Ta Tian Qing
Chapter 22 Zhang Chunlin is a Friend Worth Having
I finished playing the game for the day.
Originally, Lin Chen intended to check out the forums.
But at that moment, Bai Shuyi knocked on his door.
Lin Chen opened the door and asked, "What's up?"
"I transferred schools!"
Bai Shuyi replied.
But Lin Chen looked blank. "What's that got to do with me?"
"You!"
Bai Shuyi was speechless and couldn't help but complain, "We're friends at least, and roommates too. We'll be schoolmates in the future. Don't you think you should take me to school tomorrow to get familiar with the environment?"
Lin Chen understood Bai Shuyi's meaning.
Logically speaking, her request wasn't excessive.
After all, Lin Chen was currently living in Bai Shuyi's house.
The house was no longer his.
Besides, Bai Shuyi had promised to lend him money in the future.
What a great friend!
She was just asking Lin Chen to fulfill his duties as a friend and show her around the campus.
Was such a request too much?
Not at all!
However, Lin Chen had been reborn.
He knew that the world was about to face a cataclysmic change.
So, in Lin Chen's eyes, studying?
What was the point!
Could studying save lives when the game invaded?
No!
According to Lin Chen's memories, the game's invasion was a form of alien invasion, even more spectacular and terrifying than the scenes in those science fiction movies. The weapons on Earth, even all the nuclear weapons fired together, couldn't stop it!
Lin Chen had even personally witnessed an level 80 dark dragon Boss withstand the attack of a missile!
This showed that these creatures, or rather, monsters, were immune to weapons like guns.
Laser cannons could still deal with them.
But this technology had only recently been developed on Earth, and there were very few of them, which were quickly depleted.
So, only magic could defeat magic.
As for technology...
Perhaps it could defeat the invaders in the future.
But definitely not now.
Even if they started researching with all their might now, it would be too late.
Useless.
If researching technology was useless, studying was even more useless.
So, Lin Chen's first reaction when he heard Bai Shuyi wanted to go to school was... was this girl crazy?
Moreover, she wanted to drag him along to school?
Wasn't that a waste of time!
"What's with that look? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bai Shuyi looked strange.
Lin Chen couldn't explain. Rebirth was such a mysterious thing, even if he told her, Bai Shuyi wouldn't believe him, and might even think he was crazy. Even if she believed him, this was Lin Chen's biggest secret, and he couldn't tell her!
"No, I have things to do these few days. I don't have any time at all."
Lin Chen made an excuse.
"What do you have to do?" Bai Shuyi asked, confused.
"I really have something to do. Starting tomorrow, I'm taking three days off. I was just about to send a message to the class advisor!"
As he spoke, Lin Chen sent a message to the class advisor in front of Bai Shuyi, requesting leave.
The class advisor replied with an "ok" gesture, along with a message: "I'll forward it to all the subject teachers for you... But Lin Chen, it's not good to be absent so often. Come to school when you have time, and we'll chat in person!"
"Got it!"
Lin Chen replied.
Agreeing was one thing.
As for going to school for a chat?
Sure!
He would definitely go to school.
But Lin Chen was thinking of going after the game invasion.
Definitely not now.
Lin Chen showed the conversation to Bai Shuyi.
"Okay, if you're busy, then forget it," Bai Shuyi said.
It wasn't early, and this time Bai Shuyi ordered takeout for Lin Chen and herself. Although they didn't say it, they had a tacit understanding. Lin Chen made lunch, so Bai Shuyi was responsible for dinner.
She even ordered crawfish, and life was good.
After all, she was a rich girl.
She ordered a lot, and it was expensive.
Lin Chen could be considered to be benefiting from it.
Nothing happened overnight.
When he woke up again, it was already the morning of the next day.
Lin Chen looked at the calendar.
April 16th!
Twelve days until the game invasion.
He thought about the resources he had stockpiled in the game, including various secondary profession materials, handmade equipment materials, and equipment sets of all levels. He had already opened a hundred warehouses in Tianyue City to store them.
In addition, there were more than ninety pets, all of perfect quality at the very least.
Then there was Tianyue City, and three small legions.
Tianyue Knight Legion, Tianyue Warrior Legion, Tianyue Mage Legion.
Legions were a gamble, since Lin Chen didn't know if these NPCs of different races would go on strike and quit on the spot after the game invaded. But if the recruitment hall still offered these top-tier legions, Lin Chen would definitely recruit them.
Then, there were those NPCs.
So many supplies, plus a city.
Including his own top-tier equipment, two epic-level pets, and a mythical Vermilion Bird...
His preparations in the game were almost complete.
Next, he just needed to let Zhang Chunlin continue to acquire things.
Clear the newly released dungeon and get three sets of pet equipment, and that would be about it.
Lin Chen knew how to clear this new dungeon.
Moreover, the new dungeon had a bug.
That was normal.
Any new content in a game would have some problems. Although *New World* claimed to have never had a bug in twenty years, it was now about to shut down, and it still had problems.
However, rather than a bug, Lin Chen suspected that it might be a program that the planning company's programmers forcibly embedded using the Star Stone to interfere with the program, with the goal of giving back to the players as much as possible in the final hours!
Of course, this was just Lin Chen's guess.
After all, in Lin Chen's memory, this bug wouldn't be discovered until tomorrow.
If the planning company really wanted to give everyone a bonus, they could just announce it!
Anyway, the game was about to shut down, so why hide it?
Lin Chen didn't have the habit of eating breakfast, so he went online directly.
He looked at his friend list and saw that Liu Mengyao was online and in a party, so he applied to join. The two were a couple in the game, so he could set it so that his application would automatically let him in without waiting for approval.
After Lin Chen entered, he found two other people, who were also acquaintances.
Xiao Niao Yi Ren, Xuemo.
"You guys are here too?"
Lin Chen asked curiously.
Xuemo asked back, "We're waiting for you. Isn't a new dungeon coming out today?"
"Okay, there's one more person. I'll pull him into the party."
Lin Chen nodded and then realized that Zhang Chunlin wasn't online. He had to go offline temporarily to call him. Lin Chen knew that he would definitely be up at this time, so after the call was connected, he directly said, "Get online, we're going to run a dungeon."
"Boss, you really are all about the game, didn't you see our class group?" Zhang Chunlin actually brought up another matter.
"Didn't see it... and didn't you leave the class group?"
Lin Chen said that he wasn't paying attention to any class stuff right now.
No need.
"The class group? Teacher Zhu pulled me back in. I just joined this morning, and when I went in, I saw Zhou Bapi (nickname) mentioned you in the group. He even criticized you for taking a long leave, and for not being at school for more than a few days this semester. Then Ye Tenglong and those guys started making a fuss in the group, all hating on you!"
After Zhang Chunlin finished speaking, he couldn't help but say, "Pah! What is he? I can't stand that Ye Tenglong guy. I have to diss him!"
As a result, Lin Chen, the person involved, said, "What's the point of dissing him? Get online quickly. Don't worry about anything else. Let's clear the dungeon first!"
Lin Chen's reaction seemed to be that he was giving up.
Being attacked without reacting was nothing but lying down and giving up, right?
Zhang Chunlin said that he would be online soon.
However, when Lin Chen opened the class group, he still saw a message.
[Zhang Chunlin: Yo, Ye Shao (Young Master Ye) is talking like he's been to class a lot this semester. Hehe, want to report to the academic affairs office? Sure, go ahead! Then everyone will get punished together. And all of you, who hasn't skipped class? At worst, I'll go to the academic affairs office and confess first, then expose everyone else. Should I go to the school forum? My studio has talent like that!]
[Ye Tenglong: Zhang Chunlin, you're about to go bankrupt, right? Hehe, now that you're stuck with a moron like Lin Chen, you're still spending money to play that broken game to take over his business, so you're protecting him like this? Let me tell you to be careful, if you really expose everyone else, I'll cripple you, you believe it?]
[Zhang Chunlin: Hehe, isn't it just a gangster brother who's a loan shark? Do you really think you're so great? I'm warning you too, Ye Tenglong, stop acting in front of me. If you piss me off, I'll find three thousand internet trolls right now, and then expose your brother's affairs to all the media websites. I'll definitely make your brothers famous all over the country... no, all over the world!]
Awesome!
Zhang Chunlin, the IT guy, had a professional studio under him, and he could really do these things.
This shut Ye Tenglong up directly, and he didn't dare to make trouble anymore.
However, from beginning to end, Lin Chen had not cared about Ye Tenglong.
Nor did he ask Zhang Chunlin to protect him.
As for Lin Chen emptying Zhang Chunlin's inventory, it did help him, but Zhang Chunlin never asked Lin Chen for a high price. He even helped Lin Chen collect things every day, and only took a few thousand yuan to give to the studio.
But now, Zhang Chunlin had offended Ye Tenglong more than once because of Lin Chen, and this time it even involved Ye Tenglong's older brother, Tiger, the biggest local bully in Longhai!
From this point of view, Zhang Chunlin was indeed a very loyal person.
This was a friend worth making.
As for Ye Tenglong...
Lin Chen was too lazy to pay attention to him, because in his memory, Ye Tenglong was one of the first people to sell his account.
Therefore, after the game invasion, Ye Tenglong, including his older brother, Tiger, were still ordinary people.
In Lin Chen's eyes, they were not even as good as ants!
After a while, Zhang Chunlin came online.
The five-person team went straight to Tiangong (Heavenly Palace).