Chapter 139 (Blood Sky)
Murong Shan Shan stared at me, smiling. I quickly wiped the corner of my mouth and found that there were no salivas. Sob, I was tricked by her rogue words again.
Murong Shan Shan desperately tried to hold her laughing and took the quilt to the innermost room. I followed her inside. There was a huge window facing the direction of the sunrise, and a not very big bed was placed beneath the window. She pulled open the curtain that covered the window from the ceiling to the floor, and a brilliant sunlight suddenly caused the room bathed in warmth.
“If the device is installed beside the bed, you can lie on the bed bathed with sunlight while playing the game. Isn’t it awesome?” Murong Shan Shan started to imagine.
I stroked my chin, and smiled, “Sure, but there’s one very serious problem that you might not have noticed.”
“What problem?” Murong Shan Shan was confused.
I immediately said seriously, “The bed is too small, not enough for two people to sleep…”
“Not big enough?” Murong Shan Shan was startled first. A few seconds later, her pretty face suddenly became red and she stared angrily at me, “You wish! If you were to stay here, I’ll let you sleep at the door, with bolt and chain hooked at the door corner…”
“Shit, that’s too cruel!”
Murong Shan Shan stuck out her tongue and said, “You can install the device over here. I’ll go down to the market to buy some dishes. I’ll let you taste some expertly made appetizer for lunch. Let me tell you, not everyone are lucky enough to taste my cooking.”
“Really? Then you should hurry up to buy food!” I was full of expectations.
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She took some small change from the cabinet and then lightly walked out the door. I also started to install the equipment. It was quite simple, you only needed to find a power source outlet. It was done in a few minutes. I also connected the helmet and put it on to see if I could use it.
The result was quite disappointing. Just as I put on the helmet, a light flashed in my eyes and a system elf appeared in front of me, prompting, “The account bound to this helmet doesn’t match your identity. You are unable to enter the game, please quit immediately!”
Shit, it was as said in the forum. The game workstation could be replaced, but the helmet was bound to our indentity. The system would confirm easily using iris scan to identify the owner’s identity.
So I put off the helmet and looked at the landscape below. There were no building accross, only a new park. If Murong Shan Shan lied here to play the game, there shouldn’t be any danger of being watched. Otherwise, I was sure that someone would be secretly taking her personal photos. After all, a beautiful girl like her was very rare.
As I was getting bored, suddenly a sound of knocking came from the door…
It was only been a few minutes, could she be so fast shopping groceries?
I immediately rushed excitedly to open the door. Unfortunately, the one standing in front of me wasn’t the little girl but a young man wearing a suit. He looked very civilized, even his shoes were well polished.
“You… Who are you looking for?” I asked in surprise.
He was equally surprised, stunned for a moment before asking, “I’m looking for Murong Shan Shan, is she home?”
“Why are you looking for her?” Unconsciously, I let out a sign of hostility.
“Oh, I’m her neighbor. Both I and my brother have come home to have a meal. I heard that Shan Shan is also coming back for the holiday. So, we wanted to invite her to eat together. We haven’t met for almost half a year.”
My face muscles twitched. Damn! Still ignoring to invite me too, unforgiveable!
“She went out to buy groceries. She’ll have lunch with me. But thank you.” I said coldly.
The young man’s face let out a little surprised look and asked, “So it’s like that. We haven’t met before, may I ask who you are?”
“I’m Murong Shan Shan’s friend… A very good friend!” I smiled brightly showing all my teeth. It could be imagined that I must look very creepy at the moment…
The young man startled for a while, his face also turned ugly, but he still squeezed out some smile, “Well, then please tell her when she gets back. If you like, you can also come with her!”
Shit, finally he thought of me!
My expressions changed, and I smiled, “I think there’s no need for that. Thank you for your kindness…”
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After the young man went, Murong Shan Shan came back a few minutes later.
“What’s the matter? Why such a face?” Murong Shan Shan immediately saw something was wrong. She put the groceries down and grinned, “Did your coworker sent you a breakup text message?”
“What are you talking about? I’m not with anyone of them, what breakup? It’s that just now a neighbor guy came over to invite you to dinner. Who is he?”
Murong Shan Shan smiled even more, “Oh, so you were jealous!”
“Jealous? Why should I?”
“Humph, forget it if you don’t wanna say. Look at what I bought. We’ll have a big meal for lunch today!”
I looked closely, there was a total of four bags. One bag was filled with several handled blackfish, the other bags was filled with beef and mutton, which seemed to be about two or three pounds. Apparently, Murong Shan Shan already prepared the food stocks for the winter.
The last bag gave me the most surprise. It held two bottles of low-alcohol wines, and they were very good in quality.
I couldn’t help but ask in surprise, “You even drink by yourself?”
Murong Shan Shan smiled with pursing lips, “These are prepared for you. You have to come visit me often!”
“Visit you often? Are there any benefits for me?”
“Come on! Don’t talk about benefits with me. You’re rich now. Are you still going to exploit this poor person?”
“Hey! You’re living in such a house and yet, you have the nerve to call yourself a poor person?” I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
Murong Shan Shan glanced at me and said unsatisfied, “Compared to you, am I not? Come help me in the kitchen!”
I quickly rushed over. The kitchen here was very similar with Xu Lin’s. I tooked out the blackfishes and carefully cleaned them while I asked, “Right, you almost distracted me from the subject. Who is that young man who wanted to invite you to lunch? Didn’t aunt Wang say that her son and daughter-in-law are coming over to eat? That guy already have a wife and still fantasized about you?”
“That should be her second son!” Murong Shan Shan grumpily looked me in the eyes and said, “If a married man covets another girl, he’s considered immoral. That what about you? You’re keeping so many beautiful women in your studio. Is that reasonable?”
“I’m not keeping them,” I argued.
“It’s good then if you’re not.”
Murong Shan Shan laughed and then turned on the stove to cook. After I washed the fish, I helped with cooking the rice.
Half an hour later, the rice was done, the dishes were also almost done. Murong Shan Shan pulled a chair and beckoned me to sit down. She then poured me some wine and smiled, “Drink a bit to warm up. It’s okay if a man doesn’t smoke, but must absolutely be able to drink alcohol. A guy who doesn’t drink must have something missing in his bones.”
I couldn’t help but laugh, “So you don’t like smoking guys? I heard that smoking guys have a special smell, very attractive to women. I was just about to go buy some high-quality ones and start to.”
“If you really start to smoke, don’t ever think about entering my room,” Murong Shan Shan gave me a disgusting look and went on to say, “Smoking is unhealthy.”
“Oh!” I suddenly realized something and stretched out my voice to say, “Come tho think of it, you once said that smoking affects a certain body function, intolerable!”
Murong Shan Shan blushed, handed me the wine and said, “Cut the crap, drink!”
I smiled and said, “Don’t blame me if I can’t control myself after drinking!”
“I dare you then. Do you think I can’t deal with you?” Murong Shan Shan showed a fierce expression.
It was already one o’clock in the afternoon after we finished lunch. I drank quite a bit, but the alcohol level in the wine was simply too low and didn’t give me the opportunity to get drunk to do something.
After the meal, she started to ask me to leave because she wanted to go online to clear her red name. Since my helmet was at home, I had no options but to go back.
Before leaving, I didn’t forget to remind her, “Shan Shan, give me a call if something happened!”
A beautiful girl living here by herself made me feel uneasy, but I’m not that thick skinned to move in here. Besides, right now, I didn’t want to leave Xu Lin’s place.
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When I got back, Xu Lin and the others had already eaten lunch and must be currently leveling up with Lu Xue Han. Quite funny that a Mage and an Archer actually needed a Cleric to burn monsters to level up.
After I got online, I examined my equipment first. Their durabilities were consumed quite a lot. Fortunately, there was a neutral camp on Silvermoon Mountain’s valley where you could repair equipment and purchase some potions. This place had become a temporary supply point for the hundreds of red-names people from Swords and Roses guild. I just didn’t know whether or not something had happened since yesterday.
Murong Shan Shan was already online and sent a text message over, “We are at coordinates XXX,XXX. Come here by yourself!”
I rushed there once I finished repairing my equipment. Indeed, from far away I saw Murong Shan Shan’s group of people, Young and Frivolous and Sun Never Sets were also present. Altogether, there were about dozens of people, enough to form a small squadron temporarily.
Young and Frivolous immediately walked over, and I asked him, “Nothing happened last night when Murong Shan Shan and I weren’t online, right?”
“No big matters, but small things happened constantly. I haven’t gotten offline until now. Good that Murong Shan Shan and you have come now, I’m going offline to get some sleep…”
I was greatly surprised, “What small things that made you can’t even sleep?”
Young and Frivolous chuckled, “At first, we stayed to gather people at the valley’s exit until two in the morning. That was nothing, but later, Mad Warrior’s people found out that our red-names members were leveling here, so they brought more than a thousand people to besiege us. Fortunately, we hid all night in the Silvermoon Mountain, so there was no big loss.”
“What do you mean no big loss?”
Young and Frivolous helplessly said, “You should also already know that the monsters’ levels at Silvermoon Mountain weren’t low, and they aren’t few either. Fortunately, there were many of us, and our equipment were also good, so we only lose a few dozens of people. On the other side, Mad Warrior’s people who chased us into the mountain had lost quite a lot of people, so in the end, they couldn’t withstand and went back down the hill.”
“In that case, have we compensate the people who died with gold?”
Young and Frivolous smiled, “Not yet. We were waiting for Murong Shan Shan to come to decide.”
“By the way, how many members have we accepted into the guild?”
“There are currently about ten thousand people already. However, we were highly selective, otherwise, we probably might get twenty thousand members in just an hour.”
“Just keep it slow. The timing is very good, don’t rush things, otherwise, if there’re much trash, it will be difficult to handle.”
Young and Frivolous smiled in embarrassment. At this moment, Murong Shan Shan walked over here, “Hey, let’s start killing monsters to clear our names. Everyone spread out, this way, we’ll kill more monsters. Young and Frivolous, Sun Never Set’s group still lack Mages, you join them!”
Young and Frivolous chuckled in a low voice, “Look, she send me away so fast. I won’t bother you guys anymore then!”
“Shit, cut the crap. Hurry up and get over there!”
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When everyone was laughing, the system announced two news…
System Notification: Congratulations, player “Red Blood” has established the guild “Blood Sky” and gets a system reward of Level +1!
System Notification: Congratulations, player “Romantic Master” has established the guild “Romantic World” and gets a system reward of Level +1!
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Murong Shan Shan looked at me in surprise, “Why was there no such reward when I established the guild?”
I shook my head, “I don’t know, must be the system default. As the first established guild, we have already rope in all the high-level players. You can’t be unfair. You established the guild one day earlier and have pulled all the highest-rate players. This should be regarded as a big advantage already.”
I just finished my words when Sun Never Sets said in the guild channel, “Damn, the brothers at the city said that Romantic World and Blood Sky are getting members at all four gates. These people are reaching out very fast!”
Murong Shan Shan said comforting, “Let’s get our red names cleared first. The core members in the city should continue to collect players. Our relationship with Romantic World is certainly irreconcilable. Hopefully, Blood Sky won’t allied together with Romantic World!”
Everybody laughed, they didn’t expect that Murong Shan Shan would actually say such a thing…
Murong Shan Shan and I were in a group, in addition to Cocoa and two Mages. This should be a formation of an offensive team and the leveling should be quite fast. The area of Silvermoon Mountain was very big. With the current player’s level, we could only sweep monsters in the Silvermoon Forest located at the mountain foot. The monsters at the mountain top were basically at level 50 and above. Not something that ordinary players could withstand.
We kept on killing monsters until dinner time. Young and Frivolous’s and Sun Never Set’s name had turned green already, but Murong Shan Shan and I had killed too many people, so the red color on our names had only faded, but still not turned green.
Murong Shan Shan dispatched Young and Frivolous and Sun Never Set’s back to the city to recruit players. However, Murong Shan Shan and I went to a higher-level monsters’ region, deeper in the forest. The number of players became fewer and fewer, and we left the leveling players of Swords and Roses far behind. This was also good since we would avoid seeing many of them drooling while looking at Murong Shan Shan.
When it was time for dinner, I asked, “I’m going to go offline for dinner. What about you? Do you cook yourself or call for delivery?”
Murong Shan Shan smiled, “I have no appetite at the moment, I might as well just lose some weight. I’ll go out to get some midnight snack later on.”
“Your body is already that good, what weight do you wanna lose? Stop messing around. It’s dangerous to go out late at night to eat. No one is accompanying you…”
A trace of a smile flashed on the corner of her mouth.
“If you worry so much about me, why don’t you move in together with me? I will have someone taking care of me then.”
I was suddenly in a dilemma. To be honest, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to. It was because I didn’t have a reason to leave. I could not be justified if I ignored Xin Yu and Lu Xue Han just like that.
“Why don’t you get offline first to get something to eat? Don’t forget to keep the door locked.”
“I know. Wait for me when you get online again later.”
“OK!”
Watching Murong Shan Shan’s figure gradually fading in front of me, I was actually unwilling to part with her.