Chapter 3 Why Does She Hate Me So Much?

At present, nearly all the players in this zone were around level 85. The most popular region for players at these levels to gain experience was the Countertide, as it was easy for them to find monsters in this map. The South Sea was a region frequented by players at around level 80 and seldom visited by teams who were seeking to gain levels. Zheng Xiaoguang had begun her game by sending her character Flowing Light, a doctor from Ghost Valley Island, to the South Sea before leaving to have a talk in the YY chatroom.

She had planned to mine at the South Sea and see if she would meet a team who came here to slay monsters and gain levels. Once she met such a team, she would join them to gain experience. Unfortunately, she forgot to send her character to a safe zone before switching to the YY chatroom.

"I was not robbing anyone of his or her monsters just now, and I'm not a red name. Why did I get killed? Wait a minute, this ID looks familiar." With this in mind, Zheng Xiaoguang opened the enemy list of her contact list and searched for Baby520. Soon enough, she got the result. Baby520 was a level 90 female assassin from Blackout Island, dressed in four-star professional costume. She was a member of the League of Strong Families.

"Oh, yes, she's one of the strangers who came to scold me. Is she a fanatical pursuer of Bluegreen-Clad? She clearly hates me for marrying her god-like boss. Did she kill me because of this?"

"Love really blinds people. Netizens often say that you never know whether you're talking to a person or a dog online. No matter how amazing Bluegreen-Clad is, he's just a pile of game data. Who knows if he's a sloppy old man? Why are these girls all crazy about him?"

"These girls are so shallow. I'm different. I'm only crazy about the male stars who have handsome faces and sexy bodies," thought Zheng Xiaoguang.

If she chose to return to the city to resurrect herself, she would lose some experience points and drop to level 80. As it was not easy to gain a level, Zheng Xiaoguang sighed and scrolled down her friend list, trying to find someone to help her.

[Private Chat] Flowing Light: Lovesickness, can you come to save me? I'm at the South Sea [235,114].

[Private Chat] Half a Cup of Lovesickness: Okay.

Half a Cup of Lovesickness was a level 86 doctor from Ghost Valley Island and a member of the Matchless. A long time ago, she and Flowing Light had fought together to gain levels. As Blooming Pear Tree was busy with his work now, Zheng Xiaoguang needed to spend nearly half of her gaming time gaining levels for him. Gradually, Zheng Xiaoguang's level became much lower than that of Half a Cup of Lovesickness, and thus they seldom teamed up together recently.

When Zheng Xiaoguang sent out the message to Half a Cup of Lovesickness, the latter was selling goods on a market stall in the imperial city of the Celestial Dynasty. Upon receiving her friend's message, she swiftly packed up her things and went to the South Sea through NPC transfer.

She displayed "Bringing the Dead Back" skill, and then a beam of green light was shot on Flowing Light.

Game Message: Half a Cup of Lovesickness, level 86 disciple of Ghost Valley Island, is going to bring you back to life. Please choose whether to receive her help: Yes/No.

Zheng Xiaoguang clicked yes, and then her character, Flowing Light, stood up.

Game Message: You've received Half a Cup of Lovesickness's help. You've lost 11000 points in experience and 2306 points in wealth.

As this help was from a physician, the system automatically deducted 10% of the money in her backpack and paid it to her rescuer. The system also deducted 30% of her experience. "Great, at least, I keep my level", Zheng Xiaoguang thought gladly. Right at this moment, she saw a beam of black light come at her.

Zheng Xiaoguang's character Flowing Light had just stood up a moment ago. She fell to the ground again before Half a Cup of Lovesickness could refill her blood.

Game Message: You've 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.

"What? That player guards my corpse②. Why does she hate me so much?"

Upon seeing Flowing Light fall down again, Half a Cup of Lovesickness wanted to save her again. When she was about to resurrect Flowing Light, she got ambushed. She tried her best to refill blood and power for herself but still fell down beside Flowing Light after suffering the damage. Baby520 was an assassin. An assassin's offensive power was much stronger than that of a doctor.

After killing Flowing Light and Half a Cup of Lovesickness, Baby520 strutted over to their corpses and stepped on them. After that, she even tossed their corpses up and down for fun.

Once a character got killed in the game, the other characters could toss his or her corpse up. This behavior was called corpse tossing. A character would do this to humiliate his or her enemy when he or she was not content with just killing the enemy.

As Baby520 was a member of the League of Strong Families, Zheng Xiaoguang did not want to make a fuss about this thing. Besides, she was no match for Baby520. As she had to help Blooming Pear Tree gain levels, her own character did not have a high level or a piece of good equipment now. "Baby520 has gone too far this time. She not only guarded my corpse but also killed my friend, Half a Cup of Lovesickness. If I tolerate this, how can I continue to play this game in the future?"

With this in mind, Zheng Xiaoguang planned to use Blooming Pear Tree's character to get back at Baby520. When she was to about to log out of her own account to log into Blooming Pear Tree's account, she saw a startling message.

Game Message: Your husband Bluegreen-Clad is online.

[Private Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: Hello, honey. Where are you?

[Private Chat] Flowing Light: ... Hehe, I'm enjoying the scenery.

Before Zheng Xiaoguang was able to tell him that she was getting offline, she saw the god-like player fly to her corpse through couple transfer.

Bluegreen-Clad was indeed a rich and god-like player. When most players' characters were still dressed in professional costumes, he was dressed in "Carefree" fashionable clothes. He wore a blue-green outfit, a flowing white belt, and a casual jade headpiece. Zheng Xiaoguang had heard about him but had never met him (technically, his 3D character Bluegreen-Clad) before. Now suddenly seeing him flying here on the back of a shining white phoenix, she somewhat felt that he really looked like a carefree immortal.

[Private Chat] Bluegreen-Clad: Didn't you say that you were enjoying the scenery?

[Private Chat] Flowing Light: Uhm, I'm enjoying the scenery right now~

As she was killed by a member of the League of Strong Families, Zheng Xiaoguang did not want Bluegreen-Clad to know about this. Nevertheless, Bluegreen-Clad happened to get online at this moment. "Will he believe that I'm really enjoying the scenery when he sees me lying here?" wondered Zheng Xiaoguang.

"It seems that he has just seen Baby520 toss my corpse..."

[Nearby] Half a Cup of Lovesickness: the god-like Bluegreen-Clad, your wife was killed by your gang member Baby520. I came to save her but got killed by Baby520 too. ﹥_﹤~~

[Nearby] Bluegreen-Clad: Honey, is that true?

"Hey, wait a minute. Why do you suddenly get so used to call me honey?" wondered Zheng Xiaoguang.

[Nearby] Flowing Light: @_@ a fragile character has nothing to say.

What Zheng Xiaoguang meant was that she was just a fragile doctor, and it was not surprising that she got killed. She wanted to remind Bluegreen-Clad that this was her own business by saying this, but Baby520 clearly distorted her words.

[Nearby] Baby520: Shame on you. Knowing that you can't defeat me by yourself, you go to find a god-like player. What makes you think you're such hot stuff? You bitch never deserve our gang boss. Shame on your the Matchless! Boss, don't get hoaxed by this bitch.

Note:

① Four-Star Professional Costume: Professional costumes are wearable equipment for different professions. For instance, an assassin can only wear a professional costume designed for assassins. Four-Star refers to the forging level of the professional costume. The more stars a professional costume has, the better its performance will be. A character above level 40 can use Forging Stones to upgrade his or her equipment. Upgrading a piece of equipment from one-star to two-star costs two Forging Stones, and the equipment must reach level 40 before this forging process. Upgrading a piece of equipment from three-star to six-star costs two Forging Stones, and the equipment must reach level 80 before this forging process. Upgrading a piece of equipment from seven-star to eight-star costs four Forging Stones, and the equipment must reach level 100 before this forging process. There is a chance that one will fail during this forging process. If one fails to upgrade an equipment which has one to four stars, it will remain the same after the failed attempt. If one fails to upgrade an equipment which has four to eight stars, it will lose a star after each failed attempt. As such, the shop also sells Guarantee Talismans, which can be used to ensure that the equipment will not lose a star after a failed forging process.

②Guard One's Corpse: When a character guards another character's corpse, he or she is planning to kill this character again when this character comes back to life.