After three days of pregnancy, Flowing Light and Bluegreen-Clad’s treasure had finally been given birth. Han Meimei must have nagged her sister-in-law, lighting joss-sticks as she did so. Flowing Light gave birth to a baby girl and named her Green Barley (directly using Bluegreen-Clad’s “Green” as her surname)

At the public declaration, Shiny Sky opened the limits of its characters, publicly announcing that the second round of the “Shiny Sky Beauty Contest” would be a “reality show”, its contest venue and rules.

Yes, almost forgetting.

In the previous virtual beauty contests, players only uploaded their photos. But the profiteers of the profiteers, Shiny Sky the game operator thought of a frightening idea.

In the past, there were many beauties who joined the beauty contest in Shiny Sky were aplenty. However, Shiny Sky the game operator would only invite the top six online best-rated beauties to join the “reality show”.

Even though Shiny Sky’s official website did not limit the gender of players, participants were usually females. Hence, this time, the players who had entered the second round of the contest, the “reality show” were all females. Also, at present, Venus was voted most highly, followed closely by Saori behind.

Both of them would probably accept the invite to the “reality show”. But it was uncertain if upon meeting, Saori would give Venus a hard time.

But back to the topic, it was heard that in order to prevent players from cheating, including uploading the photos of other players in the competition, photoshopping too much, Shiny Sky game’s A-listed filming base had rented a space, inviting the six most highly voted players to the filming area, wearing the six major sects’ costumes designated by the Shiny Sky’s official website, letting professionals take footages and uploading them onto the official website to facilitate the second round of the competition.

By then, the results of the first competition would be zero, and judging would take place all over again. Shiny Sky would continue to use the methods of online voting in the second round. The most highly rated would be conferred the title “Beauty Queen of Shiny Sky”, awarded a mystery gift, and be signed as representative of the Shiny Sky game.

In order to sate the curiosity of Shiny Sky’s players, the Shiny Sky website would keep recording live videos of the contest and upload them onto the official website. Also, Shiny Sky would reward some players of Shiny Sky free invites to the second round of the live contest recording venue as guests. They would try on the costumes of the six major sects, and make customized personal albums.

Now the price of this rumored invite had already skyrocketed to 5,000 yuan on the game trading network and was so expensive that there wasn’t a market for it.

Zheng Xiaoguang also wanted to see. Thinking about the costumes of the six major sects professionally tailored by Shiny Sky in the first batch made her drool. However, the guest invites would probably only be extended to the rich in Shiny Sky. How could she get it?

Sigh, she could only watch in envy.

Besides this matter, lately, things had been smooth-sailing for Zheng Xiaoguang. As Flowing Light, she carried Green Barley and turned pro with the son of Han Meimei. Later, she went digging for treasure maps with Bluegreen-Clad.

Once she had been adequately prepared, remembering the PK duel with Bluegreen-Clad, she invited Bluegreen-Clad to the PK arena①.

Because bragging in front of Bluegreen-Clad, Zheng Xiaoguang was very diligent. The attack skills of the doctor were mainly in poisoning. But offensive magic was naturally lower than the magician and Zheng Xiaoguang was not at an advantage in this match. But the doctor had shielding skills and could refresh her own blood—it was definitely a career of the weak but strong. As long as Bluegreen-Clad could not shoot her, he might not exhaust her.

Zheng Xiaoguang thought that this was a foul duel. After all, the website designated the doctor sect as a complementing career but she had actually won so effortlessly… She won…

And even scored the title “Buster of Bluegreen-Clad”!

[Public Chat] Flowing Light: You gave in to me deliberately. You did not use your trump card on me.

Moreover, when she threw her technique at him, he just stood there absorbing the hit. How could he not lose to her?

[Public Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: Wife, well, you are my buster.

Bluegreen-Clad the god-like player had already doted Zheng Xiaoguang to the sky. Even if people had rumored that Bluegreen-Clad must have been blind to give up on Venus to choose Flowing Light, they couldn’t help but admire his caring attitude towards Flowing Light.

Everything was turning for the better, only one news made Zheng Xiaoguang perplexed. Her leveling-up team had lost a member. But when Soft-heartedness Is a disease told her that Cool Names Taken by Dogs had quit the game, she was extremely sad.

Soft-heartedness Is a disease had already gotten used to going to the battlefield with Slightly Defected Moon. Old Tomb, apart from increasing in rank with the team, would go to different maps to massacre the BOSS when he had nothing to do. And Zheng Xiaoguang, after marrying Bluegreen-Clad, had neglected her friends, essentially being together with Bluegreen-Clad online everyday. The doctor who leveled up with Soft-heartedness and the gang had already turned from Flowing Light into Half a Cup of Lovesickness.

But Zheng Xiaoguang had never forgotten about these pals. She still remembered when she first joined the game, Soft-heartedness Is a Disease did not know anything and died many times when she stepped on the maps, becoming a laughing stock for a whole week.

Old Tomb was almost the veteran of the game, and was skilled in researching the strategies on the official website. His greatest love was axing the Map Boss. That time, everyone’s preparations were terrible, relying completely on Old Tomb to axe the Map Boss across the map in stealth mode. He was in green camouflage and blue dress. As for the purple equipment, it was used sometimes and was incomparable to the purple equipment in level 85.

Later, he met Cool Names Taken by Dogs. This fella might seem slovenly but was easy-going. He and Old Tomb were half an RMB player but they had no need to defend themselves in the previous season. The magician’s defenses were not naturally good, so everytime he rushed to the fore facing a swarm of monsters, Flowing Light had to add blood at the rear.

That time, whenever Zheng Xiaoguang called pulling-monster Soft-heartedness and Old Tomb back, she would call out, “Close the door, and let out Dogs!”

These things flashed back, but some people were already not here. They were clearly good friends in the game like confidantes, but because everyone belonged to different corners of the world, once they left the game, it was hard to meet again in this lifetime.

Zheng Xiaoguang sighed. This was a game and every encounter was a rare affinity. Every goodbye was also ordained. Cool Names Taken by Dogs had told them before he left, but many in the game left without saying goodbye.

Of course, there were those like Zheng Xiaoguang and Blooming Pear Tree who were very close, and became friends who would play together in future. But this was rare.

Hence, after a few days of relaxation, Zheng Xiaoguang started to ruminate again. What would happen to her and Bluegreen-Clad? Would he leave without saying goodbye?

Note:

①The PK arena is a field where players compete against each other. There are no monsters in the arena. Players can freely PK each other here and players who die will not lose experience, wealth, defense and endurance. Winners can earn fame and rewards, which can hopefully redeem equipment and other defenses in the PK arena and NPC area.