Forces of Temptation

Chapter 35: Paper Gold (8)

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"…You slept too long today."

Amid the noise of the child walking away and the flapping sound of moths chasing lights close at hand, Jiang Fang wrapped his arms around his shoulders and whispered softly: "If you sleep too long, your spirit will also be bad. ."

Nan Zhou gritted his teeth and eased the numbness and fatigue that came up from inside his body.

He slowly squeezed the uncomfortable airflow out of his teeth, trying not to let out a low groan.

… He was really uncomfortable today.

So after waking up, he just stood at the door, restrained his curiosity about this strange and well-rounded small world, and didn't go anywhere.

He didn't even watch Jiang Fang play mahjong.

Nan Zhou tried his best to suppress the disordered breathing rhythm.

Jiang Fang also hugged him, and gently stroked his second vertebra—just a finger away from the tooth marks on the back of Nanzhou’s neck.

He pretended not to hear the clear, broken breathing in his ears.

Nan Zhou suspects that Jiang Fang has discovered his secret.

But Jiang Fang didn't ask any more questions, and he didn't have any evidence to support his judgment, so he had to swallow the doubt himself.

After Nan Zhou had completely recovered, he took a step back with a calm expression: "Let's go back."

Jiang Fang did not object: "Okay."

When Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou returned to the room, Li Yinhang had just put down the pen and paper in his hand.

She clipped the pen to her ear, "Hey, you guys are back so soon."

She also thought that because of Nanzhou's cat-like attributes, she would wander around the city and go home after playing in the middle of the night.

Jiang Fang smiled and said, "He found me, and we came back together."

Li Yinhang didn't think much about it.

The three sat together and had a small meeting.

As a very self-aware tool person, Li Yinhang made a simple arrangement of the points, props and levels currently in the hands of everyone.

According to her calculations, Nan Zhou's points are 4815 points, level 12, there are 5 storage compartments available, and she holds the A-level prop "Countercurrent Clock" and the B-level prop "Ma Liang's Sketchbook".

In addition to the two items, there is a dagger in his storage, and a mushroom corpse whose oxygen has not been completely consumed.

After offsetting their spending on food and drink at Douzhuan Casino, Jiang Fang netted 400 points.

Because Jiang Fang finally let go of the gamble and bet on almost all the points that Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang had on hand, so after discussion, the 400 points will be used for their consumption in the past few days, and it is public property.

Jiang Fang's points are currently the highest in the "Cube Ark", with a total of 4890 points and a level of 12.

He also has 5 storage compartments to use, and holds the B-level consumable item "The Clown's Secret".

In his storage compartment, there are also two items that he exchanged for points before entering the first instance.

A small tin can of fruit gummies, worth 10 points, for a total of 20 pieces.

Item Description: A must-have product that can supplement high-quality sugar for patients with hypoglycemia.

If exchanging a jar of sugar is something normal people can understand, then Jiang Fang spent 50 points in exchange for another thing, which is beyond the scope.

He brought in an apple sapling.

Item Description: Want to eat fresh apples? Put it in the storage compartment and try it in the past year.

…God give it a fucking year and try it out.

In the original game world view of "Gravity", farming is also one of the mainstream gameplay, so it is not surprising that the store sells apple saplings.

But this does not prevent Li Yinhang from feeling that Jiang Fang is engaging in performance art.

Li Yinhang's achievement of hugging his thighs is also quite remarkable.

Her current points are 4660, level 12, and she holds the B-level waste item "Ghost Pushing Mill".

After listening to Li Yinhang's summary, Nan Zhou was concerned about another thing: "What is the ranking?"

Li Yinhang took a look at the record he made: "The team's word... Our current ranking is 172nd in the entire server."

Currently, there are 16,800 cumulative online players in the China server where they are located.

The "Cube Ark" team ranked 172nd.

In terms of personal rankings, Nanzhou is 723rd, Jiang Fang is 720th, and Li Yinhang is 888th.

It can be seen that most of the players in the game are struggling for a few thousand points, exhausting their minds for a mouthful of oxygen and a mouthful of food.

They either bite the bullet and go through the levels to earn pitiful points, or they sell themselves for meager living supplies, or they simply grit their teeth and go to the casino for a chance to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.

But anyway, they are online.

Online, at least means alive.

There are many people who were wiped from the ranking sequence in the first level or even the trial level.

For such a result, Li Yinhang couldn't figure it out: "Why is our team ranking so high?"

It stands to reason that the first choice of most normal people after entering the game will be to form a group, not to fight alone, so the number of teams must be considerable.

The maximum number of team members can be up to five.

They are a trio, and they are not dominant in numbers.

The more people there are, shouldn't the score theoretically be higher

Moreover, in terms of the number of games, "Cube Ark" should even be classified as a rookie.

They have just passed a level, why are they so advanced

After listening to Li Yinhang's confusion, Jiang Fang explained: "Yinhang, you are talking about an ideal state."

Li Yinhang was confused.

Nan Zhou sat beside the bed, traced the stitching of the floor tiles with his toes, and took Jiang Fang's words: "Because the more people in the team and the more opinions, the greater the probability of death and the greater the possibility of score fluctuations."

Li Yinhang: "..." Although this statement is simple and rude, she understands it in seconds.

Having said that, Nan Zhou raised his head and said seriously, "So we can't let anyone die in the 'Li Fang Ark', not even one."

Seeing Nan Zhou's calm but solemn face, Li Yinhang was inevitably moved.

But before she put the --gt;gt;

"None of us will die," said the declaration loudly and forcefully, Jiang Fang took out his beautiful little sugar bowl: "I have sugar, can I eat it?"

Nan Zhou turned back immediately: "Eat."

Li Yinhang: …Gan.

You should also take a look at the atmosphere when you eat.

On the other side, Nan Zhou was chewing the gummies at a constant speed, making up for the second half of the sentence he didn't finish just now, successfully dispelling the warm atmosphere that was left behind: "Once someone dies, we will also drop the paragraph."

He looked at Li Yinhang and said this, apparently thinking that he and Jiang Fang were both safe.

Li Yinhang thought sadly, the boss is right, I will work hard not to die, not to hold me back.

"Also, Yinhang—"

Speaking of which, Nan Zhou slightly lengthened the tail, as if to emphasize something important.

Li Yinhang immediately cheered up and pricked up his ears.

"Why do you say that we are in the top?" Nan Zhou asked sincerely, "Our team is only ranked in the top 100, which is very bad."

Li Yinhang: "...I'm sorry, I'm too flirtatious."

"Don't worry." Jiang Fang reassured the two, "Let's rest here for a few days."

Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang asked him in unison, "How many days?"

Nan Zhou cares about rankings.

Li Yinhang is concerned about the money.

When Jiang Fang could properly handle his emotions, he was still the gentle and good-tempered Jiang Fang.

He smiled: "You don't have to do the task today."

Li Yinhang: "Today is definitely not going to work. You can only check out before 12 noon every day, and today's room fee has been renewed."

Nan Zhou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the fudge, moved from the side of the bed to the bed, and lay down.

Aware of his intentions, Li Yinhang was a little surprised: "Are you going to sleep again?"

Nan Zhou: "Well. It's getting dark."

Li Yinhang opened the bedside table: "Let's have something to eat. I went to buy breakfast in the morning. Originally it was 5 points, but I bargained for 10 points and 3 points..."

Nan Zhou closed his eyes and softly refused: "I'm eating candy."

He was tired and weak, and the chill came out from the cracks in his bones.

He didn't like this feeling, but there was nothing he could do.

This is Nan Zhou's disease, and there is no cure.

Nan Zhou thought that as long as his wish came true, everything would be better.

However, not long after his head sank into the soft pillow, he suddenly sat up.

Li Yinhang was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Nan Zhou opened his eyes and said without a head, "... pillow."

Jiang Fang: "... huh?"

Nan Zhou turned around and said, "There is something under the pillow."

Only then did Li Yinhang remember that Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou were pressing a magazine for the promotion of knowledge about men and women under their pillows.

When she was about to explain, Jiang Fang had already taken the magazine out from under the pillow.

When he saw the cover, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

Li Yinhang hurriedly explained the source of the little yellow book.

Jiang Fang really wasn't very interested. After hearing the calendar, he put it on the bedside table.

While Li Yinhang was talking, Nan Zhou was always rubbing his temples, but the corner of his eyes fell on the two men on the cover of the magazine, and he couldn't hide his curiosity.

Probably because he didn't like such hot-eyed things being placed in a place where they could be seen, Nan Zhou took the initiative to take the magazine, put it back under the pillow, and then lay back on his own.

It was just a common little episode, and no one took it to heart.

Nan Zhou did not take the book out of his pillow again.

Next, they rested in the walled city for three days.

Everything went smoothly and nothing strange happened.

There was nothing special except that Nan Zhou woke up on time at 6:00 the next morning, swept away the drowsiness of yesterday, and visited all the twenty-eight floors of the ring-shaped city.

During the rest period, Jiang Fang, Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang's human oxygen cylinders ran out one after another.

After they renewed their oxygen balance, they found three vacancies in a nearby cemetery, buried the bodies of the three players in them, and hand-carved three tombstones for them symbolically.

Until now, they only knew the first "ghost" they caught, whose real name was Liu Xiao.

They didn't know Fatty's real name, or whether Qin Yadong was actually called Qin Yadong.

Of course, they may never know for the rest of their lives.

After burying the three corpses that had accompanied them for some time, Nan Zhou came to the shopping mall page and selected a new level with a face value of 100 points.

This time, they still intend to choose the PVE mode.

Jiang Fang asked Nan Zhou, "Are you sure?"

Nan Zhou: "Yeah."

Li Yinhang also agreed and analyzed: "In the PVE mode, it seems that the probability of obtaining items is higher."

This time, Nan Zhou's answer was a little late: "… Hmm."

Nan Zhou chose PVE, not entirely for points and props.

When he was hesitating whether to choose PVP and see what was different from PVE, he inexplicably thought of the monk in Tsing Yi who was walking barefoot.

Once he thought that he was going to go barefoot and sing, chanting for someone, saying goodbye to someone, Nan Zhou didn't really want to fight other players.

Thinking like this, Nan Zhou clicked the "Use Card" option.

Thousands of brilliance spread, engulfing the three people standing or sitting in the hotel room from head to toe.

[Dear players of the "Cube Ark" team, hello~]

[Welcome to the dungeon: sand, sand, sand]

【Number of participants: 7 people】

[Dungeon nature: supernatural, campus, role-playing]

【I wish you a happy game~】

Nan Zhou listened to the name and nature of the copy announced by the female mechanical voice, and thought, is this school troubled by mice? :,