NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 21 - There’s Items Everywhere But Nowhere to Put Them
Chapter 21: There’s Items Everywhere But Nowhere to Put Them
“Answer.” Ye Qiu accepted the voice message.
Thousand Faces Gentleman (Voice Message): “The pit on Tiger Mountain has been dug.”
Ye Qiu was startled and replied via voice message, “So fast?”
Thousand Faces Gentleman (Voice Message): “Hehe, I had some help.”
Ye Qiu sent another voice message in response: “I’m heading over right now. Also, recruit a few players and have them come to Wolf Head Ridge. I’ve got some equipment, but my backpack is full.”
Thousand Faces Gentleman (Voice Message): “A lot?”
Ye Qiu glanced around and replied, “Quite a bit.”
Thousand Faces Gentleman hesitated for a moment before sending another message. “If there’s anything you don’t need or any extras, sell them to me. I’ll pay you market price.”
At the early stage of the game, even a plain white-tier piece of equipment was rare and valuable!
“Alright.” Ye Qiu nodded.
He was planning to sell them anyway.
After hanging up the voice call, Ye Qiu checked the loot scattered across the ground.
For white gear, he didn’t even bother looking.
Instead, he picked up gold coins, crafting materials, red and blue potions, a few visually appealing blue-tier items, and a single purple-tier items.
[Wolf Fang Crescent Staff (Purple Rare Weapon)]:
[Requirement: Level 5]
[Stats: +100 MP, +10 Spirit, +5 Agility]
[Passive Skill: Restores 5 MP per second when equipped.]
“This is a great item!” Ye Qiu praised it.
But at the same time, he felt a little disappointed.
It wasn’t for swordsmen.
“Oh, right. Thousand Faces Gentleman is a mage, and his sister, Adorable Sunny, is a priest. I can sell it to them!” Ye Qiu had already made up his mind.
While purple-tier rare items were valuable, he no longer cared much for them.
After all, with the god-tier Coward’s Cloak in his possession, everything else paled in comparison.
Any equipment, if its attributes weren’t significantly better than the Coward’s Cloak, then it was just trash!
Besides, purple rare items still had level restrictions.
Which meant that they were only useful in the early game. Before long, they would be obsolete!
Orange-tier Epic Equipment, however, had no level restrictions. Even at level 100. it would still be useful!
Soon, two players sent by Thousand Faces Gentleman arrived.
When they saw the sheer amount of loot scattered across the area, their eyes widened in shock.
They gasped!
“What… what the hell happened here?!” The two players exchanged glances.
They could see the disbelief in each other’s eyes.
Then, Ye Qiu walked over and raised an eyebrow. “Why did only two of you come?”
Each player started with 20 backpack slots. Clearly, two players alone wouldn’t be able to carry all this loot.
“Are you that NPC?!”
When the two players saw Ye Qiu, who was wearing a hooded cloak, their eyes lit up.
NPCs in this game were incredibly rare encounters!
However, they didn’t try to interact with Ye Qiu.
After all, they were here to run errands for wealthy players, not to play the game themselves.
Leveling up and questing? That was not their priority!
“We have more people nearby,” one of the players said as he opened his friend list and called in reinforcements.
Before long, five players arrived and filled their backpacks to the brim.
Only then was Wolf Head Ridge finally cleared out.
No wonder this area was the most cost-effective grinding spot in the game!
High drop rates, high experience, and monsters with obvious weaknesses!
But only for low-level players.
—
At the summit of Tiger Mountain…
The sky was starting to darken.
“You damn Ning Qingyue, are you messing with me?!”
Zhao Hanyan shouted at Adorable Sunny in frustration.
Adorable Sunny’s real name was Ning Qingyue.
Hearing this, she smiled playfully, looked at Zhao Hanyan like she was a fool, and giggled. “You were the one being greedy and foolish. How is that my fault?”
Zhao Hanyan fumed, “How is it not your fault?! You said there was treasure buried here! We wasted our time, exhausted ourselves, digging pits and holes all day for nothing!”
Hearing this baseless accusation, Ning Qingyue just curled her lips and snorted. “Think carefully. Did I ever say there was treasure buried here?”
“You—!” Zhao Hanyan thought back.
She realized that Ning Qingyue had never actually said anything about buried treasure.
She had only mentioned that an NPC asked them to dig.
“Then what the hell does the NPC want us to dig here for?!” Zhao Hanyan was furious.
The entire day, she and her team had done nothing but dig.
They had practically dug up the entire mountain top!
Especially the center, where they had even dug a 5-meter-deep pit!
And in the end? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
“This has nothing to do with you, does it?” Ning Qingyue smirked mockingly.
Zhao Hanyan was speechless.
It was true.
But… why did it feel so damn annoying?!
She just couldn’t let it go!
At that moment…
“Zhao Hanyan, you’ve been bullying people in real life all the time. Now you’re doing the same thing in a game?”
Everyone turned toward the voice.
Two figures were approaching from the base of Tiger Mountain.
One of them had a refined and composed demeanor.
“Brother!” Ning Qingyue’s eyes lit up as she ran over.
The elegant man was Thousand Faces Gentleman. His real name was Ning Qianjun.
However, everyone’s attention was drawn to the person standing beside him.
It was a middle-aged man with average build and holding a machete in one hand and in the other, a vine rope.
Attached to the rope were the corpses of several Green-Eyed Tiger monsters!
It was both bloody and intimidating!
“NPC!” Many people immediately recognized it.
At this stage of the game, only an NPC could effortlessly kill level 10 Green-Eyed Tigers!
Players, on the other hand, needed dozens or even hundreds of people to surround them.
Even then, they would suffer heavy casualties before killing a single one!
“Oh? So you’ve got an NPC helping you now too?” Zhao Hanyan sneered, her voice laced with jealousy.
Ning Qingyue whispered, “Brother, did it work?”
Ning Qianjun smiled and nodded. “Thanks to that Mysterious Partner, I managed to enter the village and found this swordsman.”
It had taken quite a bit of effort.
He had raised the NPC’s favorability a little, but not enough to form a party with him.
So, he had to rely on other means instead.
Regardless, Ning Qianjun revealed his level. Above his head, “Level 5” appeared.
“Brother, you leveled up so fast?!” Ning Qingyue was excited.
After the Deep Mountain Tiger Demon incident, Ning Qianjun’s level had dropped to 3.
Now, not only had he recovered, he had even reached level 5!
That was insanely fast!
Ning Qianjun smiled. “I’ve been grinding with the swordsman. Since the Green-Eyed Tigers are level 10, the EXP is great.”
But as he spoke, his face showed a hint of regret.
Ning Qingyue was about to ask why, when suddenly, Zhao Hanyan’s voice rang out, “Perfect timing. I’ve got an NPC too. Let’s see whose is stronger!”
With that, a burly young man beside her stepped forward, face cold.
His fists were covered with knuckle dusters.
“Been itching for a fight. Let’s go.” The burly NPC locked eyes with Ning Qianjun’s swordsman NPC and issued a challenge.