Chapter 50

050. Different Treatment

Couple index?! He Jin reacted immediately. Was Fire sending him flowers because of that…hidden husband and wife mission?

Fire: “The day we bought the lands, I suddenly remembered that sending roses can also increase our couple index.”

……So it’s true!

“But we have built a home, later we can…” He Jin paused and bit on his tongue, face turning as red as the roses in his hands. For heaven sake, he just couldn’t say “stay in the same room” to finish this sentence!

Fire smiled at him and explained: “Building a home will take a few days, not to mention living in the same room can only increase our couple index by 50-points per day. If we rely on this method, we’ll have to wait at least half a month before we have enough points to do husband and wife hidden task; sending roses is much faster.”

He Jin was speechless. Just what is the reward of this hidden husband and wife task to make Fire so anxious to do it?

Although the reason Fire sent him flowers was merely to fulfill the couple index requirement for the hidden husband and wife task, at that moment He Jin’s feeling was still left in turmoil.

He had received flowers in real life once. It was at a speech contest in high school, at the end, a few girls from his school went up to the stage to give him a bunch of tulips, causing whooping sounds from the rest of the students. But afterwards, He Jin learned that it was something that the teacher had arranged to let the school’s newspaper club members take a few beautiful photos. So in a way, whether it’s in the game or reality, this was the first time for He Jin to receive flowers as a gift from someone else.

In addition to surprise, awkwardness and a little bit of shock, he also felt very happy…

He Jin: “Where should I put this big bouquet of flowers? Do I have to keep holding it?”

Fire: “You can put it in your inventory, the freshness will last for 15 days. It is said that in holographic state, they will always emit fragrance as long as you are carrying them.”

“Just fragrance? No other effect?” He Jin tried to look, but did not find any buff effect in his personal status.

Fire smiled,”Of course, do you want to try eating those flowers or using them as darts?”

He Jin: “…”

These flowers are only mere decorations, not valuable ah!

He also couldn’t imagine just how many gold coins Fire must have spent to buy these flowers, but looking at the pegasus-riding beauty who delivered it, it shouldn’t be cheap, right?

He Jin quietly opened the game shop to check — 1 rose = 5 game voucher = 5 cents.

Then 999 + 1 roses = 1000 roses = 500 Yuan? What!?

“!!!!!”

From surprise to shock, after learning about the true price of this bouquet, He Jin felt completely spartan!^[1]

— A bouquet of flowers in this virtual world actually cost 500 yuan?

———–And you still said it’s better to send this bouquet of roses than wait for half a month?

—Just how rich are you?! (╯‵□’) ╯ (︵┻━┻

The feeling of guilt filled He Jin once again…In his uneasiness, he embraced the flowers tightly. He was about to ask Fire to go and see if he could return them, when something flashed in his vision-

〖Private Chat – The Great Heaven Like Leftover ^[2]〗: “Ah Jin? Is that you? I’m Monkey.”

He Jin: “…”

Hou Dongyan…why are you looking for me! QAQ

He Jin wanted to pretend to ignore it, but he only entertained this idea for a few seconds before giving up–the monk couldn’t run away from his temple; they lived in the same dormitory, sooner or later they would have to cross path…

〖Private Chat – Ah Jin〗: “It’s me.” Must be calm, must be calm!

〖Private Chat – The Great Heaven Like Leftover 〗: “Fuck me!”

He Jin: “…” He tried to take a deep breathe, preparing himself to be questioned under Hou Dongyan’s various type of gazes.

〖Private Chat – The Great Heaven Like Leftover 〗: “Hurry, open your friend function! I want to add you!”

He Jin shed a cold sweat …

Before, due to the harassment from too many people, He Jin temporarily closed his friend function. And as he always stayed with Fire every time he was online, he didn’t have time to get to know other players, so until now his friend function remained closed.

He opened his friend function and a “ding” sound issued in his ears: “The player ‘The Great Heaven Like Leftover’ has requested to add you as a friend.”

After receiving the ‘friend request accepted’ confirmation, The Great Heaven Like Leftover left him an urgent voice message: “Where are you? I’m coming to your place!”

Ah Jin: “At the Imperial City, coordinate xxx,xxx.”

Ah Jin: “I am with a friend here, he doesn’t know my real identity, so make sure you don’t spill the beans.”

The Great Heaven Like Leftover: “…” This ‘friend’ must be Ah Jin’s husband — Fire! (=_=)

Done talking with Hou Dongyan, He Jin immediately told Fire: “I have a friend coming here to meet me.”

Fire frowned: “Friend?” After coming back to this game, He Jin only ever played with Fire himself, when did he have the chance to make friends?

He Jin immediately explained: “Real-life friend, he also plays this game.”

Fire: “Oh.”

He Jin felt a little nervous, afraid Hou Dongyan would expose his real identity, also afraid of Fire asking questions. He said once again: “He is coming to see me…”

Fire gave him a very kind look: “It’s okay.”

Hou Dongyan rode his bat beast, crossing over the demon field, until he finally saw the two figures standing at the corner of the Imperial City’s street…One of them was a tall young man dressed in black, while the other one was a boy dressed in white…..Fur? And he was also holding a large bouquet of roses in his hands, why so eye-catching!

Which one is Ah Jin? The furry one?

“Ah Jin!” He shouted in the direction of the two men, and sure enough he saw the child raised his head… and waved towards him.

Hou Dongyan: “…”

He Jin watched as a burly demon player slowly landed in front of them, wearing a dark green turtle armour, rag shorts, and a pair of red boots…This image, it’s completely different from Hou Dongyan’s short stature in reality!

The Great Heaven Like Leftover only glanced at him for a bit before turning to Fire with great enthusiasm: “Ruthless Great God! I’m Ah Jin’s friend! Called The Great Heaven Like Leftover! Just call me Monkey!”

He Jin: “…”

Fire: “Hello.”

Hou Dongyan was startled: “Qin, Qin Yu?”

He Jin hurriedly sent a “secret” voice message to Hou Dongyan: “He is not Qin Yu, they just sound alike.”

Fire acted like he didn’t hear that mistaken call, smiled and asked Hou Dongyan: “You are Jin Er’s friend?”

Jin Er… Hou Dongyan’s mouth twitched, it’s too much!

He Jin also blushed. Fortunately he had yet to put the flowers into his inventory, so now he could still use them to cover his face.

“Yes, I’m in the same… uhm uh class as him! Hehe”

He almost said “dormitory”. Hou Dongyan felt so nervous he was sweating, but more than that he was excited! Being so close to the Great God, he felt like meeting with the president himself! Honestly, both his legs were turning soft!

He did not expect that Jin Ge turned out to be the wife of the Great God, oh right, he was a woman before! (But why is Jin Ge a child now Ah!) It was a case of having eyes but failed to recognize Mt Tai!^[3]

Fire politely stretched out his hand and shook The Great Heaven Like Leftover’s: “Since it is Jin Er’s classmate, then you are my friend too, you can just call me Fire.”

Great Heaven Like Leftover hurriedly said: “Oh no no, I’ll still call you Great God! I have seen your PK video a long time ago, and have always viewed you as a Great God ever since. I never expected that I’ll get to meet you, so I’m now super excited, hehehe…”

He Jin felt at a loss for words…

Fire: “Oh, then how about we go to the arena to learn from each other?”

Great Heaven Like Leftover was going crazy: “Ah ah ah ah ah! May I! What a pleasure! Please Great God teach me!”

Yes, learning from the Great God was the hope of every Demon God’s players, Hou Dongyan also felt the same. However He Jin secretly sighed and said in his heart: Poor monkey, you will soon experience Fire’s cruelty and regret this decision…

They went to the arena, Fire and Great Heaven Like Leftover opened PK friendly mode, and fixed some equipment parameters. Meanwhile, He Jin remained on the sidelines, waiting to see the moment Monkey fell to his doom.

Fire: “Come, I’ll let you have three attacks advantage.”

Great Heaven Like Leftover: “Yes, yes! Thank you, Great God!”

Monkey ran over with a long stick and fired three times at Fire. But Fire quickly escaped!

He Jin felt bad for Monkey, because he would die soon.

Fire slowly explained: “Your triple attacks just now weren’t really in sync. For first attack it’s best to use ‘dance stick shadow’ skill…Let’s do it again.”

Great Heaven Like Leftover answered: “Thank the Great God for the guide!”

He Jin: “…”

A new round of attacks began again. Fire was still dodging without attacking, and even when he did attack, he did so as a polite reminder to teach his opponent how to avoid it.

He Jin thought Monkey would fall into the same fate as himself under Fire’s ruthless hands, but until the end of the fight, he only saw Monkey being given gentle guidance by Fire. He did not die even once…

To others you are so gentle, but you killed your own wife in three seconds, what is this different treatment! (╯ `□ ‘)︵┻━┻

He Jin silently…felt stifled!

They ended the fight after half an hour. The burly “big man” looked at Fire with tears of admiration in his eyes and said: “Great God, thank you very much!”

Fire laughed: “You are welcome.”

When he went to meet Ah Jin, the Great God was also there, Hou Dongyan understood clearly what this meant and said: “Then, I don’t want to bother you guys any longer, both of you can continue playing together. If there is a opportunity, I’d like to ask for more guidance from the Great God!”

After saying that, he squatted on the ground to draw a circle, then glanced up at He Jin, “Ah Jin, I’m going first!” The Great Heaven Like Leftover left the PK room soon after.

Fire looked at He Jin and motioned for him with his finger: “Come here. Since we are already in this place, we might as well carry out today’s PK practice.”

Hearing this sentence, He Jin unconsciously trembled.

Proof-reader: Cat

T/N:

[1]This sentence sounds weird, but 斯巴达了literally translated as sparta/spartan with no other meaning. Please do tell me if you know a better term.

[2] 齐天大剩 (qí tiān dà shèng) “The Great Heaven Like Leftover”. The term is originally known from the novel “Journey to The West” where the main character Wukong took his friend’s advice and called himself “齐天大圣” (qí tiān dà shèng) meaning “The Great Heaven Like Sage”. However, some people changed the shèng from 圣 (sage) to 剩 (Leftover) as a pun to call those successful women with huge mansion and sedan yet still remain single. So, Hou Dongyan uses this IGN because: 1) as reference to his nickname Monkey, since Wukong is known as Monkey God; and 2) to adress his single status lol

[3] 真是有眼不识泰山啊 = having eyes but fails to recognize Mt Tai, an idiom meaning being unable to see something obvious.