Chapter Seven: The Black Hand

  "Strange, how can there be a female player behind the mountain of Xīn Shǒu Village? Am I seeing things?"

  Li Yid logged into the game and his character appeared in the same location as before he logged off.

  The body of Wild Boar King has already disappeared. Li Yi looked around for half a day, but couldn't find the female player who had just spoken.

  "I was indeed seeing things..."

  He took off his helmet, shook his head, stood up, stretched a few times, and walked out of the room.

  Strolling and running on the forest trail, breathing in the fresh air around him, Li Yi felt refreshed all over.

  The game is fun to play, but the body also needs exercise, especially now that we haven't gotten the nutrition warehouse yet, so it's even more important to take good care of our bodies.

  Li Yi received a call from Chen Yang while running.

  "Yi Ge, you're really amazing! You actually knew that clearly. I followed your advice and chose a dwarf summoner, now it's all leveled up to 4th level, haha, isn't it awesome?"

  "Awesome!"

  "This game is really well-made, the graphics are realistic, the characters are realistic, it runs fast and you can even feel the wind, it's so cool! By the way, what level are you on?"

  "Grade 8."

  "...... Xiao Yizi, you're a great person in every way, except for the fact that you always like to deceive people. I've seen the rankings, and the highest one is only level 5." Chen Yang sighed.

  "I'm 4th dan, is that okay?"

  "This is about right..."

  Li Yi: "......"

  "Never mind, I'll go level up first, if you have any business, M me in the game, my name is 'Gao Da Wei Meng'."

  Most dwarf players like to give their characters opposite names, fortunately Chen Yang entered the game early, if it was later, this type of name would be hard to come by, because there are so many on the streets.

  Li Yi finished running and returned home to rest for a while before opening "Alumni Group".

  The group is extremely lively, with everyone discussing the "King of Gods", such as how to level up quickly, which profession is good, and how to obtain weapons, etc. The public screen in the group can brush out hundreds of messages instantly.

  "Who can tell me, if a character gets lost, how to get back to Newbie Village?" A female voice suddenly broke the silence.

  There are thousands of people in an alumni group. If everyone speaks at the same time, it would be chaotic, so the group administrator had long disabled the voice function. As soon as a female voice appeared, it immediately surprised the alumni.

  Li Yi looked at the flashing avatars in the group and was slightly taken aback.

  Because he found out that the person who spoke up was actually his teacher, Zhang Yan.

  Zhang Yan is one of the administrators of the alumni group, so the mute function has no effect on her and she can speak directly.

  "Teacher Zhang, you're also playing Pantheon?"

  "What's your name in the game, Teacher Zhang?"

  "Teacher Zhang, add me as a friend, it's too chaotic in the group chat, I'll privately message you."

  "Teacher Zhang, I'm called 'PK hairstyle doesn't mess', add me and I'll tell you in the game..."

  Hundreds of people brushed their screens at the same time, making Li Yi's eyes dazzled, and he couldn't help but sigh that the charm of a beauty is really great.

  "I just want to know how to return to Newbie Village, you can just tell me directly, I won't add friends, forget it, I'll just figure it out myself."

  Suddenly too many people, Zhang Yan replied but didn't come back, threw down a sentence and went offline.

  "Oh no, it's all your fault, what a commotion! I haven't even added anything yet."

  "You're the one who started it, obviously I was the first one to M, wasn't I?"

  Alumni group screen is inevitably another wave of discussion.

  "What kind of name will Teacher Zhang have in the game?"

  "What a beautiful girl!"

  "Talented and beautiful woman!"

  "Beauty is only skin-deep..."

  "I'm not talking to you guys anymore, I'll go try QQ!"

  "I'm going too..."

  "Add it and remember to tell me."

  "Hehe, I heard that in the game of gods, not only can you get married, but... hehe, if I could be with Teacher Zhang... Ahhh, it's really unbearable..."

  Li Yi turned off his alumni group chat and fell fast asleep on his bed.

  Although you can sleep with a virtual headset on, where is it as comfortable as sleeping in bed?

  Spent three days in the world of gods, but only one day has passed in reality. This prolonged time setting has attracted more and more people who originally didn't play games to join in...

  The King of Gods started public testing with a huge number of players, and later it continued to rise rapidly, with the number of players increasing exponentially, absolutely living up to the game's promotional slogan of changing the course of human history.

  Mei Mei slept a big sleep, got up, washed her face, ate, and ran outside for a circle before Li Yi put on his helmet and entered the game.

  Li Yi had just been online for five minutes when a new wild boar king refreshed in the distance.

  Continue playing one arrow tactics, with the experience of last time, this time it was pulled faster, only five arrows were used to pull the wild boar king to a perfect position.

  "Howl——"

  Bang!

  The boar king was stuck again between the big tree and the boulder, its four hooves thrashing about wildly as it let out a furious bellow.

  －75

  －89

  －48

  Li Yi stabbed the crimson wild boar king with his knife, while checking the level ranking list.

  The ranking has not changed, with "Lao Li Fei Dao" still in first place at level 6 with 76% experience.

  As expected, he's a hardcore gamer. In an unfamiliar game environment, being able to level up to 6 with a 76% success rate means he hasn't gone offline since the game started.

  Apart from "Lao Li Fei Dao", all other levels are around 5th level 76%.

  Li Yi this time killed the wild boar king, and it was settled in just over an hour.

  The second time he killed the Wild Boar King, there was no first kill reward, and when he went to loot the body, the trait of the peerless black hand immediately revealed its true form.

  You received 170 copper coins...

  You get tattered wild boar skin (material)…

  You obtained Wild Boar Tusk (Material)…

  ……

  "It's gone? Cheat!"

  Li Yi didn't give up and patted a few more times, unable to help but curse.

  Nothing dropped, wild boar skin and wolf fang are currently useless, and I only have 170 copper coins left... this time I lost big...

  But anyway, I've been upgraded again and now I'm at level 9 and a half.

  "As long as you level up to 10, you can learn a second career skill."

  Looking at the remaining arrows in his backpack, Li Yi helplessly shook his head.

  Archers are very cost-effective when killing monsters, but the consumption of arrows is also quite huge. Many new players who play archers spend most of their money on buying arrows. As a result, in the mid-to-late game, they have no money and no equipment, and get killed by monsters with just one touch, making it impossible for them to join a team or even participate in events. This has turned the originally promising profession of archer into a trashy job in the eyes of the public.

  Most people give up and restart, only a very small number of people can persist to the end, and there are hardly a few people who can really play the bow-hand profession to its peak state.

  Of course, Li Yi, who was reborn, would absolutely not play a trash profession to show off his skills. He knew better than anyone that when an archer profession has top-notch operation techniques and top-notch equipment, it's terrifying.

  Even if he were reborn, he would never forget that astonishing arrow.

  Li Yilai shot a bow and arrow at the adult wild boar, after killing one adult wild boar, he was knocked down by three adult wild boars and died on the ground.

  He deliberately died before level 10, no experience or equipment was lost, and there were free city return cars to ride, why not?

  But unexpectedly, it happened in an instant. He had just fallen to the ground when a beautiful figure appeared under the big tree. It was the female player he saw yesterday when he logged off, "The girl who doesn't wear underwear".

  "Player?"

  The girl without underwear walked up to Li Yi and asked with a probing tone.

  Li Yi was shocked.

  He was about to log off and return to the city when he saw a female player approaching, so he immediately clicked cancel.

  Li Yi retorted: "Player?"

  As soon as he spoke, Li Yi felt that his question was very silly, because the female player had a name above her head, and she didn't hide it like him.

  "Can you stand up by yourself?" The girl without underwear circled around Li Yi a few times.

  "No."

  Li Yi understood, this female player in front of him was a newbie.

  "How did you get here?"

  The character dies, if not choosing to revive, will lie there forever, unable to speak, but can type and chat with others. This setting was soon changed because when entering the next instance, many team leaders were commanding their teams while in a corpse state, greatly reducing the difficulty of the instance. The system immediately automatically adjusted, changing the corpse state to be unable to speak or type, able only to watch helplessly.

  To protect personal privacy, all players who enter the game for the first time will be given a mask that can cover their face. Li Yi's face has a mask on it, and this 'girl without underwear' in front of me also has one.

  "I took a quest to hunt wild boars, but ended up getting lost on the way, crossed a river, and arrived here."

  "Crossed a river..."

  If Li Yi were not a corpse now, his facial expression would be very colorful.

  The newbie village of the King of Gods can be expanded infinitely because all newbie villages are on one large map with similar copy types.

  No. 1 Newbie Village is definitely surrounded by No. 2, 3, 4 and 5 Newbie Villages, and as the number of logged-in players increases, new newbie villages appear, expanding infinitely outward.

  Each novice village is surrounded by a river, and for novices below level 10, it's almost impossible to cross this river.

  Before acquiring the "diving" skill, diving will continuously deduct life points. For a novice with a level below 10, they can usually only swim halfway before being drowned to death.

  Even if you're not drowned to death, it's extremely difficult to evade the pursuit of monsters above level 10 in the water. And when you finally manage to climb ashore, you tragically discover that the newbie village NPCs, who are not from your birthplace, don't give you any quests at all.

  "Are you a warrior profession?"

  "Uh-huh, I guess so." The girl without underwear nodded.

  At this level, only warriors known as "Blood Cows" have a chance to swim over from the opposite side.

  "It's easy for you to go back, just go and defeat the adult wild boar, then you can go back."

  "Is it that simple?"

  "Uh-huh."

  Li Yi chose to revive.

  "Hey, don't go."

  The girl who wasn't wearing underwear looked at Li Yi's body disappear and suddenly panicked, she still had a lot of questions to ask.

  "When we've beaten the wild boar, we can go back."

  The girl without underwear muttered to herself and slowly approached the group of adult wild boars...

  An adult wild boar discovered her, roaring and rushing over. The girl without underwear was frightened, turned around and ran, but her speed was far from that of the adult wild boar. In an instant, she was caught up, and the adult wild boar's long tusks thrust forward, hitting her buttocks...

  "Ah——"