Chapter 287: Stay in a pharmacy for the rest of your life?
As long as people are safe and sound, being alive is better than anything else.
Several pub members thought so.
Mercer did not kill the man, which gave enough face to the Zero Point Tavern.
When someone gives you face, you can't refuse it, but you still insist on going up to them and seeking death.
"Boss, let's forget about it today. The negotiations above are not over yet."
"It won't be too late to fight after the negotiations are over." They planned to persuade Fan Lu to stop first. "We can't make a big deal now. The situation is tense. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
Several people stopped Fan Lu, refusing to let him take any further action.
Given Fan Lu’s current condition, if there were another fight, he would probably be beaten to death.
“Ahem…”
Fan Lu coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, as if his lungs were shattered. His face was as pale as a dead person, his body was trembling, and he stared at Moser on the tower in the distance.
In other words, the vitality of psychic creatures is strong enough. If he were an ordinary person, he would be dead now.
He still didn't give in.
Among the two contact points wiped out by Moser, there was a junior whom Fan Lu valued very much.
Even without today's incident at the pharmacy, the two of them had already become enemies.
But Moser didn't seem to take this matter to heart at all. He treated both him and the two tavern contact points that were wiped out today as if they were ants.
This feeling of contempt made Fan Lu even more angry.
“This matter is not over yet!”
Fan Lu looked ferocious. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and uttered something cruel.
After saying that, he turned his head again and glared viciously at Su Xia who was protected by Yu Tuo, with his murderous intent not concealed at all.
If he gets the chance in the future, he will definitely crush this little bug to death.
Su Xia, who was being stared at, shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Sir, your eyes seem to be squinting. Would you like two potions to cure it?"
"Ha ha……"
Bing Lei and others around him burst into laughter, and the laughter of the crowd drifted far away over the ruins.
In the past, they had always heard Li Defu and others say that Su Xia was an honest and cultured person, rarely involved in gossip on the Internet, and rarely cursed people.
But through recent contacts, they discovered that Su Xia's attainments in language arts were also quite high.
"His eyes were really slanted." Su Xia said calmly.
"Looking at it this way, it seems to be true." Bing Lei nodded and agreed seriously.
Hearing this, everyone turned their heads and looked closely at the seriously injured Fan Lu.
In fact, he was not hit sideways, but the light in his eyes was not as clear as that of a normal person. It looked cloudy and dim, as if he had used up all his energy in the battle just now.
Fan Lu was filled with anger, staring at Su Xia and yelling, "You little thing, do you really think I won't dare to kill you just because someone is protecting you?"
"Isn't it good to fight and kill?" Su Xia spread his hands, "Making money is the kingly way, I'm only interested in this."
"Can you stay in that little pharmacy forever?"
Fan Lu gritted his teeth, his voice was cold and threatening.
As a fifth-level psychic creature and a super killer who has been famous for a long time and is the king of darkness, he has too many ways to kill a low-level psychic creature.
Assassination has been engraved in his bones and has become a habit.
It doesn't matter if he loses to Moser in a head-on battle. As long as he swallows his pride, hides in the dark, and waits for an opportunity to hunt Su Xia, he will be able to kill Su Xia one day.
Judging from the surface strength, it should be like this.
Even if Su Xia is an undead, it doesn’t matter. There are ways to deal with the undead.
Since the launch of the server, many unlucky players have chosen to log off when being hunted, thinking that this would save their lives.
But they didn't expect that while they were offline, the pursuers placed a cage directly where they were offline.
As soon as they appeared, they were inside the cage.
Once they are imprisoned, they cannot run away even if they want to. If they cannot escape, they will be locked in the cage forever, killed repeatedly, and finally have to abandon the account.
After more and more players had this experience, someone started posting on the forum:
[Never log off when being chased by high-level NPCs. Those NPCs in the game are very smart and already know how to deal with us]
Facing a high-level NPC like Fan Lu, who is good at assassination, Su Xia may have to live in fear and worry for a long time in the future.
But he looked indifferent and asked again: "Seriously, sir, don't you want to get your eyes treated?"
"you……"
Fan Lu was furious and spat out another mouthful of blood.
He wiped off the blood, stopped harassing her, turned around and walked towards the tavern branch.
"Let's go!"
If he continued to stay here, he would be unable to do anything and could only be ridiculed by Su Xia again and again, which might make him sick.
As for how to deal with Su Xia...
There will be plenty of opportunities in the future.
He was right. Su Xia couldn't stay in this small pharmacy forever.
At this time, the last ray of sunlight in the sky disappeared, and the whole city sank into darkness, leaving only the dim old street lights.
Everyone in the Zero Point Tavern was injured and limping under the street lights.
As the cold wind blew, the backs of several people looked a little gloomy.
If we didn't know it in advance, who would have thought that this group of poor guys were actually high-level creatures of level four or even level five.
"Just leaving like that?" Bing Lei sighed regretfully, "I thought we could really fight again, but I didn't expect this guy is just a big talker who can only bully the weak."
"Maybe... this is what they call strong on the outside but weak on the inside." North also said so.
"I still like his rebellious look." said the leader of another team.
The voices of these people were not low, and Fan Lu, as a level 5 creature, had extremely sharp perception, so he naturally heard them.
Fan Lu, who was far away, trembled and his fists creaked. He almost couldn't hold back and turned around to fight again.
But several other tavern members stopped him and quickly left with him, who was seriously injured.
Just like that, the farce ended.
Those who should leave have left.
"It's over, let's upload the video quickly and earn some traffic now!" a player whispered.
However, the game officials acted faster than the players.
As soon as the battle ended, a picture of Fan Lu and Moser fighting appeared on the banner of the official website's homepage.
[Shocked! Two high-level NPCs did this for an ordinary player! ]
This title is really unique. I wonder if the staff were hired from UC.
The captured battle scene is very gorgeous, which happens to be the moment when Fan Lu uses the broken crystal and Moser uses the small mechanical beads on his cane for defense.
Countless broken crystals emitted colorful light, like colorful butterflies frozen in the void, while Mercer in the center was surrounded by light blue light.
Click on the link to see what happened, with a focus on Su Xia and the pharmacy.
The official game officials gave Su Xia some publicity in disguise.
Su Xia's popularity couldn't be higher.
When he returned to the pharmacy, he actually received a private email from the game official, asking him if he was interested in an interview.
"Interview?"
Su Xia was stunned. It seemed that the game company had not organized any activities since the launch of the server.
Does this interview with him count as the first official activity?
There are now a lot of players entering the game world of "Looking Up at the Stars", far exceeding the number of previous old games.
But it is said that the game company is not satisfied and wants to promote it vigorously for a few more waves to let more people enter this world.
There have been many rumors recently that in order to attract new players, game companies are secretly trying out single-player competitions, multiplayer team competitions and other modes, and several big anchors with over 10 million fans have received invitations.
In reality, advertisements for "Look Up at the Stars" are appearing in more and more places.
Even the elevators in the school’s new teaching building are playing advertisements for this game.
Game companies are making every effort to promote the game and spending money like crazy. Game hives around the world are expanding at an extremely terrifying rate, and the prices are getting lower and lower. Even ordinary students can enjoy the top VR experience.
In Jincheng where Su Xia is located, the price of a single VR hive has dropped to one dollar per hour.
Su Xia suspected that the game company couldn't even make back the electricity bill.
"Is interviewing me also considered a part of promotion?" Su Xia thought silently.
He is a person who likes to keep a low profile and is not used to appearing in public.
But as his fame grows, in this world where traffic is king, there is no way to stay low-key.
Now whenever I go out for a meal, I run into a bunch of people who know him.
When others greeted him, he could only respond awkwardly.
Just recently, he received invitations from several short video software, asking him to sign contracts and live broadcast the game content of "Looking Up at the Stars". As long as he live broadcasts for a few hours every day, he can earn a lot of money.
But Su Xia refused and quietly enjoyed the rare quiet life in school.
"Brother Su, I just received an official email." Li Defu suddenly sent him a message, "Inviting the core six members of our entire Bikini Bottom team to go to the Jincheng branch of the game company for an interview. Do we want to go?"
"No, I'll pretend I didn't see it." Su Xia replied.
"Brother Su, official emails are in gold and will be automatically pinned to the top. Can you pretend you didn't see them?"
“…”
Soon, several other roommates sent him messages.
Except for Su Xia, the other roommates were a little excited. After all, this was an invitation from the official game staff.
Su Xia sighed. He really didn't want to go, but seeing that his roommates were so excited, it was hard to refuse, so he said in the dormitory group: "Accept the invitation, Brother Yuwen will contact them for the details."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything. Brother Su, you just need to show up when the time comes!" Director Yu Wen Shuxue immediately made the guarantee.
Several roommates knew that Su Xia didn't like such lively and public occasions, so they would not let him feel any trouble and would arrange everything.
On the way back to the pharmacy, Su Xia quietly thought about the interview.
This is the first public interview for the game.
After the interview, their Bikini Bottom team became truly famous.
On the gaming forum, the number of people following his account has exceeded 100,000, and there will definitely be more after the interview, as he cannot even read all the private messages he receives every day.
On several other social platforms, even more people follow him.
If he posts a status about having lunch, he will receive hundreds of replies.
"Brother Su, should we hire someone to manage our social media accounts?" Department head Yu Wen Shuxue suddenly sent him a private message.
"It's still early, no rush." Su Xia replied.
"Okay, we'll talk about it later!"
The director is a good manager, and the Bikini Bottom team is running very well under his leadership.
He planned to take advantage of the popularity of this interview and strike while the iron is hot, inviting the core members of the entire resistance alliance to an offline gathering to strengthen their relationships and make the alliance unbreakable.
Several other roommates also helped with these things.
Only Su Xia is more relaxed and always does her own thing.
"Let's build the pharmacy first."
He stood outside the store, looked up at the dilapidated shop, and felt emotional.
This cozy little shop will only exist in memory from now on.
"Are you ready for the expansion?" Yu Tuo hadn't left yet. He seemed to be in a good mood today and was also standing outside the shop.
Mercer was gone, like a gust of wind, disappearing into the darkness after watching the sunset.
I guess he went back to the underground laboratory to see his experimental subject No. 28.
No. 28's delay in waking up has become a source of worry for Mercer.
"Yes, Lord Yutuo, I plan to expand the shop, recruit more apprentices, and make pharmacism a systematic discipline." Su Xia replied.
"Have the textbooks been compiled?" Yu Tuo asked.
“It’s still being written.”
"Once you have finished writing it, have someone send me a copy."
"yes."
"Write a book and write a biography. If you can really succeed, a hundred years later, you will be the ancestor of all pharmacists." Yu Tuo suddenly smiled, and he didn't know what he was thinking about. "It's hard to go to the end of a road. Be mentally prepared."
"Please rest assured, sir!"
Su Xia knew what Yu Tuo was talking about. Yu Tuo himself was a person who was about to reach the end of a road.
Ever since he knew that Yu Tuo was once a human, Su Xia has been wondering - how much of Yu Tuo's iron body is still human?
Are the brain and heart still there?
Unfortunately, this kind of question cannot be asked, and we can only guess silently.
"Fan Lu will not let you go easily. If you have any problems, you can contact me directly." Yu Tuo said, "Try not to leave the city recently."
"Okay, thank you, Master Yutuo."
Su Xia agreed verbally, but it was impossible for her not to leave the city.
The pharmacy needed to expand and more material suppliers were needed, so he had to contact them one by one in person.
The mission [Bury the Bones in a Foreign Land] also requires him to go to various cities in person to look after the families of the members of the Old North Wind Organization.
He also had to save Yi Mo and Shen Yu. The "Dream-Enthralling" potion needed to save these two people also required an ingredient that he had to find in another city.
There are so many things weighing on me that it’s suffocating.
And Mo Se and Yu Tuo will definitely not protect Su Xia forever. To put it bluntly, Su Xia is now the same as Zhao Si in the past. If he dies, he is dead, and the next replacement can be found at any time.
Even if Su Xia encountered trouble in the city, they would not care, let alone outside the city.
The reason they took action today was indeed because the people from the Zero Point Tavern were caught in the crossfire.
After chatting for a few more words, Yu Tuo also left and returned to the underground laboratory of the base to continue working on his clone.
At this time, Binglei, North and other friends dared to come forward and ask about Su Xia's situation.
"Brother Su, why don't you move the pharmacy outside the Mechanical Clan base? It must be safe there." Bing Lei said worriedly, "That old fellow Fan Lu is very unwilling today, and he will definitely cause trouble for you again."
"Yes, although we won't die, we are afraid that the old guy will come to harm us." North said.
Although they were mocking Fan Lu just now, they were still worried.
"What are you afraid of?"
Su Xia smiled and didn't take it seriously.
Bing Lei advised: "Brother Su, you are too calm. You should be nervous at a time like this."
Su Xia said, "I got the news that Fan Lu came here for the masked weirdo. He might be killed by the masked weirdo at any time. We don't need to worry too much."
"Alas, that masked man has been gone for a long time."
Another player named "Broken Sword" lamented that his team is called "Broken Sword Rebirth" and is also a member of the Resistance Alliance.
He continued, "Even if the masked man reappears, he can't defeat Fan Lu, right? After all, the masked man is only a level 4 creature."
Now the wanted posters of the masked man are all over the streets, and everyone knows his evaluation level.
If you want to kill someone across levels, direct combat is definitely not possible, you can only use assassination.
But Fan Lu is also a master of assassination.
By then, it is not certain who will kill whom.
Su Xia shrugged, not paying much attention to Fan Lu's threat.
"Nothing is absolute in this world. I don't think that guy will live long."
