Master of Kaidan
Chapter 415: Guiding

Chapter 415: Chapter 415: Guiding

"Everyone saw it," said the streamer, "according to the village chief, this guy definitely has a story, but obviously, it requires a quest chain to uncover it.

"However, to some extent, this character looks suspicious because normally, experts in hiding wouldn’t want others to recognize them. Yet, this guy doesn’t mind showing off his martial arts, which is somewhat counterintuitive.

"Based on my years of experience with online gaming novels, if an expert is stationed here, it must be because they’re waiting for someone or they’re meant to lay the groundwork for an upcoming piece of the story. Of course, there’s also the possibility that during the last beta, someone accidentally triggered a special condition."

Leaving the village chief’s house, Liao Yunhuai chatted with his viewers, leveraging his years of experience reading web novels, while also pondering strategies to approach this expert.

Suddenly, a comment in his livestream caught his attention:

[Maybe it’s a transmigrator here to farm us?]

[Damn!]

[6]

[wwwwwwww]

Not just Liao Yunhuai, many viewers were intrigued by this comment.

Although it sounded outrageous, with the emergence of full-immersion virtual reality games, the presence of a transmigrator didn’t seem too far-fetched.

Moreover, in recent years, game novels featuring characters reborn before the game server’s start who grow by exploiting players have emerged, along with plots about real other-world scenarios disguised as games to pull people in, which, if you think about it, does seem somewhat plausible.

However, Liao Yunhuai soon shook his head and said,

"It probably isn’t one of those world-disguised-as-a-game plots. In such plots, the protagonist usually has limited resources early on and can only recruit so many people. But ’Jianghu’ had a thousand accounts on its first internal test and ten thousand people on the second, distributed among fifty beginner villages. The first test didn’t even mention such an NPC... Well, of course, we can’t rule out the game company playing with this trope..."

Upon hearing Liao Yunhuai speak, the viewers, who initially found the idea of a real transmigrator too surreal, started to believe it could be plausible if it was just the game company messing around.

It’s like the difference between genuinely breaking the fourth wall and character design doing so.

But speaking of which, Liao Yunhuai suddenly came up with a strategy for this big shot.

If he was considered a character designed to farm players, could he use the protagonists’ logic from online gaming novels to devise a plan to conquer this game character?

Hmm, revealing his identity as a streamer to leverage his desire to gain fame?

"No, that won’t work. If it were an NPC played by a real person, maybe, but if it’s just a character design, they probably wouldn’t understand what streaming is, or if they did, that would be absolutely terrifying."

Liao Yunhuai mulled over his strategy to tackle this hidden NPC, while other players started to take action.

...

"Senior, do you have anything for sale here?"

Seeing the player with an "innocent" face in front of him, Feng Xuexin chuckled inwardly. In such a short time, he had already confirmed these players didn’t have the usual task panels or storage spaces, and he wasn’t sure about other game assistance interfaces, but at least there was no digitization of bodily functions.

However, since the player had come to him to shop, he played along with his scripted character and said grudgingly,

"Buy? What could you afford?"

"Ah, that... I do have some savings." The player awkwardly fumbled a handful of copper coins from his pocket. This was his first-time beta-testing, and he had been saving up to learn martial arts in town. But after another player who had learned the "Fu Hu Fist" in town couldn’t even withstand a finger from this expert, he immediately gave up the idea of visiting the martial arts school.

For a martial arts game, could anything you learn in a school even count as martial arts?

Feng Xuexin was well aware of the player’s reasoning. He disdainfully glanced at the handful of copper coins, flicked his finger, and ten big coins jumped in a neat arc from the player’s hand into his own, after which he nonchalantly grabbed a wooden sword from the corner and tossed it to the player, saying:

"Here, just play with this."

"Ah, this..." The player was speechless as he looked at the wooden sword in his hand. Although the move Feng Xuexin had just performed was impressive, giving him a wooden sword seemed like a joke.

Although ten copper coins were only worth a bowl of tofu in reality, why did it feel like he was being teased like a child?

And if he wanted a weapon, why wouldn’t he just go to the blacksmith?

However, with the lesson learned from the previous enthusiastic player, the player didn’t nag further. Since it was evident that the other party had goods for sale, it meant his money wasn’t enough!

With that thought, the young man ran towards the outskirts of the village, carrying the wooden sword. However...

A man can hardly resist playing with a stick for an entire afternoon, and now with a wooden sword, the player swung it around casually and then...

"Boom!"

"Damn!"

"What happened?"

...

Da Hua Village only had about a hundred households, so a loud sound immediately drew the entire village’s attention. Players mixed with villagers rushed over to where the loud noise came from and saw a bewildered young player standing there. Across from him lay a fallen mulberry tree, about fifteen years old, with chattering villagers pointing at him.

While the villagers were more concerned with corralling the player to prevent him from escaping, the players were more interested in the fallen mulberry tree, looking at the smooth, mirror-like cut at half a person’s height, their eyes instantly heating up when they saw the wooden sword.

"Damn, could it be the legendary Divine Weapon disguised as a wooden sword?"

"Where did you get this?"

"I’ll cover the money for you, how about you give me the sword?"

...

Listening to the chatter around him, the sword-holding player quickly came to his senses. Upon hearing the offer to cover the money, his eyes widened and he said,

"Dream on! No matter the cost, I’ll pay it!"

After speaking, the player slapped all his belongings into the hands of the mulberry tree’s owner (note ①), then carried the precious sword and left the village.

Eager players immediately followed, wanting to see the sword’s capabilities, while clever players immediately realized the sword’s origins and ran towards Feng Xuexin’s hut.

...

The noises in the village naturally didn’t escape Feng Xuexin, who included the entire village within his awareness. Upon seeing the tree felling by the player, he merely shook his head slightly and continued to whittle wood, knowing full well that his place was about to get...

"Senior, I would like to buy a weapon. How much do you think is appropriate?"

Well, it looks like it has already begun.