Chapter 6

Chen Bin and Lan Bai didn't find the coordinates of the flower thief monster, but they did find other non-quest monsters of similar level.

On a bright and beautiful afternoon, the repetitive monster grinding began...

The girl Lan Bai invited to cook and use the internet was named Xia Xiaoya.

Chen Bin noticed that at least half the time, she was looking at his screen. However, she received a call midway, and it seemed she was discussing the plot of "The Walking Dead" with a friend on the phone, and she could explain it clearly.

No wonder this girl was cooking on two gas stoves and an induction cooker simultaneously at noon, and even cutting fruits and arranging them on a plate, multitasking without any mess.

"What level are you?" Lan Bai, seeing the light flashing on his screen, turned to ask Chen Bin.

"Level 7." Chen Bin looked at the progress bar, "Yeah, 7 level 45%, almost level 8."

"I just reached level 7, I'll go back to clear the main quest in the newbie village later." Lan Bai said.

Chen Bin checked the system time: "Go back to clear the main quest at 5:30, and leave the newbie village before 6:30."

Lan Bai nodded: "No problem."

After 6:30, it's the golden time of the game, and a larger group of players will flood in, making it harder to clear quests.

However, the main quest cannot be skipped, otherwise, you can't enter a faction at level 9.

Fifteen minutes later, with a white light rising, Chen Bin's character Lingdian leveled up to level 8.

There was no need to keep grinding, as the main quest would give some experience, enough to reach level 9.5.

"Brother, brother, take me! There are too many people in other places..."

A line of text floated from the nearby channel.

Lingdian turned his view and saw a female character standing there, holding a beginner's short sword, with a chaotic set of armor.

Seeing no response from Lingdian, the female player sent two more lines of text.

"I just need a little more experience to reach level 5."

"Brother, take me, it's just a five-minute thing..."

Chen Bin turned to ask Lan Bai: "How long until you reach level 8?"

Lan Bai's hands were moving non-stop: "Already 50%, about twenty to thirty minutes more. What's up?"

"Nothing, I'll take someone." Chen Bin clicked the chat box and accepted the female character's group invitation.

"Huh?" Lan Bai only made a brief sound.

"Ha, a level 4 character appeared in the level 11 non-quest monster area, so..."

"Oh, I get it." Lan Bai didn't need to hear more from Chen Bin!

Lan Bai patted his head, feeling ashamed of his misunderstanding—how could someone like Chen Bin, who doesn't know the meaning of the word "bottom line," be so kind as to take someone along?

The female character was named Tianbian Yiduo Yun. She had clearly completed a few small quests before. While Chen Bin controlled Lingdian to fight monsters intermittently, she occasionally cast a small healing spell on Lingdian.

Before entering a faction, all basic universal skills were named "Small Something Spell," and these skills would become less useful at higher levels.

Lingdian's health didn't drop quickly; in more than three hours, he hadn't even touched the ten small health potions in his inventory.

As for the mana potions, they were even less useful, as Lingdian had left the newbie village right after creation and hadn't learned any universal skills.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Tianbian Yiduo Yun's body glowed white, and she leveled up to level 5.

"Brother, look, look over there..." Tianbian Yiduo Yun sent another line of text, calling "brother" happily.

"What?" Lingdian's view turned 360 degrees, and Chen Bin's eyes twitched.

Good grief!

A level 11 Elite Leader monster!

In the non-quest monster area, three types of monsters would spawn: regular, elite, and leader, with a probability of 75%, 20%, and 5% respectively.

"Run." Lingdian typed a single word in the nearby channel.

"No, no, those monsters are chasing my classmates, let's go save them!" Tianbian Yiduo Yun said.

While they were typing, Tianbian Yiduo Yun had already added three more members to the group: Tianbian Yichang Yu, Tianbian Yizhen Feng, and Tianbian Yisheng Lei.

"Brother! Brother Lingdian! Help save them, we'll keep your health up, and all the drops from the leader and elite monsters will be yours." Tianbian Yiduo Yun sent a message in the group channel.

The Tianbian quartet, two boys and two girls, led the monsters to Lingdian and cast small healing spells on him.

At such close range, there was no place to retreat. Lingdian turned around and directly faced the Elite Leader monster.

The leader monster's damage was indeed terrifying, a single attack skill reduced Lingdian's health by a third.

The Tianbian quartet cast warm golden light on Lingdian, keeping his health full.

However, what they didn't see was that Chen Bin quietly placed the ten unused small health potions in Lingdian's quick bar.

60%...

30%...

10%...

5%...

The leader monster's health bar slowly dropped, and when it reached 3%, Chen Bin controlled Lingdian to suddenly jump, landing behind the monster, and then jumped around like playing hide-and-seek, no longer causing damage to the monster.

After Tianbian Yiduo Yun leisurely cast three or four rounds of healing, she noticed the monster's health wasn't dropping anymore. Just as she was about to call out, the leader monster swung its wooden club at the group, who had been casually healing.

Because four people were healing one person, they didn't deliberately manage the hate. They didn't expect that after Lingdian stopped attacking for less than ten seconds, the hate got out of control.

"Hold on! The monster is almost down..." Tianbian Yizhen Feng panicked and typed in the channel.

Tianbian Yizhen Feng stood relatively far away and had time to type, but Tianbian Yichang Yu was the first to be locked onto by the leader monster, and was instantly killed with one strike. Then Tianbian Yisheng Lei was the second to be locked onto and also killed in one strike.

"Brother Lingdian! What are you doing?" With two people dead, Tianbian Yiduo Yun and Tianbian Yizhen Feng had time to run away, and they started leading the monster in circles.

"Waiting for you to die." Chen Bin calmly typed in the group channel.

"Lingdian, what do you mean?" Tianbian Yizhen Feng sent a message.

"You four cast small poison spells on the monster. You were planning to stop healing me when the health bar reached 1%, and after I died, the 1% health would be drained by your small poison spells, and then you would pick up the purple gear and materials from the leader monster, right?"

"You..." Tianbian Yiduo Yun typed a word, and was immediately caught up by the monster due to the delay in typing.

Still, the club swung down, instantly sending Tianbian Yiduo Yun away.

The Tianbian quartet was now down to Tianbian Yizhen Feng alone.

This girl was much better at controlling the monster, maneuvering and typing a long message in the group channel.

"Okay, I admit we deliberately tricked a high-level player to help us with the leader and elite monsters. But if I keep leading this monster for one minute and fifteen seconds, it will disengage from combat, and you won't get the gear and materials. How about we split the loot and resolve this peacefully?"

In the game "Sword Battle," if a monster doesn't take enough damage within one minute and thirty seconds, it will disengage from combat, restore its health, and return to its spawn point.

However, the only response in the group channel to Tianbian Yizhen Feng was: "You're so stupid."