[Ding! Player Dragon Soul Dusk has applied to add you as a friend!]
Lin Mo received a system message.
Without hesitation, he accepted the friend request.
Ding!
The next second, Su Muqiu sent a questioning message.
[What do you mean by this?]
[Nothing special,] Lin Mo replied, speaking like an elder lecturing a junior, [Just remember not to act so recklessly in the future.]
Su Muqiu snorted coldly, [Don't think I'll let you off just because of this.]
[From the very first day you got together with my sister, I told you that if you ever dared betray her, I would definitely make you pay the price.]
[The harm you caused my sister, I'll make you repay tenfold.]
Lin Mo let out a soft sigh, [Who actually betrayed whom, I suggest you go back and ask Su Yingxia properly.]
[Lin Mo! What exactly are you trying to say?]
Faced with Su Muqiu's questioning, Lin Mo did not reply again.
Even Lin Mo himself found it rather interesting.
"She dumped me, then went crying to her brother saying I betrayed her? Using that to wash her hands clean?"
"Su Yingxia, you really are impressive."
Lin Mo could not help but shake his head.
Just then, Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan suddenly walked up to Lin Mo.
"Senior Lin Mo, we… have something to ask of you."
Seeing the worried expressions on Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan's faces, Lin Mo had more or less guessed what they were about to say.
"Wang Junjie still hasn't let you go?"
Ling Xiao nodded, saying with hatred yet helplessness.
"After the last time the rules were voided, he said he wants to compete with me again. This time, we'll see who reaches level 30 first."
Lin Mo did not feel the slightest surprise.
This had long been within his expectations.
Wang Junjie was exactly the kind of person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
Anything he wanted, no matter the cost or the methods, he would definitely get it.
At this moment, the school belle Xia Wanwan looked at Lin Mo sincerely and said, "Senior, could you please help us again? Just like before, help Ling Xiao level up."
"Don't worry, it'll be paid! As long as you can get Ling Xiao to level 30 before Wang Junjie, no matter how much money you want, I can give it to you."
Since Xia Wanwan herself had already put it this way.
Lin Mo spoke frankly, "100,000 per level."
As soon as the words fell, Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai's mouths opened wide enough to stuff an entire durian inside.
If those words had come out of someone else's mouth, the two of them would have already started blasting him on the spot.
But facing Lin Mo, the number one on the leaderboard, they did not dare make a sound.
Ling Xiao was just about to speak.
Xia Wanwan suddenly cut in first and answered decisively,."Alright!"
"100,000 per level! I'll transfer the money to you right now!"
"No need," Lin Mo said, "We'll settle after each level-up. Also, I'll give you three levels for free. Up to level 13 is free, as repayment for you helping me just now."
Xia Wanwan said gratefully, "Thank you, Senior Lin Mo."
Lin Mo did not plan to change his own course of action.
While collecting venom in the Insect Nest Underground Palace, he could also help Ling Xiao and the others level up at the same time.
So Lin Mo pointed at Captain of the Guard William outside the Insect Nest Underground Palace and said to them, "You go pick up the quests first."
"Mm, okay!"
During the time they were picking up quests from William.
Ling Xiao said to Xia Wanwan with a face full of guilt, "I'm sorry, Wanwan. I'm useless. I can't give you what you want. You're always the one paying and giving."
"It's okay," Xia Wanwan said gently, tightly holding Ling Xiao's hand, "As long as I can be with you, no matter how much money it is, it's just something external."
"What's more, your bet with Wang Junjie was all for my sake."
"When we have our own little family in the future, money can be earned slowly."
Ling Xiao nodded and said firmly to Xia Wanwan, "Wanwan, I swear that in this lifetime, I will never betray you."
Watching Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan leaning against each other from afar, Lin Mo seemed to see the shadow of himself and Su Yingxia in them.
Once upon a time, Lin Mo had also said words like these to Su Yingxia, but in the end, he was the only one who had truly given his heart.
Facing this pair of ill-fated lovers who gave to each other in both directions, Lin Mo could not help but recall a scene from his previous life, where Ling Xiao died together with a BOSS to protect his girlfriend.
Only now did Lin Mo realize that the person Ling Xiao had been protecting back then was Xia Wanwan.
Lin Mo murmured, "Don't worry. I'll help guard your love."
"As long as the money's in place."
Lin Mo was still thinking about the five million on Xia Wanwan's side.
After all, the idea that the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon alone might solve his fifty-million cumulative recharge requirement in one go was ultimately just his own speculation.
For someone like Wang Junjie, who was willing to spend a hundred million just to kill a single boss, the so-called value in his eyes could not be measured by money.
Maybe in his view, something worth only tens or hundreds of thousands in real terms could be more valuable than the thirty million he spent on three Shadow Hearts.
Moreover, if what he obtained in the dungeon greatly boosted his own strength, then no matter how much it was worth, Lin Mo would not sell it.
Therefore, Lin Mo had to make plans on multiple fronts, to ensure that before Divine Oracle devoured the real world three months later, he would have saved up at least fifty million in recharge funds.
Once Ling Xiao, Xia Wanwan, and the other four had all accepted the [Cleanse the Insect Nest (1)] quest from Captain of the Guard William, Lin Mo invited them into a party.
Then the five of them entered the Insect Nest Underground Palace together.
According to the Insect Nest Underground Palace's rules, players must complete the previous floor's quest before entering the next floor.
So even though Lin Mo had already soloed the first floor, he still had to take Ling Xiao and the others through the first floor again.
———
Inside the dark and damp underground palace—
When they saw that all the monsters around them were venomous spiders as high as level 20, Skinny Monkey, Fat Dahai, and the others immediately broke out in cold sweat.
"Oh my god!"
"Big brother! We're only level 10! Farming level 20 monsters… is this really okay?"
Xia Wanwan was also somewhat worried, "Senior, should we switch to a lower-level map to transition first?"
"There's really no need to rush like this. We all believe in your strength, Senior. With you here, we'll definitely reach level 30 before Wang Junjie."
"But after level 10, players leave the newbie protection period. If we die even once now, we'll suffer the huge penalty of losing one level. If we die, it really won't be worth it."
Lin Mo said nothing.
He merely locked his gaze onto a venomous spider ahead.
Whoosh!
An arrow tore through the air.
The SSS-rank skill Heaven-Slaying · Seven-Star Volley ripped through space like world-shattering thunder, shooting out from the five-pointed star formation.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
-769 (Critical)!
-530!
-821 (Critical)!
"ROAR!"
With a mournful cry, under the shared gaze of five pairs of eyes, that full-HP level 20 venomous spider collapsed to the ground and died.
[Battle Notification: Your teammate has killed a level 20 Venomous Spider. You gain 1300 participation EXP!]
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