Hu Die Lan
Chapter 593 The Uselessness of Levels
After everyone had been gone for a long time, Jian Nan You and his two companions crawled out of the bushes and looked at each other.
"Uh... these kids don't seem like important figures, right?" Invincible Lucky Star said.
"I think I heard them call him Teacher Qian Li Yi Zui?" Glue said.
"Teacher? Students?" Jian Nan You's confusion mirrored Yun Zhong Mu's. Bringing students to play online games, has this kind of thing become an extracurricular activity organized by schools now?
"False alarm." Glue patted the dust off his body. Although he looked disheveled, he felt quite comfortable in his heart. At least this time it wasn't some threat directed at them.
"Hei Shui, the team that came over poses no threat. You stay in Yueye City for now and continue to monitor Yun Zhong Mu's movements." As the leader, Jian Nan You always thought further ahead than the others.
"Yun Zhong Mu and the others seem to be preparing to log off." At this time, the overnight players in Yueye City were also beginning to finish up and return to the city to log off.
"Okay, then you can rest too," Jian Nan You said.
"Let's go, back to the city." After sending a message to Hei Shui, Jian Nan You called Glue and Invincible Lucky Star back to the city. The two of them were currently telling Huo Ran Yi and the others about their experience as a joke. Of course, they had to gloss over some of their more embarrassing actions during the process.
"Haha, something like that happened? What does Qian Li Yi Zui want to do? Run a kindergarten, be a king of children?" Huo Ran Yi laughed after hearing this. Although it wasn't a very funny matter, as long as Qian Li Yi Zui revealed any embarrassment, he would find it very amusing.
"Has Yin Yue shown his face?" Jian Nan You asked the people squatting at the two resurrection points.
"No." The answer was unanimous.
"Yin Yue is already offline." Glue, who had Yin Yue as a friend, told everyone.
"That kid is really lucky, he didn't go to those two safe zones." Everyone sighed.
"Alright, everyone's tired, let's rest first! We'll talk about other things when we're online again," Jian Nan You said.
"Da Nan, what about the Staff of Ideals..." Everyone vaguely reminded him about the staff, and what was going to happen with it. Were they going to continue to persevere, or simply give up? Everyone hoped for a definite answer, as they felt as if they had a heavy stone in their hearts.
"Let me think if there's anything else we can do!" Jian Nan You said.
"Sigh..." Everyone sighed. Jian Nan You was truly persistent.
"After not keeping an eye on it for a night, maybe someone already took the staff..."
"Don't worry, it's still there." Jian Nan You smiled.
"How do you know?" Everyone was taken aback.
"When I was guarding the staff today, I discovered our counterparts," Jian Nan You said.
"You mean there's another team eyeing this staff?"
"That's right. Their people were still there when Lucky Star went to the auction house earlier, which at least shows that the staff hasn't been taken," Jian Nan You said.
"Then what's next?"
"You guys rest, I'll keep an eye on it first." Invincible Lucky Star said. He and Jian Nan You had obviously already communicated privately.
"Okay!" Everyone responded. The three people in the safe zone quickly logged off. Jian Nan You and the other two returned to the main city and deliberately took a detour to the auction house. Jian Nan You's and Glue's faces were clearly very dangerous in this place, and wearing masks would also make them seem like suspicious people, arousing vigilance. The three of them didn't get too close. Jian Nan You and Glue hid in the corner of the wall, while Invincible Lucky Star ran inside, took a lap, and quickly ran out, nodding to the two of them: "It's still there!"
Jian Nan You smiled. This was truly a good discovery. From now on, they didn't have to be mantises stalking cicadas, but could be orioles instead. Qian Li Yi Zui might be easily deceived as well.
"Then you keep an eye on it first, we'll log off and come back to relieve you," Jian Nan You said to Invincible Lucky Star.
"Okay, go quickly!" Invincible Lucky Star nodded. He hadn't slept all night and was still working. The robbers were indeed getting up early and working late, more tiring than the average player playing the game. But who told the game to drop equipment more annoyingly than real-life robbery!
Jian Nan You and the others logged off instantly. The Young Master Elite Group, Fine Waist Dance, Mang Mang De Mang Mang, Fireball, and all sorts of people logged off one after another after working hard all night. Gu Fei, a guy who was known for his short gaming time, still hadn't had a chance to rest. The students had just arrived in Bai Shi City and witnessed Gu Fei's great display of skill, instantly killing more than a dozen people. They were all in a state of excitement, pestering Gu Fei with questions, which had already driven him to the brink of collapse.
The six new players who entered the game today even boldly demanded equipment from Gu Fei. According to what they knew, the other students had been rewarded with equipment by Gu Fei after coming to the game. They believed that the teacher should be fair and not favor one over the other. But the toys that Gu Fei had accumulated in his warehouse had already been used up during the last reward, and then he followed Zongheng Sihai on this mission. It had been a long time since he had properly farmed monsters, so where would he get any income?
"Stop it, stop it!!" Gu Fei shouted at the students, "Do you think your teacher runs a store? I already gave away all the equipment last time, I have nothing left now."
"If you don't have equipment, give us some money, we'll buy it ourselves!" The students didn't give up.
"I don't have money either!" Gu Fei said. All his money was in Jian Gui's account!
"Teacher is lying." Some students pouted. "The forum said that your sword sold for 20,000 gold coins, how could you not have money?"
"That's right, that's right." A chorus of jeers arose.
Gu Fei burst into tears. He was really a big shot in this game! Selling a sword even made the headlines on the forum, hyped up for everyone to know. To prove his innocence, Gu Fei had to take out the Dark Night Radiance Sword to show everyone: "Look, the sword is still here. That was just a joke between your teacher and a friend, it wasn't a real sale."
"Ah, what a beautiful sword, Teacher, why don't you just give me this sword as a makeshift?" One student said.
Makeshift... Even though Gu Fei didn't value equipment, he didn't want to give it to a guy who was just going to use it as "makeshift." Looking at the student's eager gaze, Gu Fei said meaningfully: "Are you transferring schools next semester?"
"No!" The student was stunned for a moment, then realized the threatening meaning in those words and cried out: "Teacher, spare me!"
The teacher couldn't take a person's life, but the PE teacher might have a way to take half of it.
"Be good, don't make noise, it's getting late, go rest! It's the time to grow, how can you not sleep for a night?" Gu Fei said.
"Tch!" The students scoffed. It was really disgusting to encounter lectures when playing games.
"Are you all going to transfer schools?!" Gu Fei roared.
The students lined up and walked towards the safe zone, crying.
"You have to arrange your time reasonably. It's only the first day of vacation, and you're already going crazy like this," Gu Fei lectured. "You can read less textbooks during the vacation, but how can you reduce physical exercise? You have to maintain a certain amount of outdoor activity every day."
As expected of a PE teacher, he even dared to say that you can read less textbooks. The students were all impressed.
"What do you do in the game every day, Teacher?" A student asked on the way to the safe zone.
"Fight against evil forces," Gu Fei said.
A burst of laughter.
"What evil forces? Teacher, take us to fight them together!" Someone even cheered.
"You? You were almost wiped out by the evil forces just now, what are you going to fight with?" Gu Fei said.
"Then Teacher, take us to level up!"
"What's the use of leveling up?" Gu Fei said.
"Then what do we do?" The students were at a loss.
"Learn kung fu!" Gu Fei said.
"Teacher is sick again." The students discussed and dispersed.
After a good night's sleep to recover his energy, Gu Fei's physical acuity was far beyond that of ordinary people. He clearly realized that this sleep couldn't completely compensate for the fatigue caused by staying up all night. Ordinary people might often overlook this, but for Gu Fei, who was used to engaging in strenuous exercise, he could clearly feel the impact of staying up all night on his body. Simply put, although he had made up for sleep after staying up all night, his body had not yet returned to its peak state.
This wouldn't do. It was fine to play more games during the vacation, but he couldn't stay up all night to play like this. What's more, now that more than 20 students had gathered, he had to set an example for them to see how to reasonably arrange time. While thinking, Gu Fei connected to the game.
"Teacher, why are you only here now!"
"Teacher, you're so late!"
"Teacher, why did you sleep so long!"
As soon as he went online, message prompts kept ringing, so much so that Gu Fei's hands were trembling. Sending messages like this was indeed something that young people were more skilled at!
"Why are you all here so early? Did you get enough rest?" Gu Fei repeated the message twenty times.
"Alright, alright, Teacher, quickly take us to level up!" The same message was replied twenty times.
"Let's talk when we meet." Gu Fei really couldn't stand this way of sending messages.
Under a certain city gate, the twenty students who were online were ready to go. The students were also good at using network resources. Before going online, they had searched for a lot of information and strategies about leveling up in Bai Shi City. At this time, they had prepared dry food and fruits and were about to go to the leveling area.
When Gu Fei arrived, he saw that those level 10 guys from yesterday had cobbled together a mismatched set of equipment with the help of their classmates. When they saw Gu Fei coming, the bunch of kids cheered and rushed out.
"What's the rush!" Gu Fei said.
"Leveling up!" Everyone answered loudly.
"I already said, leveling up is useless," Gu Fei said.
"Teacher, are you going to be sick again after just waking up!" A student said.
Gu Fei almost had his nose twisted in anger. He had shown off his skills in the game many times, but these kids were just so clueless!
"If you want to know if leveling up is useful, I really want the Parallel World Five Little Strongs to tell you!!" Gu Fei said.
The students whispered to each other. After a while, a student raised his hand and asked: "Teacher, what are the Five Little Strongs?"
"Stupid! You don't even know the Five Little Strongs!" A Fa scorned. "The top five people on the Parallel World level experience chart are called the Five Little Strongs. Do you know who they are?"
"I know!" Another student jumped out. "I looked at the level experience chart yesterday. The top five people are called Drifting, Baishi Jinglun, Going Against the Tide, Gui Tong, and Yun Zhong Mu."
"Yun Zhong Mu?" Gu Fei was stunned. Was the list updated again? He didn't do it! But he quickly remembered that Fine Waist Dance had been killed by Jian Nan You that day.
"Yun Zhong Mu, that uncle from Yueye City! Ah, he's one of the Five Little Strongs, so awesome!" The students all looked admiringly and discussed among themselves. Gu Fei saw that these guys were about to make Yun Zhong Mu their idol. Wasn't this going astray? Just as he was about to speak, A Fa had already "tsk"ed loudly.
"That's why I say you guys aren't good enough." A Fa said smugly: "This kind of thing that relies on experience to rank, you have to keep it up to be really strong. Since the beginning of the game at least, only Drifting and Baishi Jinglun have remained on this list. As for who the other people were, you wouldn't know even if I told you. You just need to know that those guys were all kicked off by our teacher. Everyone applaud!!" A Fa took the lead and clapped wildly.
This action was undoubtedly a little silly. None of the students moved, they just looked at Gu Fei, as if they wanted to seek the truth from him.
"A Fa is not accurate, I didn't kill Fine Waist Dance," Gu Fei said.
A Fa immediately smugly lectured everyone: "Do you know who this Fine Waist Dance is? It's the woman who bought the teacher's sword that's being talked about on the forum, the number one RMB warrior in online games." Although A Fa's level in the online game world wasn't great, he was still an old bird. He spoke eloquently about these things.
"And Yun Zhong Mu uncle, hey, you probably don't know either, but he was able to become so strong today entirely because the teacher helped him defeat the evil Past Dust Guild in Yueye City and supported him in becoming the leader," A Fa said. These things were no longer secrets. The other students didn't know, simply because they weren't as fanatical about the game as A Fa. Some of them had just been pulled in by their classmates, and they were still puzzled by the term "RMB warrior" that A Fa had just mentioned.
"Teacher, what's your ranking in Parallel World?" The students had finally heard that A Fa had boasted so much just to tell them that Teacher Gu was a very, very awesome person.
"Stupid, didn't the teacher already say that level is not important, and rankings are just fleeting clouds. If the teacher wants to be number one, he can just cut everyone down, right, Teacher?" A Fa smiled obsequiously.
"Have you said enough!" Gu Fei said unhappily. Although he knew that A Fa was indeed boasting about him, he just felt uncomfortable all over. These didn't seem to be the things he wanted to say. What was he going to say?
"Then level is not important? What's important?" Just as someone asked, Gu Fei's eyes lit up: "That's a good question, what's important? Of course it's kung fu!" Gu Fei clenched his fist.
The students looked at each other.
A Fa immediately jumped out again: "Everyone, don't disbelieve it, Teacher has never been lying, he really knows kung fu, it's super awesome. You saw it this morning, those dozens of burly men were instantly cut down by the teacher."
"Wasn't that instant kill by magic?" There were still some people who knew how to play the game and could see that if it wasn't for the magic's power being super strong, it would have been impossible to kill so cleanly.
"You kill one for me and let me see," A Fa said unhappily.
No one paid attention to A Fa, and everyone looked at Gu Fei again, hoping to seek the truth from him.
"Regarding this, A Fa didn't exaggerate at all, the teacher is indeed very knowledgeable about kung fu," Gu Fei said. "Actually, it's not just me. For example, that Baishi Jinglun among the Five Little Strongs you just mentioned also knows kung fu."
"Since that's the case, why were you beaten so badly by an old man?" Someone mentioned the video that was widely circulated on the campus network. Every student who had taken a computer class had seen this video. Gu Fei was actually a celebrity at school.
"Because that old man is your teacher's father." Gu Fei had actually wanted to explain this problem all along, but he had never had the opportunity. Everyone seemed to have agreed not to have any doubts about this problem. However, speaking of which, Gu's father was indeed very domineering in that video. After weighing it, many people determined that they would definitely not be his opponent either, so they didn't dwell on this problem too much.
"Is that so?" The students began to whisper to each other again, really because this incident had a profound impact on Gu Fei. The whole school, from the principal down, thought he was very shameless. The students were now speculating: Was the shameless Teacher Gu trying to randomly recognize a father to get rid of the problems that had been troubling him for a long time?
Gu Fei was already very satisfied to have a chance to tell the truth once, and he didn't care too much whether the students believed it or not. He just continued: "Because this game is highly realistic, it's far more practical to have exquisite fighting skills than to have super strong equipment or super high levels."
"The teacher's equipment is indeed relatively strong, but if you don't believe it, I won't use weapons or magic. Who wants to come up and try?" Gu Fei asked.
The students widened their eyes. Teacher Gu seemed to be getting serious.
"I'll try?" Someone stood up from among the students.
Gu Fei glanced at the student and smiled.
"Teacher won't punish me if I lose, right?" The student still had concerns in his heart.
"I'll punish you if I win, so you'd better let me lose," Gu Fei smiled.
"Then I'm coming!" This boy was a warrior. Not to mention that a mage wouldn't use weapons, as long as he didn't use magic, he would have no chance of winning at all. He was invincible if he fought, how could he possibly lose? Without magic, a mage had no attack power, so how could he lose?
He swung his long sword and slashed at Gu Fei's chest. Gu Fei dodged to the side and reminded him: "You can use skills."
"Then Teacher, be careful!" The boy shouted, holding the sword in both hands and slashing back.
Gu Fei had already seen that he was going to use Whirlwind Slash. This was exactly the problem with many newbies, they didn't judge the situation or look for opportunities, they only knew to rely on the strongest skill, a typical computer-style of play.
Gu Fei had already jumped back two steps, and the boy was still gripping the sword and spinning stupidly. Gu Fei took out an apple from his pocket, weighed it in his hand a few times, saw it clearly, and suddenly threw it out with all his might.
The attack of Whirlwind Slash was not only on the sword, the whirlwind swept up by the sword also had a judgment. There was no way that the small judgment of throwing an apple could penetrate Whirlwind Slash. But Gu Fei's purpose was not here. The apple accurately hit the tip of the boy's sword, and split into two, bouncing up and down. The upper half was swept into the whirlwind and instantly crushed, apple juice splattering on the boy's face. The lower half landed, and the boy's dashing step happened to step on it, and he slipped and fell on his back.
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Five thousand, five thousand again, even I have to admire myself deeply, why is it another chapter of five thousand?