Chapter 469 - SHALL WE HOLD HANDS?

JUST like what Luo Yan thought, Luo Ren was indeed having 'fun'. 

After his brothers logged out of the game, them who had been watching everything in that prism building also left one by one.  Before leaving, the NPC in the prism building gave them a special ticket.  They told them that tomorrow if they wanted to watch the game at the prism building again, then they only had to tear the ticket given to them and they would immediately be transferred at the same VIP room.

Thinking of the next round of the preliminary tomorrow, he couldn't help but worry again.  The whole 'trial of the sea' thing really had him at the edge of his seat.  There were a number of times he felt like his heart would stop.  Especially with that last one.

When he saw that kraken, he hoped that his brothers would just stay in that wheelhouse that became a safe zone.  But no, they really had to run towards the danger.  They were even so active in participating with the attack.  Luo Yan, especially.  That was the first time he saw him fighting.  And he was doing it with a big grin on his face. 

That was a bit… scary.  In a way.  But soon, all the worry just disappeared and he simply became invested in watching.  It's like a scene from some kind of high-paced fantasy movie.  Especially after that one player turned into a dragon.  It was really pretty exciting. 

Seeing all those players working together to defeat the kraken, any teenager who watched that would want to quickly buy a Moonlight Media's VR helmet and play the game.  Even he, as a grown adult, felt really excited watching that.  Who wouldn't want to kill a huge-ass sea monster?

Luo Ren finally understood why his brothers were so invested in this game.  If he was four-five years younger, he might also end up being into it.  But he's too busy now to do that.       

Before they all separated, he asked Yu Jiao if she show tour him around Arcadia.  Her emotion was perfectly mirrored by the expression on her face.  Like an open book.  That's why he knew that the question totally caught her off-guard.  But even so, at the end, she still said 'okay'. 

And now, the two of them were back at Safehaven Harbor while the others who'd been with them – Bai Ze, Shen Ji Yun, and Su Yuqi – had already gone off somewhere on their own. 

"Ahm, may I ask what Mr. Luo's current level is?" Yu Jiao asked first.

She was actually a bit of confused why Luo Ren asked her to tour him around.  It made sense more for him to ask Bai Ze because the two were cousins.  So, why asked her?  But, of course, she couldn't ask that directly.  It's simply too rude.  That's why she could only say yes. 

Luo Ren wanted cringe again when he heard that 'Mr. Luo'.

"I'm at the level where I could only enter the beginner city."  He remembered what Luo Yan said about the cities in this game that would only be available when a player was at a certain level.  He scratched his cheek awkwardly.  "I probably won't be able to go to a lot of places with my level."

Seeing the awkward action, Yu Jiao said almost instantly without thinking much, "Then does Mr. Luo want to go to my shop?"

She was surprised when she realized what she just said.  But it was too late to take it back.  So, she just bit the bullet and just stood her ground.   

Luo Ren, of course, saw this reaction.  It was really cute just how everything showed on her face.  She's like the perfect embodiment of 'what you see is what you get'.  And he kind of liked that. 

Then, he focused on what she just said.  "You have a shop?"

Then he suddenly remembered that Luo Yan once mentioned to him that players here could set up shops and they could earn real money from it.  The game money that players used to buy things on the shop of other players would be transferred directly to their bank account.

That's what had been happening with Luo Yan.  Everyday since he had that business he mentioned to them, money had been flowing to his bank account.  And it's quite good money.  From what he could remember, it was a pavilion.  Come to think of it, it must be quite a good pavilion if it's garnering that much money.

He didn't expect that Yu Jiao also had her own business.  "What kind of shop was it?" he added.

"It's, ahm, a blacksmith shop."

"So, you're selling the weapons you're making?  That's cool."

He almost forgot that Yu Jiao's class was a Blacksmith.  And from the things that Luo Yan had told him, she was pretty popular.  Which just meant that the items she made was more than good enough for the players in this game to clamor about. 

Yu Jiao's face turned red hearing such a compliment.  "I-it's okay."

"I would love to visit your shop.  But is it located on a higher-level city?"

Because if it was, they he couldn't go there.

Yu Jiao quickly understood his worry.  "It is.  But it's okay.  If you're with me, then we can just directly teleport to my shop."

It's kind of a rule in the game where shop owners could just bring any other player to their shop regardless of the other's level.  It's like their own territory of some sort.

"Then shall we hold hands?" Luo Ren asked, stretching out his hands, palm up, towards Yu Jiao.

"W-what?" Yu Jiao stuttered while looking at Luo Ren's hand.

"You said that we could only directly teleport there if I'm with you.  So, isn't it natural to hold hands?"

Yu Jiao finally understood the other's action.  "Oh, right, ahm, yes, we should do that."

She raised her hand and put it on Luo Ren's palm.  Feeling the heat from the other's hand, she felt her face heating up for no reason.  "L-let's go then."

Luo Ren looked at Yu Jiao's reddened cheeks and then glanced down at their hands that were connected together.  A secret smile appeared on his lips.  "Okay."