5 - Team Up

Translated by rabbitrisu

“Next instance.”

The Spirit Fox player was surprised and asked: “Are you already in a team?”

“Eh? What do you mean? What’s up?”

“…You were right. We didn’t have Root Removal or Illusion Arrows. We were killed by the Xue Qiu Elites.” The Spirit Fox player spoke sullenly after being silent for a while.

“So what? You’ve messed up a few times and no one wants to team up with you, so you thought of me? You think that because I know about Root Removal and Illusion arrows that I’m a worldly master?”

So I wanted to ask if you were interested in going down to Han Bing Xue Field with us…

–That sentence was forcibly choked back by the Spirit Fox player.

“……”

“Speak.”

“……” You’ve already said everything, what the hell could I say? Do you think I’m not ashamed at all! How can I be repaired!

Xiao Ran glanced at the eternally snowy Xue Village. He thought that the Level 39 Han Bing Xue Field instance would yield higher returns, so he spoke casually. “Alright. Wait three minutes for me, I’ll go to you.”

The Spirit Fox player was surprised. “Eh? Can you just withdraw from your team like that? Will your teammates not object?”

Xiao Ran glanced at the snow-covered mountains and forests. There was no one around, and it was very quiet.

“My teammates said that everyone is responsible for caring for the vegetable chickens. 1

“……” Was it too late for him to choke back his voice?

Xiao Ran decisively withdrew from the Xue Village instance, then received a system prompt.

[[Naozhong Ni Bie Nao] 2 sent you a team invitation.]

Accept.

Xiao Ran activated his physical skills and rushed to the entrance to the Han Bing Xue Field instance entrance. Naozhong Ni Bie Nao and a few teammates had been waiting there for a long time.

“Hello everyone.” Xiao Ran kept a polite and distant smile on his face, as if he wasn’t the one who used a poison tongue skill before.

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao, that stinky boy, thought that he would teach him how to be a man after he arrived, but he was blinded by Xiao Ran’s false smile. He opened his mouth wordlessly, then shrunk back and didn’t speak.

Xiao Ran actually was a nice person. If it weren’t for the day being terrible, he wouldn’t have shown his dark fangs.

Xiao Ran glanced around the team and found it was slightly different from before, so he asked: “Why are there people missing?”

The Dragon Power Knight Gaosu Gonglu 3 said: “Our team’s immortal scholar had to go offline for some reason. We’re looking for someone. Wait a moment.”

Xiao Ran nodded.

Except for Naozhong Ni Bie Nao, the team members were actively bombarding their friends lists. Suddenly the Divine Doctor young lady with a beautiful face, Liang Xia 4 , spoke dazedly: “I just whispered Xigua Jingling 5 , he agreed.”

Gaosu Gonglu: “The elite member of Juyi Court, Xigua Jingling? Are you still in contact after the last time you completed this instance together?”

Liang Xia: “You don’t want to keep gossiping, okay? I haven’t contacted him since I added him as a friend. I didn’t expect him to agree to come over.”

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao suddenly became spirited: “Juyi Court! That’s a master among masters! I remember he has a rare Shen Bi control skill, Reed Painting Skill, that can interrupt the Xue Qiu Elites’ freezing!” He exclaimed cynically while glancing at Xiao Ran. “Tsk. This kid is very lucky. There’s a master. This time you can follow us to pick up experience.”

They’re also a Shen Bi; I’m waiting for you to be ashamed.

–Naozhong Ni Bie Nao thought grumpily.

Reed Painting Skill: A rare Shen Bi skill. For a single target, the plant can restrain the target for one second. This can be used to interrupt frenzying and skills that require spellcasting. For multiple targets, the plant can gather targets within a 6×6 meter area to 3×3 meter area for easy group attacks.

Xiao Ran also had that skill. The belt he bought before also had the ability to increase the Reed Painting Skill by +2. Along with the original 4, Xiao Ran’s Reed Painting Skill was as high as 6! Between the levels of 30-40, absolutely no one had a higher Reed Painting Skill than Xiao Ran!

After all, upgrading rare skill proficiency was much more difficult than for ordinary skills!

Despite that, Xiao Ran was accustomed to being low-key and didn’t mention it. He only calmly said: “Okay, thank you Captain.”

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao saw that there was no change in Xiao Ran’s cold and distant attitude, and decided to block his surge of unhappiness and wait until the master arrived.

Not long after, a tall, upright, handsome, and gorgeously-clothed Shen Bi player approached out of the crowd from the direction of the teleportation point.

Juyi Court was the fourth-ranked super guild in Shenzhou. Behind them was God of the Underworld.

As an elite player in a super guild, he was completely juxtaposed to his gorgeous yet inconspicuous clothing. Xigua Jingling didn’t dim the light on his equipment, and he wore a Level 40 Shen Bi outfit. No matter where he went, he was so golden that he shone like a small light bulb no matter where he went.

Because of the overpowering scent of money, the handsome player was surrounded by girls that couldn’t take care of themselves.

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao immediately regained the self-confidence of a team captain. He introduced to everyone: “This is Xigua. We randomly shared a team for an instance before, and this time can be considered giving us face. 6 He is well known in Juyi Court and his reputation is not minor.”

Xigua Jingling confidently lifted the bangs on his forehead. Grinning evilly, his small bright tiger teeth almost blinded everyone’s dog eyes. “Sorry, I’m late.”

Everyone: “……”

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao: “……” It’s just a little greasy… 7

This must be the so-called ‘money makes people bow their heads.’ Although the first impression of Xigua-tongxue 8 was rather greasy, it didn’t affect his lofty status in random teams.

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao: “Xigua is the highest level among us at Level 42. The team will give him command. Does anybody have any comments? No comments, tap 1.”

“1.”

“1.”

“1.”

“1…… You ghost brain, do you think you’re playing a keyboard game? Crazy.” Liang Xia-mei rolled her eyes.

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao: “QAQ!” Did he have any status or dignity in this team?

……

Xigua Jingling routinely let the Dragon Power Knight report defense and damage, the Spirit Fox report damage and range, the Divine Doctor report healing amount, and the Holy Monk and Shen Bi report spell damage.

And so on.

Xigua Jingling: “Why do you still have a Shen Bi on your team?”

The Shen Bi career was quite useless in the early stages. Generally, it was too difficult to bring a Shen Bi into a team. With two Shen Bi, was this like going to heaven? 9

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao” Emmmmmmm……”

It was a bit hard to provide an explanation to that question.

After all, Naozhong Ni Bie Nao was also someone who wanted to save face. It was impossible for him to call someone out of an instance and then tell them that there is a Shen Bi on the team. Why should he go…

Fortunately—

Xiao Ran: “I have a group attack.”

Xigua Jingling: “Ink Bamboo?”

Xiao Ran: “Something like that.”

Xigua Jingling: “That’s good. Wait a minute, have I seen you somewhere? The ID Xiao Ran… it’s a bit familiar, ah.”

Xiao Ran turned his face to the side. “No, you’re remembering incorrectly.”

Xigua Jingling: “……” That’s definitely not a guilty conscience, ah! 10

After everyone reported their information, they would continue.

As the saying goes, it was the most important thing for a random team to be neat and tidy. The random team members who finally joined together followed behind the new captain, anxiously and expectantly watched him finish his conversation with the little boy, and then were enveloped in six white lights.

After jumping in so many times, everyone was more confident. If they didn’t hear the new captain muttering to himself—

“I’ve been in Juyi Court for so long and haven’t led a team to play this instance. It’s exciting to think about.”

Everyone: Meow meow meow??? 11

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A cold wind blew across the snowy fields, and everyone shivered in unison.

TL Notes:

Me, waiting half the chapter for a description of watermelon before figuring out the right pronouns.

Footnotes

Noobs/rookies Chara ID: Alarm Clock, Don’t Make Trouble Fast-Paced Male Deer Cool Summer Watermelon Genius/Elf, unsure which in context helping us out for no/little profit unclean or indecent in terms of appearance, usually referring to habits of middle-aged men classmate/peer something is wrong with how you think or behave sarcasm expressing confusion