042. Buying Frenzy
If during the keyboard ga era He Jin rely felt weird seeing his Tsing Yi character snuggling in another man’s arms, in this current holographic version the feeling he had as he experienced riding like that personally was... It could only be described as “extrely embarrassed”!
After the two of them finished the dungeon, they went around Demon God’s world. He Jin couldn’t make himself relax during this whole ti, his ear heated up as it brushed against the other man’s breath. Fire occasionally whispered into his ear with a voice full of intimacy while still holding tightly onto his waist...
Fire: “Jin-Er, it is still early, let’s go to the Weaver Girl [1] to do hidden husband and wife quest.”
He Jin: “...okay...” Don’t stick so close to my ear! Orz...
He had thought that giving Fire what he wanted the most in the ga –doing couple tasks with him, occasionally calling him husband in their chat; or doing sothing as ordinary friends like practicing, looking at the scenery, showing affection– was his way of making up for those eight years he did not co online. He thought he was already used to them...
But unexpectedly he was still too... God... Really?... (=_=)
Fire led Poor Fla to fly to the lake and tightened his arms around He Jin’s body as they landed. The sight of them coming down from their mount attracted many passers-by’s attention who were gathering there to enjoy the lake’s view.
Since today was the first day of holographic, both the new helt-user players and the old keyboard-user players were rushing to co online. It was very lively in the ga.
However, the first concern of these passers-by was not Fire and Ah Jin. Their nas were hidden in holographic mode, and although Fire was famous, his image wasn’t exactly unique. Ever since the official ga company used his profile as reference to design a dungeon’s Boss–as long as one has enough money, they could buy the sa clothes as Fire Ruthless in the ga shop! Even other features of Fire’s appearance could be imitated by those who were patient enough to analyze his live broadcast videos!
What gathered these passers-by’s attention was actually the unique Poor Flas. This flying beast whose body was full of fire was simply too dazzling!
Seeing them steadily landing on Choi Fung Island with their beast, so people ca to surround and watch them.
Among these people, there were also players who had experienced the “Bloody Lakes Incident.” At that ti, Fire was also riding away using Poor Fla with Ah Jin. Soone recalled that and turned their attention from the beast to the players riding on it.
Upon seeing the similar look of Fire with Ruthless, this player wondered, is this really Great God and his wife?
But why does the wife of the Great God look like a minor? So small too? OAO
Fire was the first one to get off the mount, then he also thoughtfully held onto Ah Jin’s waist and brought him down from Poor Fla. Since He Jin selected a small-statured image, it was so easy for Fire to do so!
While feeling a bit embarrassed, He Jin stood firmly on his feet with a blush on his face. He didn’t dare to look at Fire, if he knew Fire would be holding him so much like this, he would have chosen a more masculine image than Fire himself!
On the other hand, Fire just acted naturally, he looked around the curious passers-by and asked He Jin: “Do you still have those stealth coupons I gave you before?”
He Jin: “Yes, there are a few more.”
Fire: “There are quite a lot of people today, let’s hide.”
He Jin called Poor Fla then used the stealth coupons on all of them, the two players and one beast soon disappeared from the passers-by’s sight.
Passer-by: Ah, yes, it’s the Great God! I knew it was him from a photo!!! (= _ =)
...... However, they seed to have forgotten so of the key points that had just been found ...
Fire and He Jin headed to the Weaver Girl, then said to her: “Open the hidden husband and wife task.”
Weaver: “Sorry, your husband and wife index point is not enough to open the hidden husband and wife task.”
Both players: “...”
In holographic state, they couldn’t pause the ga to search on their browser, so Fire could only try asking about it: “How much index point is needed to open the hidden couple’s task?”
Weaver: “520 points.”
Fire: “Can you inquire our current husband and wife index points?”
Weaver: “Your and Ah Jin’s current index is 52 points.”
Both players: “...”
Qin Yu found out about this hidden task from a friend in the experts group chat, but that friend never ntioned anything about index requirent. Seems like when that player did this task with his partner, their husband and wife index were already up to standard, so they did not encountered this hurdle.
Fire went on to ask, “How to increase the couple index.”
Weaver: “There are a few ways to increase couple index: Husband and wife can participate in the daily love question. There are 10 questions every day, every correct answer will add 1 point to the index, while wrong answer will buckle 1-point; giving a rose can increase the index by 0.5 points; buying a high-class wedding banquet can increase the index by 100 points... In addition, one more option was added in the holographic version, players above level 80 can go to Celestial Mountain to find the mountain God and purchase land exchange coupons. Those coupons can be used to construct a ho, once the ho construction is completed, the husband and wife can increase their index points by 50 daily if they stayed in the sa room for more than one hour a day.”
He Jin was silent... Ho? Room? The integrity of this ga, really! (/=_=)/~┴┴
Qin Yu was also surprised, buying land exchange coupons? Building hos? If not for Weaver here, he wouldn’t know there was a new play like this.
Fire imdiately pulled He Jin to find the mountain God, and He Jin was jaw-dropped. The purpose of ho ownership was to let players buy a piece of land in the ga. The price of a piece of land would be 100.000 gold coins, and each player’s purchase limit was ten.
In Demon God, gold coins, ga shop vouchers, and RMB (real money) could be exchanged for each other. The conversion rate of the three was 100:10:1, which ant 100,000 gold coins were equal to 1000 yuan- this is simply cheating people out of their money ah!
What He Jin did not expect was, that after listening to the mountain God’s explanation, Fire would imdiately bought 10 pieces of land!
10 pieces of land, 1 million gold coins ...
All of a sudden, 10,000 yuan were gone...
He Jin had a cold sweat, sure enough the 5000 gold Fire gave him before were rely “a little money” for him... (=_=|||)
After receiving the land exchange coupons, Fire who couldn’t wait anymore directly turned He Jin into his ferret form, wrapped him around his neck, and took off flying to the Demon Area.
The Demon Area was located in the space between the ordinary realm and the celestial realm. The Demon Area overlapped the circle covered by the two other realms, however it was mainly constructed with dungeons and battlefields. For example, while the Yan Mountain dungeon was located in ordinary realm, it could also be found through the Demon Area.
He Jin stayed wrapped around Fire while flying. Fire took out a map filled with colored blocks all over it. It was the system’s building blocks, with green blocks showing available areas, and red blocks showing occupied areas.
There were still very few red-blocks on the map, while the largest green-block space was located on the outskirts of the main urban areas. There were already a few buildings in bustling areas such as the Winter Town, and Heavenly Palace City, however there were still a lot of green spots flashing as well!
Fire wrote down these green blocks’ location and took He Jin to Celestial realm without stopping. He Jin couldn’t help asking: “Big God, what are you planning to do?”
Fire smiled: “There are business opportunities.”
He Jin: “What do you an? ”
Fire did not answer the question: “How do you feel about playing the ga, now that we are in holographic state?”
He Jin humd and answered: “Very real...” This ga’s realness was so high that He Jin wanted to kneel!
Fire: “Yes, this is a real, brand new world for holographic gars, and the creator of the ga has now given so privilege to the players to beco part of the power to make developnt for this ga’s world. We got the news about houses pretty early and have also bought a few pieces of land. The Market can control prices, we don’t have to use all our land now, we just have to wait until all the available land is sold out. After that, the land’s price will certainly increase, then we can rent ours, or sell them at high prices, there will be no loss. In other words, it’s ‘first co first served’.”
He Jin: “...! ”
Once they arrived at the Winter town, Fire found out that one of the green blocks was located in a small open space in the middle of the town, right next to the system’s pawnshop.
Fire took out the land title deed and a white bearded man soon appeared.
Lord of the Land: “Who summoned the local fairy?”
Fire handed over one of the land exchange coupons to the landlord. The landlord received the coupon with a smile, then raised his hand to stroke his beard and said: “This piece of land is yours!” Then he disappeared!
anwhile, a news flashed on the world channel-
〖World〗: Player Fire has purchased a piece of land in Winter Town.
World Channel ‘Small Art Day’: “Land? What land?”
World Channel ‘Late at Sunset’: “Now we can buy a land in this ga?”
World Channel ‘mu mu’: “Who can explain what is this land about?”
World Channel ‘Little fox’: “The world of the rich, is sothing we won’t understand...”
......
That news about Fire flashed too fast, so only a few people saw and started discussing about it. However, in the next 10 minutes, the world channel unexpectedly began reporting news about Fire buying a piece of land repeatedly for a number of tis. So of it was in the ordinary realm, and so others were in the celestial. This made the people in world channel curious. The players imdiately launched a heated discussion about this ‘land’, until eventually soone was able to find information and explained–
World Channel ‘Xie Gong Clog’: “I just found it! In the holographic version, players above level 80 can go to buy land and build sothing, whether it’s houses or shops. The price for a piece of land is 100,000 gold!”
World Channel ‘West’: “100,000 gold! WTF! Tyrants!”
World Channel ‘pottery’: “I counted, Ruthless just bought a total of eight of lands...”
World Channel ‘Luo Wu’: “My husband is worthy of first place in Demon God’s Wealth list ~ So rich!”
World Channel ‘Yao’: “I just looked at the list, he has now fallen to the second place... Probably because he bought those lands!”
Just like this, in the next half an hour, the world channel was suddenly filled with news of people buying land one after another!
〖World〗: Player Ge Ben Haagen Dazs has purchased a piece of land in Heavenly Palace City.
〖World〗: Player A Thousand Sails has purchased a piece of land in the general sector of Heaven Moon City.
〖World〗: Player Demon Demon has purchased a piece of land in Initial Village.
〖World〗: Player Flower Yiyi has purchased a piece of land in Heavenly Palace City.
......
World Channel ‘泤 泤 Cang Xia’: “What the hell! 100,000 gold ah! Don’t these great gods have other use for their money?”
World Channel ‘Xia LAN’: “What’s the benefit of buying land anyway?”
World Channel ‘Little Fox’: “The World of the Great Gods... is sothing we won’t understand... ”
Fire and Ah Jin did not expect that their inadvertent discovery and behavior would set off a frenzy of land buying!
anwhile. Leisure Cloud and Wild Crane who had previously gone offline imdiately went back to online after they heard this news – for them, 100,000 yuan is too cheap! There were also a few other people, including Dead Water, who did the sa as Fire and bought 10 pieces of land at once, just in ti to occupy the main urban areas of Demon God.
Proofread by: Eileen
T/N:
[1] Weaver Girl is a character from a folk tale in China: “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl”
I’ll be using Ge Ben Haagen Dazs in official announcents (system’s announcents/news) from now on since that’s how his na is supposed to be read it as. However, I’ll still use Copenhagen Dazs in normal conversations.
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