In addition to the Deep Well Ice Player, the other two didn’t have friends of a gentleman’s caliber.
Jiang Shi thought for a moment and decided to add them to a team together.
Opening the team voice chat, he leisurely asked, “Where are you? Shall we come and chat with you?”
Gentleman Fan’s voice came from the other side, a slightly elegant male voice with a hint of composure, “Wait for me for a moment, I’m being chased.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance heard Jiang Shi mention being chased and, upon entering the group, found a level 40 returning player who was in a daze, and hearing this made him even more puzzled.
What’s going on?
Judging by the situation, it seemed like he had just returned to the game, so why was he already being chased by someone?
Only the two who knew Gentleman Fan didn’t find this operation strange at all.
Deep Well Ice Player sneered with disdain.
Jiang Shi laughed and asked, “Who did you provoke this time?”
Gentleman Fan replied, “Just saw a few brothers passing by and wanted to see if I’m still good at fighting, and they got angry.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance: “…”
Why not just say you randomly grabbed someone on the street and slashed them, doesn’t everyone get angry about that?
Jiang Shi didn’t seem to be in a hurry, “Sure, you run for now and call me when you’re ready.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance hesitated for a moment and finally said, “Should I go help?”
[[Team] Deep Well Ice Playe: No need.]
Jiang Shi glanced at the team chat and stifled a smile, “No problem, let him be chased for a while.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance couldn’t quite understand the attitude of these two, as in his dictionary, if someone was being chased, even though they might deserve it, shouldn’t friends help each other out? How could they just watch someone being chased like this?
What Pen Carries Fragrance furrowed his brow, thinking about offering assistance, when he saw Gentleman Fan post a map coordinate in the team channel and said, “It’s all settled, come over.”
Resolved so quickly? It seems he ran quite fast.
With this in mind, What Pen Carries Fragrance looked at the coordinates in the team channel and headed over.
It wasn’t until he reached the coordinate location that he understood what ‘all settled’ meant.
From the looks of the entire scene, it was completely different from what he had imagined.
Gentleman Fan, who had supposedly been chased, was not hiding cautiously, but standing openly in the middle of the path with his hands in his pockets, in a half-squat position.
At his feet lay a ‘corpse’ with its health points completely depleted.
This scene, combined with the other party’s rogue profession, easily brought to mind a large-scale assassination scene.
The coordinates were right at the resurrection point.
It was unclear whether the guy was already lying there, pretending to be dead, or if it was because he had been killed repeatedly for too long
What made What Pen Carries Fragrance feel most bewildered was that, as he got closer, he could gradually hear Gentleman Fan chatting cheerfully with the guy on the ground in the current channel.
It seemed like they were just two friends having a good time.
“I actually think the weather is pretty nice today, don’t you, brother?”
“Although I unexpectedly went for your throat earlier, you at least chased me for a few blocks, so can’t we call it even?”
“Life can be so boring, sometimes we want a little excitement, you can understand that, right?”
“Believe it or not, I’ve only been online for 12 minutes and 32 seconds, and 8 minutes of that were spent playing this chase with you, do you feel honored?”
“I can only say that not playing for so long has made me a bit rusty.”
“Both of us are returning players, and it took a lot of effort for me to kill you, why do I feel so weak now?”
“Brother, I know you can’t speak when you’re dead on the ground, or maybe we can be friends and you can message me about the assassination experience?”
“Why did you refuse my friend request? Or you can get up and let me kill you a few more times, you can’t just lie there like this, can you?”
The guy on the ground: “…”
What Pen Carries Fragrance, who had just arrived, said, “…”
The person involved and the eyewitness felt very empathetic at this moment.
Killing someone and then chatting with the ‘Corpse’? This was truly an unusual hobby!
Perhaps What Pen Carries Fragrance’s dumbfounded standing was too conspicuous, and Gentleman Fan noticed the shadow on the ground and looked up.
In the process, What Pen Carries Fragrance clearly saw Gentleman Fan give the iron fan in his hand a little squeeze.
Then, a flash of sharpness crossed Gentleman Fan’s eyes, and he smiled to cover it up, “I didn’t notice, it’s actually our team members.”
Jiang Shi and the others arrived slowly as well, and after taking a look, they raised their eyebrows in understanding.
Deep Well Ice Player intentionally trailed behind, giving a scornful smile.
Gentleman Fan patted his thigh and got up from the ground, waving a greeting from a distance, “Here they are.”
“Okay, they’re here,” Jiang Shi walked over, glanced sympathetically at the returning player on the ground, and asked, “You were being chased, right? What happened to the others?”
“They ran away,” Gentleman Fan answered, and as he spoke, he shook his iron fan in his hand. “There were seven or eight of them, and I couldn’t stop so many people, so I left this guy behind. But we had a good chat just now.”
Good chat?
What Pen Carries Fragrance, who was a witness on the scene, silently looked up at the sky, feeling very complicated.
“Okay, stop chatting with the corpse. Come chat with us,” Jiang Shi, who had always found Gentleman Fan’s strange hobby of chatting with corpses very morbid, naturally took the opportunity to put his arm around him and bring him aside.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the ‘corpse’ that had suddenly jumped up and rushed to escape, and before Gentleman Fan instinctively gave chase, he restrained the urge and controlled the curvature of his lips slightly, “In short, do you have any interest in trying to snatch the first kill of a world boss in the wild next week?”
What Pen Carries Fragrance spoke up, “Big brother, didn’t you get it wrong? It’s a wild boss, not the first kill.”
“I’ve thought about it, normal wild bosses are boring, so we’re going to snatch the first kill of the boss, that’s correct,” Jiang Shi explained leisurely and looked at Gentleman Fan, “What do you say?”
Gentleman Fan appreciated this proposal, “Sounds good.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance: “?”
Not to mention that even without their seven silver coins, this is just an ordinary life guild. Just look at these two in front of you, are you both still sporting the returnee BUFF? You were saying not long ago that even for regular wild map bosses, there weren’t enough people, and now in the blink of an eye, you’re preparing to snatch the first kill of a new wild map boss? Who exactly is the one with the inflated ego?
“Alright, since we’re all playing, of course we’re going for more exciting activities,” Jiang Shi asked with a smile to the person next to him, “What do you think, President Island Forest?”
The expression on Island Forest’s face already seemed full of anticipation, “I think it sounds very interesting!”
“…,” What Pen Carries Fragrance suddenly had a moment of doubt whether he was the only normal person in the room, after being silent for a long time, he could only pin his last hope on Deep Well Ice Player, who had been silent the whole time.
Unfortunately, Deep Well Ice Player’s attention was not on him at all, but he was constantly vigilant towards Gentleman Fan, as if he could run away at any moment.
Gentleman Fan clearly felt this vigilance and waved from a distance, smiling, “Old Player, you’re not dead, no need to be so alert. Rest assured, I’m only interested in corpses. Or perhaps we can have a duel sometime, and chat after that?”
Deep Well Ice Player’s face changed, and he quickly sent a message in the team channel: “Get lost, get lost, get lost!”
What Pen Carries Fragrance: “…”
Alright, after confirming with a glance, he’s really the only normal person here.
Jiang Shi couldn’t help but bury his face in his hands, laughing silently.
As for the past between Deep Well Ice Player and Gentleman Fan, it all started with an assassination mission.
Back then, Deep Well Ice Player had overturned several guild teams in a row to test his new bombing tactics. After accumulating a server-wide maximum hatred value, he was directly issued several assassination orders.
Coincidentally, these orders fell into the hands of Gentleman Fan.
At that time, Gentleman Fan was already one of the top-tier assassins on the black market assassin rankings. Although he wasn’t good at taking on multiple enemies at once, he had a tight grip on players like Deep Well Ice Player who were prone to going on a rampage in one-on-one assassination missions.
Unsurprisingly, the overall mission was completed quite smoothly at the time, to the point where it left a deep psychological trauma on Deep Well Ice Player, a player with social anxiety.
Or, in the words of Old Player himself, it’s called a “Nightmare.“
This nightmare wasn’t because he was chased many times, but because of Gentleman Fan’s personal quirk—he had little interest in live players but had a particular passion for ‘corpses‘ that had died by his hand.
In the game “Genesis,” players in a dead state couldn’t speak, and Gentleman Fan loved this humanizing setting.
After completing each mission, he was particularly fond of chatting with his “spoils” at length, ranging from half an hour for a short conversation to two full hours of one-sided chatting, from poems and songs to life philosophy, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the snow and flowers.
This special quirk made Gentleman Fan the most popular assassin in the black market.
Not just because of his strong assassination skills, but also because of this special service after the assassination, which was not only highly lethal but also highly insulting.
Everyone wanted their enemies to experience the taste of killing someone and hurting their feelings.
Unfortunately, what Deep Well Ice Player experienced was a full “two-hour chat package” during this assassination mission.
Two whole hours of passionate conversation!
It wasn’t just hurting feelings; in this kind of torture-like state that was akin to torture for Deep Well Ice Player, he actually wanted to die.
So after this assassination experience, he immediately set about clearing all the guilds that had issued chase orders to him.
Jiang Shi was quite surprised when he later found out about this incident.
After all, a player like Deep Well Ice Player, who suffered from severe social anxiety, experienced such a terrible treatment in an environment where there was no escape, and didn’t leave with a grudge or quit the game, was a testament to how deeply he loved the game “Genesis.”
It could only be said that the only consolation was that Gentleman Fan really had no interest in ‘live people.’ Otherwise, even after getting to know each other later, Deep Well Ice Player would never allow a dangerous chatterbox in his friends list.
“So when’s the first kill happening?” It was clear that Gentleman Fan was really interested in such matters.
“If we count it out, you should have about three days left to level up,” Jiang Shi said. “The returnee mission rewards are quite good, so you should hurry up. First, join the guild, and if necessary, you can also ask What Pen Carries Fragrance and the others for help. After I come back, I’ll go to the market and see if I can get you and Old Patient some new gear, and we also need to upgrade our hardware.”
Gentleman Fan: “That’s fine.”
Jiang Shi glanced at him, “You’ll have to pay for it later.”
“I’m as stingy as ever,” Gentleman Fan said, shaking his fan without a care. “Okay, then when I get back, I’ll take on a few orders and pay you back.”
“I don’t have the habit of saving money,” Jiang Shi said, and directly entrusted the task to What Pen Carries Fragrance, “So, leveling up is your responsibility now, is that okay, What Pen Carries Fragrance?”
What Pen Carries Fragrance: “I don’t have a problem with that, but you just said you have to go somewhere when you get back. Is there something important?”
“Oh, it’s nothing big, just going out for a meal with my sister,” Jiang Shi smiled, “At most, I’ll be gone for a day, if there’s anything, you can wait for me to come back.”
What Pen Carries Fragrance nodded, “Alright, since I’m the vice president, I’ll take care of the leveling up.”
Gentleman Fan flipped through the returnee mission list and instantly chose the one that suited his eye the most, “So, should we start by accumulating hatred?”
What Pen Carries Fragrance didn’t think much and just nodded, “Yes, I’m fine with that.”
Deep Well Ice Player hesitated, looking at What Pen Carries Fragrance, and in the end, he didn’t say much, silently giving his approval in his heart.
Although it’s said that there are a thousand ways to accumulate hatred, when it comes to Gentleman Fan, he could only think of one.
Just, take it as a consolation.
As expected, without any surprise, the next moment Gentleman Fan fell into thought, “So, which village should we start killing from?”
What Pen Carries Fragrance: “?”
poor Deep Well Ice Player lol
when Gentlemen Fan said ‘i’m stingy as ever” i think it should be ‘you’ instead of ‘I’? considering that Jiang Shi was the one who asked him to pay
okay so from the summary
besides Jiang Shi (and Yuze?)the old and veteran players who have returned to the game: Deep Well Ice Player, the war-loving madman (i forgot his profession) and now Gentleman Fan, an assassin.
This new comrade is very explosive and unique lol.