Chapter 8

[Map] What Are You: Brushing horses.

As soon as this sentence was spoken, the flames of war were instantly extinguished by more than half.

Yu Mi’s teammates all took off in unison.

Immediately after, a prompt popped up on the screen.

[Your guild’s little girl is summoning you to the Beiyang Grassland, do you agree?]

Yu Mi clicked accept, and his character started to fly, but halfway through, he fell back down, and then a prompt appeared in the top right corner of the screen—

The map is full.

You are currently in queue [346].

Yu Mi scratched his head: What’s this?

He typed in the team channel to ask.

The team leader quickly explained, “That Tian Nuo Nuo, our game randomly spawns famous horses on certain maps. Players can participate in catching horses, and the horses caught can be ridden or sold for money. This gameplay is quite popular, so there are a lot of people in line. But the guild usually arranges for people to camp out and raise the flag in advance, so there’s always a chance to get in next time!”

Yu Mi quickly replied: Got it, thanks!

Queue 346, his teammates said they couldn’t get in, but Yu Mi wasn’t too disappointed, there would be more chances in the future anyway.

At this time, the team leader spoke again, “Thanks everyone for participating in tonight’s battle, since everyone’s gone to catch horses, we probably can’t fight anymore, it’s time to disband. I’ll distribute the wages.”

Yu Mi was stunned and asked in the team channel: There’s wages?? PVP has wages?

The team leader laughed, “Yeah, there’s wages for fighting. Actively participating in faction wars earns you wages. The wages are sponsored by a kind boss, who’s also a regular player, just hoping everyone can come often, participate in faction activities, and have fun. If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask in the guild! Everyone’s very friendly.”

Soon after, Yu Mi received a wage of 3000 gold.

3000 gold!

Even though he wasn’t short on money, getting a wage felt super super super super happy!

“Da Ming,” he turned to Chen Ziming and said, “I got a wage for fighting! 3000 gold!”

Chen Ziming had already woken up and was doing a dungeon.

“Only 3000 gold,” Chen Ziming shook his leg, “That’s so little, PVP wages are very low. Come do a dungeon with me, one dungeon can earn several 3000 golds.”

“No,” Yu Mi left the team and went back to his home to tend to the flowers he planted, “I think PVP is pretty fun, very exciting!”

“You brat actually got hooked on PVP!” Chen Ziming was heartbroken, “What’s the point of two groups fighting each other? How is it more exciting than us doing PVE dungeons with unknown drops?”

Yu Mi laughed, “Killing people is so satisfying.”

Human joys and sorrows are not connected, and the joys of PVE and PVP are also different.

After planting flowers, Yu Mi went fishing while AFK and picked up his tablet to draw his newbie diary.

Note—First time participating in a wild battle.

He drew a cute version of himself, mixed in with a bunch of people, going crazy FFF!

He also drew the team leader yelling in the team chat, the healer watching everyone’s health bars, the teammate eating chips and causing public outrage, and the opponent from the enemy faction acting cute and rolling around…

Next was—

Watching stars.

Watching stars.

Forced to watch stars all afternoon!

Open your eyes and it’s stars!

After finishing the drawing, he added some color and posted it on Weibo.

[@EvilPopcorn: Newbie Diary—First time participating in a wild fight.

PVP is really exciting ahhh! My head got blown off! But it’s really exciting! And I got a wage.

And… at night I dreamed of stars everywhere! (Collapse) (Dizzy) (Foaming at the mouth)]

As soon as he posted it, there were many comments.

@IHaveCoinsDoYouHaveDrafts: Is it that old fortune teller again? Watching you closely? Is he secretly in love with you? [Side-eye smile]

@NoJinLianHua: Is it that star dad again? Feels like you two are a bit ambiguous [Shy]…

@YanLin: Delicious! That old fortune teller is so bad! Love it, more more~

@BowlOfCilantroInstantNoodles: Ahhh same server! So excited QWQ, your drawing is so cute! I was lucky to be there, I can only say the scene was super sweet! The scene was even more something! The parts not drawn were even more exciting ahhh~

Seeing the comment from Cilantro Instant Noodles, a group of people asked TA for on-site details, and some asked about their server.

Yu Mi got a bit nervous, but fortunately, this noodle friend was very nice and didn’t reveal his ID, quickly replying, “Sorry everyone, just a unified reply, I won’t reveal the server and ID of the big guy without permission, to avoid causing trouble for them. Hope you all understand. Just know that the Jianghu is vast, and if fate allows, we will meet! Let’s continue to look forward to the big guy’s updates!”

Yu Mi was very touched, after all, how could someone who loves cilantro be a bad person, right?

He got up to pour a glass of water, and when he came back, he refreshed the comment section.

@MiscellaneousFoodJustHaveRiceToEat: Does anyone understand? This star-picking skill, locking in a small black room, is really so… enough to imagine a hundred thousand-word novel [Lustful][Lustful].

Seeing this comment from Miscellaneous Food, Yu Mi was a bit confused, how is it… where’s the morality? Where’s the food?

He couldn’t help but go look for food, and once he searched, he was amazed, so much food!

Delicious food!

Small black room play!

The artists are so good at drawing, so good at writing. Yu Mi held his phone and liked everything.

Not long after, Chen Ziming called him to eat, and Yu Mi didn’t log off, he had a monthly card, so he could just AFK. Then the four of them in the dorm went out to the school cafeteria for dinner.

At the cafeteria, after buying food, Yu Mi instinctively looked around.

Chen Ziming asked, “What are you looking at?”

Yu Mi: “Nothing.”

*

After eating and returning to the dorm, Yu Mi hung up and started drawing, working on the commissions for his main account.

As he drew, he kept wanting to slack off…

So he couldn’t help but open another canvas and draw a chibi avatar of Sword Roar in the Jianghu, drawing the Red Sleeve Pavilion loli, and after finishing, he posted it on Weibo for everyone to use freely.

This was great, fans left comments asking him to draw their own factions, all eighteen factions had nominations.

Yu Mi was sweating profusely.

18 factions… the workload was really too big. He didn’t dare to agree for now and quickly focused on drawing the commissions.

He wore headphones, listening to the Sword Roar in the Jianghu fan song playlist, drawing like crazy.

He didn’t know how long had passed when suddenly there were two beeps in his headphones.

Yu Mi looked up and saw someone in the game was private chatting him.

[Private Chat] What Are You: Where are you?

Since he was AFK, the system automatically replied: Away for a bit, be back soon!

In Sword Roar in the Jianghu, players can’t see where players from the enemy faction are through the friend list unless their affection level is high enough.

And Yu Mi and Qi You’an’s affection level was 0, so the other party couldn’t see where he was.

Yu Mi was puzzled, what did this guy want?

While he was hesitating, the private chat rang again.

[Private Chat] What Are You: Come to Yongzhou City Square.

Yu Mi put down his tablet and typed a reply: What do you want with me?

[Private Chat] What Are You: Come.

Yu Mi frowned slightly, if I go just because you tell me to, wouldn’t I lose face?

[Private Chat] What Are You: I won’t hit you.

Yu Mi: …

He had forgotten about that, oh right, what if he tricked him into going over to kill him?

So he replied: Not going.

Just after replying, the system notified him that his master was online.

Yu Mi immediately greeted his master, then lowered his head to draw a few more strokes.

Soon his master replied.

[Private Chat] Jinjiang Zai Tao Shizun: Good evening! Nuo Nuo, go to Yongzhou City Square and wait for your master~~ I’ll come play with you on my alt later.

[Private Chat] Tian Nuo Nuo: Okay!

He immediately flew to Yongzhou City and arrived at the square.

Yongzhou is one of the main cities in the game, with many players playing on the square. Some were sparring, some were performing, some were begging, and some were just standing there AFK.

Yu Mi’s master’s alt, Shui Zhu Yan, quickly logged in and asked him to wait a bit, she needed to help his senior sister with a task first.

Yu Mi said no problem, then waited there, looking at other players’ face customization, appearances, pets, and so on.

At this time, he saw a familiar figure.

The next second, the panel showed that the other party had selected his game character and was looking at him.

Then the fortune teller drove a cool ancient war chariot towards him.

This chariot was black and red, with battle flags fluttering, and the wheels sparking with lightning.

Yu Mi couldn’t help but exclaim, “Wow, what a cool chariot!”

He opened the game shop, clicked around, but couldn’t find it.

The other party stopped in front of him.

Then a prompt popped up on Yu Mi’s screen.

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

Huh??

Yu Mi blinked, what… does this mean??

On the other side.

Qi You’an saw the newbie not moving, so he clicked the double ride invitation again.

“Give me a ride!” He Wenrui, with the ID [Spoiled], was jumping around his chariot, “Let your brother sit in your luxury car!”

Qi You’an: “Wait a bit.”

A few seconds later, his screen showed a prompt.

[System: Tian Nuo Nuo has declined your invitation.]

“Hahaha!!” He Wenrui, who was craning his neck to look at his screen, laughed gleefully, “Rejected, hahaha!!”

Then the two of them simultaneously saw that the guy named Tian Nuo Nuo got on a chariot driven by someone named Shui Zhu Yan.

That person drove the chariot past them.

Tian Nuo Nuo was sitting in the chariot, with long black hair flying.

“Hahaha!”

He Wenrui laughed thunderously, turned to look at his roommate, and issued a merciless taunt—

“You look like a dog.”

“Fortune teller, fortune teller, was his reaction also within your divination?”