Chapter 59
◎ Dwarves ◎
This was clearly a very grand meeting!
An Jin said that he had long heard of Li Feng and Zuo He. After all, two of the top 10 in the world were players from District 1, which was a very exaggerated proportion.
And Li Feng’s title of “Spear God” was very famous in the world.
When he said this, Yu Chi glanced at Li Feng with a subtle expression. Although, she hadn’t expected the other party to have such an important title outside.
“Oh?” Li Feng smiled sinisterly. “Do you have a problem?”
Yu Chi gestured for An Jin to continue.
“Zuo He, an absolutely rare prophecy-type talent,” An Jin said with a grin, his hands on the table. “He’s actually here too.”
There was no alliance that didn’t want Zuo He. His existence was much more valuable than Li Feng’s. What was even more terrifying was that he was not just a prophecy talent, but also had extremely high combat power on the world ranking.
Yu Chi remembered Zuo He telling him about prophecies several times, such as telling him about the natural disaster in advance. So this guy had a prophecy ability?
“You’ve been hiding it well!” Yu Chi patted his shoulder hard.
Zuo He looked at him speechlessly. “You too.”
One moment he’s a bird, the next he’s an elf. What right does this guy have to talk about others?
Yu Chi rubbed the back of her head and chuckled sheepishly.
“If other players knew you guys had joined such an alliance, their jaws would drop, right?” An Jin shook his head and sighed.
Yu Chi: ?
Yu Chi: “Is there a problem with my alliance?”
Her alliance has strength and financial resources. What’s not to like?!
An Jin glanced at his own glowing blue skin, then at Li Feng and Zuo He, who were also suffering, and said happily, “Of course there’s no problem.”
Li Feng: “Compared to us, you look more like you were threatened.”
“Hahahaha, I guess so, but I really did it voluntarily,” An Jin found a place to sit on the sofa.
“Huh?” Li Feng reached for a fruit on the coffee table and said casually, “Then you’re really something.”
“I say,” Yu Chi said with a smile, “let’s end this discussion here!”
Zuo He turned his head: “Are you going to show your authority as the alliance leader?”
“…” Yu Chi ground her teeth. “Don’t say such embarrassing things as soon as you open your mouth!”
Zuo He calmly drank his drink.
Yu Chi took a deep breath. “Okay, let’s get down to business.”
The four little blue people sat neatly on the sofa. Li Feng yawned. “Mmm, so what are we plotting now?”
Zuo He sat on the sofa with his arms crossed, not saying a word. An Jin turned his head and looked at Yu Chi with a grin: “We’ll listen to you, sister.”
It was rare for Yu Chi to be a leader for once. She cleared her throat with the air of a leader. “The first priority of our alliance now is to recruit people, so everyone, please introduce some suitable candidates.”
Li Feng frowned: “No friends, next.”
What a righteous answer. Yu Chi cast a disdainful look at him.
She had recruited three people just like that!
And Li Feng, not a single one!
Li Feng glanced at her, his gaze falling on her pointed ears, and began to think about the influence of elves on human intelligence.
However, among the four of them now, two were non-human. Could it be that in the future, the brain work could only rely on him and Zuo… only on him?
How difficult—!
Zuo He’s expression was calm: “As far as I know, only Li Feng and I among the top 10 players have not joined an alliance. 10-20… there are a total of three who have not joined an alliance, and now there are two left.”
Yu Chi’s eyes widened. With Zuo He’s words, the other party’s figure also slowly grew taller in his heart.
A ranking was just a ranking. You couldn’t get specific information from it, and you couldn’t even judge whether a player had joined an alliance.
And Zuo He had actually investigated all of this clearly. This was definitely not something that could be done easily.
Yu Chi bit her finger. Among the four people in the alliance, besides her, the smart and wise leader, one was a fool with a mind full of meat, and the other looked like he would only cause trouble.
But now… Zuo He had appeared, with his analysis and calmness. She announced that from now on, Zuo He would be their alliance’s intelligence master.
Zuo He said, “Among the 20-30th place, only one has not joined an alliance. Let’s not consider those after 30 for now. I suggest we start with these three.”
His speech ended, and he sat back down quietly. Although he felt that this alliance was unreliable no matter what, since he had joined, he would do his best.
In a corner that no one had noticed, Zuo He’s strong career ambition was already burning!
Yu Chi clapped wildly, giving encouragement.
Next was An Jin’s turn. Yu Chi hadn’t expected him to say anything, but she saw him rub his chin and throw out a bombshell with a smile.
“Hmm, I happen to know all three of them.”
“Huh?!” Yu Chi blinked. “Are they all your friends?”
An Jin raised an eyebrow: “We’ve chatted a few times.”
“—The legendary social terrorist?!”
“Hahahaha,” An Jin laughed exaggeratedly on the sofa. He wiped the tears that had been squeezed out from the corner of his eyes. “You could say that, sister. I know a lot of people!”
…What a low laugh point.
“Very good,” Yu Chi quickly positioned the people in the alliance. “From now on, Zuo He will be in charge of intelligence, Li Feng will be in charge of force, and An Jin will be in charge of diplomacy!”
Li Feng: “I have no problem. What about you?”
“As the alliance leader,” Yu Chi stood up, “I’m of course in charge of commanding you!”
“…”
A moment of silence.
Two streams of wide noodles flowed down Yu Chi’s face: “Just kidding, I’m in charge of support.”
The first meeting ended successfully. Yu Chi gave the task of contacting the three people to An Jin and said guiltily again that this was actually his test.
An Jin: “…Sister, it won’t be a test every time you ask me to do something in the future, will it?”
Yu Chi made a heart sign: “Love you.”
When she was asking for a favor, she could still be very gentle.
The few of them rested on the sofa for a while. At 8 in the morning, they went their separate ways to do their own things, and they would gather here at 8 in the evening.
They could only come to the central island once a week, so most players had a week’s worth of things to do when they came here. For example, Yu Chi, she had to go and prepare the equipment for forging weapons, such as a copper furnace.
If she chose to go and explore an island directly, she would have to wait another week to go to the central island.
It’s really inconvenient, she sighed.
The fifth district was like a bustling market. Both sides of the street were lined with dazzling stalls, and the market was crowded with all kinds of players.
Yu Chi pulled her hat brim lower.
“Super rare grade materials, don’t miss it!”
“Special forging stone, you deserve it!”
The cries of the vendors drilled into her ears. Yu Chi casually stopped at a stall.
“Little girl, look at this?” The old man with a wrinkled face at the stall saw her and pointed at a black stone on the stall with a smile. “Star Iron, a top-grade material for forging weapons.”
An old man. Yu Chi was stunned. She rarely saw old people in this game. The game prohibited people over 60 from entering, but in fact, people in their 50s were also rarely seen.
…It might also be because the survival rate was not high.
Yu Chi looked down at the unimpressive stone, and the item information immediately appeared:
【Item: Inferior Star Iron
Grade: Common
Description: A contaminated fragment of Star Iron, which may cause an explosion during forging.】
“…” Yu Chi’s mouth twitched. “Uncle, you should at least be a little more serious when you’re lying.”
There were items on the market that could disguise the quality of an item. They could disguise a common-grade material as a legendary grade. With a little cover-up, they could deceive many people.
This uncle had no cover-up at all. He just took a piece of broken stone and shoved it in her face.
The old man’s face changed. Just as he was about to argue, a clear laugh came from the side: “Merlin, you’re scamming people here again?”
Yu Chi turned her head and saw a red-haired young man in leather armor leaning against the next stall. He had a strangely shaped multi-functional tool knife on his waist, and he was flexibly turning a Purification Crystal between his fingers.
“Yo, miss,” the red-haired young man grinned. “Want to take a look at my side?”
“Hey, Roy, damn it, you’re stealing my customer again!” the old man shouted in anger.
The red-haired young man shrugged and made a face.
Yu Chi noticed that his stall was full of various forging tools. In the most conspicuous position was a crimson furnace with lava-like patterns flowing on its surface.
【Item: Flame Furnace
Grade: Legendary
Description: Comes with a forging magic circle.】
“Interested?” Roy patted the furnace. “For the sake of your beauty, I can give you a 20% discount.”
Beauty? Yu Chi raised an eyebrow, and a few strands of golden hair were exposed from under her hat. “You really have good taste, big brother.”
“This guy is obviously lying,” the old man next to him said loudly. “You’re wearing a cloak. How does he know what you look like? This furnace of his hasn’t been sold for 800 years. Don’t be fooled by him!”
“Don’t think it’s a legend just because it says so, little girl!” The old man was jumping up and down. “Have you never seen a disguise item? An item that can disguise the grade! This furnace is definitely a disguise!”
Yu Chi: …Thank you for the reminder.
I hope this uncle can disguise himself next time. Otherwise, it’s quite embarrassing to be seen as a piece of junk at a glance.
Yu Chi: “How do you know I want to buy this kind of thing?”
One recommended forging materials to her, and the other directly recommended a furnace. He clearly hadn’t done anything.
“You don’t come here often, do you?” the red-haired young man said with a smile. “Although you’re wearing a cloak, your gaze is still too obvious.”
“That’s really a miscalculation,” Yu Chi pointed at his furnace. “How much?”
“20 million crystals!” A big smile appeared on the red-haired young man’s face.
“Eh, can’t it be cheaper?” Yu Chi sighed. “I don’t have that much money.”
Roy smiled at her. The next second, his whole person suddenly leaned in and whispered in her ear, “No way, an elf would be short of money?”
Yu Chi’s eyes narrowed, and she looked up at him.
“Don’t be so fierce,” Roy spread his hands. “I have no ill intentions. In fact, I also escaped.”
Escaped? Yu Chi was expressionless. “What method did you use?”
“Let’s chat somewhere else, miss,” Roy said with a grin, packing up his stall and directly putting it into his backpack. “I’m also very interested in you!”
The two of them ignored the sound of the old man jumping up and down behind them and casually found a restaurant with a soundproof private room.
The red-haired young man sat down on a chair and let out a long sigh. “It’s really not easy. In so many years, I’ve only seen one elf run out.”
Yu Chi did not take off her cloak and said calmly, “After all, it’s His decision.”
She began to frantically recall the history of the elven race in her mind. The sea god had trapped the elven race on Sunset Island to protect them, but to put it bluntly, it was also a confinement.
According to this guy’s statement, the elves had never come out. Under normal circumstances, everyone would have mistaken him for a player with an elven bloodline.
But the other party might have been preconceived, or it might be because… he was different from other players with other races’ bloodlines?
Yu Chi hadn’t forgotten that she had turned into a child after going to the Elf Island, and even her brain had been changed! If every player with a bloodline would be like this, that would be a little scary.
But this person could actually see his race through his cloak… what kind of person was he?
“That’s right,” Roy propped his chin on his hands, which were on the table. “I’m very curious, miss. How did you get out?”
“I was the one who asked you this question first,” Yu Chi lowered her eyes.
“Okay, okay, okay,” Roy muttered a few sentences. “I didn’t expect you elves to have a smart one too.”
“Our dwarf island is not as strict as yours,” he said casually. “If you run out and don’t commit a major crime, you won’t be punished much. It’s not as difficult as yours.”
Yu Chi did not speak. The cloak covered the change in her expression. She picked up her water cup and took a sip of tea.
Dwarf Island? This guy is actually a dwarf?!
Time was limited. She had not read the part about the dwarves in the history of Sunset Island, so in her impression, she had always thought that dwarves were short creatures in stories.
I almost blew my cover. Yu Chi broke out in a cold sweat.
“Why aren’t you talking?” Roy looked at her with a depressed expression. “Well, you elves are indeed very proud…
“Hmm? You were tricked into eating a luminous pudding by someone?” Roy looked at the blue arm and the faint chin exposed by the elf opposite him, his expression smiling very exaggeratedly.
He was very happy to see these proud elves suffer.
It seems this dwarf knows everything. Yu Chi told herself to stay calm. None of these species from myths and legends were easy to deal with.
“What are you doing here?” Yu Chi asked.
“Humans are very interesting, aren’t they?” Roy said with a grin. He still had cute freckles on his face, but his expression was not so gentle. “This island was actually brought to life by humans. He actually prepared such a great island for them. I’m really jealous.”
Yu Chi did not speak.
“So, what are you doing here, Miss Elf?” Roy stared at her, his gaze almost piercing through her. “Can you tell me how you got out? I remember Sunset Island shouldn’t be unsealed.”
“I don’t want to tell you,” Yu Chi said coldly.
“Tsk,” Roy pouted, but was not surprised by this answer. If the elf had told him honestly, he would have been a little suspicious.
“I heard that many humans have been injected with our bloodline and have transformed their bodies,” Roy narrowed his eyes, his expression suddenly becoming gloomy. “What inferior and disgusting imitators. To abandon their own race, such people are really ridiculous.”
“What do you think, Miss Elf?”
“I think…” Yu Chi lowered her head and took another sip of tea. Roy looked at her with a smile, as if he was expecting her to say something.
“The furnace can be cheaper,” Yu Chi did not forget her original intention.
Discussing bloodlines and such with this guy here was useless. The dwarves thought that humans had abandoned their race, but for humans, they only treated bloodlines as a tool to become stronger.
The dwarves did not need her opinion, and she did not need to say it.
Yu Chi did not want to have a deep contact with this dwarf at the moment. After all, she was not prepared. Compared to those things that were far beyond her concern, she was more worried that she would blow her cover.
However, she had to get the furnace.
Before she knew this guy was a dwarf, she was not so persistent about this furnace.
But this was a dwarf. Even if the elves were very disgusted with their brutality and rudeness, they had to admit their skills in forging.
They seemed to be born for forging.
Yu Chi not only had to get this furnace, but it would be even better if she could get the other party’s forging skills. He was still a pure novice in this field.
“You’re so poor?” Roy raised an eyebrow.
Yu Chi looked at him calmly: “It’s very troublesome.”
Well, Roy shrugged again. It was indeed a very troublesome thing to exchange their precious materials for crystals on this central island.
Even he had to come out and set up a stall. A proud elf would naturally not be willing to do such a thing.
The red-haired young man’s eyes rolled, but no matter what, elves were the easiest species to scam.
Commonly known as, stupid and rich.
“25 million crystals,” Roy said with a smile. “Besides the furnace, it also includes a full set of fine forging tools, a multi-functional crucible, and a forging manual written by a dwarf master himself. How about it?”
The elf did not speak, as if she was thinking. After a long while, the girl’s cold voice came from under her cloak, “Okay.”
Roy showed an expression of having expected it. The things he gave away were not valuable at all. The so-called forging manual written by a dwarf master was just a beginner’s book, short for an introductory manual.
It was the content that all dwarves would learn in kindergarten, and it had long been passed on to the elven race. You could get it with a little effort.
The other party might not know, but he was mainly betting on the elf’s fear of trouble, and would definitely feel that it was very convenient to buy them all at once.
Of course, being able to spend 20 million crystals on these things was even more proof that she was a stupid and rich elf. Roy’s suspicion faded a lot. Humans were shrewd and vicious, and would not do such a stupid thing.
The two of them exchanged money and goods, and the 25 million business was directly concluded.
Before he left, the red-haired young man waved at her: “It seems you’re also going to hide on the human side. Remember not to be discovered.”
Yu Chi sat on the spot without moving: “Don’t bother.”
The relationship between the dwarves and the elves was not good. The former had always coveted the wealth of Sunset Island, so the two races always had disputes. However, compared to humans, they were natural allies.
It was not until the door of the private room was closed and the very present aura disappeared nearby that Yu Chi’s whole person relaxed.
Dwarves, there are actually dwarves on the central island!
This was not the existence that those humans had changed after obtaining a bloodline, but a real dwarf from the Dwarf Island!
How could they enter the central island? How did they get into the central island?
Yu Chi stared at the table, her thoughts in a mess.
Humans were very crazy about the bloodlines of other races, but they did not consider the thoughts of the owners of these bloodlines.
The Elf King was very good to her, but for more creatures, if you are not of my race, your heart must be different.
It was like a demon trying to disguise itself as a human, which was unbearable. When a human tried his best to become another creature, could the other party accept it?
Yu Chi propped her head up, feeling that her head had become bigger.
Why did it suddenly feel like these legendary species were about to appear on this big stage?
What on earth did the sea god want to do…
Yu Chi was now certain that the one who had brought them in was indeed the sea god. In the history books of the elves, all races were under the sea god’s control.
There was no human race in this world, so the sea god had moved a group of humans from another world.
Uh… what a crude method! Yu Chi gritted her teeth. To directly move over the results of others’ hard work, was this something a human would do?
Okay, no, so He is a god. Yu Chi gave up.
All in all, she had already bought what she wanted to buy, and it had greatly exceeded her expectations.
Yu Chi took out the forging manual written by the dwarf master himself. After opening the first page, her eyes widened in surprise.
This was it. She remembered seeing it on Sunset Island.
A huge profit!
Yu Chi’s bad mood finally cheered up. With this, she would definitely be able to forge a suitable weapon for herself!
Very good. Since she had finished today’s task in advance, then she would go to the Yanhuang Alliance to find her old dad.
Yu Chi was very curious about the Yanhuang Alliance.
Half of the top 10 players on the ranking were in the Federation, and half were in Yanhuang. Those were truly the world’s top players.
And her dad, he should be able to…
On the other side.
“I’m serious. Join our Federation,” the girl blinked. “You’re an angel, aren’t you? Your country doesn’t have angels.”
An Jin yawned: “Get out of the way. I’m looking for someone.”
“Her sisters are not at home,” the girl sat on the railing, swinging her legs, and said playfully, “I say, angel, give me a reason. I really want to collect you. Your wings are so beautiful.”
If Yu Chi were here, she would probably find this sentence very familiar, because this person was the strange girl who had stopped her on her first day on the central island!
“I’ve already joined another alliance,” An Jin’s expression was even a little disgusted. “I said, get out of the way.”
“What a cute expression,” the girl said with a grin. She jumped down from the railing, took a few steps forward, and got close. “But as long as I destroy the angel’s current alliance, you can join a new one!”
An Jin’s eyes turned cold. “You can try.”