Chapter 45
Chapter 45 A Life for a Life
That day, Zheng Xiaoguang, as promised, logged onto “Sitting on the Floor”. Bluegreen-Clad, Li Lei and Han Meimei were already online. Blooming Pear Tree could not play as she had something on. She passed her account number to Zheng Xiaoguang.
Flowing Light: Haha, I can’t sit on the floor today. I am feeling a little sad.
Bluegreen-Clad: [smiling faintly] Where did Big Uncle go?
Huh- This time Big Uncle should let Blooming Pear Tree hear all about it.
Flowing Light: He returned briefly to the “Flying Deity” game that we played before.
I heard that in that game, Blooming Pear Tree met a girl who became very important to him. Her name was “Rose”. However, he did not treasure the opportunity. When “Rose” disappeared, he finally discovered his own feelings. However, looking for her was like finding a needle in a haystack. Moreover, they were separated by the virtual world. Hence, he never found any news about “Rose”.
In these two years, he continued to play computer games and asked all his gaming friends to help him find out news about the girl. But it was all in vain. His friends advised him to give up but he just wouldn’t.
Finally, last night, a friend who had played “Flying Deity” suddenly told him that they had encountered a girl named “Rose” in the new region of “Flying Deity”. Hence, Blooming Pear Tree planned to return to Flying Deity today to try her luck.
Hence, today, Zheng Xiaoguang would refresh her levels with the name of “Blooming Pear Tree” and her own gaming character would be left in the lower right corner of the 100th level of gaining levels fishing village.
Zheng Xiaoguang had helped Blooming Pear Tree play this name of “Warrior” many times. Even though she had rarely logged in using the name of “Blooming Pear Tree” after marrying Bluegreen-Clad, she was no stranger to it. Bluegreen-Clad, Han Meimei, Li Lei and she then went down to the four different corners of the map on their own to kill monsters. Seeing the numbers above the heads of the characters that swiftly increased, Zheng Xiaoguang felt deeply comforted- indeed, his efforts had reaped rewards.
After killing monsters for about an hour, Zheng Xiaoguang axed Blooming Pear Tree’s playing screen. He adjusted Flowing Light’s gaming interface, deciding to assess her character experience. But little did he see that Flowing Light’s screen had already turned black and white.
Game Message: You have been killed by Baby520. Please choose the solution that you would like to adopt: going back to the city to resurrect yourself or waiting for help.
Game Message: Because of your character’s death, the treasure in your tummy had an accidental miscarriage. You glanced pitifully at it and it was actually a fully-formed male infant. (Automatically entering the condition of miscarriage, within 24 hours an internal character’s attributes had declined 50%, and was unable to reconceive as a result of the miscarriage.)
It’s Baby520 again! The last time, she had already let her go. How dare she come back again and hurt the child!
Zheng Xiaoguang activated Blooming Pear Tree’s clairvoyant abilities and started to trace Baby520’s coordinates, the results of the search being that she was indeed in the fishing village [159,288].
Following which, she had no hint of hesitation at all, immediately flying over on the name of Blooming Pear Tree, riding a “Night Kirin”. Seeing Baby520, she used her warrior capabilities without a second word to knock her out with “Severe Warning”. Later, she called up with the skills of a group of warriors and simply did not care about any group or individual abilities.
Blooming Pear Tree’s defences were excellent. They were so good that under conditions of rage, Flowing Light’s several capabilities were thrown over and Baby520 had turned into a corpse immediately.
Blooming Pear Tree: Come, try me if you dare sneak attack again.
Baby520: You are Flowing Light that bastard? I will f——- kill your whole family!
Blooming Pear Tree: You lone woman don’t have that strength!
Flowing Light, who had lost some of his wits in his rage used the shop equipment’s Revival Talisman on Baby520.
Blooming Pear Tree: Get up!
However, Baby520 chose to return to the city to resurrect instead, the corpse vanishing before Zheng Xiaoguang. This time, even Bluegreen-Clad noticed this side was amiss.
Bluegreen-Clad: Who killed you?
Flowing Light: It was Baby520!
Han Meimei: Huh? She sneak attacked you?
According to Flowing Light’s current rank and defences, it would be very hard for Baby520 to win if she went for an assault head-on.
Flowing Light: Yes.
[Public Chat]: The whole area wants Baby520. It would be no surprise if anyone who is with her gets killed.
Zheng Xiaoguang used Clairvoyant to check Baby520’s coordinates and this revealed that she was at Seaside.
Flowing Light: She is at Seaside [337,124].
Bluegreen-Clad: Li Lei, Meimei, leave the group. Dear wife, your character is injured now, return to the safe zone. It is enough for me alone to hunt her down and kill her.
Li Lei: OK.
Han Meimei: Received!
Flowing Light: Bluegreen-Clad, she killed our son, I absolutely cannot tolerate this matter.
Bluegreen-Clad: Good.
Watching Bluegreen-Clad turn around to leave, Zheng Xiaoguang sent his character back to the safe zone of the entire city. Han Meimei comforted him in the Private Chat saying: Flowing Light, are you fine? I have never seen you lose your temper.
Even if the “Goddess and Nüwa” poster were to spread to the entire region of the Watery South, Zheng Xiaoguang would never lose his temper.
Flowing Light: She killed the son of mine and Bluegreen-Clad’s!
It was only when Zheng Xiaoguang sent out this message that she had realized that she was indeed a little impulsive. The so-called Players and their Children were no more than a sequence of the Game Message. The children who were conceived were no more than an exclusive NPC, similar to the Summoner’s favorite child- it might not even be more useful than summoning the favorite child.
Moreover, the miscarriage had only added 24 hours of negative effect. It is still possible to conceive 24 hours later- it was not as though it is impossible to conceive any longer.
But why would she be so angry?
Her and Bluegreen-Clad’s son…
Han Meimei: Flowing Light, you told me secretly, did you fall in love with the gang boss and everything associated with him and that’s why you treasured this child so much?
Love? Bluegreen-Clad?
Zheng Xiaoguang hurriedly shook her head. Didn’t she decide not to fall in love easily with anyone? But what’s this feeling towards Bluegreen-Clad- the last time when Bluegreen-Clad suddenly disappeared, she had even the idea of quitting the game- what had happened to her?
Only because she had been used to Bluegreen-Clad’s company, or that she had already started to waver long ago?
Han Meimei: View the Public Chat quickly.
Zheng Xiaoguang only came to his senses now, discovering that Baby520 was no longer on Bluegreen Clad’s radar and was begging for mercy on the Public Chat.
[Public Chat] Baby520: Bluegreen-Clad, didn’t I just kill your wife once? What’s this killing me 10 times? Doesn’t the forced resurrect book in the shop require money?
The resurrect book in the shop is different from the Revival Talisman. It could resurrect the dead players in the game by force but its price is significantly higher than the Revival Talisman.
In the past, Zheng Xiaoguang felt that this equipment was chicken feed. Never did he think that it would be a great instrument for revenge. If Bluegreen-Clad had used the resurrect book to kill Baby520 10 times, then Baby520 would have dropped at least three levels.
[Public Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: You killed my wife and my son- it’s a life for a life.
[Public Chat] Baby520: I say Bluegreen-Clad, are you sick? You had already killed me 15 times, isn’t that more than a life for a life?
[Public Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: What I mean by a life for a life is to turn you into a dead person in the Watery South area- in other words, to kill you until you quit the game.
[Public Chat] Baby520: Bluegreen-Clad, just for an NPC child- are you crazy?
[Public Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: You have offended me- either you quit the game, or you can get killed by me every day online until I quit the game.