CHAPTER 65: CHAPTER 62: SPARRING

"Something dropped?"

"I told you, fighting monsters might drop good stuff. I didn’t waste my effort digging through the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat’s corpse."

"This Smart Watch looks really advanced. Old Ye, you’re amazing. I didn’t expect the drop would be hidden in the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat’s stomach."

Fang Zhen and One Leaf Floating Cloud stared at the Smart Watch in the metal box, their eyes gleaming. The other team members also looked at One Leaf Floating Cloud with admiration.

After everyone killed the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat, each of them thought about how to quickly collect Ancient Bronze Ore, but only One Leaf Floating Cloud kept a firm eye on the corpse, deep in thought.

Finding monster drops is normal in other virtual games, but with Descent of High Martial’s virtual reality reaching 100%, it’s unlikely for such things to happen.

So One Leaf Floating Cloud suspected that the drop could be hidden inside the monster and require players to search for it by hand.

In the end, One Leaf Floating Cloud’s approach was proven correct.

Indeed, the monster did drop something, and it was really valuable.

"You pulled it out from the stomach?" Lin Qi looked at the metal box on the table, turning to One Leaf Floating Cloud with admiration.

He always thought One Leaf Floating Cloud was a rich kid, absolutely pampered.

He never expected One Leaf Floating Cloud could endure the disgust and diligently dig through the corpse, that bloody and fishy smell, just thinking about it makes people dizzy.

The last time he transported the Crocodile-toothed Rhinoceros’s corpse, he barely held it together to box it up. To this day, he still wasn’t used to it. It’s hard to imagine One Leaf Floating Cloud didn’t care at all.

"Yeah, I found it by accident." One Leaf Floating Cloud saw Lin Qi’s admiring look and, though not sure why he got on Lin Qi’s good side, eagerly asked, "Hall Master, how many Points can we exchange this for?"

One Leaf Floating Cloud didn’t care about scavenging corpses. So what if it was a bit bloody and realistic? It’s not like he hasn’t played bloodier games.

"This Smart Watch is very advanced. I’m willing to offer 50,000 Points and 1,000 Contributions for it." Lin Qi looked at One Leaf Floating Cloud and the others, not planning to cut too much of a deal.

A B6 Level Cloud Iron Alloy Smart Watch, ordinary monsters can hardly damage such a Smart Watch. It’s a professional Smart Watch made for Martial Artists, without worrying about damage during combat.

As a Martial Artist’s dedicated Smart Watch, even if sold as second-hand, it could fetch a million Bits. Just the communication range exceeds ten kilometers.

Moreover, ordinary signal jamming devices are useless against this advanced Smart Watch.

Considering these, Lin Qi thought it’s necessary to trade it back from the players.

"Holy crap! Fifty thousand Points! A thousand Contributions!"

"Jackpot! We really struck it rich this time!"

"The drop from this Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat is too impressive. We might as well just hunt them in the future."

The two teams present heard Lin Qi’s trade offer, and everyone’s eyes lit up, some even turning red.

Although people know Lin Qi’s buy-back price is surely cutthroat, but which game’s NPC isn’t like this? Not to mention this advanced Smart Watch is beyond their use, just like earlier they didn’t use the acquired Smart Watch because none of the text was understandable.

The text is incomprehensible, clearly not allowed by the game company for them to use, but it can be converted through NPCs to sell to players.

Admittedly, it’s quite a scheme, yet that’s how the game company set it up.

Still, seeing the Hall Master being so generous, offering fifty thousand Points at once, even enough to directly buy an A5 Level weapon.

"Are you going to exchange it at this price?" Lin Qi looked at the chatting players, once again confirming with One Leaf Floating Cloud and company.

"Exchange! Exchange!" One Leaf Floating Cloud and Fang Zhen almost agreed immediately, afraid Lin Qi might change his mind.

Fifty thousand Points, that’s way more than they earned from digging Ancient Bronze Ore these days.

All of them combined barely dug over a thousand kilograms of Ancient Bronze Ore in a day, and that’s if lucky. On unlucky days, it’s just six or seven hundred kilograms. The ore in the tunnels isn’t as easy to find as imagined.

But even a thousand kilograms of Ancient Bronze Ore a day only equals ten thousand Points.

Fifty thousand Points equals their total earnings for five days, it’s a significant profit.

"Alright, I’ll record it." Lin Qi put away the Cloud Iron Smart Watch, then curiously asked, "Did you bring the corpse of the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat you killed?"

Lin Qi wasn’t concerned about the advanced Smart Watch. Although it’s valuable, selling it entails high risks, unlike the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat’s corpse.

As pure monster meat, he can completely resell it to the Phosphorus Fire Trading Market.

"The corpse? Why bring it?" Fang Zhen asked earnestly, "Does the Martial Arts Hall buy rat meat?"

"Why bring it?" Lin Qi almost choked. To players, rat meat doesn’t seem like meat, but it’s two tons of monster meat! Suppressing his bafflement, he calmly said, "The Martial Arts Hall buys all kinds of monster meat, a hundred Points for every ten kilograms. A whole monster rewards five hundred Contributions. Since you didn’t bring it, let’s forget it."

As Lin Qi finished speaking, the entire room fell silent.

"Damn! My twenty thousand Points!"

"Quick! Go back! Maybe the corpse hasn’t vanished yet!"

"Who can run fast? Hurry up there, we must save the corpse!"

Fang Zhen and others realized they missed out on a fortune; twenty thousand Points could buy many good things, even the Shattering Stone Fist or the Leopard Shadow Step’s second volume could be exchanged directly, and they left it in the tunnel.

If Luo Wushang and others knew, they’d probably laugh at them.

As the two teams planned to rush back immediately, they saw One Leaf Floating Cloud suddenly fall to the ground as if struck, motionless.

"No way! Old Ye, wake up!" Fang Zhen looked at One Leaf Floating Cloud on the ground, full of surprise, not expecting him to be so thin-skinned. He glanced at the surrounding players, "Can anyone do CPR?"

People around fell silent, looking at each other.

Nobody felt it worthwhile to perform CPR on One Leaf Floating Cloud just for a bit of currency.

"Leave him; he just fell asleep." Lin Qi glanced at the immobile One Leaf Floating Cloud, reminding Fang Zhen and the others.

Fang Zhen and others might not understand what just happened, but as the host, Lin Qi knew very well that One Leaf Floating Cloud disconnected just now, or rather, his soul returned.

"Logged off in anger?" Fang Zhen looked at One Leaf Floating Cloud on the ground, understanding, and then instructed, "You two, take Old Ye back to the resting area. Others come with me to the tunnel to see if there’s a chance."

The group nodded and started moving.

Meanwhile, on Blue Star, in Yunhai City, at the Starfire Fitness Center.

"Sis! Why did you unplug my internet?"

One Leaf Floating Cloud, awake in the gaming pod, looked angrily at the woman before him—tall over 1.8 meters, wearing a blue and white short-sleeve tight-fit outfit, her graceful and full figure like a celestial fairy.

"Ye Yun! Why do you think I unplugged it?" The woman also frowned sternly, with a tone of questioning, "I’ve told you before, you need to train your body seriously and do more practical combat training, so I can recommend you to join our Sky Traveler Adventurer’s Guild, to prepare for this year’s public test of Eternal Immortal Path. But what did you do?"

Confronted by her questioning, One Leaf Floating Cloud awkwardly smiled.

"Forgot! Got carried away playing." Facing the woman, One Leaf Floating Cloud showed no trace of pride from being a rich kid, only suppression from genes.

Ye Qinglu!

This name might be unfamiliar in the virtual gaming community, but the Sky Traveler Adventurer’s Guild, comprised of over twenty free players, is well known to major gaming guilds and studios.

Because it’s like a legendary guild, conquering over a dozen blockbuster games, creating legendary records, even top guilds amidst super games try hard to recruit.

However, these individuals’ identities have remained secretive, with no guild having ever known the members within the Sky Traveler.

"Forgot?" Ye Qinglu laughed after hearing that, her smile as warm as the spring breeze, sending chills down One Leaf Floating Cloud’s spine, "Alright! Since you forgot, let me train you well."

"Change your clothes and get on the ring! Let me train you!"

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