Zhan Long Volume 1

Zhan Long Chapter 12 - The Alchemist

Zhan Long Chapter 12 – The Alchemist

The next morning, I woke up bright and early, not to play games but rather to perform my duties. After dressing and brushing my teeth, I headed out.

My first task was to buy 3 servings of breakfast. Afterwards, I headed to the girls dormitory and called Lin Wan Er. Within minutes, she came down, wearing a sky blue miniskirt along with a dress shirt. Her two sources of pride were precariously pressuring the buttons on the dress shirt. Thankfully, she had also noticed this and wore a T-shirt inside of her dress shirt.

I stood in front of the gate, glanced at her, looked away, and then couldn't resist and peeked at her again. She was truly gorgeous, but unfortunately she also held a grudge against me.

Like before, Lin Wan Er gave me the evil eye as soon as she saw me: "How long are you going to stare at me? I'll be taking the breakfast and you should hurry back and raise your level in <Destiny>. After all... after all, you work for me... If your level is too low, I would feel ashamed."

I took a deep breath and promised: "I promise to not disappoint, I'll be taking my leave now."

"Wait..." Lin Wan Er suddenly called out, she paused for quite a bit before articulating her next words: "Li Xiao Yao, I want to ask you...before, were you really a part of Special Ops?"

I was taken aback by the question: "Huh, why are you asking about that?"

"I only want to understand. I don't trust what Wang Xin says, how can a Special Ops who's killed someone before be as shameless as you? All you do every day is leach off of our food and game time..." (<Destiny> costs about 1 yuan, 16 cents per minute to play)

While speaking, she kept peeking at my face, widening her smile when she saw that I started looking downcast. As expected, Lin Wan Er was still out for revenge. Her happiness was built from my pain.

I tightened my fist before replying: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe what Wang Xin said. All that matters is me being able to protect you. I'll be heading back now."

Without so much as a glance at Lin Wan Er's, I started to walk back to my dorm.

"Oh, you're angry? You can't be that easily angered right?"

I turned around and mustered the sunniest smile possible and said: "M'lady, you really know everything! Don't you?"

Looking at my face and hearing my voice, dripping with sarcasm, she knew that she hadn't gotten under my skin. Her frustration at having her victory taken away made her stamp her foot in anger: "Hmph, that's enough, I'm going back to raise my level."

"Okay, have fun playing!"

On my way back to my dorm, I nibbled on a meat bun and thought about what I would do today in <Destiny>. So, my goal today should be to get to Ba Huang City. Thus, I would be able to at least keep pace with the majority of players in <Destiny>. At the very least, I should leave Newbie Village. Staying there would be pinning myself as a loser.

...

After returning to my dorm, I immediately logged into <Destiny>, sliding the metallic helmet over my head.

"Shuaa"

Instantly, the darkness was replaced with a blinding light. I was still in Wild Bear Forest. I carefully looked around. Yup, Tyrant of Western Chu and his companions had left. It was probably because they knew that I had logged off and waiting around for me to respawn was useless. After all, they, like me, were trying to get to Ba Huang City, so any grudges could be settled there.