[Online Gaming] Love You 59 Seconds Chapter 25

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Note: The first half of this chapter will be dedicated to the Tricyclic dungeon, so if you're not a gamer, you can just pass this. However, if you want to read it for the fun of it, go ahead and read on^^

Just as Wu Han Ying had expected, the team had a very difficult time trying to clear this dungeon. When he entered his internet was lagging for a little bit, but when he could move his character again, he realized he was alone at the dungeon entrance. Wu Han Yin looked at the map and saw everyone had already rushed forward.

As he headed over to the first spawning point, he could feel cold sweat dripping down his forehead. The lagging internet was causing him to get very anxious and as he looked at the avatars of his team on the left side of the screen, everyone's blood had reduced to half a bar.

Xiao Wu. quickly dashed over, he casted a Divine Providence {healing skill} to each member. Although he had maxed that skill, he did not have the money to buy the Emei sect's skill book so he was not able to learn the commonly used Blessed Recovery skill {healing skill with larger HP recovery}. Last time Love You 59 Seconds told him to get the skill books in the "warehouse" to use, Xiao Wu. did not take any because the other player had already given him a lot of things.

Xiao Wu. was a bit slow on healing everyone's blood, but no one died; he used the Advance Blood Sacrifice skill once on Blue Skin Calcium and his mana bar recovered more than enough. Actually, for low level Emei it is good enough for them to have the regular Blood Sacrifice skill, until the player switches to Polar Bear or Tortoise they can upgrade to the Advanced Blood Sacrifice skill.

Wu Han Ying was currently very busy moving his character around in the game, not to mention the schools internet was seriously lagging. He silently cursed in his heart, who the hell said the Emei character is the easy one to play?! Who the fuck said that the Emei is the most chilling class?! His hand got tired from healing everyone, it was even worse than playing the low HP Wudang =.=

However, he seemed to have forgotten that there are three Emeis in this team...

The other two seemed to read the situation very well, so they did not bother to heal their own blood. The little female Emei standing in front decided to use her skill of exuding her character's hatred to attract the enemy, which deliberately pulled the monsters to her. With such a low HP and low defense she successfully attracted a bunch of monsters that were running around the map. Her HP bar became like an open faucet, within seconds it went down to one-third.

Xiao Wu. got worried so he rushed over to throw a Divine Providence skill on her, which consequently made his character's hatred level increase rapidly. This caused the monsters to change their target to him, so his Divine Providence skill chant got interrupted.

According to the game guide [1], Mingjiao will take on the Tank[2] role and stand next to the Emei to help it kill all the monsters, but this team does not have a Mingjiao...

{Translator Note:

[1] Game Guide - preferred to the posts made by other players in the game, they will give hints or cheat sheets on how to do a quest or a party quest. Sometimes they even post how to make your characters more powerful, this is very useful to gamers.

[2] Tank - Chinese game slang, meaning a person who has high defense and high damage, they will take on the job of killing and receiving attacks from the monsters. Like a tank in war, the tank line is always the first to go, the frontier line.}

Everyone in the team continuously threw over their skills next to him; the male Murong came over to help him kill the monsters so the Divine Providence chant could be resumed.

The team channel was filled with +++++, Wu Han Ying took a look at everyone's blood bar, he noticed that they are all reduced to less than half. The little Emei who bravely took charge earlier only had a little bit of blood left.

Wu Han Ying looked at his own blood bar and realized that his blood bar is thicker than his teammates; although he got attacked by the monsters quite severely, he still had a lot of blood left, so he did not have to worry about his own blood and started to heal everyone else.

{Team}[Xiao Wu.]: Emei 55, stop attracting the monsters to you

Wu Han Ying felt like he had reached his own limit, how come there is someone this terrible. When the other's blood bar only had a few drops left, he quickly threw over one Divine Providence chant. Before the chant had time to finish, the system alerted him that a target was not in range; that little girl actually went to attract more monsters!

Xiao Wu. chased a few steps after her, but he still wasn't close enough. TMD {Fuck} I don't care anymore, we're both Emei and yet she doesn't even bother to heal her own blood.

Obviously, Wu Han Ying had teamed up with all noob players, with very bad skills. He had always felt his gaming skill is very terrible and unorganized just like Love You 59 Seconds said, the guy even thought that he was a girl at first T-T

This time he finally got to experience what it felt like to be speechless...

They had killed 47 Wei Song soldiers, from the original 30-minute time limit they now had only 14 minutes left. There were two Wei Song soldiers next to the Wei Song Commander NPC that only added up to 49, they were missing one more.

The Murong next to him immediately mounted his crane and searched around the map, Wu Han Ying followed suit. They searched around and finally found the fish in the net at the left corner of the screen. He got down from his mount and started to attack the soldier, at the same time he sent a message in the team chat.

{Team}[Xiao Wu.]: Here

After a short moment, the Murong came over to help him finish the last Wei Song soldier, but before they had killed the soldier everyone's blood bar suddenly drained...

Wu Han Ying got on his mount and rushed over to the right end of the bridge, but when he got there...no one...

He was stunned for a moment, and then rushed over to the big tent in the middle of the map, sure enough, the small BOSS appeared there and was chasing and attacking the little Emei.

{Team}[Xiao Wu.]: Get on the bridge!!

When he first did this Tricyclic dungeon, he was not clear on how to sweep it. There are three stages in the Tricyclic dungeon, each stage has its own rule. In the first stage, they must first kill all 50 Wei Song soldiers and then their Commander. Someone needs to be the bait to lure the Commander to the right end of the bridge.

The first rule is to trap the monsters and since the wooden bridge is a narrow area it is a perfect setting for a trap. As for the second rule, after the Commander gets killed, there will be 10 bandits trying to flee away on horseback. The fleeing bandits split into two groups, each group of 5 bandits will run towards each end of the wooden bridge. If one of the bandits successfully gets off the bridge, the team has failed the first stage.

After he successfully lured the Commander onto the bridge, Xiao Wu. organized each member's position to heal their blood bar. The small BOSS Commander threw over two multiple attack skills, everyone's pets died on the spot. When there was only a little bit of blood left on the Commander's blood bar, Wu Han Ying thought of allocating everyone into groups, three people were needed at the left end of the bridge to stop the 5 fleeing bandits.

{Team}[Xiao Wu.]: 123 over

Wu Han Ying did not look at the team tab he just conveniently typed in 123. Basically, the first three people in the team list will go over to the other side of the bridge, while the last three will remain in the same spot.

As a result, Xiao Wu. went to the other side and waited, Xing Su {Voodoo} also chased after him and then...no one.

Wu Han Ying opened the team tab to find out whom and where the third member was, after looking he found out that No. 2 was that little Emei, suddenly he felt like banging his head. He did not have a chance to type in the message to call the little Emei over before a yellow line appeared on the screen, the Commander got defeated.

Even though the Emei class does not have multiple attacks skill, Wu Han Ying and Xing Su were able to successfully finish off all the 5 fleeing bandits.

Defeating Wei Song Deputy Commander and Yu Du in the last two stages was quite difficult for the whole group, one of them even got killed halfway through.

After they had cleared the dungeon and went to return their quest both the Murong and Tianshan left the team. Wu Han Ying took one look at the rest of them and without much hesitation, he immediately clicked leave the team. He should never have teamed up with these people!

Xiao Wu. walked over two steps to the warehouse to organize something when he saw that there were a large number of people on the streets; some players even set up stalls. After seeing that, he also decided to take out some useless items in his inventory and set up a stall to sell them!

{Translator Input: This is what I imagine Wu Han Ying is facing LOL Lots of stalls T.T literally, the player is sitting on the street with the title on their head. Other players will click on the sitting player to see what is in their stall to buy. Usually it's cheaper to buy from other players and if you want to find rare items, these individual stalls are where you should look first ^^}

After helping Love You 59 Seconds sort out his so-called "warehouse", Wu Han Ying had a better understanding of some items' current pricing. First, he had to pay 10 silver tax, then he sat down and marked the price for each item; after that was complete he opened the stall for sale.

Xiao Wu.'s stall did not have that many valuable items, they were nothing more than some low-grade gems, a few treasure maps and other items along those lines.

After setting up the stall, Wu Han Ying minimized the game window; he took a quick look over his class schedule for Monday and revised some homework due that day. Once he finished he had some time to kill before his roommates returned to the dorm, while he was waiting he decided to look up some movies to kill time. After everyone was gathered they headed down to the school cafeteria for dinner.

When he returned it was 6 o'clock, and it was getting dark outside. Wu Han Ying then opened the TLBB game window to take a look. Sales did not go well on his first time setting up the stall; he sold one Lan Jing Shi {Deep Blue Gem} and one treasure map, the rest is still the same.

{Translator Input: These are the examples of the level 6 gems in the game. You can buy some level 6 gems with a hella lot of money, but as far as level 7 you sometimes have to make it. So after doing the math, you can spend millions for one gem T.T}

In the guild channel, someone was gathering a team to do Misty Peaks Dungeon*, but for Xiao Wu. that dungeon is out of his reach since it is made for max level players.

{Translator Input: Misty Peaks Dungeon or Piao Miao Feng {缥缈峰) - is a dungeon for level 90+ players only; as I said before any players who is at level 100 is considered "max level" and our Xiao Wu. is only at level 52, so of course that dungeon is out of his reach.}

Bonus - Here is what Misty Peaks Dungeon looks like as well as the interface of the TLBB game when you're teaming up. Now you all have a picture of what this game looks like on a PC ^^

Looking over at the friend list, Love You 59 Seconds had logged in because his name is lit up. He scrolled up the chat box and saw that Love You 59 Seconds had sent over a message asking whether he is on or not. And another whisper message saying that he is going to do Misty Peaks Dungeon first, then he will help him train and level up.

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: You go ahead, I'm setting up a stall to make some money

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: I've just got out

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: =口= so fast

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: Training?

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: No, you go ahead and do the dungeon, I see someone calling for you in the guild

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: There are still some items left in my stall

Wu Han Ying looked at the items in his stall and made up an excuse; he couldn't help thinking he should not keep on bothering the other man. 59 Seconds wasn't at max level yet and to have the other man helping him to level up every day seemed to be a bit selfish on his part.

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: Um

Wu Han Ying continued to look at his stall and then turned his attention towards the guild channel. A few people in the guild asked others to help them with a trading route, Xiao Wu. had no idea what a trading route was, so he tried asking around. Later, this matter was answered by Xiao Xiao Xiao.

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: Ok, let's go

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: ???

Wu Han Ying looked quite confused at the sudden whispered message. He didn't understand, what did he mean by OK? And let's go?

However...when he came to realize what he meant...he sat in shock...

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: =口=

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: Shifu, what're you doing? =.=

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: You bought those useless things for what!!!

Within a short time every space in his stall was empty. Wu Han Ying looked at the big Wudang standing in front of Xiao Wu.; he suddenly felt like he is going crazy and immediately input three big exclamation marks into the chat!

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: Gems can be combined

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: Treasure maps can be useful

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: Shifu, don't you need to level up?

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: No need, I have a max level account

囧囧 Oh god, so that's why. Wu Han Ying felt like beating this rich dude up as he thought about the max account Emei with full level 7 stones...it's true that he does have a max account.

{Whisper}[Love You 59 Seconds] said to you: You don't want to level up?

{Whisper}you said to [Love You 59 Seconds]: =.=

{Team}[Love You 59 Seconds]: Then we can go ahead and open your treasure maps

Wu Han Ying felt extremely helpless with his stall completely empty, there was no other choice but to stand up and accepted the team invitation from Love You 59 Seconds. Looking at the team chat, he suddenly remembered that he had picked up quite a few treasure maps from killing the monsters and he has never once used them. Opening the map is quite easy; all he needs to do is to head over to the designated location, let the monsters out of the bag and then kill them all.

Even though the drop rate for valuable items is quite low, the GM* {Gamemaster} in this game is favoring the low level account so the probability of the low level account, as a result, the chances of picking up valuable items is quite high. However, the designated locations on these treasure maps could be one of two places, if is not Changbai Mountain then it is Huang Long Manor. The monsters in those places are all level 90 and level 100; not the ideal places for a low level account. If you take into account the locations for opening the map and running to those locations, all low level accounts would have died more than a dozen times before making it to the destination...

{Translator Input: GM - Gamemaster - a person who enforces the game's rules and provides general customer service. Nowadays, these GMs are paid employees ^^}

{Team}[Xiao Wu.]: I'm afraid I'll get killed on the way

{Team}[Love You 59 Seconds]: Log into XC too, take him along with us

{Team}[Love You 59 Seconds]: You won't die; also with three people we can kill horseback bandits on the way

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End of Chapter 25

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