Chapter Twenty-Four: Concern Between Brothers

  Looking at the sparkling ore vein in front of him, Ding Qiang's spirit shook: "How lucky, it all depends on this one look..."

  While digging, Ding Qiang casually said, "Does your family let you play like this?"

  Have to say, the game's charm is huge, these days, basically except for eating and sleeping, several people are spending time in the game.

  Ding Qiang and Lin Yi are still okay, after all, the two of them have always liked playing games before. But someone like Li Yan, who is such a good girl, actually being like this too, it's really surprising...

  However, thanks to the game's server, his relationship with Xiao Yatou has progressed much faster than in his previous life. In his previous life, although they both played games, most of the time they still played separately and didn't have much interaction. But this time, as soon as Cha Cha logged on, she would look for Ding Qiang first, which made him feel secretly pleased for a long time.

  "Hehe, of course not, I'll play secretly." Chacha said with a cute tone while sticking out her tongue.

  Sweat...

  "Ding!"

  "System Prompt: You have obtained Iron Ore."

  "What's going on? What's happening?" Lin Yi hastily asked from the side.

  "Trash, the lowest grade of iron ore." Ding Qiang rubbed his hands together and silently prayed: "Let the system god bless me."

  "Ding!"

  "System Prompt: You have obtained Iron Ore."

  "This time it's Lin Ye..."

  "System Prompt: Mining Failed!"

  "Depend on..."

  "This time it's ChaCha's..."

  "Ding!"

  "System Prompt: You have obtained a treasure chest."

  As the treasure chest was unearthed, the ore vein also disappeared from sight.

  "Haha!" Ding Qiang was suddenly delighted.

  "Guess what's inside this treasure chest?" Ding Qiang rubbed his hands together and put the iron spade back into his bundle.

  "Equipment." Chacha said.

  "Skills," Lin Yi said.

  "You discovered Explosive Bear Wrist."

  "You discovered the Elixir of Life."

  "You've found the treasure map."

  "You found an iron sceptre."

  A large row of system prompts made Ding Qiang's eyes dizzy for a moment, especially when he saw the treasure map among them, Ding Qiang almost burst out laughing.

  "This is indeed a good thing..."

  It's worth noting that at this stage, even the most valuable things will quickly depreciate and be eliminated as the player's level increases, but this treasure map is an exception.

  The treasure chest grade in the treasure map follows the player's level, and the higher the player's level, the more likely it is to open good equipment.

  So, this treasure map fragment will not only not depreciate with the player's level upgrade, but will instead become more and more valuable as the player's level gets higher and higher...

  Ding Qiang excitedly thought about these things while casually posting the equipment's attributes in the team channel.

  Exploding Bear Wrist Guard

  Green quality:

  Defense: 15 points;

  Increase 3 points of strength.

  Increase 2 points of physical strength

  Requires level 16;

  Iron Sceptre

  Green Quality One-Handed Weapon

  Attack: 10~16

  Increase 5 points of strength.

  Increases magic recovery speed by 1 point.

  Required level: 16; Paladin exclusive

  Two pieces of equipment, just right for Ding Qiang and Lin Yi, one piece each, greatly disappointing the nearby Cha Cha.

  Looking at Tea's pouting face, Ding Qiang felt a bit amused and handed over the treasure map: "If it's not balanced, you can keep this treasure map."

  "Treasure map? What's it for?" Chacha asked in surprise.

  "Silly girl, this is actually the best item among these few things." Ding Qiang explained: "It can find treasure."

  "What will appear in the treasure?" Chacha asked expectantly.

  "It's all about luck...... coins, equipment, pets, mounts, BOSS, anything is possible."

  "Wow, all good stuff......" Lin Yi, who was standing beside him, almost stared his eyes out.

  "But there's also a possibility that I'll give you an extra debuff that won't even go away when you die!" Ding Qiang said.

  "What's a Debuff?" Chacha asked cautiously.

  "Unable to gain experience, life value cannot be restored, magic value cannot be restored and so on, everything is there, basically nothing good." Ding Qiang said.

  This is not Ding Qiang intentionally speaking ominously, but it's a fact that in the previous life's game, there was an unlucky ghost who spent a huge amount of money to collect a complete treasure map, and when he opened the treasure, he got a title "The most unlucky person in the world."

  He got a buff that couldn't gain experience points, and the countdown of this buff didn't count when offline, it had to be calculated in the game, so he stayed in the main city for a whole week before leaving.

  "That's still nothing...". Cha Cha heard it and hastily pushed the treasure map back: "I've always had bad luck, I don't want to, hehe, you'd better keep it!"

  “……”

  Matters are pressing, after finishing the mine vein, several people changed direction again and rushed to the small house in the middle of the forest, preparing to complete that task - [Brotherly Concern].

  Soon, everyone stood in front of the door.

  "Both of you step aside..." Ding Qiang said.

  "What? Oh!" Although they didn't know why, Chacha and Lin Yi still obediently shifted to the side.

  Took a deep breath...

  With a "bang", Ding Qiang kicked open the small low door and immediately rushed out to the side.

  Just as he rushed out, a huge figure burst out of the house with a loud crash. If Ding Qiang hadn't dodged quickly enough, he would have been knocked to the ground.

  Dwarf Craftsman - Kaka

  The melee unfolded from here.

  Soon, Xiao Bai grabbed hold of Chou Hen, while Ding Qiang went around behind BOSS and started dealing damage.

  Compared to the butcher Kaka in the Flame Gorge, this dwarf technician Kaka is obviously much stronger. However, at this point, all three of them have a high level, especially after these days of cooperation. Xiaobai has been holding onto hatred and his life isn't much longer. Ding Qiang is on top, advancing and retreating with ease, not taking much damage.

  As BOSS's life slipped away bit by bit, the rhythm of the battle also started to get faster and faster.

  About twenty minutes later, something unexpected happened...

  Boom!

  Kaka controlled the robot to swing its arm, Chacha reacted a bit slower, Xiaobai didn't dodge in time and was immediately hit flying to the side. When he got up again, stars were spinning on his head, entering a 30-second stun state.

  The player's summoned creature's hatred is associated with the player. After BOSS knocked down Xiaobai, the target immediately locked onto Chacha and rushed over.

  "Be careful." Seeing Chacha stunned on the spot, Ding Qiang hurriedly rushed over, swoosh swoosh swoosh, and struck three swords in a row. The BOSS's head suddenly dropped a small piece of life.

  Xiaojun's hatred value suddenly increased by a large margin, surpassing Chacha.

  Hmph.

  The boss turned around and punched Ding Qiang's body.

  It took just one punch to take away half of Ding Qiang's life, and this BOSS's strength can be seen at a glance.

  He gulped down a bottle of medicine, Ding Qiang hastily retreated while the BOSS took large strides in pursuit...

  "Honor badge." Taking advantage of the momentary departure from combat state, Ding Qiang immediately changed his attack mode and selected Chacha as his current target, his figure flashing...

  "Charge!" A charge struck past, Ding Qiang once again opened up the distance between himself and the BOSS.

  Hmph.

  A bunch of stars suddenly appeared on Cha Cha's head.

  "I'm going to die..." Chá chá muttered, rubbing her nose.

  Apologizing with a smile, he didn't have time to explain, and seeing the BOSS rushing up again in big strides, Ding Qiang resisted the opponent's attack with great difficulty, and then launched a bloodthirsty charge, charging towards Lin Ye.

  Delayed for a moment, Xiao Bai finally recovered from the paralyzed state and immediately charged forward bravely under Cha Cha's command. With one move of ridicule, he pulled the BOSS's target back again.

  "Be careful, when the BOSS is about to swing its arm with force, it's going to launch a paralysis attack. At this time, you need to quickly pull Xiao Bai away." Ding Qiang explained with a sigh of relief.

  "Uh-huh, got it." Chacha said with some apology.

  But after that, the coordination of the crowd didn't have any unexpected situations. After all, this dwarf technician Kaka was powerful, but because he was a task BOSS, he wouldn't use any group damage skills. As long as we held his aggro and gave Xiaobai some blood to brush, it wasn't a big problem.

  Soon, Kaka fell under the feet of several people.

  "Come and touch, come and touch." Lin Yi immediately shouted.

  This time, however, the system didn't seem to give him any face.

  There are quite a few equipment, but they are all in green color, not even one blue piece.

  "African hands..." Ding Qiang shook his head and sighed, his own hands were sometimes quite dark too, he didn't expect this guy to be even darker than himself.

  As Kaka fell to the ground, the system flashed red...

  "System Prompt: After a hundred battles, thanks to the players' tireless efforts, the Hero Mode of Flame Canyon is now open. Players can choose the dungeon mode at the entrance of the instance. Have fun gaming!"

  "System Prompt: You have enabled Hero Mode in Flame Canyon. You gained 10,000 experience points. You gained 1 skill point. You gained 20 gold coins."

  Players have many skills, and only a few are given at level 1. If there is no other way to obtain them, one skill reaches level 20, how many levels do you need to upgrade to fully upgrade all skills?

  Therefore, in addition to being able to upgrade and obtain them, players can also get skill points by completing first kills, opening instances, or doing specific tasks. Moreover, killing monsters sometimes drops skill orbs, which also give skill points when used.

  "Finally... it's done." Along with the rewards and experience points from the previous task, several people leveled up simultaneously.

  "Shall we go for the first kill of Heroic Mode Inferno Peak?" Lin Yi asked eagerly.

  "Hero mode is out of the question, it's too difficult." Ding Qiang shook his head.

  "Let's try it out, we three people will find two more awesome ones." Lin Yijie was eager to give it a shot.

  "It's really not going to work." Ding Qiang shook his head, if they could upgrade a few more levels, it might be barely possible, but with their current level, going would just be a waste of time.

  "Aren't you going? Then I'll ask someone else to go and take a look." Lin Yi said with some disappointment.

  "Go ahead and try then." Ding Qiang said: "If you lose miserably, don't come crying to me."

  "Am I that kind of person?" said goodnight, the team dispersed, and Lin Yi immediately went to try the hero mode of Flame Canyon.

  As it was getting very late, Ding Qiang and Cha Cha went offline together.

  Lying in bed, picking up the phone, Ding Qiang's heart was racing as he sent a text message to Li Yan: "Beauty, want to go shopping tomorrow?"

  "Tomorrow? Tomorrow go to school to get grades, aren't you going?" Li Yan replied after a moment.

  "Get the results tomorrow? What results?" After thinking for half a day, Ding Qiang slapped his forehead. These past few days he had been so engrossed in playing games that he even forgot about picking up his college entrance exam results.

  However, for Li Yan and Liu Tao, tomorrow is the day of the college entrance examination results, but because there are memories from a past life, Ding Qiang already knows the result.

  He didn't get into any school, not even a third-tier one. This was already known for some time.

  "There was a time when I wasn't even worth more experience." Ding Qiang thought to himself.

  However, Li Yan's next message soon dispelled this idea...

  "Tomorrow after finishing work, will you accompany me to the electronic city? My aunt's little brother is about to have a birthday, I want to give him a gaming headset."

  His aunt's little brother... a chubby and slightly shy little boy appeared in Ding Qiang's mind.

  In her previous life, Li Yan had found a female friend to accompany her, but this time she had actually found herself. It has to be said that this was a major breakthrough.

  "No problem." Ding Qiang would not let go of this opportunity, and according to the development of things, after the college entrance examination in his previous life, the two people would not see each other for two years. In his previous life, he didn't know any better, but in this life, being separated from his former lover for two years was something he did not want to happen.

  Lying in bed, Ding Qiang thought back to his progress in the game over this period of time and felt fairly satisfied. His level had reached 19, mining had been upgraded to intermediate, alchemy had reached beginner level, and most of the Flame Flowers on the market were now in his hands. As soon as the Flame Land opened, he would be able to make a big profit again.

  "1.5 million..." Although this number is not small, relying on his lifelong memory, Ding Qiang believes that it is not a very difficult goal to achieve.

  Every major update of the game version contains great business opportunities, in his previous life, because he didn't have access to insider information, so he could only follow others, but this time, with these memories, if he still doesn't know how to make good use of them, then he really has no face to continue living...