FYN Chapter 28 They're all idiots
Chapter 28 They're all idiots
From noon to night, they encountered two more groups of mud-eating monsters, as well as a group of yellow mud monsters.
The mud monsters are manageable, but the horde of yellow mud monsters is beyond their immediate control. These creatures have thick skin and incredible defense; a single charge can send them flying for kilometers.
Shen Yaoxing also discovered a mud monster, also known as a slug. Being hit by its mud cannon is like an insect hitting a spider web; it's difficult to wash off in a short time. It's a rather disgusting virtual beast.
Moreover, this monster's physical attributes were equivalent to a physique of 20 or 30 points, stronger than an adult polar bear. When Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing were alone, they would run away whenever they encountered it.
However, because An Yourong and Lin Huanghu were there this time, Shen Yaoxing came up with an idea and asked An Yourong to help capture a mud monster alive.
The sludge monster looks a lot like the swamp monster, and it also resembles a large lynx.
Lu Ren killed the mud monster with a knife, then took the spirit remains and absorbed them.
[Sludge Cannon], Quality: Bronze, Learning Requirement: 150 Elemental Points
Effect: The projectiles formed by spraying out silt solidify instantly upon impact, creating a powerful trapping effect on enemies.
After successfully learning the skill, Lu Ren looked at Shen Yaoxing and nodded in affirmation.
Regardless of how powerful [Sludge Cannon] is, it's a skill slot that's bought in bulk anyway, so just learn it first.
The group has been in the dense forest for seven days, but they still haven't found the Swamp Monster.
Compared to the other three types of Void Beasts, Swamp Mud Monsters are extremely rare, which is why Swamp Mud Monster spirit remains are so expensive. For the same bronze-level spirit remains, a Mud Monster spirit remains only cost 20,000, while a Swamp Mud Monster spirit remains can sell for over 100,000.
Keep in mind that even the cheaper silver-grade spirit remains only cost two or three hundred thousand.
However, Lu Ren did not come away empty-handed.
For professionals, it is common to leave the virtual world camp and stay in the virtual world for ten days or half a month. However, Lu Ren's strength is low. In the past, there were only two of them, him and Shen Yaoxing, and they never left the safe zone to go to a deeper place for training.
Taking this opportunity, he also experienced real training: fighting, resting, fighting, resting. This feeling of being on edge helped him grow faster.
These past few days, whenever they encountered a group of mud-eating monsters, they would send one of the little ones out for training, and it was usually Lu Ren who went with her.
This guy always yells and screams, but after the battle, he becomes smug and proud. He's the type who never learns from his mistakes.
However, Jiang Yueying has grown somewhat. Now at least she doesn't tremble all over. She climbs onto Lu Ren with perfect understanding, letting him take her away, and then she gets burned one after another.
After mastering the power of over 400 elements, this guy's burning attack was incredibly powerful, and he could fire more than a dozen in one go without even breaking a sweat. Lu Ren carrying her was like a mobile artillery platform; he could chase and kill not only mud-eating monsters but also thick-skinned yellow mud monsters.
With this thing around, who would still use shotguns?
In short, she treated Lu Ren like a mount, and Lu Ren treated her like a cannon.
Another day has passed, the sun is setting, and evening is approaching.
"Alright, it's not a good time to travel at night. Let's rest here for the night. I know there's a swamp to the west of here. Let's go check it out tomorrow. Maybe there'll be a swamp monster there."
It was indeed nearing dusk. Lu Ren looked up and saw the Milky Way slowly emerging.
He looked at Shen Yaoxing again. The young lady's eyes were indeed much clearer. In Lu Ren's eyes, even her appearance had changed. She seemed to shrink and become shorter little by little, eventually becoming a dried-up girl like a little hamster.
After Shen Yaoxing noticed that Lu Ren was looking at her, she also looked up at him and then gave him a confident smile.
The meaning of "very" is unclear.
However, the young lady has only lost her self-control, not become stupid.
She relaxes in front of people she can trust through her "intuition," but in front of others, she forces herself to expend a lot of energy to resist the "cursed" state.
Now that there were other people around, she was noticeably quieter than usual. She found a big rock and sat down obediently, holding her face in her hands as she watched Lu Ren set up the tent, her little feet dangling in front of him.
She asked curiously, "Lu Ren, why are you staring at my feet?"
"I'm not watching, I'm working. You don't need to keep swinging your leg in front of me to test me."
"You want to see it?"
"I didn't want to watch it either."
"Lu Ren, are you really a time traveler?"
Lu Ren looked up at her, a hint of helplessness in his eyes: "How could there possibly be a time traveler?"
Shen Yaoxing sat cross-legged and pulled her legs back: "As expected, you want to see more. You're really strange. Keep telling me the story. Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa fell into the underground of Canaan Academy, and then what?"
"The rest of the story is a bit too early for the young lady to tell now."
"Tell me, tell me!"
"Let me think..."
They had to keep watch that night, and Lu Ren and An Yourong took the first half of the night.
Lin Huanghu, Jiang Yueying, and Shen Yaoxing kept watch until the middle of the night.
They didn't find the Mud Monster today, and they've already turned back. They've been traveling all day and are still more than 40 kilometers away from the camp.
They killed over 200 swamp monsters, 7 yellow mud monsters, and 2 sludge monsters this week, but couldn't find a swamp monster.
All things considered, they earned 120,000 yuan a week. Even if they split it in half, they would still earn 60,000 yuan. After deducting the official commission, they would still have more than 40,000 yuan left.
With so much money, taking it back would scare Lu Youhe to death.
I want her to call me "Onii-sama" with an adoring look on her face, hehe, "Onii-sama" and stuff like that...
Lu Youhe is a complete penny-pincher, valuing money highly. After all, if he had had that money back then, his mother might have been saved.
"Why does Brother Lu look so preoccupied?"
An Yourong interrupted his thoughts, saying that they were on night duty.
Lu Ren snapped out of his reverie, looked at the girl sitting opposite the charcoal fire, and chuckled:
"It's nothing, I just miss my sister. It's been a while since I went back, and I wonder how she is."
"So you were thinking about your sister... To me, Yueying is like my sister, so I understand Brother Lu very well."
An Yourong smiled and said, "If I don't see Yueying for a few days, I'll worry. I'll wonder if she's been bullied, if she's eating well, if she has any money, and if she has an umbrella if it rains. I feel like I have to keep her with me at all times to feel at ease."
"Right?"
Lu Ren nodded: "We also have to worry about whether he'll suddenly be kidnapped by the blond guy."
"Pfft! What do you mean by 'being kidnapped by blond hair'?"
"That's roughly the idea. She wants to find a boyfriend at least after she's 24. Speaking of which, her 16th birthday is in a couple of days. What kind of gift should I get for her?"
"Isn't 24 years old a bit too much?"
"It's not an exaggeration at all."
"Brother Lu really cares about his sister, but it's so strange..."
An Yourong paused for a moment, then asked with a curious tone, "Isn't Miss Lu sleeping over there?"
"..." I accidentally let it slip.
"This, this is..."
Seeing his sudden facial stiffness, An Yourong chuckled, the afterglow of the charcoal fire illuminating half of her face with a warm red glow.
"I'm not really stupid. Ah Huang is from the Lin family of Linjiang. The only people who can cooperate with the Lin family are from aristocratic families. He's always so careful around Miss Lu... Miss Lu must be someone important, right?"
"An, you're overthinking it. I was just talking about another younger sister."
"I wasn't eavesdropping, it's just that the warriors of the Candlelight Realm have excellent hearing. Sometimes Brother Lu calls her 'Young Miss,' right?"
"I used to call her that as a kid, but she still calls me 'Young Master' sometimes."
The girl squinted at him. Lu Ren had been in the workplace for many years and had long since lost his sense of shame, never feeling guilty about talking nonsense.
An Yourong was convinced by him. She sighed and said calmly:
"You too, Ah-huang too, you all treat me like an idiot, but I'm actually very smart. I just like to pretend to be an idiot because it's fun. When everyone thinks I'm an idiot, I suddenly become smart and surprise everyone!"
"..." You've already startled me. I'm sorry, An, I've been treating you like an idiot these past few days.
She said slowly, "Brother Lu, do you know? Ah Huang, Yueying, and I met in kindergarten."
Night watch is boring enough, so it's nice to have someone to talk to to relieve the boredom. They've been chatting on and off for the past few nights, but An Yourong hasn't mentioned anything about their childhood.
"Yueying has always had a mild personality. Back then, she was bullied by a group of boys. When I saw that some classmates were being bullied, I wanted to go and help Yueying drive them away. As a result, I got into a fight with the boys. In the end... I lost, hehe."
"It was Ah-huang who brought the teacher here, and that's how we were finally saved."
Lu Ren didn't expect that Jiang Yueying had been bullied when she was a child. However, she was indeed easy to bully, and she gave people the feeling that they couldn't help but want to bully her.
An Yourong said with a faint smile on her face:
"Ah Huang, he has always liked to think about a lot of things since he was little, like a little adult. If I were like him, always thinking about this and that with a sullen face, then we probably wouldn't be good friends."
So I like playing with Yueying. Sometimes Yueying is silly and does silly things. Although she is a bit withdrawn, she has a rich inner world and is a very interesting child.
I would get into trouble with Yueying and cause trouble for Ahuang. Ahuang would always helplessly clean up our messes, and sometimes he would act like an adult and take all the blame himself.
When talking about these childhood memories, An Yourong couldn't hide the smile on her face.
"Ah Huang is a reliable older brother, I am the big sister, and Yueying is our little sister."
I've always felt that we'll always be like this, forever good friends, and the three of us will be like we were when we were kids, playing and fooling around together.
"Let's both be idiots for the rest of our lives, and Ah Huang will be an adult for the rest of his life, and then this life will be over."
At this point, she suddenly looked a little disappointed, and lowered her head to look at the charcoal fire.
"But reality seems to be different from what I expected. I don't know when it started, but everyone has changed."
We grew up together, how could I not see that Yueying actually liked Ahuang? Of course I also know that Ahuang actually likes me.
However, I'm best at playing dumb. As long as I keep playing dumb, can the three of us continue like this forever?
Why must we make changes? What's wrong with everyone being carefree, happy, and together forever?
Why choose the person you like more from among those you like, and then exclude the other one?
An Yourong paused, looked at Lu Ren, and asked, "Brother Lu, do you know who I like?"
From the very beginning, Lu Ren felt that something was amiss.
He swallowed hard and said, "...They're both your friends, you must like them both."
An Yourong sighed: "Brother Lu is good at playing dumb, but you don't have the talent to act stupid, and you're not stupid either, so you should be able to tell that you actually know who I like, right?"
"How would I know? You can't possibly like me, right? Haha." Okay, this isn't funny, so Lu Ren shut up.
The sound of wind rustled through the woods, pressing down a large number of treetops.
After a long while, An Yourong stood up, looked in the direction behind Lu Ren, and said firmly, "I like Ahuang, and I want to marry Ahuang."
"Clatter!"
He heard a thud behind him and quickly looked over to find that the three people who were supposed to be changing shifts had gotten up sometime earlier.
Apart from the half-asleep Shen Yaoxing, the other two had very interesting expressions on their faces.
The "thud" was from the game console that Jiang Yueying hadn't been holding properly falling to the ground.
Lin Huanghu's expression was quite interesting, a mixture of smugness and disbelief on his face. "Yes, there is..."
Although he didn't know why he suddenly heard You Rong confess to him, and although he was a little confused, he quickly calmed his fluctuating emotions, and his eyes became firm:
"Yo-yong, actually I like her too..."
"No, that's not it!"
Before he could finish saying the last "you," Jiang Yueying interrupted him.
"The nooks and crannies aren't like that... I don't accept it!"
She spoke in a language no one could understand, then suddenly turned around and staggered into the woods.