Scourge Messenger

Chapter 13 Can’t bear to see the suffering in the world

Returning to his room, Yan Qing casually placed the mask on the table and let gravity pull his body onto the soft bed.

Even though I didn't do anything, I still worked hard.

The thieves' meeting at noon felt like work, but what made it even more difficult was that while everyone else could return to their homes in the overworld, he could only return to the room provided by the Thieves' House. While there was no practical difference—they would have to return to their rooms before entering the hall tomorrow—the feeling of being in a workplace right outside the door still gave Yan Qing a slight PTSD.

Lunch was still roasted lamb legs and vegetable buns, which Yan Qing could only heat up slightly. For some reason, he missed ice cream and cake. He obviously didn't like desserts before, but seeing the cakes and pastries that Chi Snake ate today and seeing Chi Snake licking the glutinous rice flour on his fingers, Yan Qing couldn't help swallowing.

The purchasing power of Lingyu should be quite good. As long as you reach any main city safe zone, you can shop with peace of mind...

Yan Qing shook his head like a rattle, trying hard to get rid of the thoughts in his mind.

As long as you don't take risks, there will be no danger. As long as you don't go out, there will be no accidents. Improving life is something that only people who have no worries in life are qualified to think about. Now he has to try his best just to stay alive.

Apart from anything else, he is not even a first-level messenger yet. When discussing with Black Wolf and the others, he always feels like a husky among wolves, afraid that they will find out his problem.

Fortunately, Heilang suggested ending the meeting, otherwise Yan Qing would have been so nervous that he would have to pee.

After eating and brushing his teeth, Yan Qing lay on the bed and turned on the Ness game console.

Messenger, start!
In the character interface, only "Yan Qing" was left, and "Yan San" had disappeared without a trace.

In fact, Yan Qing felt a little regretful after killing Wu Wanliu. After all, the Lecheng County Lord had promised him daily dungeon runs, which would have given him a steady daily income of at least 2000 Lingyu (spiritual jade), a token, and various food items. If Wu Wanliu had just knelt down and kowtowed in apology, perhaps Yan Qing would have just let it slide and they would still be good friends.

Who knew that the Karasuma clan would be so disrespectful.

We single-player game players are like this: if we can kill the annoying characters, we will kill them. If we can't kill them, we will download a MOD online and set it to kill them if we can.

There can't be a character in my game that I don't like.

However, Yan Qing quickly came up with a backup plan, because he heard the Duke of Lecheng County talking to someone and said that the spoils from the secret realm would usually be kept in the military camp in Pingcheng, and would only be sent to the Nevernight City after accumulating for a certain period of time.

Therefore, Yan Qing could easily create a thief character, find a way to break into the barracks and steal the accumulated medicinal pills and spiritual jades. This would net him at least 10,000 spiritual jades, right? Stealing once would basically cover the fine for failing the thief mission.

As for how to enter the military camp and where to store the spoils, Yan Qing was not worried at all. At most, he could use dozens of new accounts to pave a way out, and at least he would be able to collect specific intelligence...

Yan Qing had a flash of inspiration and vaguely thought of something.

But at this moment, a new prompt popped up in the game, attracting all his attention.

"It has been detected that your other Real Mode characters have maxed-out skills. Do you want to enable the 'Talent Inheritance' feature? Note: After activating this feature, you can only create new characters in Real Mode."

"Talent Inheritance: Only available for Real Mode characters. To recognize players' achievements in Real Mode, when creating a new character, players can transfer the talents of existing characters to the new character."

"Detailed explanation: The existing character's maxed-out skills will become the new character's 'Talent Skills', granting an additional 100% experience bonus, and can be stacked with the Insight bonus."

Yan Qing's eyes flickered. 'The maximum-level skills of an existing character' should refer to his maximum-level basic steps.

In other words, the new character he created can get a 100% experience bonus when learning the basic steps?

Such a great feature, of course it should be enabled! You know, basic steps are very difficult to practice, and you can only rely on dodging and long-distance movement to gain experience. 'Yan San' didn't even learn the first level until his death.

It also seems that in addition to basic skills, advanced skills can also be inherited, such as Thunder Blade Technique. Most advanced skills only have introductory secrets, and the subsequent levels must be slowly raised through combat. With the talent inheritance function, Yan Qing will only need one high-level character in the future to easily train other alts to a high level.

Isn't this a bit of a supermodel?
Yan Qing thought about it and guessed that this was probably the company's attempt to lure more people into the Real Mode game. With a superb account-raising system like Talented Inheritance, perhaps many casual players who don't play Real Mode would try it out. Once they're hooked, they'll easily buy a monthly membership just to raise their accounts...

However, when Yan Qing created a new character, his mouth twitched and he cursed the game planner for being stupid.

Because a new column called "Inheritable Talent" appears on the creation page, which naturally only has the option of Basic Step.

And behind the basic steps, there is a price!
Basic Footwork Talent: 12 hours of gameplay

"Your total game time so far: 21 hours, available game time: 21 hours"

The currency used to purchase talents is not the currency in the game, nor the currency outside the game, but the length of time spent in the game!

Twelve hours seemed inexpensive, and Yan Qing could afford it, but the problem was that even basic pace talents took twelve hours to develop, so wouldn't advanced skill talents require at least a hundred hours? At the rate Yan Qing was losing several of his alts every day, no amount of playtime would be enough for him to squander.

So how about changing the way you play the game and carefully cultivating your secondary account?

Yan Qing rejected this idea. Even if he wasn't too cautious, his alt-account could still die unexpectedly. Furthermore, compared to the loss of virtual currency like "game time," Yan Qing's actual game time was the greater loss. If a character he'd spent so much time playing died, most of the time Yan Qing had invested in that character would be wasted.

If even your own life may be in vain, the loss of virtual currency will seem insignificant.

After a brief thought, Yan Qing determined his own gaming strategy: invest in talents when necessary, don't be stingy with the alt-account, but don't pay too much attention to it either.

If he shouldn't be allowed to take risks just because he values ​​a certain character too much, it would be putting the cart before the horse for Yan Qing - he created a small account just because he didn't want to take risks!

So he quickly made a tall character with 13 HP and equipped him with the basic pace talent. While making the face, Yan Qing thought for a moment, recalling the discrimination that the Wuhuan people had against the people of the Central Plains.

I'm going to steal something this time. If I use the face of a Central Plains person to deal with them, there's no guarantee that they won't implicate other innocent people to vent their hatred.

Based on this idea, Yan Qing created a new character with the appearance of a northerner, and named him "Ye Si".

"Novice Village of Nevernight", start the game!
As soon as he landed, he ran to Pingcheng as if he was familiar with the route. On the way, Yan Qing felt something was different - pedestrians on the road would actively avoid him, or even stop to wait for him to go first, even though 'Ye Si' was wearing ordinary cloth clothes.

The gates of Pingcheng City remained largely unchanged. Civilians still lined up on the left, awaiting the guards' leisurely inspection. A few guards on the right chatted. The only difference was that they were no longer the same guards from yesterday.

Yan Qing naturally didn't give them any leniency and went straight to the right.

The guards saw that the newcomer was wearing coarse linen clothes and had no shoes, and subconsciously wanted to scold him, but when they looked up and saw Ye Si's face, the words were choked in their throats and they couldn't say anything.

"Has there been any incident?" asked another guard.

"no."

Yan Qing stood at the city gate, watching them, ready to beat them up at any moment. His original plan was to force his way into the city, then find a random place to wait until dark before sneaking into the barracks.

However, the guards looked at each other, and seemed unsure of the origin of the strong man from the northern border in front of them, so they actually gave way.

Is there such a benefit?

Just as Yan Qing was about to go in, he heard a noisy sound nearby. He turned around and saw an old woman in the group entering the city on the left struggling with the guards.

"I, I only have five cents, and I only paid five cents before..."

"You're in town to do business, so of course you have to pay the city tax." The guard pointed at the basket she was carrying and said, "If you don't pay, get out of here!"

"I'm not doing business. I'm delivering something to my son, who works as a waiter at the inn, the Chen's Inn..." The old woman lifted the cloth covering the basket, revealing the warm red eggs inside. She muttered, "My son loves eating eggs from home. I'm giving eggs away, not doing business. Five cents is enough..."

The guard glanced at the basket of eggs and reached out to take the five cents given by the lady.

"Okay, come on in."

"Thank you, thank you, sir...ah, give it back to me!"

"Didn't you say you don't do business? Then the eggs can't go in. Hurry up and get out of the way!"

"Sir, please be kind. My son works as a waiter and can't eat or sleep well. I want to give him some eggs to nourish him—"

“Get lost!”

During the tug-of-war, two eggs tumbled from the basket and landed on the ground, their rich yellow liquid spilling onto the dirt. The guard, annoyed, swung her hard, sending the woman tumbling backward. Feeling humiliated, he walked over, stomping on the eggshells until they crumbled, raising his foot to kick them: "I told you to get out, but you didn't? You're not accepting my toast—"

Boom!
Ye Si punched the guard against the wall, his 13 points of energy knocking his teeth out. The guard was still dazed when Ye Si grabbed the back of his head and slammed him to the ground!
"Don't you want to eat eggs? Eat them, don't waste them, eat more."

Although the ground at the city gate was smooth and free of stones, Ye Si's power was so immense that the eggshells on the ground were quickly ground into sand, and the guard's face was a bloody mess. Throughout the entire process, none of the other guards dared to intervene. Someone apparently ran to inform the city's 100 security guards, but Yan Qing didn't care.

This may be the real reason why Yan Qing dare not go out into the world - Master Yan is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see the sufferings of the world.

He is the kind of person who would take a detour when he sees beggars on the street because he doesn't know whether the beggars are real or fake, and he doesn't have much money. If he sees someone in a miserable situation, he will feel empathy but can't help, and he will feel very sad.

But it’s different in the game.

It is precisely because we cannot release our desires in reality that we place our desires in games.

If you are framed, you will seek revenge from morning till night. If you are angry, you will take action immediately. If you are too cautious when playing games, then what's the point!

"If you keep going like this he's going to die."

'Ye Si' turned around and saw an old general on an old horse slowly approaching, followed by several evil ghost knights. Seeing them appear, people inside and outside the city gate avoided them from a distance. The old lady who fell to the ground was even more terrified and ran out crawling.

"Let go, and I'll spare your life." The veteran said calmly.

Yan Qing remembered him, and the game system also remembered him. His name was displayed above his head.

"A hundred guards supervise and protect, and build a building to show its prominence."

When Ying Rushi promoted Yan San, he arranged Yan San to work under this veteran.

Each of the 100 guards has one commander, three supervisors, and eighteen flag owners, all of whom are first-level messengers.

And the supervisors are naturally second-level messengers.

Yan Qing glanced at the gradually disappearing figure of the old lady in the distance, and without hesitation, crushed the guard's larynx with one hand!
(End of this chapter)