Volume 8 Guild Chapter 2 A group of people who are bored and chattering about random things
"...How about calling it 'Research Center for the New Trend of One-Dimensional Self-Ethics Induced by Self-Alienation and the Construction of Internet Anarchist Ethics and Morality System of Marginalized Groups in the Information Industry'?" The person who raised his hand to speak under the tree was Xian Ge Ya Yi. What I admire most about this erudite elf is that he spoke the above long string of words in the most standard mainland common language, but I just couldn't understand a word. To be honest, I doubt if he can repeat the name word for word if he is asked to say it again now.
Xian Ge Ya Yi's words immediately caused a strong reaction. The first one to jump out and express his opposition was our dwarf believer Longbow Shooting the Sun:
"This name is not good. It sounds too bookish and lacks deterrence. We should have a strong name that is majestic and intimidating. For example, how about 'Counterattack the Blighted Land and Annihilate the Invading Enemy. The Power Comes from the Barrel of a Gun. The First Correspondence Course of the Falvi Continent United Public Army Command School'?"
No matter how you feel, I personally don't hear the slightest sense of majesty or grandeur in this name.
"I object. A name that is too explosive is not good, and it is easy to arouse hostility from the empire players in the wild. It is too dangerous, and it is not in line with the trend of the times. The two major themes of the world today are peace and development. Conflict and war are only local behaviors. I suggest that we call it 'Self-guided Tour Group of the Natural Ecological Scenery of the Karst Land of Withered Land'." Changjiang Delta shook his head.
"I think..."
"I think..."
"Or is it called... "
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We all know that our brave friend of justice, the manifester and disseminator of lucky miracles, the Supreme God believer among the minotaurs, the slayer and mortal enemy of the wretched rats - Paladin Niu Baiwan - dug out a "Stone of Faith" necessary for establishing a guild from a dead rat. Although this matter seemed to be a misunderstanding of the will of the Supreme God, it still happened after all, and it made us think about our future. After Changgong Sheri bought the "lottery ticket" from somewhere and returned, and Xian Ge Yayi and Yan Zhen also completed their letter delivery mission and returned to Kaler Town, we had a brief discussion and quickly reached a consensus: we should form a brand new guild ourselves.
My thought on this is: Since the Supreme God allowed this impossible lucky thing to happen in our hands, he must have his own intentions, and we should act in accordance with God's will.
After clarifying our common goal in the near future, the five of us opened our adventure diaries and began to look through the long list of contacts inside, hoping to select like-minded friends and gather the number of people to form a guild as soon as possible.
What surprised us was that surprisingly few people were interested in forming a new guild. Some of them were already members of a large guild and could not accept our invitation; some simply told us that they were lazy and did not have much time to adventure in the Falvi Continent and did not want to be subject to more constraints; some people did not give us an immediate and clear answer, but told us very politely that if we needed their help with anything, they would do their best to help. This promise was actually a very skillful refusal, which implied: Forget about joining the guild.
In the end, we were not able to contact many people: Niu Baiwan was the first to bring in the lovely elven druid girl "Fairy Descending to Earth with Her Face on the Ground"; Changgong Sheri found the Orc Shadow Thief Yangtze River Delta; I sent an invitation letter to the Orc warlock Ding Ding Xiaoge, who had no idea which skill he had specialized in after his job transfer, but did not receive a reply for a long time. Just when I was completely desperate about this invitation, his reply came belatedly and reluctantly, telling us that he would be there "soon" - with this guy's distorted sense of time, I really didn't hold out much hope.
I also sent an invitation to the dwarf bard Nocturne in B-flat minor, but he immediately replied that another friend was inviting him to join the guild, and he had already agreed. Just when I had to regretfully cross him off the shortlist, Niu Baiwan told us that he had successfully invited a dwarf bard to join, which made me immediately understand who the "another friend" mentioned by Nocturne in B-flat minor was.
Yan Zhen brought his good sister Fei Yin - even though Changgong Sheri, Xian Ge Yayi and I were all very familiar with this respectable human magician lady, we all put her on the last shortlist. Even she had to be invited, which shows how helpless we were.
But even so, we only gathered half of the minimum number of 20 people needed to form a guild. Before long, the people who had gathered together to form a new guild gathered together and began to have a heated discussion about the bright and tortuous future of this new guild.
The first thing that aroused discussion was the name of the guild in this plan. Under the impetus of everyone's high enthusiasm, we did collect a lot of names, but what made people dizzy was that these names were all things like "Falvi Continent Adulterers, Adulterers, Crazy Men and Resentful Women, You and I are Willing, Dry Firewood, Burning Fire, Affair, and Broken Ties, Aid|Social|Emotional Speed Matching Association", or "Deranmeya Legal Aid Center, the only legal organization certified as having gangster characteristics and serious violent tendencies", and "The pursuit of love and peace in the narrow gap between ethics and morality, the end-time king Darendil, who has swept countless doujinshi, the secret support group of the Falvi Continent Alliance Camp". In these rounds of heated and friendly debates, the only thing I gained was: I found that all the people I knew were guys who could only give weird and obscure names, and there was despairingly no one who could give a short and clear name.
Soon, everyone found that once the discussion about the guild name started, there was no way to stop. This unfortunate reality made everyone quickly reach a consensus: why not put the guild name aside for the time being, let's consider other problems that need to be solved at the moment, such as how to get 20 people together.
Feiyin quickly proposed to give the ten people present a target, asking each of us to abduct at least one person to join the guild within a specified time limit. If the abduction task is completed on time, this achievement will be counted as the contribution value of the future guild; if it is not completed within the time limit, a fine will be imposed as a punishment. Although the word "abduction" does not seem to be professional for forming a guild, it is quite accurate and appropriate to use it here. This is a very fair proposal, and it was quickly passed unanimously - at this time we all overlooked a small thing: if we fail to gather 20 people to form a guild, who will the fine be paid to. For some reason, it seems that everyone who accepted this proposal seemed to have tacitly accepted in their hearts that only Miss Feiyin was the only one who was qualified to accept the fine.
"But if someone asks us what kind of guild we are, how should we answer?" Chang Sanjiao suddenly remembered this important question and asked.
"Let's call it 'Greenpeace Conservation Agency for the Survival Rights of Wildlife in the Pan-Continent Under the Same Blue Sky'." Yan Zhen suddenly suggested. At this time, she did not realize that her words had become the cause of chaos without any warning.
"It would be better to call it 'Old Songs and Classic Nostalgic Golden Songs Fan Club'." As soon as the name was heard, one knew that this was a suggestion made by Nocturne in B-flat Minor.
"Can we call it 'Yi Lu Fa Fa Fa International Economic and Trade Group Co., Ltd.'s office in Falvi Continent'?" Fei Yin suddenly interrupted.
"I think it's better to call it..."
"It should be called..."
"It's called..."
Everything returned to the starting point, and the scene returned to its original noisy and chaotic state. All kinds of weird names that were so long and ugly that it took at least two or three minutes to understand the literal meaning were thrown around like daggers and javelins. In fact, their vitality was even shorter than the time required to correctly understand them. Once these names were proposed by someone, they would immediately be ruthlessly attacked by more people, and immediately become an invalid alternative guild name, replaced by the next equally stupid name.
"Jeff, don't you have any suggestions?" Finally, Xiange Yayi temporarily broke free from this meaningless argument that seemed to have no stupidest solution. Then, he naturally found the only normal person in this group who had not expressed any opinions - me!
"Me?" I hesitated for a moment when I was suddenly asked, then shrugged and answered him, "Originally, I hoped that the guild could be given a cool name like 'Night Wind Whisperer' or 'Silent Blade', but now it seems that we have nothing to do with the reserved and calm words such as 'whisper', 'whisper', 'quiet', and 'silent'. We are just a group of people who are bored and chatter about random things. So... I really can't think of a suitable name..."
After hearing my answer, Xian Ge Ya Yi's eyes suddenly lit up and she interrupted me and said, "Hey, what did you just say?"
"I said I couldn't think of a suitable name."
"It's not this one, it's the previous one, the previous one!"
"The last sentence? Um...what did I say?"
"Don't you know what you said?"
"Who can remember something spoken so casually like that so clearly?"
"That's the sentence. What kind of people are we?"
"Oh, it's just a bunch of people who are bored and chattering about random things. What's wrong?"
Xiange Yayi clapped his hands suddenly, turned around and shouted at the crowd who were still arguing, "Everyone stop arguing, Jeffreys just thought of a good name!"
The crowd that had just been buzzing like a swarm of wasps suddenly became quiet, as if all the sounds had been frozen into ice by some strange magic and could no longer be transmitted in the air. It was so quiet that even the rustling of the grass seemed noisy. The sudden silence startled me.
Eight pairs of doubtful and expectant eyes looked at my face at the same time. If eyes could focus like a convex lens and generate heat, my face would have been burned. I looked at Xiange Yayi beside me helplessly, wondering in my heart: Hey, did I say something special?
"How about a group of people who are bored and chattering endlessly about random things?" Xiange Yayi said excitedly.
How is it? What is it? I was getting more and more confused. My head was still groggy from the noise, and I had no idea what the music was talking about.
The rest of the people looked at each other in bewilderment. At first they were all stunned like idiots, but gradually, some people showed a look of understanding on their faces, and then smiled approvingly.
"I see..." said Nocturne in B-flat minor, "...Although it sounds a bit strange, it accurately captures our common characteristics - we are a group of people with nothing to do. Who would come here if they had something to do?"
Huh? No way? Could he mean... I was a little confused.
"Besides, fighting monsters and leveling up all day long is a mess!" Yangtze River Delta also expressed his opinion.
What the hell, are they planning to... This is too ridiculous! They are really a bunch of messed up guys!
"And it seems like we were talking non-stop just now." The elven druid fairy girl fell to the ground with a red face, reflecting deeply on their chaotic behavior just now.
“And…” Chang Sanjiao looked around at the people who had joined the group, and finally admitted with resigned heart: “…I’m afraid we will often be like this in the future.”
"So..."
"then……"
"It seems that..."
"I agree..."
"Have you finally decided?"
"It's great that the name has been finalized..."
Help! No! I prayed with the eyes of the Supreme God who sees everything. Is there really no normal life here except me?
"Then..." Xiange Yayi cleared his throat and said loudly in an enthusiastic voice: "...I officially announce here that the name of our guild will be: 'A group of people who are bored and chattering about messy things'!"
There was some scattered and chaotic applause here.
