Reign of the Hunters

Chapter 19: Storm Precursors

There is no way to be so distressed. The best way to solve this is to take another look. Leaf looked at the remaining consumables on his body and finally decided to go back to Red Lake City to recharge them before going.

But when you get back to Red Lake City, the leaves aren't that easy to get rid of. First of all, the most recent business in Mom and Dad's shop doesn't seem very good. The main reason is that there is no special formula, and the life skill level of the two people is still relatively low. Therefore, what is made is not a rare item. Even if it is placed in such a good paved position, it is not very good business.

This situation is clearly completely different from what Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan had initially envisaged. So, after thinking about it over and over, the two people decided to quit the game and let the leaves take the pavement back and sublet it to someone else, so that it wouldn't cost too much.

When Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolanzhiwu informed Ye of this decision, Ye Wu was sitting in Ye Nantian's shop eating a less delicious western soup.

“Little word, we don't do this shop, you sublet it out. ”

“Pfft...” I don't know if it's because my parents told me about their decision at the same time, or because the western soup is really too bad. In short, the leaf word sprays all the soup that was just in my mouth onto my old face sitting opposite me.

“Ah, sorry sorry.” Leaf looked at his parents, who had been made to look wondrous by themselves, and hurried to apologize.

Although this situation does not cause much harm in the game, it is still somewhat altered in appearance. Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan wiped their faces with a rag. Ye Nantian also said with humor: “Small words, we have washed our faces this morning. ”

So it made Ye even more embarrassing, she laughed with her hey, and then quickly turned the subject off: “What did you just say? ”

“We said we didn't want to do this shop, so you'd better sublet it.” Zuo Xiaolan hurriedly repeated it.

The corner of Leaf's mouth twitched, not answering their questions immediately, but instead asking: "Why? ”

If someone asks why, Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan may have to take into account facial problems to say some false and empty bullshit, but Ye is their daughter, and they don't hide it from her, and they just tell her the truth: “The small word, we are all family, we don't say anything lying anymore.” Zuo Xiaolan sighed, then looked at Ye Nantian, then said: "You give us this paved location, there are a lot of people entering the store every day, but we don't know why, our business just doesn't have the sound of other stores, we think, rather than let us continue to waste so much, you can sublet the store and make some money. ”

“Subletting?” Ye chuckled: “Mom, although this game is 100% imitation, many places are still not as complete as they are in real life. It's like this sublet thing, it doesn't happen in games.” After that, she added in silence, of course, in the near future.

“So, what do we do? Let's keep losing money like this?” Zuo Xiaolan, who saved his life, heard the words of the leaves, immediately threw his head like a wave drum: “No, absolutely not! Anyway, I quit. It hurts me to live all day. ”

“Mom, don't forget, we have a contract. If you unilaterally terminate the contract, you pay the liquidated damages.” The so-called Mother of Knowledge, on the other hand, also makes sense. Having been a mother and daughter for two lifetimes with Zuo Xiaolan, what leaf words she was thinking was obvious and clear. So she didn't feel comfortable with Zuo Xiaolan's disagreement, but simply moved the contract out.

“Liquidated damages? What liquidated damages?” Zuo Xiaolan looked at the game from beginning to end as if it was just a game, so the contract they signed with Ye Yi had left her in the warehouse without even looking at it.

“Mom, didn't you see the contract we signed?” Leaf used her heel to think and know that Mama didn't see it, but she pretended not to know, revealed a surprise, even gently squeezed her nails, and blew the ashes in her nails.

“Contract?” Zuo Xiaolan's mouth began to cramp. She glanced slowly at Ye Nantian around her. I didn't expect Ye Nantian to see that thing at all like her. Now Ye Nantian shook her head in haste and panic under her gaze, indicating that she had no idea what the contract was all about.

“That's what I said not to sign. You must have forced me to sign that thing?” The leaves narrowed their eyes and the corners of their lips revealed a calculated smile. She even warned very badly that the source of the contract was not actually her own request. She watched as her parents had begun to grow a black line of head and further deepened their impression: “That's the two signed in the city hall. Oh, by the way, you made a specific assessment of the body of the mayor of Red Lake City...”

“Come on, I've remembered what it is.” When it comes to the embarrassment of the couple, the black line on Zuo Xiaolan's head has become thicker. How could she not remember that she and Ye Nantian had just entered the game, curious about everything. I thought it was just a game, so I wasn't serious about the characters and everything, so when the mayor of Red Lake City came and received them, they actually started discussing other people's bodies in front of them. What spherical body is also in shape, I don't know what he eats to grow so fat or something.

They were happy, while the face of the leaves was dark, she coughed and hoped that the parents would not continue, but Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian did not realize how important this was, or kept saying it. Finally, until the mayor's face turned black into a pawn, she said silently: “Are you here to sign the contract or are you here to count me down?” Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan realized that it was only after their conversation that the person could all hear and have a normal human reaction that they were almost shocked. They really wanted to drill down on the ground.

And the contract signed in that case, they didn't even look at it properly, directly as evidence of the shame they had done, immediately sealed it in the warehouse, and then forgot it as quickly as possible.

Yet at this point, the leaf word refers to that thing and gives them a moment when they don't have any idea about it at all. Zuo Xiaolan reported that she had forgotten, and the leaf words should not remember too clearly. Though she thought it was unlikely, she still wanted to take a chance: “What happened to signing the contract? So much stuff, I don't remember. ”

“It doesn't matter if you don't remember, Mom. I can get my contract out and read it to you immediately.” Ye looked at Zuo Xiaolan, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said the words lightly, blocking Zuo Xiaolan's words back.

Zuo Xiaolan looked at Ye without expression: “I don't even remember, how can you remember if you are my daughter or not, but you are not with me. ”

Ye irrelevantly picked the eyebrows, then moved the contract out of his contract page and started reading it. The so-called contract kind of thing actually says that some people don't understand sentences, so after reading Ye's words for a while, Zuo Xiaolan shouted: “I don't understand, I don't understand, don't read! ”

There was always a way to deal with the words of Zuo Xiaolan. Since Zuo Xiaolan said she didn't understand, she nodded and closed the contract and said: "Well, since you don't understand this kind of written text, I'll tell you in simple terms. What I have just said to you is very simple, that the contract is based on mutual assistance and equality between the parties, and that in order to regulate the behaviour of both parties, once either party is willing to break the contract, it will pay the other ten times the rent in a lump sum. ”

“Ten times...” Now it's Zuo Xiaolan's turn to start twitching at the corner of his mouth. “What's the rent? ”

“By the way, our paved rent was a one-time payment, of course I didn't charge your rent at the time, but in the system I was acquiesced that I had already paid the rent, so if you were going to default, Mom, I'm afraid you're going to have to pay me 10 years' rent at a time, and it's ten times as much. ”

“I asked what the rent was!” Zuo Xiaolan looked at the curve at the corner of her daughter's mouth and was eager to go up and beat her up. She asked out loud.

“Not much, that is, 20 million gold coins.” Leaf words stretched out two fingers and swayed in front of their parents.

Zuo Xiaolan's pupils all of a sudden grew up. She looked at the leaf words unbelievably, then pointed loudly at her pavement and said: "Dead girl, what are you talking about! You said you can't eat or drink this house, it's a set of stinking data in the game, and you're renting 20 million gold coins in 10 years! You think I'm an idiot! Which retard uses real gold and silver to buy virtual things in this game...”

Ye was not angry at all, and she knew that when she said that, her mother was going to jump like Ray, but that was exactly what she wanted. Zuo Xiaolan, they never played the game, and they didn't really take what was in the game as one thing. They simply entered the game with the idea of wandering around. If they were to really get into the game, they had to think of a way to tie them up. And as long as Zuo Xiaolan is tied to Ye Nantian, the easy way to tie up Zuo Xiaolan is to make her owe a lot of money...

“Mom, if that's what you're saying, people will beat you up later.” The leaves are a faint reminder.

This was a very successful way to close Zuo Xiaolan's mouth, then he rushed to the side of the leaf words and said to her: “Dead girl, don't ignore me! I don't play games, I'll be ignored by you, now I won't be ignored by you! I know that everything in the game is made up of data, it's fake, even the contract you said is fake! I'm telling you, I'm not playing anymore, this game is too bad, I don't want to lose, I'm not playing!! ”

Ye nodded and even clapped his hands: “I can't see, Mom, you've only been playing games for a few days, and you even know this. ”

“Humph, so don't think I'm an idiot, and don't think I'm such a liar!” Zuo Xiaolan stared at the leaves and felt herself in the upper hand.

“If I remember correctly, Ma, did you get a legal contract from the Bank of China the other day? Of course I have one too.” Ye narrowed his eyes and looked at Zuo Xiaolan in a good way.

“Yeah, what's up?” Zuo Xiaolan hummed her nose, in her eyes, she was just like Buddha, the leaf word is the grand monkey, in any case, this grand monkey can not jump out of the palm of the hand of Lu Buddha.

“That's the legal certified official contract we signed in the game. That means... whether you're paved with data or not, this contract is real.” Leaf continues to smile: “If you want to break a contract, the data in the game will be fed back to the bank's legal department, which will deduct your amount from the game based on the amount you defaulted on. ”

“Then I'm not online anymore.” Speaking of real life contracts, Zuo Xiaolan's tone suddenly softened. As a flat-headed citizen, Zuo Xiaolan was most afraid to deal with these big caps.

“Yes, after deducting the money from your game, you can deduct the money from your bank... after deducting the money from your bank, if you still can't pay the liquidated damages...” Ye worded slightly, hanging Zuo Xiaolan's appetite to the maximum: “Mom, I don't know what will happen...”

“You unfaithful girl!! How dare you dig a hole to bury your mother!” Zuo Xiaolan finally broke out, and she immediately started beating the leaf words, but was soon judged by the system to be actively attacking the player, but because of the level gap between the two sides, she was merely restricted and not punished further.

This time, Zuo Xiaolan was completely honest. She sat in her chair and watched the leaves begin to soften and harden: “Little words, Mom, aren't you afraid of losing money? ”

“Mom, I'm not afraid of loss. What are you afraid of?” Leaf words are not moved at all.

“But look at us now, there's no one shopping in the store every day, I'm in a hurry!” Zuo Xiaolan moved with understanding.

“What's the hurry? Take your time doing business.” Leaf drank his last sip of western soup and looked at Mom with a smile. ”I don't need you to pay the rent. “

“Take your time, take your time...” Zuo Xiaolan muttered: “I'd like to take my time, but I always feel like I don't have the talent to do business myself, so it's a waste of money. Little word, we're not a big family. We don't have that much money to waste. Why don't you think of something? ”

“Mom, I know what you're thinking. It's actually not as hard to do business in the game as you think. I'm telling you, the reason you're in a bad business right now is because your life skills are too low. You see, the players today are basically in levels 35 to 40, but everything you sit on is for a dozen levels. Even if you always use new people to enter the game, they can choose the auction house. Many of the equipment there are eliminated by the players, cheaper than the store, cheaper than what you do. This way, of course, your business is bad.” Leaf begins to explain to two people why business is bad, otherwise they only know one, they don't know the second, they will never get away in the game.

Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian glanced at each other, and there was a great feeling that this was the case. But Zuo Xiaolan quickly reacted: “So, if we want to do business, do we have to practice life skills hard? ”

“This is natural. Life skills are, of course, more advanced and more fragrant, especially if you have recipes that other life skill artists don't, which is more like monopolizing the market. This is also why the more senior life skilled people are able to make money. ”

“But..." Ye Nantian soon also found the problem: “Life skill master upgrade is very slow, you see we don't have raw materials to practice now, we can only go outside the city to pick up some things people don't want, how long does this take to practice? ”

“Why are you picking it up outside the city? You're not average players, you haven't practiced, you get very little out of town to pick up corpses, and you're dangerous, especially to find premium ingredients and fabrics usually go to more dangerous areas, you can't go to levels like this, why go this way?” Leaf doesn't really understand how parents practice their skills: “Don't you know there's something called an auction house in the world? Don't you know that you can receive materials on your own for a long time? ”

Ye Yi took it for granted, not everyone, especially two people listened to Ye Yi's words and then came back to her in unison: “How much does it cost! ”

Leaf began to white-eyed, and she wanted to leave a few thunder and cut herself to death: “It's not like you're spending money. Didn't I already give you the start-up money? Why don't you spend it?” She was sure that the money she gave her parents would be kept in the warehouse.

“Just in case you need it from time to time.” Zuo Xiaolan also thinks he has a point: “What if I use it now and there is a natural or man-made disaster? ”

“It's a game, there won't be any natural or man-made disasters.” Ye Wu already wanted to hit the table with her head, and she sometimes felt helpless about Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian.

“When the money is spent, it's gone.” This is Zuo Xiaolan's argument, and she always thought so: “Instead of spending it, I'd rather keep it in the bank...”

“Banks in the game don't pay interest on your savings.” Ye's voice was getting weaker and weaker, and she felt that she was about to be driven mad by Zuo Xiaolan.

“I don't care, I like saving so much. ”

“How long do you want to lose?" ”Finally, the leaves are on fire:“ On the one hand, you don't want to lose money, and on the other hand, you don't want to improve your skills immediately. So tell me, when do you want to lose money? ”

“I, I, I didn't say I didn't want to improve my skills...” Zuo Xiaolan saw her daughter go mad and suddenly felt a little depressed, but she soon became honest and she felt she had nothing wrong. “I just don't want to spend money. ”

“Is that any different from what you don't want to improve your skills?” Leaf words are about to start: “You're only at level 10. Do you think you can go to level 20, level 30, or higher to pick up the rest of the bodies? Even if you could? How many of you think people won't pick up the bodies and leave the materials for you...”

“It will eventually happen...” Zuo Xiaolan, who often goes to pick up leaks, of course knows how right the leaves are, but she just can't help but hold her mouth.

“By the day you finally get home, isn't the game going down!” Ye finally started filming the table: “That's the attitude, you said you wanted to upgrade your skills, you said you didn't want to lose money, I think you are ignoring me!! ”

Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian finally had nothing to say. They sat on the stool with their heads down and listened to the reprimand of Ye words like elementary school students.

“If you make money now, you don't, it's inevitable, but if you spend money, don't you? Find a life-skiller in our guild to give them this kind of benefit, they're afraid that all the fun is going to spit, you can't afford to give me one!” Leaf words, whether opposite parents or not, set aside the momentum of coming to the person, and gave the newcomer a complete set of classes.

At this time, from time to time, players pass through the doors of the store and look at what is happening in the shop with a startling look. Did they use their eyes? Didn't you say the boy was silent? Didn't you say your eyes were above the top of your head? Didn't you say the boy was laughing? So who's the elf hunter who's teaching two rookies in the store now?

“But here's your money, we have to save it for you... I'm afraid you'll be dowry in the future...” Zuo Xiaolan was taught by Yip Yip, but when necessary, she still felt that she had to strive for the good she deserved.

The leaves suddenly became sour when they heard it here. She looked down at her parents sitting in front of her and just felt her eyes were a little blurred. She blinked quickly, making herself not too faint. That's the parents. That's her parents. They think about themselves whenever they do. She suddenly felt that her temper was so disqualified, she took a deep breath, sat down, held her parents' hands, and lowly apologized: "Mom and Dad, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. ”

Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian were made unable to touch their heads by the words of Ye. In their hearts, Ye Yi has always been a strong child and seldom speaks in such a low voice, which leaves their hands and feet untouched. Zuo Xiaolan was more busy pulling the leaf words: “Oops, oops, small words, I am cheap, you know, I just can't afford to spend money, if you really let me spend money, me, me, I can still accomplish the task! ”

Saying, Zuo Xiaolan's face of heroic indignation looked like there was no difference between making this promise and eating her flesh and drinking her blood.

Ye Nantian also fully supports his wife's statement on one side. This is the style that Ye Nantian has always done. He is definitely a wife-centric figure, at all times and under all circumstances.

Ye Yu smiled bitterly, her heart was even more sour, but she still patted the hands of her parents: “If you want to save the dowry for me, make money, I hope you will give me a big dowry when I marry. ”

“But spending money...”

“Mom, I can't help but have a wolf. In this day and age, there's no such thing as an empty glove for a white wolf. If you want to make money, you have to learn to spend money first. It is not possible to save money and save it for the landlord.” Leaf laughed and blocked everything her mother had to say. Then she got up and planned to say goodbye, and now all she had to say was, the most important thing now was to leave time for the parents to think about themselves, and for them to think about what to do. If she stayed here, they would still be drilling the horns.

In addition to the pavement of the parents, the leaf words saw the white stranger standing not far away, leaning against the wall to see the players moving around. She goes up, “What are you doing here? ”

“I was supposed to take care of my aunt and uncle's business, but when I came here, I heard you were teaching the scriptures, so it would be better if I just stepped aside.” Smiled white: “I said, is your claw finally going to stretch out to your family? ”

“Cut, whatever.” Leaf doesn't take it personally for a stranger: "Now that I'm done teaching, you can go in and take care of business. ”

“Forget it, honestly, uncle, the craftsmanship in real life has nothing to say, the craftsmanship in this game is really daring to compliment.” The white stranger shook his head continuously, he just came to take care of his voice and not to seek abuse. Since there were stairs to go down, of course he would not continue to torment himself.

“My epic assignment started with the second phase of the reward.” Leaf words are never a stranger to these things in the game, so it is natural for a stranger to know what stage she has taken to do an epic task.

“What reward?” The stranger looked at the leaves and now the well's face is bold and speculative: “It's not a bad reward, is it? ”

“I'm not sure yet.” Ye said to tell the stranger what he is doing now. And the stranger opened his mouth in surprise: "Oh, my God, this is so sick, if you can keep saving up your medals, can you buy ten sets of eight sets of that stuff for sale? ”

Ye nodded, but she still thought it was unlikely that the game would be planned so badly, leaving such a big gap for the player to drill.

The two men pulled a few more words, suddenly a stranger slapped his head, a sudden enlightenment appeared: “By the way, I remember one thing, these days things were too much, I actually forgot about it clean. ”

“What?”

“Sheng Shi Guild, you know? ”

“Sheng Shi?” Leaf's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and of course she knew the guild. The Guild is one of the biggest players in online travel, not only is it large, but it also has the support of several large consortia behind it. Their guild is a totally money-sucking machine, turns out, as soon as they enter a game, they can destroy the economic order of the game, and then destroy the game order, and finally they make enough money to walk away and leave the rest of the mess to the average player.

The guild, known not only as the locust of the cyber world, but also the game company. Because they have become the best tool for gaming companies to destroy their opponents.

“What, they're coming to destiny?” The leaves squeeze their eyes, which is inevitable. In fact, fate was also screwed by Sheng Shi, don't look at fate so big, but this is the kind of Sheng Shi Guild that is not a large proportion of fate, so fate almost closed the door. The last few master plans led to the resignation, and it was for that reason that Wang Gangnan had the opportunity to move from assistant planning to master planning behind. He withstood a lot of pressure in that storm and finally managed to relieve his destiny and bring it back to life in the midst of the ravages of the world. Later, many believed that Wang Gangnan could be called Father of Destiny, but only because he brought more players to Destiny and created unparalleled glory for Destiny. But the real reason is to look after Gangnam's own power to preserve its destiny.

These things, which were not documented in the chronological history of destiny, were not known to many of the players involved later, but as a player who was bound to destiny from beginning to end, of course, had a clear understanding of the beginning and end of the matter.

Counting time, it is indeed time for the great world to enter its destiny. Looks like she's been having such a good time lately that she forgot about it. If we don't resist the risks now, we're afraid that it won't be too late.

White strangers are not reborn and naturally do not know what will happen behind them. But given his reputation, he was naturally a little nervous.

“Yeah, I heard it was destiny.” The white stranger frowned: "The locusts came again to ruin their destiny. I really don't know what fate will be like after fate. ”

The leaves curled and the corners of the mouth did not speak. If she hadn't changed history on a massive scale, the development of history would still not have changed, so she was not worried about the issue at all.

“By the way, do you know how many people are in this world? ”

“A lot, I don't really know, just that they killed several holographic games with human nautical tactics.” Leaf is telling the truth, she now has no recollection of the number of players who entered destiny at that time, only a lot, much like cow hair.

“Ten million now.” The stranger lowered his voice and snorted a sip of saliva: “One percent of all people are now dead. ”

“There are a lot of people. ”

“Now that all continents are guessing, which continental landing server will they choose?” Strange frowns wrinkle: “Never come to the Eastern Continent, otherwise our Eastern Continent will suffer. ”

Ye narrowed his eyes and smiled half true and half falsely: “If I had millions of elites, I would have let them land on four continents and kill every continent. ”

White stranger listened to the words of the leaves, his face was dark. “You crow mouth, don't talk nonsense. ”

Ye still laughed, but the smile mixed a lot of bitterness, in fact she was telling the truth. That's how the Sunrise Guild landed in the game. They divided the guild into four parts, each continent landed in a branch, and then encroached on the economic and game order of that continent like a locust, and soon the instability of destiny was exposed. She remembered that it was this storm that killed a lot of retail players who couldn't get over it, and bankrupted investors like Dong Yan and his family.

“White stranger, from now on, so open the gold club, the Guild is going to raise the score.” Ye said quietly.

“Hmm?” Stranger stunned: “This will dissatisfy a lot of players. ”

“If we are not satisfied, we must first accumulate a sum of money to resist the risk that will ensue once the world has entered its destiny.” Leaf words only feel deep in my heart. She remembered that she was also the victim of the storm, which almost killed her family. Even if she was reborn, even if everything was reborn, the pain of cutting her skin was as deeply branded in her heart as it was in her heart, and she couldn't waver.

It is impossible to fight the world with her own strength, but with her own strength and the advantages of the Born Again, you can protect your important people in this storm. It's just, what are we going to do?

“Are you sure they're coming back to Eastern Continent?” A stranger's heart is tight.

“As I have just said, if I were the head of the grand world, I would never let the Guild be on one continent in such a way that it would be against the billions of players of destiny as a whole.” Ye looked at the stranger, she thought, the stranger knew what she was going to say.

sucked in a cold breath of air: “You mean...”

Ye said bitterly: “I think the major guilds are aware of the problem, and they've probably started to accumulate funds to resist the risk. ”

“But gaming gold coins can't resist risk!” Strangers shake their heads: “Once they enter the game, they naturally bring a lot of money into the game, when the money we accumulate is wasted. ”

“Money, of course, cannot resist risk, as individuals know. But the items are okay.” Leaf took a deep breath.

“What items? ”

“Bet on it, so many items consumed in the game, so many guilds, one for each person, one guild will gamble right.” Ye smiled, and now she couldn't tell a stranger how to defend herself against the heirloom, which was too dangerous. Because she does not want to tell anyone that she is a reborn person, otherwise she poses an unpredictable danger to the other person, a stranger who is important to her, and she cannot put a stranger in that danger.

White strangers looked at the smile on Ye's face, and the fears in his heart somehow eased a lot. Ever since I was a kid, as long as the leaf words show such a smile, it seems to mean that there will be no more crisis in this matter, anything at all.

Sometimes strangers worry, but more often he chooses to believe. Because only faith can represent his greatest support and understanding. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote on recommendations, monthly tickets (qidian.com) and your support is my biggest motivation.)