Chapter 161
After Tangyuan had cleared the tableware, Beiqiao breathed a sigh of relief and picked up Tangyuan, who was still peeking out from where he was standing, to stroke his fur. Strenuous activity wasn't recommended right after a meal, so Beiqiao planned to rest for ten minutes before logging back online, taking the opportunity to spend some time with his cat.
Although the house is only over 100 square meters, Bei Qiao has been so busy lately that he seems as if he and his cat are in a different place. This kind of behavior is unacceptable.
Tangyuan: This sudden favor... Never mind, I forgive you. I brought back so many things from hunting a while ago. Maybe you feel exhausted these days, so you are resting in the house, meow.
Having finished her self-discovery, Tangyuan lay obediently in Beiqiao's arms, happily eating cat food. Beiqiao fed the cat with one hand and opened the video app with the other, intending to see if there were any recent trending searches. Instead, a cute kitten popped up on the screen, humming and opening its mouth at the screen.
Wow! Bei Qiao's hands trembled and he quickly exited the app: I dare not look at other kittens while petting them. If Tangyuan finds out, I'll be in big trouble.
After resuming her friendly relationship with Tangyuan, Beiqiao put Tangyuan down on time and went back to her room to log in again. It was still dark, and the Qin family might come looking for her. To avoid unnecessary trouble, it was safer to log in and wait until bedtime before logging off.
Bei Qiao: Maybe I can start preparing a character who sleeps very soundly. Oh, it’s really troublesome.
Tangyuan: It’s strange, why do I feel like I’ve been briefly loved by my owner again?
Bei Qiao, who had nothing else to do online again, simply crossed his legs and began practicing martial arts. Being away from home meant he didn't have much free time offline, so the extra time he was forced to spend online was mostly spent practicing martial arts. His fear of not having enough martial arts was just that.
Internal force is a real bug. Even if the average person is very good at fighting, they will still be defeated if the enemy appears in a group. But if you have internal force, practice it to a certain level and combine it with the corresponding skills, you can completely perform alternating close-range and long-range attacks. Combined with footwork, you can run away even if you can't win.
What Bei Qiao most desired was internal strength comparable to a mobile turret. However, achieving this level of cultivation required time, talent, and resources. Even the protagonists of martial arts novels had to be stymied by opportunities and resources before they could achieve their transformation. Bei Qiao himself possessed considerable talent, but his many priorities kept him occupied, so he could only consider such a feat. Before achieving financial freedom, he simply needed to maintain sufficient self-defense capabilities.
After practicing his internal energy, Bei Qiao went out to the courtyard to practice basic skills. The maids and servants working in the courtyard did not gather around to watch and join in the fun. They simply finished their work and left without cheering or applauding. Their attitude was completely different from that of the people at the escort agency.
"It's more comfortable this way..." Bei Qiao picked up the towel placed beside him by the maid and wiped the sweat off his face, then picked up the cup and took a few sips to replenish his water: You know what, the experience is really good, I almost think of myself as a rich man, I have to check my account balance after logging off to clear my mind... Oh, I made a lot of money in the other world these days, but almost none of it can be converted into cash, I can't go on like this.
Thinking of this, Bei Qiao put down his weapon and returned to his room, ready to see if there were any suitable local Chamber of Commerce missions he could complete. If that didn't work, he could still withdraw some items from the escort agency and sell them to the system store, but that was a last resort.
"Why does every guild have a cat-finding quest...huh?" Seeing a quest with strange content, Bei Qiao subconsciously opened the quest panel: "This is... a ghost player..."
Bei Qiao was surprised to encounter a Ghost Clan player. Due to the forum's regional restrictions, players rarely interacted with each other after they were divided into different factions. Bei Qiao's previous encounter with a Demon Clan player in the Novice Village was purely accidental.
Ghost players are a special case within a special case. Initially, players only have three options: human, demon, and immortal. The human race is self-explanatory. The demon race is a random blind box. The immortal race is just a nice name, but in reality, they are still human, just born closer to the sect's headquarters. If you want to cultivate immortality, it depends on your subjective initiative, talent, and luck. As for the ghost race...
The official just felt convinced about this matter: it is really nothing wrong to say that the player is the fourth disaster. Who is the good guy who brought death upon himself and almost left his soul in another world? Fortunately, the system is still tied to him, otherwise he would have become a vegetable in reality!
The system was also convinced. It took a long time to go through the process with the underworld to get people. It was so angry that its signal was not good during that time. Many players were inexplicably disconnected after staying in the other world for a while. In the eyes of the natives of the other world, many people suddenly became very sleepy and would fall asleep no matter what they were doing. It looked like a weird infectious disease and was particularly scary.
System: It's been hundreds of years, can't those damn pedantic procedures be changed?
Hell: How can we work around this? Do you think this is the Monkey King causing trouble in the underworld? That person is not on the account, how can we settle the accounts? We are working on it, working on it. The new procedures definitely require cooperation from all departments... If you ask, we are working on it!
After many days of deliberation, it was finally accomplished. The system didn't create a separate channel for players to enter the ghost realm; it simply patched it up for players who accidentally stumbled onto the ghost realm, leaving a point of return home. To prevent disrupting the cycle of life and death in the otherworld, human players were forbidden from having children. Similarly, ghost players were prevented from reincarnating, forced to work in the underworld. When they'd had enough, they could request a bowl of Mengpo soup to cancel their account, allowing them to start over.
There are many reasons for becoming a ghost player, such as a player's soul accidentally falling out of their body, encountering a soul-stealing artifact, or straying into a ghost market and being plotted against by native ghosts. Players who are taken away by the Wuchang or ghost messengers, or stranded in the ghost market, can work in the underworld. Unlucky players trapped elsewhere can only post quests and ask other players to help them escape if they don't want to have their accounts revoked. Account cancellation by the system is a last resort.
The player who posted this Guild of Commerce quest is a hapless Ghost Clan player, asking for help in returning her to the Ghost Market. As a Ghost Clan player who has spent five years in the underworld, she's saved a fortune in the real world thanks to information asymmetry, hoping to achieve financial freedom and enjoy the good life. However, a few days ago, she encountered a man who fantasized about being a hero who could save a beautiful woman. Unsuspectingly, he pushed her into a golden hairpin and took her away.
"Golden Hairpin" Bei Qiao looked up in the direction of Qin Mansion: No way...
Because of his current special situation and inconvenience in logging off, the player named Zhen Baohua created a group after the quest was released, where he complained about the guy who forcibly took him away: "I am really convinced. I swear on my fortune in this life, the next life, and the next life, that I really just glanced at him! How did he imagine that I was waiting for the hero to save me with tears and fell in love with him at first sight?"
To escape that man's grasp, she had used a top-grade teleportation talisman, and even been interrupted by that madman mid-transmission, causing her destination to change. If not for that, she wouldn't have appeared out of thin air in Bei Qiao's sleeve. As for the broken hairpin, it was the result of a conflict of forces. It could only be said that the gold wasn't strong enough to withstand the repeated torment of two people.
Zhen Baohua made a lot of money in the other world and was generous. The generous mission rewards attracted a large number of players to click to view this mission. Even players who did not accept the mission joined the group to join in the fun and help her condemn Pu Xinnan's human trafficking behavior.
Some of these players who joined the group just wanted to join in the fun and find a suitable place to vent and release stress; some really wanted to complete the task, but unfortunately the task location was too far away and there were too many variables; some had the correct location but just couldn't think of a way to get into the Qin Mansion; and some players didn't care much about the task and joined the group to find professionals for help. Simply put, they wanted to take advantage of the popularity of the task to publish the task.
Bei Qiao exited the group chat and reread the mission. The location of this Chamber of Commerce mission was the Qin Mansion in Linjie City. As for the mission content, it was to find someone to help send her back to the underworld, preferably to the Ghost Market.
Bei Qiao didn't know much about the ghost market, but sending it back to the underworld... "Can't the Taoist priest of the Qin family do this?" It doesn't make sense.
Of course the little Taoist priest could do it, although she was too lazy to do it. But this golden hairpin ghost was really generous, and he also had a channel to sell the special products of hell, which was really hard not to be tempted.
But considering that the golden hairpin was sent by Miss Qin, the young Taoist priest sent someone to ask Miss Qin's opinion before taking action. Qin Huan, who had just finished class, heard the gossip and decisively climbed over the wall and dragged Bei Qiao to find the young Taoist priest.
Bei Qiao, who was dragged over the wall to enter Qin's residence: I said, there is no need to chisel the door at all. Isn't she quite skilled at climbing over the wall?
In the young Taoist's meditation room, Bei Qiao first encountered the player from the Golden Hairpin Ghost Clan who had issued the quest. Wealth truly nourishes. Although this player, due to his race, looked eerie and ominous, emanating a sinister aura, he also inexplicably gave off a sense of jeweled splendor. In short, he was clearly a wealthy ghost.
Bei Qiao had no desire to meet a fellow villager, and Zhen Baohua had no idea the person on the other side was also a player. Her initial attempt to scam Bei Qiao wasn't intentional; it was simply a coincidence. As for the fact that Bei Qiao ignored her and directly asked Miss Qin to deliver the hairpin to the young Taoist priest, it was impossible not to feel resentful. But after complaining, she was even more frustrated by the money she had lost: twelve hours a day, from last night until now, how many opportunities to make money had been wasted by this accident! The men who had prevented her from making money were all bastards!
"Can we leave now that you've finished telling the story?" Zhen Baohua was very happy to know that the young Taoist priest had a way to send her back to the underworld. But before that, she had to satisfy Qin Huan's curiosity and tell him the whole story.
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