Chapter 104
Chapter 104 The Fatty and Morning Light’s Doubts
In this dungeon setting, Mr. S, as the owner of the Divine Dragon Building, naturally held a noble status and considerable temperament, making him at least three worlds apart from someone as crude as Fatty. It’s no surprise that he had never heard of Fatty’s ridiculous way of insulting others, so getting riled up was expected.
However, his retorts were so unassertive that it even sparked a sense of pity in others.
But pity or not, they definitely couldn’t let him off the hook.
After leaving Mr. S to Fatty for ’emotional bonding,’ the others approached the Steel Battle Armor. As Ling Mo touched the armor, the game system immediately gave a prompt—
【The Steel Battle Armor can be stored in the space watch without consuming its power; mission items will be retrieved once you leave the dungeon.】
At the same time, a new main quest appeared before everyone—
【Important News: The Divine Dragon Building has upgraded its defense level to maximum; all security robots will commence extermination actions against intruders.】
Feifei paused in thought: “We have to go back? But isn’t it all robots up there now?”
Just thinking of the numerous robots made even Ling Mo hesitant for a moment.
Fatty immediately chimed in, “What are you afraid of? Don’t we have that Steel Battle Armor? Just wear it and fight our way out!”
Morning Light couldn’t help but glance at him: “First, you need to figure out how to get that Steel Battle Armor out of this testing area.”
The testing area was spacious and about five meters high, so accommodating such a Steel Battle Armor was no issue. However, all the corridors leading to the testing area were less than two meters in height and width, making those corridor entrances barely fit even for a dog. Unless the armor could shrink, there was no way they could suit up and fight their way out.
Clearly, this was also a game design trap.
Fatty couldn’t help but curse, “Damn it, just increasing the difficulty by force.”
Xia Xinyan thought for a moment and suddenly looked at Mr. S under Fatty: “By the way, since Mr. S is the owner of this building, wouldn’t the robots attack him?”
Mr. S was startled: “What are you planning?! I tell you, it’s not too late to let me go now! I can plead for you in court…”
Smack! Fatty slapped him across the face: “What the hell are you blabbering about? We dared to barge in here to cause trouble for you; do you really think we’re afraid of getting caught? Are you out of your mind?”
“You… you uncouth scoundrel!” Mr. S was on the verge of exploding, “You better pray I don’t get my hands on you. Otherwise, I will definitely kill you!”
Fatty brushed it off: “Then let’s use him as a test?”
“The robots might not attack someone using him as a shield, but one person can’t block for everyone; the rest are still at risk of getting shot.” Xia Xinyan interjected, “The safest way is to have one person lead the way while clearing out those robots, and we can just follow behind.”
Fatty grinned: “I’m up for it! Those tin cans are weak to electricity; I, the Lord of Thunder, am their nemesis!”
He didn’t see this as being used as a laborer; instead, he was overjoyed to take all the glory himself, as this was chock-full of performance reward game points!
Morning Light also stepped forward: “I can help lessen Zhang Dariri’s burden a bit.”
“Don’t! I can handle it alone; I’m afraid I might accidentally hit you.” Fatty was reluctant to let anyone steal his thunder.
“It’s fine, I’ll be careful.” Morning Light chuckled.
Hearing this, Fatty paused for a moment, then said, “So if I accidentally zap you, it’s not my fault, right? You’re not allowed to fight back.”
“Okay.”
“You said it.”
“I said it.”
“Alright then, let’s go.” Fatty yanked up the grounded Mr. S and marched ahead with him.
The others fell in line behind them. Xia Xinyan walked in the middle, her expression somewhat inscrutable as she watched Fatty and Morning Light in front of her.
They had figured out this game very well.
The basic rewards and mission rewards of the dungeon were fixed from the start; even if they collected it all, it was still just a few game points. The real bulk of the rewards always lay in performance bonuses; as long as one achieved great results, it wasn’t impossible to gain tens of thousands of performance rewards. The gap between active players and dungeon slackers was slowly widening because of this.
But this didn’t explain their current behavior.
Anyone with eyes could see that being at the forefront was the most dangerous position; if the robots didn’t recognize Mr. S, it was very likely that they would get turned into Swiss cheese. Yet Fatty volunteered for this role without a second thought. If one called that altruism, Xia Xinyan certainly didn’t believe it.
She used to be good pals with Fatty, so she knew just how scared he was of death and pain. Even in-game, he would try to avoid dangerous situations as much as possible. For the sake of one performance point, he really didn’t need to push himself this hard.
And as for Morning Light, while others might not know, she was aware that this guy was the son of a powerful official, living the good life in reality. Perhaps he could justify playing this game as a way to experience life, but why was he also acting so… responsible? Just a personality quirk? She didn’t think so.
To those besides the enemy, Morning Light could indeed be called a good person, but he wasn’t good enough to volunteer for everything on the front lines.
And just like Fatty, the excuse of performance game points didn’t add up either.
This wasn’t worth it for him.
If it were simply because of a die-hard gamer wanting to lead the charge, Fatty might fit that bill, but there was no way Morning Light was doing that.
—Of course, all of this was based on the assumption that this was just an ordinary game.
So… what if they realized this wasn’t a game?
Then everything would make sense.
Though it was merely a speculation, it might serve as a breakthrough point. Xia Xinyan mentally noted this and slightly approached Ling Mo: “Get ready, we should start moving soon.”
The game wouldn’t let two people take all the credit, because they didn’t have that much appetite. Once they reached the final stage of the dungeon, the game would certainly find ways to have everyone stretch their limbs.
Ling Mo nodded: “Got it… you be careful too.”
He didn’t think as much as Xia Xinyan; he didn’t know as much as she did. However, based on his gaming experience, he could also deduce that Fatty and Morning Light couldn’t resolve all their troubles alone; sooner or later, they would have to step in themselves.
He wanted to say he would ensure Xia Xinyan’s safety, but as the words approached his lips, he recalled the formidable combat power she had displayed in this dungeon.
It seemed… she didn’t need his protection.
In fact, there were times he even needed her to protect him.
Though reluctant, that was the truth.
He couldn’t just stop Xia Xinyan from taking risks, as it was also a part of her gaming experience. Deep down, he understood that while masculine pride was fine, it shouldn’t be excessive.
So he could only do his best to keep Xia Xinyan safe.
At the same time… he had to find a way to become stronger.
At the very least, he needed some combat capability.
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