◎【Edited】Just listening to it makes me feel mysterious and has a story behind it◎
It was only after seeing Xin Zexi's face at the trading center that Xia Li belatedly realized that this man was the engineer everyone talked about so much in her previous life. Of course, the talk wasn't about his deputy engineer position, but rather his downtrodden status, which was completely at odds with the Leng family's upper-class status, and his unspeakable feelings for the Leng family's eldest daughter.
Yes, it’s the cliché story of a poor boy working for a rich girl and accidentally falling in love with her.
However cliché it is, it still becomes a topic of conversation among players in their spare time.
Xia Li has never been interested in these gossips, but she has no choice but to travel all over the country in the game. She is not deaf or blind, so she is always forced to hear some rumors here and there.
She remembered... Xin Zexi later withdrew from Dark Storm. The specific reason was unclear, but since the departure of this dual-cultivation priest and engineer, the situation of Dark Storm has been deteriorating. At the same time, the Leng family in reality also quickly lost its voice during that period, and was finally kicked out of Area A by the Long family.
In her previous life, she had little contact with the Dark Storm people, nor was there any rivalry between them. So, when she heard that the Leng family's status had plummeted, she wasn't overly upset. After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the Leng family was poor, it was still much better off than the children in Slum No. 36 who had been starving and underfed since childhood.
But, this life.
Xia Li looked at Xin Zexi with interest. If she could understand the conflict between the dark storm and the raging fire through him, could she get involved and let Long Yan and his group also taste the feeling of falling from heaven to hell?
Xin Zixi frowned at her ambiguous smile. He glanced at Baofeng and Leng Bingshuang, his mind racing. Finally, he politely replied, "I'm only a dabbler in engineering right now. I don't have much to offer. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed."
Although he didn't know how she knew about his dual cultivation identity, for the sake of his own guild, Xin Zexi knew he had to give a conservative answer.
Sure enough, after saying this, Leng Bingshuang's angry face finally eased a little.
Xia Li smiled. She had expected him to say that, so she didn't take it seriously and just said what she had prepared in her mind: "Don't worry, I won't ask you to do any engineering for Fengyun Tianxia. Of course, I won't force you to teach us all your engineering skills either."
"Then what do you mean by wanting me...?" Xin Zexi was a little surprised and didn't understand what she was going to do.
"You just need to help me pick some people with potential in the guild and push their list up." Xia Li said lightly.
"Just let him do this?!" Compared to Xin Zexi's much more reserved expression, Leng Bingshuang was obviously the type with a very open facial expression. After hearing what she said, she stared at her in surprise.
Xia Li nodded: "Yes, let's do this."
Maybe even Xin Zexi himself didn't realize that players who choose secondary jobs like equipment makers, enchanters, and engineers actually need certain talents. Since it is a talent, only a very small number of people have it.
In order to pick out players with such talent and potential, according to the settings of the miracle, only players with similar talent points will be more likely to discover them, which is probably the meaning of like attracts like. Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of trial and error and not waste guild resources, Xia Li wants to pick out good seedlings from Fengyuntianxia who can take the path of engineers. The safest way is to let Xin Zexi come forward.
After hearing her words, Xin Zixi turned his gaze to Bao Feng, as if asking what he meant.
Bao Feng narrowed his eyes, remained silent for a moment, and finally spoke slowly: "Xin Zexi, help her choose someone."
Xin Zixi: "Yes, President." It doesn't matter what he thinks. What matters is that as long as President Baofeng nods, he will do it.
Xia Li was very pleased with Bao Feng's straightforwardness, so she curved her eyes and said cheerfully, "Then it's a pleasure to work with you."
"It's a pleasure working with you." Bao Feng extended his hand towards her and made a gesture of invitation. "Here's the copy for you. We'll go ahead."
"Wait," Xia Li called out to them.
Baofeng paused: "Anything else?"
Xia Li tilted her head slightly towards the aperture of the copy and said, "Since we're here, let's go together."
Leng Bingshuang turned around and glared at her: "If we do it together, you'll be giving us the first kill spot in the dungeon for nothing."
Xia Li shrugged: "So what?"
Originally, she didn't care about the first kill spot in this ordinary dungeon. She agreed to it just to test whether Baofeng's intentions were sincere, to see whether they really wanted to cooperate or just deliberately tricked her here and would attack her if the cooperation failed.
As it turned out, she got the answer she wanted.
President Storm exchanged her paid assistance for what they needed most, and also agreed to let Xin Zexi help their guild select suitable engineers.
If the other party is straightforward, everything will be easy for her to talk about. So instead of monopolizing this dungeon, she might as well do a favor and take the initiative to propose entering the dungeon with everyone. This way, you, I, and everyone can have the first kill spot, which is mutually beneficial.
Leng Bingshuang paused in surprise. She had never imagined that this person who had fought with her, snatched the Adventure Scroll from her hand, and even took the two Transformation Cards from her backpack, would actually be so kind as to actively share the first kill spot with them?!
"You said it! Everyone heard it, you are not allowed to regret it!" Leng Bingshuang quickly recovered from her surprise and spoke up, fearing that she would change her mind the next second.
There was nothing special to pay attention to about Alanka's Cyclops. It was just an ordinary dungeon, which was so easy for her and Dark Storm, so they didn't spend much effort throughout the whole process. They almost just stood there and fought. It took them about 40 minutes, and they finally passed the three levels easily.
At the same time, the world channel simultaneously updated the first kill announcement.
Congratulations to the warrior "Storm" for completing his first kill of Aranka's Cyclops (Normal) and earning the title "Loyalty of the Cyclops"!
Congratulations to the warrior "Summer Pear Flower" for completing his first kill of Aranka's Cyclops (Normal) and earning the title "Loyalty of the Cyclops"!
Congratulations to the warrior "Xin Zexi" for completing his first kill of Alanka's Cyclops (Normal) and earning the title "Loyalty of the Cyclops"!
[Title "Loyalty of the Cyclops": Pet Loyalty +5]
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The announcement caused a huge stir, and the attention of players around the world was instantly drawn to it.
"Dark Storm finally got the first kill spot? That's truly rare, congratulations!"
"I haven't even heard of this instance, and they actually sneaked through it? It seems they really need this title (serious face)."
"No, why is there someone named Xia Rihua on their team? Can game IDs have the same name?"
Suddenly, a player discovered something wrong.
"You're so stupid! How could there be a duplication of game IDs?"
"So Xia Rilihua has retreated? No way, no way, she's not going to do anything weird again, is she?"
"I heard that the people from Fiery Fury and Dark Storm have been at odds lately. It's interesting that she's withdrawing from Wind Cloud and Storm at this critical moment."
"Oh, what fun is that! I'm so fed up with her. It feels like every time something goes wrong in the game, it's all related to her. I hope she stops causing trouble and gives us ordinary players some peace and quiet!"
"That's right. If she hadn't entered Bruce's yard, Bruce wouldn't have been in such a fatal disaster. In the final analysis, she is a plague! Anyone who gets close to her will be unlucky!"
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Plague god, bad luck.
Leng Bingshuang looked at the two words and couldn't help but dodge her gaze. Not long ago, when she was fighting with the other party for the endurance potion, she had also used this word to curse Xia Rilihua. At that time, she really disliked the other party, so she cursed without thinking. But she didn't expect that when she saw these words with her own eyes today, she felt a little uncomfortable.
It turns out these words were quite harsh. She shouldn't have...
"Oh, forget it!" Leng Bingshuang shook her head. Forget it, forget it. It's all in the past. Why think about it? Anyway, she now feels that the other party is not as annoying as before!
After dividing the spoils, Xia Li waved goodbye to Baofeng and Leng Bingshuang.
She now had to go back to the royal city and trigger a task in the hands of an NPC she knew. On the one hand, it was to accumulate reputation points, and on the other hand, it was to find out what the risk of faction defection that the system reminded her of was.
In her previous life, she had never heard of any missions involving players switching sides. Xia Li even speculated that perhaps the Van Arnold phantom boss had never been triggered by players in her previous life.
This is normal. The side quests in Miracles are just like the patrols in the Royal City, numerous and diverse. If the player is lucky, a side quest can be triggered every now and then. However, as mentioned earlier, the rewards for side quests are not much, so players rarely do them even if they receive them.
Only players like her who are keen on playing side quests like to travel all over the continent.
However, this trip was not in vain. Not only did she complete the task of investigating the magic ring assigned to her by Bruce, but she also accidentally triggered this hidden task.
This is a hidden mission! Just hearing it sounded mysterious and interesting. Xia Li secretly thought that if she could successfully complete it, she might get a lot of unexpected rewards!
With this idea in mind, Xia Li quickly rode Xiaoguai back to the east gate of the royal city.
At the same time, the official website of Miracles has found out that more than 60 items previously sold in the trading center were stolen, so they were quickly removed and trading was prohibited. Players who bought them by mistake were also notified to take them back. Of course, the official compensated a portion of the gold coins as an apology. Finally, dozens of pieces of equipment were returned to the original players, and their durability was all enhanced to the full level for free.
Leng Bingshuang also received a system prompt, reminding her that the [Moon Crown Robe] had been returned to her backpack.
"Brother, the robe is back," she said as she followed Storm.
Baofeng nodded, his face still expressionless.
Seeing that he had nothing to say, Leng Bingshuang pouted and said, "I'll never say anything bad about her again. Is that okay?"
She knew that she had lost her temper in the guild a lot regarding the death of the goblin Bruce, saying everywhere that Xia Rilihua was a bastard, which made it impossible to get the Moon Crown Robe back.
It’s not that she was angry about losing her equipment. The guild had plenty of money and was not afraid of not being able to buy better ones. It’s just that this piece was very special to her. It was bought specially for her by her brother Leng Feng.
From childhood to adulthood, Leng Feng has always been trained by her father as a successor. Low-key, tolerant, and not showing emotions on her face, these have always been the impressions Leng Feng has left on her.
It is precisely because she has to suppress all kinds of emotions, or even avoid showing emotions, that Leng Feng has never been very close to her, her biological sister.
Leng Bingshuang had always been envious of how other brothers doted on their sisters since she was a child. However, no matter how envious she was, she could only watch helplessly. Sometimes, even when she learned that Leng Bingshuang had smashed things and lost her temper at home because of something, Leng Feng would not even look at her.
Over time, all she could do towards Leng Feng was watch from afar and feel alienated.
If it weren't for the miracle that happened, Leng Bingshuang would never have thought that one day she would be able to form a guild with her brother!
And this Moon Crown Robe was the first gift Leng Feng gave her.
She was so happy that she had always treated this dress as a treasure. So when she learned that the Moon Crown Robe would not be returned, she was furious with Xia Rilihua.
Bao Feng was unaware of his sister's emotions. He only knew that with Leng Bingshuang's temperament, she would inevitably suffer in the future. So he could only sigh softly and respond, "I hope you can learn something from this experience."
According to the official announcement, the real murderers of Bruce - Murphy, Che An, and Yamato Mitsuyo - all had their reputation points deducted by 0 and their gold coins deducted by 20%. They were also detained in the royal prison for 7 days as a warning.
In addition, the official also gave an answer to the question raised by some players whether NPCs can be refreshed after death.
The answer is: No.
Bruce is gone and that's it. If players want to find equally capable equipment repairers, they can only think of ways on their own, such as training their own equipment repairers in the guild, or letting other blacksmiths in the royal city go out for further study... In short, there are many ways, it just depends on what the players do.
The players just watched the official explanation. Originally, they wanted to praise the official and say that the matter was handled well. However, when they saw the explanation that the NPC could not be refreshed after death, they were so angry that they beat their chests and stamped their feet, and changed their words to curse, "The official is not human!"
Xia Li had always known this rule, so she didn't feel anything when she saw the announcement. She opened her backpack and prepared to put on the night skeleton armor that the system had returned.
Suddenly, she found some extra things in her backpack.
Xia Li was stunned for a moment, wondering why the authorities gave her an extra compensation package?
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