The second volume is called "One Heart" Chapter 45: Meeting Xiaoyue Again
In the next few days, I returned to the "Dead Space" and hurried to recruit skeleton archers. Facing the endless black mass in front of me, I felt dizzy. There were more than 5,300 of them, and I had to "enlighten" them one by one. Even with a 100% skill success rate, I could only subdue about 80 in an hour. It would take sixty or seventy hours of continuous fighting to bring them all under my command. The monotonous and boring process was really annoying.
Good news kept coming from the Tongxin League. Xue Wuxia was the first to be promoted to an intermediate thunder magician, followed by Afeng and Yun Wuying, who were successively promoted to intermediate knights and intermediate shooters. Since they chose to distribute the seniority points evenly in the team, the seniority points between them were not far apart. The other core members also successfully advanced one after another. With the successful promotion of Xiaoniao Yiren to an intermediate shooter on October 7, all the ten core members of the Tongxin League, except for Xiao Lajiao who could not be online often, had been promoted to the third-level profession. Xue Wuxia issued a call for all members and began to prepare for the next step of action.
Because we have no intention to expand blindly and are busy leveling up all day, so far we have only added seven new members. In addition to the junior knight Yue Linglong, the apprentice architect Xiaoyuan Tingfeng, and the ordinary doctor Dazhiruoyu introduced by Long Piaopiao, there are also junior knights Qingwa and Anye, and junior shooters Baixue and Piaoxiang. Among them, Qingwa and Baixue, Anye and Piaoxiang are in a relationship, the man is a knight and the woman is a shooter, a typical couple combination in the virtual game world. Fortunately, there are four men and three women, and the proportion of males among the new members exceeds 50%, which slightly adds a little masculinity to the Tongxin League, which is dominated by yin and yang. It has been nearly 20 days since they joined the alliance, but I have only heard of them and have never met them. It is time to get to know each other.
Although I learned about the party from Afeng, I was delayed for some time because of waiting for resurrection from the "Dead Space". Except for Little Lajiao who had to go to school, I was the last one to arrive at the hall. They were all gathered together talking, and when they saw me, several eyes were immediately cast over me, looking me up and down. I saw several unfamiliar faces. Needless to say, these must be new members.
Ah Feng was the first to come over and greeted him. "Ah Dai, you are here. You may not know the new members yet. Come, let me introduce them to you. They have long admired you as a necromancer and are very curious about you."
We introduced ourselves one by one and got to know each other. Xiaoyuan Tingfeng and Dazhi Ruoyu, two professional life workers, looked ordinary like me. They simply greeted me without saying much. It was obvious that both of them were introverted and didn't like to talk much, which made them suitable for this boring research work. But Qingwa, Baixue, Anye and Piaoxiang were different. Before Afeng could even start introducing them, the four of them gathered around us and chattered for a long time, asking endless questions one after another like tabloid reporters. Especially Baixue and Piaoxiang, whose questions became more and more tricky and weird, with questions like "How do you find your other half?", "What if your girlfriend doesn't like to associate with the undead you summoned?", "Your job requires you to stay in the 'dead space' for a long time, which is bound to alienate you from others. How do you plan to deal with the relationship between your job and your relationship?", etc. I was so overwhelmed and dizzy that I almost asked them to take a group photo. If Afeng hadn't helped me out by saying that there was a new member who needed to be introduced, I wouldn't know how I would have dealt with it.
The last person to be introduced is Yue Linglong, the cousin of the reporter from Long University. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is indeed a beauty, with willow-shaped eyebrows and bright eyes, skin as white as snow, lips like cherries, a delicate nose, and a slightly upturned pink mouth that reveals a faint smile. She is three points better than Xue Wuxia. She looks heroic in a white knight leather suit, which is an agile knight's equipment, and adds a bit of heroism to her charm. Perhaps it is because she is younger, and she has just walked out of the ivory tower and is not very worldly-wise, so she does not have the solemnity of Xue Wuxia and Nan Feiyan on her face, and her whole body is rippling with a youthful vitality.
Looking at this face, I always felt that it looked familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before. I stared at her face blankly for a while, without saying anything for a long time. Yue Linglong looked at me at first with an interested expression, but when she realized that I was staring at her intently, she blushed and turned her head slightly to avoid my gaze.
A Feng at the side coughed heavily, "Ah Dai, although Xiao Yue is very pretty, you don't have to stare at her like that. Xiao Yue is embarrassed. Don't act like a sex-hungry ghost. This is embarrassing for us men."
Xiaoyue, the pervert, a light bulb went off in my mind and I finally remembered that the Yue Linglong in front of me was clearly the Xiaoyue that I had seen in the black bear king's cave when I was doing the thief promotion mission. I was worried about the mission at that time and they had a very unpleasant quarrel at the beginning. In addition, the lighting in the cave was not very good, so I didn't pay too much attention to their appearance and didn't have a deep impression. That's why I didn't recognize them the moment I met them.
"You, you are Xiaoyue, the Xiaoyue who is with that gentle girl!" I pointed at Yue Linglong and screamed.
"Hello, Dai..." Yue Linglong paused, and then turned her gaze away from me. "Brother Dai, it's nice to see you again."
The others looked at us in surprise, and Afeng opened his mouth in astonishment, "What, you already know each other?"
I accidentally broke into the Black Bear King's lair on Black Bear Ridge, was mistaken for a pervert, and was tricked by Bai Yunjian. I couldn't face spreading such an embarrassing thing, and I didn't even tell Afeng, so they didn't know. I was afraid that Xiaoyue would let it slip, so I hurriedly answered, "I ran into her by chance when I was completing a thief promotion mission on Black Bear Ridge some time ago. I only knew her name was Xiaoyue. I thought she looked familiar just now, but I didn't remember her for a moment."
Yue Linglong smiled at me and said nothing more. The matter was finally over. Now that everyone was present, Xue Wuxia asked us to sit down and start the meeting.
The layout of the hall has also changed. A new meeting area has been opened. A long conference table is placed in the center. At the head of the table is a large black chair, which is obviously the seat of the group leader Xue Wuxia. There are five chairs on both sides, which are the seats for core members according to regulations. There are several rows of chairs outside the conference table, which are the seats for other members. These are all designed by Xiaoyuan Tingfeng. First, it can reflect the rights and responsibilities of different members. Second, even if there are more members in the future, we can add a few more chairs without rearranging them. Our group is small and weak, so as to avoid waste.
Xue Wuxia sat in the center, with the two deputy leaders Afeng and Yun Wuying on his left and right. The rest of our core members sat wherever they wanted. The new members Yue Linglong and others could only sit in the first row of chairs on the periphery. They only had the right to speak but not the right to vote.
The meeting officially began, and the central topic was naturally to complete the mercenary mission of destroying the Demon Dog King that was drafted at the last meeting, and obtain the "Hundred Man Order" in exchange for a sum of money to seek development of the Tongxin League. Now the most scarce is funds, and many tasks such as station construction and member rewards cannot be carried out. We are all only concerned with increasing our qualifications and experience, and have not completed many mercenary missions. The level of Tianxia Card is not high. Even if we want to exchange some money from the real society, we can't exchange much due to the limit of the quota. It's a drop in the bucket and can't solve many problems.
This had all been discussed long ago, so there would naturally be no objection, especially since Yamato Spirit had already taken on the task of forming a mercenary group. Who knows, someday they might be able to establish the second mercenary group in the Eastern Continent. Such a lucrative task cannot be snatched away by them. Although the timing is not yet ripe, we have no choice but to act first. Xiaoyuan Tingfeng and Dazhi Ruoyu, two life professionals, have their own ways of practice and will not participate in our action. The other fourteen of us will all participate and work together to encircle and suppress the Demon Dog King.
After the meeting, everyone dispersed and began to prepare for their own. Xue Wuxia and Afeng went to the mercenary guild to take on the mission. Because of Afeng's suggestion, I was arranged to be taken by Yue Linglong to familiarize myself with the environment of the area where the demon dogs often appeared, in preparation for the next battle. With the protection of me, an intermediate undead wizard who can summon hundreds of undead minions at any time, there is no need to worry about being attacked. Yue Linglong's safety is not a problem. Looking at his meaningful smile, I knew what he was thinking. It was nothing more than giving me the opportunity to contact beautiful girls, so that I could grasp it and see if I felt anything. He, his own knot has not been untied, but he always likes to "care" about my emotional problems. When he sees someone who seems to be suitable, he likes to match me up. At the beginning, he had the idea of Yun Wuying, Diewu and other seemingly single women, but I rejected them all. Now it's Yue Linglong's turn.
I protested against his thinking many times, but unfortunately I was tongue-tied and could not argue, so I had no choice but to let him do what he wanted. To be honest, with my conditions, I have no looks and no career, so who would be interested in me? But Afeng told me to go ahead and fool around, maybe we would meet and find the other half of our lives. In some people's eyes, love is just a feeling, and when fate comes, it cannot be stopped, so there is no need to worry too much. He said it easily, but I am not that confident. Although I have heard a lot of love stories in the virtual world, I have always been reserved and do not believe them. Besides, most of them are based on real-life relationships. It is not possible for a "love idiot" like me to develop a deep and unforgettable relationship in the virtual world.
I followed Yue Linglong two steps behind her and walked forward. She didn't say anything, and I didn't know how to start. The atmosphere seemed a bit dull. As a senior core member, I should have been more active, but I was not used to taking the initiative to chat with unfamiliar people, especially after a little "festival" before, which made me feel a little uncomfortable and I was not in the mood to chat.
