Ch65 - Extra 1

Editor: Sahloknir

During New Year’s Eve, the game reopened Sky City, which was closed months ago.

As one of the New Year’s activities, in addition to the piles of things that could be exchanged for points in the past, Ranger has also added New Year’s suits and accessories this time, and since Valentine’s Day is approaching, Tianyu has added a double section, no PK is required to enter, as long as After completing ten rounds of tasks, you can get generous rewards and the title of couple, and you can also get a certain degree of bonus in the pk section.

As one of the New Year’s events, in addition to the previous rewards that could be exchanged with points, the game had also added New Year’s equipment sets and accessories. Since Valentine’s Day was just around the corner, a two-player event section had been added to Sky City. PK was not required, just the need to complete a series of ten quests to obtain generous rewards and a matching title, and the title granted bonus stats for players in Sky City’s PK zone.

Couple matching stuff…he must have his share.

As a little tsundere who wanted to express his love but didn’t want to be obvious, Yue Ran felt that the matching title was perfect. So he complacently entered the Valentine’s Day event with Jiang Xiao, and then…met his maker on the first floor.

Quests designed for couples should adopt an original approach, of course.

So the first floor is to save your partner. After entering the map, the system will randomly select a player to be locked in the iron cage in the middle, and the other player will go through the mazes to rescue him. Leave at the exit and do some mobs in the middle, then it’s done.

The first floor quest was to rescue the other partner. After entering the map, the system would randomly choose one player to be locked in the cage, and the other player would have to go through the maze to rescue them. Once the couple was reunited, they would need to find the exit and advance to the next maze together, with some additional small mobs to hinder them in the middle. That was the extent of this first quest.

Simple enough from the description.

Unfortunately, Jiang Xiao was selected as the trapped one. He thought they could complete this quest within a few minutes, so he chatted with the other man while waiting. Once fifteen minutes passed and his little summoner was nowhere to be seen, he finally posed a question, “Where are you?”

Yue Ran answered, “I don’t know.”

Because he was utterly lost.

Who designed this maze? Were they victims of eating too much dog food and decided to create a super difficult maze for young couples!?

He took a deep breath and moved forward with patience, adding calmly, “I should be close.”

Jiang Xiao hummed in response and after waiting for ten more minutes, he asked, “Still not there yet?”

There was only silence on the other end.

Jiang Xiao raised an eyebrow, “Are you lost?”

The silence continued.

Jiang Xiao questioned, “Too hard?”

Yue Ran finally squeaked out, “Yes.”

As soon as he replied, a system message appeared:

[A devoted couple stands together through thick and thin. Congratulations to player ‘Pure White Sun’ and ‘Attired Guqin’ for clearing ‘Couple’s Heart’.]

DkI nGw: “…”

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DkI nGw: “…”

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He understood, the maze should not be difficult, but it is difficult for his little soul master. He immediately said considerately: “There may be several maps. If we get the hard one, exit and re-enter.”

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Yue Ran had no objection. He was very eager to leave this damned place.

So the duo exited the quest and started a new one.

This time Jiang Xiao got into the cage unluckily again, and the map was replaced with a new one. The more he felt relieved, the secret channel might have drawn a difficult one, so he hurried to save someone, and after ten minutes, he got lost again.

This time, Jiang Xiao was unlucky enough to be trapped in the cage again, and the map was changed to a new one. Yue Ran was relieved and thought that he might have just drawn a hard map, so he rushed to the rescue, and got lost again ten minutes later.

Fuck, which bastard came up with the maze idea!

He couldn’t resist it anymore. He ran to the fridge and got a box of ice cream, not caring about the fact that it was winter.

Jiang Xiao vaguely heard the sound of something being ground and asked, “What are you doing?”

Yue Ran murmured, “Eating ice cream.”

Jiang Xiao guessed the other was nibbling his spoon in anger, and held back his laughter. “Don’t eat too much cold food. Come on, let’s redo.”

Yue Ran uttered “Oh”, left and entered the maze for the third time, and found that not only was Jiang Xiao locked up again, but they also drew the same map as the first time. He was silent for two seconds and asked, “Will you always be the one that gets locked up?”

Jiang Xiao surmised, “That shouldn’t be the case, redo once more?”

The duo entered once more and received the same result.

Jiang Xiao gestured for him to wait, read the event information carefully, and shared, “There’s a one hour cooldown period, and no matter how many times we redo, I’ll be the one trapped.”

At this moment, they still have about ten minutes before the one hour period is up.

But since they got a new maze this time, Yue Ran decided to give it a try.

Jiang Xiao was pinching there, and after a while, seeing that his baby was silent, he felt itchy, and wanted to pull her into his arms and rub him, he said, “It’s time, let’s go back.”

Jiang Xiao used this time to chat with the youth, but seeing his darling wasn’t responding. An itch gnawed in his heart, making him especially want to pull the other man into his arms and stroke that soft hair. He reminded, “Time’s up. Let’s leave.”

Yue Ran retreated without uttering a word.

The duo selected to start the quest and suddenly saw a system message—[Your partner ‘Tempest’ is trapped, please save your partner as soon as possible!]

Yue Ran: “…”

Jiang Xiao: “…”

The CD did reset, but Jiang Xiao had hit the jackpot again by chance.

This meant they had to wait another hour before they could try again. Jiang Xiao was worried that his darling might have a psychological trauma from the maze and suggested they play some ranked and revisit this later.

Even if it was a new maze this time, Yue Ran wasn’t interested in attempting it.

He followed Jiang Xiao to the arena and quickly got in a queue for their first opponents and found out that it was a young couple from the ‘tail-tail’ sign of the couple’s event title in their name.

Neither player was from the new server nor TSSM, but they watched the double battle competition.

This time the Liexing combination swept all the way and won the championship of the first double competition. The two are not only partners, but also lovers, which is very enviable, so they are both CP fans. They were very excited to meet their idols at this moment, and they were thinking of taking a photo together, when they saw that the Star God summoned the rare Xueao lion, and abused them neatly.

The Tempest/Star combination swept the entire way and became the champions in the first double battle competition. Not only were they partners, they were also a couple, earning much admiration from the audiences who soon became their CP fans. At this moment, they were very excited to meet their idols. As they were about to ask for a photo, they saw Star God summoned his second rare summoned beast, ‘Unyielding Snow Lion’, before they were cleaned up efficiently by him.

It was true that Star God was a fierce man of few words qaq.

The cp fans didn’t even get a chance to hug the great god’s thigh before leaving the arena in tears.

Jiang Xiao could guess the reason for this abuse, resisted the urge to chuckle and continued to play ranked. They moved up a rank in a short time and were matched with familiar names—Blank, The Past.

Since they were all acquaintances, the four had a temporary truce, greeted each other and gave Near Year’s blessings.

After chatting for a while, the conversation ended up on a certain subject.

[(All) Blank: Huh, why haven’t you two tried the couple quests yet? It gives bonuses.]

[(All) Tempest: We plan to do it in a bit.]

[(All) Dying Star: Let’s PK then.]

[(All) The Past: Let’s keep chatting, I was finally able to match against you two.]

[(All) Dying Star: PK.]

Yue Ran ended the conversation by summoning his spirit beast. Blank and The Past saw fighting was inevitable, and they soon bit the dust.

Yue Ran felt slightly relieved, as the duo continued to play ranked. After two matches, they encountered a similar situation.

[(All)Sweeper Monk: Wow, I can’t believe the great gods haven’t completed the couple quest yet!]

[(All) Apple Banana: Is it because you two don’t need the bonuses from the title to give us more of a chance? The two great gods are amazing!]

I’m going to send you both to heaven!

Avoiding showing any expression, Yue Ran chopped them to death like vegetables with his top chef knife without saying a word.

Jiang Xiao finally couldn’t hold back his soft chuckle and asked, “It’s almost time, want to go back and try again?”

Yue Ran stubbornly rejected, “No”.

Naturally, Jiang Xiao followed and accompanied the youth with more ranked matches as they jumped another rank, and after two games, history repeated itself.

[Match found.]

[Opponent: Sunken Moon, Seven Fish Seconds.]

The system was programmed to match players with similar ranks and win rates together, and it seemed like the other team also won all of their matches.

No, that wasn’t the main point.

The main point was after they met on the arena stage, the duo saw the Sunken Moon’s golden title: [Seven Fish Seconds’s Partner.]

And Seven Fish Seconds’s side also had a matching title: [Sunken Moon’s Partner.]

Those other two also noticed something wrong with them.

[(All) Sunken Moon: Still haven’t done the couple event?]

[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Looks like we can avenge our loss from the competition,glhf(smile).]

[(All) Sunken Moon: (smile)]

This was a true statement.

Both sides use a large size, the characters are about the same strength, and the skills are not too different. Now Yue Shen and Yu Qishou have certain attack and defense bonuses, which indeed have advantages.

The two sides were using their main accounts, making their strengths very similar, and their skills were actually not too far apart. But now, Sunken Moon and Seven Fish Seconds gained certain attack and defense bonuses, so they do have an advantage.

Yue Ran: “…”

You guys are not even a couple, so why do the couple quests? Shameless!