m a businessman as well. Do you know that you’ll lose customers if you do your business this way?”
Fang Qi replied, “Play or get out of here!”
Huang Shan was at a loss for words.
“What shall we do?” the three guys consulted with each other.
“Let’s go now! We can come back later with more people!” Huang Shan said, “Since each player can play for only six hours, those guys won’t gain any advantages over us!”
Since the members of the Huang Family were blocked at the entrance and couldn’t level up, they told them to exit the game a well.
At this moment, some cultivators walked into the shop.
Huang Shan paused, and the newcomers also stopped and looked at Huang Shan warily.
A few juniors at the early stage of Spiritual River Realm? Huang Shan frowned as he observed these people. One of them was wearing a blood-red robe with a pale face, but his red lips looked as if they were covered in blood.
Another guy at the foremost of the group shrugged in a big robe, and his hands were dry and black like dead tree branches. Several black-clothed cultivators followed them.
The black-robed cultivator looked Huang Shan up and down. “An outsider? I advise you to stay out of the trouble of this shop.”
“Oh?” Huang Shan crossed his arms before his chest and said, “Go ahead.”
Of course, he wouldn’t interfere. Instead, he had been hoping for a dumb person to test the strength of this shop!
“Who is the owner of the shop?” The man wearing the blood-colored robe yelled in a gloomy voice.
“Bo… Boss…” Sensing that something was wrong, Zou Mo hurried to inform Fang Qi.
Fang Qi had noticed the upheaval at the door, but he was busy killing poisonous spiders with Jiang Xiaoyue near Ginkgo Village.
“Little Mo, if they are here to play games, the instructions are on the small blackboard. If they came to make trouble…”
“Make trouble?” The man in the blood-colored robe snickered, “We just want to borrow some money from the shop owner.”
“Xue Si’er! I warn you not to make trouble here!” Ruan Ning walked out of her shop in a fury.
“Oh, it’s you, Ms. Ruan. You’d better stay out of the rules of this street!” The guy in the red robe looked unmoved.
“You…”
Fang Qi sighed slightly. “This city is perfect with its rich and dumb people, but there is one shortcoming. Little Mo, read them the rule on making trouble.”
Ruan Ning stared at Fang Qi fiercely, thinking, What do you mean by ‘rich and dumb people’?!
She felt insulted by his general comment!
“Okay…” Zou Mo read the words on the small blackboard, “Destroy their cultivation strengths and kick them out after breaking their legs.”
Fang Qi killed all the nearby monsters and put down the virtual reality headset helplessly. “After all, I don’t like killing people.”
Huang Shan’s face turned dark, thinking that this punishment was worse than killing them! After all, anyone living here had enemies. If they were kicked out with destroyed cultivation strengths, and their enemies came for them, the ending would be evident even if people were thinking with their butts.
By that time, direct death was a better fate!
However, people like Xue Si’er and Du Gan sneered. “So, you want to do it the hard way then?”