Chapter 42 p1
◎ Central Island ◎
Yu Chi was socially anxious.
This was a very normal thing. She was not good at getting along with people in the first place, and now the crowd had exceeded her threshold.
She stood on the bustling street, having not felt the gaze of others for a long time. Even her walking movements became stiff.
Why are they looking at me… Yu Chi thought. Is it an illusion?
Or do they know I’m DazedFish? Her heart pounded. She swallowed and tried to maintain a calm expression.
After yesterday’s bounty, the name [DazedFish] had been discussed in the channel for a long time.
The players had been suppressed for a long time. Any slight disturbance about a top player could trigger countless discussions.
Although the players from other servers did not know [DazedFish], they clearly knew who the two people in the bounty were.
[Longevity Species], ranked first on the strength ranking.
[DazedFish’s Dad], ranked ninth on the wealth ranking.
And these two players were looking for the same person at the same time. No matter how you looked at it, it was eye-catching.
【Could it be the dad and the husband?】
【What kind of novel plot is this where all the top players dote on the female lead? Let me rub off some of that luck.】
【It’s not necessarily the biological dad, but spending so much money must mean they’re very important people.】
…
Various similar discussions. Yu Chi felt a little embarrassed. After a couple of glances, she did not continue to observe.
However, what made her most uncomfortable was not the players’ discussions, but Zuo He’s casual guess yesterday.
【One is your dad. The other one isn’t your mom, is it?】
Yu Chi: “…”
She could imagine Zuo He’s cold tone when he said that. No matter how she thought about it, that sentence was really enough.
A scalp-numbing, stimulating feeling.
Relying on her wild thoughts, Yu Chi barely relieved the anxiety from the surrounding gazes. Just as she was about to open the channel to ask why that guy Li Feng hadn’t come yet, a bright and brilliant face suddenly appeared in her line of sight.
Because the distance was too close, her body even subconsciously leaned back.
“Huh?” The person noticed the trouble she had caused, smiled, and stood up straight, touching her nose. “Ah, sorry, sorry. Are you okay?”
Yu Chi’s lips curled up a little stiffly. “I’m fine.”
A tall girl was standing in front of her. Yu Chi’s attention was first attracted by her heroic sword-like eyebrows, and then it fell on her bright eyes.
“I wanted to make friends with you, but I didn’t expect to scare you,” the girl looked a little troubled. “Is this a little strange?”
Yu Chi nodded: “Very strange.”
Girl: “…”
Bai Qi raised an eyebrow and stared at the person in front of her seriously. Soon, a smile appeared on her face again.
“You’re really interesting. Let’s add each other as friends.”
Yu Chi lifted her eyelids, her gaze pausing on her eyes for a moment, then moved away.
This girl has a very beautiful pair of eyebrows, she thought. It’s just that she doesn’t seem to have learned how to respect people yet.
“No,” she refused coldly.
Perhaps it was because the gazes of the surrounding crowd had made her anxious, Yu Chi’s tone towards the girl was not very polite.
Moreover, the ID [DazedFish] had just been circulated in the world channel yesterday. She didn’t want to add strangers during this time.
The two of them’s gazes met in the air, and Bai Qi quickly showed a defeated expression.
“I’m really sorry,” she sighed. “I haven’t made any friends for a long time. Did my attitude cause you trouble?”
Yu Chi opened her mouth, about to answer, when a hand suddenly rested on her shoulder. The hand was large, with distinct knuckles. Although it was not rough, it was the hand of someone who was used to using weapons. Bai Qi narrowed her eyes, feeling that it was really an eyesore.
“What are you standing here for?” The man’s lips curled, his tone neither salty nor light. The hand on Yu Chi’s shoulder used force, directly turning her around to face him.
“Next time, don’t stand in the middle of a crowd. I can’t even find you,” Li Feng’s expression was casual, but he didn’t look at anyone else from beginning to end.
When Yu Chi saw that it was him, she was obviously relieved, and her expression also changed from stiff to soft. She really didn’t want to stay in the crowd anymore.
“You’re too slow,” she complained casually, her mood much better. She turned her head and said to the girl who was still waiting for her, “Sorry, we have something to do. We’ll be leaving now.”
Bai Qi subconsciously curled her lips and waved her hand. “I hope we can meet again next time.”
The two of them left shoulder to shoulder. They were not very close, and they looked like normal friends.
Bai Qi stared with a blank expression, her eyes suddenly filled with annoyance. She couldn’t help but tear off a piece of flesh from her arm. The pain calmed her screaming nerves a little.
When the girl first appeared, Bai Qi had noticed her. She was like a beautiful doll in her house, and many people’s gazes were sizing her up intentionally or unintentionally.
She looked so well-behaved, but her temper was not good… Bai Qi thought calmly, but what was that man? He had the gaze of an owner.
Next time, I’ll just dig out his eyes.
…
Li Feng: “What kind of perverts are you attracting all day?”
Just a few steps away, Yu Chi heard the man next to her say this. She was dumbfounded. “Who are you talking about? Yourself?”
Li Feng’s expression quickly became speechless. He endured and endured, and finally said irritably, “The look in that woman’s eyes just now, she totally wanted to kill you and then dissect you. What the hell were you talking to her for?”
Yu Chi: “Oh… so how do you know so much?”
Although she was a little surprised, it was not incomprehensible. Yu Chi glanced at the hair hanging down by her cheek, her eyes calm. Since coming to this game world, the dark side of many people’s hearts had been stimulated.
Especially when they had enough strength, dissection and all that… fuck, I’ll kill them all next time!
Yu Chi couldn’t pretend anymore. What kind of person would dare to covet her noble body—
Li Feng blurted out: “On our streets, this kind of species…”
Yu Chi’s face was expressionless: “Please shut up.”
Perverts were something to consider later. Right now, the level of neurosis of Li Feng next to her was not much better.
“What do we do first?” Li Feng yawned. His bone structure was superior, and his eyes had a natural wildness. Even a simple action was done by him like a lazy lion, exuding hormones all over.
Yu Chi turned a blind eye and couldn’t feel it. She rubbed her chin and pondered for two seconds. “Let’s go to the auction house first.”
She needed to sell her things first. After saving up enough funds, she would buy a piece of land. Yu Chi had the idea of doing business here. She glanced at the crowded crowd next to her and felt that these were all sheep that could be sheared.
The central island was divided into an inner island and an outer island. Teleporting directly from the boat would take you directly to the inner island.
The entire island was cut into different areas.
First was the core teleportation square. All players would appear here first and then disperse in all directions. Yu Chi didn’t think an island could accommodate more than a billion players, unless the system used some unknown method.
Then there were the free construction area and the combat area.
Among them, the free construction area was quickly divided into two sections by the players yesterday: commercial and leisure social.
And the combat area was divided into an arena and an island teleportation. The arena was the only place on the inner island where you could fight, and the island… it could only be said that the system was indeed very generous this time, so that the players no longer had to search around on the sea like headless flies.
But to enter the island, you had to pay a considerable amount. The price was different for different island levels. In addition, you had to hand over 30% of the island exploration’s income.
Of course, you also had to have an Island Exploration Card.
Yu Chi and Li Feng walked to the free construction area. Many plots of land had already been bought by players, and some had even been completed. The two of them casually walked into a shop and saw a robot.
After setting it to shop mode, it would open for automatic sales, and the robot could be bought or not.
Usually, a robot could handle some emergencies when the owner was not there. High-level robots were even very user-friendly. In Yu Chi’s opinion, besides being made by the system, they were no different from humans.
“You want to open a shop?” Li Feng glanced at her.
Yu Chi nodded frankly. “Let’s go ask about the price of the land.”
Whether it was buying land or participating in an auction, these were all official procedures.
Related activities were all held in a black tower. Each floor of the black tower represented a different function, and the auctioned items would not only be displayed on the huge light screen outside the black tower, but also be synchronized on the players’ system screens.
However, these were all secondary auctions that had been screened. If you wanted to bid for more precious items, you had to go to the black tower auction house to bid in person. Usually, only a very small number of rare treasures would flow into the players’ systems.
The black tower had a total of 9 floors. Countless players were entering and exiting the gate on the first floor. Some players had a clear purpose, but more players were just curious.
Of course, just entering the black tower required a payment of 10,000 crystals. Without a certain amount of wealth, you were not qualified to come here.
Yu Chi licked her lips and looked up from the bottom. She only felt that this black tower was magnificent and inexplicably gave people a sense of oppression and fear.
“Let’s go.”
The first floor of the black tower was the entrance hall. After paying 20,000 crystals, the two of them walked in with the others.
“Wow…”
Yu Chi heard an exclamation from the person next to her. She turned to look at Li Feng and found that he was frowning and thinking about something.
“What are they ‘wowing’ about?” Li Feng asked in confusion.
Actually, Yu Chi didn’t know the answer to this question either. The hall on the first floor was indeed magnificent, but it was not beyond her imagination. The two of them went directly to the second floor.
This was the land exchange.
Yu Chi estimated her financial resources and decided to take a look first—the land was divided into five types. The most core area was 1 million Purification Crystals per square meter, followed by 500,000, 100,000, and 10,000.
The last type was the mobile stalls on the edge, which only required a payment of 1000 Purification Crystals per hour.
And the land transaction also had an upper limit. For example, the core area could only have 10 transactions a day, and the other areas were 100, 1000, 10,000, and so on.
Yu Chi calculated. If she wanted to buy a 100 square meter shop in the core area, she would have to pay 100 million Purification Crystals… she couldn’t afford it at all.
Her fingers slid slowly on the screen. Li Feng next to her was already bored and observing the surrounding crowd.
Suddenly, his gaze changed from casual to sharp, and his eyes stared straight at a certain corner.
—A strange man was standing there. He was wearing a conspicuous black eye patch on his left eye, and the other eye that was exposed was very calm. He was seriously staring at someone, his gaze carrying an unspeakable weight.
And the person he was staring at… was Yu Chi.
Li Feng: “…” Again?
He frowned and endured his irritable emotions. There were many perverts in the real world. After entering the game world, there were even more disgusting people. But Yu Chi was not aware of these gazes at all.
She was the kind of person who easily made people worry.