Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
The term “Fully Exploded Gear” in Heaven referred to the situation whereby a total of nine pieces of gear popped out. As these nine pieces of gear possessed the highest value dropped by the outfield monsters, such a reference called “Fully Exploded Gear” emerged.
Simply by taking one sweeping look, a pair of sharp eyes would be able to discover the brightest and most attractive piece of gear. In the game, when the gear burst out from the monsters and propelled into the air, the names of the gear was not reflected, hence one was unable to differentiate and identify which gear was the best. In Heaven, the gear of different levels had different colours. To most players, they would only start to scramble for the gear at the instant when the gear fell on the ground. But to professional players who frequently battled for BOSS gear, they would rely on their personal experience to determine which gear was the best beforehand at the very instant that the gear burst out, thereby taking advantage of such an opportunity.
This time, Chu You took a quick glance and looked downwards without moving. The gear that exploded out landed all over the ground. Without revealing any emotions on his face, Chu You picked up the gear. From the nine pieces of gear that burst out from the body of the big boss, only one of them was a green vessel level item, and the rest were ordinary pieces of gear.
This green vessel gear was a pair of mage’s shoes. Chu You didn’t even bother to look at its attributes. After keeping the gear, Chu You took a random glance at the volume of honey that he had obtained.
The number beside the golden-yellowish honey that was placed within the cube reflected a total of 96 quantities. The amount of experience exchanged was nearly 5000 experience points. If all of these were used together, how much would there be?
Thinking of this, a thought flashed through Chu You’s mind and he thought of another problem. He immediately sent an order to Kill Leader through the messenger.
“Help me take a look at Firefly village; see if there is a NPC called the Elder Who Rears Bees.”
“Sure, Boss.” Kill Leader immediately replied and chose to return back to the city from the outfield.
After doing so, Chu You took a look back at the entrance to the staircase. A grin appeared on his face.
The current difficulty level would have reduced significantly, since he was no longer being surveilled by the watcher.
Shortly after, Chu You went up the staircase again and came to the entrance that led to the main hall. Taking the position of the hive of bees which had disappeared previously, Chu You quickly dodged inside. He decided that he would eliminate all the bees in the external beehives first, before progressing inwards.
After observing for a while, Chu You chose his target and grasped hold of the movement track of the two platoons of bees near his target. At that particular intersection point in time, Chu You found an empty space and quickly neared the target before stopping at an old, desolated hive near the target. Using the same old trick, Chu You stole away the entire pile of honey.
You have obtained 10x Bee Honey.
After he had succeeded, he cautiously enabled running mode and returned by the original route.
If there were other players present at the scene, regardless of whether they were highly talented or professional players, they would all have been extremely shocked. The introspection that Chu You possessed was beyond any other individual, as if he had caught hold of that invisible string, the critical point of the shapeless movement track of the swarms of bees moving within the hall. If Chu You’s process of dissecting the problem had been recorded, it could definitely be used as a prime textbook example for players to watch and learn. That seemingly indestructible layer of defense was being disintegrated part by part by Chu You.
Very quickly, Chu You eliminated the 6 bees that he had purposely attracted. Now, the opposing side still had 8 piles of honey. There were 6 bees at each pile moving items around, hence there was currently a total of 48 bees at the moment.
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Kill Leader appeared in Firefly Village. As the village was small, it was extremely easy to find the NPC that one knew of. Moreover, the external appearance of the target individual was very clear: an elder who reared bees.
But what made Kill Leader puzzled was that despite having circumambulated the area twice, he still could not find such a person. Upon confirming that the person Boss Chu You was looking for was not present in this area, Kill Leader immediately notified Chu You.
“Boss, I have searched the area twice. The NPC you are looking for is not at Firefly Village.”
Immediately, Chu You dragged out and attacked the third platoon of bees as he listened to Kill Leader’s report.
“Noted…,” Chu You said calmly. Chu You’s eyes brightened and he immediately determined that the NPC was at the Level 7 Experience Monster Area, which was not far away from this cave. At the moment, Kill Leader was not even at level 1 and did not even have a stealth skill. Hence, Chu You gave up on asking him to search over there.
Chu You believed that, based on his experience and foresight, it would be extremely easy to find this NPC. He decided to relinquish this idea and focus on the current priority and main objective of eliminating all the monsters in this beehive!
As time passed, only 2 of the original 10 honey piles were left, along with 12 other bees.
Chu You sat audaciously at the entrance because the 2 platoons of bees were unable to see that specific position. As he gazed at the initially crowded hall where bees roamed frenziedly, he realized that only 12 bees were left after he had eliminated the rest of them stealthily. The entire hall started to become empty, and a sense of accomplishment arose in his heart.
Now, his main priority was to eliminate the remaining 12 bees in one go.
Chu You stood up, and strode towards the final 2 piles of honey with full health.
One of the bees which were moving items immediately discovered Chu You and started to shriek. Hearing the bee’s cries, regardless of whether they were moving items or sending honey into the hive, all of the bees immediately activated their battle mode and locked onto Chu You as their target.
Come on, I’m bored, it’s time for some action.
Chu You felt that it was a simple task to independently eliminate 12 ordinary bees.
As he watched the 12 bees swarming towards him, Chu You remained calm. Shortly after, a battle would occur.
Not long after, all of these ordinary bees were eliminated by Chu You one by one and Chu You still had half of his original health level. Without any additional actions, Chu You came to the remaining honey piles respectively and put them in his bag.
As an experienced player who had gamed in Heaven for almost ten years, Chu You believed that there was more to the hall. Looking at the final beehive storehouse, Chu You walked towards it.
When he arrived in front of the beehive storehouse, the beehive storehouse appeared much bigger than those in reality. There were larvae inside. Chu You stabbed his weapon into one of the beehive storehouses.
Pop! A fluid flowed out from inside. Seeing this, Chu You’s eyes glittered with happiness and he put his hand within and started to fuddle.
System: You have obtained 3x Bee Larvae.
Item Explanation: Pass this object to The Elder Who Rears Bees, and exchange it for 100 experience points each.
Simply obtaining 3 larvae would reap Chu You a total of 300 experience points. Chu You took a good look at the entire beehive storehouse, and roughly estimated that there were about 20 larvae within.
Exhilarated, he immediately searched through the entire beehive storehouse and found a total of 43 bee larvae.
After he had swept the entire hall and beehive storehouse, Chu You left the area immediately and went to search in other areas of the beehive. Judging from the way he handled things, he was definitely going to empty the entire area inside out.
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Inside a cafeteria in Binhai City.
“Chu You? You mean our classmate in college, Chu You?” The eyes of the beautiful girl enlarged as she stared at Lin Luoer, who appeared even prettier.
“Yes, he asked me to work for him.” Lin Luoer decided to inform her best friend of the news.
“Sigh, Lin Luoer, don’t be an idiot. How can you not know what kind of person Chu You is?”
Lin Luoer placed her white, delicate hands on the glass table, as she knotted her fingers, displaying her internal struggle and dilemma. Her pitiful appearance was so touching that anyone would wish to give her a good hug to comfort her.
Lin Luoer nodded. “But I really have no other choice now. Chu You is my only hope. Moreover, all he wants me to do is to accompany him to play a game…” As she said so, her voice became barely audible.
“All he wants me to do is accompany him to play a game.” The beautiful girl opposite Lin Luoer repeated the sentence in a different tone, and said in a serious tone, ” Lin Luoer, you are very clear about what Chu You is thinking. Accompanying him to play a game is just an excuse, his true motive is…” Saying this, the girl inched forward and stared into Lin Luoer’s eyes and said, ” Go on bed with you!”
Seeing shock and fear appearing in Lin Luoer’s eyes, the girl appeared satisfied. She continued, ” After he has sex with you and gets tired of you, he will just dump you. To be truthful, I’ve been studying at university for three years. I’ve seen more than enough of such instances. Lin Luoer, stop trying to deceive yourself and others!”
Lin Luoer tried to argue to no avail. “I will see how it goes. I will run away if things don’t go my way.”
“Haha, when a rabbit enters a wolf’s mouth, how can the rabbit even escape? Don’t you know there’s such a phrase to describe men?
“Sperm enters their brains! Hmm, such a big fat white rabbit like you can’t escape from him. He will simply go overboard in bed with you, do you understand?
“Just based on his status and identity, settling such issues is such a simple task. He can settle it without even stirring up the slightest of problems. So, my advice to you is to not go.”
Hearing this, Lin Luoer rubbed her beautiful face and took a deep breath. “I am really at a loss for what to do now. My family is in a mess, and my mum is suffering from a protracted illness…”
Hearing this, the beautiful girl comforted Lin Luoer. “My opinion is that you should find someone who truly loves you, and only you. Only such a person will care for every bit of your life. I see that amongst those who like you, there is one guy who appears to come from a rich background. Do you like him? Try to open up to him, maybe things will change. How about that? Don’t go to Chu You’s side. Try accepting someone who loves you…” Saying this to the end, the girl’s voice appeared to be uttering a soulful voice, filled with warmth and hints.
“So should I reply to him in the game tonight?”
“Answer him, of course. Directly reject him!”
As she gazed at Lin Luoer walking out of the cafeteria’s exit, a tinge of jealousy and a shade of gloom appeared in her eyes.
Lin Luoer, don’t you know what time it is already? Do you still think that you are still that unreachable princess in college? Definitely, I would agree that you are prettier than me. But fate is something much more important than beauty. Lin Luoer, you better leave Chu You alone. But there is one thing that I need to thank you for. Had you not mentioned him, I would really have forgotten about this rich dude Chu You. Now, he is going to be my prey.
The girl picked up her phone and searched through her circle of friends. Then, she sent a message to a female friend who was studying at Yuanjing Imperial university. “Do you know Chu You’s phone number?”
Sitting inside the taxi, Lin Luoer knitted her eyebrows as she gazed out the window at the luxurious streets. After being scared by her good friend, her emotions were in a wanton state. Thereafter, she started to recall the Chu You she recognized in college. Slowly, within her memories, appeared the scene where she first met Chu You in the game and the instance dungeon trip that both of them shared. Slowly, Lin Luoer had a feeling…it was a feeling that cannot be explained. But she could vaguely feel that the Chu You now was not the Chu You she knew in college. The Chu You now was completely foreign to her, but this foreign feeling was seemingly what she was wishing for.
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In reality, it was already 11 pm. What would Chu You be doing?
Yup, he had probably gone to sleep. It was just that he had enabled sleep mode, and was continuing to slay monsters and level up in the game.
The entire beehive had already been emptied by Chu You. He did not spare a single moment, and was battling at every single moment. He was still exhilarated. Chu You realized that he had already obtained nearly 1000 portions of honey and up to 200 larvae. He was nearing the point of leveling up to level 7. If he exchanged all of these things, he would not be far away from level 8. The only regrettable thing was that there was no BOSS here.
His backpack was already filled. He had already obtained 4 pieces of Green Vessel Level gear. One of them was protective armor that could be used by Chu You’s occupation. “Bee Talk Armor.” Attack Power +7, Physic Defense +15, Critical Hit +3, Health Points +200. Requirement: Warrior Occupation, Level 7 and above.
All the remaining items were ordinary gear and larvae items that could be exchanged for experience points. He could accumulate a total of 1000 quantities of bee honey, as this would not take up space in Chu You’s backpack. The items which filled up the space in his backpack were the ordinary gear. At the moment, Chu You’s backpack was still at the lowest level, hence it did not have much space. In order to increase its storage space, he had to go to the storage expanders in the big cities to do so. The cost of doing so was pretty high.
After he went one round around the beehive, Chu You realized that there was nothing valuable left. Moreover, some new king bees had been refreshed along the way. These king bees were the most irritating enemies of all. This was because killing them only gave him minimal experience points and they could not be used to exchange for items. In addition, they possessed skills and high health levels, making them particularly annoying.
It seemed like it was time to leave. At the thought that he would be able to level up soon, Chu You’s feelings brightened up. He did what he thought of. Chu You immediately dashed towards the beehive. Chu You himself had lost his way multiple times in this complicated and maze-like cave, despite the fact that he had already been reborn. Fortunately, Chu You possessed a good memory. In addition to the experience accumulated from his previous life, Chu You managed to find the exit quickly. If he was an ordinary player, he would definitely have chosen to return back to the city immediately and come back again once more.
A cool gust of wind blew at him and Chu You took a deep breath of the virtual fresh wind in the game. He stood outside the cave and paused for a while and he started to recall the process of eliminating the surrounding bees as well as the structures and terrain of the area. Chu You looked towards the right and shook his head, That was the escape route he had taken, which he had already explored. Then he looked in front, in the direction of the mountain top. But there was no trace of human activity. All he could see were bushes of flowers.
Chu You turned to his left and made his decision in his heart. The route to the left should be correct. As long as he was cautious enough and took the effort to detect any anomaly on the way, that would suffice. At this point, Chu You’s sturdy figure started to dash towards the forested area on the left.
After he had explored the entire mountain where the beehive cave was situated, Chu You started to slow down. His eyes gazed at the surrounding area below as he observed the terrain to check whether there were any traces of human movement. Since the NPC he was looking for was supposed to exchange missions, the NPC would be likely to take a small and less noticeable path.
Not long after, Chu You realized that a shady path had appeared on the left side in front of him. One would not be able to notice it without having analyzed it carefully as the terrain of the place was generally similar throughout the entire area. Only sharp players could detect the traces of human activity.
Chu You walked along that path, a path that did not resemble a path. Gradually, as he continued walking for a certain distance, the ground surface appeared to have become a path which had been tread on by someone frequently.
Chu You was overjoyed, and he continued to jog along the path, which was leading downwards. Chu You had already seen a cottage at the bottom. It seemed like he had found the place. Chu You hastened his pace. Since he had found his target, Chu You gave up on running on the small track and chose to take a shortcut based on his own judgment instead.
Finally, Chu You passed through bushes and weeds with great effort and finally arrived in front of the cottage.
The elder here was handling a box of bees. The bees here were true bees, unlike the ones he had seen previously.
“Elder, can I ask if you purchase honey?” Chu You asked, standing beside the elder.
The elder glanced at Chu You, and said coldly, ” Yes, evil man. Have you come here to steal my honey?”
In the game, unnecessary killing would cause NPCs to feel perturbed. If the NPCs did not get along with someone, it was possible that one may even lose the mission or their life.
“How could I even dare to do so? But the people I have killed all deserve to be killed. The right and wrong of my actions will be self-evident at the end of the day.”
“Hehe, you are pretty brave. But I somewhat do agree with what you have said.” Unexpectedly, the elder appeared to somewhat admire Chu You.
Chu You did not dare to rob such NPCs that did not have any levels. This was because in Heaven, there was a high possibility that any one of them could have supreme, unlimited powers. In Heaven, there was a high degree of autonomy and freedom. In essence, one could do anything and literally anything could happen. Towards the later part of the game, one could do stuff like eliminating NPC’s cities and villages. Even battles between nations, and eliminating countries and cities, was possible.
Chu You smiled and continued, ” Elder, I came to you because I brought the items you like.”
“Huh? Is it the bee honey?”
“Yes, it is!”
“Urm, I really do need it, but I don’t have money to purchase it.”
Chu You smiled. “It’s alright if you don’t have money, just give me the practice experience.”
“Haha, that suits me. So, let’s transact.”
The system notification appeared in front of Chu You and he handed the 1000 quantities of bee honey over.
“Bravo, it’s quite substantial.” Waving his sleeve, the elder kept the 1000 quantities of honey and gave Chu You 50,000 experience points.
System: Congratulations on leveling up to Level 7.
The Elder nodded. ” Dayan is proud to have you. You are indeed special.”
“Elder, not only do I have honey, but I also have the bee larvae.”
The elder’s eyes enlarged, appearing shocked.
“Hand it over, I am in need of it.”
As such, Chu You transacted the 200 quantities of bee larvae. Now he was halfway to acquiring the amount of experience points required to reach Level 8.
As he gazed at the elder who was fiddling with his box of bees, a mysterious shade appeared in Chu You’s eyes. At that moment, he slowly uttered, ” Elder, you mentioned that you are in need of money. Seeing that you are cultivating honey, can I ask if you sell the honey that you make yourself?”
The elder turned around and glanced at Chu You. A while later, he laughed and nodded. “I can sell my honey. However, the price is pretty expensive. You must understand that the Fairy Wine I consume frequently is pretty costly.” Seemed like the elder was impoverished because of his alcohol consumption habits.
“No problem, let me try one bottle of honey first. Let me see if I like it.”
The Elder poured some honey from a random wooden bucket into a small container and passed it to Chu You.
System: Are you willing to pay 20 silver coins to exchange for one bottle of honey with the Elder?
Chu You chose to accept. After he had paid for the honey, a bottle-like item appeared in Chu You’s backpack.
Item Name: The Honey of the Falling Sun. Item Description: By consuming The Honey of the Falling Sun, one can obtain 50 experience points.
“Elder, can I ask how many bottles of this honey you have? I want them all! ” The elder appeared shocked as he gazed at Chu You who appeared sincere, yet there was an aura of pride concealed within his sincerity.