Although there were many people, Shi Sheng didnât have to worry about friendly fire since they were all enemies, so she was able to use her abilities to the fullest.
âGotta kill these fuckers even if I have to chug meds!â
At some point, someone had shouted a call to arms on the world chat, so more and more people unhesitatingly rushed over and joined the chaotic battle.
Shi Shengâs fingers flew across the keyboard. The flashes of light from the skills were too clustered and had nearly managed to drown out her avatar. It was now useless to look at the screen, since she wouldnât be able to make out who was who with all those flashy animations.
The background music caused oneâs blood to boil.
On the map, people fell in droves. Some corpses disappeared to revive at their respawn point, while others simply revived on the spot to re-join the battle. These people were beginning to wonder if there was a bug somewhere that kept them from killing these two despite having so many people.
Shi Sheng didnât know how Ink Seeker was staying alive. All she knew was that she was exhausting many items to keep herself up.
When facing a human wave, no matter how awesome your skills were, youâd still have a hard time dealing with it.
It was at this moment that the volume of the background music suddenly lowered. The screen blacked out, and the music disappeared altogether, causing silence to fall.
Shi Sheng blinked and took a moment to process this before clicking her mouse. There was no reaction from the computer.
âThe fuck! Whyâd my game crash?â
Shi Sheng was about to call for the manager when a string of text suddenly popped up.
I once thought he was my world. In the end, I learned it was nothing but my wishful thinking.
Shi Sheng thought, âHave I triggered some hidden storyline?â
The words on the screen remained for around 10 or so seconds before the fog-like darkness slowly receded. She could now see that she was standing in a valley, Ink Seeker by her side.
Shi Sheng pulled up the map and pored over it carefully. The scenery of the valley was very beautiful, but the sky above was overcast and gave one a heavy, uncomfortable feeling when looking at it.
She was quite certain sheâd never seen this map before. âIs it a hidden map?â
A lot of the gameâs functions had been greyed out. When a function was greyed out, that meant she wouldnât be able to use them in this map. Of the available chat channels, only private messages would work.
âWell fuck me⌠what kind of quest is this?! So cruel to playersâŚâ
She looked at the borders of her screen and discovered the button to close the window was gone. In other words, unless she rebooted the computer, sheâd have no way of backing out. And even if she did reboot the computer, there was no guarantee sheâd be able to leaveâŚ
âSo brutal!!!â
Shi Sheng opened her quests list and discovered that other than that hidden quest, all the other quests were greyed out, and she was unable to click on themâŚ
âHidden questâŚâ
Ink Seeker has sent you a friend request. Do you accept?
Shi Shengâs hand didnât slip up this time and pressed on âYesâ.
What? She couldnât use any other chats to communicate, and she wasnât at home, so she couldnât just hack the system willy-nilly to chat. If she didnât accept his friend request now, the only way they could communicate was telepathicallyâŚ
[PM] Ink Seeker : [A Hidden Quest appeared on my quests list.]
He got straight to the point.
[PM] Music For Miles : [is it called âDream of A Thousand Yearsâ? and you just received it?]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [En.]
[PM] Music For Miles : [if i told you, that i got this hidden quest from the time you killed me 99 timesâŚ]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [âŚâŚ]
[PM] Music For Miles : [dashen, did you actually kill me so many times because you knew this would happen?]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [No.]
[PM] Music For Miles : [âŚMy objective is to find Xi Li, whatâs yours?]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [Thereâs no objective.]
[PM] Music For Miles : [âŚâŚ]
âThe hell you mean, âI donât have an objectiveâ?!â
Over at Ink Seekerâs side, he really hadnât received an objective, only a hidden quest called âDream of A Thousand Yearsâ had appeared in his quests list. Nothing else had appeared.
Shi Sheng fell silent. The quest had only appeared because she had been killed 99 times consecutively⌠And Ink Seeker was the one to kill herâŚ
But since she received the quest earlier than Ink Seeker, she must be the leader.
[PM] Music For Miles : [letâs look around a bit. my quest is to find an npc named Xi Li]
âItâs already come to this! So Iâll just have to do it!!!â
The valley wasnât very big. The two explored around for a bit, but they couldnât even find a single living thing, let alone an NPC.
The area outside the valley was covered in darkness. Shi Sheng attempted to walk out of the valley but discovered she was unable to take a step outside.
[PM] Ink Seeker : [467, 120]
[PM] Music For Miles : [you found her?]
Ink Seeker didnât reply, so she could only run towards the co-ordinates. The co-ordinates were in the higher reaches of the valley. She had only searched near the lower parts, so she hadnât come up here before.
She found a cave, its entrance hidden behind a tree.
The co-ordinates led her inside the cave. Shi Sheng made her character crawl in, after which she was greeted by the sight of Ink Seeker facing a beautiful lady. There was a question hovering above her head:
He sent you?
[PM] Music For Miles : [whatâs wrong?]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [There arenât any options I can pick, but I can choose to converse with her. I tried responding with âYesâ and âNoâ but she didnât give any response. You try.]
Shi Sheng clicked on the pretty lady, whereupon a dialogue screen popped up.
[PM] Xi Li : [He sent you?]
âThe hell? The NPC ran all the way here to sit in this cave?â
Shi Sheng first entered âYesâ but only got that question back in response. She had the same result when she entered âNoâ.
âThe only two answers arenât correct⌠Oi devs, you fuckin with me here?!â
[PM] Music For Miles : [doesnât work]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [âŚâŚ]
The two stared speechlessly at the beautiful Xi Li.
âThis is the NPC I was supposed to find but why is there no response to the only two answers???â
[PM] Music For Miles : [have you read the background story of the game before?]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [Itâs available on their official website.]
âFuck, so this means he hasnât read it before? Your grandpa!â
[PM] Music For Miles : [this quest might take a while⌠iâll go extend the rent, you go check out the background of the gameâs setting]
[PM] Ink Seeker : [âŚâŚ]
Shi Sheng went to the front counter to extend the duration on the fee, and she rented out the other computer in the room too. Fortunately, she had asked for a room with two computers to begin with.
Wooden Bellz had given Shi Sheng her account details before leaving, so Shi Sheng used her account. Her friends list was pretty much the same as Shi Shengâs, the only difference being three names Shi Sheng didnât recognise.
When she checked her status on the friends list, she found that she was actually displayed as offlineâŚ
And the world chat was pretty much flooded with discussion by now.
Since Ink Seeker and her had suddenly went offline while they were being attacked, there were quite a few people saying they were scared.
âScared your great grandpa! Just you wait, you little bitches! Iâll(bbb)Â be back!!!â
Shi Sheng turned off world chat and went to poke Godly Tycoon, the only one online.
[PM] Wooden Bellz : [how come the undermoons arenât on?]
[PM] Godly Tycoon : [?]
[PM] Wooden Bellz : [iâm music]
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[PM] Godly Tycoon : [âŚEveryone is saying you were blasted offline by their combined assault.]
[PM] Wooden Bellz : [donât listen to that group of [email protected] how could i have been blasted out of the game by them?]
[PM] Godly Tycoon : [Then how come youâre using someone elseâs account?]
He looked at his friends list. The player Music For Miles was displayed as offline.
[PM] Wooden Bellz : [i got transferred to a hidden map⌠you know, the one related to that hidden quest i asked you guys abt the last time⌠can you help me contact the undermoons? the questâs a bit troublesome]