003. Show You Around

Although he was still unable to truly get along with the other man, but to be able to meet an old "acquaintance" online, He Jin couldn't help but feel a little happy at heart: "This game seems to have changed a lot."

His answer came in the form of a red pop-up box on the screen -

「Fire Ruthless」 invites you to "ride together", please choose "reject" / "accept".

-And one sentence: "Come on, I'll show you around."

Without him noticing, at the other man's side suddenly appeared a beast with black and red furs. The beast's whole body and side were covered in flames, making it looked like burning. He Jin eyed it for a second before clicking the "accept" option.

Tsing Yi automatically climbed on the beast, weakly leaning on Fire Ruthless's body.

He Jin: "..."

On the screen, the sight of his pet.i.te and commoner-like character, sitting together with the other's tall and mighty figure... how to look at this ah. (= _ =)

Eight years ago, after all, they both were still small children, even if they got married, it was only like playing house. But it's different now, in twenty-two years old He Jin's view, he had pure male psychology, he couldn't possibly become "other people's wife ". And to be hugged from behind by another man... it felt a bit awkward.

But in the end it was in the game, this male-female sitting posture was the system default, there was no other choice.

The "sacred animal" carrying two people began to run, and not long, the four legs begin to take off the ground, as if aiming to the cloud, and fly like the wind.

He Jin tried to find something to talk about to get rid of his embarra.s.sment: "What is this mound? It looks handsome."

Fire Ruthless: "Poor Flames."

Xiao Sin A Jin: "What is it called?"

Fire Ruthless: "Blazing Soul Rosefinch"

Xiao Xian Jin: "How do you have wings behind you?"

Fire Ruthless: "It is the Wings of Magic."

Xiao Xian Jin: "..."

He Jin did not speak again. Although hearing about those things gave him a very cool feeling, but he had never heard of them. Asking about them so much, he might seems a bit silly.

Fortunately, the scenery around them was nice.

They just left the Flower Valley, went into the mountain path. There were green gra.s.ses all along the way, with a few flowing flowers here and there.

The feeling of the game now was very real. The computer hardware's technology was up to date, so there would be no data lag, machine problem, and other phenomena. The game scene details were comparable to fantasy movies, each frame showed up a very beautiful picture.

He Jin put on his headphones, and heard the simulation sound coming from the game - the wind blowing through the leaves, birds chirping as if singing, the sound of the Poor Flame when running was so soft like cotton, but with an occasional hisses, making his heart speeds up.

Xiao Xian Jin: "So beautiful ..."

Fire Ruthless: "After the holographic version comes out, the feeling will be more beautiful. Not only you can see the scenery, but also feel them ... Right, that holographic helmet lottery, are you joining it?"

Xiao Xian Jin: "Yes, I entered it before." He Jin was a bit excited about the simulation game's results.

Fire Ruthless: "Oh ..."

While talking, the Fire took him to a village with an antique entrance, wooden pillars with letters written on them: The First Village.

Fire Ruthless: "Do you recognize this place?"

He Jin glanced around, hesitated and asked: "Here is... The Novice Village?"

Fire Ruthless: "Yes."

The ancient looking village gate, the flow of villagers cutting firewood on the edge, they were the NPCs who would be giving out novice tasks in exchange of medicine Dan to mark the step of entering the door of immortality. Seeing these familiar scenes and NPCs, He Jin's memory slowly began to brighten up!

Although the impression now was not as strong as when he first started playing, but every newbie players surely had different feeling about this village.

Here was where He Jin first learned to roll and jump, first time to do tasks and missions, the first time to learn to buy things, to take medicine to recover his blood, the first time to find ways to chop things, and then gain experience, to have achievements, to get more powerful equipments ... Each growth and upgrades left him with a full sense of accomplishment.

He Jin felt his mood changed back to become a bit like those of eight years ago- the feeling of freedom as if finally broken free from a cage, like flying among the clouds, so at ease, free, and happy. The corner of He Jin's mouth unconsciously curled up into a smile.

Before, he said that even if he logged in back in this game, it did not mean he will start playing again, but now he's a little shaken.

The Fire took him around the village, and to the back of the mountain. There, they saw many mountain monkeys scratching on rocks and slopes in the hill.

Fire Ruthless canceled their riding status. The two just landed on the ground, there was suddenly a crazy monkey rushed over to scratch them. He Jin instinctively wanted to counterattack, but when he was scrambling to find the skills key, Fire Ruthless already let out a stream of blood like-ripples to the center of the monkeys. The ripples quickly spread everywhere, the monkeys tried to escape, but they couldn't!

At the same time, He Jin's screen was also rapidly flas.h.i.+ng -

〖System〗: Your husband Fire Ruthless kills 1 monkey, you gain 1 experience .

〖System〗: Your husband Fire Ruthless kills 1 monkey, you gain 1 experience .

〖System〗: Your husband Fire Ruthless kills 1 monkey, you gain 1 experience.

〖System〗......

...

Two seconds later, the whole mountain was silent, and the hundreds of monkeys in an instant have been turned to ashes.

Tsing Yi in a moment suddenly gained hundreds of experience points: "..."

The Fire Ruthless stood calmly in front of He Jin, his sword back hanging by his side, his clothes free of any blood, as if the slaughter incident of the monkeys had nothing to do with him.

The man had a speech bubble floating above his head: "The place we are now, do you have any impression of it?"

Different people, different place, different words.

However, the scene with the monkeys had opened He Jin's dust-laden memory ...

He asked somewhat uncertainly: "Are you in lower grade than me?"

Fire Ruthless: "Yes."

He Jin remembered, this guy had to be that - take a blunt sword to the mountains and then died numerous times - mortal rookie? (= _ =)

Mortal (human race) couldn't use any spells until they take the step into immortality. They could only use knives, swords, stones and other tools, or even bare handed, to fight. Therefore, the lower-level human race died easily.

At that time, He Jin pa.s.sed here and saw this fierce rookie, Fire, who was being fooled around by the monkeys. He gave him a little help, and after that they get acquainted with each other.

Back then, meeting new friends on the internet was also a very new experience for He Jin. Moreover, since he was older, He Jin's character made him prefer to take care of the other as his elder.

Although he was brought to play by his cla.s.smates, but He Jin could not keep up with their pace in leveling, so over time he was casted aside, leaving him with only one person to team up with, the Fire, who he had gotten to know in the game. So He Jin naturally began playing with him more and more often.

Finally understanding the mystery behind this 'Fire Ruthless', He Jin was surprised: "So it is you!"

However, this guy was originally called "Fire" and not "Fire Ruthless."

Xiao Xian Jin: "How did you change your name to " Fire Ruthless ?" No wonder he did not recognize him before!

Fire Ruthless: "Why do you think?

The other 's response made He Jin felt a bit confused. Fire Ruthless saw him thinking, and said , "You leave eight years ago. How can I still have a heart?"

[T/N: Qin Yu's name in the game can mean either Fire Ruthless or Fire Heartless.]

He Jin thought he was joking, so he also followed with a joke: "Why, is it hard to divorce in this game if the two people are not online at the same time?"

A cold wind blew, and then silence.

On their side, Blazing Soul Rosefinch flapped it's wings with a shrill cry: "squeak - ah!"

That sounds a bit weird, like the beast was saying: "pig ah ..."

Ten seconds later, the fire sent only one sentence: "Whether it's in the Spirit Fairy or Demon G.o.d, only the proposed person have the right to dissolve the engagement."

He Jin blanched, thinking that he was the one who was being proposed before, so it led to Fire Ruthless being unable to divorce him.

HeJin felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry ah, to have delayed you for so long ... Why don't you take me to the place where we can dissolve the engagement??"

Blazing Soul Rosefinch: "Squeak ..."

He Jin: "..."

Fire Ruthless's hands seemed to stiffen at his side, but still no action. He Jin was going to ask again, when his screen began to flashed repeatedly.

〖System〗: You are attacked by "Fire Ruthless".

〖System〗: You suffered 1650 damage.

〖System〗: You have died.

... And so he died again for the second time...

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※ Spirit Fairy - Past ※ (two)

He Jin looked at his character level on the upper left corner of the screen - "Half-Demon (10)."

Finally rose to level ten, from simply a "spirit" he had turned into a "half demon"! ~ (≧ ▽ ≦) / ~

His character image had changed from the seven or eight year-old child it originally was, into a ten-year-old appearance with grayish-white hair. Although, the gender still couldn't be determined, but his body had grown much taller and his running became faster!

He Jin excitedly went to get the next task - collecting herbs.

This was a simple task. He Jin ran to the mission's location, entered the mountain, and saw a figure killing mountain monkeys.

The task of killing mountain monkeys was a norm in Spirit Fairy. Many new players had been defeated here, especially the low-level "mortals" whose only form of attack was at close range.

He Jin was brought to play this game by his cla.s.smates, so in the beginning he had someone to help him , therefore he did not experience any suffering. Not to mention he played the "Spirit" race, capable of using long-range magic attacks, although the power is not big, but he still could use a flying attack to kill, so he has no deep resentment towards the monkeys.

On the other hand, the "mortals" kept on dying, so a lot of them began to complain, saying that this was a system bug. Monkey's lethality is so high, simply unscientific!

Unexpectedly, the official gave an answer: The purpose of this task is to let everyone experience the rugged road to Cultivation ...

The players felt bitter, but also helpless. Over time, "when killing the monkeys, teaming up is a must" had became everyone's consensus.

He Jin saw the figure called Fire in the mountain, who had been killed by the monkey, for who knows how many times!

Originally, he thought after Fire realized how powerful the monkeys were, he would go to the world channel shouting for people to team up with, but He Jin miscalculated. This stupid mortal was actually a man looking for death!

... what a good dedication. (= _ =)

In the game system settings, when a mortal male role died, there was a very heroic action - one hand covered their chest, knees kneeling, body b.l.o.o.d.y, before falling straight down.

He Jin had seen other people's death before, but when he saw this man dead, he could not help but laugh.

After the character died, the player could choose to rebirth at the nearest resurrection point, and the body on the ground would disappear.

But this guy after died has been lying there for so long, there is no movement!

Is he too depressed after being killed? Haha!

He Jin collected herbs around the mountain, and when he went back, he saw see the man has died back and forth again and again. Is he a fool ah?

However, this time, when he had only a little blood left, the man sent a bubble box containing a call for help to He Jin: "99999999 ..." The next second after the bubble appeared, the man was attacked by three monkeys at the same time.

Once again, one hand covered his chest, knees kneeling, body b.l.o.o.d.y - die!

Fire: "..."

He Jin finally could not help but laugh out loud!

He sent a fried request to the man and said: "Let's team up, I'll help you."

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Please note that english is not my first language, and this is not beta-ed, therefore there might be some grammatical errors here and there. Also, I don't know chinese, like at all, so this translation might not be completely accurate.