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Xie Jing felt the person in his arms move their arm, and a new name appeared on the phone screen in the queue.

Immediately afterwards, word bubbles appeared.

[Team] [Sky Star]: Is this Hymn? I got ambushed in the Alpha Nebula. There are three of them on the other side. Can you come and help me out?

Shang Song looked up at Xie Jing and said, "My friend has been kidnapped, I have to go rescue him. You can't go there now, wait for me here, I'll be right back."

Before Xie Jing could reply, Shang Song looked back at his phone screen, where the text bubble reappeared.

[Team] [Little Bear Songsong]: Send me the coordinates! Coming right away!

Xie Jing watched helplessly as Little Bear Songsong disappeared into the teleportation effect.

He also clicked on the coordinates, and an icon representing the Alpha Nebula popped up.

The system then prompted: Your level is insufficient and you cannot go to this area.

He slightly adjusted his posture and, through the gap in the bear's ears, saw Shang Song's phone screen.

On the screen, Shang Song lands from the spaceship, and the small blue dot representing the stars in the sky lights up.

Two against three, after a fierce battle, Little Bear Songsong and Tian Shangxing were buried together.

Xie Jing asked, "Is it because of the difference in numbers?"

Shang Song poked at the grayed-out screen, still laughing heartily: "I don't think so. I mainly play this game to see how the art assets actually perform, to spot clipping issues and special effects bugs, so my equipment is a bit poor."

He even looked up, a slightly mischievous smile on his face: "But it's no big deal if I die. I can just repair my equipment. My equipment is bad, so it's cheap to repair. Repairing equipment on a star in the sky is not cheap, but his equipment is good."

Xie Jing looked at his smiling, crescent-shaped eyes, then glanced at the apology message Tian Shangxing posted in the team chat on the screen, and asked, "So what's next?"

While replying to Tianxing's apology in the team channel, Shang Song said to Xie Jing, "It'll be fine to get up after the robbers leave."

Then, the three thugs who robbed the mine said that it was auspicious to guard the corpses on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

[Team] [Sky Star]: Sorry to have troubled you, Song. They probably won't be leaving anytime soon.

[Team] [Little Bear Songsong]: It's okay, just treat it as sunbathing!

Xie Jing's gaze fell on the two "corpses" side by side on Shang Song's screen, and he remained silent for a moment.

Shang Song casually put his phone down and reached for Xie Jing's phone. "I'm being watched, so I can't take you through the dungeon. I'll help you level up instead."

Xie Jing handed his phone to Shang Song, then took Shang Song's phone and opened the information about Tian Shang Xing.

Character: Celestial Star

Occupation: Star Speaker

Level: 100

Almost all of his equipment was orange and glowing.

Shang Song's equipment mostly had blue-purple borders and did not glow.

Xie Jing then asked, "Where can we obtain these orange-tier equipment?"

Shang Song, controlling Xie Jing's character, was fighting a BOSS and casually explained, "You mean orange-grade equipment? Most of it drops from team dungeons. In this game, equipment isn't divided into PVE and PVP, meaning it's not about fighting monsters or other players. The best equipment has to be obtained from the best dungeons, and the drop rate is low. After clearing a dungeon, you have to bid against other members of your raid group for it."

"There is a chance of it dropping in solo dungeons, but it's extremely low; you have to be incredibly lucky to get it."

Xie Jing watched as Shang Song, controlling the bear keeper, defeated the mini-boss and leveled up. "What's the bidding mechanism like? Highest bidder wins?"

"Yeah," Shang Song glanced at his phone again and saw that the three people guarding the corpse hadn't left yet, so he started a new low-level dungeon. "But those teams with more stable members will use a kind of points in the game called DKP to bid. There are also cases where they directly throw money at the problem, but that's for super rich and super-desirable players."

"Do you have a regular team?" Xie Jing asked.

"Me? No, I usually just play solo dungeons, so my gear is pretty bad," Shang Song replied matter-of-factly.

Xie Jing gave a soft "hmm" and closed the equipment information interface on the Sky Star.

He clicked on the three players who were still making various provocative poses around the corpse and checked their equipment information.

There were only one or two orange items; most were blue-purple.

He compared the attribute differences between orange and blue/purple equipment, and found that the former's attributes were generally about 2.5 times that of the latter.

Given that Tian Shangxing is fully equipped with orange gear, even if Shang Song's gear is inferior, in a two-on-three situation, even if he is no match, it shouldn't lead to this situation of being "camped" by the enemy.

Unless there is a major mishap in the coordination, or one party fails to make an effort.

He didn't look at the information of the three players again, but reopened the team channel and slowly scrolled up to read the chat history.

From Tian Shangxing's request for help to their battle exchange and the final apology, Tian Shangxing didn't mention him once, even though his ID, which was so obviously related to Shang Song, was always in the team.

This is an extremely unusual behavior.

He turned off Shang Song's phone screen and turned his gaze to the screen where Shang Song was controlling his character. He asked, "In this game, besides running dungeons, what other ways are there to quickly level up and acquire equipment?"

Shang Song nodded, and the little bear ears twitched. While maneuvering the commander, he answered, "Yes, there are boost items in the shop, and some equipment in the auction house, but they're not very cost-effective."

On the screen, another mini-boss fell successfully, and the commander character reached level 10.

Shang Song adjusted his position in Xie Jing's arms to make himself more comfortable, and added, "But you're a newbie. You can level up slowly and get familiar with the game content. There's no need to buy level-up items. Besides, the equipment in the auction house is all bought by other players in the dungeon and then put up for trading, so it will be much more expensive than what you get in the dungeon."

After listening, Xie Jing calmly hummed in agreement and gently took her phone back from Shang Song's hand.

He opened the shop with practiced ease, found the helicopter item, purchased it, and used it.

Shang Song wanted to stop him, but seeing Xie Jing's tightly pursed lips, he didn't say anything. When he saw Xie Jing open the auction house and select orange-tier equipment suitable for the commander, he couldn't help but mutter, "Xie Jing! You're wasting money again, you little brat!"

Shang Song just watched him, and in just five minutes, he used his money to go from a nobody to a big shot.

Xie Jing was unusually focused. After equipping himself with all his weapons, he opened the commander's skill description and read it quickly.

He even calmly pointed out two typos.

After reading, he tapped the screen with his fingertip to trigger the skill and familiarize himself with the attack range, projectile speed, and so on.

A moment later, based on the coordinates sent by the stars in the sky, he selected the teleportation option.