Chapter 4: The First Lesson of Jianghu

  Out of the internet cafe door, as expected, it's almost dark. The sun rises when I go out and sets when I return, this schedule is not in sync with the sun.

  Back in the dormitory, Lao Da, Liang Zi and Chen Peng had just gotten out of bed and were cooking instant noodles, still arguing non-stop about "Jiang Hu".

  "Ah, I'm exhausted! This morning I went out to play that 'Jianghu' you guys were talking about, and played all day!" Ye Kai shouted at the three of them.

  "What? You're going to play 'Jiang Hu'!" The three of them almost responded in unison.

  Ye Kai nodded slightly.

  "What level are we at now?" asked Lao Da, "What good equipment do we have?" asked Liangzi, "What skills can we practice?" asked Chen Peng. This time, the three of them asked completely different questions.

  "Ah, who should I answer first?" Ye Kai couldn't help but laugh. In terms of studying, he had never seen the three have such great enthusiasm before.

  "Let's take it one by one," Lao Da replied.

  "My level hasn't even started training yet, I just left the newbie village; equipment is also nothing, martial arts, yeah, I've practiced two!"

  "What did you practice?" again in unison.

  "Spread all over the world" and "Mind's eye"!

  "What? I've never heard of it!" Chen Peng muttered.

  "Come on, you're bragging again!" Liangzi laughed so hard she almost lost her breath. "Your name is quite creatively made up!"

  "It's a dog cheat!" Ye Kai swore an oath.

  "Is that so? How did you practice it? Tell me about it!" asked Lao Da.

  Ye Kai first roughly described the process of doing the task.

  Three people nodded frequently, Chen Peng sighed: "It turns out that we have to do all the tasks in Newbie Village, we didn't do it at all! Everyone thought about leaving early, if not for helping the village chief, no one would leave!"

  "That's right, it should be like that. Let's go back another day and try again to see if we can trigger it!" said the boss.

  "So then, you chose your two?" asked Ryoko.

  "Ugh, just mentioning this makes me angry!" Ye Kai said, recounting what happened next.

  "Ah………, haha……" After listening to Ye Kai's story, Liangzi laughed again. "You're really unlucky!"

  "Alas, this is probably a bug of intelligent NPC, you are really unfortunate!" Lao Da sighed.

  "But you just said the system gave you one, how did you get two?" Chen Peng asked in confusion.

  "Oh, I randomly got 'Wind Chaser' here, and 'Mind's Eye' is another reward. The system said I was the first to complete the game's hidden task, so it randomly gave me another one..."

  "What? The system says you're the first one to complete the hidden task!" Liangzi heard this, interrupted Ye Kai's words and jumped up. "Many people have done this task, how can you be the first?"

  He looked at Lao Da and Chen Peng, who were also staring at each other in dismay.

  "How was I supposed to know?!" Ye Kai exclaimed in surprise at Liangzi's reaction.

  Lao Da said: "Liangzi, you don't often play games, so you may not know that nowadays, hidden quests have become a major part of online gaming. Hidden quests often yield special rewards that can't be obtained elsewhere, so people are eager to search for them. According to what you've said, no one has found the hidden quest in this game 'Jianghu' yet, and your completion of the task is also somewhat suspicious. Although we three haven't all completed the newbie village tasks, there must be many others who have done it like you, but somehow none of them triggered anything. There must be some hidden reason behind this."

  "Hey, boss, you've been playing martial arts games for a few days and now you're talking like that, saying things like 'there must be a hidden reason'. Akai, quickly tell me again the details of how you completed the task!" Liangzi shouted.

  Akai reluctantly repeated it again in great detail.

  The three of them analyzed it for another half day and still couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation.

  "Ugh, what's wrong with me, I've got a headache. I'm going back to Newbie Village right now and try it again." Liangzi was the first to lose his patience.

  "What's the hurry? Let's finish our noodles and go together! You come too, A Kai!" Chen Peng said.

  "Let's eat first, talk later! Give me a bowl too!" Akai shouted. "I haven't eaten anything all day!"

  The boss handed a bowl to A Ke and turned his head to eat with the other two people, the instant noodles that had expanded several times in size and had a cool noodle flavor.

  "Ah, Kai, you just don't understand the game well enough. I've got some free time now, so let me give you a brief introduction to 'Jiang Hu'. The characters in 'Jiang Hu' don't have distinct professions, but rather differ in their martial arts and equipment. Each character has four basic attributes: physique, strength, agility, and body technique. Physique affects health and defense, strength affects attack power, agility affects movement speed and accuracy, and body technique affects attack speed and evasion. When leveling up, you can add five points to these four attributes. The actual attributes of a character include health, internal energy, attack, defense, evasion, movement, attack speed, and accuracy. Among these, only internal energy can be increased through meditation, and it's said that the amount of internal energy also affects attack and defense power. All other attributes can be increased through basic attribute points, equipment, and training. Speaking of equipment, there's an interesting story behind it. When 'Jiang Hu' was first developed, they wanted to cancel the equipment system to make the game more realistic, but in the end, they didn't. The equipment system is actually very complex, because after all, it's a game, and equipment is essential. What's the point of playing a game without equipment?"

  "I think it's better without equipment. Think about it, traveling the world and wearing a suit of armor, what kind of image is that!" Chen Peng interrupted Liangzi's words.

  "Come on, equipment isn't important. Last time I gave you the Longquan sword, why were you so thrilled?" Liangzi said disdainfully to Chen Peng.

  Before Chen Peng could refute, Ye Kai interrupted: "Hey, when you guys came back this morning, weren't you shouting about practicing staff? Why are you looking for a sword now?"

  The big brother laughed and said, "That's his hobby, isn't Little Friend a martial arts enthusiast? So when he sees a martial art, he wants to practice it. In fact, he mainly practices swordsmanship because he has a 'Sword Controlling Technique' mindset that can increase the speed of using sword techniques by 20% and attack power by 20%. He followed a group of people to mix with the BOSS experience, when the BOSS exploded, everyone rushed to grab things on the ground, this thing fell under his feet, and he picked it up casually. Many people are so envious!"

  "There's nothing to envy, it's just a decline. Even picking up things doesn't yield good equipment. What's the use of being disappointed!" Liangzi hurriedly expressed his disdain for Xiaopeng once again, then turned to Zhang Muzi who was about to speak but was preempted by Ye Kai, who signaled that he could speak now.

  Ye Kai glared at him and said: "Hey, my 'heart eye' is also increasing in output, another one is a hit, but it didn't say what kind of martial arts to add ah!"

  "That's right, all the martial arts are added up. How much is your 'heart eye' increased? We forgot to ask! And what about that 'Wind Chasing the World', what was added?" Little Peng asked eagerly, having already forgotten Liangzi's disdain for him.

  "'Mind's Eye' increases accuracy and critical hit rate by 50%, 'Wind Chaser' has seven forms, I've only mastered the first form 'Gale Slash', which increases movement speed by 100%! Not bad, huh?"

  The three of them stopped eating noodles again, staring at Ah Kai together. The scorching gaze swept across Ah Kai's body more intensely than before, causing him to break out in a cold sweat. Only then did the boss sigh and say, "It's not just that it's not bad, I think that even in this Jianghu, there isn't anyone with martial arts skills that are more astonishing than yours. If I hadn't heard you say it myself, I definitely wouldn't have believed it."

  Liangzi said: "Boss, why are you talking more and more like a martial arts novel now? Alright, what's the use of being so energetic? I'm going to go try it out right now!"

  Xiao Peng chimed in: "Yes yes, hurry up, what's there to eat!"

  "Huh, you two can actually agree on something for once!" Akai laughed.

  The three of them were in a flurry, as if the sky had fallen, and ignored Akira's words. They got up and left immediately.

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