Chapter 42

Jing Huan returned home; it was already afternoon.

He shoved the carbonated drinks and fruit he’d picked up on the way into the fridge, then booted up his computer.

He’d been hanging out with Lu Wenhao and the others these past few days and had barely done any dungeon runs this week. He glanced at his friends list: Xin Xiang Wang Zhi and Lu Tiaotiao were both offline. Figuring he had nothing better to do, he decided to join a pickup group and finish the dungeon he had missed.

He opened the dungeon interface and randomly applied to a few parties; within seconds a system notification popped up saying one had accepted him.

He ran to the dungeon entrance and waited for his teammates to arrive.

[Qiufeng invites you to join his party. Yes, No.]

Jing Huan instinctively clicked No, and only after the dialog box disappeared did he realize Qiufeng was standing right beside him.

[Current] Little Sweet Jing: [Question]

[Current] Qiufeng: Doing a dungeon.

Jinghuan was stunned, opened the task list and indeed, Qiufeng was in the dungeon.

He hadn’t looked carefully before; only now did he realize that everyone in this dungeon were people they had helped, and the dungeon initiator was Mo Wen Guiqi.

Qiufeng sent him another invite to join the party. Jing Huan lazily clicked Accept and entered Qiufeng’s team.

[Party] LittleSweetJing: Weren’t you going to run this dungeon yesterday? 0.0

“You didn’t come, so I didn’t do it,” Qiufeng asked. “Can you talk?”

He could, but Jing Huan was too tired of wearing headphones. Lately he’d been wearing them for hours every day and his ears hurt.

[Team] Xiao Tianjing: Can’t, there’s someone beside me, not convenient.

Qiu Feng understood: “It’s okay, you can type then.”

Qiu Feng’s voice was actually quite pleasant, low and husky, the kind girls liked.

Unfortunately, Jinghuan was male, didn’t fall for it, and even found him noisy, mercilessly turning down the computer volume.

The Havoc in Heaven raid was supposed to be a low-difficulty instance, easy to get through with little experience to gain. Jing Huan planned to just AFK once they entered; it would be over in about half an hour.

But Qiu Feng clearly had other ideas. As soon as they entered, he kept trying to chat with him.

“Little Jingjing, what are you planning to do after we clear this?”

[Team] Little Sweet Jing: …AFK, I guess.

“Spend tens of thousands to buy an account just to AFK?” Qiufeng chuckled. “Once it’s leveled up, I’ll take you to play.”

[Party] Xiao Tianjing: Play what?

“See the scenery, do quests, the next dungeon—anything you want.” Qiufeng said. “Or I can take you to open a Fate Stone?”

Fate Stones, a special item among the Nine Heroes, are like a lottery.

Twenty yuan RMB each; they can drop all kinds of things, some good, but mostly bad. Many players, for the thrill, buy a few hundred at once to satisfy themselves, and end up losing everything.

Jing Huan had tried this once and swore never to touch Fate Stones again.

[Team] Little Sweet Jing: [shakes head] No!

“Why?” Qiu Feng said, “I’ll treat you—buy a hundred in a second, just to give you the thrill.”

[Team] Mo Wen Guiqi: [Thumbs up]

[Team] Benming Zhizhi Taotao: [Thumbs up] Magnanimous.

[Team] Xiao Tianjing: ><

“……”

Forget it, in a sense that sentence was also the truth, Xiang Huaizhi thought expressionlessly.

Author’s note:

Why does this little boy keep lying?

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