Lunch was pre-ordered from a restaurant, and it had already arrived by the time we all logged off.
A steaming hot plate of sauerkraut fish, a plate of spicy chicken, a bowl of twice-cooked pork, and several side dishes—it was quite a feast. I couldn't help but feel a bit lucky to be living with so many girls. If I were renting a place alone and playing the game now, I'd probably be living on instant noodles for lunch, and it would be a miracle if my face didn't turn the color of instant noodles after a month...
Xu Lin took out a bottle of red wine from the fridge and said with a smile, "The afternoon matches don't start until two o'clock. To celebrate our successful matches this morning, let's have a little drink. This wine won't go to your head."
Xin Yu chuckled, "This morning, we just ran into a bunch of small fries. We didn't encounter any decent Master (experts), otherwise, we definitely wouldn't have advanced so easily. I didn't even face any danger this morning."
"That's because they didn't think much of you!" Xu Lin retorted, recalling the embarrassing situation when she was chased by several Thieves that morning.
I was also quite frustrated. The night elf bow Xin Yu was using was clearly a top-tier blue equipment, yet not a single team out of 12 matches dared to target her. Perhaps they felt they couldn't bring themselves to attack such a beautiful and sexy elf!
Xu Lin suddenly remembered something and turned to ask me, "Oh, right, Lin Fan, what's your attack power now? How did several Priests and Mages get instantly killed this morning?"
I quickly calculated and said, "My current attack is 425-550. Xin Yu's War God's Power adds 10%, and my passive skill also adds 10%, so it probably comes out to about 513-665."
Xu Lin was too surprised to speak, but Xin Yu and Lu Xuehan were already used to it. Without such high damage, it wouldn't be possible to instantly kill a level 20 Mage.
Xu Lin elegantly took a sip of wine and turned to ask Guo Zi beside her, "How's your team doing?"
Guo Zi grinned, "We barely made it through the 12 matches this morning. Especially the last one, both sides were down to their last person. Luckily, my equipment was good enough, and I still managed to take care of that level 23 Mage!"
Xin Yu glanced at Guo Zi and said, "You only have three people, so you must have teamed up with two others. What kind of people are they?"
JOLY covered her mouth and chuckled, "A Swordsman and a Priest. That handsome Swordsman is already level 24, and his equipment is excellent. He only joined our team because he was chasing after Sister Liu Yun. His friends are all furious!"
Liu Yun glared fiercely at JOLY and said expressionlessly, "Mind your own business!"
Liu Yun was always like that, cold to everyone. Although we had been together for almost half a year, I had only seen her smile once, and that was when her ex-boyfriend called her for the last time. After smiling, she hid in her room and cried for a whole day. No one could console her. From then on, she became even colder, and I rarely spoke to her.
Guo Zi had been with Liu Yun for a long time and knew she was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, so she smiled and said, "But that Swordsman is indeed good. He's handsome, and his equipment and skills are also very good."
Xin Yu, standing nearby, whispered disdainfully to me, "What's the point of being handsome? Is he as handsome as my Lin Fan?"
I distinctly felt my facial muscles twitch: "Please... who's yours..."
Xin Yu giggled and stopped talking. Lu Xuehan blinked her pretty eyes nearby, probably wondering what Xin Yu had just said to me...
After about an hour of eating and drinking some tea afterward, everyone felt there was nothing else to do, so they all logged into the game. Those who hadn't been eliminated had no mind to level up, but it was good to go in and take a look.
With a whoosh, I appeared in the city. Several players who logged in with me actually ran towards the city gates. I quickly stopped one and asked, "Brother, why are you rushing out so fast? It's not a monster siege, is it?"
"No way, it's even more interesting than a monster siege. Four big guilds are in a free-for-all outside!"
Only when I got outside did I understand what a free-for-all meant. Currently, no one had the ability to form a team, so they couldn't distinguish friend from foe. Therefore, anyone they didn't recognize was attacked indiscriminately, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
Blue Frozen Arrows and fiery Pyroblasts tore through the air, crisscrossing among the crowd. Mages with area-of-effect spells shone brightly in the melee. Blizzards and other large-scale AOE spells left a trail of devastation wherever they passed. Many low-health Thieves and Archers were inexplicably killed by the magic. Various white equipment and a small amount of green equipment caused a scramble among the onlookers, making the already chaotic situation even more uncontrollable.
A very familiar voice came from behind me, "How exciting! The four major powers of Shanghai are truly formidable!"
I turned around and saw Murong Shanshan, leaning against a large locust tree, watching the show. She hadn't even noticed me, looking as if she wished for chaos.
"Wow!" A Knight's Charge went in the wrong direction and actually crashed directly into the large tree next to Murong Shanshan. Even more miraculously, he, who already had low health, actually killed himself by crashing...
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Murong Shanshan exclaimed about the unlucky fellow while casually picking up the green shield he dropped and putting it into her inventory. Then, she smiled at everyone as if nothing had happened, and several perverts around her immediately started drooling, enticed by her sweet smile.
"Lin Fan, why are you here too?" Murong Shanshan pulled me away from the crowd, looked at me, and then said, "Why are you smiling so lewdly? What do you want to do?"
"That shield, finders keepers, let's split it!"
"You're too greedy, no way. Six-four split, I get six, you get four!"
I smiled and didn't say anything.
Murong Shanshan widened her eyes, "No way, do you want to keep it all to yourself?"
I stopped teasing her and pointed at the group of people PK-ing in front, asking, "Who are they, and why are they fighting here? It's during the Champion Challenge, and dying means losing a level. Don't they care?"
"Them? Just a bunch of Shanghai ruffians..." Murong Shanshan said dismissively.
"A large-scale PK with nearly a thousand people, and you call them a bunch of small ruffians? If this were real-life PK, would the police even dare to intervene?"
"Why wouldn't they dare? Pull out a gun, and this rabble will disperse within 5 minutes, guaranteed!"
I stopped arguing with her and asked, "How did the morning matches go? I hope our two teams don't meet too early!"
"It went pretty smoothly." Murong Shanshan secretly glanced at me, then continued, "If our two teams encounter each other, would you have the heart to lay a cruel hand on me?"
"Of course, the grand prize is very generous!"
"..."
Murong Shanshan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly chuckled mischievously, "Lin Fan, let's duel!"