Chapter 45
Xia Mo crossed her arms over her chest and looked coldly at the person in front of her. She did not answer, but threw the question back.
"What do you think?"
The attacker's throat was choked, and his stiff body showed that he was in a state of fear, while his eyes that kept wandering around completely exposed his guilty conscience.
"I, I just attacked you by surprise... Is it necessary to guard the body like this..." He muttered softly due to lack of confidence.
Xia Mo raised his eyebrows and said softly, "Really? It was just a sneak attack? Are you sure you don't have any other selfish motives, York?"
The word "York" made his brain buzz.
He suddenly raised his eyes, and from the look in her eyes that was staring at him, Duyoke immediately realized that from the moment he was resurrected, she had already seen through his identity and his thoughts.
He bit his lower lip uncomfortably: "Mo Se... uh no, Sister Xia Mo, I was wrong."
"What's wrong?"
He lowered his head: "My mistake was not to launch a sneak attack..."
"You know that's not what I'm talking about."
Duyok was interrupted. He took a deep breath, then, as if finally mustering up the courage, he closed his eyes and clenched his fists. "I was wrong to secretly check your identity through the portal, and even let my mother deliberately ask you about it!"
Oh my God, he swore that he had almost given up looking for Xia Mo's game ID, but who knew that by coincidence, he would run into him while doing a mission here.
The face that was extremely similar to his own, and the word "Mo" in the ID made him immediately realize that this star official named Mo Se was none other than Xia Mo, the person who lived upstairs that he had been looking for!
He was obviously a star official, but he was told that his mother was a pastor. Fortunately, he had some hacking skills and checked the data of the 13th Street port overnight. He found that there was no pastor among the 95 accounts. Only then did he realize that he had been cheated.
To be honest, Duyok felt very uncomfortable when he thought about this.
Now that he was caught by accident, Duyoke didn't know why, but he suddenly had the idea of playing a trick on her.
He put on a mask and used special props to hide his ID. He followed secretly all the way, and finally, when the time was right, he shot out several arrows.
Seeing the other person fall off the cliff, he thought he had succeeded, but after climbing up the tree, he found that he had been trapped.
Not only did he fail to tease the other party, but he also ended up falling into the abyss. The saying "stealing a chicken but losing the rice" probably refers to someone like him...
Alas, Duyoke sighed in frustration. If he had known that the other party was so powerful, he would not have taken action.
Xia Mo looked down at him condescendingly, looking at the face of this young man who was not familiar but whom he had a few impressions of, his tone and eyes were still cold.
"I don't want to tell you my ID, which means I don't want to take you with me at all. York, this is my first and last warning. Don't bother me in the future, whether in real life or in the game, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."
After giving the warning, she pulled out the little black horse and left without looking back.
Looking at her disappearing back, Duyoke felt very regretful, but what had happened had already happened and there was nothing he could do to reverse it.
He pressed his brows with a headache, and finally supported himself on the ground and stood up with difficulty. He was about to go back to the city and log off, but at this moment, a huge roar suddenly came from the depths of the forest!
Wait, something is coming towards him!
Duyok was confused for a moment, then he realized that danger was coming!
He looked around frantically, trying to find a place to hide.
However, at the edge of the bare forest, there was nothing except a crooked tree.
Wild rhinos covered with thick black and gray hides rushed out of the forest, hissing and roaring, and rushed to Duyok in a few strides. They hit him hard with their huge horns and raised their heads up again!
How could Duyok withstand the attack of such a beast? Almost in an instant, he was lifted into the air, somersaulted several times in despair in the air, and then fell rapidly like a kite with a broken string.
Bang--!
Xia Mo pulled the reins and heard a heavy landing at the edge of the forest.
The first time Duyok fell off the cliff was a counterattack against his sneak attack; the second time he pulled the monster in was a punishment for him secretly checking her port.
Now that everything was even, Xia Mo pulled the reins again and gently squeezed his legs against the horse's belly. The horse understood and turned around in the forest. The man and the horse were completely immersed in the Kao Forest.
On the way back to the city, Xia Mo thought about it. Now that her ID has been exposed, given Mary's landlord's personality, he will definitely pester her every day after he finds out and ask her to make money with her son.
Not wanting to have anything to do with Duyoke and Mary, Xia Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, immediately pulled out the friend list, and entered a string of IDs.
Seeing that the other party was online, she pressed [Send].
At that time, Li Zewei, who was still collecting materials in Longgu, saw the friend request, was stunned for a moment, and accepted it.
[A handsome uncle: How do you know my ID? ]
[Mo Se: It’s not important. I need a favor from you right now.]
[A handsome old man:??? You sound like you're asking for help?]
[Mo Se: It's like this. I'm going to log off and stay at your shop for a few days. You buy me a new holographic cabin. I'll pay you for it first. After that, I'll draw you some mecha diagrams. I think I can make a profit.]
[A handsome uncle: ??? Not sister, oh not sister, are you listening to me?]
[Mo Se: I heard it, so I’m telling you what I asked of you.]
[A handsome uncle:? I noticed you seem very familiar?]
Xia Mo thought about it and answered seriously: [Not bad]
[A handsome uncle: I don’t believe that! ]
[Mo Se: Just tell me, are you going to help me or not? If you don't, I won't answer any questions about the mecha in the future.]
Damn... Li Zewei gritted his teeth. He was actually being controlled by a little girl.
Thinking back to the day when she helped him revise the design drawing in the store, it was amazing that the difficulty that had troubled him for several days was suddenly solved with just a few strokes of her pen.
Well, he admitted that she had some talent, and also admitted that if he encountered difficulties in the future, he might really need her help.
So I took a deep breath and said, "Help! I'll help you right now, okay?"
On this side, a few seconds after receiving the message from the other party, Xia Mo saw Li Zewei offline.
She did not delay and rushed back to Huangs City. She found a nearby hotel to stay in and then quickly logged off.
Opening her eyes, Xia Mo stepped out of the holographic cabin. Without hesitation for a second, she quickly took out her backpack and stuffed the laptop on the table, the only photo of her parents, a few star coins, and the military academy admission letter into the bag.
Then he turned around and destroyed the personal data in the holographic cabin, confirmed that all the information was cleared, unplugged the power supply, and pushed the door open to leave.
Fearing that she would be discovered, she did not take the stairs that normal tenants took, but went to the fire escape on the other side of the passage.
The Jiman District at night is always surrounded by drizzling rain. With the sound of raindrops falling on the ground, on the carports and on the eaves of each house, she slid down from the upstairs to the ground like a nimble little fox.
Half an hour later, Xia Mo rushed into the store with slightly wet hair.
Probably knowing she was coming, Li Zewei did not turn on the shrill machine speaker this time.
Seeing her come in, he pressed the button on the wall and closed the rolling door.
"Look at how miserable you look. If someone doesn't know you, they would think you are being chased." Li Zewei said jokingly while sitting in a wheelchair.
*
On the first floor of the rental apartment, Duyok climbed out of the holographic cabin with an anxious look on his face.
Hearing some noise in the house, Mary quickly wiped her hands and rushed from the kitchen to the bedroom.
"What's wrong, York?" She stared at her son who was in a hurry to go out, feeling a little puzzled.
"I'll explain it to you later." Duyok pushed her away, took the tenant's room key that had been placed at the door, and strode upstairs!
"York, where are you going, York? Oh, I've been causing you so much trouble every day. York, wait for me!"
Not caring about the dirty apron she was still wearing, Mary ran upstairs after her son.
However, as a fat woman in her forties, she could not keep up with the physical strength of young people. By the time she rushed to the 4th floor holding the stair railing, she was already exhausted and out of breath.
"I say... York... what's going on... just tell me..."
Du Yueke stood at the open door of the room, his eyes a little dazed: "...Mom, Xia Mo is gone."
Five minutes later, Mary was shocked beyond words when she heard from her son that Xia Mo was the world's number one in the game.
She held her head and paced back and forth in the deserted room.
"Oh my god, she's so powerful?!"
Mary stared with her eyes wide open in disbelief, muttering, "Didn't she say she was just average? And, so she's not really a pastor, but that... star... thing you mentioned?"
Duyoke lowered his head and spoke in a voice as small as a mosquito: "...Star Official."
"Oh, right, Xingguan. Anyway, I don't understand the games you young people play, but I just want to ask, can you make money in this profession? Is she really rich in the game now? Hey, son, why did you bother her for no reason?"
The more Mary thought about it, the more upset she became. This was a lot of money that could have been earned by her son, but now she had offended someone.
She was planning to scold him again, but when she turned around, she found her son standing there with tears in his eyes. As a mother, no matter how tough she was, she couldn't bear to scold him at this time, so she sighed and closed the door first.
"Don't be sad, York. At worst, you can log into the game again tomorrow and go find her. Apologize to her and give her a small gift, like a rose or something. Say a few nice words to her and cheer her up. Little girls are always happy with that."
Duyoke frowned when he heard this: "Mom, is this okay?"
In real life, he had only met Xia Mo a handful of times, and he really didn't know what kind of person she was. However, based on her quick and efficient operation in the game just now, and the cold and frightening aura when she spoke, he didn't believe that Xia Mo was the kind of person who would buy into what his mother said.
If he really wanted to be so easy to talk to, would he deliberately pull a group of rhino monsters from the forest to mess with him?
Speaking of rhino horns, Duyoke subconsciously touched his belly. The feeling of having his belly broken by the sharp horns was too real... so real that he would never have the courage to provoke her again in his life.
But……
When he thought about missing out on the world's number one boss, he felt very unwilling.
After thinking about it, I finally shook my head and didn't agree with my mother's bad idea.
"Mom, let's not talk about this anymore. Let me take it easy. Let's talk about tomorrow's business tomorrow."
Seeing her son's distraught look, Mary really couldn't bear it. She sighed twice and turned to open the door.
As they walked out, she consoled him, "It's okay, son. That girl has no money and nowhere else to go this late at night. She might just hide from us today, but she'll definitely be back tomorrow night. I'll plead for her then. If that doesn't work out, I'll waive a month's rent for her!"
When it came to giving up one month's rent, Mary looked as if she had made a huge sacrifice.
Duyok looked at his mother and sighed helplessly.
What he didn't say was that he had a premonition that Xia Mo would never come back.
*
At Zewei Repair Shop, after Xia Mo finished modifying the client's mecha drawing for Li Zewei, he moved out the folding bed very familiarly, locked the door of the studio, and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, the new holographic cabin arrived on time. Xia Mo had been waiting anxiously in the store. After connecting the machine, she couldn't wait to lie down in it.
When I opened my eyes, I was back in Huangsi City.
She immediately went to the castle and asked the mayor to accept the city mission. Because she was in a hurry to return to the royal city, she only took an hour and a half to complete the three city missions and successfully obtained 30 resident honor points.
Riding on the little black horse, he galloped all the way back to the royal city.
On the way back, she looked at the ranking list, and as she expected, her ranking had fallen out of the top ten.
After two days of not killing monsters, several players who were previously closely following her in the rankings have surpassed her. The highest level has now reached level 14. There are a total of five players, occupying the top five, and the next few are at level 13.
Xia Mo is also at level 13. However, because there are so many players at this level, if they are arranged in alphabetical order, her name starts with M, and it is unknown how far behind she is.
Xia Mo was too lazy to flip back, so he closed the level list and opened the comprehensive combat power list instead.
What comforted her was that her combat power ranking was still in the top ten.
But I still dropped one place, from first to second.
But she was not in a hurry at all, because the reason for the decline in her combat power was not because others were catching up too fast, but because she did not have the third-level silver star staff in her hand.
"Protoss" takes equipment scores into consideration when judging a player's overall combat power. Now that she's missing a whole weapon, it would be strange if her ranking didn't drop.
Overall, it is within Xia Mo's acceptable range.
But even though she accepted it, she really had to gain experience points today, otherwise she would fall too far behind and it would be difficult to catch up.
Of course, what's more important is that after the player reaches level 15, new dungeons and new activities will be fully opened. At that time, she will have to go there to get a piece of the pie. She can't be too low in level.
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