Chapter 16: happy decision

The Tangmen Puppet School and Five Poisons’ Poisonous Insect School were rated as the most difficult schools to play well and the key lies in the multi-point control method “to do two things at once.”

The switching operation between the five pets of the Five Poisons was extremely complicated. Summon a pet, specify the location of the pet, control your own position, sacrifice the pet if necessary, summon another pet… rinse and repeat. This repetition process requires high hand speed, otherwise, if you summon a pet but don’t have the time to use its operations, what else can you do? Just lie down and surrender!

The same principle could be applied to the Tangmen. Summon the puppet, designate its location, summon the second puppet, designate the puppet’s orders… Several puppets are controlled at the same time and the master has to control all those puppets. Without extremely fast hand speed, it’s impossible to complete such a complex operation!

Because these two schools have the highest requirements for hand speed, Liu Chuan and Su Shilun's hand speed is also at the top level in the professional circle.

There hasn’t been a final conclusion on who has the faster hand speed, just that, in a duel between the Huaxia Team and Seven Star Grass Team, the two happened to meet alone in the wild. At the same time, their hand speed exploded, shocking countless live audiences!

The reach even beyond the limit of your hand speed, there was a specific requirement needed—the opponent is strong, so you can only make an effort to be stronger!

A rookie with Nepenthes’ level, if Liu Chuan wants to clean him up, he doesn’t need any hand speed at all, just hit him twice.

Just a few days ago, his hand speed exploded once, in the Rhythm Master Finals, precisely because he met the piano player, Wu Zewen.

Liu Chuan didn’t tell Jiang Xue that he had indeed only played 1,200-combos in one song before. If it weren’t for an opponent with Wu Zewen’s level, he wouldn’t be able to break out his hand speed and hit the 2,000’s combo.

In any case, Liu Chuan was very optimistic about Wu Zewen. There was only a handful of people who could force Liu Chuan to break out his fastest hand speed and even in the current professional league, there were only captains of the major teams of main players of Su Shilun’s level.

Wu Zewen not only forced out his fastest hand speed… but also beat him!

You know, in the Wulin individual competition, Liu Chuan rarely sees the word “failure” on his screen. However, that day, he lost to Wu Zewen. Although musical talent had an influence, Liu Chuan was convinced that he lost that game!

Wu Zewen’s hand speed wasn’t only fast but also had a natural sense of rhythm that has been cultivated by many years of piano practice. In regards to most people, after a few minutes of hand speed bursts, their hands would cramp but those who played the piano can keep their hand speed at a very high level without their fingers cramping—this was a hard skill developed since childhood. Extraordinarily strong!

Wu Zewen came to play Wulin and Liu Chuan was naturally very happy. It wasn’t easy to meet someone with such a fast hand speed.

It’s just that, although Wu Zewen’s hand speed was very high, he is still a rookie when it comes to playing games. The appearance of a stumbling Five Poisons sister was enough to make people want to laugh.

No matter what sect and school you play, hand speed is only the most basic hardware requirement and the key lies in one’s consciousness.

Which skills to use first, which skills to use later, how to deal with the enemy’s control skill, how to find opportunities to counter-control—one must have a very clear idea in their minds. Otherwise, even when the hand speed bursts out and you rap your knuckles on the keyboard, just like when Li Xiang was fighting one-on-one against Qin Ye, he wasted all his skills but didn’t manage to hit even once, who the hell knows where he was hitting.

Li Xiang’s hand speed is up to standard, and Wu Zewen’s hand speed is not inferior to Liu Chuan’s. What the two of them lack now is this kind of “consciousness”.

Liu Chuan asked them to watch expert videos which was the fastest way to teach this kind of “consciousness”. The video can clearly show the combat process and how various situations are handled by the masters. Slowly, a basic concept would form in their heart. With more actual combat experiences, based on the wit and hand speed of those two, Liu Chuan believes that they will definitely improve by leaps and bounds.

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Wu Zewen was immersed in his research and his memory was super good. After watching the instructional video recorded by Wheel of Reincarnation, he quickly wrote down 10 active skills* and 5 passive skills** of the five different kinds of bug babies and their respective uses. He can only summon Gu Toad once he reaches level 15, Snake Gu at level 30, Spider Gu at level 40, Centipede Gu at level 55, and the sharpest group attack pet, the Butterfly Gu can only be summoned when one reaches full level 70.

* Skills that needs an action from the player to trigger its effect/pressing a key to activate a skill

** Passive skill do not need player action/input to activate it as usually they are already active/skills that add bonuses, boost overall stats, or modify other skills.

Roughly understanding the characteristics of the Five Poisons’ Poisonous Insect School, Wu Zewen liked this school even more. Before he closed the window and cut back to the game interface, he left a line in the comment area: “The video is very useful. Thank you.”

While watching the video, he distractedly added blood to his teammates. It wasn’t difficult for Zewen to do two things at one time. It’s just that, he didn’t pay any attention to the team channel and once he took a look, he found out that there were a lot of chat records swiping up in the team channel--

Nepenthes: “Sister Poison adds blood very decisively! How long have you been playing this game?”

After discussing privately with the Three Grasses, he decided to start with the female Five Poisons because the “Ideal Master” obviously didn’t like the three of them, and the Tangmen expert “Immortal” was not easy to win over. Girls were generally more soft-hearted and this kind of small group of friends, as long as the important girl is recruited, wouldn’t the two men simply follow?

Nepenthes couldn’t help but praise his cleverness.

Nepenthes: “Sister Poison, your clothes are very beautiful and the silver head jewelry of the Five Poisons is also so beautiful!”

Moon Grass: “Sister Poison, why don’t we form a fixed team*? The way you play nanny is very good, let’s take an instance together after level 30!”

* Permanent members in one team

Nepenthes: “That’s it, Sister Poison, please! Please form a team with us!”

Moon Grass “Sister Poison, you’re so amazing! Little Swine pulled the monster so much but he didn’t even shed any blood. You’re so sharp!”

Over there, they praised the Five Poisons as a Milk God* one after the other but after a long conversation, they found out that the female Five Poisons had been ignoring them all this time?

* God-level Healer

The three of them were so depressed that they were struggling with whether to chat with her privately but the team channel suddenly popped up with a message--

Misty Swamp: “I don’t play nanny.”

One sentence, one kill.

The Three Grasses were going to cry!

If you aren’t going to play nanny, what are you doing right now? Aren’t you giving us blood?!

Liu Chuan watched from the sides and couldn’t help but laugh.

At that time, Wu Zewen used “Who are you?” to kill him and then used the SSS of the Rhythm Master to kill him twice in a row. Wu Zewen, this guy often speaks so simply and neatly, and one sentence was enough to make you speechless. Yet he didn’t know how hurtful his sentence was and only looked at you very seriously. It’s like a natural knife-stabbing player who makes people vomit blood and die but can’t even hate it.

Wu Zewen found out that after he finished speaking, the Three Grasses turned silent so he continued to calmly operate the Five Poisons to add blood to his teammates.

He just told the truth: He didn’t want to play a healer at all.

The Three Grasses started a private discussion again--

Nepenthes: What should I do, this Five Poisons seem to be unmoved?

Moon Grass suddenly thought of an idea: Talk to her privately and ask if she has a husband. If she doesn’t marry her. After that, she would absolutely devote herself to you!

Nepenthes: Good idea!

Moon Grass: Little Mimosa, go on!

Mimosa: …why me?

Nepenthes: I fought and sprayed the Tangmen and Shaolin. They’re friends so they must be upset with me!

Moon Grass: That must be it! After I said so much just now, the female Five Poisons has been ignoring me so she must be upset with me too.

Mimosa: ……

Nepenthes: Little Mimosa, you haven’t spoken. You look gentler and girls in the game like it when players are gentle. Hurry up!

Moon Grass: Go ahead, this heavy responsibility is left to you!

Mimosa: …….

The outnumbered and helpless Mimosa had no choice but to gather his courage to privately chat with Five Poisons: “Five Poisons Sister, are you there?”

Misty Swamp: “Huh?”

Mimosa sent a shy expression: “Do you have a husband?”

Misty Swamp: “Husband?”

Mimosa: “Yeah, yeah! You can get married in the game at level 30. If you don’t have a husband, you might as well consider me!” A large row of shy expressions followed after the message.

Wu Zewen was taken aback. He only chose the female player because Li Xiang said playing a female player was good for forming teams but he hadn’t heard of marriage or anything.

Seeing that the Five Poisons didn’t reject him, Mimosa typed in a lot of words in excitement: “Five Poisons Sister, let’s get married. I have been playing this game for a long time and I have a lot of brothers and friends who can take you to an instance! When you reach your full level in the future, let’s battle the arena together!”

As soon as he sent the message, he knew he fucked up.

For the first time, the private channel bursts out two people’s roars simultaneously--

“Damn, you sent it to the wrong channel!”

“Idiot! Why did you send it to the team channel!”

Mimosa: “……”

There’s nothing to be done about it. Who told him to talk too little and when he finally talks too much, his brain is suddenly flooded with water and sent it to the wrong channel.

So, this message, which was sent to the team channel, was both seen by Liu Chuan and Li Xiang.

Li Xiang immediately became angry: “Damn it! You dare covet my family’s Five Poisons?! Step aside!”

Liu Chuan followed: That’s it. You proposed only after minutes of acquaintance, you must harbor bad intentions! Step aside!”

Mimosa: “……”

Thus, the strategy of Three Grasses to win over the Five Poisons once again ended in tragedy.

Mimosa never expected that what he sent to the wrong channel suddenly reminded Liu Chuan.

Liu Chuan hasn’t played the online game for several years and he almost forgot that there was such a thing as marriage inside the game. After Mimosa said this, he suddenly remembered that once both male and female players reach level 30, they can get married. After marriage, there are many husband-and-wife tasks that give out experience and material rewards. Doing ten tasks a day doesn’t require much effort and it saves time and effort rather than going through troublesome tasks in the main and side lines of the game.

Wu Zewen played a female player in the game and even the very popular Five Poison sister with a hot figure. In the process of upgrading in the future, he will definitely encounter similar troubles as today. He is a rookie playing the game for the first time and maybe he could be abducted without him knowing.

Instead of letting Zewen be abducted by others, it’s better to do it yourself…

The so-called don’t let one’s own fertile water flow into others’ fields*…

* Keep the good shit within the family LOL what goes on in Liu Chuan’s mind honestly.

—Zewen is mine!

Liu Chuan happily made a decision like this.