Hu Die Lan

Chapter 417 Onlookers

He was in a favorable position, so Ye Xiu took the opportunity to ask Chen Guo if she could introduce him to anyone. Chen Guo had been running an internet cafe here playing Glory for several years. Because of the game, it was quite easy for her to become close to her customers. In the two months Ye Xiu had been here, he had seen all sorts of people who seemed to be quite familiar with Chen Guo, and they were just internet cafe customers, Glory players. Among these people, there were experts and newbies, and maybe even some talented players?

Ye Xiu usually took a look at the Glory players when he had nothing to do, but he hadn't discovered anyone like that. Chen Guo definitely knew more than he did. However, most of these people were fans of Team Excellent Era. After Chen Guo refused to broadcast Excellent Era's matches that day, she had offended quite a few people. In the end, their relationship was only a superficial acquaintance. There was no real emotional connection, so they turned on her faster than flipping a book.

"This... I haven't really noticed anyone like that. Even if there was someone, they wouldn't have waited until now," Chen Guo replied.

"Why?"

"We're right across from Team Excellent Era. If there was really someone like that, we would have already urged them to try out for Team Excellent Era. Why would we wait for you to discover them?" Chen Guo said.

"Are you guys reliable?" Ye Xiu asked.

"If we weren't reliable, why would you ask me?" Chen Guo said unhappily.

"Is there anyone suspicious? Let me check them out," Ye Xiu said.

"Suspicious, my foot! The best of the people I know are only about as good as me," Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu sighed helplessly, "It seems like I won't be able to find someone close to home."

"How can you say that? How did Little Tang come here?" Chen Guo said.

"Oh... right..." Ye Xiu was careless for a moment. Only then did he realize that he already had someone close to home. Tang Rou was a talent that even Wang Jiexi had tried to recruit to his team. Ye Xiu was quite lucky to have stumbled upon her in an internet cafe. There were tens of millions of Glory players, but only a few hundred professional players. Such rare talents were hard to come by.

"When will the computer be fixed?" Since he couldn't come up with any new ideas, Ye Xiu could only worry about the present.

"It'll be done soon," Chen Guo said.

As soon as she finished speaking, the person working on the computer stood up, patted the monitor, and said, "It's done."

"Go try it," Chen Guo gestured for Ye Xiu to go up.

Ye Xiu naturally tried Glory. He logged into the game, and everything was running smoothly as usual, so he nodded. Chen Guo came over and told him where she had placed the folder he used for research, and then secretly told him the password. The way they were acting, anyone who didn't know better would have thought they were two hackers plotting something bad.

"Okay, I understand," Ye Xiu nodded in the end. Chen Guo then left with that person. Of course, this service wasn't free. After all that work, they were waiting for Chen Guo to pay the bill.

Ye Xiu didn't feel anything particularly different about the computer he was using alone. He controlled Lord Grim to continue the challenges in the Heavenly Domain. He casually looked at the level rankings along the way, and he was still the only one at level 50. He could only sigh and close it.

Chen Guo paid the bill and immediately ran back. She knew that there was nothing else for Ye Xiu's Lord Grim to do except for the Heavenly Domain challenge missions. A level 50 unspecialized character wouldn't get any experience from dungeons, quests, or killing wild monsters.

When she came over, she saw that Ye Xiu was indeed doing the challenge missions.

He had completed five stages yesterday, and Chen Guo was amazed by his efficiency. Before Ye Xiu, Glory players at Happy Internet Cafe would brag for a long time if they could pass one or two stages a day. Every one of these Heavenly Domain challenge missions made people stay up all night, their eyes bloodshot, and they just wanted to smash their computers.

And some studios took this opportunity to offer Heavenly Domain challenge mission services, making a lot of money. But even for studios, it wasn't like they were guaranteed to succeed in these missions. They were also in the mood to smash their computers as they completed one job after another.

In the early days, the Heavenly Domain was really a gathering place for elite players, but now, more and more players were sneaking in through various loopholes. But no matter what, the players in the Heavenly Domain were definitely better than those who were content to play in the normal servers. Not to mention the harsh challenge missions, the brutal environment of the Heavenly Domain alone would make people want to smash their computers even more than doing the challenge missions.

The biggest difference between the Heavenly Domain and the normal servers was that there were no penalties for PK (Player Killing).

In the normal servers, there was at least a red name system. Although it wasn't very useful, it at least showed an attitude, an attitude of restriction. But in the Heavenly Domain, there were no penalties for killing people, and the losses for the dead were greatly increased. One could imagine the chaotic situation that this would cause.

In such chaos, a newbie would definitely be bullied to the point of vomiting blood every day. If they didn't improve their skills quickly, they could be attacked every time they went out. The harsh environment led to the rapid growth of newbies in the Heavenly Domain.

Chen Guo was only slightly distracted for a moment, and Ye Xiu had already smoothly completed the sixth stage of the challenge missions. Chen Guo was just about to say something when she heard a scream from beside her: "Holy crap!"

Chen Guo turned around and saw another person standing behind her, looking terrified and staring at Ye Xiu's screen in disbelief.

When Ye Xiu turned his head, the person finally came back to his senses, but the shocked expression on his face couldn't be erased. He stared with wide eyes and said, "Brother, is this a Heavenly Domain challenge mission?"

"Yeah..." Ye Xiu nodded. There was no hiding it. There was a clear sign on the screen when doing a Heavenly Domain challenge mission, so anyone could tell.

"This, this, this... that's too awesome. How many times have you done this?" the person asked. Clearly, after seeing Ye Xiu complete the sixth stage of the challenge in one go, he thought that Ye Xiu had gone through thousands of failures before finally mastering it.

"Many times, I can't count them," Ye Xiu said with a smile.

"No matter how many times, this is still amazing. What stage is this? I don't think I saw a time limit sign!" the person said.

"The sixth stage."

"The sixth stage? The sixth stage..." the person recalled, "The sixth stage... there's no time limit in the sixth stage, right?"

"No, there isn't..."

"No time limit..." the person was stunned again. This sixth stage was another stage that didn't require combat, but it tested a variety of skills. The various obstacles and terrains along the way required players to use all sorts of movements and combinations of movements to pass smoothly. Ordinary players would pass this kind of stage step by step, slowly going through each part. But Ye Xiu had passed it in one go, without stopping in the middle. This made the person mistakenly think that it was a timed stage from later on, so he was so nervous. But when he realized that it wasn't, doing it like that meant that he had enough confidence in himself.

"Which server are you from, brother?" the person asked.

"The tenth server."

"The tenth server??" the person was shocked again, "The tenth server has only been open for two months, and there are already level 70 players??"

"No, I'm level 50. I just took it and started doing it!" Ye Xiu didn't dare to say that he was going to complete the entire mission at level 50. The eyes of the guy in front of him were already getting wider and wider. If he gave him any more stimulation, Ye Xiu was afraid his eyeballs would pop out.

"Awesome!" the person praised.

"Hehe," Ye Xiu smiled.

"Are you going to the next stage soon, brother?" This person was quite familiar with the Heavenly Domain mission process. He guessed Ye Xiu's intentions as soon as he saw where his character was going.

"Yeah!" Ye Xiu said.

"Don't mind if I watch, right?" This person was quite polite.

"Not at all."

So this person simply sat down next to Ye Xiu in what was originally Tang Rou's seat and watched.

The seventh stage was a combat stage, with one boss leading a group of minions. After one minute of fighting, this person's mouth was already wide open.

"This... what is this?" What he was wondering about was, of course, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella.

"A Silver weapon," Ye Xiu said.

"A si-si-silver weapon?" After stuttering "silver" a few times, the person finally lowered his voice, seeming very discreet. Clearly, if he shouted these two words out loud, it would immediately attract a crowd. This had already happened once before. At that time, there were many players from the tenth server among the customers, and they had even added Lord Grim as a friend. They could still see him online from time to time. Ye Xiu was doing very well in the tenth server, and these people had seen it all. When they came to Happy Internet Cafe, they would worship Ye Xiu when they saw him free.

Of course, these people had no idea about Ye Xiu's true identity. They just thought he was a skilled player. Plus, as an internet cafe manager, he had the perfect working conditions, which gave him plenty of time to play the game. After all, most of the people playing in the tenth server were newbies, and they didn't think too much or too complicatedly.

What about the old players who knew more? They were shocked by the Silver weapon at the time, but because it was only a level 5 Silver weapon, they didn't pay much attention. They weren't in the new server, so they wouldn't know how popular Lord Grim was in the tenth server now. Those players in the tenth server knew, but everyone was in the same internet cafe, but they didn't know each other. They each played their own games and had no interaction. So Ye Xiu had been quiet all along and hadn't caused much of a stir.

But the guy in front of him was more observant. He didn't say anything and was just surprised on his own, which was really uncomfortable. Besides the Silver weapon, he had also discovered a fact in this one minute.

"Brother, you haven't changed classes yet, have you?"

"Yeah, I haven't changed classes."

"What does that mean?" This person was puzzled.

"Unspecialized, haven't you heard of it?" Ye Xiu said.

"I know what an unspecialized character is, but you..." This person was clearly not a very experienced player. His understanding of the unspecialized character was that it was a character that hadn't changed classes before level 20. He didn't know that a long time ago, the unspecialized character was the 25th class in Glory.

"Just like this, level up to 70," Ye Xiu said.