Chapter 10
What 500,000 yuan bonus? It turns out it is divided into 500,000 yuan.
Zhan Mu carefully browsed the new activities on the official website, looking disdainful and his expression became irritable and depressed. Lu Chao popped up and said jokingly, "Do you just want to make a fortune in one go? Do you think this is worthy of your ambition?"
"Yes, you really understand me." Zhan Mu fiddled with the mouse, his fingertips rolling over the circular wheel in the middle. He nodded in agreement and said, "I've seen people online talking about the first pot of gold in life, and they say 1 million is the threshold."
Lu Chao raised his eyebrows and smiled, the corners of his lips showing a meaningful expression of understanding. He had an insight into the impetuous nature of young people, and he himself had also experienced the hesitation to speak.
"My university living expenses are 4,000." Lu Chao suddenly said.
Zhan Mu rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, I really envy you, Brother Fu." He continued to hunch over the computer desk, feeling depressed and distracted, muttering to himself, "Really, what kind of social welfare can our generation enjoy? Besides having food and drink..."
Lu Chao interrupted him, pulled out the money he had received last year, and said like an old senior, "Do you think you'd be better off if you changed dynasties? The gap between the rich and the poor has been like this for thousands of years. Where do you think the terms 'master' and 'servant' came from? This is a pure class issue."
"What do you want to say?" Zhan Mu knew, but facing these blatant truths, he just felt uncomfortable. Everyone knows that there are always people who are better than you, but admitting one's mediocrity is not an easy thing to do.
There's no solution to this problem. Even the nation's leaders can only say: "Make the pie bigger!" Doesn't the rest still depend on the hard work of the people themselves? Lu Chao thought.
"I don't have much to say. I know I'm well-off, so I never complain," Lu Chao said. "But that doesn't mean there aren't people around me who are better than me. On the contrary, there are many people whose families are better off than mine. I envy them, but I also try to suppress my jealousy because I know that after school, the world isn't just a one-sided competition. So I just want to do better today than I did yesterday, that's all."
Zhan Mu fell silent, as if moved by him, and also as if in awe of his ability to remain calm despite having lost his freedom for so many years. He guessed that perhaps this was what it meant to be a second-generation rich man, a truly elegant aristocrat. Money was merely an embellishment for them, and their noble character and integrity were their identity cards.
"You..." Zhan Mu smiled inexplicably and raised his eyes to ask: "People like you must have been arranged by your family to go on a blind date, right?"
"No, actually, my parents have never urged me to get married." Lu Chao laughed. "First of all, I'm a man. Secondly, although appearance is a rare commodity, for a family like ours, knowledge and wisdom are our core competitiveness. Finally, if I had a younger sister like you, my parents would definitely not raise her to sell... her freedom."
In fact, Zhan Mu guessed that what he wanted to say might be the body, but when the words came to his lips, it felt impolite, so he changed it to freedom.
Yes, he had heard his grandparents chatting more than once, and from Zhan Miao's perspective, they said that every girl should get married early. Zhan Mu didn't know what his sister thought, and he never asked.
"Actually, Miaomiao isn't a very determined person." Zhan Mu was just chatting with him. "I study sports. People who study sports, especially men, love to pretend. Don't believe me? I change my shoes every day when I play basketball. Is that for comfort?"
"It must be to show off their wealth, hahahaha." Zhan Mu laughed cheerfully and amusingly. Lu Chao rarely saw his lively side. He added, "Do you have to use a tablet for online classes? And an iPad? Of course, that's fine, but I guess Zhan Miao saw her roommate had one, so she wanted one too."
"Who hasn't been to college? I don't know her little tricks. And she's a girl. Her boyfriend gave her a bouquet of flowers, so she had to put it in the dormitory for three days and take dozens of photos. Hahaha..."
Zhan Mu sighed suddenly as he spoke, not knowing what he was thinking of. He grabbed a handful of his hair in frustration, "I also heard Miaomiao say that her college roommate was a relatively well-known beauty blogger who had a live broadcast every night with thousands of viewers. She was incredibly rich."
"You think..." Lu Chao asked.
"I just feel like if there was a muscular fitness blogger living in my dorm, I'd be staring at him all day and feeling a sense of disconnect," Zhan Mu said. "Impulsive, it seems everyone is so impatient, like they're going to starve to death if they're not too slow."
“Although I’m like that too, haha.”
Zhan Mu rubbed his face and suddenly let out a "Ha!" as if to vent his anger. Then he wrapped himself in the quilt on the bed sheet and roared, "No more emo, buddy, let's fight! Log in!"
Lu Chao nodded and raised his eyebrows. He thought that he was a really good person. Although he was a bit mean, he would not bring negative emotions to others. When encountering problems, he would just do it without getting entangled. He was also quite passionate.
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Welcome to the game of despair.
Now, please start your journey of life.
After hearing the standard and rigid mechanical female voice, I traveled through the second dimension. The light and electricity in front of me gradually transformed into a towering main city, a kind of Chinese Cthulhu cyber style. The convenience stores on the streets and alleys were all equipped with green giants.
Zhan Mu and Lu Chao were dressed in casual clothes and took a leisurely walk, passing by the players coming and going, looking like a couple who had been in love for many years.
"You can actually transform yourself. I'm really impressed." Zhan Mu whispered in the ear of the pretty girl who was holding his hand, while glancing away at his proud chest, which was a little difficult to look at.
"There's nothing I can do. After all, I'm the top male god in the two-dimensional world." Lu Chao smiled at him and at the same time lifted the hair on his ear in a very coquettish manner. He pointed his slender jade finger and a small pink flying insect flashed out and flew to the queue.
Spiritual pets are extremely expensive.
Zhan Mu was just curious about why he recharged his account, but he was met with his arrogant gaze that said, "I'm a game bug."
"No rush. The server-wide PVP registration tournament requires a five-player team," Lu Chao said. "We can go find our teammates first. With me here, there's no problem for the two of us to win the first round without any problems."
Zhan Mu nodded, and then they split up. He went to the Shenlong Tavern, a social area specifically for adding friends randomly.
Zhan Mu went in, Zhan Mu came out, Zhan Mu was surprised...
The charming Sister Lu Chao was seen with one of her high heels stepping on a player's chest, and around him were other players lying dead. In other words, in the few seconds that he was away, he was not only harassed, but also defeated them all by himself.
It was agreed that private fighting is not allowed in the main urban area.
Terrible game modeling. The game Desperate Situation is so popular now that the planner has to give Lu Chao a thumbs up!
Zhan Mu lowered his eyes to hide his warmth and sent him a private message: Otherwise, you should just be yourself and wear a mask.
Lu Chao said it was okay, and he changed back and became a masked man like Kakashi, leaving only one eye, and in order to distinguish himself from his original image, he also changed his pupils to blue.
This server-wide pvp competition, or more accurately, a team competition, will only see the final five winners receive a 500,000 yuan bonus, and the championship trophy will allow them to enjoy sky-high promotional traffic.
Lu Chao was worried about the people Zhan Mu had brought in on short notice. A cute girl, a big man picking his nose, and... a Capybara? What kind of idiot teammates were these!
"Just make do with it. Do you understand the rules of the first round?" Before Lu Chao finished speaking, he met Capibara's head shaking, and this account made a creepy baby voice.
"Brother, I don't know how to play~" Lu Chao glared at Zhan Mu as he finished speaking, almost shouting, "Kick him."
"Okay brother, then I'll apologize to her. I thought our team needed a funny guy or something." Zhan Mu said, then squatted in front of Capibara to explain to the kid.
Although this is a brain-computer game, due to its supernatural apocalyptic setting, each player can awaken an elemental force, namely, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
According to the official settings of the game, five elemental force scenes are set up respectively. After entering, the same type of elements will cancel each other out, and the rest will affect the player's performance according to the five elements.
There are five small maps, and the players who take the shortest time to enter the dungeon will be ranked. Each player can form a team to play five dungeons at will. The player with the shortest personal clearance time will be eliminated at the end.
"Gold, wood, water, fire, earth. Isn't that simple?" A muscular man with short blond hair joked while waiting in line.
In the end, they were too lazy to find anyone else, so they decided to just go for it with four people.
The short cute girl was a little shy and didn't say anything.
"No, this game won the Light Chaser Award. It's a true work of art that integrates the metaphysical and folk culture of the Xia Kingdom." Lu Chao said seriously, "If my guess is correct, it should be the order of the five elements: 'wood, fire, earth, metal, and water'..."
Zhan Mu frowned and was about to ask why they were arranged like this when Lu Chao suddenly cried out, "Oh no! We don't have enough people and we didn't ask about elemental attributes before entering. I'm afraid we won't be able to pass the first level after entering. Get out now!"
However, it was too late. The four of them had already refreshed into the dungeon. They landed on a platform. The big man was just thinking that Lu Chao was making a fuss, but just as he took half a step, he was eaten away by red threads on his feet...
Of course, this game doesn't hurt, but the big man was shocked. Every step he took left a golden mark on the sole of his foot, and his health was always -5-5, which was relatively low.
Zhan Mu looked at the ground under his feet and found nothing wrong with it. It was clearly a stone slab, but it felt quite elastic and soft when stepped on.
The cute girl was even more terrifying. She was actually covered in flames from the ground, and her health bar dropped sharply!
Only Lu Chao, the game's favorite son and a top student who had been battling wits and courage with the planner for two and a half years, began to observe the environment and pay attention to the dynamics of various scenes since he stepped onto this blue-gray stone slab.
Blue ripples appeared under his feet, like waves. When everyone was confused, he remained calm and immediately reassured everyone, saying, "Look, next to this square bluestone slab are the four great mythical beasts: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise."
"What's the point?" Zhan Mu didn't lose any blood and was jumping around having a lot of fun.
"The key point is that we are now in the Vermillion Bird direction, which is of the fire element. If you don't believe me, just look at its eyes. Aren't only the eyes of the Vermillion Bird statue in the south glowing?" Lu Chao answered. He didn't lose any blood, so he walked over to take a look around this world.
"Now, the attribute on this slate is fire."
"The Five Elements are in harmony with each other," Lu Chao said. "The element I chose was water, and water controls fire, so I'm fine."
"Your element is metal, and fire overcomes metal," Lu Chao said to the big man, "so every kick you make leaves a metal mark, and your blood is flowing out."
The big man's expression suddenly changed, and he felt a little embarrassed for his contempt for him just now.
"You are of the Wood element, and Wood generates Fire," Lu Chao said to the cute girl. "This is well known, so you lose the most health."
The cute girl said: "I see, what should I do then?"
"And Zhan Mu, you are of the earth element, right? Fire generates earth, so it's okay for you to step on it. It can even increase your health."
Zhan Mu nodded, feeling that he could move freely, without the clumsy feeling of being low on health. So he praised the outstanding student Lu Chao from afar.
Lu Chao finally shook his head and said, "We're short on numbers. We have to gather five elements. Otherwise, if we pass this level, we might not be able to pass the next one. If we're short of one, we'll waste a chance to clear the dungeon. Forget it, we can only go out and find someone else."
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