Chapter 12

[Private Chat] What Are You: What do you think?

A minute later, Yu Mi received this reply.

What do I think? I think you’re really petty!

Yu Mi stopped looking at him, turned to find a team, and randomly applied to one. The team leader let him in right away.

The next second, Shen Gun joined the team he was in.

Yu Mi: …

What a coincidence?

He instinctively wanted to leave the team but suddenly felt it was unnecessary. Why should he avoid him? If he left just because Shen Gun joined, wouldn’t that be strange?

It’s just a daily dungeon… it doesn’t matter who you play with. So, he braced himself and stayed, entering the dungeon.

Once inside, Yu Mi realized he hadn’t played this particular dungeon before.

Sword Roar in the Jianghu has five daily dungeons, and they’re random each day. He had played a few of them, but this Dead Water Maze was new to him.

Yu Mi opened the map to check the BOSS location, and it showed that the BOSS was underground, but the exact position wasn’t clear.

When he closed the map, he found that all his teammates had run ahead, disappearing in the blink of an eye. He could only see the small blue dots representing their positions on the mini-map.

You can’t use light skills in the dungeon, so Yu Mi quickly mounted his horse and followed the route forward.

After entering the ancient tower’s gate, he continued forward, then down the stairs, and ended up in a dead end. He quickly turned around and tried another direction, opening the map again to check.

No mistake, he was heading towards the BOSS, so why was there no path?

He immediately switched screens to find a guide on the β site, randomly clicking on one, but the tutorial video started right in front of the BOSS, with no route shown!

Yu Mi hurriedly looked for other guides.

After a few seconds, he clumsily switched back to the game and continued trying.

At this point, someone in the team channel noticed he was going in circles and couldn’t help but type a question mark.

[Team] Cherry Jumped Off a Building: ? [Sweet Glutinous] Is it a bot? If you don’t speak, we’ll kick you.

Yu Mi quickly replied.

[Team] Sweet Glutinous: I’m not a bot! I’m a real person! Sorry, I’m lost, I’ll be right there.

These days, many people use technology to play games, which normal players generally dislike, so they usually kick suspected bots.

Then someone else spoke up.

[Team] What Are You: I’ll go get him.

It was Shen Gun.

Just a short “I’ll go get him” touched Yu Mi deeply.

However, before he could feel moved, someone left the team.

Probably annoyed by his slowness and unwilling to wait any longer.

Yu Mi felt very embarrassed.

At this moment, someone spoke through the mic: “It’s okay, my friend just happens to need to play, I’ll let him join the team.”

It was Shen Gun.

That familiar, con artist-like voice.

As he spoke, he self-destructed his character, dying to return to the dungeon entrance.

So when He Wenrui entered the dungeon, he saw his roommate at the door.

He laughed and asked, “Wow, did you come to pick me up? I’m so touched.”

Just as he finished speaking, he saw the other person turn around, mount his cool battle vehicle, and charge into the tower.

“Hey, hey—” He Wenrui called from behind, “I haven’t gotten on yet.”

A few seconds later, Yu Mi’s focus list showed Shen Gun approaching him.

He quickly walked towards him.

Then he saw Shen Gun riding the cool battle vehicle he had helped him get through a fortuitous opportunity, arriving in front of him.

A prompt popped up on Yu Mi’s screen.

[System: What Are You invites you to double ride, do you accept?]

Last time he was indifferent, but this time… he accepted in a second.

His game character climbed onto the other person’s battle vehicle, sitting side by side with him.

Then Shen Gun took him towards the BOSS, explaining as they went: “There’s a mechanism here you need to interact with, after that, a hidden door opens, then just keep going clockwise.”

Yu Mi silently memorized the route.

Then the ID named “Spoiled Holy Fire Sect Man” caught up behind them, cursing: “What, you called me here just to make me eat dog food? I’ll kick your wheel over!”

He said, riding his horse to bump into them.

But it glitched through, causing zero damage.

Shen Gun said two words: “Homework.”

Spoiled immediately quieted down: “I was wrong, bro!”

Yu Mi listened silently, thinking Shen Gun is also a student? Just like him, a college guy?

Soon, he was brought to the BOSS.

He apologized in the team channel: Sorry for wasting everyone’s time, I’m sorry! #Pitiful

Everyone was quite friendly, typing that it was okay, and some teammates said they also got lost here the first time they played this dungeon.

Then they all fought the BOSS together.

The BOSS fight went smoothly. Yu Mi’s damage was lacking, but his teammates were strong. In the middle, he didn’t dodge the BOSS’s ultimate well and almost died, but a shield appeared on him just in time.

Yu Mi checked the battle data.

[System: What Are You’s [Star Frost Spread] gave you 59352+ health points.]

Huh? Shen Gun healed him?

He actually got to taste the star milk… not easy.

After defeating the first BOSS, Shen Gun got back on the vehicle and sent him another double ride invitation.

Yu Mi originally wanted to politely decline, thinking he could follow them himself, but seeing the other three teammates already leaving, he worried that stopping to type would waste time, so he accepted. Then he was taken by Shen Gun to the second BOSS location.

Shen Gun continued explaining the route: “This time, go counterclockwise.”

Yu Mi typed in the team channel to respond: Got it!

At this moment, Chen Ziming suddenly stood up, patted his shoulder: “I’m going to the gym, I’ll be back tonight. If you need anything, message me on WeChat.”

Yu Mi kept his eyes on the screen: “Okay, okay… you go ahead…”

Chen Ziming was preparing to meet Haitang Si Ai Nüdi in person, so he started working out this semester. He initially tried to drag Yu Mi along, but Yu Mi didn’t need to lose weight or build muscle, so he politely declined.

Right now, Yu Mi’s attention was fully on the game.

After defeating the second BOSS, Shen Gun once again double rode him to the third BOSS location.

Once everything was over, Yu Mi politely thanked everyone in the team channel: Thanks for the hard work, thank you all!

The teammates all copied and left the dungeon one by one.

Only Yu Mi and Shen Gun remained by the dead BOSS.

No matter what, Shen Gun helped him this time, so Yu Mi privately messaged him a thank you.

“No problem,” Shen Gun said, “It’s the game’s guidance that’s lacking, don’t worry about it.”

[Private Chat] Sweet Glutinous: Okay.

In the dim maze, with the dead BOSS, and the grudges between him and him…

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Yu Mi hesitated for a while, but eventually added Shen Gun as a friend.

After all, the other person helped clear up the solo kill incident and just helped him again. It’s only polite.

Then he was about to say goodbye, but the other person invited him to double ride again.

Yu Mi didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he accepted.

Then Shen Gun took him and ran over the BOSS’s corpse back and forth… back and forth.

A minute later, Yu Mi couldn’t help but ask.

[Private Chat] Sweet Glutinous: What are we doing??

Shen Gun replied seriously: “Corpse whipping, the BOSS’s corpse will drop gold coins later.”

Yu Mi was dumbfounded, really? He had done daily dungeons with his master and Chen Ziming before, but never heard of this.

While he was full of doubts, he suddenly heard Spoiled’s voice from Shen Gun’s mic.

“Don’t fool the newbie!”

“Sweetie, don’t listen to this Shen Gun! He’s just trying to increase affection with you!”

Yu Mi knew about increasing affection.

In Sword Roar in the Jianghu, players can increase affection with each other, with seven levels in total.

In the game, you can increase affection by doing tasks together, using affection items, or double riding certain fun mounts.

Previously, his master accompanied him every day to level up and do tasks, and their master-disciple affection had long reached the seventh level.

Yu Mi opened the system channel and indeed saw that during the double ride just now, every 15 seconds, his and Shen Gun’s affection increased by 4 points, totaling 30 points now.

But even if you max out this affection level, there’s no substantial reward, just some symbolic meaning.

So Yu Mi asked the newbie question.

[Private Chat] Sweet Glutinous: Why are we increasing affection? 0.0

Aren’t we enemies…

“Good question,” Shen Gun said with a smile, “Once the affection reaches level three, I can see where the opposing faction players are, then I can directly go to your map and arrest you.”

Yu Mi immediately jumped off the vehicle, left the team, and flew away in one go!

Damn it!

He really had no good intentions!

Too bad!!

This behavior must be exposed!

Yu Mi picked up his tablet and started drawing.

He drew the process of getting lost in the dungeon, being double ridden by Shen Gun, and then the dark act of maliciously increasing affection. After finishing, he posted it while it was fresh, then went to do the escort mission daily.

Before escorting, he asked in the faction channel: Is it safe?

This is a PVP player escorting code, used to check if the road is safe.

Soon someone replied: Handsome means safe.

Yu Mi thought, I’m so handsome, so it must be safe, right? So he boldly went to escort, but when he reached the map transition point, he saw several red names robbing the escort!

He was a bit scared, thinking of waiting for his master and others to come online to escort together. But not knowing when his master would be online, he hesitated for a moment and decided to try it himself.

Yu Mi silently chanted “You can’t see me, you can’t see me!” then activated his invincibility skill, mustering all his strength to leap through the battlefield, and he really dodged it, the red names didn’t manage to hit him! He quickly transitioned to the next map.

On the way back, he was attacked, but just as he was about to die, the escort heroes Yi Chuan Yan Cao and Man Cheng Feng Xu descended from the sky, saving his life, letting him escape death.

The feeling of surviving a near-death experience was really exhilarating!

Yu Mi thought they were simply divine, so cool!

After completing the task, Yu Mi saw someone in the faction channel asking “Is it safe?”

He replied: Handsome means safe.

Then Yu Mi leisurely opened Weibo to check the comments on the post he made earlier.

He thought his fans would be united in condemning Shen Gun’s bad behavior, but to his surprise, everyone was shipping them?

@Xiao Yang Today Got Rich?: So sweet, so sweet, so sweet! I’m going crazy from the sweetness! Senior Brother Shen Gun is so good at this, mastering the art of pulling each other in opposing factions, I want to learn too!

@You Also Peck Rice for Me: Teacher, I hate that you’re a blockhead! [Angry][Angry] He really wants to increase affection with you! Arresting is just an excuse!

@Shi Yu Ya: Ahhh! Finally updated! Shen Gun you… I… no, this guy is too tsundere, clearly wants to increase affection with you, but pretends to say arrest. Can’t stand it! Betting five cents, he’s definitely secretly in love with you!

@Li Yue: Dense uke! Popcorn, you’re too dense QAQ, you believe this? Only someone with real affection would increase affection, normal people wouldn’t do it just to kill opposing faction players… he’s flirting with you, you idiot! (╯‵□′)╯

@Sister is the Queen: Ahhh, he definitely likes you! Even if he really wanted to kill you, he could just make a same-faction alt to add you as a friend and know where you are, no need to go through the trouble of increasing affection with an opposing faction account! Old Shen Gun is deep in his tricks, tsk tsk tsk… [Smirk].

Yu Mi was dumbfounded.

He looked up at the game, at the ID in his friend list, then down at everyone’s comments.

No, me, dense?

He, secretly in love with me?

Impossible, right?